Chapter Summaries

Daisy confronted Mandarin and the Extremis-infected soldiers over the Oriental Theater bombing, revealing her new strength and armor. After driving off the Ten Rings men, she blocked an Extremis soldier’s punch as the fight began.

• Mandarin recognized Daisy, and she charged at him instead of retreating.
• Mandarin judged Daisy a threat but stayed back, letting the Ten Rings men approach her first.
• Daisy blasted the surrounding Ten Rings men away and demanded that the soldiers identify who had ordered the bombing.
• An Extremis-infected soldier stepped forward and attacked Daisy with a powerful punch.
• Daisy stopped the punch with one hand and examined the soldier’s escalating strength.

Daisy fought the Mandarin’s Extremis-enhanced soldiers, freezing them before they could explode. She refused the Mandarin’s offer to join him and prepared to battle him again so she could take his rings.

• Daisy explained that the Extremis virus pushed its recipients’ cells beyond their limits and magnified their negative emotions.
• Daisy taunted the burly soldier until his body began to overheat, then used Frozen Breath to freeze him and stop his explosion.
• Daisy pulled two fleeing soldiers back with Gravity Manipulation and froze them as well when the virus drove them to attack her.
• The Mandarin demanded his rings and ordered Daisy to retrieve them, but she refused and mocked him.
• Daisy told the Mandarin she would take more of his rings, and he prepared to fight her.

Daisy fought the Mandarin in Afghanistan, countering his rings until he unleashed a city-destroying storm. She shattered the tornado with one punch, damaged her Vibranium Bracer, and then charged at the Mandarin again.

• Daisy used Frozen Breath against the Mandarin's Ice Storm Ring, while the fake Mandarin fled from the falling temperature.
• The Mandarin combined his Whirlwind Ring and Lightning Storm Ring with the Ice Storm, creating a massive tornado that swallowed the town and threatened the surrounding region.
• Daisy endured the tornado's ice and lightning unharmed, then punched through it and split it apart across several thousand meters.
• Daisy's Vibranium Bracer cracked from the force, so she removed it and kept it as a souvenir.
• Daisy charged at the Mandarin with a flaming punch as a phoenix phantom appeared behind her.

Daisy fought Mandarin after he used several rings to obscure her senses and trap her in a poisonous mist. She pierced him with her Heat Ray, leaving him gravely wounded and fleeing, while she was left dealing with trouble of her own.

• Mandarin used Firestorm to slow Daisy, then spread black mist to break her psychic lock on him.
• Mandarin used Matter Recomposition to turn the mist into a deadly poison gas surrounding Daisy.
• Daisy surrounded herself with Phoenix flames, then fired a Heat Ray that burned through the gas and struck Mandarin.
• Mandarin barely repaired his wounds with Matter Recomposition and decided to run.
• Daisy did not immediately pursue Mandarin because she had encountered trouble herself.

Daisy pursued the wounded Mandarin across the wilderness and killed him with Phoenix Fire after he tried to escape. She recovered six of his rings, though three were shattered and two others had to be tracked down and suppressed.

• Daisy healed her burned retinas, caught up to Mandarin, and discovered that he used vibration and Matter Recomposition to phase through her attacks and escape underground.
• Daisy searched the wilderness with her super senses and located Mandarin, then decided she had to kill him because he might slaughter a city if he survived.
• When Mandarin emerged, Daisy pierced his heart with a spear of Phoenix Fire, and he tried to destroy his nine rings before dying.
• Mandarin's rings scattered, so Daisy shattered three, froze four, and chased down the final two before suppressing the will inside them with the Lasso of Truth.
• Daisy returned to Mandarin's corpse and found that three rings were broken beyond repair, while the other six remained intact but somewhat damaged.

Daisy defeated Mandarin, collected seven of his Ten Rings, and buried his body before returning to S.H.I.E.L.D. Killian arrived at the ruined camp and learned that both Mandarin and the fake Mandarin had disappeared.

