Chapter Summaries

Cindy met with Damian, Harley, and the others at the docks and explained Deathstroke’s “Wandering Earth” escape plan and the weapon that could destroy a universe. Damian chose to wait for more information about Pralaya rather than flee immediately, while Chief insisted they honor Deathstroke’s plan.

• Cindy arrived at the docks and told the group that Su had provided a jar of Sixth Dimension air capable of unleashing enough energy to destroy a Single Universe.
• Cindy shared the Adjutant’s warning that Pralaya was a powerful Concept Manifestation based on the Void, possibly several times stronger than Perpetua.
• Harley, Emiko, and Damian discussed the lack of information about Pralaya’s motives while Chief and the Doom Patrol paid little attention.
• Damian asked Cindy to explain the backup plan but said he would not activate “Wandering Earth” yet.
• Cindy said she would charge extra if they changed the mission, and Chief threatened to make them follow Deathstroke’s plan.
• Harley calmed Chief and argued that they could wait at Earth-0 to learn why Pralaya had treated it differently from Earth-16.

Su Ming concluded that Pralaya was using despair-filled worlds to gather faith before eventually reclaiming them, and he considered ways to resist without provoking her. While he and his companions ate in the medieval world, Su Ming sensed strange vibrations that the others could not hear, and he led them to investigate.

• Su Ming reasoned that Pralaya had collected worlds as sources of faith for the gods under her command.
• Su Ming considered releasing the Stitched Monster Virus into the world whenever its Timeline reset, but decided against provoking Pralaya after his companions objected.
• Su Ming shared roast chicken with Bobo and the others while they rested in the tavern.
• Su Ming heard rhythmic thumping vibrations that none of his companions could detect.
• Deathstroke told the group to follow him and investigate what Pralaya was planning.

Su Ming followed the rhythmic drumming he alone could hear across the land and out over the North Atlantic. As the group neared its source, he prepared them to dive and search the seabed.

• Su Ming heard unexplained drumbeats and set out north while Bobo ruled out an earwax problem.
• Hermione suggested using animals to locate the sound, but Su Ming said Strangle could sense the vibrations and praised her reasoning.
• Su Ming tracked the shifting sound northeast to the sea, where it grew clearer.
• Hermione cast Bubble-Head Charms on the sleeping girls and Bobo as Su Ming prepared for a possible underwater battle.
• Su Ming ordered the Cloak of Levitation to dive and search the edges of the seabed.

Su Ming led the group through the North Sea toward the source of the mysterious underwater drumbeats, which Bobo suspected were connected to a creature created by Pralaya. As the Black Sun illuminated the abyss, the group approached a powerful presence in the darkness.

• Cloak carried Su Ming, Hermione, Jaina, Yrel, Bobo, and the others beneath the sea, where they saw a sunken fossil forest and began to feel the vibrations.
• Bobo warned that Pralaya might have created a monster to attack them and that the drumbeats could affect their minds.
• Su Ming ordered Cloak to descend beyond the continental shelf toward the Arctic Circle as The Void spread through the darkness and swallowed the light.
• The drumbeats grew stronger, and Bobo sensed a powerful creature ahead while Su Ming remained eager to face Pralaya.
• Su Ming projected the Black Sun into the abyss, its glowing corona reaching into the water like tentacles.

Su Ming and his companions descended into the ocean trench toward the Abyss, where an unseen presence beat a steady drum. They reached a point about five hundred meters from the sound, and the rhythm quickened as the creature sensed them.

• Bobo's instincts warned him about the void, so Su Ming calmed him with a Chocolate Frog and urged him to reason past his fear.
• Su Ming revealed his Yellow Lantern Ring and reassured the group that he could protect them if Pralaya attacked.
• Hermione said she trusted Su Ming to find a solution, and Bobo suggested Pralaya meant to disgust rather than kill them.
• Su Ming guided the group deeper into the trench on Cloak and estimated the source of the sound was a creature of flesh and blood about five hundred meters away.
• The unseen creature's drumming grew louder and faster as Su Ming and Bobo discussed their approach.

