Chapter Summaries

Daisy defeated Egghead by using her vibration power to damage his giant body, then helped Hank Pym return him to normal size so S.H.I.E.L.D. could take him into custody. After the mission, Pym questioned Daisy’s sudden interest in quantum physics.

• Daisy circled Egghead and struck him repeatedly, damaging his cells until he collapsed.
• Daisy kept Egghead alive to conceal evidence of her power, and Hank Pym used his helmet’s blue switch to shrink him back to normal size.
• Black Widow and the other agents arrived after killing Egghead’s assistants, and the team recounted what had happened.
• Black Widow arranged for S.H.I.E.L.D. to transport Egghead to a secret base for interrogation and imprisonment.
• On the flight back to Washington, Hank Pym privately spoke with Nick Fury, then asked Daisy why she wanted to study quantum physics.

Daisy impressed Hank Pym with her scientific knowledge, promised to stay away from Pym Particles, and received an invitation to visit him at Yale. Back at S.H.I.E.L.D., she refused Nick Fury’s request to obtain the particles and warned him indirectly about the mercenaries’ unusual training and resolve.

• Daisy discussed her curiosity about the laws of the world, and Hank Pym tested her knowledge of quantum physics before praising her independent ideas.
• Hank Pym warned Daisy that Pym Particles were dangerous and told her how Isa Dora had shrunk into the Quantum Realm; Daisy promised not to enter the field.
• Hank Pym gave Daisy his contact card and invited her to visit him at Yale University before the Quinjet dropped him off in New Haven.
• After returning to S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy, Daisy was summoned by Coulson to meet Director Fury, who asked whether she could obtain Pym Particles.
• Daisy refused Fury’s request because she had promised Hank Pym to avoid the field, then described the mercenaries as exceptionally trained and determined.

Daisy accepted Nick Fury’s assignment to investigate lingering particles and mutated insects in Costa Rica, then recruited Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons to accompany her. The team boarded a Quinjet and departed for the island, while Daisy left Hill’s unfinished scar treatment for another time.

• Nick Fury assigned Daisy to follow up on possible particle dispersal and mutated insects in Costa Rica before she went to Yale, and Daisy accepted.
• Hill asked Daisy to repair the remaining scars, but the treatment left Hill overwhelmed and embarrassed, so Daisy stopped and left.
• Daisy reviewed S.H.I.E.L.D. files on covering up incidents and began planning how to use the Costa Rica mission to secure benefits for herself.
• Daisy asked Leo Fitz to join her mission and told him to bring Jemma Simmons, then gathered them for an immediate departure.
• Daisy led Fitz and Simmons aboard a Quinjet and set off for Costa Rica.

Daisy investigated the mutated wildlife and vegetation on the Costa Rica island, then discussed changing S.H.I.E.L.D.’s public image with Phil Coulson. She proposed cooperating more closely with governments and presenting agents as heroes, and Coulson wondered if she meant making advertisements.

• Daisy flew the science duo to the island and used the Quinjet’s cannons to kill three Rhinoceros Beetles and the other giant insects they found.
• The science duo tested the island’s air, soil, and water and found no danger to humans despite the unusually dense vegetation.
• Daisy consulted Dr. Pym, who said the mutations had resulted from Egghead’s early technology rather than any continuing threat from the Pym Particles.
• After a full day of testing, Daisy returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. and told Phil Coulson about the mission and her concerns about agents joining Hydra.
• Daisy suggested that S.H.I.E.L.D. work more closely with governments and improve its public image by portraying agents as heroes.
• Coulson asked whether Daisy meant filming advertisements.

Daisy pitched a Jurassic Park-inspired movie to S.H.I.E.L.D. as a way to improve public understanding of the agency, build government ties, and lift agents’ spirits. With funding secured and production underway, she struggled to cast the male lead and considered asking Grant Ward.

• Daisy explained her movie idea to Phil Coulson, who consulted Nick Fury and returned with approval for her to produce it in her personal capacity using S.H.I.E.L.D. funding and support.
• Daisy appointed Coulson director and recruited Hill and Sharon to help with local government contacts and product placements.
• Daisy established Skye Pictures, secured fifty million dollars in funding, and allocated thirty percent of the company’s shares to herself and seventy percent to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Daisy cast Simmons as the female scientist and Fitz as the curly-haired mathematician after Fitz failed to handle the male lead role.
• Daisy considered Grant Ward for the male lead and decided to ask him whether he would take the part.

