Recaps

Maximus tried to use Black Bolt’s followers’ anger against Loren to seize power, but 2B attacked the Inhumans’ territory and confronted him. She demanded that he either surrender and come with her or die where he stood.

• Maximus learned that Black Bolt’s followers had gone to Loren’s manor and hoped their clash with Loren would let him become king of the Inhumans.
• A crimson flame blasted through the hall, killing several of Maximus’s subordinates.
• 2B descended in flames and confronted Maximus, who recognized her and tried to hide his schemes behind a friendly manner.
• 2B threw shackles at Maximus and told him to put them on and come with her or die.
• Maximus’s smile disappeared as he reacted angrily to 2B’s ultimatum.

Maximus used the Mind Stone to attack 2B with Telepathy, but discovered he could not sense or control her consciousness. 2B wounded him with her Miao Saber and recognized the gem, while Maximus’s attempt to command her also failed.

• Maximus tried to drag 2B into the Consciousness Sea, but his Telepathy could not detect her consciousness.
• 2B attacked Maximus with a Nano-Adamantium Miao Saber and pierced his left shoulder as he tried to retreat.
• Maximus released a powerful energy shockwave, revealing a device on his wrist that held the Mind Stone.
• 2B recognized the Mind Stone and suspected Maximus had mentally invaded S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Maximus used the Mind Stone to order 2B to kneel, but his Psychic Power could not control her because she had no soul.

2B defeated Maximus after the Mind Stone failed to control her, then explained that she was not human before killing him. When Black Bolt returned, he killed the Inhumans who demanded war against Loren, and 2B spared the rest before flying back to Morgan Manor.

• Maximus used the Mind Stone to try to force 2B to kneel, but she remained unaffected and cut off his right arm.
• 2B took the Mind Stone, explained that her Psychic Power could not affect her because she was not human, and killed Maximus.
• 2B warned the surviving Inhumans not to provoke her Boss, and they urged Black Bolt to avenge Maximus and declare war on Loren.
• Black Bolt returned from Morgan Manor, rejected the call for war, and killed the Inhumans who had demanded it with a Quasi-Sonic Wave.
• 2B spared Black Bolt and the remaining Inhumans, then flew back to Morgan Manor to claim her reward.

After 2B killed Maximus and recovered the stolen Mind Stone, Loren received Senzu Bean Manufacturing Technology from the system and imagined using it alongside his Saiyan Gene Serum. As 2B hurried back to the laboratory, Loren invited her to join him and the Commander and Tifa.

• After 2B killed Maximus, the system rewarded Loren with Senzu Bean Manufacturing Technology and 15 System Points.
• Loren checked the system interface and thought Senzu Beans could help him grow stronger after he used the Saiyan Gene Serum he was developing.
• Alice told Loren that 2B had completed her mission, recovered the Mind Stone, and was heading to the laboratory.
• Loren told Alice to tell 2B she could do whatever she wanted because he was in a good mood.
• Loren said the Commander and Tifa would warm him up before 2B arrived, and the Commander wrapped her arms around his neck.

After S.H.I.E.L.D.'s agents regained their senses, Nick Fury learned that Maximus had controlled them and that Loren had helped awaken them. Fury sent Natasha to Morgan Manor to thank Loren and ask for the Mind Scepter so Project Pegasus could resume.

• Nick Fury and the other agents woke from Maximus's control with no memory of what they had done.
• Natasha reviewed the surveillance footage and realized Loren had helped free them.
• Nick Fury watched the footage, considered the incident a humiliation, and ordered Project Pegasus to continue.
• Nick Fury asked Natasha to visit Loren, thank him, and negotiate for the Mind Scepter.
• Natasha pretended to question the assignment while privately welcoming the chance to see Loren.
• Nick Fury glanced at Agent Hill as he considered who else might be able to approach Loren.

Nick Fury ordered Maria Hill to accompany Natasha on a mission to Morgan Manor, hoping she could gather information from Loren. Natasha warned Hill that Loren would pursue her, while Hill decided to dress more plainly but questioned why Natasha was not doing the same.

• Nick Fury sent Maria Hill to Morgan Manor with Natasha, saying Natasha might need help handling Loren.
• Hill reluctantly accepted the order and went to prepare for the mission.
• Natasha warned Hill to remove her makeup and dress less attractively so Loren would be less likely to target her.
• Hill agreed to change her clothes but kept her makeup, saying she wanted to look appropriate when meeting an important person.
• Hill asked why Natasha was not making herself less attractive, and Natasha said she wanted Loren to touch her.

