Chapter Summaries

Su Ming led the Suicide Squad to the satellite coordinates and used El Diablo's flames to reveal The Totality, a gigantic stone head hidden behind an invisibility spell and a strange purple barrier. The head was melting, and Su Ming prepared to force his way inside before the Justice League arrived.

• Su Ming pointed out that Constantine's elaborate spell seemed to have achieved nothing, then found an invisible barrier at the reported crash site.
• Su Ming ordered El Diablo to use his flames, and El Diablo burned away the concealment spell.
• The Squad saw a massive stone head that looked like melting ice cream, too large to transport.
• Su Ming tested the purple barrier around the head and realized that only he and Killer Croc were strong enough to push through.
• Su Ming suspected the head had changed after reaching Earth and hurried to investigate before the Justice League arrived.

Su Ming and Killer Croc entered the barrier around the mysterious head and found a bizarre world where an unknown energy mutated living cells. Su Ming resisted the mutation with Strangle, but Killer Croc transformed into a towering monster and chased him through the barrier.

• Su Ming and Killer Croc pushed through the barrier while Deadshot, Harley, and the others waited outside.
• They emerged into a vast landscape of rocks and grotesque plants, where Strangle warned Su Ming that an unknown energy was mutating his cells.
• Su Ming ordered a retreat and used Tenth Metal to cut a gap in the barrier, but Killer Croc began transforming as they struggled to escape.
• Su Ming told Strangle to destroy the mutated cells in his body, stopping his own transformation while he and Killer Croc became trapped in the barrier.
• Su Ming moved ahead through the barrier, and the now five-meter-tall Killer Croc pursued him with a ferocious gleam in his eyes.

Su Ming led the Suicide Squad out of the barrier, where Killer Croc emerged as a gigantic four-armed monster. Su Ming attacked Croc and brought Frost Killer into his skull to freeze him into a hibernation-like state.

• Su Ming escaped the barrier and warned the Suicide Squad to prepare for battle as Killer Croc charged out after him.
• Su Ming ordered the squad to attack Croc’s legs, but Deadshot’s bullets bounced off his scales and the team scattered to avoid being crushed.
• Harley and Katana charged Croc while Su Ming flew above him and broke through his knee with his weapons.
• Su Ming cut open Croc’s head, and his Cloak of Levitation carried Frost Killer into the wound.
• Su Ming told Caitlin to use her frost powers inside Croc’s skull to trigger a hibernation-like state.

After the Justice League dealt with Killer Croc, Batwoman concluded that the mutagen might control its victims by changing their brain cells and proposed using Ray Palmer’s Compression Matrix to counter it. She left Superman and Barry to modify two Bat-planes for a mission at the cellular level while she went to prepare Deathstroke’s payment.

• Cloak pulled the unconscious Frost Killer from the hole, and Su Ming decided the symbiote should handle Killer Croc away from the Justice League’s watchful eyes.
• Batwoman told the Justice League that ARGUS had sent Deathstroke to investigate, while Barry said Deathstroke planned to collect payment and settle down.
• Batwoman asked J’onn about the Deathstroke from their world, but Martian Manhunter could not locate him.
• Batwoman took Barry and Clark to her secure room beneath the Hall of Justice and explained her theory that the mutagen altered brain cells.
• Batwoman proposed using the Compression Matrix and ordered Barry and Clark to modify two Bat-planes to shrink to cellular size and carry weapons.
• Batwoman left to prepare Deathstroke’s payment, leaving Barry and Clark to work on the planes.

Su Ming recovered from the Killer Croc mission and prepared to bargain with Batman while upgrading his firepower with Vulcan. Vulcan gave him a God Metal Gauss Rifle and brought him to Olympus to meet Hera, who was in control after Zeus disappeared.

• Su Ming had Strangle devour Killer Croc's mutated cells, leaving Killer Croc weakened but back to his normal size.
• Su Ming returned the Suicide Squad to ARGUS, considered how to use his leverage with Batman and the Justice League, and decided Amanda Waller would not receive any benefits.
• Su Ming traveled to Vulcan at the Mediterranean volcano and reported that the God Metal 47 had performed only moderately well.
• Vulcan gave Su Ming a God Metal Gauss Rifle and a crate of ammunition.
• Vulcan told Su Ming that Hera wanted to speak with him and explained that Zeus had disappeared, leaving Hera in control of Olympus.

