The Rise of the Blue Beetle! has a few problems with controlling his powers, such as when he tried to rescue a cat from a tree. Batman decides to take the young superhero under his wing and asks Blue Beetle to help him stop a meteor. The mission is stopped, however, when the two superheroes to get sucked into a wormhole which sends both of them to a distant planet that has a war between single-celled aliens called Gibbles and the intergalactic pirate Kanjar Ro, who wants to harvest their bodies for fuel. The aliens believe that Blue Beetle is their savior, mistaking him for the
The Rise of the Blue Beetle! attack them, but the Gibble uses a weapon that utilizes its own power to knock Ro out. Before he and Blue Beetle leave, the Gibbles thank Batman for his part in helping Blue Beetle and themselves to defeat Kanjor Ro. The two return to Earth through the wormhole, and find that it has brought them back to the exact time after they went through the wormhole the first time. This gives them enough time to finish the mission to stop the meteor that got them sent through the wormhole in the first place, and after making sure his partner is