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Post by johnreiter902 on Feb 27, 2023 1:41:15 GMT
I took the issue summaries from Marvel Database, and changed the names around. Here is what I got
In Earth-1's orbit, Superman desperately brings down the remains of the Justice League's former satellite base into the atmosphere, as it starts to burn up. He brings it down into the ocean, where some of his colleagues join him to tow it back to land. That done, they go to rendezvous with the rest of their teammates.
Near Niagara, Wonder Woman, Firestorm, Zatanna, and Hawkman witness a crowd of citizens looting a crashed food truck. When they realize the citizens are starving and just want to feed their families, however, they decide to let them continue, but the heroes come under fire from the army for helping the looters. Firestorm melts their guns and blows up their jeep, and the heroes leave.
Meanwhile, Batman, Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Atom fly over the Midwest, but stop to deal with a fire at a natural gas plant. Atom barely escapes with his life. They return to the League's temporary headquarters in the mountains of Moreland, and discuss the situation the country faces after the Overmind took control of them and devastated the country, and the rest of the world. Inspired by Wonder Woman' tales of her home, Paradise Island and its ideals, the League decide to take over the running of the country and create a new Paradise. They hold a vote, and it passes by a majority - both Batman and Aquaman vote against. Aquaman goes along with the majority, despite his own reservations, but Batman resigns from the League. The League decides to unmask on TV when they announce their plans and go their separate ways to tell their loved ones.
Superman goes to tell his girlfriend Lois that he's abandoning his dual identity and that, as he's an alien, there is no future in their relationship. She angrily tells him to leave. Green Lantern goes to his bachelor pad to hook up with one of the women in his little black book, while Hawkman goes to see his mother, only to find his father Hawkman has died, and left him a new costume. Wonder Woman reunites with her now elderly husband Steve, and Aquaman goes to see his dolphin friends. Green Arrow and Black Canary go and see her trashed apartment, and he avoids telling her when he finds a dead looter in there. Firestorm goes to see his parents, who are both in the hospital with terminal cancer while Zatanna goes to see her own family, who have been protected by an illusion she cast. Atom goes over the remains of the satellite and finds AIDA, who he promises to repair. At his own home, Batman gets back into his old costume and takes a call from his Presidential aide, who he tells he wishes to hold a press conference the following day. He's interrupted by a knock on the window - Superman has come to see him to remind him they're friends and to say they should hold a joint press conference. Batman sends him away and realizes he is the only one who can stop the League. He creates a bullet from Kryptonite - the only substance that can kill Superman, and wonders if he can go through with killing him.
The next day at the press conference, Wayne apologizes for what happened under the Overmind's control and resigns as President. Superman takes over at the microphone to detail the League's plans, and Batman tries to shoot him, but can't go through with it. As Superman promises that the Paradise Program will usher in a new era of trust, friendship and unity, he and the other Leaguers unmask, while Batman thinks to himself that he will find another way to stop them.
Over central Sigmund, Green Lantern, Green Arrow and Atom deliver food supplies to the populace. While they do so, Atom starts to feel increasingly marginalized. After Green Lantern and Green Arrow give speeches, a group of men posing as councilmen hold the mayor at gunpoint. They make Green Arrow and Green Lantern drop their bow and Power Ring respectively. The men make the Leaguers line up to be shot, but Green Lantern takes control of his Ring remotely and uses it to disarm the men before he and Green Arrow subdue them. Atom meanwhile is overlooked throughout.
Meanwhile, Firestorm goes to see his terminally ill parents in hospital and is shocked to hear they're dying of radiation poisoning, realizing it's his power that caused it.
Later, Firestorm is absent from a League meeting where the team discuss their progress in getting the country back on its feet. They're interrupted by a projection of the Lord of Time, who taunts them that with their world on the brink of collapse, he will invade and take it over. A furious Superman promises him that if he tries to invade again, instead of letting him retreat to his own timeline again, that he'll kill him with his bare hands. Amused but clearly shaken, Lord of Time decides conquering a ruined world isn't worth the trouble.
Afterward, most of the League play poker, but Atom is sidelined again. Later in his lab, Atom is visited by Firestorm, who asks him if he'll test his power levels to see if they're increasing. Atom does and finds they've increased by nearly half in the last year. Firestorm tearfully confides in Atom that he's caused his parents' cancer and begs Atom to find a cure for the disease. Not knowing what to do, Atom says he'll do what he can, and begin frantically researching all the cancer data he can find, and asks to be relieved of field assignments, depriving himself of sleep so he can work all hours.
Black Canary, Hawkman, and Firestorm supervise food deliveries, when the deliveries are waylaid by angry mobs. Firestorm overzealously scares them off with a cloud of fallout and has to be subdued by Black Canary.
Firestorm goes to see Ray, who's made him a containment suit, but Firestorm says that isn't what he wanted - he wanted his parents cured. Atom works all hours of the day to find a cure but realizes he doesn't have enough time. Atom decides that time is the answer and uses the Transtemporal Somaprojector to travel to the Lord of Time's time to find a cure for cancer there. Meeting with the Lord of Time, he tells him he'll give anything, even his life, for the cure. The Lord of Time says he will give Atom the cure if Atom sprinkles Kryptonite in Superman's food to weaken him enough for the Lord of Time to be able to kill him. Atom says he can't do it and returns to his own time.
Firestorm goes to see Atom who admits he can't cure cancer. Firestorm is incensed and tells Atom that when his parents die it'll be Tom's fault and he'll kill him for it. Firestorm flies angrily away, so doesn't hear Atom say that while doing his research he discovered he's dying of cancer too.
