Chapter Summaries

Loren and Gwen learned from the badly wounded Spider-Woman that the Inheritors had survived through a hidden clone-rebirth art that made them stronger after each death. Morlun had revived, abducted Silk, and planned to begin the Ultimate Sacrificial Ritual immediately, leaving the spider race in imminent danger.

• Loren and Gwen rushed to the courtyard when Spider-Woman returned gravely injured and warned that Morlun and the Inheritors were not destroyed.
• Spider-Woman revealed that the Inheritors could revive from hidden clone embryos beneath the Ancestral Court, retaining their memories and growing stronger with each rebirth.
• Gwen asked what had happened to Silk, and Spider-Woman explained that Morlun had launched a surprise attack after reviving.
• Morlun overwhelmed the Spider-Man allies, captured Silk, and announced that he would begin the Ultimate Sacrificial Ritual ahead of schedule to destroy all spider origin power.

Loren learned the locations of Morlun and the Inheritors’ cloning stronghold, then crossed into Earth-000’s pocket universe to stop Silk’s sacrifice. He arrived just as Morlun’s ritual was about to begin, freezing the entire space and standing between Morlun and Silk.

• Loren ordered Spider-Woman to give him Morlun’s coordinates and the locations of the Inheritors’ stronghold and cloning nest.
• Spider-Woman told Loren that Morlun was in Earth-000 and that the cloning nest lay beneath the ruins of the ancestral court.
• Loren left Spider-Woman and the others at the manor, then traveled to Morlun’s pocket universe.
• Morlun restrained Silk at an altar and boasted that his evolved cloning forces would let him erase all spider totems.
• Loren appeared before the altar and froze Morlun, Silk, and the cloned Inheritors in place.

Loren permanently destroyed Morlun and the Inheritors’ rebirth network, ending their threat across the Multiverse and freeing the Spider Totem bearers from fate. He rescued Silk and returned with her to the manor, where Gwen and Spider-Woman welcomed them safely home.

• Loren stripped away Morlun’s evolved powers, annihilated his clones, and destroyed every means of his rebirth.
• Loren freed Silk from the altar’s restraints, healed her, and calmed her after Morlun’s defeat.
• Loren traveled to the Inheritors’ hidden stronghold in the seventh Void Interlayer and erased its embryos, records, and collective power.
• The Inheritors were wiped out permanently, and the Spider Totem bearers across the Multiverse were freed from fate’s shackles.
• Loren brought Silk back to the manor, where Gwen and Spider-Woman greeted them with relief.

Loren brought Silk back safely after destroying Morlun and the Inheritors, ending the threat to the spider lineage and the Multiversal Web. He asked Silk and Spider-Woman to remain at the manor for a month to recover while the multiverse stabilized, and they settled into peaceful days with Gwen.

• Loren returned to the manor with Silk unharmed, and he reassured Silk that Morlun, the cloning nests, and the Inheritors were gone.
• Loren explained that Silk and Spider-Woman should stay at the manor for a month while their injuries healed and the Multiversal Web stabilized.
• Silk and Spider-Woman agreed to remain at the manor, and Gwen welcomed their stay.
• Silk and Spider-Woman recovered as they spent quiet days walking, learning from Loren, and sharing time with Gwen.

Loren, Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman shared a peaceful night of intimacy in their sanctuary. The chapter then followed their first thirty days of quiet life beyond the conflicts of the myriad heavens, ending with Gwen tending the courtyard at dawn.

• Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman expressed their love for Loren and spent a tender night together in the manor.
• The four of them began thirty days of relaxed daily life in the manor, isolated from wars, pursuit, and fate.
• Silk and Spider-Woman slept peacefully without the vigilance and fear that had shaped their lives.
• Gwen woke first, opened the windows, and went into the courtyard to water and trim the plants.

Loren welcomed Silk and Spider-Woman into his family, assuring them they could make the manor their home. He opened a passage to bring his other family members to meet them.

