Chapter Summaries

The Third Legion fought the Parademons Legion with reckless force, pushing it back as its commander battled Steppenwolf. At Utopia Alliance headquarters, Emma Frost received a signal from the Supreme’s residence, while the Sentinels and First prepared to attack elsewhere.

• The Third Legion commander unleashed his strength, and his soldiers combined their abilities in deadly attacks that forced the Parademons Legion to retreat.
• Steppenwolf recalled his earlier defeat on Earth and charged the Third Legion commander, who faced his axe without retreating.
• The Third Legion commander grew stronger as he endured Steppenwolf’s blows, while Steppenwolf searched for the Mother Box.
• A staff member told Emma Frost that a signal from the Supreme’s residence in Manhattan had connected, and she granted it access to battlefield monitoring.
• Emma Frost asked about the First and Fourth Legions as the Sentinels moved into position and First used seven rings against the Fourth Legion.

The Fourth Legion struggled to coordinate against First until Emma Frost used the Sentinels to isolate him and give the squads a chance to regroup. Meanwhile, Steppenwolf’s forces used the fighting as a distraction while Parademons secretly retrieved a mysterious box from the ruins of Atlantis and escaped through a Boom Tube.

• First overwhelmed the Fourth Legion until Emma Frost ordered the Sentinels to surround him with particle beams, allowing the seven squads to regroup and resolve to cooperate.
• Emma Frost refused to have the Sentinels attack First directly, while Su Chen watched the battle and wondered whether the Third Legion had noticed something.
• Steppenwolf ordered the Parademons to find and steal their objective as he struggled to hold off the Third Legion’s commander.
• Parademons escaped the main battlefield and gathered in secret, with one squad diving to the ruins of Atlantis beneath the sea.
• The squad uncovered a riveted square box from an ancient tower and used a signal device to escape with it through a Boom Tube.

Parademons stole the Amazon Tribe’s Mother Box from Paradise Island and joined it with another aboard Steppenwolf’s ship, unleashing a corrosive Power of Unity across the battlefield. The spread stopped because the third Mother Box was missing, leaving Steppenwolf furious and ordering his Parademons to find it.

• A Parademons squad flew through Paradise Island’s hidden defenses and blasted open a stone wall to seize the Amazon Tribe’s red Mother Box.
• Paradise Island’s guards found the empty passage and reported the theft to alliance headquarters, while the Parademons escaped through a Boom Tube.
• Steppenwolf’s cloaked followers used an incantation to open the two recovered Mother Boxes and release their power.
• The Power of Unity spread black foam across the battlefield, withering plants and weakening the Third Legion while strengthening Steppenwolf and his Parademons.
• The spread stopped after covering only the battlefield, and Steppenwolf realized that only two of the three Mother Boxes had been found.
• Steppenwolf tore a Parademon apart in anger and ordered his forces to locate the missing Mother Box.

The command center identified Steppenwolf’s black substance as the effect of two Mother Boxes and located the human-held third box, while Emma prepared the First Legion to defend headquarters. As the Third Legion continued fighting Steppenwolf, the battle in space neared its end, where the Fourth Legion’s squad captains coordinated an attack on a first-generation enemy.

• The Utopia Alliance command center searched historical records and learned that Steppenwolf’s forces had found two of the three Mother Boxes, while the human-held box remained missing.
• Emma ordered a search for the third Mother Box, and Nick Fury revealed it was stored in a lead box at Utopia Alliance headquarters.
• Su Chen explained to Su Shan and Hit-Girl that Steppenwolf had been trying to alter Earth’s environment and criticized his parademons for failing to complete their task.
• Soldiers brought the human Mother Box to Emma, who ordered the First Legion to return and prepare to defend headquarters, with instructions to open the box if the Third Legion faltered.
• At an asteroid outside the Solar System, the seven captains of the Fourth Legion’s Fourth Squad combined their Emotional Spectrum powers against a transparent first-generation enemy.
• The Fourth Legion’s captains recalled that they had struggled to coordinate earlier, and one suggested their opponent’s first-generation status might be the real obstacle.

The seven squad captains united their forces against First, and their combined attack let Amazo wound him and damage the device concealing his allegiance. Meanwhile, Steppenwolf remained locked in a growing-power stalemate with the legion commander as he grew frustrated over his failure to find the third Mother Box.

• The seven squad captains agreed to fight First together, and First escaped the Sentinels’ particle-beam cage by tunneling underground.
• The captains and Sentinels attacked First in unison, blending their seven spectrum energies as Amazo dived in to strike.
• A faint trace of Creation Energy disrupted First’s powers, allowing Amazo to punch him hard and send him flying.
• The captains noticed that Amazo’s blow had damaged the device on First’s neck and suspected it explained why he had sided with their enemies.
• Steppenwolf and the legion commander continued matching each other under the Power of Unity while Steppenwolf complained that his forces had not found the third Mother Box.

