Chapter Summaries

Su Ming, Bobo, and their companions watched the chaos in Gotham and speculated about Batwoman’s hidden safeguards against the Out of Control Protocol. They concluded that she may have created a secret third personality to defeat both the robot and the Batman Who Laughs, while the confrontation continued on screen.

• Bobo asked Su Ming why Batwoman was letting the Out of Control Protocol hunt her as Last 52 Legion members and Gotham’s factions fought amid acid rain and chaos.
• Su Ming explained that Batwoman might have hypnotized herself to forget a backup plan, and Damian proposed that trigger words or scenarios could restore the details.
• Bobo pointed out that the Batman Who Laughs could potentially deduce a forgotten plan, prompting Su Ming to speculate that Batwoman had secretly created a third personality to devise countermeasures.
• Bobo agreed and suggested that Batwoman had used Jar-ro to help create the hidden personality, which could eventually eliminate the Batman Who Laughs and restore Batwoman.
• Su Ming said Batwoman likely could have saved herself even without Wade and Harley, then praised the Out of Control Protocol’s strength as the group watched it fight again.

Su Ming and the others waited in a suspiciously perfect grassland, reasoning that it was a transit point where someone might come to receive them. Before they could learn whether their trap would work, Professor Xu contacted Su Ming to show the group a new spell.

• Su Ming chose to wait for the Cloak of Levitation to return while Bobo asked him for a drink.
• Damian and Bobo explained that the grassland was likely a designated arrival point, and the group could wait there for a local to approach them.
• Su Ming proposed interrogating whoever came to receive them or using the Key to the Door crystal to lure Zeus's agents into the dimension.
• Adjutant announced that Professor Xu was calling, and Su Ming told her to connect the call.
• Professor Xu appeared on the projection and said she had completed a new spell that she had to show them.

Professor Xu demonstrated her localized Disarming Charm and received Su Ming’s approval to teach it to S.P.E.A.R. agents. After ending the call, Su Ming sent Wally and Donna to capture the approaching Old God Hermes, whose son Su Ming had killed.

• Professor Xu showed Su Ming and his teammates the Chinese incantation “Disarm Your Stuff,” which successfully knocked a cleaver from a wooden dummy’s hand.
• Su Ming praised Professor Xu’s localization, and she took his approval as permission to train S.P.E.A.R. agents in the spell.
• Su Ming sensed an approaching Old God and ordered Wally to take Donna and capture him.
• Su Ming identified the approaching god as Hermes and said he had killed Hermes’s son and sent the soul to the Eastern Underworld’s Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Bobo refused to hit Hermes and suggested Shazam learn interrogation, but Damian volunteered to use the League of Assassins’ torture methods.

Hermes fled from Wally and Donna as they pursued him across the grasslands, but Wally could not close the gap before his stamina ran out. Donna devised a dangerous plan to leap from Wally onto Hermes, and Wally agreed to throw her forward as she prepared to jump.

• Hermes recognized Wally carrying Donna and ran faster to escape them.
• Wally pursued Hermes at faster-than-light speeds while Donna urged him to accelerate, but the gap remained steady.
• Donna realized Wally could not keep chasing Hermes indefinitely and told him to throw her forward.
• Wally warned Donna that leaving his protective field at their speed could seriously injure her, but she insisted on jumping onto Hermes.
• Wally agreed to the plan, and Donna stood on his shoulders and told him to get closer.

Donna captured Hermes with her lasso after Wally helped her catch him, and Su Ming arranged for the captive to be interrogated. Hermes revealed that they were in Atlas's World, leaving Donna and the others with a clue about their location.

• Donna caught Hermes with her lasso and restrained him with Wally's help.
• Damian slapped the bound Hermes, then returned to Deathstroke's side after Su Ming dismissed Wally's concerns.
• Su Ming sent Wally to eat pizza while he and Donna prepared to interrogate Hermes.
• Donna asked Hermes where they were, and he answered that they were in Atlas's World.

Su Ming and his companions learned that Atlas World was a pocket universe hidden beneath the Firmament, and Hermes said Zeus was in Sanctuary. They set off to find Zeus, while Donna persuaded Su Ming to spare Hermes so Cassie could visit him.

