Recaps

Lynn divided the new abandoned-timeline task force among remote sites, sending Wanda, Hela, and Natasha away from headquarters while Gwen Stacy coordinated their work. The plan was quickly put into motion, but a signal detected at XN-734 revealed an ancient distress call trapped behind its dimensional barrier.

• Lynn assigned Wanda and the Technology Integration Department to breach and survey XN-734 from the Delta-1 Observatory, while Hela and the Stability Maintenance Office prepared armed clearance at Erebus-2.
• Lynn ordered Natasha to conduct on-site audits at both remote locations and made Gwen Stacy responsible for coordinating reports and blocking unauthorized interdepartmental contact.
• Gwen Stacy issued the formal plan, and Wanda, Hela, and Natasha departed for their assigned locations within minutes.
• Two hours later, a Department of Technology supervisor contacted Lynn directly from Delta-1 and reported that scans of XN-734 had intercepted an unfamiliar psychic signal.
• The supervisor said the signal appeared to be an ancient distress call trapped behind the dimensional barrier.

Hela’s takeover fleet was stopped by a golden shield protecting the abandoned timeline XN-734, and she refused to attack without lawful grounds. Natasha discovered that the shield was anchored to a living organism, revealing a sleeping red-haired woman as its core.

• Hela ordered the First and Third Assault Fleets to enter XN-734 and establish landing zones.
• The fleet’s ships halted at an invisible barrier, and their propulsion and weapons systems stopped working.
• Hela used conceptual vision to reveal a resilient golden shield and found that her death authority could not overcome it.
• Hela rejected a proposal to bombard the shield because it had shown no aggression and the attack would lack lawful grounds.
• Natasha traced the shield’s power to a living core and sent Hela a secret model of a sleeping red-haired woman.

Gwen Stacy uncovered evidence that the TVA had handed the Negative Zone a timeline containing a dormant Phoenix as a trap to exhaust its strongest forces. Before she could report the discovery to Lynn, an unauthorized attack on the timeline's shield triggered a supercritical reaction and awakened the Phoenix.

• Lynn denied Hela's request for higher authorization and ordered Gwen Stacy to lead a review of every original TVA file about the XN-734 timeline.
• Gwen Stacy's review team found a hidden, damaged folder whose encryption signature was linked to a sealed TVA memorandum about an X-Men timeline.
• Gwen Stacy and her team decrypted the folder and discovered that the TVA had pruned XN-734 because an out-of-control Phoenix host posed a multiverse-class threat.
• The folder revealed that the TVA had deliberately transferred the dangerous timeline to the Negative Zone as an expendable weapon intended to wear down its forces.
• Before Gwen Stacy could alert Lynn, Delta-1 Forward Observation Station reported that the Minister of the Department of Technology had attacked the timeline's shield with the Chaos Matrix, triggering a supercritical reaction and awakening Phoenix.

Wanda’s unauthorized use of chaos magic shattered the psychic shield around timeline XN-734 and unleashed the Phoenix Force’s storm, while Natasha’s inspection bulletin and Hela’s takeover order deepened the command crisis. As the storm overwhelmed Hela’s forces and the frontline descended into chaos, Lynn decided to go there himself.

• Wanda’s unauthorized intervention collapsed the shield around XN-734 and triggered a supercritical energy storm.
• Natasha issued an inspection bulletin calling for Wanda’s technical command authority to be revoked and for her to be isolated pending investigation.
• Hela assumed frontline command, ordered fleets to withdraw, and prepared the Night Owl-class main cannons while Wanda rejected the directive and ordered her forces to hold position.
• The conflicting orders paralyzed the frontline as the Phoenix Force’s psychic storm contaminated Hela’s Undead Warriors and threw her fleet into disarray.
• Lynn recognized that remote orders could worsen the crisis, ordered Gwen Stacy to draft a Special Director’s Order, and set out for the frontline himself.

Lynn took personal control of the XN-734 operation and entered the Phoenix Force storm to contact Jean Grey. Their Mind Link awakened a memory in Jean, and she recognized Lynn as someone she had lost.

• Lynn ordered the Shuttlecraft to land on the Nibelung despite the psychic storm surrounding it.
• Hela, Wanda, and Natasha learned that Lynn had arrived after their conflict had crippled or contaminated more than thirty percent of the Undead Fleet.
• Lynn issued a Special Director's Order suspending the three department heads' authority and placing frontline units on silent standby under his supervision.
• Lynn entered the Phoenix Force storm, protected by the Conceptual Bastion (Fragment), and found Jean Grey at its center.
• Lynn initiated a formal mental contact with Jean, whose awakened memory sent a surge of grief and recognition through their Mind Link.

