Recaps

Lynn ordered Hela to impose the highest level of security at an abandoned subway station in Queens, but refused to explain the reason when she tried to probe him. During the deployment, Hela discovered a sealed passage connecting the station to the Triskelion, suggesting Lynn was dealing with a problem from his past.

• Lynn sent Hela an emergency order to establish the highest level of physical-denial defenses at subway station 14-B in Queens.
• Hela proposed a major troop deployment and three Death Veil barriers, indirectly pressing Lynn to reveal the operation’s purpose.
• Lynn told Hela not to ask what she should not and ordered her to observe discipline, so she accepted and left.
• Hela deployed undead soldiers to the station, where a deep scan uncovered a sealed passage leading to the Triskelion’s seventh basement level.
• Hela realized the operation was connected to Lynn’s past and that he was cleaning up its lingering problems.

Gwen Stacy attempted an unannounced inspection of Roxxon Energy Group, but the company blocked access to its underground laboratory and data center, and Hela denied Gwen’s request for physical support. Gwen’s equipment then detected a covert scan from the underground level searching for Lynn.

• Gwen Stacy presented the Cross-Dimensional and Special Threat Liaison Office’s inspection order at Roxxon Tower, but the security supervisor restricted her to the office floors.
• Gwen requested enforcement support from the Asgard Stability Affairs Office after Roxxon refused access to its restricted areas.
• Hela rejected Gwen’s request, calling the dispute routine operational friction and claiming her forces were unavailable.
• Gwen recognized Hela’s refusal as further evidence that Roxxon was a serious threat and prepared to seek another approach.
• Gwen’s life-support system detected a covert scan from underground level 27 that matched Lynn’s signature.

Gwen Stacy used a public-safety investigation and NYPD cordon to force Roxxon to provide access to its records. While reviewing them, she uncovered the arrival schedule and Queens coordinates for the Adjudicators' special inspection team, launching in 48 hours.

• Gwen recognized that the scan targeting Lynn made a direct assault on Roxxon Tower too risky and ordered an operative to activate Plan C.
• NYPD officers cordoned off Roxxon Tower after Gwen claimed an anonymous tip warned of dangerous fire hazards in its underground facilities.
• Gwen pressured Roxxon's head of security into providing three years of fire safety logs and underground structural plans.
• While Gwen and her operatives reviewed the documents, an operative intercepted a high-priority scheduling directive from Roxxon's encrypted internal communications.
• Gwen learned that the Adjudicators' special inspection team would use abandoned subway station 14-B in Queens, with its operation set to launch in 48 hours.

Lynn organized a response to the TVA’s impending inspection, assigning Gwen Stacy to coordinate preparations, Hela to secure the area, and Wanda to clean up records. The meeting ended abruptly when a frail Jean Grey appeared at the door, coughing violently.

• Lynn told Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Wanda that the TVA’s Special Inspection Team would intervene in forty-eight hours.
• Hela proposed using annihilation zones around the TVA’s physical anchors, while Gwen Stacy suggested welcoming the inspectors and controlling their access through formal procedures.
• Lynn approved Gwen Stacy’s approach and put her in charge of the Inspection Preparation Working Group.
• Lynn assigned Hela to isolate and secure inspection areas and ordered Wanda to produce compliant records within twenty-four hours.
• Jean Grey appeared in the meeting hall in a hospital gown and collapsed into a violent coughing fit.

Jean Grey submitted a self-criticism for her unauthorized actions and was reprimanded, then assigned to lead a secret mental-shielding project for the coming inspection. As the team prepared for the threat, an interdimensional arrival appeared at their Queens defense site twelve hours ahead of schedule.

• Jean Grey confessed that her rash actions had compromised the interrogation and accepted Lynn's reprimand and temporary transfer of the Mutants Management Committee's administration to the Liaison Office.
• Lynn assigned Gwen Stacy to overall inspection coordination, Hela to perimeter security, and Wanda to internal accounts, while identifying the need for mental shielding against the Inspection Group's probing methods.
• Lynn appointed Jean Grey to lead the confidential mental-shielding project and report directly to him, and Gwen Stacy added her as a special project lead.
• A highest-level cross-dimension arrival alarm sounded, and an orange portal opened at the defended abandoned subway station in Queens, twelve hours and seven minutes ahead of schedule.

