Chapter Summaries

Jean Grey’s dark golden flames devoured Hela’s Night Sky Sword, driving Hela to burn her divine soul and charge into battle with a newly forged weapon. As Hela and Jean clashed, Wanda’s jealousy turned into an obsession with erasing them both from Lynn’s sight.

• Jean Grey’s flames consumed Hela’s Night Sky Sword and fed on its death energy.
• Hela severed her connection to the ruined sword, retreated, and roared in fury as she realized her power could not overcome Jean’s flames.
• Hela burned her divine soul to forge a stronger Night Sky Sword and attacked Jean Grey with the strength of her divinity.
• Jean Grey unleashed a sea of dark golden flames, and Hela charged to meet her as death and destruction collided.
• Lynn watched the battle from the Baxter Building and called Hela a disobedient pet worth taming.
• Wanda watched the fight, became consumed by jealousy, and gathered Chaos Particles as she considered erasing Hela and Jean Grey.

Wanda’s jealousy drove her to unleash reality-warping chaos magic against Dark Phoenix while Hela was caught between their powers. As the battlefield became a growing storm of destruction, Charles Xavier’s wheelchair slid toward its edge, leaving Lynn’s promised prize in immediate danger.

• Wanda watched Hela and Dark Phoenix fight over Lynn and became consumed by jealousy and obsession.
• Wanda rewrote reality around herself, disrupting Dark Phoenix’s flames and the laws of physics.
• Dark Phoenix turned her flames into a giant firebird, and Wanda used a Chaos Chain to bind Jean Grey’s spiritual core while enduring the fire.
• Wanda and Dark Phoenix battled in a red-and-gold storm that trapped Hela and rapidly consumed her divine soul.
• Charles Xavier’s wheelchair slid toward the storm’s edge, putting Lynn’s promised prize at risk.

Gwen Stacy risked her life to rescue Charles Xavier from the energy storm and bring him back from the abyss. Jean Grey abandoned her clash with Wanda and Hela to form a giant firebird and target Gwen.

• Hela, Wanda, and Jean Grey fought within a destructive storm while Charles Xavier’s wheelchair slid toward an abyss unnoticed by the combatants.
• Gwen Stacy spotted Charles and used her Spider-Sense to find a brief safe route through the storm, despite her fear and injuries.
• Gwen webbed Charles’s wheelchair and dragged it away from the abyss before the safe route closed, then was hurled into a wall by the shock wave.
• Gwen looked toward Lynn, believing she had completed his task, but Jean Grey’s fury turned toward her.
• Jean Grey gathered her dark-gold flames into a giant firebird and locked onto Gwen and Charles.

Susan used the Baxter Building’s Negative Zone energy to shield Gwen and Charles from Jean Grey’s Dark Phoenix attack, exhausting herself as the force fields failed. Just as the final barrier was about to collapse and the firebird threatened to kill them, Lynn finally intervened.

• Jean Grey abandoned her clash with Wanda and Hela, formed a dark golden firebird, and sent it toward Gwen and Charles.
• Susan raised thirty layers of force fields to protect Gwen, insisting that she was preserving the team’s spoils rather than saving Gwen.
• Susan overloaded the Baxter Building’s energy systems to power the shields as the firebird shattered them one by one.
• Susan exhausted herself and collapsed to one knee while the last force field cracked under the firebird’s attack.
• Lynn lowered his wineglass and addressed the dark golden firebird, asking whether its rampage had gone on long enough.

Lynn reversed the Dark Phoenix mind link and used the forces of chaos and death in his mental dimension to overpower Jean Grey and destroy her firebird form. Jean survived but became obsessed with Lynn, while the others in the plaza realized the battle had shifted in his favor.

• Lynn refused to disconnect the unstable mind link and opened a reverse psychic channel at maximum power.
• Jean Grey abandoned her attack on Susan and Gwen Stacy and surged through the link toward Lynn's mind.
• In the mental dimension, Lynn bound the Dark Phoenix with chains of chaos and death and strangled her power.
• The Dark Golden Firebird disintegrated in the plaza, and Jean Grey collapsed unconscious as Susan and Gwen Stacy survived.
• Jean Grey awoke with a new devotion to Lynn and fixed her gaze on the top floor of the Baxter Building.

