Recaps

Lynn established the Cross-Dimensional and Special Threats Liaison Office and appointed Gwen Stacy to lead it, granting her official standing but no independent resources. In New York, Gwen detected Nick Fury’s covert activity and sent the single-word message “TVA.”

• Lynn defined the Liaison Office’s duties as monitoring Stark Industries’ technology risks and warning of possible cross-dimensional incursions.
• Lynn appointed Gwen Stacy as head of the Liaison Office at the same rank as the other department heads, while requiring her to request resources through them.
• Gwen Stacy arrived in New York and searched for traces of Tony Stark’s activity.
• Gwen Stacy detected a familiar covert biological trace and tracked it to an abandoned laundry hiding Nick Fury’s safe house.
• Gwen Stacy watched Nick Fury leave without confronting him, then sent “TVA” over an encrypted channel.

Gwen Stacy confronted Nick Fury on behalf of Lynn’s new Cross-Dimensional and Special Threat Liaison Office and forced him to hand over S.H.I.E.L.D.’s database access. Fury warned her that the TVA was targeting time variants like them, leaving Gwen with a new threat to investigate.

• Gwen found Nick Fury at an abandoned safe house and identified herself as a representative of Lynn’s Liaison Office.
• Gwen demanded access to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s core databases, arguing that Fury’s continued protection depended on his cooperation.
• Fury gave Gwen the highest-access key and said the databases were at the Hive base in Virginia, asking for time to evacuate personnel.
• Gwen gave Fury three days to complete the handover.
• Fury warned Gwen that the TVA was watching time variants like them before leaving.

After Gwen Stacy reported S.H.I.E.L.D. intelligence and Fury’s warning about the TVA, Lynn sensed a disturbance in the timeline and ordered his leaders to prepare for unknown high-dimensional interference. His directive set Hela, Wanda, Jean Grey, and Gwen working toward a shared defense, leaving them in a new contest to prove their value.

• Gwen Stacy reported securing S.H.I.E.L.D.’s highest-access database key, the Hive’s Virginia location, and a warning from Nick Fury about the TVA; Lynn sensed a tiny ripple in the timeline linked to Gwen’s arrival.
• Lynn issued Hela, Wanda, and Jean Grey a seventy-two-hour deadline to develop plans against high-dimensional interference, while assigning Gwen to provide intelligence and investigate S.H.I.E.L.D. networks for oversight backdoors.
• Hela received the order and recognized that she would have to work alongside Wanda and Jean Grey.
• Wanda wondered whether the high-dimensional interference was connected to the evidence Ultron had broadcast of Lynn dying for other women.
• Jean Grey saw the assignment as an opportunity to demonstrate her value to Lynn, while Gwen understood her intelligence role as protection from a direct power struggle.
• Lynn sensed the four women begin working in the same direction, launching an unseen competition to defend their shared authority.

Hela, Jean Grey, and Wanda held the Joint Working Group’s first meeting to decide how to respond to the unknown high-dimensional interference, but their competing bids for influence kept them divided. After Wanda proposed scanning reality for abnormal energy, she received a cryptic invitation from the Cross-Dimensional and Special Threat Liaison Office.

• Hela proposed putting her Stability Maintenance Office in charge of the assignment, but Jean Grey argued that Lynn’s document called for joint leadership and proper procedures.
• Wanda suggested activating the Chaos Perception Matrix to scan reality for abnormal energy and gather firsthand data.
• Hela set a deadline for each organization to submit its own plan within seventy-two hours, and Jean Grey and Wanda agreed.
• Hela returned to her Undead Base, Jean Grey went back to Xavier’s School, and Wanda stayed behind, anxious about producing results.
• Wanda accepted an encrypted communication from the Cross-Dimensional and Special Threat Liaison Office, which sent her coordinates and invited her to talk if she wanted to earn credit.

Gwen Stacy used flaws in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s destruction records to take control of questionable data during the Hive handover. Her energy scan revealed an unknown orange signature hidden in files erased with Tesseract energy, confirming that Fury's bait had led her toward a major discovery.

