Chapter Summaries

A worldwide flood and mass mutation overwhelmed Earth as purple seawater turned people into hostile fish-men. Su Ming tried to escape Gotham with Poison Ivy and Harley, while Batwoman and Gotham’s heroes organized rescues; the chapter left Gotham sinking and Nightwing critically wounded.

• Batwoman saw spacecraft encircle Earth and purple seawater flood the oceans, then issued a Justice League emergency alert.
• Su Ming used his artifact to observe cities flooding and people transforming into fish-men, while Poison Ivy feared for her plants.
• Su Ming decided to borrow a spaceship from Batwoman and flew toward the Batcave, leaving Poison Ivy and Harley on Wayne Tower.
• Gordon tried to protect civilians but fish-men killed his officers, so Su Ming rescued him and carried him away from Gotham.
• Barbara found Gordon gone and learned Nightwing had been shot during an evacuation; Huntress took him to Doctor Mid-Nite while Barbara continued rescuing civilians.

Su Ming brought Commissioner Gordon to Wayne Manor, where Alfred sheltered him, then negotiated with Batwoman for a Justice League spaceship and a million-dollar deposit in exchange for scouting the Alien fleet. Su Ming prepared to head into orbit while Batwoman continued coordinating rescue efforts on Earth.

• Su Ming flew Gordon to Wayne Manor, burned through its energy shield, and found Alfred calmly preparing breakfast.
• Su Ming ate with Alfred and Gordon, then convinced Gordon that he should stay safely at the manor instead of trying to rescue citizens himself.
• Alfred locked Gordon in a secure room and brought Su Ming to the Batcave to contact Batwoman.
• Batwoman told Su Ming that over a hundred thousand Alien warships had blockaded Earth's orbit with an energy barrier while Heroes worked to rescue civilians and stop the floods.
• Su Ming offered to scout the Alien fleet and possibly kill its leaders in exchange for borrowing Batwoman's spaceship, and she unlocked a backup ship for him.
• Batwoman agreed to pay Su Ming a million-dollar deposit, and he warned her to stay alive and be careful before she ended the call.

Su Ming discovered that Luthor’s escalating attacks followed the days of Genesis and warned Batwoman, then gathered Harley and Poison Ivy to prepare for the crisis. With Diana and Aquaman missing and the world’s flooding turning people into fish, Su Ming failed to recruit either Zatanna or Albera and set out to contact another mage.

• Su Ming used the password “Martha” to access Justice League files and learned that Diana and Aquaman had been swallowed by a Sea Monster while Firestorm had become a fish-man.
• Su Ming learned to pilot the Bat-ship, picked up Harley and Poison Ivy, and reasoned that Luthor’s actions were imitating the days of Genesis.
• Su Ming warned Batwoman that Luthor was behind the events, but Batwoman questioned why Harley and Poison Ivy were aboard; Su Ming ended the call.
• Su Ming found that Zatanna had turned into a fish after the theater flooded, while Poison Ivy collected purple seawater to study it.
• Su Ming went looking for Albera and found a note saying she had gone to Hell, so he cloaked the ship and prepared to contact his secretary.

Bobo joined Su Ming in La Rinconada as civilians protested the Justice League, and Su Ming suspected Luthor had planted spies among them. When Superman prevented him from killing the protesters, Su Ming restrained Superman and forced him to watch while he prepared to act.

• Bobo and Tracy discussed Deathstroke's orders and the dangers of their work before Deathstroke called and asked them to meet him in La Rinconada.
• Bobo traveled to La Rinconada, where crowds of civilians protested the Justice League's role in bringing disasters to Earth.
• Su Ming suspected Luthor's spies had incited the protesters and ordered Strangle to attack them.
• Superman blocked Su Ming from pursuing the fleeing crowd and insisted they should be investigated and tried rather than killed.
• Su Ming restrained Superman with Strangle and the Cloak of Levitation, telling him to watch.

Su Ming used magic to kill the protesters while making their deaths look like divine punishment, then brought Harley and Ivy to the Oblivion Bar. There, Harley met her devoted fan Tracy and got back her old hammer, Dorothy.

• Su Ming secretly had The Upside-Down Man's fireballs kill the protesters while Superman held him, then claimed God had struck them down.
• Harley backed Su Ming's story, and Superman left, unable to prove that Deathstroke had killed anyone.
• Su Ming met Bobo and followed him with Harley and Ivy to the Oblivion Bar, judging it unsafe but still using it as a refuge.
• Tracy revealed her collection of Harley Quinn memorabilia and asked Harley for an autograph.
• Harley signed Tracy's photograph, traded the autograph for her old hammer, and happily reunited with Dorothy.