Hill prepared to meet Loren after Natasha hinted at her past with him, while Thor arrived at Morgan Manor to ask Loren to find Jane Ford. Loren realized Jane’s disappearance could signal the Reality Stone’s emergence and agreed to help in exchange for Asgardian maidservants, then provoked Thor by joking about his mother.

• Natasha denied Hill’s suspicion that she had slept with Loren but left Hill wondering what she meant by “talking big.”
• Hill changed into a plain tracksuit and prepared to go with Natasha to Morgan Manor.
• Alice detected a Bifrost fluctuation near the manor and told Loren that Thor was requesting an audience.
• Thor told Loren that Jane Ford had disappeared and asked him to help find her.
• Loren suspected Jane’s disappearance was connected to the Reality Stone and agreed to help in exchange for choosing several Asgardian maidservants.
• Loren joked about Thor’s mother, making Thor angrily forbid him from touching any of his family.

Loren rescued Jane Foster from the spatial gap between Earth and Svartalfheim and discovered that the Reality Stone had taken over her body, leaving her unconscious. He told Thor that Malekith could remove the Stone and agreed to help when the Dark Elves appeared, claiming the Reality Stone as his spoils.

• Loren used the Space Stone to locate Jane Foster and opened a portal that brought her back to Thor.
• Loren told Thor that the Reality Stone, also called Aether, occupied Jane's body and trapped her consciousness.
• Loren explained that the Nine-Planet Alignment had loosened the seal on Aether and allowed Jane to be transported to Svartalfheim.
• Thor considered taking Jane to Odin, but Loren warned that Odin could not help and that bringing Aether to Asgard would invite danger.
• Loren advised Thor to wait for Malekith, who could extract Aether, and Thor agreed to stay on Earth with Jane.
• Loren promised to help when Malekith appeared and said he would take the Reality Stone as spoils of war.

Gwen called Loren for help catching a criminal who was fleeing with modified Chitauri flight technology, and Loren equipped her with an upgraded Vibranium Spider Suit. The criminal was still ahead as Loren joined Gwen in the air.

• Loren asked Alice to monitor Thor because he expected the Dark Elves to act within days.
• Gwen called Loren while pursuing a flying criminal who had robbed banks and carried out a terrorist attack.
• Loren opened a Space Gate to Gwen and teased her before agreeing to help.
• Loren sent Gwen an upgraded Vibranium Spider Suit with antigravity flight and Alice as its AI.
• Loren stepped through the Space Gate and walked through the air beside Gwen as she tried the new suit.

Gwen used her new Vibranium Spider Suit to capture Vulture and tried to learn where he got his alien weapons. When Vulture refused to talk, Loren crushed his arm, and Vulture revealed that Green Goblin had supplied the equipment.

• Gwen flew after Vulture in her new Spider Suit, but his energy blast struck her without harming her Vibranium armor.
• Gwen cut through Vulture’s turbine wings, caught him in a Silk web, and demanded to know where his equipment came from.
• Vulture refused to answer, so Loren crushed his right arm and threatened to crush the other one.
• Vulture broke under Loren’s threat and said Green Goblin had given him the equipment.

Loren learned that Green Goblin was behind the trouble and offered to deal with him to keep Gwen from getting involved, though he wanted to prevent her from clashing with Norman Osborn. After Gwen captured Vulture, she took Loren to a rooftop to enjoy the view and teased him before deciding to reward him.

• Loren realized that Green Goblin was likely Norman Osborn and worried that Gwen's sense of justice could lead her into a dangerous conflict with him.
• Gwen vowed to bring Green Goblin to justice, but Loren offered to handle him himself because he cared about her.
• Gwen webbed Vulture above the road, and the police arrived and arrested him.
• Gwen bound Loren with webbing and carried him to a high-rise rooftop to enjoy the view together.
• Gwen asked Loren to compare her with Tifa, and he tactfully said Gwen was better when she demanded he choose.
• Gwen said she was satisfied with Loren's answer and decided to reward him, leaving him bewildered.

Loren learned that the Dark Elves had arrived on Earth seeking the Aether and delegated the threat to the Commander while staying with Gwen. Malekith sent a smaller craft toward the Aether’s location, but a woman’s voice interrupted his order.

• Loren brought Gwen to the presidential suite of one of his hotels and held her from behind.
• Alice detected a Dark Elf spacecraft entering Earth’s atmosphere and informed Loren.
• Loren ordered Alice to give the Commander full authority to handle the Dark Elves.
• The Commander dispatched A2 and Tsunade to deal with the threat.
• Malekith confirmed the Aether was on Earth and ordered a smaller craft to approach its location under stealth.
• A woman’s voice told Malekith’s crew they did not need to go to the target location.

