The team makes it to the location and sees a giant wheel-shaped race track. They see a flash of lightning and Zoom appears with Peter handcuffed.
"Brought the whole crew with you, huh?" Hunter asks. "Can't say I blame you. It's gonna be one hell of a show."
May and Caitlin don't pay attention to him and focus on Peter as they see the bruises on his face alone.
"Let him go," Caitlin tells Hunter.
"After we race." Hunter reminds them.
"Cut it out already, we know you plan to power up the magnetar so you can destroy the multiverse," Harry states to him holding up the Boot.
"Bravo. You figured it out...almost. I don't want to destroy all of them. This earth is at the center of the multiverse. The quickest access point to every other earth in experience. One trans-dimensional shockwave, and poof." Hunter explains that means only their world will be left alive, and thousands of lives will die.
Hunter then speeds Peter off to keep him back. "Don't worry, I'll save him," Barry promises Caitlin and May.
"Make him pay," May tells him.
"What are the rules?" Barry asked, staring him down. He had never felt as much hate for one single human being than he did for Hunter.
"One lap around the inside of the loop will produce about one gigawatt of energy," Hunter said. "And I need 500 plus to power the magnetron enough to do the job. Once it's full, I win. Because there is no stopping it."
He took in the giant machine, then looked back at Hunter. He felt surprisingly confident about his odds.
"So all I need to do is stop you before that happens," Barry said.
"Yep," Hunter said, looking at the magnifier too. "That simple. But if, at any point, you decide you don't want to race anymore dear baby brother will be a dead man, as well as your little fan club."
"They're not my fans," Barry corrected in an even tone. "They're the reason I'm running. The reason I'm going to beat you."
Hunter scoffed, disbelief evident in his expression, but didn't say anything else. They lined up, and Barry crouched slightly into his starting position.
"Let's see what you're made up," Hunter said. "Flash."
They both pulled their cowls up. "Just say when, Zoom," Barry responded, eyes ahead.
"Run Barry," Zoom growled. "RUN!"
They took off.
The two of them start racing and running around the track, as they're racing the magnetar gets powered up.
This however is where things get interesting... in another universe, let's just say that Zoom wasn't the engineering genius he gave himself to be.
Barry followed Zoom across the large wheel of the machine. The surface was smooth, a little slippery, and Zoom wove around it in an unpredictable pattern. This was going to be tougher than Barry had thought. Soon, small bolts of electricity began swirling around the small sphere at the center of the machine.
"He's powering up the magnetar," Wells reported worriedly.
The two streaks of light kept going, faster and faster, as more and more lightning joined the first bits in the center. "Come on, Barry," Cisco muttered. "Catch him."
A bright white stream of energy shot out from the center of the ball, passing over the top of the magnifier and heading toward the sky. A burst of red light, like the tinted smoke after a firework, flashed in the sky.
But that is when everything went horribly wrong. The machine began to backfire and shrink back into the machine.
"What's going on?" Jesse asks.
Peter felt his head ring like mad. He screamed in pain as he clutched his head when he realized what was about to happen. He looked to the machine as the Speedsters continued to race. It began to glow and siphon the energy of all of their power. Looking down, he managed to use the heat to break free of the restraints as he backed off, realizing that Zoom made a mistake.
"It's not going to destroy the multiverse..." Peter whispered as he backed off. "It's going to destroy everything!"
Peter sprinted with all his might, his heart racing as panic swelled within him. He could hardly comprehend the magnitude of what was about to happen, and he desperately wished he could reach the Speedsters in time to warn them. As he dashed toward his friends, a sudden, overwhelming brightness engulfed everything around him, a dazzling light that seemed to extend infinitely across the planet.
In an instant, the vibrant world he knew shattered into chaos. The sheer force of the shockwave rippled through the ground beneath his feet, sending tremors that rocked the very foundations of the earth. Trees splintered, buildings crumbled, and the sky flickered ominously as if it was about to rend itself apart. The entire realm twisted and destabilized, caught in the grip of a cataclysmic event that felt like the end of all things. Peter's breath caught in his throat as he grappled with the incomprehensible destruction unfolding before his eyes.
TWO YEARS HAVE PASSED...
The Earth lay in shambles, a once vibrant planet now shattered into a mosaic of jagged fragments scattered throughout the void of its own atmosphere. The remnants clung to each other, held together by the faint gravitational pull of the debris, but the eerie silence of space loomed just beyond. On that fateful day, two hundred million lives were extinguished in an instant—a catastrophic event that stole the futures of countless souls, including the Speedsters, Hunter Zoloman, and Barry Allen, who perished at the very epicenter of the explosion.
As the dust settled, those who remained were left to navigate this fragmented world, grappling with the reality of survival amid chaos. The destruction was indiscriminate; no one was sheltered from the devastation. The remaining landmasses, though perilously close, floated ominously in a barren sky; oxygen still lingered in the air, but traversing from one piece of the Earth to another became a daunting quest for the flightless.
To make matters worse, the cataclysm had unleashed a tide of danger—prisons crumbled alongside cities, releasing a multitude of prisoners into the wild, many of whom were Metahumans from both Earth-1 and those still lost to Earth-2.
Among the wreckage, Peter Parker darted from one fragment to another, his Iron Spider suit glinting under the distorted sunlight. The atmosphere felt thin, barely sustaining him as he leaped gracefully between the floating chunks. Despite the uniform temperature enveloping the ruins, the absence of oceans had transformed the climate into a peculiar stillness where the once-roaring waves were only a faint memory.
Landing deftly on a rugged piece of Earth, Peter swiftly activated a compact device that hummed to life as he scanned the partial landmass beneath him. His heart raced with a flicker of hope—water lay hidden below the cracked surface. With practiced precision, he drilled a small contraption into the ground, initiating a surge of glistening water that surged forth. As the precious liquid gushed out, he deftly maneuvered his suit, activating a mechanism that siphoned the water into a tank securely strapped to his back. Each drop was a promise of survival in this world of desolation, a fleeting reminder of life's persistence amid the ruins.
Making his way through the chaos, Peter arrived at a fragment of Earth that held the fragments of an ARGUS base. He made his way over and made his way into a bunker entrance that was lodged by a giant bolder. His strength was enough to help him get inside. He leaped in and the gravity field was weak enough so his descent was slow. He landed and sighed as he looked around at the survivors.
He walked past Cisco who was working on enhancing the fragments of Peter's trajectory suit from the Spider Cave. He hopes that maybe getting it working would lead to the salvation of their world. He was able to get into contact with Felicity, who was in the Arrow Cave when the shockwave occurred and was safe inside with Thea. Not only a few heroes, but many villains survived. Many of their enemies were using this time to try and conquer their world.
But if things went right... maybe they stood a chance to get everything the way it should have been. But it is a big maybe...