Recaps

Steve learned that Hydra had turned Bucky into a weapon and that Alexander Pierce was Hydra’s leader, while Nick Fury escaped an attack at the Triskelion. Pierce framed Steve and Lynn as traitors and ordered their capture, leaving Steve surrounded by armored vehicles and facing a figure with a mechanical arm.

• Steve found a damaged sniper rifle at the Clock Tower, and Lynn told him that Bucky had been brainwashed and that Pierce led Hydra.
• Steve resolved to find Fury, while Rumlow and armed troopers attacked Fury in his Triskelion office.
• Fury used a concealed sonic and light attack to escape through a window with an encrypted hard drive.
• Natasha warned Steve that Fury had been attacked and that Pierce had launched a network-wide broadcast.
• Pierce branded Steve and Lynn as the attackers, revoked their access, and authorized agents to shoot them on sight.
• Steve spotted a tracking device on his motorcycle as armored SUVs surrounded him and a mechanical arm emerged from one vehicle.

Steve escaped the Winter Soldier while Pierce, panicked by Lynn’s breach of Hydra’s network, forced Project Insight’s Helicarriers to launch early. As the carriers rose, Lynn began a new simulation targeting Gwen Stacy at the final battle at the New York Clock Tower.

• Steve evaded the Winter Soldier’s grenade attack, used his shield to bring down a power cable, and escaped through the sewers amid an explosion.
• Pierce learned that Lynn had compromised Project Insight’s fire-control system and used a Level Seven clearance card to infiltrate Hydra’s network.
• Pierce threatened a technician into launching all three Helicarriers before their engines were fully charged, forcing Project Insight ahead of schedule.
• At the Brooklyn safe house, Lynn reassured Wanda that the rising Helicarriers could not hurt him, while she vowed to crush them if they attacked.
• Lynn started a simulation with Gwen Stacy as its target and awoke at the New York Clock Tower’s final battle, facing the Green Goblin.

As Project Insight launched, Lynn sheltered Wanda in a Chaos Barrier and began a simulation targeting Gwen Stacy to acquire physical abilities. The simulation placed him at a Clock Tower showdown, where he leapt into danger to save Gwen from Green Goblin’s Pumpkin Bomb.

• Pierce ordered the Helicarriers to accelerate their charging while Steve, Natasha, and Sam prepared to bring them down before they reached orbit.
• Wanda sealed Lynn’s safe house behind a Chaos Barrier, then fell asleep in his arms.
• Lynn decided to improve his physical abilities through a simulation targeting Gwen Stacy and entered it as a S.H.I.E.L.D. field agent at a New York Clock Tower showdown.
• Green Goblin threw a Pumpkin Bomb at the cornered Gwen, whose web-shooters had jammed.
• Lynn leapt from the Clock Tower’s shattered railing toward Gwen, determined to save her with his mortal body.

S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Lynn rescued Gwen Stacy from Green Goblin during their fall through the Clock Tower, but their web was about to snap. As Gwen desperately clung to him, Lynn prepared to cut the web with his tactical dagger.

• Lynn caught Gwen Stacy as she fell through the Clock Tower shaft and asked whether her web-shooters still worked.
• Lynn distracted Green Goblin with his coat, then threw a flashbang that sent the Goblin Glider crashing into a gear.
• Gwen Stacy fired a web at a steel beam, stopping their fall, but a stray bullet had nearly severed the strand.
• When Gwen Stacy's web fluid ran out and the web began to snap, Lynn released his hold on her and raised his dagger toward the web.

Lynn sacrificed himself in the Clock Tower simulation to save Gwen Stacy, driving her emotions into an extreme obsessive state and completing the simulation. Back in the safe house, his newly acquired Spider-Sense warned him that Gwen had appeared through a spatial rift and found him.

• Lynn told Gwen Stacy that the damaged web strand could not support them both as Green Goblin approached.
• Lynn kissed Gwen Stacy’s forehead, cut his section of the web, and plunged into the Clock Tower’s shaft.
• The system ended the simulation after Lynn fulfilled the ultimate sacrifice condition and Gwen Stacy’s emotional fluctuation exceeded 200%.
• Lynn woke in the Brooklyn safe house beside Wanda and prepared to check his reward.
• Lynn’s Spider-Sense warned him as a bloodstained hand reached through a blue rift, and Gwen Stacy’s possessive eyes locked onto him.

Lynn received the rewards from Gwen's corrupted simulation and faced the real Gwen outside his safe house while protecting the sleeping Wanda. As Gwen lurked nearby and Hydra's Helicarrier targeted the house, Lynn chose to confront the incoming threat rather than heed Nick Fury's warning to flee.

