Chapter Summaries

Gwen Stacy attacked Hela to protect Lynn, but Hela caught her and began crushing her throat while overpowering Wanda. Lynn finally intervened by making himself appear gravely injured and collapsing, leaving the others to react to his fall.

• Gwen Stacy used a burst of bioelectric speed to attack Hela, but Hela's death energy stopped the dagger and shattered Gwen's hand.
• Hela seized Gwen Stacy by the throat and threatened to kill her after discovering Lynn's death energy in her body.
• Wanda broke free of the Night Sky Swords and charged Hela, but Hela struck her away with a wave of sword energy.
• As Gwen Stacy neared death, Lynn deliberately made death force and chaos magic collide, vomited blood, and collapsed to the ground.

Lynn deliberately let his body appear near death to stop Hela and protect his allies, making Hela, Wanda, Susan, and Gwen believe they had caused his injuries. Hela and Wanda reached him but froze before touching him, afraid their remaining power would kill him.

• Lynn lay bleeding on the frozen ground after letting Chaos Magic and Death Energy tear through his body to halt Hela’s rampage.
• Hela released Gwen Stacy and rushed to Lynn, believing he was dying from the battle.
• Wanda saw Lynn’s condition and blamed herself, while Susan and Gwen also believed their actions had caused his injuries.
• Hela and Wanda reached Lynn at the same time but stopped just short of touching him, terrified their power would worsen his condition.

After Lynn was badly wounded, Hela and Wanda fought over how to save him while he pretended to be near death. Loki then aimed the Bifrost at New Mexico to destroy Hela, Thor, Lynn, and the surrounding area, leaving Hela and Wanda facing the strike together.

• Hela and Wanda blamed each other for Lynn's injuries, while Gwen Stacy and Susan tried and failed to reach him.
• Hela attempted to use death energy to stabilize Lynn, but Wanda stopped her, and the two argued over who could save him.
• Lynn inwardly considered his near-death act successful because it had made the women stop fighting and compete to help him.
• A seven-colored Bifrost beam descended toward Lynn, and Thor recognized it as Loki's attack.
• Loki issued an extermination order targeting Hela, Thor, Lynn, and all of New Mexico.
• Hela and Wanda stood their ground beneath the Bifrost strike after looking down at Lynn.

Loki unleashed the Bifrost on Lynn, threatening to annihilate the crater and everyone around it, while Lynn stayed still to preserve his feigned death. Hela and Wanda rose to defend him, united in fury as the pillar neared the ground.

• Lynn endured the Bifrost’s crushing energy while remaining motionless to keep his performance of having died convincing.
• Thor struggled helplessly against the metal spikes pinning him as the Bifrost surged toward Lynn’s crater.
• Susan and Gwen Stacy were battered by the energy storm and could not reach Lynn.
• Hela and Wanda stood over Lynn after noticing his blood and stopped fighting each other.
• Hela summoned an enormous Night Sky Sword and Wanda unleashed scarlet Chaos particles as they prepared to confront the Bifrost.

Hela and Wanda joined forces to repel the Bifrost and send their combined attack through its channel toward Asgard. Lynn watched as the pillar headed for Loki, who was at the Asgardian control console.

• Lynn lay trapped beneath the Bifrost's crushing force as Hela and Wanda shielded him with death energy and chaos magic.
• Hela and Wanda fused their powers and struck the descending Bifrost with a dark red pillar of energy.
• The combined attack forced the Bifrost back, stunning Thor, Susan, and Gwen Stacy.
• Hela and Wanda drove the pillar through the clouds and along the Bifrost channel toward its attacker.
• Lynn closed his eyes as the attack approached Asgard, where Loki sat at the control console.

Lynn sensed the Bifrost’s destructive backlash strike Loki and destroy the hub, ending the attack on Earth. As Hela, Wanda, Susan, and Gwen fought over his supposedly unconscious body, Lynn opened his eyes as the standoff threatened to erupt again.

