Chapter Summaries

Su Chen learned from Ion Shark that the Green Lantern Legion was created by the Guardians of the Universe and that some of its members were turned into robots, prompting Ion Shark to seek Su Chen’s help in changing the Legion. Back on Earth, Su Chen reviewed information about Universe 1 and noted its similarities to and differences from his own universe.

• Su Chen asked Ion Shark to explain the Green Lantern Legion after Ion Shark ordered its members to stop fighting and return to their assembly point.
• Ion Shark explained that seven emotional energies and six Infinity Stones helped form Universe 1, and that the Guardians created the Green Lantern Legion and its rings.
• Ion Shark described how the Guardians modified some Green Lanterns into powerful but robotic servants, while others left and formed the Blue Lantern Legion.
• Ion Shark asked Su Chen to help change the Legion, and Su Chen said he opposed the Guardians controlling a universe he intended to rule.
• Su Chen returned to Earth and told Emma Frost that Universe 1 was about half again as large as their universe.
• Su Chen reviewed documents showing that Universe 1 had familiar features such as Xandar and the Nova Corps, alongside major differences.

Su Chen recognized that the Guardians and the beings behind them might threaten both universes, so he ordered Emma Frost to locate this universe’s Infinity Stones and prepare to confront them. When six other Lantern Legions arrived, Su Chen went to meet them, hoping to gain their cooperation and identifying their emotional powers.

• Su Chen concluded that conquering the universe could require confronting the beings who created the Lantern Legions, and he ordered Emma Frost to find the six Infinity Stones and investigate the emotional energies.
• Emma Frost received word that six colored Lantern Legions had arrived after the Green Lantern Legion departed.
• Su Chen welcomed the new arrivals as an opportunity to engage the other emotion-born beings and learn how to communicate with them.
• Su Chen appeared before the six Legions and identified their energies as rage, greed, fear, hope, compassion, and possibly love.

Sinestro led the Yellow Lantern Legion and summoned the other lantern legions after a fearful watcher mistook Su Chen’s death energy for the return of the crisis from Blackest Night. Six legions reached Earth, where the Red, Orange, and Yellow Lanterns prepared to attack Su Chen while the Indigo, Blue, and Violet leaders questioned whether he was truly a threat.

• A timid Yellow Lantern watcher saw Su Chen’s death-infused dark green legion and reported that the black energy from the past crisis had returned.
• Sinestro ordered the Yellow Lantern Legion to aid the Green Lanterns and alert the other legions, then led his forces toward Earth.
• The Red, Orange, Indigo, Blue, and Violet Lantern Legions joined the Yellow Lanterns, but they could not sense the Green Lantern Legion.
• The Indigo, Blue, and Violet leaders found no sign of the black energy on Su Chen and hesitated, while the Red and Orange leaders prepared to fight him.
• Su Chen recognized that the three cautious legions had noticed something and announced that he would teach the Red, Orange, and Yellow Lanterns discipline.

As six Emotional Spectrum legions converged, Su Chen’s allies in Asgard prepared for the consequences while trusting him to handle the threat. Su Chen wore the Supreme Green Lantern Ring and charged the Red Lantern Legion, leaving its leader beaten back as he sought another ring.

• Emma Frost and Hela discussed recruiting the Green Lantern Legion and revising the Utopia Alliance’s plans to conquer the universe.
• When six more legions arrived, Emma Frost used the Mind Network to shield Earth and part of Asgard from the negative emotional energies.
• Hela considered joining Su Chen, but she and Emma Frost decided to wait for his battle to end before continuing their plans.
• Su Chen put on the Supreme Green Lantern Ring, stunning the attacking legions and creating a giant green fist.
• Su Chen charged the Red Lantern Legion and struck its leader so hard that he flew backward.

Su Chen subdued the Red Lantern Ring and took the Ring of Greed from the Orange Lantern leader as Sinestro attacked. He put on the orange ring, which quickly entered a state of obedience, while the Yellow Lantern Legion continued its assault.

• Su Chen put on the Red Lantern Ring, suppressed its rage energy with Cosmic Energy and the green spectrum, and took control of it.
• The Red Lantern Legion lost its fighting strength as Su Chen turned to the Orange Lantern leader and demanded his ring or his life.
• Sinestro attacked Su Chen with a yellow beam, but Su Chen blocked it with a green barrier.
• The Orange Lantern leader surrendered his Ring of Greed, and Su Chen took it before the leader drifted toward a nearby planet.
• Su Chen put on the orange ring, which quickly entered a state of obedience, while more yellow beams shot toward him.

