Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and Harley traveled with Mack as their doomsday survival team began to take shape, while Adjutant controlled the information available to survivors. Adjutant reported an eighty-two percent chance that a passage between worlds lay beneath Skull Island, leaving Su Ming to consider changing his plan.

• Mack drove the vehicle while Su Ming and Harley set up a television to watch Adjutant’s broadcast.
• Harley confided that she worried about her mental state and whether her desire to play had affected the fate of others, and Su Ming reassured her.
• Harley asked whether a door beneath Skull Island led to a Parallel World, and Su Ming said he might have to alter his plan if one existed.
• Su Ming began preparing Maocai for Harley and Mack as Adjutant projected herself into the vehicle.
• Adjutant told Su Ming that her data showed an eighty-two percent chance of a passage beneath Skull Island.

Deathstroke authorized Adjutant to undergo a flesh-and-blood transformation and arranged a complicated procedure involving the Plot Continuity Gem, Wanda, Ancient One, and the Cat Team. As Adjutant hurried off to prepare, Old Mike drove through the wreckage of Biohazard Crisis, wondering whether any other Survivors remained.

• Adjutant told Deathstroke that her search beneath Skull Island had found signs of a possible spacetime passage, though its exact location remained unknown.
• Deathstroke ordered Adjutant to adjust Sepulk's time flow and keep watch on the DC Universe, while continuing the investigation into the mages Merlin had abducted.
• Adjutant explained that she wanted a human body so she could live and understand Deathstroke as a true friend.
• After Harley encouraged him, Deathstroke approved Adjutant's transformation and gave her detailed instructions for obtaining help and supplies.
• Adjutant departed to begin preparations, while Deathstroke reassured Harley that she remained important to him.
• Old Mike drove the truck through rain-soaked wreckage and wondered whether any Survivors were still alive.

Old Mike, Thomas, and Martha crossed the city in their RV and spotted a Survivor trapped on a restroom roof. They pulled alongside the building so she could jump onto the rear compartment, then prepared to escape as more zombies gathered.

• Thomas reassured Old Mike that they were not responsible for saving everyone, while Martha recorded the old man's emotional reaction.
• Old Mike spotted a woman in a white dress kicking zombies away from her rooftop refuge and slowed to ask Thomas what to do.
• Thomas planned a rescue using the RV's rear compartment, and Old Mike steered the vehicle beside the restroom.
• The Survivor jumped onto the rear compartment, and Thomas ordered Martha to open the skylight while Mack drove away from the gathering zombies.

Martha and Thomas’s group rescued Valentina, a Russian housekeeper and cook, and continued through the devastated city toward a potential refuge. Old Mike drove them up Mount Palomar to make the observatory their base, with its security and remote location offering a chance of safety.

• Martha brought the rescued Valentina into the RV, and she thanked Old Mike for saving her.
• Valentina told the group about her work caring for wealthy Russians’ homes and how she escaped the zombies while out buying fertilizer.
• The group welcomed Valentina, and she joined them for food and conversation as they drove through San Diego.
• Old Mike chose Mount Palomar as their destination, and the RV climbed the mountain toward Palomar Observatory.

Thomas, Old Mike, Martha, and Valentina reached Palomar Observatory seeking a secure place to shelter, but found signs of violence and an entrance locked against them. After fighting zombies outside, they entered through a bomb-blasted back door, uncertain what awaited them inside.

• Thomas, Old Mike, Martha, and Valentina found bloodstains and a set of dentures at Palomar Observatory’s front entrance, but no sign of its security team.
• Thomas failed to open the reinforced electronic front door, so the group searched around the building for another entrance.
• Several zombies crawled out from behind a greenbelt, and the group shot them all.
• Thomas spotted a back door blasted open by a bomb and said he would use the RV to block the breach after clearing the building.
• Thomas entered the dark observatory first, followed by Martha, Old Mike, and Valentina, while Old Mike speculated that the zombie monster beneath Washington D.C. was a government or military experiment.

