Monster High: Boomuda Triangle #3

It’s a dark and stormy night at the Vampire Lord’s castle…and Spell is sick and tired of all this multiverse stuff! There are still giant rips in the sky, causing all the different universes to leak into one another, and Spell is determined to fix it. He doesn't have time for the melodramatic Lord Valentine and his weird flirty relationship with Vampire Hunter Spell right now—he just wants to get home, back to his (totally normal!) Val.

Meanwhile, Val (the totally normal one) is in a Wild West universe, chasing down an alternate version of Spell that has a piece of the Atlas. They’re about to have a showdown on the train, but then…everyone hold on to your cowboy hats—it’s time for a good ol’-fashioned train robbery! Yeehaw!

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