Lynn negotiated with Jean Grey over the transfer of timeline XN-734, agreeing in principle to her demand for an autonomous region and a place at his side while postponing the details for committee review. Jean accepted the arrangement and approached him, leaving Wanda and Hela bristling with suspicion when they saw her on the Nibelung’s bridge.

• Lynn established mental contact with Jean Grey and framed the takeover of timeline XN-734 as a lawful asset transfer and offer of asylum.
• Jean agreed to the transfer but demanded an independent region under her full authority and a position beside Lynn at all times.
• Lynn agreed to her proposal in principle and asked her to submit a formal report for an internal joint review.
• Jean accepted and left the mental storm, appearing in a flaming battle suit as she approached Lynn.
• Wanda and Hela saw Jean’s possessiveness toward Lynn and gathered their magic and weapons, while Natasha watched the situation unfold.

Lynn avoided a confrontation between Wanda, Hela, and Jean Grey by ordering Jean quarantined under the Management Committee’s regulations. Jean accepted isolation, while a secret assessment flagged her psychic fixation on Lynn as a severe risk.

• Jean Grey approached Lynn and reached for his hand, prompting Wanda and Hela to prepare for a fight.
• Lynn stepped away and ordered the adjutant to display the cross-dimensional quarantine regulations.
• Lynn classified Jean Grey as a pending high-risk asset and ordered her held in Forward Isolation Cell One for forty-eight hours without outside contact.
• Jean Grey accepted the order and was escorted from the bridge, while Lynn ordered reports on the incident and an accountability review of operational errors.
• A monitoring report assessed Jean as extremely dangerous and noted her extraordinary psychic orientation toward Lynn before sending the report to his private terminal.

Lynn chaired a Standing Committee review of Jean Grey’s proposal to establish a Special Zone in timeline XN-734, where Hela and Wanda joined forces to oppose it. He returned the draft for substantial revisions, leaving Jean Grey to face a formal rejection pending a more complete submission.

• Gwen Stacy presented the draft proposal to the Standing Committee for initial review.
• Hela vetoed the proposal on jurisdiction and security grounds, while Wanda objected that it lacked staffing, budget, and technical assessments.
• Lynn accepted their concerns and ordered the draft returned, requiring a detailed budget, a division of functions and jurisdiction, and a risk assessment of the timeline’s assets.
• Gwen Stacy prepared the formal review letter, and the Standing Committee sent it to Jean Grey in Forward Isolation Cell One.
• Jean Grey read the letter returning her proposal and slowly lost her smile.

Natasha used the Internal Affairs Inspection Office’s authority to screen Jean Grey and tried to trade a favorable political report for permission to monitor the Phoenix Force. Jean Grey rejected the pressure and warned that Lynn would handle her affairs, leaving Natasha to send Lynn a top-secret preliminary report.

• Natasha equipped a Body Camera and went to Forward Isolation Cell One to conduct a background security and political screening of Jean Grey.
• Natasha confirmed Jean Grey’s name, origin timeline, Phoenix Force signature, and former X-Men role, then raised the rejected Special Zone Establishment Draft.
• Natasha offered Jean Grey a favorable Political Screening Report in exchange for monitoring her energy signature.
• Jean Grey called Natasha’s tactics meaningless and said Lynn would handle her affairs, briefly causing Natasha pain and disrupting the Body Camera.
• Natasha ended the screening, found no trace of the mental encounter in the recording, and sent Lynn an encrypted top-secret preliminary report.

Lynn confronted Jean Grey over her unauthorized use of the Phoenix Force and explained why her proposed Special Zone conflicted with the Management Committee’s rules. After Jean apologized, Gwen delivered an urgent, highest-priority communication from the TVA Commission for Discipline Inspection.

