Chapter Summaries

Daisy attacked Jörmungandr with the God-Slaying Sword and wounded his tail, inspiring Thor, Loki, and the Asgardians to join the battle. After striking Jörmungandr with her sword and Iron Fist, Daisy raced along his body toward his head.

• Daisy pierced Jörmungandr’s shield and scales with Atomic Cutting, then carved a deep wound into his tail with the God-Slaying Sword.
• Thor charged Jörmungandr, and Loki and the other Asgardians followed him into battle.
• Jörmungandr ignored Thor and attacked Daisy with purple breath, but Daisy used his body as cover and slashed him again.
• Daisy punched a cross-shaped wound in Jörmungandr’s body with her flaming, Vibration-powered fist.
• As Jörmungandr coiled to crush her, Daisy sprinted along his body toward his head.

Daisy struck Jörmungandr with her second and third punches, badly injuring the serpent and rallying the Asgardians to attack. After teleporting away to recover, she left Thor and the warriors to press the assault.

• Daisy unleashed her second punch, breaking off one of Jörmungandr’s fangs and injuring its right eye.
• Daisy delivered her third punch, crushing a crater into Jörmungandr’s forehead and knocking the serpent into Asgard’s soil.
• Jörmungandr spewed an acidic black cloud at Daisy, who teleported to Loki and said she needed twenty minutes to recover.
• Inspired by Daisy’s attack, the Asgardian warriors charged Jörmungandr, joined by Volstagg and Sif.
• Thor attacked the serpent’s exposed forehead with Mjolnir while using the God-Slaying Sword to stay balanced.

Daisy joined Thor and Loki in fighting Jörmungandr, helping draw its attention and reduce the Asgardian soldiers’ casualties. When the serpent took the battle into the air, Daisy and Loki struggled to evade it until Thor took on more of the pressure, letting Daisy strike back.

• Loki attacked Jörmungandr from behind while Thor drew its attention, as Frigga explained that Asgardian rules prevented the use of technological weapons during the civil war.
• Daisy returned to the battlefield, drew Jörmungandr’s attention, and coordinated with Loki to keep the serpent focused on them while the soldiers attacked.
• Jörmungandr launched itself into the sky, leaving Daisy, Loki, and Thor as the only fighters able to pursue it.
• Daisy teleported beside Thor to shift some of the serpent’s attacks onto him, and Thor absorbed the pressure while Daisy hacked at Jörmungandr with the God-Slaying Sword.

Daisy, Thor, Loki, and the Asgardian warriors worked together to batter Jörmungandr and drag it to the ground. After Thor’s powerful blows forced the serpent to flee toward Odin’s chambers, Loki, Daisy, and Thor combined their powers to launch Gungnir at it.

• Daisy fought beside Thor with Jörmungandr Must Die before running out of strength and hiding among the Asgardian warriors.
• Daisy organized the soldiers to spread out, then helped Sif and the warriors bind Jörmungandr with ropes and drag it to the ground.
• Thor, Daisy, and the warriors attacked the serpent while Loki used ice magic, but Jörmungandr pierced Thor with its fangs.
• Thor broke off the fang and struck Jörmungandr with a devastating blow, forcing the wounded serpent to flee toward Odin’s chambers.
• Loki asked Daisy to infuse Gungnir with Phoenix Flame, added his frost magic, and threw it; Thor then struck the spear with Mjolnir to send it surging toward Jörmungandr.

Loki and Daisy helped bring down Jörmungandr, but the serpent’s fall destroyed the Bifrost and sent hundreds of Asgardians into the void. Loki sacrificed himself to push the serpent away, and Frigga’s ships rescued the stranded warriors, leaving Loki lost in the void.

• Loki, Thor, and Daisy combined their strength to use Gungnir, which pierced Jörmungandr and caused its body to decay.
• Jörmungandr struck Thor aside and fell toward the crowd, while Loki directed the Asgardians to flee and Daisy teleported Frigga away.
• Jörmungandr crashed into the Bifrost, breaking the bridge and sending Loki, Volstagg, and hundreds of Asgardians into the void.
• Daisy caught the falling Asgardians and Jörmungandr’s corpse in a gravitational net, but she struggled to hold them as Thor returned.
• Loki used his Frost Giant strength and Gungnir to shove Jörmungandr’s corpse away, then fell into the void himself.
• Thor carried Asgardians to safety while Frigga sent thirty flying sailboats to rescue the rest, and Daisy collapsed from exhaustion.

