Chapter Summaries

Su Ming's team arrived in a black rainforest filled with thinking, half-plant creatures after Batwoman altered the past. As the team tested the forest, Su Ming contacted Batman to discuss their next change to the Timeline.

• Su Ming's team found a rainforest growing under Omega's crimson sky, and Diana questioned whether Batwoman's alteration had succeeded.
• Deathstroke ordered Cyborg to transform into a logging machine, and Cyborg felled the trees while Strangle ate one and made a chair.
• Su Ming asked a dying tree whether it knew Darkseid, and it answered, "Darkseid Is!"
• Albera considered burning the forest, and Su Ming encouraged her before asking the Adjutant to connect him to Batman.

Deathstroke coordinated with Batwoman as she worked on a plan to counter Darkseid’s Omega power, then treated Hawkgirl and examined the symbols on her wings. He summoned two people and a cat after recognizing the symbols as instructions connected to the Source Wall.

• Deathstroke discussed Batwoman’s plan to use Arthur’s Life Force with her, and she requested Sinestro and Diana for the next step.
• Reverse-Flash brought Diana to Batwoman and Hawkgirl to Deathstroke’s team.
• Deathstroke gave Hawkgirl a healing potion and learned that Darkseid had attacked the first team through multiple concepts without appearing in person.
• Deathstroke asked Enchantress to inspect Hawkgirl’s wings, and she revealed glowing symbols that Deathstroke recognized as the Source Wall’s instruction manual.
• Deathstroke whistled, summoning two people and a cat, as one of them greeted the group with a cackle.

Deathstroke’s team discussed Darkseid’s apparent pursuit of divine authority while fighting in the burning Omega Earth. The chapter left them contacting Luthor to learn whether Darkseid had ever dealt with Perpetua.

• Deadpool annoyed Deathstroke with his antics, and Bobo joked that being away from his wife made him happier.
• Deathstroke questioned Daniel, who said Darkseid sought the authority of God; Bobo and Big Cat explained the connection between Alpha, The Source, Perpetua, and the Spectre Universe.
• Su Ming proposed asking Luthor whether Darkseid had contacted Perpetua, and Adjutant connected them.
• Luthor answered while leading cannon fodder in an artillery battle against Apokolips.

Deathstroke questioned Luthor about Darkseid’s past actions and discussed theories about his plans while the group fought Parademons. After hearing the team’s remaining concerns, Deathstroke decided to wait for the next time reset before explaining his plan.

• Luthor said Darkseid had never fought Perpetua, and credited the Justice League’s Source Wall plan for helping cause the New Gods’ deaths.
• Deathstroke and Luthor speculated that Darkseid might have learned from his imprisonment and that Sepulk could have inspired Omega Earth.
• Luthor told Deathstroke that Batwoman had borrowed Uncle Sai and warned that Batman’s situation seemed to be going badly.
• Bobo asked where Merlin had taken the missing Mages, and Enchantress and Big Cat suggested the Hand of the Void or the Nightmare Domain.
• Su Ming stopped the group’s digressions, and Deathstroke said he would explain his plan after the next time reset.

Su Ming explained that Batman planned to create a world for humans and sacrifice himself, while Darkseid was trying to prevent humanity’s creation. He proposed using the Still Force, Hawkgirl’s Cycle Activation Code, and dreams to create humans on Omega Earth, save Batman, and defeat Darkseid.

• Su Ming deduced that the conflict between Batman and Darkseid centered on creating humans and proposed creating them directly on Omega Earth.
• Damian, Daniel, and the cat supported the idea that humans’ unpredictable dreams could oppose Darkseid and provide a new beginning.
• The cat revealed that Batman intended to sacrifice himself after creating a world, and Su Ming reassured Hawkgirl that he could save Batman and defeat Darkseid.
• Su Ming planned to isolate the Speed Force Plane from Omega Earth with the Still Force and Hawkgirl’s Cycle Activation Code, then use dreams to create a world.
• Su Ming asked who would become a Creator God and rejected Deadpool when he volunteered.