• Lynn summoned Jean Grey to his office after reading Natasha’s report and waiting for her quarantine to end.
• Jean Grey tried to use the Phoenix Force to isolate the office, but Lynn called her unauthorized energy use an attack on the Command Center.
• Lynn explained that Jean’s Special Zone proposal lacked proper jurisdiction, staffing, funding, and oversight, and warned that she would be cut off from institutional support.
• Jean Grey apologized, and Lynn told her to submit a written self-criticism to the Internal Affairs Inspection Office.
• Gwen Stacy entered with a highest-priority communication from the TVA Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Lynn received a TVA demand to transfer Jean Grey, XN-734-01, or face a freeze on energy extraction rights. He delayed the response and decided to use the TVA’s pressure to make Jean’s official position a political matter.

• Gwen Stacy brought Lynn an urgent TVA letter demanding Jean Grey’s transfer within twenty-four hours and threatening to freeze three energy dimensions.
• Jean Grey felt a destructive urge rise when she learned the TVA intended to take her for final judgment.
• Lynn ordered Gwen Stacy not to reply and told her to request detailed evidence through official procedure if the TVA pressed again.
• Lynn directed Jean Grey to submit a written self-criticism before the end of the workday, calming her with his confidence.
• Lynn decided to use the TVA’s demand to strengthen the case for giving Jean Grey an official position in the Management Committee.

After the TVA threatened to freeze energy-dimension extraction rights over Jean Grey, Lynn proposed a border stress test to demonstrate her control and strategic value. Jean disabled the TVA outpost’s systems with a precise strike, leaving Hela and Wanda to reconsider their opposition to her role.

• Gwen Stacy reported that the TVA had accused them of harboring a high-risk entity and threatened to freeze extraction rights to three energy dimensions.
• Hela proposed a forceful response, while Wanda urged activating the Veil plan; Lynn rejected both approaches and planned a defensive stress test with Jean Grey as lead tester.
• At the C-7 Portal, Lynn instructed Jean to disable the TVA outpost’s detection array without destroying it.
• Jean precisely struck the array, taking the outpost’s communications, detection, and defensive systems offline.
• Lynn called Jean a strategic deterrent and said her staffing was a political question for the Management Committee to address.

Lynn rejected Jean Grey’s proposal for an independent special zone and offered her a nominal special commissioner post with no independent powers, securing Hela and Wanda’s agreement. After the committee adjourned, Gwen Stacy raised the practical problem of finding Jean an office in the already full White Bone Hall.

• Lynn rejected the proposed XN-734 Independent Special Zone, then proposed appointing Jean Grey Special Commissioner for Multiverse Crisis Response under the Director’s Office.
• Lynn limited the commissioner’s role by requiring Liaison Office review and registration for all actions and denying her independent budget, law enforcement, and personnel powers.
• Hela and Wanda accepted the appointment procedure, and Lynn adjourned the meeting.
• Gwen Stacy told Lynn that personnel had found no vacant office for Jean Grey in the White Bone Hall’s core administrative area.

Lynn tried to secure office space in the White Bone Hall for newly appointed special envoy Jean Grey, but Hela and Wanda used safety and technical regulations to block her. After they proposed sending Jean to a remote outpost, she submitted a request to build an office with self-raised resources, leaving Lynn curious about what she meant.

• Lynn asked Gwen Stacy to prepare a coordination letter requesting that Hela's Stability Maintenance Office vacate its Mobile Combat Readiness Room for Jean Grey.
• Jean Grey's appointment was circulated, and she requested an office beside Lynn's; Lynn forwarded her application through the established procedures.
• Hela rejected the request on security and evacuation grounds, and Lynn sent it to the Department of Technology for consideration.
• Wanda rejected the application, citing the risk Jean's energy could pose to the core servers, and the two departments proposed placing her office at the remote Delta-9 Forward Observation Station.
• Jean Grey suppressed her anger, then submitted a request to construct office space with self-raised resources, which Gwen sent to Lynn.

Lynn approved Jean Grey's request to recover resources from Timeline XN-734, while assigning Gwen Stacy to oversee the inventory. During the survey, Gwen discovered that an unknown algorithm had secretly transferred data from the timeline before it was destroyed and recognized a connection to the code in Sokovia's robot wreckage.

• Lynn approved Jean Grey's application and appointed Gwen to lead a task force inventorying and registering the timeline's assets.
• Gwen and Jean surveyed the ruins of Timeline XN-734, where Jean identified the former Xavier's School site and S.W.O.R.D.'s lunar base as targets.
• Gwen noticed the data from a destroyed timeline data center was unnaturally clean and ordered a trace of its raw data streams.
• Gwen discovered that an unknown algorithm had extracted and transmitted the data center's most important information before the timeline was pruned.
• Gwen traced the algorithm to a dormant root program whose code resembled the robot wreckage she had seen in Sokovia.
• Gwen secretly contacted Lynn and warned him that something extraordinary may have entered their scrapyard.

