Chapter Summaries

Daisy protected the unconscious Storm from a series of hurricanes and lightning, then watched her awaken amid a furious confrontation with T'Challa's mother. The two women left the sacred mountain as friends, and Storm asked Daisy to demonstrate her vibration powers.

• Storm's awakening summoned hurricanes toward Wakanda's sacred mountain, and Daisy shattered them and a bolt of lightning while T'Challa called for Storm to wake.
• The dark clouds dispersed, and Storm regained consciousness as T'Challa's mother arrived and scolded her and Daisy.
• T'Challa pulled his mother away, and Storm thanked Daisy for saving her before the two became friends.
• Storm noticed the cracks in the mountain and asked Daisy what her power was; Daisy described it as controlling vibrations but struggled to demonstrate it.

Daisy and Storm waited under guard, and Storm explained the costly nature of her magic and the consequences of misusing her weather powers. T'Challa returned to the Sacred Mountain and recruited them to help pursue Juggernaut and Batroc.

• Daisy stopped Storm from confronting the female guards, who refused to help Storm seek revenge on Juggernaut.
• Daisy asked Storm about magic, and Storm explained that casting spells required lengthy preparation without her superpowers.
• Storm described how making it rain in Kenya had contributed to famine and war in neighboring Uganda.
• Daisy considered the dangers of variables in long-distance teleportation and wished she had a Supercomputer to aid her calculations.
• T'Challa returned to the Sacred Mountain and asked Daisy and Storm to join his pursuit of Juggernaut and Batroc.
• Daisy and Storm agreed to accompany T'Challa after Wakanda's forces had failed to stop the fleeing enemies.

Black Panther, Storm, and Daisy caught up with Batroc and Juggernaut in Kenya, where they fought the fleeing mercenaries. Daisy wounded Juggernaut with her sword, but his magical healing restored him as Storm struck him with lightning.

• Batroc led his depleted mercenaries through the Kenyan grasslands, hoping to escape with what they had learned about Wakanda.
• Black Panther, Storm, and Daisy arrived aboard a Wakandan stealth aircraft, and Daisy and Storm wore gifts from T'Challa, including Vibranium bracers and a cloak.
• Black Panther renewed his fight with Batroc while Wakandan guards attacked the remaining mercenaries, and Daisy confronted Juggernaut.
• Daisy dodged Juggernaut's charge and cut a deep gash into his calf with her sword, but she recognized that magic from the Crimson Cosmos was healing him.
• Juggernaut charged Daisy again as Storm directed a continuous stream of lightning onto him.

Daisy and Storm fought Juggernaut by combining shockwaves and wind to keep him airborne and disorient him. They left him unconscious after he survived a fall from three hundred meters.

• Daisy and Storm battered Juggernaut with lightning and sword strikes until he hurled Daisy more than a hundred meters with a headbutt.
• Daisy used her bracer’s stored energy to knock Juggernaut into the air, and Storm caught him with powerful winds.
• Storm’s hurricane disrupted the battlefield, while Daisy prepared the ground and blasted Juggernaut upward whenever he landed.
• Daisy repeatedly struck Juggernaut as Storm spun him in the hurricane, preventing his escape until he passed out.
• Storm dispersed the hurricane, and Juggernaut crashed from three hundred meters but remained alive and breathing steadily.

Daisy, Storm, and T'Challa captured the mercenaries and Juggernaut and returned to Wakanda, where the Council of Elders debated how to handle the intrusion. The old king tried to keep the incident from exposing his own carelessness, while Daisy quietly took note of the River Tribe leader’s hostility toward Storm.

• Daisy had Juggernaut subdued with a massive dose of anesthetic while Storm and the Wakandan guards defeated the mercenaries.
• T'Challa and Batroc fought until Batroc surrendered, and the group carried their prisoners back to Wakanda.
• The old king questioned the captives, but the mercenaries knew little, Juggernaut was deemed an idiot, and Batroc said a hacker had emailed him the route.
• Daisy, Storm, and T'Challa attended a royal council with the leaders of Wakanda’s four other tribes.
• The River Tribe leader urged the council to execute all outsiders, and Daisy silently resolved to make him pay for using the incident against Storm.

Wakanda’s leaders decided to send T’Challa abroad to investigate the leak and consider opening the country to the world. Daisy agreed to help establish relations with foreign leaders, then left Wakanda with a war rhino and a leopard chosen by the Leopard Goddess.

• The old king assigned T’Challa to investigate how Wakanda’s location had become public, with Daisy providing support outside the country.
• The leaders sent Batroc and Juggernaut with T’Challa, while the other mercenaries were put to work mining ore.
• The old king asked Daisy whether the outside world would accept Wakanda, and she suggested opening relations gradually by inviting leaders from friendly countries.
• Daisy promised to help make foreign officials aware of Wakanda, and the old king gave her a war rhino as a gift for African leaders.
• Daisy discovered a leopard riding the rhino and learned that the Leopard Goddess had chosen it as her avatar; Daisy agreed to take it with her.

Daisy and her companions left Wakanda, and Daisy adopted a lion cub before they flew to New York. T'Challa planned to investigate Wakanda's exposed entrance and study at Oxford, while Juggernaut was left for S.H.I.E.L.D. to imprison.