Su Ming explained his plan to use a Still Force-wielding Amazo to create a time barrier separating Batwoman’s group and Darkseid from the rest of Omega Earth. He arranged for the Adjutant to reprogram the robot, leaving the team ready to put the plan into action.

• Luthor sent Su Ming a muscular Amazo capable of using the Still Force.
• Su Ming told his teammates he would have the Adjutant use Strangle to reprogram the Amazo.
• Su Ming described Omega Earth’s layered structure and proposed adding a Still Force barrier between its surface and atmosphere.
• Su Ming explained how the Still Force could precisely alter time within a bounded area while leaving the outside Timeline unaffected.
• Su Ming noted that Still Force users suffered severe side effects, but robots could wield the power without those costs.

Su Ming and his allies took control of Amazo and used its Still Force to enclose Omega Earth, then began rewriting the planet’s rules by creating the foundations of life. Big Cat started shaping the sea and adding single-celled organisms while the group discussed what their new world should look like.

• Su Ming tested Amazo’s new programming, and Deathstroke confirmed that it followed commands and could sing and dance.
• Su Ming explained that Adjutant had hacked Amazo, then ordered it to activate the Onion Plan and wrap the planet in Still Force.
• Amazo completed the barrier, replacing the dark sky with an invisible green energy field that concealed the world from ordinary people.
• Su Ming proposed copying Earth-0’s development by using Life Force to create single-celled organisms, and he asked Big Cat to act as creator of a world where humans and cats could coexist.
• Big Cat added eukaryotes to the sea and changed its color at Su Ming’s suggestion, while Bobo, Hawkgirl, and the others offered ideas as they prepared food.

Deathstroke and his companions prepared hot pot in a flooded cave while Big Cat and Amazo created life on Omega Earth and accelerated time. After five billion years, Deathstroke found the early sea life influenced by Omega Energy and began using the Power of Grayskull to alter its effects.

• Hawkgirl discussed her despair over her endless reincarnations, while Bobo and Damian suggested ways she might use her ability or escape it.
• Deathstroke asked Big Cat to make the ocean transparent and golden, then directed her to enrich marine life and vegetation as Amazo accelerated time with the Still Force.
• Amazo fast-forwarded Omega Earth by five billion years, and Deathstroke sent Cloak into the sea to collect fish for their hot pot.
• Bobo recognized one of Cloak's strange catches as a vertebrate, and Deathstroke attributed its appearance to the underground Fire Pits' influence.
• Deathstroke revealed that Zola had given him Cybertronian energy and used the Power of Grayskull to begin neutralizing the Omega Energy's effects.

Su Ming and his companions debated how to create humans on Omega Earth, then settled on making them compatible with a new race of Symbiote Cats. The chapter left their plan ready to produce powerful human hosts who could unite with cats to fight Darkseid.

• Su Ming prepared to create humans on Omega Earth after accelerating the world's development to roughly the Jurassic Period.
• Damian, Bobo, Albera, and Hawkgirl discussed human origins and Shaun's schooling, and Su Ming recommended Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
• Su Ming revealed a design for humans with cat ears and tails, and explained that the features would be detachable rather than permanent.
• Su Ming explained that the new humans would serve as hosts for Symbiote Cats, which would bond with them as ears and tails and boost their combat power.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats agreed to use Strangle as the template for the Symbiote Cat race, intended as the humans' powerful companion species and biological weapon against Darkseid.

Su Ming and Big Cat revised the Symbiote Cats’ instincts, food habits, and reproduction so they could coexist with humans while encouraging work and innovation. Big Cat created a kitten for a test symbiosis with Cyborg, leaving Victor with cat ears and a tail.

• Su Ming decided the Symbiote Cats should not be driven to kill their own kind, should use prey more fully, and should reproduce at a controlled rate.
• Big Cat proposed matching cat births to human births, but Su Ming argued for fewer Symbiote Cats and a hierarchical society that preserved human competition.
• Su Ming persuaded Big Cat to make Symbiote Cats value labor and innovation and leave hosts who became lazy or stagnant.
• Big Cat created a white kitten and had it test symbiosis with Cyborg, transforming Victor to give him cat ears and a tail.

Su Ming created a new human population and established the systems needed to make their Earth self-contained. After twenty billion years passed outside the cave, he and the others prepared to inspect the finished Omega Earth.

