Chapter Summaries

Baldy endured the Brood prison camp as the Kree mourned the fall of Xylos Fortress and the capture of Ronan. On Hala Prime, the Kree Governing Council agreed to mobilize against the Brood, while the Pharaoh family debated which legions to send without weakening its own power.

• Baldy used his language skills and feigned injuries to avoid being selected by the Brood, while his latest prisoner patron was taken away.
• The Kree prisoners learned that Xylos Fortress had fallen, and a wounded Ronan was dragged past them as the Brood tortured and humiliated him.
• The Kree Governing Council agreed to defend the East Rand interstellar corridor and retake Xylos Fortress, with twenty-five Councilors supporting the plan.
• Gar Pharaoh suggested sending the Fifteenth Legion, but the senior Pharaoh proposed sending the Ninth and Tenth Legions as well.
• A Pharaoh family member objected that deploying the Griffith family’s troops could push them toward the Herman family, but the senior Pharaoh insisted the Griffith family declare its allegiance.

Daisy infiltrated the Pharaoh family’s residence, confronted Hugh Pharaoh and negotiated Kree support for the Xandarian refugees. Hugh revealed that he had prepared a Super Kree to fight her, while Daisy kept the residence isolated from the real world.

• Daisy entered the Pharaoh family’s residence after killing its guards, and Hugh Pharaoh recognized her beneath her Skye disguise.
• Daisy revealed her true appearance and asked Hugh to support the Xandarians against the Brood and help them reclaim their homeland.
• Daisy and Hugh negotiated the terms of Kree support, including a coordinated military operation.
• Hugh explained that his actions came from his devotion to family, then revealed a Super Kree and ordered it to fight Daisy.
• Daisy remained calm, knowing she had shifted the residence out of the real world and cut off any chance of outside help.

Daisy helped bring down Kree ruling families after Ronan’s betrayal, using the revolt to build support and seize power. She spared several minor families to publicly take responsibility for the Governing Council’s mistakes.

• Daisy learned that the Kree had created rare Super Soldiers by fusing infants with modified cosmic energy, and that the Pharaoh family had erased one soldier’s mind and used him as a tool.
• Daisy restored the Pharaoh family compound to its proper location and let the Super Soldier kill Xiu Pharaoh, Gal Pharaoh, and the rest of the family before taking his own life.
• Pursuer Korath revealed that he had helped Daisy by scouting, drawing away guards, concealing the news, and blocking reinforcements, then joined her in targeting another family.
• Daisy led a bloodbath among Kree upper society, purging nine ruling families and killing twenty-one governors while using psychic power to turn people against those who had betrayed the Empire.
• Daisy spared the last eight minor families and ordered them to explain the Governing Council’s mistakes to the lower classes while taking the blame.

Daisy became Chief Executive Officer of the Kree Empire and restored a political system balancing the Senate, two executives, and the Supreme Intelligence. After consolidating her authority and cleaning up the administration, she prepared to lead the campaign against the Brood and sought a way to overcome her army’s fear.

• The Governing Council apologized and surrendered power, and the Kree reestablished a large Senate that elected Daisy Chief Executive Officer alongside the absent Ronan.
• Daisy persuaded the Senate to retain some of the Governing Council’s revised laws, then used public petitions at the Pharaoh estate to build her standing and expose corruption.
• Daisy announced that she would lead the army to reclaim territory from the Brood, and the Senate accepted her plan.
• Daisy asked the Supreme Intelligence to assess her operation, and it gave her a 0.512% chance of victory.
• Daisy showed the Supreme Intelligence a blueprint for fifth-generation Sentry Mechanical Soldiers and asked how quickly the Kree could manufacture one million units.

Daisy ordered the Kree Empire to mass-produce Sentinel Type One mechanical soldiers armed with Cyclops’s laser ability to fight the Brood. As production began, she arranged to hold the Eastland Star Corridor and secretly tasked Proxima Midnight with killing Ronan so she could consolidate power.

• Daisy persuaded the Supreme Intelligence to manufacture Sentinel Type One soldiers and ordered twenty million units for the campaign at Xylos Fortress.
• Daisy decided to delay her advance by two days, gather the army to defend the Eastland Star Corridor, and have the Xandarian remnants continue guerrilla warfare.
• Daisy inspected a Kree weapons-production planet, where technicians built the first Sentry Mechanical Soldier and tested its powerful laser against a warship.
• Daisy concluded that mass-produced laser soldiers could counter the Brood and considered how their energy might benefit the universe.
• Daisy secretly asked Proxima Midnight to find Ronan and kill him if he was still alive.

