Chapter Summaries

Loki brainwashed Pierce and forced him to reveal political secrets on television, throwing S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra into confusion. Daisy broadcast a speech that calmed both groups and left the organization’s immediate crisis under control.

• Loki took control of the Daily Bugle station and made Pierce expose secrets in a televised broadcast.
• Hill believed the Mind Scepter had distorted Pierce and Crossbones's principles, while Daisy worried about the damage to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Nick Fury told Daisy that foreign leaders demanded an explanation and asked her to calm S.H.I.E.L.D. agents while he dealt with the council.
• Daisy prepared herself and broadcast a speech to S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel, explaining that Pierce and Crossbones had been mind-controlled.
• Daisy and Ward held their Hydra subordinates back, and the agents gradually put away their weapons and calmed the wider organization.

Daisy whitewashed Pierce and Crossbones as victims of Loki’s mind control, restoring S.H.I.E.L.D.’s morale and reassuring governments. She then argued that the Avengers should remain under S.H.I.E.L.D.’s oversight, while Fury proposed making them an important complement to the agency.

• Daisy praised Pierce and Crossbones and used Fury’s recorded support to persuade agents that Loki had framed them.
• Daisy sent Hawkeye to help Captain Rogers guard major television stations after Loki escaped the Daily Bugle.
• Daisy used calls with governments and military commands to contain the fallout, earning approval from the World Security Council.
• Daisy told the council that the Avengers should remain under S.H.I.E.L.D.’s oversight and warned that an independent team could weaken the agency.
• Fury argued that the Avengers should be free, then proposed that they serve as an important complement to S.H.I.E.L.D.

Daisy and S.H.I.E.L.D. reached a tentative agreement with the Council to form the Avengers, while survivors emerged from the underground collapse. Daisy isolated Supergiant and began speaking with Medusa and Black Bolt, learning that Black Bolt had broken free of mind control and that Daisy was one of the Inhumans.

• Daisy and Nick Fury accepted a compromise with the Council, which approved forming the Avengers within S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Thor dug out Dr. Erik Selvig and brought him to the surface, where Daisy arranged emergency treatment for him.
• Daisy sensed the survivors approaching and ordered the agents to retreat as Black Bolt blasted his group out of the ground.
• Medusa asked Daisy for help, and Daisy had the unconscious Supergiant locked in the Isolation Chamber.
• Medusa explained that Black Bolt had broken free of mind control, and Thor left to pursue Loki.
• Daisy and Medusa introduced themselves, and Medusa asked Daisy if she knew she was one of their people.

Daisy negotiated with Black Bolt and Medusa, accepted an invitation to join Attilan’s royal family as Black Bolt’s younger sister, and revealed that Kree contact had awakened her psychic power. She left the meeting with the Inhumans less hostile toward her and with a possible plan to cooperate against the Kree.

• Medusa recounted the Inhumans’ history and invited Daisy to join Attilan, but Daisy initially refused.
• Medusa and Black Bolt offered Daisy membership in the royal family as Black Bolt’s younger sister.
• Daisy asked to speak with Black Bolt through Medusa’s mental world, where she demonstrated her human, Inhuman, and Kree forms.
• Daisy told Black Bolt that a Kree had helped awaken her psychic power, while considering a future deal to capture Kree together.
• Black Bolt formally invited Daisy into the royal family, and she accepted as his younger sister and Medusa’s sister.
• Daisy and the Inhumans left the meeting with much of their hostility reduced, and Daisy gained a royal status that could put her in line to inherit the throne.

Daisy received an Attilan Energy Shield and declined to return to the moon with Medusa and the other Inhumans. Back aboard the Helicarrier, she handed the captive Supergiant to Director Fury, whose secrecy drew questions from Captain America and Stark.

• Medusa gave Daisy an Attilan Energy Shield and invited her to visit Attilan, but Daisy said she needed to finish her work on Earth.
• Daisy spoke with Lockjaw and considered how the Genetic Council’s interference had harmed the Inhumans’ development.
• Daisy asked Black Bolt what to do with Supergiant, and Medusa said Earth should handle the captive rather than kill her.
• The Inhumans teleported back to the moon, while Daisy returned to the Helicarrier with Supergiant and summoned Director Fury.
• Stark and Captain America confronted Director Fury and Daisy about the alien and SHIELD’s secrecy.
• Captain America demanded that Director Fury and Stark explain what they were researching and whether Supergiant was connected to it.

