Chapter Summaries

In Bat-Mite’s knockoff Batcave, Su Ming proposed using Tenth Metal’s resonance to locate the Seventh Dimension, though the group still needed to work out how to reverse its transformation. They took a break to eat while considering how to make the plan work.

• Bat-Mite offered the group beer and said he would keep thinking about how to reach the Seventh Dimension.
• Su Ming brought out the Manchu Han Imperial Feast and said he needed time to sense how energy flowed in the Fifth Dimension.
• Su Ming broke off a Tenth Metal rib and demonstrated that it still resonated in the Fifth Dimension.
• Bobo explained that they could potentially reverse part of the Seventh Dimension’s transformation into resonant Tenth Metal and use it to locate the dimension.
• The group ate together while they considered how to put Su Ming’s plan into practice.

God learned that Deathstroke planned to use Tenth Metal to reach the Seventh Dimension and resolved to stop him, Elaine, and his rebellious children. As God prepared for a final confrontation, he reflected on his secret plan to gather darkness and surpass The Source and The Void, which Elaine’s existence had thrown out of control.

• The Eye of God reported that Deathstroke planned to use Tenth Metal to reach the Seventh Dimension.
• God angrily decided to punish Deathstroke and defeat his group, Elaine, and his rebellious sons.
• God revealed that Egg was his secret avatar and the vessel in which he planned to be reborn.
• God recalled his plan to gather sins and dark powers through his avatars so he could surpass The Source and The Void.
• God concluded that Elaine’s impossible birth had disrupted his plans and left the coming outcome beyond his control.

God created a powerful being named Crime and sent it to stop Deathstroke, while Constantine and Zatanna watched the battle between the Great Demon and the Word of God from Arlington National Cemetery. Constantine remained prepared for the other God's Avatars to appear.

• God said he was deadlocked with Elaine and asked who could be sent to interfere with Deathstroke.
• Eye admitted that it lacked combat power, so God transformed a sheep with Black Mud, Black Light, and sin to create Crime.
• Crime pledged loyalty, and God ordered it to disrupt Deathstroke and make him regret betraying God.
• Constantine and Zatanna watched the Great Demon and the Word of God fight from a protected position in Arlington National Cemetery.
• Zatanna asked where the remaining God's Avatars were, and Constantine said they would seek help from more demon kings if any appeared.

Constantine and Zatanna disguised themselves as Deathstroke and Diana to lure the Eye of God into a trap. As they waited for it to investigate, Constantine sensed an unfamiliar, cold presence watching them instead.

• Zatanna and Constantine planned to bait the Eye of God and trap it with Backward Speech Magic before summoning a demon king.
• Constantine summoned Hellish Veil to block magical surveillance and explained that the Eye of God would investigate if it suspected he might be Deathstroke.
• Zatanna transformed Constantine into Deathstroke and herself into Diana, and they prepared to wait for the Eye of God.
• Constantine sensed a dark, freezing gaze behind him and realized it did not feel like the Eye of God.

Sin possessed Constantine while he was disguised as Deathstroke, then discovered the body was too weak to use and attacked Zatanna. After God prevented him from killing Constantine, Sin abandoned the body and flew off to search for the real Deathstroke.

• Constantine lost control of his body when Sin possessed him, while Zatanna remained disguised as Wonder Woman.
• Sin tested Constantine’s body, then coughed up blood because Constantine still had terminal lung cancer.
• Zatanna recognized the possession and tried to negotiate, but Sin realized she was an impostor and attacked her.
• Zatanna slapped Sin aside, and God told him he could not kill Constantine because his soul was too sinful.
• Sin failed to possess Zatanna, left Constantine’s body as black smoke, and flew off to search for the real Deathstroke.

After the Possessing Ghost attacked, Constantine and Zatanna realized Deathstroke might be in danger in the Fifth Dimension. Zatanna pushed Constantine to find a way to warn him, and Constantine decided to contact Sara Lance for help reaching him.

