Chapter Summaries

Lucifer welcomed Deathstroke, Jesse, and Roger into his hotel suite, where Deathstroke explained Barry’s disappearance into Hypertime and asked Lucifer for help. The chapter ended with Deathstroke preparing milk tea while Lucifer considered the request.

• The chapter described how demons used money to tempt humans into trading their souls and how Lucifer used his wealth to enjoy a luxurious life in Los Angeles.
• Deathstroke flew to Lucifer’s hotel suite with Jesse and Roger, and Lucifer let them in and offered them drinks.
• Lucifer mixed drinks at the bar and chatted with Deathstroke while Jesse and Roger kept their distance from the unconscious guests.
• Deathstroke told Lucifer that Barry had entered Hypertime and could have reached an unknown Timeline or Single Universe, so he had come to ask Lucifer for help.
• Deathstroke drank Lucifer’s Hell cocktail, then used his Power Ring to prepare milk tea while waiting for Lucifer’s answer.

Su Ming traded Lucifer a recording of Wade’s wild pre-wedding night for help with Barry Allen’s condition. Lucifer accepted the bargain and agreed to help, while Su Ming steered the conversation back to Barry’s urgent situation.

• Su Ming explained that Dream had no solution for Barry’s problem and said he had come to negotiate with Lucifer.
• Su Ming gave Lucifer a TVA surveillance recording of Wade and Shakara’s maid group, and Lucifer watched it in private.
• Su Ming stopped Jesse from following Lucifer after she became entranced by the Fallen Angel’s charm.
• Lucifer returned satisfied, agreed to help, and promised his nightclub would always be open to Wade.
• Su Ming redirected Lucifer from discussing Wade’s behavior and returned the conversation to Barry Allen.

Su Ming gave Lucifer the Sands of Time so he could use temporal authority to send the group into an unhappened story and intercept The Flash. Arabelle arrived seeking Dream, then agreed to join the mission for payment as Lucifer prepared the spell.

• Lucifer explained that he could use the Sands of Time to reach an unhappened story and intercept The Flash, while keeping the Speed Force Lightning Rod as a backup.
• Su Ming revealed that he had collected Sands of Time from Dream’s mask and handed Lucifer a sealed snuffbox containing them.
• Lucifer began preparing a Heaven Magic spell, but Arabelle stepped through a Teleportation Portal looking for Dream on Death’s behalf.
• Su Ming explained the mission to Arabelle, and she agreed to help intercept The Flash for fifty thousand US Dollars.
• Lucifer prepared to send Su Ming, Bobo, Enchantress, and Arabelle into a story that had never been written.

Destiny spoke with Death about her plans to challenge his arrangements, then was attacked and killed by Darkseid. Darkseid took the Book of Destiny and found every page filled with the words “Darkseid Is!”

• Destiny called Death to the Labyrinth of Destiny and asked why she had contacted him.
• Death said she had enlisted humans to oppose Destiny’s arrangements and intended to use Lucifer against him.
• Destiny accepted Death’s choice but remained bound to his own role.
• Darkseid attacked Destiny with Black Light and crushed him, killing the embodiment of Destiny.
• Darkseid seized the Book of Destiny and found the same sentence on every page: “Darkseid Is!”

Deathstroke and his companions traveled through the dream bubbles toward their destination while Albera told them how she had wasted her payment on a bad online liquor deal. As the group neared their destination, Deathstroke warned them to prepare for combat and to catch Barry.

• The group fell through the Sands of Time’s dream-filled tunnel, where Bobo and Enchantress bickered as they traveled.
• Enchantress explained that she had planned to spend her payment on cigarettes and liquor, but bought discounted whisky online and was scammed.
• Bobo teased Enchantress about the fake liquor, and she said she had thrown its seller into Hell and threatened to throw Bobo into magma.
• Jesse asked why Bobo’s bar did not welcome Japanese customers, and Bobo said their food requests were too troublesome.
• Deathstroke sensed that the group was nearing its destination and told everyone to prepare for combat and catch Barry.

