Chapter Summaries

Daisy argued that friends mattered more than time, suggesting that people could resist fate and help one another, while Adam favored following time’s course. A tremendous force disrupted the Soul World and transported Daisy and Adam to an empty circular chamber.

• Daisy chose friends over time and argued that friends could give people strength and help them oppose fate.
• Adam questioned whether Daisy would defy the death decreed by time and rely on her friends for help.
• Daisy declared that she would fight to the end and support her friends, then tried to move on from the debate.
• A powerful boom struck the Soul World, knocking out those below the mountain and damaging the spiritual landscape.
• Daisy and Adam endured the force and found themselves in a vast circular chamber with empty seats and traces of blood.

Daisy and Adam were forced into a battle over their opposing ideals, with each assigned a combatant in an arena outside time and space. Adam’s champion was the heavily equipped Ancient One, while Daisy’s random ally was Captain America, leaving their fight about to begin.

• Daisy realized the arena was unreal and learned that she and Adam had to fight for their respective views on time and friendship.
• Adam summoned the Ancient One, who arrived armed with several powerful artifacts and drew on Dark Magic Power.
• Daisy selected a random friend and Captain America appeared with his Vibranium shield.
• Captain America received the battle’s terms, while the Ancient One warned him that her magic power was nearly limitless and urged him to surrender.

Daisy protested the unfair match between Captain America and Ancient One, eventually securing permission to bring in another friend. Captain America fought on with Mjolnir but was badly wounded, and Agent Jasper Sitwell appeared as Daisy’s reinforcement.

• Daisy repeatedly protested that Ancient One had far better equipment than Captain America and was allowed to give Captain America one weapon.
• Daisy chose Mjolnir, which Captain America caught and wielded against Ancient One.
• Ancient One used spells and summoned nine Crimson Servants of Cyttorak, and one of them sent Captain America flying and injured him.
• Daisy asked to join the battle but was denied, then secured permission to bring in a friend instead.
• Daisy brought in Agent Jasper Sitwell, who appeared bewildered.

Daisy’s side used Gungnir to summon Jasper Sitwell and Adam’s power to summon Red Skull, leaving the arena’s outcome to the fighters. Red Skull attacked Sitwell, whose desperate flight brought Gungnir crashing into Ancient One as she teleported in.

• Gungnir arrived in Jasper Sitwell’s hand, and Daisy confirmed that he was her friend so he could join the battle.
• Adam summoned Red Skull, who appeared with the Cosmic Cube and a demonic blade.
• Sitwell fled from Red Skull, then used Gungnir to block the blade and leap through the air.
• Sitwell accidentally collided with Ancient One at her teleportation destination, forcing her to block Gungnir with a golden shield.
• Ancient One questioned Sitwell about how he had obtained Gungnir.

Ancient One and Red Skull clashed while Captain America tried to rally Baldy, and Daisy arranged a brief message of encouragement for her frightened ally. Baldy regained some composure believing Daisy was watching, but he still faced the terrifying Red Skull and had yet to choose how to fight.

• Ancient One used the Staff of the First Sorcerer and a magical shield to block Gungnir, then shoved Baldy away and caused Red Skull's follow-up attack to miss.
• Ancient One and Red Skull argued while Captain America tried to persuade Baldy to stand with him.
• Daisy asked Adam to let both sides send a sentence of support, and Adam secured a brief chance for her to contact Baldy.
• Daisy told Baldy to gather his courage or she would kill him if he lost, then sent a brief acknowledgment when he asked if she was there.
• Baldy believed Daisy was watching and began considering his options, but he remained intimidated by Red Skull's sword and the Cosmic Cube.

Baldy challenged Ancient One while Captain America fought Red Skull, but Ancient One overwhelmed him with magic. Captain America sacrificed himself to help Baldy impale Ancient One with Gungnir, leaving Baldy and Red Skull alone in the arena.

