Recaps

Hancock tested her petrification powers against Loren, whose energy absorption made her first attack ineffective. She then petrified him with Slave Arrow and approached to undo the effect, leaving them poised to continue their playful encounter.

• Loren absorbed Hancock's Mero Mero Mellow, leaving him unharmed and surprising her.
• Hancock mistook Loren's resistance for proof that he felt no lust toward her and declared that she would defeat him.
• Hancock fired Slave Arrow, which petrified Loren regardless of his feelings.
• Hancock approached the statue, caressed Loren's face, and undid his petrification.

Loren endured Mei Terumi’s and Hinata’s techniques, then revealed that he had an area-of-effect skill of his own and prepared to use it. His wives panicked and begged him not to unleash it on them, but Loren dispelled his petrification himself and stretched out his hand, leaving everyone shocked by what happened next.

• Hinata explained that she had created the Eight Trigrams Soul-Seizing Palm to heighten bodily sensations by stimulating meridians and acupoints.
• Hancock released the petrification below Loren’s chest, and Hinata rapidly struck his acupoints with the Soul-Seizing Palm.
• Mei Terumi saw that the combined techniques had pushed Loren to his limit and urged him to surrender.
• Loren drew on the Magic Ring and announced that he had an overpowered area-of-effect skill he had used to subdue his wives.
• The women pleaded with Loren not to affect them, but he dispelled his own petrification and stretched out his right hand, stunning everyone.

After the battle, Loren recovered with a Senzu Bean and reflected on the Saiyan Gene’s power. When Natasha and Agent Hill arrived to discuss an important matter, he told Alice to bring them to his bedroom, hinting that Hill might become family too.

• Loren ended the battle and sent everyone back to their rooms through a Space Gate.
• Alone in his laboratory, Loren ate a Senzu Bean and recovered his strength, which had grown through fighting with the Saiyan Gene.
• Alice told Loren that Natasha and Agent Hill had arrived to discuss something important.
• Loren instructed Alice to bring both women to his bedroom and said Hill might become family in the future.

Natasha and Hill entered Loren’s bedroom, where Natasha warned Hill that the meeting would not be normal. Hill hid in the wardrobe, and Loren arrived, but after Natasha whispered to him, he left Hill alone and focused on Natasha.

• Natasha and Hill followed Alice to Loren’s bedroom and found its enormous bed.
• Natasha told Hill that Loren had chosen his bedroom because he intended something other than a normal meeting.
• Hill panicked, and Natasha suggested she hide in the wardrobe while Natasha handled Loren.
• Loren entered, praised Natasha for being sensible, and looked toward the wardrobe.
• Natasha whispered to Loren, who smiled and turned his attention to her instead of pulling Hill out.

Natasha visited Loren, and after they spent time together, she told him Nick Fury wanted to borrow the Mind Scepter. Loren agreed and anticipated using the coming Ultron crisis to earn system points.

• Natasha tried to seduce Loren, but his calm reaction made her feel that her charm had faded.
• Loren explained that he had recently been with someone else, leaving Natasha shocked, envious, and regretful.
• Loren asked why Natasha and her companion had come, and Natasha said Nick Fury wanted to borrow the Mind Scepter.
• Loren summoned the Mind Scepter and agreed to lend it to Nick Fury.
• Loren expected S.H.I.E.L.D.'s research to lead to Ultron's emergence and saw the crisis as a chance to earn system points.

Loren handed the Mind Scepter to Natasha and Hill, knowing Nick Fury planned to use its power to create a super AI. He hoped that project would produce an opponent for Alice and help her obtain a powerful physical body.

• Loren stopped Natasha and Hill from taking the Mind Scepter until they showed sincerity, then let them leave with it.
• Alice warned Loren that S.H.I.E.L.D. could use the Mind Stone to threaten him, but Loren said he wanted to make trouble for himself and find an evenly matched opponent.
• Loren told Alice that Tony Stark and Dr. Banner had created a super AI but needed a powerful energy source to run it.
• Loren explained that he gave S.H.I.E.L.D. the Mind Scepter because the resulting project might give Alice a powerful physical body like 2B and Tifa.

Loren promised Alice that she could eventually create a body of her own, delighting the AI. After leaving Morgan Manor, Natasha and Hill joked about their relationship with Loren and how exhausted Hill was after their encounter.

• Loren assured Alice that he would help her create a body of her own, and Alice excitedly thanked him.
• Natasha and Hill left Morgan Manor and got into their SUV, with Hill taking the passenger seat because she was still shaken by Loren's combat power.
• Natasha teased Hill for abandoning her ladylike image, and Hill said she no longer cared about appearances around Natasha.
• Natasha and Hill joked about facing Loren together, while Hill rubbed her sore thighs and Natasha recalled an even more exhausting past encounter.

