Chapter Summaries

After five days stranded and starving in New York, Lynn discovered he could transform a moldy burger into fresh food and met the Ancient One, who recognized him as a transmigrator. He accepted her offer of food and shelter at Kamar-Taj in exchange for being observed, and settled in for his first night there.

• Lynn transformed a moldy burger into a fresh, delicious meal and realized he had caused the change.
• The Ancient One arrived through a portal and identified Lynn’s unusual reality-altering energy, as well as his origins outside her universe.
• The Ancient One offered Lynn food and shelter at Kamar-Taj if he let her observe him and ensure he would not endanger Earth.
• Lynn accepted the offer and followed the Ancient One through the portal to Kamar-Taj in the Himalayas.
• The Ancient One fed Lynn, said Mordo would train him the next day, and arranged a clean room where Lynn wondered about his power.

Lynn displayed an extraordinary ability to cast magic by directly changing reality, so the Ancient One sent him to live and study at the New York Sanctum. When he learned that Tony Stark had been captured in Afghanistan, Lynn opened a portal and went to save him.

• Lynn instantly copied Mordo’s magical sword, conjured fire, and reproduced the Ancient One’s magic circle with strange white light.
• The Ancient One explained Lynn’s unusual power and sent him to the New York Sanctum with a Sling Ring.
• Lynn met Wong at the Sanctum and settled in beside its extensive library.
• Lynn saw a news report that Tony Stark had gone missing after an attack in Afghanistan and remembered Doctor Yinsen’s fate.
• Lynn opened a portal to the Afghan desert and stepped through to save someone.

Lynn traveled to Afghanistan to watch Tony Stark build his first armor and planned to save Doctor Yinsen without disrupting Tony’s transformation. After setting up a concealed lookout, Lynn returned to the New York Sanctum for food and rest, intending to check on Tony again and arrive in time for Yinsen’s rescue.

• Lynn used a scouting spell to find Tony Stark and Doctor Yinsen working on the armor inside a guarded cave.
• Lynn chose a nearby mountain peak as a hidden observation post and prepared to wait for Tony’s escape attempt.
• Lynn opened a portal back to the New York Sanctum, deciding to return to Afghanistan every other day while eating and sleeping at the Sanctum.
• Wong asked Lynn whether Afghanistan had been fun, and Lynn headed to the dining hall without explaining his plans.
• Tony sensed that something might have passed near the cave entrance, but Doctor Yinsen noticed nothing, so Tony resumed working.
• Lynn ate at the Sanctum and planned to save Yinsen when Tony broke out, then borrow money from Wong to buy a camera.

While secretly observing Tony’s slow progress in Afghanistan, Lynn decided to find Wanda and Pietro in Sokovia before Hydra could capture them. He located the starving siblings and offered them food, but Wanda remained wary of his intentions.

• Lynn grew bored watching Tony and Yinsen work on the armor and recalled that Wanda and Pietro had not yet been taken by Hydra.
• Lynn opened a portal from Afghanistan to Sokovia, intending to bring the siblings to Kamar-Taj before Hydra could experiment on them.
• Lynn used a scouting spell to find Wanda and Pietro in a slum, where they were being watched by bullies.
• Lynn immobilized the bullies with magic, then approached the siblings and offered them food.
• Wanda asked Lynn who he was and what he wanted, and she remained suspicious even after he introduced himself and explained his offer.

Lynn offered Wanda and Pietro a chance to escape the slums by funding their education in exchange for Wanda working for him for thirty years. He brought the siblings through a portal to Kamar-Taj, where the Ancient One agreed to let them stay.

• Wanda demanded to know Lynn's intentions, and he offered to support her and Pietro while she studied in exchange for thirty years of work afterward.
• Wanda accepted after Lynn promised that Pietro could stay with her and would also be cared for.
• Wanda and Pietro ate the food Lynn had brought, then urged him to take them to study.
• Lynn opened a portal to Kamar-Taj, and the siblings stepped through to find themselves among its snowy mountains and old buildings.
• The Ancient One appeared and questioned Lynn about bringing Wanda and Pietro, and Lynn said he wanted them to learn magic and help protect Earth.
• The Ancient One agreed to let the siblings stay, and Wanda and Pietro bowed to her in awe.

