to find out more about their guest from the future, batman instructs miss martian to telepathically link their and jessica's minds with star boy's memories, thus learning about the legion. they witness a battle between the legion-—chameleon, dawnstar, tyroc, mon-el, shadow lass, and, later brainiac 5, saturn girl, and star boy-—and the fatal five, which ended with the capture of emerald empress (mano's lover) and validus; as there was no prison that could hold them in the 31st century, the legion took them to oa in the past. upon their awakening, the league receives an ultimatum from mano: surrender jessica or all american cities will be destroyed by bombs created by tharok. the first bombings start in metropolis, forcing the justice league to move out. left behind with star boy in the watchtower, jessica is contacted by tharok through her ring, forcing her to surrender herself to the five and enable them entry to oa's prison cells. despite interference by kilowog and salaak, emerald empress and validus are freed, and when jessica fights back, persuader cleaves her ring in two. afterwards, emerald empress has her emerald eye steal all the energy of the central power battery, and the five return to earth to recover the time sphere.