• Su Ming and Bobo concluded that Atlas had carried a universe created by the Titans and hidden by Zeus, rather than Earth-0.
• Donna questioned Hermes, who said Zeus was in Sanctuary and offered to lead them there.
• Su Ming called Cloak down as a flying carpet and ordered everyone aboard for the trip to Sanctuary.
• Donna asked Su Ming not to kill Hermes because he had given Cassie his flying shoes and treated her well.
• Su Ming agreed to keep Hermes alive in a prison for Cassie to visit, and Bobo joined him in mocking Zeus.

Su Ming’s group discovered that Heaven was a stationary constellation-chart universe and questioned Hermes about Zeus’s plans. Hermes admitted he had intended to lead them into traps, so Su Ming ordered Strangle to kill him.

• Su Ming’s group rose beyond the planet and saw that Heaven contained motionless planets arranged like a constellation chart.
• Hermes identified their location as Aquarius in Atlas’s World, where stars were stored as constellations rather than forming a conventional universe.
• Bobo explained how Zeus used constellations as posthumous honors to encourage heroes to serve him.
• Donna used the Lasso of Obedience to question Hermes about the Sanctuary and the dangers ahead.
• Hermes admitted Zeus had not prepared trials for their arrival, but confessed he had planned to guide them into traps and kill them.
• Su Ming ordered Strangle to kill Hermes after he revealed his betrayal.

Su Ming killed Hermes after he attacked the group, then used the messenger’s memories to guide their mission. In Gotham, Harley called in Adjutant’s support while the Murder Squad fought Batman’s rogue robot.

• Strangle ate Hermes’s head, and Su Ming burned his corpse while Donna agreed to tell Cassie that The Last 52 Legion had killed him.
• Su Ming said he had read the intelligence in Hermes’s brain and told the group they could set off.
• Deadpool, Harley, and the other killers struggled against Out of Control Protocol, whose combat tactics included injecting Fear Toxin and attacking from unexpected angles.
• Batman left the fight, and Deadpool told Harley that he had paid him to help.
• Harley asked Adjutant to send Mechanical Animal Gods, but Adjutant chose to deploy a regiment of lower-level combat robots instead.

Su Ming and his team discussed how to draw Zeus out of the mountain-sized Sanctuary without destroying it, since Su Ming wanted to take it for his Space Zoo. Shazam proposed that Su Ming impersonate Zeus and claim the throne, leaving the team with a plan to try.

• Su Ming told Adjutant to let Harley and Wade handle the Mechanical Animal Gods and learned that 2,500 imitation combat robots were expected to defeat Out of Control Protocol.
• Damian suggested using Hippolyta as a hostage, but Donna warned that Zeus might not care enough to come for her.
• Wally proposed searching the millions of palaces, while Bobo suggested igniting the mountain with nuclear weapons; Su Ming rejected destroying it because he wanted to keep it.
• Shazam proposed that Su Ming disguise himself as Zeus and claim the throne to provoke the real Zeus into confronting him.
• Bobo joked that Shazam might be an imposter and suggested dissecting him.

Su Ming decided to impersonate the First Born to draw Zeus out, while his companions disguised themselves as the Fates. The group prepared to enter Olympus together and begin their operation.

• Su Ming rejected impersonating Zeus because the suspicious All-Father would see the disguise as a threat.
• Su Ming had Strangle transform him into the First Born, whose prophetic destiny of killing Zeus would provoke the god.
• Bobo, Donna, Wally, and Damian tested the disguise and learned that a Symbiotes' replicated skin had no taste.
• Su Ming explained that Strangle absorbed matter so efficiently that its sweat contained no minerals or salty compounds.
• Su Ming gave Donna, Wally, Shazam, Damian, and Bobo black cloth to disguise themselves as the Fates.
• Shazam changed back into Billy, and the group assembled in their costumes, ready to begin the operation.

Disguised as First Born, Su Ming staged a bloody return to Olympus to frighten the gods and draw Zeus out. After killing several hundred gods and forcing the rest to submit, he demanded to know where Zeus was.