• Gwen Stacy asked Field to show her the Hive's destruction logs instead of signing the handover immediately.
• Gwen identified procedural flaws in the destruction record for a Winter Soldier Program genetic-sample file and invoked the handover agreement to classify it as high-risk contaminated data.
• Gwen marked additional records with similar flaws for isolation and transfer to the liaison office.
• Gwen scanned a server of erased files and detected a faint orange energy signature that matched no known force or system.

Lynn rejected Hela, Jean Grey, and Wanda’s proposed defenses for lacking evidence and ordered them to capture a live sample of High-Dimensional Interference. The three department heads accepted the mission, facing unsatisfactory evaluations if they failed, but had no idea where to find the enemy.

• Lynn criticized Hela’s troop expansion, Jean Grey’s psychic network, and Wanda’s chaos barrier for being unsupported by actual data.
• Lynn ordered the three to capture a live sample of High-Dimensional Interference and analyze its energy, operational logic, and capabilities before revising their plans.
• Hela, Jean Grey, and Wanda accepted the order after Lynn threatened to rate all three departments unsatisfactory if they failed.
• Hela, Jean Grey, and Wanda regrouped in empty space and realized they had no idea where to find the unseen enemy.

Wanda approached Gwen Stacy to trade access to Sokovia's vibranium research for intelligence that could help locate a target to capture alive. Gwen supplied coordinates tied to a pruned energy trace, and Wanda set out to investigate before Hela and Jean Grey.

• Wanda, stung by Lynn's criticism, decided she needed a concrete lead to regain the initiative.
• Wanda contacted Gwen Stacy and proposed a collaboration, offering the Liaison Office access to Sokovia's vibranium research in exchange for intelligence.
• Gwen Stacy accepted the research arrangement and revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s archives contained traces of a forcibly pruned energy fluctuation linked to a destroyed 1990s Tesseract leak record.
• Gwen Stacy sent Wanda the coordinates of the last location where the physical file had been held, while leaving the on-site investigation to Wanda's department.
• Wanda transformed into scarlet mist and departed for the coordinates, hoping to reach the lead before Hela and Jean Grey.

Wanda investigated Gwen Stacy’s reported temporal anomaly on Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue and captured a physical sample of its strange energy. As she secured her evidence, Hela’s Undead Legion appeared at the scene.

• Wanda waited with her technical team at Gwen Stacy’s coordinates while Hela and Jean Grey searched for anomalies by other means.
• An orange portal pulled a young man away from an out-of-control taxi, and the street’s timeline reset, leaving only Wanda and her enhanced officers aware of what happened.
• Wanda ordered a Class A lockdown and used Chaos Magic to extract the lingering orange energy from reality.
• Wanda sealed the captured energy crystal in a vibranium-and-rune container, then saw Hela’s Undead Legion emerge from the shadows.

Wanda and Hela clashed over control of high-risk evidence in Manhattan until Jean Grey intervened and seized it for the Mutants Management Committee. Their powers erupted, triggering a higher-level warning and the descent of a supreme, displeased will.

• Hela arrived with undead soldiers and demanded that Wanda transfer the energy-crystal container to the Stability Maintenance Office.
• Wanda refused, accusing Hela of overstepping her authority and insisting that the Technology and Order Integration Department retain the evidence until its investigation was complete.
• Hela invoked the danger of the energy fluctuations and mocked Wanda over her failure in Sokovia, prompting Wanda to unleash chaos magic as Hela gathered death force.
• Jean Grey intervened, citing the Mutants Management Committee's jurisdiction and proposing that she seal the evidence while the three departments shared its data.
• Jean Grey used psychic force to take the container without waiting for Wanda's or Hela's consent, setting off an explosive clash that triggered a warning over Manhattan and drew down a supreme will.

Lynn stopped the confrontation between Hela, Wanda, and Jean Grey and reframed the Manhattan incident as an illegal border crossing. He ordered the Joint Working Group to capture an intruder alive within forty-eight hours or face disbandment and failed performance ratings.

• Lynn appeared in the Negative Zone and called a meeting about the Sixth Avenue incident and the interdepartmental conflict.
• Hela blamed the Department of Technology for obstructing the Stability Maintenance Office, while Wanda accused Hela of unlawfully interfering with evidence collection.
• Jean Grey accepted some leadership responsibility and proposed reviewing coordination procedures rather than assigning individual blame.
• Lynn took the evidence container and declared that the orange portal represented an unregistered, illegal border crossing.
• Lynn ordered the group to detain one border crosser alive and produce an interrogation report within forty-eight hours, threatening to disband the group and mark their performance unsatisfactory.
• After Lynn left, Hela, Wanda, and Jean Grey faced the deadline together, their shared pressure replacing their hostility.

