PLOT:
Superboy Prime is pulled back in time to the 31st Century by the Time Trapper. There he finds a world torn apart by rampant xenophobia and hate. He also finds that his role in the history of
Superman has been largely
marginalized over the past centuries. Angered that he is barely a footnote in the Superman Museum in Smallville, Superboy Prime destroys the museum along with all of Smallville before heading to Takron-Galtos to free the
Legion of Super Villains from their prison.
Deep within the Phantom Zone, Phantom Girl, Lightning Lass and Shadow Lass seek to retrieve Mon-El from the Zone. After
successfully thwarting an escape attempt from Zod, the Legionnaires are able to rescue Mon-El and revive him thanks to a special
serum concocted by Braniac 5. But while it would take Sun Boy only a moment to re-charge Mon-El, Sun Boy is quitting the Legion citing 'burn out.'
Meanwhile, the Legionnaires Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad are fighting for the Legion's very existence. But their recent battle with Earth-Man and the Human Separatist movement seems to have spurned a wave of isolationist
feelings from all of the planets. Not even a surprise return from none other than R.J. Brande himself (the founder of the Legion) is enough to convince the United Planets to give the Legion a pass.
Things are complicated further when Brande's long-time arch nemesis Leland McCauley arrives and
assassinates Brande, revealing to the United Planets that Brande had been a shape-shifting Durlan all this time. Before Lightning Lad can question McCauley,
Leland begins to rapidly age and disintegrate in Lad's hands. All this only furthers the mistrust between planets as Earth severs all ties with Durla, accusing it of espionage.
With Superboy Prime and the Legion of Super Villains wreaking havoc on the galaxy and over twenty-thousand dead on Takron-Galtos, the Legion decides to summon their hero Superman from the 21st Century. Once Clark arrives, Braniac reveals his plan to summon
two other Legion teams from parallel worlds.
But even that extra help may not be enough to stop Prime. Superman surmises that they must instead try to do something even more seemingly impossible - redeem Superboy-Prime!
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