Gwen's breakdown: my world doesn't want me anymore

The darkness of the Main Control Room was torn apart by an eerie blue-purple light.

Gwen Stacy's body resembled an old television set with severe signal interference, large patches of hexagonal pixelated color peeling off her fair skin. Those patches hovered in the air for less than half a second before turning into fine dust and Oblivion completely.

The acrid smell of burnt Ozone mixed with the strong stench of blood assaulted Lynn's nostrils.

"Warning! A high-dimensional rule erasure mechanism has been detected!" The system's red alert flashed frantically on Lynn's retina.

Even more deadly was Lynn's own Spider-Sense. It felt as if someone had stabbed a red-hot Steel Needles into his cerebral cortex through the back of his head. This was the most piercing cry of biological instinct in the face of an irresistible cosmic catastrophe.

Let go...

Gwen Stacy's voice had changed. Her once clear and crisp voice was now mixed with heavy, electronic, synthesized noise, broken and intermittent, like a radio wave that might disconnect at any moment.

She lowered her head, staring intently at her left hand, which had become translucent. Through her palm, she could even clearly see the cold corpse Prowler on the floor.

"Because of me... billions of people..." Gwen Stacy's shoulders trembled violently.

Images flashed uncontrollably through her mind: the streets of Queens, New York; the lockers at Midtown High School; Aunt May's cherry pie; and her father, Captain George Stacy's, face, which always carried a hint of sternness yet was incredibly warm.

Now, all of this is collapsing because of her selfishness.

In order to cross the universe to find Lynn, and to keep this man by her side forever, she personally pressed the button to destroy her own homeland.

"I'm a sinner." Gwen Stacy abruptly raised her head, her eyes, which had been filled with a morbid possessiveness, now completely consumed by endless fear and self-loathing. "Lynn, my world... doesn't want me anymore."

The moment she finished speaking, she exerted all her strength and shoved Lynn's chest away.

The terrifying power granted to Lynn by the Super-Soldier Serum was abruptly shattered by the death rage erupting from Gwen Stacy's body. Lynn staggered back half a step, his military boots scraping against the floor with a harsh screech.

"What's wrong with you!" Lynn frowned and strode forward, trying to grab her again.

"Don't come any closer!" Gwen Stacy screamed.

She stumbled backward until her back slammed against the cold Vibranium blast wall. Large patches of pixelated color spread upwards along her neck, blurring half of her face.

The obliteration by the higher-dimensional rules was not only disintegrating her physical body, but also tearing apart the surrounding space. The metal debris in the Main Control Room began to float uncontrollably, and was pulled into an invisible meat grinder, instantly turning into dust.

Gwen Stacy looked at Lynn, tears streaming down her face, only to vanish into nothingness as Data Stream in mid-air.

"Stay away from me! This erasure mechanism is contagious! If you touch me, you'll also be judged as abnormal data by the rules of the Multiverse and be formatted along with me!"

Gwen Stacy cried out as she frantically groped around on the ground. Her fingertips touched the High-Frequency Vibrating Dagger that the Prowler had dropped.

Without the slightest hesitation, Gwen Stacy gripped the hilt of the knife in reverse and pressed the tip, which gleamed with an eerie blue light, against her heart.

"As long as I die... as long as I, this core Anchor, completely disappear... the collapse of the Earth-1610 might be able to stop..." Gwen Stacy's lips trembled, but her eyes revealed a hysterical madness.

The Underlying Logic of Yandere is fully revealed at this moment. When she discovers that her love has become a poison that destroys everything, she chooses to destroy herself in the most violent way.

"I can't let you die with me. Lynn, forget about me."

Gwen Stacy closed her eyes, gripped the knife hilt tightly with both hands, and plunged it fiercely into her chest.

"Bang!"

A muffled thud.

The dagger didn't pierce the heart; instead, it was gripped tightly by a rough, large hand.

The sharp, High-Frequency Vibration Blade instantly slashed Lynn's palm, and blood dripped down the blade groove onto Gwen Stacy battle suit.