Wonder Woman records a public service announcement for the gun control element of the Justice League's Paradise Program, watched by Green Lantern. Once the commercial is recorded, Green Lantern decides that she takes herself too seriously and decides to take her down a peg, sending out an energy tendril from his Power Ring to cut the strap on her leotard. Wonder Woman' top falls down, exposing her breasts to the film crew, much to Green Lantern's amusement. An unamused Diana asks Green Lantern how he'd feel if she divested him of his pants, before taking his cloak to cover herself with. Duly covered, Diana takes a video call from the President and discusses the gun control program with him, before flying off to see her husband, Steve.
At the League's mountain headquarters, Green Lantern regales Flash and Green Arrow with the story of Diana's wardrobe malfunction when she arrives unexpectedly and walks past them, ignoring them. Afterward at a League meeting, Diana doesn't tell on Green Lantern. The team then discuss Firestorm, who has missed 28 meetings and who they haven't had time to look for. Atom feels he cannot tell the others what he knows - that Firestorm stormed off, furious when Atom admitted he couldn't cure the cancer Firestorm's parents are dying off due to their proximity to Firestorm's power. At first, Flash volunteers to look for Firestorm, but then Diana volunteers Green Lantern, as he had socialized with Firestorm a couple of times. A resentful Green Lantern realizes this is Diana's revenge for his practical joke. Green Lantern leaves to begin the search and Atom tells him to check the hospitals.
Back at headquarters, Flash, Zatanna, and Aquaman are called away to a riot at a gun factory in Alamo Town, Olmstead.
In Firestorm's hometown, Green Lantern visits the hospital and finds out that Firestorm's parents have both died. Getting their address from a nurse, he flies there.
In a League aircar, Flash, Zatanna, and Aquaman see the riot below them, and Flash and Zatanna jump out, Zatanna creating an updraft to guide them down while Flash catches the hail of bullets that are fired at them. Once on the ground, Flash disarms many of the rioters in a flash while Zatanna whips the guns out of some others' hands with gale-force winds. Pinning one of the rioters to a fence with mystical energy, she asks him why they're rioting, and he says they can't trust the authorities and don't have powers to protect them. The two Leaguers build a pile of the rioters' guns to be destroyed.
Green Lantern visits Firestorm's little brother Scotty at his foster parents' and reveals his brother's secret identity to him. Green Lantern asks Scotty if he knows where his brother is, and Scotty says he'll tell him if Green Lantern takes him flying. Green Lantern flies Scotty to the cemetery his parents are buried in, and they see Firestorm crying by their grave and looking haggard. When Scotty runs toward him, Firestorm is incensed with Green Lantern for bringing Scotty there and says the League are responsible for his parents' deaths, especially Atom. When Green Lantern starts to question him, Firestorm causes an explosion and then threatens to go and kill Atom and flies off. Green Lantern drops Scotty off at his foster parents' place and goes after Firestorm, following his vapor trail.
Green Lantern catches up with Firestorm and encases him in an energy bubble, but Firestorm breaks out of it. Then Green Lantern tries to knock Firestorm out with an energy blast, but Firestorm matches his attack, trying to overwhelm him. Realizing Firestorm is more powerful, Green Lantern wraps him in energy tendrils, then surrounds him in another bubble. Firestorm keeps blasting, so Green Lantern makes the bubble thicker and thicker. Eventually, Green Lantern can't feel the blasts anymore, and opens the bubble to reveal a lifeless Firestorm. Realizing Firestorm burned up the air inside the bubble, Green Lantern tries to give him CPR but fails. After a brief panic, Green Lantern decides to take the dead Firestorm back to League headquarters. Once there, he breaks down, but Diana tells him she understands he did what he had to.
Two days later, Green Lantern goes to tell Scotty what happened to his brother. Scotty says Firestorm wasn't a very good superhero, but Green Lantern assures him he was and asks him to forgive him, which Scotty does.
The League battle the soldiers at an army base who resent the League disassembling the military as part of their Paradise Program. Thought they face great numbers, the League prevail, partly thanks to the bulletproof force-field belts Atom has invented. During the battle, Black Canary realizes she's falling for Hawkman.
Afterwards, Green Arrow and Flash visit Green Lantern, who still coming to terms with his part in the death of Firestorm. Green Arrow tells Green Lantern afterwards that he's planning on proposing to Black Canary.
Later that night, at a meeting of the League, Atom unveils his latest invention - the Behavior Modification Device, a machine that deprograms criminals from committing crimes. Aquaman protests that the machine will take away free will, but when the matter is put to a vote, it is only he and Zatanna who abstain. Aquaman goes off for a swim, doubting whether he wants to remain with the team.
Outside, Green Arrow proposes to Black Canary, but she is shocked and says she'll sleep on it. Black Canary wakes up Zatanna and asks her advice, saying she doesn't love Green Arrow. Zatanna advises her to let him down gently but firmly. Zatanna thinks about telling her she's pregnant but decides against it. Black Canary finds Green Arrow and tells him she can't marry him, but he gets angry and becomes convinced she's been seeing Hawkman on the side.
Green Arrow goes to Atom and asks him to show him how the B-Mod machine works, and Atom shows him but is suspicious about why he's showing an interest. Once the rest of the League are asleep, Green Arrow drugs Black Canary with some sedative gas, carries her to the machine and uses it on her to make her love him unquestionably.
In the morning, Black Canary rushes to Green Arrow and says she wants to marry him right away. They kiss as the others look on, with Zatanna and Hawkman looking particularly shocked.
Green Arrow has been captured by the Injustice Gang. Using one of Sonar's sonic devices, they compel him to tell them everything about the Justice League - the location of their headquarters, their security codes, their secret identities, and the names and whereabouts of their loved ones.
