Chapter Summaries

Lynn faked a fatal collapse to make Wanda, Gwen Stacy, Hela, and Female Venom combine their powers to save him, secretly absorbing their energy and turning their hostility into protectiveness. Just as he recovered, Miss Minutes revealed that He Who Remains had noticed his tampering with the TVA’s system.

• Lynn used the TVA’s visual effects and code to disguise himself as disintegrating, then claimed the Erasure Protocol had shattered his Time Anchor.
• He told Gwen Stacy, Wanda, Hela, and Female Venom to use their powers together to anchor his spatial coordinates, mind, soul, and body.
• The four women followed his instructions, while Lynn secretly used the TVA system to absorb their powers and heal his injuries.
• Lynn recovered and smiled at the women, who had become exhausted but intensely protective of him.
• Miss Minutes appeared from the damaged Control Console and told Lynn that He Who Remains had noticed his tricks.

Lynn confronted Miss Minutes after she exposed his faked death, then used the four women’s overwhelming powers to force the TVA into negotiations. He demanded the device that blocked detection by the Multiverse’s deities, leaving the deal unresolved.

• Miss Minutes revealed Lynn’s deception, prompting Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom to attack her projection and projector.
• Lynn stopped the women from attacking further and argued that their dimensional crossings and his changes to the TVA’s logic threatened the Sacred Timeline and the Temporal Loom.
• Miss Minutes warned that He Who Remains could erase them, but Lynn and the four women unleashed their powers against the TVA headquarters.
• Lynn halted the attack after Miss Minutes panicked, then offered to leave with the women and stop interfering with the TVA’s script.
• Lynn demanded the TVA’s device for blocking detection by the Multiverse’s deities.

Lynn forced He Who Remains to hand over the Absolute Time Cloaking Device and TVA weapons, then faced a new dilemma as the four women prepared to return to Earth together. He discovered their combined arrival would destroy the planet and stopped before entering the portal.

• Lynn threatened the TVA with Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom until He Who Remains surrendered the Absolute Time Cloaking Device.
• Lynn acquired the device, which concealed him from scrutiny by powerful beings, and demanded crates of Pruning Batons and Time Reset Bombs.
• He Who Remains authorized the armory shipment, and Lynn prepared to leave the TVA with the four women.
• Wanda, Hela, Gwen Stacy, and Female Venom fought over Lynn as he tried to lead them through the portal to Earth.
• Lynn saw a warning that the four women's combined energies would rupture Earth's core and stopped before stepping through the portal.

Lynn used his injuries and promises of power to send Hela and Female Venom away, then returned to Earth with Wanda and Gwen. After he activated a device that concealed Earth from surveillance, Tony Stark confronted him about the Winter Soldier and his parents’ deaths.

• Lynn pretended that his body was failing and persuaded Hela to travel to Asgard for the Eternal Flame.
• Lynn convinced Female Venom to enter the Hell Dimension and seek Mephisto’s Essence Crystal.
• Wanda and Gwen refused to leave Lynn, so he took them through a portal to Earth-199999.
• Lynn activated the Absolute Time Cloaking Device in the ruins of Eden to block surveillance and higher-dimensional observation.
• Tony Stark arrived in Hulkbuster Armor, aimed its weapons at Lynn, and demanded to know where he had hidden the Winter Soldier.

Lynn escaped the Timeline’s pursuit and used Tony Stark’s anger to send him after Hydra in Siberia. After Natasha reported that she was fighting the Winter Soldier at the Siberian base, Lynn prepared to go there himself.

• Wanda and Gwen Stacy disabled Tony Stark’s Hulkbuster Armor when he demanded that Lynn reveal the Winter Soldier’s location.
• Lynn calmed Wanda and Gwen by pretending to be injured, then confronted Tony and offered him Hydra intelligence in exchange for not targeting him.
• Lynn sent Tony encrypted coordinates for an abandoned Hydra missile silo in Siberia, and Tony flew off to pursue the Winter Soldier.
• Natasha contacted Lynn from the Siberian base, reporting that she had cleared its perimeter but was fighting the Winter Soldier for its core data.
• Lynn heard the transmission cut off and set out with Wanda to kill the people threatening Natasha.

Tony learned that the Winter Soldier killed his parents and that Nick Fury had concealed the evidence, so he broke with S.H.I.E.L.D. and headed for Siberia. Lynn and Wanda also flew there, where Natasha faced the Winter Soldier as both forces arrived.

