Recaps

Wanda destroyed Zarathos and overcame Chthon’s hold with Loren’s help, while Loren forced Mephisto to submit and took his Hellfire Source. Mai Shiranui fused with the Hellfire and began testing her new power against 2B.

• Ikaros rescued Wanda and A2 from Zarathos’s attack, then took them back to Morgan Manor after Mephisto and Zarathos withdrew.
• Wanda used the Darkhold to destroy Zarathos and purify the fallen angel souls he had consumed, then resisted Chthon’s consciousness after merging with the book.
• Loren and Nymph entered Wanda’s consciousness and helped her break Chthon’s curse, after which Loren introduced Nymph to the others.
• Loren ordered a three-day bombardment of Mephisto’s territory in Hell, then confronted him and forced him to submit.
• Mephisto gave Loren his Hell Authority Mark and tore the Hellfire Source from his soul, and Loren sealed it before leaving Hell.
• Loren granted the Hellfire Crystal to Mai Shiranui, who fused it with her native flames under Wanda’s protection and emerged with soul-burning fire.
• Loren arranged a no-restrictions match between Mai Shiranui and 2B, and Mai’s Hellfire-infused attacks began disrupting 2B’s sensors and circuits.

Loren and his allies stopped Chthon’s invasion, and Loren absorbed the Dark Magic Origin before returning home with his wives. As the United States imposed superpowered registration, Mai Shiranui and the others became targets of a staged attack that left civilians dead and reporters blaming them.

• Loren created Astraea and welcomed her as a new sister to Ikaros and Nymph, while Chthon empowered Kaecilius to prepare an invasion of Earth.
• Kaecilius’s Dark Deadpools attacked all three Sanctums, and their destruction opened a rift that allowed Chthon to begin descending.
• Loren and his allies fought Chthon in Hong Kong, and Loren transformed, erased Chthon, then defeated him again after Chthon reclaimed his full power.
• Loren absorbed the Dark Magic Origin, returned Wanda’s Chaos Magic, and went home with his restored and strengthened wives.
• At home, Ikaros gave Loren a watermelon she had grown for him, and Loren helped Tsunade win back her gambling losses before sharing an evening with the household.
• After an elementary-school bombing, the president signed the Superhero Registration Act, which Tony Stark supported and Steve Rogers opposed.
• Hydra-backed enforcers attacked Mai Shiranui and her companions while they were shopping, and the women defeated them before an explosion killed and wounded bystanders.
• Reporters accused the women of being illegal superpowered individuals, and Tsunade recognized the attack as a trap and ordered everyone to leave.

After a Skrull impersonator killed Bucky and drove Tony and Steve apart, Loren exposed the Skrull plot but left the Avengers to confront it themselves. Alice traced the Skrull to the Silver Surfer, and Loren began searching for a way to create a powerful serum as the threat of Galactus loomed.

• Hydra framed Loren’s allies for civilian deaths, so Loren erased Hydra and rewrote the public’s memories of the incident.
• Tony confronted Bucky over Howard and Maria Stark’s deaths, but spared him and ended his friendship with Steve.
• A Skrull impersonating Tony killed Bucky and spread footage that made Steve attack Tony before Nick Fury revealed the killer was an impostor.
• Loren identified the Skrulls’ infiltration and gave Natasha and Hill information about their bases, while Natasha and S.H.I.E.L.D. pursued a Skrull in counterfeit Iron Man armor.
• The Skrull fought Tony and Steve, copied powerful forms including Hulk and Silver Surfer, and escaped after warning that his people were coming.
• Alice tracked the Skrull to an abandoned Bronx building, read his memories, and learned he had seen Silver Surfer in the Andromeda Galaxy.
• Loren drew a new technological world from the system and received a guide and Silver Age Clark Kent’s DNA, then asked Alice to secretly track the Skrulls.
• After repeated serum experiments failed, Loren considered replacing human genes with Kryptonian ones and realized Skrull genes might help prevent cellular rejection.

Loren obtained the Skrulls’ Gene Infuser and helped stop their invasion of Earth, while Thanos began collecting the Infinity Stones and sacrificed Gamora to claim the Soul Stone. Carol Danvers rescued the Guardians and carried them toward Earth to confront Thanos.

• Loren studied a captured Skrull’s genes, learned how the Morphology Control Gene enabled shapeshifting, and sent Nymph and Android 18 to retrieve the Skrulls’ Gene Infuser.
• Android 18 and Nymph overpowered the Skrulls aboard the Conqueror and returned with the Gene Infuser, after which the Skrull commander canceled the invasion and the captive Skrull left to warn his people.
• Tony, Steve, and Natasha battled Carter and twelve Skrulls in Brooklyn until Nymph and Android 18 intervened, and Carter relayed the order to evacuate Earth.
• Thanos ordered the Dark Order to seize the Power Stone from the Guardians and bring Gamora to him alive.
• Thanos attacked the Benatar, defeated the Guardians, took Gamora, and claimed the Power Stone before carrying her to Vormir.
• Thanos sacrificed Gamora to obtain the Soul Stone and vowed to take the remaining Stones from Loren.
• Carol Danvers rescued the stranded Guardians, explained that Gamora had died in the sacrifice for the Soul Stone, and agreed to take them to Earth to stop Thanos.