Daisy recruited Grant Ward, Hank Pym, and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents for her film, then sought child actors for the remaining roles. After deciding to approach Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker, she learned Peter had been taken to the teachers’ office after fighting back against Flash Thompson.

• Daisy invited Grant Ward to play the male lead, and Ward agreed after weighing Hydra’s interest in the opportunity.
• Daisy took Ward to Coulson for an audition, where the crew praised his performance and Ward encountered Agent May.
• Daisy persuaded Hank Pym to play Dr. Hammond and secured five million in sponsorship from Yale University.
• Daisy chose eleven-year-old Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker to play the child roles and went looking for Peter at school.
• Daisy learned Peter had fought Flash Thompson after being bullied and headed to the teachers’ office.

Daisy recruited Peter Parker and Gwen for her movie, then met with Pepper Potts, Tony Stark, and Happy to discuss casting and production. Happy considered joining the cast, while Pepper offered to help fund the film.

• Daisy used FBI credentials to take Peter Parker from school, convinced him and his guardians to sign a contract, and told him to practice climbing for the movie.
• Daisy secured Director George's permission for Gwen to act and hired a Black trainee after George declined the computer expert role.
• Daisy arranged to meet Pepper Potts and asked her to introduce Happy, but Tony Stark came along and read the script.
• Tony criticized the script's dinosaur-cloning premise, and Daisy insisted the movie was meant to warn people to respect life.
• Happy read the script and asked whether the role suited him, while Daisy tried to persuade him to join as an actor and assistant director.
• Pepper praised the script's commercial potential and asked Daisy whether she still needed production funding.

Daisy arranged filming with help from Tony Stark, Pepper, and Happy, then began studying quantum mechanics with Hank Pym. Hank deduced that Daisy had vibration powers and started investigating whether she could use them to test theories about light and energy.

• Pepper recognized the commercial potential of Daisy’s movie, while Tony offered to invest and Happy accepted a job as assistant director.
• Pepper decided to explore developing merchandise for the movie, though they postponed detailed discussions until the film took shape.
• Daisy’s crew reached an agreement to film on a Costa Rican island, and she led the main group to Yale to shoot indoor scenes while Sharon coordinated work on the island.
• Coulson and Happy helped direct the production, and Daisy studied at Yale under Hank Pym, who secured her a student identity.
• Hank deduced that Daisy had vibration powers and asked whether she could test Planck’s radiation law and reverse-engineer the energy of light quanta.

Daisy worked with Old Pym to apply String Theory to her teleportation power, first accidentally opening a connection to a sandy, hurricane-ravaged place and then creating a short-range portal in the laboratory. The portal worked, but its instability and the calculations behind it exhausted her, leaving Old Pym to help find a better algorithm.

• Daisy used vibrational waves to probe for a string, but an accidental connection caused a small explosion and covered her and Old Pym’s laboratory in sand and dust.
• Daisy pointed out an error in Old Pym’s calculations, and he found that an outdated quantum mechanics formula had caused it.
• Old Pym explained how to calculate a target connection, and Daisy opened two energy vortices ten meters apart in the laboratory.
• Old Pym threw a book through the portal, and it emerged undamaged from the other side.
• Daisy collapsed from the effort and asked for food, then explained that the unstable algorithm was consuming most of her physical and mental energy.

Daisy and Hank Pym refined theories for spatial travel while Daisy considered how teleportation and the Power Stone might help her survive future threats. She then visited Coulson’s film crew, where Grant Ward was forced by Hydra to play the lead and spy on her.

• Daisy told Old Pym that reaching the Subatomic Realm was not currently within her ability, though she left him with some hope of a future rescue.
• Daisy and Hank Pym checked their calculations, and Daisy learned that she could teleport safely only within a range of one hundred meters for now.
• Daisy considered using the Cosmic Cube to develop teleportation and planned to seek the unclaimed Power Stone before Star-Lord could obtain it.
• Daisy rested from her experiments, then changed into business clothes and went to check on Coulson’s film crew.
• Grant Ward’s makeup and beard transformed his appearance for the role of Dr. Grant, while Hydra ordered him to get close to Daisy and investigate the film crew.