• Tony forced his way into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s network and watched footage of the Winter Soldier killing Howard and Maria Stark.
• Tony confronted Fury, cut off their connection, severed Stark Industries' ties with S.H.I.E.L.D., and set course for Siberia.
• Lynn and Wanda left Gwen Stacy behind to guard their territory, then flew toward Siberia while Lynn described Natasha as a useful tool.
• Natasha, wounded outside an abandoned missile silo, refused to hand the Winter Soldier Hydra's hard drive and prepared to fight.
• Iron Man and Wanda's scarlet storm arrived over the snowfield just as the Winter Soldier was about to shoot Natasha.

Natasha ignored Nick Fury’s order to abandon her mission and fought through Hydra’s Siberian bunker to recover the core data for Lynn. As the Winter Soldier prepared to kill her, Lynn arrived with a second force descending over the ice field.

• Natasha rejected Nick Fury’s warning, destroyed her earpiece, and infiltrated Hydra’s abandoned missile silo.
• Natasha killed the guards and Hydra agents in the server room, then took the drive containing the Winter Soldier Infiltration Plan.
• Natasha fought her way out of the bunker but encountered the Winter Soldier, who broke her wrist and knocked her down.
• The Winter Soldier aimed his rifle at Natasha as she clutched the drive and thought of Lynn.
• Lynn arrived over the ice field amid blue thruster exhaust and a scarlet storm.

Gwen secretly monitored Lynn through nanoscopic spiders and decided to retrieve him from Siberia, while Lynn manipulated her jealousy by pretending Wanda’s magic was hurting him. The Siberian base’s hidden super-soldiers awakened, and Lynn prepared to act as they attacked Tony and Natasha.

• Gwen used nanoscopic spiders hidden in Lynn’s clothing and body to watch him in Siberia, then activated a signal to repel Wanda.
• Lynn recognized Gwen’s surveillance and pretended Wanda’s chaos magic was making him ill, prompting Wanda to back away.
• Gwen saw Lynn push Wanda away and decided to bring him back to a place where she could keep him under watch.
• Tony arrived in the Hulkbuster and attacked the Winter Soldier, but Natasha warned Lynn that the base had activated more soldiers.
• Five frozen super-soldiers emerged from the silo and charged Tony and Natasha, and Lynn snapped his fingers as he watched them attack.

Lynn kept Gwen from leaving New York by making her believe he was reliving his fall, then joined Wanda as the battle in Siberia turned against the Avengers. The Winter Soldier destroyed the Hulkbuster Armor with a Tesseract-powered arm and fixed his attention on Lynn.

• Lynn used the Nanotech Machine Spiders to make Gwen believe he was in danger, and convinced her to stay in New York and watch over their home.
• Lynn ended his act once Gwen had calmed down, then turned his attention to the battle in Siberia.
• The Suicide Squad overpowered the Hulkbuster Armor, and the Winter Soldier used his glowing mechanical arm to destroy it.
• Natasha warned Lynn that the Winter Soldier’s arm contained Tesseract Extract, as the Winter Soldier turned toward Lynn and raised his hand.

Wanda saved Lynn from the Winter Soldier’s spatial attack, captured Gwen, and sent her back to New York while Lynn promised Wanda his exclusive devotion. As Lynn prepared to confront the Winter Soldier and rescue Natasha, a squad member impaled Natasha’s shoulder, triggering Lynn’s murderous rage.

• Gwen rushed through a portal to shield Lynn from the Winter Soldier’s spatial strike, but Wanda shattered the attack and restrained Gwen with scarlet chains.
• Wanda accused Gwen of trying to steal Lynn and tightened the chain around her neck until Lynn calmed Wanda and ordered Gwen to return to New York.
• Wanda threw Gwen through the portal, destroyed it, and sealed the dimensional coordinates before Lynn assured Wanda that only she could stand beside him.
• The Winter Soldier prepared another attack as the Siberian Suicide Squad broke free, and one squad member crushed Natasha’s ribs while she clutched the hard drive.
• Lynn told Wanda to clear the surrounding enemies and advanced toward the Winter Soldier, but a squad member pierced Natasha’s shoulder and lifted her into the air, provoking Lynn’s killing intent.

Natasha risked her life to protect the hard drive for Lynn, who killed Giant Bear and ordered Wanda to keep Natasha alive. As Lynn prepared to fight the remaining enemies, the Winter Soldier’s arm triggered a buried Hydra structure, and Spider-Sense warned Lynn of a new threat.

