Chapter Summaries

Daisy's forces and their Hydra allies fought through A.I.M.'s heavily fortified branch base, while Judas Bullets killed Extremis soldiers by detonating their organs. As Baron Strucker's troops joined the battle, Daisy observed that most of his soldiers fought from fear rather than loyalty.

• Daisy divided the assault into squads and ordered Rumlow to target the power supply while Ward prepared to snipe the Extremis soldiers.
• Crossbones broke through several defensive lines with his upgraded gauntlets, then helped demolish the base's defenses after Judas Bullets killed a bald Extremis soldier who had knocked him aside.
• Hydra snipers used Judas Bullets to kill attacking Extremis soldiers, and Viper obtained fifty rounds from Daisy before telling Rattlesnake they cost one hundred thousand per bullet.
• Baron Zemo split his mechanized forces into squads as casualties mounted, while Whitehall helped keep the fighting near a stalemate.
• Baron Strucker sent his expressionless soldiers charging into the battle, and Daisy saw that most fought because they feared being shot for retreating.

Baron Strucker captured Base No. 3 but was overwhelmed by a vast army of A.I.M. clones and Mutants. Daisy and the others joined the battle, and Strucker fought on the front lines as his forces suffered heavy casualties.

• Baron Strucker and the Fenrir Twins captured Base No. 3, then prepared defenses as A.I.M. sent a huge force to retake it.
• Strucker confronted Viper over her reconnaissance, and his troops discovered that A.I.M.'s soldiers were identical clones who kept charging despite heavy losses.
• A.I.M. deployed Mutants with control collars, and the Fenrir Twins withdrew after fighting for three hours as Strucker demanded support from the other leaders.
• Daisy signaled Viper to launch a full assault, and Viper's forces helped capture another sub-base before joining Strucker's battle.
• Daisy saw that A.I.M.'s clone army numbered at least sixty thousand, while Strucker's forces suffered more than five thousand deaths.
• Baron Strucker fought on the front lines with his mechanical arm, killing several Mutants who tried to attack him.

Baron Strucker confronted A.I.M. leader Murdock, whose enormous mutated brain and mental powers intimidated the Hydra leaders. The Fenrir Twins attacked Murdock, who escaped their disintegration storm and exposed their deepest desires as he considered recruiting them.

• Murdock appeared in an Adamantium chair carried by ten identical clones and demanded to know why Baron Strucker had invaded his territory.
• Daisy identified Murdock as A.I.M.'s leader and strengthened her mental defenses while Baron Strucker observed him.
• Murdock offered to make Baron Strucker and the others masters of Earth, but Baron Strucker signaled the Fenrir Twins to attack.
• The Fenrir Twins unleashed a disintegration storm, and Murdock blocked it with a milky-white energy shield before flying out of its path.
• The disintegration storm erased Murdock's clone bearers, and Murdock read the Fenrir Twins' thoughts and considered them as his personal enforcers.

Baron Strucker interrupted Big Head’s mind control and nearly killed him, but Big Head escaped by transmitting himself through a network. As Hydra attacked his clone army, Big Head unleashed a powerful robot that targeted Baron Zemo.

• Baron Strucker struck the Fenrir Twins to break Big Head’s control, then attacked Big Head with a pistol and an Adamantium rapier.
• Big Head vanished by converting himself into a pseudo-digital lifeform and transmitting through the network, and Daisy began developing an algorithm to locate his transfer devices.
• Baron Strucker ordered Hydra’s forces to assault the clone army while Big Head, frightened by the battle, revealed his trump card.
• Daisy detected an explosion and rushed away with Viper just before an armored vehicle was hurled into their former position.
• A metal robot emerged from underground, hurled the vehicle, formed a bow, and fired an arrow at Baron Zemo.

Daisy identified the robot as a primitive Super Adaptioid that could imitate Avengers’ abilities, and she intervened to save Baron Strucker from its attack. The Adaptioid continued rampaging through Hydra’s forces while Crossbones and Diamondback struggled to hold it back.

• The robot used Hawkeye’s archery to shoot Baron Zemo, and Viper and Daisy pretended to help as Zemo’s son took him away for treatment.
• The robot transformed into a Hulk-like giant, broke the Fenrir Twins’ attack, and charged through the armies toward Baron Strucker.
• The robot imitated Thor and nearly struck Baron Strucker, but Daisy fired three Judas Bullets into it, giving the Baron time to escape.
• The Super Adaptioid mimicked Black Widow’s movements and Hulk’s strength as it attacked Hydra soldiers and destroyed a Mechanical Soldier.
• Crossbones and Diamondback engaged the Adaptioid, but it used a powerful concussive shockwave to send them flying and devastate nearby Hydra soldiers.