After Utopia Alliance activated the Human Mother Box with an Arc Reactor, Steppenwolf sensed its signal and led the Special Legion toward headquarters. Emma Frost prepared the Alliance’s defenses and planned to destroy the invading force and its aircraft.

• At Utopia Alliance headquarters, Emma Frost ordered staff to use an Arc Reactor to activate the sealed Human Mother Box.
• The Arc Reactor’s surge activated the Mother Box, and Steppenwolf sensed its powerful signal on the battlefield.
• Steppenwolf ordered the Special Legion to withdraw from its battle with the Third Legion and fly toward the last Mother Box.
• Emma Frost ordered the Third Legion to retreat toward headquarters and join the First Legion in forming a defensive network.
• Emma Frost prepared two repaired Cosmic Energy cannons, powered by Arc Reactors, to fire on the enemy aircraft, while staff and noncombatants evacuated to the Helicarrier.

The Fourth Legion and the Sentinels freed First by destroying the controller on his neck, then First departed after praising the new warriors. As Steppenwolf headed for the Utopia Alliance headquarters, Emma prepared it for the final battle and the Third Legion followed him there.

• The Fourth Legion began coordinating as individuals while its squad leaders worked with the Sentinels and Amazo to attack First and target his controller.
• The squad leaders restrained First, and the leader of the anger squad shattered the controller with a red-light strike.
• First stopped fighting, recovered his memories, praised the warriors, and left the asteroid after his transparent lines healed.
• Emma ordered the Fourth Legion to stay on the asteroid and keep practicing its coordination while the First Legion returned to Earth.
• The First Legion arrived at the Utopia Alliance headquarters, where Emma and Nick Fury prepared weapons, including the two Cosmic Energy cannons.
• Steppenwolf abandoned the former battlefield and flew toward the Utopia Alliance headquarters, followed by the Parademons and the Third Legion.

Emma Frost’s forces met Steppenwolf’s assault at Utopia Alliance headquarters, using overwhelming firepower and relentless Sentinels to contain his army. Steppenwolf broke free from the Sentinel pile, only to find his Parademons had vanished from the battlefield.

• Su Chen praised the Utopia Alliance’s performance and left to watch the battle from closer by.
• Emma Frost ordered the headquarters’ cannons to fire on Steppenwolf’s approaching ship, which broke apart and released Steppenwolf and a swarm of Parademons.
• Steppenwolf sacrificed a Parademon to activate the joined Mother Boxes, then led his army toward the headquarters.
• Emma Frost sent the First Legion and Sentinels to meet the attack; Steppenwolf’s Mother Box energy weakened Amazo, while the Sentinels and Utopia fighters joined battle.
• The Third Legion arrived and helped the First Legion destroy the Parademons and pin Steppenwolf beneath layers of Sentinels.
• Steppenwolf unleashed a powerful shockwave to free himself and discovered that his Parademon soldiers were gone.

The Utopia Alliance defeated Steppenwolf’s invading forces and captured him, securing all three Mother Boxes. Su Chen ordered researchers to reverse the boxes’ method of contacting Darkseid and planned to prepare the legions for a future conquest.

• The Utopia Alliance wiped out nearly all of Steppenwolf’s Parademons, leaving only a few scattered survivors.
• Steppenwolf hurled his axe at Emma Frost, but the Third Legion commander kicked it off course and suffered a shattered foot.
• Su Chen appeared after the battle and praised the Third Legion commander for protecting Emma Frost.
• The Utopia Alliance began recovering battlefield technology, including the Boom Tube and Parademon biotechnology, and studied all three Mother Boxes.
• Su Chen ordered the researchers to find and reverse the Mother Boxes’ method of summoning Darkseid.
• Su Chen told Emma Frost to keep training the legions together until they were ready to become the Genesis Legion and conquer the universe.

Su Chen reassured Emma Frost about the legions’ heavy losses and praised the Utopia Alliance for defeating Steppenwolf’s forces. He revealed himself at the battlefield, punished Steppenwolf, and ordered the alliance to treat him as spoils of war as it prepared to conquer the universe.

