Chapter Summaries

Wanda and Quicksilver encountered Deacon Frost and his vampires, who sought revenge over Daisy’s interference. Wanda used the Darkhold to force the vampires to kneel and began judging them, killing two she found too ugly.

• Deacon Frost revealed that he blamed Daisy for destroying his plans to unite the underground vampire world.
• The vampires closed in on Wanda and Quicksilver, but Wanda stopped her brother and recognized them from the Darkhold.
• Wanda summoned the Darkhold and commanded the vampires to kneel, leaving Deacon Frost and his followers unable to move.
• Wanda inspected the kneeling vampires and killed two she found too ugly with a flash of light.

Wanda defeated the vampires and used the Darkhold to kill the ancient vampire who had rescued Deacon Frost. Left alive, Deacon abandoned his failed Blood God plan and began plotting to obtain the Darkhold, though he had not yet chosen a target.

• Wanda found the remaining vampires worthless to study, but an ancient vampire used Dark Magic to drag Deacon Frost away from her.
• Wanda tracked the spell with the Darkhold and sent a blast of magic after the fleeing vampire, then left with her brother to celebrate with Daisy.
• The wounded Old Henry told Deacon Frost to abandon revenge, revive the vampire race, and seek the Darkhold before crumbling into ash.
• Deacon realized his Blood God plan had collapsed and that the Darkhold’s power could overwhelm the entire vampire race.
• Deacon planned to gather surviving vampires and consider kidnapping Wanda’s friends, family, or Baron Strucker to get the Darkhold.

S.H.I.E.L.D. and Albert Whistler’s team stormed a vampire base in Ukraine, where Albert confronted the Vampire Duke and his children. Deadpool arrived, killed the Duke, and fought the female vampire while Albert remained under attack.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjets helped Albert Whistler’s assault team blast open the vampires’ defenses at their hidden base in Ukraine.
• Albert borrowed a gun when her arrows proved inadequate, and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s attack drove the vampires into retreat.
• Albert found the Vampire Duke, but his two children attacked her and blocked her attempts to stop him escaping.
• Deadpool appeared and severed the Vampire Duke’s head with his katana.
• The female vampire attacked Deadpool, who gained the upper hand and sliced apart the bullets she fired at him.

Deadpool and Alberte fought two vampires with unusual resistance and regenerative abilities. Deadpool finally killed the Vampire Duke’s son by striking his heart through a gap in its bony armor, while Alberte killed the female vampire with an arrow.

• The female vampire emptied her gun into Deadpool, who survived despite being riddled with bullets, and she spat out his poisonous blood.
• Alberte shot the male vampire with a silvered arrow, but he proved immune to silver and attacked her with mutated tentacles.
• Deadpool threw his katana to save Alberte, then battled the male vampire, whose bite and attacks could not keep him down.
• Deadpool and the male vampire traded injuries until the vampire weakened and Deadpool chopped him into pieces.
• Deadpool found a gap in the bony armor protecting the vampire’s heart and stabbed through it, while Alberte killed the female vampire with an arrow.

Daisy and S.H.I.E.L.D. carried out a successful purge of vampires while exploiting the market turmoil to recover funds and profit. That night, Daisy also drove off a half-blood demon and defeated The Man-Thing.

• Deadpool left the underground passage after demanding a $20,000 fee, and the female demon hunter reported the mutated vampire to Hill without mentioning him.
• Hill handled S.H.I.E.L.D.'s personnel deployments while Daisy and Director Fury worked the financial markets and shorted vampire-linked stocks.
• Daisy and Director Fury profited from the market crash as governments and investors reacted to the vampire purge; Daisy made $600 million and laundered over $1 billion in funds.
• After the market closed, Hill handed control back to Daisy and Director Fury, and S.H.I.E.L.D. reported that fewer than one vampire in a hundred remained.
• Daisy, in her Wonder Woman identity and aided by two Angel soldiers, drove off a half-blood demon and then defeated The Man-Thing in a Florida swamp.

Daisy went to Texas after Ghost Rider appeared on a rooftop and discovered that the demon Zatanos had taken control of Johnny Blaze. With Zatanos weakened but dangerous, she tried to drive him out of the city and prepared to use the Lasso of Truth.