Lynn completely ignored the excruciating pain in his hand. He disregarded the Spider-Sense's screams that were driving him almost mad, and, against the terrifying suction force that tore through the surrounding space, he forced his way into the Core Zone of the annihilation mechanism.

"Are you deaf?" Lynn gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead.

He suddenly exerted his strength, snatched the dagger, and threw it far away. Then, he cupped Gwen Stacy's face, which was flickering and about to disappear, in his hands, forcing her to look into his eyes.

"Zzzzz--"

The moment Lynn's hands touched Gwen Stacy's skin, the backlash from the higher-dimensional rules instantly descended.

The skin on the back of Lynn's hand began to show a strange mosaic pattern, and an intense burning sensation shot through his nerve endings to his brain. It felt as if someone was slowly melting his bone marrow with a high-voltage electric arc.

"You're crazy! Let go of me!" Gwen Stacy struggled desperately, pounding her fists on Lynn's chest.

But Lynn's hands were as still as if they were made of iron.

"Shut up. Listen to me." Lynn's voice wasn't loud, but it carried an unyielding pressure.

He lowered his head, his nose almost touching Gwen Stacy's. Their breaths mingled in the narrow gap, the smell of blood mingling with the aroma of Bourbon Whiskey.

"Your world doesn't want you anymore?" Lynn stared into Gwen Stacy's eyes, which were filled with despair, a cold smile curving his lips. "So what?"

Gwen Stacy froze. She looked at Lynn, who was so close to her, and even forgot to cry.

The surrounding metal debris continued to collapse, and the purple-blue Quantum Storm had completely enveloped the two of them. Lynn's hands had been corroded to the point of exposing the white bones, but he didn't even flinch.

"You were willing to risk your life and abandon the universe to come find me. Now that you're in a little trouble, you want to just walk away and die?" Lynn's tone was laced with undisguised mockery.

"But..."

"No buts." Lynn interrupted her.

He suddenly tightened his arms, pulling Gwen Stacy's mangled body tightly into his embrace. Even as the tearing force of the higher-dimensional rules was frantically destroying his internal organs, even as each breath he took brought out mouthfuls of bloody foam.

"System," Lynn said coldly in his mind.

[Host, please provide instructions. Warning: Currently under a high-dimensional rule erasure state; host's vital signs are rapidly declining!]

"Give me all the abilities available to repair Spatial Rift and the laws of the universe. No matter how many points are required, no matter what the cost."

[Searching... Search complete.]

[Target matching the criteria detected: Fantastic Four - Invisible Woman Susan Stone.]

[Target Ability: Top-tier Invisible Force Field Control. When developed to its ultimate level, this ability can forcibly mend Spatial Rift and stabilize Dimension Anchor.]

[Start the fourth simulation?]

Lynn's eyes sharpened dramatically in the darkness.

He looked down at Gwen, who was still trembling in his arms, her eyes filled with Gwen Stacy. Seventy percent of the girl's body had already turned into Data Stream, leaving only a faint glimmer of light teetering on the brink of collapse in the Quantum Storm.

"Lynn... you'll die..." Gwen Stacy's voice was so weak it was almost inaudible.

Lynn did not answer.

He simply raised his already bloodied and mangled right hand and gently tucked a stray strand of Gwen Stacy hair behind her ear.

"Yes. Confirm simulation start." Lynn gave the final command to the system in his mind.

[Command received. The fourth simulation of Till Death Do Us Part is about to begin.]

[Target locked: Susan Stone.]

[Loading consciousness...]

Just one second before Lynn's consciousness was about to be extracted by the system and placed into that new spacetime node.

He lowered his head slightly, his warm lips pressing against Gwen Stacy's already translucent forehead.

"Wait for me to come back."

Lynn's voice pierced through the deafening Quantum Storm, striking clearly into the depths of Gwen Stacy's crumbling soul.

The next instant, Lynn's eyes completely lost focus.

Outside the Main Control Room, a strange Scarlet light suddenly appeared on the tightly closed door of the special protection isolation ward.