Alice infiltrated the Dark Elf ship and warned Malekith on Loren’s behalf, provoking him by claiming her Boss was worthy of worship. The confrontation escalated when A2 and Steel Hand arrived through a portal to carry out their mission.

• Malekith realized the voice addressing the ship came from an intruder controlling its communications and demanded that they reveal themselves.
• Alice identified herself as the planet’s most advanced intelligent digital lifeform and said she had come on her Boss’s orders to warn Malekith against acting rashly.
• Alice declared that her Boss was worthy of Malekith’s worship, angering him with her defiance.
• A2 and Steel Hand appeared through a portal inside the ship and confronted Malekith.

A2 and Tsunade subdued Malekith aboard his spaceship and confronted him about seeking the Reality Stone. Malekith denied his intentions, and Tsunade threatened to snap his neck as they prepared to take him alive.

• Malekith dismissed A2 and Tsunade after learning they served Loren, whom he had never heard of.
• A2 evaded Malekith's attack, struck him down, and warned that Loren had ordered them to capture him alive.
• Malekith grew wary of Loren's power and asked why Loren's people had targeted him.
• A2 implied they knew Malekith had come for the Reality Stone, but Malekith claimed his ship had reached Earth by accident.
• Tsunade mocked Malekith's excuse, lifted him by the neck, and threatened to snap it.

Tsunade overwhelmed Malekith aboard the Dark Elf spacecraft, shrugging off his strongest dark energy attack and knocking him unconscious. She dismissed him as too weak and decided to return to wait for a fight with her Boss.

• Malekith escaped Tsunade’s grip by transforming into black mist and challenged her to a fight.
• Tsunade punched Malekith into the spacecraft’s steel wall, leaving him dazed.
• Malekith fired his strongest dark energy beam at Tsunade, but she emerged completely unharmed.
• Malekith charged at Tsunade in disbelief, and she used a Body Flicker to appear behind him and knock him unconscious.
• Tsunade called Malekith boring and said she would return to wait for a fight with Boss.

Tsunade and A2 captured Malekith, and Wanda brought them and his shrunken spaceship back to Morgan Manor. Loren confronted the bound Dark Elf king and told him he had crushed the Dark Elves simply because he saw them and stepped on them.

• Tsunade and A2 prepared to leave with the unconscious Malekith, but Dark Elf soldiers surrounded them and threatened to attack.
• A2 turned into black mist and killed the soldiers, and Wanda arrived to take the group back.
• Wanda shrank the Dark Elf spaceship into a capsule, then led A2 and Tsunade through a portal to Morgan Manor.
• Loren questioned the bound Malekith, who demanded to know why Loren had captured him and killed his subordinates.
• Loren compared the Dark Elves to ants and said he had stepped on them simply because he had seen them.

Loren forced Malekith to submit by promising to restore the Dark Elves, then turned his attention to extracting the Reality Stone from Jane. The Aether emerged from Jane and condensed into the Reality Stone in Loren’s palm.

• Loren pressured Malekith into accepting his offer to spare him and restore the Dark Elves’ glory.
• Malekith pledged to obey Loren, provided Loren kept his promise.
• Loren opened a spatial rift and summoned Thor and Jane, announcing that he would reveal the Reality Stone and wake Jane.
• Malekith recognized the Aether inside Jane and told Loren how to control it.
• The Aether burst from Jane, and Loren extracted it and transformed it into the Reality Stone.

After Loren extracted the Reality Stone, he absorbed its energy and learned to use its power, then turned a sofa into a horse. When 2B and the other androids asked him to make them human, Loren explained why he preferred to leave them as they were.

• Jane woke up beside Thor, and he embraced her and explained what had happened.
• Loren held the Reality Stone, reflected on his three Infinity Stones, and absorbed the Reality Stone's energy.
• Loren used the Reality Stone to transform a sofa into a Ferghana Horse, astonishing everyone.
• 2B and Marie Rose asked Loren to use the stone to turn the androids into human women.
• Loren said he could change them but would not, because their lack of souls gave them immortality and their inability to reproduce avoided unwanted accidents.

Loren took Malekith and his wives to Svartalfheim, where he planned to use the Reality Stone to transform the Dark Elves’ barren home. After seeing the planet’s harsh conditions, Loren rejected Malekith’s justification for raiding other worlds and prepared to change Svartalfheim so its people would no longer need to invade others.

