After learning of the Key's location, Richtofen travels to Dimension 63 and arrives in Morg City in 1934, where the 5️⃣ Apothicons, former Keepers who were corrupted and mutated by the dark energy of the Aether, manipulated four individuals: Jessica Rose, 5️⃣ a burlesque dancer; Jack Vincent, a corrupt cop; Floyd Campbell, an up-and-coming boxer; and Nero Blackstone, a washed-up magician. Misled 5️⃣ into doing the bidding of the head Apothicon named the Shadowman, the four opened a rift beneath the city using 5️⃣ the Summoning Key, thereby freeing an ancient Apothicon beast. With the Keepers' aid, the four manage to trap the Shadowman 5️⃣ inside the Key, and banish the beast from their dimension. Before they could retrieve the Summoning Key from the Keepers, 5️⃣ however, Richtofen snags the Key from them, thanks them for their effort and exits through a portal, leaving the four 5️⃣ and the rest of Dimension 63 to be doomed by the Apothicons.

In pursuit of the original Dempsey, the four then 5️⃣ travel to Der Eisendrache, Group 935's fortress in Austria. Despite Group 935 member Doctor Groph's attempt at preventing the group 5️⃣ from retrieving the test subject, he ultimately fails and perishes when Richtofen overrides the castle's defense system and sends a 5️⃣ barrage of missiles to destroy the moon and Group 935's base on it. As the four retrieve the original Dempsey, 5️⃣ Richtofen reveals his plan to prevent their original incarnations from wreaking havoc upon the universe. Dimension 63 Dempsey then volunteers 5️⃣ to kill his own counterpart before allowing Richtofen to absorb his soul with the Key.

Afterwards, the group attempts to teleport 5️⃣ to a new fractured timeline to locate the original Takeo, who is held prisoner at a Pacific island by the 5️⃣ Japanese research group Division 9. They discover that Division 9 had been experimenting with plant life mutation using Element 115, 5️⃣ with the original Takeo also a victim of the experimentation. After they manage to release him from the mutation, Dimension 5️⃣ 63 Takeo is shocked to learn that the Emperor of Japan betrayed his original self and sent him to this 5️⃣ island out of petty jealousy. The original Takeo proceeds to commit seppuku, with his Dimension 63 self decapitating him. After 5️⃣ absorbing the original Takeo's soul with the Key, Richtofen takes the crew to Alcatraz in Dimension 63, where they retrieve 5️⃣ several blood vials, the purpose of which he refuses to explain at the time.

On September 29, 2024, the official Twitter 5️⃣ account of Call of Duty was temporarily renamed to "Current Events Aggregate". It then began tweeting messages about real-life fashion, 5️⃣ movies and a terrorist attack that takes place in Singapore. Activision later revealed that these tweets are fake, and served 5️⃣ to promote the game's story campaign.[31] This marketing campaign was strongly criticized for faking news, and publisher Activision was blamed 5️⃣ for being "irresponsible".[32][33] The game's director Jason Blundell said that the team was "shocked" by the negative reaction of the 5️⃣ marketing campaign,[31] and offered an apology.[34]

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