Recaps

Lynn subdued Jean Grey and Charles Xavier, then used Cerebro to seize the global mutant psychic network. He sent Hela and Wanda to claim Xavier’s School, where their clashing powers overwhelmed its defenses and Hela pinned Scott Summers as death energy spread toward the students.

• Jean Grey’s Dark Phoenix attacked Lynn, but he extinguished her flames, subdued her, and branded her into obedience before forcing the other women to kneel.
• Lynn ordered Gwen Stacy to bring him Charles Xavier, then had Wanda, Hela, and Susan extract information from Charles about the Mutants Academy and its defenses.
• Lynn broke Charles’s faith in peaceful coexistence by showing him plans to persecute mutants, then declared himself the new rules and claimed Xavier’s School as an asset.
• Jean Grey broke free of her restraints but submitted to Lynn at his laboratory door, while Charles witnessed her submission and lost his last hope.
• Lynn ordered Hela to lead an operation against Xavier’s School and Wanda to contain the damage, with both women tasked with bringing back its people and property.
• Susan connected Cerebro to the Negative Zone Energy Matrix as Lynn seized the global mutant psychic network through Charles, whose death left his psychic power with Lynn.
• Hela and Wanda’s powers collided over Xavier’s School, overwhelming its defenses, and Wanda lifted the academy intact while Hela declared the mutants Lynn’s property.
• Scott Summers attacked Hela with his full power, but she stopped his blast and pinned him with Night Sky Swords as death energy spread toward the unconscious students.

Lynn brought Xavier’s School into the Negative Zone and turned its surviving mutants into a prison and power source, appointing Jean Grey as their warden. After Jean’s controlled X-Men defeated Crossbones’s team, Scott briefly broke free, but Jean erased his resistance and returned with Crossbones, leaving Lynn to judge the women’s rivalry and decide what to do with the captive agent.

• Wanda and Hela’s battle over Xavier’s School nearly destroyed the Academy, until Lynn froze them and ordered them to move it safely to the Negative Zone.
• Hela, Wanda, and Susan worked together to transport and repair the school, after which Lynn defeated Scott Summers’s psychic attack and declared the mutants would serve as gene banks and power sources.
• Jean Grey submitted to Lynn, tortured Scott, and became warden of the prisoners, while Hela supplied Death Force to power Cerebro and the prison.
• Nick Fury sent Crossbones and a STRIKE team to investigate the Baxter Building, and Jean led controlled mutants through a rift to confront them.
• The X-Men overwhelmed the STRIKE team, and Jean forced Scott to fire an Optic Blast that destroyed Crossbones’s sonic weapon and killed two operatives before Crossbones tried to warn S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Wanda’s Chaos Magic disrupted Jean’s control, briefly restoring Scott’s consciousness, while Crossbones charged Jean with a Micro Gamma Ray Bomb.
• Jean erased Scott’s returning memories and stopped the bomb, then broke Crossbones’s limbs and brought him and the controlled X-Men back to the Negative Zone.
• Hela and Wanda criticized Jean’s handling of the mission, prompting a confrontation that Lynn halted before rebuking all three women and turning his attention to Crossbones.

Lynn exposed Hydra’s plans and sent Hela, Wanda, and Jean Grey to destroy the Helicarriers and capture Alexander Pierce. Their competing attacks turned Washington into a battlefield, leaving Nick Fury trapped among the ruins as their powers converged on Bucky Barnes.

• Lynn broadcast Crossbones’s terror to S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra, then extracted intelligence from his memories about Project Insight, three Helicarriers, and the Zola Algorithm.
• Lynn ordered Hela, Wanda, and Jean Grey to destroy the Helicarriers and bring Pierce to him alive, making their reward time alone with him.
• Pierce launched the Helicarriers, seized control of S.H.I.E.L.D., and ordered the Winter Soldiers to kill Nick Fury as Lynn’s forces descended on Washington.
• Lynn assigned Jean Grey to control Hydra agents in the Triskelion, Wanda to seize the Helicarriers and rewrite the Zola Algorithm, and Hela to destroy structures and raise the dead.
• Jean Grey seized Hydra agents’ minds, Wanda turned the Helicarriers’ weapons against the Triskelion and Pierce, and Hela raised dead agents to attack the living.
• The three women’s attacks repeatedly disrupted one another as Nick Fury hid in the ruins and recognized that Lynn had turned the assault into a contest.
• Bucky Barnes fell through the ceiling, badly wounded but alive, as psychic tendrils, Chaos Magic, and deathly energy converged on him, while Pierce crawled toward an escape passage.

Lynn tested Wanda, Hela, and Jean Grey, then assigned them control over Hydra’s undead forces, technology, and mutant population while secretly manipulating their rivalries. As Tony Stark activated Ultron and global networks collapsed, Lynn prepared the women for a new assessment.

• Wanda, Hela, and Jean Grey fought over Pierce, bringing three Helicarriers down toward Washington, until Lynn stopped them, retrieved Pierce, and gave the women a chance to redeem themselves.
• Lynn tasked Jean Grey with extracting Hydra’s intelligence from Pierce and discovered Hydra’s mutant gene-fusion experiments in Siberia, while Nick Fury offered S.H.I.E.L.D.’s resources in exchange for Lynn limiting the fallout.
• Hela and Wanda attacked the Siberian base, where Wanda secretly rescued Pietro Maximoff and four other mutants, altered their memories, and falsified their records despite Lynn’s suspicions.
• Tony Stark traced the Washington data tampering to Ghost-Spider, identified her as Gwen Stacy from Earth-65, and began investigating Lynn, but Gwen disabled his armor when he tried to enter Lynn’s apartment.
• Lynn appointed Hela commander of the Undead Legion, gave Wanda Hydra’s technology, and authorized Jean Grey to consolidate Earth’s mutant groups, while Jean became enraged after Gwen sent her a memory of Lynn dying for her.
• Jean Grey’s Dark Phoenix consumed global networks and destroyed JARVIS, but Lynn suppressed the Phoenix and warned Jean that he would remove it if she lost control again.
• Tony Stark activated the Ultron Plan, and Lynn secretly programmed Ultron to target him once it considered itself invincible, intending to let it eliminate hidden threats before his women defeated it.
• Lynn assigned Hela, Wanda, and Jean Grey responsibility for military units, technological facilities, and superhuman individuals, then ordered them to survey threats to global stability as their next performance assessment.