• The Possessing Ghost left Constantine coughing blood, and he identified it as a Glob of malice created by God.
• Constantine called the Oblivion Bar and learned that Deathstroke and Bobo had gone to the Fifth Dimension.
• Zatanna urged Constantine to warn Deathstroke, but he initially argued that Deathstroke and Detective Chimp could handle the threat.
• After Zatanna threatened to leave him, Constantine proposed contacting Sara Lance and using her ship to get a message toward the Fifth Dimension.
• Zatanna approved the plan, and Constantine began calling Sara Lance.

Deathstroke and Kitty used reverse narration to hide their plan from God and lure one of his creations into an ambush. Kitty trapped the shadow that entered Deathstroke in the First Dream, and they fell into the dream together while the others stayed behind.

• Deathstroke sensed that the moment he had been waiting for had arrived and told Kitty, Bobo, and Bat-Mite to stand back.
• Kitty revealed that Deathstroke had secretly written their plan into the Narrative Layer afterward, hiding their discussion from God.
• Deathstroke had expected God to send a creation capable of crossing higher dimensions, intending to capture it and learn how to reach the Seventh Dimension.
• Kitty covered Deathstroke with the First Dream as a black shadow entered his body.
• Deathstroke dragged the struggling shadow into the dream, where he saw a vast red-moon-like celestial body.

Deathstroke and Dream of a Thousand Cats captured and consumed Sin, a newly created servant of God, inside the First Dream. Deathstroke acquired the dimensional-ascension ability he had sought and prepared to leave the dream.

• Deathstroke used his soul and TOAA's paint to bind Sin while his physical body remained in the Fifth Dimension.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats helped hold Sin, and Deathstroke ordered Strangle to devour it.
• Deathstroke identified the captive as Sin, a recently created being whose creation had cost God considerable power.
• After Strangle ate Sin's brain, Deathstroke chopped up the remains while Kitty packed them away.
• Deathstroke confirmed that Sin had possessed the means to ascend dimensions, then asked Kitty to tell The First Dream to stop watching him.

After escaping The First Dream, Su Ming learned that Old Man God had given him a way to ascend to the Seventh Dimension, where the Origin Court was located. He prepared to depart with Kitty and Bobo, while Bat-Mite stayed behind.

• Dream of a Thousand Cats helped Su Ming and Kitty leave The First Dream, and Nyarlathotep kept the enemy's bones.
• Su Ming woke up with the bag of minced meat, then stabbed Deadpool when he joked about waking him like a prince.
• Su Ming told Bobo and Bat-Mite that Old Man God had provided a safe way to ascend dimensions using darkness.
• Bobo agreed to join Su Ming on the trip to the Seventh Dimension, while Bat-Mite declined and received the enemy's eyeballs as spoils.
• Su Ming gathered Kitty and prepared to leave for the Seventh Dimension with Bobo.

Su Ming and his team traveled toward the Seventh Dimension on a boat made of darkness while Bobo tried to explain Hyperdimension to Deadpool. Deadpool remained confused about why he felt they were descending, and Adjutant began preparing a physical explanation as communications partially returned.

• Su Ming explained that the team was ascending toward the Seventh Dimension through darkness, guided by feeling rather than coordinates.
• Bobo described Hyperdimension as spaces beyond three dimensions and gave Deadpool a mathematical explanation of the Seventh Dimension.
• Deadpool said he still felt they were descending, despite riding on the same boat as Su Ming and the others.
• Deathstroke asked Adjutant to explain the physical principles after her information channel came back online.
• Adjutant's projection stabilized and offered to explain humanity's physical interpretation, but Deadpool asked for Cybertronian technology instead.

The Adjutant explained how different perspectives could make higher dimensions appear compressed, while the group traveled through darkness into the Seventh Dimension. Faced with a vast stellar vortex, Su Ming considered how to change their viewpoint to locate their target.

