Chapter Summaries

Daisy rejected Captain Universe’s offer to become Earth’s guardian, choosing to keep her freedom and grow stronger on her own. Back at the office, she planned to leave for home but instead invented a King Kong: Skull Island script and persuaded Hill to take a break with her.

• Captain Universe appeared before Daisy and asked her to become Earth’s guardian, but Daisy refused her power and escaped the psychic space.
• Daisy returned to her office and reflected on Earth’s future, deciding she needed to keep leveling up and absorb the Primordial Cosmic Energy she had received.
• Hill entered with routine paperwork, and Daisy signed it before disguising her planned departure as an intention to write a script.
• Daisy wrote a King Kong: Skull Island outline featuring Loki, Carol, Nick, and herself, making Hill laugh with her proposed role as eye candy.
• Daisy grabbed her coat and convinced Hill to visit the dinosaur zone instead of checking Base Three, which Thunderbird was already watching.

Daisy took Hill on a private outing through the Savage Land, where they played with dinosaurs and cooled off with a dive in the inland lake. After exploring underwater together, they continued diving deeper.

• Daisy finished writing a script in under a minute, changed into casual clothes with Hill, and drove with her into the prehistoric creature zone.
• Daisy coaxed a young triceratops over so Hill could pet it, then the two played with a family of Diplodocus.
• Daisy summoned a pterosaur to fan them as they drove through the heat, then brought a yacht to the inland lake so they could swim and dive.
• Hill put on a diving suit, and she and Daisy descended into the lake holding hands to meet the sixty-meter-long Mosasaurus mother.
• Daisy took an underwater photo of herself and Hill with the Mosasaurus mother, sent the creature home, and continued diving with Hill past large prehistoric fish.

Daisy and Hill escaped a pursuing Dunkleosteus and surfaced, where Daisy absorbed Primordial Cosmic Energy while they were intimate. Daisy later fell into a temporary immobility as the energy fusion completed, and Hill entertained herself by drawing on Daisy while she recovered.

• Daisy and Hill turned invisible and escaped the Dunkleosteus without disturbing the lake's ecological balance.
• Hill pulled Daisy to the surface and initiated an intimate encounter while Daisy absorbed Primordial Cosmic Energy and sent Mama Mosasaurus away with the young Mosasaurus.
• After the encounter, Daisy and Hill climbed onto the yacht, wrapped themselves in a blanket, and fell asleep as Daisy's energy fusion continued.
• Hill woke before Daisy and grew concerned when Daisy could not move, but Daisy reassured her through a mental message that it was a minor issue.
• Hill uncovered Daisy, drew a Tom and Jerry scene on her chest, and showed her a photo of the finished design.

Red Skull seized control of Hydra’s Purgatory base after a bloody civil war, killed Baron Strucker, and chose S.H.I.E.L.D. official Jasper Sitwell as his next target. Unaware that Hydra was closing in on him, Jasper continued his work and spent time caring for Leech and Odin.

• Hill and Daisy enjoyed a peaceful time together on the yacht before playfully tussling and returning to the S.H.I.E.L.D. base after dark.
• Red Skull led a three-day civil war at Purgatory, defeating Baron Strucker and reducing Hydra’s nearly thirty thousand members to fewer than five thousand survivors.
• Red Skull shot Baron Strucker dead before the second Baron Zemo could ask about the Baron’s hidden funds.
• Red Skull took command of Baron Zemo and ordered Hydra to target New York by turning S.H.I.E.L.D., beginning with Jasper Sitwell.
• Jasper continued handling S.H.I.E.L.D. affairs, dealing with Doctor Doom, and visiting the care center, where he had formally adopted Leech and looked after Odin.

Baldy visited Odin at the care center, where Odin recognized that the disguised Red Skull had come to kill him. When Baldy failed to answer the threat bravely and could not reach Daisy, Odin lent him Gungnir to face the gunmen waiting outside.

• Baldy scolded Leech and complained to Odin about the boy's refusal to study.
• Dale Rusk, secretly Red Skull, arrived seeking to discuss Latveria's weapons shipments with Baldy.
• Odin warned Baldy that Dale Rusk was dangerous and told him to face the ordeal alone.
• Baldy tried to call Daisy for help, but she was unavailable.
• Odin saw the gunmen outside and tossed Gungnir to Baldy, who instinctively tried to push the spear away.

