Sun Boy, Brainiac Five, and Blok fight the Servants of Darkness while Dream Girl holds a newborn baby?

When we last left the Legion they were scattered to four different worlds.

  • Takron-Galtos – The United Planet’s Prison Planet – Phantom Girl, Ultra Boy, Mon-El, and Shadow Lass
  • Avalon – Where Mordru was imprisoned – Brainiac Five, Star Boy, Element Lad, Timber Wolf, Wildfire, and Dawnstar
  • Naltor – Where the LSH stopped the Servants of Darkness from kidnapping Dream Girl’s sister, the White Witch – Sun Boy, Light Lass, Dream Girl, Blok, and Invisible Kid II
  • Earth – Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl were attacked by the captured servant but saved from Lightning Lad when he snapped out of his electrical brain fever.

As the Legionnaires on Takron-Galtos leave that world, they miss the shuttle just arriving carrying the now convicted Chameleon Boy who is serving out a sentence for treason.

At the Sorcerer’s World, also known as Xerox, Dream Girl and Element Lad’s teams meet up and Dream Girl officially begins her leadership tenure.  The Legion descends down through mystic illusions until they get to real land and meet the Teachers of the Sorcerer’s World.

As Ultra Boy’s team arrives the ship they are in blows apart as one of the Servant’s teleportation warps explodes in their ship.  The four Legionnaires escape and a few clues to the mystery of the master appear.  We are once again showed that Shadow Lass’ darkness powers does hold some sway over these servants and Mon-El traveled through the warp to meet the master.  Inside the warp Mon-El clearly recognizes the master and is frightened by him.  The master comments “Yet how do you know my visage in this century?”  A clue implying that the master is someone who was around in the 20th century or someone whom Mon-El would have seen from the safety of his prison in the Phantom Zone for 1,000 years.  Mon-El cannot relay this information for he has been put into a coma by the master and his three fellow Legionnaires all are floating unconscious while the servants search for the other Legionnaires.

On Earth, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, and Saturn Girl are examining the data about the Servants of Darkness, in addition to the female being the warped clone of an ancestor of Shadow Lass, the large headed one is a clone of one of the Guardians of the Universe, and another one is a clone of Superman.

On the Sorcerer’s World, Timber Wolf timidly approaches Light Lass and is instantly shot down by her.  The Teachers of Sorcerer’s World tell the Legion that all is well, however when they look to the skies they see that they are violated by the evil of the master.  Dream Girl sends the Legion into action and gives them the directive to prove her wrong, as her previous premonition saw the Legion lose this battle.

While the Legion flies, the Teachers and the White Witch pursue a magic enchantment to combat this evil.  The end of this enchantment results in the birth of a child.  Dream Girl feels the child is the “alpha” to the master’s “omega”.

Back on Earth the three founders decide to call in the reserves to assist:  Superboy, Queen Projectra, Karate Kid, Shrinking Violet, Colossal Boy, Bouncing Boy, and Duo Damsel all answer the call.

The Legion on Sorcerer’s World is still fighting the servants with some degree of success but it is taking a full team effort to do so.  The Legionnaires retreat to the island where Dream Girl waits and Brainiac Five activates his force shield belt to no avail.  The Master laughs at the folly of the Legionnaires and leaves Sorcerer’s World and forces the Legionnaires to go on a hunt to find him.

 

One of the most famous Legion covers where the Logo is all that stands between the Legion and the darkness.

The fourth chapter of the Great Darkness begins with the Legion in six different ships embarking on a trip to find the Master and the Servants.  And we learn a bit about the White Witch’s limitations, sure she’s a magician, but she has to prepare her spells

In the search, Ultra Boy, Phantom Girl, and Shadow Lass go back to the planet that Shady and Mon-El had investigated earlier.  Once they land, the three Legionnaires are ambushed by Servants of Darkness and rendered unconscious.

On another cruiser, Superboy is outside scouting while Duo Damsel speaks to him via the holographic technology Brainy has been working on.  Inside the cruiser, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Cosmic Boy, Bouncing Boy, and Duo Damsel are fairly grim except for Bouncing Boy attempting to perk up morale.

On Takron-Galtos, Chameleon Boy gets a visit from his dad and the two of them finally reconcile.

Thanks to the encounter with Mon-El, the master became equated with Daxam, Mon-El’s home planet, and decided to go there to enslave the populace.

Projectra questions being torn from Orando and her royal duties while Karate Kid plays Space Invaders with his fists.  On another ship Colossal Boy and Shrinking Violet have grown even closer and are feeling scared as well.

Invisible Kid notices that the child from before has grown and while he, White Witch, and Blok converse the child grows yet again.  Then Element Lad informs Dream Girl that he will serve as her Deputy leader until the Darkness passes but then he is going to resign his post.

The Master has switched Daxam with his home planet and Dawnstar located Ultra Boy and company from where they lay unconscious and almost immediately under attack.  Dawnstar gets pulled through a warp while Wildfire is forced to fight the servants on his own.  The Legion quickly attempts to rally and it helps that Brainy put circuitry on Superboy that gives him his powers when under the rays of a red sun.  Superboy fights the warped Superman clone, until Element Lad protects Superboy in a lead shield and turns the rest of the rocks around the servant to gold kryptonite, which removes the powers of Kryptonians.  Timber Wolf them destroys the clone as the other servant retreats through the warp.

Invisible Kid notices Dawnstar hanging in stasis in some “inbetween world” and manages to retrieve her, however all is not well, Brainiac Five has deduced who the master is and it is a name that most DC fans know.  The master has brainwashed the population of Daxam to destroy and remake their planet in the master’s likeness.. the likeness of…

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