Chapter Summaries

Cyclops met Madelyne Pryor in Alaska and chose to stay longer rather than return to New York. Meanwhile, Black Widow shared what she could about the Savage Land trial, and Hawkeye and Thunderbird both failed their attempts.

• Charles kept advising Cyclops that his suspicions about Daisy and Jean were unfounded, and Cyclops planned to apologize to Jean after returning to New York.
• While hunting, Cyclops chased Cable into the woods, got lost, and accepted a ride from Madelyne Pryor, a pilot who resembled Jean but had no connection to Phoenix.
• Cyclops found Madelyne gentle and mechanically minded, then told Charles he would remain in Alaska for a few more days.
• Black Widow emerged from the jungle after completing the trial, but the spirits prevented her from revealing its details; she told Daisy what she was allowed to share.
• Daisy prepared Thunderbird and Hawkeye for the trial, but Hawkeye failed after an hour and a half without his bow, and Thunderbird failed by ten minutes.

Daisy arranged three enhancement methods at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Antarctic base and explained how they tested candidates. In early June, Kick-Ass, Black Cat, and Luke Cage arrived at headquarters as the first candidates, and Luke asked whether they could be enhanced there instead.

• Daisy moved the Super Soldier Serum production line and personnel to Antarctica and made all three enhancement methods available through S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Daisy explained that the Super Soldier Serum tested will, the Heart-shaped herb tested mental strength, and Swamp Mist tested courage and combat ability.
• S.H.I.E.L.D.'s enhancement offer made heroes value points more, and Kick-Ass, Black Cat, and Luke Cage qualified as the first candidates.
• Daisy assessed the candidates: Kick-Ass had the most points from completing minor missions, Black Cat ranked second through solving thefts, and Luke Cage ranked third.
• Daisy asked the three candidates whether they were ready to travel, and Luke asked if S.H.I.E.L.D. could enhance them at headquarters instead.

Daisy brought Luke Cage, Black Cat, and Kick-Ass to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Savage Land base to prepare them for enhancement. After adapting to the climate and seeing the prehistoric wilderness, the three entered Swamp Mist for a trial, with Kick-Ass choosing to face the challenge despite his fears.

• Daisy led Luke Cage, Black Cat, and Kick-Ass through a portal to the Savage Land, where the newcomers struggled to adapt to the climate.
• After resting, the three explored the prehistoric landscape, and Daisy explained the secret base while teasing Kick-Ass with a story about an Iron-Eating Beast.
• Daisy drove the group to Swamp Mist with two Mutants whose abilities could provide clothing and weapons for the trial.
• Daisy warned Luke Cage, Black Cat, and Kick-Ass that the mist would separate them, illusions could mislead them, and poison required an immediate retreat.
• Kick-Ass rejected Daisy’s offer of a different enhancement path, and the three entered Swamp Mist carrying their chosen weapons.

Daisy rejected Hill’s request to risk the Jungle Spirit trial and took her to Wakanda for a Heart-shaped herb instead. After Yukio warned her of a catastrophe that could destroy Japan, Daisy suspected The Hand’s Symbiote Dragon and went to Asgard to find Thor.

• Daisy refused to let Hill attempt the dangerous trial, while Luke Cage, Kick-Ass, and Black Cat all failed and returned to New York.
• Daisy brought Hill to Wakanda, where Hill received a royal Heart-shaped herb, and Daisy exchanged a spacecraft and Shi'ar travel permits for Vibranium and armor-making technology.
• Daisy entrusted Danger with research for a Vibranium Battle Suit for Hill.
• Yukio visited Daisy and described a vision of Japan being devastated by a tsunami beneath a sky marked by black wings.
• Daisy examined Yukio’s memories, suspected The Hand’s Symbiote Dragon was behind the disaster, and arranged for Yukio to stay with the X-Men.
• Daisy went to Asgard to confront Thor about the Symbiote Dragon but found Loki watching an opera instead.

Daisy brought Thor and Jane Foster back to Earth and joined the Avengers’ investigation into The Hand and the Symbiote Dragon. After the team planned a mission to Japan, Daisy revealed that she had once been Iron Fist.

• Daisy found Thor enjoying himself with Jane Foster in Alfheim and brought them back to Earth.
• Daisy attended an Avengers meeting about The Hand alongside Wolverine and Wanda, while Stark stayed away to focus on his research.
• Black Widow reported that The Hand had bought the Symbiote Dragon from the U.S. Department of Defense and identified it as a powerful Japanese organization with ties to Ogun.
• Daisy informed the team that Shoji Soma had joined forces with The Hand, and Black Widow volunteered to deal with him.
• The Avengers planned to go to Japan, seize the Symbiote Dragon, and have Thor kill it.
• Black Widow asked about Iron Fist, and Daisy revealed that she had been the former Iron Fist.