• Lynn’s psychic connection let him witness Loki push the Bifrost to its limit, only for dark red energy to destroy the Hub Crystal and blast Loki across the chamber.
• Lynn withdrew his consciousness as the pillar of light faded, while Thor stared in despair at the ruined Bifrost attack.
• Hela and Wanda argued over taking Lynn, then seized him with death-energy and chaos chains that pulled his injured body in opposite directions.
• Susan tried to sever the chains with her Invisible Force Field, while the injured Gwen crawled toward Lynn with an electrified dagger.
• Hela formed the Night Sky Sword as Wanda gathered chaos magic, and Lynn opened his eyes before the women could tear him apart.

Lynn stopped hiding his strength and fused the Dark Phoenix's Phoenix Force, Chaos Magic, and Death Force to break free from Wanda and Hela. He overpowered the women around him and confronted Hela, questioning her authority on his turf.

• Lynn unleashed the fused powers, shattered Wanda's Scarlet Chains, and crushed Hela's chain of death energy.
• The resulting blast overturned Susan's force field and sent Susan and Gwen Stacy flying into the wreckage and mud.
• Lynn rebuked Wanda, Susan, and Gwen Stacy, demanding obedience and dismissing their attempts to claim him.
• Lynn approached the shaken Hela and mocked her for thinking she could give orders on his turf.

Lynn confronted Hela after she arrived on Earth, using an overwhelming rebuke and threat to force her to abandon her claim over him. Hela accepted his scolding and pressed her cheek against his hand, revealing her obedience and growing obsession.

• Lynn taunted Hela and dared her to attack him as she held a Night Sky Sword to his throat.
• Lynn criticized Hela's weakened state and warned that Ancient One could send her to the Mirror Dimension.
• Lynn seized Hela's chin and ordered her not to threaten him or harm his women, or he would imprison her again.
• Hela told Lynn that she had come to take him away because he had promised to wait for her at the end of death.
• Hela accepted Lynn's rebuke and gently pressed her cheek against the hand that had hurt her.

Lynn broke down Hela’s pride, and she submitted to him, begging to stay by his side and promising to obey. As Wanda and Susan watched warily, Lynn softened his expression, preparing to bind Hela to him on his own terms.

• Lynn’s cold treatment made Hela remember how he had once shielded her from Odin’s Divine Punishment, and she leaned against his hand.
• Wanda grew jealous and nearly approached Hela, but Lynn’s warning gaze stopped her.
• Hela’s armor and crown vanished, and she knelt on the debris-strewn ground at Lynn’s feet.
• Hela clung to Lynn’s leg and promised to kill or kneel whenever he commanded.
• Lynn decided Hela had been broken enough and replaced his brutal expression with a gentle smile.

Lynn broke through Hela’s pride and bound her to him with a promise to help her claim vengeance against Odin and Asgard. Wanda, consumed by jealousy at seeing Hela lean on Lynn, lost control of her Chaos Magic, and Lynn turned to face her as the confrontation began.

• Lynn wiped the blood from Hela’s face and told her that only he was allowed to hurt her.
• Lynn promised Hela he would help her collect the Throne and settle Asgard’s debts, and Hela surrendered her resistance and leaned against him.
• Wanda saw Hela resting against Lynn and, overwhelmed by jealousy, began unleashing destructive Chaos Magic.
• Susan warned Wanda to calm down, but Wanda declared that anyone who touched Lynn would die and targeted Hela.
• Lynn stopped Hela from retaliating, then rose and faced Wanda as her scarlet storm gathered.

Lynn calmed Wanda by convincing her that Hela was only a tool and that Wanda remained his priority, then declared that he would keep Hela on Earth and bar Asgard and other deities from interfering. The chapter left Lynn’s challenge poised to disrupt the balance of power across the universe.

• Wanda unleashed chaotic magic against Hela, but Lynn restrained Hela and approached Wanda, using his matching chaos magic to calm her power.
• Lynn established a private Mind Link with Wanda and told her that Hela was a disposable weapon while Wanda was his bottom line.
• Wanda’s anger subsided, and she embraced Lynn while Hela and Susan watched.
• Lynn addressed the women and announced that Hela would remain on Earth, which he declared off-limits to Asgard and every deity in the universe.