• The Adjutant used a Mobius Strip to explain compressed dimensions and why Deathstroke felt he was ascending while Deadpool felt he was descending.
• Deadpool complained about the lesson, and the group passed through the Sixth Dimension without seeing it.
• The black smoke dispersed, revealing the Seventh Dimension as a gigantic silver vortex filled with planets.
• Su Ming asked Kitty and Bobo to help assess the vortex, and Bobo suggested the Seventh Dimension might need to be viewed from another angle.
• Deadpool proposed that Su Ming had overshot their destination, so Su Ming decided to shift their position and try again.

Su Ming and his companions reached the Seventh Dimension, which appeared as a vast planet with a separate moon, but they could not land on the planet. They redirected the Black Smoke Boat toward the moon to test whether it offered a way in.

• The group adjusted their observation angle until the Seventh Dimension appeared as a massive planet beside a turd-shaped moon.
• Deadpool joked with Deathstroke, while Su Ming sensed a hidden gaze watching them alongside the Eye of God.
• Su Ming took the boat to the planet, but it passed straight through the apparent surface because the planet was only a manifestation.
• Kitty and Bobo suggested trying the separate moon as a possible landing point, and Su Ming turned the boat toward it despite Deadpool's warning about a trap.

Su Ming and his companions approached the Seventh Dimension’s foul-smelling, turd-shaped moon, which Kitty said was only one way to perceive The One. They landed on its brown surface and sent Deadpool ahead to scout after paying him extra.

• Deadpool joked that the moon looked like an enormous turd and wondered what creature had made it.
• Kitty and Bobo explained that the Seventh Dimension could appear differently to each observer, while Kitty warned Deadpool that his powers might fail there.
• Su Ming said he relied little on superpowers, then used Cooling Oil to block Bobo’s sense of smell as the group approached the moon.
• Su Ming paid Deadpool five hundred Credit Points to scout the ground, and Deadpool jumped off the Black Smoke Boat with his Katana.

Su Ming and Deadpool found themselves on a foul, barren satellite in the Seventh Dimension, where ordinary movement could not lead them to the Origin Court. Su Ming gambled that native beings were watching and threatened to destroy the Seventh Dimension to make them reveal a way forward.

• Deadpool landed on the satellite, inspected its excrement-like ground, and joked with Su Ming about its condition.
• Su Ming said the Eye of God and the Origin Court were watching them, while Kitty tested its ability to alter the Seventh Dimension’s apparent reality.
• Bobo explained that the satellite was only a point from the Seventh Dimension’s perspective, so three-dimensional movement could not guide them forward.
• Su Ming concluded that they needed someone to open a door and decided to wait for a native or Concept Entity to respond.
• Su Ming removed his mask, raised the Origin Codex, and threatened to destroy the Seventh Dimension in hopes of drawing out a guide.

Su Ming used blood altered by Strangle and the paints from The One Above All to overwrite the Origin Judges’ attack, demonstrating his power in the Seventh Dimension. With the Judges gone, he addressed the Seventh Dimension to resume negotiations.

• Kitty warned that the Origin Judges were approaching, and Bobo spotted hundreds of them in the distance.
• Su Ming explained that Strangle’s rainbow-colored blood had absorbed and evolved blood from The One Above All, then flung it toward the Judges.
• Su Ming used the paints to overwrite the story of the Judges’ attack, covering them in colorful patches and making them disappear.
• Su Ming explained that impasto let him manipulate the Timeline from a higher-dimensional perspective, while Deadpool asked him to paint a house full of bikini-clad women.
• Su Ming took out the book and addressed the Seventh Dimension, asking to speak with it now that the Judges were gone.

Su Ming waited for the Seventh Dimension to respond while Adjutant revealed she had completed a serum for Bobo. The dimension communicated through flashing lights, and Su Ming asked its consciousness to reveal the Origin Court’s location.