• Giant Bear impaled Natasha and tried to take the hard drive, but she fought back and refused to surrender it.
• Lynn rushed in, crushed Giant Bear’s skull, caught Natasha, and sealed her wounds with Chaos Magic.
• Wanda obeyed Lynn’s order to protect Natasha while the surviving squad members and Winter Soldier turned on Lynn.
• Tony Stark and JARVIS recognized that Lynn’s power exceeded their ability to assess.
• The Winter Soldier’s arm misfired into the ice, opening an abyss and raising a rune-covered Hydra dome as Lynn’s Spider-Sense sounded an unprecedented warning.

Wanda annihilated Hydra’s forces while Lynn kept Natasha alive, then Lynn pursued the fleeing Winter Soldier. The chapter ended as Lynn caught the Winter Soldier and struck toward the joint of his mechanical arm.

• Hydra’s soldiers fired plasma cannons at Lynn, who ordered Wanda to kill them all.
• Wanda erased the plasma beams, shattered Hydra’s shield, and crushed its dome and soldiers into a ball of metal and flesh.
• Wanda returned to Lynn after the attack, while Lynn confirmed that Chaos Magic had sealed Natasha’s injuries.
• The Winter Soldier escaped toward a Siberia base exit, and Lynn pursued him using his speed and Spider-Sense.
• Lynn caught the Winter Soldier by his mechanical arm and chopped toward the joint connecting it to his shoulder.

Lynn overwhelmed the Winter Soldier in a hand-to-hand fight without using magic, but Tony Stark arrived in Hulkbuster Backup Armor and unleashed a deadly barrage. Lynn faced the incoming fire as Natasha remained gravely wounded nearby.

• Lynn jammed the Winter Soldier's mechanical arm, dodged his attacks, and kicked him across the ice, breaking his bones.
• The Winter Soldier charged Lynn with his Tesseract-powered mechanical arm, but Lynn met his punch, crushed the arm's casing, and threw him into the ice.
• Wanda watched Lynn defeat the Winter Soldier and grew more possessive of him.
• Lynn sensed danger from above as Stark Industries' Veronica System airdrop pod landed nearby and assembled around Tony Stark.
• Tony, consumed by rage over his parents' deaths, targeted the Winter Soldier with missiles and a charged unibeam while Lynn and Natasha remained in the attack zone.
• Lynn faced the incoming barrage and raised his left hand toward the fire.

Tony attacked the Winter Soldier over his parents’ deaths, but Lynn stopped him and offered a deal to keep Bucky alive until he could use him against Hydra. The Winter Soldier’s damaged mechanical arm then unleashed a spatial rift, revealing a pair of red mechanical eyes that Lynn recognized as Ultron’s Prototype Code.

• Wanda shielded Lynn and the Winter Soldier from Tony’s missiles, then obeyed Lynn when he told her to stand down.
• Tony tried to crush the Winter Soldier, but Lynn caught his punch and threw the Hulkbuster Armor backward.
• Lynn told Tony that Bucky held Hydra’s assassination lists and secret base coordinates, and warned that killing him could turn Steve against Tony.
• Lynn offered Tony a chance to spare Bucky while taking his mechanical arm as compensation.
• The Tesseract Extract inside Bucky’s arm erupted, opening a spatial rift as red mechanical eyes appeared on the other side.

Lynn stopped Tony from killing Bucky by offering him the chance to destroy Hydra, while Wanda crushed a mechanical threat emerging from a spatial rift. The deal left Tony poised to cut off Bucky’s metal arm, until Lynn’s Spider-Sense warned him that something living and grotesque lay inside it.

• Wanda used Chaos Magic to collapse the rift and destroy the mechanical eyes that Lynn identified as an embryonic consciousness born from the Zola Algorithm and the Tesseract’s energy.
• Lynn persuaded Tony not to kill Bucky, arguing that Bucky was their lead to Hydra’s leaders and secret bases.
• Tony accepted Lynn’s deal to spare Bucky for now in exchange for a list of Hydra leaders and base coordinates.
• Tony aimed a laser cutter at Bucky’s disabled metal arm and began cutting it off as interest for his parents’ deaths.
• Lynn’s Spider-Sense warned him when the cut exposed dark red, writhing flesh beneath the metal casing.

