After crushing defeat at the hands of Highfather, Darkseid asks the League to help him defend Apokolips against Brainiac. While Superman, J'onn, and Hawkgirl fight the villainous AI, Batman and Wonder Woman travel to New Genesis to recruit the aid of the New Gods, including Orion, Lightray, and Highfather.

Lex Luthor controls and manipulates a powerful android named Amazo with the ability to copy and collect any superpower, posing as a father figure to it. Meanwhile, J'onn questions the nature of humans and struggles with the burden of hearing thousands of their minds in his head at the same time after performing a psychic sweep of the city of Metropolis in a failed attempt to locate Luthor.