Recaps

Loren subdued Viper and forced her to thank him after shielding her from an explosion. He then recognized Iron Monger attacking the banquet hall and sent 2B to kill him.

• Loren resisted Viper’s poison, overpowered her, and dismissed her threats to kill him.
• An explosion tore through the VIP room, and Loren covered Viper to protect her while preventing her escape.
• Loren slapped Viper until she reluctantly thanked him for saving her.
• Loren saw Iron Monger fighting Iron Man in the ruined banquet hall and recognized him as Obadiah Stane.
• 2B arrived, and Loren ordered her to kill Iron Monger; she charged into the fight.

Loren subdued Viper while 2B fought Iron Monger and incapacitated Tony Stark. As 2B prepared to finish Stane, a masked figure in a black suit pulled Iron Monger out of her reach.

• Viper asked Loren about 2B's ability to fly, and Loren taunted her before revealing that she was twenty-seven.
• Loren threw a desk to deflect a grenade, then choked Viper and threatened her before knocking her unconscious.
• Loren ordered Tifa to take Viper to the manor and left to check on 2B.
• Loren found Tony Stark unconscious and Iron Monger crippled as 2B dodged Stane's grenades and cut off the mech's remaining arm.
• As 2B raised her blade to finish Stane, a strand of Silk pulled Iron Monger away, revealing a masked figure hanging from a utility pole.

2B continued her mission to kill Iron Monger while Spider-Man intervened, and the two fought across the street. Spider-Man’s hood was cut away, revealing golden hair, and Loren recognized her grip on 2B’s blade as electrostatic adhesion.

• Spider-Man pulled Iron Monger out of the way as 2B tried to crush his head, then 2B attacked Spider-Man instead.
• Spider-Man dodged 2B’s slashes and swung to a streetlamp, warning her to stop, but 2B refused and attacked again.
• 2B activated her Anti-Gravity Flight Device, caught up with Spider-Man, and slashed her hood open, revealing her golden hair.
• Spider-Man caught 2B’s Miao Saber with her bare hand and held it fast, matching 2B’s strength.
• Loren identified Spider-Man’s ability to cling to the blade as electrostatic adhesion.

Loren watched 2B and Spider-Woman battle, then learned Spider-Woman was likely Gwen Stacy when they both rushed to save him from a falling sign. As Gwen and 2B went after Stane, a trapped man wondered why Gwen had saved Loren instead of him.

• Spider-Woman restrained 2B's Miao Saber, and the two traded powerful blows until they abandoned their weapons and fought hand to hand.
• 2B gained the advantage over Spider-Woman, and Loren prepared to stop their fight.
• Stane fired two missiles at Stark Industries Tower, causing an explosion that loosened a steel sign above Loren.
• Spider-Woman and 2B stopped fighting and shoved Loren clear of the falling sign, then Spider-Woman hurried after Stane.
• Loren told 2B that Spider-Woman was her future good sister and ordered her to kill Stane.
• A man trapped beneath rubble asked why Gwen had saved Loren instead of him.

2B killed Stane and blamed Spider-Woman’s mercy after Peter was found gravely injured beneath the rubble. Loren learned Peter’s arm could not be saved, while Natasha secretly recorded the battle and reported the events to Coulson.

• 2B hurled her Miao Saber through Iron Monger’s armor, killing Stane, and Spider-Woman struggled with 2B’s lethal methods.
• Harry called for help when he found Peter unconscious beneath rubble with his right arm crushed, and Loren and Spider-Woman rushed to him.
• 2B accused Spider-Woman of letting compassion cause harm, then fled, while Loren sent Gwen away before she returned in civilian clothes.
• An ambulance took Peter to the hospital, and Alice told Loren that Peter’s arm could not be saved because of severe bone and nerve damage.
• Loren left to see Viper after learning she had awakened, while Natasha emerged from the rubble with footage of the battle and spoke with Coulson about another attack on their network.

