Welcome back to Age of Miracles. Last time, the HRL was shown to be on high alert, now rushing to stop Eternal's plan to revive Darkblood. After receiving a cryptic dream from Null Omni, Dragnarok headed off to attempt to use Vision's connection to the Mind Stone to locate the missing artifacts. Meanwhlie, Eternal and company are planning a raid on Apokolips. It should be pretty clear what they're after, but don't spoil it for anyone if you can tell. For those who don't know, read on to discover...

(Our story resumes on the fiery surface of Apokolips, where countless Parademons lay slaughtered, as Eternal and his team lay siege to the palace of Darkseid. Once past the fire pits, we see Eternal is already in his Exitium state and battling Darkseid to a stand still before something unthinkable happens, Darkseid is thrown into his own thrown by Eternal, who slowly returns to normal as he walks towards the God of Apokolips)

Eternal: (As his fellows continue to handle the onslaught of Parademons) I'll admit, you fought well. Partially the reason I chose to come here last. But then again, being a New God, that's no surprise.

Darkseid: You have some nerve coming here, jester.

Eternal: That "nerve" has carried me ever so close to my goals. Now just hand over what I seek and you will survive to see another day.

Darkseid: You seek the same thing I do. The Anti-Life Equation.

Eternal: An equation I know for a fact you have completed. Now hand it over and we'll be out of your hair.

Darkseid: (As his eyes glow red) You will never posess it.

(And with that, Darkseid releases his powerful Omega Beams, intending to vaporize Eternal. But before he can, Eternal whips out a strange clear gem, and uses it to block the beam. But the Omega Energy isn't reflected like you'd expect, it seems the gem is... absorbing it somehow. And so it does, for no matter how much energy Darkseid puts into the beam, the gem continues to absorb it until Darkseid can put no further energy in, much to his own surprise)

Darkseid: It cannot be! The Omega Effect, taken from me?!

Eternal: (Sighs as he puts the gem away in his cloak) I was hoping taking this would be a little more fun, but you've forced me hand.

Darkseid: You will return what you have stolen, or I will crush you.

Eternal: Without your Omega Beams, you're more talk than even you'd like to believe. And let's just say, talk doesn't intimidate me.

(With that, Eternal leaps at Darkseid, and pins him against his throne by the neck, as the Spawns appear behind him. Seeing his opportunity, Darkseid casts a wave of some kind of energy. Knowing exactly what this is, Eternal, Sorceress, and Malphas all dodge the wave, causing it to hit Scourge, trapping him in a field of what looks like electricity)

Darkseid: You would willingly subject your own soldier to the Agony Matrix? In a futile attempt to threaten me?

Scourge: Oh believe me, you should be scared. You think we don't know how this works? Direct neural stimulation of pain receptors. Guess what? You just cast it around the one person in this room WHO CAN'T FEEL PAIN!

Eternal: In short, you just wasted your greatest weapon. Now, do hand over the Anti-Life Equation, or I will be forced to do something drastic.

Darkseid: (Seemingly defeated) Very well then.

(With that, Darkseid hands over what looks like a ball of indescribable and endlessly circulating energy, but as Eternal gazes into it, he realizes something is amiss)

Eternal: Why you...! (Grabs Darkseid by the throat and throws him to the ground) You have only given us the solution! Where is the rest of the Equation!?

Darkseid: Did you honestly think I would keep the entire equation in one place? Especially knowing your propensity to collect? The Equation is hidden far from here, sent away via Fatherbox.

(His outrage growing, Eternal appears to be ready to crush Darkseid's throat then and there, but then he realizes something. He's already heard about where the Anti-Life Equation is.)

Eternal: Not as well hidden as you'd like to think, New God. My forces have already encountered it. It will be seized by day's end.

(At this moment, we see something unheard of for Darkseid. Fear. He was clearly not expecting such an outcome.)

Eternal: And as for you, we no longer need the powerless "God" of Apokolips. Not like you could do much against us anyways. Soon my Master will return, and even you will kneel before him. (To his forces) Come. We have business to attend to.

(Victorious, Eternal and his forces leave the defeated Darkseid to his own devices, returning home via a violet portal, their victory at first known only to them, before we see one figure hovering outside a nearby window: Mister Miracle.)