• Daisy inspected the damaged rings, collected Mandarin's remaining rings and their fragments, and planned to have Danger erase their commands.
• Daisy searched Mandarin's belongings, found no manuals or secrets, and buried him more than a thousand meters underground.
• Daisy returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. after finishing her work at the battlefield.
• Killian arrived by helicopter and found his camp flattened, with only traces of the Extremis virus left behind.
• Killian's subordinates searched the area but could not find either Mandarin, and Erik Sowen handed Killian a tablet of news reports.
• Killian reviewed reports about the terrorist attack and recalled that Mandarin and the Ten Rings had agreed to take the blame in exchange for weapons and ammunition.

Killian ordered Sowen to lead an attack on Daisy’s villa after Sowen persuaded him to target her instead of Tony Stark. At the villa, Lorna and her friends were gaming when Danger detected three attack helicopters approaching.

• Killian saw Tony Stark denounce terrorists and ordered Sowen to kill him.
• Sowen talked Killian into targeting Daisy, and Killian sent him and six subordinates to slaughter the women and children at her home.
• At Daisy’s villa, Lorna, Kitty, Gwen, Peter, Ned, and The Stepford Cuckoos competed in a series of video game matches.
• Danger alerted Lorna that three attack helicopters were approaching and had triggered two security points.
• Lorna stopped playing and opened the villa district’s defense system to inspect the incoming threat.

Lorna defended Daisy’s villa from an air raid by using her magnetic powers to turn the attackers’ missiles against their helicopters. After three survivors swam toward shore, Esme and the Stepford Cuckoos took over, beginning to link their psychic powers.

• Lorna left the villa to face three incoming attack helicopters while Spider-Man and the others stayed behind.
• Sowen ordered a missile strike, but Lorna stopped the missile in midair and revealed her magnetic powers.
• Lorna redirected four missiles into the three helicopters, which exploded as Sowen and two other Extremis recipients jumped into the sea.
• Esme and two other Stepford Cuckoos joined Lorna and said they would handle the three survivors swimming toward shore.
• Esme linked her psychic powers with her sisters while Lorna watched warily.

Sowen and his companions attacked Daisy’s villa, but Spider-Man’s brief intervention failed when his homemade suit caught fire. Lorna, the Cuckoo Sisters, and Wanda drove the attackers away with psychic control and a banishment spell.

• Sowen and his two companions swam ashore near Daisy’s villa after their mission failed, and Spider-Man webbed them up as they arrived.
• Sowen burned through the webs and attacked Spider-Man, who jumped into the sea when his suit began catching fire.
• The Cuckoo Sisters used their telepathy to make Sowen and his companions fight each other while Lorna prepared defenses.
• Esme learned from Sowen’s memories that the attackers would explode, and Lorna called Wanda for help after Daisy’s phone was out of service.
• Wanda cast Faralrah’s Banishment and sent Sowen and his companions through a portal, then Lorna and the Cuckoo Sisters returned inside to play games.

Victor Von Doom returned to Earth as Daisy prepared to destroy A.I.M. with Hydra’s help. Daisy and Viper traveled to Hydra’s underwater Spirit Fluid Base to meet the organization’s leaders and plan their attack.

• Victor Von Doom stumbled through a spatial rift into a desert and headed east.
• Daisy decided to wipe out A.I.M. after learning of its Extremis dealings and weapons contract with the Department of Defense.
• Viper told Daisy that Baron Strucker wanted to gather Hydra’s forces against A.I.M., and Daisy agreed to join the planning meeting.
• Daisy and Viper traveled alone by submarine to Spirit Fluid, a vast underwater base controlled by Baron Strucker.
• Daisy and Viper waited outside the base and examined its energy shield, which appeared far ahead of technology on the surface.

Daisy attended a Hydra meeting with Viper, Whitehall, Heinrich Zemo, and Baron Strucker, while secretly planning to kill Whitehall for using her biological mother's organs. Baron Strucker confronted Daisy over the Maximoff siblings, and the rival Hydra leaders left their many conflicts unresolved.

