As the dome surrounding the town of Riverrock comes down, the media are quickly on the scene. The members of the Shadowpact struggle to come to grips with the fact that while only a few days have passed for them, that a year has passed in the rest of the world. As the members of the team attempt to resume their lives, they're shocked to find the consequences of being missing for a year. Many of them are homeless, and someone else has re-opened the Oblivion Bar in Nightmaster's absence.As the members of Shadowpact try to get their lives in order, Strega returns to Gotham, and awakens her master who has been slumbering beneath the city since before it was even built.