Su Ming and his team set a trap in an empty New York to capture Barry, then freed him from a hypnotic state with Tenth Metal. Barry woke up warning them that something was wrong.

• Su Ming brought his team to an empty New York and had Strangle conceal itself across the street while the others took their positions.
• Su Ming disguised himself as Reverse-Flash to draw Barry into the trap, and Roger and Jesse forced Barry into the air.
• Cloak wrapped Barry up and dropped him in the street, where Deathstroke and Bobo celebrated their capture.
• Albera identified Barry’s vacant behavior as hypnosis, and Su Ming used Tenth Metal to awaken him.
• Barry sat up with his eyes clear and shouted that something was wrong.

After rescuing Barry from Hypertime, Su Ming and his allies questioned him about the white-masked figure that had interrupted his race. Once Barry had recovered by eating a huge amount of roasted camel, Su Ming used Strangle to scan his memories and identify the attacker.

• Su Ming released Barry, who explained that he had seen a smooth white mask during the Flash Cup before losing his memory.
• Barry described the mask and a snake-like body, while Bobo sketched several guesses that Barry rejected.
• Barry ate most of a roasted camel and recovered his strength.
• Su Ming activated Strangle to scan Barry’s memories and see who had attacked him.

Deathstroke and the others investigated the identity of the masked figure who had controlled Barry, but no one recognized him. They remained in an unfamiliar, deserted New York as a strange half-bodied person appeared, and Albera proposed bringing him over to examine him.

• Deathstroke and the others discussed how the masked enemy had controlled Barry and suspected an informant or a planned use for Barry's Speed Force.
• Strangle restored Barry, and Deathstroke drew a detailed portrait of the masked enemy.
• Jesse, Roger, Albera, and Bobo failed to recognize the figure, so Deathstroke asked Barry whether he knew the place they had reached.
• Barry identified the distant Statue of Liberty, while Enchantress and Bobo explained that the deserted city was not an ordinary New York.
• The group spotted a living half-bodied figure gliding down the road, and Albera asked Deathstroke to bring him over for examination.

Su Ming investigated a half-buried man in a strange layered world and recognized it as a Hypertime trap designed to pull them out of reality. The man vanished after declaring that Darkseid was behind the contest, leaving the group to wonder how Darkseid entered Hypertime and what he intended.

• Su Ming tested the half-buried man and found that he could touch him, though they could not communicate normally.
• Bobo plucked hair from the man, and the group realized they stood on a higher level of reality.
• Su Ming pulled the man upward, causing the ground to vanish and the group to descend to another layer.
• Su Ming identified the world as a dream that was never dreamed, where Dimensional Descent could remove them from the real stories of the DC Universe.
• Su Ming cut the man with a Lightsaber, but the man faded away after declaring that their contest had begun and shouting, “Darkseid Is!”
• Detective Chimp questioned how Darkseid had entered Hypertime and what he intended to do.

The Justice League traveled through the Himalayas to reach the entrance to the Hall of Everything, with Batman relying on Jason and his Blade of the Great Caste to lead them. Batman had pressured Jason into helping, while Jason's resentment toward him remained obvious as they prepared to proceed.

• The Justice League flew under cover of darkness through the Himalayas, avoiding a Boom Tube so Darkseid would not detect their route.
• Jason repeatedly polished the Blade of the Great Caste whenever Batman looked at him, while the other heroes noticed their strained relationship.
• Arthur, J'onn, and Wonder Woman discussed Batman's apparent coercion of Jason as Wonder Woman worried about Bobo's disappearance.
• John Stewart returned to the team, and Superman and Hawkgirl counseled him about the regrets left by the Invisible Spectrum.
• Batman approached Jason after cloaking the landed Bat-plane and ordered him to lead the Justice League to the Hall of Everything.
• Batman had used Wally's help to contact Jason and intended his pressure to make Jason feel needed and stay focused on the mission.

Deathstroke and his team survived the trap in an empty New York and made plans to pursue the trail toward Darkseid while preserving a way back. After learning Barry's father had been released, Barry eagerly agreed to return to the Hall of Justice, where Bobo planned to investigate a possible traitor in Justice Incarnate.