Jean Grey proposed using a mutant with temporal perception to lure the cross-dimensional target into an ambush, and Hela and Wanda agreed to support the plan. Their teams sealed an abandoned factory around the bait, where an enormous orange gateway appeared.

• Jean Grey suggested creating controlled temporal fluctuations to draw out the target, and Hela and Wanda agreed to provide containment and signal blocking.
• Jean Grey brought the mutant codenamed Pendulum to the abandoned factory Gwen Stacy had identified and guided him as he released temporal fluctuations.
• Hela's Undead Legion surrounded the factory with three lines of containment while Wanda blocked spatial jumps and communications.
• The women concealed themselves and waited as Pendulum's perception of time grew increasingly chaotic.
• An orange ring appeared at the bait coordinates and expanded into an enormous gateway covered in strange runes.

Hela, Wanda, and Jean Grey captured two Time Guards and uncovered the TVA’s plans while interrogating them. Jean Grey learned that Lynn and his allies were designated Time Variants and that the TVA intended to erase their entire timeline, leaving the group to prepare an urgent report for Lynn.

• Hela, Wanda, and Jean Grey ambushed the Time Guards as they attempted to prune Pendulum and had them taken to the Negative Zone.
• Hela questioned the restrained guards, and Jean Grey began extracting one guard’s memories after Wanda confirmed ordinary interrogation would not work.
• Jean Grey discovered that the TVA had flagged her group and Lynn as Time Variants, with Lynn assigned the highest risk classification.
• Jean Grey learned that the TVA was assembling the Adjudicators to physically erase their entire timeline.
• Jean Grey compiled the findings into an emergency report for Lynn, and Hela and Wanda agreed it needed to reach him immediately.

Lynn rejected Jean Grey, Hela, and Wanda’s alarmist report about the Time Variance Authority, criticizing their failure to verify the intelligence or assess the risks. He established a confidential task force to coordinate the response, named himself its leader, and left the others silently competing for influence over its operations.

• Jean Grey briefed Lynn and the leadership on a report alleging that the Time Variance Authority planned to overthrow the existing order and eliminate its core leadership.
• Lynn condemned Jean Grey, Hela, and Wanda for panicking over unverified intelligence and failing to provide a clear assessment or countermeasures.
• Lynn dissolved the report and officially rejected it, while telling the department heads to verify intelligence, assess risks, and prepare alternatives.
• Lynn established the Anti-Interference Confidential Task Force to collect intelligence, assess risks, and develop countermeasures, forbidding departments from acting independently.
• Lynn appointed himself task force leader, and Jean Grey, Hela, Wanda, and Gwen Stacy began eyeing the executive deputy leader position.

Lynn settled the task force's leadership dispute by assigning the liaison office to find leads and the Mutants Management Committee to verify them, leaving both departments to report to him. Gwen Stacy then presented the first lead: a destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D. file pointing to an old Manhattan clock shop.

• Jean Grey proposed that the Mutants Management Committee lead the task force's daily operations, while Gwen Stacy argued that the liaison office should coordinate external intelligence and tracking.
• Jean Grey and Gwen Stacy disputed their departments' authority until Lynn stopped them and declared that there would be no executive deputy leader.
• Lynn assigned the liaison office to search for TVA leads and the committee to verify, analyze, and grade them.
• Gwen Stacy reported that her department had found residual energy from a physically destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D. file pointing to a defunct clock and watch shop in Manhattan.

After the task force sidelined the Stability Maintenance Office, Hela launched an independent assault on Old John's Watch Shop in Manhattan to prove her department’s strength. The shop erased her elite troops in seconds, leaving Hela facing a humiliating failure and an expected reckoning.

• Hela rejected the recommendation for a joint investigation and classified the watch shop as a target for physical elimination.
• Hela ordered the First Undead Assault Squad to destroy Old John's Watch Shop, eliminate everything inside, and bring back the remains.
• The assault squad broke into the shop, where an orange sphere erased the soldiers and their equipment without a sound.
• The shop and its broken door returned to their original state after the sphere vanished.
• An observer reported that the shop showed no anomalies and the squad’s signals had disappeared, and Hela shut off the feed in shock.