Lynn settled Wanda and Pietro at Kamar-Taj, then returned to the New York Sanctum and continued waiting for Tony's escape from Afghanistan. After developing unusually fast perception and unexplained gaps in time, Lynn asked the Ancient One for help, but she could not identify the cause and told him to track the abnormalities.

• Lynn arranged for Wanda and Pietro to live and study at Kamar-Taj, and told them to contact Wong if they needed help.
• Lynn returned to the New York Sanctum, told Wong about the siblings, and thought Tony would soon finish his armor and escape.
• Lynn noticed that his mind seemed much faster than other people's and that time sometimes disappeared from his memory.
• Lynn went to Kamar-Taj and described his symptoms to the Ancient One.
• The Ancient One said she could not see Lynn's timeline and advised him to observe and record when the abnormalities occurred.

Lynn watched Tony’s escape from Afghanistan, rescued Yinsen, and filmed Tony’s first crash. The chapter ended with Tony discovering that Yinsen was alive and confronting Lynn and Yinsen in the desert.

• Lynn monitored Tony’s armor preparations and traveled to Afghanistan to watch his breakout, planning to record the crash.
• When Yinsen left the cave to sacrifice himself, Lynn teleported him to safety and created a fake corpse in his place.
• Tony escaped in his Mark I armor, fought the armed men, and returned to the cave, where he mistook the fake body for Yinsen’s.
• Tony burned the cave and weapons depot before flying away, but his armor failed and he crashed into a dune.
• Lynn filmed Tony’s crash, then appeared with Yinsen, leaving Tony stunned and gripping Yinsen’s shoulders.

Lynn rescued Yinsen and brought him to the New York Sanctum, while Tony prepared to contact his people for rescue. Lynn left Tony with his number and footage of Tony’s crash, but remained concerned about the abnormality in his body.

• Tony was relieved to find Yinsen alive and thanked Lynn for saving him.
• Lynn gave Tony a satellite phone and his number so Tony could arrange a rescue and contact him later.
• Lynn showed Tony a video of his crash, and Tony embarrassedly tried to get him to delete it.
• Lynn opened a portal and took Yinsen to the New York Sanctum, telling Tony to contact them soon.
• Lynn introduced Yinsen to Wong and arranged for him to stay at the Sanctum.
• Lynn reflected on his successful trip to Afghanistan and resolved to find the cause of his bodily abnormality.

Tony returned to New York after escaping captivity in Afghanistan and announced that Stark Industries would permanently shut down its weapons division. Watching the press conference from the New York Sanctum, Yinsen was moved by Tony’s decision while Lynn regretted missing a chance to profit from Stark Industries stock.

• Tony called James Rhodes, who traced his satellite phone and flew to retrieve him from the Afghan desert.
• Rhodes brought Tony to a military base, then flew with him back to New York, where Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan welcomed him.
• Tony refused to go to the hospital, asked Happy to drive him for a cheeseburger, and ordered Pepper to arrange a press conference.
• Tony told reporters that Stark Industries would permanently shut down its weapons manufacturing division.
• Yinsen praised Tony’s realization, while Lynn lamented that he had forgotten to invest in Stark Industries stock and planned to borrow money for his next investment.

Tony visited Lynn at the Sanctum to reunite with Yinsen and ask about his plans. Yinsen decided to return to Gemira, while Tony offered to fund schools and hospitals there; Lynn then explained that he had no legal identity and told Tony the Sanctum involved magic.

• Tony arrived at the Sanctum and reunited with Yinsen, who said Lynn and Wong had treated him well.
• Yinsen told Tony he wanted to return to Gemira to teach and provide medical care for its people.
• Tony agreed not to stop Yinsen and offered to take him back and fund schools and hospitals once his own affairs were settled.
• Tony asked Lynn about his lack of identity records, and Lynn said he had no legal documents in this world.
• Tony recalled Lynn's sudden appearance and the Sanctum's unusual interior, and Lynn explained that magic was involved.

Lynn secured legal identification and a house from Tony Stark in exchange for keeping a video of Tony's fall secret. Tony brought Lynn and Yinsen to his private lab to show them the technology behind his planned Mark II armor.

