Chapter Summaries

After Strangle cleared the Liquid Robots from the Hall of Justice, Deathstroke reported that most of the technology division’s scientists had been killed. He assigned Oliver and Superboy-Prime to organize Earth’s response while he and Bobo left to pursue a fugitive in another multiverse.

• Strangle found unconscious people and killed Liquid Robots in the Hall of Justice, but most of the technology division’s staff had already died.
• Oliver mourned the dead scientists, while Black Canary explained that they had contributed little to the Justice League’s inventions.
• Deathstroke reassured Little Superman and gave Oliver a Spider Totem for mental communication, along with emergency rations.
• Deathstroke told Little Superman to find Barry and gather the speedsters, and advised Oliver to seek help from Diana and the Mages if needed.
• Little Superman agreed to protect Earth as Deathstroke and Bobo prepared to pursue a fugitive in another multiverse.

Su Ming explained why he trusted Superboy-Prime to remain on Earth and revealed that a traitor had infiltrated the Justice League. The group ruled out Mister Terrific as the culprit and considered what might drive him to betray humanity.

• Bobo worried about leaving Superboy-Prime behind, but Deathstroke said Oliver could watch over him and Harley defended ordinary people’s capabilities.
• Bobo asked what Deathstroke had discovered at the Hall of Justice, and Deathstroke confirmed that someone had stolen power and that a traitor was inside the Justice League.
• Deathstroke said Green Arrow had reported that he and Dinah were locked in the control room while someone used Batwoman’s plan to release Sleeping Gas, and he described a false Deathstroke infiltrating the Hall of Justice.
• Bobo suspected Mister Terrific because of his technical skills, resources, and access, but Deathstroke rejected the accusation and argued that Darkseid could not offer him the benefits he would need to betray the League.
• Deathstroke suggested Mister Terrific sought a life free of risk and danger, even though betraying humanity would not provide that security.

Deathstroke questioned Detective Chimp’s suspicions about Mister Terrific, then revealed that he knew Black Orchid’s identity and history. Alba Garcia agreed to use The Red to locate the missing people in Multiverse 3, and the group prepared to follow her.

• Detective Chimp accepted Deathstroke’s reasoning that Mister Terrific was unlikely to be a traitor, and Harley vouched for him before jokingly revealing that she was Harley Quinn.
• Harley tried to cheer Bobo by drawing a smile on his face, and the two wrestled over her lipstick.
• Deathstroke told Black Orchid that he knew she was Alba Garcia, an ARGUS Ascension Plan subject who had gained ties to The Green and The Red.
• Deathstroke described the history of the Black Orchid name and Alba’s connections to Dream, Harley, and Poison Ivy.
• Alba explained that The Red was adapting to the multiverse but could still find people, and she offered to lead the way.

Su Ming and his companions found a hidden underground shelter in the Gobi and unexpectedly encountered Cindy and the Legends of Tomorrow. They learned the Legends were investigating a Timeline crisis on their way home, and Sara asked whether Su Ming was involved.

• Su Ming’s group followed faint footprints to a concealed canyon entrance and crawled into an underground shelter.
• Harley joked with Poison Ivy and Bobo as the group reached a high-tech shelter door and encountered another party.
• Su Ming recognized Cindy and the Legends of Tomorrow, and the two groups greeted each other.
• Cindy explained that Bliss had allowed the Legends to take the Waverider home and that Gideon had detected a Timeline crisis on Earth.
• Cindy said she had agreed to keep any gold and jewelry they found, while Su Ming questioned whether Gideon had been tampered with.
• Sara assured Su Ming that Gideon was fine, then asked whether he was causing the Timeline crisis.

Su Ming and the Legends joined forces with Cindy to attack a subterranean shelter where Brutus was based. After they defeated the guards, Su Ming prepared to contact Batwoman and continue the search inside.

• Sara questioned why Su Ming had come, and he explained that the Time Lords would not consider his changes to the Timeline errors.
• Harley said the group had come to punish a bald old man on Earth-0, and Cindy agreed to work with Su Ming.
• Su Ming tore the shelter’s massive metal door from its frame, revealing a waiting army of mutated soldiers.
• Su Ming, Cindy, and the Legends defeated the soldiers, while Poison Ivy cleared the remaining enemies with a giant vine and Harley lamented missing the fight.
• Su Ming reassured Harley that more enemies waited inside the shelter, then asked the Adjutant to connect him to Batwoman because he had found Brutus’s base.