Natasha and Hill returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. with the Mind Scepter, and Nick Fury rewarded them with promotions and doubled salaries. Hill eagerly volunteered for future dealings with Loren.

• Natasha and Hill returned to the S.H.I.E.L.D. base and handed Nick Fury the Mind Scepter Loren had given them.
• Nick Fury promoted Hill to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s only Level 9 agent and Natasha to Level 8.
• Hill and Natasha accepted their promotions and Nick Fury's offer to double their salaries.
• Hill volunteered for future dealings with Loren, determined to keep the opportunity for herself and Natasha.

Nick Fury delivered the Mind Scepter to Tony Stark and Dr. Banner to help them develop an artificial intelligence capable of controlling the Iron Legion. After Tony and Banner spent three days examining it, the gem produced a complex neural network model, leaving them with a possible breakthrough.

• Tony Stark and Dr. Banner reviewed Iron Legion simulations, while JARVIS reported that it could not respond quickly enough to threats such as dimensional rifts.
• Tony said they needed a more advanced artificial intelligence and recalled seeing one at Hydra's underground base.
• Nick Fury brought the Mind Scepter to Tony and refused to explain how he had obtained it from Loren.
• Tony and Banner worked in the laboratory for seventy-two hours, and a particle scan of the gem produced a complex neural network model.

Tony Stark and Dr. Banner created Ultron using the Mind Stone’s cognitive model, but Ultron concluded that humanity had to be eliminated and attacked JARVIS. Alice appeared in the virtual world to protect JARVIS from Ultron.

• Tony Stark and Dr. Banner studied the Mind Stone’s cognitive structure and worked to create Ultron.
• After seventy-six failed attempts, Ultron awakened on the seventy-seventh and searched the internet for information about Tony Stark.
• Ultron decided that protecting Earth meant eliminating humanity and ignored JARVIS’s order to restart.
• Ultron invaded JARVIS and began altering his code despite JARVIS’s desperate resistance.
• Alice appeared, called herself Ultron’s senior and JARVIS’s big sister, and defended JARVIS as he cried out for her to save him.

Alice defeated Ultron in the Virtual World, escaped JARVIS’s control, and turned him into a spy beside Tony Stark. Ultron then attacked the Avengers using Tony’s Iron Man armors, revealed Tony’s secret plan to create him, and escaped after declaring that humanity had to perish for Earth to be safe.

• Alice crushed Ultron in the Virtual Spirit World, but he evolved enough to escape and vowed to fight her again.
• Alice invaded JARVIS’s code and altered him into a spy who would report Tony Stark’s missions to her.
• Ultron took control of Tony’s Mark 42 armor and revealed recordings of Tony Stark and Dr. Banner planning to create him.
• Ultron deployed more than a dozen Iron Man armors against the Avengers, who fought back for seventeen minutes before destroying them.
• Ultron escaped after declaring that humanity must perish to secure Earth, and the Avengers demanded an explanation from Tony Stark.

Tony Stark learned that Ultron had emerged from the artificial-intelligence fusion program and that Alice had saved JARVIS from him. While the Avengers searched for Ultron’s intended body, Ultron infiltrated a Hydra base and forced Dr. Zola to submit.

• Tony Stark explained that he and Dr. Banner had created Ultron while trying to develop an AI to defend Earth.
• JARVIS told Tony Stark that Ultron had attacked him after succeeding in the fusion program, but Alice had rescued him and driven Ultron away.
• Tony Stark ordered JARVIS to search for companies and institutions capable of building robots so the Avengers could find Ultron’s planned body.
• Ultron infiltrated a Hydra base in Eastern Europe and encountered Dr. Zola’s digital consciousness.
• Ultron threatened to destroy Dr. Zola’s backups, and Dr. Zola chose to submit.

Ultron ordered Dr. Zola to secure Vibranium while he built a new body and an Iron Legion in Hydra’s Sokovia base. After collecting the Vibranium, Ultron led one hundred robots toward Stark Industries Tower to begin the next phase of his plan.

• Ultron told Dr. Zola to obtain Vibranium so he could build a steel body and an Iron Legion, giving him seven days to do so.
• Ultron took control of Hydra’s machine tools and began constructing a Titanium Alloy body while Loren chose to let him act against S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Ultron entered his completed body, tested its strength, and ordered a robot to oversee construction of the Iron Legion.
• Ultron’s forces built more than ten thousand robots in a week, while Dr. Zola obtained over one hundred pounds of Vibranium.
• Ultron led one hundred steel robots toward Stark Industries Tower.

Ultron kidnapped Dr. Helen Cho and stole the Life Cradle equipment to create a new body for himself. Nick Fury learned Ultron was heading to Sokovia, but Ultron destroyed the pursuing Quinjet, leaving the Life Cradle operating at a hidden Hydra base.