• Su Ming flew over Olympus with Donna and the Cloaked Figures, then announced First Born's return from the sky.
• The Olympian gods panicked at First Born's appearance, while many goddesses hurried to make themselves presentable.
• Su Ming landed and used Strangle to kill several hundred male gods who fled or prayed to Zeus.
• Su Ming ordered the remaining gods to obey him and declared himself the All-Father chosen by Destiny.
• Su Ming singled out one god and demanded to know where Zeus was.

Su Ming posed as First Born in Olympus, demanded to know where Zeus was, and sent the goddesses out to spread news of his return. He waited with his team in a temple, expecting Zeus to come and hoping to find clues to Hippolyta’s whereabouts.

• First Born killed a god who could not say where Zeus was, but spared a pond fairy and sent the other goddesses away after promising a spouse to whoever found Zeus.
• Su Ming used The Force to make the goddesses kneel, then blew them out of sight while Donna watched from beneath her Cloak.
• Su Ming chose a temple as a place to wait, reasoning that Zeus would come investigate First Born’s escape or that the goddesses would return with information.
• Su Ming told Bobo and Donna that they would find clues to Hippolyta after they killed Zeus, and he dismissed the possibility that she had left Paradise Island willingly.

Su Ming, disguised as First Born, waited in the dark temple with Bobo and the children until Apollo arrived, alive despite First Born having killed him before. Su Ming fought Apollo while pretending to struggle, hoping Zeus would appear.

• Su Ming complained about the gods’ hard stone chairs while Bobo and the children struggled to maintain their disguise.
• Apollo burst into the temple, and Su Ming recognized him as the brother First Born had killed years earlier.
• Su Ming attacked Apollo, and their clash destroyed the temple as one of the Goddesses of Destiny caught Su Ming after he was knocked back.
• Bobo led Donna and Wally away from the battlefield while Su Ming and Apollo resumed their fight.
• Apollo fired flaming arrows from his lyre, and Su Ming charged without defending himself so he could stage a narrow victory and draw Zeus out.

Su Ming pretended to be First Born, defeated Apollo, and used the staged battle to lure Zeus into an ambush. After killing Zeus and learning the Pocket Universe belonged to him, Su Ming prepared to find Hippolyta and send her home.

• Su Ming acted as First Born while Apollo attacked him, then charged forward and killed Apollo by tearing out his heart.
• Su Ming pretended to collapse from his wounds as the Fates watched from a distance.
• Zeus arrived to kill the apparently dying First Born, but Su Ming trapped him and stabbed him with the dagger bearing an owl on its hilt.
• Su Ming revealed his true identity as Deathstroke, explained how he had fulfilled the prophecy, and beheaded Zeus.
• Strangle swallowed Zeus's head and discovered useful information in his brain, while Su Ming claimed the Pocket Universe and summoned Cloak to bring the team to him.

After Zeus fell, Su Ming explained that the world Zeus ruled was an imaginary creation of the Remnant, then revealed how Zeus had joined My Lord to obtain a world where he could live without restraint. Zeus’s corpse was sent to Sepulk for experimentation, and Su Ming and the others left to continue their journey.

• Bobo questioned Zeus’s strength, and Su Ming explained that Zeus had been only at the peak of Single Universe level and had fallen to a plan prepared in advance.
• Su Ming ordered the Adjutant to transport Zeus’s corpse to Sepulk for somatic cell cultivation and a possible zombie progenitor experiment.
• Apollo’s corpse faded into glass-like powder as Donna watched, prompting Su Ming to explain that the world was neither Heaven nor a Titan-made universe.
• Bobo deduced that the Remnant had created the world and that Zeus had joined My Lord in exchange for a realm under his control.
• Su Ming recounted how the Remnant had imagined a new Olympus, its inhabitants, and a stronger Apollo to fulfill Zeus’s desires.
• Su Ming led Donna and the others back to the flying carpet, while Zeus’s soul remained slated for destruction.

After Zeus died, Su Ming’s group found and freed Hippolyta, then pressured her to give up the throne to Diana. The group left her in Donna’s care while Su Ming arranged to take control of the mountain.