• Baldy chose to face Ancient One while Captain America charged Red Skull, and the two pairs began fighting.
• Ancient One unleashed a barrage of spells, but Baldy dodged them using desperate evasive moves and the other fighters as cover.
• Baldy charged Ancient One with Gungnir, but she parried him with her flaming sword and slashed his shoulder.
• Ancient One prepared to kill Baldy, but Captain America rushed in and let her sword pierce his chest as he held her in place.
• Captain America urged Baldy to act, and Baldy thrust Gungnir through Captain America and Ancient One, killing them both.
• Red Skull stood up after Mjolnir vanished, leaving him and the shaken Baldy as the remaining fighters.

After Captain America died, Daisy secretly welcomed the boost to their chances and watched Baldy face Red Skull. Baldy accidentally dodged Red Skull’s first attack and destroyed one of his arms with Gungnir, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• Captain America died in the arena, and Daisy hid her relief while Adam consoled her and did not call for help.
• Red Skull recognized Baldy as Agent Sitwell, ignored his offer to work together, and charged at him with the Cosmic Cube’s power.
• Red Skull attacked at high speed, but Baldy retreated and stumbled over an invisible remnant of Ancient One’s magic.
• Baldy’s awkward fall let him evade Red Skull’s thrust, and Gungnir blasted off Red Skull’s right arm along with his magic blade.

Baldy defeated Red Skull in a chaotic fight, but Adam rejected the outcome and challenged Daisy to another match. Daisy accepted and began fighting Adam, whose Soul Stone consumed over a hundred million souls to protect him from her opening strike.

• Red Skull teleported behind Baldy and bit off his ear, but Baldy blindly impaled Red Skull with his gun and won.
• Baldy disappeared before receiving any visible reward, while Daisy wondered whether she would be rewarded too.
• Adam refused to accept Baldy's victory and challenged Daisy, who agreed and demanded that he return to Shi'ar for trial if she won.
• Daisy and Adam entered the arena equipped with their weapons and Stones, and Daisy attacked first with the God-Slaying Sword.
• Adam used the Soul Stone to sacrifice over a hundred million souls and negate Daisy's strike through his waist.

Daisy and Adam Warlock fought in a conjured arena, trading spells, energy attacks, and soul-based defenses. Adam tried to wear Daisy down by using souls to rebuild the arena, but she recognized his trap and sent golden giants to destroy it while they continued fighting.

• Adam attacked Daisy with a targeted curse, and she suppressed the pain while drawing on her experience fighting Wanda.
• Daisy battered Adam with lasers and freezing breaths, forcing him to escape through a soul exchange and switch places with a duplicate.
• Adam absorbed and reflected Daisy's Energy Blast with a white-hole-like spell, but she redirected it and shattered his force field with a Power Stone-enhanced punch.
• Daisy bound Adam with golden chains, but he teleported away and used souls to rebuild the ruined arena, forcing her to stay airborne.
• Daisy summoned twenty Gold Giants to demolish the arena as Adam's souls repaired it, realizing he meant to drain her mental power.
• Daisy challenged Adam over his dwindling soul power, and he insisted he still had enough to defeat her.

After the unknown-space battle, the Living Tribunal punished Ancient One and Red Skull while rewarding Baldy and Captain America. Gungnir chose Baldy as its master, and Odin began training him as the chapter ended with Captain America heading toward Malaysia to investigate a spacecraft crash.

• Ancient One woke in Kamar-Taj with severe pain and blood loss, but found no injury when she examined herself and concluded that her time was running out.
• Red Skull’s soul remained imprisoned in the Soul Stone, while the Living Tribunal rewarded Baldy for helping save the multiverse.
• Odin tried to give Gungnir a new master, but the spear returned with Baldy and chose him.
• Odin told Baldy to study spear techniques with him after recognizing his future importance.
• The Living Tribunal granted Captain America an extra life, though Steve did not realize what had changed.
• Steve told Black Widow that the Avengers would go to Malaysia after Japan to investigate the Life Foundation spacecraft crash, but they had already missed the available clues.

Daisy defeated Adam in the Soul World, received the Soul Stone and the Living Tribunal’s reward, and gained greater control over reality, time, and atoms. She left the trial on an uninhabited planet, aware that Kronos might oppose her new powers, and planned to find a quiet place to consider her gains.