Su Ming visited New Olympus, where Hera warned him that forces from Outside the Wall would soon gather and asked him to protect Diana. He left with cosmic intelligence and a Godslayer empowered by the sky and sun.

• Vulcan flew Su Ming to New Olympus in an Invisible Jet and left him at Hera's palace.
• Hera told Su Ming about the coming evolution involving Outside the Wall, The Totality, Transcendence, and Destruction, and said Diana would face unprecedented dangers.
• Su Ming agreed to help Diana, and Hera revealed that she wanted him to do so because she had killed Diana's mother.
• Hera empowered Su Ming's Godslayer with divine power of the sky and sun, and Su Ming left Olympus satisfied with the reward.

Su Ming left Olympus after meeting Eris and returned to Gotham, where he considered the powers arriving from beyond the Source Wall and prepared to take Batman’s place for the night. His disguise went awry, leaving him puzzled by his oddly shaped chin.

• Su Ming recognized Eris behind the Golden Apple and refused to hear what she wanted to ask him.
• Eris watched Su Ming leave with Vulcan and decided to seek out her sister with a new plan.
• Su Ming asked Vulcan to take him to Gotham and reviewed what he knew about the powers crossing the Source Wall.
• Su Ming connected the strange plant growth at Big Head’s place to the Entity of Life and decided to wait for the Justice League’s next move.
• Su Ming hid his weapons and used Strangle and the Cloak of Levitation to disguise himself as Batman.
• Su Ming inspected the disguise and complained that his chin felt like a lump of rubber and looked like a butt.

Su Ming impersonated Batwoman and met Commissioner Gordon on the police station rooftop, where he learned the Riddler had committed five riddle-related murders. After deducing that Dr. Lucius Fox was likely the Riddler’s intended hostage, Su Ming headed to intercept him.

• Su Ming used Strangle to disguise himself as Batwoman and flew to the Bat-Signal.
• Commissioner Gordon told Su Ming that the Riddler had killed five people in Gotham using riddles and showed him crime-scene photographs.
• Su Ming inferred that the Riddler had returned to an older, more linear style of crime and was likely preparing a trap for Batwoman.
• Su Ming reasoned that Dr. Lucius Fox was the most likely target because he was close to Batwoman and vulnerable.
• Su Ming decided to find Dr. Fox and stop the Riddler before he could make his move.

Su Ming captured the Riddler at Lucius's home, tortured him into revealing that an anonymous employer had paid him to kill seven people, and left him exposed outside the police station. As reporters swarmed the scene, Su Ming watched from a rooftop and considered the mysterious client and the significance of seven.

• Su Ming found the Riddler preparing to attack Lucius Fawkes and beat him until he revealed that someone had paid him two million dollars to kill seven people and lure Batwoman with riddles.
• The Riddler said he had planned to make Lucius the final victim, then passed out after Su Ming tortured him for information.
• Su Ming warned Lucius to upgrade his security, left with the unconscious Riddler, and skipped work at Wayne Enterprises.
• Su Ming hung the naked Riddler outside the police station and alerted Gotham's media, who broadcast reports and crowded around him.
• Su Ming watched the reporters from a nearby rooftop while pondering the number seven and the Riddler's anonymous employer.

Su Ming realized that a third party had used Riddler to lure Batwoman away from the Hall of Justice, so he headed back toward Washington to catch their next move. After visiting Amanda Waller and recruiting the Suicide Squad, he prepared to join the Justice League at the Hall of Justice, while Bruce learned that someone had impersonated Batwoman in Gotham.

• Su Ming saw through the plan to lure Batwoman away and decided to return to the Hall of Justice, traveling through Gotham’s sewers toward the coast.
• Batwoman analyzed footage of Su Ming’s earlier battle until Alfred showed him video of an impostor humiliating Riddler, prompting Bruce to investigate Gotham.
• Su Ming returned to ARGUS headquarters in Detroit, where Amanda Waller discussed the contaminated extraterrestrial head with officials considering nuclear weapons.
• Su Ming asked Amanda to let him take the Suicide Squad along with the Justice League, and she agreed on the condition that he protect government property.
• Su Ming assembled the Suicide Squad without Killer Croc and announced a visit to the Hall of Justice, promising that Batwoman would pay for their burgers.