Su Chen defeated the Yellow Lantern Legion and discovered that its ring drew power from other people’s fear of him. The Blue, Indigo, and Violet Lantern leaders gave him their rings, and Su Chen set out to visit the Lantern Beasts to learn how the seven Emotional Spectrums might unlock the power to create the universe.

• Su Chen put on Sinestro’s Fear Ring but felt nothing until the Yellow Lanterns’ fear of him flowed into it.
• Su Chen reflected on the fear he inspired and told the surviving legions he assumed they had already made their choice.
• The Blue, Indigo, and Violet Lantern leaders handed Su Chen their rings instead of fighting him.
• Su Chen briefly sensed a resonance among all seven rings, but the feeling quickly vanished.
• The Indigo Lantern leader suggested the Lantern Beasts could help Su Chen reach the power of creation.
• Su Chen told the three legions he would visit them in due time.

Su Chen disciplined the leaderless corps, then realized the seven rings might combine into a power that let him travel by thought. Emma summoned him to Asgard over a mysterious presence near their home Earth, where the chapter ends as S.W.O.R.D. detects an unfamiliar spacecraft arriving through a wormhole.

• Su Chen ordered the red, orange, and yellow corps to return to their assembly points and await his orders.
• Su Chen concluded that the ordinary rings lacked the Supreme Ring’s access and decided to visit each Lantern Beast to gather its energy.
• Emma told Su Chen that an unknown group had appeared near their home Earth, and he immediately traveled to Asgard.
• S.W.O.R.D. detected an oddly shaped spacecraft emerging near Earth, while the narration described the Utopia Alliance’s growing magical and technological power, including its creation of Ultron.
• S.W.O.R.D. monitoring personnel identified a new wormhole arrival and began examining the unfamiliar spacecraft.

S.W.O.R.D. detected an enormous robot arriving with a hostile warship, and the robot scanned the headquarters before moving toward Earth. As Captain Marvel rushed to respond, the robot circled the planet and its chilling scan unsettled people across multiple cities.

• S.W.O.R.D. detected a black military spacecraft and prepared its headquarters cannon for an apparent attack.
• An enormous eight-eyed robot emerged from the spacecraft and scanned S.W.O.R.D. headquarters, triggering an alert and mobilizing the First and Third Legions.
• Captain Marvel set out in her combat suit as the robot began approaching Earth.
• The robot accelerated to the atmosphere and circled Earth, scanning the planet while Captain Marvel reached the spacecraft and found the robot gone.
• People in New York, San Francisco, Manhattan, and Wakanda felt an icy sensation and looked up in alarm.

A Celestial arrived outside Earth and scanned cities across the planet, prompting the Utopia Alliance to fire its defenses. Captain Marvel recognized the visitor and raised Earth’s shield, then prepared to warn Supreme about the threat of the Celestials’ judgment.

• The Celestial scanned cities and regions across Earth, alarming the New Mutants and Utopia Alliance branches.
• Captain Marvel ordered unscanned cities to aim their weapons at the visitor, and the branches launched powerful red beams at it.
• Captain Marvel recognized the robot as a member of the Celestials and ordered S.W.O.R.D. to activate Earth’s ultimate defense.
• The Utopia Alliance activated a planetary shield using the former Sorcerer Supreme’s sanctums and Wakandan Vibranium resonance.
• Captain Marvel recalled how Celestials had destroyed a planet with the Power Stone and decided to warn Supreme.

Su Chen returned to his home universe after learning that the Celestials had visited Earth, and he ordered his forces to protect Earth while Hela searched Asgard’s archives for records of an earlier conflict. Reunited with the Infinity Stones and the power of the Emotional Spectrum, Su Chen expected to confront the Celestials, whose ship reached an enormous destination.

• The Celestial ship departed Earth after scanning it, and Emma told Su Chen about the visit.
• Hela recalled that Odin and Asgardian soldiers had once fought the Celestials on Earth, so Su Chen asked her to search Asgard’s archives for the true history.
• Su Chen assigned the First and Third Legions to guard Earth, sent the Second Legion back to Asgard, and told Emma to finish the remaining tasks.
• Su Chen and Hela returned to their home universe, where the Infinity Stones rejoined Su Chen and restored him to peak condition.
• Su Chen ordered Hela to find the Celestials’ records and considered how the seven rings might surprise them.
• The Celestial ship arrived at its destination, where an immense behemoth dwarfed the vessel.