• Loren’s android wives decided to keep their bodies as they were, while Viper chose to preserve her ability to have children.
• Loren resumed his plan to research the Saiyan Gene Serum, and Thor left the estate with Jane.
• Loren promised Malekith that he would use the Reality Stone to transform Svartalfheim, then opened a Space Gate to the planet.
• Loren’s wives asked to accompany him, and the group traveled through the Space Gate to Svartalfheim.
• The group saw the frozen, dust-choked wasteland where the Dark Elves lived underground.
• Malekith explained that his people’s harsh home had driven them to seize resources, but Loren rejected the excuse and said he would transform Svartalfheim.

Loren used the Reality Stone to transform Svartalfheim into a lush, sunlit homeland, enduring its backlash by absorbing the energy. Malekith and the Dark Elves embraced Loren as their savior, leaving them worshipping him as the God of Technology.

• Loren cleared Svartalfheim's skies and used the Reality Stone to fill the world with sunlight, vegetation, wildlife, and abundant resources.
• Malekith realized Loren suffered no harm from the Reality Stone's backlash because Loren could devour energy and make it his own.
• The Dark Elves emerged from their underground homes and celebrated the transformation of Svartalfheim.
• Malekith declared Loren the Dark Elves' faith and knelt before him, prompting the people to kneel and worship Loren too.

Loren turned the Dark Elves into his believers, appointed Malekith as the first Pope of the Technological Church, and received Time Machine Manufacturing Technology from the system. After more than a month of developing the Saiyan Gene Serum, Loren successfully fused with the Saiyan Gene and emerged from the destroyed laboratory with immense power.

• Loren transformed the Dark Elves’ barren land with buildings and greenery, then named Malekith the Pope of the Technological Church.
• The system rewarded Loren with Time Machine Manufacturing Technology and 25 System Points for subduing Malekith and converting the Dark Elves into believers.
• Loren returned to his manor through a spatial portal, where his wives agreed to name their organization the Technological Church and teased him until he escaped to his laboratory.
• Loren spent more than a month developing the Saiyan Gene Serum, and a powerful energy shockwave destroyed his laboratory.
• Loren’s women rushed to the ruins and found Loren transformed, crackling with energy after successfully fusing with the Saiyan Gene.

After creating and injecting the world’s only Saiyan Gene Serum, Loren gained Saiyan genes and challenged Android 18 to test his newfound strength. She knocked him into the manor lawn, but his wives rushed to protect him and stopped the fight before it could continue.

• Loren developed the Saiyan Gene Serum, injected it, and gained the ability to sense and control ki.
• Loren created a pocket dimension and arena, then challenged Android 18 to a full-strength fight.
• Loren and Android 18 traded rapid blows as Loren showed he could keep up with her attacks.
• Android 18 struck Loren and sent him crashing into the manor lawn, where he landed in a large crater.
• Loren's wives hurried to protect him and urged Android 18 to go easier, ending the fight.

Loren defeated Android 18 and the other women after testing his body infused with Saiyan genes, then prepared to leave the arena. Boa Hancock and three other newly awakened women arrived and challenged him to spar, leaving the exhausted women on the ground wary of their new rivals.

• Loren held the defeated Android 18 as the other women watched, and they accepted that he had beaten them all.
• Loren brushed aside Commander’s attempt to attack and said his Saiyan-enhanced body had greatly improved his abilities.
• Loren took a fresh suit from his Magic Ring and prepared to return to the laboratory.
• Boa Hancock entered through the spatial gate with three other women and announced that they wanted to spar with Loren.
• Tsunade recognized Mei Terumi among the newcomers and frowned.

Loren’s four newly awakened beauties—Mei Terumi, Hinata Hyuga, Mai Shiranui, and Hancock—gathered together, while Tsunade and Mei Terumi bickered over their rivalry. The chapter ended with Loren admiring the four women.

• Tsunade confronted Mei Terumi, and the two traded insults over their rivalry.
• Hinata Hyuga intervened and reminded Tsunade and Mei Terumi that they were all family.
• Tsunade stopped arguing after seeing Hinata, while Mei Terumi and Tsunade exchanged a few final barbs.
• Mai Shiranui urged Mei Terumi to stop bickering.
• Loren admired the four beauties gathered before him.

Mai Shiranui challenged Loren with her Phoenix Dance, but he quickly defeated and caught her. Hancock, Mei Terumi, and Hinata decided to join forces and began their attack.

• Hancock, Mei Terumi, Mai Shiranui, and Hinata gathered before Loren and prepared to fight him.
• Mai Shiranui leaped at Loren with her Phoenix Dance and wrapped her legs and arms around his head.
• Loren overwhelmed Mai Shiranui, caught her as she fell, and watched her admit defeat.
• Tsunade teased Mai Shiranui, who apologized for boasting after experiencing Loren's strength.
• Hancock, Mei Terumi, and Hinata agreed to fight Loren together, and Hancock launched Mero Mero Mellow.