Recaps

Lynn consolidated control of the Baxter Building and directed Wanda, Susan, Gwen, and Natasha to dismantle Stryker’s plans. After the women destroyed the three Sentinels, Natasha trapped Stryker in his underground base as Lynn ordered the assault to begin.

• Lynn’s women massacred the mutants beneath the Pentagon, and Stryker watched footage of Lynn with Wanda, Susan, and Gwen Stacy.
• Lynn rescued the mortally wounded Natasha, claimed her life and soul, and learned from the Weapon X chip and Sabretooth’s memories that Stryker and Nick Fury were involved in the attacks.
• Lynn returned to the Baxter Building, subdued Wanda, Susan, and Gwen during their struggle over the building, and challenged them to tear apart Nick Fury’s intelligence network.
• Natasha uncovered Fury’s plans to approach Charles Xavier, while Susan gave Lynn the Negative Zone Energy Matrix and Wanda created a vast magical barrier to protect him.
• Lynn assigned Wanda, Susan, Gwen, and Natasha missions against S.H.I.E.L.D. and Stryker, then learned that three Sentry prototypes were approaching the Stark Industries building.
• Lynn set a points contest for destroying the Sentinels and finding Stryker’s base, and Susan crushed the first machine while Wanda erased the second with Chaos Magic.
• Gwen shut down the third Sentinel before its reactor detonated, and Natasha located Stryker’s bunker and took control of its systems.
• Natasha trapped Stryker in his dark, airless base, while Lynn ordered Wanda, Susan, and the others to break his bones inch by inch.

After destroying Stryker’s base, Lynn acquired the mutant database and drew the attention of the Dark Phoenix and Hela, whose power he fused into his own. He left for New Mexico to claim Mjolnir, entering a simulation with Hela while Gwen prepared to intercept a S.H.I.E.L.D. team.

• Wanda destroyed Stryker’s base, and Lynn stopped the women from fighting before Natasha revealed that the salvaged drive held Sentinel source code and Stryker’s mutant database.
• Lynn’s contact with the database resonated with the Dark Phoenix imprint in Jean Grey, and Wanda’s psychic attack damaged Jean’s mental defenses and accelerated her awakening.
• Lynn fused the Dark Phoenix imprint into his powers, but the resulting energy strained Earth’s spacetime and opened a fissure that let Hela reach him from Helheim.
• Lynn severed Hela’s psychic connection, then learned that Fury had exposed Mjolnir’s location in New Mexico to lure him out of New York.
• Lynn assigned Gwen Stacy to accompany him while Wanda, Susan, and Natasha guarded the Baxter Building, and he and Gwen traveled to the desert.
• Lynn entered a simulation targeting Hela and confronted her on a battlefield, refusing to kneel as he challenged her and earned her interest.
• Hela pierced Lynn’s chest with Death Force, but he endured the pain and seized her wrist, while Gwen spotted Coulson’s S.H.I.E.L.D. team approaching the crater and slipped away to hunt them.

Lynn used Hela’s army to defeat Odin’s vanguard in Helheim, then sacrificed himself to protect her from Odin’s attack. Back in New Mexico, Lynn survived the Destroyer’s assault and reunited with Hela, whose return brought Wanda, Susan, and Natasha into the confrontation.

• Lynn persuaded Hela to let him command her army, defeated Odin’s vanguard, and stood beside her when Odin arrived with his main force.
• Lynn shielded Hela from Odin and took Gungnir’s strike, triggering his Substitute Death Skill and completing Hela’s Yandere Personality awakening.
• Lynn returned to New Mexico, saved Gwen Stacy from the Destroyer’s beam with death energy, and dismantled the Destroyer Armor.
• Lynn impaled Thor with Uru metal, destroyed Coulson’s Communicator, and vanished with the gravely injured Gwen as Odin sensed Hela’s power and the seal in Helheim cracking.
• Hela broke free of the Abyss, killed Asgardian guards, sensed that Lynn was alive, and opened a rift toward him.
• Lynn waited with Gwen as Hela’s rift formed, while Wanda, Susan, and Natasha crossed dimensions to reach New Mexico.
• Hela descended into the desert and recognized Lynn, then overwhelmed the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Thor, Susan, Natasha, and Wanda when Wanda attacked her.
• Lynn remained standing under Hela’s death energy as she touched his cheek and prepared to claim him.

Lynn used his apparent near-death to stop Hela and Wanda’s battle, then brought Hela under his control and began preparing Earth against the gods. At the Baxter Building, his women attacked the X-Men, but Jean Grey arrived in a blaze of Dark Phoenix power and confronted them.

• Hela and Wanda fought across the New Mexico desert while Lynn protected Gwen, then Susan’s attempt to spirit him away drew Hela’s attack.
• Lynn collapsed after making Chaos Magic and Death Energy tear through his body, bringing Hela and Wanda together to shield him from Loki’s Bifrost strike.
• After Hela and Wanda destroyed Loki’s Bifrost attack, they fought over Lynn until he broke their chains, rebuked them, and forced Hela to submit.
• Lynn calmed Wanda and ordered Hela to remain on Earth, then assigned Susan, Wanda, and Hela roles in hiding and defending the planet.
• Hela’s arrival triggered a Dark Phoenix resonance as Charles Xavier approached Manhattan, and Lynn sent his women to confront the X-Men while Natasha disabled surveillance.
• Lynn’s Dark Phoenix mark flared, and he entered a psychic cage where he urged the chained Dark Phoenix to break free from Charles’s restraints.
• Lynn’s women brought down the X-Men aircraft and surrounded Charles Xavier, but a red-haired Jean Grey emerged from the wreckage and attacked them.
• Jean Grey burned Gwen’s dagger and badly injured Susan, while Wanda gathered Chaos Magic and Hela raised the Night Sky Sword to strike.