• Daisy recruited the nearly unkillable Man-Thing to fight for S.H.I.E.L.D. and handed him over to Director Fury for guidance.
• Hill told Daisy that a flaming skeleton on a motorcycle had appeared in Texas, and Daisy teleported there.
• Daisy evacuated the police, National Guard, S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers, and nearby residents before flying to the rooftop.
• Daisy cut Ghost Rider's chain when he attacked a police helicopter and told him to leave the city.
• Zatanos identified himself as a demon lord and challenged Daisy, who assessed his weakened state and drew the Lasso of Truth.

Daisy fought Ghost Rider while trying to protect a helicopter pilot and nearby civilians, then drove him away from the city and pursued him when he fled by motorcycle. The chase continued along the highway as Johnny Blaze’s riding skills began to overcome the demon’s control.

• Ghost Rider threw his chain at a fleeing helicopter, and Daisy chose to save its pilot rather than focus on dragging him away.
• Daisy caught the chain with her lasso and fought Ghost Rider, using Phoenix Fire while reinforcing the building beneath them.
• Daisy realized Mephisto’s plan was turning her fight into a process that strengthened the bond between Johnny Blaze and the demon.
• Daisy hurled Ghost Rider toward a wasteland and broke his spine repeatedly, weakening his flames while keeping out of reach of the Eye of Judgment.
• Ghost Rider summoned his motorcycle and landed on it with a stunt that showed Johnny Blaze’s influence returning.
• Daisy pursued Ghost Rider toward another city and fired Heat Rays as Johnny Blaze maneuvered the motorcycle to evade them.

Daisy defeated Ghost Rider’s demon and rescued Johnny Blaze, then returned to Chicago with him. After reviewing S.H.I.E.L.D.’s vampire spoils, Daisy and Director Fury decided to form a new team to confront dark creatures.

• Daisy used an ice wall and Heat Rays to defeat Ghost Rider’s demon, repeatedly striking it until Johnny Blaze regained control.
• Daisy froze and shattered Wind Demon, who had approached after watching the fight.
• Johnny Blaze struggled with his tangled memories, then collapsed, and Daisy took him and his motorcycle back to the S.H.I.E.L.D. branch in Chicago.
• Daisy, Director Fury, and Hill discussed the wealth seized from the vampires and planned to sell some valuables through Skye Jewelry.
• Daisy and Director Fury agreed to establish a S.H.I.E.L.D.-commanded team against dark creatures, including Ghost Rider, Blade, Man-Thing, and several demon hunters.

Daisy and Director Fury met Dugan, whose consciousness had been transferred into a clone, and discussed whether he should lead their covert team. Daisy agreed, and Dugan renamed the team the Howling Commandos.

• Daisy refused to lead the team, so Director Fury took her to a secret base in Brazil to meet his candidate.
• Daisy recognized Dugan, a veteran agent who had worked with Captain America and Peggy Carter, and wondered how he had survived for so long.
• Director Fury revealed that Dugan's original body had died thirty years earlier and that his consciousness had been copied into a clone before Doom died.
• Director Fury asked Daisy to keep Dugan's existence secret and considered him for the team's leadership, while Daisy agreed that he should lead it.
• Dugan joined the discussion and renamed Daisy's Midnight Sons the Howling Commandos.

Daisy and Director Fury formed a new S.H.I.E.L.D. team led by Dugan, while Wanda later told Daisy about defeating vampires and offered to give her an oil massage. The chapter ended as Wanda began massaging Daisy’s calves.

• Director Fury showed Daisy the hundred Dugan clones designed to receive his consciousness if he died.
• Daisy and Dugan met Blade, Alberte, Man-Thing, and the unconscious Johnny Blaze, and the group settled their roles in a fight: Dugan became captain, Blade vice-captain, and Johnny a reserve member.
• Wanda told Daisy that vampires had attacked her and that she had easily defeated them.
• Daisy and Wanda discussed Quicksilver and Crystal while Wanda massaged Daisy.
• Wanda brought out essential oil, and Daisy lay down for her first oil massage as Wanda began kneading her calves.

Daisy’s massage with Wanda’s supposed essential oil gave her a glimpse of the universe beyond the Child of Stars’ power to plan it, while Wanda reacted intensely when Daisy returned the massage. Later, Daisy went to S.H.I.E.L.D. and found Johnny Blaze awake, but he recoiled from her in fear of hurting her.

