Chapter Summaries

Su Ming, disguised as Batwoman, confronted a Superman who had appeared beside Martha and used Kryptonite and taunts to provoke him. Superman believed Batwoman was trying to control the Justice League, and the chapter ended with the two fighting across a ruined cornfield.

• Su Ming decided to capture the newly appeared Superman and investigate whether he was real or a fake.
• Su Ming struck Superman with a Kryptonite Rising Dragon Fist, and Superman recovered above a cornfield.
• Superman accused Batwoman of brainwashing Diana and trying to control the Justice League.
• Batwoman asked Superman, "Do you bleed?" and Superman dived at her with a flying punch.
• Su Ming, acting as Deathstroke in Hellbat Armor, grabbed Superman's arm, and they grappled through the cornfield, crushing the crops and leaving a crater.

Su Ming, disguised in the Hellbat Armor as Batwoman, provoked Superman into carrying him into space, where Kryptonite weakened Superman and left him vulnerable. The fight ended with Superman trapped and laughing as Deathstroke prepared to deliver a finishing blow.

• Su Ming used Batwoman’s Five-Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique to strike Superman with Kryptonite while gauging his strength.
• Su Ming taunted Superman by claiming he would take Lois, Jonathan, and Krypto, making Superman angrier.
• Su Ming gave Superman an opening, and Superman instinctively shoulder-charged him and flew into space.
• Su Ming held Superman in the Hellbat Armor and scraped Green Kryptonite beneath his ribs, forcing him to laugh and weakening him.
• Superman failed to push Su Ming away, leaving Deathstroke an opening to finish the fight.

Batwoman defeated Superman with Kryptonite Bubble Gum and had him transported to Sepulk for containment. Back at the Kansas farm, Martha had forgotten Superman again, and Deathstroke hinted to Wonder Woman that someone was using a fulcrum to influence Earth.

• Batwoman spat Kryptonite Bubble Gum into Superman's mouth, then knocked him unconscious with a Kryptonite punch.
• Deathstroke had Strangle contact Adjutant and send Superman through a Boom Tube to Sepulk for treatment and imprisonment.
• Deathstroke wondered whether Blank had seen the staged parts of the battle and whether the Tachyon Generator had worked.
• At the Kansas farm, Martha had forgotten Superman and chatted with Wonder Woman while they boarded up the broken windows.
• Wonder Woman asked Batwoman why Martha's memories kept changing, and Batwoman replied that someone wanted to use a fulcrum to pry up the Earth.

Su Ming, disguised as Batwoman, repaired Martha’s house with Diana while considering Blank’s plan to replace Rebirth Superman and alter the memories surrounding him. Martha mistook Batwoman and Wonder Woman for a couple, and the chapter ended with Martha lamenting her childless old age.

• Su Ming reasoned that Blank had shifted from targeting individual heroes to changing the environment around Superman, and he decided to keep playing Batwoman.
• Batwoman used glass from her Bat-Belt to replace Martha’s broken window while Diana helped with the repairs.
• Martha teased Batwoman and Diana about being a couple, but Diana denied their relationship.
• Batwoman told Martha that her mother had also been named Martha, and Diana stopped Martha from asking more.
• Martha went to fetch more snacks and advised them to have children early, lamenting that her own later years were bleak.

Harley hosted Deadpool and his companions at the Iceberg Lounge before they were suddenly teleported away to avoid Thanos. Left alone, she saw Thanos depart and then welcomed Batwoman and Diana, recognizing Batwoman as her friend in disguise.

• Harley treated Deadpool and the others to a meal at the Iceberg Lounge, with Penguin charging the expenses to Bruce Wayne's account.
• Harley told Deadpool that Lady Death had to leave soon, and Deadpool said he would return with her and the Monster Squad.
• After learning that Thanos was approaching, Deadpool had the Adjutant teleport the group and their food away.
• Thanos arrived outside the restaurant but left after sensing that Death's aura had vanished.
• Harley felt lonely, then waved to Batwoman and Diana as they entered with Penguin, keeping Batwoman's disguise secret.

