
The Avengers receive a mother box from Metron, which summons a Boom Tube to Metropolis they confront the League there. Metron goads them into participating against the League and reveals the six artifacts from the Earth-616: the already-lost Nullifier, the Evil Eye of Avalon, the Infinity Gems, the Cosmic Cube, the Casket of Ancient Winters, and the Wand of Watoomb. Hurrying into a cave, they find the New God Metron. Then, the Vision notes they are being observed. The Avengers intervene with a dimensional disruptor, sending the League to their own universe, but Wonder Woman manages to grab the Nullifier just before they vanish. Superman starts being affected by that Earth, stating it is a disgrace how heroes have allowed it to fall in that state, though after some bickering, the League locates the first artifact in Monster Island: the Ultimate Nullifier. Later, though, he is able to help send the Justice League to that Earth to recover the artifacts. Pummeled by an anti-mutant mob, he eventually loses the energies necessary to remain in that Earth and returns to his home universe. The Grandmaster appears at the JLA lunar base, and shows them the twelve items of power needed to win, stating they need them to save the universe from doom: Kyle Rayner's Green Lantern Power Battery, the Orb of Ra, the Book of Eternity, the ritualistic items of the Demons Three, the Spear of Destiny, the Psycho Pirate's Medusa Mask, and six mysterious items from another universe.įlash manages to travel to Earth-616 by following the signatures from a piece of Terminus' armor, although he loses his speed there as no Speed Force exists there. The Spectre banishes Terminus to his home universe and Starro flees into space in fear, confusion and horror after probing the Scarlet Witch's Chaos Magic. Krona is given the side of the Avengers and Grandmaster is given the side of the JLA.īefore the contest starts, both teams confront an enemy not of their own universe: the League defeats Terminus in Keystone City as the Avengers defeat Starro in New York City. With help from Metron, the heroes are tricked into participating. The game consists of forcing the Justice League of America and their heroic counterparts, the Avengers, from that Universe's Earth to battle each other in a race to find twelve items of incredible power that have been hidden around their worlds. The Grandmaster, an alien from another Universe who is obsessed with games, offers to give Krona the knowledge he seeks but only if he can beat him in a game. Krona, an exiled Oan villain from this Universe who has gained the powers of entropy, begins destroying entire universes in his obsession to find out how they are created.
