Chapter Summaries

Daisy proposed private interim regulations to professionalize and support superpowered people while reducing conflict with ordinary people. She argued that school bullying was a major source of anti-Mutant hatred and showed the group photographs of young Mutants and their bullies.

• Daisy convened Tony Stark, Cyclops, Jean, Steve, and others at S.H.I.E.L.D. to present interim measures for superpowered people.
• Daisy said the rules would be private legislation rather than submitted to Congress, and offered training, equipment, income, medical care, and logistical support to those who followed them.
• Daisy said superpowered people should use their abilities to support others and pursue suitable professional roles instead of rushing into street fights.
• Jean warned that Mutant hatred was rooted in bloodlines, and Daisy answered that school bullying helped create lasting hostility between Mutants and ordinary people.
• Daisy cited the school bullying experienced by Jean, Scott, Steve, and Tony, then claimed many present-day Purifiers had bullied Mutants when they were young.

Daisy proposed tackling anti-Mutant hatred by reforming education and punishing school bullying, then shocked Cyclops by revealing that Mutant abilities could be erased through a serum. The chapter ended with Cyclops reacting in alarm to her proposal.

• Daisy explained how generations of human extremists and anti-Mutant bullying fueled hatred, and argued that education shaped children rather than inherited bloodlines.
• Jean Grey and Coulson suggested laws and administrative measures to address school violence, and Daisy proposed an anti-bullying bill, reporting hotline, and outreach campaign with Steve.
• Captain America agreed to help, while Cyclops rejected Daisy's suggestion that some Mutant students return to ordinary schools.
• Daisy asked whether Mutants who feared public scrutiny still wanted to be ordinary people, and Cyclops acknowledged that they did.
• Daisy revealed that she had developed a serum to erase Mutant abilities, prompting Cyclops to leap up in shock.

Daisy advanced the Anti-School Violence Act and began implementing S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Interim Management Measures for Superpowered People, coordinating superheroes and offering Mutants support. The program spread through New York and into Mutant neighborhoods, where S.H.I.E.L.D. sought to reduce crime and ease tensions by providing resources and jobs.

• Cyclops left after Daisy explained the proposed Mutant power-suppressing drug, and Jean went after him.
• Stark, Captain America, and Coulson discussed Daisy’s plan to merge Damage Control into S.H.I.E.L.D., and they agreed.
• Daisy arranged for the Anti-School Violence Act to be introduced and directed agents to join a new campus-bullying department in their personal capacities.
• Daisy and S.H.I.E.L.D. began coordinating superheroes through an information platform, with Spider-Man spreading details about safe houses, training, and support.
• Baldy took charge of coordinating heroes, while Thunderbird and Shadowcat visited Mutant neighborhoods to explain S.H.I.E.L.D.’s assistance and employment programs.

Daisy organized S.H.I.E.L.D.’s relief program for Mutants and recruited Psylocke to approach the long-lived scientist James Nicholas Bradley. At a relief station, Thunderbird dealt with Deadpool’s shameless demand for supplies and then offered help to Clarice.

• Daisy used food and household goods as aid for impoverished Mutants, while allowing ordinary people who claimed to be Mutants to receive small benefits.
• Psylocke reviewed James Nicholas Bradley’s file, and Daisy told her to invite him to S.H.I.E.L.D. for his scientific expertise.
• Daisy visited relief stations and found that many aid recipients were ordinary citizens, while some Mutants stayed hidden or avoided the program.
• Deadpool clung to Thunderbird and demanded relief supplies, and Thunderbird eventually let him leave with several items, including an oversized toilet.
• A young Mutant girl used a purple portal to stop Deadpool’s flying katana, and Thunderbird offered to help her carry supplies after learning her name was Clarice.

Daisy reviewed reports on mutant relief, superpowered individuals, missions, and campus violence, noting problems with S.H.I.E.L.D.’s new management system. Stark challenged her about unfair judgments and mistakes, and Daisy defended the effort while showing him cases of people it had helped.