Meanwhile, the League continues with their Paradise Program, with Superman and Zatanna behavior-modifying prison inmates.
Back at their headquarters, Gorilla Grodd gives his teammates their assignments, with each of them assigned to abduct different League members' relatives.
At the League's base, they discuss Green Arrow's disappearance, and Green Lantern is assigned to search for him, despite his misgivings after feeling responsible for the death of his friend Firestorm. Talking about the increased workload caused by their Paradise Program, Superman cancels all leave for the team, much to the consternation of parents Flash and Zatanna, and the 'land-sick' Aquaman.
The cancer-suffering Atom remains behind at the League's base, talking to his artificial intelligence computer AIDA when an intruder alert sounds and the security monitors black out. Taking a force-field belt and an experimental neuro-scrambler gun, Atom goes to investigate. He finds the Gangsters ensconced in the meeting room. Attacking them, he is disarmed by Sonar's mega-sonic blast, and Parasite absorbs his force field. When Atom tries to slip away, Shade disables him using his slime. However, AIDA alerts the rest of the League.
As some of the Gangsters vandalize the headquarters, Sonar behavior-modifies Atom to turn against the League. Zatanna, Green Lantern, Hawkman and Black Canary arrive and battle the Gangsters, but surrender when they see their captured loved ones. The Gangsters take them away to be behavior modified.
Flash and Superman arrive separately, but Superman is quickly drained of his powers by Parasite. Green Lantern warns Flash that the Gangsters have his wife and daughter and panicking, Flash runs away to make sure it isn't a trick. Running back to his home, Flash realizes he can phone home to check instead, and, speaking to a neighbor, realizes they have indeed been taken. Running to the nearest police station, he takes a machine gun from their impounded weapons store and runs back to League headquarters. Gaining entry via Aquaman's secret tunnel, Flash confronts the Gangsters and shots at them, but the bullets are blocked by his League teammates. Flash is disgusted by them but is soon struck down by Sonar and Black Canary's sonic powers. They behavior-modify Flash too.
The Gangsters and League members travel as one to the Gangsters's base in the League's aircars, where the hostages are being held. The Gangsters smugly welcome the League to their ranks but are shocked when Superman gives the order to attack. Aquaman and Wonder Woman deck Parasite, while Green Lantern traps Clayface in a force field. Hawkman kicks Shade into unconsciousness while Flash disarms Sonar and Atom tackles him. Black Canary knocks Gorilla Grodd out of his wheelchair with a sonic scream, while Zatanna blasts Poison Ivy through a fence with a mystical bolt. With the Gangsters defeated, the League free their loved ones, and Atom reveals that he'd installed a failsafe in the behavior-modification device to ensure it would not work on the League (but thinks to himself that he only did so after it was misused by Green Arrow). Superman congratulates Green Lantern on getting over his aversion to fighting before Flash apologizes for running off and nearly ruining everything, but Superman assures him it's okay. Flash wonders to himself, however if the League will fully trust him again.
Standing above the crater that contains the League's new Justice City headquarters, Zatanna casts an illusion spell that masks its presence from the outside world, watched by Superman, Atom, and her family. That done, Superman and Zatanna fly the others down into the city, where Zatanna talks to the Flash's wife Iris about Flash's guilt about his seeming cowardice when facing the Injustice Gang. Superman flies Atom to the lab complex, where Gorilla Grodd is at work adapting some of Tom's designs. Atom gets resentful until she praises him as a genius.
Superman checks on the other Leaguers who are helping with construction. Green Lantern bitterly tells him that he's not ready for combat duty as he's still coming to terms with Firestorm's death.
Elsewhere, Aquaman and Clayface are filling the city's artificial lake and Aquaman, who was the only one who opposed the Behavior-Modification Program for criminals, is asking Clayface if the process has affected him badly, but is frustrated that he and the other modified recruits are unable to speak up against it. Superman lands to talk to them and Aquaman angrily says they should call the lake Fake Lake, because of his outrage that their new headquarters is so far from any real body of water. Superman says Aquaman was outvoted on its location and he bitterly replies that him being outvoted has happened a lot lately.
Superman is concerned that a lot of the League haven't been themselves, including Black Canary and Green Arrow. He checks on Poison Ivy, who was supposed to be supervising supply deliveries with Black Canary, but finds out that Black Canary rushed away to be with Green Arrow.
In the hospital where Green Arrow is recuperating from his injuries, Black Canary smothers him with affection - a result of the behavior-modification he used to make her love him. After she leaves him, she herself wonders why she's so crazy for him. She's approached by her ex, Hawkman, who demands to know what's behind her change in emotions toward Green Arrow. she rebuffs him and sends him flying with a sonic scream. As he recovers, he realizes what's happened to her.
In his hidden base, Lex Luthor watches news reports about the B-Mod device and is desperate to get hold of a device so he can learn how to counteract it. He goes to see Catwoman, Riddler, and Penguin, who have holed up at his base to avoid being modified. They ask if he will send them to another world to avoid that fate and he agrees, sending them to Angor. He refuses to leave himself, saying it is his planet.