A trace of destructive energy belonging to Chaos Magic was seeping into the collapsing space little by little through the crack in the door.

Wanda is awake.

The moment Lynn's eyes lost focus, time was stretched to an extreme slowness by the high-dimensional erasure mechanism.

The system's instructions had taken effect, and Lynn's consciousness was forcibly extracted and thrown into an unknown Simulated Space-Time. But his body, forged through countless trials, remained firmly anchored in the Dimension of reality.

A purple-blue Quantum Storm raged wildly in the Main Control Room. Gwen Stacy could clearly feel the annihilation rule relentlessly gnawing at Lynn's flesh and blood along his fingertips.

The hissing sound of corrosion was incessant. The skin on the back of Lynn's hand was completely Carbonization, large patches of flesh turned into fine data dust and dissipated, and the stark white finger bones looked shocking under the eerie blue light.

"Let go... Lynn, please let go!" Gwen Stacy's voice was filled with severe electronic noise, like an old radio on the verge of breaking down, even the tone was distorted.

She tried desperately to pry Lynn's fingers off, but it was no use.

The muscle fibers granted by the Super-Soldier Serum triggered the most primal rigidity protection mechanism the moment she lost consciousness. Lynn's arms were like two welded Titanium Alloy alloy bars, firmly imprisoning her against his chest. Even as flesh was peeled away layer by layer by the rules of higher dimensions, even as the excruciating pain was enough to break the mind of any superhero, that embrace did not loosen in the slightest.

This was his promise. Even if his soul was gone, this broken body would be her last Bastion.

This extreme favoritism became the final straw that broke Gwen Stacy's back.

"Why... why are you so good to me..." Gwen Stacy tilted her head back, large patches of hexagonal pixelated color peeling off her cheeks, revealing the void of darkness beneath.

Her gaze passed over Lynn's broad shoulders, landing on the floating, now- Oblivion metal debris scattered across the ground.

The Prowler's vicious curse before Prowler death echoed wildly in her mind. The Earth-1610 was collapsing. Her father, Captain George Stacy, Aunt May always had a warm smile, and the New York streets she had once sworn to protect were all turning to ashes because of her forced incursion.

She betrayed her universe in order to possess this man. And now, the Underlying Logic of the universe is ruthlessly erasing her, the sinner.

"I'm a jinx... I destroyed my home, and now I'm going to kill you too!" Gwen Stacy's tears were shattered by the violent Quantum Storm as soon as they welled up in her eyes.

An overwhelming sense of self-blame was like a barbed wire, tightly constricting her heart, drawing blood with every beat. Her breathing became rapid and broken, her chest emitting a wheezing sound like a broken bellows.

"My world doesn't want me anymore..." Gwen Stacy buried her head in Lynn's blood-soaked chest, letting out a Beast, desperate howl, "Lynn, I have nothing left! Let me die! As long as I, this Anchor, disappear, everything will stop!"

She struggled frantically, even opening her mouth as if to bite off her own tongue to hasten the body's death.

Just then, a force far more violent and tyrannical than the Quantum Storm slammed into the door of the Main Control Room.

"Boom--!"

The Vibranium blast door, designed to withstand Tactical Nuke, couldn't even last a second.

The dark red Chaos Magic, like magma erupting from the earth's core, melted and twisted the thick, hard metal door panel. The molten iron dripped down the door frame, burning into the floor and producing a pungent white smoke and a burnt smell.

Scarlet light instantly filled the entire room, tearing a huge gash through the purplish-blue Quantum Storm. The explosion-proof light tubes overhead shattered one after another under this terrifying energy pressure, and glass shards fell like raindrops, only to be magically crushed into powder in mid-air.

Wanda walked in barefoot, stepping on the scorching metal debris scattered on the ground.

She was still wearing that large silk nightgown, but at that moment, no one dared to look directly at this woman.

Her eyes had turned completely Scarlet, with no whites remaining. Violent Chaos Particles danced in her hair, and the surrounding Gravitational Field was utterly distorted.

