Chapter Summaries

Zhang Ye brought supplies from Flashpoint-1 Universe to help the Wasteland survive the coming winter and discussed creating secret trade between the parallel universes with Lex Luthor. He planned to have Kara and Pietro establish synchronized portal coordinates before transporting the remaining supplies.

• Zhang Ye left supplies at Xavier's School and told Raven to keep their origin secret and prevent Logan from provoking Lex Luthor.
• Zhang Ye traveled through a portal to Lex Luthor's office, where Lex explained that Madame Masque was investigating an alien lifeboat and Batman was investigating a hidden lunar city possibly connected to Attilan.
• Zhang Ye showed Lex Luthor a supply inventory signed by Bruce Wayne and explained that the supplies came from another universe.
• Zhang Ye confirmed to Kara that the universe was Flashpoint-1 Universe and reassured her that it had recovered enough to establish the Justice Society.
• Zhang Ye and Lex Luthor agreed that trade between the universes should remain secret, and Zhang Ye planned to send Kara and Pietro to establish synchronized coordinates before bringing back more supplies.

Zhang Ye asked Pietro, Kara, and Ashley to establish trade relations with Flashpoint-1 while he remained in the Wasteland Universe. He then recruited Billy Batson to rebuild the Rock of Eternity and reconnect the lost Magic Dimensions, leaving them ready to begin.

• Zhang Ye assigned Pietro to lead the cross-universe trade mission with help from Kara and Ashley, while Lex Luthor prepared a trade list, files, and a letter for Mr. Wayne.
• Zhang Ye went to the Hong Kong Sanctum and showed Billy Batson a fragment of the Rock of Eternity.
• Zhang Ye asked Billy to help rebuild the Rock of Eternity and reconnect the scattered Magic Dimensions, and Billy agreed, warning that the effort could expose their reality to dangerous enemies.
• Zhang Ye explained that Gorr the God Butcher had killed the universe's gods and that he hoped to reconnect with friendly realms such as Olympus or Asgard.
• Billy agreed to help Zhang Ye and said he was ready to start immediately.

Zhang Ye and Billy Batson planned to rebuild the Rock of Eternity, but learned they first needed to locate the banished Magic Dimensions and find a safe way to travel through spatial rifts. They began installing Eternium in the Hong Kong Sanctum while Zhang Ye prepared to bind it to the real dimension.

• Billy Batson explained that the Wizard Council had to find and establish connections with Magic Dimensions before creating the Anywhere Doors, but Red Skull's banishment had erased their coordinates.
• Zhang Ye proposed rebuilding the Rock of Eternity first and asked Miss Minutes to send Tony Stark and Reed Richards plans for a device to navigate shattered spatial rifts.
• Zhang Ye and Billy Batson descended into the Hong Kong Sanctum's basement, where Billy identified a platform once used for magical runes as the site for the Rock of Eternity.
• Billy transformed into Shazam, and Zhang Ye pulled a pyramid-shaped mass of Eternium from a magical space for them to install above the platform's yin-yang symbol.
• Shazam lifted the Eternium as Zhang Ye prepared to use magic to bind it to the real dimension.

Zhang Ye used his immense magical energy to begin building the Rock of Eternity, but the work was too demanding to complete alone. After identifying the Quantum Realm as a possible bridge to other dimensions, he decided to connect it to the Rock of Eternity, leaving its blue light shining across the hall and drawing the attention of magic users throughout the wasteland.

• Zhang Ye began tracing magical runes and channeling energy into the Rock of Eternity while Shazam held it steady.
• Miss Minutes explained that constructing the Rock of Eternity alone could take seven days and seven nights, and that a dimensional bridge could reduce the effort.
• Zhang Ye recalled Baron Mordo's pocket dimension and identified the Quantum Realm as a possible bridge between dimensions.
• Miss Minutes calculated a 97.86 percent chance of success, and Zhang Ye chose to link the Quantum Realm to the Rock of Eternity.
• A crow landed on Zhang Ye's shoulder, and he unleashed a surge of magic that made the Rock of Eternity glow blue as magic users across the wasteland sensed it.

Raven, White Queen Emma, and Agatha sensed Zhang Ye pouring immense magical energy into a dimensional passage. As the three Sanctums' magical circuit activated to support him, Zhang Ye continued struggling to open a stable route to the exiled Magic Dimensions.