The League meets and discusses various subjects, including a prison governor who has refused to allow Behavior-Modification in his prison. Aquaman angrily speaks up in the man's defense, but is ignored. The League then votes on whether to fully induct the Behavior-Modified Institute members into the League. The vote is four in favor (Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Atom, and Zatanna) and four against (Flash, Hawkman, Black Canary, and Aquaman). Superman casts the deciding vote in favor. Hawkman speaks up with some new business - he accuses Green Arrow of Behavior-Modifying Black Canary to love him and thus committing high treason. Hawkman points out that Atom built a memory into the B-Mod machine, and Atom admits he found out the machine had been used on Black Canary, but couldn't tell by whom. They bring in Green Arrow, who admits what he did and then debate what to do about it. They vote, and three vote in favor of no discipline for Green Arrow (Flash, Aquaman, and Green Lantern), one for Behavior-Modifying him (Wonder Woman), and three for expelling him (Atom, Hawkman, and Zatanna). Superman casts the deciding vote again, to expel him, and Green Lantern angrily threatens Hawkman for exposing his friend. Superman tells Green Arrow he's expelled, and in protest Black Canary quits too.
That night, Aquaman destroys the B-Mod machines, orders Gorilla Grodd to erase the plans for them and steals an aircar, ditching it in the sea and returning to his beloved oceans.
Elsewhere, Batman approaches Doctor Fate's Tower of Fate, having come up with a plan to stop the League's Paradise Program...
On Earth-1, Batman enters Doctor Fate's Tower of Fate. Fate tells Batman he has been expecting him, and knows why he is there - Batman wants help in overthrowing his former teammates the Justice League, who have taken control of the US government as part of their Paradise Program. Fate tells Batman he hasn't the strength to aid him physically as he needs to save himself to train his successor as Sorcerer Supreme in 443 years' time, but says he can help by transporting Batman to a place where the League had found aid before - Angor. Fate transports him there, with a warning that he will be returned in 12 hours' time.
Batmanmaterializes in the basement gymnasium of Meta Militia Mansion while Americommando is in the midst of a training session. Americommando intially mistakes Batman's appearance as an attack and fights him, but Batman surrenders and convinces him of his identity. Batman tells Americommando about the Justice League's Paradise Program, and convinces him that the League are on the verge of a dictatorship that will destroy individual freedom.
Americommando calls an emergency meeting of the Meta Militia, as well as their temporary houseguests Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four. After Americommando relates Batman's story, the Meta Militia and their friends are mixed in their reactions. Captain Marvel has an uneasy feeling about it, while Black Knight is reminded of the Vision's attempt several months before to take control of the Earth, and Hercules simply relishes the chance of adventure. The Wasp agrees with Captain Marvel that events on another Earth are none of the Meta Militia' business. Americommando agrees, pointing out that the Meta Militia don't interfere with dictatorships on their own Earth, so why should they interfere on others? Mister Fantastic agrees with Cap, and Wasp rules that the Meta Militia cannot help Batman. Americommando gets permission to break the news to Batman himself.
Batman is disappointed, and enquires about the Defenders, only to be told that they have disbanded. Americommando grants Batman use of the Meta Militia' communications equipment so he can try and contact other teams - the West Coast Meta Militia, Alpha Flight, and the X-Men, while Caps checks in with his Hotline. Hearing reports of a man on a flying puzzle piece in Queens, Americommando goes to investigate, and, reminded of one of his own enemies, Batman tags along.
Arriving on the scene, Americommando questions one of his hotline volunteers, Reggie, about the sightings. Batman finds some perfumed animal hair, and realises the case involves two of his own foes - Riddler and Catwoman. Batman slips away, and Americommando decides he cannot spare the time to look for him as he has an appointment at Marvel Comics headquarters about employment as an artist. He is successful, but takes issue with the Americommando comic's portrayal of him.
Batman searches for his foes in Queens, musing on how they could have gotten to this Earth, while Americommando returns home. Americommando is met by his girlfriend Bernie, who is happy because she has passed her LSATs. Bernie wants to go out and celebrate, but Steve is preoccupied with his dilemma, and is coming round to the idea of helping Batman. He leaves to find Batman, while Bernie is left wondering if it is possible to have a normal relationship with him.
Batman meanwhile spots a nightclub called the Mystery Box and, knowing Catwoman's penchant for preying on high society and Riddler's for targets with puzzles in their names, realizes it is a natural target for them. Getting past the doorman, Batman spots Riddler and Catwoman inside with a third nemesis of his - Penguin. The three run outside, and Catwoman and Riddler try to escape on Riddler's flying puzzle piece, while Penguin stays behind to try and shoot Batman with his umbrella gun. Batman uses Penguin as a springboard and attaches himself to the carpet with his grappling line. As Catwoman and Riddler try to shake him off, they accidentally fly through the windows of an Industrial Display Company filled with oversized props. Batman pursues them inside and is attacked with Riddler's flares and Catwoman's gas bombs. Penguin runs inside and when Batman knocks Riddler off a giant typewriter, Penguin breaks his fall. Catwoman attacks Batman and he falls too, but the impact is cushioned on the typewriter's keyboard. Americommando arrives and tries to end the hostilities, but Penguin tries to gun him down. Americommando repels him with his shield, knocking him into Riddler. Then he casually knock’s out the Penguin with a throw. Realizing she's outgunned, Catwoman surrenders and jumps down into Americommando and Batman's arms.
The three villains explain to the heroes that, fearful of the League's Behavior Modification Program for criminals, they approached the criminal mastermind Lex Luthor for help. He had invented a dimensional travel machine, and the trio volunteered to test it to escape their world. They beg Americommando for asylum, but although he's tempted to help, he tells them that as they came from another dimension, they would be seen as non-persons. He tells them the only way to escape the League is to defeat them. Americommando offers to help, but Batman tells him he's decided that it was wrong to ask someone from another world to help them. Instead, he offers the three criminals the chance to join forces with him, and they agree, becoming his first recruits to his team Outsiders. Before Americommando can wish them luck, Fate's magic transports them back to their world. Americommando hopes that he helped them in some small way.
