Chapter Summaries

Su Ming led the group to Twisted Peak, where Cyborg transformed into an oxygen concentrator to treat Luthor’s supposed altitude sickness. She-Ra directed them up the mountain toward a concealed cave that led to a temple, and the team began climbing without encountering anyone.

• Su Ming found the area around Twisted Peak empty of enemies and living creatures, while Luthor voiced concern about the silence.
• Deathstroke prompted Cyborg to respond to Luthor’s discomfort, and Cyborg transformed into an oxygen concentrator and put a tube in Luthor’s nose.
• Deathstroke offered oxygen concentrators to Grodd, who agreed to buy some for the Gorilla Kingdom.
• The group reached the mountain’s foot and felt watched by the gemstones embedded in the rock.
• She-Ra explained that a concealed cave halfway up the mountain led to a temple, and Su Ming ordered everyone to climb toward it.

Su Ming and the Legion of Doom found an ancient temple whose carvings described Zola, Eternia’s Cosmic Consciousness, and a prophecy of a warrior from beyond who would heal the surface world. After joking that Cyborg fulfilled the prophecy, Su Ming led She-Ra into the temple to guide them through its maze and find Zola.

• Strangle located the hidden cave by sensing vibrations, and Su Ming led the group through the mountainside illusion to its entrance.
• Damian found metal-shod footprints inside, while Su Ming burned away the vines covering the temple gate.
• She-Ra read the gate’s carvings, explaining that Zola was an eternal creator worshipped under many names and that the ancient Cybos had become the Yuan-ti.
• She-Ra translated a prophecy about a warrior from beyond who would heal the surface world, and Su Ming jokingly identified Cyborg as its subject.
• Su Ming opened the temple gate and asked She-Ra to use the Sword Vigor to guide the group through the maze and toward Zola.

Su Ming explained the origins of Eternia and the Star Seed, then led his team into the temple’s first trial, the dream realm. The group entered the maze prepared to distinguish reality from illusion.

• Su Ming recalled how Zola’s Star Seed gave rise to Cybertronian and Eternia, and how King Grayskull wiped out nearly all the Yuan-ti.
• Su Ming explained that the Six Paths of Reincarnation guarded the route to the Star Seed and that the New Gods of Apokolips had already entered the temple.
• Luthor, Deathstroke, Damian, and Cyborg shed their disguises as the team reached a massive door left slightly open.
• She-Ra asked whether the door was meant to be open, and Deathstroke spotted footprints indicating that someone had opened it.
• Su Ming warned the team about the dream-realm trial, assigned Daniel and Big Cat to watch over everyone, and stepped through the door first.

Su Ming escaped a featureless dream by using Tenth Metal to shatter the illusion and found Big Cat waiting in a giant elevator room. As they waited for Daniel and the others, Big Cat recalled how a thousand cats once reshaped the Megaverse through a dream.

• Su Ming investigated the black-purple dream desert with Strangle and realized the dream could not read his mind because of Tenth Metal and the concept of darkness.
• Su Ming struck his exposed Tenth Metal arms together, breaking the dream and waking in a vast elevator room where Big Cat was waiting.
• Big Cat told Su Ming that Daniel was guiding the others safely through their dreams and would emerge with them soon.
• Su Ming asked Big Cat about restarting DC's multiverses, and Big Cat recalled how a dying Gotham stray cat asked Dream for a world where cats controlled their own fate.
• Dream asked the stray to gather a thousand cats, whose shared dream rewrote the Megaverse and made cats decide the future while humans became pets or vanished.

Dream of a Thousand Cats abandoned its attempt to make cats rule the Megaverse, restored reality, and returned to First Dream. After Damian escaped the dream, Su Ming, Damian, and Big Cat guessed who would wake next, but Lex Luthor emerged third.

• Dream of a Thousand Cats restored the DC Universe after its cat-ruled worlds collapsed, then returned to First Dream.
• Su Ming explained that Big Cat's reality-warping power had helped Cyborg's transformations work, and Damian arrived after escaping the dream on his own.
• Damian told Su Ming that his dream had shown a peaceful family life with Slade and Talia, but the ordinary dream version of his father had helped him wake.
• Su Ming, Damian, and Big Cat each guessed who would leave the dream next while they waited together.
• Lex Luthor emerged third and said Deathstroke's advice to wear a Mind Shield had helped him wake after he dreamed that Superman was bowing to him.

