But that's not how he stopped her from doing it. It's irreleavnt that he could survive the energy, it wasnt her raw power output that would destroy the world anyway. it would just awaken a dorment spell and trigger a chain reaction or something.
It started eating through the hell dimension wolfram and hart dumped them in and others, it was made clear that it would erase everything. They prevent it, of course, and the timeline is reset to before it all happened.
Before it regained its true form, its mere presence was deforming spacetime, sliding characters and places through the timeline, including alternate ones.
Through a plot device. IIRC, fred's memories interfere with its will to do it, there is a sappy scene of some kind about it and the seniors partners at W&H use what's left of their resources to pull an alternate timeline over their one so that angel and his crowd never get sent to hell in the first place.
Story makes it sound like it was going to come down pretty quickly.
Originally posted by Silent MasterIt would certainly be in a matter of minutes. They are supposed to be countless, but knowing that it would be more than one, including their earth, which is in an infinite universe is enough to put Ilyria above the marvel team.
IOW, you can't prove how big the hell dimensions were, how long it would take or how exactly the timelines were being destroyed.