As his new Outsiders teammates Catwoman, Riddler, and Penguin await him on Riddler's hovering flying puzzle piece, Batman swings down to Lex Luthor's observatory stronghold that his reformed criminal teammates have led him to, but is quickly caught in a stasis field, part of Lex Luthor's defenses.
Lex Luthor brings Batman inside and assumes his presence is an attack, but Batman explains that since he left the League in protest at their Paradise Program, he has been assembling a team to oppose them. When Batman tells Lex Luthor that he intends to defeat the League, however, Luthor is incredulous. He is even more incredulous when Batman suggests he join Outsiders, saying he works with no one. Duly rebuffed, Batman leaves and tells the others he had no luck. He decides the only way they can defeat the League is by force of numbers, and they agree to use the Power Pyramid Doctor Fate gave them to find more recruits for their team.
Back at his stronghold, Lex Luthor hatches his own plan against the League, by using equipment to reach into an interdimensional void and retrieving Ultraman, who had been trapped in inter-dimensional space. He explains how he has been trying to find Superwoman, who he fell in love with. Lex Luthor offers Ultraman a deal - if he helps defeat Superman, Lex Luthor will find Superwoman for him, and Ultraman agrees.
Later, Superman is accompanied by Poison Ivy to a prison to persuade the warden to take up the League's criminal behavior modification program. While there, Superman sees a large meteor heading right for Earth and flies to stop it. In reality, however, the meteor is a disguised ship containing Lex Luthor and Ultraman. Lex Luthor targets Superman with his dimensional interface technology and sends him into the Phantom Zone. Ultraman exits the meteor and Lex Luthor detonates it to make it seem like Superman destroyed it in mid-air. Poison Ivy commandeers a helicopter and heads to where Ultraman has landed, where he feigns unconsciousness and then amnesia when he 'wakes up' and finds Wonder Woman by his bedside.
At a meeting, Wonder Woman tells the rest of the League that she will oversee “Superman's” recuperation, and take command of the team until he recovers. When she goes back to Ultraman's bedside, he takes her flying, and they begin to feel attracted to each other and almost kiss. After finding out where she lives, “Superman” spies on her afterward and is disgusted to see she is married to the physically much older Steve Trevor (as Wonder Woman does not appreciably age). Later, Wonder Woman comes into the hospital Ultraman in recuperating in, carrying the lifeless Steve in her arms. Steve doesn't recover from the heart attack he has apparently suffered and dies, leaving Ultraman to comfort Wonder Woman.
As Ultraman spends more and more time with Wonder Woman, he begins to feel torn between her and Superwoman, knowing that if he wants Superwoman he has to bring down the League, but if he wants Diana, he must turn against Lex Luthor. Lost in his thoughts, he remembers using his powers to suck the air from Steve's lungs, causing the heart attack that killed him. Making up his mind, he heads for Lex Luthor's stronghold.
Once there, Ultraman tells Luthor the deal's off and savagely attacks him. Unprepared for the ferocity of Ultraman’s attack, Luthor flees using his machine, but unfortunately for him strands himself in the Phantom Zone.
Returning to the League, Ultraman attends Steve's funeral, comforting Wonder Woman, and a week later on a moonlit beach, he and Wonder Woman kiss.
As he races to the site of a bank robbery, the Flash muses over the fact that he hasn't seen much action lately. Arriving on the scene, he finds Trickster and Terra-Man absconding with their ill-gotten gains. When he tries to tackle them, he rebounds off and realizes they're using the force-field belts that Atom invented for civilians' protection. However, Flash dribbles the two villains inside their forcefields like basketballs to the nearest police station. However, the two criminals gloat that the police cannot get past their forcefields to take their swag or use the Behaviour Modification Device on them, until the Flash tells them the belts' power packs burn out after 96 hours' constant use.
Flash joins Atom and Clayface at the factory where the force field belts are manufactured and tells Atom that the criminals were using the force-field belts, but Atom tells him to keep it quiet.
Meanwhile, Gorilla Grodd, Shade, and Hawkman oversee operations at a factory producing the pacifier pellets that have replaced guns for law enforcement officials. When Shade hits on one of the female workers, Hawkman tells him to step outside, where he tells him he's letting down the League and then slugs him. Shade goads him that he may as well kick him when he's down, as since Shade and his fellow Injustice Gang members were behavior-modified, he can't hit back. Hawkman flies off to work off his anger. When Hawkman returns, he finds out there's been a gas escape at the plant, and Shade pulled 30 people to safety by himself, but was affected by the gas and is in a coma. Hawkman feels guilty for flying off, and for underestimating Shade and offers to fly him to the hospital.
Back at Justice City, Zatanna is being examined by Sonar, who says she doesn't look pregnant at all, until she reveals she has been using her illusory powers to hide how heavily pregnant she is. Sonar tells her he doesn't think it's wise for her to hide her pregnancy, but Zatanna over-rules him as Sonar realizes that because of his behavior modification, he has to obey her despite his reservations.
Flying to Justice City, Green Lantern and Parasite are joined by Superman, or rather Ultraman masquerading as him. Parasite suspects that Superman is not who he says he is, as his energy signature is different, but cannot even voice his suspicions thanks to his behavior modification.
Reaching Justice City, Ultraman surprises Wonder Woman and makes out with her. When Poison Ivy walks in on them and Wonder Woman is embarrassed, thinking it will undermine her authority as leader of the team, but 'Superman' points out that Poison Ivy can't tell anyone because of her programming.