The Super Adaptioid copied Daisy’s abilities and tore through Baron Strucker’s forces while targeting the Baron. Daisy sold Strucker three hundred Judas Bullets, which he gave to three sniper teams to use against the machine.

• The Super Adaptioid copied Daisy’s fighting style and abilities, then charged through the battlefield toward Baron Strucker.
• Daisy and Viper watched as Strucker retreated to his command post and vowed to destroy A.I.M.
• Strucker asked Daisy to sell him her armor-piercing bullets so his troops could kill the Super Adaptioid.
• Daisy teleported to retrieve ammunition and sold Strucker three hundred Judas Bullets for three hundred million euros.
• Strucker distributed the bullets among three sniper teams, which prepared to shoot the Super Adaptioid.

Hydra’s forces crippled the Super Adaptioid, but it copied the Fenrir Twins’ powers and fought them to a standstill. Daisy’s mind control drove Killian to attack the Twins, and the resulting collision of their powers and his Extremis explosion killed them and opened a tiny hole between worlds.

• Hydra snipers used Judas Bullets to damage the Super Adaptioid, and the Fenrir Twins attacked after its leg was destroyed.
• The Super Adaptioid copied the Twins’ powers and clashed with them in a contest of energy.
• Daisy’s psychic suggestions made Killian see the Twins as a couple mocking him, and he charged at them despite Baron’s order to fire.
• Killian’s punch disrupted the Twins’ coordination, and the Twins’ and Super Adaptioid’s disintegration energy struck him as his Extremis virus exploded.
• The explosion killed Killian and the Twins, consumed the Super Adaptioid, and formed a tiny hole between worlds that began to expand.

The Super Adaptioid escaped a spatial collapse only to be swallowed by Negative Space, whose passage began consuming the battlefield. The Golden Cocoon sealed the passage with a blast of energy, but the resulting explosion devastated every faction, leaving Daisy to manage the aftermath.

• The Super Adaptioid aligned itself with another world’s frequency, escaped the collapse, and was swallowed by Negative Space as the passage began absorbing the battlefield.
• Big Head Murdock hesitated over reports of the disaster while the Golden Cocoon beneath A.I.M.’s main base reacted to Negative Space and fired a beam at the passage.
• The Golden Cocoon’s energy overwhelmed Negative Space and sealed the passage, triggering an even greater explosion.
• Daisy used gravity to help S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra operatives flee, but more than three hundred of her subordinates died in the blast, bringing her total losses to nearly two thousand.
• Baron Strucker’s forces regrouped with only six or seven thousand soldiers left, while the other factions also suffered heavy casualties and shared some of their recovered spoils with Hydra.
• Daisy told the other leaders to withdraw and stayed behind to clean up the battlefield under S.H.I.E.L.D.’s cover.

Daisy covered up the battle in Congo, buried the dead, and searched the ruined A.I.M. base for evidence and valuable data. She left the site under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s control while planning to use the evidence to destroy A.I.M.

• Daisy let Baron Strucker and the other surviving leaders escape, promising to send Strucker the technical data.
• Whitehall told Sunil Bakshi that he suspected Daisy wanted to kill him and ordered him to investigate her and recruit vulnerable S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
• Daisy extinguished the burning base, arranged the removal and concealment of casualties, and used clone corpses as evidence of A.I.M.'s research.
• Daisy recruited Diamondback and Black Mamba to search the base for technical data and valuables.
• After the Security Council accepted Daisy's account, S.H.I.E.L.D. cordoned off the valley and restricted other intelligence organizations to sending two agents each to write reports.

Daisy uncovered the Golden Cocoon’s connection to the explosion in Congo and claimed A.I.M.’s enormous stockpile of gold, diamonds, and rare metals. After distributing some spoils and studying A.I.M.’s research, she sent Baron a copy of the Super Adaptioid materials with the meteorite information removed.

• Daisy searched the Congo site and learned that the missing Golden Cocoon was likely the world-ending weapon Murdock had mentioned, though she could not determine where it had teleported.
• Daisy gave Hill a bag of diamonds and asked Director Fury to take the escaped Tyrannosaurus Rex away for study.
• Daisy used the repaired Helicarrier to transport A.I.M.’s gold, diamonds, Adamantium, Vibranium, and other resources out of Congo.
• Daisy distributed gold, diamonds, and a golden lion among the women at home, then studied A.I.M.’s technical documents with Danger.
• Daisy learned that A.I.M. had based its Super Adaptioid research on notes Bolivar Trask wrote in the 1960s and that its meteorite core could produce only one unit.
• Daisy copied the Super Adaptioid materials without the meteorite information and sent the remaining documents to Baron Strucker.

