Chapter Summaries

Donnie asked Master Ancient One to help him seize the Dark Dimension and become its new master after they defeated Dormammu. She agreed, but demanded that he remain on Earth and succeed her as Sorcerer Supreme.

• Donnie explained that Master Ancient One would recruit Shazam and powerful magical factions to join a risky assault on the Dark Dimension.
• Mordo supported the plan, hoping that killing or wounding Dormammu would give Earth centuries of peace.
• Donnie asked Mordo to leave so he could discuss his ambition privately with Master Ancient One.
• Donnie told Master Ancient One he wanted to take control of the Dark Dimension and become a Single Universe Level being.
• Master Ancient One agreed to help on the condition that Donnie stay on Earth and become the next Sorcerer Supreme.

Donnie struggled to choose between inheriting the Sorcerer Supreme’s role and pursuing his ambitions beyond Earth, then demanded both the Dark Dimension and his own Cybertron. He returned to New York as the Ancient One prepared to invade Dormammu’s realm.

• The Ancient One offered to help Donnie kill Dormammu and give him the Dark Dimension if he became Sorcerer Supreme, warning she would kill him if Darkforce corrupted him.
• Donnie explained that he had considered inheriting Shazam the Wizard’s legacy but distrusted the wizard’s methods, while the Ancient One urged him to remain on Earth and inherit her responsibilities.
• After weighing the dangers of leaving Earth, Donnie declared that he wanted the Sorcerer Supreme’s position, the Dark Dimension, and his own Cybertron, then smashed his teacup and left.
• Mordo tried to confront Donnie for disrespecting the Ancient One, but Donnie opened a portal and returned to New York.
• The Ancient One told Mordo to prepare for war, saying Wong had found the Hell Border and they would invade Dormammu’s Dark Dimension.

Wang opened a gateway to Hell Border, where Logan was attacked by Illyana Rasputin, its young queen. Constantine revealed Colossus as Illyana’s long-lost brother, and the siblings recognized each other, giving the group a chance to win her over and use Hell Border as a base for the coming invasion.

• Wang found and opened the entrance to Hell Border, and Logan went through first.
• Illyana Rasputin attacked Logan with dark magic, but his healing factor restored him.
• Wang and the others entered, and Illyana prepared to attack after rejecting their claim that they were not enemies.
• Constantine used a drop of blood to identify Illyana, and Colossus approached her as her brother.
• Illyana recognized Colossus as Piotr, and Wang felt relieved that they might gain her support.

Donnie gathered Earth’s heroes and factions at Hell Border to prepare for an assault on Dormammu’s Dark Dimension, while Master Ancient One constructed a teleportation array. As the invasion preparations continued, Donnie warned Wanda she was too weak to join the battle and traded barbs with her and Quicksilver.

• Donnie assembled the X-Men, Brotherhood, Kamar-Taj, the Shenmao Bureau, Diana, and other allies at Hell Border to attack Dormammu.
• Diana asked why the three reclusive factions had not been summoned, and Zheng Xian and Donnie explained they needed to remain as Earth’s last line of defense.
• Donnie watched Master Ancient One and Mordo build a teleportation array, while considering his ambitions to claim the Dark Dimension and create Cybertron.
• Wanda patted Donnie’s shoulder, but his reflexive strength knocked her to the ground; he told her to leave because she was too weak for the coming war.
• Wanda said Illyana would protect her and accused Donnie of lacking grace, while Donnie pointed to the battered Quicksilver and noted that his father had beaten him.
• Quicksilver blamed Donnie for his injuries while glancing at Magneto, whose bruises had come from Diana.

Donnie opened a portal into the Hell Border and unleashed a vast Transformers army as the assembled mutants and magical forces watched. He revealed that the force was only the vanguard and estimated it numbered thirty million.

• Donnie teased Quicksilver about his past prank, then questioned Wanda about Illyana while Wanda accused him of eavesdropping.
• Professor X and Magneto reunited, while Wolverine met Sabretooth Victor without remembering their history.
• Professor X and Magneto recognized the Ancient One’s overwhelming power as she stood with Donnie and the magical forces.
• Donnie signaled Wang to activate the teleportation array, opening a huge portal into the Hell Border.
• Millions of Transformers poured through the portal and formed disciplined ranks as Donnie controlled them from above.
• Donnie told Wanda the Transformers were only the vanguard and estimated their number at thirty million.