At the accountability meeting, Wanda used Hela’s unauthorized failed operation to propose disciplinary measures and secured approval to analyze the enemy’s time-reset weapon. She took the recovered energy sample to her laboratory, where its resistance to Chaos Magic cast doubt on her promise to decipher it within twenty-four hours.

• Wanda accused Hela’s Stability Maintenance Office of bypassing joint procedures, causing casualties, and alerting the enemy.
• Wanda proposed cutting the office’s special operations budget and suspending its authority to approve Class A and above operations.
• Wanda pledged to analyze the recovered evidence within twenty-four hours, and Lynn approved her proposal and granted her department access to the evidence and related data.
• Wanda collected the sealed container holding the orange energy sample and brought it to the Technology Integration Department’s laboratory.
• Wanda’s Chaos Magic was repelled when it touched the container, leaving her uncertain whether she could decipher the enemy’s time-based weapon.

Wanda used the Chaos Furnace to decode the orange energy and discovered that the TVA followed the Sacred Timeline by pruning deviations with planted Time Anchors. Just as she prepared to report her findings, an alarm revealed that an unknown Time Anchor had locked onto coordinates in the Negative Zone.

• Wanda built a sealed sandbox around the orange energy and spent forty-eight hours testing how it reacted to disruptions in a simulated reality.
• Wanda forced the sandbox to sustain a paradox, captured the orange energy's correction signal, and translated it into a golden line labeled "Sacred Timeline."
• Wanda discovered that the TVA used Time Anchors to locate targets and precisely prune deviations from the Sacred Timeline.
• Wanda turned to report her breakthrough, but the Chaos Furnace sounded a highest-level alarm.
• A system warning announced that a Time Anchor had been forcibly activated and locked onto unknown coordinates on the outskirts of the Negative Zone.

After Wanda’s probing triggered an automated response from a higher plane, three Adjudicators arrived to erase the Negative Zone’s boundaries. As Hela’s defenses collapsed, Lynn watched from the Bone Throne, leaving everyone uncertain whether he would intervene.

• Wanda detected a forced activation and a locked time anchor after her analysis triggered the enemy’s defenses.
• Three Adjudicators emerged through an orange doorway and used a temporal pruning device to erase undead soldiers and the space around them.
• Hela ordered the Undead Legion to attack, but their weapons disintegrated before reaching the Adjudicators.
• Hela realized the Adjudicators were pruning the Negative Zone itself, while its boundaries began collapsing and the defensive line fell apart.
• Jean Grey and Gwen Stacy joined the great hall, where Lynn watched the attack from the Bone Throne without responding.

Lynn used the TVA attack on the Negative Zone to force Hela, Wanda, Jean, and Gwen to surrender their highest access privileges, then fused their powers into a new dimension firewall. The TVA’s next pruning wave struck the barrier, leaving its effectiveness unresolved.

• The TVA’s pruning operation rapidly erased Hela’s defensive forces as the Negative Zone’s boundaries began to collapse.
• Lynn issued an order demanding that Hela, Wanda, Jean, and Gwen surrender their core privilege keys within three minutes.
• Hela, Wanda, Jean, and Gwen each handed over their keys and acknowledged Lynn’s order.
• Lynn fused the four keys into a new core and deployed a dimension firewall across the Negative Zone’s collapsing boundary.
• The TVA’s Time Pruning Device aimed at the firewall and struck it with a powerful wave.

Lynn absorbed the TVA’s pruning attacks with a firewall built from Hela, Wanda, Jean, and Gwen’s powers, then used it to seize the lead Adjudicator and bring him to the Bone Throne. Jean tried to interrogate the captive, but a temporal paradox restriction in his mind stopped her and left the group without a way to extract his memories.

• Lynn’s Dimension Firewall swallowed two Time Pruning Device attacks and converted their energy into power for itself.
• Lynn traced the attack back to the TVA captain, anchored his position, separated him from his space, and dragged him through a rift.
• The captain’s two companions fled through an orange portal after Lynn captured him.
• Lynn ordered Jean to interrogate the captain, and she attempted to probe his memories.
• A paradox symbol activated in the captain’s mind, repelling Jean’s psychic probe and warning that forced memory-reading would harm them both.