Lynn and his allies learned that a United Nations Special Investigation Team had arrived early and was using a lawful order to audit and seize their worldly assets. The chapter ended as Roxxon Energy’s New York headquarters was sealed, leaving Gwen Stacy’s team unable to block the investigation on procedural grounds.

• Alarms alerted Lynn, Hela, Wanda, Gwen Stacy, and Jean Grey that the portal had opened twelve hours ahead of schedule.
• A team of suited investigators emerged from the portal and presented a United Nations order authorizing audits and asset control over companies including Roxxon Energy Group.
• Hela demanded permission to attack the investigators, but Lynn warned that doing so would mean opposing Earth’s worldly order.
• Gwen Stacy, Wanda, and Jean Grey recognized that the investigators were challenging their legitimacy through legal rules rather than supernatural force.
• Gwen Stacy received an urgent call reporting that NYPD and Federal Agents had sealed Roxxon Energy’s New York headquarters and demanded access to its records under a procedurally legitimate order.

Lynn countered the United Nations investigation by agreeing to an audit at a location of his choosing, then trapped the TVA team in an abandoned subway station. The team's leader sent a highest-level alarm to Kang the Conqueror.

• Hela urged Lynn to eliminate the investigators, but he argued that attacking them would make his group appear guilty and defeated.
• Lynn ordered Gwen Stacy to accept the audit and designate the No. 14-B Abandoned Subway Station in Queens as the inspection site.
• Wanda confirmed that she had replaced the group's ledgers with clean records, and Lynn told Hela to maintain order rather than prepare for battle.
• The TVA audit team arrived at the station and began scanning it to establish Time Anchor Point D.
• The station's rules distorted the TVA equipment and sealed the team inside, cutting off their connection to headquarters.
• The gold-rimmed team leader activated a forbidden emergency alarm that called Kang the Conqueror.

After receiving a coercive letter from the Multiverse Coordination Committee, Lynn classified the inspectors’ alarm as resistance to an audit and ordered the United Nations Special Investigation Team detained for investigation. The chapter ended with Gwen Stacy revealing a cryptic reference to “Resolution No. 31” hidden in the letter’s attachment.

• Gwen Stacy received and read a Multiverse Coordination Committee letter demanding the inspectors’ release and a self-criticism from Lynn.
• Hela urged Lynn to eliminate the inspectors, while Wanda, Gwen Stacy, and Jean Grey argued that the letter was meant to frame the conflict as a procedural dispute.
• Lynn classified the inspectors’ alarm as malicious interference with an audit and ordered the United Nations Special Investigation Team placed under protective detention.
• Lynn tasked the Liaison Office, Stability Maintenance Office, and Technology Department with investigating the inspectors and the Multiverse Coordination Committee, and postponed responding to the letter.
• Gwen Stacy reported that the letter’s encrypted attachment contained an oblique reference to “Resolution No. 31.”

Gwen Stacy used a formal review interview to make B-15 acknowledge his protective detention and sign a notice. As she collected the document, B-15 silently lip-read a secret about her father, briefly breaking her composure.

• Gwen and the Liaison Office agents delivered food, water, and blankets to the detained Inspection Group.
• Gwen questioned B-15 under a recorder, redirecting his threats into formal questions about his authority and his unauthorized alert.
• Gwen presented B-15 with a Notice of Detention and explained that refusing to sign would be recorded and could affect his review.
• B-15 signed the notice, then silently told Gwen a secret about her father, causing her composure to falter.

Kang forcibly contacted Lynn and offered his team positions in his multiversal order while demanding that they release his people. Lynn stalled him with procedural language, and Kang ended the call with a threat against the Negative Zone’s finances.

• Gwen Stacy returned to the White Bone Hall with the signed Notice of Detention while Lynn watched the Abandoned Subway Station through the Holographic Projection.
• Kang hijacked the hall’s screen, identified himself, and offered Lynn’s team authorized positions as Time-Keepers if they joined his system and released his people.
• Lynn respectfully told Kang that a special review team was investigating the Joint Inspection Group and that the detainees could not be released until the procedures were complete.
• Kang ordered Lynn to release the detainees immediately, but Lynn repeated that the investigation had to proceed and promised to submit its report when it was ready.
• Kang ended the call after warning Lynn that he hoped the Negative Zone’s financial reserves would last through next month, leaving Hela furious, Wanda analyzing the connection, and Gwen Stacy alarmed.

