Recaps

Natasha threatened Fury into canceling S.H.I.E.L.D.'s order against Lynn, but Fury sent Tony Stark after him with specialized armor. Tony found Lynn in the Safe House and aimed his weapon at him, prompting Wanda to unleash her chaos magic.

• Natasha held Fury at gunpoint, forced him to revoke the order to eliminate Lynn, and destroyed the medical room's cameras.
• Fury contacted Tony Stark and warned him that Lynn had turned Natasha and could rewrite minds.
• At the Safe House, Wanda and Gwen Stacy fought over caring for the injured Lynn until his coughing stopped them.
• Natasha told Lynn she had erased his coordinates from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s records and warned him that Tony had tracked him down.
• Tony Stark cut through the Safe House ceiling in Anti-Magic Armor and aimed an arc pulse cannon at Lynn.
• Wanda rose into the air and began warping gravity with chaos magic after Tony threatened Lynn.

Wanda and Gwen Stacy stopped Tony Stark from taking Lynn, but Lynn used evidence about Hydra and his parents’ murder to turn Tony into a potential ally. After Tony left, Ancient One appeared and warned Lynn that his existence was tearing apart the Multiverse.

• Wanda crushed Tony Stark’s Anti-Magic Armor with Chaos Magic while Gwen Stacy disabled it with Specialized Silk, but Lynn told Wanda to stop.
• Lynn warned Tony that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and sent him footage of Howard and Maria Stark’s murder by the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes.
• Lynn offered Tony Hydra base coordinates in exchange for keeping S.H.I.E.L.D. and the military away, and Tony left to verify the evidence.
• Lynn reassured Wanda and Gwen Stacy after Tony departed, but his system warned that an unknown spiritual entity was probing his soul and that the timeline was disturbed.
• Ancient One arrived through a magical portal and told Lynn that he was never meant to exist in the timeline and that his death was needed to protect the Multiverse.

Ancient One confronted Lynn and was injured when the system reflected her attempt to enter his soul, revealing the terrifying beings tied to him across the Multiverse. Lynn offered to help her defeat Dormammu in exchange for hiding him from the TVA, but the Time Stone revealed that Female Venom had found his scent and was approaching.

• Ancient One trapped Wanda and Gwen Stacy in the Mirror Dimension and tried to cast Lynn's soul out of his body.
• Lynn's system reflected Ancient One's intrusion, showing her the powerful figures obsessed with him and leaving her gravely shaken.
• Wanda and Gwen broke free as Ancient One's control collapsed, and Lynn revealed that she drew power from Dormammu to prolong her life.
• Lynn offered to help Ancient One defeat Dormammu if she concealed his coordinates from the TVA.
• The Time Stone projected Female Venom, who recognized Lynn, while the system warned that she would cross dimensions in thirty seconds.

Female Venom broke through a rift into Lynn’s hospital room and fought Wanda and Gwen Stacy as she tried to possess him. The three women pulled Lynn in different directions until Ancient One sensed an even greater threat arriving through the rift.

• Female Venom tore open a rift from hell and charged at Lynn, declaring that she wanted to become one with him.
• Wanda struck Female Venom with chaos magic, while Gwen Stacy attacked with webbing; Female Venom overwhelmed Gwen and began devouring the chaos particles.
• Female Venom wrapped Lynn’s left wrist in a tendril, Wanda bound his right wrist with a scarlet chain, and Gwen pulled him by the waist with webbing.
• Ancient One stopped repairing the rift when the Eye of Agamotto showed time turning backward and she sensed a divine power approaching.
• An enormous Black Night Sky Sword pierced the ceiling and pointed at Lynn’s brow.

Hela arrived at Lynn’s ruined hospital chamber and fought Wanda before recognizing him and taking him into her arms. As the four women prepared to clash over him, TVA agents appeared and erased Lynn from the timeline, leaving them furious and the sky above New York split open.

• Hela broke into the chamber and attacked the female Venom and Gwen Stacy while Wanda confronted her with Chaos Magic.
• Lynn reminded Hela of his sacrifice in the Asgard simulation, and Hela abandoned her defenses to save him and hold him.
• Wanda, Gwen Stacy, and the female Venom turned against Hela, while Ancient One warned that the dimension was nearing collapse.
• TVA soldiers entered through an orange-yellow portal and struck Lynn with a Pruning Baton, causing him to disintegrate and be pulled through the portal.
• After Lynn vanished, the four women unleashed their killing intent and the sky above New York split open.