• Su Ming’s group used information from Zeus’s mind to find Hippolyta tied up in an ordinary temple.
• Wally was thrown back by the magical ropes, but Donna broke them with her Titan Sword and freed Hippolyta.
• Hippolyta embraced Donna and recalled Zeus inviting her to Krik Island, while Su Ming made crude claims about what had happened afterward.
• Su Ming threatened to expose scenes from Zeus’s memories unless Hippolyta handed the throne to Diana.
• Donna took Hippolyta to Athens for a medical examination, and Su Ming summoned Adjutant to take over the space mountain.
• Bobo reflected that isolated communities could spread Old Gods beliefs until they became Extremis and Delirium.

After returning to Earth, Su Ming and the team rested and discussed Olympus while preparing to hunt the Remnant in the Omega Universe. Su Ming arranged for Luthor to teleport them to the Fortress of Doom to discuss important matters.

• Su Ming said Donna had taken Hippolyta to see a doctor and told the team they would deal with the Remnant after resting.
• Wally went to the Hall of Justice for a massage from Robotman and returned feeling better.
• Su Ming, Bobo, and Damian discussed who might inherit Olympus, and Su Ming said Athena would be a good choice for them.
• Wally noted that Donna's departure had left the team short a frontline fighter, but Su Ming said they would decide what to do at their destination.
• Su Ming told the Adjutant to contact Luthor and arrange a teleport to the Fortress of Doom.

Deathstroke told Lex Luthor that the Remnant might be hiding in a light counterpart to the dark Omega Universe, rather than among Darkseid’s territories. Luthor accepted the hypothesis and used the Door Handle of Destruction to test it.

• Lex Luthor showed Deathstroke the Legion of Doom’s progress in conquering the Omega Universe and asked where the Remnant might be hiding.
• Deathstroke asked whether the Remnant would hide from weaker enemies if he were the sole survivor of a destroyed Multiverse, and Luthor said he would fight for humanity’s future.
• Deathstroke explained that the Remnant had been brilliant and uncaring in his former life, then suggested that he might occupy another dimension rather than share Darkseid’s space.
• Deathstroke proposed that the Remnant lived in a light Omega Universe opposite the dark one, and Lex Luthor put on his Anti-Superman Armor.
• Lex Luthor installed the Door Handle of Destruction in midair and twisted it to test Deathstroke’s hypothesis.

Luthor and the others tried to use the Door Handle to reach the unknown counterpart of the Omega Universe, but every attempt failed. After Luthor withdrew to think, Su Ming spoke with Cheetah about the medicine Luthor had wanted for her, and Luthor appeared to have found a solution.

• Luthor tried to open a portal with the Door Handle, but it only made a cracking sound and transported no one.
• Su Ming and Bobo each tried the Door Handle, then Wally, Damian, and Shazam tested it with their powers and devices; none succeeded.
• Luthor brought Gorilla Grodd, Cheetah Barbara, Brainiac, and Doctor Ivo from the front lines to try the Door Handle, but it still failed.
• Luthor took the Door Handle to a corner to think, while Cheetah greeted Su Ming and asked about the medicine Luthor had sought for her.
• Su Ming explained that Remnant had invented a panacea that could cure any difficult illness, and Cheetah wondered whether Luthor meant to protect her from Tears of Apoptosis poisoning.
• Su Ming said Diana was on vacation with zombies, then noticed Luthor raise his head as if he had found a solution.

Su Ming and the others planned to use the World Forge to reach the Dark Multiverse, but Su Ming recognized that their apparent allies were illusions created by Remnant. After killing the false group, he confronted Remnant in a barren wasteland and explained how he had uncovered the deception.

• Lex explained that the World Forge could provide a route to the Dark Multiverse and proposed investigating clues from Darkseid's memories.
• Su Ming handed Lex a paper with a location, and Lex prepared to teleport the group there with the Fortress of Doom.
• Su Ming accused Lex of being Remnant, then killed the false Lex and the other apparent allies with his Lightsaber.
• The simulated Fortress of Doom dissolved, leaving Su Ming alone in a barren wasteland as Remnant spoke from the sky.
• Su Ming said he had suspected Remnant from the beginning and explained that Lex giving the Door Handle of Destruction to a gorilla had exposed the illusion.