• Tony promised to arrange Lynn's legal identity and housing, while Lynn agreed never to show anyone the video of Tony falling.
• Yinsen chose to stay with Wong at the Sanctum, and Tony invited Lynn and Yinsen to see his private lab.
• Tony drove Lynn and Yinsen to his seaside mansion and introduced them to JARVIS and the laboratory.
• Tony gave Lynn and Yinsen low-level lab access, warned them not to touch the equipment, and told Lynn not to use magic there.

Lynn asked Tony to install an AI in his new home and offered valuable information in exchange. Tony agreed to verify Lynn’s claims before deciding, while Lynn hinted that he had nearly revealed the name FRIDAY on purpose.

• Lynn asked JARVIS about its capabilities and realized it could analyze records of his bodily abnormalities and lapses in time.
• Lynn asked Tony to install an AI in his new home, offering information about matters Tony wanted to know in exchange.
• Tony questioned whether Lynn’s information was reliable, and Lynn said Tony could verify leads before providing the AI.
• JARVIS reported that Lynn showed no typical signs of deception, but Tony still asked for time and ordered JARVIS to record the request without adding the AI to the equipment plan.
• Yinsen noted that Lynn had almost revealed the name FRIDAY, and Lynn said he had done it on purpose.

Lynn’s unexplained lapses and loss of control worsened, leaving him increasingly desperate for an explanation. Tony summoned him to see the completed Mark II, and Lynn’s confident guess that Tony would choose red and gold made Tony wary.

• Lynn warned Tony that the Mark II needed protection from high-altitude icing, prompting Tony to order JARVIS to simulate extreme cold conditions.
• Lynn experienced worsening abnormalities, including finding writing in his notebook that he did not remember making and forgetting what Wong had just told him.
• Unable to find a pattern in his recorded symptoms, Lynn accepted Tony’s urgent call and opened a portal to Tony’s laboratory.
• Tony showed Lynn the silver Mark II prototype inside a sealed test chamber and described his plans to upgrade it.
• Lynn predicted Tony’s armor would be red and gold, and Tony reacted with suspicion before closing the color-scheme interface.

Lynn realized he had forgotten that Obadiah Stane would attack Tony and steal his Arc Reactor, then rushed to Tony’s home and replaced it with the old reactor just in time to save him. Tony survived, while Lynn was left shaken by how close he had come to losing his life.

• Lynn returned to the Sanctum with Yinsen after Tony’s MK2 test flight, and Yinsen chose to stay there.
• Lynn continued tracking his strange episodes and worsening memory while an uneasy feeling lingered over the following weeks.
• JARVIS called Lynn and told him that Obadiah Stane had removed Tony’s Arc Reactor and that Tony was near death.
• Lynn remembered the forgotten danger, opened a portal to Tony’s home, and found him crawling toward the stairs with his chest reactor missing.
• Lynn retrieved Tony’s old Arc Reactor and, following JARVIS’s instructions, installed it in Tony’s chest, restoring his vital signs.

Tony recovered enough to confront Obadiah Stane while Lynn rescued Pepper Potts and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents from Iron Monger. Tony’s armor was badly damaged in the fight, and Lynn prepared to intervene as Iron Monger threatened to finish him.

• Tony recovered from his collapse, put on the Mark II, and flew to confront Obadiah Stane while Lynn went to protect Pepper Potts.
• Iron Monger emerged at the Stark Industries plant and attacked Pepper Potts, but Lynn opened portals and evacuated her, Coulson, and the agents.
• Pepper Potts confirmed that Coulson had documents that could expose Stane, and Lynn left them in an alley before returning to the plant to record the fight.
• Tony attacked Iron Monger, but Stane’s armor withstood his repulsor blasts and battered him with punches and gunfire.
• As Iron Monger prepared to stomp Tony, Lynn stopped recording and gathered pale white light at his fingertips.

Tony and Lynn fought Obadiah Stane’s Iron Monger, which Tony disabled with the suit’s icing problem before his own damaged armor began to fail. Lynn unexpectedly disintegrated Iron Monger with an unknown power, then collapsed; Tony took him to the villa and secretly saved the battle footage.

