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Chapter 1:

Orion - Darkseid's son - this is the Kingdom Come version, and his Astro Force has been internalized to the point that he can shoot eyebeams like Darkseid.

Desaad - Darkseid's resident torturer and sadistic bastard.

Granny Goodness - One of Darkseid's Elite, trained children in the service of Darkseid.

Alan Scott - The first Green Lantern. Known also as Sentinel, although JSA had him take back Green Lantern again recently. His power (the starheart) was within him when I wrote this, but Geoff Johns pulled it out again and put it on his finger in a ring format.

Billy - Billy Batson, aka Captain Marvel

Captain Carrot - stories from Earth-C, I believe, pre-Crisis. Animal archetypes of DC superheroes.

The Losers - a great new Vertigo series, not to mention a great older series about a group of soldiers.

Swamp Thing - Alec Holland was killed in an explosion with an experimental compound that assumed his identity and roamed the planet (and galaxy).

Ray - The Ray, aka Ray Terill. I think he was on Young Justice for a short while. He had to charge his body in order to use his light abilities.

Happy Terrill - Golden Age Ray - Freedom Fighter

Ted Knight - Original JSA Starman. Originally, I had an idea to keep Ted on Apokolips, using his rod, but decided to kill him instead.

"girl who could generate ice" - Ice Maiden, from JLI

"atomic military man" - Captain Nathaniel Adam, aka Captain Atom

"man who could blow things up at will" - The Human Bomb, Freedom Fighters

"fighting, screaming figure" - obviously, if you've read the story, you know this was Billy Batson, not Barry Allen, like you're led to believe

"Orion wanted to look away" - just foreshadowing of his reluctance to be "evil"

J'onn J'onzz felt very "anti-monitor" duty - just a little riff on the Anti- Monitor from Crisis

Choco cookies - J'onn's obsession, explored in the great Ostrander/Mahnke series that should never have been cancelled.

When Orion hit the birthing matrix with the Astro Force, it sparked with lightning - this was Billy calling Shazam!

Chapter 2:

Darkseid was dressed in red and yellow armor. I wanted you to think this was the Flash, but of course, Marvel also has a red and yellow costume.

Desaad has created this creature to be almost like an Amazo - he absorbs and learns new powers and abilities when he's confronted by them. That's why he can stretch like Plastic Man and absorb energy like the Ray.

"this is certain to be their doomsday" - gets his name in a similar way that Doomsday got his when Booster Gold called him Doomsday

Desaad manipulates Orion into ordering Doomsday to obey Desaad, so that he could have him do anything he asked for.

After performing the task, Doomsday becomes a Bizarro-Darkseid/Doomsday clone. That's why he has the chalky white skin. The chalky dust rising from his body is a reference to the storyline post-crisis when Bizarro's dust from his disintegrating body restored Lucy Lane's sight.

"What is this bizarre creature?" - another reference to Bizarro

Doomsday's speaking ability has regressed to that of current continuity's Doomsday - speaking in guttural phrases.

On Earth:

Dick Grayson - Bat-Man. Actually Dick Grayson Garrick, since he was adopted by Jay and Joan Garrick.

Jim Gordon - retired Commissioner in current continuity. Two-Face in mine! I thought I could explore a story with Barbara being Batgirl and Jim cracking because of it.

Robin the Boing Wonder - just a hint that it was Plastic Man. When it says that he was bouncing around in the background, he was actually bouncing!

Jim's holding the Olsen twins hostage unless McD's brings back 2 for $2 = just a little parody of Two-Face's obsession with the number 2

J'onn heard the snap-hiss of the transporter - snap-hiss is actually the onomatopoeia used for a light saber being turned on.

Wally West - his background in my stories are pretty similar to continuity, except that he has a little extra "Jedi" power because his mind contains the anti-life equation.

Barry Allen, Jr. - aka BJ, aka Superman. Adopted by Barry and Iris Allen when they took him out of the rocket from Krypton, Barry has had two legacies to live up to.

Abin Sur - the Flashes saved Abin's ship from crashing, and he never died to pass his ring onto Hal Jordan. He's a little more dour and proper, but a great hero.

Wally pushed out with his hands and Barry flew backwards - example of the anti-life equation. Didn't want to make too much of it, but just thought it was a little fun foreshadowing

Diana - Wonder Woman - in this reality, Lois Lane is married to Lex Luthor, the philanthropist, and BJ and Wonder woman are together.

Kara or Joel as the child - this is a tribute to Generations, where Superman and Lois's children are named Joel and Kara. I also believe that Joel is the name of Superman and Wonder Woman's son in The Kingdom, but it might be Jonathan.

Ray Palmer - updated his costume to be more appropriate for the science hero type. He's still the Atom, though.

In Gotham:

Doomsday mutated further - at this point, he should look less and less like Darkseid and more and more like Doomsday. Just a thought.

Doomsday froze Gordon - a power taken from Ice Maiden back on Apokolips.

Robin says "Holy Walt Disney" - since he's supposedly cryogenically frozen. Just some morbid humor.

Abin thinks Doomsday's disappeared, but then realizes he moved fast. Almost as fast as . . .- this is another hint that Doomsday is actually Barry Allen.

Abin Sur had his head crushed by Doomsday because of the yellow on his gloves - broke through the barrier that prevented mortal injury.