Daisy and the Directors struggled to contain Supergiant’s psychic assault as Director Pierce and Crossbones launched a Hydra attack on the Iliad to free her. Crossbones fought Mockingbird and Hawkeye while his agents moved to capture Doctor Bruce Banner.

• Coulson escorted Captain America from the interrogation room, leaving Daisy, Director Fury, and Stark to discuss the Cosmic Cube and Supergiant.
• Supergiant awakened and attacked Daisy psychically through the Isolation Chamber, forcing Daisy to reach for its self-destruct switch while Director Fury and Stark escaped.
• Director Pierce and Crossbones arrived with Hydra members and attacked the Iliad, which suffered heavy damage as Hill hesitated to order the aircraft shot down.
• Crossbones led Hydra teams through the carrier, while Pierce tried to rally supporters and Crossbones’s agents disabled most of its weapons.
• Mockingbird and Hawkeye fought Crossbones, who called for Plan B and ordered his agents to find Target Two, Doctor Bruce Banner.

Hulk’s rampage, the battle across the Helicarrier, and Daisy’s struggle against Supergiant pushed the carrier toward disaster. Pierce freed Supergiant, and she unleashed a Psychic Storm over the Helicarrier as she escaped.

• Hydra agents provoked Hulk into a rampage, and Black Widow and Miss Drew restrained him before he could reach the Power Room.
• Loki fought Thor on the deck as the Helicarrier descended, while Captain America and Coulson resisted Crossbones’ men and Stark worked to keep the carrier from crashing.
• Daisy weakened Supergiant inside the Isolation Pod, but Pierce interrupted her, shot at her, and opened the pod so Supergiant could escape.
• Nick Fury shot Pierce in the foot as he tried to flee with Supergiant.
• Supergiant unleashed a Psychic Storm across the Helicarrier and vowed to fight the Earthlings again.

After Supergiant’s Psychic Storm sent the Helicarrier into chaos, Daisy and the others brought it down safely, rescued agents, and captured Pierce. With the ship badly damaged and Pierce gone, Daisy, Fury, and Hill reorganized S.H.I.E.L.D.’s leadership and responsibilities.

• Supergiant’s Psychic Storm affected the agents and heroes, while Stark and Thor’s renewed fight destroyed a turbine and sent the Helicarrier plunging toward the ground.
• Daisy, Fury, and the recovering heroes brought the damaged Helicarrier down in Ohio, and Crossbones escaped with Loki while Pierce was captured.
• Daisy helped evacuate the agents from the burning ship, which had suffered extensive damage and would require rebuilding.
• Daisy asked Fury whether he still believed in the Avengers, and he said they would learn from their defeat; Daisy then comforted Hill over the losses and the Helicarrier’s fall.
• Fury and Daisy reassigned S.H.I.E.L.D.’s duties, placing Hill in the core leadership and giving her several departments to manage.
• Fury said Black Widow and Hawkeye would join the Avengers as an independent unit that maintained contact with S.H.I.E.L.D.

After S.H.I.E.L.D. agreed in principle to recruit Queen White, Daisy gathered Fury and the Avengers to hear a warning from Jesse Alexander, a former Nova Corps member. Alexander revealed that the Chitauri were approaching Earth, leaving the group facing an imminent cosmic threat.

• Daisy proposed recruiting Queen White as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s psychic, and Fury agreed in principle.
• Fury found the Avengers arguing over whether to recover the Cosmic Cube and who it belonged to.
• Daisy called Fury, Hill, and the Avengers into a Quinjet and introduced Jesse Alexander.
• Jesse said he had left the Nova Corps fifteen years earlier to raise his son, Sam.
• Jesse warned that the Chitauri had crossed the stars and were heading toward Earth, having already reached Jupiter's orbit.

Mr. Plumber warned Daisy and S.H.I.E.L.D. that a vast Chitauri force was approaching Earth and would likely arrive within hours. After learning that New York was their probable target, Daisy told President Obama and the military, leaving Obama to decide whether to order a mass evacuation.

• Mr. Plumber showed the heroes an image of the Chitauri fleet near Jupiter and estimated that it would reach Earth in three or four hours.
• Mr. Plumber declined to join the fight and left after warning S.H.I.E.L.D.; Daisy learned from Reed that he had also detected the aliens.
• Daisy and Director Fury divided their responsibilities, with Daisy going to inform the government and military while Fury organized the heroes.
• Daisy told President Obama that the Chitauri were approaching, and the North American Air Defense Command confirmed their movements.
• Commander Johnson told the Pentagon that the Chitauri were probably targeting the Cosmic Cube in New York, prompting the leaders to consider evacuating the city's citizens.
• The officials waited for Obama to decide whether to order the evacuation.