Su Ming persuaded Bobo to revive the Shadow Pact Squad and gathered its available members to prepare for a strike against the Sea People. The team agreed to follow Su Ming’s command after he offered help with their personal problems, and they prepared to act together.

• Harley explained the meaning behind her name and showed off the bloodstains on her hammer while Su Ming spoke with Bobo.
• Su Ming convinced Bobo to take over as Master Night and summon the Shadow Pact Squad, arguing that Justice League Dark had failed to handle the recent crisis.
• Bobo called Nightshade, Banshee, Blue Devil, and Black Alice to the bar, where he introduced them to Su Ming.
• Su Ming secured the members’ cooperation by promising Banshee help with the demon inside her, money and medical help for Black Alice’s father, easier terms for Nightshade’s magic, and a house for Blue Devil.
• With the team assembled and willing to follow his orders, Su Ming prepared to lead them into a strike against the Sea People.

Su Ming gathered Shadowpact and explained that alien forces were flooding Earth with poisonous water, leaving the team about twenty-four hours to act. Rather than attack the enemy fleet without enough intelligence, he planned to drain the ocean through a portal at the Mariana Trench, though the Trench Kingdom's mutated inhabitants made the mission dangerous.

• Bobo brought the gathered Shadowpact members up to date on the crisis, while Nightshade, Blue Devil, Black Alice, and Banshee learned the scale of what had happened.
• Deathstroke explained that an alien fleet was trapping Earth beneath rising water and that the team could not destroy every warship in time.
• Su Ming rejected Blue Devil's suggestion to strike the aliens' headquarters and argued that Earth first needed to be drained.
• Su Ming secretly disposed of Batwoman's bugged phone in Ivy's oversized Pitcher Plant so the Justice League would not learn his plan.
• Su Ming proposed reaching the Trench Kingdom at the bottom of the Mariana Trench and using the Shadow Plane to send Earth's seawater into space.

Su Ming led the Shadow Pact Squad to the Mariana Trench to create a way to drain the purple seawater without exposing the team to its transformation effects. After Laurie bonded with Nightshade, the group descended into the ocean, where a mutated shark attacked them.

• Su Ming explained that Blue Devil could travel underwater and that Laurie could mimic Nightshade and Strangle to help establish a portal in the trench.
• Laurie successfully mimicked Strangle and bonded with Nightshade, painfully merging with her so Nightshade could descend safely.
• Bobo stayed behind with Tracy at the bar, while Su Ming and the others boarded the aircraft and headed for the Mariana Trench.
• Su Ming assigned Ivy to research the seawater, Banshee to guard the aircraft, and Harley to entertain herself during the journey.
• Su Ming, Blue Devil, Eve, and Laurie entered the purple seawater and began descending toward the trench.
• A mutated shark attacked Eve and Laurie, but Su Ming cut it in half with his Nightfall Greatsword and urged the group to keep descending.

Su Ming’s team entered the poisonous trench while struggling with the darkness and their distracted teammates. Meanwhile, the purple seawater transformed Atlanteans into monsters, and Mera prepared to defend Poseidonis as Garth urged the Teen Titans to act.

• Su Ming led his team into the trench, protected Blue Devil, and watched for The Trench while worrying about Nightshade and Alice’s behavior.
• The purple seawater flooded Poseidonis’s amusement park area, transforming Atlanteans and turning the father of a child into a Sea Monster.
• Mera used water pillars to drive the mutants back and led the people toward the palace district, then decided to contact the Justice League.
• Garth arrived at the Hall of Justice, learned of the crisis affecting Atlantis and Idyllist, and decided to lead the Teen Titans into action.

As Earth flooded and heroes struggled to rescue civilians, Batwoman kept the Titans focused on evacuation while managing the crisis and protecting Miss Martian from its mental strain. After Batwoman recalled M'gann, the Titans prepared to launch their own attack on the alien fleet as cover for Batwoman's separate plan to find the source of the flood.

• Garth objected to Batwoman's rescue orders, but Donna calmed him while Raven reassured M'gann and explained that he was worried about Aquaman.
• Batwoman heard overwhelmed heroes despairing over the fish transformations and refused to let M'gann establish telepathic links with them, limiting communication to Barry and Superman.
• Beast Boy and Natasha Irons supported Garth's proposal to attack the alien warships, while M'gann insisted the Titans prioritize civilian rescues.
• Batwoman teleported M'gann to the control room, then secretly allowed the Titans to pursue their attack because it could distract the enemy from her search for the flood's source.
• The Titans agreed to head into the sky, and Donna wondered what Deathstroke would have done in their place.