• Su Ming equipped the team with Tenth Metal and discussed how they could escape the strange world.
• Deathstroke argued that the empty world might be a route to Darkseid and planted a Spider Totem as a teleportation node.
• Deathstroke reasoned that Dream Daniel might enter the world while following his own clues and left him a message by the manhole cover.
• Deathstroke told Jesse a fabricated story about why he called Darkseid Uncle Darkseid.
• Bobo proposed returning to the Hall of Justice to inspect Justice Incarnate's members for a traitor, while Barry objected that they were all superheroes.
• Deathstroke told Barry that Reverse-Flash had been exposed for murdering his mother and that his father had been released, prompting Barry to celebrate and agree to go home.

After Barry was rescued from hypnosis and abduction, Deathstroke questioned President Superman about possible conspirators in the Flash Cup. The obvious suspects were dismissed, but Deathstroke spotted something in the darkness above the stands and asked who it belonged to.

• President Superman cleaned the deserted stadium as Deathstroke returned with Barry and demanded the Flash Cup organizers’ list.
• President Superman explained that he had arranged the race himself, with speedsters and the Rogues helping design the track.
• Bobo, Deathstroke, and President Superman ruled out the Rogues and track designers as likely accomplices.
• The Enchantress proposed examining everyone’s memories, but Deathstroke stopped her and pointed toward an unknown thing above the stands.

Jason led the Justice League and Outlaws through a cliff wall into the Great Caste’s Great Hall, where they found hundreds of martial-arts-trained zombies. Batwoman ordered the group into combat as Aquaman’s attack failed to stop one of them.

• Jason explained that the Great Caste had chosen to die in the Great Hall and warned that their bodies might have decomposed.
• Batwoman entered the cliff wall first, and Jason followed after arguing with her about the danger of leaving the bodies unburied.
• Batwoman and Jason emerged in the Great Hall and discovered that its courtyard was filled with zombies.
• Batwoman ordered everyone to fight carefully and warned them not to get bitten or scratched.
• Aquaman charged a monk zombie, but it deflected his trident strike with Tai Chi and struck him hard enough to send him staggering.
• Batwoman told the group to gather in a corner and use their superpowers against the combat-skilled zombies.

Deathstroke traced the suspicious speed-tracking system to Machine Head of Earth-8, who had sponsored it while discussing the Avengers joining Justice Incarnate. The team prepared to confront him, while Adjutant was ordered to seal off Earth-8 and send Barry and his family to TVA headquarters.

• Deathstroke had Bobo dismantle the arena’s broadcast screen, and Bobo found Stark Industries components inside it.
• President Superman recalled that Machine Head from Earth-8 had sponsored the camera system on behalf of the Avengers.
• President Superman admitted that Machine Head had discussed the Avengers joining Justice Incarnate, and he had mistaken the sponsorship for goodwill toward the team’s speedsters.
• Barry comforted President Superman, while Captain Rabbit praised the team’s show of understanding.
• Dark Deathstroke ordered Adjutant to seal off Earth-8, put the Imperial Fists Chapter on standby, and send Barry, his father, and his girlfriends to TVA headquarters.

Su Ming sent Barry to Marvel’s TVA Headquarters to keep Darkseid from using him, then led his team toward Earth-8 while ordering President Superman to guard the Hall of Justice. Meanwhile, Multiverse Captain forced her way into Machine Head’s suite after he failed to answer her.

• Su Ming sent Barry and his family to TVA Headquarters, telling the others that Barry could reunite with his father while Jesse took his place on the team.
• Su Ming used Felix Felicis to improve the odds of meeting Dream in an empty New York, while Bobo kept quiet about his suspicions.
• President Superman offered to accompany Su Ming to Earth-8, but Su Ming ordered him to stay and guard the Hall of Justice in case Darkseid attacked.
• Su Ming’s team set out for a Parallel World, while Multiverse Captain knocked on Machine Head’s Stark Industries Tower suite and demanded to discuss Justice Incarnate.
• When Machine Head did not answer, Multiverse Captain made a screwdriver from Cosmic Energy and removed the suite’s security door.

