Chapter 41: The Great Change, Fear, and Assimilation

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[3rd POV] [Mount Justice]

A few hours had passed since the spell had separated the adults and children, and a few things had happened. For one, Gwen had begun to go around the world, finding children and taking them to the local refugee centers that were set up all over.

The group was standing in the mission room, trying to decide a new course of action, after Gwen had used a simple tracking spell, finding exactly where the spell was originating from.

The group had been coming up with plans on defeating the magic users that are no doubt the cause of this, while Gwen was mostly ignoring them. Why? Because she had her own plan, one that she was quite sure would work...she hoped at least.

Nabu had been a major help, and basically been the one to confirm the possibility of the plan working in the first.

Within these several hours, Gwen had also went around taking care of some...locations. Cadmus, Lexcorp, basically Light affiliated places that had data, were being attacked all across the planet, whenever she got even the slightest chance to do so.

By the end of the fourth hour, she had completely absorbed, and destroyed, the data of at least 15 different Light affiliated data centers. All of that knowledge was hers now, and would be quite the boon. Bialya was the biggest target during this time, while also being a place she had to help kids at.

Currently, she was standing in the mission room with the team. As they were looking over the recent data and videos that were shared across the globe. The picture it sent...wasn't entirely pretty.

"How much longer should we wait? I don't think we can handle this for much longer" Artemis asked, knowing that it was only a matter of time before they started to get overwhelmed.

"It would be best we destroy the ritual that is doing this soon, before casualties begin to grow" Raven said softly, knowing that it was only a matter of time before people started dying, just as they would get overwhelmed.

Before anyone could comment on what was said, a soft *Krackoom* filled the room. Immediately everyone turned around, only to find a short, black haired kid standing there.

"Who are you? Where did you come from?" Kaldur immediately asked, tensing at the unknown child now in their homebase.

"Captain Marvel?" Gwen asked, looking to the young boy. She obviously knew that it was him, but kept herself covered.

"In the flesh!" Billy Batson, aka Captain Marvel, aka Shazam, replied, a smile on his face.

"You really expect us to believe this is Captain Marvel? He's just a kid" Wally asked, looking to the unknown child.

"Gee, Wally, do I really need to bring you more nachos and pineapple juice to get on your good side?" Billy replied, a smirk on his face.

Wally went silent, as did the rest of the team as they all glanced at one another.

"Told ya" Gwen said with a smile, before looking to Billy.

"You can travel between the two dimensions, right? I'm assuming dear old pops sent you here to get into contact with us, so that we can execute a plan to stop the ritual?" Gwen asked, already knowing the answer.

"Yep!" Billy responded, a grin of excitement on his childish face.

'This is gonna be fun'

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Alongside a large pathway, lined with dead trees, Klarion stood. The ground was marked with a large, magical circle, humming with power, as it glowed a soft red color. Within the middle of the circle was a rather large stone, glowing a golden color.

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