• Su Ming reassured Cyborg about his Symbiote Cat enhancements, and Cyborg accepted the cat and thanked him.
• Su Ming rejected Deadpool's request for a Symbiote and told Ciri to take him to get a Grimer.
• Su Ming had Big Cat create East Asian humans who spoke Chinese, then sent them with Symbiote Cats to a suitable continent to survive on their own.
• Su Ming and the others worked on the world's soul cycle, Mystic Side, and pantheon, while time outside the cave advanced by twenty billion years.
• Deadpool pointed out that seven people had taken part in Genesis, and Su Ming agreed to go outside and inspect the completed Omega Earth.

Deathstroke and his companions emerged from the cave to find Omega Earth thriving, with New Humans worshipping Dream of a Thousand Cats and enjoying the surface. Damian explained that the people lived underground near the balanced Fire Pits, while the beach and scenery remained open for leisure.

• Deathstroke used Force Telekinesis to lead the group out of the cave and saw New Humans enjoying the coast and offering prayers to statues of Dream of a Thousand Cats.
• Bobo remarked that the cave had become a holy site, and Big Cat said the New Humans were closest to her in their dreams and had avoided most of the Omega Effect's corruption.
• Hawkgirl wondered where the buildings were, and Deadpool pointed out the underground mall entrances and Cat People emerging with ice cream.
• Deadpool defended underground living, and Damian explained that the Fire Pits provided clean energy and that the New Humans could see in the dark.

Su Ming learned that Omega Earth was ruled by the Big Cat Council and planned to gather Dream’s power on the planet’s highest mountain to defeat Darkseid. Meanwhile, Batwoman’s team hid from Darkseid in a pipe-filled Earth, badly wounded and waiting for Deathstroke’s plan to unfold.

• Adjutant identified the Big Cat Council as Omega Earth’s rulers and shared records of the planet’s history with Su Ming’s group.
• Su Ming ordered Cyborg to take the group to the highest mountain so they could set up a spell formation and gather Dream’s power.
• Batwoman’s team escaped Darkseid into a huge pipe, where Superman tended to her severe spatial wound.
• Batwoman ordered Superman and Sinestro to conceal the pipe entrance with the Invisible Spectrum while the team rested.
• Batwoman asked Diana whether Deathstroke had contacted her, and Diana said he had shared no details about his next move.

Albera completed a magic circle on Cat Whisker Mountain, and Big Cat and Daniel began using the dreams of Omega Earth's New Humans to draw Darkseid into a dream battle. Su Ming explained his plan to counter Darkseid and considered Deadpool's mind and antics as backup tactics.

• Albera finished the energy-gathering magic circle, and Su Ming asked Big Cat and Daniel to use it to gather dream power and reach Darkseid.
• Big Cat and Daniel entered the circle and began an unseen struggle against Darkseid, supported by cat people around the world through their dreams.
• Su Ming explained that he planned to connect dreams to Hypertime and use stories to oppose Darkseid's Omega power.
• Bobo asked about the next step, and Su Ming said they would need to manipulate the Still Force to retrieve Batwoman and the others from the Speed Force Plane.
• Deadpool offered to lure Darkseid into his mind, and Su Ming agreed to pay him to try it as a backup plan.

Su Ming and his allies eliminated Darkseid’s Omega influence from Earth and prepared to confront him at a chosen point in time. The Dream of a Thousand Cats located the final battlefield and planned to take the group to Batwoman while Daniel stayed behind to resist Darkseid’s will.

• Cyborg reported that the Omega Effect had vanished from the atmosphere, leaving Earth under the group’s control.
• The Adjutant told Su Ming that Luthor had taken the Solar System and was clearing out the remaining stragglers.
• Su Ming explained that they would bind Darkseid’s Speed Force Plane and fight him at a Time Point before cutting that period from the Main Timeline.
• Deadpool praised the Dream of a Thousand Cats, and Big Cat rebuked him for not keeping cats.
• Big Cat told Su Ming that it had found the final battlefield, where Daniel would remain in the magic circle while it took the others to Batwoman through humanity’s shared dream.