After Loki fell into the void and the Bifrost broke, Daisy stayed in Asgard and attended a banquet honoring his supposed death. She leaves the chapter drinking a powerful spiritual wine without flinching, while Loki’s fate remains uncertain.

• Daisy questioned how she could return to Earth with the Bifrost broken, and Frigga invited her to Asgard’s traditional banquet for fallen warriors.
• Daisy dressed for the banquet and followed Sif to the main hall, where the Asgardians raised cups to Loki before eating.
• Daisy eagerly ate the energy-rich Asgardian food, and Volstagg praised her appetite as a warrior’s trait.
• The Asgardians offered Daisy spiritual wine stolen by Odin from the Dwarves, and she drank the entire goblet despite its scorching strength.

After celebrating Loki’s ascension in Asgard, Daisy left with gifts from Frigga and returned to Earth through K'un-Lun. She found S.H.I.E.L.D. and other forces exhausted by attacks from Jörmungandr’s scattered undead, and learned the cleanup was still ongoing.

• Daisy drank Asgardian wine and feasted for days, making friends among the warriors and testing her strength in arm-wrestling contests.
• After finding K'un-Lun’s coordinates from the broken Bifrost, Daisy accepted Frigga’s armor and Odin’s sword, Jörmungandr Must Die, as gifts.
• Daisy said farewell to Frigga, Thor, and the Asgardians, then traveled through K'un-Lun and returned to Earth.
• Daisy discovered that S.H.I.E.L.D., intelligence agencies, the military, and heroes had spent three days fighting undead attackers across the West Coast.
• Daisy learned that Jörmungandr’s scattered forces continued to threaten Earth, though his death meant he would not revive for years.

Daisy took charge of coordinating the heroes, agents, and government cleanup after Fear Itself, then returned to Washington to discuss the Asgardians with Director Fury. She warned that Thor could threaten Earth as king and faced Fury’s question about joining a superhuman alliance.

• Hill briefed Daisy on the battlefield cleanup, stolen alien remains and weapons, and the conflicts with civilians and authorities.
• Daisy took over coordination, secured Pentagon support through Rhodey, and persuaded Susan and Ben, Storm, Cyclops, and Stark to help.
• Daisy negotiated thirty million dollars in disaster reconstruction funds with California and cleared civilian groups and research organizations from the battlefield.
• Daisy stalled the FBI and CIA while allowing them to take a limited number of corpses, then publicly burned the Asgardian and Earthling bodies before returning to Washington.
• Daisy told Director Fury that Odin would restrain the Asgardians but that a reckless or manipulated Thor might threaten Earth, and Fury asked whether she would join a superhuman alliance.

Daisy returned home to find Thor’s lightning had damaged her villa and destroyed millions of dollars’ worth of possessions. Odin’s ravens arrived with three mysterious boxes and let her choose one, leaving her to decide by chance.

• Daisy rejected the idea of joining the Avengers and left S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Daisy found a huge skylight in her villa and learned from Lorna that Thor’s lightning had caused the damage.
• Daisy surveyed the wreckage and learned from Danger that repairs and ruined belongings amounted to about twelve million dollars in losses.
• Odin’s ravens brought three identical boxes and told Daisy to choose one.
• Daisy could not tell what the boxes contained, so she began chanting “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe” to pick one.

After Odin gave Daisy a mysterious golden gauntlet, she discovered it was an empty, right-handed Infinity Gauntlet and stored it safely in Odin's Treasure Box. The next day, while dealing with repairs and business matters, Daisy received an invitation from Emma Frost.

• Daisy chose the far-left box, and Odin's ravens carried the other boxes away.
• Daisy found a golden gauntlet inside and realized it was right-handed, though it gave her no additional strength.
• Daisy stored the gauntlet in Odin's Treasure Box, which she could keep in her dimensional space.
• Daisy ordered Maki to arrange repairs and told Lorna to prepare food before going to sleep.
• The next day, Daisy reviewed company documents and invitations while workers inspected the storm damage to her villa.
• Daisy noticed an invitation from Frost International and recognized that Emma Frost had sent it.