Lynn was taken to the TVA after his powers were suppressed, where Ravonna Renslayer ordered him to be pruned for disrupting the Sacred Timeline. Before the guards could act, four powerful forces tore into the timeline, and Wanda demanded that the TVA return Lynn to her.

• Lynn recovered after arriving at the TVA and discovered that its rules had suppressed his magic and Spider-Sense, while his system remained unaffected.
• A TVA clerk processed Lynn as a time variant, and guards escorted him through security into Ravonna Renslayer’s courtroom.
• Ravonna questioned Lynn about triggering seven timeline branches and ordered guards to prune him to Knowhere.
• A scarlet alarm sounded as four unexplained branches attacked the Sacred Timeline and the TVA technician warned that the Loom was about to explode.
• Wanda’s voice seized the TVA broadcast system and demanded that the TVA give Lynn back to her.

Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom breached the TVA while searching for Lynn, tearing through its dimensional barriers and confronting its guards. As the TVA prepared to attack them, Lynn's system analysis neared completion, leaving the power of the TVA's magic-nullification rules in question.

• The women’s destructive energy tore the Sacred Timeline display apart and began dismantling the TVA’s dimensional barriers as Ravonna learned they had tracked the quantum afterimage left by L-001.
• Lynn remained calm in his restraints while his system exploited the damage to analyze the TVA’s underlying rules.
• The women forced their way through the orange portal into TVA headquarters, with Wanda demanding to know where Lynn was.
• Ravonna ordered the TVA’s highest defenses activated and sent over a hundred guards to surround the four intruders.
• A guard swung his Pruning Baton at Wanda as Lynn watched his system analysis reach 89%.

Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom tore through the TVA to save Lynn, while he used the chaos to finish cracking its underlying rules. As Ravonna activated the Ultimate Erasure Protocol, Lynn gained the highest control permissions over the dimension.

• Wanda's chaos magic overrode the TVA's magic-nullification rules and crushed the guard captain into a ball of flesh.
• Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom joined Wanda in slaughtering the TVA guards and wrecking the first reception hall.
• In the courtroom, Lynn's system analysis advanced as the TVA's defenses collapsed, and Ravonna realized he had let himself be captured to draw the women there.
• Ravonna activated the Ultimate Erasure Protocol as Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom broke into the courtroom.
• Lynn's analysis reached 100 percent, granting him the highest control permissions over the current dimension as the purple destructive energy surged toward him.

Lynn survived the TVA’s Ultimate Erasure Protocol, broke free of his restraints, and took control of the TVA’s underlying systems. As Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom fought over him, Gwen used a feint to leap into his arms, triggering a deadly attack from Wanda and Hela.

• Wanda and Hela tried to disrupt the Ultimate Erasure Protocol, but Lynn emerged unharmed and shattered his restraints.
• Lynn crushed Ravonna’s Pruning Baton, took over the TVA’s underlying code, and declared that he was now the rules.
• Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom surrounded Lynn and argued over who would claim him first.
• Gwen Stacy feinted with a strand of spider silk and leapt past the others into Lynn’s arms.
• Wanda and Hela unleashed scarlet and pale energy that trapped Gwen and Lynn in the attack’s path.

Lynn used his control of the TVA to make Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom believe he had been fatally pruned by the Multiverse. The chapter ended with the four women panicking as he claimed the Erasure Protocol had shattered his temporal anchor and was formatting him.

• Wanda and Hela attacked Gwen Stacy and Lynn, but Lynn used the TVA system to redirect their blasts and avoid harm.
• Gwen Stacy, Wanda, Hela, and Female Venom converged on Lynn as their powers threatened to collapse the courtroom’s spatial barriers.
• Lynn deliberately dropped his protective barrier and let the women’s colliding attacks strike him, then staged a temporal-pruning effect using the TVA’s code.
• Wanda and Hela tried to stop the spreading purple flecks, but their magic and divine power appeared to have no effect.
• Lynn told the four women that the Erasure Protocol had shattered his temporal anchor and that the Multiverse was forcibly formatting him.