Jean Grey rose from the wreckage and, obsessed with Lynn after he dominated her Phoenix power, charged toward him at the top of the Baxter Building. She shattered Wanda and Hela’s attempts to stop her and smashed through Lynn’s window, lunging at him as a colossal firebird.

• Jean Grey recovered from the Blackbird wreckage and ignored the women in the plaza as she fixed her gaze on Lynn’s position.
• Jean Grey transformed into a dark golden meteor and launched herself toward the Baxter Building’s top floor.
• Wanda sent Chaos Chains after Jean Grey, while Hela fired a net of Night Sky Swords, but Jean Grey burned through and shattered both attacks.
• Lynn watched Jean Grey approach and recognized the possessiveness driving her assault.
• Jean Grey’s Phoenix flames melted the building’s exterior and shattered the floor-to-ceiling window before she lunged at Lynn as a giant firebird.

Lynn stopped the Dark Golden Firebird’s attack with his bare hand, used Death Force to extinguish her flames, and crushed her neck until she reverted to Jean Grey. As Wanda, Hela, Susan, and Gwen Stacy arrived and saw the ruined office, Lynn challenged Hela to reconsider whether living with him was an indignity.

• The Dark Golden Firebird burst into the Baxter Building’s top-floor office and charged Lynn, but he stepped forward and seized her physical neck with his bare hand.
• Lynn endured the firebird’s heat and impact, then poured Death Force into her, rapidly extinguishing her dark golden flames.
• Lynn crushed the firebird’s neck, causing her form to dissolve into golden motes and reveal the unconscious Jean Grey; he used spatial force to move Jean safely aside.
• Wanda, Hela, Susan, and Gwen Stacy entered the devastated office and saw Lynn’s burned hand and Jean Grey lying unconscious.
• Lynn looked at Hela and asked whether she still considered living with him an indignity.

Lynn subdued Jean Grey and forced Hela, Wanda, Susan, and Gwen Stacy to kneel, declaring that they were his possessions and must obey his rules. With the conflict contained, he turned his attention to the unconscious person in the wheelchair and the X-Gene and mutant population he hoped to claim.

• Lynn dismissed Hela's pride and dragged the unconscious Jean Grey to the holographic platform.
• Lynn slammed Jean Grey into the platform and declared that she was a trophy like the other women.
• Lynn laid down rules forbidding infighting, disobedience, and attempts to read or test his mind.
• Lynn's power forced Susan, Gwen Stacy, Wanda, and finally Hela to kneel before him.
• Lynn turned toward the unconscious wheelchair occupant and considered the X-Gene and mutant population his next assets.

Lynn subdued the Dark Phoenix and claimed Charles Xavier and Cerebro as valuable assets, then rewarded Gwen with the promised private time. Inside his bedroom, Gwen asked to watch him without interruption, revealing the intensity of her obsession.

• Lynn withdrew his restraints on Jean Grey, leaving the Dark Phoenix dormant beneath a soul brand that punished resistance and rewarded obedience.
• Lynn ordered Gwen to bring him Charles Xavier and the ruined Cerebro helmet, while Wanda, Hela, and Susan watched with jealousy.
• Lynn praised Gwen and honored her victory in the competition, provoking renewed resentment from the other women, who did not dare object.
• Lynn took Gwen into his bedroom, leaving Wanda, Hela, and Susan outside.
• Gwen embraced Lynn from behind and asked him to let her keep watching him all night without ever leaving her sight.

After Lynn shut himself in the bedroom with Gwen Stacy, she removed her mask and knelt to serve him while the other women waited outside, consumed by jealousy and fear. Susan proposed that Wanda and Hela help her extract more value from Charles Xavier so they could offer Lynn a greater reward in the morning.

• Lynn ordered Gwen Stacy to remove her mask, and she eagerly revealed her face to him.
• Gwen Stacy knelt at Lynn's feet and carefully wiped dust from his combat boots.
• Wanda wept with jealousy outside the bedroom while Hela fought the urge to kill Gwen and Susan paced in frustration.
• Hela asked whether they would wait outside all night, and Wanda warned her against challenging Lynn.
• Susan pointed out that Gwen had earned her reward by bringing back Charles Xavier and proposed making a richer offering from him the next morning.

