Chapter Summaries

Captain America and Doctor Banner traveled to Asgard with Jasper Sitwell to offer support and pay their respects to Odin. As the Bifrost carried them there, Hela appeared and grabbed Jasper by the foot, then decided to kill him after he tried to kick her.

• Black Bolt, Jean, Hawkeye, Wanda, Falcon, War Machine, and Black Widow declined to join Captain America, leaving him with Doctor Banner.
• Doctor Banner agreed to accompany Captain America, and Jasper Sitwell offered to join them; Hill refused to send an official S.H.I.E.L.D. representative.
• Captain America, Doctor Banner, and Jasper flew to Norse and asked Heimdall to open the Bifrost so they could reach Asgard.
• Hela appeared in the Bifrost passage and grabbed Jasper's foot.
• Jasper tried to kick Hela away, and she decided to kill him.

Baldy, Hela, and the Hulk were swept into spatial turbulence after Baldy’s staff shattered the Bifrost, leaving Baldy and Hela stranded together with their memories and senses impaired. Meanwhile, Daisy reached two ancient Celestial prisoners in Knowhere and sought their help.

• Hela grabbed Baldy in the Bifrost, but the Hulk transformed and attacked her while trying to protect him.
• Baldy struck Hela with Eternity’s Short Staff, and its clash with her sword unleashed an explosion that shattered the Bifrost passage.
• Baldy, Hela, and the Hulk were swallowed by spatial turbulence, and Captain America could only call out to them.
• Baldy woke in a strange junkyard-like place and discovered that Hela had lost her memory and was struggling with her fading power.
• Daisy forced her way through Knowhere’s hidden doors and met the imprisoned Celestials Ego the Wicked and Tenebrus the Dark.

Daisy freed the Celestials Aegis and Tenebrus to draw the Annihilation Insectoid Race’s attention, then returned to Knowhere as the barrier between realms neared collapse. She delayed the breach again, but warned that her power alone could not hold it much longer.

• Daisy judged Aegis and Tenebrus stronger than Odin at his peak and asked them to help defend the universe, but they dismissed the catastrophe as irrelevant to them.
• Daisy told the Celestials that their anchors compelled them to fulfill their missions, then opened their prison door and confronted them with the choice to leave.
• Aegis warned Daisy that freeing them would bring calamity upon intelligent life, and she and Tenebrus vanished after promising to return.
• Daisy returned to Knowhere, where Gladiator organized Shi'ar defenses and fifty Nova warriors prepared for battle while Daisy recovered from fighting Galactus.
• When the barrier between realms neared its critical point, Daisy used magnetism and Reality Alteration to seal the dark rift for a third time, then warned staff that she could not hold it much longer.

Daisy reinforced the boundary between realms to delay the Annihilation Insectoid Race while the Shi'ar rushed to strengthen Knowhere’s defenses. The universe was torn open, and the insectoid swarm poured through as the defenders opened fire.

• Gladiator asked Daisy how much time remained, and Daisy reinforced the damaged boundary to buy the defenders a few minutes.
• Daisy warned Gladiator that her barrier would likely hold for less than three minutes as Shi'ar reinforcements assembled behind Knowhere.
• Daisy encouraged Alvin before the Insectoid Race breached the universe, and the resulting wound caused her intense pain.
• Gladiator ordered the defensive line to fire as countless small insectoids emerged from the rift and charged toward Knowhere.

Daisy, Gladiator, and Nova Corps fought to defend Knowhere as waves of bugs overwhelmed the allied defenses. Daisy held the line outside Knowhere Five, but Nova Corps was already suffering casualties and the fortresses were close to falling.

• Knowhere's guns killed hundreds of thousands of bugs, but more waves surged in, and Mentor's gene bombs proved difficult to spread among them.
• The bugs counterattacked, destroying turrets and shields as Gladiator, Daisy, and Nova Corps split up to defend the fortresses.
• Daisy warned Alvin about the emergency escape signal before heading to Knowhere Five, where she killed invading bugs and reorganized the defenders.
• Daisy fought outside the fortress with Ragnarok's Axe and the God-Slaying Sword, drawing the bugs away from the defensive line while Gladiator battled elsewhere.
• Nova Corps began taking casualties after only fifteen seconds of fighting in space, as their helmet power supplies risked leaving them helpless among the bugs.

