Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and Deadpool tortured Asphalt Prince while waiting for Charcoal Princess’s rocket to reach Pluto, and Su Ming explained that the pair’s existence had been an error he was correcting. The chapter left them watching the approaching fireworks as Deadpool insisted Asphalt Prince stay alive to witness the destruction.

• Su Ming used Quantum Concepts to show Charcoal Princess freezing in space and told Asphalt Prince that erasing them corrected an error.
• Asphalt Prince insisted that he and Charcoal Princess were the correct ones, and Deathstroke had Strangle break his limbs and carve away his flesh.
• Deadpool brought Asphalt Prince a white flower, then asked Su Ming if he could urinate into the corpse’s mouth; Su Ming sent him to check the remains of Asphalt Prince’s horse instead.
• Su Ming gave a Mexican illegal immigrant a fire extinguisher and money to put out the rocket’s fires, while Deadpool returned after confirming the horse was dead.
• Su Ming enlarged the projection as the rocket neared Pluto, and Deadpool made sure the skeletal Asphalt Prince remained alive to watch Charcoal Princess’s destruction.

Su Ming and Deadpool watched a nuclear firework explode over Pluto, then Su Ming killed the Asphalt Prince and prepared to collect their payment. They set their sights on dealing with CAAT, which Su Ming believed threatened the security of their Cosmic.

• Su Ming used Quantum Concepts to shape the nuclear explosion into elaborate fireworks above Pluto while Deadpool commented on the Charcoal Princess.
• Su Ming lifted the Prince’s black skeleton with The Force, then crushed it with Dark Quantum Concepts and killed him.
• Deadpool suggested collecting the rest of their payment from the Queen before they returned to find Black Mouse.
• Su Ming said their next target was CAAT and that defeating it could secure their Cosmic from threats Outside the Wall.
• Su Ming disguised himself as Bear Grylls, landed near the palace, and prepared to show the Queen a deer’s tongue altered to resemble the Charcoal Princess’s.

After purifying the Snow White world, Su Ming returned to Mouse’s Wonder House and discussed targeting CAAT. At the multiverse’s edge, CAAT intensified its assault, and Lucifer struggled to hold it back while protecting humanity.

• The Queen accepted the deer tongue, paid the remaining balance, and offered Deathstroke and Deadpool jobs in the Royal Hunting Grounds, but they left without accepting.
• Su Ming saw that the Snow White world’s bubble had been fully purified before he and Deadpool returned to Mouse’s Wonder House.
• Mouse toasted Su Ming for destroying a Nightmare and agreed that CAAT, the source of the black shadow creatures, should be eliminated first.
• Su Ming offered to help Mouse deal with Joker Merfolk, Black Girl, and Sleeping Black after they handled CAAT.
• Franklin noticed that CAAT had grown more solid and was pressing harder against Lucifer, who kept fighting to protect humanity and warned Franklin not to summon the Old Ones.

As CAAT’s connection to reality grew stronger, Little Rich sensed that the entity resembled the Old Ones and feared the threat they posed. Su Ming and Deadpool arrived with Mouse disguised as Pro-Everything, while Lucifer, Satan, and Scarlet Witch continued holding CAAT back.

• Little Rich worried that CAAT’s growing presence resembled the Old Ones and admired Deathstroke for enduring their influence.
• Su Ming, Deadpool, and Mouse arrived as Lucifer, Satan, and Scarlet Witch struggled to push back CAAT’s tentacles.
• Deadpool took selfies with the others and sent the edited pictures to Teenage Warhead.
• Elaine asked who Mouse was, and Su Ming introduced him as Pro-Everything, the opposite of Anti-Everything.
• Elaine doubted Su Ming’s explanation but chose not to question Mouse’s identity.

Little Rich asked what CAAT was, and Su Ming explained that it was a contagious meme that transformed people, worlds, and stories. The group connected CAAT’s influence to changing beliefs and customs, while Elaine described how souls were handled after death.