Su Ming, Martha, Thomas, and Old Mike searched the observatory, finding signs that people had disappeared inside without leaving through either entrance. After scavenging offices and securing the stairs, they prepared to investigate the top floor and its telescope.

• Thomas checked the rooms, planted Claymore Mines behind the group, and warned them to secure the first floor before going upstairs.
• Martha found no clues about the observatory's past, while Su Ming admitted he did not know what had happened there.
• Thomas noticed there were no departing footprints, and the group found bloody boot prints leading up the stairs.
• Thomas set a grenade trap and insisted that the group stay together as they searched the building's many offices.
• Martha scavenged Parker Gold Pens and a Little Bird Plaster Statue while Su Ming remained alert for danger.
• After searching three floors, the group reached the final staircase, and Thomas removed the tripwire mine so they could investigate the top-floor telescope.

Thomas and his companions confronted a gunman inside the observatory who had been eating human corpses. They pushed through his machine-gun fire, and Thomas shot him, leaving the hall silent.

• Old Mike spotted human blood seeping from beneath the observatory room’s door.
• A hidden gunman fired an M60 at Thomas and the others, then warned them to leave because he would not share his food.
• Martha identified the gunman as a lunatic, and Thomas’s group agreed to take him out.
• Thomas and Martha removed one panel of the door while Old Mike braced it as a shield.
• Thomas darted aside and fired his pistol toward the gunman, silencing the machine gun.

Thomas and his group secured the observatory after killing a deranged soldier who had slaughtered its occupants and hoarded supplies. They found a surviving doctor hiding among the corpses, and Thomas left Harley with the base as he prepared to take it easy.

• Thomas searched the dead soldier’s corpse bunker and found the food he had hoarded after killing his colleagues and the staff.
• Thomas told the group to secure the observatory, then took the heavy machine gun and went downstairs to check the generator and block the rear entrance.
• The group restored power with the basement generator, sealed the entrances, and planned to remove the bodies when the rain stopped.
• Old Mike explained that they had found a wounded woman in a lab coat hiding beneath the corpse pile after she had played dead for hours.
• Thomas recognized the survivor as a doctor and decided that securing the observatory for Harley was enough, leaving its future and her experiments to Harley.

Su Ming left the observatory’s survival group to Martha and the others while settling into an office with Harley, explaining that he needed time to adjust after absorbing Omega’s concept. As Harley planned to lead the survivors herself, they watched Sepulk’s broadcast and traded stories about the gods of Earth-0.

• Thomas approved Martha’s leadership, while Valentina and Old Mike discussed the group’s supplies and need to find water.
• Su Ming told Harley he would protect her but leave the survival team’s decisions to her while he rested and processed Omega’s influence.
• Harley said she wanted to lead the Doomsday Survival team and prove she could stand on her own, while acknowledging her limits and strengths.
• Su Ming and Harley watched Sepulk’s broadcast and joked about the old customs of the gods of Olympus and Asgard.
• Harley asked about Thor’s final words to Wonder Woman, and Su Ming guessed Diana had forgotten the Rune-word before deciding to contact Channel 52.

Su Ming described Monster Earth's history of Godzilla and the monsters that repeatedly devastated Japan, which had become a neglected American colony. He planned to send Zombie Tyrannomon across the United States and Pacific to lure monsters into battles on American soil, beginning in Hawaii.

• Su Ming explained the myth of Godzilla saving the Samith people and the modern belief that monsters were ancient lifeforms.
• Su Ming recounted how Godzilla and other monsters repeatedly attacked Japan, while the United States exploited the islands for nuclear plants, weapons tests, and monster research.
• Su Ming planned to send Zombie Tyrannomon through the United States and then across the Pacific to Japan to lure monsters back to American soil.
• Su Ming chose Hawaii as the site of the first monster battles and intended for Zombie Tyrannomon to raid air force bases and search for nuclear bombs to use as bait.

Su Ming explained how the Stitched Monster Virus and its Alien Queen host had created Zombie Tyrannomon, which was rampaging through East Coast cities. Channel 52 broadcast the destruction as entertainment, while Harley proudly recognized a former gang member working as a sign-language interpreter.

