Chapter Summaries

Su Ming led the group into the Xitarians’ city to show them the humans being kept as livestock and explain why the invasion had to be stopped. After the group agreed the captives could not be saved, Su Ming prepared to move on to the next target: the moon.

• Su Ming flew the group to Miracle Cliff and warned them that the Xitarian city held hundreds of millions of dangerous soldiers.
• Su Ming led everyone through the city’s sewers, where they killed attacking Xitarians and learned that the creatures were genetically almost identical to humans.
• Su Ming guided the group to a human farm, where Sharice killed a captive and Damian agreed that the enslaved humans could not be rescued.
• Su Ming explained that wiping out the Xitarians would trigger Dimensional Descent, and Harley suggested using Poison Ivy’s poison to kill them.
• Su Ming opened a Teleportation Portal and announced that the group would blow up the moon next.

Batwoman and J'onn investigated the Court of Owls' airships while discussing J'onn's plan to enter the Gray Mist and search for a way to save the endangered Multiverse. After J'onn departed, Batwoman planned to rally Earth’s allies, while Cindy and Thomas waited in Gotham and met Saint Walker.

• J'onn told Batwoman he intended to enter the Gray Mist, believing parallel worlds might have passed through it rather than been destroyed, and Batwoman reluctantly accepted his plan.
• J'onn vanished to begin his journey, while Batwoman resisted the laughing gas and planned to contact the Seven Soldiers of Victory, Admiral Riptide, and Amanda Waller.
• Cindy and Thomas discussed Thomas's origins in the collapsed Flashpoint World and waited in Gotham for The Batman Who Laughs to appear.
• Saint Walker arrived looking for Deathstroke, and Cindy claimed she and Thomas were cosplay enthusiasts to avoid getting involved with him.

Saint Walker sought Deathstroke and met Cindy and Thomas, while Su Ming and Bobo discussed the plan to destroy the Third Dimension by shifting the Moon. After Sharice reported that preparations were complete, Su Ming announced the next step: finding an asteroid to demonstrate the power of Power Rings and magic.

• Saint Walker refused to leave after Cindy challenged his reasons for seeking Deathstroke, and he recognized her as the person he had been waiting for.
• Thomas told Cindy that Saint Walker belonged to the Lantern Corps and was a friend, while Saint Walker questioned why humans would kill one another.
• Su Ming explained to Bobo that the Third Dimension depended on rules and concepts and outlined his plan to destroy it by reducing the Moon's mass and changing its orbit.
• Bobo realized Su Ming had revealed more about the worlds beyond the Source Wall than he intended, then agreed to keep the information secret.
• Sharice reported that the Moon's stress points had been calculated and the nuclear bombs planted, and Su Ming said he would next find an asteroid and demonstrate the power of Power Rings and magic.

Su Ming destroyed Earth with a giant magical hand, triggering the collapse of the Third Dimension, and brought the observing teams back to the Rock of Eternity. Alone in a locked room, he revealed that the feat had left him severely injured and struggling to control his bloodlust.

• Wally, Crush, Damian, and the other gathered teams watched Su Ming prepare to destroy Earth while they speculated about his motives and discussed dimensions.
• Su Ming used ten Power Rings and magic from the Upside-Down Man to form a giant hand and flick the Moon into Earth, shattering the planet.
• With Earth gone and the dimension's remaining supports lost, the Third Dimension began collapsing, so Su Ming opened a portal and took everyone to the Rock of Eternity.
• Su Ming claimed he wanted to enjoy the silence and locked himself in a room, while Harley went off to work on new jokes.
• Su Ming coughed up blood and struggled with exhaustion, injuries, and bloodlust, realizing he would need a long recovery and should discuss improving the Mirakuru Serum with Dr. Erskine.

Luthor captured Bat-Mite and tricked him into restoring Earth's infrastructure, then sent him to confront Mister Mxyzptlk. The Legion of Doom relocated the Fortress of Doom and prepared to begin its next operation.

• Luthor and Brainiac discussed the failed plan involving The Batman Who Laughs and decided Bat-Mite could serve a new purpose.
• Luthor summoned Bat-Mite into a cage protected by barriers that suppressed his powers, then showed him footage of the alien invasion to persuade him that Earth needed help.
• Bat-Mite agreed to restore global electricity, water, transportation, and communications, and Luthor released him to verify Earth's condition.
• Bat-Mite saw Earth's devastation and restored its infrastructure across the planet.
• Luthor told Bat-Mite that Mister Mxyzptlk was tormenting Batman and Superman, so Bat-Mite vanished to confront him.
• Luthor ordered the Fortress of Doom to relocate and told the Legion of Doom to begin its operation.

