Brainiac was nearly destroyed in a battle with Superman, with parts of his circuitry scattered across the cosmos. Sometime later, Ibn al Xu'ffasch accumulated the parts containing Brainiac's consciousness and had them transferred into a functional Superman robot in order to force him to work with Ra's al Ghul and Lex Luthor. The group attempted to prevent their reality from being altered when Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman went back in time with Hunter to rescue Superman and Wonder Woman's child from Gog. Luthor and Brainiac had developed the Chronoslip, which they said allowed whoever entered it to survive whatever changes in reality end up taking place. However, Ibn, who suspected that Luthor and Brainiac had double-crossed him, forced the two to enter the Chronoslip themselves, which ended up exploding.
