Chapter Summaries

Gwen Stacy found Lynn and confronted him over the scar left when he let her go, while Wanda sensed Gwen touching him and attacked in a jealous rage. The chapter ended with Wanda facing Gwen on the shattered terrace and threatening to destroy her and her universe.

• Gwen Stacy tackled Lynn on the terrace and accused him of abandoning her after searching across the Multiverse to find him.
• Lynn told Gwen he had let go of her to save her life, and she broke down and clung to him.
• Wanda sensed Gwen touching Lynn and unleashed her Scarlet Chaos Magic, tearing apart the kitchen as she approached the terrace.
• Gwen sensed Wanda's power and prepared to fight, but Lynn tried to stop her.
• Wanda blasted through the bulletproof glass door and threatened to crush Gwen and her universe unless she let go of Lynn.

Wanda and Gwen Stacy fought over Lynn, with both women refusing to back down. Lynn injured himself to stop their battle, but the chaos energy in his blood opened a rift to an unknown dimension.

• Wanda confronted Gwen Stacy and demanded that she release Lynn, while Gwen claimed their bond gave her the right to keep him.
• Wanda attacked Gwen with scarlet tentacles, but Gwen dodged with Lynn and counterattacked using webbing and a direct strike.
• Wanda’s shield stopped Gwen’s attack, and she prepared a chaos ray as Gwen readied to fight to the death.
• Lynn deliberately reversed his magical circuits and coughed up blood, interrupting both women’s attacks.
• Lynn’s blood resonated with the women’s uncontrolled energy and tore open a pitch-black rift to an unknown dimension.

Lynn used a lie about Hydra and a dimensional anchor to redirect Wanda and Gwen’s hostility toward the rift, then manipulated them into supporting him together. After Natasha Romanoff watched from hiding, Lynn launched a simulation that implanted a memory of him saving her in Budapest, 1999, and she fell unconscious.

• Lynn pretended the rift was tied to a Hydra anchor on his soul, persuading Wanda and Gwen to stop fighting and seal it together.
• After the rift closed, Lynn sensed Natasha Romanoff watching from an oak tree and began a simulation targeting her.
• Lynn convinced Wanda to stabilize his magic and Gwen to support his injured body, keeping both women close as they carried him inside.
• From her hiding place, Natasha saw Lynn’s composure and considered shooting him, but he noticed her and used an old Red Room hand signal.
• The simulation implanted a memory of Lynn rescuing Natasha in Budapest in 1999, and Natasha fell from the tree and lost consciousness.

Lynn divided Wanda and Gwen Stacy into separate protective roles to keep their rivalry under control, then entered his third simulation. Outside Eden Manor, Gwen Stacy discovered an unconscious S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who was murmuring Lynn’s name and prepared to kill her.

• Lynn sent Wanda to use Chaos Magic to hide Eden Manor’s dimensional coordinates and assigned Gwen Stacy to inspect its physical defenses.
• Lynn convinced Gwen Stacy that her Spider-Sense was the only protection he trusted against physical attacks, and she left to patrol the manor.
• Lynn entered his third simulation, where he hid with a gravely wounded Natasha in a Budapest ventilation duct as Red Room assassins approached.
• Gwen Stacy found an unconscious woman in a black combat suit beside the manor, along with a communicator tuned to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s encrypted frequency.
• Gwen Stacy heard the woman murmur Lynn’s name, crushed the communicator, and lifted Natasha by the throat with her web-shooter aimed at her temple.

Natasha relived Lynn’s sacrifice in the Budapest simulation and chose to protect him by diverting S.H.I.E.L.D. from Eden Manor. Lynn received the simulation rewards, while Gwen and Wanda faced off over him as Fury discovered Natasha had turned against S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Gwen nearly killed Natasha, but Lynn used their Bond Line to stop her and warned that Natasha was bait for S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Natasha refused to crush her tracker, swallowed it, shot herself in the thigh, and fled toward the forest to draw S.H.I.E.L.D. away from Eden Manor.
• Lynn completed the Budapest simulation with an SSS rating and gained disguise and stealth specialization, an incomplete super-soldier physiology, and Red Room combat techniques.
• Gwen returned to Lynn, who praised her, just as Wanda arrived and threatened Gwen for touching him.
• Fury tracked Natasha’s signal and heard her threaten S.H.I.E.L.D. if it attacked Eden Manor, realizing she had switched sides.

Wanda and Gwen Stacy fought over Lynn, whose attempt to redirect their anger only intensified their jealousy. As Wanda unleashed a devastating attack and Gwen charged into it, Lynn spotted a space-folding tracking projectile passing through Wanda’s shield toward her head.

