Never fails -- every time I start talkin' to a girl -- 
- — Superboy
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #2 is an issue of the series Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1994.
Synopsis for "Zero Hour (Part III)"
12 Hours, 36 Minutes Ago: The recently unmasked Extant explains to Waverider that they appear identical because he duplicated Waverider's powers. Extant leaves to coordinate his other machinations, and Waverider has to transport the horribly aged Justice Society back to Earth.
12 Hours, 34 Minutes Ago: In New York City, Metron helps the world's heroes deal with the descending city from the 25th Century by sending it back to its own period via Boom Tube. Waverider arrives, and reports the most recent damage Extant has done. Broken, defeated and hospitalized, the JSA is forced to retreat from the fighting.
10 Hours, 6 Minutes Ago: Having determined many of their problems are currently in the future, the heroes travel to the 31st Century accompanying the Legionnaires. Before they can find a way to combat the Entropy waves, they are all confusingly attacked by the Team Titans. The Teamers are being controlled by Extant, who was earlier revealed to be their founder and mysterious leader,[citation needed] using their communicators.
9 Hours, 17 Minutes Ago: Doctor Mist is erased from existence in front of his Leymen, when the long ago time he was born in is erased from history.
9 Hours, 12 Minutes Ago: Alan Scott and Jay Garrick stay in the hospital with their friends. They are told that while Wildcat and Sandman will survive, the doctors were unable to save Doctor Mid-Nite. Garrick decides to pay a call on the Spectre, and ask him for help.
8 Hours, 22 Minutes Ago: Supergirl tries to help Power Girl deal with her pregnancy,[citation needed] but a force field projects from her, apparently being generated by the baby itself.
8 Hours, 9 Minutes Ago: Extant gloats over Linear Men Matthew Ryder and Liri Lee, who he appears to have trapped in stasis. He criticizes them for observing time, but never using the power they had to attempt to change it for the better.
10 Hours, 6 Minutes Ago: In the distant past, a group of heroes led by Nightwing try to help Waverider combat the entropy waves, but they are also set upon by a group of Team Titans. After Nightwing guesses that the Teamers are being controlled, Extant shows up and attacks Waverider again, but appears not to have Waverider's powers, and is apparently a slightly past version of the Extant who recently confronted him. Waverider is barely able to send the heroes back to their own time period before Extant strikes him down and absorbs him and his powers. The future Extant watches on as he does this.
8 Hours, 9 Minutes Ago: In the 30th Century, Metron believes that he has figured out how to stop the entropy using his Mobius Chair. Superman and Captain Atom team up to help him make the entropy collapse in upon itself. Pure quantum energy ignites the chair, and a Boom Tube opens within the rift, turning it inside out. The weight of the timestream and the universe collapses, making reality's fabric whole once again. Rokk Krinn and the Time Trapper arrive to help the heroes return back to their own time.
8 Hours, 8 Minutes Ago: Back in the present, the other heroes are still fighting the Team Titans. Warrior finds himself manifesting new powers, able to sprout weaponry from his armor upon thought command. Finally, the Team Titans disappear, as the heroes' interference in the 30th Century has wiped out the alternate timeline the Team Titans come from. The heroes who were in the future return, including Terra and Mirage. The heroes are confused as to why those two still exist, which Batgirl hypothesizes is because they were in temporal transit at the time. Guy Gardner wonders if the current time fluxes could be use to their advantage to bring back Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps.
Elsewhere, Extant merges with his past self, and angrily wonders how he could be failing despite his concrete prior knowledge of his success based on previous trips to the future.
7 Hours, 59 Minutes Ago: A mysterious figure in the 30th Century reopens the rift of Entropy.
Appearing in "Zero Hour (Part III)"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Metron
- Green Lantern (Alan Scott)
- The Flash (Jay Garrick)
- Batman
- Doctor Mist
- Geo-Force
- Hawkman
- Power Girl
- Time Trapper (Rokk Krinn)
Antagonists:
- Extant
- Parallax (Hal Jordan) (Behind the scenes)
Other Characters:
- Justice Society of America
- Wildcat
- Hourman
- Johnny Quick
- Sandman
- Starman
- Doctor Mid-Nite (Dies)
- The Atom (Al Pratt) (Appears only as a corpse)
- Emerald Dragon
- SW6 Legionnaires
- Batgirl (Barbara Gordon)
- Despero (L-Ron)
- Darkstar
- Captain Atom
- Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)
- The Ray
- Booster Gold
- Amazing Man
- Martian Manhunter
- Impulse
- Superboy
- Metamorpho
- Wonder Woman
- Katana
- Team Titans (Final appearance)
- Leymen
- Spectre (Jim Corrigan)
- Supergirl
- Linear Men
- Anima
- Nightwing
- Dagon
- Captain Marvel
- Warrior
Locations:
Items:
Notes
- The reading order for this limited series counts down backwards beginning with issue #4 and ending with issue #0.
- This issue is reprinted in:
- With the exception of Mirage and Terra, this is the final appearance of the Team Titans.
- Hourman was retconned to being Hourman (Matthew Tyler) in JSA #66–67.
See Also
- Cover gallery for the Zero Hour: Crisis in Time series
- Images from Zero Hour: Crisis in Time Vol 1 2
Recommended Reading
- Teen Titans Recommended Reading
- Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- New Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- Tales of the Teen Titans (Volume 1): #41-58
- New Teen Titans (Volume 2)/New Titans (Volume 1)
- Team Titans (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans (Volume 2)
- JLA/Titans (Volume 1)
- Titans (Volume 1)
- Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans (Volume 3)
- Titans (Volume 2)
- Blackest Night: Titans (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans (Volume 4)
- Teen Titans (Volume 5)
- Convergence: New Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- Convergence: Titans (Volume 1)
- Titans (Volume 3)
- Teen Titans (Volume 6)
- Teen Titans Academy (Volume 1)
- Titans (Volume 4)
- World's Finest: Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans: Year One (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans Go! (Volume 1)
- The New Teen Titans: Games (Volume )