Gungnir controlled Baldy and turned him into an unwitting weapon against Red Skull and Hydra. Baldy was taken into police custody, where Captain America arrived to praise him while the maid and her lawyers worked to keep him safe until Daisy returned.

• Red Skull mistook Baldy's charge for a deliberate challenge and tried to parry Gungnir with his demonic blade, but the spear pierced his chest and killed him.
• Gungnir attacked Red Skull's agents, then dragged Baldy through a bloody fight around the nursing center and destroyed Baron Zemo's car as he tried to escape.
• Police took Baldy and Gungnir to the station as evidence, while the authorities reacted to the discovery that the dead Red Skull had been posing as a Department of Defense envoy.
• The maid arrived with lawyers to protect Baldy and wait for Daisy, and Captain America came to the station to thank him for killing his old enemy.

Daisy confirmed that Baldy had killed the real Red Skull and arranged to free him while Hydra’s remaining factions regrouped. The authorities struggled to prosecute Baldy because Red Skull had no reachable family and his followers had no legal identities.

• Captain America praised Baldy’s help in defeating Red Skull, and the two bonded over their battles against Hydra.
• Daisy learned that Hill had deleted an embarrassing photo, then sent Hill, Captain Marvel, Miss Drew, Crossbones, Thunderbird, Mockingbird, and S.H.I.E.L.D. forces to attack the Ancient Atlanteans in the Savage Land.
• Captain America identified injuries on Red Skull’s body that proved he was not a clone, and Daisy considered how to use Baldy’s actions to unify Hydra after its remaining factions reshuffled.
• Daisy planned to bail Baldy out, while investigators could not locate Red Skull’s family and discovered that his followers had no records or nationality.

Daisy arranged Baldy's bail through the World War II Veterans Association, while reporter Eddie Brock was fired and blacklisted after provoking her. During a visit to thank Odin, the God King questioned whether Gungnir had actually killed Red Skull, leaving Baldy terrified that his enemy might still be alive.

• Daisy arranged for the World War II Veterans Association to post Baldy's bail, and reporters confronted him as he left the police station.
• Daisy told her maid to make the hostile reporter leave New York rather than punish him more severely.
• Editor-in-Chief James fired Eddie Brock on orders from Global Media Group and had guards escort him out of the Daily Bugle.
• Daisy took Baldy to visit Odin and thank him for his support.
• Odin sensed that Gungnir might not have killed Red Skull, and Baldy panicked at the possibility that Red Skull had survived.

After Red Skull’s death, Daisy equipped Baldy with improvised high-tech weapons and brought him to her Long Island villa, where she arranged protection against Hydra loyalists. She left him in Groot’s care while she went to rest.

• Odin concluded that Red Skull’s soul had been taken by something other than Gungnir, and Daisy suspected the Soul Stone was responsible.
• Daisy took Baldy to Skye Industries and outfitted him with a Super Glue shooter, a transforming mechanical glove, and a folding glider cape.
• Daisy and Baldy fought off two groups of Red Skull loyalists, then she had Baldy practice incapacitating a captured assassin with his new gear.
• Daisy brought Baldy to her Long Island villa, assigned Groot to protect him, and arranged for two hundred S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to screen the area.
• Daisy told Baldy to activate level-two defenses if danger arose, then went to rest.

Eddie Brock failed to find work in New York and tried to investigate Daisy’s villa, where he witnessed a helicopter attack repelled by missiles and a strange green force. Meanwhile, Davos of Steel Serpent tried to reach Daisy to reclaim the Iron Fist, but Groot stopped him and the agents captured him.

• Eddie Brock learned that media outlets in New York had blacklisted him and was advised to leave for San Francisco, but he stayed to pursue a sensational story at Daisy’s villa.
• Eddie was stopped by agents outside the villa and watched three attack helicopters approach; the villa fired missiles, and a green force destroyed the last helicopter.
• Eddie retreated instead of approaching the villa, while Davos of Steel Serpent slipped past the guards and confronted Groot at the entrance.
• Davos declared that Daisy was unworthy of the Iron Fist and demanded that Groot let him pass, but Groot blocked his way.
• Davos punched Groot, injured his wrist, and was beaten and tied up by the agents who arrived.

