Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo confronted Luthor in his tower and effortlessly overcame its defenses. Luthor released Doomsday, the monster said to have killed Superman, and ordered it to kill Chen Mo.

• Chen Mo entered Luthor's office and mocked him for the failed security around the tower.
• Luthor trapped Chen Mo in a gravity field and attacked him with high-frequency sound waves, but Chen Mo endured both and shattered the shield.
• Luthor revealed a metal pod containing a genetically engineered creature that could adapt to its opponents and had killed Superman.
• Luthor ordered the unstable test subject released, and Doomsday burst out of the pod.
• Luthor commanded Doomsday to kill Chen Mo.

Chen Mo fought Doomsday through Luthor’s collapsing facility, discovering that the creature rapidly adapted to his attacks and regenerated from severe injuries. After severing and absorbing Doomsday’s arm, Chen Mo began analyzing its cells as the monster healed and grew even more heavily armored.

• At Luthor’s command, Doomsday charged Chen Mo, and the two exchanged blows that wrecked the control room.
• Doomsday adapted to Chen Mo’s strength and dragged him through the building as their fight tore apart floor after floor.
• Luthor fled through an emergency elevator, but the fighting sent it crashing into the underground base, where Chen Mo pulled him out.
• Luthor escaped through another passage while Chen Mo and Doomsday smashed into the base’s core area.
• Doomsday pinned Chen Mo beneath rubble and grew thicker bone armor, but Chen Mo formed a blade, severed its left arm, and absorbed it with tendrils.
• Doomsday regenerated its arm stump and thickened its armor while the Blacklight Virus analyzed the absorbed limb.

Chen Mo fought Doomsday in the underground base, feeding on its severed limb as the creature rapidly adapted and grew stronger. The battle escalated when Doomsday blocked Chen Mo’s strike with newly evolved eyelid armor and prepared a blast of thermal energy.

• Chen Mo consumed Doomsday’s severed limb, gaining life energy and new gene fragments as Doomsday regenerated a stronger arm.
• Chen Mo and Doomsday clashed in a contest of strength, and Doomsday adapted, overpowered Chen Mo, and hurled him through several walls.
• Chen Mo climbed from the rubble eager to continue fighting, while Doomsday launched a barrage of explosive bone spikes.
• Chen Mo advanced behind Blacklight shields and formed a giant blade to strike Doomsday’s eye.
• Doomsday evolved dense armor over its eyelid to stop the blade, then formed a ball of thermal energy in its throat.

Chen Mo fought Doomsday in the underground base, adapting to its thermal beam before overpowering and devouring it. After absorbing Doomsday completely, he healed and felt Blacklight’s evolution advance.

• Doomsday unleashed a thermal beam, but Chen Mo stood in it while Blacklight analyzed and adapted to the heat.
• Chen Mo advanced through the beam and cut Doomsday apart with a Blacklight greatblade, but Doomsday regenerated and punched through his abdomen.
• Chen Mo restrained Doomsday with tendrils, then devoured its cells and regenerated tissue while countering its attacks and evolution.
• Chen Mo broke Doomsday’s neck and pulled its body into Blacklight, consuming it completely without leaving a corpse.
• Chen Mo’s wounds healed as Doomsday’s energy strengthened his body and advanced Blacklight’s evolution, and he declared the meal satisfying.

After devouring Doomsday, Chen Mo killed Lex Luthor and consumed Nite Owl while searching for clues about The Batman Who Laughs, but found nothing. He returned to Joker and V, leaving Joker to handle Night City's remaining troubles.

• Chen Mo tracked Lex Luthor as he fled Night City and appeared aboard his stealth fighter.
• Chen Mo killed Luthor with a single slap, then left the terrified pilot behind.
• Thomas Wayne, known as Nite Owl, surrendered to Chen Mo in the Nite Owl Tower safe room.
• Chen Mo consumed Nite Owl and searched his memories for information about The Batman Who Laughs and the mysterious crystal, but found no useful clues.
• Chen Mo returned to Joker and V at the All Foods Processing Plant and told them Luthor and Nite Owl were dead.
• Chen Mo told Joker he had paved the way and left him to deal with Night City's remaining problems.

Chen Mo gave Joker’s Gang a Nite Owl clone with top-level access and ordered them to seize control of Night City. V suspected Chen Mo was preparing to leave, and he teased her about not wanting him to go.

• Chen Mo created a Nite Owl clone and gave it to Joker’s Gang as a tool for taking over Night City.
• The gang celebrated their sudden rise to power until Joker shot the bottle and ordered them to get to work.
• Joker sent the gang to take over the network and defense systems and eliminate the remaining holdouts.
• V told Joker that Chen Mo had tied up the loose ends as if he were about to leave, and Joker stayed silent.
• Chen Mo appeared behind V, looked her over, and asked whether she could not bear to see him go.

V boldly declared that she wanted to sleep with Chen Mo, and he decided to take her with him to the Marvel Universe. After sending V through a spatial passage, Chen Mo left Joker in control of Night City and vanished.