After Kang threatened the Negative Zone’s finances, Wanda analyzed the trace he left behind and found evidence that the Council of Kangs was divided and that his actions were likely unauthorized. She detected a separate, faint signal from another faction reaching toward Earth and recommended continued monitoring.

• Lynn asked Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Wanda for their thoughts on Kang’s threat, and Wanda proposed reverse-engineering his communications band.
• Lynn authorized Wanda to prioritize the Technology Integration Department’s computing resources and produce a technical analysis report.
• Wanda used the Chaos Furnace to analyze Kang’s communications band and discovered conflicting encryption logic that indicated divisions within the Council of Kangs.
• Wanda’s report concluded that Kang’s actions against the Negative Zone were more than ninety-five percent likely to be unauthorized overreach by one individual.
• Wanda detected a second, faint contact signal using council-consensus encryption and added a recommendation to monitor it.

Hela secretly ordered the Undead First Assault Squad to interrogate the detainees at 14-B Subway Station, but Lynn exposed her disobedience and suspended her authority over external military operations. As Hela left the meeting in fury, Jean Grey stopped her and offered her a document envelope.

• Hela ordered the Undead First Assault Squad to bypass the Liaison Office's perimeter and physically interrogate the detainees at 14-B Subway Station.
• Lynn summoned the Negative Zone Standing Committee and confronted Hela with her unauthorized operational order.
• Hela defended the order as a high-pressure psychological intervention, but Lynn revealed that the squad had already infiltrated the station.
• Lynn denied the operation, ordered the squad to hold for the Liaison Office, and temporarily suspended Hela's authority over external military operations.
• Hela left the hall in anger, and Jean Grey stopped her in the corridor and held out a document envelope.

Kang severed the Negative Zone’s official energy and communication links to the Reality Dimension, leaving it trapped and facing a rapid depletion of supplies. Lynn ordered strict wartime rationing and conservation, then uncovered a hidden red telephone and dialed a secret number.

• Wanda reported that higher-level permissions had blocked all official energy interfaces, while Gwen Stacy confirmed that the Negative Zone had lost contact with the outside world.
• Hela urged an attack on Kang, but Wanda explained that the severed Reality Anchors had disabled their stargates and jump engines.
• Lynn ordered Wanda to cut noncombat energy use, Hela to withdraw defenses and put most of the Undead Legion into dormancy, and Gwen Stacy to inventory supplies and impose rationing.
• Lynn required every department head to assess how long they could operate without outside supplies, then dismissed them to carry out his orders.
• Lynn opened a hidden compartment in the White Bone Hall, found an old red telephone, and dialed a secret number.

Lynn arranged a three-month security contract with the remnants of S.H.I.E.L.D. in exchange for supplies, then tasked Jean Grey with moving them through the mutant underground network. After the deliveries stabilized the Negative Zone, Jean reported that Roxxon planned to redevelop Queens and demolish Abandoned Subway Station 14-B.

• Lynn secured a deal with a S.H.I.E.L.D. contact to provide supplies in exchange for nighttime supernatural security in New York City.
• Lynn ordered Jean Grey to use the Mutants Management Committee’s underground network to transport supplies into the Negative Zone.
• Jean coordinated deliveries of food, water, medical supplies, energy cells, weapons, and ammunition, easing the crisis across the Negative Zone.
• At the committee meeting, Hela and Wanda recognized Jean’s role in restoring the organization’s supply lines.
• Jean gave Lynn the final shipment list and relayed Fury’s warning that Roxxon was pressuring officials to demolish Abandoned Subway Station 14-B.

Lynn responded to Kang's threatened demolition of the subway station by directing Gwen Stacy to anonymously alert Kang's rival factions to his procedural violations and attempted seizure of council assets. Gwen sent the dossier, and an unknown recipient confirmed it had been received.

• Lynn ordered Gwen Stacy to use the intercepted communications band to send Kang's rivals an anonymous dossier about his actions in Test Zone 616.
• Gwen rewrote the technical report as a politically useful account of unauthorized deployments and threatened losses to the Council of Kangs' collective assets.
• Gwen simulated the dossier's likely effects, then sent it through the encrypted communications port.
• An unknown recipient replied, "Dossier received. Well done."