• Thunderbird, Mockingbird, Baldy, and Coulson submitted detailed reports to Daisy about current problems in their areas.
• Daisy reviewed Blink’s case and considered how to place mutants with unusual or limited abilities, writing a proposal for a weakened Leech Potion targeting low-level mutants.
• Stark flew to Daisy’s office and asked how S.H.I.E.L.D. would classify people who used technological equipment, so Daisy gave him her proposed ranking system.
• Stark questioned whether S.H.I.E.L.D. agents could enforce the law fairly and cited inaccurate fire ratings and two medical accidents during the system’s trial operation.
• Daisy admitted the system had flaws but argued they could be corrected, then showed Stark records of people the program had helped, including Mrs. Morris, a thirty-year-old woman who had lived alone on New York’s streets for eleven years.

Daisy challenged Stark to confront the hardship faced by poor Mutants and ordinary people, and Stark saw the slums for himself. Back in his workshop, he studied artificial intelligence and began outlining a goal for a more capable machine that could help solve humanity’s problems.

• Daisy showed Stark the case of Mrs. Morris and described the dangers and poverty faced by lower-class Mutants, urging him to help people directly.
• Stark toured the slums in New York and Los Angeles, where he witnessed widespread poverty and despair.
• At his Malibu workshop, Stark interrupted J.A.R.V.I.S.'s conversation with Danger and examined their different approaches to artificial intelligence.
• Stark asked whether J.A.R.V.I.S. or Danger could solve Mrs. Morris's case, and both AIs said they lacked the necessary capacity for thought.
• Stark wrote down his vision for a self-aware artificial intelligence that could advance technology and address humanity's problems, then began breaking the goal into specific conditions.

Daisy proposed using the Leech Potion to suppress Professor Charles's powers so he would awaken and the dangerous entity in his mind would disappear. Jean supported the plan, but Cyclops opposed it, and the entity suddenly spoke through Professor Charles as the room transformed.

• Daisy explained the Leech Potion proposal to Jean and let the X-Men discuss it among themselves.
• Cyclops objected to removing Professor Charles's powers, while Storm and Jean argued that waking him could prevent catastrophe.
• Cyclops accused S.H.I.E.L.D. of secretly developing the Mutant-suppressing drug for hostile reasons.
• Professor Charles's dark spiritual entity interrupted the argument with an evil voice as black fibrous matter covered the walls and dimmed the room.

Professor Charles’s suppressed negative emotions took physical form and attacked the X-Men, overwhelming Jean and spreading psychic illusions through the school. As Cyclops struggled to reach Charles’s body, a mysterious time-worn stranger helped him and identified himself as Cable.

• Black psychic ink flooded the office, trapping the X-Men in battlefield illusions as the darkened Professor Charles urged Mutants to rule humanity.
• Jean recognized that the psychic entity had exploited Charles’s doubts, then fought it while telling Cyclops to evacuate the students and kill her if she lost control.
• Cyclops sent Wolverine and Storm to rescue the children and ran alone toward the underground medical room to awaken Charles’s kind personality.
• Psychic illusions and whispers weakened Cyclops until he could no longer move, despite being only a wall away from the medical room.
• A white-haired stranger with a mechanical arm gave Cyclops an object that cleared his mind, then disappeared after naming himself Cable.

Daisy and Captain America investigated a massive psychic disturbance enveloping Xavier's School, where reality itself seemed to be changing. They entered the school to find its residents caught in a violent battle, and Captain America was already fighting Wolverine.

• Daisy sensed a brief, unusual disturbance while driving, then collected two vials of Leech Potion and asked Captain America to accompany her to Xavier's School.
• On the drive, Daisy explained the history of the Mutant conflict and discussed Professor Charles's overwhelming psychic abilities with Captain America.
• Daisy and Captain America found Xavier's School surrounded by psychic power that frightened animals, shook the ground, and blocked Daisy's connection with Jean.
• Daisy told Captain America to prepare for a fight, and they rushed into the school after hearing gunshots and sounds of violence.
• After crossing the barrier into the courtyard, Daisy saw Captain America defending himself against Wolverine's relentless adamantium claws.

Daisy and Captain America fought through Magneto’s darkened memories at Auschwitz, where controlled Mutants attacked them and Daisy’s powers were suppressed. After Daisy and Jean joined forces to resist darkened Professor Charles, Captain America went to find the professor’s body in the underground infirmary.