Su Ming found evidence that Brutus’s kin might be living in an underground shelter and asked Batwoman to gather reinforcements. As his team explored the shelter, he suspected that Multiverse 3’s timeline moved at a different speed from their own, leaving them uncertain how much time had passed since Doctor Santo arrived.

• Su Ming showed Batwoman two horned, red-painted heads as evidence of Brutus’s kin, and she agreed to gather a team and send reinforcements.
• Strangle absorbed the dead soldiers’ memories, revealing that they had grown up in underground shelters and raided other shelters for supplies.
• Su Ming told Alba to lead them onward while he waited for reinforcements before pursuing Brutus.
• The team noticed that the shelter’s primitive residents lived among advanced technology, and Su Ming proposed that the two multiversal systems had different timeline speeds.
• Sara confirmed that the Legends had experienced major differences in elapsed time between worlds, and Harley mistakenly blamed relativity for her short visits to Ponyville and Middle-earth.

Su Ming and his companions deduced that Doctor Santo had spent decades on the slower-timeline Earth, building wealth and technology before supporting Brutus and joining True Darkseid’s plans. The group continued through the massacre with Su Ming determined to kill Santo, while they learned Santo’s motive was likely a promise of extended life.

• Bobo and Su Ming concluded that differences in Timeline Speed gave Brutus and Doctor Santo extra time to prepare between attacks on Earth-0.
• Su Ming explained that Doctor Santo had falsely claimed to be born in Gotham’s Triangle Area, and Bobo and Cindy used Gotham’s history to expose the lie.
• Deathstroke’s timeline calculations led the group to conclude that Santo had grown old on this Earth, while his Earth-0 records would make him appear to be a teenager.
• Su Ming said he had already arranged to kill Santo and refused to leave without finishing the job.
• Bobo told Cindy and Sara that Brutus and Doctor Santo might be agents of True Darkseid, who exploited Timeline Speed to cultivate villains.
• Su Ming reasoned that Santo likely cooperated with Darkseid in exchange for a way to regain his lifespan and health.

Su Ming named the post-nuclear Earth the Soybean World and led the group deeper into Doctor Santo’s shelter, where they fought Acolytes Industries robots. As the battle continued, Su Ming suspected Darkseid had arranged a trap and was beginning to take humanity seriously.

• Su Ming compared Doctor Santo’s soybean-based development strategy with his own and considered whether Darkseid had inspired Santo to imitate him.
• Su Ming proposed calling the occupied Earth the Soybean World, and Cindy accepted the name while Bobo mocked it.
• The group advanced into the shelter and encountered Acolytes Industries robots, which the Superheroes attacked.
• Firestorm disabled the robots by altering their leg joints, allowing the other Superheroes to finish them off.
• Bobo worried that Doctor Santo might escape, but Su Ming said Adjutant was monitoring the surface and then voiced his suspicion that their progress had been a trap set by Darkseid.

Su Ming considered Darkseid’s growing use of trained villains and led the group through the underground shelter while the Legends cleared the robots. The team continued forward, relying on their gathered intelligence as they searched for the Traitor and other leads.

• Su Ming reasoned that Darkseid had begun cultivating powerful villains across Hypertime and exploiting the Justice League’s reluctance to kill Earthlings.
• Cindy explained that she used Promethium weapons to avoid Nth Metal resonance revealing her location to Bliss, and she told Su Ming about her comrade Holly.
• Su Ming compared the group’s knowledge of the shelter and warned everyone to watch for ambushes as they advanced.
• The Legends destroyed the robots blocking the route while Su Ming, Cindy, and Bobo talked at the rear.
• Harley and Poison Ivy rushed to the front with the Legends as the group continued through the shelter without incident.

Su Ming and the Legends reached the final door after slaughtering the Mutant and robot resistors, then prepared to face the warrior Brutus. Brutus emerged and defended his people’s invasion of Earth-0, while Su Ming challenged him to fight.