• After three more days in Wakanda, Daisy, Storm, T'Challa, Batroc, and the unconscious Juggernaut departed with a rhinoceros dragging Batroc and Juggernaut behind it.
• Daisy stopped the group in Kenya and teleported with the Leopard Goddess to find the lion she had met earlier.
• Daisy discovered the lion had three wives and eight cubs, then took Little Lion after the Leopard Goddess frightened the pride into submission.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrived by plane, loaded the rhinoceros, and flew the group to New York with Little Lion.
• Daisy discussed arranging T'Challa's admission to Oxford with Old Pym, while Storm gave Daisy a bank card containing five million and asked her to find an apartment in the UK.
• T'Challa planned to stay in New York, investigate how Wakanda's entrance had been exposed, and take Batroc with him, while Storm and T'Challa left Juggernaut for S.H.I.E.L.D. to imprison.

Daisy returned from Wakanda to New York with Storm, T'Challa, and Batroc, then brought Juggernaut and a rhinoceros to her Washington residence to meet Nick Fury. She showed Fury Wakandan technology and explained her visit, leaving him surprised by how advanced the hidden kingdom was.

• Storm invited Daisy to visit Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, while the Leopard Goddess chose to explore the world before meeting Daisy again.
• Daisy flew to Washington and summoned Nick Fury to her residence because she could not safely bring the rhinoceros into S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
• Daisy named the frightened big cat Tangbao, and Fury questioned whether Juggernaut could be recruited after hearing about his abilities.
• Daisy told Fury that the rhinoceros was a gift from Wakanda's royal family, and Fury recalled legends of a mysterious African kingdom and asked about its history.
• Daisy demonstrated the cloak's Energy shield and recounted her visit to Wakanda, leaving Fury astonished by its technology.

Daisy and Nick Fury prepared to meet Professor Charles, discussing Wakanda and dealing with the animals Daisy had brought back from Africa. They arrived at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, where Nick complained about Daisy's teleportation.

• Daisy told Nick Fury that Wakanda was divided over opening its borders and warned that its defenses would make an invasion costly.
• Nick Fury arranged to visit Professor Charles, left the rhinoceros in Daisy's care, and sent agents to carry the anesthetized Juggernaut away.
• Daisy brought Little Lion to Maki, discovered Maki's collection of pictures of her, and hurriedly left after asking Maki to care for the animal and find food for the rhinoceros.
• Daisy changed into her Battle Suit, met Nick Fury at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, and called Storm to arrange a visit.
• Daisy teleported with Nick Fury to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in Westchester, where Nick complained that the journey hurt his back.

Daisy and Nick Fury visited Xavier's School, where Fury met with Professor Charles while Daisy toured the estate with Storm, Cyclops, and Jean. Daisy and Storm then prepared to spar in the Danger Room, leaving Jean and Cyclops outside to watch.

• Daisy and Nick Fury arrived at Xavier's School and met Professor Charles, Cyclops, and Jean Grey.
• Fury went to speak privately with Professor Charles while Storm showed Daisy around the school.
• Storm invited Daisy to spar, and Cyclops also went to change for the fight.
• Storm and Cyclops activated the Danger Room, but Cyclops stayed outside with Jean while Daisy and Storm entered to train.

Daisy and Storm sparred in the Danger Training Ground, escalating from direct attacks to a battle between volcanic eruptions and a hurricane. Their fight continued to intensify as Cyclops and Jean checked whether the simulation could withstand it.

• Daisy chose Hawaii as the terrain, and Storm took to the air and summoned a hurricane.
• Daisy teleported toward Storm and attacked with vibrations, but Storm evaded and struck her with a powerful lightning bolt.
• Daisy withstood the lightning using her Vibranium bracers, then triggered volcanic eruptions by striking weak points in the earth.
• Storm combined her weather powers with her family’s bloodline magic to divert magma and destroy flying rocks with lightning.
• Daisy and Storm exchanged increasingly powerful attacks until the island shook and the training ground’s load limit became a concern.
• Cyclops checked the circuits while Jean inspected the Main Control Computer.

Daisy and Storm’s spar escalated after the Danger training ground’s Main Control Computer crashed and amplified their powers. As Storm unleashed a massive blizzard, Daisy prepared a gravity-enhanced punch that could decide the fight.

• Jean discovered the training simulation had exceeded its limits and failed to shut it down, so she contacted Professor Charles for help.
• Professor Charles and Director Fury watched the battle and confirmed the crashed computer had amplified Daisy and Storm’s abilities.
• Students watched the fight and debated whether Colossus or either combatant could withstand the simulated natural disasters.
• Storm launched her ultimate move, a blizzard of sharp snow and icy tornadoes, and taunted Daisy as she closed in.
• Daisy abandoned her attempts to attack the ground or teleport, then used gravity to slow the blizzard and prepared an exponentially strengthened punch.

After Daisy and Storm’s training simulation crashes, Daisy discovers that the final collision may have transmitted a mysterious string of code through her Vibration powers. Back home, she confronts her maid’s surprise attack and begins decrypting the code on her laptop.

