Chapter Summaries

Nick Fury sent Steve Rogers to investigate Lynn, whom he suspected of being a dangerous threat, while Steve secretly destroyed evidence about Project Insight. Lynn met Steve in Brooklyn and turned Fury’s probe into a confrontation about S.H.I.E.L.D.’s abuses, ending by revealing he knew about the Zola Algorithm and the metal-armed assassin.

• Steve destroyed the files on Project Insight before Nick Fury entered his apartment and showed him photographs of Lynn with Wanda.
• Fury asked Steve to contact Lynn and assess whether he was aligned with Hydra, unaware that Steve believed the request served Lynn’s interests.
• Lynn went alone to a Brooklyn bakery, detected Steve’s surveillance, and confronted him at his table.
• Lynn told Steve he had saved Wanda from death and accused S.H.I.E.L.D. of wanting to strip her will and turn her into a brainwashed killing machine.
• Steve asked how a logistics agent knew about the Zola Algorithm, and Lynn replied that he also knew the assassin from the water tower had a metal left arm.

Lynn manipulated Steve Rogers into opposing Hydra by revealing the Zola Algorithm and claiming the Winter Soldier threatened Wanda. As Pierce realized Lynn had used the meeting to expose Hydra, he ordered the Winter Soldier awakened, but Project Insight’s firewall was breached.

• Steve grabbed Lynn after hearing about a metal left arm, and Lynn explained the Zola Algorithm and the Winter Soldier’s assassination targets.
• Lynn claimed Hydra planned to control Wanda and that he had to die to keep her from being turned into a weapon.
• Steve promised to uncover the truth and protect Lynn and Wanda, then shook Lynn’s hand.
• Pierce watched the meeting through surveillance and realized Lynn had drawn Steve into the fight against Hydra.
• Lynn toasted Pierce through the camera and mouthed “Checkmate, Pierce.”
• Pierce ordered the Winter Soldier awakened, but technicians reported that unknown code had breached Project Insight’s firewall.

Pierce sent the Winter Soldier to Brooklyn to cripple Lynn and test Wanda’s limits after Lynn sabotaged Project Insight. As the Winter Soldier took aim through the safe house window, Lynn sensed the real threat and seemed to taunt him through the scope.

• Pierce cut the power to stop an unknown program from rewriting Project Insight, then ordered the Winter Soldier to find Lynn and cripple him.
• The Winter Soldier emerged from cryogenic storage, took a sniper rifle, and headed for Brooklyn.
• Lynn returned to the safe house with a cinnamon roll and calmed Wanda, who had nearly lost control during his absence.
• Lynn’s Spider-Sense warned him of genuine killing intent as the Winter Soldier aimed at him from the Clock Tower.
• The Winter Soldier saw Lynn turn toward his scope and mouth a taunt, then clamped down on the trigger.

Lynn used himself as bait to draw out a Hydra assassination attempt, and Wanda's Chaos Magic stopped the bullet and overwhelmed the Winter Soldier. As Wanda prepared to kill him, Lynn grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms.

• Lynn held still as the Winter Soldier's armor-piercing bullet shattered the safe-house window and flew toward his back.
• Wanda's Chaos Magic stopped the bullet inches from Lynn and melted it into a disc.
• Wanda erupted in rage and sent her magic along the bullet's path, lifting and crushing the Winter Soldier at the Clock Tower.
• Pierce realized Lynn had used himself as bait to expose the Winter Soldier to Wanda.
• Lynn seized Wanda's spellcasting wrist and pulled her into his arms just before she could kill the Winter Soldier.

Lynn stopped Wanda from killing the Winter Soldier by making her believe he was badly hurt, while Pierce realized Lynn was the witch’s anchor. As Steve exposed Project Insight’s targets to Fury, Hydra moved against the director and launched the project ahead of schedule.

• Lynn feigned an injury to stop Wanda’s attack, and the Winter Soldier escaped with his left arm mangled.
• Pierce realized Lynn was Wanda’s anchor and feared that Steve would follow the lead to Bucky.
• Lynn comforted Wanda and strengthened her dependence on him while anticipating Steve’s next move against Hydra.
• Steve sent Fury a message revealing that Project Insight targeted potential threats to Hydra, including Lynn.
• Rumlow and armed troopers confronted Fury, telling him Pierce wanted him on sublevel seven as Fury realized Project Insight had launched early.

