Chapter Summaries

Hela and Wanda descended over Westchester, their death and chaos powers tearing across the sky and clashing above Xavier’s School. Scott Summers and the X-Men struggled to protect the students as the school faced an overwhelming crisis without Professor Charles Xavier.

• A sudden chill and deathly darkness spread across Xavier’s School, with the surrounding grass and birds withering away.
• Scott Summers ordered the academy’s defenses activated and sent noncombatants to the underground shelters.
• Ororo tried to disperse the black clouds with her weather powers, but the darkness swallowed her attack and injured her.
• A scarlet rift tore open the sky as Wanda’s chaos energy appeared opposite Hela’s death clouds.
• Hela and Wanda’s powers collided above Westchester, crushing buildings and students beneath their pressure while Scott and the X-Men watched helplessly.

Scott Summers activated Xavier's School's Bastion defense matrix against the overwhelming forces outside, but the shield quickly cracked under their power. Hela appeared above the school and raised her hand, preparing to act.

• Scott Summers ordered the Bastion defense matrix activated as the school faced the clashing powers outside.
• The matrix formed a blue shield around Xavier's School, briefly easing the pressure and raising hopes that the mutants could hold out.
• A crack appeared in the shield, and it rapidly spread until the matrix's structural integrity fell below ten percent.
• Scott Summers saw Hela emerge from the deathly clouds above the school.
• Hela raised her right hand as the X-Men watched in terror.

Hela destroyed Xavier's School's Bastion shield, forced most of its mutants to kneel, and declared them Lynn's property. As she began to subdue them with death energy, Wanda confronted her from a Scarlet Rift.

• Hela summoned an enormous Night Sky Sword and erased the Bastion matrix with its deathly aura.
• The pressure from Hela and Scarlet Chaos overwhelmed the mutants, forcing most of them to kneel while Scott Summers and a few others resisted.
• Hela declared the school, the mutants' genes, and their lives to be Lynn's private property.
• Hela spread death energy toward the mutants to subdue and enslave them.
• Wanda appeared in a Scarlet Rift and warned Hela not to damage Master's collection.

Wanda stopped Hela from drowning the mutants in death energy and used precise chaos magic to uproot the entire Xavier Institute intact, humiliating Hela and presenting the academy as Lynn’s collection. As the mutants realized their home had become spoils of war, Scott Summers reached for his ruby-quartz glasses and prepared to unleash his power.

• Hela halted her attack when Wanda called her an old woman and accused her of damaging Lynn’s property.
• Wanda traced precise scarlet cutting lines around the Xavier Institute and its surrounding grounds.
• Wanda lifted the academy intact into the air and erased Hela’s death energy with a casual wave.
• Wanda mocked Hela’s crude methods and claimed her own precision was the proper way to treat Lynn’s collection.
• Scott Summers, overwhelmed by humiliation and despair, reached for the glasses suppressing his destructive power.

Scott Summers launched a desperate attack on Hela after the X-Men were suspended helplessly in the sky, but she effortlessly destroyed his beams and pinned him to the floor with Night Sky Swords. Hela left him alive but crippled, while the swords’ death energy began spreading toward the unconscious mutant students.

• Scott Summers tore off his ruby-quartz glasses and fired a full-force blast at Hela.
• Hela stopped the beams with her hand and shattered them with a casual squeeze.
• Hela sent four Night Sky Swords through Scott’s shoulders and knees, pinning him to the floor and suppressing his powers.
• Hela taunted Wanda over her punishment of Scott.
• Death energy leaked from the swords and began spreading across the floor toward the unconscious students.

Wanda and Hela fought over Scott Summers, whom Hela had pinned down with death energy and Wanda tried to pull free with Chaos Magic. Their clash began tearing apart the floating Academy, and Lynn watched from New York as the mutants faced destruction.

