"Woow. A castle or whatever is left of it…"

Zatanna, Fate, Alucard, Monkey Prince, Khalid, Mary, Trace, Leroy and Rory arrived to some ruins and see the dark clouds and the ravens flying around.

"What is this place and what does the air feel like this?"

Marcus shivers feeling the dark forces.

"We are not longer in our dimension. This looks like a world between worlds and what are we seeing are some stuff that gets trapped between our reality and the magic world"

Alucard pays attention to every detail of that place and couldn't help but to notice that the air felt so alike and different at the same time as his father's castle.

"How did we get in here?"

Rory was surprised and scared of the place.

"I use my key to the Infinite corridor. This key can take us wherever we want but we need to focus or we can get lost forever"

Zatanna does a movement with her hand and her key disappears.

"What's the plan, Zatanna?"

Khalid asks and the rest of the Sentinels looks at her.

"Merlin already started with his ritual. We can all feel his power and how the reality is changing…we need to stop him before he gets back to his full power"

"That's if you survive my allies"

The Wizard screams at them and the magic user get nervous by being spotted and losing the element of surprise. Next to Merlin there was Grundy and a Black Knight.

"Yeah but we outnumber you old man!"

The man smiles.

"Nothing good ever happens after the bad guy smiles"

A murder of crows comes their way. There were thousands of them and starts attacking the team getting them out of balance. The Black Knight hits Alucard and sends him flying before attacking Ragman. Grundy hits Fate and then Mary. Zatanna, Marcus, Trace, Khalid and Leroy were trying to fight back the ravens.

"Before you get me in trouble"

Merlin sends a black and purple beam towards Fate, knocking him down.

"Khalid! Go and check on my dad"

The young man nods and runs towards Fate's unconscious body. Khalid knew that if he tried to remove the helmet, he will get attacked by the helmet's safety measures but what he read in Zatanna's book gave him the clarity to make his choice. The young Egyptian takes a deep breath and remembers his dream. He dreams with the pyramids, the lords of order, the Ankh of Fate and his Uncle's teachings.

Inside the Helmet of Fate

"Khalid Nassour, what are you doing here? And how did you enter into our realm?"

Nabu was surprised to see the young man in the realm with him and Zatara without donning the helmet.

"I'm here because it finally understand my dream and what I'm supposed to do to help and save everyone"

"What are you thinking? You don't have the strength enough to heal me and help me to wake up and keep fighting…my body is too tired for that now"

Zatara's body was hurting him, he was able to talk thanks to his connection to Fate but he was unconscious on the earthly plane.

"Great Nabu, I need you to release Zatara from being the one that dons the helmet of Fate"

The young Nassour tells the Lord.

"Out of the question. If I release him now, there's not guarantee that he's putting the helmet back on. I Can give him a boost to wake him up"

"But you are going to kill him…"

"If we don't act, the world is going to end"

Nabu coldly answers.

"I have a better solution. My uncle Kent has always been my hero, I always look up to him and I know that you respect him as well"

Nabu doesn't respond.

"But not only him but you too, Dr. Fate. You are taking Mr. Zatara as a prisoner because you don't want to be alone, my uncle was by your side for the longest time until he choose his normal life with my aunt Inza but you allowed that because you cared about him, Am I wrong?"

Zatara just looks from the boy to the helmet.

"And my uncle cares about you too. That's why following my Uncle's footsteps would be an honor for me. Allow me to be the new Dr. Fate alongside Zatara. My connection with you and the lords of order would allow me to use your magic even without donning the helmet…."

"And how does that help Fate?"

"Because you'd have 2 users instead of one. Zatara can have his life back and I can keep my life as well but you are not to be alone anymore. Look how I got here without prior knowledge of this magic or realm! The three of us can be the perfect Lord of Order and we can work as your agents, you and I can communicate without the helmet…"

"Nabu, I can teach him the ways of the lords and the magic just like Kent did with me. With my experience and his natural talent, he can don the helmet without suffering the restrain that I suffered when I first did it"

Nabu keeps looking at Khalid and couldn't help but to see Kent in him. They both were so alike with their views of life, heart, motivations and so much more.

"Alucard! Help Monkey Prince with the Crows!"

Marcus was being swarm by thousands of crows. He was reverting back to his human form.

"Why are there so many of these annoying birds?!"