Steve learned that Hydra had turned Bucky into a weapon and that Alexander Pierce was Hydra’s leader, while Nick Fury escaped an attack at the Triskelion. Pierce framed Steve and Lynn as traitors and ordered their capture, leaving Steve surrounded by armored vehicles and facing a figure with a mechanical arm.

• Steve found a damaged sniper rifle at the Clock Tower, and Lynn told him that Bucky had been brainwashed and that Pierce led Hydra.
• Steve resolved to find Fury, while Rumlow and armed troopers attacked Fury in his Triskelion office.
• Fury used a concealed sonic and light attack to escape through a window with an encrypted hard drive.
• Natasha warned Steve that Fury had been attacked and that Pierce had launched a network-wide broadcast.
• Pierce branded Steve and Lynn as the attackers, revoked their access, and authorized agents to shoot them on sight.
• Steve spotted a tracking device on his motorcycle as armored SUVs surrounded him and a mechanical arm emerged from one vehicle.

Steve escaped the Winter Soldier while Pierce, panicked by Lynn’s breach of Hydra’s network, forced Project Insight’s Helicarriers to launch early. As the carriers rose, Lynn began a new simulation targeting Gwen Stacy at the final battle at the New York Clock Tower.

• Steve evaded the Winter Soldier’s grenade attack, used his shield to bring down a power cable, and escaped through the sewers amid an explosion.
• Pierce learned that Lynn had compromised Project Insight’s fire-control system and used a Level Seven clearance card to infiltrate Hydra’s network.
• Pierce threatened a technician into launching all three Helicarriers before their engines were fully charged, forcing Project Insight ahead of schedule.
• At the Brooklyn safe house, Lynn reassured Wanda that the rising Helicarriers could not hurt him, while she vowed to crush them if they attacked.
• Lynn started a simulation with Gwen Stacy as its target and awoke at the New York Clock Tower’s final battle, facing the Green Goblin.

As Project Insight launched, Lynn sheltered Wanda in a Chaos Barrier and began a simulation targeting Gwen Stacy to acquire physical abilities. The simulation placed him at a Clock Tower showdown, where he leapt into danger to save Gwen from Green Goblin’s Pumpkin Bomb.

• Pierce ordered the Helicarriers to accelerate their charging while Steve, Natasha, and Sam prepared to bring them down before they reached orbit.
• Wanda sealed Lynn’s safe house behind a Chaos Barrier, then fell asleep in his arms.
• Lynn decided to improve his physical abilities through a simulation targeting Gwen Stacy and entered it as a S.H.I.E.L.D. field agent at a New York Clock Tower showdown.
• Green Goblin threw a Pumpkin Bomb at the cornered Gwen, whose web-shooters had jammed.
• Lynn leapt from the Clock Tower’s shattered railing toward Gwen, determined to save her with his mortal body.

S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Lynn rescued Gwen Stacy from Green Goblin during their fall through the Clock Tower, but their web was about to snap. As Gwen desperately clung to him, Lynn prepared to cut the web with his tactical dagger.

• Lynn caught Gwen Stacy as she fell through the Clock Tower shaft and asked whether her web-shooters still worked.
• Lynn distracted Green Goblin with his coat, then threw a flashbang that sent the Goblin Glider crashing into a gear.
• Gwen Stacy fired a web at a steel beam, stopping their fall, but a stray bullet had nearly severed the strand.
• When Gwen Stacy's web fluid ran out and the web began to snap, Lynn released his hold on her and raised his dagger toward the web.

Lynn sacrificed himself in the Clock Tower simulation to save Gwen Stacy, driving her emotions into an extreme obsessive state and completing the simulation. Back in the safe house, his newly acquired Spider-Sense warned him that Gwen had appeared through a spatial rift and found him.

• Lynn told Gwen Stacy that the damaged web strand could not support them both as Green Goblin approached.
• Lynn kissed Gwen Stacy’s forehead, cut his section of the web, and plunged into the Clock Tower’s shaft.
• The system ended the simulation after Lynn fulfilled the ultimate sacrifice condition and Gwen Stacy’s emotional fluctuation exceeded 200%.
• Lynn woke in the Brooklyn safe house beside Wanda and prepared to check his reward.
• Lynn’s Spider-Sense warned him as a bloodstained hand reached through a blue rift, and Gwen Stacy’s possessive eyes locked onto him.

Lynn received the rewards from Gwen's corrupted simulation and faced the real Gwen outside his safe house while protecting the sleeping Wanda. As Gwen lurked nearby and Hydra's Helicarrier targeted the house, Lynn chose to confront the incoming threat rather than heed Nick Fury's warning to flee.

