Meanwhile, Neron causes further disruption on an Earth now seething with violence and war as a result of his demonic influence on people and the chaos caused by the supervillains in his debt. He also spreads chaos to New Apokolips, giving all those who desire the missing Darkseid's throne information on each other's plans, thus setting New Apokolips to war with itself. Back in Hell, Luthor and the Joker force the Trickster to reveal that Neron's power is contained within his Soul Jar and succeed in rupturing the Jar using Polaris, Kadabra and Circe's mystical and scientific resources together. As the Jar is breached a swirl of green smoke reaches outward, spiriting Polaris, Kadabra and Circe away, which is what Luthor and the Joker had actually planned. However, Neron had pre-empted them by fooling the Trickster into giving them false information, thus removing his Inner Council before they could become a potential threat to his power. He shrinks Luthor and the Joker and traps them in a snow globe - although they believe they are in a snowstorm in Metropolis until they reach the glass walls of the globe. As Earth collapses into war, anarchy and chaos, Justice League America calls most of the world's superheroes together to stand against Neron. Like Kyle, all assume that because he is missing, it is Superman that Neron referred to as the pure soul he wanted and that he had already been captured. The elite of the Justice League decide to take the fight to Neron and Blue Devil, who had been fooled by Neron's Faustian deal into causing the death of his friend, filmmaker Marla Bloom, takes them to Hell. Now alone in Hell after the fall of the Inner Council, the Trickster, who had not yet been offered a deal for his soul, realizes that he had been taken for a fool again and Neron had deeper plans that he had not revealed. He begins to scheme against him.