• Hela’s death energy spread from Scott Summers’s wounds and threatened the unconscious young mutants as Ororo Munroe lay helpless nearby.
• Wanda condemned Hela for damaging Lynn’s assets and called her a porter who had botched the job.
• Wanda wrapped Scott in Chaos Chains and pulled him upward while Hela used her Night Sky Swords and death energy to hold him down.
• The powers tearing at Scott caused the Academy’s floors and walls to fracture, sending chunks of the floating buildings into the void and throwing the students into panic.
• Lynn watched the battle through the Psychic Network and realized the Academy and everyone inside could be destroyed within minutes.

Lynn used the Global Psychic Network to stop Wanda and Hela from destroying the X-Mansion and declared that Mutants must submit to him or be destroyed. Wanda and Hela were left terrified that they had disappointed their master.

• Lynn sensed Wanda and Hela fighting over the X-Mansion through the Psychic Network and chose to intervene with an oracle rather than appear in person.
• The X-Mansion began breaking apart, and Ororo could not save the students who fell with a section of the building.
• Lynn’s voice froze time and space, stopped Wanda’s and Hela’s powers, and warned them that they were breaking his things.
• Lynn told the Mutants that the old god was dead and ordered them to submit or turn to dust.
• Lynn’s power steadied the X-Mansion, while Wanda and Hela stood in dread, fearing they had disappointed him.

After Lynn rebuked Wanda Maximoff and Hela Odinsdottir for damaging his property, both goddesses knelt in fear while the surviving mutants realized they were merely assets belonging to a power far beyond them. Wanda and Hela then turned their attention to transporting the Academy back to New York, each hoping to regain Lynn’s favor.

• Lynn’s decree forced Wanda Maximoff and Hela Odinsdottir to suppress their powers and left them terrified that they had disappointed him.
• Wanda and Hela knelt in the sky, humbly awaiting Lynn’s judgment.
• Scott Summers and the other surviving mutants watched the goddesses kneel and understood that the Academy and its occupants were possessions of an unseen master.
• Hela and Wanda separately resolved to make amends by returning the Academy and its occupants safely to New York.
• Wanda and Hela exchanged competitive looks, preparing to prove which of them could move the Academy more efficiently.

Wanda and Hela competed to transport Xavier's School intact, combining Hela's spatial rift with Wanda's precise chaos-energy wrapping. They delivered the school above the Baxter Building, where Susan, Gwen, Jean, and Natasha watched its arrival with jealousy and alarm.

• Hela tore open a vast spatial rift, while Wanda wrapped Xavier's School and its foundations in scarlet energy to protect it.
• Hela and Wanda moved the school through the rift, each increasing her efforts to outdo the other as the mutants watched in despair.
• Hela and Wanda followed the school through the rift, which began healing behind them.
• Susan, Gwen Stacy, Jean Grey, and Natasha sensed a spatial disturbance above the Baxter Building and saw Xavier's School emerge from a black fissure.

As Wanda and Hela brought Xavier’s School through a spatial rift to Manhattan, Susan Storm tried to hold the massive floating complex aloft to prove her value to Lynn. Her force field began to crack as she neared collapse, while Wanda and Hela prepared to emerge and claim credit.

• Gwen Stacy and Susan Storm saw a spatial rift open above Manhattan and Xavier’s School emerge from it.
• Gwen and Susan panicked at the scale of Wanda and Hela’s achievement and feared losing Lynn’s favor.
• Susan forced herself to deploy a huge force field beneath the descending school despite her injuries.
• Xavier’s School pressed against Susan’s force field, causing her to bleed and the Baxter Building to shake.
• Cracks spread across the failing force field as Wanda and Hela prepared to step out of the rift and saw Susan trying to claim the school as her contribution.

Wanda and Hela returned with Xavier's School, but Lynn condemned their damage and Susan's attempt to control the school. He ordered the three women to work together to move the entire Academy into the Negative Zone beneath the Baxter Building without harming anyone or losing a single piece.