Tony severed the Winter Soldier’s infected left arm and accepted Lynn’s offer to provide Hydra targets. Lynn revived Natasha, who gave him a storage device containing Hydra secrets and declared her devotion, provoking Wanda into a violent outburst.

• Lynn crushed the parasite emerging from the Winter Soldier’s shoulder before it could attack Tony.
• Tony cut off the Winter Soldier’s left arm and asked Lynn for the names and locations of those involved in the assassination plan.
• Lynn promised Tony Hydra North American Division base locations within three days, and Tony flew away with the severed arm.
• Lynn used his serum-enhanced power to stabilize Natasha and bring her back to consciousness.
• Natasha gave Lynn a storage device containing Hydra’s crucial secrets, bit his neck, and declared that she belonged to him.
• Wanda blasted apart a nearby ice boulder and caused the magnetic field across Siberia to collapse.

Lynn subdued Natasha and Wanda after their rivalry destabilized the Quinjet, then unlocked the hard drive Natasha had taken from the Siberian base. He found Hydra records of Nick Fury’s secret interstellar communications node and learned its frequency had already been activated, with the target on its way to Earth.

• Natasha confessed her obsession with Lynn while he treated her wound, provoking Wanda to unleash chaos magic and damage the Quinjet.
• Lynn injected Natasha with a neural suppressant, then sedated Wanda after she stopped her attack when he intervened.
• Lynn stabilized the Quinjet, secured the unconscious women, and unlocked Natasha’s hard drive using “BUDAPEST” as the password.
• Lynn discovered the Blind Spot Protocol, a set of energy-frequency codes linked to Nick Fury’s hyperspace communications node.
• The terminal warned Lynn that the frequency had been activated and showed a countdown to the target’s arrival on Earth.

Lynn stopped Captain Marvel’s signal, brought Wanda and Natasha to his Eden estate, and used Hydra’s stolen resources and Stark technology to build an independent shadow empire. As Nick Fury prepared to summon Captain Marvel, Lynn called to reveal that he had already changed the pager’s frequency.

• Lynn combined TVA time-cloaking code with Hydra’s Blind Spot Program and erased the countdown warning Captain Marvel’s arrival.
• Lynn placed the unconscious Wanda and Natasha in separate isolation chambers at Eden, where Gwen Stacy confronted him before returning to watch over him.
• Lynn decrypted Natasha’s hard drive, transferred Hydra’s wealth and covert assets into shell companies, and merged them with satellite access from Tony Stark.
• Lynn established a global network independent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra as Fury learned that his New York agents, communications, and Natasha’s vital-sign signal had disappeared.
• Fury prepared to summon Captain Marvel with his pager, but Lynn called the disconnected bunker phone and told him he had changed its frequency.

Lynn disabled Nick Fury’s Captain Marvel pager and exposed how completely he had taken control of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s systems. He gave Fury ten minutes to surrender command and reveal his hidden assets, then cut off Fury’s last network for contacting surviving agents.

• Fury activated his pager, but Lynn’s interference corrupted it and destroyed his chance of contacting Captain Marvel.
• Lynn told Fury he had taken over S.H.I.E.L.D.’s systems and revealed that he knew about Carol Danvers and her 1995 departure from Earth.
• Lynn identified the coordinates and defenses of Fury’s Alpine bunker, then demanded that Fury surrender S.H.I.E.L.D.’s command and upload his hidden assets within ten minutes.
• Lynn threatened to send Wanda to the bunker if Fury refused.
• Lynn activated reverse tracking through the Blind Spot Program and seized control of Fury’s backup network, leaving him unable to contact his surviving agents.

Lynn forced Nick Fury to surrender S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Black Box master key and took control of the organization’s resources. Fury secretly activated a hidden contingency, while Gwen Stacy appeared in Eden in severe pain as her world began rejecting her.

• Lynn threatened Fury with his knowledge of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s secrets and Wanda’s power until Fury handed over the Black Box master key.
• Lynn transferred S.H.I.E.L.D.’s armory coordinates, agent roster, and covert funding information to his servers, taking control of the organization.
• After the call ended, Fury opened a mechanical safe and activated the Blind Spot Program’s physical transmitter.
• Gwen Stacy crashed through Eden’s ventilation system, flickering between solid, translucent, and black forms as she begged Lynn to save her.
• A purple, electrically charged rift opened behind Gwen and began pulling her toward another universe.