Su Ming and his companions investigated the vibrations in the sea abyss and discovered a strange black creature in a cave. After it destroyed Jaina’s Sea Elemental with a scream, Su Ming blocked its attack and considered what Pralaya intended to accomplish with it.

• Jaina saw something through her Sea Elemental that shocked her, and Yrel used the Holy Light to bring her back to herself.
• Su Ming left the others with Cloak and swam down to investigate the source of the vibrations.
• Su Ming found a black, infant-like monster floating inside a fluid sac in a cave and identified it as a Black Merfolk.
• The Black Merfolk screamed and blasted the Sea Elemental apart with sound waves.
• Su Ming neutralized the attack with a whirlpool and began pondering Pralaya’s purpose in sending the creature.

Deathstroke captured and transformed Pralaya’s newly born sea monster to test whether he could override her control with Dark Quantum. After confirming the creature obeyed him and could self-destruct, he absorbed its darkness and left the trench.

• Deathstroke overpowered the giant sea monster as Strangle drained its energy, and he realized Pralaya could see through its eyes.
• Su Ming used the Black Sun, darkness, and the Anti-Life Equation to reshape the monster and test whether he could control it.
• The transformed monster obeyed Su Ming’s commands to raise its tentacles and shrink.
• Su Ming ordered the monster to die, and it self-destructed into ink that the Black Sun absorbed.
• Su Ming concluded that the creature had broken free of Pralaya’s control and swam upward, considering testing the method on a God of Oblivion.

Su Ming returned from fighting Pralaya’s malformed sea creature and led his team away from the plague-threatened Earth. At the edge of the Single Universe, Hermione and Bobo noticed a geometric pattern in the Cube prison that might reveal a clue about its structure.

• Su Ming reunited with Hermione, Bobo, and the others after destroying Pralaya’s creature, but said the fight had ended in a draw and that the battle had damaged his memories.
• Bobo wondered whether Pralaya had discovered that Su Ming’s Time Reversal could not erase damage to his memories, but Su Ming dismissed the concern.
• Su Ming’s Cloak carried the group away from Earth and to a reflective wall at the edge of the Single Universe.
• Bobo pointed out that they were still inside a Cube, and Su Ming reconsidered his plan to break through the wall.
• Hermione and Su Ming examined how Cubes fit together, and Hermione suggested that the difference between seven shared neighbors and eight Cubes forming a larger one might be significant.

Su Ming and his companions investigated the Cube’s structure and passed through a protruding corner into a newly forming Multiverse. They descended toward its lone Earth to continue their search for people to save.

• Deathstroke explained Doctor Doom’s theory that microscopic particles were built from the Cube’s eight corners, and Bobo guessed that The Void might consist of Mother Night and Pralaya.
• Su Ming stopped the group’s speculation and had Cloak carry them to the point where three mirrored walls met.
• Su Ming thrust his Lightsaber into the Cube’s corner, opening a hole that drew them into a vortex and carried them to a new level.
• Su Ming recognized that the new realm was an evolving Multiverse without branched Timelines, containing only an Earth Prime.
• Su Ming directed Cloak toward the lone Earth and teased Bobo about finding him more partners, making the ape recoil.

Su Ming and his companions arrived in a modern New York after escaping to a higher dimension, and Adjutant regained enough connection to communicate. As they headed to an electronics store so she could access the local network, Su Ming noticed the world felt familiar and worried about who might be behind it.

• The Cloak of Levitation brought Su Ming and the others into New York, where Adjutant reported that their connection had improved in this higher dimension.
• Su Ming agreed to find a network-connected device so Adjutant could investigate whether this was a world he knew.
• Su Ming offered Hermione, Jaina, and Yrel laptops, phones, and solar chargers so they could stay in contact with Adjutant and access entertainment.
• Su Ming and Detective Chimp watched people barely react to Yrel's horns and tail, leaving them unsure whether the city was accustomed to supernatural beings or simply indifferent.
• As they approached an electronics store, Su Ming and Detective Chimp recognized a familiar feeling in the world, and Su Ming hoped it was not caused by someone he knew.