Black Widow and Daisy investigated Tokyo for signs of the apocalypse, then found Shoji Soma and his Adamantium Muramasa. Black Widow challenged the aging King of Agents alone and killed him, while Daisy used the Reality Stone to transform attacking ninjas into mosaics.

• The Avengers secretly traveled to Japan and searched Tokyo for the locations in Yukio's visions.
• Black Widow spotted Shoji Soma's men and told Daisy she wanted to track him without involving the Avengers.
• Daisy and Black Widow found Shoji Soma cleaning the Adamantium Muramasa, and Daisy decided to take the sword after the fight.
• Black Widow fought through Shoji Soma's guards while Daisy used the Reality Stone to turn several ninjas into mosaics.
• Black Widow blinded Shoji Soma with a rebounding dagger, defeated him, and killed him with a sword through the heart.

Daisy and Wanda spent a peaceful day shopping and sightseeing in Tokyo before returning to a villa, where they ate and tried on clothes. The chapter ended with Wanda urging Daisy to model stockings and heels.

• Daisy took Muramasa as payment for Black Widow’s help, then brought Crystal to Japan and split the group into pairs.
• Daisy and Wanda shopped around Tokyo, visited Senso-ji Temple, and debated whether to intervene in a worker’s planned revenge against his boss.
• Daisy and Wanda followed the worker home and saw police arrest him after his neighbors reported his threats.
• Daisy avoided explaining her political leverage and nuclear weapons to Wanda, then changed the subject.
• Daisy and Wanda arrived at a villa in Shinagawa Ward, ate a large dinner, and sorted through their shopping.
• Wanda asked Daisy to try on black stockings and red high heels, and Daisy reluctantly agreed.

Daisy and Wanda spent a night together at the Long Island villa before joining the Avengers in Japan to find The Hand’s base on Mount Koya. Daisy confronted Ogun in the psychic realm, where he transformed into an Evil Buddha.

• Daisy used the Infinity Gauntlet and Reality Stone to create a stormy, sensual setting for Wanda at the villa.
• After resting, Daisy and Wanda traveled to Mount Koya and joined the Avengers, Crystal, and Wolverine as they searched for The Hand’s base.
• Phoenix’s vision located a castle tower eight thousand meters ahead and revealed a dragon guarded in an underground structure.
• Daisy sensed Ogun’s psychic presence, teleported to confront him, and entered his sprawling mental courtyard.
• Ogun transformed into a six-armed, scarlet-eyed Evil Buddha after Daisy challenged his secret arts.

Daisy defeated Ogun in the spiritual world and killed him, then joined the battle against The Hand and confronted Bakuto’s apparent ability to return through cloned memories. After Wanda proved herself in combat, Daisy left open the possibility of her joining the Avengers and scolded her for wearing stockings into battle.

• Daisy transformed into a Phoenix avatar and overwhelmed Ogun’s Evil Buddha, then burned him alive after he blocked her flames with ancient techniques.
• Captain America defeated Bakuto after the blaze distracted him, and Daisy later snapped Bakuto’s neck while keeping the clone-memory issue from the others.
• Hawkeye and Black Widow each killed one of The Hand’s leaders.
• Wanda defeated a red-clad ninja with her magical shield, and Daisy praised her while Captain America renewed his suggestion that Wanda join the Avengers.
• Daisy told Captain America to ask Wanda what she wanted, then criticized Wanda for wearing stockings in battle and insisted she dress more seriously next time.

Daisy and the others faced The Hand’s enormous Symbiote Dragon, which brought Thor’s old fear back to the surface. Thor fought it with Ragnarok's Axe, and the battle continued as the Avengers waited for him to overcome his nightmare.

• After Daisy, Wanda, Quicksilver, and Crystal finished the battle outside the castle, The Hand unleashed a colossal Symbiote Dragon from underground.
• Thor recognized the creature and panicked, but Daisy stopped the others from helping so he could face his fear himself.
• Thor charged the dragon, but its mass of symbiotes absorbed his blows and swallowed him.
• Daisy used high-frequency vibrations to make the dragon collapse, then lent Ragnarok's Axe to Thor.
• Thor attacked the dragon's limbs and gradually weakened it with repeated axe strikes while Daisy and the Avengers watched.

