Chapter Summaries

At the Antarctic Snowstorm Base, Daisy examined Frank Castle and found that the bullet lodged in his brain was still beyond her ability to remove safely. The next morning, she joined Nick Fury, Black Widow, and Hawkeye as they set out for the target location.

• Nick Fury brought Daisy to his Antarctic safe house, Snowstorm Base, and told her they would meet someone before heading to the target.
• Daisy learned about the nearby Savage Land and the difficulty of reaching it through its advanced alien spatial technology.
• Nick Fury introduced Daisy to Frank Castle, whose old brain injury had left a bullet lodged between the seams of his skull.
• Daisy examined Frank and concluded that removing or shattering the bullet could kill him, so she suggested consulting Dr. Pym or Stephen Strange.
• Frank’s memories became muddled as he spoke, and Nick Fury asked Daisy to keep trying to help him.
• The next morning, Daisy, Nick Fury, Black Widow, and Hawkeye left the base in a stealth snow vehicle for the target coordinates.

Daisy, Nick Fury, Black Widow, and Hawkeye infiltrated a hidden Nazi facility in the ice and gathered evidence of its modern operations. Nick Fury presented the evidence to the Security Council, turning a costly reconnaissance mission into a major achievement for S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Black Widow drove Daisy, Nick Fury, and Hawkeye across the ice to investigate an area where Hawkeye spotted a distortion in the light.
• The team drew attention away from the hidden base, disrupted its cloaking defenses, and Daisy teleported them into an unoccupied warehouse.
• Daisy sensed nearby life while Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Nick Fury reconnoitered the facility and confirmed it contained modern medicine in a Nazi-era building.
• Daisy teleported the team back outside, and they returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters with recorded evidence.
• Nick Fury brought Daisy before the Security Council and showed its members evidence of the Nazi facility, defending S.H.I.E.L.D.'s spending.

Daisy Johnson was promoted to Level 7 and placed in charge of coordinating a S.H.I.E.L.D. operation against a Nazi base in Antarctica. She led the assembled agents aboard the Iliad, where Hydra members learned the mission's target, and the carrier began its voyage south.

• The council members unanimously ordered the arrest of Nazi members, while Nick Fury and Pierce organized a raid on their Antarctic base.
• Nick Fury announced Daisy Johnson's promotion to Level 7 and assigned her to coordinate the operation, despite Victoria Hand questioning her authority.
• Daisy assigned the agents their duties and arranged for them to travel from Dockyard aboard the Iliad.
• On the carrier, Daisy briefed the team, and several Hydra members discovered they had been sent to fight Nazis.
• Agent Hill endorsed Daisy's plan as the Iliad set off toward Antarctica.

Daisy led S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra forces in a surprise assault on the Nazi base in Antarctica, where they overwhelmed the unprepared defenders. After two hours of fighting, the cleanup was going smoothly, and the base was largely under their control.

• Black Widow and Hawkeye reported that the Nazis had not detected the approaching Iliad, while Daisy used a backdoor to disguise the assault in the base’s surveillance system.
• Crossbones led the first team into the base, and Hydra operatives joined S.H.I.E.L.D. in fighting the Nazis.
• Crossbones’s and John Garrett’s teams secured the entrances and underground escape route, while Agent May helped Coulson’s team capture the airfield.
• Daisy ordered the teams to seize the Power Room and led the main force into the base, where she fired two shots during the advance.
• After two hours, Daisy received reports as the gunfire died down and the cleanup proceeded smoothly.

Daisy and S.H.I.E.L.D. uncovered Skadi's Hammer in a Nazi research facility and learned that its former researchers, including Hitler and Red Skull, had been unable to lift it. Nick Fury, Pierce, the council members, and several agents tried and failed to move it, leaving the hammer untouched.

• Daisy entered the sealed room and found Skadi's Hammer among the Nazis' abandoned research equipment.
• The old Nazi leader shared what his group had learned, and Daisy reported the victory while praising Crossbones, Ward, and the other agents.
• Nick Fury arrived with Pierce and two Security Council members, and Daisy explained the hammer's history and its supposed selection by magic.
• Pierce, Nick Fury, the council members, and several agents each tried to lift the hammer but failed.
• Daisy tested the hammer with her own strength, failed to move it, and said she could not lift it.