• Raven sensed a tremendous power during class, ended the lesson, and joined White Queen Emma on the rooftop.
• White Queen Emma guessed that Zhang Ye was behind the godlike energy, and Raven wondered why he had not warned them.
• Agatha sensed the energy at the London Sanctum, realized someone was opening a connection to another dimension, and identified Zhang Ye as the likely cause.
• Agatha channeled her magic into the London Sanctum as the magical circuit linked all three Sanctums and drew in the New York Sanctum.
• Zhang Ye used the Rock of Eternity as a guide and poured energy into a spatial rift, struggling to make a stable passage to the Magic Dimensions.

Tony Stark, Reed Richards, and Susan finished preparing a train-shaped dimensional traversal device while Tony argued for joining Kara and Pietro on a mission instead of exploring with Zhang Ye. Zhang Ye arrived at the laboratory as Reed was installing the final spatial radar, and the device was nearly ready to start.

• Tony Stark proposed helping Kara and Pietro in another universe, but Reed Richards and Susan warned him against crossing dimensions without authorization.
• Reed Richards explained that the dimensional traversal device was intended to reach lost dimensions exiled from the Wasteland Universe.
• Tony Stark and Reed Richards settled on a train design for the device, and Tony named it the Hogwarts Express.
• Reed Richards installed the final spatial radar while Tony had equipped the train with an air conditioner and a home theater.
• Zhang Ye entered the laboratory and asked how far along the dimensional traversal device was.

Zhang Ye finished establishing a passage between reality and the Quantum Realm, and Reed Richards and Tony Stark completed the Hogwarts Express for dimensional travel. Zhang Ye gathered Billy Batson and the young consultants Franklin Richards and Valeria Richards, leaving the group poised to begin their expedition.

• Zhang Ye returned to the laboratory and learned that Reed Richards and Tony Stark had finished building and testing the Hogwarts Express.
• Tony Stark asked to join the trip to another universe, and Zhang Ye agreed that he could accompany Pietro and the others.
• Zhang Ye returned through the Hong Kong Sanctum, summoned the locomotive, and told Billy Batson it was ready for dimensional travel.
• Franklin Richards and Valeria Richards arrived through a portal as Zhang Ye's technical consultants, and Franklin intimidated Billy when Billy underestimated them.
• Zhang Ye introduced Franklin and Valeria to Billy, who greeted the two children awkwardly.

Pietro prepared to lead his first diplomatic mission, while Kara encouraged Ashley to support him by focusing on practical contributions. Meanwhile, Zhang Ye and the children launched the Hogwarts Express toward the Magic Dimension, leaving Billy terrified as the train charged at a wall.

• Kara reassured Ashley that she could help Pietro by handling the small details of the mission, and Ashley decided to prepare a gift.
• Zhang Ye brought Billy Batson, Valeria Richards, and Franklin Richards aboard the Hogwarts Express in the Hong Kong Sanctum basement.
• Valeria finished calibrating the dimensional traversal machine and explained how science and magic could work by similar rules.
• Valeria started the train, which lit up with blue energy and rushed toward the Great Wall while Billy screamed.

Zhang Ye, Billy Batson, Valeria Richards, and Franklin crossed the fractured Mirror Dimension aboard the train, using Franklin’s power to forge tracks through space. After witnessing reflections of the battle that shattered the dimension, they spotted the first destination ahead: a reflection of the Hogwarts Express.

• The Rock of Eternity opened a passage through the brick wall, and the train entered the darkness between dimensions.
• Valeria Richards explained that Reed Richards’s route data could not account for the space-folding effects, so Franklin formed tracks from spatial fragments.
• The train entered the fractured Mirror Dimension and endured violent turbulence as Franklin kept the tracks forming ahead.
• Billy Batson and the others saw reflections of disasters and battles replaying across fragments of the shattered Mirror Dimension.
• Valeria Richards spotted a point on the radar and announced that the first dimension was near, where a reflection of the Hogwarts Express appeared.

Zhang Ye and the others entered an unfamiliar dimension and found evidence of a supernatural battlefield, including undead energy and traces of ancient Black Magic. Billy Batson sensed that the place held a god’s prayer before death, leaving the group facing a far more ominous mystery.

• Valeria Richards piloted A-Train through a spatial rift into a small dimension, and the rift began healing behind them.
• Zhang Ye, Franklin Richards, and Valeria Richards found an empty grassland tainted by undead energy and concluded it had been part of a brutal battlefield.
• Valeria Richards uncovered blood-soaked soil and charred roots, and Zhang Ye recognized traces of ancient Black Magic beneath the newly grown grass.
• Billy Batson left A-Train despite feeling ill and warned Zhang Ye that he could sense a god’s prayer before death in the dimension.