Lynn rejected Hela’s condition and ordered her to hide on Earth, explaining that Odin and Earth’s magical guardian could not interfere. He then revealed his plan to erase Earth from the Nine Realms’ star chart, leaving Hela and Wanda stunned.

• Lynn told Hela he was ordering her to stay rather than negotiating with her.
• Hela protested that Odin would notice if she used her power on Earth and send Asgard’s armies after it.
• Lynn said Odin had exhausted his divine power and would soon enter the Odinsleep, while the guardian of Earth was occupied by Dormammu.
• Lynn announced that he planned to erase Earth from the star chart of the Nine Realms.

Lynn ordered Susan, Wanda, and Hela to build a layered planetary defense that would conceal Earth and destroy anyone who tried to enter. Hela agreed to serve him, but demanded to live above Wanda and Susan in the Baxter Building and be treated as their queen.

• Lynn instructed Susan to use the Negative Zone Matrix to create a globe-spanning invisible force field around Earth.
• Lynn tasked Wanda with using Chaos Magic to hide Earth from higher-dimensional observation and Hela with guarding dimensional entry points using her Death Force.
• Lynn promised Hela they would bring the universe’s deities to heel, and Hela pledged her army, power, and loyalty to him.
• Hela demanded to live on the Baxter Building’s top floor as Lynn’s queen and declared that everyone on Earth except Lynn must kneel before her.
• Wanda’s magic lifted the surrounding sand and gravel as Hela unleashed death energy toward her.

Lynn watched as Hela, Wanda, and Susan fought over who had the right to live in and control the Baxter Building. He encouraged the escalating conflict, while Hela’s possessiveness toward him reached 95%.

• Hela demanded to move into the Baxter Building’s top floor and declared that everyone but Lynn would have to kneel to her.
• Wanda confronted Hela, insisting that the top floor belonged to her and Lynn.
• Susan defended the Baxter Building as her dowry and offered Hela only the fifth-basement isolation chamber as a research specimen.
• Hela threatened Susan with the Night Sky Sword, and Wanda attacked Hela with a scarlet shock wave.
• Lynn watched without intervening as the women’s conflict intensified, and the system reported that Hela’s possessiveness had reached 95%.

Lynn ended the confrontation among Hela, Wanda, and Susan by setting strict rules for their place in the Baxter Building and assigning them duties. After the group returned to the building, he learned that Charles Xavier and the mutants were approaching and ordered them admitted.

• Lynn ordered Hela to abandon her queenly claims and made her Earth's outermost defensive barrier, with Susan tasked with monitoring her.
• Lynn assigned Wanda to reinforce the building's Reality Modification Barrier and restrict movement between floors.
• Susan opened a portal to the Baxter Building, and Hela followed with Gwen Stacy under her personal supervision.
• The system warned Lynn that Hela's arrival had triggered a Dark Phoenix psychic resonance and that Charles Xavier had located the building.
• Natasha told Lynn that Charles and the mutants were approaching Manhattan aboard the Blackbird and wanted to speak with him.
• Lynn ordered the mutants admitted and called them fresh prey for his subordinates.

Lynn imposed a new hierarchy on the women at the Baxter Building, declaring that strength and value would determine who earned his favor. When Charles Xavier and several X-Men approached with a gene bank and Cerebro, Lynn sent the others to intercept them while Natasha covered their operations; he planned to begin a global purge that night.

• Hela challenged Natasha, but Susan, Wanda, and Gwen stepped in, creating a dangerous standoff in the Baxter Building.
• Lynn smashed his coffee cup, subdued Hela, and ordered the women to stop fighting over status and compete through strength and service to him.
• Lynn revealed that Charles Xavier and several X-Men were approaching with a gene bank and Cerebro, then sent Wanda, Hela, Susan, and Gwen to confront them.
• Natasha stayed behind to take over New York City's air-raid warning system and disable surveillance cameras near the building.
• Lynn rejected Natasha's offer to notify the military and planned a covert global purge, with the X-Men as its first targets.