Lex Luthor led the Legion of Doom in a staged victory over Mister Mxyzptlk, earning public trust as Bat-Mite took the unconscious imp away. Luthor then used a worldwide broadcast and manipulated evidence to accuse the Justice League of endangering humanity, leaving the public primed to believe his claims.

• People around the world watched Mister Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite battle in Metropolis as reality was repeatedly erased and restored.
• Lex Luthor led the Legion of Doom into the fight, while Brainiac staged a dramatic struggle for the cameras and helped the team subdue Mister Mxyzptlk.
• Bat-Mite restored Metropolis, praised Luthor, and took Mister Mxyzptlk to his own Arkham, while Luthor posed as a world-saving hero.
• Luthor addressed the world and presented himself as a wealthy philanthropist, inventor, and former Justice League member who had uncovered a dangerous secret.
• Brainiac broadcast edited footage and documents blaming the Justice League for multiple crises and exposing Batwoman's contingency plans, spreading suspicion among the public.

Lex Luthor broadcast that the Justice League had destroyed the Source Wall and urged humanity to join the Legion of Doom, then vanished after announcing that LexCorp and his fortune would fund the fight. The Justice League recognized that Luthor’s mostly accurate claims had turned the public against them and returned to the Hall of Justice to plan their response.

• Lex Luthor blamed the Justice League for breaching the Source Wall, declared the Year of the Villain, and announced that LexCorp’s assets would be donated to those fighting to survive.
• Lex used the Door Handle of Destruction to remove the Legion of Doom from the battlefield as his claims spread online and caused widespread panic.
• Batwoman, Barry, Diana, and the others watched Luthor’s broadcast and found only his flag when they reached Metropolis.
• Diana condemned Luthor for twisting the truth, while Batwoman called the League back to the Hall of Justice and said she expected further moves from him.
• Batwoman proposed buying news stations and major Internet providers to slow the spread of Luthor’s message, and Barry ran ahead to prepare the meeting room.

The Justice League prepared for worldwide unrest while Batwoman’s troubling proposals left the team concerned. Luthor seized control of the White House by killing the president, and Amanda Waller arrived there unaware that the staff had been replaced by his people.

• Diana led the Justice League in planning to protect civilians and relocate to Paradise Island if the Hall of Justice came under attack.
• Barry assigned the Flash Family to cover Central City, Metropolis, Keystone City, and Hub City, while Starman sought help from the Justice Society.
• Luthor entered the White House with the Legion of Doom, shot the president, and had Brainiac’s machines kill the bodyguards.
• Luthor revealed that most White House staff were his loyal agents and ordered them to clean up the bodies.
• Amanda Waller argued with Batwoman, then flew to Washington D.C. after the president summoned her to discuss a border wall.
• Amanda entered the president’s office, unaware that Luthor had taken control of the White House.

Lex Luthor carried out his plan to assassinate the president, dismissed LexCorp’s employees, and used the resulting backlash against him to stir public attention. As ARGUS sent Captain Atom to arrest him, Luthor faced the powerful hero without showing fear.

• Luthor discovered that the Amanda in the White House was a modified OMAC Robot, but Brainiac extracted its intelligence about dangerous criminals before Luthor returned to Metropolis.
• Luthor ordered his employees fired and gave his secretary, Lenny, time to leave with a weapon from his armory, explaining that killing Superman was not his only concern.
• Luthor watched news of the president’s assassination turn public opinion against him, then let Brainiac study the Door Handle and learn his plan to arm criminals against their heroic enemies.
• Brainiac warned Luthor that the military would come for him, then left to rendezvous with the others as Luthor waited in his office.
• Captain Atom arrived at LexCorp to arrest Luthor, who approached the window and met his demand to surrender with a mocking smile.

Lex Luthor was killed in an explosion after Captain Atom confronted him, while evidence aired on television suggested Luthor had been framed for the president’s assassination and silenced. At the Hall of Justice, Bobo warned that Deathstroke had destroyed the Third Dimension, and the heroes realized the public would now blame the Justice League for Luthor’s death.

• Luthor triggered an overload in the Luthor Reactors, destroying LexCorp Tower and killing himself and Captain Atom as the city shook.
• As crowds converged on the Hall of Justice, Kate Kane argued that Luthor wanted people to destroy humanity through conflict, and Diana asked her to help assess the crisis.
• Bobo arrived with allies and revealed that Deathstroke had destroyed the Third Dimension, which Diana connected to the Fourth Dimension becoming reality.
• The heroes watched footage that appeared to show the president being killed by an attacker outside the White House and Luthor later being killed by Captain Atom.
• A television anchor and her guest accused the Justice League and Wayne Enterprises of covering up the truth, and Bobo concluded that Luthor’s death could not be explained away.