After the Negative Zone’s power was restored, Gwen Stacy reported that the Multiverse Coordination Committee had withdrawn its restrictions and agreed to consultations, giving Lynn a provisional victory. As Lynn authorized the Liaison Office to handle negotiations, an emergency alarm announced a crisis at Abandoned Subway Station 14-B.

• The Negative Zone’s energy connection was restored, and the Multiverse Coordination Committee sent a revised letter.
• Gwen Stacy reported that the committee regretted its inspection group’s conduct, accepted the provisional legality of the group’s detention, and revoked restrictions on the Negative Zone.
• Lynn agreed to friendly consultations and gave the Cross-Dimensional and Special Threat Liaison Office authority over the details.
• A highest-priority emergency report came from the detention site at Abandoned Subway Station 14-B, but the report was cut off before it revealed what had happened to the detained subject.

Lynn and his companions investigated B-15’s unexplained death in a sealed holding cell and found a coded message naming Battleworld. Gwen Stacy recognized the encryption as her father’s, leaving the group with a new and personal connection to the mystery.

• Lynn, Wanda, Gwen Stacy, and Hela rushed to the holding cell after the Undead Centurion reported that B-15 had died by self-termination.
• Lynn’s group found B-15 dead in an intact sealed room, and Hela confirmed his soul had been completely annihilated.
• Wanda detected scratches beneath B-15’s hand and deciphered their outermost layer as the word “Battleworld.”
• Gwen Stacy recognized the code’s encryption habits as her father’s.

Lynn rejected Hela’s attempt to remove Gwen Stacy from the investigation, assigning the Liaison Office twelve hours to produce preliminary results on the Battleworld code. As Gwen resumed decrypting it, she remembered her missing father’s instructions to find a file about the Tahiti project in a Queens police archive.

• Gwen Stacy said the code’s encryption resembled her father’s personal habits, and Hela used the connection to propose Gwen recuse herself from the investigation.
• Lynn blamed the Stability Maintenance Office for B-15’s death and argued that removing Gwen would hinder the effort to decrypt the Battleworld code.
• Wanda said Gwen’s familiarity with the encryption logic was necessary, and Lynn ordered the Liaison Office to lead the decryption with the Department of Technology’s support.
• Lynn required preliminary results within twelve hours, ordered Hela to submit a self-criticism report, and told Gwen to set aside her personal emotions and solve the case.
• Gwen returned to the code and recalled her father telling her to find the file about the Tahiti project in the metal cabinet marked L-74 at the old Queens Police Department archives.

Lynn secured temporary access to sealed files so Gwen Stacy could investigate the code and her father’s history. The records suggested George Stacy’s death had not been an ordinary accident, but the key details of his secondment order were missing.

• Gwen Stacy asked for an isolated environment and sealed S.H.I.E.L.D. and New York Police Department files, especially cases handled by her father.
• Lynn called Nick Fury, who warned that George Stacy may have been made into an accident by a secret department and opened a one-time access port.
• Gwen Stacy heard Fury’s warning and learned that her father’s death might not have been accidental.
• Gwen Stacy searched the archives and found a top-secret file on Project T.A.H.I.T.I. that listed George Stacy as an external security consultant.
• Gwen Stacy found George Stacy’s secondment order, but its requesting department and reason had been deliberately torn away.

Wanda demanded the Liaison Office’s raw TVA communications data so she could decrypt the code from B-15’s corpse, but Gwen Stacy blocked the transfer by citing interdepartmental security regulations. Their standoff was interrupted when the code revealed a twenty-four-hour countdown to the Systemic Purification Program.

• Wanda told Gwen that she needed a dictionary to interpret the encrypted code and demanded all TVA communications frequencies and raw data logs held by the Liaison Office.
• Gwen offered to provide targeted, sanitized data packages instead of transferring the raw intelligence.
• Wanda accused Gwen of using procedure to delay a top-level directive, but Gwen invoked regulations that prohibited direct transfers of raw intelligence rated class A or above.
• Wanda and Gwen reached a stalemate as each considered how to advance their position.
• A technician alerted Wanda and Gwen when the code reassembled and displayed a twenty-four-hour countdown to the Systemic Purification Program.