Daisy and the allied forces struggled to hold Knowhere Base 5 against the Brood, even after Ego the Wicked and Tenebrus the Dark joined the battle. The Brood’s psychic and insect swarms overwhelmed the defenses, forcing Daisy and the commanders to retreat.

• Daisy repeatedly rallied the Shi'ar, Xandarian, and Nova forces as their defensive lines fell back toward the command center.
• Daisy summoned Ego the Wicked and Tenebrus the Dark, who devastated the Brood and helped the allied forces hold the line for three more minutes.
• The Brood commander sent mantis-like bugs that unleashed a psychic assault, followed by giant maggots that charged the defenders.
• Gladiator escaped a swarm of small bugs, but most of the remaining Nova warriors were devoured, leaving only six.
• The Brood’s bugs swarmed Ego and Tenebrus, damaging Tenebrus’s armor, and Daisy helped fight them off before ordering a retreat.

The Annihilation Insectoid Race overwhelmed Knowhere’s defenses, and Daisy and Gladiator continued retreating through successive lines as Shi'ar suffered catastrophic losses. Queen Lilandra tried to keep the empire fighting while secretly preparing the Doomsday Ark as her escape route.

• The insectoids overran Knowhere’s bases, destroying its fleets and killing nearly all its soldiers, prisoners, and defenders.
• Daisy delivered captured insectoids to Mentor for study, then returned to support Gladiator at the third defensive line.
• Mentor delegated political negotiations to Queen Lilandra, who traded concessions and sent her children to factions as hostages in exchange for troops.
• Nineteen hours into the invasion, Daisy and Gladiator held the seventh defensive line as the insectoids advanced toward the Xandarian homeworld.
• Queen Lilandra learned the Doomsday Ark’s power system was only twenty percent complete and ordered the scientists to finish it within ten days.
• Queen Lilandra prepared to contact another faction and send her sixth son away to secure more troops while keeping the Ark as her escape plan.

Daisy treated wounded soldiers on Xandar Prime and reaffirmed that she would keep Earth’s role in the Annihilation Insectoid Race’s advance secret, despite the guilt it caused her. After Xandar’s seventh defensive line fell, she joined the Nova Corps command as the planet prepared to make its final stand.

• Daisy healed Captain Marvel and explained that the Annihilation Insectoid Race’s route pointed toward Earth, while insisting that she would not regret putting Earth last on the death list.
• Daisy told Captain Marvel that Reed Richards would receive life imprisonment to atone for the lives lost.
• Daisy treated wounded soldiers and reassured a Shi'ar veteran as she crossed Xandar Prime amid preparations for war.
• Daisy arrived at the Nova Corps headquarters after the allied forces failed to hold the seventh line of defense.
• The Xandarians prepared to defend their homeworld and three nearby moons with the Nova Corps and an armed population, but lacked enough ships to evacuate civilians.

Daisy helped Xandar prepare its defenses against the Insectoid Race and agreed to support the first battle. After organizing the Nova Corps’ role, she met Richard Rider and urged him to return to his family once the crisis ended.

• The Xandarian Female Speaker asked Daisy to help hold the front line, and Daisy agreed.
• Daisy and the Centurion Director arranged defenses on Xandar’s three moons and assigned Nova Corps soldiers to watch for insects capable of psychic attacks.
• Daisy joined Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy, where she recognized Richard Rider as the missing Nova from Earth.
• Daisy told Richard Rider that his family in Hempstead missed him and advised him to go home after the crisis.

Daisy led the Xandarian soldiers against the overwhelming Insectoid Race, using her power and presence to steady the recruits. The battle left the defenders suffering heavy casualties, while Gamora was wounded protecting Star-Lord.

• Daisy warned Star-Lord and Richard about the Insectoid Race and encouraged the Xandarian soldiers preparing to defend Moon Three.
• The Insectoid Race swarmed toward the moon, and Daisy rallied the defenders before ordering them to open fire.
• Daisy fought at the front and unleashed vast purple flames, strengthening the soldiers’ resolve as the battle began.
• Star-Lord and the Guardians fought alongside the Xandarians, but the sheer numbers of insects overwhelmed the defenders’ formation.
• Gamora struggled to fight in the packed ranks, was bitten on the shoulder, and cut down the insect while guarding Star-Lord’s flank.