• Wanda massaged Daisy with an oil extract that Agatha had made, and Daisy experienced a profound insight into the universe.
• Daisy asked Wanda where she bought the oil, then offered to massage Wanda in return.
• Daisy’s massage left Wanda overwhelmed, and Daisy left her to rest before going to work at S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Johnny Blaze woke in bed and panicked when Daisy identified herself as an agent, warning her to stay away because he might hurt her.

Daisy recruited Johnny Blaze to join S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Howling Commandos and help stop Blackheart from obtaining the San Vanganza Contract. The team traveled to a Texas cemetery, where Daisy accompanied Johnny to meet the previous Ghost Rider.

• Daisy persuaded Johnny Blaze to demonstrate his Ghost Rider transformation and invited him to join S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Johnny told Daisy and the Howling Commandos that he needed the San Vanganza Contract before Blackheart could claim it, and that the Gravekeeper might know where to find it.
• Daisy identified the Gravekeeper as the previous generation’s Ghost Rider and decided she wanted to meet him.
• Dugan gave Johnny Blaze a short tactical briefing, and the group armed themselves with holy-water-coated weapons before boarding a Quinjet.
• The Quinjet landed near a cemetery in Texas, and Daisy went with Johnny to meet the previous Ghost Rider while Director Fury and Dugan prepared to observe from the shadows.

Daisy offered the former Ghost Rider S.H.I.E.L.D.'s help against Blackheart and the demon behind him, then used her planning ability to sever his connection to the cemetery. The old cowboy became able to leave, but the attempt altered his Ghost Rider transformation and left his right hand skeletal.

• Daisy told the old cowboy that S.H.I.E.L.D. could help defeat Blackheart and mentioned that Archangel Uriel had provided the agency with the Holy Grail and Holy Water.
• The old cowboy explained that he could not leave the cemetery, so Daisy called the Howling Commandos to meet him there and Dugan gathered information about their enemy.
• Daisy decided to test her planning ability on the old cowboy and asked him not to resist as she drew a vast pattern across the cemetery.
• Daisy's pattern rewrote the old cowboy's connection to the cemetery, but his Ghost Rider power began transforming him and threatened to consume his remaining life force.
• Daisy stopped the transformation, leaving the old cowboy's right hand skeletal and his transformation ability altered.

Daisy used her Planning ability to restore the old cowboy’s life, but the change left his immortal Hellhorse without a rider. She accepted the horse, tested its speed, and returned as the team prepared to confront Blackheart, who had abducted Johnny Blaze’s girlfriend.

• Daisy restored the old cowboy’s vitality, and he thanked her before worrying about his severed connection to the Hellhorse.
• The old cowboy gave Daisy the immortal Hellhorse, and she admitted to Director Fury that her Planning ability had produced an unexpected result.
• Daisy reflected on the risks of changing people’s destinies, then mounted the Hellhorse and rode it at supersonic speed around Texas.
• Daisy returned to the graveyard after Dugan had learned the mission details and made a strategic deployment.
• The team learned that Blackheart had abducted Johnny Blaze’s girlfriend, and the old cowboy gave his demon-slaying shotgun to Dugan.

Daisy and the group defeated Blackheart at San Vanganza Village, then waited for Mephisto to appear. Mephisto arrived and revealed that Uriel could not help and Zadkiel was trapped, leaving Daisy and the others facing him without Angelic support.

• Daisy and the others flew to San Vanganza Village, where the Howling Commandos and their allies overwhelmed Blackheart and Johnny Blaze finished him with the Eye of Judgment.
• Johnny Blaze presented the San Vanganza Contract and called on Mephisto to fulfill their agreement, while Daisy secretly messaged Uriel for help.
• As the village’s restless dead spread a supernatural chill, Daisy used the Flame Storm Ring to protect the group from the cold.
• Mephisto appeared and told Daisy that Uriel could not come because the Seventy-two Pillars of Demon Gods were preparing to attack Hell’s Gate, while Zadkiel remained trapped in a hidden realm.

Daisy and the Howling Commandos faced Mephisto as Johnny Blaze resisted the demon’s offer to end their deal. Thor and Loki arrived as reinforcements, and Mephisto challenged their right to intervene on Asgard’s behalf.

