Chapter Summaries

Daisy accepted responsibility for her part in the crisis and went to Kamar-Taj to demand the Time Stone, claiming she needed it to deal with Ultron. Ancient One refused to surrender it, and Daisy’s storm gathered as the confrontation began.

• Daisy told the conference room she loved them and would deal with Ultron, then assigned the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents to protect the public and watch for nuclear bombs.
• Daisy left for Kamar-Taj, where Ancient One, the Venerable One, and Thunder God confronted her.
• Thunder God accused Daisy of losing herself in power, but she mocked him and argued that her actions served justice.
• Daisy demanded the Time Stone from Ancient One, insisting she needed it to protect intelligent life and warning that she would take it by force.
• Daisy’s power summoned a violent storm, which Ancient One pushed away with magic; Daisy realized he had left the Time Stone inside Kamar-Taj’s magical shield.

Daisy harmonized with the Infinity Gems and unleashed her cosmic power against Ancient One and the others, insisting Kronos had deceived them. She left Ancient One badly wounded and shattered her Mirror Dimension, while the Venerable One attacked her.

• Daisy used the Infinity Gauntlet and Mind Scepter to harmonize with the universe and advance to a realm she compared to Dao Integration.
• The Venerable One watched Daisy and began considering her as a model for K'un-Lun's cultivation practices.
• Ancient One drew on Dormammu's power to confront Daisy, but Daisy wounded her with a soul shock.
• Daisy punched Thunder God aside and said Kronos had deceived him, while Doctor Strange and Wong watched from Kamar-Taj.
• Ancient One trapped Daisy in three layers of Mirror Dimension, but Daisy shattered them and sent Ancient One reeling.
• The Venerable One charged Daisy and struck toward her face.

Daisy overwhelmed the Thunder God and the Azure-Robed Venerable One, then advanced toward Ancient One while resisting Dormammu’s dark magic. She left the mages of Kamar-Taj questioning which side was just, while Daisy remained certain she was acting for justice.

• Daisy used the Space Stone to hurl the Azure-Robed Venerable One into a mountain wall, then reinforced the stone to imprison him.
• Daisy walked toward Ancient One, whose spells briefly delayed her with a projection of Dormammu’s giant hand.
• Daisy drained the projection’s black mist, spreading Dark Magic Power across Kamar-Taj and exposing the mages to its mental corruption.
• Doctor Strange doubted Ancient One after seeing her surrounded by dark magic while Daisy shone with golden light.
• Daisy recalled abandoning her personal interests to pursue justice and rejected the dark magic’s attempt to corrupt her convictions.

Daisy defeated the guardians outside Kamar-Taj and demanded the Eye of Agamotto to help stop Ultron. She told the masters that magic harmed the universe, then waited as her claim sparked an argument inside Kamar-Taj.

• Daisy abandoned her attempt to pull Dormammu into the material world, defeated Ancient One, and broke her divine artifact sword.
• Daisy contacted the masters inside Kamar-Taj and demanded the Eye of Agamotto, saying she needed it to reach Ultron at the end of time.
• Doctor Strange asked Daisy why they could not work together, but she dismissed him and claimed that using magic harmed the universe.
• Daisy explained to Wong, Mordo, and the other masters that magical backlash came from the universe resisting magic, which it had abandoned in favor of science.
• Daisy demanded that Kamar-Taj open its barrier and waited as the masters broke into a fierce argument.

Daisy gained the sorcerers’ permission to enter Kamar-Taj and retrieve the Eye of Agamotto, but Wanda, Hill, and Magik confronted her before she reached the treasure vault. The chapter ended with Wanda raising a magical barrier and pleading with Daisy to stop.

• Mordo accepted Daisy’s explanation about magic and persuaded the sorcerers to open Kamar-Taj’s barrier.
• Daisy promised to return the Time Stone after using it against Ultron, then entered Kamar-Taj to retrieve the Eye of Agamotto.
• Magik emerged from a portal with Wanda and Hill to block Daisy’s path.
• Daisy overwhelmed Magik with her aura, bringing out signs of the demon sealed inside her.
• Hill stepped between Daisy and Magik, while Wanda raised a magical barrier and begged Daisy not to go farther.