• Little Rich questioned whether the Crown was CAAT itself, and Su Ming advised him to investigate rather than rely on endless calculations.
• Su Ming explained that CAAT was a contagious meme that could infect and transform people, worlds, and stories.
• Deadpool connected CAAT’s influence to the altered appearance of Farys and the others in the Ninth Cosmos.
• Su Ming said he had wondered why Old Man God had urgently sought power, and Little Rich suggested he feared CAAT changing Christian doctrine.
• Su Ming described changing attitudes toward homosexuality and how Christian doctrine had changed, while Elaine said she left such matters alone and explained the cycle of souls after death.

Su Ming explained that CAAT was a memetic force that spread political correctness from beyond the Fourth Wall and assimilated universes into its own image. As the group considered the threat, Lucifer urged Su Ming to stay focused, and Black Mouse revealed through his reaction that he wanted Disney to resist CAAT.

• Deadpool mocked Elaine and suspected she had come to protect Christianity’s future influence, while Elaine warned him not to speculate.
• Su Ming questioned Elaine about people twisting religious doctrine, and she said those who lied in her name would suffer.
• Lucifer urged Su Ming to explain CAAT, suspecting the group’s wandering conversation was part of its influence.
• Su Ming defined CAAT as both the Crown Above All Things and Correct of All Audience Thinking, a force that spread political correctness and assimilated universes.
• Lucifer began reconsidering his preferences, while Black Mouse nodded at the explanation and showed that he opposed CAAT’s influence on Disney.
• Su Ming concluded that CAAT was a contagious mental disease and felt relieved that the people who had entered the Ninth Cosmos fit its definition of correctness.

Su Ming used Quantum Concepts to send a frightening warning about CAAT to intelligent beings across Deathstroke's worlds. In the Batcave, the heroes connected the warning to Mera's behavior and prepared to intervene in Atlantis.

• Su Ming had the Adjutant send a multilingual pop-up warning that CAAT could turn people into Farys, using an ugly image to make the threat vivid.
• Batwoman and her companions paused their dissection of a Shadow Monster when the message appeared in their minds.
• Superman quickly read the warning and recognized Deathstroke's hand, while Diana went aside to call the Adjutant for more information.
• Arthur told the heroes that Mera had become fixated on Atlantean discrimination and described her troubling behavior.
• Batwoman sent Barry to find Hal so they could accompany Arthur to Atlantis and take measures against Mera.

Batwoman sent The Flash, Hal, and Aquaman to Atlantis to investigate Mera, while the Justice League found no signs that anyone around them had been influenced by CAAT’s Correctness. The chapter ended with Little Dai reporting that Slade was confronting CAAT but had not yet started fighting.

• Hal arrived in the Batcave, mistook the captured Shadow Monster for a gruesome cake, and scanned it as a powerful Concept Manifestation.
• Batwoman flash-froze the Shadow Monster and ordered The Flash, Hal, and Aquaman to go to Atlantis and deal with the possible threat posed by Mera.
• Alfred moved the frozen creature into cold storage after Batwoman explained that Amber Gold had made it vulnerable to cold.
• Superman, Green Arrow, and the other Justice League members reported no signs that people around them had been affected by CAAT’s Correctness.
• Batwoman dismissed the team for now and said they might need to help in other Parallel Worlds.
• Little Dai reported that Slade was confronting CAAT, though neither had started fighting.

Su Ming waited for CAAT to become fully defined before acting, while Deadpool grew bored and proposed checking on Kang the Conqueror in the Quantum Realm. CAAT continued to grow more concrete, and Su Ming had not yet decided to leave his watch.

• Su Ming explained that Deathstroke was waiting for Black Mouse to act or for CAAT's true body to enter the current plane before using their plans against it.
• Deadpool suggested getting food, but Su Ming told him to look for people displaying politically correct tendencies who might have been influenced by CAAT.
• Deadpool suggested Peter's no-killing doctrine could count as a form of correctness, but Su Ming argued that Peter had gained no benefit from it and was likely unaffected.
• Deadpool complained that he had no way to fight CAAT and joked about taking a dump for Su Ming, who threatened to dock his pay.
• Deadpool proposed going to the Quantum Realm to inspect Kang the Conqueror, whom he said might benefit from his skin color.

Su Ming asked Deadpool to find Kang the Conqueror, his longtime arch-nemesis trapped in the Quantum Realm, and let him out. Deadpool traveled to the Quantum Realm, but his Teleportation Belt dropped him off course.