Donnie and Master Ancient One opened a portal from Hell Border into the Dark Dimension to launch an invasion against Dormammu. Donnie sent the Transformers and Shenmao Bureau forces through first, while Illyana and Wanda considered the scale of the coming battle.

• Illyana marveled at Donnie's command of thirty million Transformers, while Wanda questioned what the other heroes could contribute.
• Donnie explained that the Transformers were only cannon fodder against Dormammu and were intended to fight his followers and Mindless Ones.
• Master Ancient One opened a portal linking Hell Border to the Dark Dimension.
• Donnie sent the Transformer vanguard through the portal, followed by the Shenmao Bureau's Ringed Hovercarrier and its soldiers.
• A flaming-skull rider sped past the Transformers on his motorcycle, shouting that he could smell sin.

Dormammu discovered that Master Ancient One had entered the Dark Dimension and eagerly prepared to kill her and her companions. He sent Casillas and his dark forces to attack, while Casillas followed orders out of hatred and a desire for eternal life.

• Dormammu sensed Master Ancient One in the Dark Dimension and rejoiced at the chance to destroy his old enemy.
• Dormammu summoned his dark slaves and Mindless Ones to attack Ancient One's companions while reserving Ancient One for himself.
• Dormammu discarded ruined planets and told Casillas that conquering Earth and killing Ancient One would be his greatest honor.
• Dormammu ordered Casillas to lead the dark sorcerers and creatures against Ancient One's forces, allowing him to use summoning magic.
• Casillas obeyed, driven by his desire for eternal life and resentment of Ancient One, while Dormammu privately mocked him.

Donnie’s forces entered the Dark Dimension and clashed with Casillas’s monsters and Dormammu’s Mindless Ones. The battle began while Ancient One’s group prepared to confront Dormammu, with the outcome still undecided.

• The Ghost Rider rushed into the Dark Dimension, intoxicated by its abundance of darkness and sin, while Professor X sensed enemies approaching.
• Casillas led a horde of monsters toward Ancient One and began accusing her, but Donnie interrupted him and ordered Logan and Diana to attack.
• Logan and Diana led the charge as a legion of thirty million Transformers advanced against Casillas’s monsters.
• Casillas summoned Mindless Ones, and Mordo warned the invaders about them through Professor X’s telepathy.
• Transformers detonated chest-mounted Nuclear Bombs among the Mindless Ones as Donnie directed the legion and focused on keeping enemies from interfering with Ancient One’s fight against Dormammu.

Donnie’s army fought Dormammu’s Mindless Ones across the Dark Dimension while Ancient One went to confront Dormammu. As the enemy’s numbers overwhelmed the battlefield, Donnie revealed that Earth’s Council had been preparing to join the fight.

• Thirty million Transformers charged the Mindless Ones, and Donnie told Quicksilver that each Transformer carried a high-explosive bomb.
• Donnie stopped Professor X from using his full psychic power, while Red Devil Azazel watched the battle with hidden indifference.
• Ancient One found Dormammu and left through a portal; Donnie prevented Illyana from following, telling her to save her strength for a critical moment.
• More than twenty million Mindless Ones joined the fighting, and the battle grew to over sixty million combatants as four million Transformers fell.
• Mordo warned Donnie that the Mindless Ones could not be killed off, but Donnie said Earth had support too, prompting Zheng Xian to reveal the Council had been preparing.

Ancient One confronted Dormammu in the Dark Dimension, absorbing Darkforce and battling his attacks while revealing that she had expected help. The chapter ended as an elderly wizard introduced himself to Dormammu as Shazam the Wizard.

• Ancient One entered the Dark Dimension and absorbed its Darkforce as Dormammu accused her of stealing his power.
• Ancient One countered Dormammu’s flaming meteorites with Mirror Magic and told him she could have defeated him if his true body had come to Earth.
• Dormammu turned the Dark Dimension against Ancient One, sending continents and planets toward her, but she cut apart the descending planets with Spatial Magic.
• Ancient One called on an unseen ally, revealing an ancient hall in another world and startling Dormammu with the old man’s hidden presence.
• The elderly man introduced himself as Shazam the Wizard.