Natasha took the unconscious Tony Stark to S.H.I.E.L.D. after failing to capture Loren, while Loren watched her through a holographic feed. The system rewarded Loren with a Nano Suit blueprint and a neurotoxin formula, leaving him eager to begin research.

• Natasha told Coulson that Viper, a Hydra leader, had taken Loren before she could capture him, and Coulson complained that Loren's cyberattacks were crippling S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Natasha spotted the unconscious Tony Stark and proposed recruiting him to help S.H.I.E.L.D. improve its cybersecurity.
• Natasha dragged Tony Stark into her car and drove him to a S.H.I.E.L.D. secret base after Coulson sent Barton to assist her.
• Loren watched Natasha through a holographic projection and told Alice he had deliberately let her spy on him.
• The system awarded Loren a Nano Suit blueprint and a neurotoxin formula, along with twenty points for his roles in the Iron Monger and Viper incidents.

Loren learned that Hydra had implanted a device in Viper's head to punish her if she stayed away from its base too long. After Alice disabled the device, Loren sent Viper to his secret laboratory to begin his first human enhancement experiment.

• Tifa told Loren that Viper had woken up and was urgently demanding to see him, so he ordered everyone else away and entered her room.
• Viper begged Loren to let her return to Hydra's base before midnight, promising to submit if he did.
• Viper revealed that Dr. Zola had implanted a device in her head that caused unbearable pain after seventy-two hours without a signal from the base.
• Loren had Alice scan Viper and identify the device as an encrypted electrical-discharge implant connected to her cranial nerves.
• Alice decrypted and disabled the device, and Loren ordered Viper taken to his secret laboratory for his first human enhancement experiment.

Loren finished modifying Viper, removing Dr. Zola’s control device but installing a Neurotoxin device that punished thoughts of harming him. After enhancing her body and freeing her from the operating table, he left Viper eager to serve him.

• Loren removed the electrical discharge device from Viper’s brain and showed her the bloodstained device in a metal box.
• Loren revealed that he had installed a Neurotoxin release device that activated whenever Viper thought about killing him.
• Viper suffered the device’s effects, then promised to submit to Loren and never betray him.
• Loren told Viper that he had injected her with a temporary enhancement serum that gave her strength comparable to a super-soldier.
• Viper saw her taller, firmer, more beautiful body in a mirror, lost her hostility toward Loren, and asked him if he wanted to do something with her.

Peter Parker survived emergency treatment but lost his right arm, while Tony Stark learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. had developed a fast-acting wound-healing medicine. The chapter left Tony asking what kind of organization S.H.I.E.L.D. was as Nick Fury identified it.

• Loren responded to Viper's sudden attempt to seduce him by charging at her with his weapon.
• Peter woke in the hospital to learn that his right arm could not be saved, and Aunt May, Gwen, and Harry discussed his future prosthetic.
• Peter asked to sleep, so Gwen and Harry left; Gwen rejected Harry's suggestion that they seek Loren's help and departed in anger.
• Natasha treated Tony's wounds with a painful medicine and told him it could heal him in three days.
• Tony asked what organization had developed the medicine, and Nick Fury entered and said it was S.H.I.E.L.D.

Nick Fury and Coulson tried to recruit Tony Stark into the Avengers, but Tony refused until S.H.I.E.L.D. showed him intelligence about Miss 2B and Loren and revealed that Howard Stark had helped found the organization. The conversation ended when Barton reported finding a man frozen in Arctic ice.

• Nick Fury and Coulson introduced S.H.I.E.L.D. to Tony and confronted him with how badly Miss 2B had beaten him.
• Nick Fury asked Tony to join the Avengers, but Tony refused and insisted he could handle threats on his own.
• Natasha told Tony he had survived only because Miss 2B showed him mercy.
• Nick Fury showed Tony intelligence reports about Miss 2B and Loren, then revealed that Howard Stark was a S.H.I.E.L.D. founder.
• Barton reported finding a man frozen in Arctic ice, and Nick Fury said they had finally found him.