• The system showed how Gwen killed Green Goblin after Lynn's simulated death, clung to Lynn's corpse, and awakened as an obsessive guardian before awarding Lynn Top-tier Spider-Sense and Superhuman Flexibility Physique.
• Lynn endured the painful transformation while Wanda slept, then saw the bloodied Gwen arrive through a damaged dimensional rift and approach the safe house.
• Gwen became enraged when she saw Wanda in Lynn's arms, while Wanda's Chaos Magic reacted to Gwen's hostility; Lynn calmed Wanda with a kiss and a gentle reassurance.
• Gwen smashed the safe-house surveillance camera and disappeared into the darkness, where Lynn sensed she was waiting for Wanda to leave.
• Nick Fury warned Lynn that Hydra's airborne Helicarrier had targeted the safe house, but Lynn shut off his communicator and decided to face the attack.

Gwen Stacy recovered memories of Lynn’s death and crossed dimensions to reach him, while Hydra’s Helicarrier targeted Lynn’s safe house with its main cannon. Wanda unleashed her Chaos power against the blast as Gwen broke into the house, leaving Lynn caught between the attack and the two women.

• Gwen Stacy remembered Lynn’s death, then used a confiscated Metal Wristwatch to cross dimensions despite its warning that she had less than a ten percent chance of surviving.
• At the safe house outside Brooklyn, Lynn waited with Wanda and noticed Gwen hiding in a tree while Hydra’s Helicarrier aimed its main cannon at them.
• Gwen saw the Helicarrier target Lynn and rushed toward the safe house to protect him.
• The Helicarrier fired its main cannon at the safe house, vaporizing Gwen’s webbing as the blast approached.
• Wanda woke and unleashed her scarlet Chaos power against the cannon beam, while Gwen smashed through the window and lunged inside.

Gwen Stacy reached Lynn as Wanda’s scarlet energy blocked the Main Cannon’s beam, while Lynn warned Gwen not to approach. At the Triskelion, Pierce boasted that Lynn had been killed, but the scarlet energy climbed the beam and began tearing apart Helicarrier One as Pierce reached for the backup controls.

• Gwen Stacy broke through the window and tried to pull Lynn to safety with webbing, but Wanda’s scarlet barrier vaporized it.
• Lynn warned Gwen that Wanda would kill her if she came closer.
• Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, and Natasha confronted Alexander Pierce at the Triskelion over Project Insight and his orbital strike on Lynn’s safe house.
• Pierce claimed the Main Cannon had eliminated Lynn, but the tactical screen showed Helicarrier One’s energy readings rising and its armor failing.
• Scarlet energy surged up the beam and tore into Helicarrier One, leaving Pierce terrified.
• Pierce reached for the self-destruct button for the remaining Helicarriers, but a one-eyed man pressed a pistol to his jaw.

Nick Fury shot Alexander Pierce after Pierce secretly activated Project Insight’s final protocol, sending Helicarriers Two and Three to bombard Lynn’s safe house outside Brooklyn. As their cannons fired, Wanda prepared to stop them while Gwen tried to shield Lynn.

• Steve Rogers told Pierce that Helicarrier One’s main cannon had been stopped and demanded that he land the other Helicarriers and shut down Project Insight.
• Pierce triggered a hidden biological command in his tooth, and Fury shot him in the shoulder as Helicarriers Two and Three began an irreversible bombardment sequence targeting Brooklyn.
• Pierce claimed that Lynn was Wanda’s one and only “jade” and that harming him would drive Wanda to destroy the world.
• At the safe house, Gwen tried to protect Lynn with a web net, but Wanda destroyed the webs and forced Gwen back.
• Wanda raised her hands toward the two Helicarriers as their cannons fired, and the night sky over New York changed color.

Wanda unleashed her chaos magic against S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarriers after they fired on Lynn, while Gwen Stacy seized the distraction to reach him. The chapter ended with Wanda spotting Gwen touching Lynn's bite mark and turning her scarlet gaze on them.

• Wanda devoured the Helicarriers' cannon beams with chaos magic and trapped both Helicarriers in the sky.
• Gwen Stacy saw Lynn on the sofa and became more convinced that Wanda was controlling and imprisoning him.
• At the Triskelion, Nick Fury, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Alexander Pierce, and Rumlow watched Wanda's magic crush the Helicarriers and disable their engines.
• Wanda prepared to turn the Helicarriers into fireworks, but Gwen used the distraction to slip past the magic and grab Lynn's shirt.
• Gwen recognized the bite mark on Lynn's collarbone from her simulation and accused him of keeping his memories and using Wanda as a shield.
• Wanda noticed Gwen pressed against Lynn, froze, and fixed her scarlet gaze on them as the temperature plunged.