Nick Fury watched footage of Lynn and the powerful women who followed him, realizing S.H.I.E.L.D. had lost control of Earth. In New York, Lynn watched the women destroy the X-Men’s aircraft before the Dark Phoenix Mark flared and a dark-gold rift opened in the sky.

• Coulson sent Fury footage of the battle in New Mexico, where Lynn and the women defeated Thor and the Destroyer Armor and returned through a portal.
• Fury crushed his cigar and despaired over the failure of the Avengers Initiative and his loss of control.
• At the Baxter Building, Lynn watched Susan, Gwen Stacy, Wanda, and Hela slaughter the X-Men’s aircraft while Natasha reported that Charles’s brainwave signal had vanished.
• Lynn refused Natasha’s offer to send ground troops to retrieve the mutants’ remains and told her to let the women vent.
• Lynn’s Dark Phoenix Mark erupted in flames, and the system warned that the Dark Phoenix personality was descending after locking onto him.
• A dark-gold rift tore open above New York as a devastating bird cry rang across the city.

Lynn suppressed the Dark Phoenix personality’s psychic attack and gained a Dark Phoenix Mark after provoking her to break free of Charles Xavier’s restraints. As the X-Men’s Blackbirds approached New York, he sent Hela, Wanda, Susan, and Gwen to confront them and promised a reward to whoever brought Charles to him.

• Dark Phoenix’s energy erupted from the mark inside Lynn’s arm, injuring him and prompting Hela, Wanda, Susan, and Gwen to try to help.
• Lynn’s consciousness entered a fiery psychic cage, where he confronted the chained Dark Phoenix and urged her to break free from Charles Xavier’s restraints.
• Dark Phoenix’s flames subsided, leaving a firebird mark on Lynn’s arm, and he told the four women that she had threatened to kill them and claim him.
• The four women grew jealous and demanded to know where Dark Phoenix was, while Lynn noticed the X-Men’s Blackbirds approaching Manhattan.
• Lynn told Hela, Wanda, Susan, and Gwen to attack the incoming aircraft and promised that whoever brought Charles Xavier to him would enter his bedroom that night.

Lynn’s four allies destroyed the X-Men aircraft and overwhelmed its team, but their rivalry over Charles Xavier left him alive. As Lynn’s mark flared, a red-haired woman emerged from the wreckage and fixed her gaze on him, vowing to burn them to death.

• Lynn ordered Gwen Stacy, Hela, Wanda, and Susan to attack the X-Men aircraft, and the women disabled two planes and brought down the lead aircraft.
• Scott Summers, Storm, and Wolverine fought back, but Wanda deflected Scott’s lasers and Susan crushed Wolverine with her force field.
• Charles Xavier tried to enter Wanda’s mind, but the psychic backlash injured him, and Lynn urged the women to claim him.
• The four women surrounded Charles and Scott in the plaza, then began arguing over who would take Charles.
• Lynn’s arm mark flared as a red-haired woman emerged from the wreckage, stared at him, and vowed to burn them to death.

Jean Grey arrived at the square and attacked Gwen Stacy and Susan with dark golden flames while declaring that she would burn Lynn’s women to death. Wanda and Hela prepared to fight back, and Hela launched a direct attack on Jean as Lynn watched from the Baxter Building.

• Jean Grey’s destructive flames stopped Gwen Stacy’s dagger and burned it away, while her attack on Susan’s force field caused a backlash that badly injured Susan.
• Jean Grey called Wanda a lowly witch and Hela a walking corpse, then formed a dense ball of dark golden fire.
• Lynn watched the fight from the Baxter Building and welcomed Jean Grey’s challenge as a way to intensify the women’s rivalry.
• Wanda gathered Chaos Magic into enormous wings and demanded that Jean Grey repeat her insult.
• Hela raised the Night Sky Sword, plunged the square into darkness, and appeared before Jean Grey to strike at her throat.