Obama ordered New York evacuated and the country placed on wartime alert after satellite images confirmed the Chitauri vanguard was approaching Earth. With a full evacuation impossible, officials arranged underground shelters while S.H.I.E.L.D. and others prepared for the coming battle.

• Obama ordered military mobilization, New York evacuation preparations, and a televised address after the Pentagon confirmed the alien threat.
• Daisy urged Obama to suspend stock trading, and he halted it before warning the public that humanity had to resist the Chitauri.
• New York’s mayor said evacuating more than ten million people in just over an hour was impossible, so Daisy advised sending them to basements, subways, and other underground shelters.
• Obama left for Air Force One with his family, while Daisy turned to S.H.I.E.L.D. work and planned to contact the Mutants and Magneto.
• Coulson returned to Midtown High School and, with Agent May, began moving students toward nearby subway stations for shelter.

As the alien invasion began, Coulson and May led students into a subway shelter while Peter worried about his family and dismissed a spider bite. Daisy returned to her villa to protect its inhabitants, but after she left, Wanda emerged from the basement ready to defend their home.

• Coulson ordered the students to shelter in a subway tunnel, where May subdued several men before they claimed a section for themselves.
• Coulson and May discussed S.H.I.E.L.D.'s divisions and stayed behind to protect the students rather than join the fight.
• Gwen and Lorna worried about their families and Jessica, while Peter shook off a spider bite and joined their conversation.
• Daisy asked Wanda to conceal the villa, then sent Rhino and Wanda into the basement and teleported away.
• Wanda left the basement and prepared to fight any aliens who threatened the villa.

As the Chitauri fleet approached Earth, Daisy rejected Stark’s plan to strike at enemy leaders and prepared for a full-scale battle. She enlisted Professor Charles to help resist Supergiant’s mind-controlling scepter, while New Yorkers faced the impending invasion in fear and defiance.

• Daisy told Stark that destroying a few Chitauri ships or leaders would not resolve the threat and argued that Earth had to defeat the enemy outright.
• Daisy warned Professor Charles that Supergiant might use the Mind Scepter to control people across Earth, and he agreed to help resist her.
• The X-Men stayed to protect Professor Charles, while Mockingbird and a large group of agents remained to assist them.
• At 1:25 p.m., the Chitauri fleet darkened the sky as it headed toward New York, and frightened civilians, police, and soldiers braced for war.
• Kingpin and Bullseye stayed in Hell’s Kitchen as James Wesley armed the gang, while some youths protested against resisting the invasion.

With Daisy in temporary command, Earth’s forces began fighting the Chitauri as they descended on New York. The Avengers joined the battle, while Daisy held Bruce Banner back for Loki, who had just appeared among a small group of soldiers and civilians.

• Daisy ordered Hydra subordinates to shoot the biggest troublemakers, then joined Stark and the Avengers on Stark Tower to watch the enemy approach.
• The President and Secretary of Defense gave Daisy temporary brigadier general rank and command of the defense of New York.
• As the Chitauri entered the atmosphere, Daisy ordered missiles and rocket artillery to attack, then halted missile launches when they proved ineffective against the dispersed vanguard.
• Captain America parachuted into battle, Daisy teleported Hawkeye and Black Widow to their positions, and Stark, War Machine, Thor, and Spider-Woman joined the fighting.
• Daisy told Bruce Banner to wait for Loki, who appeared unarmed and approached a squad of American soldiers, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and two civilians.

Loki froze Thor with the Casket of Ancient Winters, but Hulk shattered the ice and chased Loki through New York. As the Chitauri poured into the city, Daisy called in reinforcements and Kingpin rallied his gang to fight back.

• Loki used the Casket of Ancient Winters to freeze Thor and nearby people, then Hulk smashed through the ice and pursued him.
• Loki escaped on a Chitauri flying craft while Hulk chased after him, and Daisy brought the frozen Thor back to Stark Tower.
• Daisy ordered the follow-up troops to New York as Chitauri forces broke through the defenses and spread across the city.
• Footage of the battle restored the soldiers' courage, and nations began surrounding New York with layered defenses.
• Kingpin killed a Chitauri with his bare hands and rallied his gang to attack the invaders.

As the Chitauri invasion spread across New York, civilians, heroes, and organized forces fought back while Kingpin rescued Vanessa. Daisy deployed mechanical soldiers and supported the city’s defenses as Captain America confronted the mind-controlled Crossbones.