Su Ming and his companions accessed the store’s computer to gather information about their world, but a clerk mistook Bobo for a famous digital technology pioneer named Detective Chimp. They escaped the growing crowd, leaving the group with network data to assess.

• Su Ming had Strangle connect to a store computer so Adjutant could gather public information about the world.
• A clerk recognized Bobo as the famous Detective Chimp and praised his work on digital humans and virtual technology.
• Bobo played along with the mistaken identity, then urged Su Ming to leave before the truth came out.
• As a crowd gathered around them, Hermione cast a Muggle-Repelling Charm to clear their path.
• Su Ming carried Bobo and led the group away while the disappointed clerk was left behind.

Su Ming and his companions headed to meet this world's famous counterpart of Bobo, the God of Digital, after learning the chimp was booked for a cosmetic procedure. Their journey was interrupted by assassins who attacked Bobo, and Su Ming killed them by sending their bullets back.

• Su Ming, Bobo, and Hermione concluded that the world was a parallel universe with counterparts of people from Earth-0, and the Adjutant found the other Bobo's company and appointment details.
• Deathstroke told Jaina that the other Bobo had booked a skin-whitening procedure, while Bobo tried to hide from the public as they walked toward his company headquarters.
• Bobo worried that his counterpart's fans might cause trouble, and Su Ming promised that Bobo would buy gifts for Hermione and the others after they returned to Earth-0.
• Masked assassins in a van ordered Bobo to go back where he came from and opened fire on the group.
• Su Ming stopped the bullets in midair and sent them back at the attackers, killing the assassins and wrecking their van.

Su Ming learned that the would-be assassin had targeted Detective Chimp because this world's counterpart created a popular virtual reality called Synthezoid Paradise. As the group investigated why they were cut off from their own coordinates, Su Ming suspected Pralaya had trapped them inside her body.

• Su Ming dragged the wounded driver from the burning van, questioned him, then used Strangle to consume his mind after he died.
• Su Ming learned that the driver and his companions were fanatical fans who wanted to kill Detective Chimp and send him back to the digital world.
• Adjutant explained that she could not locate the group because she could not measure the distance between their location and her own, and said hacking Synthezoid Paradise would take time.
• Su Ming suggested that Pralaya had caused the spatial problem, while the chimp guessed they might be inside Pralaya's body.
• Hermione said she felt that Pralaya was trying to show them something.

Su Ming and his companions reached the Bobo building, joking about what surname Detective Chimp should take before entering the tower. As the elevator rose toward the top-floor office, Su Ming suspected Pralaya wanted to show him a mixture of nihilistic realities.

• Su Ming asked Bobo whether he had a surname, and the group suggested several names before Su Ming proposed Wayne.
• Bobo rejected the suggestions and entered the building with Su Ming and the others, where staff mistook him for their boss.
• Su Ming used Bobo's palm and iris to access the elevator's top-floor controls, noting that the building resembled Stark Tower.
• As the elevator rose, Su Ming wondered what Pralaya wanted him to see and considered how nihilism described human existence as meaningless and absurd.

Su Ming and his companions discovered that the gorilla welcoming them was another Detective Chimp on Dark Multiverse Earth-16. Bobo realized this world’s Justice League was likely just as unreliable as Earth-16’s.

• Su Ming arrived with his companions at the top floor and met White Gorilla, who was receiving a massage.
• White Gorilla recognized the visitors as otherworldly variants and welcomed them to Dark Multiverse Earth-16.
• Bobo questioned White Gorilla’s claim, then accepted his identity as another Detective Chimp after they shared a drink.
• Bobo asked White Gorilla to gather the Justice League so he could explain what had happened.
• White Gorilla reminded Bobo that Dark Multiverse Earth-16 mirrored Earth-16, and Bobo recalled that its Justice League was an orgy salon.

Bobo, Su Ming, and Hermione met White Gorilla, who explained how he had outlived his fellow heroes and created a memorial attraction to preserve their legacy. After White Gorilla left to shower, Su Ming concluded that their world was a composite, and that White Gorilla had not noticed its fusion.