Tony Stark considered joining Nick Fury’s organization after learning about its hidden world, and Fury took him and Barton toward the Arctic to find a man frozen for over seventy years. Meanwhile, Loren and Viper’s encounter left his secret laboratory in ruins.

• Tony Stark questioned Nick Fury about the frozen man, and Fury urged him to join the organization with a promise of a trial period.
• Tony agreed to consider joining but resisted being recruited into a secret organization without seeing it for himself.
• Nick Fury told Tony that Howard had planned the search and had often called Tony his greatest invention.
• Nick Fury, Tony, and Barton boarded a Quinjet and headed for the Arctic Ocean.
• Loren and Viper’s encounter as two superhumans wrecked the laboratory over several hours.

Viper explained to 2B and Tifa that Loren would likely pursue more women, then suggested they deal with the problem by cutting off his flesh. As Loren tried to escape in his Iron Batman Suit, the three women dragged him back and blocked the secret passage.

• Viper felt 2B and Tifa’s bodies and marveled that they were realistic robots, while 2B and Tifa argued with her about being a homewrecker.
• Viper told 2B and Tifa that Loren would have more women, and Loren reluctantly admitted he was a lecherous pervert.
• 2B and Tifa asked Viper how to stop Loren from pursuing other women, and Viper suggested dealing with his flesh.
• Loren put on his Iron Batman Suit and tried to flee through the secret passage, but 2B, Tifa, and Viper grabbed his legs and pulled him back.
• Tifa agreed to block the secret passage with a table.

Loren sent Viper back to Hydra to gather intelligence and find Wanda Maximoff, while explaining that he wanted to recruit her for her power. He assigned 2B and Tifa to lead robot teams and ordered them to retrieve Proto-Adamantium and Vibranium from S.H.I.E.L.D. and a museum.

• After Loren ordered 2B and Tifa to stop playing and deal with Viper, Viper realized they had been following his commands all along.
• Loren told Viper to return to Hydra, gather intelligence, and find Wanda Maximoff; he promised Viper a place at his side and a robot squad if she performed well.
• After Viper left, Loren explained to 2B that Wanda possessed terrifying power and that he wanted to recruit her before other factions did.
• Loren told 2B and Tifa that they would lead separate teams of Standard General-Purpose Combat Robots, with 2B handling external combat and Tifa overseeing estate security.
• Loren ordered 2B and Tifa to retrieve a Proto-Adamantium shield from a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base and Vibranium exhibits from the National Museum, with Alice disabling security and no one being killed.

Loren began researching nanotechnology while Captain America woke at S.H.I.E.L.D. after seventy years of cryogenic sleep. Nick Fury helped Stephen Rogers learn that Peggy Carter was still alive, but a hacker attack and the theft of his Adamantium Shield disrupted his reunion plans.

• Loren returned to his laboratory to study nanotechnology and planned to combine it with combat robot technology and advanced materials.
• Stephen Rogers woke at S.H.I.E.L.D. and pinned Tony Stark down, demanding to know where he was and who surrounded him.
• Nick Fury told Rogers that seventy years had passed and that Tony was Howard Stark’s son; Rogers then remembered crashing into the frozen ocean.
• Nick Fury revealed Peggy Carter was still alive and gave Rogers her hospital address, then asked Natasha to take him there.
• A hacker attack plunged the base into darkness, and Natasha said it was the fifth such breach that month; Nick Fury blamed Loren.
• A guard reported that the Adamantium Shield Rogers had used was missing, prompting Nick Fury to curse Loren.

Natasha reported several incidents to Nick Fury, including the theft of Vibranium and Stephen’s shield, a Green Goblin attack, and General Ross’s attempt to capture Dr. Banner. As Fury considered how S.H.I.E.L.D. should respond, Coulson rushed in with news that Hulk had appeared.