After Luthor’s speech triggered panic and violent looting across New York, a fired female host realized the apocalypse had begun. Leviathan saved her from a hired killer, gave her a Solar Death Ray Pistol, and vanished, leaving her to venture out armed.

• The station executive fired the female host for denouncing a deal and later called someone on a prepaid phone.
• The host went to a supermarket, where she bought the last packet of salt with cash as supplies ran out and shoppers grew hostile.
• A thief shot an elderly woman outside, and violence erupted inside the supermarket and across New York, prompting the host to flee home.
• A masked Cleaner emerged from the host’s bedroom and threatened to kill her, but he crumbled into ash when she screamed.
• Leviathan appeared in red armor, gave the host a Solar Death Ray Pistol, and told her that Luthor was dead and that he was following a different path.
• After Leviathan vanished in a blue flash, the host left her home carrying the pistol.

As panic and food shortages worsened, Diana and Bobo discussed the crowd Luthor had gathered outside the Hall of Justice while Diana tried to learn where Deathstroke was. Batwoman found Deathstroke and learned that his plan depended on defeating Perpetua in the Third Dimension, then asked him to kill her if she lost control to the Joker Toxin.

• Diana considered distributing Atlantean fish to families who supported the Justice League, while Bobo warned that Luthor might have organized the crowd outside the Hall of Justice.
• Diana pressed Bobo to reveal Deathstroke's location, but he refused to betray him.
• Batwoman arrived at Deathstroke's hideout with Jar-ro after using him to read the others' memories, and she explained that the Joker Toxin was becoming impossible to resist.
• Deathstroke told Batwoman that he had caused Dimensional Descent so the Justice League could fight Perpetua in the Third Dimension, where she had originally been defeated.
• Batwoman deduced that Deathstroke intended to draw Perpetua into the Third Dimension and strike from a higher dimension, while allowing Luthor to push the world toward her vision.
• Batwoman asked Deathstroke to kill her if she became completely insane, and he promised he would.

Su Ming explained that Luthor’s actions had bought the heroes at least a year and took command of the Justice League as Batman remained incapacitated. He ordered the surviving heroes from across the Multiverse to gather and help the Main World, then left to seek treatment for his injuries.

• Diana brought the wounded Su Ming to the Hall of Justice, where he explained that the void’s advance would stop once Perpetua woke and wanted to preserve their dimension.
• Su Ming reassured Diana and Bobo that Luthor had bought them at least a year, then took charge of the Justice League while Batman was out of commission.
• Su Ming ordered the heroes from across more than ninety surviving Single Universes to assemble and help secure food and other supplies for the Main World.
• Diana sent Bobo to arrange repairs to the Ultima Thule so it could transport supplies between universes, while Barry was to contact the Flashes in other worlds.
• Su Ming told Diana to prepare the Hall of Justice for the gathering and said he would recover in secret while monitoring Luthor.
• Su Ming opened a Teleportation Portal and left to seek advice from Ancient One about his lingering soul and Mental Power injuries.

Su Ming returned from the DC Universe to Marvel and went to Kamar-Taj to ask about the worsening sensation in his soul. After learning that Ancient One was away, he headed to Africa to seek advice from Wakanda's Leopard God.

• Su Ming met Doctor Manhattan, returned his rings, and asked what Lex Luthor had seen Outside the Wall, but Manhattan gave no clear answer.
• Su Ming returned to Marvel in December 1955 and went to Kamar-Taj, where Monark complained that demonic conflicts over World War II souls had left him exhausted.
• Su Ming asked Monark where Ancient One was, but Monark said only the Vishanti might know because she was traveling through the multiverse.
• Su Ming decided to seek help from the Leopard God and told Monark to have Hamill take over at Kamar-Taj.
• Mordo opened a Teleportation Portal to Africa, and Su Ming left while Monark prepared to travel to Paris.

Steve and Peggy traveled by ship toward Chile for a vacation before heading to Antarctica, but Steve suspected a darkened ocean liner sailing alongside them was carrying Hydra agents. He secretly boarded it and discovered that its cargo consisted of sacks of ashes.