She-Ra and the Legion of Doom members emerged from their dreams, while Deathstroke held a guessing game over who would be last. Daniel finally brought out Cyborg, whose dream had trapped him in a repeating attempt to save his mother from her death.

• She-Ra, Cheetah, Sinestro, and Grodd emerged from their dreams, while Amazo stayed behind to guard the escape route.
• Deathstroke offered candy to the group for guessing whether Orm or Cyborg would be last, and Cheetah and the others joined in.
• Orm emerged with a suspiciously cheerful expression, revealing that he had been the final contestant to wake.
• The group asked Daniel to bring Cyborg out of the dream, and Daniel appeared supporting a sobbing Cyborg.
• Daniel explained that Cyborg had been trapped in a time loop, repeatedly trying and failing to save his mother from dying.

Deathstroke explained that the Second Cycle was a dimension made from the dead past of Cybertronian, where powerful monsters lurked beneath the Earth. The group descended into a dark, blood-scented wasteland, and Deathstroke said they needed to find a ship to leave.

• Deathstroke explained that the Second Cycle belonged to the dead Cybertronian and warned that Yuan-ti were low in the underground food chain.
• She-Ra asked how they could pass through the Earth, and Deathstroke said they needed to find a ship.
• Damian comforted Cyborg as he recovered from his shock during the descent.
• The group exited the ancient elevator into a silent wasteland beneath a dim, unnatural sky.
• Strange roars sounded in the distance before the wasteland fell quiet again.

Deathstroke led the group away from the New Gods’ trail, using She-Ra and the Sword Vigor to find a shorter route across the Wastelands. Their flight was attacked by Elemental Creatures, but Sinestro unleashed Parallax and drove them off, leaving the group to continue their journey.

• Deathstroke rejected the New Gods’ route and followed She-Ra’s guidance toward the destination across the spherical dimension.
• Cyborg transformed into a flying car and carried the group across the Wastelands.
• Elemental Creatures attacked the vehicle with boulders and tried to break into it.
• Sinestro unleashed Parallax and crushed enough monsters to make the rest flee.
• Deathstroke toasted Sinestro, then told Cyborg to play “Good Days” for the celebration.

Deathstroke and the others reached a graveyard of ancient airships and prepared one to travel onward through the Earth Dimension. Su Ming explained that they had to pass through the earth to reach the next dimension, leaving the group aboard the repaired vessel.

• She-Ra announced that the group had reached their destination, and they found a valley filled with wrecked airships.
• Luthor dismissed the airship graveyard as worthless, while Deathstroke selected a vessel and explained that airships were still used in Eternia and Etheria.
• Ocean Master questioned why they needed an airship, and Deathstroke said ordinary flight could not take them out of the Earth Dimension.
• Sinestro described how the gargoyles had stayed below two hundred meters, and Su Ming demonstrated that the sky above that height acted like an invisible wall.
• Deathstroke explained that the next dimension was Sky and that the group had to pass through the earth, then directed everyone to board the repaired airship.

Su Ming led the Legion of Doom aboard a Decryption Ship through the earth and into the Sky Dimension. After guiding them through the clouds, he revealed a vast field of abandoned floating cities and identified them as the ruins of the fallen Yuan-ti Civilization.

• Su Ming ordered Strangle to prepare the wrecked ship for departure, and Deathstroke raised its anchor as the vessel capsized into the earth.
• The ship emerged beneath a sea of clouds in the Sky Dimension, where Su Ming explained that the Decryption Ship had carried them through the Earth Dimension.
• Su Ming warned the team to follow his commands and said he would take a shortcut to Zola by skipping the War, Death, and Eternity dimensions.
• She-Ra steered the ship upward through the thick clouds while Sinestro protected it with his Power Ring.
• The ship broke through the clouds and revealed thousands of empty, ruined Sky Cities.
• Su Ming identified the abandoned cities as the remnants of the fallen Yuan-ti Civilization.

She-Ra explored the Yuan-ti’s abandoned Floating Cities in the Sky Dimension, while Deathstroke explained their history and why the team would skip the War, Death, and Eternity Dimensions. He revealed that The Horde’s secret gods were incarnations of Zola, leaving She-Ra shaken as the Power of Grayskull searched for their way onward.