When he was about to fully going back to his Marcus' form, Alucard step in and with his sword kill the crows while he dragged out of there the young man.

"You need to focus to keep that form of yours?! We need to fight more intelligent"

"Yeah if I don't focus enough I lost my powers and if I don't have my head in my body I'm going to die"

Alucard scoffs. Zatanna and Trace comes close to the two magic creatures.

"Focus on your staff, Marcus. I saw you earlier, when you were showing off your mastery over your weapon, you were at peace, in control, in balance…imagine that you are performing, focus on your moves. You are the Monkey Prince, show us how strong you truly are"

The backwards magician life the monkey's spirits.

"You got this. Show time!"

The Prince does a giant leap and starts pulling his hairs and those hairs turned into multiple versions of himself, each with their own staff and the war between Ravens and Monkeys started.

"That's new and so cool!"

Trace beamed in excitement watching that showcase of abilities.

"That's a useful skill that we could've use earlier but we are still on the ropes. Merlin is getting more powerful and that Rag thing and your students is barely holding their own against that Black Knight and Grundy"

They turn their gaze towards Mary going toe to toe against Grundy with Rory doing his best fighting the Knight. Things go worse when a new enemy arrived, it was another Lord of Order.

"Who's that?"

Trace could identify the magic.

"The Cloak of Cyra! Merlin has under his thrall a Lord of Order"

Alucard recognizes the magical artifact.

"Alright. Alucard, I need you to switch dance partners and fight the Black Knight, Trace and Leroy go and help Mary fighting Grundy-"

"I'll deal with Cyra!"

They look up and see Dr. Fate back in action but he looked slimmer and in full power.

"Khalid? Where's my dad?"

"I'm here, Piccola. Nabu, go!"

Fate nods before launching against his fellow lord. Alucard, Trace and Leroy goes to their new target. Leaving father and daughter alone.

"Daddy!"

The woman hugs her father.

"I'm glad to see you too but there's not much time. Khalid and I will be the new Dr. Fate together…I'd tell you the details later but we need to stop Merlin first"

Zatanna goes back to her serious mode.

"Help the Monkey Prince. I can deal with Merlin before he gets full power"

"How are you going to deal with him? I'll go with you"

Zatanna smirks before focusing her energy in her. Her aura started to shine and her eyes turned blue.

"How?! Since when?!"

Zatara was surprised by his daughter's raw power.

"Since a while back but I can't keep this for long. Let's go dad"

Ragman and Alucard Vs Black Knight

Rory was shielding with his rags the assault from the Knight, each attack was making him the rag suit weaker.

"Die!"

Before Rory got hit, Adrian blocked the attack with his own sword and kicked the Knight sending him flying to a wall.

"Are you alright?"

The vampier helps his teammate get up.

"Yeah. Thanks, I don't know how much my rags are going to resist…I almost run out of souls"

"Then let's finish this quick. I'd block his attack with my sword and together we hit him from both sides"

Reagan nods at him. Merlin's soldier recovers from the attack and swings his sword. Alucard turns himself into a wolf and grabs the enemy's sword with his mouth. Rory takes the chance and binds the soldier and crashes him into the ground multiple times.

"Go high!"

Ragman throws the Black Knight to the ski and Alucard gets back to his normal form. The immortal hits his adversary on the gut before moving faster above him, Tepes uses his shield to tackle from above and they fall to the ground. Rory takes the opportunity to remove the helmet off the soldier.

"Jason Blood?!"

Adrian recognizes his old friend.

"Alucard! Help me! Merlin mind controlled me…I need to get as far as possible. Help me get out off this armor"

Rory uses his rags to strip the armor while Tepes destroys it. Finally, Blood was out of the armor and back into his normal self.

"I must go before he controls me again. The best of luck my friends and thank you"

Etrigan's vessel disappears using his magic.

Mary, Traci and Leroy Vs Grundy

The giant zombie was about to charge at full force at Mary but Trace uses her bad luck magic and make Grundy trip and crash against the wall.

"Are you okay?"

13 goes to help Mary that was panting.

"Yeah. He hits really hard, only if I were Sargent…"

Trace frowns.

"Don't say that. We can do this! The three of us, let's do what Zatanna told us and work as a Team"

Mary was shocked by her fellow sentinel confidence.