Daisy rallied the Xandarian forces against the Annihilation Insectoid Race with a stirring song and devastating attacks, then spotted a humanoid insectoid controlling a dead Nova centurion and decided to capture it alive. She secretly assigned Drax, Gamora, and Star-Lord to help while concealing her plan by shoring up the front lines.

• When a communications officer warned Daisy that casualties were too high, she ordered the rear to sing Markas's Third Poem, and the Xandarian soldiers' combat effectiveness surged.
• Daisy used the Space Stone to hurl massive asteroids into the insectoid ranks as the soldiers and civilians cheered.
• An insectoid leader appeared holding Centurion Mazel's severed head and used it to taunt the Xandarians.
• Daisy decided to capture the humanoid insectoid alive and ordered Drax to stage a counterattack, Gamora to kill a spatially disruptive insect, and Star-Lord to distract the leader.
• Daisy raced along the front lines to rally the soldiers and hide her plan while the insectoid leader tried to weaken their resolve.

Daisy and the allied forces fought the Brood for a day, suffering heavy losses as they retreated to defend Xandar Prime. Exhausted, she learned that Hela and Baldy had disappeared, sent Reed a battle video, and received a secret request for a meeting on Xandar.

• Gamora killed the Brood blocking the route, allowing Daisy to ambush and capture the humanoid Brood for Gladiator to study.
• After an hour of fighting, the Xandarians withdrew with thirty million soldiers dead, while Gladiator rebuilt the Shi'ar defenses and Ronan led the Kree into battle.
• Daisy and the allies fought the Brood for five more hours, abandoned two satellites, and retreated to Xandar Prime as the Brood paused to regroup.
• The Female Speaker of Xandar asked whether the defenders could hold the next day, while Daisy and the other commanders struggled with exhaustion and injuries.
• Captain America told Daisy that Hela and Baldy had vanished after reaching Asgard, and Daisy sent him a battle video for Reed to watch.
• Proxima Midnight told Daisy that her master wanted to meet with her on Xandar.

Daisy met Thanos on Xandar, rejected his plan to destroy the Nova Corps, and left their cooperation unresolved. She then returned to the Supreme Council headquarters, where the Xandarians tortured a captured Brood for intelligence as the Female Speaker convened the major empires.

• Daisy met Thanos and Proxima Midnight at an abandoned mine, where Thanos said he planned to defect to the Brood.
• Thanos wanted to wipe out the Nova Corps, but Daisy refused and offered to prepare other achievements for him instead.
• Daisy returned to the Supreme Council headquarters and watched Xandarian soldiers brutalize and interrogate a captured humanoid Brood.
• Two Nova warriors read the Brood's memories and sent the extracted information to the central biocomputer.
• The Female Speaker convened a cosmic conference with the Shi'ar, Kree, Skrull, and other powers to share the intelligence.

The Female Speaker of Xandar asked the other nations for help against the Brood, but political infighting left Xandar without reinforcements. Daisy stayed behind to gather intelligence as Gladiator prepared to return to the Shi'ar, while Thanos arrived at the Brood headquarters to propose cooperation with Erneirus.

• The Female Speaker of Xandar briefed the galaxy's leaders on the Brood invasion and pleaded for ships and soldiers to defend Xandar.
• Kree governors, Skrull emperors, and other nations refused to send reinforcements, leaving Xandar facing imminent defeat.
• After the meeting, the Female Speaker wept, and Gladiator asked Daisy whether she would return with him to the Shi'ar.
• Daisy chose to stay and gather intelligence, while Gladiator departed to prepare for evacuation.
• At Knowhere, Thanos told Erneirus they would cooperate and presented him with the head of a Shi'ar Fifth Legion commander.

After Xandar Prime fell to the Brood, Daisy prepared to evacuate its survivors and preserve the Nova Corps, while the Female Speaker entrusted her with the corps’ control key. Daisy then discovered that the Nova Corps’ central biological computer had been built from a Celestial brain, though it claimed to have chosen its current existence freely.