• Adjutant told Bobo that she had created a safe serum for him and named it Gene, You Are Too Beautiful.
• Bobo thanked Adjutant and asked about the serum’s name while Deadpool reacted with amusement.
• Su Ming waited for the Seventh Dimension to answer, warning that he might have to act against it if no one responded.
• The Seventh Dimension rippled and flashed a star-shaped light, signaling that it could communicate.
• Su Ming identified himself as a three-dimensional human and asked the Seventh Dimension’s consciousness to show him where the Origin Court was hidden.

Su Ming and his companions reached the Origin Court, where he confronted its mechanical embodiment of balance over its attempt to destroy Multiverse 1. The Court explained that it had acted to correct darkness, but Su Ming challenged why it chose destruction instead of creating more universes of light, leaving it unable to answer.

• The Seventh Dimension opened a path to the Origin Court after Su Ming promised to deal with the Tenth-Dimensional Being if it troubled the dimension again.
• Deadpool joked with Deathstroke as they traveled, and Su Ming promised him more money to restore his enthusiasm for the fight.
• Su Ming and his companions arrived at the immense, emerald-lit Origin Court and found a set of scales weighed toward black smoke rather than white light.
• The Origin Court said it had targeted Multiverse 1 because darkness threatened balance and reshaping the multiverse would help maintain it.
• Su Ming asked why the Court had chosen destruction instead of having the Hand of Creation make more light universes, and the Court fell silent.

Deathstroke challenged the Origin Court’s destructive approach to balancing the Hypertime system, arguing that it should create new universes instead of destroying existing ones. The Court admitted it might be wrong, then destroyed itself, leaving Deathstroke’s group beside the lifeless Court building.

• Deathstroke argued that the Origin Court should create universes with opposing properties to restore balance rather than destroy Multiverse 1.
• Deadpool, Bobo, and Kitty commented on the Court’s rigid logic while it remained silent under Deathstroke’s questioning.
• The Origin Court said Deathstroke might be right and declared that it should be destroyed in favor of a brighter version of itself.
• The Court building shook, and Deathstroke demanded that the Court manifest so he could kill it.
• The green scale broke apart, its spheres vanished, and Kitty confirmed that the Origin Court had ended itself.

Su Ming explained how he had exploited the Origin Court’s rule that every mistake must be punished, causing it to erase itself. Afterward, he placed the Origin Codex on the judgment platform and began using dark power on it, while his allies returned to the Oblivion Bar and discussed the victory.

• Su Ming explained that the Origin Court had destroyed itself after concluding that its own existence was an error that prevented balance.
• Deadpool collected fragments of the scales while Su Ming told him to stand guard and began activating the Origin Codex.
• Bobo returned to the Oblivion Bar, drank a beer, and asked how Su Ming had defeated the Origin Court so easily.
• Kitty said Su Ming had won through a battle of concepts and beliefs, while Su Ming credited preparation and the Source’s failure to support the Court.

Deathstroke prepared to inject Bobo with a serum that would turn him into The Warrior while waiting for news about Damian and Starro. He left for the basement with Bobo, intending to deal with God afterward, and learned that Constantine had valuable intelligence for him.

• Deathstroke showed Bobo the serum and said the ape would be unconscious for hours, while Su Ming asked Adjutant for news about Damian and Starro.
• Adjutant reported that Damian was still at the Hall of Justice and Jar-ro had made no progress, while Batwoman noticed the surveillance camera.
• Su Ming urged Cockroach to switch its allegiance to Elaine, and Cockroach immediately began praising her instead of prophesying doom.
• Deadpool tried to torment Bobo about the injection, but Su Ming stopped him and carried Bobo toward the basement.
• Little Bartender told Su Ming that Constantine had called with something to discuss, and Su Ming said he already knew what Constantine wanted to say.
• Su Ming headed downstairs with Bobo to administer the serum, telling Tracy that Bobo might become the most handsome Black Chimp on Earth.