Daisy’s work on the film wrapped up as she continued developing her teleportation ability with Dr. Pym’s calculations. When the crew finished its laboratory scenes, everyone left for Christmas, and Daisy returned to New York alone.

• Fitz impressed the cast and crew with his performance of the line “life will find a way,” while Coulson praised Daisy for writing it.
• Dr. Pym spent two days calculating the limits of Earth’s physics and concluded that Daisy could help make space travel possible.
• Daisy took over Dr. Pym’s laboratory and conducted experiments, frustrating Grant Ward’s attempts to approach her and leaving him to pass recordings and debris to Hydra.
• After a month of filming, Daisy told Dr. Pym she could teleport accurately within ten kilometers, though resonance had bruised her arms and forced her to rest.
• Daisy sent her friends and colleagues off for the holidays, declined Angela’s invitation, and drove back to New York alone.

Daisy spent Christmas at her new home with Hill, who brought wine and helped her prepare a turkey dinner. When Hill questioned Daisy’s appetite, Daisy revealed her teleportation ability, leaving Hill to wonder whether she was a Mutant.

• Daisy rented a detached house in Manhattan and spent Christmas cooking noodles and watching television.
• Grant Ward secretly watched Daisy from afar, then spotted someone familiar and left to avoid being exposed.
• Hill visited Daisy with a bottle of red wine, and Daisy invited her in despite having already eaten a large bowl of noodles.
• Daisy and Hill prepared a turkey dinner together, shared wine, and ate while chatting.
• Hill asked whether Daisy’s stomach could absorb so much food, so Daisy demonstrated her short-range Teleportation by sending an apple through a portal.
• Hill asked if Daisy was a Mutant and looked conflicted about the possibility.

Daisy revealed her vibration powers and teleportation technique to Hill, then agreed to treat the scar on Hill’s thigh. The treatment left Hill struggling with the slow vibrations as Daisy explained her calculations.

• Daisy demonstrated her short-range teleportation technique to Hill and revealed that she could also heal scars with her vibration powers.
• Hill asked Daisy to remove the scar on her thigh, and Daisy drew the curtains before beginning the treatment.
• Daisy applied slow, controlled vibrations to Hill’s scar while Hill tried to endure the lingering sensations.
• After several minutes, Hill urged Daisy to vibrate faster.

After spending Christmas night together, Daisy and Hill tried to act as though nothing had changed, but Hydra-spread rumors made their supposed feud an open secret at S.H.I.E.L.D. Daisy then left with a film crew for Costa Rica, where she arranged to develop the battle site as a tourist attraction and began filming Peter Parker and Gwen's scenes.

• Hill gave Daisy a professional shoulder holster as a Christmas present, then left and asked her to treat their night together as a one-night stand.
• Fury took Daisy and Hill to visit Peggy Carter in the UK, where Sharon Carter noticed their icy behavior toward each other.
• Grant Ward reported what he had seen at Daisy's home, and Hydra used his account to spread rumors that Daisy and Hill were enemies.
• Daisy and Hill suspected someone was stirring up trouble, so they agreed to maintain their usual relationship and watch for the source of the rumors.
• Daisy traveled to Costa Rica with the film crew and signed an agreement to develop the battle site as a tourist attraction.
• Daisy started filming Peter Parker and Gwen's scenes while handling frequent calls from the actors' union about their welfare.

Daisy balanced filming Jurassic Park with plans to enhance her abilities and acquire materials for shock-absorbing equipment. She began investigating Killmonger and sought a private place to train, but both goals remained unresolved.

• Gwen Stacy and Peter Patt filmed the tree-climbing scene with Grant Ward, and Peter’s trouble finding the right rhythm left Gwen angry with him at dinner.
• Daisy considered ways to enhance her strength and decided to find Killmonger Erik Killmonger to learn how to enter Wakanda and investigate the Heart-shaped herb.
• Daisy sent her maid to investigate the Oakland house where Killmonger’s father had hidden a notebook, but she planned to capture and interrogate Killmonger instead.
• Daisy weighed Vibranium and Adamantium for shock-absorbing equipment and asked Sharon to make inquiries while preserving her apparent cold war with Hill.
• Daisy trained at S.H.I.E.L.D.’s underground facility but kept her performance within ordinary limits and concluded she needed a private training ground.