Daisy sought to strengthen her alliance with the Kree by arranging Ronan’s quiet death, while Baldy endured captivity on Xandar among the Brood. Baldy then sensed a fragment of Gungnir and saw the Brood feeding on the captured Planet Devourer and bringing in Hela and other powerful prisoners.

• Daisy decided Ronan had to die to clear the way for closer Kree-Xandar relations, and Proxima Midnight reported that the Brood had captured him.
• Daisy told Proxima Midnight to handle Ronan’s death and quickly ended their communication so she would not be implicated.
• Baldy survived the Brood’s prisoner camp by feigning illness and carefully observing the insects.
• Baldy sensed a shared-mind connection and saw the Brood drag in a giant robot he recognized as the Planet Devourer.
• Baldy felt Eternity's Short Staff react to a fragment of Gungnir and spotted Hela among the newly captured prisoners.

Baldy sought help from Hela and Galactus, who both needed energy to escape the Brood’s prison. With Galactus repairing Gungnir’s spearhead and Hela lending Baldy her clothes and cloak, Baldy set off to retrieve Ronan.

• Baldy found Hela bound in a remote corner and learned she needed life force to recover.
• Baldy contacted Galactus, who needed Primordial Cosmic Energy to move again, and learned neither captive could escape without his help.
• Hela proposed that Galactus drain Ronan’s Primordial Cosmic Energy while she absorbed his life force.
• Galactus reconnected Gungnir’s spearhead and shaft, making a weakened short spear that could kill bugs.
• Hela gave Baldy her clothes, cloak, and two strands of hair, and he cautiously ran toward Ronan’s prison.

Baldy tried to find a way to rescue Hela by bringing her Ronan, but the Brood Emperor caught him while he scouted the prison. The Brood Emperor grabbed Baldy’s Eternity Short Spear, only for it to snap in half.

• The Brood kept Hela and Galactus captive, while Ronan’s resistance earned him heavy guard and the Brood’s second-highest threat ranking.
• Baldy used Cloak to scout Ronan’s prison, but retreated after a ladybug-like Brood seemed to detect him.
• Baldy recruited fellow prisoners into his makeshift Hydra group and continued searching for a way to bring Ronan to Hela.
• The Brood Emperor spotted Baldy and approached him without alerting the guards.
• Baldy threatened the Brood Emperor and attacked with the Eternity Short Spear, but the Brood Emperor caught it and pulled Baldy toward him.
• The Eternity Short Spear snapped in half in the Brood Emperor’s grip, leaving him astonished by its fragility.

Baldy broke one of the Bug Emperor’s antennae, overwhelming his mind and plunging the Brood camp into chaos. Baldy rescued Ronan and brought him to Hela, who called for Galactus’s help as she fought to escape the camp.

• Baldy used the Bug Emperor’s momentum to strike him and broke one of his antennae, flooding his mind with the Brood’s thoughts.
• The Brood lost coordination and began attacking prisoners, machinery, and one another, while Baldy rallied the prisoners to storm Ronan’s prison.
• Baldy slipped through the chaos under Hela’s invisibility cloak, knocked out the wounded Ronan, and carried him back to Hela.
• Hela drained Ronan’s life force to recover, then called for Galactus’s help and fought through the Brood camp with Baldy carrying Ronan.
• Hela threw the unconscious Ronan before Galactus and collapsed onto a giant beetle to rest.

Galactus drained Ronan’s source energy to regain mobility, and Ronan died before Baldy could finish him. Proxima Midnight confronted Hela over the corpse, while Daisy learned that Galactus was there and revealed that Fire Lord needed help.

• Galactus drew the processed Primordial Cosmic Energy from Ronan, restoring some mobility as Ronan died.
• Baldy prepared to stab Ronan, but Ronan briefly woke to declare that the Kree would never surrender before dying.
• Proxima Midnight arrived with her subordinates, saw Ronan’s corpse, and demanded that Baldy hand it over.
• Hela attacked Proxima Midnight, who wounded Hela with her three-bladed spear and contacted Daisy for instructions.
• Daisy spoke through Proxima Midnight’s communicator, and Baldy was entranced by her voice.
• Galactus admitted that he had drained Ronan, and Daisy revealed that Fire Lord was gravely injured and had asked her to find Galactus.