• She-Ra felt the Floating Cities resonate with her and wondered whether Zola was guiding her, but Deathstroke explained that they were responding to the Power of Grayskull.
• Deathstroke described the War Dimension’s requirement to annihilate an entire enemy army and the Death Dimension’s ocean of Yuan-ti souls, explaining why he had no plan to enter either.
• Deathstroke explained that the final Eternity Dimension was Cybertronian’s inner world and confirmed that the team would use She-Ra’s Power of Grayskull to skip the remaining cycles.
• She-Ra praised Deathstroke’s knowledge, and he told her the Parrot Fairy knew more than he did but rarely shared it.
• Deathstroke revealed that Hordak built the Eternal Three Towers to sacrifice to a triune deity whose incarnations were tied to Zola, leaving She-Ra questioning why Zola had brought The Horde to Etheria.

Su Ming explained how he manipulated worlds to cultivate human potential while She-Ra and Luthor discussed the danger of trusting gods. When Apokolips airships appeared, Deathstroke ordered Cyborg to test his new abilities against the approaching Parademons.

• Su Ming described how he had arranged crises in other worlds and preserved exceptional fighters for Wilson Enterprises.
• She-Ra accepted that people could use bestowed powers without relying on them, while Luthor warned her not to trust gods.
• Cyborg spotted Apokolips airships and transformed into a telescope so the group could inspect the approaching fleet.
• Sinestro offered to fight, but Deathstroke stopped him and chose Cyborg to test his new abilities.
• Deathstroke encouraged Cyborg to face the several hundred Parademons, leaving him to begin the fight.

Cyborg charged at the enemy in a lawnmower form while Su Ming, Luthor, and Deathstroke discussed Gotham and the futility of trying to solve its darkness. Luthor abandoned his plans to retaliate against Joker as the group turned its attention to Cyborg’s battle.

• Cyborg regained his confidence and flew toward the enemy in a flame-spewing lawnmower form.
• Luthor questioned Cyborg’s transformation, and Su Ming explained that Gotham’s darkness could not be eliminated by destroying the city.
• Luthor suggested using The Time Machine to prevent Joker’s birth, but Su Ming warned that the DC Universe’s World Will would turn Luthor into Joker through coincidences.
• Luthor proposed imprisoning Joker, but Deathstroke explained that there had always been three Jokers and warned that provoking Joker would draw Batwoman’s suspicion.
• Luthor decided to give up his plan to retaliate against Joker, and the group watched Cyborg engage the enemy.

Deathstroke’s modifications turned Cyborg into a transforming household-appliance weapon, and he began killing Apokolips forces while struggling with the reality of what he had done. The battle continued as Cyborg adapted to the enemy’s attacks and started overcoming his reluctance to kill.

• Cyborg accidentally shredded several Parademons with his lawn-mower form, then dumped the remains after realizing he had consumed them.
• Su Ming and Deathstroke explained that Cyborg’s disgust was psychological while Mimi and the others watched the battle.
• When the New Gods attacked during Cyborg’s hesitation, he transformed into an oven and roasted the Parademons that rushed inside.
• Cyborg changed into a hair dryer and used its scorching blast to set enemy airships and their wooden vessels on fire.
• Deathstroke’s altered retinal imaging made the bloody deaths appear peaceful to Cyborg, helping him grow more comfortable with killing.

Su Ming and Luthor noticed that Apokolips's forces were dying without uttering their usual “Darkseid Is” slogan, so Su Ming ordered Cyborg to capture a prisoner for questioning. Cyborg returned with a live captive, still convinced that the aliens had smiled in gratitude as he killed them.

• Luthor and Deathstroke realized that none of the Apokolips soldiers had shouted “Darkseid Is” before dying, and Cheetah confirmed that the phrase was usually their final words.
• Su Ming asked Grodd to tell Cyborg to bring back a live enemy for interrogation.
• Grodd criticized Cyborg's excitement about killing, while Deathstroke defended him and Sinestro showed Grodd recordings of slavery in the United States.
• She-Ra condemned the United States' history of slavery, and Luthor said it would eventually be eliminated by changing times.
• Cyborg returned with a live prisoner, explained that the aliens had seemed happy when he killed them, and Su Ming encouraged him to trust his interpretation.

Deathstroke’s group learned that the Parademons were nearly mindless rear guards and continued traveling across Eternia while waiting for Zola’s signal. When She-Ra’s sword revealed their route, the group delayed following it so they could finish watching Deathstroke’s zombie movie.