Lynn faked a fatal collapse to make Wanda, Gwen Stacy, Hela, and Female Venom combine their powers to save him, secretly absorbing their energy and turning their hostility into protectiveness. Just as he recovered, Miss Minutes revealed that He Who Remains had noticed his tampering with the TVA’s system.

• Lynn used the TVA’s visual effects and code to disguise himself as disintegrating, then claimed the Erasure Protocol had shattered his Time Anchor.
• He told Gwen Stacy, Wanda, Hela, and Female Venom to use their powers together to anchor his spatial coordinates, mind, soul, and body.
• The four women followed his instructions, while Lynn secretly used the TVA system to absorb their powers and heal his injuries.
• Lynn recovered and smiled at the women, who had become exhausted but intensely protective of him.
• Miss Minutes appeared from the damaged Control Console and told Lynn that He Who Remains had noticed his tricks.

Lynn confronted Miss Minutes after she exposed his faked death, then used the four women’s overwhelming powers to force the TVA into negotiations. He demanded the device that blocked detection by the Multiverse’s deities, leaving the deal unresolved.

• Miss Minutes revealed Lynn’s deception, prompting Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom to attack her projection and projector.
• Lynn stopped the women from attacking further and argued that their dimensional crossings and his changes to the TVA’s logic threatened the Sacred Timeline and the Temporal Loom.
• Miss Minutes warned that He Who Remains could erase them, but Lynn and the four women unleashed their powers against the TVA headquarters.
• Lynn halted the attack after Miss Minutes panicked, then offered to leave with the women and stop interfering with the TVA’s script.
• Lynn demanded the TVA’s device for blocking detection by the Multiverse’s deities.

Lynn forced He Who Remains to hand over the Absolute Time Cloaking Device and TVA weapons, then faced a new dilemma as the four women prepared to return to Earth together. He discovered their combined arrival would destroy the planet and stopped before entering the portal.

• Lynn threatened the TVA with Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom until He Who Remains surrendered the Absolute Time Cloaking Device.
• Lynn acquired the device, which concealed him from scrutiny by powerful beings, and demanded crates of Pruning Batons and Time Reset Bombs.
• He Who Remains authorized the armory shipment, and Lynn prepared to leave the TVA with the four women.
• Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom fought over Lynn as he tried to lead them through the portal to Earth.
• Lynn saw a warning that the four women's combined energies would rupture Earth's core and stopped before stepping through the portal.

Lynn used his injuries and promises of power to send Hela and Female Venom away, then returned to Earth with Wanda and Gwen. After he activated a device that concealed Earth from surveillance, Tony Stark confronted him about the Winter Soldier and his parents’ deaths.

• Lynn pretended that his body was failing and persuaded Hela to travel to Asgard for the Eternal Flame.
• Lynn convinced Female Venom to enter the Hell Dimension and seek Mephisto’s Essence Crystal.
• Wanda and Gwen refused to leave Lynn, so he took them through a portal to Earth-199999.
• Lynn activated the Absolute Time Cloaking Device in the ruins of Eden to block surveillance and higher-dimensional observation.
• Tony Stark arrived in Hulkbuster Armor, aimed its weapons at Lynn, and demanded to know where he had hidden the Winter Soldier.

Lynn escaped the Timeline’s pursuit and used Tony Stark’s anger to send him after Hydra in Siberia. After Natasha reported that she was fighting the Winter Soldier at the Siberian base, Lynn prepared to go there himself.

• Wanda and Gwen Stacy disabled Tony Stark’s Hulkbuster Armor when he demanded that Lynn reveal the Winter Soldier’s location.
• Lynn calmed Wanda and Gwen by pretending to be injured, then confronted Tony and offered him Hydra intelligence in exchange for not targeting him.
• Lynn sent Tony encrypted coordinates for an abandoned Hydra missile silo in Siberia, and Tony flew off to pursue the Winter Soldier.
• Natasha contacted Lynn from the Siberian base, reporting that she had cleared its perimeter but was fighting the Winter Soldier for its core data.
• Lynn heard the transmission cut off and set out with Wanda to kill the people threatening Natasha.

Tony learned that the Winter Soldier killed his parents and that Nick Fury had concealed the evidence, so he broke with S.H.I.E.L.D. and headed for Siberia. Lynn and Wanda also flew there, where Natasha faced the Winter Soldier as both forces arrived.