• Thanos offered the Insect Emperor souls in exchange for the Brood’s cooperation.
• After three days of fighting, the Brood occupied most of Xandar Prime, and the Kree and Gladiator withdrew with some evacuees.
• Daisy told the dying Female Speaker she intended to destroy Xandar Prime and agreed to take the remaining Nova Corps survivors away.
• The Female Speaker gave Daisy the control key to the Nova Corps’ central biological computer and asked her to help the corps rise again.
• Daisy inspected the computer and recognized signs that its predecessor had been a Celestial’s brain, but the sphere said it had willingly chosen its current form.

Daisy partnered with Worldmind and took command of the nearly destroyed Nova Corps, promising to rebuild it into a force that would maintain peace across the universe. She left the six surviving Nova soldiers with Centurion-level Nova Force and new training materials.

• Daisy agreed to help Worldmind and received Nova Force, which she examined alongside the limitations of the Centurion helmets.
• Daisy found and deleted Nova Corps records linking her to several past incidents.
• Daisy summoned the Nova Corps and found that only six soldiers remained, including Richard Rider.
• Daisy took over the Nova Corps, abolished its former ranks, and gave every soldier access to Centurion-level Nova Force.
• Daisy outlined her plans to expand the Nova Corps and upgraded the survivors' helmets and training materials.

Daisy took command of Xandar’s remaining forces and rallied them to fight the Brood by insisting that the nation would survive wherever its people went. She ordered the Xandarians to prepare for a breakout, destroy what they could not take, and replace their blue uniforms with red ones.

• Daisy gave the six Novas a practical guide to using their energy and supplied them with charging lanterns and helmet storage space.
• Daisy joined Captain Marvel and the Guardians of the Galaxy to lead the remaining Xandarian forces in a breakout from the Brood.
• The Xandarian senators named Daisy Supreme Guardian of Xandar, and she addressed the defeated troops.
• Daisy told the Xandarians that their nation remained wherever its people were and urged them to fight on after losing their homeland.
• Daisy ordered the Xandarians to level their homes, destroy their water sources, and change into red uniforms.

Daisy organized the evacuation of Xandar and destroyed the planet to stop the Brood from overrunning it, leaving the refugees to continue their resistance. Elsewhere, Hulk discovered Brood attacking his dinosaur friend’s nest and began developing a new identity and fighting style.

• Daisy recruited scientists to devise ways to destroy Xandar, appointed four former Nova warriors, and asked the Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel to draw the Brood away.
• Daisy escorted the refugee ship from Xandar while Richard Rider and the old veteran led the newly formed Nova teams, and the planet exploded after the refugees escaped.
• Daisy promised the surviving Xandarians that their revenge had only begun and planned to seek help from the Kree.
• The Brood Emperor accepted Thanos’s allegiance, used Xandar’s largest moon as a base, and sent Brood forces to collect supplies.
• Hulk found Brood devouring his dinosaur friend’s corpse and fought them, while Bruce Banner’s influence helped him accept Hulk and forge a distinct combat style using Brood limbs and chitin as weapons and armor.

Hulk mastered a stronger, controlled fighting state and left his planet with a warrior who had stolen a Golden Cocoon. Meanwhile, Baldy and the amnesiac Hela took control of an alien junkyard planet, where Baldy realized he needed to learn the locals’ languages.

• Hulk fought off the Brood and Thanos's Vanguard after a spacecraft crashed and its dark-skinned pilot called for help.
• Hulk learned the woman had stolen a Golden Cocoon, then agreed to leave the planet with her.
• Baldy used his flattery to stay in Hela’s favor as they became the rulers of the junkyard planet.
• Baldy recognized Hela as the Goddess of Death and stayed with her because he could not communicate with the aliens.
• Baldy desperately crammed alien languages, relying on his photographic memory.

Stranded on Sakaar, Baldy failed to contact Earth or find a way home before the Brood attacked and captured him. Separated from Hela, he was transported with other prisoners toward what he believed was the Brood’s front line.

• Baldy struggled to learn the scavengers’ languages and could not figure out how to contact Daisy or Earth.
• Hela berated Baldy for failing to find a way home and explained that she had no friends in the universe.
• When an alarm warned of an apocalypse on Sakaar, Hela charged out to face the threat while Baldy tried to flee with her.
• A swarm of Brood overwhelmed Hela and knocked Baldy unconscious, leaving him separated from her.
• The Brood captured Baldy and other prisoners for labor and transported them toward the front lines.
• Baldy adapted to life in the prisoner camp and searched for someone he knew who could help him return to Earth.