• Dr. Drake weathered the backlash over the Life Foundation’s failed space shuttle mission, while Eddie Brock was fired, blacklisted, and left to drink away his despair.
• Daisy pierced Adam with the God-Slaying Sword, but Adam apologized for the innocent victims and escaped by triggering an explosion with his remaining soul power.
• Daisy and Adam returned to the material world on an uninhabited planet, where Adam fell from a cliff and disappeared.
• The Soul Stone appeared before Daisy, and she took it, bringing her total to five Infinity Gems.
• The Living Tribunal’s gift expanded Daisy’s understanding of reality and time, letting her wield the Reality Stone barehanded and break through the Eternals’ bloodline blockade on time-related abilities.
• Daisy’s atomic control improved enough to heal, selectively enhance abilities, and create simple, short-lived lifeforms, so she decided to seek a quiet place to reflect.

Daisy returned from the Soul World to find that three days had passed and the Shi'ar expedition had suffered catastrophic losses. Gladiator destroyed the Truth Cult's remaining planets, ending the campaign, while Thanos watched the darkness from his hidden base.

• Daisy left the Soul World after warning Red Skull that anyone seeking the missing Soul Stone should jump from the cliff.
• Daisy and the other 9,600 entrants returned to Shi'ar, while Gladiator learned that fewer than five hundred of his three-million-strong army had survived.
• Gladiator ordered seven supercapital warships to destroy the seven planets still inhabited by the Truth Cult's followers.
• The bombardment obliterated the planets and ended the campaign against the Cosmic Truth Cult.
• At the Darkhold, Thanos sat silently on his throne as Ebony Maw tortured prisoners nearby.

Kronos visited Thanos and revealed Daisy’s location, prompting Thanos to send Ebony Maw to capture her on Shi’ar. Daisy sensed Kronos’s move, questioned why she was collecting the Infinity Gems, and secured Gladiator’s support in controlling the search for the Dark Vortex.

• Kronos appeared before Thanos, identified himself as Thanos’s grandfather, and gave him information about Daisy and the Infinity Gems.
• Thanos sent Ebony Maw and a fleet toward Shi’ar to bring Daisy back.
• Daisy sensed Kronos was targeting her and reflected on her reasons for collecting the Infinity Gems.
• Daisy thanked Gladiator for recovering and asked him for military and political support concerning the Dark Vortex.
• Gladiator agreed and suppressed interference from Shi’ar factions while warning other empires and organizations.

Daisy met Yondu on Xandar and agreed to help free a Ravager imprisoned on Knowhere in exchange for the Dark Vortex lead. Meanwhile, Star-Lord was captured while searching for the artifact and began planning an escape with help from Supergiant.

• Daisy arrived on Xandar with Mr. Goblin and met Yondu, who told her the Dark Vortex was connected to Knowhere.
• Daisy learned Yondu wanted her help freeing one of his men and agreed to arrange a pardon order while they negotiated the details.
• Peter Quill found the Dark Vortex on a desolate planet, but pursuers captured him and took him to Knowhere.
• Star-Lord began plotting an escape from Knowhere and met Supergiant, who persuaded him to help her break out.

Gamora confronted Supergiant during Star-Lord’s escape from Knowhere Prison, and the chaos let all three flee in separate ships. Star-Lord and Gamora were captured by the Kree, while Supergiant escaped; Yondu refunded Daisy’s deposit and asked her to help rescue Star-Lord.

• Star-Lord caused a prison riot and tried to escape with Supergiant, but Gamora appeared and confronted her.
• Gamora and Supergiant fought as Supergiant sent prisoners against them, while Star-Lord grabbed the Dark Vortex and fled in a transport ship.
• Gamora and Supergiant escaped in pursuit, leaving Knowhere Prison in chaos as Daisy and Yondu arrived and searched for Star-Lord.
• Yondu and Daisy pursued Star-Lord, but he reached Xandar and encountered the Kree, who captured him and Gamora.
• Supergiant escaped alone and returned to the Darkhold, while Yondu refunded Daisy’s deposit and asked her to help rescue Star-Lord.