Daisy accepted Baron Strucker’s offer of Typhon Group shares and handed him the Liquid Base’s personnel, then discovered he had secretly retained the power to destroy the base. Using John Garrett’s Zodiac authorization, she took control of the base and uncovered records about the Nova Corps’ influence on human technology and the Brotherhood’s history.

• Baron Strucker gave Daisy ten percent of Typhon Group, bringing her ownership to thirteen percent, and Daisy transferred the Liquid Base’s remaining three thousand people to him.
• After Strucker left, Daisy found that he had kept a hidden authorization that could trigger the base’s self-destruction.
• Daisy used John Garrett’s appearance, voice, fingerprints, and Zodiac login authorization to access the Main Control Computer.
• Daisy overwrote Strucker’s permissions and removed his control of the base’s self-destruct system.
• Daisy examined the newly accessible records and learned that the Nova Corps had secretly influenced human technological development for centuries.
• Daisy discovered records of Galileo’s giant Cerebro and its use against the Planet Devourer, raising questions about the origins of Professor Charles’s Cerebro.

Daisy used the Nova Corps database to uncover its history and then traveled to Rome to find the Brotherhood’s hidden base. She reached a vast underground city that appeared to have been abandoned.

• Daisy searched the Main Control Computer and found records about Wu Fengji, Phoenix, and the Nova Corps’s influence on humanity.
• Daisy logged out of the Liquid Underwater Base and teleported to Rome.
• Daisy followed the instructions from the Liquid Base to Saint Peter’s statue, used John Garrett’s authorization, and opened a hidden entrance.
• Daisy descended six thousand meters in an elevator and discovered the Brotherhood’s technologically advanced Underground City.
• Daisy froze and shattered the thorns blocking her way, then entered the empty central plaza.

Daisy found Michelangelo, a disembodied remnant of the Brotherhood, in its abandoned headquarters and learned that Sir Isaac Newton had gone to 2060. She recognized that Michelangelo had lost his identity by dispersing across time and parallel realities, then pressed him to explain why Newton supported Hydra.

• Daisy explored the deserted Brotherhood headquarters and met a golden spirit who introduced himself as Michelangelo.
• Michelangelo told Daisy that Newton had left for the year 2060 and said the Brotherhood had predicted humanity would become extinct that year.
• Michelangelo filled the Underground City with countless incarnations of himself and explained that déjà vu came from quantum resonance between parallel dimensions.
• Daisy identified the figures as fragments of Michelangelo, whose consciousness had dispersed through time and space until he could no longer exist on the current timeline.
• Daisy asked Michelangelo why Newton had supported Hydra, and the golden figures began questioning who and where they were.

Daisy learned that the Brotherhood’s plan to control Hydra and avert a future catastrophe had failed, and that Da Vinci had left a Child of Stars behind in the Underground City. Realizing the child was a Celestial infant, Daisy armed herself and set out to confront it.

• Daisy heard Michelangelo explain that the Brotherhood had tried to take control of Hydra and reshape humanity’s future, but ordinary people defeated Hydra and ruined the plan.
• The Michelangelos recalled that Da Vinci founded the Zodiac after World War II, fought Newton in a Brotherhood civil war, and later followed him into the future.
• Michelangelo told Daisy that resolving the coming trouble was in her hands, called her a Young Titan, and vanished after mentioning the Child of Stars.
• Daisy recognized the Child of Stars as the Celestial infant Da Vinci had brought back from the Sun and left in the Brotherhood’s headquarters.
• Daisy put on her armor, equipped her sword, lasso, and seven rings, and marched into the Underground City to subdue the infant.

Daisy encountered the Child of Stars, a newborn Celestial who had spent decades studying in an abandoned Underground City. After seeing how much energy he had taken from the sun, Daisy concluded he was responsible for humanity’s future extinction and realized she could not simply recruit him.

• Daisy entered the main building and found the fifty-meter-tall Child of Stars sitting inside, surrounded by traces of Primordial Cosmic Energy.
• Daisy considered whether to attack the Child of Stars or speak with him, then flew up to meet him as he studied topology.
• The Child of Stars noticed Daisy for the first time and scanned her curiously, while Daisy used Super Vision to examine him.
• Daisy saw that the Child of Stars was drawing energy from the sun through two storage devices and realized he had absorbed more than half of it.
• Daisy identified the Child of Stars as the cause of humanity’s predicted extinction in 2060 and abandoned her plan to recruit him.

