"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."​ Superior and her cyborg sidekick, Geiger, enter Dr. Skullion's lair. They encounter brutal creatures that can deplete Superior's power merely through physically contact with her. Against Geiger's advice, Superior attempts to deal with them by herself. When one of them attempts to rаpe her, she manages to destroy it, but barely "You do not suffer from evil, because you recognize it, but because it affords you secret pleasure" ​In the meantime, Dr. Skullion is somehow able to gain control of Geiger and use the cyborg to sexually assault Superior, who is simply too weak to stop the monster. A virtually powerless Superia is then chained and delivered to Sinestra, who delights in punishing her pitiful captive. "But did you know what evil is, and that it stands precisely right behind your virtues, that it is also your virtues themselves, as their inevitable substance?"​ When Superia refuses to obey Sinestra's every whim, the cunning sorceress threatens to kill another superheroine. Finally, Superior surrenders in hopeless despair.