Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo searched Metropolis for Superman while Barry rushed to stop the city’s looters. He located Clark Kent hiding in a chapel in the northwestern suburbs, where the story left him preparing to approach the lost hero.

• Barry raced into the streets to stop a biker and other rioters while Chen Mo stayed behind to search for Superman.
• Chen Mo realized he lacked long-range detection and used the Blacklight Virus and Doomsday genes to develop new sensory organs.
• Chen Mo scanned Metropolis for Superman’s biological force field and detected a powerful energy source in the northwestern suburbs.
• Chen Mo identified Clark Kent sitting in an old Gothic chapel and declared that he had found him.

Chen Mo found Clark Kent in a church as Clark considered surrendering himself to General Zod, and challenged his belief that doing so would save Earth. Clark resolved to surrender to humanity instead, but Barry arrived and mistook him for a bodybuilding champion.

• Chen Mo entered the church and sat beside Clark, who revealed that Zod was looking for him and that he planned to surrender to spare Earth.
• Chen Mo told Clark that Zod intended to terraform Earth and would destroy its people regardless of Clark's surrender.
• Chen Mo challenged the priest's advice about faith and urged Clark to judge whom he trusted.
• Clark decided to turn himself in to the human military to show that he stood with Earth.
• Chen Mo revealed that he was a director of the Secret Service and accepted Clark's surrender on humanity's behalf.
• Barry rushed into the church and, seeing Clark, asked Chen Mo if he had found a bodybuilding champion.

Clark revealed that he was an alien and chose to surrender to the military rather than keep hiding from humanity. As soldiers surrounded him, Chen Mo and Barry sped away, leaving Clark to face them alone.

• Chen Mo identified Clark as the Kryptonian Barry had been searching for, and Clark explained that he was not an invader.
• Clark said he would turn himself in because he believed power should protect others and wanted to take the first step toward earning humanity's trust.
• Chen Mo and Barry agreed to escort Clark, joking that the government would pay for their trip.
• Military forces surrounded the trio with helicopters, armored vehicles, and soldiers, then ordered them to surrender.
• Clark raised his hands to cooperate, while Chen Mo warned him to call for help if the military or Zod's forces treated him unfairly.
• Chen Mo and Barry vanished in bursts of lightning, leaving Clark surrounded by the soldiers.

After Clark was taken into military custody, Chen Mo and Barry discovered that the convoy was diverting him to a secret Foundation base. Chen Mo chose to follow the convoy and uncover the Foundation’s plans, with Barry close behind.

• Barry worried that soldiers would shoot Clark, while Chen Mo dismissed his fears as they watched Clark calmly enter an armored transport.
• A colonel received orders to take Clark to the Foundation’s base instead of a conventional military installation.
• The convoy turned onto an abandoned mining road, and Barry urged Chen Mo to intercept it.
• Chen Mo persuaded Barry to follow the convoy and track the Foundation to its hideout.
• Chen Mo and Barry sped after the convoy toward the Laojin Mine on National Highway 777.

Clark was brought to the Foundation’s underground base, where Dr. Collins praised him as humanity’s savior and asked for a sample of his Kryptonian genes. When Clark refused, Collins revealed that the Foundation had Doomsday’s corpse in a containment chamber.

• Chen Mo and Barry secretly watched as Clark arrived at the Foundation base.
• Dr. Collins welcomed Clark with reverence, removed his handcuffs, and addressed him as Kal-El.
• Collins pleaded with Clark to donate Kryptonian genes so humanity could evolve and defend itself.
• Clark refused, warning that spreading Kryptonian power was too dangerous.
• Collins pressed a button and revealed Doomsday’s corpse inside a heavy-water containment chamber.

Dr. Collins tried to use Clark’s Kryptonian biology to revive the remains of Doomsday, but a hidden Kryptonite-like radiation trap weakened Clark. As Barry and Chen Mo watched, Doomsday began to stir, leaving the underground base on the brink of disaster.

• Dr. Collins explained that the Foundation had recovered the remains beneath Arctic ice and wanted Clark’s help to revive them and make humanity evolve.
• Clark refused and attacked the central console, but hidden green radiation emitters weakened him and forced him to his knees.
• Barry tried to rush to Clark’s aid, but Chen Mo restrained him and deduced that the Batman Who Laughs had set the trap using Doomsday as bait.
• Dr. Collins summoned armed guards and prepared to take blood and bone marrow samples from Clark.
• The heavy water began to boil, Doomsday’s remains started growing, and a scarlet clown-faced mark on its chest blazed with light as a heartbeat shook the base.

Doomsday broke out of containment and attacked the guards and Clark, while Barry rescued the wounded from the radiation zone. Chen Mo realized Doomsday’s resurrection was meant to draw him out and confronted the charging monster.

• Doomsday shattered the containment pod, killed Collins, and shrugged off the guards’ gunfire as he wrecked the lab.
• Barry pulled Clark away from the green light and repeatedly carried wounded guards toward safety while Doomsday pursued him.
• Chen Mo inferred that The Batman Who Laughs had revived Doomsday to target him after detecting his arrival.
• Chen Mo dropped from a steel beam and landed in Doomsday’s path, and Doomsday charged straight at him.