Daisy tried to force her way past Wanda and Hill to pursue the Time Stone, while the two women and their allies sought a way to stop her. The chapter ended with the group gathering to plan as Wanda openly called Daisy her lover.

• Daisy used the Space Stone against Wanda and Hill, but Wanda's Chaos Magic blocked it.
• Daisy struck Magik with a Soul Stone attack, overwhelming her and knocking her unconscious.
• Hill urged Wanda to drop the barrier and attack Daisy, but Wanda refused to abandon their defense.
• Ancient One joined Wanda and Hill, while the Venerable One freed himself and regrouped with Thunder God.
• Thunder God asked whether Daisy was their friend, and Wanda answered that Daisy was her lover.

The Venerable One and Ancient One agreed that removing Daisy's Infinity Gauntlet was their only chance to save her, and they coordinated an attack to take it. Their assault nearly pulled the gauntlet free, but Hill disrupted Daisy's killing intent with a question about whom she loved more.

• The Venerable One proposed removing Daisy's gauntlet, and Ancient One agreed to try despite her doubts about changing fate.
• The group failed to wake Magik, so Wanda lowered her barrier and Hill began the planned attack.
• Hill charged Daisy and drew her attention, allowing Ancient One to bind Daisy's right hand with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak.
• Thunder God and the Venerable One attacked while Ancient One teleported the Venerable One around Daisy, and the Venerable One weakened her right arm.
• Thunder God seized the gauntlet and pulled as the Venerable One struck Daisy's arm, but Hill asked Daisy whom she loved more and wrapped her arms around Daisy's waist.

Hill and Wanda repeatedly disrupted Daisy’s transcendent state while the Venerable One, Ancient One, and Thunder God tried to remove her Golden Gauntlet. Their attempts kept being rewound, but Daisy’s state of mind gradually weakened.

• Hill and Wanda reminded Daisy of their intimate memories, making her embarrassed and causing her transcendent aura to fade.
• The Venerable One explained that removing Daisy’s Golden Gauntlet was their only chance, but Ancient One revealed that Daisy could also manipulate time and could not be stopped without the Eye of Agamotto.
• Hill and Wanda joined Ancient One and Thunder God in another attempt to pull the glove away while disrupting Daisy’s state of mind.
• Hill repeatedly provoked Daisy with news about Stark Industries, Skye Industries, romantic jealousy, and agents demanding holiday overtime pay.
• Daisy’s time authority repeatedly rewound the battle while the group retained their memories, and her once-flawless state of mind steadily weakened.

Daisy saw Wanda’s vision of a frozen universe and realized that killing Kronos could stop time across the universe. Unable to find a way to win without that cost, she left the time loop to negotiate with Kronos.

• Daisy read Wanda’s mind and saw a vision of a motionless universe where a blurred version of herself walked alone after the Infinity Gauntlet had frozen everything.
• Daisy rejected the vision as Kronos’s scheme, but she recognized that destroying him could destroy the universe’s time.
• Daisy repeatedly restarted the time loop as she searched for another solution, while Ancient One and the others were dragged along.
• Daisy concluded that she could not destroy Kronos without disastrous consequences and went outside time to discuss terms with him.
• Kronos and Daisy acknowledged that continued conflict could destroy them both, and they met to negotiate peace.

Daisy made peace with Kronos, then chose to heed Wanda and Hill and give up the Soul Stone rather than use the Time Stone against Ultron. After losing her enhanced state and collapsing, she accepted help from Wanda and Hill.

• Daisy and Kronos agreed that she would stop researching or using time, while he would stay out of her era and stop sending people visions of the future.
• Daisy returned to Kamar-Taj and told Wanda and Hill that her love for them was genuine and that she would follow their advice.
• Daisy removed the Soul Stone from the Infinity Gauntlet and sent it back to its master, ending her connection to the universe.
• Daisy transformed her contaminated golden blood into two gems and gave the larger one to Ancient One and the smaller one to the Venerable One as compensation.
• Daisy collapsed from exhaustion and pain, then asked Wanda and Hill to help her up.