Daisy agreed to attend a wealthy women’s gathering with Pepper and arrived at a lavish villa party. She mingled with heiresses while the event’s music and dancing grew increasingly uninhibited.

• Daisy accepted Pepper’s invitation to an all-female gathering after deciding she had no urgent duties that weekend.
• Daisy arrived at the villa in a yellow dress, and the hostess introduced her to wealthy heiresses whose families she recognized.
• Pepper joined Daisy, and the heiresses eagerly questioned her about Stark Group and Iron Suit costs, as well as Tony Stark’s marriage prospects.
• A girl band performed, and the guests danced and shed some of their usual restraint as the party grew livelier.
• Daisy enjoyed the revealing outfits, energetic performance, and relaxed atmosphere of the gathering.

Daisy met Queen White, who invited her to join the Hellfire Club, but Daisy refused. Queen White departed after warning her that a young intruder had overheard them, and Daisy spotted a pink figure fleeing through an open window.

• Daisy showed the wealthy young women the scar on her shoulder and told them a dramatic story about surviving an attack in Norse lands.
• Daisy recognized Queen White, who had incapacitated the guests and challenged Daisy about her interest in women.
• Queen White invited Daisy to join the Hellfire Club, but Daisy rejected the offer.
• Queen White warned Daisy that a young woman had slipped into the west-side guest rooms and might have overheard them, then left.
• Daisy searched the rooms and saw a pink figure escaping through an open window.

Daisy caught Dagger sneaking into a women’s gathering and let her go after making her swear secrecy. The next day, Daisy rejected a woman’s false claim of kinship, then found Dagger and Cloak sitting in a crater in her lawn.

• Daisy used gravity to catch Dagger, recognized her, and made her swear in her deceased father’s name not to reveal what she had heard.
• Daisy left the gathering and went home, dismissing Dagger and Cloak as unimportant children.
• A woman claimed that Tyrone Johnson was Daisy’s relative and asked her for financial help, but Tyrone apologized and tried to leave.
• Daisy’s maid detained the woman while Daisy warned her to stop committing fraud, and the woman fled.
• Daisy and her maid rushed outside after a boom and found Cloak and Dagger sitting on opposite sides of a crater in the lawn.

Daisy agreed to watch over Dagger and Cloak after Ancient One warned her that Cloak’s dangerous power could make him a future defense for humanity. Later, after the Fear Itself incident was concealed, Daisy attended a meeting where the World Security Council approved creating a Deputy Director position in S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Dagger and Cloak clashed outside Daisy’s villa, opening a dark dimensional passage and freezing everyone except Daisy.
• Ancient One appeared, asked Daisy to watch over Dagger and Cloak, and explained that Cloak could become an important defense for humanity if guided well.
• Daisy accepted the responsibility, and Ancient One closed the passage before Daisy asked Coulson to arrange for the pair to transfer into Lorna’s class.
• After the Fear Itself incident, S.H.I.E.L.D. denied involvement, and the event’s true details remained hidden from the public.
• Daisy attended a high-level London meeting with the World Security Council, national leaders, Nick Fury, and Pierce, where they formally approved a Deputy Director position in S.H.I.E.L.D.

Daisy became S.H.I.E.L.D.'s first Deputy Director, gaining Level 9 status and Level 10 clearance while sharing responsibilities with Nick Fury and Pierce. After reviewing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files and expanding Hammer Industries' business plans, she began an inspection tour with Miss Mockingbird.

• Daisy was elected Deputy Director without opposition and received Level 9 status and Level 10 clearance.
• Daisy proposed making Hammer Industries a S.H.I.E.L.D. weapons supplier, and Nick Fury and Pierce approved the arrangement.
• Daisy reviewed S.H.I.E.L.D.'s personnel and financial files, discovering its holdings in Stark Industries and Hammer Industries.
• Daisy instructed Justin Hammer to pursue contracts for Ford-class aircraft carriers from the Pentagon.
• After three days of reading files, Daisy summoned Miss Mockingbird and began touring S.H.I.E.L.D. facilities.

