Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and the mages discussed how to overcome Knowledge Barriers while searching for a way to trace CAAT. Wanda proposed looking for matter connected to CAAT, and Su Ming decided to investigate a lead involving Zero Matter.

• Ancient One praised Doctor Doom’s summary of Knowledge Barriers, while Su Ming complained that the meeting had turned into criticism of him.
• Monark teased Deathstroke about his Knowledge Barrier, and Deathstroke stole Monark’s mustache wax.
• Ancient One clarified that the group wanted Su Ming to examine how his past experience shaped his understanding, and Doctor Doom showed him a model of Zero Matter.
• Wanda proposed investigating whether matter existed in the Mystery where CAAT originated, and Monark suggested tracing matter it might have encountered.
• Su Ming ruled out Zero Matter as too specific, said he knew where to investigate, and asked who wanted to go shopping with him.

Su Ming left Earth’s protectors behind and traveled with Lucifer and Elaine to inspect a ruined town Lucifer had salvaged from CAAT. He entered the ruins to search for clues about the enemy, but the chapter ended before he found anything.

• Doctor Doom refused to join Su Ming’s next operation and teleported back to his work in space.
• Monark declined to go with Su Ming, while Wanda and Ancient One remained behind to protect Earth.
• Su Ming traveled alone to meet Lucifer and asked to see the land Lucifer had taken from CAAT.
• Elaine agreed to help Su Ming investigate and opened a Gate of Heaven to Lucifer’s Nightclub Universe.
• Lucifer showed Su Ming the salvaged town, which he had turned into a ruin-themed nightclub, and Su Ming led Girl God into the ruins to search for unusual traces.

Su Ming, Elaine, and Lucifer searched a ruined land fragment from the Marvel Universe for clues about CAAT. Su Ming admitted he had no clear target, and Lucifer suggested searching for something associated with darkness.

• Su Ming brought Elaine through Lucifer’s nightclub universe to a ruined land fragment, where Lucifer cleared the plaza and brightened the lights.
• Elaine used her authority to check the ruins but found the land fragment lay beyond her reach.
• Lucifer joined Su Ming and Elaine in searching while they discussed humanity and Elaine’s desire to become a god without ruling over people.
• Su Ming explained that his search was based only on his Mage friends’ speculation and that he did not know exactly what he sought.
• Lucifer suggested Su Ming search for signs of darkness, recalling that CAAT had seemed like black mist or dark clouds.

Su Ming and Elaine failed to detect CAAT’s traces with their concepts, so Su Ming organized a physical search of the ruined town with Lucifer. The search began with Lucifer and Su Ming dividing the town, while Cloak and Strangle also helped look for clues.

• Su Ming used Dark Concepts to search the ruins, but he and Elaine found nothing unusual.
• Su Ming sent Cloak to look for an energy source and decided to search the town by hand with Lucifer.
• Lucifer agreed to help in exchange for Su Ming arranging for him to spend time with Wade.
• Su Ming explained that a collision between their concepts and CAAT’s might have left material clues in the town.
• Lucifer and Su Ming split the town at a road and set out to search, planning to meet again in ten minutes.

Su Ming searched the damaged town with Strangle for clues left by the spatial turbulence, but mostly found valuables and gifts to bring home for his friends. The search took a surprising turn when he felt something invisible beneath his foot.

• Elaine stayed on the bench playing a mobile game and claimed she would watch for danger while Su Ming and the others searched.
• Su Ming and Strangle thoroughly searched a damaged water tower, but found nothing unusual.
• Su Ming searched houses and collected a cigar box, a pearl necklace, a music box for J'onn, and a Transformers toy for Damian.
• Su Ming suddenly felt something beneath his foot despite seeing nothing there, and suspected his luck had led him to a clue.

Su Ming found and extracted an invisible, indestructible Penrose Triangle-like object that could not affect ordinary three-dimensional matter. Believing it was created by a conceptual collision involving CAAT and Lucifer, he sent Strangle to search the town for similar traces while he rested.