• Tony lured Obadiah into the upper atmosphere, where icing disabled Iron Monger, but Tony’s own reactor and thrusters began failing as he fell.
• Lynn opened portals to redirect Tony’s fall, then helped attack Iron Monger with fire while Tony fought with only a few repulsor shots remaining.
• Iron Monger overwhelmed Tony and grabbed him, while Obadiah’s gunfire drove Lynn back as Lynn’s consciousness began to fade.
• Lynn disintegrated Iron Monger from its right arm inward, allowing Tony to escape the mechanical grip and pull Obadiah from the cockpit.
• Tony caught Lynn when he collapsed, left Pepper and S.H.I.E.L.D. to secure the scene, and carried him to his villa.
• Tony checked Lynn’s vital signs, saved encrypted battle footage to his private server, and covered the sleeping Lynn with a blanket.

After Lynn woke from a two-day unconsciousness, Tony explained that his ability rewrote matter at the microscopic level and had caused Lynn’s memory gaps and blackouts by overloading his brain. Tony warned that using it again could kill him, leaving Lynn to face the cost of his power.

• Tony analyzed the recordings and concluded that Lynn had converted Iron Monger's armor into photons by rewriting its physical information, while his brain had paid the processing cost.
• Lynn woke on the third day, ate breakfast with Tony, and learned that he had been unconscious for two days and had destroyed Iron Monger.
• Tony showed Lynn a hologram of the disintegration and explained how his ability had rewritten the armor’s particles as photons.
• Lynn described his abnormal symptoms, and Tony concluded that his apparent ability to learn magic instantly was actually his power unconsciously copying it.
• Tony warned Lynn that continued use of his ability could burn out his brain, and Lynn looked at his hands in silence.

After learning that using his ability damaged his brain, Lynn gave up the AI Tony had offered and returned to the Sanctum. Alone in his room, he broke down over losing the magic he had thought would give him a place in the world.

• Lynn declined Tony’s AI and reminded him to provide the promised house, and Tony agreed.
• Lynn stayed at Tony’s home another day, then asked Tony to drive him back to the Sanctum.
• Wong and Yinsen welcomed Lynn back, and Lynn said he was tired before going to his room.
• Lynn shut himself in, cursed his situation, and cried as he confronted the cost of his ability and his inability to open portals.
• Lynn eventually calmed down and lay on his bed, staring at the ceiling.

After spending three days withdrawn, Lynn visited the Ancient One and explained the dangerous toll his ability was taking on him. She spoke with Tony Stark and brought Lynn back into the conversation after he feared there would be no solution; Tony said they had a new idea.

• Lynn emerged from his room on the fourth morning and asked Wong to open a portal to Kamar-Taj.
• Lynn told the Ancient One that using his ability caused memory loss, gaps in consciousness, and shutdowns that left him unconscious.
• The Ancient One asked Lynn to call Tony Stark so she could speak with him, then had Lynn leave the study.
• While Lynn waited anxiously outside, the Ancient One opened a portal and brought him back to the study.
• The Ancient One put Tony on speaker, and Tony said they had a new idea about Lynn's ability.

Lynn learned that he could prevent dangerous blackouts by using a magic circle to erase exactly one second of memory at a time during large-scale reality modification. The Ancient One planned to prepare the circle while Lynn recovered at Kamar-Taj, with Tony and JARVIS developing a system to help control it.

• Tony explained that Lynn's uncontrolled memory gaps came from his brain clearing information overload and proposed actively deleting only the previous second.
• The Ancient One said Kamar-Taj's memory magic could imprint the one-second limit on Lynn's soul and let him control when the circle activated.
• Lynn accepted that large-scale spellcasting would leave him with no memory of the experience, saying losing that experience was better than losing his life.
• The Ancient One began preparing the magic circle and asked Tony to bring JARVIS's real-time prediction system to the embedding process.
• Tony agreed to build the system, and Lynn thanked him before Tony told him to rest and reminded him to repay his debt.
• Lynn asked whether the Ancient One had foreseen this outcome, and she said she could not see his future but recognized that he was prepared to accept the consequences of standing up again.