Mister Terrific emerges from an energy portal onto a street in Manhattan. He looks around and notes that he is on Earth, but not the Earth he knows. A man greets him by name, and introduces himself as Terry Sloane, the smartest man on Earth. Mr. Sloane pulls on a pair of black gloves as he says that Michael is too big a threat to his goals to have him running around the planet... his planet. Michael responds to his threats by preparing to attack with his T-Spheres. Sloane counters by releasing a dust from his gloves containing a nanite virus, allowing him to turn the T-Spheres against Michael and knock him out. Elsewhere, in Lansing, Michigan, Jay Garrick talks to a god. Mercury explains that he has been held prisoner by a fierce and dire evil, and escaped, but at a great cost. He is dying