• Su Ming identified the tiny object beneath his foot as a Penrose Triangle and pulled it from the ground.
• Su Ming and Strangle concluded that the object was tangible but likely not made of atoms or molecules, and that it could neither cut ordinary people nor be eaten or destroyed.
• Su Ming decided the object might have formed from a conceptual collision between CAAT and Lucifer and planned to search the town for other traces.
• Su Ming sat down to rest and ordered Strangle to search half the town, digging if necessary.

Deathstroke, Lucifer, and Elaine gathered the Nonexistent Triangles found in the town and prepared to remove the portion of their concept belonging to Elaine’s uncle. They planned to perform the experiment in a remote universe that could be sacrificed if CAAT detected them.

• Deathstroke used Strangle to search his half of the town for Nonexistent Triangles while he waited for Lucifer and played a music box.
• Lucifer returned with another Nonexistent Triangle and told Deathstroke to stop calling him Satan, since Maze had taken the title.
• Elaine identified the triangles as clues left by CAAT and explained that they needed to remove the portion of the concept belonging to her uncle.
• Lucifer insisted they move to a remote world that could be severed if CAAT sensed the experiment.
• Deathstroke offered to take them to a disposable universe, such as a radiation wasteland or a world inhabited by undead creatures and demons.

Su Ming took Lucifer to a remote Multiverse to show him the absurd Sharknado world as a potential testing ground for their triangle restoration experiment. After witnessing the seventh shark crisis on an Earth in Miami, Lucifer found the slaughter both horrifying and ridiculous.

• Su Ming and Lucifer traveled through the White Hot Room to the Megaverse selection interface while Elaine stayed behind in Multiverse 1.
• Su Ming recommended the Sharknado Multiverse, describing its alien, mechanical, enchanted undead sharks, and Lucifer agreed to take a look before their experiment.
• Su Ming and Lucifer entered a Sharknado Earth where a tornado hurled sharks into Miami and killed people in bizarre ways.
• Lucifer watched a shark swim through a pool of a victim's blood and asked how the body could contain so much blood, while Su Ming joked that it might stop when the audience started laughing.

Su Ming let Lucifer collect souls in the absurd Sharknado universe while asking him to help restore it. Lucifer prepared to act, but the chapter ended with him teasing Su Ming for a kiss and Su Ming refusing.

• Su Ming pointed out the shark chasing a car and the blood filling the street, then invited Lucifer to collect the souls.
• Lucifer welcomed Su Ming's offer, while Su Ming pushed away his flirtatious advances and warned he could rewrite Lucifer's origin with the Origin Codex.
• Su Ming explained that The Void and Dream of a Thousand Cats could support him, and he asked Lucifer whether they should explore or begin restoring the universe.
• Lucifer said restoring the universe might not be peaceful because they knew too little about it, and Su Ming left the task to him.
• Lucifer teased Su Ming by asking for a kiss, and Su Ming rejected him.

Lucifer and Su Ming explored the Sharknado world, where Lucifer burned a shark that attacked him and played with a blood-spraying corpse. Before leaving, Lucifer considered taking shark teeth as a gift for Elaine and a human-blood fountain for his nightclub.

• Lucifer approached a shark to inspect the half-corpse it was biting, but the shark spat it out and leaped at him.
• Su Ming praised the shark’s attack as a versatile opening move, and Lucifer set the shark ablaze with a casual wave.
• Lucifer picked up the endlessly spraying corpse and gave Deathstroke a severed leg to play with.
• Su Ming suggested turning the corpse’s legs into a human-blood fountain for Lucifer’s nightclub, and Lucifer liked the idea.
• Lucifer asked what souvenirs to bring back for Elaine and considered a shark-tooth necklace.

Lucifer learned from Deathstroke to collect gifts for the people around him while they explored the Sharknado multiverse. He and Su Ming gathered grisly souvenirs as sharks and a blood tornado ravaged the city.