• Wanda and Hela emerged from a spatial rift with Xavier's School, while Susan strained to hold the floating Academy together with her force field.
• Lynn inspected the damaged school and rebuked Wanda and Hela for nearly destroying it and endangering the Mutants inside.
• Lynn warned Susan that her reckless attempt to prove her management skills made her responsible for any failure, and she lost control of her force field after collapsing.
• Lynn ordered Wanda, Hela, and Susan to move the entire Academy into the Negative Zone beneath the Baxter Building without losing any debris or endangering anyone.
• Wanda, Hela, and Susan suppressed their resentment and prepared to cooperate under Lynn's watch.

Hela, Wanda, and Susan combined their powers to move Xavier's School into the Negative Zone while competing to prove their worth to Lynn. After the school was safely transported and Susan collapsed, Lynn turned his attention to the people imprisoned inside.

• Hela used death tentacles to lift Xavier's School while Susan strained to support it with her force field and Wanda repaired its structure with Chaos Magic.
• Hela dragged the school toward the Negative Zone entrance, and Wanda disrupted one of her tentacles, throwing the school off balance.
• Susan transformed her force field into energy threads and stitched the tilting school to Hela's remaining tentacles, preventing it from falling.
• Hela, Wanda, and Susan coordinated their powers to support, repair, and transport Xavier's School through the Negative Zone entrance.
• The school passed safely into the Negative Zone, and Susan collapsed unconscious as Hela and Wanda descended to await Lynn's judgment.
• Lynn praised the women and said he would attend to the prisoners inside the Negative Zone.

Lynn confronted the surviving mutants in the Negative Zone, where Scott Summers led a desperate psychic counterattack that Lynn’s global mental network crushed. With the resisters incapacitated and the survivors defenseless, Lynn considered using an old friend to guard them.

• Lynn arrived at the ruins of Xavier's School and assessed the surviving mutants as assets through his global psychic network.
• Scott Summers rallied the conscious mutants and led them in a concentrated psychic assault against Lynn.
• Lynn’s mental barrier destroyed their attack and sent a devastating backlash through the attackers, killing Scott Summers and incapacitating the other resisters.
• Lynn stepped over Scott and examined the unconscious survivors, deciding that an old friend might guard them and break their remaining defenses.

Lynn declared that the defeated X-Men would be used as gene sources and energy for the Baxter Building, stripping away their identities and hope. He planned to use Jean Grey to crush their remaining faith and summoned her to serve as their administrator.

• Lynn surveyed the defeated mutants and told them their former identities and ideals would be erased.
• Lynn declared that the mutants would be living gene banks whose X-Genes he would use to create a loyal superhuman legion.
• Lynn said the mutants would become bioelectricity batteries powering the growing Baxter Building until their genes and life energy were exhausted.
• The mutants reacted with terror, one collapsed from cardiac arrest, and Scott Summers stopped moving.
• Lynn decided that Jean Grey could destroy the mutants’ remaining faith and summoned her to come to the Baxter Building.

Lynn summoned Jean Grey to the Negative Zone, where she arrived and displayed total devotion to him in front of the defeated mutants. Scott Summers watched her submission and broke down, while Jean finally looked at him with cold contempt.

• Lynn summoned Jean Grey through the doorway and told her people they needed an overseer.
• Jean rushed to Lynn, ignoring Scott Summers and the other fallen mutants.
• Jean crawled to Lynn and licked the dust from his combat boot, shattering Scott's remaining hope and faith.
• Lynn told the mutants that the god they had worshipped had found her true master, and the surviving mutants passed out.
• Scott weakly asked Jean why she had changed, and Jean turned to him with a cold, contemptuous gaze.

Jean Grey tortured Scott Summers with the Phoenix Force until his mind was destroyed, then received Lynn’s approval for her loyalty. Lynn ordered Hela to prove herself next as he turned his attention to the captured mutants and damaged Cerebro.