• Daisy failed to regain control of Wolverine, broke through his magnetic shield, and knocked him unconscious with repeated blows.
• Daisy and Captain America realized they were inside Magneto’s memory of Auschwitz and decided to find Professor Charles’s body before his domain endangered people outside.
• German soldiers attacked them, including controlled Mutants resembling Colossus and Nightcrawler, while the dream’s rules suppressed Daisy’s powers.
• After Daisy suffered a psychic attack, Captain America protected her as they pushed through the attackers, and she gave him Leech Potions and sent him to the underground infirmary.
• Daisy rushed to the principal’s office, where she found Jean exhausted and prepared to fight darkened Professor Charles alongside her.

Daisy and Jean combined their psychic powers and Phoenix Force to confront Dark Charles, hoping to stop him from erasing Jean’s personality. Their fusion summoned a powerful psychic entity that took control and faced Dark Charles, though Daisy and Jean fell dormant.

• Daisy decided to help Jean resist Dark Charles rather than risk Jean becoming the Phoenix Force’s next host.
• Daisy and Jean joined hands and combined their psychic powers and Phoenix Force, forming a fusion that preserved their separate memories and personalities.
• A golden-red psychic entity resembling Jean emerged after Daisy and Jean fell dormant, then rewound events to learn that it was meant to confront Dark Charles.
• The entity appeared before Dark Charles on a psychic plane, where victory depended on whose psychic power was stronger.

Captain America fought through Xavier's School to reach Professor Charles and tried to persuade him to end the psychic crisis. After Charles promised to help Mutants, he asked for the Leech Potion, and Captain America erased his abilities.

• Captain America fought past Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus, then navigated the distorted main building in search of the basement.
• Cyclops confronted Captain America outside a massive black door, and Captain America knocked him unconscious after declaring that he wanted to help.
• Captain America found Professor Charles in the medical room and pleaded with him to withdraw his psychic force and negotiate with humanity.
• Professor Charles revealed his inner darkness, asked Captain America to promise to improve Mutants' lives, and requested the Leech Potion.
• Captain America erased Professor Charles's abilities, leaving him an ordinary old man in a wheelchair.

After Professor Charles sacrificed his powers to prevent a war between humans and Mutants, Daisy arranged support for the Mutant students’ mental health. Andrew Garner visited Xavier’s School and shared his own transformation experience with them.

• Cyclops glared at Captain America over Professor Charles’s condition, then watched Jean and Daisy arrive together and grew suspicious of their closeness.
• Captain America explained that Professor Charles had chosen to use the Leech Potion and planned to speak with the Mutants at Xavier’s School.
• Daisy told Captain America she would provide medicine for the Mutants and went to address the higher-ups.
• Daisy invited Andrew Garner to counsel the students, and he demonstrated his transformation ability before telling them about the varied forms Inhumans could take.

Daisy and Jean were overwhelmed when the Phoenix entered the material world through their shared mental space, flooding them with incomprehensible knowledge. Daisy helped Jean resist being assimilated, and they regained control while struggling with the intimacy caused by their Phoenix bodysuits.

• Andrew Garner guided the Mutants through a meeting about comparing hardships, while Daisy and Jean left exhausted.
• Daisy and Jean unexpectedly met in Phoenix Space wearing matching, skintight Phoenix bodysuits.
• Phoenix entered the material world through their mental power, and its vast consciousness threatened to destroy and assimilate them.
• Daisy organized and deleted much of the knowledge flooding their minds, helping Jean recover and easing the strain on both of them.
• Jean and Daisy became physically intimate in Phoenix Space before Daisy urged them to focus, and Jean composed herself.

After recovering from the Phoenix encounter, Daisy obtained the Reality Stone and helped the Mutants recover from dark Charles's influence. As Professor Charles went into hiding, Daisy and Jean discussed the Phoenix Force while Lorna faced a future with no clear ambitions.

• Daisy woke in her bedroom, reflected on Phoenix's overwhelming power, and transformed Liquid Aether into the Reality Stone.
• Daisy, Jean, Shadowcat, Cyclops, Storm, and the others treated the students' psychological problems and tested Professor Charles, whose X-gene was resisting the Leech Potion.
• Daisy advised Professor Charles to leave Xavier's School, and Cyclops secretly escorted him to a concealed hideout a day later.
• Jean explained that Scott's hostility was not aimed at Daisy, and Daisy and Jean began sharing their experiences with the Phoenix Force.
• Lorna left class and considered her future, finding little urgency in choosing a career, attending college, or saving the Mutants.

Lorna discovered that Magneto had left her a gift, and Daisy helped her accept the news that he was her biological father. Magneto watched Lorna from nearby but chose not to approach, while Daisy hinted that he might have another daughter.