• Wanda confronted Gwen Stacy for touching Lynn, and Gwen defended herself by saying she had saved him from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s missiles.
• Wanda attacked Gwen with gravitational force and a Scarlet Energy whip, while Lynn pretended to be injured and urged them to stop.
• Gwen told Wanda that Lynn had sacrificed himself for her at the Clock Tower in New York, making Wanda question her memories of his death in Sokovia.
• Wanda demanded that Lynn confirm he had died only for her, but Gwen stepped between them and Wanda unleashed a scarlet storm.
• Gwen charged into Wanda’s attack with a high-voltage web spike as Lynn detected a space-folding tracking projectile racing through Wanda’s shield toward her head.

Wanda and Gwen Stacy fought violently over Lynn, destroying much of Eden Manor as their attacks escalated. With Gwen poised to strike Wanda and Wanda ready to unleash a lethal blast, Lynn activated his incomplete chaos magic affinity and charged into the energy vortex.

• A miniature tracking round struck Wanda’s Chaos Barrier as Gwen Stacy attacked her with webs, and Wanda crushed the round and retaliated with Chaos Magic.
• Wanda shattered the second floor of Eden Manor and accused Gwen Stacy of coveting Lynn, while Gwen mocked Wanda’s possessiveness and claimed Lynn had willingly given himself to her.
• Wanda unleashed a barrage of debris, injuring Gwen Stacy, but Gwen used webbing to drop a heavy beam and then lunged at Wanda with a length of rebar.
• Lynn judged that the fight threatened Gwen and the surrounding block, activated his incomplete chaos magic affinity, and charged into the energy vortex between them.

Lynn forced Wanda and Gwen Stacy to stop fighting by throwing himself into danger, then collapsed from reversing his Magic Circuit. Wanda and Gwen both tried to save him, but his damaged Energy Circuit rejected their separate treatments, leaving them facing a desperate choice.

• Wanda recalled her Chaos Magic and fell, while Gwen Stacy broke her wrist to redirect her attack and avoid hitting Lynn.
• Lynn crashed into the ruins, feigned extreme weakness, and drew Wanda and Gwen Stacy into blaming themselves instead of fighting.
• Wanda and Gwen Stacy stopped attacking each other when Lynn asked them not to blame one another, then Lynn passed out after telling them he did not want either of them hurt.
• Wanda tried to heal Lynn with Chaos Magic as Gwen Stacy prepared a S.H.I.E.L.D. Cell Repair Serum injection, but their treatments collided and Lynn's Energy Circuit rejected both.
• Wanda and Gwen Stacy faced each other over Lynn, realizing neither magic nor the serum could safely enter his body alone.

Lynn stopped Wanda and Gwen Stacy from fighting by threatening to die, then made them promise not to hurt each other. As they carried him toward the Safe House, he spotted Natasha Romanoff watching them and began a simulation that left her unconscious, apparently pulling her into a memory or scenario from Budapest.

• Lynn grabbed Wanda's wrist and Gwen Stacy's syringe hand, warning them they would have to step over his corpse if they wanted to kill each other.
• Wanda withdrew her magic and Gwen Stacy pulled out the syringe, and both apologized and agreed to stop fighting.
• Lynn made Wanda and Gwen Stacy promise never to fight in front of him or hurt each other while he was alive; they reluctantly agreed.
• Wanda lifted Lynn with Chaos Particles as Gwen Stacy guarded him, and Lynn sensed Natasha Romanoff watching from a communications tower.
• Lynn ordered the system to begin a simulation targeting Natasha, loading a 1999 Budapest scenario in which he was her partner through life and death.
• Natasha saw Lynn meet her gaze through her rifle scope, then collapsed as a man's voice whispered, "Nat, run... don't look back..."

Natasha relived the night in Budapest when Lynn sacrificed himself to help her escape the Red Room, then awoke in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s medical room believing the memory was real. After Nick Fury said S.H.I.E.L.D. might eliminate Lynn, Natasha threatened him at gunpoint.

• In 1999 Budapest, an injured Natasha was trapped by Red Room assassins until Lynn returned and treated her wounds.
• Lynn drew the attackers away and pulled the hydraulic lever so Natasha could escape through the underground drainage channel.
• Lynn detonated his grenades as the iron door shut, and the blast knocked Natasha unconscious.
• Natasha awoke in a S.H.I.E.L.D. medical room after falling from a communications tower and called out for Lynn.
• Nick Fury warned Natasha that S.H.I.E.L.D. was considering eliminating Lynn, and Natasha took Fury's sidearm and aimed it at him.