• Natasha told Nick Fury that a woman believed to be one of Loren’s assassins had stolen Vibranium artifacts from the National Museum and Stephen’s shield from S.H.I.E.L.D.’s base.
• Nick Fury suspected Loren was targeting S.H.I.E.L.D. and vowed to make him pay, though he had no evidence against him.
• Natasha reported that a masked Green Goblin had escaped a fire at the Osborn Group, and Fury ordered Barton to investigate.
• Natasha told Fury that Dr. Banner had returned from Brazil and that General Ross was preparing to capture him, prompting Fury to order her to contact Banner and offer S.H.I.E.L.D.’s help.
• Coulson rushed into Fury’s office and announced that Hulk had appeared.

Nick Fury learned that Hulk was fighting a yellow monster on Central Avenue, where Betty Ross had been killed, and ordered a team to intervene. At Morgan Manor, Loren sent 2B to join the battle, allowing her to go all out against the yellow monster while warning her not to kill Hulk; 2B flew to the scene as Loren returned to his nanotechnology research.

• Coulson told Nick Fury that Hulk was fighting a yellow monster on Central Avenue, where the destruction had caused countless casualties and Betty Ross had died.
• Nick Fury rushed to arrange a helicopter and ordered Coulson to bring Tony and Stephen for their first mission.
• Alice alerted Loren, 2B, and Tifa that the Central Avenue incident had reached A-rank, and Loren told 2B to join the fight and go all out.
• Loren gave 2B a syringe of Super Neurotoxin for Hulk, permitting her to kill the yellow monster but forbidding her from killing Hulk.
• 2B flew toward Central Avenue while Loren told Tifa and Alice to monitor the situation, then returned to his laboratory to continue his research.

Hulk and Abomination fought through Manhattan as Gwen rescued civilians and General Ross attacked Hulk after his daughter was killed. Iron Man arrived to protect Ross, while Captain America joined the fight against Abomination.

• Abomination threw a car carrying a family of four at Hulk, and Gwen caught it with a web as Hulk fought back.
• Hulk and Abomination traded blows while Gwen focused on rescuing civilians.
• A piece of shrapnel killed General Ross's daughter, and Ross fired a heavy machine gun at Hulk.
• Abomination knocked Hulk down with a fire hydrant and threw it at Ross, but Iron Man blasted it away.
• Captain America leaped from an armed helicopter and landed in front of Abomination.

Iron Man and Captain America arrived during the fight between Hulk and Abomination, but Tony Stark was soon overwhelmed by Hulk. 2B stopped Hulk just before he could smash Tony and chose him as her next opponent.

• Tony Stark and Captain America confronted Abomination while Nick Fury ordered General Ross to retreat.
• General Ross refused to stand down and kept firing at Hulk, who threw a sedan at him.
• Tony Stark rescued General Ross and Nick Fury, then attacked Hulk, but Hulk repeatedly battered him with manhole covers and shrugged off his bombs.
• Hulk trapped Tony Stark in a crack in the ground and charged at him with raised fists.
• 2B crashed into Hulk, knocked him partly into the ground, and pointed at Tony Stark as her next opponent.

2B arrived during the battle in New York, saved Tony Stark from Hulk, and attacked several fighters before turning her attention to Abomination. After overpowering him with her enhanced strength, she drew her Adamantium Miao Saber and prepared to finish him.

• 2B kicked Tony Stark away after saving him from Hulk's attack.
• 2B kicked Captain America into a skyscraper when he resumed fighting Abomination.
• 2B confronted Abomination and caught his punch with one hand.
• 2B pulled Abomination forward and struck his abdomen with her knee, leaving him kneeling and unable to recover.
• 2B summoned her Adamantium Miao Saber and told Abomination he should say goodbye to the world.

2B fought Abomination and Hulk at once, proving strong enough to wound Abomination and trade blows with Hulk. The battle continued as Hulk rose from another crater to face her again.

• 2B used her Anti-Gravity Device to evade Abomination's charge and hurled her Miao Saber through his shoulder, pinning him to the ground.
• Abomination pulled the saber free and threatened 2B, but she recalled it and stabbed through his other shoulder, pinning him again.
• Hulk sprang at 2B, who met his punch with her own and sent both fighters flying apart in a powerful collision.
• 2B steadied herself in the air while Hulk crashed into the ground and made another crater, stunning the soldiers and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.