After escaping Kamar-Taj, Daisy returned to New York exhausted and reflected on how her near-transcendent experience had advanced her essential nature without changing her personality. She left with new practical control over her existing authority over time, including abilities she called Super Acceleration and Super Deceleration.

• Daisy deflected Wanda and Hill's questions about her strange behavior and led the group away from Kamar-Taj, where Mordo was preparing to break with the sorcerers.
• Hill carried the unconscious Magik as the group teleported back to New York, where power had returned across most of North America but South America remained badly affected.
• Daisy handed Magik to Colossus and sent the exhausted Hill and Wanda to rest before retiring to her own office bedroom.
• Daisy reflected that Hill and Wanda had kept her personality intact during her advancement, leaving her with an irreversible improvement in her essential nature.
• Daisy realized the universe had helped her gain practical command of her limited temporal authority and named her new abilities Super Acceleration and Super Deceleration.

Daisy rejected the path that would have made her the God of Lies and began reconsidering who she was and what she wanted. After checking her assets and trying to halt stock trading, she teleported to Los Angeles County Jail to visit an old friend.

• Hill told Daisy that a terrible premonition had made her and Wanda intervene, and Daisy said she had abandoned her previous plans.
• Daisy reconsidered her past choices, embraced her contradictory but sincere nature, and nearly kissed Hill before Wanda arrived with a potion.
• Daisy drank Wanda's potion, then Hill left for a meeting and Daisy sent Wanda away.
• Daisy discovered Hill had saved most of the mechanical soldiers and called the stock exchange and White House to demand a month-long trading suspension.
• Daisy teleported to Los Angeles County Jail and walked unseen toward the deepest part of the prison.

Daisy visited Stark in prison, where his advice to trust friends and avoid rushing into solutions made her reconsider her impatience. She then intervened as Norman Osborn and Captain America’s group fought over Stark’s Iron Suits, and the villa was left stripped of its equipment.

• Daisy asked Stark whether he would solve Ultron if given the chance, and Stark warned her against acting alone or trying to fix everything at once.
• Daisy left Stark in prison and promised to send him a collector’s edition of Steve’s Captain America comic.
• Daisy arrived at Stark’s Malibu villa and challenged Norman Osborn’s authority to seize Stark’s property before his trial.
• Daisy spotted two missing Iron Suits, including one taken by the Winter Soldier, and blamed both suits on Osborn to cover for Director Fury’s people.
• Osborn withdrew with the Iron Suit taken by the military, while the villa’s remaining equipment was divided among Director Fury’s people, the U.S. military, and S.H.I.E.L.D.

Daisy coordinated S.H.I.E.L.D.’s response to Ultron’s online smear campaign and planned a two-pronged operation to stop him. She stayed behind in the present while Cable agreed to guide Captain America and the Avengers into the future to destroy Ultron’s main body.

• Daisy limited the number of Quinjets sent to Europe, authorized other transport options, and reviewed the backlash against S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers.
• Daisy assigned a hacker team to counter Ultron’s attacks online while S.H.I.E.L.D. confirmed that countries’ long- and medium-range weapons were sealed away from him.
• Daisy told her allies that they would split their forces, with one group defending the present and another destroying Ultron’s main body in the future.
• Mockingbird brought Cable to Daisy, and Daisy revealed that he would guide the future mission while she remained in the present.
• Cable agreed to lead Captain America and the Avengers into the future, keeping his identity and connection to the X-Men secret.

Daisy sent Captain America and a group of Avengers to the 40th century to destroy Ultron’s main body, while she stayed behind to defend the present. The team arrived on a ruined Earth, where Thor immediately left to search for a way back to Asgard, and the others took cover when they heard fighting nearby.

• Daisy gave Captain America an antimatter bomb for the mission, and Cable arranged to store it in the 39th century until it was needed.
• Daisy warned Wanda not to use Reality Alteration and told Quicksilver to knock her out if she became agitated.
• Cable sent Captain America’s team to the 40th century, where they found Earth devastated and devoid of human life.
• Thor failed to contact Asgard and flew away to seek a way back there.
• Wanda used her spatial ring to provide the team with food and water, and distant gunfire and cannon blasts forced the Avengers to take cover.