Daisy dealt with the captured Davos, then held a press conference where Baldy described S.H.I.E.L.D.’s fight against Hydra and admitted he had killed Red Skull. The press coverage spread widely, and the authorities passed Red Skull’s body to the Avengers, prompting reporters to seek out Captain America.

• Daisy recognized Davos as Thunder God’s son and sent him to train Baldy after demonstrating her strength.
• Daisy arranged a press conference at Skye Tower and selected friendly and neutral media outlets.
• Baldy told reporters that S.H.I.E.L.D. had eliminated most hidden dangers, denied that the attackers were Hydra, and admitted he had killed Red Skull.
• Justine Hammer ended the peaceful press conference, and news outlets made Baldy’s statements a major story.
• The NYPD passed Red Skull’s body to the Avengers, and Captain America spoke with reporters for an hour.

Daisy traveled to Hydra’s Indian Ocean base, Purgatory, to attend a meeting that would decide the organization’s future. After securing support from Baron Strucker’s former sub-base leaders and Hydra’s political allies, she entered the conference hall with Viper, where the remaining leaders awaited her.

• Captain America confirmed that Red Skull was dead and agreed that his wax figure could stand beside Baldy’s in the museum.
• Daisy left Miss Maid, Davos, Typhoid Mary, and Groot to protect Baldy, then flew with Grant Ward to Purgatory.
• Daisy met Viper and gained the loyalty of seven of Baron Strucker’s former sub-base heads.
• Daisy greeted Senator Stern, Congressman Harold, and other Hydra-connected officials who supported her to preserve their power and positions.
• Sunil Bakshi declared his loyalty to Daisy, alarming several people who aspired to lead Hydra.
• Daisy reassured the officials, then entered Hydra’s conference hall with Viper to face the organization’s remaining leaders.

Daisy gathered Hydra’s leading factions for a meeting and established that Red Skull’s defeat meant he was no longer their leader. The council began under the unsettling gaze of an enchanted Hydra statue, and Daisy left the members to respond to her judgment.

• Daisy inspected the Hydra leaders gathered outside the conference room, including the Zemo heir’s representative, Gideon Malick, Baron Strucker’s successors, and Sunil Bakshi.
• Daisy recognized Miss Megan as a loyal Hydra agent who had fed the FBI false information, stopping the other leaders from attacking her.
• Daisy entered the conference room, took the head seat beneath the enchanted Hydra emblem, and convened the seven-person council.
• Daisy declared Red Skull a loser because Sitwell had killed him and asked whether anyone objected.

Daisy claimed Red Skull’s position as Hydra’s leader and offered the Malick family a chance to pursue its ancient goal of finding the exiled Inhuman god. The Malicks revealed their research, but Daisy demanded to see the original artifact after judging their translation unreliable.

• Daisy declared that, by Hydra’s rules, she should inherit Red Skull’s position, while Hydra’s members argued over her claim.
• Daisy asked the neutral old Malick what he wanted, and he said he sought the arrival of a true god.
• Daisy revealed that she possessed the Cosmic Cube and offered to help send the Malicks to their god, who had been exiled to an alien planet.
• Old Malick returned with Stephanie Malick and explained that the family had researched the exile’s location and found a one-way Kree transport device.
• Daisy read the Malick family’s tablet, dismissed its translation as nonsense, and demanded to see the original artifact.

Daisy used the Infinity Gems to send the old Malick man and his allies to a distant planet, then helped Hydra seize Purgatory Island and began consolidating the organization under her leadership. After taking stock of Hydra’s forces and appointing its leaders, she decided to revisit the planet, partly because the Malick group might help her find the missing gold.

• Daisy translated the Kree document, identified a distant planet, and used the Golden Gauntlet to send the old Malick man, his daughter, and their companions there.
• Daisy, Viper, and Sunil Bakshi led their forces in capturing Purgatory Island after its defenders’ resistance collapsed.
• Daisy surveyed Hydra’s weapons and bases, halted construction of an unfinished Helicarrier, and gathered the allegiance of leaders from twenty-five of its thirty-nine major bases.
• Daisy named herself King of Hydra and Viper Madame Hydra, while Baldy left the organization to return to S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Daisy changed into a Hydra uniform and decided to visit the distant planet, prompting Viper to suggest she was looking for the missing gold.