• Su Ming found that the Parademon remembered little, but its orders had come from a frightening man who was not Darkseid and who did not know Deathstroke’s group was present.
• Deathstroke scolded Cyborg for failing to capture a useful prisoner, while Sinestro explained that Parademons were useless for interrogation.
• Damian asked Deathstroke for the Parademon’s energy gun, and Deathstroke gave him a Plasma Pistol as well and told him to watch She-Ra’s sword.
• The group watched Biohazard Crisis 77 aboard the airship as it continued toward its destination.
• Damian noticed that She-Ra’s sword was glowing, and its light pointed the way forward.
• Cheetah and Orm persuaded the others to finish the movie before following the sword’s direction.

Su Ming led the Legion of Doom through a ruined Floating City in search of the road to the gods, but the Sword Vigor stopped guiding them after they entered. With the city full of Yuan-ti mummies and no clear route forward, Su Ming prepared to use his Power Ring to raise the dead.

• Su Ming ended the movie screening, gave the Legion of Doom USB drives, and led the group onto the Floating City's harbor.
• Cheetah collected jewelry from dried Yuan-ti corpses as Su Ming joked with her about Catwoman and her money.
• Luthor pointed out the growing number of Yuan-ti mummies and asked Deathstroke about the city's route to the gods.
• Deathstroke explained the city's history and searched for landmarks, but the Sword Vigor no longer pointed the way.
• Big Cat urged Su Ming to use his Power Ring to raise the Yuan-ti corpses, and Su Ming prepared to try.

Deathstroke used the Black Lantern Ring to revive Yuan-ti corpses and learned the direction of their largest temple. He set off with Big Cat and the others toward it, while Big Cat wondered what secrets he was hiding.

• Deathstroke revived the Yuan-ti remains with the Black Lantern Ring, and Luthor and Sinestro reassured She-Ra that the undead were under his control.
• Deathstroke questioned a Yuan-ti corpse, which pointed toward the location of its largest temple.
• Big Cat helped the corpse answer despite its missing tongue, then urged Deathstroke to hurry toward the temple.
• Deathstroke dismissed the Black Lantern power, leaving the Yuan-ti corpses to collapse into scattered bones.
• Big Cat asked Deathstroke to share his hidden knowledge, and he replied with questions about catnip, silvervine, and fennel.

Deathstroke’s group reached the ruins of the Yuan-ti’s largest temple, where they believed a secret passage to the goddess Cybers was hidden. As they searched, Evil Thought Nobles flew overhead while pursuing the New Gods, and Luthor rushed to inspect a shattered snake statue after Orm questioned whether Amazo had been defeated.

• Luthor used what he overheard to map the route to the largest Yuan-ti temple, and Deathstroke led the group there while discussing the Black Lantern Ring and warning them about a powerful possible enemy.
• Deathstroke told the group to retreat immediately if he gave the signal, while Luthor agreed to command the Legion of Doom and Damian promised to watch She-Ra.
• The group reached a ruined plaza marked by a shattered giant snake statue, where Cheetah sensed something alive and Su Ming began searching for the hidden passage.
• Luthor found footprints showing that the New Gods had crossed the plaza and learned that an unknown force was nearby.
• Deathstroke spotted an overhead city transformed into a mass of flesh and identified the passing pursuers as Evil Thought Nobles hunting the New Gods.
• Orm asked whether the Evil Thought Nobles had destroyed Amazo, prompting Luthor to reject the idea and hurry to examine the broken snake statue.

Deathstroke’s group found and activated an ancient Yuan-ti Magic Circle, using She-Ra’s Power of Grayskull to open a portal. They emerged at the core of the world, where its truth awaited them.

• Sinestro found part of a pattern beneath the temple ruins and called Deathstroke over to inspect it.
• The princess could not identify the symbols, but She-Ra confirmed that the circle was made with Yuan-ti magic.
• Deathstroke told the princess to pour energy into the circle, and Su Ming advised her to stab the floor with her sword.
• She-Ra invoked her power and drove her sword into the floor, activating the Magic Circle.
• Big Cat identified the circle as a working teleportation portal, and Su Ming led the group through it toward Cybertronian’s core.
• Su Ming caught Damian during the rough, brief teleportation, and the group arrived at the core of the world.