The Celestials judged Earth to be a threat after discovering its rapid technological growth, aggressive humans, and traces of the Infinity Stones, then sent Eradicator to execute their order. On Earth, Hela reported that Asgard’s archive of historical murals might contain records about the Celestials.

• The Tester, The Prosecutor, and The Explorer reported on Earth’s people, technology, and depleted resources to the Celestials.
• The Tester warned that Earth had exceeded the Celestials’ safety requirements and should be judged again.
• The Celestials learned that the Infinity Stones had been used on Earth, and The Judge ordered Eradicator to eliminate its advanced intelligent life and scatter the Stones.
• Eradicator left the Celestials’ domain to carry out the judgment, while Hela told Su Chen she had found records concerning the Celestials in Asgard’s archive.

Su Chen and Hela uncovered the true history of the Celestials’ third descent: Earth’s gods lost and were bound by an oath not to interfere in humanity’s fate. With the Celestials returning and Earth’s development drawing their attention, Su Chen prepared to confront them, though he regretted not knowing where they were gathering.

• Hela explained that the Celestials had descended on Earth twice before, creating humanity and later destroying the people whose advanced technology alarmed them.
• Hela described how Odin and the gods of Earth had fought the Celestials, while the murals claimed the Celestials had sworn not to interfere in humanity’s fate.
• Su Chen suspected Odin had falsified the history, and Hela uncovered an older mural showing Earth’s gods fleeing in defeat before the Celestials.
• Su Chen concluded that Earth’s gods, not the Celestials, had sworn to stay out of humanity’s fate, and he warned that Earth’s development could provoke an extermination.
• Su Chen said his new power and knowledge of other universes had changed his ability to challenge the Celestials, while Hela cautioned that their strength could exceed expectations.
• Su Chen expressed regret that he did not know where the Celestials were gathering, as Hela recognized he wanted to attack them before they arrived.

The Guardians debated how to stop Su Chen after he defeated the Seven Lantern Legion, then opened the shadow prison and offered the Black Lantern Legion’s leader a chance to fight. On Earth, the Utopia Alliance entered combat readiness, while Su Chen observed how the green and yellow rings responded to the people’s emotions.

• The Guardians argued over releasing a terrifying power to oppose Su Chen, then voted unanimously to summon the being imprisoned in the shadow prison.
• The Guardians offered the Black Lantern Legion’s leader limited freedom and a habitat in exchange for fighting Su Chen, and he became excited at the prospect of facing someone who had defeated the Seven Lantern Legion.
• The Utopia Alliance placed Earth on level-two readiness, closed communications with outside forces, and deployed replacement members for the First and Third Legions.
• Su Chen examined his seven rings in Manhattan and noticed that the green ring brightened as Earth prepared for war, while the yellow ring reflected people’s fear.
• Su Chen welcomed the fear as evidence that people still possessed their full range of emotions, though he regretted never having experienced fear himself.

As Eradicator arrived above Earth, S.W.O.R.D. and Captain Marvel prepared the planet’s forces to attack while relying on Su Chen to face the threat. In the Guardians’ domain, they freed Nekron in exchange for his promise to destroy Su Chen and confined his Black Legion to Earth and the surrounding Solar System; Nekron left vowing to wipe out the Green Lantern Legion.

• S.W.O.R.D. detected Eradicator’s arrival above Earth, and Captain Marvel ordered the available forces to attack his giant ship.
• The Guardians agreed to release the being trapped in their black hole if he annihilated Su Chen and kept his Black Legion within Earth’s region.
• The Guardians shattered the black hole’s restraints, freeing the skeletal Nekron.
• Nekron asked to turn the intelligent life in his allotted domain into his legion, and a Guardian agreed as long as he stayed within its borders.
• The Guardians gave Nekron a restricted black-and-white ring, which he reclaimed before leaving their domain.
• Nekron saw the Green Lantern planet and vowed to destroy the Green Lantern Legion after taking over the Solar System.

Nekron escaped his defeat by raising a reserve force of Black Lanterns on a barren planet and reclaiming a ring that restored his full power. He assembled the legion and set off for Earth, while the Indigo Lantern leader learned that Su Chen was expected to face this trial.

• Nekron retreated after the Green Lantern power proved able to dispel his death energy, leaving the Indigo Lantern leader to sense his return.
• The Indigo Lantern leader consulted Proselyte, who told her to wait for the seven emotional powers to gather and let Su Chen face the coming trial.
• Nekron changed course to a barren planet and awakened Black Lanterns he had hidden there before his defeat.
• Nekron took a ring from one of the revived soldiers, restored his full power of death, and summoned the Black Lantern Legion to Earth.