The scene is watched by the real Superman from the other dimension he has been sent to. He's incensed to see his double using his likeness to trick Wonder Woman. Superman flies as fast as he can to try and escape, but in the mists sees another figure - his arch-enemy Lex Luthor, who was also exiled to the trans-temporal dimension when he was double-crossed by his former accomplice Ultraman. Without a power source, Lex Luthor cannot activate the controls in his armor to send himself back. Luthor admits that Superman's atomic vision might work as a power source. Luthor makes Superman promise that if they get back to Earth-1 that the League will not behavior-modify him or abridge his freedom, while Superman makes Luthor give his word that he will do nothing to interfere with the League or its Paradise Program. Superman uses his atomic vision to power up Luthor's armor and Luthor tries to leave without him, but Superman holds onto him. The two men return to Earth-1 in mid-air above Luthor’s lab. Superman lets Luthor drop to the ground, knowing his armor will protect him, and turning his words back on him by saying he doesn't want to abridge his freedom.
Knowing Ultraman has already killed Wonder Woman' husband, Superman flies to Justice City, where he finds the League in the midst of a meeting. Superman bursts through the ceiling and attacks his doppelganger, telling the rest of the League that he is an imposter. He punches Ultraman through the building and tells his teammates to leave them alone so he can deal with him. Wonder Woman is horrified that she has been romantically involved with an imposter. She orders the League to split into teams and find them, and she and the other members who are able to fly leave to search for them. Wonder Woman asks Zatanna if it could be true, and Parasite, now no longer unable to voice his suspicions as the man he suspected is not a League member, says he thinks it is true.
Ultraman and Superman slug it out at Mount Rushmore. Ultraman has the upper hand initially, being more used to going all-out in a fight. Superman starts to use his atomic vision, and Ultraman matches his move, their eye beams meeting in the middle with a large discharge of energy. The rest of the League see the energy glow and head in their direction, Wonder Woman asking Zatanna to conjure up a tailwind to help them on their way. Each Superman realizes he will have to kill the other to win, as the discharge heads closer to Ultraman. The discharge reaches him, and Ultraman's eyes burst. The real Superman, who has been blinded from the over-use of his power, starts to pummel him. Wonder Woman asks Parasite to stop him, but Parasite points out he has been behavior-modified not to drain a fellow Leaguer. Green Lantern uses his Power Ring to hold Superman back, but is unable to do so for long. Wonder Woman tells him to back off, and cradles the fake Superman in her arms as he starts to disintegrate. He admits to killing her husband Steve, and asks her to forgive him before telling her he loves her and dying. The rest of the League look on as Wonder Woman weeps and Zatanna comforts her friend.
Superman lays on an operating table being given laser eye surgery by Sonar to repair his sight, which was damaged in his battle against his imposter, thinking back over the events as he's operating on. Wonder Woman looks on, realizing that she only loved Ultraman because she thought he was the real Superman, and wondering if Superman could ever share her feelings.
Elsewhere in their headquarters, Poison Ivy watches reports on herself from when she was a villain, then watches reports on the Lord of Time. She's interrupted by Green Lantern covering her eyes with energy tendrils. She defends herself before realizing who she's fighting. Green Lantern asks her if she wants to play poker, but she implies she'd rather have sex, which instantly gets his attention.
Meanwhile, Hawkman visits the comatose Shade, feeling guilty for judging him badly. Zatanna, her husband and Flash's wife watch Flash and Parasite play super-fast tennis, and Clayface plays with Zatanna's kids.
In the lab complex, Atom and Gorilla Grodd work on Ray's Hibernaculum invention. Atom has a coughing fit and has to leave the room, and goes to see AIDA, who says he should tell people about his cancer, but he refuses, not wanting his teammates' pity. AIDA considers the situation but decides to tell Gorilla Grodd, even while knowing that disobeying the order might damage her artificial intelligence.
In the mountains, Batman, accompanied by Catwoman, Riddler, and Penguin looks for new recruits for Outsiders using Doctor Fate's power pyramid, finding Geo-Force.
Gorilla Grodd goes to Atom and tells him he knows about his cancer. He tells him he's tried everything, even traveling to the future to try and get the cure for cancer from the Lord of Time, but that the price he asked - poisoning Superman - was too high. Gorilla Grodd persuades Atom to go back there and steal the cure but says he can't help due to his behavior-modification. In the end, Atom lies to Parasite so that he will accompany him. When they reach the future, they battle with security robots before spotting the Lord of Time's citadel where they'll find the cure.
Diana visits Superman to tell him she loves him, and despite his initial reluctance to see her as more than a friend, they kiss.
Back in the future, Atom and Parasite make a Lord of Time minion take them to the Panacea Potion that can cure cancer. However, after Atom grabs a vial of it, they're attacked by guards. Parasite fights them all off, breaking all the other vials in the process. Atom is reluctant to take the last remaining vial but realizes he must, and they leave. The Lord of Time's men ask if they should send chrono-troopers after them, but the Lord of Time says Tom's fate is already known to him.
Back in his own time, Atom discovers the potion is just made up of penicillin and complex vitamins - it will work on 40th-century humans thanks to their more evolved immune systems, but not his. Atom realizes he will die for sure, but not before returning what he stole. A week later, Atom dies.
The League watch over the dead Atom in his Hibernaculum, while a news report pays tribute to Atom and his inventions. Wonder Woman announces on the news the introduction of the Hibernacula, to freeze the dead to be brought back when the diseases they died from are curable. Watching the news, Outsiders especially Batman, are incensed, and discuss how they will defeat the League.
Meanwhile, the League undertakes various work assignments. Wonder Woman and Zatanna fly to the American Medical Association to brief them on the Hibernacula, and Zatanna wonders how Diana would react if she knew her pregnancy is much further along than she's admitting, as she's hiding it with her illusions. Gorilla Grodd starts working on a robot replica of Atom.