Ancient One and Shazam the Wizard joined forces to invade the Dark Dimension and confront Dormammu. After Shazam unleashed his long-hidden power, Ancient One declared that they intended to kill Dormammu.

• Old Shazam left the Eternal Fortress after Ancient One promised to help him find a suitable successor.
• Ancient One and Shazam met Dormammu in the Dark Dimension, where he angrily challenged their decision to attack him.
• Shazam struck Dormammu with a devastating magical blast, and Ancient One formed a crystalline barrier and hurled it at him.
• Dormammu gathered Darkforce into a spinning black vortex and insisted that he could not be defeated in his own domain.
• Ancient One told Dormammu that she and Shazam had come to kill him.

The battle between Dormammu, Ancient One, and Shazam sent destructive magic through the Eternal Fortress, causing disasters and exposing their projections across Earth. As Donnie’s forces struggled against an endless Mindless Ones army, he insisted that powerful reinforcements were coming.

• Dormammu, Ancient One, and Shazam fought across the Dark Dimension, and their magical clashes tore through the Eternal Fortress toward Earth.
• Earth suffered global earthquakes, giant waves, satellite disruptions, and cracks in the sky as Kamar-Taj mages tried to stabilize its protective formation.
• Dormammu’s enormous projection appeared above Earth, where people watched him battle the projections of Ancient One and Shazam.
• Donnie’s army fought more than eighty million combatants, and Professor X, Magneto, Magik, and Diana helped hold back the Mindless Ones.
• Diana warned Donnie that his forces would die if they only kept killing enemies, and Donnie replied that powerful reinforcements were coming.

Earth panicked as the sky cracked open, while Reverse-Flash planned to use Barry Allen to regain the Speed Force and return to his own era. In the Dark Dimension, Donnie asked Diana and Magik to create an opening against Casillas.

• The Global Security Council and world leaders mobilized resources as the spatial rift and magical battle threatened Earth.
• Dr. Harrison ordered Cisco to carry the unconscious Barry Allen to the basement while he planned to teach Barry the Speed Force and later steal it.
• Reverse-Flash blamed the altered timeline for the appearance of Donnie and watched Ancient One, Shazam, and Dormammu battle in the sky.
• Kamar-Taj’s mages attacked Casillas in the Dark Dimension, but he avoided fighting Mordo and the others directly.
• Donnie asked Diana to clear a path and draw Casillas’s attention, with Magik assigned to support her.

Agamotto's Sanctum’s ruler reassured Raven, a girl with demonic power, that the mages would purify her and free her from Trigon. He prepared to travel to Earth with Kamar-Taj and the Eternal Fortress to fight Dormammu, while Raven stayed behind.

• Raven, overwhelmed by the holy atmosphere of Agamotto's Sanctum, told its ruler she should leave before Trigon found her.
• The ruler comforted Raven and promised to remove her demonic power and give her a pure magical constitution.
• Raven asked to accompany the mages to Earth, where they planned to join Kamar-Taj and kill Dormammu.
• The ruler explained that Agamotto's Sanctum had taken Raven in despite the danger of provoking her multiversal father, Trigon.
• The ruler opened a holy teleportation passage and told Raven to wait for the mages to return.

Agamotto's Sanctum's vast mage assembly entered the Dark Dimension and devastated the Mindless Ones, turning the battle against Casillas. Donnie sent his combiners and Kamar-Taj's mages after Casillas, beginning the hunt for the traitor.

• Agamotto's Sanctum's mages arrived in the Dark Dimension and began destroying the Mindless Ones with coordinated sacred magic.
• Casillas panicked as the mages sealed his portals and overwhelmed his forces.
• Donnie watched the assault with Wong and Wanda, while Transformers continued reinforcing his army.
• Donnie ordered his forces to ignore the wider battle and target Casillas, whom he considered a threat to Earth's secrets.
• Devastator, Bruticus, and Superion combined and charged toward Casillas as Mordo and Kamar-Taj's mages joined the attack.

Donnie’s allies overwhelmed Casillas’s Mindless Ones, and Donnie killed Casillas before he could reveal a dangerous secret. Donnie then headed toward the battle involving Master Ancient One, secretly intending to eliminate Red Devil, whom he considered Earth’s true cancer.