Jean Grey attempted to interrogate the Time Guard Captain without following Wanda’s suggested precautions, triggering a TVA restriction that killed the captive and flooded Jean’s mind with temporal paradoxes. Lynn stopped the backlash before it permanently damaged her, and Jean sent him the fragment of a report she had glimpsed before passing out.

• Jean Grey rejected Wanda’s suggestion to scan and isolate the Time Guard Captain, then used the Phoenix Force to probe his memories.
• The captain’s TVA underlying logic restriction activated, flooding Jean’s mind with temporal turbulence and causing his brain death.
• Lynn froze the paradoxes in Jean’s mind, preventing permanent damage as she collapsed to one knee.
• Jean forced a psychic image of a report from the captured memories to Lynn before losing consciousness.

Lynn discovered that Kang the Conqueror had issued a multiversal order to erase him, then directed his subordinates to handle the interrogation’s aftermath. He contacted Nick Fury through a secure line, leaving their conversation about to begin.

• Lynn followed Jean Grey’s psychic remnants into the Time Guard Captain’s memories and found Kang the Conqueror’s wanted order targeting him.
• Lynn ordered Hela to treat the unconscious Jean Grey with the Stability Maintenance Office’s medical protocols.
• Lynn instructed Wanda to analyze the captive’s corpse and study the structure of its Time Paradox Restriction without trying to break it.
• Lynn told Gwen Stacy to document the interrogation as a Class A workplace safety accountability incident and assess the Mutants Management Committee’s losses.
• Lynn opened an encrypted communications line to Nick Fury, who answered and said he was listening.

Lynn negotiated with former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury over unexplained operatives using orange energy in New York. Fury secured a safe house and information channel for his people in exchange for leads, naming Roxxon Energy Group as a likely front for the group seeking variants like Lynn.

• Lynn confronted Fury about unregistered workers conducting secret operations in New York and revealed that their energy signature was orange.
• Fury said he had seen references to pruning and resetting in sealed Cold War files but had no confirmed base location.
• Fury offered his leads in exchange for a safe house and information channel for his remaining agents, and Lynn accepted.
• Fury identified Roxxon Energy Group as a company acquiring physics laboratories and geological exploration firms under suspicious circumstances.
• Fury told Lynn that the group was looking for variants like them, then ended the call.
• Lynn reviewed Roxxon’s acquisitions, ownership structure, and newly hired security personnel.

Lynn used Gwen Stacy’s accident report to justify an overhaul of the Mutants Management Committee, temporarily transferring some of its authority to the Liaison Office. As Gwen prepared to take on the new responsibilities, Wanda bypassed Lynn’s safety instructions and tried to crack the prisoner’s temporal paradox restriction.

• Lynn annotated Gwen Stacy’s report, identifying Jean Grey’s failures and broader problems with the Committee’s working practices.
• Lynn suspended some of the Committee’s independent enforcement powers and placed its interdepartmental coordination, external liaison, and preliminary screening of high-risk targets under the Liaison Office’s temporary administration.
• Lynn ordered Gwen to prepare a detailed authority-transfer plan by the following morning, pushing her and the Liaison Office into a more prominent role.
• Wanda and Hela received notice of the overhaul, and Wanda recognized it as a reshaping of power that could leave her behind.
• Wanda disregarded Lynn’s instruction not to crack the temporal paradox restriction and drove her Chaos Magic into its deepest layer.

Wanda presented Lynn with an unauthorized analysis exposing the TVA’s time anchors as a vulnerability. Lynn recognized the report’s value, recorded her violation as a warning, and chose an abandoned Queens subway station as the first target.

• Wanda brought Lynn her report on the TVA’s time paradox restriction and admitted she had investigated beyond his orders.
• Lynn examined Wanda’s model and learned that the TVA depended on physical time anchors to enforce its rules across timelines.
• Wanda confirmed that the Technology Integration Department had completed the report independently.
• Lynn projected suspected time-anchor locations across Earth and credited the department’s work while recording Wanda’s unauthorized investigation as a violation.
• Lynn selected an abandoned subway station in Queens, New York City, as the first target.