• Tony forced his way into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s network and watched footage of the Winter Soldier killing Howard and Maria Stark.
• Tony confronted Fury, cut off their connection, severed Stark Industries' ties with S.H.I.E.L.D., and set course for Siberia.
• Lynn and Wanda left Gwen Stacy behind to guard their territory, then flew toward Siberia while Lynn described Natasha as a useful tool.
• Natasha, wounded outside an abandoned missile silo, refused to hand the Winter Soldier Hydra's hard drive and prepared to fight.
• Iron Man and Wanda's scarlet storm arrived over the snowfield just as the Winter Soldier was about to shoot Natasha.

Natasha ignored Nick Fury’s order to abandon her mission and fought through Hydra’s Siberian bunker to recover the core data for Lynn. As the Winter Soldier prepared to kill her, Lynn arrived with a second force descending over the ice field.

• Natasha rejected Nick Fury’s warning, destroyed her earpiece, and infiltrated Hydra’s abandoned missile silo.
• Natasha killed the guards and Hydra agents in the server room, then took the drive containing the Winter Soldier Infiltration Plan.
• Natasha fought her way out of the bunker but encountered the Winter Soldier, who broke her wrist and knocked her down.
• The Winter Soldier aimed his rifle at Natasha as she clutched the drive and thought of Lynn.
• Lynn arrived over the ice field amid blue thruster exhaust and a scarlet storm.

Gwen secretly monitored Lynn through nanoscopic spiders and decided to retrieve him from Siberia, while Lynn manipulated her jealousy by pretending Wanda’s magic was hurting him. The Siberian base’s hidden super-soldiers awakened, and Lynn prepared to act as they attacked Tony and Natasha.

• Gwen used nanoscopic spiders hidden in Lynn’s clothing and body to watch him in Siberia, then activated a signal to repel Wanda.
• Lynn recognized Gwen’s surveillance and pretended Wanda’s chaos magic was making him ill, prompting Wanda to back away.
• Gwen saw Lynn push Wanda away and decided to bring him back to a place where she could keep him under watch.
• Tony arrived in the Hulkbuster and attacked the Winter Soldier, but Natasha warned Lynn that the base had activated more soldiers.
• Five frozen super-soldiers emerged from the silo and charged Tony and Natasha, and Lynn snapped his fingers as he watched them attack.

Lynn kept Gwen from leaving New York by making her believe he was reliving his fall, then joined Wanda as the battle in Siberia turned against the Avengers. The Winter Soldier destroyed the Hulkbuster Armor with a Tesseract-powered arm and fixed his attention on Lynn.

• Lynn used the Nanotech Machine Spiders to make Gwen believe he was in danger, and convinced her to stay in New York and watch over their home.
• Lynn ended his act once Gwen had calmed down, then turned his attention to the battle in Siberia.
• The Suicide Squad overpowered the Hulkbuster Armor, and the Winter Soldier used his glowing mechanical arm to destroy it.
• Natasha warned Lynn that the Winter Soldier’s arm contained Tesseract Extract, as the Winter Soldier turned toward Lynn and raised his hand.

Wanda saved Lynn from the Winter Soldier’s spatial attack, captured Gwen, and sent her back to New York while Lynn promised Wanda his exclusive devotion. As Lynn prepared to confront the Winter Soldier and rescue Natasha, a squad member impaled Natasha’s shoulder, triggering Lynn’s murderous rage.

• Gwen rushed through a portal to shield Lynn from the Winter Soldier’s spatial strike, but Wanda shattered the attack and restrained Gwen with scarlet chains.
• Wanda accused Gwen of trying to steal Lynn and tightened the chain around her neck until Lynn calmed Wanda and ordered Gwen to return to New York.
• Wanda threw Gwen through the portal, destroyed it, and sealed the dimensional coordinates before Lynn assured Wanda that only she could stand beside him.
• The Winter Soldier prepared another attack as the Siberian Suicide Squad broke free, and one squad member crushed Natasha’s ribs while she clutched the hard drive.
• Lynn told Wanda to clear the surrounding enemies and advanced toward the Winter Soldier, but a squad member pierced Natasha’s shoulder and lifted her into the air, provoking Lynn’s killing intent.

Natasha risked her life to protect the hard drive for Lynn, who killed Giant Bear and ordered Wanda to keep Natasha alive. As Lynn prepared to fight the remaining enemies, the Winter Soldier’s arm triggered a buried Hydra structure, and Spider-Sense warned Lynn of a new threat.