• Emma Frost reported that the First Legion had lost or damaged many Sentinels, while the Third and Fourth Legions had each been reduced to roughly half strength.
• Su Chen told Emma Frost that the alliance could recover and that defeating powerful enemies mattered more than the number of legions.
• Su Chen secretly followed the alliance to the battlefield and caught Steppenwolf’s axe after the Third Legion’s commander kicked it away from Emma Frost.
• Su Chen praised the alliance, commended the Third Legion’s commander, and warned Emma Frost to stay alert.
• Su Chen kicked Steppenwolf into a distant hill and told the alliance to restrain him.
• Su Chen corrected the commander, declaring that the alliance took spoils of war rather than prisoners as it prepared to conquer the universe.

After the Fourth Legion detected another hostile figure heading toward Earth, Su Chen left to intercept it himself. He reached the Legion’s asteroid base and ordered its members to stand down, preparing to confront the slow-moving target alone.

• Su Chen reassured Emma Frost that the Utopia Alliance had met his expectations and could leave the remaining difficulties to him.
• The Fourth Legion detected an unusual object approaching Earth from the direction Steppenwolf had come and alerted Su Chen.
• Su Chen told Emma Frost to rest and flew toward the Fourth Legion’s asteroid base.
• The Fourth Legion reported that the target would arrive in a few hours and proposed intercepting it before it reached Earth.
• Su Chen identified the target on the monitoring screen and ordered the Fourth Legion to lock onto its trajectory, then return to resting.

Su Chen intercepted a meteorite-like creature that had destroyed a planet and pierced its shell with a cosmic-energy attack. The creature revived, adapted to his energy, and revealed a powerful body, leaving Su Chen facing its crimson eye beams.

• Su Chen ignored the squad leaders’ warnings and pursued the incoming target after the Fourth Legion reported it had destroyed a planet.
• Su Chen pierced the meteorite-like target, breaking its shell and exposing biological tissue inside.
• The creature’s fragments reassembled, and its revived shell resisted Su Chen’s cosmic-energy beam.
• The creature opened its shell, revealed a towering monster, and silently roared at Su Chen in space.
• The monster fired crimson beams from its eyes, and Su Chen dodged as it swept the beams sideways.

Su Chen recognized the monster’s Kryptonian aura, captured it in a Green Lantern cage, and brought it back to the asteroid for study. The Utopia Alliance learned the creature was Doomsday and recalled the destruction it had caused on Earth, while Su Chen anticipated the coming invasion and the legions recovered.

• Su Chen dodged the monster’s laser beams until they weakened, then watched it break free of its protective shell and expose its aura.
• Su Chen recognized the monster’s resemblance to Superman and trapped it inside a sphere of emerald-green branches.
• Su Chen brought the captured monster to the asteroid, assigned the Fourth Legion to guard it, and ordered the alliance on Earth to study it as biological material.
• Su Chen returned to Earth while the legions prepared to recover their strength before the coming all-out attack.
• The Utopia Alliance identified the monster as Doomsday and recalled its past battles on Earth, including the time it had gravely wounded and killed Superman.
• The staff members reacted with alarm as they remembered Doomsday’s history, explaining why the Fourth Legion had treated it as a serious threat.

Su Chen decided to establish a research institute to bring the Utopia Alliance’s scattered scientific projects under coordinated management. At the Fourth Legion’s base, its members mourned that Doomsday’s arrival had interrupted the planet’s transformation just as it neared completion.

• Researchers traveled to the asteroid to study the imprisoned Doomsday and collect biological samples.
• Su Chen told Emma Frost that the Utopia Alliance’s research efforts were disorganized and needed coordination.
• Emma Frost agreed to establish a research institute as the Alliance’s third major system alongside command and combat.
• Researchers began taking tissue from Doomsday and discussing how his resistance to death might develop.
• At the Fourth Legion’s assembly point, its members lamented that the transformed asteroid had been one step away from completion.

The Utopia Alliance established its Research Department, including a Biochemical Division beside the cosmic prison, after researchers discovered that the Doomsday they had studied was likely a clone that collapsed when its safeguards were triggered. With Earth 1 settling into the Alliance’s new order, its legions rebuilt their forces and prepared for further expansion, while the Fourth Legion began conquering other planets and galaxies.

• Researchers concluded that the Doomsday who turned into water was probably a weakened clone whose genetic safeguards had been triggered.
• The researchers secured permission to study criminals deemed beyond redemption and organized the institute into Magic, Technology, and Biochemical divisions.
• The Research Department’s new work accelerated, helping heal Third Legion veterans and other wounded soldiers.
• The First Legion rebuilt and expanded its Sentinel forces, while the Third Legion recovered, trained, and recruited newcomers.
• The Second Legion remained with Hela on Asgard as its undead soldiers processed their battle experiences into new intelligence.
• The Fourth Legion took charge of the cosmic prison and Biochemical Division, then began expanding its conquest across planets and galaxies.