• V confronted Chen Mo and openly declared that she wanted to sleep with him, while the Joker Gang watched in stunned silence.
• Chen Mo admitted that V was the first person from this world he considered taking with him and opened a passage to the Marvel Universe.
• Chen Mo used Blacklight to send V through the passage despite her furious protest.
• Chen Mo told Joker to take control of Night City, and Joker pledged that the Joker Gang would follow his command.
• Chen Mo vanished from the warehouse as the Joker Gang watched reverently.

V arrived in an unfamiliar, luxurious room and confronted Tony Stark, who mistook her for someone Chen Mo had brought there. V demanded to know where she was and where Chen Mo had gone, while Tony tried to charm her and offered her coffee.

• V fell onto a soft carpet, drew her handgun, and cautiously surveyed the high-tech penthouse around her.
• Tony Stark entered with two cups of coffee, believing Chen Mo had returned, and began talking about the custom armor he had made for him.
• Tony noticed V aiming her gun at him and joked about Chen Mo sending someone across dimensions.
• V demanded to know who Tony was, where she was, and where Chen Mo was.
• Tony introduced himself, while JARVIS warned that V was agitated, and Tony offered her a caramel macchiato.

V met Tony Stark after Chen Mo brought her to his luxurious room, and she and Tony bonded over their complaints about Chen Mo. Their conversation ended when Chen Mo appeared and took Tony’s coffee.

• V held Tony at gunpoint until he introduced himself as Chen Mo’s friend, then lowered her weapon.
• Tony eagerly asked V what Chen Mo had done in her world, and V complained that Chen Mo had rejected her advances and brought her to Tony’s place.
• Tony told V that Chen Mo had eaten women before, frightening her with stories of his cruelty.
• V and Tony formed a united front against Chen Mo and mocked him together.
• Chen Mo reached out of a spatial rift, took Tony’s coffee, and asked if they were holding a denunciation meeting behind his back.

Chen Mo brought V to Stark Tower and introduced her to Tony and the Avengers, whom he mocked as super wage slaves. V saw how advanced and peaceful the place was compared with Night City, then met the team and introduced herself as a mercenary.

• Chen Mo returned to Tony and V, teased Tony about badmouthing him, and introduced V as a hotheaded newcomer.
• Chen Mo led V through Stark Tower, where she admired its advanced technology and clean, sunlit surroundings while pretending not to be impressed.
• Chen Mo brought V into the Avengers' war room and introduced her to Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Bruce Banner with mocking descriptions.
• Tony joined them and complained about Chen Mo's coffee cup, which Steve caught and put in the recycling unit.
• V accepted the introductions and told the Avengers she was a mercenary who looked forward to working with them.

V began settling in with the Avengers while Tony revealed a custom-built suit of armor for Chen Mo, who fused it with the Blacklight Virus and left to pursue the Batman Who Laughs. V challenged Chen Mo to return after she made a name for herself in this world.

• Steve welcomed V as a friend, and Natasha offered her a beer while Banner greeted her warmly.
• Chen Mo prepared to leave the Avengers headquarters to hunt the Batman Who Laughs in another universe.
• Tony revealed a dark-gold suit of armor he had built for Chen Mo using special alloys, Eternals technology, and Asgardian runes.
• Chen Mo fused the Blacklight Virus with the armor, tested its movement, and thanked Tony before heading for a spatial passage.
• V told Chen Mo not to leave her waiting and promised to pin him to the bed once she made a name for herself.
• Chen Mo teased V, then entered the spatial passage.

Chen Mo found the white-light universe where The Batman Who Laughs had fled, but its barrier repelled him. After stripping his Blacklight Clone of most of its powers, he sent it through the barrier and into the world below, where it crashed into a city street.

• Chen Mo spotted a white universe tainted by the same rotten aura as The Batman Who Laughs and tried to enter it, but an invisible force pushed him back.
• Chen Mo created a Blacklight Clone and repeatedly weakened it, removing its dimensional powers and resistances until the barrier let it through.
• The clone fell through the atmosphere and slammed into a city street, carving a crater and scattering debris.
• The clone climbed out of the crater and brushed himself off as the stunned people nearby stared at him.

Chen Mo landed in a city and tried to locate The Batman Who Laughs, only to discover that his stripped-down clone lacked psychic powers. As he improvised a biological sonar, Flash arrived in a burst of scarlet lightning and stopped time.

• Chen Mo emerged from the crater and joked with a frightened bystander about the damage, telling him to seek reimbursement from Tony Stark.
• Chen Mo tried to scan the planet with psychic power but realized his clone had none of its high-level abilities.
• Chen Mo forced his Doomsday genes to evolve enormous biological sonar ears, startling the onlookers.
• Chen Mo changed his ears back, but Flash appeared in scarlet lightning and froze the intersection.

Chen Mo met Barry, the speedster who had rushed to investigate the destruction caused by Chen Mo’s fall, and resisted Barry’s attempt to bring him to the police station. The chapter ended with Chen Mo catching Barry’s arm as he tried to cuff him at super speed.