After S.H.I.E.L.D. captured the Nazi prisoners, Nick Fury left the Antarctic hammer and base in place and assigned Coulson to guard them. Daisy later used the recovered Adamantium to manufacture new weapons and armor, though she remained a beginner at swordsmanship.

• Nick Fury decided to keep the Antarctic base and hammer intact, then assigned Coulson to command the garrison after the others avoided staying behind.
• S.H.I.E.L.D.'s main force returned to headquarters with the prisoners, and leaders from several countries came to see the captured historical figures.
• Peggy Carter visited Washington with Sharon and recalled her past, while Daisy considered Sharon's idealized view of Captain America.
• Interrogators found no major secrets among the Nazis, and Daisy accepted their claim that Old Man Yashida had helped them because of their wartime friendship.
• Daisy spent a month forging a longsword, a shield, batons, daggers, and soft armor from Adamantium, then practiced swordsmanship with Colleen Wing.

Daisy equipped herself with Adamantium armor and a shield, then tried to overcome Victoria Hand’s opposition inside S.H.I.E.L.D. by gaining political influence. After a small donation secured her a meeting with Barack Obama, she began discussing whether she represented S.H.I.E.L.D. or herself.

• Daisy made an Adamantium shield and lightweight armor after Fitz suggested she needed protection from bullets.
• Daisy’s proposals for changes at S.H.I.E.L.D. were repeatedly rejected by the higher-ranking Victoria Hand.
• Daisy recognized Victoria Hand’s ties to the government as the source of her influence and decided to approach the government during the election year.
• Daisy told James Wesley to donate one hundred dollars to Obama’s campaign in the name of Skye Data, and the campaign invited them to a private gathering three days later.
• Daisy met Barack Obama and praised parts of his policy platform before he asked whether she represented S.H.I.E.L.D. or herself.

Daisy secured Skye Data’s support for Obama’s campaign and began producing Skye Pictures’ second film, Saving Private Ryan, with S.H.I.E.L.D. funding and an all-agent cast. After putting the Punisher’s treatment on hold, she ran into Sharon Carter, who invited her to dinner.

• Daisy told Obama that she supported his campaign on behalf of Skye Data, and he invited the company to join his advisory team.
• Daisy used the anti-Nazi commemorations as an opportunity to plan Saving Private Ryan, and Nick Fury approved one hundred million in funding.
• Daisy chose Happy to direct, cast Grant Ward as Ryan, and recruited John Garrett as Captain Miller with a box-office profit-sharing deal.
• Daisy filled the remaining roles with agents she suspected were Hydra and began filming with an all-agent crew.
• Daisy set aside further work on treating the Punisher until her abilities advanced or Shadowcat awakened her powers.
• Sharon Carter invited Daisy to dinner after the two met again.

Daisy and Hill met Sharon for a meal, where Sharon revealed that Nick Fury was maneuvering to influence the choice of his successor at S.H.I.E.L.D. Daisy and Hill agreed to compete fairly, while Daisy predicted the Council’s succession plan would fail and tried to convince Hill she had little chance of becoming the next director.

• Daisy arrived at the restaurant and discovered Sharon had invited Hill, then explained that their apparent conflict had been staged to uncover who was spreading rumors.
• Sharon told Daisy and Hill that Nick Fury had been directing events around the succession race, and explained that the World Security Council had placed both of them on its shortlist.
• Sharon described how the Council viewed Daisy and Hill as candidates and urged them not to let the competition damage their friendship.
• Hill promised to treat the succession matter seriously without letting it affect her relationship with Daisy, and Daisy agreed to compete fairly.
• Over dinner, Sharon said she planned to become a field agent, while Daisy predicted Nick Fury would resist the Council’s plans and claimed Hill had a strong chance of returning to her former position.
• Hill pointed out that Daisy’s leadership during the Nazi-capture operation had made her a strong candidate too.

Daisy traveled to Port Madripoor after Viper found Killmonger Erik Killmonger, while reflecting on why she believed she should lead S.H.I.E.L.D. She met Viper at the King's Hotel, where they discussed Daisy’s plain outfit and Viper’s revealing combat suit.