• Scott Summers begged Jean Grey to remember their past, but Jean attacked him for disturbing Lynn.
• Jean used the Phoenix Force to corrupt Scott’s memories and mentally torture him until he became a living corpse.
• Jean returned to Lynn, who acknowledged her performance with a slight nod.
• Hela and Wanda grew jealous of Jean’s success and began seeking ways to prove their own loyalty.
• Lynn approached the defeated mutants and damaged Cerebro, then told Hela it was her turn to act.

Lynn appointed Jean Grey as warden of the Negative Zone prison and ordered Hela to power its systems with her Death Force, deliberately fueling rivalry among the women. As Lynn prepared to leave, he detected Crossbones leading armed men toward the Baxter Building and decided to use them for the warden’s first obedience test.

• Lynn infused Jean Grey with dark energy and appointed her warden, commanding her to control the Mutants and extract their value.
• Hela and Wanda grew furious and jealous over Jean’s new authority, while Susan and Gwen feared being pushed aside.
• Lynn ordered Hela to use her Death Force as an energy source for Cerebro and the prison, and Hela reluctantly agreed.
• Wanda began searching for a contribution that would make her indispensable to Lynn.
• Lynn sensed Crossbones and a dozen armed men approaching the Baxter Building and planned to test Jean and her prisoners with them.

After the Xavier’s School vanished into the Baxter Building, Nick Fury ordered Brock Rumlow and a heavily equipped STRIKE team to infiltrate Manhattan and gather intelligence on Lynn’s forces. As the agents began their approach, the red-haired Warden in the Negative Zone prison noticed them and prepared to make them her first prisoners’ exercise.

• Nick Fury learned that Xavier’s School had disappeared and recognized that the power behind the event was beyond S.H.I.E.L.D.’s capabilities.
• Fury ordered Brock Rumlow to lead an elite team on a reconnaissance mission at the Baxter Building, showing them satellite footage of the school being swallowed by a spatial rift.
• Crossbones and the STRIKE team armed themselves with experimental weapons and deployed toward Manhattan aboard a stealth Quinjet.
• The team rappelled into the city and began moving toward the Baxter Building, reporting no unusual activity.
• In the Negative Zone prison beneath the Baxter Building, the red-haired Warden opened her eyes and prepared to give the new arrivals an exercise break.

Lynn ordered Jean Grey to lead the prisoners against the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents outside the prison, testing her obedience and authority. Jean psychically compelled seven former X-Men to serve as her execution squad, then led them through a rift to confront Crossbones and his team.

• Lynn sensed Crossbones and twelve other agents approaching the Negative Zone prison and ordered Jean to take prisoners and use them against the intruders.
• Jean used the Phoenix Force to raise the fallen mutants and overwrite their resistance with commands to obey, kill, and serve Lynn.
• Jean assembled seven mutants, including Shadowcat and Storm, and presented them to Lynn as sharpened blades.
• Jean opened a spatial rift to Manhattan and led the seven mutants through it.
• Crossbones and his STRIKE Team approached the Baxter Building's Section B before spotting Jean and the mutants emerging from a rift below them.

Jean Grey and the other controlled X-Men massacred Crossbones's STRIKE Team with their powers and brutal attacks. With his last men cornered, Crossbones activated the Aria high-frequency sonic oscillator, leaving its effect unresolved.

• Eight figures emerged from a spatial rift, and Crossbones ordered the STRIKE Team to fire on Jean Grey and the others.
• Wolverine charged through the bullets and killed a STRIKE Team member, while Storm struck another with lightning.
• Shadowcat phased through a wall and killed a camouflaged agent by removing his heart, as a beastlike mutant killed another soldier.
• Crossbones watched his team being overwhelmed and drew the Aria high-frequency sonic oscillator as his final weapon.
• Crossbones slammed the oscillator's activation button and shouted that they would all die.