Daisy contacted Ronan to seek Star-Lord’s release, while Star-Lord and Gamora escaped their prison aboard the Dark Aster and activated the Dark Vortex. Gamora emerged transformed and attacked Ronan’s Kree forces.

• Daisy contacted Ronan about releasing Peter Jason Quill, though she doubted her influence would persuade him.
• Gamora and Star-Lord escaped their prison and retrieved the Dark Vortex from Star-Lord’s spaceship.
• Gamora persuaded Star-Lord to explain how to activate the artifact as Kree guards closed in.
• Gamora submitted to the Dark Vortex and transformed into a taller, golden-eyed warrior wielding two blades.
• Gamora attacked Ronan and his soldiers, defeating them with ease.

Gamora slaughtered Kree guards while Ronan struggled to catch her, then Ronan refused Daisy Johnson’s request to extradite Peter Quill. He argued that Shi'ar must stay out of the trial because Gamora’s connection to Thanos and A'lars created a conflict of interest.

• Gamora outpaced Ronan and killed more than twenty Kree guards in ten seconds.
• Ronan split his forces, sent his adjutant to manage the capture mission, and went to answer a Shi'ar communication request.
• Daisy Johnson asked Ronan to extradite Peter Quill to Shi'ar for trial.
• Ronan refused, claiming Quill was suspected of damaging Knowhere and should be tried by the Kree.
• Ronan said Gamora was Thanos’s daughter and argued that A'lars’s presence in Shi'ar required Shi'ar to relinquish its role in the case.

Daisy negotiated with Yondu to help rescue Star-Lord from Ronan and traveled with him to the Kree capital, Hala. She disguised herself as a Kree and explored the city while they waited for Ronan’s flagship to return.

• Ronan refused to release Star-Lord or surrender the Dark Vortex, citing Shi'ar recusal law and Daisy’s connection to Gamora.
• Yondu suggested using force to rescue Star-Lord, but Daisy chose a more cautious approach to avoid political fallout.
• Daisy offered to help Yondu rescue Star-Lord in exchange for payment and revealed her ability to transform into a Kree.
• Yondu agreed to pay Daisy with valuable materials and stolen goods, and Daisy offered to help him sell them.
• Daisy contacted Shi'ar intelligence for Ronan’s route, then traveled with Yondu to Hala and disguised herself as a Kree while they waited for Ronan’s flagship.

Daisy used the alias Skye to exploit the Kree Empire’s corrupt, opening market and arranged a meeting with the ruling Pharaoh family while Yondu prepared to rescue Star-Lord. She met consul Gal Pharaoh at his family estate, leaving her business negotiations about to begin.

• Daisy learned that Ronan’s Dark Aster would return to the Kree homeworld that night, giving Yondu a chance to rescue Star-Lord.
• Daisy obtained Kree citizenship papers and decided to pursue business opportunities in decommissioned warships, weapons bases, and military satellites.
• Daisy adopted her old alias, Skye, presented herself as a powerful Kree psychic, and arranged to meet a member of the Pharaoh family about opening a sales channel in Shi'ar.
• Daisy told Yondu to rendezvous with her in Shi'ar after the rescue, then traveled to the Pharaoh family estate.
• After the family tested her resolve with a servant as a footstool, Daisy met Gal Pharaoh, a powerful consul and member of the ruling family.

Daisy negotiated with Gal Pharaoh to establish a profitable trade route between the Shi'ar and Kree, securing guards, a leased warship and planet, and a loan. She then attended a Governing Council meeting where Ronan faced an investigation over deploying troops without approval.

• Daisy offered Gal Pharaoh Shi'ar goods and proposed using the Pharaoh family to trade supplies between the empires.
• Gal Pharaoh agreed to provide guards, lease a warship and Barker Star to Daisy, and lend her five hundred thousand Credits for a transaction within a month.
• Daisy planned to use Barker Star as a trading hub and profit by reselling goods and weapons among the Shi'ar, Kree, Earth, and Yondu's pirates.
• Daisy observed a Governing Council meeting where the governors considered whether Kingo was guilty.
• Ronan appeared before the council and faced accusations of deploying troops without its approval and risking another war.