• Su Ming described Zombie Tyrannomon as a composite of zombie viruses, with an Alien Queen controlled by Adjutant at its core and zombies and fungal growth serving as armor.
• Ambush Bug and Calendar Man narrated Zombie Tyrannomon’s failed grapple and then its running leap into the United Nations Building, destroying the skyscraper and the people inside.
• Channel 52 cut to commercials, including an ad for a cheap electric razor, while a sign-language interpreter continued translating the broadcast.
• Harley recognized the interpreter as Left and Right Hand, a former member of her gang, and told Deathstroke that her new job proved Harley’s psychological treatment had helped her.
• Su Ming questioned whether the interpreter was truly cured, but Harley argued that staying composed on Channel 52 showed she had recovered.

Su Ming used Harley’s advice about snake hibernation to identify likely underground monster habitats in the United States. He sent Zombie Tyrannomon north toward the Great Lakes to lure out a monster, leaving the hunt underway.

• Su Ming asked Harley where a dormant monster might be hiding, and she suggested looking for sites with cover, food, and water.
• Harley reasoned that monsters needed water as well as radioactive food and compared their hibernation habits to those of snakes.
• Su Ming decided to search the Great Lakes region by comparing underground water networks with mineral deposits and geological activity.
• Su Ming sent Zombie Tyrannomon north along the Appalachian Mountains carrying nuclear waste as bait, planning to have it dig near the Great Lakes and draw out a monster.

Harley planned to make the group self-sufficient, while Martha and Old Mike set out to find a vehicle and rescue Survivors in San Diego. Meanwhile, Zombie Tyrannomon found a place that might contain an ancient monster, and Deathstroke watched it dig toward the target.

• Harley postponed building a reservoir after Deathstroke forecast that water would not be scarce, then planned to take people into the city to rescue Survivors.
• Deathstroke told Harley that hundreds of thousands of Survivors remained in San Diego, though many might be gone by morning.
• Thomas burned Zombie corpses while Martha and Old Mike left to find an SUV or pickup; the others stayed behind to sort supplies and prepare food.
• The Adjutant's Split Program reported that Zombie Tyrannomon had discovered an area suspected to contain a monster.
• Deathstroke returned to the RV and watched the broadcast as Zombie Tyrannomon dug into the earth beneath the rain.

Zombie Tyrannomon dug through the earth and discovered a previously unknown Spider Monster in its underground nest. After their battle drove them to the surface, Zombie Tyrannomon prepared to capture the creature alive under Deathstroke’s guidance.

• Zombie Tyrannomon adapted to digging underground and broke into a chamber in a uranium mine.
• The awakened Spider Monster attacked Zombie Tyrannomon, and their fight shook the cave as they battled toward the surface.
• Deathstroke and Strangle watched the fight while Su Ming considered what to name the Spider Monster.
• The Spider Monster’s claws, venom, webs, and golden beams failed to stop Zombie Tyrannomon from regenerating and pursuing it.
• The two monsters emerged into a forest, where Zombie Tyrannomon prepared to defeat and capture the Spider Monster intact.

Deathstroke directed Zombie Tyrannomon to defeat the Spider Monster with a dizzying dance and a series of wrestling moves. A tiny zombie captured the fallen monster, which Deathstroke named Vuvuzela.

• The Zombie Giant Beast danced around the Spider Monster until the spinning left it dizzy and off balance.
• Su Ming commanded Zombie Tyrannomon to grab the Spider Monster and throw it into the sky.
• Deathstroke ordered the Zombie Beast to kick the falling Spider Monster, leaving it unable to move.
• A tiny zombie used a spider-painted stick to capture the Spider Monster.
• Deathstroke named the captured monster Vuvuzela.

Su Ming arranged a new home for the Spider Monster and watched Channel 52 discuss Zombie Tyrannomon’s battles. He left the monster’s route unchanged despite the risk of nuclear weapons and turned his attention to finding King Kong on Skull Island.