• Su Ming sent the nauseated Black Orchid, Bobo, and Alba away from the blood-soaked hall while Harley and Poison Ivy stayed with the fighters.
• Su Ming assigned Cindy and himself to the front, kept Harley and Firestorm close, and had the other Legends fall back for ranged support.
• Brutus emerged from the room carrying two axes and demanded to know why the group had killed his people.
• Harley asked Brutus why his people had invaded Earth, and he said their world was dying and they needed somewhere to survive.
• Su Ming challenged Brutus to settle the dispute in combat and asked whether he had beaten Superman twice; Brutus asked who Darkseid was.

Su Ming let Brutus escape after marking him so he could trace the Minotaur to his allies, then followed him through a portal to confront Doctor Santo. Doctor Santo’s escape device failed, leaving him facing Su Ming as the chapter ended.

• Su Ming fought Brutus, broke his axes, and knocked off one of his horns.
• Brutus fled through a red Doorway, and Su Ming revealed that Strangle had planted a carved toothpick on his shoe to track him.
• Harley stayed behind to dance in the blood with Poison Ivy while Su Ming and Cindy followed Brutus through the Doorway.
• Su Ming and Cindy found Doctor Santo trying to activate a ring-shaped Teleportation Portal, but Su Ming said his AI had blocked it.
• Doctor Santo asked who Su Ming was, insisting that Deathstroke could never have caught him.

Su Ming killed Doctor Santo and used Strangle to learn how he had served Darkseid, while Cindy scavenged the laboratory. With little useful intelligence found, Su Ming planned to seek information from Cyborg as Sara asked them to help search another shelter.

• Su Ming shot Doctor Santo dead, and Cindy began taking the laboratory's projection screens and other supplies.
• Su Ming gave Cindy extra backpacks and agreed to go hunting alien bugs with her after the mission.
• Strangle read Doctor Santo's memories, revealing that a Jet-Bow squad had sent him to Earth-0 to disrupt the Justice League and that Brutus was not working for Darkseid.
• Su Ming learned that Doctor Santo knew little about Darkseid's plans, so he decided they would need to search Cyborg's memories and take the initiative.
• Sara entered and asked Su Ming and Cindy to help find another shelter because everyone in the current one was dead.

Su Ming offered Sara and the Legends a place to train and Earths to practice on in exchange for teaching his students how to handle Timeline disruptions. He sweetened the deal by promising to help Sara have children, and she ran off to discuss it with Sharp.

• Sara confirmed that the Timeline error remained and asked to check the room's equipment for clues about Earth's history.
• Su Ming proposed that the Legends train at the Time Variance Authority and teach his students to manage Timeline disruptions.
• Su Ming offered to help Sara have children if she joined his 40K Multiverse, suggesting the Vishanti's blessing could provide a solution.
• Sara hurried away to discuss the offer with Sharp, while White Canary also left after hearing Su Ming's proposal.
• Cindy remarked on Su Ming's growing abilities, and he dragged Doctor Santo's headless corpse out of the room.

Su Ming learned that Brutus had contacted Zubado in Multiverse 2, linked to the Hand of the Void, while weighing the threat against Darkseid and his own forces. Meanwhile, Superman and Luthor received Batman’s message and prepared to meet Deathstroke at the coordinates Batman provided.

• Su Ming ordered the Adjutant to send Doctor Santo’s body to the Gotham Police Department and learned that Brutus’s communication had reached Multiverse 2.
• Su Ming concluded that Zubado served the Hand of the Void but rejected Bobo’s idea of traveling to Multiverse 2 to confront him.
• Superman received Batman’s letter from Superdog, and Luthor identified the global loss of electricity as a possible time trick.
• Luthor learned from Batman’s message that Deathstroke had found Brutus’s home and arranged for Brainiac to teleport them to the Fortress to meet Deathstroke.

Lex Luthor and Superman arrived at Deathstroke’s camp, where Su Ming waited for Brutus’s older brother to come after him. Su Ming took Superman and Luthor to confront the expected reinforcements, leaving Ivy, Cindy, and Bobo to guard the others.