Chen Mo overwhelmed the newly resurrected Doomsday while Barry rescued the injured guards and Clark recovered from the green radiation. Barry and Clark returned to help Chen Mo, only to find Doomsday already pinned in a crater and Chen Mo unharmed.

• Chen Mo stopped Doomsday’s charge with a punch, then overpowered it and kept it pinned as it regenerated and evolved.
• Chen Mo noticed a surviving surveillance camera and wondered whether Batman Who Laughs had awakened Doomsday to test him or buy time.
• Barry carried the last injured men through the containment door, then shut off the green radiation that had weakened Clark.
• Clark regained his strength, and he and Barry rushed toward the hall after hearing Doomsday crash to the ground again.
• Barry and Clark found Chen Mo holding Doomsday down in a crater, and Barry admitted they had come to save him.

Chen Mo, Barry, and Clark defeated Doomsday and searched the Foundation’s base, where they discovered that serum made from Doomsday’s remains had been distributed around the world. Chen Mo suspected the Batman Who Laughs had planted Doomsday’s genetic seeds across Earth, leaving the heroes facing a looming global disaster.

• Chen Mo killed Doomsday, and the Blacklight Virus began devouring its body as Barry and Clark arrived.
• Chen Mo urged Barry and Clark to search the Foundation’s base for dangerous experiments, and they helped recover data and equipment from the ruins.
• Chen Mo accessed the base’s server and found records of a serum made from Doomsday’s remains and distributed through global pharmaceutical and vaccine supply chains.
• Chen Mo concluded that the Batman Who Laughs was behind the serum and had spread Doomsday’s genetic seeds across Earth.

Chen Mo discovered that the Blood of Apollo vaccine had been distributed to hundreds of millions of people and had just received an automatic activation signal, with a small percentage at risk of becoming monsters. As Clark and Barry tried to stop the outbreak, people began transforming across a city, and the Doomsday count reached 41,000.

• Chen Mo accessed the Foundation’s database and found that 376.4 million doses of the Blood of Apollo had been distributed, with a unified activation protocol already sent.
• Chen Mo explained that the hidden factor had a 0.01% active transformation probability, while Clark resolved to save as many people as he could.
• Chen Mo sent Barry to destroy signal equipment, but the red dots on the world map kept flashing faster as Clark set out to investigate distribution sites.
• Chen Mo traced the activation signal through the data link while Barry and Clark tried to stop the disaster.
• Across a city, infected people began transforming into monsters, and the reported number of Doomsdays rose to 41,000.

Doomsday derivatives erupted across Earth, overwhelming military defenses and forcing heroes and Kryptonians to respond. As the infection count reached 107,000, Superman appeared above the devastated planet.

• General Zod ordered the Kryptonians to land and rescue Kal-El after seeing Doomsday derivatives spreading across Earth.
• Bruce Wayne bought three Lesser Doomsdays and analyzed their biology in the Batcave for a weakness.
• Wonder Woman Diana fought monsters in Metropolis and protected civilians as they retreated.
• Green Lantern Hal Jordan crushed several monsters in Coast City, but they regenerated and evolved during the fight.
• Doomsday attacks crippled global military defenses, and the infection count surpassed 100,000.
• Superman appeared above Earth and looked down at the widespread destruction.

Clark struggled to decide whether to kill the mutated people as he fought to protect Metropolis, but a Lesser Doomsday’s rapid evolution made the threat harder to contain. Adjutant Faora arrived, killed the monster with one punch, and ordered Clark to come with her.

• Clark watched the monsters rampage through Metropolis and struggled with whether they could still be saved.
• Clark rescued a mother and her daughter from a Lesser Doomsday by hurling it through several ruined walls.
• The Lesser Doomsday regenerated and grew stronger, then charged Clark again.
• Adjutant Faora arrived in a landing pod and killed the Lesser Doomsday with a single punch.
• Faora called Clark “Kal-El” and ordered him to come with her immediately.

Faora tried to force Clark to leave Earth, but he refused and was beaten down in Metropolis. Meanwhile, Chen Mo traced the Batman Who Laughs to the Kryptonian ship in orbit and prepared to pursue him.

• Clark refused Faora's demand to leave Earth and asked her to help save Metropolis from the Doomsdays.
• Faora rejected Clark's appeal and overwhelmed him with a brutal series of attacks.
• Doomsdays around the world adapted to the weapons and superhumans that had wounded them, becoming stronger despite their reduced numbers.
• Chen Mo broke through the Batman Who Laughs's layered protocols and discovered that his signal came from the Kryptonian spaceship in orbit.
• Faora stomped Clark into the road and continued punching him.

Chen Mo enveloped Earth in Blacklight flesh and wiped out more than forty thousand Lesser Doomsdays in seconds. He then boarded the Kryptonian ship, ignored General Zod, and confronted a disguised private he recognized.

