Now that they had defeated Major Force, Mar-Vell and Beta Ray Bill began the process of trying to liberate the Shiar from the Saurian invaders.

Meanwhile, Darkseid sent a Boom Tube to retrieve the stranded General from the asteroid Jiohn Stewart had abandoned him on.

The General was seething with a desire for revenge but Darkseid told him to bide his time and wait. Secretly Darkseid enjoyed making the General wallow in frustrated anger for a while.

Blue Devil and Ragman stepped back out into Toronto, to offer their help to Robin's group of DC heroes in dealing with new arrivals that might appear. They rejoined Vixen and returned to Alpha Flight headquarters.

Day 29: Late Evening, Near the city of Toronto, in an alternate reality, on an alternate Earth.

Rex Mason; Metamorpho - The Element Man, was restored to life yet again.

Actually, he'd never been dead, he was simply rendered inert. Now; somehow, he'd been restored; just in time to observe a furious Kalibak the Cruel angrily advancing on the City of Toronto in the wake of several slain Shield agents. Though Rex Mason had no idea who or what Shield was yet.

Kalibak the Cruel was furious that he'd been taken against his will to somewhere on Earth apparently.

He took his rage out immediately on some sort of enforcers that met him as soon as he arrived. There were some armored members that took just a little bit longer for Kalibak to destroy but they fell too.

Now Kalibak intended to raze this city in retaliation for the indignity of being delivered against his will to Earth. He was the son of Darkseid and needed to set an example to anyone that dared trifle with him.

Metamorpho moved immediately to try to slow Kalibak down. He turned himself into a sleeping gas and tried to infest Kalibak's lungs. All he managed to achieve was to get Kalibak to have a coughing fit.

However this gave Alpha Flight and the DC heroes time to arrive and attack Kalibak.

Northstar and Aurora blinded Kalibak with tremendous light.

Blue Devil and Ragman attacked Kalibak but were knocked aside effortlessly.

Sasquatch; however, was able to hold his ground with the brute. He managed to drive the blinded Kalibak away from the city.

Most of the other heroes realized they would likely be inneffectual in the fight. They simply stood by and watched. Shaman cast several spells that added to Sasquatch's advantage while Blue Devil, Ragman, Snowbird and Vixen stood by to step in should Sasquatch falter.

Snowbird took the form of a polar bear while Vixen called upon the strength of a bull elephant if she was needed.

Desaad notified Darkseid that Kalibak had appeared on Earth near Toronto and was battling several heroes from two universes.

Darkseid decided to watch and see how well his son fared before he interfered.

Darkseid was angry that so few of his forces had been brought over to this reality by the mysterious entity that was manipulating them all. Until now, all that he had been given were Desaad, The Key and his parademons.

Now, after nearly a month, he finally gets his eldest son. He'd been forced to bend others to his will to make up for the absence of his normal forces.

Darkseid watched the fight for a while, then sent a boom tube to deliver a few Sentinals to harass the other heroes.

No matter how T.O. Morrow and the Leader tried, they could not program out the drive to destroy mutants from the Sentinals they built.

Now; because of the Leader's defection along with the Puppet Master, the Sentinals were T.O. Morrow's baby.

Four Sentinals arrived, but only targeted Northstar, Aurora, Gambit and Diamond Lil.

The rest of the heroes welcomed the distraction and attacked the Sentinals anyway with Metamorpho finding himself much more useful against Sentinals then he was against Kalibak.

Darkseid sent another Boom Tube that delivered a swarm of parademons to distract the other superheroes.

Elongated Man, Huntress, Azrael, Robin, Puck, and Vindicator turned to deal with these threats.

Kalibak's sight recovered and he began to dominate Sasquatch.

Vixen, Blue Devil and Snowbird got ready to interfere but another Boom Tube arrived, disgorging the General.

Shaman and Metamorpho proved to be what the mutants needed to defend themselves against the Sentinals and they soon managed to destroy them.

Blue Devil, Vixen and Snowbird valiantly tried to cope with the General but were outgunned by someone in the body of a Shaggy Man who historically was able to challenge the entire JLA. In desperation, Snowbird assumed the persona of Tanaraq and then began giving the General a real fight.

Kalibak finally defeated Sasquatch, using his Beta Club to give him the advantage.

He was just about to administer the killing blow when he was interrupted by Darkseid himself.

Darkseid had arrived and called for an end to the battle. He called back his remaining parademons, the General and Kalibak.

Snowbird found it difficult to restrain her Tanaraq personality to abandon the battle and Shaman had to do some furious conjuring to bring her back to her senses.

Kalibak called for his right to slay his opponent but Darkseid forbade it. Once again relishing his role in frustrating his son as a means to control him.

Darkseid called everyone back to the Boom Tube, leaving the heroes to clean up the mess.

Kalibak returned to Apokolips secretly seething. But like everyone else, Kalibak feared his father.

He was surprised to learn where his father had been all this time -- and Desaad and the Parademons too.

Desaad took a sadistic delight in letting Kalibak know what was going on.

Lady Shiva learned that Katana had joined Sunfire and Silver Samurai in defense of the city. Lady Shiva shrugged. She'd killed the woman once. Somehow the woman had used mystical means to return to life. Lady Shiva had other goals.

These four Noh assassins. They would be her next targets.