Su Chen ordered the Utopia Alliance to attack Darkseid's Planet after its legions had recovered and the Fourth Legion had begun bringing Universe 1 under their control. The alliance used Steppenwolf's blood to activate the Mother Boxes and prepare a Boom Tube, while Su Chen set out the invasion's three echelons and planned to join the fighting.

• Su Chen reviewed reports of the Fourth Legion's decisive expansion across Universe 1 and received word that the other legions were ready to fight.
• Su Chen ordered the alliance to assemble, then told its members they would punish the enemy who had attacked Earth and inflicted losses on them.
• The alliance displayed the tortured Steppenwolf and brought out the three Mother Boxes; a Sentinel killed Steppenwolf, splashing his blood across the boxes and strengthening their energy.
• A research institute member told Su Chen that the Mother Boxes had located Darkseid's Planet and could transport all three legions through a Boom Tube.
• Su Chen ordered the First Legion to establish a front line, senior members of the Second and Third Legions to set up a command center, and the rest of the Third Legion to follow in a third echelon.

Su Chen led the Utopia Alliance’s forces through the Boom Tubes to Darkseid’s Planet, where they faced Darkseid and his Parademon legions. Darkseid recognized that Steppenwolf had failed and prepared to unleash dormant forces as he approached Su Chen’s army.

• Su Chen ordered the three Mother Boxes to open Boom Tubes, and soldiers and Sentinels entered the passages in successive waves.
• Su Chen and the second echelon arrived on Darkseid’s Planet, where they found the world crowded with Parademons.
• Darkseid waited for Steppenwolf’s signal, then sensed a passage opening and realized Steppenwolf had failed.
• Millions of Sentinels and fighters arrived through the Boom Tubes, and Su Chen sensed that Darkseid’s Planet lay at the junction of several universes.
• Darkseid ordered a Parademon to release dormant forces, then floated toward Su Chen’s army.
• Emma Frost remarked that Darkseid looked like Thanos.

Su Chen and the First and Third Legions confronted Darkseid on his planet, where Darkseid sent two Superman-like fighters to test Su Chen’s strength. Su Chen survived their combined attack without harm, while the battle between the legions began.

• Darkseid learned Su Chen had conquered multiple universes and demanded that he prove his strength, then ordered the Parademons to kill the intruders.
• Su Chen ordered the First and Third Legions to attack the Parademons while he intercepted two bolts of lightning sent toward him.
• Su Chen’s collision with the two attackers produced a shockwave that turned nearby Parademons to powder, and the attackers were revealed as two Superman-like beings.
• One attacker pressed a glowing green stone to his chest, and both fighters fired heat and freezing beams at Su Chen.
• Su Chen used a Green Lantern construct to neutralize both beams and explained that opposing energies annihilated each other before their destructive force could build.

Su Chen defeated Bizarro and severely damaged Cyborg Superman while the Utopia Alliance's legions held their line against the Parademons. He then restrained Cyborg Superman and tore out his head and part of his spine, leaving the battle's outcome against Darkseid unresolved.

• Su Chen used energy mirrors to counter Cyborg Superman and Bizarro's opposing beams, then charged through their breath attacks and seized them.
• Su Chen battered the two Kryptonians into the ground, killed Bizarro, and left Cyborg Superman badly damaged before he escaped.
• The Utopia Alliance's First and Third Legions formed a coordinated defensive line and steadily killed the charging Parademons.
• Su Chen examined Cyborg Superman's mixture of Kryptonian flesh and mechanical enhancements, then decided to pursue Darkseid at his palace.
• Cyborg Superman tried to attack Su Chen again, so Su Chen bound him with green chains and tore out his head and part of his spine.

Su Chen confronted Darkseid in his palace after defeating Cyborg Superman and Bizarro, while the Utopia Alliance fought the Parademons outside. Darkseid’s psychic tactics briefly endangered the Alliance, but Su Chen struck him down and their clash unleashed a devastating shockwave across the battlefield.

• Cyborg Superman’s still-functioning mechanical eye transmitted footage of Su Chen’s battle to his creator, who decided to investigate.
• Su Chen reached Darkseid’s palace, destroyed its gates, and faced Darkseid on his throne.
• Darkseid used his psychic power to coordinate the Parademons, allowing them to overwhelm parts of the Utopia Alliance’s defenses until Su Chen interrupted him with a punch.
• Darkseid rose in anger and charged Su Chen, and the two began fighting in the palace.
• A tremendous impact sent waves through the ground, sweeping up Parademons and leaving the battlefield strewn with their remains.