Su Ming brought the Suicide Squad to the Hall of Justice, where Martian Manhunter gave them a tour while Su Ming watched for an expected attack. The group headed to the cafeteria, leaving J'onn concerned that Deathstroke would provoke the Justice League.

• Su Ming asked Harley about her past prisons during the helicopter ride to Washington, D.C.
• Harley tried to undress and put her old uniform on a display mannequin, but Martian Manhunter told her she would need to do more for the world first.
• J'onn welcomed the Suicide Squad and began showing them around the Hall of Justice, while Su Ming searched for signs of an attack.
• Su Ming suggested that J'onn take the hungry squad to the cafeteria, and J'onn warned them to exercise restraint if anything unexpected happened.
• Su Ming said Deathstroke's classes welcomed new students, and J'onn worried that the squad might provoke the Justice League.

Su Ming waited with the Suicide Squad in the Hall of Justice for a mysterious threat that never visibly appeared overnight. In the morning, Batwoman paid him five million dollars and pressed him for answers about his disguise and Riddler’s riddle, but Su Ming left her to investigate.

• J'onn left the dining hall, and Su Ming told the Minotaur chef to put the Squad’s bill on Batwoman’s tab.
• Wonder Woman arrived, embraced Harley, and took her to see her newly decorated bedroom.
• Su Ming and the Suicide Squad waited through the night, but nothing unusual happened, leaving Su Ming to suspect the mysterious force had already acted unnoticed.
• Batwoman arrived in the morning with five million dollars, paid Su Ming for the previous commission, and demanded answers about his deception.
• Batwoman told Su Ming that Riddler’s riddle had the answer seven, while Su Ming argued that keeping Riddler out of sight bought the Justice League valuable time.

Su Ming suspected that an enemy had set a trap for Batwoman and the Justice League, but chose to wait rather than warn her. He went with Deadshot to find Harley and Diana, then provoked Diana into competing so she could serve as a witness if trouble struck.

• Batwoman accused Su Ming of knowing more about the threat, but he refused to reveal his suspicions and she left to deal with The Totality.
• Su Ming told Deadshot that Batwoman had fallen for a lure and that the enemy would keep tightening the trap, but Deadshot could not persuade her to trust them.
• Su Ming led Deadshot through the Hall of Justice, passed several heroes’ quarters, and found Harley asleep in Diana’s unfinished temple.
• Su Ming helped Diana position a column, then challenged her claim to be stronger than him.
• Diana took Su Ming outside to settle their strength dispute with an arm-wrestling match.

Batman prepared to enter Superman's body in a shrunken vehicle to protect his brain and destroy mutated cells, while Barry, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman set out to investigate a mysterious underwater region with Su Ming. At Diana's residence, Su Ming continued competing and sparring with Diana as the Justice League's plans moved forward.

• Su Ming delayed for time by competing with Diana in athletic events while instructing Deadshot to keep the Suicide Squad inside her palace.
• Batman explained that he would pilot a shrunken vehicle into Superman's body, while Hawkgirl would enter the Martian Manhunter's body in a second vehicle.
• Batman assigned Barry to hire Su Ming to investigate a mysterious region, and Barry departed with Wonder Woman and Aquaman for an underwater destination.
• The League forgot Green Arrow, who sat alone in his Star City safehouse and concluded that they had forgotten him again.
• Su Ming and Diana rested after their competitions, discussed Diana's family and her place in the Justice League, then resumed fighting with their weapons.

Su Ming joined Barry, Diana, and Aquaman on a mission into a newly connected underground sea in the Pacific. They discovered a vast, inhabited-looking structure beneath the poison-filled waters and entered it to investigate.

• Barry arrived during Su Ming and Diana’s fight and said Bruce had asked him to recruit Su Ming for a mission.
• Su Ming left Deadshot and the Suicide Squad behind, then set out with Barry, Diana, and Aquaman.
• The group descended through a deep trench into an underground sea filled with deadly poison and unfamiliar giant creatures.
• Diana spotted a light in the abyss, and the group swam toward it despite dangerous currents and enormous shadows.
• The four discovered a stadium-sized underwater building shaped like a Black Manta helmet and entered through a dock.
• Diana noticed Amazon-style decorations inside, while Aquaman recognized centuries-old Atlantean technology in the structure.