"Alright. Let's kick some ass! Any ideas?"

Chirp*

"That's right, Leroy"

"What did he said?"

"Grundy is a zombie. We can't kill him, so we can't stop him"

"I thought that was obvious"

"But what if we trap him?"

The girls starts looking around for a place that was strong enough to hold the bruiser.

"Born on Monday…"

"We better hurry or this is not going to end-"

Mary takes a few steps back when she sees Grundy coming at them.

"WELL!"

"Yeah. This is not going to end well…"

"No, I mean a well!"

Trace points at the place where they can trap the zombie.

"We just need to get him there and not die in the process. Easy. Power of Zeus!"

The Shazam user throws her energy towards her enemy making him going back a couple of feet's before the giant starts to push back. Trace looks to the ruins around them and uses her urban magic on the floor beneath Grundy, making him lose his footing.

"Strength of Hercules!"

Mary launches herself with a straight right onto Grundy's face knocking him closer to the well.

"Speed of Mercury!"

The sentinels tackles the zombie at her top speed but it wasn't enough for him to fall into their trap. Trace's uses her bad luck magic and the swamp below him makes Grundy trip and fall on his head into the well.

"We did it! We did it, Leroy!"

"Way to feel the Aster!"

The girls high five.

Dr. Fate vs Cyra

"Snap out of it! The Lords of Order did not send you here!"

"Nabu, you are not good enough to be our agent on Earth. Your so called friend or allies don't like you, they don't consider you the hero you are so proud to be"

Nabu growls and feel those words. He's aware of the rejection and judgement from other heroes but he knows or think he knows that he's needed.

"Why are you siding with him? He's clearly creating Chaos!"

"I'm here to bring more balance to this world"

That's when Fate realizes that those weren't Cyra's words or even the user's words but Merlin's.

"I'm going to release you from his thrall"

The Lords start attacking each other with magic beams. Nabu can feel the difference between Giovanni and Khalid, the later felt familiar, he felt like when he was one with Kent. After exchanging some attacks, Nabu manages to trap her in one of his Ankhs.

"I release you from Merlin's control and send you back to where you belong"

Fate removes the Cloak revealing that Nimue was the one being controlled by the anchor. Khalid uses his magic to send her back to her home safe and sound.

Monkey Prince and Zatara Vs Murder of Crows

No matter how many crows the Prince defeated, a thousand more took their place making the battle endless.

"You better give up. I can go on forever. I'M THE LEGENDARY MONKEY!"

Marcus swings his staff destroying thousands of ravens. But the birds strike back taking multiple clones of the monkey.

"We are not defeating them with raw power. We need to think"

"And who are you?"

Marcus didn't recognize the old man wearing a magician's outfit.

"I'm Giovanni Zatara, father of Zatanna and we need to work together and more intelligent. Ezeerf!"

The crows that were surrounded them stop mid fly.

"The noise was bothering me. Tell me, kid. What else you can do with that staff?"

"I can make it go bigger as much as I want, I can create gust of winds, I can hit pretty hard with it…"

Zatara hears the words of someone with so much power and potential but without experience.

"Your gust are our best bet. Every time you kill one, another hundreds comes back but if we don't destroy them, they can't create more"

The monkey smiles.

"And how are we going to trap them?"

"Leave that to me. Use your staff"

The ape starts spinning his staff, creating a tornado that sucked all the ravens into it.

"Eltsac bmot!"

Zatara uses the castle's ruins and creates a cage out of the debris. Marcus controls the tornado and puts them inside of their new home, finally getting rid of that problem.

Zatanna vs Merlin

"Drows!"

Zatanna creates a giant sword and aims at the old wizard that stopped the attack without effort.

"Child. You should know by now that I'm leagues above you but I do recognize your power…you can be part of my army and have a nice spot in my new order"

"Rednuht!"

The raven beauty shoots Merlin's sending him flying. The attack was much stronger that he initially thought it would be.

"Insolent! I'm not at my fullest but I'm strong enough to kill a kid like you!"

Merlin's shoots fire out of his hand.

"Dleihs!"

Zee creates a protection sphere but Merlin controls the weather and surrounds the woman with mist, making her unable to see him.

"I came back to take what's mine and no one is going to stop me. No a lord of order, no a Chinese god, no a Shazam's pet, no a vampire and certainly not you"

The stage magician couldn't see the wizard but she didn't need to see him to attack him.