Daisy contained Yoshida Shiro, the fire-wielding mutant Sunfire, and absorbed his immense flames while Wanda helped keep him provoked. The Avengers and ninjas continued fighting the Hand as Thor attacked the Symbiote Dragon, and Yoshida Shiro collapsed after exhausting his energy.

• Black Widow identified the blazing attacker as Yoshida Shiro, a Japanese mutant known as Sunfire, and Daisy discovered that Ogun's residual psychic power remained within him.
• Yoshida Shiro's hatred drove him to unleash flames that rose above one hundred thousand degrees and threatened the Avengers.
• Daisy wrapped Yoshida Shiro in a flaming cage and absorbed his fire into Phoenix Space rather than risk letting his energy erupt.
• Daisy asked Wanda to share her vision and use magic to keep Yoshida Shiro provoked while Thor fought the Symbiote Dragon and the other Avengers battled the Hand's ninjas.
• After Daisy absorbed his energy, Yoshida Shiro fell to the ground, drained and unable to maintain his fiery form.

Daisy killed Yoshida Shiro and pursued the Symbiote Dragon through space, while Thor and others followed. Near Mars, Robot Aleph alerted the Void Lord and Abyss, and the Void Lord revived four Symbiote remnants and sent them aboard a human space shuttle bound for Earth.

• Daisy shot Yoshida Shiro dead, then attacked the Symbiote Dragon with fire as it escaped into the sky.
• The Symbiote Dragon fled toward space, discarding pieces of itself to distract Daisy, who burned the remnants as she pursued it past Mars with Thor.
• Robot Aleph emerged on Mars, detected the activity, and awakened the Void Lord and Abyss under the Builders' Code.
• The Void Lord revived four Symbiote remnants, gave them distinct personalities, and ordered Aleph to put them aboard a human space shuttle.
• Aleph arranged minor obstacles as human astronauts found the four Symbiotes and carried them back to Earth.

Daisy destroyed the fleeing Symbiote Dragon, then returned to the Shi'ar Empire after Queen Lilandra urgently summoned her over Gladiator's mysterious defeat. She agreed to investigate the front lines, where Gladiator and millions of Shi'ar troops had fallen into an unexplained slumber.

• Daisy caught the Symbiote Dragon near Centaurus, shattered it with one blow, and burned it completely on an uninhabited planet.
• Queen Lilandra summoned Daisy to the Shi'ar Imperial Palace, where Daisy met Mentor, A'lars, the father of Thanos.
• Lilandra asked Daisy to investigate Gladiator's defeat and stabilize the Shi'ar front lines.
• Daisy reviewed reports that Gladiator, his adopted sons, more than ten Imperial Guards, and three million soldiers had fallen into slumber after encountering the Truth Cult.
• Mentor described their normal bodily functions and largely unchanged brainwaves, but could not explain their condition.
• Daisy agreed to go to the front lines and investigate what had happened.

Daisy took command of the Shi'ar expeditionary force and forced its hesitant captains to launch a rescue mission for Gladiator, who was trapped in slumber aboard a crashed ship. As the fleet fought the Truth Cult, Daisy agreed to hold off its flagship, Sin's Master, and appeared above it with the Infinity Gauntlet.

• Daisy arrived at the Shi'ar forward headquarters and learned that Gladiator, Imperial Guard elites, and vanguard troops had fallen into slumber after their ships crashed on an asteroid.
• Daisy assumed command of the fleet and ordered the warships to launch, but several captains made excuses and delayed.
• Daisy used the Space Stone to bring the lying captains onto Kallark of Winter, where Pulse and the Imperial Guard executed them; the remaining captains launched their ships.
• Daisy let Pulse direct the battle, splitting the fleet between rescuing Gladiator's force and fighting the Truth Cult.
• Pulse asked Daisy to hold off the Truth Cult flagship, Sin's Master, and Daisy appeared above it with the Infinity Gauntlet.

Daisy used the Infinity Stones to overwhelm the Truth Cult’s supermassive battleship, Sin's Master, and began transforming its damaged interior with the Reality Stone. She left the ship in chaos while agreeing to hold off destroying it for another five minutes.

• Daisy found that Sin's Master's Energy shield resisted the Reality Stone and destroyed the personal flight devices of the Truth Cult soldiers sent against her.
• Daisy opened portals with the Space Stone and hurled meteors from space at the battleship until its shield developed breaches.
• Daisy drove meteors charged with the Power Stone into the breaches, spreading purple destruction through the ship as the Truth Cult set fires to slow it.
• Pulse told Daisy to hold on for another five minutes, and Daisy agreed to prolong the attack rather than destroy Sin's Master outright.
• Daisy combined the Reality Stone's power with the energy inside the ship, transforming aliens, machinery, and supplies into strange forms.