Su Ming and his companions discussed their recent encounter with Thanos and the confusing revelations about Superman before Deathstroke took Diana and Harley to International City to recruit Kara Zor-El. The chapter ended with the group searching for Kara, who was unlikely to be asleep in her dorm.

• Su Ming explained that Thanos had been sent back to 40K, and Harley said Deadpool had narrowly prevented a deadly attack at the Iceberg Lounge.
• Diana admitted she was struggling to understand the revelations about the universe reboot, Hypertime Variants, and Memory Erasure.
• Su Ming announced that they were heading to International City to recruit Supergirl and help her with her personal problems.
• Deathstroke traveled with Diana and Harley to International City and asked the Adjutant where Kara Zor-El was.
• Diana refused Harley’s proposed bet and asked the Adjutant to reveal Kara’s location.

Batwoman investigated a gruesome murder scene in New York and discovered that Joker had left a message tied to memory loss. She sent Barry away and continued pursuing what she described as a game between herself and Joker.

• Batwoman found several victims in a hotel room and read Joker’s bloody message on the corridor wall.
• Batwoman comforted the terrified hotel attendant, gave him gold coins, and asked Barry to take him home.
• Barry returned after taking the attendant home and helped Batwoman collect evidence, including alcohol containing a new type of laughing gas.
• Batwoman told Barry that Joker had made a deal with Deathstroke and that the murder was part of a game between Joker and her.
• Batwoman asked Barry to photograph Joker’s message for Deathstroke, then continued examining the bodies alone.

Batwoman deduced that Joker had left Zorn a crime-solving game and clues that might help restore memories of Superman. As Su Ming’s group searched for Supergirl on Earth-0, Adjutant reported that Barry had sent a photo that might be connected to restoring memories.

• Batwoman deduced from the bodies, drinks, and wall message that Joker had fled and left clues to his next crime and a possible solution to the memory loss.
• Zorn welcomed Joker’s challenge, reflecting that Joker could not truly be killed and that only Batwoman had reliably kept pace with him.
• Barry prepared to leave, but Batwoman warned him that returning to Earth-0 could hinder Deathstroke and make him Blank’s likely target.
• Su Ming, Harley, and Diana searched the skies over the city while Adjutant worked to locate Supergirl through surveillance.
• Su Ming chose to leave Batman and Joker’s game alone, and Adjutant told him Barry’s photo might relate to restoring memories.

Su Ming told Harley and Diana that DEO was controlling Supergirl through psychological warfare and using her as a biological weapon, despite her seemingly good life with her adoptive parents. The three traveled into the subway to intercept Kara and prepare to address her situation with DEO.

• The Adjutant showed Su Ming surveillance footage of Supergirl using a real-name monthly pass to board a subway train, prompting Harley to laugh at her carelessness.
• Su Ming sent the Cloak into the subway system and explained that he had come to International City to sort out Kara’s employment relationship with DEO.
• Su Ming revealed that Kara’s direct superior, Deputy Director Zeiss, used psychological control and hypnosis to exploit her as a biological weapon.
• Diana grew angry that DEO was treating Kara like the Suicide Squad, while Su Ming clarified that Kara’s adoptive parents were good people and that DEO controlled her superhero missions.
• Su Ming, Harley, and Diana passed through the subway turnstiles and waited on the platform for Kara’s train.

Su Ming explained the DEO’s hostility toward Superhumans and its hold over Kara, then traveled with Diana and Harley to find her. The group reached the DEO’s city and boarded a train after Adjutant located Kara through her phone.