Emma Frost mobilized the First Legion and Amazo against Nekron’s Black Lantern Legion on Earth 1, while Su Chen confronted Eradicator outside the native Earth. Su Chen shattered space to counter Eradicator’s attack, leaving the two facing a spreading field of deadly spatial rifts.

• Emma Frost discovered that the Celestials had once been defeated in Earth 1’s history, then received warnings that Nekron’s Black Lantern Legion was approaching.
• Emma Frost ordered the First Legion to mobilize, and the Sentinels and Amazo flew out to confront the Black Lanterns.
• Su Chen received news of the threat to Earth 1, sent Hela a message, and flew out to meet Eradicator.
• Eradicator declared Earth his target and swung his scepter at Su Chen, compressing space into a bomb.
• Su Chen used his Emotional Spectrum rings and physical strength to shatter space, and the resulting rifts swallowed satellites and forced Eradicator to retreat.

Su Chen discovered that the power of all seven Emotional Spectrum rings could raise him to a spiritual height, while Emma directed the First Legion’s battle against Nekron’s Black Lantern Legion. The Sentinels overwhelmed the enemy at first, but an energy they could not analyze or copy emerged, and Nekron prepared to unleash the power of his ring.

• Su Chen realized that the power of the seven rings alone could reach a spiritual height without the stones.
• Emma ordered the Sentinels’ control to switch from artificial intelligence to manual processing as they and Nekron’s Black Lantern Legion approached the battlefield.
• The Sentinels copied their enemies’ energy and, led by Amazo, inflicted heavy casualties on the Black Lantern Legion and drove Nekron back.
• The Sentinels’ operators discovered an energy they could not analyze, and Amazo’s team found that he could not simulate it.
• Nekron escaped Amazo’s assault and, furious at the robots’ strength, caused the rings of the Black Lantern Legion to glow with the same black light.

Hela arrived at Earth 1 with the Second Legion to confront the Black Lantern Legion, whose members revived and overwhelmed the Sentinels. Meanwhile, Su Chen continued fighting the Eradicator far from Earth, leaving a trail of shattered planets.

• Emma Frost contacted Hela about the Black Lantern Legion, and Hela revealed that the Second Legion was already on Earth 1 and ready to fight.
• Su Chen recalled Particle Shark's account of the Black Lanterns, then sent Hela to confront the death-powered Legion while he fought the Eradicator.
• Hela led the Second Legion toward the battlefield after the Black Lanterns revived their fallen members and pushed the Sentinels into mounting losses.
• Su Chen discovered that the Eradicator's physical strength nearly matched his own and drove their fight farther away from Earth.
• Su Chen and the Eradicator fought across space, and their battle left the scattered remains of planets in their wake.

Su Chen continued battering the Eradicator and began to notice something unusual about him. Meanwhile, the Celestials mobilized a vast super fortress toward Su Chen, while Hela and the Second Legion reached their own destination.

• Su Chen drove the Eradicator into a planet’s core, and the Eradicator identified him as a maximum-level threat and began executing a contingency plan.
• The Celestials answered an alarm, gathered more than ten thousand members aboard an immense fortress, and forced their way through space toward their destination.
• Intelligent powers across the universe detected the Celestials’ departure and feared what their mobilization meant.
• Su Chen kept attacking the Eradicator with physical blows until the battered figure was barely recognizable, then noticed something that interested him.
• Hela arrived at a designated location in another universe with the Second Legion, whose soldiers had gained new possibilities through the Goddess of Death’s gifts.

Hela led the evolved Second Legion into outer space, where she confronted Nekron and his Black Lantern Legion after they nearly destroyed the First Legion. Rejecting Nekron’s offer to unite their forces under death, Hela began a battle against him while the Goddess of Death watched with satisfaction.

• Hela arrived as Nekron and the Black Lantern Legion overwhelmed the First Legion, leaving fewer than a thousand Sentinels and a badly weakened android.
• The remaining Sentinels withdrew toward Earth for repairs while Nekron admired Hela’s Second Legion and proposed that they join forces to spread death across the universe.
• Hela rejected Nekron’s proposal, declaring that death was not the strongest power and that she would not let him claim Earth.
• Hela drew her swords and led the Second Legion into battle, taking the android’s place as she clashed with Nekron.
• The Goddess of Death observed the battle from Knowhere and approved of Hela’s growth, declaring that their opposing forms of death could never coexist.