Chapter 3:

"Turtle Boy Comic" - reference to Jimmy Olsen, who became Turtle Boy for a TV Show in current continuity. He may have actually become Turtle Boy in pre-crisis.

Jenny's apartment - Jenny Lynn Hayden - Alan Scott's daughter and the superhero known as Jade. Kyle and Jade are dating in current continuity

"holding Green Lantern - well, you know" - this is because Kyle is in a GL outfit, standing in front of Diana and Ray, so he felt strange saying Green Lantern to describe Abin Sur.

scream like in Wendy the Werewolf Slayer - tribute to Peter David's Young Justice, where they went on that show, an obvious parody of Buffy.

Kyle keeps saying things like "I didn't know I could do that." Since he now has the ring, he's able to replay his memory and is referring to himself as the new GL.

Bright flash of light to take down Flash - Doomsday just used Ray's powers to blind Flash and hit him.

The crazy guy trying to bore holes into the center of the earth - Imperiex - This is just a joke about Imperiex in the OWAW storyline, since they were boring holes into the earth.

Ball of green flame encircled MM - this is a power taken from Sentinel.

Superman would always try to talk someone down rather than beat them, so I thought this was within character. When Doomsday touched him and the explosion occurred, this was a result of the Human Bomb's power being transferred to Doomsday.

Then, Doomsday used Plastic Man and Ray's powers to cover Superman and suck the energy out of him.

Abin Sur passed the ring onto someone worthy - he now lives inside the ring, something that was more of a tribute to Dr. Fate and the helmet of Nabu than anything else.

Kyle's costume is a tribute to the Generations version of GL

Chapter 4:

Plastic Man rescues everyone - I'm loving the current explanation in the JLA that Plastic Man is the most powerful being on the planet. It's great fun, and you can have him do anything.

"Heere's Johnny!" - from the Shining, starring Jack Nicholson

Allies - Plastic Man is obviously talking about WWII. Calling Superman France is just a funny joke because he's actually the strongest one there.

Jay also thinks that Barry is Doomsday - this becomes the assumption for the rest of the story.

Plastic Man can change color, and does so to assume the shape of Granny Goodness. J'onn, as a shapeshifter, can keep the image of Darkseid very easily. This would have been a good plan if it wasn't for Desaad determining who had the equation.

Chapter 5:

Wally kicks into hyperspeed, and does tricks that have happened to him in current continuity.

Since Krypton had a red sun, the red light would drain all of BJ's power that he received from absorbing the yellow sunlight. In addition, the fire from the pits weaken J'onn, since fire is his only weakness.

Dick, as the only human, still has trouble keeping himself alive, but he remains a leader.

Plastic Man calls Superman Superduperman, which is a tribute to the MAD parody of the same name.

When Wally hit Doomsday, Doomsday used Plastic Man's powers to ensnare Wally's fist.

The rescued heroes are (ones that haven't been named yet): Roy Lincoln - Human Bomb Captain Adam - Capt. Atom Vic Stone - Cyborg Garfield Logan - Beast Boy, or Changeling Jon Osterman - tribute to Dr. Manhattan from the Watchmen (so powerful they could never have kept him captive) Rocky Davis - tribute to Challengers of the Unknown (no real superpowers to absorb)

Kyle in space:

Apokolips is normally in a fold in space, so you can't reach it from a ship, but I changed the galaxy to fit my needs.

The Czarnian is Lobo, who is the last Czarnian - only after killing his entire race to become so.

The fight is my proper retconning of the fight between Wolverine and Lobo in DC vs. Marvel Amalgam Age. Wolverine would never win!!!! When I tell the story, Logan gets his ass handed to him. It's him saying "bub", obviously.

Lobo saying "fav'rit shirt" is a tribute to the Lobo vs. Superman fight when Bibbo was an onlooker, completely plastered and trying to figure out who was his "fav'rit".

SKLUTCH - the sound of a hook being inserted into an adamantium skull.

Back on Apokolips:

The Human Bomb blew up the building while everyone hid in the green bubble Alan created.

Lobo talking to Kyle - just illustrating the ludicrous logic sometimes in comics.

Desaad says the restraints would stop Scott Free - this is thrown in there for Mark, since he was looking for a Mister Miracle reference.

Doomsday reacts the strongest to images that seem important to him. Working at Flashco - Billy Batson works there for one of their radio stations (there's no possible way anybody could know this - I never said it anywhere), watching a lightning storm - reminiscent of the Shazam lightning, sitting next to Mary Batson - of course, this is Billy's sister, and is the thought that brings Billy back into his right mind.

Lobo's blood, in several stories, until it was fixed, generates a new Lobo for every drop. I figured that there was no better way to save the heroes than with hundreds of naked Lobos.

Big Belly Burger - that's from Hitman, and it's a parody of Fatburger here in California.

When Doomsday says Shazam, he turns back into Billy Batson. Can he turn into Marvel anymore? I don't know.

Orion destroys the entire cabal with one look - that's how powerful he is.

Barry broke away and began running as fast as he can - he entered the Speed Force and this is for the better. I was going to have him end up in the future with the LSH, or maybe go mad and become a villain, but I figured his mind had cracked at the end and he had given up hope, so maybe I should let him rest.

All of the people he sees in the light are the speedsters who died in Slow Burn I.

Thanks for reading these copious, boring notes. I love writing, and I hope you like my work.