• Kingpin killed a Chitauri threatening Vanessa and brought her to shelter.
• Daisy sent five hundred mechanical soldiers to help troops establish defensive lines across New York.
• Captain America stopped Crossbones from shooting his Hydra subordinates, then fought him after Crossbones attacked.
• Black Widow and Miss Drew supported S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Hawkeye received fresh arrows from Daisy, and Reed and The Thing defended the Baxter Building.
• The maid revealed her powers while defending Hammer Industries, and Stick, Elektra, and Matthew joined the battle.
• Wanda destroyed the Chitauri attacking the Long Island villa, while Rhino and Little Lion captured stragglers for her to kill.

Wanda and Daisy fought the Chitauri as their forces struggled to defend the Cosmic Cube excavation site. Daisy destroyed several troop carriers, but the remaining aliens crashed into the facility and overwhelmed her with concentrated fire.

• Wanda used Chaos Magic to erase the wills of Chitauri across several thousand meters, killing them as they fell from the sky.
• Daisy ordered missile strikes against five massive troop carriers, then used Atomic Cutting to destroy one while the missiles barely damaged the others.
• Daisy and Stark forced their way through troop carriers and destroyed three more, with Daisy calling herself Wonder Woman as she escaped one exploding ship.
• The last troop carrier crashed into the Cosmic Cube excavation site, where Grant Ward ordered the agents to scatter and Baldy fled.
• Daisy cut down Chitauri soldiers and destroyed part of the ruins, but more ships landed and hundreds of aliens concentrated their fire on her, forcing her to dodge and rely on Medusa's Energy Shield.

Daisy coordinated the battle against the Chitauri while Coulson led students and civilians through the tunnels to a bar, where mercenaries helped them fight. Lorna realized the bar’s crew expected Daisy to pay for the damage, though she doubted Daisy would do so herself.

• Daisy drew Chitauri reinforcements to the ruins, held them there, and returned to Stark Tower to direct the citywide defense.
• Coulson, May, Lorna, Dagger, and Flash protected students and civilians as they retreated from Chitauri attackers in an underground tunnel.
• Coulson led the group to Weasel’s bar and arranged to use it as a stronghold against the Chitauri.
• Wade Wilson and the bar’s mercenaries fought off the Chitauri and prepared defenses around the nearby buildings.
• Lorna asked Coulson whether he expected Daisy to cover the bar’s losses, and doubted Daisy would pay under her own name.

Defenders and rescue teams fought the Chitauri across the city as Captain America evacuated patients, Hill led agents through Central Park, and Daisy destroyed troop carriers. Daisy spotted Supergiant wielding the Mind Scepter, and Supergiant struck at her with psychic power.

• Weasel warned Wade to use a chair against a Chitauri, while Lorna caught Weasel recording bar inventory during the battle.
• Captain America rescued Sharon Carter in the hospital garage, then led a team covering the evacuation of doctors and wounded under Doctor Strange's direction.
• Hill used the White Tiger Amulet to fight through Chitauri in Central Park, where she and her agents encountered Frank Castle.
• Daisy told Hill that Frank had Nick Fury's approval, and Hill let him leave while planning to challenge the decision later.
• After destroying twelve troop carriers, Daisy spotted Supergiant using the Mind Scepter and called for Professor as Supergiant attacked her psychically.

Daisy and Professor Charles identified Supergiant’s dependence on the Mind Scepter and mental-enhancing machinery, then moved to split their forces between attacking her and defending Xavier’s School. The chapter ended as Captain America led the assault on Supergiant’s metal fortress while Daisy hurried to the school with reinforcements.

• Queen White blocked Supergiant’s strike, and Professor Charles attacked Supergiant through Cerebro, exposing the machinery enhancing her mental power.
• Supergiant used the Mind Scepter to resist Charles, who uncovered memories of Thanos and the Black Order before warning Daisy that he could hold out for only a few more minutes.
• Daisy ordered the army to attack Supergiant, while Supergiant ordered her troops to kill Charles at Xavier’s School and abandoned the search for the Cosmic Cube.
• Supergiant’s remaining Golden Dragonfish troop carriers formed a metal fortress around her, and Chitauri forces rushed toward Xavier’s School.
• Daisy appointed Captain America to command the assault on Supergiant and took S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to defend the school; Captain America led the Avengers against the fortress while Daisy teleported there with Spider-Woman and Queen White.