Daisy tried to persuade the Child of Stars to return the stellar energy he had absorbed, which would otherwise doom humanity, but he refused because his mission to replan the universe mattered more to him. She apologized and challenged him to a fair fight to protect Earth.

• Daisy questioned the Child of Stars about his life structure and learned that his anchor was planning entirely new plans for the universe.
• Daisy explained that the Child of Stars's gestation had drained the sun and would cause humanity to perish in fifty years.
• The Child of Stars recognized the danger to Earth but refused to sacrifice himself, valuing his mission above the planet's life.
• Daisy apologized to the Child of Stars and challenged him to a fair fight.

Daisy fought Child of Stars beneath Rome and discovered that his power could relocate her anywhere on Earth, but she kept returning to challenge him. The chapter left Daisy resisting his relocation power by anchoring herself to him with the Lasso of Truth.

• Child of Stars defended sacrificing some worlds and collapsed the Brotherhood's building while protecting its books.
• Daisy cut into Child of Stars's armor and charged his exposed mechanical body, but he used his power to send her to Denmark.
• Child of Stars repeatedly relocated Daisy across Earth, and she returned each time while learning the limits of his ability.
• Daisy froze the Brotherhood's books to stop Child of Stars from relocating her, and he neutralized the attack with Matter Recomposition.
• Daisy tied the Lasso of Truth around Child of Stars's foot and used it to resist being sent away.

Daisy attacked the Child of Stars, using psychic strikes and repeated blows to breach his armor before driving Jörmungandr Must Die into the opening in his chest. As the Child of Stars began correcting his response, Daisy widened the damage while he tried to replenish his lost energy.

• Daisy used the Phoenix Force, her lasso, and Mind Amplification to assault the Child of Stars and break into his memories.
• Daisy learned the Celestial had mastered human knowledge and glimpsed strange symbols hidden deep in his memories.
• Daisy struck the armor’s weak point, denting it and cracking the energy source in the Child of Stars’ chest.
• Daisy sacrificed part of her psychic power to delay the Child of Stars, then drew Jörmungandr Must Die.
• Daisy stabbed the God-Slaying Sword into the damaged opening and slashed it wider as golden energy poured from the Child of Stars.
• The Child of Stars realized his energy-replenishing strategy was flawed and changed his approach.

Daisy entered Child of Stars’s body and battered his core, enduring its extreme heat while absorbing the Primordial Cosmic Energy leaking from a crack. As Child of Stars began compressing his energy and threatening to destroy everything around them, Daisy drove the God-Slaying Sword into the core and forced it deeper.

• Daisy entered Child of Stars’s body and used Matter Recomposition to help seal the breach in his chest.
• Daisy endured the heat inside Child of Stars and repeatedly struck the golden shell surrounding his core.
• Child of Stars attacked Daisy with Atomic Cutting, but she dodged and continued battering the shell until it cracked.
• Primordial Cosmic Energy leaked from the crack, and Daisy’s Eternity Cells and body began absorbing it.
• Child of Stars rapidly compressed his energy, setting off a wave of heat that burned the Underground City and overwhelmed Daisy’s defenses.
• Daisy drove the God-Slaying Sword into the crack and hammered it forward through the core’s resistance.

Daisy killed Child of Stars, absorbed much of his Primordial Cosmic Energy, and watched his consciousness fade as the Brotherhood’s remnants burned. Overwhelmed by the energy’s effects, she returned home to recover while fending off calls from Hill and Director Fury.

• Daisy interrupted Child of Stars’s self-destruction by driving the God-Slaying Sword into his core, shattering it and ending his mission.
• Daisy pulled out the sword and absorbed the remaining Primordial Cosmic Energy, reflecting on how Child of Stars’s fate had been shaped by the universe and its competing interests.
• Daisy emerged from Child of Stars’s body as the Brotherhood’s last stronghold burned and watched his consciousness disappear.
• Daisy struggled to decide what to do with Child of Stars’s body, then teleported home to deal with the reaction to the energy inside her.
• Hill and Director Fury called Daisy about her unexplained teleporting, and she blamed it on a mistake during practice.
• Daisy’s artificial intelligence warned that her muscle contractions exceeded their normal range, but she dismissed its offer of cooling measures.