• Chen Mo launched a mass of Blacklight Virus flesh into the atmosphere, where it spread into a canopy that covered Earth.
• Faora continued beating Clark as the canopy darkened the sky, while Bruce Wayne, Diana, and Hal looked up in alarm.
• The canopy opened thousands of scarlet eyes and used lasers and tentacles to kill more than forty thousand Lesser Doomsdays across the globe.
• General Zod watched the massacre from the Kryptonian ship and crushed the console in shock.
• Chen Mo broke into the ship's bridge, walked past General Zod, and addressed a private in Kryptonian armor, asking why he had kept running.

The Devastator revealed himself aboard Zod’s ship, and Chen Mo faced the Doomsday-virus-mutated Batman variant. Zod ordered his surviving forces to evacuate toward Metropolis while Chen Mo and The Devastator began their fight on the collapsing bridge.

• The disguised Kryptonian private transformed into The Devastator, a monstrous Batman variant infected with the Doomsday Virus.
• Chen Mo mocked The Devastator, who studied Chen Mo’s defenses and warned that his power was restricted in this universe.
• General Zod decided the fight would destroy his ship and ordered his forces to abandon it and capture Kal-El intact.
• The surviving Kryptonians fled the bridge, leaving Chen Mo and The Devastator alone.
• Chen Mo formed a giant Blacklight hammer and met The Devastator’s bone-spurred punch, destroying the bridge as they clashed.

Chen Mo overwhelmed The Devastator in a battle among the wreckage of their destroyed ship. He sent The Devastator hurtling toward the sun and followed him there to continue the fight.

• Chen Mo and The Devastator’s clash shattered the alien ship and flung them both into space.
• The Devastator used his adaptability and regeneration to trade blows with Chen Mo during their fight in the vacuum.
• Chen Mo changed his arm into a blade, severed and consumed The Devastator’s arm, then overwhelmed him with a rapid series of attacks.
• Chen Mo smashed The Devastator in the chest with a full-strength punch, sending him flying toward the sun.
• Chen Mo launched himself after The Devastator, heading toward the sun to continue their battle.

Chen Mo overwhelmed The Devastator in the sun, devouring his evolving body and growing stronger as the fight turned into an execution. In the Dark Multiverse, The Batman Who Laughs watched and revealed that he was letting Chen Mo eat because their bridge was nearly ready.

• Chen Mo dragged The Devastator into the sun, where both adapted to the extreme heat and Chen Mo absorbed the star's energy.
• Chen Mo severed and devoured The Devastator's arm, then smashed his chest while The Devastator continued evolving.
• Chen Mo injected Blacklight Virus into The Devastator's brain and repeatedly destroyed and consumed his defenses until he could no longer resist.
• Dawnbreaker, Red Death, and The Merciless watched the beating from the Dark Multiverse, and The Merciless demanded to know why The Devastator had been sent there.
• The Batman Who Laughs said he was letting Chen Mo eat because their bridge was almost ready.

After the flesh canopy destroyed the Lesser Doomsdays, Clark turned his guilt and anger on Faora, while Earth’s defenders and commanders watched helplessly. Zod’s ships were blocked by the canopy, but he ordered his crew to search for a weak spot and blast a way through to capture Kal-El and the Genetic Codex.

• The flesh canopy annihilated more than forty thousand Lesser Doomsdays, leaving Clark grieving the hundreds of thousands of people turned to ash.
• Clark seized Faora’s ankle, hurled her away, and punched her through several ruined buildings.
• Bruce, Diana, Hal Jordan, and the Global Defense Command watched the canopy and its immense energy signature in shock.
• Zod’s landing ships failed to penetrate the living membrane surrounding Earth, and their weapons only stirred ripples in it.
• Zod ordered his crew to find the membrane’s weakest area and concentrate the ships’ firepower to open a passage.

Chen Mo suspected The Devastator was poisoned bait and annihilated him instead, while the fleshy canopy destroyed two Kryptonian craft and forced General Zod to retreat. The Batman Who Laughs watched his scheme fail, and The Merciless mocked him as the screen went dead.

• Chen Mo sensed something wrong with The Devastator and hacked him apart until the stellar flames reduced him to ash.
• The Kryptonians' weapons failed to breach the fleshy canopy, which seized and crushed two landing craft.
• General Zod ordered his forces to abandon the surface mission and flee the star system at maximum warp.
• The Batman Who Laughs watched the screen lose The Devastator's vital signs and freeze in white static.
• The Merciless mocked The Batman Who Laughs for sending The Devastator to be burned to ash.

After Clark defeated the Kryptonians, he joined Diana, Hal Jordan, and Barry Allen as they discussed the catastrophe and met Chen Mo, who had gathered the living canopy back into himself. As the newcomers assessed one another, a black fighter jet appeared above the ruins.

• Clark stood among the unconscious Kryptonians after the flesh canopy receded and sunlight returned to Metropolis.
• Diana and Hal arrived, and Clark identified Chen Mo as the person responsible for pulling the canopy back.
• Barry arrived, crashed into a garbage pile, and introduced himself as the Flash alongside Clark, Diana, and Hal Jordan.
• Chen Mo formed from the gathered flesh, teased Hal and Diana, and challenged Clark's plan to give the Kryptonians a fair trial.
• A black fighter jet emerged from the clouds and hovered above the group.