the outsider uses pandora's box to open a portal to his home world, earth-3, breaking the box in the process. the earth-3 incarnation of the justice league emerge — ultraman, superwoman, owlman, johnny quick, power ring, and deathstorm. sea king does not survive the journey and collapses dead. atom joins the group, answering to the name atomica, revealing that she had arrived on prime earth along with the outsider, who is revealed to be the alfred pennyworth of earth-3. cyborg's apokoliptical mechanical prosthetics proceed to tear themselves from his body, ripping free from his biological form and coalescing into a robot named grid, a sentient computer virus. trailing behind the crime syndicate is a prisoner from earth-3 whose identity is not revealed. the crime syndicate claim the planet as their own, and attack the three weakened justice leagues.