Daisy helped destroy the Truth Cult, then investigated why Gladiator and millions of others had suddenly collapsed. She traced the cult’s god-creation project to a golden cocoon containing Adam Warlock, whose origins connected it to Earth.

• Daisy reshaped a Truth Cult battleship into a bizarre decoy, and the capital ships destroyed it before she joined the ground forces to wipe out the cult’s remaining soldiers.
• Daisy questioned Neutron and reviewed the records after Gladiator and more than a million people mysteriously fell unconscious.
• Daisy brought Gladiator and Imperial Guard members to Shi'ar, where Queen Lilandra gathered advisers and generals to investigate the unexplained collapse.
• Daisy noticed references to the Truth Cult’s plan to create a god and reviewed years of records and prisoner confessions for clues.
• Daisy discovered that the cult had found a golden cocoon on a barren planet and had built its god-creation project around awakening the figure inside: Adam Warlock.

Daisy discovered that Adam Warlock had fused with part of the Soul Stone and was trapping Gladiator and thousands of Shi'ar soldiers in the Soul World. She proposed building the Tower of Babel to gather the Shi'ar’s strength and enter the Soul World, eager to prove herself in what she believed was a trial arranged by a supreme power.

• Daisy sensed the Soul Stone within the unconscious Gladiator and realized Adam Warlock had fused with part of it.
• A soldier reported that more than five thousand Shi'ar had died in their sleep, and Neutron asked Daisy to save Gladiator.
• Daisy told Neutron she had found the key to the problem and asked Queen Lilandra for materials to build a device.
• Daisy planned the Tower of Babel, using several Infinity Stones and the mental power of the masses to reach the Soul World and awaken the trapped souls.
• Daisy accepted the risk that time would pass differently in the Soul World and prepared to face Adam Warlock in a dramatic rescue.

Daisy prepared a Tower of Babel to challenge the trials meant for Adam Warlock, gathering knowledge from Wanda, Hydra's archives, Jean and the Phoenix, and the Celestial Child of Stars. As the Shi'ar Empire built her changing design, Daisy refined her understanding of the Infinity Gems and the role of purpose, leaving the tower still under construction.

• Pulse coordinated supplies and the overall effort on the capital planet while the Shi'ar Empire mobilized to build Daisy's Tower of Babel.
• Daisy studied Adam Warlock's future trials and decided to use her knowledge to make herself a contender rather than replace him outright.
• Daisy visited Wanda to experience Chaos Magic firsthand, then examined Hydra's archives for research that could inform the tower's design.
• Daisy and Jean summoned the Phoenix, which offered a higher perspective on the Tower of Babel and helped Daisy revise her plans.
• Daisy incorporated Galileo's design, Child of Stars' ideas, and her understanding of the Infinity Gems into the tower, concluding that humans lacked the Celestials' fixed sense of purpose.

Daisy completed the Tower of Babel and led 9,600 mental adepts into the Soul World to find Gladiator and the survivors. After organizing the rescue effort, she spotted a golden-haired young man on a mountain and flew to meet him.

• Daisy used the Shi'ar Empire's soldiers, mental adepts, and the Infinity Stones to activate the Tower of Babel and open a passage to the Soul World.
• Daisy entered the Soul World with the 9,600 mental adepts and discovered that they could communicate only through mental energy.
• Daisy assigned Gladiator's subordinates to search the area and build a reverse Tower of Babel.
• Daisy's search party found Gladiator and his group, but only 525 people, including Gladiator, still had complete human forms.
• Daisy spotted a golden-haired young man standing on a mountain peak and flew toward him.

Daisy confronted Adam Warlock over the deaths caused by his presence and tried to bring him back to Shi'ar for judgment. Adam explained that he could not leave until he answered questions, and Daisy faced the first one: whether time or friends mattered more.

• Daisy accused Adam Warlock of causing the deaths of ten billion intelligent lives and Shi'ar soldiers, and demanded that he return with her for trial.
• Adam warned Daisy to leave the dangerous Soul World, then said he would not harm anyone else and could not leave until he answered questions.
• When Daisy reached for him, Adam used a slowing spell and raised the mountain beneath them to keep her away.
• Adam pointed out the questions written on a distant mountain and challenged Daisy to answer one.
• Adam explained that the first question asked whether time or friends were more important, and Daisy searched for an answer.