Hayden reappeared in a blackened room. A chilling voice informed him that he was needed. Hayden was recalcitrant, and threatened the voice. The voice angrily took away Hayden's face, leaving him as a faceless being, unable to express his emotions. The voice warned him that if he wanted to live, he would do as he was told. Psycho-Pirate agreed and was given his face back. He begged the mysterious figure not to do that again; he would do whatever he was ordered, as the contained emotions could kill him if left too long imprisoned. In return, the Anti-Monitor would give him his own world to do with as he wished.

The Anti-Monitor was frequently antagonistic to Hayden; often threatening him with replacing him with other empaths; he briefly considered summoning the old Titans villain Phobia to discard Hayden. While the Anti-Monitor's plans proceeded, Hayden used his powers to keep the captive Red Tornado docile. The Anti-Monitor abducted the Flash, and allowed Psycho-Pirate a moment to "play" with him; making him crawl on the ground in fear. Soon, the evil Anti-Monitor would have even bigger plans for Roger Hayden.

The Anti-Monitor's plans were succeeding, and eventually there were only three earth's left. He finally showed himself to Hayden and the Flash, and they were both horrified what they saw. The Psycho-Pirate begged for him to finally receive his own world to control, and the Anti-Monitor acquiesced. However, instead of ONE world, the Anti-Monitor would amplify Hayden's powers to control the the THREE remaining earths. Hayden caused the residents of each world to feel fear and anger to the other heroes who had come to rescue him. The strain was beginning to be too much for the empath, but the Anti-Monitor refused to hear his pleas. Ultimately, the heroic Harbinger managed to absorb the three earths into the Netherverse designed to save them, releasing them from Hayden's grip. This shock of losing all three earths at once caused Psycho-Pirate an immense amount of pain; so much so that when the heroes invaded he was unable to obey the Anti-Monitor's command to emotionally control them. The Anti-Monitor was furious. This was the reason he had kept Hayden alive, and now he was useless. Hayden was forced to flee.

Hayden hid with the still captive Flash and told the imprisoned speedster that has only hope was that the Anti-Monitor was dead after being defeated. It was not to be, for at that moment the Anti-Monitor appeared from behind wearing a new armor. He decided to keep the Psycho-Pirate alive for while; lacking the time to summon or create another empath.

Eventually, the Pirate's powers returned and he decided to torment the Flash for a while. Unfortunately, the Flash had been secretly vibrating his molecules, until he was finally able to destroy his prison. He managed to resist Hayden's powers, and brutally beat him in return for the torture had suffered through. The Flash then grabbed Hayden's beaten body, and rushed around to each of the Anti-Monitor's Quardian Weaponeers. He used the Psycho-Pirate to make the Weaponeers feel an uncontrollable hate for their master, and they attacked him. The strain on Hayden's psyche was unbelievable. He asked the Flash to save him, but was knocked unconscious for his troubles. While the Anti-Monitor survived his minions' attacks, the Flash sacrificed himself to destroy the villain's giant antimatter cannon in his final heroic run.

The heroes eventually invade the Anti-Monitor's fortress again for a final assault. Kid Flash found Hayden trying to drag the Flash's empty, lifeless costume out from under a pile of rubble. Horrified at his uncle's death, Kid Flash begins attacking the Psycho-Pirate. The other heroes stop him because they saw that Hayden has been driven insane. Kid Flash realized that they were right, and as much as he wanted to hate him, he couldn't.

Eventually, the heroes succeeded in defeating the Anti-Monitor and returned to Earth. This, however was the only Earth now. All the other multiverses had coalesced into one, and almost everyone eventually forgot that there had ever been a multiverse... except for Roger Hayden. He was locked up in Arkham Asylum, where he would babble on about how "worlds lived and worlds died, and nothing will ever be the same.", and describing the Anti-Monitor as his best friend. The madman longed for the return of the multiverse, and he would soon get his wish... after a fashion.

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