Wanda destroyed Hydra’s Helicarriers and Hydra’s plan collapsed, while her jealousy toward Gwen Stacy escalated into a deadly confrontation. Lynn stepped between them just as Wanda prepared to attack Gwen with Chaos Magic.

• Wanda crushed the two remaining Helicarriers in the sky above Brooklyn with Chaos Magic.
• At the Triskelion, Fury shot Alexander Pierce, and Steve Rogers led the others to evacuate as the damaged building began to collapse.
• Wanda descended to the Safe House and lifted Gwen Stacy by the neck after seeing the bite mark on Lynn.
• Gwen Stacy provoked Wanda by saying Lynn had died in another time and space to save her, driving Wanda to summon scarlet blades.
• Lynn walked through the field of blades and gently gripped Wanda’s wrist before she could attack Gwen.

Lynn used Wanda’s concern to escape Gwen Stacy, while Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. fell in Washington. As he and Wanda headed for a Hydra safe house, Lynn secretly secured Hydra’s hidden intelligence, and Fury circulated a warning dossier while seeking a way to counter Chaos Magic.

• Lynn made himself cough blood to stop Wanda from killing Gwen Stacy, then had Wanda carry him away from Brooklyn.
• The Triskelion collapsed, and Fury warned Steve Rogers that Lynn had manipulated the conflict and taken a powerful weapon.
• Lynn revealed that he had faked his injury and stolen Hydra’s core database, secret base coordinates, vibranium routes, and superhuman research.
• Lynn directed Wanda toward a Hydra safe house called Eden in Upstate New York so they could build a home together.
• Fury authorized a global dossier warning against contact with Lynn and Wanda and ordered agents to find powers capable of countering Chaos Magic.

Fury designated Lynn and Wanda’s scarlet power as a threat S.H.I.E.L.D. must not provoke, while Lynn claimed Hydra’s Eden estate as his own. As Lynn and Wanda settled in, his Spider-Sense detected Gwen Stacy watching them from the forest.

• Fury reviewed footage of Wanda destroying the Helicarriers and ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to stop tracking Lynn, designating the pair Zero Number Taboo.
• Natasha revealed that Lynn’s heart rate had stayed steady during the Helicarrier crisis, and Steve realized Lynn had manipulated their investigation into Hydra.
• Lynn used Pierce’s access card to enter Hydra’s Eden Safe House and rewrote its systems to recognize him as the owner.
• Wanda destroyed the estate’s surveillance devices and told Lynn she wanted the two of them left alone.
• Lynn’s Spider-Sense warned him that Gwen Stacy was watching from a tree with a thermal imager, and Gwen vowed to get him away from Wanda.

Lynn spent a quiet day at the Eden estate with Wanda, hiding the fact that Gwen Stacy was watching them from the woods. At night, Gwen made her move by attaching webbing to the estate’s balcony, and Lynn went outside to confront her.

• Wanda transformed the Eden estate with Chaos Magic and made breakfast for Lynn, killing a sparrow that approached the window.
• Lynn reassured Wanda that they could stay together at the estate while secretly sensing Gwen Stacy watching from two kilometers away.
• Lynn concealed Gwen’s presence from Wanda throughout the day and redirected Wanda’s suspicions during dinner.
• Gwen ran out of patience and attached a strand of spider silk to the estate’s second-floor balcony.
• Lynn spotted Gwen hanging upside down outside, told Wanda he was going out for a smoke, and prepared to leave.

Lynn used Spider-Sense to discover Gwen Stacy watching him from the balcony while he tried to keep Wanda from realizing she was there. When Gwen lunged at him and Wanda unleashed Scarlet Energy inside, a potentially city-destroying clash began.

• Lynn went onto the terrace and used his newly integrated Spider-Sense to detect Gwen Stacy hiding nearby.
• Lynn recognized Gwen as the Ghost-Spider who had followed him across universes and realized that his actions in the simulated spacetime had fueled her obsession.
• Lynn exposed the scar on his wrist to show Gwen that he remembered what had happened between them.
• Gwen reacted to the scar with tears and jealousy when she noticed Wanda's scent on Lynn's shirt.
• Gwen severed her web and dove toward Lynn as Wanda crushed a porcelain plate with Scarlet Energy.