• Lorna found a metal helmet emblem Magneto had left in her car and realized he had identified her as his daughter.
• Esme comforted Lorna, and Lorna called Daisy, who reassured her that Magneto knowing the truth would not change her family ties.
• Lorna and Esme drank together until they fell asleep on the couch.
• Daisy found Magneto watching Lorna and Esme from a nearby rooftop, unseen because he concealed himself with his control over magnetism and light.
• Magneto admitted he had not known he still had a living daughter, and Daisy left him wondering whether he had another daughter as well.

Daisy failed to persuade Magneto to abandon his plans for Mutant rule, though she suspected he was reconsidering after going to Poland alone. She then brought agents and Dr. Lizard to give Leech Potion to Mutants who wanted ordinary lives, and Mrs. Morris’s transformation began immediately.

• Daisy argued that Mutants could not build a stable, self-sufficient nation, but Magneto insisted their powers could solve every problem.
• Daisy let Magneto go because of Lorna, then learned he had gone alone to Pruszków, Poland, instead of returning to the Brotherhood.
• Daisy ordered her strategist to spread anti-Magneto rhetoric, sell their stock, and pause production of Anti-Magneto mechanical soldiers.
• Daisy brought agents and Dr. Lizard to a condemned building to administer Leech Potion to Mutants seeking ordinary lives.
• Daisy prioritized Mrs. Morris, whose faint presence had left her struggling to survive, and watched her become more noticeable after the injection.

Daisy balanced aid for Mutants with punishment for those who attacked the relief station, then challenged the X-Men’s teaching methods and argued that professional schools should educate Mutant students. She left Jean considering how poorly the X-Men had served ordinary students and urged them to become more visible sources of help for Mutants.

• Daisy personally welcomed ten Mutants at the relief station, offered support with jobs and education, and helped some contact their families.
• Daisy had two Mutants who robbed the relief station and killed an agent executed, then ordered a third Mutant with an injury-transfer ability shot until he died.
• Daisy visited Midtown High School to discuss creating a vocational school for Mutants who could not return home or had difficult abilities.
• After observing Jean teach, Daisy criticized the X-Men’s amateur methods and said ordinary students needed professional teachers and examinations.
• Daisy told Jean that the X-Men should hand over teaching to formal schools and help Mutants more openly, since many lower-class Mutants did not know who could assist them.

Daisy pushed the X-Men toward public service and rescued Mutants from a gang, then developed a new enhancement program after Black Widow asked to try the Savage Land’s Swamp Mist. Daisy and Black Widow traveled to the Savage Land to investigate the ritual, with a difficult challenge ahead.

• Daisy urged Jean to leave teaching to professionals and make Xavier’s School a refuge while the X-Men focused on missions.
• Wolverine, Gambit, and Pyro helped rescue more than a dozen Mutants from a gang using their powers to counterfeit money.
• Daisy slowed her reform plans after Hill, Captain America, and Crossbones advised her to ease the pace.
• Black Widow told Daisy that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Science Department could not enhance her further and asked to try the Savage Land’s Swamp Mist.
• Daisy saw the serum, Heart-shaped herb, and Swamp Mist as possible rewards for heroes, then took Black Widow to the Savage Land to find the Swamp Mist.

Daisy suggested that Black Widow seek a new Mjolnir from Odin, but Black Widow rejected the likely burden of traveling through space and entered a forest trial instead. Meanwhile, Daisy negotiated superpower enhancements with several groups, while Professor Charles and Cyclops settled in Alaska, where Charles hoped Cyclops would come to terms with Jean’s independence.

• Daisy told Black Widow that Odin might forge her a new Mjolnir, but warned that she might have to travel around the universe; Black Widow declined because she did not want to go into space.
• Daisy and Black Widow drove to a forest surrounded by swamp, where Black Widow stripped off her gear, covered herself in mud, and entered the woods with a wooden spear.
• Daisy contacted Baldy about exchanging points for enhancements and reached an agreement with Wakanda to provide five portions of Heart-shaped herb each year as injectable serum.
• Daisy negotiated an enhancement with the Panther Goddess, who agreed as long as the candidate did not disgust her.
• Professor Charles and Cyclops settled in Alaska, where Charles sensed the Leech Potion might eventually wear off and hoped Cyclops would accept that Jean was free to choose her relationships.