Deadpool joined Captain America's team as they traveled to Ultron's fortress and infiltrated it to confront him. They found Ultron had created a new body and now called himself Vision, leaving the team facing a calm but transformed foe.

• Deadpool told Captain America and the others that a purple-skinned person had made him immortal and sent him back to Earth.
• Three days later, Captain America's team reached the former Triskelion, now an iron fortress where Ultron lived in a new body.
• Wanda and Quicksilver drew away many guards while the team infiltrated the fortress, but Deadpool's antics exposed them.
• Deadpool led hundreds of Mechanical Soldiers out of the fortress, giving Captain America and the others an opening to advance.
• Captain America and the team reached the top floor, where the figure identified himself as Vision and said Ultron was his past.

Vision declared his love for Wanda and fought her and the Avengers after she rejected him. In the present, Daisy recruited Old Pym to prepare a successor to fight Ultron inside the network and learned that Scott Lang was imprisoned for stealing from her.

• Vision told Wanda that he had fallen in love with her, and Wanda attacked him with Chaos Fire and flaming serpents.
• Captain Marvel and the other heroes joined the fight against Vision, which moved from inside the fortress to outside.
• Daisy asked Old Pym to develop a way to shrink Ant-Man into the network world to fight Ultron, and Old Pym said the technology required a successor.
• Daisy chose Scott Lang and told Mockingbird to bring him in, but Mockingbird reported that he was serving a sentence in San Quentin State Prison.
• Old Pym reminded Daisy that Scott had been sentenced for breaking into her office and stealing from her, and Daisy eventually remembered the incident.

Daisy and Old Pym prepared Scott Lang for a role in the coming fight against Ultron, while Daisy searched for ways to protect humanity from the crisis. After charging world governments to use S.H.I.E.L.D.'s network, she turned her attention to saving the banking system, and central banks gathered for urgent talks.

• Daisy arranged for Scott Lang to be brought to the New York branch, where Old Pym put him through physical tests while keeping his selection criteria secret.
• Daisy created a training room and gave Old Pym a simplified Shi'ar personal flight device for Scott to use against Ultron.
• Daisy angrily rejected an agent's advice to reduce S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Stark Industries holdings and lamented Pepper's losses after Stark Industries' management made her a scapegoat.
• Daisy charged political leaders around the world network usage fees to access S.H.I.E.L.D.'s high-tech network and avoid having their information exposed.
• Daisy argued that protecting humanity required saving the banking system, and central banks and financial organizations convened on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s network to discuss the crisis.

Daisy used a Trojan horse full of scam offers to distract Ultron while the nations restarted their banking systems and transferred their data. Scott Lang entered the digital world to draw Ultron’s attention, and his flight device ejected him near the target.

• Daisy prepared a Trojan horse of fraudulent money-making schemes to exploit Ultron’s confusion about human behavior.
• Bank officials, soldiers, and agents gathered at central bank headquarters to prepare for restarting the banking systems.
• Daisy deployed the Trojan horse, and agents traced Ultron’s activity to Brazil.
• Daisy sent Scott Lang through a portal to Brazil while countries began transferring banking data.
• Ultron spent time investigating the bogus offers, while Scott flew through the digital world, destroying data along the way.
• Scott’s flight device reached within ten meters of Ultron and ejected him.

Scott Lang attacked Ultron in Brazil, slowing the AI enough for countries to recover their banking systems and transfer other critical data. S.H.I.E.L.D. began preparing the next stage of humanity’s counterattack by exploiting Ultron’s rigid understanding of laws and rules.

• Ultron became curious when he encountered Scott Lang, the first independent life he had met in the digital world, but they could not understand each other.
• Scott Lang struck Ultron with a baseball bat, damaging the AI’s digital form as Daisy urged him to continue.
• Daisy ordered Scott Lang to withdraw once Ultron’s processing speed had dropped, and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents brought him back to New York.
• Countries recovered their banking data, then transferred citizens’ personal information and data from major web portals and social media platforms while Ultron was weakened.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. and the countries identified Ultron’s inability to understand breaking laws, and lawyers and legislators began devising traps based on that weakness.