• Steve and Peggy toured the United Kingdom and France, then boarded a ship in Spain bound for Chile after Peggy warned that Berlin was too dangerous.
• Steve noticed a nearby ocean liner sailing without lights and told Peggy that he suspected Hydra was aboard.
• Peggy agreed the ship was suspicious, and Steve swam across to investigate while she stayed behind with a pistol.
• Steve found German-speaking guards armed with Wilson Enterprises submachine guns and made his way to the lowest deck.
• Steve silently took out two guards and opened a canvas-covered cargo sack, finding it filled with ashes.

Su Ming revisited Wakanda and sought the Leopard God in the Heart-Shaped Herb’s dream realm, where he learned his soul would recover but received no explanation for the dimensional force he had encountered. Before leaving, he left a gunfire message at the Leopard God statue that King Azzuri made part of Wakanda’s laws and traditions.

• Su Ming sneaked into Wakanda, took Heart-Shaped Herb, and entered the dream realm to search for the Leopard God.
• Su Ming asked a pride of lions for directions and learned from Simba that the Leopard God was bathing in a lake.
• Su Ming questioned the Leopard God about his soul and dimensional experience; the god said he would recover, then evaded his question and ran off with the snacks.
• Su Ming awoke in Wakanda and decided to recuperate, then had Strangle shoot “Wakanda Forever!” into the base of the Leopard God statue.
• Azzuri read the words, treated them as Wakanda’s guiding declaration, and added them to the laws he was drafting while erecting a monument.

Su Ming advised Zheng Xian to use ordinary people posing as Mutants to help S.P.E.A.R. manage the country's growing Mutant population. The two set off for hotpot lamb, while a cruise ship and its two passengers mysteriously vanished in the South Atlantic.

• Su Ming left Wakanda after taking Heart-Shaped Herb and Vibranium, then flew to Sky Ring to visit Zheng Xian.
• Zheng Xian told Su Ming that S.P.E.A.R. was struggling to find reliable, capable Mutants to manage other Mutants.
• Su Ming suggested that S.P.E.A.R. recruit martial artists and stage their abilities as Mutant powers, with assistants helping them contact Mutants across the country.
• Zheng Xian accepted the plan and invited Su Ming to Donglaishun for hand-sliced lamb.
• A cruise ship disappeared in the South Atlantic, along with the man and woman who had boarded it.

Su Ming met Zheng Xian for lunch, then traveled to K'un-Lun to check on Bucky and discuss his training. He left Kamar-Taj through a portal, intent on speaking with K'un-Lun's city lord, Master Duan.

• Su Ming and Zheng Xian ate lamb and talked about their plans and Japan before parting at the Sky Ring base.
• Su Ming decided to visit Bucky in K'un-Lun, where he had secretly arranged for Bucky to become a disciple.
• Su Ming considered K'un-Lun's origins and history, including its cities, Immortal Weapons, and ties to other hidden realms.
• Su Ming returned to Kamar-Taj and had Mordo open a portal into K'un-Lun.
• Su Ming entered the hidden realm to discuss Bucky's education with Master Duan.

Su Ming visited Master Duan in K'un-Lun to check on Bucky Barnes's martial arts training and discussed finding him a better teacher. After confirming Bucky was still progressing slowly, Su Ming toured K'un-Lun and left thinking about the preparations he needed to make for the future.

• Master Duan welcomed Su Ming, who asked how Bucky Barnes was progressing in K'un-Lun.
• Master Duan explained that Bucky had learned classical Chinese but had not yet cultivated qi, and that reaching even modest mastery could take decades.
• Su Ming suggested that Master Lei Kung teach Bucky, then asked Master Duan to take him to see Bucky from a distance.
• Master Duan led Su Ming through K'un-Lun, where Su Ming admired the peaceful town and its residents.
• Su Ming reflected that he needed to prepare strategically for dangers and rival plans across the Multiversity.

Su Ming returned from K'un-Lun to Spider Web headquarters on Kaho Island, where he learned that Natasha had graduated as Red Widow and gone looking for Logan. He discovered that the file she had consulted traced Wolverine to a Japanese POW camp, while Logan’s whereabouts afterward remained unknown.

• Su Ming ordered Master Duan to put Bucky through brutal training before teleporting away from K'un-Lun.
• Su Ming arrived at Spider Web headquarters and learned that Dotty was infiltrating a Hydra branch in Norway while Anya monitored Magneto in Western Europe.
• Hermit told Su Ming that Natasha had completed her graduation assignment at the top of her class, taken the codename Red Widow, and left the academy.
• Hermit reported that Natasha had retrieved a file about a man and left with only her prize, Widow's Sting, and some money.
• Su Ming opened the file and found that Wolverine had last been recorded as a prisoner at the Nagasaki Imperial Navy POW Camp after losing his memory.