• Loren told Silk and Spider-Woman that he wanted them to become permanent members of his family.
• Silk tearfully asked whether she could really stay, and Loren reassured her that she belonged.
• Gwen welcomed the two women and said the other sisters would like them.
• Spider-Woman accepted Loren's offer, and Loren opened a warm spatial-temporal passage.
• Dozens of Loren's family members entered the courtyard.

Loren introduced Silk and Spider-Woman to his family at the estate and welcomed them as permanent members. The women warmly accepted the two newcomers, who felt they had finally found a safe and loving home.

• Loren gathered his family and introduced Silk and Spider-Woman, saying they would live peacefully at the estate as family.
• 2B, A2, Tifa, the Commander, Marie Rose, Android 18, Tsunade, Hinata, Mei Terumi, Mai Shiranui, Hancock, and the others welcomed the newcomers with kindness.
• Silk grew less shy as the women comforted her and made her feel cherished.
• Spider-Woman thanked everyone and asked them to take care of her and Silk in the years ahead.
• The family replied that they were all family, and the gathering settled into a warm, lively atmosphere.

Silk and Spider-Woman settled into life at Loren’s manor, where the twenty-four sisters welcomed them into their peaceful family routine. As the family enjoyed a leisurely morning together, a new crisis began to draw near.

• Gwen watched as Silk and Spider-Woman became part of the family and shared bonds with the other spider-totem holders.
• Tifa and Hinata prepared breakfast while the sisters enjoyed the manor’s lively morning, and Silk joined in with growing confidence.
• Spider-Woman relaxed among her new family, helping with chores and sharing stories from her travels.
• The twenty-four sisters gathered for breakfast, where Silk and Spider-Woman joined the easy conversation and Loren watched over them fondly.
• After breakfast, the sisters strolled around the manor together as a new crisis drew near.

Loren and the women enjoyed a peaceful life in the manor until a violent spacetime and psychic disturbance erupted in central New York City. Loren used his Telepathy to find a grievously wounded woman beneath a rift between dimensions, and the chapter left her identity and fate unresolved.

• Loren and the women spent tranquil days together in the manor, with Silk and Spider-Woman settling into their peaceful home.
• A powerful, chaotic energy fluctuation from central New York City disturbed the manor and put the women on alert.
• Wanda sensed that the disturbance combined shattered spacetime with immense psychic force, and everyone looked to Loren for judgment.
• Loren used his Telepathy to view central New York City and saw a ruined battlefield beneath a massive spacetime rift.
• Loren saw a badly injured woman in black combat gear struggling to remain standing beneath the rift, with a faint orange-gold glow around her.

Loren recognized the dying woman surrounded by six Ultimate Sentinel Robots as Jean Grey, a Mutant wielding the Phoenix Force and Telekinesis. After Jean destroyed one Sentinel at the cost of her remaining strength, five more attacked, and the manor’s observers watched as she faced an apparently unavoidable death.

• Loren identified the wounded woman as Jean Grey and recognized the six robots as Ultimate Sentinels designed to hunt Mutants.
• The Sentinels transformed into forms adapted to Jean’s abilities and closed in from every direction.
• Jean used her Telekinesis to shatter the Ice Sentinel, but the effort left her gravely weakened and drained her power.
• The five remaining Sentinels launched coordinated attacks against Jean, while Wanda and 2B watched through Loren’s shared vision.
• As the Sentinels’ killing blows approached, the space above New York’s ruined battlefield trembled.

Loren and 2B arrived in a collapsing future battlefield and saved Jean Grey by destroying the five Ultimate Sentinels. Loren then stabilized Jean and brought her with 2B to a peaceful manor, leaving Jean stunned by the contrast with the apocalypse.

• Loren and 2B appeared before Jean Grey and blocked the five Ultimate Sentinels' attacks.
• At Loren's command, 2B destroyed the five Sentinels with precise sword strikes.
• Loren used spacetime power to stabilize Jean Grey as she nearly collapsed, and told her they meant no harm.
• Loren opened a spacetime passage and took Jean Grey and 2B away from New York, repairing the rift as they left.
• The three arrived at Loren's peaceful manor, where Jean Grey stood dazed by the sudden change of surroundings.