Su Ming secretly led Laurie, Eve, and Blue Devil to the Trench Kingdom to build a giant Teleportation Array that could drain the oceans. After most of the array was prepared, they discovered that the ruins were sheltering a vast nest of Trench.

• Su Ming descended into the trench, found the Trench Kingdom, and decided to use the ruins as the site for an enormous drainage array.
• Su Ming brought Laurie and Eve into the ruins and explained his plan to sink the city slab into the abyss once the array was ready.
• Nightshade inscribed most of the array’s runes while the team prepared to connect it to an exit elsewhere in space.
• Su Ming cut open the central building’s doors and found hundreds of Trench inside, with more crawling up from a hole in the floor.
• Su Ming realized tens of thousands of Trench lived in honeycomb nests on the underside of the city slab, using the building as a passage between its two sides.

Su Ming and his allies fought through the Trench while Nightshade prepared a Magic Circle to trap them in the Shadow Plane. As Nightshade began the spell, the chapter recounted how Arthur grew miserable as king, left Atlantis’s rule to Mera, and returned to the Justice League.

• Su Ming used Godslayer’s light and Flashbangs to disorient the Trench, then fought through the doorway with Nightfall and Godslayer while Daniel guarded the entrance with Hell’s Pitchfork.
• Nightshade opened portals to send attacking Trench into the Shadow Plane, while Laurie protected Eve from behind with symbiote tentacles.
• Su Ming struck Eve and Laurie when they lost focus, then charged toward the hole pouring out Trench as Blue Devil joined the fight.
• Su Ming and Blue Devil held off the dwindling Trench while Nightshade worked on the Magic Circle beside the hole.
• The chapter recounted how Mera persuaded Arthur to leave the Trench alive, how he became dissatisfied with ruling Atlantis, and how he handed the crown to Mera before returning to the Justice League.

Su Ming’s team used Nightshade’s teleportation circle to contain the Trench, while Batman struggled to coordinate Earth’s defense as the flooding worsened. In Poseidonis, Mera freed Orm, who agreed to fight beside her and led her toward divine artifacts that could turn the tide.

• Su Ming’s group held off the Trench until Nightshade activated a Magic Circle that teleported the creatures emerging from the hole away.
• Batman directed M’gann to coordinate with Superman and Barry, restore communications, and continue evacuating the Hall of Justice while he guarded The Totality.
• Mera fought through the fish-men in fallen Poseidonis and reached the prison where Orm was chained.
• Mera gave Orm his trident, and he broke his chains and agreed to help save Atlantis and Earth.
• Orm and Mera fought through the fish-men together as Orm led her through the palace toward divine artifacts.

Orm led Mera to Crown Hall and revealed that Arion’s Divine Horn could guide her to the Tears of Extinction, Atlantis’s god-killing weapon. Captain Solitaire attacked, and Orm sacrificed himself to let Mera escape with the horn as the Sea People lost her trail.

• Orm led Mera through a hidden passage to Crown Hall and explained that Atlantis’s secret weapon was hidden there.
• Mera received a vision of Arthur being held at Blood Reef, and Orm realized their enemies had discovered Arthur’s power.
• Orm revealed that Arion’s Divine Horn would lead Mera to the Tears of Extinction, and Mera took the horn from its pedestal.
• Captain Solitaire and his Sea People attacked Crown Hall after using Arthur’s psychic connection to locate Mera.
• Orm charged into the enemy torrent to protect Mera, was transformed into a Sea Person, and held Captain Solitaire back.
• Mera escaped with the Divine Horn while the pursuing Sea People lost her trail.

The Teen Titans used Natasha Irons's modified Boom Tube to board the Sea People's flagship, where their attempt at a silent decapitation strike immediately became a frontal assault. The chapter leaves Garth and the others facing a crowd of Sea People after Garth unknowingly shouted a vicious alien insult at them.

• The Titans prepared to teleport to the largest-looking alien ship, unaware that Blood Reef was the actual flagship.
• Donna worried about Paradise Island and recalled that Batwoman had sent Cassie and Young Justice to evacuate the Amazons.
• Natasha Irons successfully modified the Boom Tube, transporting the Titans aboard the alien ship with a loud, violent arrival.
• Garth declared a silent decapitation operation, but Natasha explained that the Boom Tube's noise had alerted the Sea People approaching them.
• Raven guessed that the Sea People were shouting for a fight, and Garth answered with a battle cry that was actually a severe insult in their language.