• Daisy decided she would not give up her chance to lead S.H.I.E.L.D., believing Hill lacked the qualities needed for the dangerous position.
• Daisy encouraged Matsumoto Maki to take care of her health after seeing her train, then let her help with her bath and grooming.
• Viper told Daisy she had found Killmonger Erik Killmonger, and Daisy took leave from S.H.I.E.L.D. to travel to Port Madripoor.
• Daisy reached the King's Hotel in Port Madripoor and met Viper, who teased her tourist outfit and showed off her altered combat suit.

Daisy recovered Killmonger's notebook and his father's ring, then arranged for Viper to create a diversion while she traveled to Wakanda. She followed the notebook's route through Kenya and entered the remote grasslands near Lake Turkana.

• Daisy had Viper bring in Erik Killmonger and retrieved his belongings, including a notebook written in English and Wakandan and his father's ring.
• Daisy asked Viper, whose real name was Ophelia Sarkissian, to use her connections to hire mercenaries to cause chaos in Killmonger's hometown, and Viper agreed.
• Daisy spent several days studying Wakandan before leaving Southeast Asia for Nairobi, Kenya.
• Daisy drove north from Kenya, followed the route in the notebook toward Wakanda, and entered the primitive grasslands after leaving the highway.

Daisy traveled north across Kenya’s grasslands, became involved with a family of lions, and protected them from a targeted lightning strike. The chapter ended when a silver-haired woman with weather-controlling powers arrived and studied Daisy.

• Daisy ran across the grasslands, killed a wild goat for food, and knocked a male lion unconscious to take a selfie.
• The male lion’s family chased Daisy for days, and she alternated between fleeing them and waiting for them to catch up.
• Daisy sheltered Little Lion in a cave during a downpour and tried to calm the cub and its parents with food and vibration techniques.
• When targeted lightning struck at the male lion, Daisy blocked it with a Shockwave and guided the lion family to safety.
• A dark-skinned, silver-haired woman descended through the storm and curiously examined Daisy.

Daisy met Storm in the Kenyan wilderness and persuaded her to help track a secret organization heading north. Storm suspected Daisy’s mission might threaten Wakanda, while Daisy used the investigation as cover to approach the hidden nation.

• Daisy introduced herself to Storm, then befriended a family of lions and spent the night with them after Storm’s rainstorm passed.
• Daisy set out north the next morning, intending to use Storm’s knowledge of Wakanda to make her own approach easier.
• Storm intercepted Daisy and questioned her route, but Daisy showed her Level 7 S.H.I.E.L.D. credentials and said she was tracking a secret organization.
• Daisy told Storm that the organization had entered Kenya ten days earlier to investigate reports of powerful African weapons, and Storm agreed to help while worrying about Wakanda’s secrets.

Daisy met T'Challa, who revealed that the mercenaries she was tracking were targeting Wakanda, and agreed to accompany him and Storm there. They reached the Border Tribe, where Daisy questioned why its people maintained traditional herding and farming despite Wakanda’s advanced technology.

• Daisy learned that Viper had hired mercenaries led by Batroc, while she and Storm traveled several days behind them.
• T'Challa arrived to help Storm and told Daisy that the mercenaries were seeking his homeland, Wakanda.
• T'Challa revealed Wakanda’s cloaked aircraft, but he, Daisy, and Storm failed to find the mercenaries’ trail.
• T'Challa asked Daisy to go to Wakanda, and she agreed to hear the king’s answers.
• T'Challa left Daisy and Storm at the Border Tribe, where Daisy questioned the tribe’s traditional way of life.

Daisy learned Wakandan from Storm while waiting for T'Challa, then entered Wakanda and observed its advanced but uneven society. T'Challa led her into the Royal Palace, where she met the wary queen and young Shuri.

• Daisy asked Storm to teach her Wakandan, and the two gradually became acquainted as they studied.
• T'Challa returned the following evening, said his father wished to see Daisy, and flew her and Storm into Wakanda.
• Daisy passed through Wakanda's security barriers and saw its hidden city, whose technology relied on Vibranium.
• T'Challa brought Daisy to the Royal Palace, where she saw the royal guard and asked what etiquette to follow.
• Daisy met the queen and T'Challa's younger sister, Shuri, and T'Challa distracted his hostile mother by recounting Wakanda's history.