• Daisy learned from Viper that Whitehall was Red Skull's former disciple and Heinrich Zemo was a rival of Baron Strucker.
• Daisy recognized that Whitehall was using her biological mother's organs to sustain himself and agreed to wait before killing him.
• Daisy and Viper discussed uniting against Baron Strucker and dividing Hydra's power among themselves.
• Baron Strucker accused Daisy of abducting the Maximoff siblings, and Daisy denied knowing them.
• Heinrich Zemo openly scorned Baron Strucker, but the Hydra leaders held back from fighting.

Baron Strucker convened Daisy, Viper, Baron Zemo, and Whitehall to negotiate a joint attack on A.I.M. The five divided up its assets and territories, with Daisy securing the underwater Liquid Base.

• Baron Zemo interrupted Baron Strucker and asked whether the meeting concerned A.I.M.
• Baron Strucker claimed A.I.M. was developing a weapon far more dangerous than the Extremis virus, using data recovered from Stryker's remains.
• Whitehall, Baron Zemo, Viper, and Daisy each demanded different spoils, and the five negotiated a division of A.I.M.'s assets and spheres of influence.
• Baron Strucker offered Baron Zemo a six-billion interest-free loan for weapons, and Daisy persuaded Zemo to accept by showing him Hammer Industries' energy gun.
• Viper received A.I.M.'s remaining islands, shipping companies, and two African experimental bases, while Baron Strucker claimed their scientific equipment.
• Daisy rejected A.I.M.'s research data and territory and asked for the Liquid Underwater Base, which Baron Strucker agreed to hand over.

Daisy organized a secret Hydra force to join the campaign against A.I.M. and had Danger begin repairing the Mandarin's rings. After returning to New York, she learned Tony was missing, only to spot him flying toward S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Daisy and the other Hydra leaders agreed to send a combined force of fifty thousand troops against A.I.M., with each faction keeping command of its own soldiers.
• Daisy gathered Hydra operatives for the campaign, while Crossbones led the force and Baldy coordinated its covert movements into the Congo.
• Daisy learned the villa had been attacked, told Wanda that Quicksilver might have escaped, and suggested Wanda's livestream could help him find her.
• Daisy gave all six rings to Danger for repair and ordered it to prioritize the Matter Recomposition ring.
• Captain America came to S.H.I.E.L.D. looking for missing Tony, and Daisy pointed out Iron Man approaching in the distance.

Pepper arrived at S.H.I.E.L.D. in Tony Stark’s malfunctioning armor and told Daisy Johnson and Captain America that Tony had been missing for three days. Daisy traced the armor’s distress signal to Miami and suspected Killian had kidnapped Tony to advance the Extremis research.

• The Iron Armor crashed through Daisy’s office, and Pepper emerged from it and asked Daisy and Captain America for help finding Tony.
• Pepper explained that Tony had gone missing after meeting an old flame, and that she had ignored his absence for three days before receiving the armor’s distress signal.
• Daisy connected to J.A.R.V.I.S. using the armor’s faceplate and found that the distress signal had come from Miami.
• Daisy suspected Killian had taken Tony to use his expertise in refining the Extremis virus.

Daisy and Captain America planned to rescue Tony Stark from Killian, while Pepper insisted on joining and learned to fly the Iron Armor. At the Roxxon port, Pepper spotted Stark hanging from a cargo ship and flew toward him as the alarm sounded and the rescue plan fell apart.

• Pepper asked Daisy and Captain America to help rescue Stark, and Daisy agreed, motivated by a chance to avenge Blackie and waive the Supercomputer fees.
• Pepper insisted on joining the mission, changed into an agent combat suit, and practiced flying the Iron Armor under Daisy's instruction.
• Captain America scouted the Roxxon Oil Company port in Miami and confirmed that Stark was alive and chained above the cargo ship.
• Daisy and Captain America moved toward the ship while Pepper waited, but patrol soldiers spotted her and gunfire and alarms exposed the team.
• Pepper flew toward Stark to rescue him, and Captain America urged Daisy to charge in as their careful plan unraveled.

Daisy, Captain America, and Pepper rescued Stark from the ship and defeated the remaining Extremis attackers. Daisy learned that Killian was absent and Maya Hansen had died, then returned to Hammer Industries after copying the Extremis data.