Garth mistook the fish-men’s reaction to his shouts for fear and tried to force them to clear the way, but they understood him to be asking for excrement and offered some as proof of surrender. The Titans were left embarrassed, Beast Boy laughed himself out of the fight, and the group still faced the aliens aboard the ship.

• The fish-men interpreted Garth’s repeated shouts as a request to eat excrement and discussed testing whether the Earthlings were sincere.
• Garth told Donna that his foreign-language battle cry had broken the fish-men’s fighting spirit, while Donna suspected something was wrong.
• Garth roared again, and the fish-men retreated after a lobster-like alien produced excrement and pointed Garth toward it.
• Donna, Raven, and Natasha Irons reacted with embarrassment as Garth realized the fish-men expected him to eat it.
• Beast Boy transformed into a groundhog and laughed so hard that he lost the ability to fight.
• The chapter recounted Garth’s past blunders, including his failed attempt to rescue Arthur from Mera and Arthur’s decision to train him as a sidekick.

The Titans fought the Sea People while Garfield and Garth caused chaos on the battlefield. As Raven vented her frustration with the team, Donna proposed hiring Deathstroke to lead them, and Raven threatened to quit.

• Raven trapped several Sea People with tentacles, while Donna and Natasha Irons charged into battle and attacked the remaining enemies.
• Garfield pretended to be dead and dodged Garth as he tried to pick him up, turning their pursuit into a game during the fight.
• Raven and Donna told Natasha Irons that Nightwing had lost his memories, believed he was an Arab taxi driver in Paris, and was frightened by costumes and magic.
• Raven complained that the Titans were beyond saving and suggested that she, Natasha Irons, and Donna find other teams.
• Donna suggested hiring Deathstroke to lead the Titans, and Raven recoiled at the idea and threatened to leave.

Donna, Raven, and Natasha boarded an alien ship expecting a flagship but discovered it was a supply vessel carrying frozen fish. They continued to its bridge to search for intelligence, where Natasha found data on the alien computer.

• Raven told Donna that the Upside-Down Man had taken the gods’ Witchfire, leaving them powerful but mortal, and decided not to burden the exhausted Batman with what she knew.
• Raven teased Donna about her feelings for Deathstroke, while Donna denied the rumors and hurried down the corridor.
• Donna’s team discovered the ship was a supply vessel stocked with thousands of tons of harmless frozen alien fish, but chose to keep searching for intelligence instead of retreating.
• Beast Boy and Tempest stopped their fight and followed the others to the bridge after realizing they had been left behind.
• Raven cleared the remaining enemies on the bridge, Natasha examined the ship’s data storage, and Garth and Garfield searched the corpses for clues.
• Natasha found intelligence on the alien computer and called Donna and Raven over to study it.

The Titans recovered changing coordinates from the alien ship, but Admiral Quell attacked and overwhelmed them, while Garth was thrown through the hull toward Earth. Meanwhile, Arthur remained powerless in the aliens’ custody as Black Manta tormented him and Nu Tao kept him alive to witness Earth’s destruction.

• Natasha Irons could not decipher the alien computer, so Donna recorded its changing values for Batwoman to analyze.
• Admiral Quell arrived and attacked the Titans, overpowering them with torrents, storms, and lightning.
• Garth shielded Raven and urged Donna to escape with the recorded data, but Quell shattered his barrier and hurled him through the ship’s hull toward Earth.
• Black Manta beat the powerless Arthur after the alien sea gods transferred his Life Force to him.
• Nu Tao stopped Black Manta from killing Arthur because she wanted him to witness Earth’s destruction.

Arthur learned that Nu Tao planned to conquer Earth to save the last marine life from her planets, while the Titans and the Justice League struggled against the invasion. Superman destroyed the Flood Demon but was captured by Admiral Quell, and Barry disappeared inside the monster.

• Nu Tao killed the Sea Person who was dragging Arthur away, then explained her plan to seize Earth and showed him Atlantis drowning as the Submergence began.
• Admiral Quell pursued Donna, Raven, Garfield, and Natasha Irons through space, and M'gann joined the fleeing Titans.
• Batwoman's scientists found the living seawater source, and Superman and Barry headed to the Atlantic to confront it.
• Superman shattered the Flood Demon with a blast, but it reformed and swallowed Barry.
• Admiral Quell ambushed Superman, filled his body with foul seawater until he went blind and unconscious, and offered him a place among his tribe.