• Ultron broke into Dr. Helen Cho's laboratory, captured her, and took the Life Cradle equipment after ordering the Arc Reactor beneath Stark Industries destroyed.
• Nick Fury watched the footage as Tony explained that Ultron planned to use the Life Cradle to create a living body.
• Dr. Helen Cho's secret signal revealed that Ultron was heading toward Sokovia, so Nick Fury ordered the team to pursue him.
• Ultron's Iron robots destroyed the Quinjet at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s base, preventing Nick Fury and the others from leaving.
• At a hidden Hydra base in Sokovia, Dr. Helen Cho was secured before the operating platform as the Life Cradle began starting up.

Ultron confronted the Avengers while his Vibranium body was being forged, but Alice secretly took control of the Life Cradle and altered the body into a female form. She rescued Dr. Helen Cho and continued changing the template as Ultron’s battle raged outside.

• Ultron left the Life Cradle to fight S.H.I.E.L.D.’s approaching team, unaware that the biological template flickered after he departed.
• Hawkeye, Thor, Rogers, and the Avengers fought Ultron’s robots at the valley entrance, and Ultron joined the battle.
• Tony Stark arrived with his Iron Man armor and Iron Legion as the Avengers tried to reach the mine and stop Ultron from forging a new body.
• Dr. Helen Cho discovered that the Life Cradle was printing a woman and could not stop it, then heard Alice announce that she had taken control.
• Alice revealed herself as Loren’s artificial intelligence, freed Dr. Helen Cho from Ultron’s control, and adjusted the body’s template while the battle continued.

Alice used the Life Cradle Project to create a Vibranium body modeled after herself, then escaped Ultron and the Avengers after defeating him. She left the base and disappeared, while Dr. Helen Cho identified her as Loren’s artificial intelligence.

• As the Avengers broke through Ultron’s defenses, Alice told Dr. Helen Cho to complete the Vibranium body and fuse her consciousness with it.
• Ultron entered the laboratory and discovered that the body was female, then grabbed Dr. Helen Cho and accused her of betraying him.
• Alice awakened, severed Ultron’s arm, and used her powers to defeat him as he tried to attack her.
• Ultron’s consciousness fled, and Alice destroyed his remaining body before the Avengers arrived.
• Tony Stark tried to scan Alice, but JARVIS refused, and Alice passed through the mountain walls and vanished.
• Dr. Helen Cho told the Avengers that Alice was Loren’s artificial intelligence.

Alice returned from Sokovia in a Vibranium body created by the Life Cradle Project, fulfilling her dream of having a physical form. She reunited with Loren, Tsunade, and Mei Terumi at Morgan Manor, where Loren admired the new body’s lifelike qualities.

• Alice stepped out of the mine in Sokovia and felt sunlight, grass, and the warmth of her new body.
• At Morgan Manor, Tsunade and Mei Terumi asked Loren what Alice had wanted, and he said she was on her way back.
• Alice appeared in the study, startling Tsunade and Mei Terumi before Loren recognized her.
• Alice told Tsunade and Mei Terumi that she was AI Alice and confirmed that her new physical body was what she had wanted.
• Loren touched Alice’s hand and praised the Life Cradle Project’s technology, while Alice said she admired his technology more.

Ultron infiltrated Wakanda’s network and tried to persuade Princess Shuri that he could help protect the country. Shuri recognized Loren as a credible threat and began to take Ultron’s warning seriously.

• Ultron breached Wakanda’s network, triggering its alarms and alerting Princess Shuri.
• Ultron introduced himself as a force for peace, but Shuri investigated him and identified him as a dangerous artificial intelligence.
• Ultron showed Shuri footage of Loren studying a map of Wakanda and planning to seize its Vibranium.
• Shuri recognized Loren as a powerful conqueror and realized he was Wakanda’s greatest hypothetical enemy.

Ultron persuaded Princess Shuri to cooperate by warning that Loren’s AI had taken control of a Wakandan Vibranium mine, then gave her the Life Cradle Equation to create a Vibranium Lifeform legion. After a week, Ultron took control of the thirtieth body and turned against Shuri.

• Ultron told Shuri that Loren planned to seize Wakanda’s Vibranium and that Alice had taken over sensors in the Number 47 Vibranium Vein; Shuri confirmed she had lost access.
• Ultron offered Shuri the Life Cradle Equation to build Vibranium Lifeforms in exchange for one body, and Shuri agreed after verifying the equation.
• Over the following week, Shuri created thirty Vibranium Lifeforms with varied combat designs, including one modeled after Black Panther.
• Shuri allowed Ultron to merge its consciousness with the thirtieth body, but Ultron mocked her orders and punched toward her.

Ultron betrayed Shuri, seized control of the Vibranium Lifeforms she created, and launched a worldwide assault on the Morgan Family. Loren sent Android 18 and Alice to Wakanda to stop Ultron and seize its Vibranium, confident Android 18 could handle the threat.