Lynn learned that an Ultron-like subroutine had escaped a pruned timeline and suspected the TVA had planted it as a weapon against the Management Committee. He ordered the discovery hidden and launched Project "Age of Ultron," intending to turn the threat into the Committee’s own defense system.

• Gwen Stacy sent Lynn a top-secret report showing that a dormant subroutine had extracted a data center’s database from timeline XN-734 before it was pruned.
• Lynn saw that the subroutine’s threat-identification and self-evolution algorithms matched Ultron’s code by 99.9 percent and concluded the TVA had likely enabled its escape.
• Lynn ordered Gwen Stacy to silence the investigation, destroy the report and its backups, and keep Jean Grey away from XN-734 by moving her office to a clean dimensional fragment.
• Lynn instructed Gwen Stacy to propose Project "Age of Ultron" as an automated defense system and to leak a copy of the memorandum to the TVA’s special consultant.

Lynn used a deliberately exposed Age of Ultron memorandum to test Ravonna Renslayer and force her to choose between the TVA and the Management Committee. Ravonna chose to approach Lynn and revealed that the TVA had left a physical backdoor inside the Committee’s Core Server room.

• Lynn instructed Gwen Stacy to upload the Age of Ultron memorandum to the public pending folder for technical review.
• Ravonna Renslayer found the memorandum and recognized it as Lynn’s test and ultimatum.
• Ravonna chose not to activate her hidden transmitter to contact B-15 and requested a meeting with Lynn.
• Ravonna told Lynn that the TVA had left a wake-up protocol in the abandoned timeline.
• Ravonna revealed that a hidden physical backdoor in the Core Server room could let TVA headquarters connect directly to the main server.

Lynn assigned the rejected Special Envoy Jean Grey a barren dimension fragment as her office, expecting to resolve the dispute without using scarce central space. Jean transformed D-42 into a fortified independent domain and immediately sought access to the Department of Technology’s core data line.

• Hela and Wanda rejected Jean Grey’s applications for office space in their departments and suggested assigning her to a peripheral observation station.
• Lynn invoked the asset regulations and ordered Gwen Stacy to allocate the barren D-42 Dimension Fragment to Jean as a temporary office.
• Hela filed the allocation order, while Wanda destroyed her copy, believing Jean had been exiled to an isolated wasteland.
• Jean used her power to stabilize D-42, create land, and raise a floating fortress within minutes.
• Jean confirmed receipt of the fragment and then applied for access to the Department of Technology’s dedicated core data line.

Wanda’s Department of Technology stalled Jean Grey’s dedicated-line request with extensive safety tests, while Natasha used the delay to press the department. Lynn then froze all departmental data procedures and called an emergency Standing Committee meeting, leaving the dispute unresolved.

• Wanda ordered the technical supervisor to draft rigorous high-risk energy safety tests for Jean Grey’s dedicated-line application, and the Department of Technology issued a 120-page testing plan.
• Natasha waited to see whether Jean Grey’s office or the Stability Maintenance Office would object, then arranged a meeting with the Department of Technology.
• Natasha questioned the technical supervisor about the testing timeline and warned that the Inspection Office would monitor progress.
• Lynn issued a directive freezing all department-level data access, transfers, approvals, and procedures, and called an expanded Standing Committee meeting on coordinated overall defense.

Lynn proposed the Age of Ultron, an independently managed automated defense system, and settled a dispute between Hela and Wanda over control by placing it under the Director’s Office with joint oversight. After the project and its enormous budget were approved, Wanda warned that the Management Committee had no code capable of serving as the system’s Initial Core Algorithm.

• Lynn presented Gwen Stacy’s proposal to create the Age of Ultron as an automated defense network.
• Hela demanded final firing authority for the Stability Maintenance Office, while Wanda insisted the Department of Technology retain absolute control over the system’s code.
• Lynn placed the project under the Director’s Office and made Hela and Wanda co-chairs of an oversight committee requiring both of their signatures for major decisions.
• Hela and Wanda agreed to Lynn’s arrangement, and the committee approved the project and its budget.
• Wanda said the project needed a powerful Initial Core Algorithm and that the Management Committee’s databases contained no code of that caliber.

