Welcome back to Age of Miracles. Last time, Dragnarok gathered the biggest team he's gathered yet to secure the last of the Misfits of Evil, now confirmed to have fragments of the Anti-Life Equation somehow within them. Setting the group to their mission, get the remaining 11 targets to a location where Mister Miracle can extract the Equation from them. So, how's that going to go? Read on to discover...

(Our story resumes at the headquarters of the Misfits of Evil, where Dragnarok and Mister Miracle have already set up their operations, with Chang Tzu, Big Wheel, Calendar Man, Eraser, Nuclear Man, and Condiment King restrained nearby while Mister Miracle works on them.)

Mister Miracle: We should have the six fragments of the Anti-Life Equation extracted from these guys shortly. Any word from the others?

Dragnarok: (Fiddling with some sort of machine with eleven different screens on it) Trying to get comm lines up and running. (Adjusts a knob) That should do it. We should be able to get a report pretty soon.

(And no sooner is it said than done, as the screens of this device crackle to life revealing the teams of heroes Dragnarok sent out at the end of the last chapter. The first clear team is Captain Cold and Heatwave, standing outside what looks like an apartment complex)

Dragnarok: Lenny, how's everything going?

Captain Cold: Ray's securing the target. So far no signs of anything worth worrying about.

(Within a few minutes of Captain Cold saying that, The Ray exits the building, with Clock King in tow)

The Ray: Target secured.

Heatwave: That was too easy.

Captain Cold: Either way, we're heading back towards the rendezvous point.

Dragnarok: Good. We'll see you back here soon.

(Within seconds of that call ending a second screen solidifies into an image of Noonan's Bar in Gotham City where it looks like Hellboy, Hulk, and Rorschach are in the midst of a bar fight with Mad Mod and some of the other patrons)

Dragnarok: (Seeing this image) Bruce? What's going on in there?

Hulk: The target didn't exactly take kindly to us showing up.

Rorschach: Typical imperialist Brit!

Dragnarok: Rorschach, really?

(Before long Rorschach has grabbed a chair and bashed Mad Mod with it, knocking him unconscious as Hellboy picks him up)

Dragnarok: We kind of need him alive for this process to work.

Hellboy: Don't worry about it. His head's going to hurt in the morning, but he's alive.

Hulk: I guess that's one way to go about it.

Dragnarok: I probably should have warned you about these two.

(As Dragnarok finishes that conversation a third team: One of Blue Beetle, Constantine, and Black Widow; logs on, with the third of the trio holding Paste-Pot Pete in a death grip.)

Constantine: Probably should have switched Jolly Green and I then.

Dragnarok: You all picked your targets, not me. And you said yourself that your target was the easiest one!

Constantine: Well, this guy's proving tougher than expected.

Blue Beetle: Tougher than expected? Black Widow's already got him in a choke hold. All he did was try to glue us to the floor.

(With that, Paste-Pot Pete falls to the ground unconscious as Black Widow joins the conversation)

Black Widow: Target secured.

Constantine: Got to love that efficiency.

Blue Beetle: It's not her efficiency you're admiring.

Dragnarok: That much is obvious to all of us.

Constantine: It's true.

Dragnarok: Just get back to the rendezvous point.

(With that, both screens resume a state of static, awaiting updates as the door flies open, revealing Black Panther and White Canary are already back, with Calculator in tow)

Dragnarok: (Seeing Calculator) Four down, seven to go. I have a feeling Felicity would be surprised to know what her father's been up to.

White Canary: Felicity disowned this guy last I checked.

Black Panther: Even still, she would undoubtedly be surprised.

White Canary: So what's the op status?

Dragnarok: Ray, Nat, and Bruce have all checked in and are on their way. Still waiting to hear from the rest.

Black Panther: And you're sure this will work?

Mister Miracle: I've already almost got the fragments out of these six. So far, everything's going good.

Dragnarok: And that's about all we can expect. So let's hope it stays that way.

(With that hopefully non-jinxing remark out of the way, we transition to a city block, or rather the skies above it, where all chaos is breaking loose as Falcon, the Winter Soldier, and Black Lightning are trying to contain Bat-Mite, whose 5th Dimensional powers are causing everything to go crazy with Winter Soldier firing on the Imp)

Falcon: How the heck did we end up with the craziest one!?

Winter Soldier: (Reloading his gun) You thought that, with a name like Bat-Mite, and looking like a kid in a bad Batman costume, that he wouldn't be much of a threat.

Black Lightning: I did try to warn you. 5th Dimensional Imps are not something to be messed with. (Seeing Bat Mite's firing another blast at Falcon) ON YOUR LEFT!

(The warning out, Black Lightning fires a surge of electricity at Bat Mite while Falcon tucks into a roll, allowing the electricity to actually hit Bat Mite and surprisingly shock him into unconsciousness as Falcon swoops in to pluck him out of the sky as the 5th Dimensional power induced chaos subsides)

Black Lightning: (Activating some sort of communication device on his wrist) Black Lightning to Dragnarok. Target's secure. We're on the way in.

(As this trio leaves towards the rendezvous point, we linger back a bit and see something is amiss with this scene, a familiar flash of violet and black appears in a back alley near where the trio of heroes once was, as a familiar jester's cap emerges from the shadows)

Eternal: So, those meddlers are already gathering the fragments. No matter. They'll have just done all the work for us.

(With that, Eternal pulls out his phone and makes a call, back to the Dark World, where we can see Sorceress, Scourge, and Malphas are awaiting a summons to battle as Mazahs pools his Dark Lightning into the void above the central altar, causing it to even more greatly resemble what I presume a dragon fetus would look like)

Sorceress: I assume you have good news, Eternal.

Eternal: Indeed I do. It seems the dragon is already gathering the fragments of the Equation.

Sorceress: We cannot lose this power.

Eternal: We won't. In fact, if anything they're already doing the work for us. How goes the transfusion of Mazahs?

Sorceress: He is contributing to Father's revival, just as he said he would.

Eternal: Good. Now, put a message in to Luthor Jr. We're going to need everyone he can muster to take the Equation.

Sorceress: Good.

Eternal: Once you have the forces, rendezvous with me and we'll take the Equation and the remaining artifacts. I can tell the wizard, demon, and detective are in this as well.

(With that, their conversation ends as Eternal looks back towards the now distant team of Black Lightning, Falcon, and the Winter Soldier)

Eternal: Soon I shall have the last objects I need. And then, all will kneel before the master of worlds.

(And as Eternal slithers back into the shadows to await another team, our tale ends for today)

And that seems like a good place to wrap up for now. So already Dragnarok's team has been having good progress with locating the Misfits of Evil and the plan seems to be working. Now that that snake Eternal is aware though, things may start going wrong. But will they? Tune in next time to find out! Same time... same channel!