Susan, Wanda, and Hela joined forces to extract valuable information from Charles Xavier in hopes of winning Lynn’s favor and outshining Gwen Stacy. Charles awoke and unleashed his psychic power, but Hela’s death seal trapped it inside his mind.

• Susan proposed turning Charles into a richer tribute, and Wanda and Hela agreed to help her exploit his memories.
• Wanda dissolved the force-field cage, and Hela dragged Charles onto a laboratory table despite Susan’s warning to be careful.
• Susan scanned Charles’s brain, while Hela sealed his mind with death energy and Wanda began stealing his memories with chaos magic.
• The three women extracted information about the Mutants Academy, Cerebro, Phoenix, and Lynn as they competed to impress him.
• Wanda’s magic neared Charles’s hidden memories of the Sacred Timeline and the TVA, but Charles suddenly woke and unleashed a psychic storm.
• Hela’s death seal stopped Charles’s psychic storm from escaping his skull, leaving him shocked by his powerlessness.

Lynn emerged from his bedroom with Gwen Stacy, provoking Wanda, Hela, and Susan before Susan presented their overnight mutant dossier. After approving the report, Lynn ordered Professor X’s disposal and asked which of the women would crush his final illusion.

• Lynn left his bedroom, followed by Gwen Stacy wearing his shirt, while Wanda, Hela, and Susan confronted them with barely contained jealousy.
• Wanda prepared to attack Gwen, and Hela summoned Night Sky Swords, but Susan interrupted them to present Lynn with a top-secret mutant dossier.
• Lynn reviewed the report on Charles Xavier, the Mutants Academy, Alpha-Level mutants, and Sentinel weaknesses, then told the women it was very good.
• Lynn called Professor X a tool whose value had been exhausted and asked who would go to crush his last illusion.

Lynn confronted Charles Xavier with evidence of humanity’s plans to persecute mutants, shattering Charles’s faith in peaceful coexistence and declaring himself the one who would make the rules. Charles sent a desperate psychic call for Jean, but she woke in the Baxter Building devoted to Lynn and found Charles’s Mind Link repulsive.

• Lynn entered the Backup Biological Laboratory with Susan, Wanda, and Hela and confronted the immobilized Charles Xavier.
• Lynn challenged Charles’s dream of peaceful coexistence by citing Wolverine’s treatment, Sentinel prototypes, and the persecution of mutant children.
• Lynn showed Charles a military plan for smearing, tracking, imprisoning, and ultimately eliminating mutants, and Charles’s convictions collapsed.
• Lynn declared that power was for making the rules and announced that he was the new rules.
• Charles sent a faint psychic plea to Jean for rescue, while Jean woke in the Baxter Building devoted to Lynn and repulsed by Charles’s Mind Link.

Jean Grey woke imprisoned in the Baxter Building, but the Throne Brand Lynn had implanted drove her to escape and reach him. She crawled to the fifth-basement laboratory, where Wanda Maximoff and Hela blocked her entrance.

• Jean Grey awoke restrained in the Baxter Building and felt the Throne Brand compel her to obey and find Lynn.
• Professor Charles Xavier sent Jean a desperate psychic plea, but she dismissed him and searched for Lynn's presence instead.
• Jean broke her energy shackles with the Phoenix Force, then crawled out of the containment room despite her injuries.
• Jean reached the laboratory door on the fifth basement level, where Wanda Maximoff and Hela stopped her.
• Wanda and Hela threatened Jean and refused to let her enter the laboratory.

Wanda and Hela confronted the kneeling Jean Grey outside Lynn’s laboratory, humiliating her as a newcomer. Jean suppressed the Phoenix Force rather than risk angering Lynn, and when the laboratory door unlocked, all three women froze in anticipation of his judgment.