Daisy gained King T'Chaka's trust by describing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s influence and promising to help T'Challa apply to Oxford University. She then joined the Wakandan king, T'Challa, Storm, and the guards in tracking the mercenaries, whose group included Batroc and members of The Hand.

• Daisy told T'Chaka that S.H.I.E.L.D. was a powerful organization led by Nick Fury, and used claims about Black leaders to build goodwill with the king.
• T'Chaka tested Daisy's influence by asking her to recommend a university for T'Challa, and Daisy offered to contact Oxford University after they left Wakanda.
• Daisy insisted on pursuing her mission targets, and T'Chaka agreed to help capture the enemies threatening Wakanda.
• Daisy and T'Chaka led a squad of nun guards, joined Storm, and went to the surveillance center to search for the mercenaries.
• Wakandan investigators traced Batroc the Leaper and his multinational mercenary squad, which included three apparent members of The Hand.

Daisy, T'Challa, and Storm joined the Wakandan guards to confront Batroc's mercenaries, who had discovered Wakanda's hidden city. The battle turned against the mercenaries as Storm summoned a fierce storm and lightning, while Black Panther and the guards fought Batroc's forces.

• Daisy recognized Juggernaut among the mercenaries and agreed to accompany T'Challa to face him and Batroc.
• T'Challa, Daisy, and Storm traveled with the bald female guards by train toward the mercenaries' hideout.
• Batroc overruled the mercenaries' debate about whether to withdraw, then encountered Black Panther after a sentry raised the alarm.
• Black Panther and Batroc exchanged attacks, while the mercenaries joined the fight and the Wakandan guards charged them in coordinated groups.
• Storm summoned dark clouds, heavy rain, and lightning, striking down mercenaries and allowing the guards to join the attack on Batroc.

Daisy and Storm were badly injured when Juggernaut charged through the battlefield, and T'Challa took them to Wakanda's sacred mountain despite objections. The chapter left Daisy unconscious beside Storm as T'Challa obtained two Heart-shaped herbs for them.

• Juggernaut charged at Storm and shrugged off her lightning strike, but Daisy pulled Storm out of his path.
• Storm collapsed with severe injuries, and Daisy faked being gravely wounded so Wakandans would take her with Storm.
• Black Panther drove Juggernaut back with a Wakandan aircraft, then brought the wounded women to the Royal Palace.
• After a physician said the women had only minutes to live, T'Challa defied his mother's orders and led them into the mountain cave.
• T'Challa ordered two Heart-shaped herbs, and the priest handed them over.

Daisy and Storm received the Heart-shaped herb, and Daisy encountered the Leopard Goddess in a psychic realm, winning her approval by promising to make a film. The herb dramatically enhanced Daisy, and the power surge left the mountain shaking and splitting apart.

• T'Challa crushed the Heart-shaped herb, performed the ritual, and fed it to Storm before Daisy.
• Daisy entered a psychic grassland and met the Leopard Goddess, who was troubled by Storm's faith in the Eagle God and Daisy's lack of faith.
• Daisy promised to make the Leopard Goddess a movie and shared a revised version of Life of Pi, earning the goddess's approval.
• Daisy returned to her body as the herb healed her injuries and greatly strengthened her physical abilities, destabilizing her powers.
• T'Challa, the female guards, and the priests watched the mountain quake and crack as a deep fissure opened beneath T'Challa.

Daisy and Storm’s enhancements caused devastating natural disasters across Wakanda, and Daisy awoke to discover her powers and physical abilities had grown stronger. The earthquake stopped, but Storm remained unconscious as the storm outside intensified toward a blizzard.

• Daisy’s earthquake and Storm’s storm battered Wakanda, shifting rivers and destabilizing the Sacred Mountain while residents and priests sought safety and prayed.
• T’Challa recognized that Daisy and Storm’s powers were causing the disasters and called for them to wake up.
• Daisy regained control, waited for the vibrations to subside, and examined her enhanced speed, strength, resilience, and claw-like nails.
• Daisy thanked T’Challa for her treatment, denied being a Mutant, and asked after Storm, who remained buried in sand.
• Ten minutes later, the earthquake had stopped, but Storm was still unconscious and the fierce wind and rain were turning toward a blizzard.