After the Brood Queen was gravely injured and the Brood fell into chaos, Daisy seized the chance to lead a Kree army to reclaim lost territory. She set out with five million troops and fifteen million Sentry Mechanical Soldiers, leaving the outcome uncertain as the Brood might recover control at any moment.

• Daisy learned that Fire Lord was a Xandarian and welcomed him and Silver Surfer into the Kree guerrilla forces while Galactus recovered elsewhere.
• Baldy recognized Proxima Midnight as Agent Sitwell, and Daisy learned that Ronan had died and ordered his body handed over before Baldy and Hela left.
• Galactus and Hela rampaged through the Brood camp, badly injuring the Brood Queen and throwing the Brood into chaos.
• Daisy persuaded the Senate to approve an immediate campaign to reclaim lost territory and assembled five million Kree troops and fifteen million Sentry Mechanical Soldiers.
• Daisy donned a Kree general's armor, painted the mark of vengeance beneath her eyes, and led the army toward the battlefield despite the risk that the Brood Queen might regain control.

Daisy led five fleets and two supercapital ships toward Xylos Fortress, rejecting cautious advice and pressing her attack while the Brood remained disorganized. She ordered Korath to assault one of the fortress’s artificial planets while she targeted the other, but Korath insisted on going to the planet where Ronan might be held.

• Daisy ordered the fleet to bypass scattered Brood resistance and advance at full speed toward Xylos Fortress.
• She dismissed Korath’s cautions, rallied the Kree forces, and used reconnaissance reports to argue that the enemy was still in disarray.
• Daisy’s forces reached Xylos Fortress, where two artificial planets and an automated stellar defensive belt still blocked the star corridor.
• She ordered the fleet’s main guns to attack Xylos Planet Two while ground forces cleared the Brood and sought control of the fortress.
• Daisy assigned Korath to Planet Two and herself to Planet One, but Korath insisted on going to Planet One because he knew it and suspected her motives.

Daisy led the Kree counterattack on Planet Xandar Two and fought Greedy One Ravenas while keeping her true strength concealed. After Ravenas’s Psionic Hounds drained the energy she appeared to have, Daisy caught his dagger and crushed his wrist with her bare hand.

• Pursuer Korath accepted Daisy’s permission to attack despite Ronan’s inability to return, and the Kree mechanical soldiers landed and advanced against the disorganized Brood.
• Daisy took command of the Kree soldiers’ charge and introduced herself to Greedy One Ravenas as Skye.
• Greedy One Ravenas attacked Daisy with his Psionic Hounds, which drained and ignited the energy she displayed.
• Daisy feigned exhaustion, then caught Ravenas’s dagger strike and crushed his wrist with her physical strength.

Daisy retook Planet Xandar-2, then led her forces to rescue Pursuer Korath and attack the Insect Emperor’s Centurion Guard. After overwhelming the Guard and striking the injured Insect Emperor with psychic power, she charged toward him with her personal guards.

• Daisy killed Ravenas and rallied the Kree to retake Planet Xandar-2, restoring the planet’s defense system to the Kree network.
• The Centurion Guard restored the wounded Insect Emperor’s consciousness, and he began organizing the Brood’s counterattack.
• Daisy arrived to reinforce Pursuer Korath, criticized his command, and gathered his defeated soldiers for an assault on the Insect Emperor.
• Daisy killed Centurion Guard members in successive fights, inspiring her soldiers as the Guard’s casualties mounted.
• The Insect Emperor recognized that Daisy was hiding her strength and tried to expose her, but her psychic strike disrupted him.
• Daisy charged toward the Insect Emperor with tens of thousands of personal guards while Kree forces cleared the scattered Brood.

Daisy’s forces retook Xandar from the Brood and secured the Kree defensive line, while the Brood Emperor escaped. As Daisy prepared to return to Earth, she reforged part of Gungnir for Baldy and discovered it might have gained influence over the Brood.