Multiverse Captain Krol found Machine Head dead in his penthouse, surrounded by murdered women, and discovered the word “Deathstroke” written beneath his hand. She was left trying to identify the killer from his final clue.

• Krol went to Machine Head’s penthouse to discuss Justice Incarnate after he had secretly contacted President Superman.
• Krol entered the master bedroom and found several dead women and Machine Head’s charred body in damaged armor.
• Krol searched the scene and found “Deathstroke” written in blood and scorch marks beneath Machine Head’s armored hand.
• Krol wondered whether Deathstroke was someone on their Earth, then shook the corpse until its head snapped off.

Su Ming and his companions arrived in New York on Earth-8 to investigate Machine Head, whom Su Ming suspected of betraying the team. They descended outside Stark Industries Tower to announce their presence to the Avengers and ordered hot dogs before approaching the building.

• Deathstroke and his companions discussed finding Machine Head, while Albera suggested searching Stark Industries Tower.
• Su Ming explained that the team was only investigating Machine Head, though he privately suspected the man had betrayed them.
• Bobo proposed visiting the Avengers’ building without causing a scene, and Su Ming decided to announce their arrival by stopping at a nearby hot dog stand.
• Cloak brought the group down to the plaza outside Stark Industries Tower, where Deathstroke cut to the front of the line and ordered ten hot dogs.

After finding a burned corpse in Machine Head’s armor, Bobo and Albera determined it was a stand-in and investigated the missing head and a teammate’s intrusion. Su Ming concluded that Machine Head’s death message was meant to frame him and provoke a conflict with the Avengers, and the group turned to finding where Machine Head was hiding.

• Bobo identified the armored corpse as someone other than Machine Head because it lacked the old rib injuries that should have resulted from the shrapnel in Machine Head’s heart.
• Albera closed the dead women’s eyes, and Jesse correctly deduced how Bobo had distinguished the corpse from Machine Head.
• Bobo found signs that a boot-wearing woman had entered after the deaths, removed the main door with a screwdriver, and kicked open the bedroom door.
• Albera and Su Ming concluded that the missing head and death message were part of an attempt to frame Su Ming and set him against the Avengers.
• Captain Rabbit offered to present the evidence to the Avengers, but Su Ming refused and said they would need proof before accusing him.
• The group agreed to look for Machine Head while taking advantage of the situation.

Diana and the others crossed the hostile, disorienting spaces of the Hall of Everything while Diana and Artemis caught up. Artemis asked how Diana was coping after Hippolyta’s resurrection and the loss of her rights, leaving Diana’s current situation unanswered.

• The Justice League and the Outlaw team quickly killed the agile zombies, and Batwoman burned their remains before Jason led everyone deeper into the Hall of Everything.
• The group struggled through the Hall’s chaotic spaces, strange gravity and hostile creatures as Jason guided them onward.
• Artemis joined Diana and recalled how she had once become Wonder Woman after Hippolyta sabotaged Diana, only to be bullied by the Justice League and die in an enemy trap.
• Diana had rescued Artemis from the Underworld, and the sisters later reconciled; Artemis and Jason now ran with the Outlaw team and shared a dislike of Batwoman.
• Artemis asked Diana about Hippolyta’s resurrection and taking away her rights, and Diana said she was doing fine.

Diana and Artemis discussed the gods, Grail’s disappearance, and the danger posed by the Essence Society as the Justice League traveled through the Hall of Everything. They arrived to find Saru dead, leaving Jason mourning the Guardian.

• Diana and Artemis discussed Grail’s departure and their fading belief in the gods, while Diana warned Artemis that the Essence Society members had all died.
• Artemis teased Diana about repeatedly mentioning Deathstroke, but Jason’s anguished cry cut their conversation short.
• Artemis rushed ahead to Jason, while Diana drew her sword and joined Batwoman and Superman.
• The group found Saru, the last survivor of the Great Caste and Eternity Guardian of the Hall of Everything, dead in his chair with two scorched holes in his chest.