• Su Ming described how the DEO targeted Superhumans and how its new commander, Zeiss, had taken control after Mister Bones was wounded.
• Su Ming explained that the DEO threatened Kara’s adoptive parents to keep her obedient, and that he intended to separate her from the agency.
• Diana, Harley, and Su Ming approached a train station in International City, where Diana noted that the DEO had likely spotted them.
• Harley teased Diana about not visiting her in ARGUS prison, and Diana replied that Harley could have found a way to leave the Suicide Squad.
• Su Ming said the DEO would not target Harley because she lacked superpowers, then led the group toward the rear of the train after Adjutant tracked Kara’s unprotected phone.

Kara tried to stop a subway robbery but was denied permission by the DEO, so Su Ming and Harley killed the robbers before they could harm the old woman. They returned her wallet and warned her to leave before the DEO response team arrived.

• Kara confronted several armed robbers who were targeting an elderly woman, but the DEO denied her request for Level One authorization because the thugs had not attacked her.
• Su Ming fired into the robbers while holding Kara back, killing them as Harley mocked them and shot their bodies again.
• Kara recognized Su Ming as Otherworld Deathstroke and protested that she had only wanted to take the robbers to the police.
• Su Ming recovered the old woman's wallet with The Force, returned it to her, and warned her to leave before the DEO team arrived.
• The old woman thanked Su Ming and hurried away, and Su Ming told Diana that people rarely needed to call him a good person.

Deathstroke and Harley killed the robbers on a train, leaving Supergirl distraught, while Diana comforted her. Deathstroke planned to take Kara away, and when the train reached a station, a DEO agent arrived with a delivery from the deputy director.

• Supergirl cried over her failure to save everyone, and Diana comforted her as Deathstroke and Harley handled the robbers’ corpses.
• Kara warned Deathstroke that DEO might come after him, but he said he would take her away and leave DEO’s fate to Harley’s old classmate.
• Su Ming explained that DEO would likely negotiate politely and free Kara rather than confront Deathstroke.
• The train stopped at a station without a DEO task force, and a courier boarded with a delivery for Mr. Wilson.
• Su Ming recognized the courier as a DEO agent and told him to hand over the deputy director’s delivery and leave.

Deathstroke exposed a DEO courier and received Kara’s temporary employment contract, then confronted Deputy Director Zeiss about what she wanted in exchange for delivering it. Zeiss arrived and faced Harley’s hostility while Kara remained intimidated by her.

• Deathstroke recognized the courier as a DEO agent and ordered him to hand over the document pouch.
• Deathstroke criticized Kara’s temporary contract for lacking insurance and dental coverage, then asked after Director Bones.
• Zeiss entered the subway car, dismissed the courier, and greeted Deathstroke, Wonder Woman, and Harley while ignoring Kara.
• Harley rejected Zeiss’s attempt to appeal to their past relationship and mocked her.
• Deathstroke told Zeiss to sit and asked what she wanted in exchange for bringing him the contract.

Cameron Chase asked to join the Justice League in exchange for Kara’s freedom, surprising everyone. Deathstroke accepted her offer and promised to support her application once Batwoman returned.

• Zeiss asked to join the Justice League, and Harley mocked her fashion before Adjutant teleported Harley away.
• Cameron Chase explained that she wanted to join and revealed a red crystal formed from her superhuman energy.
• Diana guessed that the DEO was targeting Cami, but Deathstroke said she had not been coerced and noted that Mister Bones was a superhuman too.
• Cami questioned how Deathstroke knew Mister Bones had powers, and he refused to explain.
• Deathstroke accepted Cami’s condition and said he would push for her admission after Batwoman returned.

After Zeiss left, Deathstroke explained to Diana that Zeiss wanted Batman’s Justice League of America, not Diana’s Justice League, and agreed to discuss her joining with Batman. Diana remained suspicious that Deathstroke was trying to set Batman up with another girlfriend.

• Zeiss accepted Deathstroke’s promise and left after congratulating Kara on finding someone powerful to cling to.
• Diana objected to Zeiss joining the Justice League because of her work as a DEO executioner, while Kara insisted Zeiss had done nothing wrong.
• Deathstroke explained that Zeiss wanted Batman’s Justice League of America, where her psychology skills and ruthless methods could be useful.
• Diana realized Zeiss was seeking Batman’s attention and questioned Deathstroke’s motives for supporting her.
• Deathstroke denied that he was trying to introduce Batman to a new girlfriend.