• Lex Luthor modified his time-travel elevator to run on Magic Cosmic Energy while Superman and Brainiac stood awkwardly face-to-face.
• Luthor put on his purple-and-green armor, and he and Superman traveled by elevator to Deathstroke’s camp.
• Su Ming explained that he had fought Brutus and was waiting for Brutus’s big brother to settle the score.
• Superman declined the hot pot and greeted the people at the camp, while Luthor refused the creamy broth and asked about the plan.
• Su Ming told Ivy, Cindy, and Bobo to protect the group, then set off with Superman and Luthor to confront the approaching reinforcements.

Su Ming, Luthor, and Superman tracked Brutus to an underground lake on the wasteland Earth, where Superman froze the lake and Luthor exposed a hidden safehouse. Brutus emerged and targeted Luthor, setting the stage for a fight.

• Su Ming explained the wasteland world and discussed the Hand of the Void with Luthor as they flew toward Brutus's location.
• The three entered a sinkhole and descended to a fluorescent underground lake, where Superman froze the water and mutated mushrooms with his Freeze Breath.
• Luthor cut apart and blasted away the ice, revealing a concealed hatch at the bottom of the lake.
• Brutus leaped out of the safehouse and prepared to attack, choosing Luthor as his apparent weak point.

Luthor fought Brutus and proved his Martian shapeshifting made him nearly immune to physical damage, then chased Brutus into the sky with Superman. Su Ming left them to battle and entered Brutus’s Safehouse to find equipment for contacting Zubado.

• Su Ming watched Brutus charge Luthor while reflecting on why faster-than-light speed did not let people reverse time.
• Luthor met Brutus’s axe with his neck and struck him with a point-blank energy blast, then regenerated from his wound.
• Superman checked on Luthor, but Luthor mocked him and charged Brutus to prove he was stronger.
• Luthor and Brutus smashed through the cave ceiling as Superman followed and urged Luthor to wait.
• Su Ming flew to the dried pond bottom and entered Brutus’s Safehouse to look for equipment he could take back for the Adjutant to reverse-engineer.

Su Ming found the communicator Brutus had hidden in his Safehouse and discovered it was a tentacled brain creature. After a glimpse of a shadow in the Void, he cooked it into a spicy hot pot for Strangle and Cloak, while warning that their bait might soon attract a bite.

• Su Ming entered Brutus's Safehouse beneath the frozen pond and found bags of stored soybeans.
• Su Ming identified a brain-like creature in a glass jar as the communicator, and Cloak detected Void Energy within it.
• Su Ming proposed that Strangle eat the creature and Cloak drink its fluid, but neither wanted to try it.
• Su Ming saw an enormous shadow seated on a black throne when he touched the creature, then sliced and cooked it with spicy hot pot ingredients.
• Su Ming served the finished dish to Strangle and Cloak, and Strangle eagerly ate a piece and declared it delicious.

While Superman and Luthor fought Brutus near Mercury, a cloaked figure secretly traveled to Soybean Earth and attacked Su Ming and his pets. The figure’s enormous energy sphere descended toward them, leaving their fate unresolved.

• Brutus fought Luthor in space, while Superman watched and occasionally helped his friend.
• Superman flew into the sun to absorb energy, hoping to gain enough strength to end the prolonged battle.
• A cloaked figure left the asteroid belt and flew to Soybean Earth after observing the fight.
• The figure found Su Ming and his pets eating near Brutus’s old shelter-home and mistook them for weak survivors.
• The cloaked figure formed a sphere of energy dozens of kilometers wide and hurled it toward the ground.

Deathstroke used holograms and the Waverider’s teleportation to keep Bobo and the others safe from Zubado’s enormous blast, then appeared above the crater to confront him. Zubado recognized that Deathstroke had anticipated his arrival, and Deathstroke prepared to fight.

• Deathstroke’s projected hot pot scene fooled Zubado into blasting an empty canyon while the real group watched safely aboard the Waverider.
• Bobo complained that the explosion had come close to the ship, and Deathstroke explained that Zubado had mistaken the holograms for weak targets.
• Deathstroke told Bobo that he could handle Zubado alone and asked Adjutant to send the battle footage for Harley to analyze.
• Adjutant teleported Deathstroke above the crater, where he greeted Zubado and asked whether he had eaten.
• Zubado asked whether Deathstroke had known he was coming, and Deathstroke drew the Nightfall Greatsword and joined it with Godslayer.