Zhang Ye recognized that the group had entered the divine realm of Bast, where black magic had driven the Panther God and the spirits of past Black Panthers mad. As the prairie burned and the dead surrounded the train, Zhang Ye urged Valeria to start it and prepared to hold off their attackers.

• Billy Batson warned Zhang Ye that the prayers of dead gods signaled a disaster, and Zhang Ye recognized the prairie as a divine realm.
• Zhang Ye sent Valeria and Franklin toward the train as a shadow attacked them, then used the Bird-Beak Mask to drive it back.
• Zhang Ye identified the huge, undead panther as Bast, and Franklin learned to perceive the divine creatures by sensing the surrounding energy.
• Zhang Ye explained that black magic had corrupted Bast and the spirits of past Black Panthers, and he led the others toward the train.
• Valeria restarted the train while Zhang Ye set its dimensional anchor point, but rootless fire and resentful undead surrounded them.

Zhang Ye and the Richards family escaped a shattered spatial rift and resolved to search for the gods’ divine realms to restore their power to the Wasteland Universe. Meanwhile, Pietro prepared to lead his first mission without Zhang Ye, traveling with Ashley, Kara, and Tony Stark to negotiate in the Flashpoint-1 Universe.

• Zhang Ye used a Seraphim Shield to protect the train while Franklin Richards focused on steering it through the spatial currents.
• Zhang Ye explained to Valeria Richards and Franklin Richards that the Panther God’s divine realm had been corrupted by Black Magic, and proposed finding other divine realms to help the struggling Wasteland Universe.
• Pietro waited at the House of Mystery, eager to return to his former universe and prove himself during negotiations in the Flashpoint-1 Universe.
• Ashley and Kara joined Pietro, and Tony Stark revealed that Zhang Ye had agreed to let him accompany them.
• Pietro argued with Tony Stark about the trap magic that had turned him and his girlfriend into frogs, then apologized when Tony mentioned the library’s surveillance footage.
• Kara reminded Pietro, Tony Stark, and Ashley to take their first mission without Zhang Ye seriously, and they agreed.

Pietro, Kara, Tony Stark, and Ashley arrived in Gotham to contact Bruce Wayne, while Zhang Ye’s group crossed spatial turbulence and discovered Asgardian ships near the shattered remnants of the Mirror Dimension. Zhang Ye realized the destruction was connected to Ragnarok, and the chapter left the ships’ purpose and fate unknown.

• Pietro led Kara, Tony Stark, and Ashley through the Time Twister, and they arrived in a forest near Gotham City.
• Kara confirmed their location, and Pietro chose to call Bruce Wayne rather than risk exposing their identities by flying into Gotham.
• Valeria Richards guided the group into a calmer region of spatial turbulence while Franklin Richards sustained their passage and Billy Batson recovered.
• Billy spotted two apparently lifeless cosmic motherships, and Zhang Ye identified them as ships from Asgard.
• Zhang Ye connected the shattered Mirror Dimension to the war of the gods during Ragnarok and recalled how Doctor Strange and the Sanctum guardians had fought to defend Earth.

Zhang Ye and his companions discovered two abandoned Asgardian ships in spatial turbulence and boarded an intact one to search for clues about Asgard. Valeria Richards identified it as an escape ship, but the chapter ended before they learned what had happened there.

• Zhang Ye traced the ships’ faint Bifrost energy and redirected the Hogwarts Express toward them, suspecting Asgard was in danger.
• Billy sensed the ships’ coordinates while Valeria Richards explained the risks of navigating the spatial turbulence.
• Zhang Ye and Valeria Richards inspected the ships, finding one torn open and the other apparently intact.
• Zhang Ye opened a portal to the intact ship and left Franklin Richards to stabilize the Hogwarts Express.
• Zhang Ye, Billy, and Valeria Richards entered the ship, where Valeria Richards rebooted its systems and discovered it was an Asgardian escape ship.

Zhang Ye, Valeria Richards, and Billy Batson discovered that an unknown entity had drained the divine power and vitality from the Asgardians aboard an escape ship. They concluded the killer might be hunting gods across dimensions and decided to seek clues in the Asgardian realm.

• Valeria Richards explained that the ship's malfunctioning hibernation pods had once held Asgardian citizens and guards, and Zhang Ye led the group to inspect them.
• Zhang Ye examined the dead Asgardians and found their bodies were like ordinary humans, as if something had devoured their vitality and divine power.
• Zhang Ye concluded that an unknown being capable of crossing dimensions was hunting gods, which could explain why magic in the real dimension was growing scarce.
• Billy Batson vowed to help stop the entity from threatening the Wasteland Universe, and Zhang Ye agreed to investigate its identity.
• Zhang Ye noted that the killer had tracked the escape ships through spatial turbulence and proposed searching the Asgardian realm for clues.