• Giant Bear impaled Natasha and tried to take the hard drive, but she fought back and refused to surrender it.
• Lynn rushed in, crushed Giant Bear’s skull, caught Natasha, and sealed her wounds with Chaos Magic.
• Wanda obeyed Lynn’s order to protect Natasha while the surviving squad members and Winter Soldier turned on Lynn.
• Tony Stark and JARVIS recognized that Lynn’s power exceeded their ability to assess.
• The Winter Soldier’s arm misfired into the ice, opening an abyss and raising a rune-covered Hydra dome as Lynn’s Spider-Sense sounded an unprecedented warning.

Wanda annihilated Hydra’s forces while Lynn kept Natasha alive, then Lynn pursued the fleeing Winter Soldier. The chapter ended as Lynn caught the Winter Soldier and struck toward the joint of his mechanical arm.

• Hydra’s soldiers fired plasma cannons at Lynn, who ordered Wanda to kill them all.
• Wanda erased the plasma beams, shattered Hydra’s shield, and crushed its dome and soldiers into a ball of metal and flesh.
• Wanda returned to Lynn after the attack, while Lynn confirmed that Chaos Magic had sealed Natasha’s injuries.
• The Winter Soldier escaped toward a Siberia base exit, and Lynn pursued him using his speed and Spider-Sense.
• Lynn caught the Winter Soldier by his mechanical arm and chopped toward the joint connecting it to his shoulder.

Lynn overwhelmed the Winter Soldier in a hand-to-hand fight without using magic, but Tony Stark arrived in Hulkbuster Backup Armor and unleashed a deadly barrage. Lynn faced the incoming fire as Natasha remained gravely wounded nearby.

• Lynn jammed the Winter Soldier's mechanical arm, dodged his attacks, and kicked him across the ice, breaking his bones.
• The Winter Soldier charged Lynn with his Tesseract-powered mechanical arm, but Lynn met his punch, crushed the arm's casing, and threw him into the ice.
• Wanda watched Lynn defeat the Winter Soldier and grew more possessive of him.
• Lynn sensed danger from above as Stark Industries' Veronica System airdrop pod landed nearby and assembled around Tony Stark.
• Tony, consumed by rage over his parents' deaths, targeted the Winter Soldier with missiles and a charged unibeam while Lynn and Natasha remained in the attack zone.
• Lynn faced the incoming barrage and raised his left hand toward the fire.

Tony attacked the Winter Soldier over his parents’ deaths, but Lynn stopped him and offered a deal to keep Bucky alive until he could use him against Hydra. The Winter Soldier’s damaged mechanical arm then unleashed a spatial rift, revealing a pair of red mechanical eyes that Lynn recognized as Ultron’s Prototype Code.

• Wanda shielded Lynn and the Winter Soldier from Tony’s missiles, then obeyed Lynn when he told her to stand down.
• Tony tried to crush the Winter Soldier, but Lynn caught his punch and threw the Hulkbuster Armor backward.
• Lynn told Tony that Bucky held Hydra’s assassination lists and secret base coordinates, and warned that killing him could turn Steve against Tony.
• Lynn offered Tony a chance to spare Bucky while taking his mechanical arm as compensation.
• The Tesseract Extract inside Bucky’s arm erupted, opening a spatial rift as red mechanical eyes appeared on the other side.

Lynn stopped Tony from killing Bucky by offering him the chance to destroy Hydra, while Wanda crushed a mechanical threat emerging from a spatial rift. The deal left Tony poised to cut off Bucky’s metal arm, until Lynn’s Spider-Sense warned him that something living and grotesque lay inside it.

• Wanda used Chaos Magic to collapse the rift and destroy the mechanical eyes that Lynn identified as an embryonic consciousness born from the Zola Algorithm and the Tesseract’s energy.
• Lynn persuaded Tony not to kill Bucky, arguing that Bucky was their lead to Hydra’s leaders and secret bases.
• Tony accepted Lynn’s deal to spare Bucky for now in exchange for a list of Hydra leaders and base coordinates.
• Tony aimed a laser cutter at Bucky’s disabled metal arm and began cutting it off as interest for his parents’ deaths.
• Lynn’s Spider-Sense warned him when the cut exposed dark red, writhing flesh beneath the metal casing.