• The system showed how Gwen killed Green Goblin after Lynn's simulated death, clung to Lynn's corpse, and awakened as an obsessive guardian before awarding Lynn Top-tier Spider-Sense and Superhuman Flexibility Physique.
• Lynn endured the painful transformation while Wanda slept, then saw the bloodied Gwen arrive through a damaged dimensional rift and approach the safe house.
• Gwen became enraged when she saw Wanda in Lynn's arms, while Wanda's Chaos Magic reacted to Gwen's hostility; Lynn calmed Wanda with a kiss and a gentle reassurance.
• Gwen smashed the safe-house surveillance camera and disappeared into the darkness, where Lynn sensed she was waiting for Wanda to leave.
• Nick Fury warned Lynn that Hydra's airborne Helicarrier had targeted the safe house, but Lynn shut off his communicator and decided to face the attack.

Gwen Stacy recovered memories of Lynn’s death and crossed dimensions to reach him, while Hydra’s Helicarrier targeted Lynn’s safe house with its main cannon. Wanda unleashed her Chaos power against the blast as Gwen broke into the house, leaving Lynn caught between the attack and the two women.

• Gwen Stacy remembered Lynn’s death, then used a confiscated Metal Wristwatch to cross dimensions despite its warning that she had less than a ten percent chance of surviving.
• At the safe house outside Brooklyn, Lynn waited with Wanda and noticed Gwen hiding in a tree while Hydra’s Helicarrier aimed its main cannon at them.
• Gwen saw the Helicarrier target Lynn and rushed toward the safe house to protect him.
• The Helicarrier fired its main cannon at the safe house, vaporizing Gwen’s webbing as the blast approached.
• Wanda woke and unleashed her scarlet Chaos power against the cannon beam, while Gwen smashed through the window and lunged inside.

Gwen Stacy reached Lynn as Wanda’s scarlet energy blocked the Main Cannon’s beam, while Lynn warned Gwen not to approach. At the Triskelion, Pierce boasted that Lynn had been killed, but the scarlet energy climbed the beam and began tearing apart Helicarrier One as Pierce reached for the backup controls.

• Gwen Stacy broke through the window and tried to pull Lynn to safety with webbing, but Wanda’s scarlet barrier vaporized it.
• Lynn warned Gwen that Wanda would kill her if she came closer.
• Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, and Natasha confronted Alexander Pierce at the Triskelion over Project Insight and his orbital strike on Lynn’s safe house.
• Pierce claimed the Main Cannon had eliminated Lynn, but the tactical screen showed Helicarrier One’s energy readings rising and its armor failing.
• Scarlet energy surged up the beam and tore into Helicarrier One, leaving Pierce terrified.
• Pierce reached for the self-destruct button for the remaining Helicarriers, but a one-eyed man pressed a pistol to his jaw.

Nick Fury shot Alexander Pierce after Pierce secretly activated Project Insight’s final protocol, sending Helicarriers Two and Three to bombard Lynn’s safe house outside Brooklyn. As their cannons fired, Wanda prepared to stop them while Gwen tried to shield Lynn.

• Steve Rogers told Pierce that Helicarrier One’s main cannon had been stopped and demanded that he land the other Helicarriers and shut down Project Insight.
• Pierce triggered a hidden biological command in his tooth, and Fury shot him in the shoulder as Helicarriers Two and Three began an irreversible bombardment sequence targeting Brooklyn.
• Pierce claimed that Lynn was Wanda’s one and only “jade” and that harming him would drive Wanda to destroy the world.
• At the safe house, Gwen tried to protect Lynn with a web net, but Wanda destroyed the webs and forced Gwen back.
• Wanda raised her hands toward the two Helicarriers as their cannons fired, and the night sky over New York changed color.

Wanda unleashed her chaos magic against S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarriers after they fired on Lynn, while Gwen Stacy seized the distraction to reach him. The chapter ended with Wanda spotting Gwen touching Lynn's bite mark and turning her scarlet gaze on them.

• Wanda devoured the Helicarriers' cannon beams with chaos magic and trapped both Helicarriers in the sky.
• Gwen Stacy saw Lynn on the sofa and became more convinced that Wanda was controlling and imprisoning him.
• At the Triskelion, Nick Fury, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Alexander Pierce, and Rumlow watched Wanda's magic crush the Helicarriers and disable their engines.
• Wanda prepared to turn the Helicarriers into fireworks, but Gwen used the distraction to slip past the magic and grab Lynn's shirt.
• Gwen recognized the bite mark on Lynn's collarbone from her simulation and accused him of keeping his memories and using Wanda as a shield.
• Wanda noticed Gwen pressed against Lynn, froze, and fixed her scarlet gaze on them as the temperature plunged.