• Lucifer decided to bring home shark teeth and other trophies for Elaine, Beelzebub, Azazel, and Izanami-no-Mikoto.
• Su Ming explained that Beelzebub had once ruled Hell and had yielded its throne to Lucifer after Lucifer fell from Heaven.
• Lucifer chose to give Beelzebub a shark carcass filled with its droppings and innards, then stored the dead shark in a small black-hole space.
• Su Ming considered collecting shark teeth for young heroes, while Lucifer praised how interesting their outings together were.
• Lucifer retrieved a charred human corpse and its soul from the river of blood as Su Ming watched the Sharknado outside the city.

Deathstroke and Lucifer left the Sharknado chaos for an abandoned universe to begin an experiment. They arrived on an Earth where sharks had devoured all life, and Lucifer claimed the dinosaurs had committed collective suicide.

• Lucifer collected grisly objects as gifts and decided to learn from Deathstroke how to build relationships with people.
• Deathstroke and Lucifer agreed to travel to an uninhabited universe in the Sharknado Multiverse for an experiment.
• The Adjutant selected Sharknado-4, a world where civilization and all living creatures had gone extinct.
• Deathstroke explained that the sharks had consumed every creature in the universe, then eaten one another until none remained.
• Lucifer claimed the dinosaurs had committed collective suicide, and Deathstroke answered with a mocking insult.

Lucifer extracted a strange triangular object from the invisible structure while Su Ming waited in the barren world, eating hot pot. The object revealed a power resembling a different universe’s Enigma Force, and Su Ming left with Strangle to return to Earth-0 and meet Jar-ro.

• Deathstroke used his cloak to make shade in the barren world and ate chilled watermelon while Lucifer worked to extract his portion of the invisible object.
• Lucifer’s magic stirred up a gale that carved a deep pit, but he finished the extraction after about ten minutes.
• Lucifer returned with a translucent triangular pyramid that trembled and emitted a gray light, and Su Ming sensed an Enigma Force similar to Uni-Force within it.
• Deathstroke offered Lucifer watermelon and hot pot, but Lucifer took the food and returned to Elaine, urging Deathstroke to resume work.
• Su Ming asked Adjutant to teleport him and Strangle to Earth-0 so they could meet Jar-ro.

Su Ming returned to the Justice League with a Concept Power crystal from Lucifer, offering a new clue in the CAAT crisis. As the League awaited Jar-ro’s progress, Su Ming handed out shark-themed gifts and eased the tense mood.

• Su Ming found the Justice League waiting outside the dormitory, and Barry confronted him about being kept out of the CAAT crisis plan.
• Su Ming showed the group a Concept Power crystal he had obtained from Lucifer and explained its nature.
• Diana described clearing Nightmares from Paradise Island and warned that Earth-0 still faced a long aftermath.
• Green Arrow noted that the League needed Jar-ro’s progress reading Uni-Force’s mind to connect the clues.
• Su Ming gave Green Arrow and Black Canary shark jaws, then distributed shark products to the others, including Arthur.

Deathstroke gave the Justice League gifts and comforted Diana after she told him Zeus had appeared in a nightmare. He explained that only Batwoman could likely accompany him into Mystery to investigate CAAT, while the others would continue their usual work, and then began telling the team about the sharks.

• Diana felt tired after seeing Zeus appear in a nightmare and told Deathstroke what had happened.
• Deathstroke gave Diana sharkskin, led her to a sofa, and reassured her that the nightmare would pass.
• Diana asked whether she could help deal with CAAT, and Deathstroke said the clues might lead to Mystery, where only Batwoman could likely enter.
• Deathstroke told the Justice League to keep protecting people as usual while he investigated CAAT.
• Diana said Cheetah had gone to the cafeteria for alcohol after dreaming about the day she found the Goddess of the Hunt's dagger.
• Deathstroke invited everyone to hear how he had obtained the shark trophies.

Batwoman and Jar-ro used Deathstroke’s new Enigma Force crystal to torture the Uni-Force ghost for information while Deathstroke distracted the Justice League with gifts and a hunting story. The ghost remained unable to speak as Batwoman continued the beating.

