WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Future State: Wonder Woman #2, by Joelle Jones, Jordie Bellaire and Clayton Cowles, on sale now.
Future State: Wonder Woman has found the Brazilian Wonder Woman, Yara Flor, trying to get to the Underworld, desperately. It's clear she's lost someone dear and no one, not even Cerberus will stand in her way as Yara feels incomplete without that person and wracked with guilt since she died protecting her.
While Yara does eventually find the lost soul she's looking for in Future State: Wonder Woman #2, she loses big time to Hades, DC's most horrifying god, who ultimately makes it clear now one can ever truly escape death.
Yara evades Cerberus and gets on the boat on the River Styx, finishing off the challenge presented to her in the first issue. However, her next quest is much more macabre and somber, as she ends up falling into Hades' lair with a stern warning. She insists she must locate her Amazon sister, Potira, but Hades is angry as he doesn't have to do anything for anyone. His wife, Persephone, as forgiving and sympathetic as always, however, wants him to give Yara a chance.
While Hades is convinced to give her a chance, he still plays puppet master as he sends Yara out into the sea of dead souls to find Potira. But the twist is that when his supernatural hourglass runs out, Hades will claim Yara's soul too, if she hasn't found her ally and escaped. She agrees and after an arduous journey, she discovers Potira, revealing the tragic fate that befell her. In a battle against a vicious army, Yara was helping pull Potira up off a cliff, but Potira let go to throw a spear at someone who snuck up on Yara.
She fell to her death, saving her 'sister' in the process, which is why Yara's trying to bring her back. But it's not easy despite locating her because as they race back to the gate, the cave starts to collapse. Hades' shadow spiders are hot on their heels too and he's screaming, exerting his power over the terrain and crushing Potira in rubble, just after she reunites with Yara.
With giant boulders crushing the Amazon, Yara's left struggling to pull them off. Potira, however, is grateful she tried and accepts she died a noble death. At the same time, Yara's Amazonian army arrives, and they start pulling her out of the cave to save her.
She remembers Potira's last words to go out there and be a hero and show the world her purpose. But while Yara seems to have finally gotten closure, it's proof that Hades is a sadistic mastermind. He never had intentions of letting Potira escape as he stacked the deck; he just didn't count on the others rallying to Yara, which is a mistake he's made with Diana of Themyscira in the past too. He doesn't understand unity, not even with his own Olympians, which is why he's such an outcast. Still, this god likely made a lifelong enemy with what he did to Yara Flor here, and he may very well get a first-hand example of how strong the new Wonder Woman is as she goes on to take her place in the DC Universe.