Wanda destroyed Hydra’s Helicarriers and Hydra’s plan collapsed, while her jealousy toward Gwen Stacy escalated into a deadly confrontation. Lynn stepped between them just as Wanda prepared to attack Gwen with Chaos Magic.

• Wanda crushed the two remaining Helicarriers in the sky above Brooklyn with Chaos Magic.
• At the Triskelion, Fury shot Alexander Pierce, and Steve Rogers led the others to evacuate as the damaged building began to collapse.
• Wanda descended to the Safe House and lifted Gwen Stacy by the neck after seeing the bite mark on Lynn.
• Gwen Stacy provoked Wanda by saying Lynn had died in another time and space to save her, driving Wanda to summon scarlet blades.
• Lynn walked through the field of blades and gently gripped Wanda’s wrist before she could attack Gwen.

Lynn used Wanda’s concern to escape Gwen Stacy, while Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. fell in Washington. As he and Wanda headed for a Hydra safe house, Lynn secretly secured Hydra’s hidden intelligence, and Fury circulated a warning dossier while seeking a way to counter Chaos Magic.

• Lynn made himself cough blood to stop Wanda from killing Gwen Stacy, then had Wanda carry him away from Brooklyn.
• The Triskelion collapsed, and Fury warned Steve Rogers that Lynn had manipulated the conflict and taken a powerful weapon.
• Lynn revealed that he had faked his injury and stolen Hydra’s core database, secret base coordinates, vibranium routes, and superhuman research.
• Lynn directed Wanda toward a Hydra safe house called Eden in Upstate New York so they could build a home together.
• Fury authorized a global dossier warning against contact with Lynn and Wanda and ordered agents to find powers capable of countering Chaos Magic.

Fury designated Lynn and Wanda’s scarlet power as a threat S.H.I.E.L.D. must not provoke, while Lynn claimed Hydra’s Eden estate as his own. As Lynn and Wanda settled in, his Spider-Sense detected Gwen Stacy watching them from the forest.

• Fury reviewed footage of Wanda destroying the Helicarriers and ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to stop tracking Lynn, designating the pair Zero Number Taboo.
• Natasha revealed that Lynn’s heart rate had stayed steady during the Helicarrier crisis, and Steve realized Lynn had manipulated their investigation into Hydra.
• Lynn used Pierce’s access card to enter Hydra’s Eden Safe House and rewrote its systems to recognize him as the owner.
• Wanda destroyed the estate’s surveillance devices and told Lynn she wanted the two of them left alone.
• Lynn’s Spider-Sense warned him that Gwen Stacy was watching from a tree with a thermal imager, and Gwen vowed to get him away from Wanda.

Lynn spent a quiet day at the Eden estate with Wanda, hiding the fact that Gwen Stacy was watching them from the woods. At night, Gwen made her move by attaching webbing to the estate’s balcony, and Lynn went outside to confront her.

• Wanda transformed the Eden estate with Chaos Magic and made breakfast for Lynn, killing a sparrow that approached the window.
• Lynn reassured Wanda that they could stay together at the estate while secretly sensing Gwen Stacy watching from two kilometers away.
• Lynn concealed Gwen’s presence from Wanda throughout the day and redirected Wanda’s suspicions during dinner.
• Gwen ran out of patience and attached a strand of spider silk to the estate’s second-floor balcony.
• Lynn spotted Gwen hanging upside down outside, told Wanda he was going out for a smoke, and prepared to leave.

Lynn used Spider-Sense to discover Gwen Stacy watching him from the balcony while he tried to keep Wanda from realizing she was there. When Gwen lunged at him and Wanda unleashed Scarlet Energy inside, a potentially city-destroying clash began.

• Lynn went onto the terrace and used his newly integrated Spider-Sense to detect Gwen Stacy hiding nearby.
• Lynn recognized Gwen as the Ghost-Spider who had followed him across universes and realized that his actions in the simulated spacetime had fueled her obsession.
• Lynn exposed the scar on his wrist to show Gwen that he remembered what had happened between them.
• Gwen reacted to the scar with tears and jealousy when she noticed Wanda's scent on Lynn's shirt.
• Gwen severed her web and dove toward Lynn as Wanda crushed a porcelain plate with Scarlet Energy.