• Su Ming recalled how Kang the Conqueror had repeatedly challenged him and brought him valuable resources despite losing, making Kang the enemy he most wanted to face again.
• With CAAT's transformation underway, Su Ming asked Deadpool to visit Kang and arrange a video call, warning him not to kill the last Hypertime Variant.
• Deadpool accepted the job after Su Ming added five hundred Credit Points to his account.
• Deadpool adjusted the Teleportation Belt's coordinates and entered the Quantum Realm, intending to land behind Kang the Conqueror.
• The Teleportation Belt sent Deadpool off course, and he surveyed the golden sky, red earth, and giant creatures at the bottom of the Quantum Realm.

Deadpool used Adjutant’s map to find Kang the Conqueror in the Quantum Realm and tried to bring him help from Deathstroke. Kang distrusted the offer, so Deadpool gave him a Spider Totem to let Deathstroke speak to him directly.

• Deadpool asked Adjutant to locate Kang the Conqueror, and she marked their positions on a map while threatening to deduct his pay.
• Deadpool ran to Kang, whom he found gathering wild vegetables on a red earthen slope.
• Kang raised a wooden spear and refused to go with Deadpool, suspecting Deathstroke was setting another trap.
• Deadpool tossed Kang a Spider Totem so Deathstroke could communicate with him directly.

Su Ming spoke with Kang the Conqueror and convinced him that he had sent Deadpool to rescue him so Kang could escape the Quantum Realm. Kang explained his plan to absorb the other Kangs, then prepared to leave with Deadpool while promising to challenge Su Ming again.

• Su Ming reassured Kang that he had arranged his rescue and urged him to escape before Su Ming faced his own dangerous enemy.
• Kang agreed to leave and said he would settle the score with Su Ming once he was ready.
• Su Ming asked why Kang had been trapped in the Quantum Realm, and Kang explained his plan to use a new spacetime machine to absorb every other Kang.
• Su Ming praised the plan and promised to stop Kang after defeating his current opponent.
• Kang headed toward Deadpool, who reminded him to wait until he was free before making threats.

Su Ming and Deadpool discussed why they had to wait for CAAT to become tangible before attacking it, while Deadpool learned that the Ninth Cosmos held more than the universe they had visited. The group remained poised for the final battle as CAAT continued to approach.

• Deadpool told Su Ming he had sent Kang to a planet with aliens and delivered Kang’s wooden spear as a trophy.
• Su Ming explained that anything entering CAAT was sent into its future, so they had to wait for its Dimensional Descent before attacking.
• Deadpool asked the mouse whether the Charcoal Princess universe was in the Ninth Cosmos, and the mouse confirmed that Su Ming had opened a passage back from there.
• Deadpool concluded that Su Ming was mentally ill because he had escaped the Ninth Cosmos unaffected.

Su Ming’s group discussed whether he or Slade had a mental illness while Lucifer and Franklin struggled to contain CAAT’s growing influence. In Atlantis, Arthur’s allies subdued Mera and discovered that CAAT had planted foreign energy in her brain, leaving them to seek help curing her.

• Deadpool asked Black Mouse to diagnose his cousin, and Mouse claimed masked people had Multiple Personality Disorder.
• Lucifer suspected Slade’s impersonations pointed to antisocial personality disorder, but Su Ming dismissed the discussion and had Franklin amplify Lucifer’s power against CAAT.
• Arthur explained that Mera had changed and had been preparing a war against surface dwellers.
• Barry knocked Mera unconscious with Hal’s manifested hammer after Arthur reclaimed authority in Atlantis.
• Hal detected foreign energy in Mera’s brain and carried her away to seek help from J'onn, Batwoman, M'gann, or the Indigo Lantern Corps.

Batwoman realized Deathstroke planned to test whether Mera could be freed from CAAT’s indoctrination, and called in experts to examine her. Luthor arrived to begin the investigation, while a Starro dressed as Robin appeared as another potential helper.