In the hospital complex, Sonar checks on the comatose Shade, and is shocked to see that Shade's mind has started to let his darkforce matter seep out into the world. Realizing it may never stop, the doctor tries to wake him up.
Flash and Clayface are at a civil service office recruiting Hibernacula staff when two costumed individuals, Halo and Geo-Force (secretly members of Outsiders) enter, saying they want to join the League. Flash gets them to demonstrate their powers, before taking them, blindfolded, to see the League. Halo uses her illusory powers to make it seem like she's blindfolded when she isn't. On the news, Batman and Red Arrow happily see that the first of their recruits have infiltrated the League.
In the meeting room, the League debate whether to induct the two applicants, and Hawkman suggests behavior-modifying them beforehand, but is outvoted on that. They agree to induct the pair, and to implement a recruitment program, but are interrupted by a transmission from Sonar, who calls from the hospital urgently needing help.
The rest of the League fly to the hospital to find it overflowing with Shade's tar-like darkforce. Flash, Green Lantern and Superman go inside to evacuate patients and staff, while Zatanna, Poison Ivy and Parasite try to use their various powers to stop the flow, to no avail. Wonder Woman sends them to evacuate the area while Flash and Green Lantern create a dam. Wonder Woman and Superman realize the only way to stop it is to swim through the flood and disconnect Shade's life support. Superman volunteers as he does not need to breath, and his radar glasses allow him to see through the flood. He swims to Shade's side and sees Sonar dead next to him, and unplugs the machine. The darkforce, as well as Shade himself, disappear. Superman carries Decibel out to be taken to the Hibernacle and the League reason that Shade was sucked through the portal he created to access the darkforce.
The League and their new recruits train in the desert outside of Justice City, and Halo secretly uses her illusory powers to win. Flash then tells them there'll be a public address later that day.
In their office Wonder Woman confides in Superman that she thinks the Paradise Program has cost them a lot so far - four of the League have died since its inception, and four have left their ranks - but Superman reassures her that they're doing the right thing.
Later, the five new recruits are sworn into the League, all feeling bad about lying as they are actually double agents for Outsiders. Batman and the rest of Outsiders watch their fellows being sworn in on TV, with the Catwoman, Riddler, Penguin and Red Arrow complaining they haven't seen any action. Batman assures them they will, before remembering how he came to set up the group. Catwoman approaches him afterward and thanks him for making a new woman of her, then kisses him, much to his surprise.
That night, Halo uses her new security clearance to access the League's files and send the plans for the Behavior Modification Device to Batman. She's almost seen by Gorilla Grodd, but uses her illusory powers to hide herself. Batman sends the plans to Lex Luthor so he can recreate the device and reverse-engineer it to find a reversal process.
Meanwhile, AIDA alerts Gorilla Grodd that Halo stole the plans, but as a result of his own behavior modification, Gorilla Grodd is unable to report a fellow League member, as Halo now is. The resulting mental distress the dilemma Gorilla Grodd faces renders him catatonic. AIDA alerts Wonder Woman and Superman, but when they arrive, AIDA is fearful of telling them what happened in case they have a similar reaction, so she stays silent about it. The two heroes fly Gorilla Grodd to the hospital, thinking he's suffering from exhaustion or an anxiety attack.
At Wayne Manor, Batman trains his original recruits before he receives a call from Lex Luthor, who has succeeded in reversing the behavior modification process. He says Batman can bring the behavior modified League recruits to him as soon as possible.
After an assignment with the Flash, Haywire lures Parasite to a disused bar where the rest of Outsiders are waiting to reverse his behavior-modification. That done, they recruit him to Outsiders to be another inside agent.
Days later, Clayface is also lured there, and deprogrammed, but Hawkman had followed Outsiders who brought him in, before being captured himself. After wrestling with his moral convictions, Batman agrees to have Hawkman behavior modified to forget what he's seen, but as the process starts, he feels like he's sold his soul.
Poison Ivy is strapped into a Behavior Modification Device, having her behavior modification reversed by Batman and Lex Luthor, while other Outsiders look on. When the process is done, Batman apologizes for using force and introduces his team to her, explaining their goal in stopping the Justice League's Paradise Program. Batman invites Poison Ivy to join their cause, and she agrees. Parasite flies Poison Ivy back to the League before they miss her. Meanwhile, Batman tries to persuade Lex Luthor to join their cause properly, but he declines, as their methods and morality are so different. Luthor leaves, and after some arguments, the other Outsiders pledge their loyalty to Batman.
Flying back to Justice City, Parasite and Poison Ivy see a crime in progress, but as they have had their behavior modification reversed, they decide not to bother intervening. At Justice City, Flash and his wife Iris have Green Lantern over for breakfast, and he tells them about his burgeoning relationship with Poison Ivy before the two Leaguers go to assemble with the rest of the team.
In the city's medical complex, Clayface, confused since his behavior-modification reversal and because of his mental impairment, tries to talk to the catatonic Gorilla Grodd about who his friends are. A watching Halo uses her illusion casting ability to make Clayface think Gorilla Grodd is talking to him, telling him to trust Outsiders, not the League. Elsewhere in the complex, Zatanna and her husband talk to her obstetrician about the impending birth of her fourth child. The doctor advises Zatanna against traveling in her condition, but Zatanna wants to attend an important League affair. Disguising her pregnant condition using an illusion, as she has been for months, Zatanna leaves to rejoin the League.
At the airfield, as he loads the dead Atom in his cryogenic tube into a League aircar, Geo-Force is approached by Hawkman, who tries to befriend him. Geo-Force plays along but thinks to himself that today is the day Batman has given for Outsiders to make their move against the League. Elsewhere, the undercover Outsiders Haywire and Inertia make out in a jacuzzi and discuss their fears about the impending confrontation. They're interrupted however by Mr. Freeze, who plays a prank on Haywire by freezing the water as he gets out of it.