• Daisy and Captain America boarded the ship and fought through the soldiers and Extremis injectees while Pepper rescued Stark.
• Stark refused to wear the armor and guided Pepper as they fled through the ship.
• Allen Brandi attacked Pepper and Stark, but Captain America knocked her away and Daisy killed her.
• Daisy and Captain America wiped out the remaining Extremis injectees after Stark was rescued.
• Daisy and Stark copied data on the Extremis virus, and Daisy returned to Hammer Industries because her S.H.I.E.L.D. office had been destroyed.

Daisy recruited Dr. Curt Connors to help develop biological technology for a national defense project, using Maya Hansen’s Extremis research to interest him. After Connors agreed to work on the project, Daisy promised him the research materials and funding, while he sought a way to restore his amputated arm.

• Daisy sent Maki to invite Dr. Curt Connors to meet with her about his research.
• Daisy showed Connors part of Maya Hansen’s Extremis research and footage of Allen Brandt regrowing her severed arm.
• Connors recognized the virus’s potential and explained how his lizard research might improve its stability.
• Daisy showed Connors Bolivar Trask’s handwritten notes and asked him to develop their ideas for a national defense project.
• Connors agreed to work on the project but said he needed two hands, and Daisy agreed to provide Extremis materials and research funding.

Daisy and Dr. Lizard agreed to work together on refining the Extremis virus while secretly pursuing Sentinel Robot research, with Daisy providing funding and security. Stark and Pepper gave Daisy a Ferrari Enzo, and Pepper confided in her about the guilt and nightmares she suffered after killing someone.

• Daisy showed Dr. Lizard plans to use the new medicine to help injured S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel, and they reached a preliminary agreement on the research and funding.
• Daisy arranged for Dr. Lizard to refine Extremis while using it as cover for secret Sentinel Robot research, with S.H.I.E.L.D. staff overseeing the laboratory.
• Dr. Lizard returned to Osborn Enterprises to separate its research assignments from his own laboratory work, and Daisy gave him a month to prepare.
• Stark had Daisy's office renovated and sent her a limited-edition Ferrari Enzo through Pepper.
• Pepper told Daisy about her nightmares and distress after killing a man, and Daisy explained that people had to adjust to the experience in their own way.

Daisy helped Pepper with her doubts about becoming a superhero, healed the Black girl, and secretly treated Jessica Jones before leading S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Hydra forces to Congo. There, she watched rival Hydra factions meet and allowed tensions between them to grow.

• Daisy reassured Pepper that she could return to being CEO and gave her gadgets, then drove the limited-edition car before teleporting to Los Angeles.
• Daisy used Matter Recomposition to repair the Black girl’s injuries and later spent two days clearing excess energy from Jessica Jones’s body.
• Ten days later, Daisy accepted a United Nations invitation to investigate the armed conflict in Congo and brought eight thousand S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel led by Crossbones.
• Daisy met Hydra forces led by Baron Zemo, Baron Strucker, Whitehall, and Viper, while her agents privately mocked their uniforms and old-fashioned ways.
• Daisy let the cultural and ideological hostility between the Hydra factions develop so her S.H.I.E.L.D. agents would see that Hydra was no paradise.

Hydra’s leaders assigned their forces to attack A.I.M.’s bases, but Daisy and Viper stalled until Baron Zemo’s New SS First Division led the assault. As the battle began, Viper’s agents entered the smoke to attack the base and steal its files.

• Viper reported A.I.M.’s troop deployments and defenses, and the Hydra leaders assigned their targets, leaving Sub-base Three to Baron Strucker.
• Daisy and Viper refused to attack first, arguing with Whitehall and Baron Zemo until Baron Zemo ordered his New SS First Division forward.
• Daisy watched Baron Zemo’s coordinated mechanized force advance and decided to wait another five minutes.
• Viper’s ninjas covered the approach with smoke grenades, while African Tree Viper charged into the smoke and Diamondback Serpent Emissary slipped in to steal files.
• Viper asked Daisy about Black Mamba, and Daisy said Black Mamba’s psychic ability was decent for an ordinary person.