Daisy inspected S.H.I.E.L.D. facilities and studied a preserved Kree corpse whose genes had resisted decades of research. She challenged Nick Fury’s human-Kree gene experiments, while Fury argued that Earth needed to prepare for the aggressive Kree civilization.

• Daisy toured several major S.H.I.E.L.D. bases and encountered a half Kree corpse preserved at Red Worm.
• Daisy sensed that she could absorb the corpse’s life force in her Kree form, then demanded to examine the experimental records.
• Daisy concluded that the scientists’ attempts to combine Kree and human genes were futile without Eternals genes and planned to disband the research department.
• Daisy returned to headquarters and told Nick Fury that his gene-fusion experiments were dangerous.
• Nick Fury defended the research by warning Daisy that the powerful, aggressive Kree could threaten Earth.

Daisy negotiated with Director Fury to use part of the alien corpse to develop a limited healing serum before continuing her inspection tour. At the NASA research center, she examined the Cosmic Cube and learned that its power required recognition from the Stones themselves.

• Daisy persuaded Director Fury to give her one arm and half a rib cage from the alien corpse, and she assigned researchers to develop a limited vitality serum for S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and their families.
• Daisy visited the NASA research center with Victoria Hand and Hawkeye, where they discussed the Cosmic Cube project with Dr. Erik Selvig.
• Dr. Erik Selvig warned Daisy not to touch the Cosmic Cube and complained that the researchers wanted to turn it into a weapon.
• Daisy used subtle string vibrations to examine the Cosmic Cube and discovered that the Infinity Stones required their holders' recognition before their powers could be used.

Daisy failed to make the Cosmic Cube yield the Power Stone and secretly gathered information from it before taking it home. With Dark Jean’s help, she deciphered the information as a star chart for the current universe, giving her a potential lead toward the Power Stone.

• Daisy tried to communicate with the Cosmic Cube while Victoria Hand’s fall distracted the others, but the Cube overwhelmed her mental senses with information.
• Daisy scolded the pantsless researcher until he quit, then took the Cube-related work home and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Daisy awoke in her mental world and persuaded Dark Jean to help her decipher the information from the Cosmic Cube.
• Dark Jean recognized a planet in the information from memories connected to Phoenix, helping Daisy understand that the data contained spatial coordinates.
• Daisy and Dark Jean identified several planetary and stellar coordinates, and Daisy concluded that the Cosmic Cube had given her a star chart of the current universe.

Daisy studied the Cosmic Cube’s star map and began planning how to find the Power Stone, weighing the need for a spaceship against the risks of dealing with the Inhumans. While she secretly devoted S.H.I.E.L.D. supercomputer capacity to her calculations, she exercised to prepare her body for teleportation and encountered Captain America.

• Daisy spent the night decoding the star map, but managed to decipher only three percent before Danger reported that its processing power was insufficient.
• Daisy diverted processing power from S.H.I.E.L.D.’s supercomputers to Danger and concluded that the Cube could not safely teleport her to a chosen destination.
• Daisy considered possible spacecraft on Earth, decided Director Fury likely possessed one, and planned to keep earning his favor while exploring other ways to travel.
• Daisy began running around the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial to balance her body’s energies and prepare for teleportation.
• Captain America recognized Daisy while running, asked about her training, and offered to pay rent for his lodging; Daisy waived the rent.
• Captain America noticed Daisy’s unusual speed and accelerated, and Daisy matched his pace.

Daisy searched for Jean after Storm reported that she had run away, fearing Jean might be headed to the Mutant summit on Ellis Island. At Grand Central Terminal, Daisy found Captain America weakened after Rogue absorbed some of his power, and Magneto appeared to claim the girl.

• Storm told Daisy that Jean had left Xavier's School and that the Professor suspected she was headed to Ellis Island.
• Daisy and Captain America drove to New York while Daisy's subordinates checked station and bus-terminal surveillance for Jean.
• Daisy learned Storm and Cyclops were on their way to New York and that Logan had already left ahead of them.
• Daisy sensed a surge in Captain America's psychic energy and found him in a train car with Rogue, who had absorbed some of his abilities and life force.
• Daisy used her Inhuman power to blast Rogue away from Captain America, then Magneto appeared and said Rogue would not go with her.