Justice League Unlimited #12 (2025)

Earth is slowly turning into a new Apokolips and the Justice League is working overtime to evacuate the planet's entire population. According to Ray Palmer, 62% of the planet's population has already been evacuated. As he and Batgirl oversee Gotham's evacuation, Ray says that his family is already gone while Batgirl replies that her stubborn father wants to stay and make sure that everyone else has already left. Suddenly, they hear a report about a bank robbery in progress, much to the surprise of the Atom, who wonders why would anyone rob a bank in the middle of a planetary evacuation. He and Batgirl go to the bank and find the Polka-Dot Man pillaging the vault. Expecting an easy victory, Atom punches the Polka-Dot Man with the proportionate strength of a 300-pound man, until the criminal releases an explosion that severely injures the heroes. Atom and Batgirl are taken to the Watchtower's medical bay and Ted Kord receives news of Leaguers facing similar trouble from low-level villains, who have seem to become more powerful and threatening. Renee Montoya wonders why would criminals indulge in criminal activity when the entire planet is in danger and Blue Beetle believes Mister Terrific to have an explanation. Sure enough, Terrific believes Neron to be involved. Terrific explains that, a few years ago, Neron made deals with several villains to increase their powers in a failed exchange for their souls, and now, he must be sending out villains to distract the heroes and keep them from evacuating people off Earth, so that when the Earth is fully consumed by Apokolips, Neron will have more innocent souls to consume. The villains must have agreed to Neron's plan because he probably offered them safe haven in Hell. To combat this new threat, Terrific has put together a team composed of heroes from different years and eras: Aquaman, Power Girl, Guy Gardner, the Electric Superman, the Gold Hawk of Andrino, Tim Drake, Alan Scott, Sofie from the 31st century and Owlwoman. At the conference table, Terrific explains that he believed that the disruptions to their timeline was because of Gorilla Grodd, but now, he understands the problem to be bigger. The present Justice League is doing its best to fix this mess and correct the timeline, so the heroes Terrific has gathered are stuck in this time, with no way to return to their homes. Power Girl asks if they will have to return to their times to avoid damaging history, but Terrific replies that time has been fractured after the League's battle with the Legion of Doom and with Universe-0 removed from the multiverse, there is no way the heroes sitting at the table come from alternate universe. Terrific has concluded that the people standing around him represent a single, inconsequential moment in the history of the person they each represent. In other words, if the Justice League somehow fixes the damage caused by Darkseid, the lost heroes will probably cease to exist, while their original selves live on. Terrific knows that these heroes are fighters, so he asks them to use what little time they have to embark on a mission that could save millions. Before the mission begins, the heroes go their separate ways and interact with members of the League. Guy attempts to hit on Ice, only for her to be visibly discomforted by his attitude. Fire tells Guy to back off because Ice already broke up with him and his presence is just opening an old wound for her. Aquaman visits the room his current self has on the Watchtower and takes the time to observe the memories he has made and the family he has started. Martian Manhunter walks in on Aquaman, who is confused by the picture of a red-haired girl, and explains she is Andrina, Aquaman's daughter. In another part of the Watchtower, Sofie casts a translation spell on Gold Hawk so that people can speak freely to him. Owlwoman explains that Kthar is a previous incarnation of Hawkman and Kthar says that in this life, he comes from a nonviolent species that has the ability to see other people's hopes, fears and desires. Power Girl starts recording a video for her current self and says that she never stopped feeling pain for the loss of her entire reality and to keep pushing forward, she turned that tragedy into anger, but now that she has discovered that that she will die soon, that anger is gone. Instead, she is scared and, at the same time, at peace with herself because she knows that she lived a good life and fulfilled a purpose. Power Girl is leaving this video for her current self to let her know that clarity and tranquility can indeed be achieved. In that moment, the Watchtower receives an urgent message from Air Wave, who is part of a team that has encountered Darkseid's forces at the Vanishing Point and now requests assistance. With preparations complete, Terrific activates a modified Boom tube that brings his new team into the bowels of Hell.