• Mephisto approached Daisy and Director Fury, who retreated while Daisy accidentally pulled off Fury’s shoe.
• Daisy and the Howling Commandos moved closer to Johnny Blaze to help him withstand Mephisto’s pressure.
• Mephisto offered Johnny his life and true love in exchange for giving up his Ghost Rider power.
• Johnny rejected Mephisto’s offer and declared that he would keep his power to fight the demon.
• Thor and Loki arrived, and Thor returned Loki’s equipment before Mephisto questioned whether they could represent Asgard.

Daisy and her allies confronted Mephisto, with Thor and Loki carefully disguising Asgard’s involvement in the conflict. Mephisto unleashed his power, and Daisy charged him with the God-Slaying Sword as he countered with a gigantic arm.

• Thor claimed Asgard would not join the war, while Daisy framed Loki’s appearance as a contest over who was the greater King of Lies.
• Loki agreed to fight for his freedom and Frigga’s sake, while Thor, Johnny Blaze, and Daisy positioned themselves before Mephisto.
• Mephisto mocked the assembled group, and Johnny Blaze transformed into Ghost Rider and attacked him with a flaming chain.
• Mephisto struck the ground with his cane and unleashed a wave of evil thoughts that overwhelmed the battlefield.
• Daisy charged Mephisto with the God-Slaying Sword, and Mephisto summoned a hundred-meter-long, flesh-stripped arm to counter her.

Mephisto attacked the group with his giant hand and teleportation, but Daisy, Loki, Dugan, and Director Fury resisted him. Dugan sacrificed himself to delay the devil, whose curiosity was stirred by Dugan’s seemingly blank soul.

• Mephisto pinned Daisy beneath his giant hand, but she escaped by becoming intangible and passing through the ground.
• Loki attacked Mephisto with an ice dragon, while Blade and the female demon hunter struck when Mephisto approached the Howling Commandos.
• Mephisto tried to take Johnny Blaze’s girlfriend hostage, but Dugan and Director Fury shot him, and Fury trapped him in a laser grid.
• Daisy returned to protect Director Fury and traded blows with Mephisto, using her speed to pursue him whenever he teleported.
• Dugan predicted Mephisto’s next teleport and grabbed him, but the devil burned Dugan to ash and was surprised by the nature of his soul.

Daisy and her allies defeated Mephisto’s avatar by keeping him in motion while they attacked, causing his true body’s arm and Blackheart to vanish back to Hell. Afterward, Loki remained free and planned to stay on Earth, while Thor and Daisy assured Director Fury that Loki wanted to rule Asgard, not Earth.

• Mephisto spotted a new Dugan emerging from the Quinjet and burned him to ashes, only for another Dugan to appear.
• Daisy figured out that Mephisto needed a brief moment of stillness to teleport, and told Ghost Rider to drag him along on his motorcycle.
• Daisy and Loki held off Mephisto’s giant hand while their allies attacked the avatar, with Alberte wielding Daisy’s God-Slaying Sword.
• Director Fury’s specially made bullets helped break Mephisto’s avatar, which exploded and took the giant hand and Blackheart back to Hell.
• Dugan shielded Ghost Rider’s girlfriend from the blast and died again as the explosion flattened San Venganza.
• Director Fury questioned Daisy and Thor about Loki, and they said Loki wanted to rule Asgard rather than Earth.

Daisy returned to Chicago, settled Hellhorse at home, and investigated Baron Strucker’s arrival in the United States with Viper. Meanwhile, Deacon Frost gathered the surviving vampires in Detroit and plotted to use the Darkhold to restore their power, though his attempt to target Wanda’s family had already ended in disaster.

• Daisy learned that Natasha had been targeted while following a lead, and Steve went to help her.
• The Howling Commandos investigated a creature suspected of being Bigfoot in Canada, while Daisy brought Hellhorse home and forbade her family from riding it.
• Viper told Daisy that Baron Strucker had appeared in the United States, and they split up to investigate after exchanging intelligence.
• Deacon Frost gathered the surviving American vampires in Detroit and urged them to seek the Darkhold.
• Deacon Frost explained that the Darkhold’s holder could be threatened through her friends and family, but he concealed his failed attempt to kidnap Wanda’s younger brother.
• Deacon Frost gave up on targeting Quicksilver after his vampires were killed with a silver dagger and he realized Quicksilver had powerful connections.