The school was in ruins.
Smoke and glitching particles drifted from shattered walls, twisted swings, and melted pavement. The Echoes had retreated—but Reverance had left its mark. And it wasn't just physical.
Everyone felt it.
Fear. Awe. A shared question none dared ask aloud: What even is that thing?
Jake stood amid the wreckage, his Draco-Wyld form fading away. His hands were still trembling.
Isabella ran a hand through her hair, her energy reserves nearly depleted. "It knew our powers. It mimicked us. That's... not just Echo behavior. That's calculated."
Reggie's eyes remained fixed on his Dimenswatch, now displaying a corrupted fractal map of the multiverse. He zoomed in on a point labeled: "Broken Node – Realm ΔØ-Null."
"I think I know where Reverance is headed," he said. "And we're going after it."
Vanessa raised a brow. "You want to walk into that thing's domain?"
"Not just to fight it," Reggie replied. "To find someone who might know how to stop it."
Jake and Remy exchanged a glance.
Then Jake nodded. "Then let's go."
Minutes later, the team assembled in Isabella's basement lab—her family's private off-grid tech bunker. Reggie finished configuring a stable gateway using the same ancient rune energy that had altered Candace and Linda.
As the portal ignited, swirling with blue and purple hues, Candace stepped forward beside Linda, eyes sharp.
"We're coming too."
Reggie opened his mouth to object, but Jake cut in, "We're not leaving family behind."
With a pulse of light, they stepped through the portal—and into Realm ΔØ-Null, an abandoned world of half-formed matter, shattered gravity, and time-stopped echoes of collapsed realities.
The Void of Forgotten Versions.