• Magneto, the Professor, Magik Illyana, and the other allies slaughtered the Mindless Ones as their numbers dwindled below one million.
• Casillas abandoned resistance and began to accuse someone of stealing the Darkforce, but Bruticus crushed his head before he could finish.
• Donnie dismissed Casillas’s attempted revelation as a ploy to stall and urged the fighters to help Master Ancient One.
• An elder from Agamotto’s Sanctum led his Mage Corps toward the fierce battle involving three Level 7 Archmages.
• Donnie chose Red Devil to accompany him, privately resolving to kill him as the true cancer within Earth.

Donnie confronted Red Devil about his hidden origins and schemes while they headed toward the battle with Dormammu. He threatened the Demon-type Mutants’ sealed home dimension and the descendants Red Devil planned to sacrifice, leaving Red Devil to face the danger of his secret being exposed.

• Donnie told Red Devil to teleport them away when Dormammu made a major move, while claiming he planned to distract Dormammu with his Transformers.
• Red Devil suspected Donnie wanted the Dark Dimension’s core energy and agreed to help while hiding his own ambitions.
• Donnie asked about Red Devil’s son with Mystique Raven, and Red Devil admitted he had been searching for the blue-skinned Mutant.
• Donnie threatened to find and kill Red Devil’s son, then said he was joking as twenty million Transformers gathered around him.
• Donnie revealed that he knew Red Devil’s true body was sealed in a small alternate dimension and threatened to destroy it and waste Red Devil’s plan to sacrifice his descendants.

Donnie exposed Red Devil’s plan to sacrifice his descendants and use Blue Devil’s blood to summon his true body, then offered to save the Demon-type Mutants if Red Devil helped him seize the Dark Dimension. Red Devil had not accepted, and Donnie revealed that he was only a restricted soul avatar.

• Donnie accused Red Devil of fathering countless children to use them as sacrifices and summon his true body from an interdimensional space.
• Red Devil demanded to know how Donnie had uncovered his plan, and Donnie claimed he had learned it through the Time Stone.
• Donnie told Red Devil that his scheme was doomed and taunted him about his weakness, leaving Red Devil shaken and despairing.
• Donnie offered Red Devil land in the Dark Dimension and a future for his people in exchange for helping him seize it.
• Red Devil rejected the offer and said he would seize the Dark Dimension himself.
• Donnie argued that Red Devil was only a restricted soul avatar, pointing to his low level as evidence that his true body had limited him.

Donnie seized his chance to absorb Dormammu’s unleashed Darkforce and claim the Dark Dimension, while Master Ancient One revealed that his AllSpark made him a unique being across the multiverse. The chapter left Donnie engulfed in darkness as the others held Dormammu back and prepared for his transformation.

• Red Devil agreed to cooperate with Donnie as they watched Master Ancient One, Shazam the Wizard, and Agamotto’s Sanctum battle Dormammu.
• Donnie pointed out a Watcher and tried to persuade Red Devil to capture it and use it to attack Dormammu, but the Watcher heard them and the plan fell apart.
• Master Ancient One and Shazam the Wizard destroyed Dormammu’s head, releasing a surge of Dark Energy, and Donnie had Red Devil teleport him beside it.
• Master Ancient One explained that Donnie’s X-Gene could not withstand the growing demands of the AllSpark, but the AllSpark was unique and protected him from being erased.
• Dormammu tried to kill Donnie, but Master Ancient One repeatedly destroyed his bodies and warned that his weakening soul would make him Donnie’s stepping stone.

Dormammu hid while the Ancient One and Shazam destroyed his avatars, planning to ambush Donnie and seize the AllSpark. He believed the artifact could help him become unique and transform the Dark Dimension, and he quietly moved toward Donnie to carry out his plan.

• Dormammu rebuilt his body by absorbing Darkforce while the Ancient One and Shazam continued destroying his avatars.
• Dormammu reflected on how unique beings and items could escape the dangers of timeline changes and multiversal copies.
• Dormammu decided the AllSpark could help him become unique and make the Dark Dimension one of the supreme worlds.
• Dormammu abandoned a direct fight with the Ancient One and secretly approached Donnie by merging with the flowing Darkforce.