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! Ro, then defeats him. However, when they have apparently defeated Ro, he frees his crew and uses the Gamma Gong on Blue Beetle, which he knows he has a weakness for; it eliminates his powers, and was how he killed the last Blue Beetle. Another blow of the Gong strips the armor away; when Ro sees his greatest foe is a child, he realizes he did eliminate the Beetle the last time they fought. He ties Batman and some Gibbles to a satellite for fish-like space monsters to eat, but Batman plugs a cable into the Gibble next to him,