Joan Garrick is abducted from her home, while sleeping. Police forensics scientist, Barry Allen, has a nightmare of Garrick, perishing in an avalanche. Disturbed, Allen, as the Flash, journeys to Earth-2, to check on Garrick. The Flash materializes, on Earth-2, in the middle of a burning building. After putting the fire out, the Flash heads for Garrick's home. The Golden Age Flash arrives home, to find his Silver Age counterpart waiting for him. The Golden Age Flash confirms his counterpart's worst fears... Garrick is missing. As events on Earth-1 and Earth-2 tend to parallel one another, the Flash fears that Garrick will die, as his wife did on Earth-1. The Golden Age Flash suspects a criminal gang, known as "The Ravagers".
The Golden Age Flash opens a drawer, to provide evidence of their involvement, setting off a chain reaction that destroys Garrick's home. Only by vibrating their molecules, at super-human speed, into intangibility, are the two Flashes able to survive the explosion unscathed. Fingerprints, off a fuse relay, lead the Flashes to the mountain range, a few miles outside of Keystone City. Discovering the Ravagers' secret lair, the Golden Age Flash requests to go in alone. In a rage, the Golden Age Flash razes the Ravagers' lair to the ground. Only the intervention of the Silver Age Flash keeps his counterpart from killing the Ravagers' leader. Suddenly the Ravagers disappear, courtesy of Doctor Fate.
Doctor Fate reveals that a mystic force, drawing power from the Orb of Nabu, was responsible for Garrick's disappearance. Doctor Fate reveals Garrick's journey. The Silver Age Flash is horrified to see his dream come to life. Garrick, though, does not die in the avalanche. Garrick has been spirited away to Limbo, where the laws of nature and physics do not apply. Doctor Fate has never been able to penetrate the barrier surrounding Limbo, and thus is powerless to retrieve Garrick. With Doctor Fate's assistance, the two Flash are able to align their vibratory signature with Limbo, but once they go in, Doctor Fate cannot get them out. The Flashes quickly locate Garrick, as well as the other time travelers, still being held prisoner in Limbo.
The Lord Of Limbo revels himself. The Golden Age Flash violently assaults the Lord of Limbo, only to realize he has just attacked the Silver Age Flash. The Lord of Limbo vanishes, his taunting laughter ringing in the Flashes' ears. After conferring with Garrick, the Flashes realize that the Lord of Limbo brought her to Limbo through a portal. Said portal may be a possible means of escape. The Silver Age Flash hurls a rock into the portal, only to see it disintegrate. The portal is clearly only one way. Working together, the Scarlet Speedsters race along the swirling outer wall of the portal, reversing it's direction. Their success is confirmed by the image of Doctor Fate, beckoning to them from the other side. The Flashes begin sending the prisoners of Limbo through the portal.
The Silver Age Flash forcibly sends his counterpart through the portal. As the final alien leaps into the portal, the Silver Age Flash tackles him. The alien is revealed to be the Lord of Limbo, himself, ironically also a prisoner in Limbo.The Silver Age Flash struggles with the Lord of Limbo on the threshold of the portal. Doctor Fate fires a mystic bolt through the portal. Believing it to be an attack, the Lord of Limbo hurls the Silver Age Flash into the path of Doctor Fate's mystic bolt. The bolt, however, was merely a means to transport the Silver Age Flash back to Earth-2. With a Spell of Obliteration, Doctor Fate destroys the portal, sealing the Lord of Limbo in Limbo for eternity. The crisis over, The Silver Age Flash says his goodbyes. Doctor Fate ushers the Silver Age Flash back to Earth-1.
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