He starts by visiting two former Outsiders - Halo and Geo-Force. He finds Halo in New Orleans helping hurricane victims to keep their spirits up. Geo-Force on the other hand has returned to Castle Markovia where he is recovering from his nearly lethal battle with Deathstroke. When Alfred arrives, Brion has buried himself in the Earth outside of Castle Markovia in an attempt to speed his recovery. But the mere mention of Alfred's name is enough to un-earth the hero and send him back into the castle to hear Alfred's offer.

Another one of Bruce's former colleagues is also recovering from recent events. Standing upon a rooftop in Chicago, Black Lightning reflects upon the past few months while he awaits a lightning storm to roll through and re-charge his batteries. As the crack of lightning comes surging through his body, Jefferson Pierce thinks back on the explosion that last broke apart the Outsiders, killing REMAC and Metamorpho and putting his daughter Anissa into a coma. Also on his mind are the events of the Final Crisis - of how he succumbed to the Anti-Life and became one of Darkseid's Justifiers. His focus is only pulled away by the familiar British voice of his old friend as Alfred calls to him from below.

But some of the future Outsiders find themselves trying to heal other kinds of family wounds. For starters, Roy Raymond Jr. - the grandson of the Television Detective that was so good he could even claim Batman as one of his fans. Now known more as the arrogant 'Manstalker' television personality than for his great detective skills, Roy Raymond Jr. finds himself on the trail of some child kidnappers. After taking out the kidnappers he goes to return the child to her parents but instead finds Alfred waiting for him in the van. Very impressed from what he had been watching on the feed from Roy's head-cam, Alfred offers the detective a place on the Outsiders team.

While Roy Raymond might be trying to live with the ghost of his grandfather, Tatsu Yamashiro (Katana) finds herself haunted by the all too real memories of the husband and children she once lost. Kneeling before her katana blade on the site where her house once stood, Katana is so startled by Alfred's arrival that she nearly sends two shurikens sailing into his skull! Alfred apologizes for disturbing her and then asks her to re-join the new Outsiders team.

After accepting the offer and coming back to Gotham, Tatsu finds herself strangely drawn to the burnt out wreckage of the Wayne penthouse where the Outsiders one called home. She is suddenly overcome by a wave of nausea and begins vomiting up strange colored fluids. She stands in shock as the excreted fluids suddenly merge together to form the familiar shape of her old friend Metamorpho! As Rex explains, when REMAC exploded and destroyed the penthouse, Rex was able to just barely permeate Katana's body with his main mass before the rest of him was destroyed. After apologizing for having to "borrow" her body for a few weeks, Rex and Tatsu embrace happy to see each other once again.

Alfred Pennyworth makes one final trek across the globe to gather the last Outsider recruit. Touching down in Kahndaq, Alfred journeys to the Buddhas of Naiymab where he is taken prisoner by a group of armed men who worship the being known as 'The Creeper.' After being placed in his jail cell, Alfred finds himself accompanied by the Creeper's host Jack Ryder. During his schizophrenic ramblings, Ryder mentions that he is in Kahndaq to protect the Buddhas from a nefarious group hiding down deep below. When a sudden earthquake threatens to collapse the cave they are in, Ryder transforms into the Creeper and takes Alfred to safety.

But could Ryder have been legitimately onto something? Somewhere else a supposedly eternal sect meets in secrecy at the top of a dark and foreboding staircase which seems to go deep into the Earth. A man comes up from the staircase, kneeling before them he confesses that after 52 years of service he can no longer perform his duties in the depths from which he came. That said, he relinquishes his duties of his "thrasher" and tears open his own chest cavity with his bare hands to offer up as a sacrifice to those gathered before him. The cult members then proceed to devour his flesh as they search his body for some mystery item in an attempt to stave off that which any immortal group would fear the most - death!