Daisy and Viper traveled to the desert planet in Aquarius to confront the ancient Inhuman known as The Hive, while Daisy prepared for the possibility that it could control her. After locating the stranded Malick group, they chose to seek out The Hive first and arrived at a valley filled with old supplies and alien ruins.

• Daisy and Viper reached Purgatory Island, then traveled to the desert planet in Aquarius.
• Viper complained about the cold, and Daisy used the Space Stone and her tools to make her a snake-shaped space ring for eighty million euros.
• Daisy located the stranded Malick group in an underground cave three hundred kilometers away and confirmed that most of them were still alive.
• Viper chose to fight The Hive first, and Daisy flew with her to a nearby valley.
• Daisy and Viper landed among astronaut supplies and decayed alien objects in a valley that had once sheltered an intelligent civilization.

Daisy and Viper found The Hive, and Daisy killed its primary consciousness by dragging it into space, where it could not survive. Unsure whether any parasitic remnants remained on the planet, Daisy planned to destroy the whole world after dealing with their old friends.

• Daisy identified The Hive as a collective of aggressive Inhuman cells and attacked it with her Heat Ray and golden energy.
• The Hive regenerated from its injuries, but Daisy used gravity to drag it toward space, trapping its scattered parasites in a manifested prison.
• Daisy released The Hive into the vacuum, where it inflated and burst into sludge, then reduced its remains to molecules with an energy blast.
• Daisy remained concerned that The Hive might have left parasites elsewhere on the planet, so she decided to destroy the world.
• Daisy and Viper set off to find their old friends, whom Daisy planned to kill if they refused to obey.

Daisy killed the parasitized Hydra agents, destroyed their planet with the Infinity Gauntlet, and returned to Earth. Nine hours later, the Nova Corps discovered the destruction and designated her a cosmic threat called Star-Killer.

• Daisy disarmed the female secretary and killed the unknown astronaut, then had Viper interrogate the survivors about Baron Strucker's Hydra network.
• Daisy sent Viper back to Earth, sealed the cavern with the remaining parasitized agents inside, and shattered the planet's core with the Power Stone.
• Daisy escaped the planet's explosion using the Space Stone and searched the blast zone for signs of life before returning to Earth.
• Nine hours later, Richard and Centurion Rhomann Dey arrived at the destroyed planet and reconstructed the energy fluctuations.
• Rhomann Dey recorded Daisy as Star-Killer, a planetary-level threat active in the Milky Way.

Daisy reorganized Hydra around making money and visited Doctor Doom in blockaded Latveria to offer supplies in exchange for his pursuit of the Sorcerer Supreme title. She left him considering the opportunity and the Eye of Agamotto, which she believed belonged to whoever held that title.

• Richard Rider argued that the Nova Corps should pursue the person who destroyed a planet, but his superior insisted they focus on tracking the Silver Surfer and filed a report implicating Daisy.
• Daisy and Viper spent several days consolidating Hydra's forces, and Daisy replaced its goal of ruling the world with building wealth and influence.
• At the end of May, Daisy secretly visited Latveria and offered Doctor Doom food, medicine, weapons, intelligence, and political support.
• Daisy tested Doctor Doom's magic, then used the Aether to take them outside reality and told him about the Sorcerer Supreme title.
• Doctor Doom agreed that he would seize the title, questioned what it entailed, and recognized that Daisy had a purpose for telling him about it.

Daisy secured Doctor Doom’s cooperation in obtaining the Time Stone and returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters to plan a broader meeting. There, Jean described the crisis in Professor Charles’s mind, while Daisy offered help that Jean did not accept.

• Daisy realized she still had a chance to obtain the Time Stone and negotiated with Doctor Doom to borrow it once in exchange for supplies and ammunition.
• Daisy returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters and reviewed public opinions about superpowered individuals before calling several people to an expanded meeting.
• Jean told Daisy that Professor Charles had absorbed Magneto’s negative emotions and created a dangerous psychic entity, which Jean had sealed inside a Psychic Prison.
• Daisy offered to ask Emma and Psylocke to help awaken Professor Charles, but Jean insisted on handling the matter herself.
• Captain America and Coulson arrived, and they joined Cyclops to discuss modifying motorcycles while Daisy and Jean talked about management.