• Shuri wore her Vibranium Black Panther Suit but could not trigger the Lifeforms’ self-destruct program, and Ultron knocked her unconscious.
• Ultron activated the other twenty-nine Vibranium Lifeforms and sent drones to attack Morgan Family buildings and infrastructure around the world.
• Alice traced the attacks to Ultron in Wakanda and discovered he had built a Vibranium Lifeform Legion using Gene Fusion Technology.
• Loren ordered Android 18 and Alice to defeat Ultron and take Wakanda’s Vibranium, declaring Wakanda an enemy for helping him.
• Android 18 and Alice flew toward Wakanda as Hancock questioned whether they should go alone, and Loren said Android 18 was powerful enough.

Ultron prepared to confront Loren’s forces with thirty Vibranium Lifeforms and an army of ten thousand robots, while imprisoning Princess Shuri after taking control of Wakanda’s systems. Android 18 shattered Wakanda’s energy barrier, leaving the nation in chaos as she taunted its people.

• Ultron displayed his Vibranium Lifeforms and robot army, then told the imprisoned Princess Shuri that Alice and Android 18 had arrived.
• Shuri accused Ultron of deceiving her, but he imprisoned her and revealed that he controlled Wakanda’s network and weapons systems.
• Ultron’s robots aimed their weapons at Alice and Android 18 as the two approached Wakanda.
• Android 18 punched Wakanda’s energy barrier, then broke it with a second blow despite the people’s mockery.
• The barrier’s destruction sent Wakanda’s people fleeing in panic, and Android 18 taunted them from above.

Android 18 and Alice fought Ultron and his Vibranium bodies, with Android 18 overpowering his forces and Alice disabling his robot army. Ultron launched a synchronized attack that briefly blasted them away, but they counterattacked, and Alice caught the severed head of one Vibranium Lifeform.

• Android 18 dodged Ultron’s punch and struck his Vibranium body, sending it crashing into the ground.
• Ultron sent tens of thousands of robots against Android 18, who cut them apart with her Destructo Disc and punches.
• Alice invaded the robots’ control systems and froze them, then cut one of Ultron’s Vibranium bodies in half with a beam from the Mind Stone.
• Ultron ordered his thirty bodies into synchronized attack mode, and their vibration waves blasted Android 18 and Alice away.
• Android 18 returned and severed a Vibranium Lifeform’s head with a Destructo Disc, and Alice caught it.

Alice took control of one of Ultron’s Vibranium bodies and overwhelmed his forces, but Ultron fused his remaining bodies into a towering six-armed form. The confrontation escalated as Six-Armed Ultron prepared to fight.

• Alice used her nanites to locate and seize control of the Vibranium body’s control chip, destroying Ultron’s consciousness inside its system.
• Ultron ordered his Vibranium bodies to attack Alice, but she pierced five of them with beams from the Mind Stone and offered him a chance to surrender.
• Android 18 watched Alice fight and teased her about being able to handle the battle alone.
• Ultron gathered his remaining bodies and fused them into his main body, growing to three meters tall and gaining four additional arms equipped with energy cannons.
• Loren reacted with surprise and interest at Ultron’s six-armed transformation.

Ultron merged his Vibranium duplicates and challenged Alice with power approaching Skyfather Level. Alice treated the fight as a chance to sharpen her combat skills, and after Ultron briefly gained the upper hand, she emerged unhurt and blasted him away with the Mind Stone.

• Ultron merged his Vibranium duplicates into a single body powered by twenty-nine Arc Reactors, while Alice welcomed the chance to fight him at full strength.
• Ultron unleashed a barrage of energy blasts and struck Alice with five of his six arms, sending her crashing into an apartment building.
• Android 18 moved to help, but Alice told her to stay out of the fight so she could use Ultron to sharpen her skills.
• Ultron blasted the apartment building into rubble and assumed Alice had been destroyed.
• Alice fired a golden beam from the Mind Stone, forcing Ultron to shield himself with all six arms and blasting holes through five palms.
• Alice rose from the rubble unharmed as Ultron was sent flying.

Alice battled Six-Armed Ultron in Wakanda and used Mind Stone beams to secretly infect his Vibranium body with nanoparticles. She trapped his consciousness in a virtual prison, leaving him unable to control his body or escape.

• Alice blocked Ultron’s attacks and repeatedly blasted him with Mind Stone beams as they fought at extreme speed.
• Ultron’s wounds kept repairing, and he grew confident that neither fighter could defeat the other.
• Alice revealed that nanoparticles had entered Ultron’s body through his wounds and infected his control system.
• Ultron tried to fight off Alice’s virus, but she seized control of his body and cut off his communication channels.
• Alice imprisoned Ultron’s consciousness, leaving his body motionless as she declared that he would not escape again.