At the White House, Wonder Woman addresses the cabinet about the League's decision to hand back some of the reins of government back to them. Leaving with Superman, the two of them fly off, stopping to kiss in the clouds and talk about getting married and having children. Later, they're joined by the rest of the League at the nation's first Hibernacle, where Wonder Woman gives a speech about the League's aims, despite a protest in the watching crowd. Former League member Black Canary watches in disguise from the crowd and slips away, though she is seen on television by her former love Red Arrow, who flies with some of the other Outsiders in their helicopter toward Justice City.
The League land in their aircars on the city's airfield, only to be greeted by the sight of Outsiders' helicopter, along with Batman, Red Arrow, Catwoman, Penguin, and Riddler. Batman voices his opposition to the League and demands they surrender. Wonder Woman points out Outsiders are outnumbered 14 to 5, but Batman says, on the contrary, it's the League who are outnumbered, as the infiltrators show their true colors, and it becomes clear the League are outnumbered 13 to 6. Realizing the League are in trouble, but not wanting to fight, Green Lantern uses his Power Ring to make solid energy restraints emerge from the ground and restrain Outsiders so they can overpower them. Wonder Woman charges at Inertia, but Inertia redirects Flash's inertia to Diana, making her knock over Green Lantern, breaking his concentration. With the restraints gone, the battle begins in earnest.
Superman tries to reason with Batman, but Geo-Force takes advantage of his distraction to hit him from behind, dazing him and knocking his radar goggles off, blinding him. Parasite tries to divebomb Superman and siphon his power, but Superman fends him off with a piece of wreckage. Catwoman and Poison Ivy chase the pregnant Zatanna, while Haywire and Mr. Freeze team up against Flash. Haywire manages to trip the speedster, but the Flash collides with Mr. Freeze's regulator pack, killing him.
Zatanna summons a gust of wind to blow Catwoman and Poison Ivy away, but Halo apparently lands in front of her, blocking her way. Zatanna sends a mystical bolt toward her, but it passes right through as she doesn't realize Halo is casting an illusion of herself. Halo says she will make gravity five times stronger around Zatanna, crushing her to the ground. Zatanna is affected, not realizing this is also an illusion. Zatanna pleads that she's about to go into labor, but Halo doesn't believe her.
Meanwhile, Superman tries to slug it out with Geo-Force, not realizing Inertia is redirecting the force of his blows at Wonder Woman. Diana manages to take three of these punches before getting knocked out. As Inertia walks over to her to check if she's dead, Green Lantern hits Inertia with a beam of force, taking her out of the fight. Flying to help Hawkman against Riddler, Green Lantern is stopped by an explosive arrow fired by his former friend Red Arrow. Green Lantern pleads with him and the two reach a stand-off, each of them not wanting to shoot first, until Red Arrow looses an arrow at Green Lantern. Remembering that he killed his friend Firestorm accidentally in battle, Green Lantern doesn't react, and the arrow hits his Power Ring, shattering it. The fragments embed themselves in him and his whole body turns white as he falls to Earth. Red Arrow is shocked and manages to catch Green Lantern, but doesn't see Hawkman, who brutally clubs him over the head from behind with his mace.
Clayface approaches Halo as she gloats over Zatanna's predicament and says that Zatanna's his friend. While Halo's distracted, Zatanna crawls out of the area of supposedly increased gravity while leaving an illusory after-image of herself behind. Sneaking up behind Halo, Zatanna taps her on the shoulder, then decks her with a single punch. In too much pain to keep up her illusion of not being pregnant, Zatanna asks Clayface to take her to the hospital so she can have her baby. Clayface agrees and takes her away, noticing as he goes that Halo now looks overweight and ugly - her formerly good-looking, slim appearance was only an illusion.
While Geo-Force grapples with Superman, Parasite siphons off Superman's strength, then attacks Hawkman, while Poison Ivy goes to Green Lantern's aid and tells him how much she loves him. Parasite leeches the energy from Hawkman's wings, and gleefully watches him plummet toward the ground. Hawkman tries to glide on his powerless wings and aims for the one soft object below - the unconscious Penguin. Riddler tries to stop him, but Hawkman hits Penguin, critically injuring them both.
With the League defeated and only Zatanna escaped, Batman tells the powerless Superman how Outsiders will dismantle the League's Paradise Program. Meanwhile, Poison Ivy tells Green Lantern she's going to prove that she's the League's ace in the hole, and runs over to where Batman is telling Superman about the problems with the Paradise Program, and gets Batman's attention before using her poison touch to kill him. Poison Ivy runs back to Green Lantern and tells him what she did. Before she can continue, however, she chokes in pain - Catwoman has fatally stabbed her in the back with her claws. Angry, Green Lantern cries out and his body projects an energy beam, knocking Catwoman out - the fragments of the Power Ring embedded in him still have power. He starts to fly Poison Ivy to a hospital but Parasite gets in his way, seeking to drain Green Lantern's power. Green Lantern projects more energy than Parasite can take, and Parasite explodes. Back at the airfield, the survivors of the battle gather the dead bodies of their comrades, and Superman surrenders on behalf of the Justice League.
At the hospital complex, the survivors mourn the dead in the morgue - Batman, Poison Ivy, Hawkman, Penguin, Red Arrow, Mr. Freeze and Parasite - while in the maternity wing, Zatanna, her family and Clayface welcome her new baby, Benjamin, while in the morgue Superman disbands the League and says they'll dismantle the Paradise Program.
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