Zhang Ye and his companions reached Asgard and found the divine realm buried in snow and shattered by Ragnarok. Following signs of a creature that had devoured the gods’ power, Zhang Ye found Heimdall’s corpse and discovered Odin dead at the source of the great fissure.

• Miss Minutes used residual Bifrost energy to guide Zhang Ye and the others to Asgard.
• The Hogwarts Express entered the ruined realm, where Zhang Ye comforted Billy Batson and warned him to protect Franklin Richards and Valeria Richards.
• Zhang Ye found an Asgardian soldier dead inside a wrecked warship and learned that Odin lay at the center of Asgard.
• Zhang Ye followed the fissure through the palace and found Heimdall nailed to a cliff with his eyes gouged out.
• Zhang Ye reached the fissure’s source and found Odin dead, his body still appearing peaceful.

Zhang Ye discovered that demons from the Hell Dimension and traces of Faltine had appeared in Asgard, though neither seemed to explain the realm’s destruction. He suspected that other dimensions’ locations had been scrambled, while Valeria Richards, Franklin Richards, and Billy Batson detected more unfamiliar objects nearby.

• Zhang Ye examined Odin’s remains and concluded that Red Skull’s battle may have interrupted Odin’s Sleep before he could recover.
• Miss Minutes told Zhang Ye that beings unlike the Aesir had been found outside the city, and he flew to Frigga’s botanical garden to investigate.
• Zhang Ye found Hell Dimension demons whose energy had been devoured by the same force that drained the Asgardians.
• Zhang Ye discovered abandoned garments and inferred that their missing owners might have been Faltine, energy beings, but ruled out Dormammu as Asgard’s destroyer.
• Zhang Ye questioned how beings from several dimensions had reached Asgard despite their spatial coordinates being scrambled.
• Valeria Richards used her detector to locate objects ahead that did not seem to have come from Asgard, while Franklin Richards and Billy Batson watched.

Valeria Richards, Billy, and Franklin Richards investigated an unexplained object buried in the ruins of Asgard’s Bifrost. Billy’s transformation activated the object, and the chapter ended as a mass of writhing flesh emerged behind Valeria.

• Billy took the lead as the three youths followed Valeria’s device to the ruined Bifrost.
• Valeria found a narrow opening among the rubble and persuaded Billy to clear the rocks so they could investigate.
• Billy transformed into Shazam, and Valeria’s tablet alarmed as the buried object began transmitting spatial disturbances.
• Valeria realized Billy’s divine power had activated the object and warned that it was a trap.
• A massive clump of writhing, intestine-like flesh emerged behind Valeria.

Shazam fought three strange beings beneath the Nine Hells while protecting Franklin Richards and Valeria Richards from their attacks. As the siblings were caught in a barrage of lasers, a black umbrella appeared to shield them.

• Shazam’s lightning failed to harm the intestines creature, while the priestess-like being sensed Franklin Richards’s power and the berserker attacked him.
• Shazam fought the berserker and, after being wounded, used the Shazam incantation to knock her away.
• Franklin Richards struggled to defend himself and Valeria Richards from the priestess’s magic, so Shazam sent the Cloak of Levitation to carry them into the sky.
• The intestines creature fired lasers at the fleeing siblings, but a black umbrella suddenly opened between them and the attacks.

Zhang Ye confronted the Three Mothers after they attacked Shazam, Franklin, and Valeria, then held them off so the others could escape. He fought The Crown in a fierce sword clash, and the chapter ended as The Crown raised its sword to strike while Zhang Ye’s eyes turned scarlet.

• Zhang Ye used the Black Umbrella to shield Franklin and Valeria from the Three Mothers’ attacks and identified the creatures as The Child’s hounds.
• Zhang Ye explained that The Child fed on magic and warned that Franklin’s universe-creating energy would make him a target.
• Zhang Ye telepathically ordered Billy to take Franklin and Valeria to safety, and Shazam flew them toward the Hogwarts Express.
• Zhang Ye blocked Doom’s magical laser and stopped The Crown from pursuing the escaping group with tentacles.
• Zhang Ye drew his Tang Blade and fought The Crown’s powerful sword assault until The Crown launched a sudden overhead strike as Zhang Ye’s eyes turned scarlet.