• Su Ming planned to move the Spider Monster to an uninhabited planet in the Contraxia sector and eventually make its home a wildlife sanctuary.
• Bethany and Vartox commentated on the monster battle, and Vartox praised the Zombie Giant’s tactics while jokingly proposing to use his Pregnancy Ray against the Spider Monster.
• Channel 52 reported that Zombie Tyrannomon was heading north toward the Great Lakes region, prompting Su Ming to realize the Overlord Organization might test it with nuclear weapons.
• Su Ming decided not to change Zombie Tyrannomon’s route because radiation would not pose a threat to the zombies.
• Deathstroke switched the feed to the robots monitoring Skull Island and said he wanted to find King Kong and give it a planet of its own.

Su Ming watched King Kong draw on a cliff before shifting his attention to the Overlord Organization’s stranded investigation team on Skull Island. He broadcast their argument and contacted Ciri to give her a task.

• Su Ming’s Nanomachines found King Kong drawing in the rain, and he reassured Strangler Sprout that the footage was not being broadcast to the Overlord Organization.
• Su Ming redirected the Micro-Robots to film the Overlord investigation team after the soldiers lost contact with their superiors and became stranded by the storm.
• The bald scientist urged the team to search for the Doorway, while the combat division’s officer refused to proceed without orders and cited the missing advance team.
• Su Ming broadcast the two leaders’ argument and wondered why none of the bored soldiers had used a television to learn about events in the United States.
• Su Ming asked the Split Program to connect him to Ciri so he could give her a task.

Su Ming hired Ciri and Geralt to capture monsters from Monster Hunter World and Ultraman’s world for a zoo and amusement park he planned to build for Gin. While he waited for the Witchers to begin their job, Harley and Old Mike returned to the observatory with a group of Survivors from San Diego.

• Ciri agreed to Su Ming’s monster-capturing commission after negotiating weapon enchantments and gifts for Yennefer and Triss, and Geralt formally accepted the job.
• Su Ming explained that he wanted to build a space zoo and amusement park so Gin could enjoy seeing creatures from other worlds.
• Su Ming drew Father of Ultra and sent the image through Spider Totem Express to help Ciri travel to the Land of Light.
• Su Ming spent more than ten hours slowly patching the observatory’s fence and gate with scrap materials.
• Harley and Old Mike arrived in a Ford pickup with nearly ten Survivors, who climbed down glad to have escaped San Diego.

Martha brought survivors to the observatory, where Thomas welcomed them and the group eventually grew into a community called Golden Fertilizer. After the Adjutant gained a human body and joined Thomas and Harley for hotpot, Harley invited her to stay and share her bed.

• Martha brought eleven survivors to the observatory, and Thomas warned them to behave before she led them inside.
• Harley stayed at the base to help settle the newcomers, while Thomas reinforced the defenses and the Overlord Organization remained inactive on Skull Island.
• Over the following month, Martha brought nearly two hundred people to the observatory, and Thomas and Martha named their survivor team Golden Fertilizer.
• Zombie Tyrannomon captured more than a dozen monsters, and the Adjutant began deciphering their bioelectric impulse signals.
• The Adjutant visited Thomas and Harley in her new flesh-and-blood body and tried hotpot for the first time.
• Harley praised the Adjutant’s appearance and invited her to stay and sleep with her.

Adjutant detected a spatial passage activating deep beneath Skull Island, and she sent a scout robot to locate its source. As the group waited for the probe to reach the anomaly, Su Ming reassured Harley that he had a backup plan, while Harley plotted a future hotpot adventure for the camp.

• Adjutant declined Harley’s invitation to play but kissed Sugar Bean on the cheek and promised they would go out another time.
• Adjutant reported a mutation on Skull Island and detected an underground spatial passage whose energy came from beyond the Single Universe.
• At Su Ming’s request, Adjutant sent a miniature scout robot through a hot spring and into the island’s underground waterways to investigate.
• Adjutant projected a map showing the scout approaching the deep underground source of the spatial fluctuations.
• Harley asked what had crossed the passage, and Su Ming said they did not yet know whether it connected to another multiverse but assured her he had a backup plan.
• Harley decided to let the camp go hungry for several more days before revealing the self-heating hotpots she planned to provide.