• Daisy’s army overwhelmed the Brood on Xandar, forcing the Brood Emperor to flee and reclaiming both of Xandar’s planets for the Kree.
• Daisy organized the reconstruction of the Kree defenses and promoted Ronan’s importance to build support for a future campaign into Negative Space.
• Daisy stabilized Xylos Fortress, then prepared to return to Earth with Baldy while Hela and Galactus departed separately.
• Baldy reunited with Daisy and gave her the Gungnir fragment, which had split into two pieces after his time with Galactus.
• Daisy erased the fragment’s personal imprints with Phoenix Fire and reforged it, creating an Eternity Short Spear that might have gained power over the Brood.

Daisy returned to Earth with Baldy, reflecting on Earth’s future potential and its exceptional comforts compared with alien worlds. She ended the chapter relaxing in her home’s hot spring with Wanda.

• Daisy used Reality Alteration to restore Baldy’s suit and teleport them from the Kree fortress planet to Earth.
• Baldy returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. after nineteen days in space and called Earth the Land of Miracles.
• Daisy considered how humanity could eventually surpass the alien empires and rise across the universe.
• Wanda welcomed Daisy home, and Daisy told her she had been thinking about what might happen four thousand years in the future.
• Daisy and Wanda went into the hot spring at Daisy’s home, where Wanda brought her a pie.

After returning to Earth, Daisy listened as Wanda described Norman Osborn’s downfall and asked her to go easy on Susan and Reed Richards. Daisy insisted Reed would have to face consequences for the Brood invasion, then woke in a strange psychic space and found Jean there.

• Wanda told Daisy that Norman Osborn had disbanded H.A.M.M.E.R. and that Harry Osborn’s efforts had cost the Osborn Group most of its market value.
• Wanda asked Daisy not to punish Susan and Reed Richards too severely, but Daisy said Reed had to take responsibility and should be imprisoned for a few years.
• Daisy and Wanda spent time together at the manor before falling asleep in each other’s arms.
• Daisy woke in a strange space that suppressed her powers and found Jean waiting in a nearby hall.
• Jean pointed out a crude drawing of Tom Cat on Daisy’s chest, and Daisy realized Wanda had drawn it while she slept.

Daisy and Jean explored David Haller’s unstable mental world, where Jean tried to trace and repair his memories. They entered a dark emergency stairwell and spotted a knife-wielding cartoon-faced figure, leaving its nature and threat unresolved.

• Daisy and Jean recognized that David Haller had drawn them into his mental world, and Jean admitted she had found him through S.H.I.E.L.D. files with Lorna’s help.
• Jean located several supporting points in David’s mind and led Daisy through the building to what she believed was his deepest memory.
• Jean prepared for a possible fight by removing her high heels and tearing a slit in her skirt, then she and Daisy descended the dark emergency passage.
• Jean avoided using Phoenix Fire, while Daisy’s Super Vision failed to work properly as they felt their way down the stairs.
• Jean saw a figure lurking at a stairwell corner, and Daisy described it as a pale, cartoon-faced figure holding a knife.

Jean and Daisy explored David Haller’s hostile mental world and discovered that his powers had allowed the Shadow King to inhabit his mind. Daisy pursued the Shadow King, leaving Jean struggling to catch up.

• Jean and Daisy escaped the psychiatric hospital and analyzed how the hostile figures in David’s mental world differed from ordinary mental images.
• Jean tried to bind a black-robed monster with her psychic power, but it passed through her chains and vanished.
• Daisy revealed that David was Professor Charles’s son, while Jean insisted she wanted to find him for the Professor’s sake.
• Daisy explained that David’s power to absorb consciousnesses and abilities had overwhelmed him and made him dangerously unstable.
• Daisy charged the pale, robed man after he made her body heavier, while Jean followed behind.
• Daisy caught up with the man and identified him as the Shadow King, who had survived death by inhabiting David’s body.

Daisy and Jean fought Shadow King inside David's mental world, clearing away many of its hostile manifestations before escaping. Daisy then teleported to Jean's villa to help her, arriving while Jean was bathing and seeing something she had not meant to see.

• Daisy resisted Shadow King's mental attacks and repeatedly punched through his psychic defenses and body.
• Jean joined Daisy in the mental hospital, where they fought the patients and Jean defeated a knife-wielding cartoon man.
• Daisy and Jean left David's mental world, which had been cleansed enough that David was likely to wake soon.
• Daisy returned home, changed, and teleported to Jean's villa, inadvertently interrupting her bath.
• Daisy waited in the villa while Jean finished getting ready to go out.