"Tsim nrut otni raef sag!"

The old timer didn't realize when he was back in his old times when he was casted away and rejected by the society for working with the mystic arts. He sees the Sword in the stone being carried by the warrior that almost killed him thousands of years ago.

"No! This is an illusion from the Witch!"

Merlin clears his head and gets back to reality but was meet by the legendary staff of the Prince.

"Get back to the hole you crawled from!"

The wizard shape shifts into a dragon.

"Dleihs!"

Zatara protects Marcus from the breath of fire. Alucard starts his assault with his sword cutting the dragon's tail.

"Power of Zeus!"

Merlin was about to shout flames against the vampire but was meet instead by Zeus' attack and then Trace makes a wall fall into him.

"Zatanna! The Sword! We need to trap him in the sword!"

Rory informs his leader and Zee spots the sword from afar. Merlin turn back into his human form and throws Lightning at the Sentinels. Zatanna was the only one able to dodge the attack while the rest was sent back.

"You would face a Fate worst than death!"

Nabu temporary traps the wizard with his magic but it was enough time for Zatanna to use her magic.

"Nilrem, I ecnetnes uoy ot evil ni siht drows rof eht ytinrete!"

"Nooo! Agghh!"

Merlin starts to get suck into the sword until he was fully trapped and the blade falls into the ground and Zatanna gets back to normal.

"Another magic artifact that can doom us all. I'll add it to the collection"

Alucard picks up the sword.

"I think it would be for the best if we store it in Shadow Crest, don't you think, Zatanna?"

"Agree. There are too many dangerous stuff in Dracula's castle and the Tower of Fate has its own stuff as well"

Zee starts panting.

"What about Atlantis? Or doesn't the league has a place for this stuff?"

Rory gets back to normal.

"Yeah. They usually just give us this stuff to us as if we have a closet for this kind of stuff and Atlantis has their own set of cursed and dangerous things like Ocean Master's trident…"

Zatanna sees everything blurry before passing out.

"Hmmm"

A young beautiful woman starts waking up, feeling dizzy and confused.

"Easy, Zee, easy. I got you baby"

The first thing she sees is her husband and hears his words as he helps her sitting.

"Here, drink this"

Dick handles her a glass of water after drinking it, Zatanna finally notices the bags under his eyes and how tired he looked.

"How are you feeling?"

The man squeezes her hand.

"A little bit tired and numb but other than that…I feel good"

Dick takes her hands and kisses them.

"I'm glad to hear that"

That's when she notices the worry behind his words.

"Why? What's wrong, Dick? Why do you look so tired?"

She cups his face to meet his tired eyes.

"The whole Merlin stuff was 3 or 4 days ago. You passed out after the battle and I've been here with you all the time. Waiting for you to wake up"

His hair was grassy and messy. He looked like he needs hours of sleep, food and to relax. She takes his lips with her own in a tender kiss.

"Thanks for staying by my side"

"Always. There's not other place that I'd rather be than by your side"

She asks him for help to get to the bathroom. Once they were back, she was sit in the edge of the medical bed with him in front of her.

"Do you need anything? Let me call the doctor"

As of cue, Leslie knocks the door before entering the room.

"I see that you are awake Zatanna. How do you feel?"

The doctor starts examining the woman.

"Fine, a little numb and hungry but good"

"Your vitals are fine and you are as fit as always, you can go home today…that means that maybe you can have some rest as well, Dick"

Dick gets closer and takes the magician's hand.

"What about my dad? How's he?"

The last time that Zee saw her father, he told her that he was free of being Fate 24/7.

"Your father is well enough. Nothing that some rest won't fix…Dick convince him to go home and rest so he could be on his best shape in no time"

Leslie gets Zatanna's file while Dick keeps pestering his wife with kisses all over her face.

"But Leslie, why did I pass out? I didn't do anything that I haven't done before nor received that much damage"

Thompkins smiles softly at them.

"That's right. Thankfully you didn't have any injury or anything like that but your body is going through some changes and it's consuming a little bit more of your energy…that's why you pass out from exhaustion"

The couple looked quizzical at the doctor.

"W-what d-do you mean that her body is going through some changes?"

Dick starts shaking.

"Congratulations. You are pregnant"