Deathstroke brought his team to the first squad’s location in the Speed Force Plane, where they treated the survivors and prepared to face Darkseid. The chapter ended with Deathstroke correcting Deadpool about which universe they were in as the group got ready to act.

• Deathstroke left Damian, Kendra, and Amazo to guard Daniel before Big Cat transported him and his team to Batwoman’s location.
• Deathstroke told Batwoman that his team was ready to fight Darkseid, destroy the Speed Force Plane, and prevent Hypertime from affecting events.
• Deathstroke distributed healing potions to the injured first squad and asked Big Cat to restore Superman’s age.
• Big Cat made Superman young again, but the healing potion did not repair Batwoman’s abdominal wound.
• Superman explained that Earth and its people, rather than he alone, had defeated Darkseid, while Deadpool struggled with his earnest optimism.
• Deathstroke told Deadpool that they were not in the DC Universe, and Deadpool jokingly acted cute.

Su Ming prepared a plan to use Superman as bait to draw Darkseid out, but the gathered heroes insisted on joining the fight. After Superman revealed their position, Grail appeared nearby, and Diana claimed her as a target as the group braced for her arrival.

• Su Ming explained that Deadpool’s episodes were worsening and told Superman he would serve as bait for Darkseid.
• Bobo dragged Deadpool away before he could get close to Superman, then left him with Diana to keep watch.
• Su Ming selected a team for the fishing plan, but J’onn and Aquaman urged the others to join, so he agreed to let everyone come.
• Superman fired Heat Vision through the pipe ceiling, attracting approaching monsters, and Su Ming sent Reverse-Flash to intercept them.
• Superman spotted Grail at the opening, and Diana declared that she would capture her while Bobo warned the group not to underestimate her.
• A red light appeared as the sound of high-heeled boots approached through the pipe.

Deathstroke's team attacked Grail after she ambushed them with Omega Beams, and Dream of a Thousand Cats weakened her so they could kill her quickly. Diana was left grieving that her sister had forced the fight by attacking first.

• Deathstroke reflected Grail's Omega Beams with his Lightsaber, then ordered the team to attack her.
• Jesse Quick, Red Hood's Outlaws, and the rest of Deathstroke's team charged Grail while Diana tried to stop them.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats made Grail weak, and the team overwhelmed and killed her.
• Su Ming criticized Darkseid for failing to grant Grail greater power, while Deadpool discussed his Plot Continuity Gem.
• Red Hood handed Su Ming Grail's severed head, and Diana sighed over her sister's death.

Deathstroke and his allies confronted Darkseid on the pipe-covered Earth after defeating Grail. Deathstroke used the Big Cat to foil Darkseid’s reality-altering attack and distracted him long enough for Deadpool to steal his pants, leaving the battle tilted in their favor.

• Diana offered Grail’s head for Strangle to read, but Su Ming said Grail had only been Darkseid’s warm-up and Diana stored the head in her pouch.
• Darkseid altered the pipes around the group, but the Big Cat’s cry stopped the changes and restored the surroundings.
• Su Ming blasted open the pipes overhead and challenged Uxas as Deathstroke and the others emerged onto the surface.
• Darkseid recognized Deathstroke as the one who had repeatedly ruined his plans and failed to alter Deathstroke’s existence.
• Deadpool revealed that he had stolen Darkseid’s pants while Deathstroke distracted him and the Big Cat blocked his conceptual attack.

Deathstroke exploited Darkseid’s pride by using Big Cat to make his pants repeatedly vanish, distracting him while the heroes attacked. Deadpool gave the stolen pants to Bobo as a potential bar decoration before joining the battle.

• Bobo and Batwoman realized that Deathstroke’s pants tactic had diverted Darkseid’s reality manipulation away from the team.
• Big Cat repeatedly erased the pants Darkseid created, while Deathstroke attacked him with a Lightsaber and a taunting mental feint.
• Albera began casting a powerful spell, and Batwoman ordered the Justice League members to join the fight.
• Deadpool offered Darkseid’s stolen pants to Bobo as a bar display, accepted payment in booze, and flew into battle on a Green Goblin Glider.