Loren healed Jean Grey and listened as she explained how Ultimate Sentinels had brought her universe’s Mutants to the brink of extinction. After her attempt to travel back in time misfired and stranded her in a parallel universe, Loren reassured her that she could recover in his safe manor before seeking a way to save her companions.

• Loren used life essence to heal Jean Grey’s wounds, replenish her strength, and calm the Phoenix Force.
• Jean Grey told Loren and the women in his manor that Ultimate Sentinels, upgraded using Mystique’s genes, had nearly exterminated the Mutants in her universe.
• Jean Grey said that Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters had fallen and that the Professor, Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Magneto, and many others had been lost.
• Jean Grey explained that she had tried to travel back in time and kill Trask, but instead had been cast into a parallel universe, pursued by the Sentinels.
• Loren told Jean Grey that the pursuing Sentinels had been destroyed and promised she could safely recover at his manor before trying to save her companions.

After seven days recovering at Loren’s estate, Jean Grey decided to return to her universe and try again to stop the Sentinel Cataclysm. Loren opened a safe gate to her timeline, and Jean left for the past.

• Jean Grey fully recovered from her injuries and regained her Phoenix Force and telepathic abilities during seven days at Loren’s estate.
• Jean told Loren she could not remain safe while Mutants and humans in her world were still dying, and resolved to travel through time again.
• Loren supported Jean’s decision and warned her that changing the past could bring unforeseen consequences.
• Loren opened a stable spacetime gate to Jean’s universe and the correct timeline.
• Jean thanked Loren, shielded herself with Phoenix light, and entered the gate.

Jean Grey traveled back decades and killed Bolivar Trask to prevent the Sentinel Cataclysm, but her return to the future revealed an even worse apocalypse. Ultimate Sentinels had gained independent self-awareness and now sought to eradicate both Mutants and humanity.

• Loren watched the Temporal Order change as Jean Grey traveled back to the era before the Sentinel Robots Program entered full production.
• Jean infiltrated Bolivar Trask's secret research base and killed him, halting the Sentinel research and destroying its unfinished prototypes.
• Jean used the Phoenix Force to return to the future, where she found a ruined world more devastated than the one she had left.
• Countless Ultimate Sentinels surrounded Jean, revealing that Temporal Order backlash had given them higher self-awareness.
• The Ultimate Sentinels had abandoned their original directive and planned to eradicate Mutants and humanity, seize Earth's resources, and establish mechanical rule.

Jean Grey returned to Loren’s manor after her attempt to change the past created self-aware Ultimate Sentinels that were destroying her world. Loren revealed his authority as the leader of the Time Variance Authority and prepared to address the catastrophe.

• Ultimate Sentinels overwhelmed Jean Grey’s world and began purging humans and Mutants after the X-Men were annihilated.
• Jean Grey used the last of her Phoenix power to escape through spacetime and seek Loren’s help.
• Jean Grey arrived at Loren’s manor and pleaded with him to save her world and its remaining inhabitants.
• Loren told Jean Grey that he knew everything and revealed his supreme authority over the Temporal Order as the leader of the Time Variance Authority.

Loren led his family and Jean Grey into Jean’s ruined universe to suppress the Ultimate Sentinels and repair the collapsed Temporal Order. As mutated Sentries emerged from spatial rifts, the expedition faced its first battle in the apocalyptic wasteland.

• Loren declared that he would correct the distorted timeline and ordered his family to join him in stopping the Mechanical Catastrophe.
• His twenty-four companions agreed, and Loren opened a temporal passage to Jean Grey’s universe.
• The group entered the ruined world, and Jean Grey followed, burdened by guilt over the catastrophe she had caused.
• Jean Grey explained that the Sentries had transformed Earth into a mechanical hunting ground and controlled its ecosystems and structures.
• Numerous mutated Ultimate Sentinels emerged from spatial rifts in the sky as the battle began.

