Crowe captures Nick Fury and tortures him. Earth's heroes are put on alert by huge power surges as the Mys-Tech council begins to merge un-Earth with the real world.
Orion is reeling from his mother's revelation that he is not the son of Darkseid after all, and he flies to Apokolips to find Darkseid. However, Darkseid is on Earth with Desaad...
Framed for a murder he did not commit, Vector finds out that the case is really about finding a bird statue called "The Kestrel" and that a lot of powerful people are after it.