After completing Jurassic Park, Daisy released it nationwide under S.H.I.E.L.D.'s influence and went to a theater with Hill to gauge the audience's reaction. As the film drew viewers in, Hill asked Daisy how she would respond if a mistake on a mission caused a companion's death.

• Daisy finished Jurassic Park with the directors, used S.H.I.E.L.D.'s influence to secure screenings, and sent the film straight to nationwide release without promotion.
• Daisy trained with Hill, then took her to a theater in Upper Manhattan to watch the public's reaction to the movie.
• At the theater, Daisy and Hill spotted Peter Parker and Gwen arriving with friends, then entered through a private passage.
• During the film, Hill asked Daisy whether she planned to return to an ordinary life, and Daisy said S.H.I.E.L.D. was her family.
• The audience became absorbed in a tense scene involving an electric fence, and Hill asked Daisy what she would do if ignorance caused a companion's death on a mission.

Daisy tracked down the White Tiger Amulets and took them after Lin Sun, Bob, and Abe broke up their team and discarded them. She examined the pieces at home and discovered that together they greatly enhanced the wearer’s physical abilities.

• Daisy called the Puerto Rico police department and obtained Hector Ayala’s file, confirming that he was studying in New York and might soon find the White Tiger Amulet.
• Daisy used Hector as a lead to identify Lin Sun, Bob, and Abe, the members of the Children of the Tiger who held the tiger head and claw Amulets.
• Daisy watched as Bob fought Lin Sun and Abe tried to intervene, while the trio’s argument ended their team.
• Lin Sun, Bob, and Abe went their separate ways and left the Amulets by the roadside.
• Daisy collected the discarded Amulets and escaped when Hector appeared nearby.
• Daisy tested the Amulets at home and found that all three together substantially increased strength, speed, endurance, and hunting instincts.

Daisy studied the White Tiger Amulet and wore it as a bracelet, then learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. would provide Adamantium in exchange for a mission in Japan. Nick Fury told her to assist Wolverine, who was heading there and had been warned of danger by a Mutant with precognitive abilities.

• Daisy tested the White Tiger Amulet, found that it enhanced her instincts and movement skills, and turned it into a bracelet.
• After Jurassic Park earned S.H.I.E.L.D. fifty million dollars in its first week, Nick Fury summoned Daisy and praised her judgment.
• Nick Fury told Daisy that S.H.I.E.L.D. would cover the cost of Adamantium if she accepted a mission, and Daisy agreed to hear the details.
• Nick Fury explained that Wolverine was traveling to Japan after a precognitive Mutant warned Professor X that Wolverine was in danger.
• Nick Fury said he had contacted Shingen Yashida, who would provide Daisy with Adamantium, and asked her to help Wolverine at a critical moment.

Daisy accepted a Level Five S.H.I.E.L.D. clearance and prepared for a mission in Japan, where she expected to encounter Hydra and Viper. She arrived in Tokyo and identified Shingen Yashida as the contact S.H.I.E.L.D. wanted her to meet.

• Daisy accepted Nick Fury’s offer to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and received a Level Five ID badge.
• Nick Fury gave Daisy a patch that could disrupt attempts at psychic control, and she placed it behind her ear.
• Daisy boarded a plane to Tokyo and studied files about the Yashida family and Hydra’s bases in Japan.
• Daisy arrived at Haneda Airport, rode with a quiet driver, and searched for information on Yashida Corporation.
• Daisy concluded that Old Man Yashida had drained the company’s funds to buy Adamantium and learned that Shingen Yashida was the nominal leader she had been sent to contact.

Daisy visited Shingen Yashida as S.H.I.E.L.D.'s representative to discuss Adamantium, then stayed overnight at the Yashida estate. She met Mariko and decided to avoid meeting the family patriarch, whom she distrusted.

• Daisy arrived at the Yashida estate and greeted Shingen with a carefully chosen Buddhist sutra scroll.
• Shingen's subordinate reported news that made him slightly warmer toward Daisy, and they set aside the Adamantium matter because the Yashida family had agreed to give S.H.I.E.L.D. some alloy.
• Shingen invited Daisy to stay overnight and asked Mariko to entertain her.
• Mariko led Daisy to the guest room and asked whether she would meet her grandfather, but Daisy said she would not disturb him.
• Daisy took a bath, lay down on the tatami, and fell asleep.