Gwen Stacy found Lynn and confronted him over the scar left when he let her go, while Wanda sensed Gwen touching him and attacked in a jealous rage. The chapter ended with Wanda facing Gwen on the shattered terrace and threatening to destroy her and her universe.

• Gwen Stacy tackled Lynn on the terrace and accused him of abandoning her after searching across the Multiverse to find him.
• Lynn told Gwen he had let go of her to save her life, and she broke down and clung to him.
• Wanda sensed Gwen touching Lynn and unleashed her Scarlet Chaos Magic, tearing apart the kitchen as she approached the terrace.
• Gwen sensed Wanda's power and prepared to fight, but Lynn tried to stop her.
• Wanda blasted through the bulletproof glass door and threatened to crush Gwen and her universe unless she let go of Lynn.

Wanda and Gwen Stacy fought over Lynn, with both women refusing to back down. Lynn injured himself to stop their battle, but the chaos energy in his blood opened a rift to an unknown dimension.

• Wanda confronted Gwen Stacy and demanded that she release Lynn, while Gwen claimed their bond gave her the right to keep him.
• Wanda attacked Gwen with scarlet tentacles, but Gwen dodged with Lynn and counterattacked using webbing and a direct strike.
• Wanda’s shield stopped Gwen’s attack, and she prepared a chaos ray as Gwen readied to fight to the death.
• Lynn deliberately reversed his magical circuits and coughed up blood, interrupting both women’s attacks.
• Lynn’s blood resonated with the women’s uncontrolled energy and tore open a pitch-black rift to an unknown dimension.

Lynn used a lie about Hydra and a dimensional anchor to redirect Wanda and Gwen’s hostility toward the rift, then manipulated them into supporting him together. After Natasha Romanoff watched from hiding, Lynn launched a simulation that implanted a memory of him saving her in Budapest, 1999, and she fell unconscious.

• Lynn pretended the rift was tied to a Hydra anchor on his soul, persuading Wanda and Gwen to stop fighting and seal it together.
• After the rift closed, Lynn sensed Natasha Romanoff watching from an oak tree and began a simulation targeting her.
• Lynn convinced Wanda to stabilize his magic and Gwen to support his injured body, keeping both women close as they carried him inside.
• From her hiding place, Natasha saw Lynn’s composure and considered shooting him, but he noticed her and used an old Red Room hand signal.
• The simulation implanted a memory of Lynn rescuing Natasha in Budapest in 1999, and Natasha fell from the tree and lost consciousness.

Lynn divided Wanda and Gwen Stacy into separate protective roles to keep their rivalry under control, then entered his third simulation. Outside Eden Manor, Gwen Stacy discovered an unconscious S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who was murmuring Lynn’s name and prepared to kill her.

• Lynn sent Wanda to use Chaos Magic to hide Eden Manor’s dimensional coordinates and assigned Gwen Stacy to inspect its physical defenses.
• Lynn convinced Gwen Stacy that her Spider-Sense was the only protection he trusted against physical attacks, and she left to patrol the manor.
• Lynn entered his third simulation, where he hid with a gravely wounded Natasha in a Budapest ventilation duct as Red Room assassins approached.
• Gwen Stacy found an unconscious woman in a black combat suit beside the manor, along with a communicator tuned to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s encrypted frequency.
• Gwen Stacy heard the woman murmur Lynn’s name, crushed the communicator, and lifted Natasha by the throat with her web-shooter aimed at her temple.

Natasha relived Lynn’s sacrifice in the Budapest simulation and chose to protect him by diverting S.H.I.E.L.D. from Eden Manor. Lynn received the simulation rewards, while Gwen and Wanda faced off over him as Fury discovered Natasha had turned against S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Gwen nearly killed Natasha, but Lynn used their Bond Line to stop her and warned that Natasha was bait for S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Natasha refused to crush her tracker, swallowed it, shot herself in the thigh, and fled toward the forest to draw S.H.I.E.L.D. away from Eden Manor.
• Lynn completed the Budapest simulation with an SSS rating and gained disguise and stealth specialization, an incomplete super-soldier physiology, and Red Room combat techniques.
• Gwen returned to Lynn, who praised her, just as Wanda arrived and threatened Gwen for touching him.
• Fury tracked Natasha’s signal and heard her threaten S.H.I.E.L.D. if it attacked Eden Manor, realizing she had switched sides.

Wanda and Gwen Stacy fought over Lynn, whose attempt to redirect their anger only intensified their jealousy. As Wanda unleashed a devastating attack and Gwen charged into it, Lynn spotted a space-folding tracking projectile passing through Wanda’s shield toward her head.