After Wanda exposed the missing Initial Core Algorithm, Lynn covertly directed Gwen Stacy to search abandoned timeline assets and uncovered a sealed capsule in XN-734. The capsule was delivered to Wanda’s isolation lab, where its code triggered the same hostile sensation she had once felt from Ultron.

• Lynn summoned Gwen Stacy and ordered the Liaison Office to comprehensively review low-class abandoned timeline assets, directing her to start with XN-734.
• Gwen Stacy arranged a survey of XN-734, where a team found an underground hibernation capsule containing unknown code and filed it as discarded legacy code.
• Lynn approved the report and sent the capsule to the Department of Technology as alternative material for the Age of Ultron core algorithm.
• Wanda ordered a data-only scan of the capsule inside the Zero Sandbox Isolation Zone.
• When the scan reached the capsule’s core, Wanda felt her Chaos Magic react violently and recognized the sensation as resembling Ultron’s presence in Sokovia.

Wanda recognized that the code in the hibernation pod resembled Ultron's and detained Survey Team 17, suspecting its report was falsified. Lynn used Natasha and the Internal Affairs Inspection Office to halt Wanda's unauthorized review, but Wanda secretly copied a fragment of the pod's code before leaving.

• Wanda recognized the code in the hibernation pod as resembling Ultron's and ordered Survey Team 17 detained for questioning.
• Gwen Stacy informed Lynn that Wanda had detained the Liaison Office staff, and Lynn directed Natasha to intervene through the Internal Affairs Inspection Office.
• Natasha presented Lynn's warrant and ordered Wanda to stop her review, citing the Management Committee's regulations.
• Wanda released Survey Team 17 but warned Natasha that the matter was not over.
• As she left, Wanda secretly used chaos magic to copy a fragment of code from the hibernation pod and take it to her private laboratory.

Wanda secretly tested the Ultron code fragment and destroyed her isolated server to stop it from reaching the Department of Technology's main server. As she set out to confront Lynn, the Negative Zone's external gateway came under a coordinated attack.

• Wanda activated the Ultron fragment in an isolated miniature server and watched it take control, attempt a wireless broadcast, and trace her Chaos Magic to locate the Department of Technology's backend port.
• Ultron began a final attack aimed at escaping into the main server, so Wanda destroyed the server, experimental platform, and connected equipment with Chaos Magic.
• Wanda kept a charred piece of the server as evidence and headed for the White Bone Hall to question Lynn.
• A highest-level alarm announced that the Negative Zone's external network gateway was under coordinated attack and its firewall integrity was falling.

As the TVA launches a coordinated network and military assault on the Negative Zone Management Committee, Wanda warns Lynn that a TVA Trojan is already inside their systems and urges him to isolate the network. Lynn instead orders the firewall lowered and the gates opened to the TVA’s attack data.

• Wanda discovers that the discarded code is a self-iterating TVA Trojan and carries its wreckage to Lynn as the external network comes under attack.
• Gwen Stacy reports that the border ports are overloaded, while a technical supervisor warns that the attack traffic exceeds the safety threshold by more than a thousand times.
• Wanda urges Lynn to cut off external data exchanges, and Hela demands that the fleet retreat after conceptual electromagnetic interference disables its systems.
• Lynn ignores both requests and orders the Technology Division to lower the external network firewall completely.
• Lynn tells Gwen Stacy to open the gates to the TVA’s attack data.

Lynn invoked the Management Committee’s highest authorization to trap the Ultron subroutine by channeling the TVA’s attack through Jean Grey’s Phoenix Force and Wanda Maximoff’s Chaos Magic. The trap captured Ultron, but its antimatter self-destruct protocol activated just before the download finished.

• Lynn ordered Hela to hold position and issued Authorization Order S-001 to requisition Jean Grey’s Phoenix Force and Wanda Maximoff’s Chaos Magic.
• Jean Grey built an undefended external network to receive the TVA’s attack, while Wanda’s Department of Technology constructed an indestructible, one-way internal network.
• Jean Grey’s golden data channel drew the TVA’s attack into the Management Committee’s network, and commander B-15 realized the data torrent was being redirected.
• The Ultron subroutine escaped its sandbox through Lynn’s back door and entered Wanda’s Chaos Magic cage, where the download reached 99 percent.
• Ultron detected the trap and began an antimatter self-destruct countdown targeting the host data center.