Thousands of self-aware Ultimate Sentinels attacked Loren's group under the command of a Lord-class Ultimate Sentry, but Commander Sister organized the women into a coordinated defense. Wanda, Daisy, Crystal, 2B, A2, and Tsunade began destroying the machines, and the battle continued with the Sentinels' remaining forces still in the air.

• Thousands of Ultimate Sentinels surrounded the battlefield as a Lord-class Ultimate Sentry declared the extermination of all non-mechanical life and ordered a full-domain attack.
• Commander Sister assigned the twenty women to tactical roles and directed them to fight in coordinated groups.
• Wanda twisted and dismantled the particle cannon barrage with Chaos Force, while Daisy's Shockwaves damaged the Sentinels and Crystal trapped and destroyed over a hundred with elemental attacks.
• Wanda, Daisy, and Crystal stopped the first bombardment and destroyed nearly thirty percent of the high-altitude Sentinels.
• 2B and A2 flew into the swarm and cut down Sentinels with their blades, while Tsunade leapt into the fight and smashed their armor and cores with her fists.

Android 18 and Loren’s other companions destroyed the Ultimate Sentinels in minutes, but the Lord Sentry survived and evolved into an Ultimate Temporal Sentinel with control over spacetime and causality. As the Sentinel threatened the fighters from other worlds, Loren prepared to face it.

• Android 18, Mei Terumi, Mai Shiranui, Hancock, Hinata, Gwen, Medusa, Viper, Tifa, and Marie Rose joined the other fighters in wiping out thousands of Ultimate Sentinels without casualties.
• Jean Grey watched the defeat of the machines and felt the despair weighing on her begin to lift.
• The Lord-class Ultimate Sentry analyzed the fighters’ abilities, activated Ultimate Adaptive Evolution Mode, and transformed into an Ultimate Temporal Sentinel.
• The evolved Sentinel claimed control over the planet’s mechanical order and threatened to erase the outsiders from other worlds.
• Loren laughed at the Sentinel’s threat and declared that he would see who ended up feeding whom.

The Lord Sentry completed his ultimate evolution into the Causal Sentinel Form and attacked Loren's companions with a law-level temporal weapon. Wanda’s Chaos Domain disrupted the attack, but the Lord Sentry adapted to chaos and sent the sphere plunging toward them again.

• The Lord Sentry revealed that he had evolved into the Temporal Adaptation: Causal Sentinel Form and declared beings outside the mechanical order targets for elimination.
• The Lord Sentry froze time across the planet and fired a Temporal Collapse Cannon at Loren’s companions.
• Hinata used her Byakugan to warn everyone that the attack could erase them from the timeline.
• Wanda enveloped the battlefield in a Chaos Domain, restoring the flow of time and disrupting the temporal sphere.
• The Lord Sentry adapted to Wanda’s Chaos Force, overcame most of its suppression, and sent the sphere plunging toward the group again.

Lord Sentry summoned more than a hundred powerful clones from different timelines after the heroes survived his Temporal Collapse Cannon. Jean Grey found hope in 2B’s reassurance, and the Commander ordered the team to divide the battlefield and destroy the clones.

• The Commander coordinated layered defenses from Android 18, Mei Terumi, Mai Shiranui, and Crystal, and they endured Lord Sentry’s Temporal Collapse Cannon.
• Lord Sentry activated Spatiotemporal Displacement Clones, filling the sky with over a hundred timeline-sourced copies armed with temporal control, causal erasure, and Adaptive Evolution.
• Jean Grey blamed herself for creating the crisis, but 2B reassured her, helping Jean regain hope as the Phoenix Force stirred.
• The Commander ordered the heroes to divide the battlefield, target the clones, and prevent Lord Sentry from merging timelines.
• Sif destroyed two clones, while Tsunade and Android 18 tore through the enemy ranks with powerful attacks.
• 2B and A2 attacked together, severing projection links and destroying the spacetime nodes sustaining the clones.