The fury from the invasion of his territory instantly transformed into a devastating killing intent the moment he saw Lynn's miserable state.

The first thing Wanda saw was Lynn's lifeless face, his arms that had been corroded by the rules of higher dimensions, revealing only white bones, and large patches of blood on his chest.

The woman Gwen Stacy was being held tightly in Lynn's arms, her body radiating an eerie purple-blue light.

In Wanda's logic, which is completely distorted by her Yandere possessiveness, the truth is utterly unimportant. She doesn't care about anything—nothing about higher-dimensional obliteration or the collapse of the universe.

She was convinced of only one thing— Gwen Stacy's power was tearing Lynn's flesh apart.

"What... did you do to him?"

Wanda's voice was flat and emotionless, as cold as the deepest glacier in Siberia, yet it carried the absolute pressure of Higher-Dimensional Deity judging mortals.

As soon as she spoke, the air in the entire Main Control Room seemed to be sucked away. Scarlet magical tentacles, like countless hungry venomous snakes, spread out from all directions, locking onto the area where Gwen Stacy was located.

"Who gave you permission to... touch him!"

Wanda let out a sharp roar and swung her right hand forward to grab.

Chaos Magic coalesced in mid-air, transforming into a massive, three-meter-long Scarlet blade that mercilessly cleaved down towards Gwen Stacy's back. This strike carried the power of Oblivion, enough to instantly slice a fully loaded Helicarrier in two.

Faced with this potentially Dimensionality-Reduction Strike, Gwen Stacy not only didn't dodge, but instead stopped struggling.

She turned her head and looked at Wanda, who resembled a demon god of destruction. In her eyes, which were about to disappear, a hint of fanatical relief flashed.

"Kill me!" Gwen Stacy screamed at the top of her lungs as she faced the Scarlet blade. "Use your magic to erase me along with these damned rules! Now!"

Her voice carried a chilling obsession.

Since he couldn't bring himself to do it, and since Lynn wouldn't let go, he would use this madwoman's hand! As long as he was reduced to ashes under this violent magic, the collapse of the Earth-1610 would stop, and Lynn's high-dimensional backlash would be immediately relieved!

This is the perfect ending!

Wanda was so provoked by Gwen Stacy's frantic desire to die that she froze.

She could clearly sense the terrifying level of the purple-blue energy emanating from Gwen Stacy; it was a fundamental rule of the Multiverse that even Chaos Magic found troublesome.

But so what? Whoever makes Lynn bleed must die!

"Since you want to die, I'll grant your wish." Wanda's eye muscles twitched wildly, her killing intent undiminished. The Scarlet blade, carrying the energy to destroy everything, instantly approached Gwen Stacy's head.

The wind whipped Gwen Stacy's short, golden hair, and the shadow of death completely enveloped her.

Just as the Chaos blade was about to pierce Gwen Stacy, and possibly even reach Lynn's body...

An extremely subtle movement, yet defying all physical laws and common biological knowledge, occurred.

Lynn, who had lost consciousness and even stopped breathing, suddenly twisted his spine in an extremely bizarre manner. His body, which was corrupted and broken by the rules of higher dimensions, suddenly twisted.

Without magical fluctuations or the support of a system, it was solely due to the Subconscious etched deep within his bones to "protect her in his arms."

"Pfft--"

The dull thud of a sharp blade piercing flesh echoed in the Main Control Room.

The Scarlet blade missed Gwen Stacy.

Lynn used his broad back to shield Gwen Stacy and Wanda. The sharp edge of the Chaos Magic cut into the flesh of his shoulder blade without any hindrance, severing the muscle and even leaving a deep crack in the bone.

Warm blood gushed out instantly, staining Gwen Stacy's vision red.

Wanda's pupils suddenly contracted to their maximum size, her heart felt as if it had been crushed by an invisible hand, and she even stopped breathing.

The relief on Gwen Stacy's face froze instantly, replaced by an extreme despair more profound than the collapse of the universe.