Su Ming and the Justice League explored an ancient Atlantean structure and fought strange creatures that resembled Martians but proved weaker. After Diana failed to question them, a massive figure emerged from a door deeper inside.

• Su Ming, Diana, Arthur, and Barry explored the lavish, empty hall and discussed the ancient ties between Atlantis and the Amazons.
• Barry discovered pale, fanged creatures in glass tanks, and one smashed through its tank to attack him.
• Su Ming and the others fought the four creatures, while Barry struggled with his intermittently working Speed Force.
• Su Ming realized the creatures were not White Martians and tested how their healing slowed as he cut one into pieces.
• Diana failed to get answers from the creatures, then a massive figure stepped through a door and offered to answer her questions.

Grodd, Cheetah, and Black Manta confronted Barry, Diana, and Aquaman in an underwater corridor, using the reincarnated Turtle’s Still Force to immobilize the group. Su Ming found that no arch-nemesis had appeared for him and began planning how to make the others regret overlooking him.

• Barry recognized Grodd, who revealed that he was controlling the baby Turtle and using the Still Force to trap everyone except Barry.
• Grodd explained that Turtle had reincarnated as an infant after researching the Still Force, and that his powers still slowed Barry.
• Cheetah entered and taunted the immobilized Diana, while Black Manta appeared behind her to face Aquaman.
• Su Ming noticed that none of the villains had come to confront him and formed a plan to prove himself to them.

Barry’s struggle against Turtle’s Still Force caused the Speed Force to draw an unknown realm into the universe, and Grodd prepared to leave after declaring that Earth’s destruction had begun. Su Ming blocked Grodd with the Cloak of Levitation and pierced him with spikes hidden in Deathstroke’s armor.

• Diana and Arthur broke free of the Still Force but struck each other, while Cheetah and Black Manta left Grodd to handle the heroes and retrieve their target.
• Barry pushed himself to generate more Speed Force, making the Still Force stronger until he and Turtle broke through their respective barriers.
• Barry realized the Speed Force had pulled the Still Force and an unknown realm through the Source Wall, and Grodd taunted him before preparing to leave.
• Su Ming used the Cloak of Levitation to reach Grodd despite the Still Force, dodged his attacks, and resisted his psychic power.
• Grodd grabbed Su Ming, but spikes burst through Deathstroke’s armor and pierced Grodd’s Nth Metal armor and body.

Su Ming and the Justice League fought Grodd, Cheetah, and Black Manta, but the attackers escaped with a vial of black liquid. The team headed back to the Hall of Justice to investigate the Still Force, while Superman and Martian Manhunter’s group pushed through the Totality’s dangerous inner realm and spotted a barrier resembling the Source Wall.

• Su Ming wounded Grodd and the others, but Grodd teleported away, and Cheetah and Black Manta escaped with a vial of black liquid.
• Su Ming reassured Barry that the Speed Force might close the passage the Still Force had entered through, and the League returned to Diana’s Invisible Jet.
• Su Ming considered who might benefit from universal destruction and decided the League needed to gather more information at the Hall of Justice.
• Superman and Martian Manhunter fought through mutated cells and strange creatures inside the Totality’s protective barrier while Batwoman and Hawkgirl piloted Flying Vehicles.
• Clark spotted a black structure resembling the Source Wall on the horizon, and Batwoman urged the team to reach it quickly.

Superman and J'onn investigated the fallen Source Wall statues, but J'onn's psychic contact triggered their attack and revealed a warning that humanity and the world would be destroyed. Meanwhile, Joker ambushed Hawkgirl inside J'onn's mind, and Batwoman heard a chilling presence after losing contact from inside Superman's mind.

• J'onn reached out to the statues and saw visions of humanity's destruction and his family burning to ash.
• The statues awakened and attacked Superman and J'onn, while one called J'onn their first decaying cell and said he must be destroyed.
• J'onn ignored Clark's warnings and pushed deeper into the statue's mind as Clark tried to protect him from its attacks.
• Joker ambushed Hawkgirl inside J'onn's mind, poisoned her with the chainsaw's engine casing, knocked her unconscious, and took control of the vehicle.
• Batwoman lost contact with the others inside Superman's mind and heard a faint, cold chuckle behind her.