• Barry raced to the damaged intersection and found Chen Mo standing unharmed among the wreckage.
• Barry questioned Chen Mo about the crater and damaged cars, but Chen Mo claimed the road was at fault and denied causing the damage.
• Barry told Chen Mo to come to the Central City Police Department, and Chen Mo refused.
• Barry tried to restrain Chen Mo with specialized handcuffs, but Chen Mo tracked his movements and grabbed his arm.

Barry tried to subdue Chen Mo, but Chen Mo adapted to the Speed Force and overpowered him. The chapter ended with Chen Mo holding Barry by the neck and mocking him.

• Barry escaped Chen Mo’s grip by vibrating through his hand, then attacked Chen Mo’s shoulder and broke bones in his own hand.
• Chen Mo hardened his shoulder and countered Barry’s strike with matching vibrations, leaving Barry injured.
• Barry raced around Chen Mo, but Chen Mo’s vision and reflexes adapted until he could track Barry’s real body.
• Chen Mo began generating red lightning like the Speed Force and grabbed Barry by the neck, interrupting his phasing.
• Chen Mo lifted Barry and mocked his speed and stamina.

Chen Mo defeated Barry and discovered that the Justice League had not yet formed, then persuaded Barry to take him for coffee. Barry forgot his anniversary dinner with Iris, who waited alone at a restaurant and grew furious.

• Chen Mo subdued Barry, copied the Speed Force, and demanded that Barry take him to the Justice League's base and summon Superman and Batman.
• Barry did not recognize the Justice League or Superman and explained that Batman was only an urban legend in Gotham.
• Chen Mo realized the world was at an early point in its timeline and asked Barry to buy him coffee instead.
• Barry changed into ordinary clothes and led Chen Mo toward a café, while wondering what important thing he had forgotten.
• Iris waited half an hour for Barry at their anniversary dinner, saw his unanswered calls, and angrily vowed that he was dead.

Barry realized he had missed his anniversary dinner with Iris and raced to the restaurant, with Chen Mo keeping pace beside him. Chen Mo invented a secret government training exercise to excuse Barry, and Barry agreed to the lie as Iris softened and he was left paying for an expensive meal.

• Barry noticed Iris's calls and messages and realized he had left her waiting at their anniversary dinner.
• Barry sped toward the restaurant, and Chen Mo raced alongside him, arriving at the same time.
• Iris confronted Barry about being forty minutes late, and Barry struggled to explain his absence.
• Chen Mo claimed to be a special security adviser and said Barry's lateness was part of a secret test of his loyalty to Iris.
• Barry backed up Chen Mo's story when Iris's anger eased.
• Chen Mo ordered fresh food and expensive dishes, telling Barry that he would pay for everything.

Chen Mo kept Barry and Iris’s anniversary dinner from falling apart, though he left Barry with the bill and barely any time alone with Iris. After Iris left, Chen Mo thanked Barry’s patience by asking about strange events in Central City, Metropolis, and Gotham.

• Chen Mo joined Barry and Iris for an expensive dinner and explained Barry’s lateness as emergency training.
• Chen Mo entertained Iris with stories while directing Barry to fetch napkins and water, leaving Barry frustrated and sidelined.
• Barry paid the enormous bill, and Chen Mo helped Iris into a taxi after promising to give Barry focused guidance.
• Barry thanked Chen Mo for preventing Iris from tearing into him, and Chen Mo asked whether he had heard about strange happenings in Central City, Metropolis, or Gotham.

Chen Mo and Barry shared a late-night meal while Barry described strange cases from Gotham and Metropolis, giving Chen Mo clues about the early state of the DC universe. Their conversation ended when General Zod hijacked global screens to deliver an ultimatum to Earth.

• Barry agreed to tell Chen Mo about strange cases but warned that he would not help with illegal acts.
• Barry took Chen Mo to a tavern, where they ate fries and drank beer while Barry complained about his work as a Central City forensic scientist and speedster.
• Barry told Chen Mo that Arkham inmates in Gotham had died laughing and that an unidentified creature had attacked a military research base in Metropolis.
• Chen Mo inferred that Batman and Clark Kent were still early in their careers and that The Batman Who Laughs was preparing to establish himself in Gotham.
• A global blackout and burst of static interrupted the tavern as General Zod appeared on screens worldwide and announced, “You are not alone.”

Chen Mo explained General Zod’s plan to terraform Earth and decided to head to Metropolis to confront the Kryptonians and find the Batman Who Laughs. Barry chose to join him, and the two raced toward Metropolis together.

• Barry suspected Chen Mo was an alien scout after seeing General Zod’s broadcast, and Chen Mo corrected his assumptions.
• Chen Mo explained that Zod wanted to capture Superman for Krypton’s gene codex and transform Earth into New Krypton, killing humanity.
• Chen Mo decided to go to Metropolis to confront the Kryptonians and catch the Batman Who Laughs amid the coming chaos.
• Barry overcame his fear and insisted on going with Chen Mo to help protect Earth.
• Chen Mo and Barry raced out of Central City toward Metropolis, their red and dark red lightning streaking through the night.