Su Ming invited Kara to join the Justice League and discovered that she could only faintly recall Kal-El. Kara accepted the offer to join the team at the Hall of Justice, while Harley returned to show off her dress.

• Su Ming watched Diana and Kara eat candy and ice cream on the subway while he considered Zeiss and Joker.
• Harley returned in a red dress and asked Deathstroke to take pictures of her.
• Su Ming asked Kara whether she remembered Kal-El, but Kara could only recall a vague image.
• Su Ming invited Kara to join the Justice League at the Hall of Justice, and she happily accepted.

Su Ming brought Kara and Harley toward the Hall of Justice while Harley obsessively took photos, and Diana noticed Harley still remembered Superman. Elsewhere, Thor, Loki, and their companions survived in the ruins of Asgard with food supplied by Miss Adjutant, until a roar and violent tremors interrupted their meal.

• Su Ming persuaded Kara to join the Justice League and urged Harley to stop taking photos, but she agreed only after he offered pictures at the Hall of Justice.
• Harley mentioned Superman, and Diana realized that Harley still remembered him despite Blank.
• Thor returned to the cave with branches and moss, while Loki reasoned that Deathstroke would not let their group starve and asked Miss Adjutant for food.
• Miss Adjutant delivered a roasted camel and barrels of alcohol, and Thor and Loki shared the meal with their companions.
• A roar from outside the cave and powerful tremors shook the group as they ate.

Deathstroke discussed the revived Yggdrasil in Asgard with Bobo and weighed whether it signaled another move by Blank. He explained that his Dark Concepts currently anchored Multiverse 1, leaving him unable to leave without risking further disruption.

• The Adjutant reported that Yggdrasil in Asgard had come back to life, and Bobo warned Deathstroke that its revival might mean something.
• Deathstroke said Loki was climbing Yggdrasil to investigate and explained that he and Thor had been sent to Asgard because its pantheon had been wiped out.
• Bobo suggested bringing Batwoman back for a meeting, but Deathstroke refused because Blank might target her or unleash an army.
• Deathstroke revealed that Blank had inserted a fake Superman when he briefly left Earth-0, and Diana had alerted him before the situation escalated.
• Deathstroke explained that his Dark Concepts filled the multiverse like ink on a comic page, so he could not leave Multiverse 1 for now.

Su Ming prepared the Doom Patrol to respond to Blank’s next attack while he set out with Little Dai, Kara, and Harley to pursue another lead. After Kara officially joined, Su Ming went to find Harley and begin the mission.

• Su Ming gave Bobo a Tachyon Generator and left him with the Doom Patrol to wait for a useful personality of Kay to emerge.
• Bobo refused to hold Kay and went to hide near Chief’s wheelchair while Su Ming left the girl with toys.
• Su Ming met Little Dai and Kara in the corridor after Kara officially joined the team.
• Su Ming led Little Dai and Kara toward Justice League Dark’s headquarters to find Harley and set off.

Harley joined Su Ming and Diana, then claimed to remove Zeiss's psychological suggestion and hypnosis from Supergirl. The group flew to Ellsworth Memorial Hospital in Metropolis to meet a patient, but Su Ming was alarmed by how dramatically Kara had changed.

• Harley posed for photos while Tracy excitedly photographed her at Justice League Dark headquarters.
• Su Ming and Diana prepared to leave with Harley and the hypnotized Supergirl, while Harley said she could undo Zeiss's suggestion.
• Su Ming took the group to Ellsworth Memorial Hospital in Metropolis, a psychiatric hospital, to meet someone who might need treatment.
• Harley told Su Ming to look at Kara, who was smoking, drinking, and flirting with him, and he demanded to know what Harley had done to her.