2B tested her strength against Hulk and found she could match him, but his power kept rising with his anger. She switched to her Adamantium Miao Saber and Super Neurotoxin, bringing Hulk down in five seconds as she turned toward Abomination.

• Hulk recovered from 2B's first punch and charged her again, growing stronger as their repeated blows landed.
• 2B realized Hulk's strength was increasing, ended the test, and prepared her Super Neurotoxin and Adamantium Miao Saber while warning Abomination she would deal with him next.
• 2B concluded she could match Hulk in his normal state and hold her own against him while enraged, while Abomination remained weaker than her.
• 2B moved too quickly for Hulk to see, slashed his chest with the saber, and injected Super Neurotoxin into the wound.
• After 2B counted to five, Hulk collapsed, and she dismissed him as she continued toward Abomination.

2B used Loren’s super neurotoxin to incapacitate Hulk and then pursued Abomination, who fled from her. As Nick Fury’s team moved to take control, Captain America intervened, and 2B warned him that he could die too.

• 2B’s neurotoxin knocked Hulk out and forced him back into Bruce Banner’s human form.
• Abomination fled when 2B charged at him, and General Ross took a rifle to attack Bruce before Nick Fury knocked him unconscious.
• Nick Fury ordered Natasha to secure Bruce and Coulson to take Ross back, then told Tony Stark and Steve to stop 2B and try to recruit Abomination.
• Tony refused to approach 2B, but Steve threw a manhole cover at her as she caught up to Abomination and stabbed his legs.
• 2B split the manhole cover with her saber, turned toward Steve, and threatened him.

2B fought the heroes while following Loren’s order to spare everyone except Abomination. She killed Abomination and stopped Natasha’s group from taking Bruce Banner, declaring Hulk to be her Boss’s prey.

• 2B kicked a manhole cover into Captain America, sending him flying into rubble.
• 2B had Alice hack Tony Stark’s armor, shut down its power, and crash him into buildings.
• 2B killed Abomination by cutting off his head.
• Gwen chose not to interfere with 2B, and 2B praised her progress.
• Natasha and her group collapsed when they approached Bruce Banner, and 2B warned Nick Fury that Hulk belonged to her Boss.

2B defeated Abomination, captured Bruce Banner, and refused to hand him over to Nick Fury, leaving Fury injured and unconscious. Loren received the Perfected Hulk Serum formula as a reward and celebrated the new opportunity.

• 2B explained that Natasha and the others had collapsed after inhaling super neurotoxin, then grabbed Bruce Banner to take him away.
• Nick Fury tried to persuade 2B to leave Bruce with S.H.I.E.L.D., but she demanded a ton of Vibranium or another extraordinary item as payment.
• Nick Fury refused, so 2B shot a button through his shoulder and knocked him unconscious.
• 2B praised Gwen for her performance, then flew away carrying Bruce Banner.
• Loren received the Perfected Hulk Serum formula and 20 system points as a reward for killing Abomination and capturing Hulk.

After more than a month in seclusion developing nanotechnology, Loren reviewed the chaos surrounding Spider-Man and the Green Goblin and chose to intervene only if his interests were threatened. The Nanotech General-Purpose Combat Robot passed its tests, and Miss A2 awakened before him.

• Loren studied the Perfected Hulk Serum and decided to postpone researching it until he finished the nanobots and Nano Armor.
• Over the following month, Spider-Man and the Green Goblin clashed repeatedly, while the Green Goblin escaped and the Daily Bugle mocked and defamed Spider-Man as Spider Miss.
• Tifa asked Loren to protect Gwen from the Daily Bugle, and Loren ordered a warning to John Jameson threatening to cut off his funding.
• Tifa asked whether Loren would act against the Green Goblin, but Loren chose to wait because the Green Goblin had not threatened their interests and was Harry's father.
• Alice announced that the Nanotech General-Purpose Combat Robot had passed its assembly and separation tests, and Miss A2 formed from black mist before Loren.