• Wanda confronted Gwen Stacy for touching Lynn, and Gwen defended herself by saying she had saved him from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s missiles.
• Wanda attacked Gwen with gravitational force and a Scarlet Energy whip, while Lynn pretended to be injured and urged them to stop.
• Gwen told Wanda that Lynn had sacrificed himself for her at the Clock Tower in New York, making Wanda question her memories of his death in Sokovia.
• Wanda demanded that Lynn confirm he had died only for her, but Gwen stepped between them and Wanda unleashed a scarlet storm.
• Gwen charged into Wanda’s attack with a high-voltage web spike as Lynn detected a space-folding tracking projectile racing through Wanda’s shield toward her head.

Wanda and Gwen Stacy fought violently over Lynn, destroying much of Eden Manor as their attacks escalated. With Gwen poised to strike Wanda and Wanda ready to unleash a lethal blast, Lynn activated his incomplete chaos magic affinity and charged into the energy vortex.

• A miniature tracking round struck Wanda’s Chaos Barrier as Gwen Stacy attacked her with webs, and Wanda crushed the round and retaliated with Chaos Magic.
• Wanda shattered the second floor of Eden Manor and accused Gwen Stacy of coveting Lynn, while Gwen mocked Wanda’s possessiveness and claimed Lynn had willingly given himself to her.
• Wanda unleashed a barrage of debris, injuring Gwen Stacy, but Gwen used webbing to drop a heavy beam and then lunged at Wanda with a length of rebar.
• Lynn judged that the fight threatened Gwen and the surrounding block, activated his incomplete chaos magic affinity, and charged into the energy vortex between them.

Lynn forced Wanda and Gwen Stacy to stop fighting by throwing himself into danger, then collapsed from reversing his Magic Circuit. Wanda and Gwen both tried to save him, but his damaged Energy Circuit rejected their separate treatments, leaving them facing a desperate choice.

• Wanda recalled her Chaos Magic and fell, while Gwen Stacy broke her wrist to redirect her attack and avoid hitting Lynn.
• Lynn crashed into the ruins, feigned extreme weakness, and drew Wanda and Gwen Stacy into blaming themselves instead of fighting.
• Wanda and Gwen Stacy stopped attacking each other when Lynn asked them not to blame one another, then Lynn passed out after telling them he did not want either of them hurt.
• Wanda tried to heal Lynn with Chaos Magic as Gwen Stacy prepared a S.H.I.E.L.D. Cell Repair Serum injection, but their treatments collided and Lynn's Energy Circuit rejected both.
• Wanda and Gwen Stacy faced each other over Lynn, realizing neither magic nor the serum could safely enter his body alone.

Lynn stopped Wanda and Gwen Stacy from fighting by threatening to die, then made them promise not to hurt each other. As they carried him toward the Safe House, he spotted Natasha Romanoff watching them and began a simulation that left her unconscious, apparently pulling her into a memory or scenario from Budapest.

• Lynn grabbed Wanda's wrist and Gwen Stacy's syringe hand, warning them they would have to step over his corpse if they wanted to kill each other.
• Wanda withdrew her magic and Gwen Stacy pulled out the syringe, and both apologized and agreed to stop fighting.
• Lynn made Wanda and Gwen Stacy promise never to fight in front of him or hurt each other while he was alive; they reluctantly agreed.
• Wanda lifted Lynn with Chaos Particles as Gwen Stacy guarded him, and Lynn sensed Natasha Romanoff watching from a communications tower.
• Lynn ordered the system to begin a simulation targeting Natasha, loading a 1999 Budapest scenario in which he was her partner through life and death.
• Natasha saw Lynn meet her gaze through her rifle scope, then collapsed as a man's voice whispered, "Nat, run... don't look back..."

Natasha relived the night in Budapest when Lynn sacrificed himself to help her escape the Red Room, then awoke in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s medical room believing the memory was real. After Nick Fury said S.H.I.E.L.D. might eliminate Lynn, Natasha threatened him at gunpoint.

• In 1999 Budapest, an injured Natasha was trapped by Red Room assassins until Lynn returned and treated her wounds.
• Lynn drew the attackers away and pulled the hydraulic lever so Natasha could escape through the underground drainage channel.
• Lynn detonated his grenades as the iron door shut, and the blast knocked Natasha unconscious.
• Natasha awoke in a S.H.I.E.L.D. medical room after falling from a communications tower and called out for Lynn.
• Nick Fury warned Natasha that S.H.I.E.L.D. was considering eliminating Lynn, and Natasha took Fury's sidearm and aimed it at him.