• Batwoman inferred that Deathstroke wanted to discover how to reverse CAAT’s influence and use the method to rescue indoctrinated humans.
• J’onn arrived distraught over the nightmare of his family’s deaths, and Barry took him away to rest.
• Luthor arrived after Batwoman summoned him to examine Mera, whose condition Hal compared to control by the Anti-Life Equation.
• Luthor prepared to investigate Mera and asked Batwoman to bring out the necessary item, but Batwoman directed his attention to a giant Starro wearing a miniature Robin uniform.

Batwoman had Jar-ro examine the brainwashed Mera, while Luthor watched and Arthur and Hal left the Batcave. Jar-ro traced the strange energy to the same source as the energy found on the little Spectre, and Batwoman ordered it to do everything possible to keep Mera alive.

• Luthor asked Jar-ro to examine Mera, and Batwoman put the starfish to work.
• Hal and Arthur left the Batcave, while Luthor stayed to watch Jar-ro investigate Mera.
• Jar-ro attached itself to Mera's face and searched her memories and the strange Deviant energy.
• Luthor asked Batwoman whether she had seen Joker, and she warned him not to go after him in Gotham.
• Jar-ro reported that Mera's energy matched the energy found on the little Spectre, and Batwoman ordered it to keep Mera alive.

Batwoman brought Dream to the Batcave to help free Mera from an External Force, but Dream found her mind filled with overwhelming cries and could not handle it alone. He summoned many other Dreams to combine their powers, leaving the group preparing to confront the force within Mera.

• Luthor and Batwoman tested Mera and concluded that an External Force had brainwashed her, so Batwoman entered the Dreaming to find help.
• Batwoman encountered Daniel and brought him to the Batcave, where he tried to disperse the dark energy in Mera’s mind with a Beautiful Dream.
• Daniel’s attempt unleashed a chorus of voices protesting for Atlanteans and accusing Mera of murder, and he admitted that he needed help.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats and several other Dreams arrived, and Daniel asked them to lend him their power.
• The Dreams began activating their Beautiful Dreams together while Luthor watched the strange gathering.

Dream of a Thousand Cats and the other Dreams treated Mera in the Batcave, severing CAAT’s control over her brain and restoring her appearance. Mera remained asleep while Luthor confirmed the foreign energy was gone, and Dream of a Thousand Cats prepared to help Deathstroke next.

• Dream of a Thousand Cats explained to Luthor that the Dreams would replace Mera’s altered subconscious while she was dreaming.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats said Mera’s foreign energy acted as a bridge for outside control and warned she would need time to recover after it was severed.
• The Dreams’ treatment silenced the voices demanding “correctness,” and Mera’s original appearance returned while she slept.
• Luthor scanned Mera and found no detectable higher energy in her brain, while Batwoman quietly relaxed.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats urged the others to awaken Mera soon and said it would go help Deathstroke.

After Mera recovered, Batwoman and Arthur questioned her and discovered she had lost about four months of memories, including the period when she was controlled. Arthur began explaining what had happened while Dream of a Thousand Cats and Luthor left the Batcave.

• The Dreams revived Mera after her treatment, and Batwoman questioned her while the Justice League members came to see her.
• Barry, Hal, and Arthur were surprised by Mera’s restored appearance, and Arthur tested her by asking about relations between Atlantis and the surface world.
• Mera answered normally but remembered the battle with The Batman Who Laughs and appeared to have forgotten about four months.
• Luthor left with Kitty, while Mera recognized him and became suspicious that the Batcave was an illusion and someone might be Deathstroke in disguise.
• Arthur told Mera that four months had passed and she had suffered an accident, but she demanded proof and an explanation.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats teleported Luthor back to Metropolis and left to take a walk.

Su Ming proposed countering CAAT’s mind control by creating an Anti-Correct Equation and using a universal human personality template to overwrite its victims’ minds. He pointed to Deadpool as a model of a supposedly normal person, leaving Dream of a Thousand Cats unconvinced.

• Su Ming discussed the possibility that the Anti-Life Equation could be adapted to counter CAAT’s influence.
• Dream of a Thousand Cats explained that Beautiful Dreams could not serve as universal medicine because happiness differed from person to person.
• Su Ming proposed extracting a common personality template from normal people and distributing it through an Anti-Correct Equation to overwrite brainwashed minds.
• Su Ming pointed to Deadpool as an example of a normal person, and Dream of a Thousand Cats questioned his judgment.