• White Gorilla told Bobo that his old allies were all dead and that he had created the Synthezoid Immersive Memorial Museum to honor them and counter the Super Generation’s excesses.
• Su Ming asked about this world’s Deathstroke, and White Gorilla said he had died after being infected by dark energy and perishing with his enemy.
• Bobo explained that Su Ming’s Deathstroke came from Origin Earth and that he and White Gorilla’s Deathstroke had never known each other.
• White Gorilla welcomed the visitors, then left to shower, while Bobo and Su Ming exchanged gestures and Hermione demanded an explanation.
• Su Ming explained that the label on the whiskey indicated the world was a composite of fused realities that White Gorilla had not noticed.

Su Ming and his companions realized that Pralaya had been trapping them in a succession of worlds to indoctrinate them into nihilism. They remained unable to find a way out, but Su Ming insisted that every trap had an opening or mechanism they could discover.

• Su Ming recognized the Skywalker liquor as his own century-old recipe, while he and the others noticed that the building and its inhabitants resembled things from his world.
• Yrel proposed that Pralaya was using the staged worlds to make them accept her and her nihilistic beliefs over time.
• The chimpanzee agreed that Pralaya was keeping them inside nested worlds, and Su Ming reasoned that their investigations were being manipulated to waste time and deepen the indoctrination.
• Hermione worried that they could not escape the worlds, and Su Ming said every trap had a hole or mechanism they could find.

Tzeentch advised the group to stop thinking so Pralaya could not read their minds, but Batwoman instead devised a plan to escape by exploiting Deadpool’s creations. The group returned to the Amusement Park, where Batwoman recruited Deadpool to help mass-produce speedsters.

• Tzeentch told Batwoman and the others that emptying their minds could keep Pralaya from sensing their thoughts, then magically sent them back to the Amusement Park.
• Barry proposed moving fast enough to outrun their thoughts, while Diana and the others debated whether anyone could truly think of nothing.
• Batwoman concluded that the group needed a different approach and proposed using Deadpool’s Little Deadpools and a chemical plant.
• Batwoman planned to inject the Little Deadpools with Speed 9 and use the resulting speedsters to force the Speed Force Plane to expel the group or collapse.
• Deadpool protested that the Little Deadpools were his family, but agreed to help after Batwoman offered to pay him more.

Deadpool created a Chemical Plant in his Amusement Park and sent the Little Deadpools inside, then provoked them into fighting over who would replace him. As the battle raged, Diana stayed with Deadpool and agreed to get ice cream while they waited.

• Deadpool used the Plot Continuity Gem and the Flash's help to create a huge Chemical Plant beside the dart booth.
• Little Wu explained Deadpool's crude joke about the factory, and Deadpool sent the Little Deadpools inside to prepare for injections.
• Barry and Black Wally helped the injured, including the unconscious Jay, take shelter in the factory while Diana remained outside with Deadpool.
• Deadpool challenged the Little Deadpools to kill him, prompting them to turn on each other in a chaotic firefight.
• Diana recognized that Deadpool had shifted the conflict away from himself and agreed to get ice cream, asking for a flavor other than chocolate.

Deadpool watched his Little Deadpools fight until they were too exhausted to continue, then proposed that they compete in tests at his factory to determine who could kill him. The battered contestants agreed to enter, where Deadpool promised them physical examinations and free eggs.

• Wonder Woman asked Deadpool why the Little Deadpools were fighting, and he explained that they wanted to eliminate rivals before trying to kill him.
• Wonder Woman and Deadpool watched as the Little Deadpools fought for about five minutes without killing one another.
• Deadpool approached the exhausted contestants and suggested they undergo tests at his factory to choose who would get the chance to kill him.
• A Little Deadpool asked whether the physical examination included a prostate exam, and Deadpool agreed to provide one himself.
• Deadpool ushered the Little Deadpools into the factory, telling them to help one another up and promising free eggs.