• Batwoman realized Deathstroke had brought back an object capable of hurting the Uni-Force ghost and understood that he wanted her to interrogate it.
• Deathstroke distracted the Superheroes with gifts and his Sharknado story, drawing Diana away from Jar-ro’s dormitory.
• Batwoman embedded the unknown crystal into her Nth Metal knuckle dusters and entered the dormitory with Jar-ro.
• Jar-ro restrained and silenced the ghost while Batwoman repeatedly struck it, causing it intense pain.
• Batwoman continued the torture without asking questions, and the ghost remained unable to escape or cry out.

Batwoman interrogated Uni-Force by beating it, while Deathstroke showed the Justice League footage of bizarre sharks from another universe and handed out shark-themed gifts. The heroes enjoyed the footage and discussed the strange creatures as they settled in together.

• Batwoman treated Uni-Force as an alien and continued beating it during the interrogation, unconcerned that Superman might see through the lead-lined walls.
• Deathstroke had Adjutant play footage of a human fighting an armored Sawshark with a Chainsaw and narrated the scene for the heroes.
• Arthur expressed surprise that sharks could develop technology and fly, and Superman reassured him that this was unusual for their universe.
• Cyborg praised the shark equipment Deathstroke had given him, while Hawkgirl discussed studying her Shark Armor and delivering J'onn's music box.
• Green Arrow speculated that Lobo might like Space Dolphins, and The Flash regretted not bringing home souvenirs from his travels.
• Diana warned Barry that taking a rock from the past could alter the Timeline, and the heroes laughed together as the footage played.

Deathstroke stalled the Justice League with a Sharknado documentary while Batwoman questioned Uni-Force. She reported that the prisoner had revealed information, and Deathstroke prepared to hear what she had learned.

• Su Ming asked Hawkgirl how J'onn was doing, and she said he had calmed down with medication.
• Su Ming joked about acupuncture, and Green Arrow laughed at his suggestion.
• Batwoman emerged from Jar-ro's dormitory and silently signaled Deathstroke.
• Deathstroke left the group, while the Adjutant took over entertaining the Superheroes.
• Batwoman told Deathstroke that she had pried open Uni-Force's mouth and that it had little tolerance for physical pain.

Su Ming learned from Batwoman’s memories that Uni-Force was not the key to reaching Enigma, but that they had found a way to reach Mystery. He prepared to investigate the source of the Enigma Force while sending the others to Jar-ro’s room.

• Su Ming used Strangle to read Batwoman’s short-term memories of what had happened in Jar-ro’s room, and learned that Uni-Force was not the key to reaching Enigma.
• Batwoman gave Su Ming the pyramid-shaped object and left after their encrypted conversation.
• Su Ming told Strangle that the others should go to Starro, while he found an excuse to leave and investigate Mystery.
• Su Ming returned to the lounge, where Adjutant skipped the recording to its end.
• Su Ming suggested that everyone visit Jar-ro’s room, and Superman and Diana agreed to go.

The Justice League dispersed after Batwoman returned to Jar-ro's room without explaining what he had done, and Deathstroke left him a gift before vanishing. Back aboard the ship, Deadpool joked about Deathstroke coming to find him, while Jessica confirmed the crew was safe and Squirrel Girl knocked Deadpool off his chair for his disgusting talk.

• Batwoman told the Justice League to disperse, and the members headed off to their own plans while Deathstroke stayed behind.
• Deathstroke gave Batwoman a bundle of shark-bone Batarangs, praised Starro as Batwoman's best Robin, and vanished.
• Deadpool told Squirrel Girl, Jessica, and Spider-Man that he had expected Deathstroke to seek him out but was waiting instead of joining him on the Mystery plane.
• Jessica reported that the spaceship was functioning normally and its crew was unharmed.
• Deadpool joked about death-row meals and using the toilet before an execution, and Squirrel Girl hit him with a nutshell, knocking him off his chair.