Lynn confronted Gwen Stacy about her shaken state, then gave her the highest-access key and the choice to continue decoding the encrypted code. Gwen used the authorization to uncover the code’s links to S.P.E.A.R. and Battleworld, and decoded it just before the countdown ended, revealing coordinates in Manhattan.

• Gwen Stacy told Lynn that Wanda’s request for raw TVA communications data had been rejected and that the encrypted code had started a countdown of twenty-three hours and forty-one minutes.
• Lynn pointed out Gwen’s panic and offered her the choice of resting while Wanda took over or using a black key to access restricted files and decode the code herself.
• Gwen took the key and used it in the Liaison Office’s Independent Analysis Room to unlock the highest-access archives.
• Gwen found records connecting Project T.A.H.I.T.I. to S.P.E.A.R. and revealing that her father had participated in a S.P.E.A.R. prototype called Battleworld.
• With three seconds left on the countdown, Gwen decoded the code and discovered that it contained precise physical coordinates in Manhattan.

Lynn ordered Hela to quietly seal off a Manhattan location using a municipal fire safety exercise, without entering the building. At the cordoned-off Community Library, Hela discovered an underground shield whose energy signature matched the self-destruct program that had killed B-15.

• Lynn asked Hela how many mobile forces the Stability Maintenance Office could deploy in New York and sent her the Manhattan coordinates.
• Lynn ordered Hela to secure the target without alerting it, using a fire safety exercise coordinated with the New York Mayor's Office as cover.
• Hela led the operation personally, sealing off three blocks around the Community Library with personnel disguised as police officers and firefighters.
• An Undead Centurion reported that probes detected a high-intensity shield underground that defined them as nonexistent.
• Hela recognized the shield's energy signature as identical to the self-destruct program inside B-15.

Lynn received an invitation from a faction opposing Kang to discuss the Battleworld project and chose to use the contact to gain leverage rather than wait. He ordered Gwen to send a cautious reply with reports about B-15’s death, then learned the proposed meeting site was the sealed Manhattan community library.

• Lynn reviewed Hela’s report that an unanalysable energy shield beneath the library matched B-15’s self-destruction signature and rejected her recommendation for a forced entry.
• Lynn recognized the Multiverse Coordination Committee’s anonymous invitation as a plea for help from Kang’s political enemies, who wanted him to expose the unauthorized Battleworld project.
• Gwen warned Lynn that the invitation could be a trap and recommended waiting, but Lynn argued that their difficult position required seizing the opportunity to divide their opponents.
• Lynn told Gwen to accept a preliminary information exchange and attach the investigation report on B-15’s death and the Stability Maintenance Office’s dereliction notice.
• Gwen confirmed that the proposed meeting location was the community library that Lynn’s forces had sealed off.

Lynn arranged a restrained security plan for a meeting at the Manhattan Community Library, assigning Gwen to record it and Jean to guard against psychic interference while Hela and Wanda monitored the perimeter. At the meeting, Gwen recognized the representative’s pocket watch as identical to the one her father wore when he disappeared.

• Lynn rejected Hela’s plan to breach the library and Wanda’s proposal to join the meeting, choosing a low-profile approach.
• Lynn assigned Gwen to coordinate and record the meeting, Jean to maintain psychic shielding, Hela to lock down the library area, and Wanda to monitor energy activity from a command post.
• Lynn, Gwen, and Jean entered the library basement and met a suited representative seated at a tea table.
• Gwen noticed that the representative wore a pocket watch matching her missing father’s watch.

Lynn used the investigation into B-15’s death and her link to the Battleworld project to reject the representative’s empty offer and press for answers. The representative handed over five of Kang’s Earth anchor points, including Krakoa, leaving Lynn with a new target tied to Jean Grey’s Mutants Management Committee.

• The representative offered to rescind the wanted notice against Lynn’s organization and restore its seat in the Multiverse coordination mechanism.
• Lynn had Gwen Stacy record the discussion and argued that B-15’s death at his detention site required a formal investigation.
• Lynn connected B-15’s final code to the representative’s Battleworld project and insisted he could not let the matter go without an explanation.
• The representative offered substantive assistance and revealed five Earth anchor points Kang planned to activate for Battleworld.
• Lynn noticed that the final location on the list was Krakoa, the sanctuary of Jean Grey’s Mutants Management Committee.