• Wanda used scarlet magic to pin Jean Grey to the floor and demanded to know why she had come.
• Hela called Jean a bug and urged Wanda to crush her or drive her away.
• Jean’s Phoenix Force surged in response, but the black Throne’s influence forced her to suppress it rather than attack Lynn’s accepted collectibles.
• Wanda nudged Jean’s hair with her boot and warned her to remember her place as Lynn’s dog.
• The laboratory door unlocked and opened, causing Wanda, Hela, and Jean to fall silent and wait motionlessly.

Lynn entered the laboratory and watched Jean Grey submit to him, breaking Charles Xavier’s last hope and faith. Declaring himself the sole law for mutants, he identified Xavier’s School as his next target.

• Lynn emerged from the laboratory and found Wanda and Hela standing over the battered Jean Grey.
• Jean crawled to Lynn and reverently licked the toe of his boot.
• Charles Xavier witnessed Jean’s submission and lost faith in his ideals and his final hope.
• Lynn stepped over Jean, declared himself the sole law for mutants, and examined the global mutant dossier.
• Lynn marked Xavier’s School in Westchester County as unclaimed assets to be claimed under his rule.

Hela volunteered to suppress Xavier’s School and bring its Mutants to Lynn, hoping to secure her standing among his followers. Lynn approved the mission but forbade meaningless slaughter, and Wanda interrupted Hela as she prepared to leave.

• After Charles Xavier’s mental world collapsed, Lynn called the Mutants listed in the file unclaimed assets.
• Hela offered to go to Westchester and bring back everyone at Xavier’s School through an efficient suppression.
• Lynn granted Hela’s request but ordered her to preserve the Mutants as living assets and avoid meaningless slaughter.
• Hela accepted Lynn’s conditions, while Wanda grew jealous of Hela’s chance to claim the achievement.
• As Hela prepared to leave, Wanda stopped her.

Wanda challenged Hela’s plan to seize Xavier’s School, arguing that Hela’s Death Energy could damage Lynn’s desired assets. Lynn sent them together, assigning Hela to suppress the Mutants and Wanda to control the battlefield, and made their performance a competition for his favor.

• Wanda interrupted Hela as she prepared to leave for Westchester County and argued that Hela’s power could contaminate the Mutants and Lynn’s gene repository.
• Wanda insisted on accompanying Hela as an overseer, prompting Hela to erupt in anger and threaten a confrontation.
• Lynn stopped both women’s powers and agreed that careful control was needed to preserve Xavier’s School and its inhabitants.
• Lynn ordered Hela to lead the assault and Wanda to contain its effects, telling them to bring back the school, its people, and its property with minimal losses.
• Hela and Wanda set off separately toward Xavier’s School, each determined to outperform the other and win Lynn’s favor.

Lynn forced Cerebro to connect to the Baxter Building’s Negative Zone Energy Matrix and used Chaos Magic to seize Charles Xavier’s psychic network, gaining awareness of mutants across Earth. As he explored the network, he detected a bizarre signal in a remote Canadian mountain and heard Wade’s thoughts.

• Lynn ordered Susan to connect Cerebro to the Negative Zone Energy Matrix, and she began rebuilding the device with her force fields.
• Lynn used Chaos Magic on Charles Xavier to seize the global psychic network linking mutants.
• Cerebro and the Negative Zone Matrix fused under the strain, turning Lynn into a conduit who could sense mutants’ locations and thoughts across Earth.
• Charles lost his life and his psychic gift became part of Lynn’s power.
• Lynn detected a flickering, chaotic signal in the Canadian mountains and heard Wade angrily addressing whoever was inside his mind.

Lynn took control of the Global Psychic Network of Mutants and used its power to silence Deadpool, then detected Wanda and Hela arriving in Westchester County. He prepared for the confrontation as their Skyfather-level powers disturbed the network.

• Lynn detected Deadpool as a chaotic anomaly in the mutant psychic network and recognized Wade Wilson.
• Deadpool's vulgar thoughts interrupted Lynn, who ordered the network to gather the psychic power of millions of mutants.
• Lynn struck Deadpool with a massive psychic blow and sealed his access to the network behind a black barrier.
• Lynn sensed Wanda and Hela arrive in Westchester County, their powers distorting psychic connections across the region.