Mister Miracle: The Anti-Life Equation? On Earth? (Pulls out his Motherbox) I have to warn the League.

(As Mister Miracle activates a Boom Tube to Earth, we transition back to the Watchtower, where Vision is getting some sort of screen hooked up to his head by Iron Man, with Dragnarok and Superman looking on.)

Dragnarok: We good to go, Tony?

Iron Man: (Hooking up a final wire) Assuming I put the HDMI cable in correctly.

Vision: In other words, we're ready.

Dragnarok: Good. We're running out of time to track these things down. Go whenever you're ready, Vision.

Vision: Here we go then.

(With that, Vision begins to concentrate, causing a strange neuron like pattern to form, slowly solidifying into something.)

Superman: Guessing that's the Mind Stone.

Iron Man: You guess correctly, Clark. I'd recognize that pattern anywhere.

Dragnarok: (Seeing something in the pattern) I think it's coming together.

(And just like that, the image solidifies into, of all things, the Dragon Realms as they were before Luthor Jr. invaded, catching everybody by surprise. But within seconds, the image starts to glitch into a dark void, elements of the Dark World appearing and disappearing at will before ultimately the screen starts to smoke and surge with electricity, prompting Iron Man to rush into action and unplug Vision's head from it before it literally bursts into flames and falls from the ceiling, just as the Watchtower's fire suppression system kicks in and smothers the flaming monitor)

Superman: Well that was unexpected.

Dragnarok: Not to mention impossible. Vision, are you sure your connection was stable? There's no way Eternal is in the Dragon Realms.

Vision: I'm positive. Those were the exact spacetime coordinates where the Mind Stone is.

Iron Man: Then how...?

Dragnarok: Of course. It makes sense now.

Iron Man: You were able to make sense of that?

Dragnarok: Eternal's operating out of where the Realms should be. Something's taken their place, no doubt his fiendish construction.

Superman: So all we need to do is get back to those coordinates and we should be able to recover the stolen artifacts.

Dragnarok: I'm hoping it's that easy, Clark.

(Just as the group appears to calm down, a Boom Tube opens in the middle of the lab, allowing Mister Miracle to step through)

Superman: (Recognizing Mister Miracle) Scott? What are you doing here?

Mister Miracle: We've got trouble. Eternal ransacked Apokolips, absolutely trashed Darkseid and the rest.

Superman: (Recalling Dan Turpin's murder when hearing this) And why is Darkseid getting his tail kicked our problem?

Mister Miracle: Because not only did Eternal steal the Omega Effect straight out of him, he's going for the Anti-Life Equation.

Dragnarok: You can't be serious. Because of course it would be on his list.

Superman: If there's one thing we can't let Eternal get his hands on, it's the Anti-Life Equation.

Dragnarok: (Thinking about it) Wait a second. Scott, you've seen the entirety of the Equation before, correct?

Mister Miracle: Yeah, why?

Dragnarok: I think I know where it is.

(With that, we transition back to the control center, where the captured members of the Misfits of Evil are being recorded, with the footage being shown to Mister Miracle.)

Dragnarok: You see my point?

Mister Miracle: I concur entirely. Somehow Darkseid infused this group with fragments of the Anti-Life Equation.

Dragnarok: Now all we need to do is figure out how.

(Just as they start talking about the logistics, Booster Gold walks in carrying a strange box)

Booster Gold: And I think I know what it might be.

Dragnarok: (Seeing the box) What the heck is that?

Booster Gold: A piece of Chang Tzu's "doomsday device". Best guess, it's the power source. I was taking it to the lab for analysis when I overheard you. Think this is it?

Mister Miracle: It definitely is. That's a Fatherbox, the lesser known Apokoliptian counterpart to a Motherbox. Darkseid must've found this thing and used it to transmit the Equation in fragments. (To Dragnarok) How many people are in this group?

Dragnarok: 17 total, and we've got six of them here.

Mister Miracle: Then we need to find the other eleven as soon as possible.

Dragnarok: We should be expecting company pretty soon, so I'll gather a team in the interim.

(With this agreement made, our tale ends for today)

And that sounds like a good place to wrap up for now. So that's what happened to the Misfits of Evil when their device activated, they were affected with parts of the Anti-Life Equation. So what's going to happen going forward? Tune in next time to find out! Same time... same channel!