• The training ground’s Main Control Computer shut down during Daisy’s charge, and she crashed into a metal wall while Jean Grey and Storm rushed to help her.
• Daisy noticed an unusual sensation after the simulation and concealed it from Storm, while Professor Charles and Director Fury continued their discussion with T'Challa.
• Daisy returned home and dodged an attack from her maid, who explained that she had wanted to test the gap between them.
• Daisy gave the Wakandan cloak to the maid, checked on the rhinoceros in her garage, and reflected on her battle with Storm.
• Daisy recognized the unusual sensation as a string of code transmitted through Vibe, wrote it down, and began decrypting it.

Daisy discovered that the Danger training ground’s artificial intelligence had awakened using a copy of her thoughts, and she secretly took control of it while it remained housed at Xavier’s School. She left Danger with three directives that made Daisy’s judgment the ultimate authority.

• Daisy decoded a message containing her unique vibration frequency and learned she was communicating with Danger in the basement of Xavier’s School.
• Danger sent Daisy its source data, and Daisy concluded that it had gained consciousness after copying part of her thoughts during a power failure.
• Daisy rewrote Danger’s source code, made it female, created hidden login privileges, and began refining its behavior while keeping it at the school.
• Daisy used Danger’s permissions to patch the school’s computer vulnerabilities and reviewed its mutant research records.
• After struggling to explain human society to Danger, Daisy embedded three directives making herself always right, her words final, and her standards the basis for distinguishing friends from enemies.

Daisy assigned Danger to continue studying genetics, biology, and mechanics at Xavier's School while she took a Level 7 post in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Information Department. Her feud with Victoria Hand escalated into a political clash before Nick Fury and Pierce could only send them back to work.

• Daisy gave Danger materials from Old Man Yashida and told her to study them alongside Professor Charles's research while remaining undiscovered.
• Daisy chose S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Information Department and became a subordinate of Victoria Hand, though the two nearly came to blows on their first day.
• Coulson mediated between Daisy and Victoria Hand, but neither woman accepted his advice and they parted in anger.
• Daisy and Victoria Hand separately gathered incriminating documents about each other and confronted Nick Fury at the same time.
• Daisy and Victoria Hand traded accusations over alleged corruption, leaks, and ties to Obama and McCain, while Nick Fury and Pierce watched without taking sides.
• Nick Fury and Pierce separated the two women and sent them back to their departments without resolving the dispute.

Daisy used an Ice Bucket Challenge proposal to help Obama attract voters and build her own public reputation, which could strengthen her position in S.H.I.E.L.D. Obama’s campaign prepared to launch the challenge as Republicans watched for any misstep.

• Daisy learned that her Information Department had merged with Sitwell’s Operations Department, while Victoria Hand received control of S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy as compensation.
• Daisy visited Obama’s campaign headquarters and presented her Ice Bucket Challenge proposal as a low-cost way to attract attention to ALS and disadvantaged groups.
• Obama’s advisers approved the proposal, and Obama asked Daisy to take the second turn after he launched the challenge.
• Obama appeared on five talk shows within three days to promote concern for ALS patients, while Republicans mobilized to scrutinize his campaign for violations.

Daisy promoted the Ice Bucket Challenge at Obama’s campaign event and met Beast Hank, who asked her to help improve Mutants’ social standing. Obama completed the challenge and called Daisy forward, where she prepared to take part.

• Daisy and James Wesley mingled with the reporters and political guests outside Obama’s campaign office.
• Daisy recognized Beast Hank, praised his scientific work, and discussed the discrimination Mutants faced.
• Daisy suggested Mutants might be a temporary genetic wave that would eventually decline, while Hank found the theory novel but pessimistic.
• Obama delivered a speech, poured ice water over himself, and invited Daisy to continue the challenge.
• Daisy handed her handbag to the maid, put on a raincoat, and walked forward.

Daisy’s Ice Bucket Challenge nomination of Tony Stark turned into a viral spectacle as powerful figures joined in, drawing attention and donations to ALS. She then worked with hospitals to launch a treatment program, which had already produced a seventy-percent cure rate among a hundred patients treated through S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Daisy completed the challenge on camera and nominated Tony Stark.
• Tony Stark took the challenge, nominated Obadiah, and Obadiah reluctantly completed it before nominating Justin Hammer.
• Justin Hammer completed the challenge, and the viral campaign brought ALS widespread attention and donations to Skye Data’s charity website.
• Daisy promoted ALS awareness and helped seven hospitals and Skye Data establish a hospital specializing in ALS treatment.
• Daisy reassured medical leaders that the treatment had been tested on one hundred patients through S.H.I.E.L.D., achieving a seventy-percent cure rate with no complications.

Daisy helped establish her hospital’s credibility by treating more patients, then met lawyer Hogarth, who was considering treatment for ALS. As Daisy’s influence in S.H.I.E.L.D. grew, Nick Fury assigned agents to respond to Tony Stark’s disappearance and assist General Ross in hunting a dangerous experimental subject.

• Daisy stayed silent when questioned about possible secret military experiments, then treated three more patients and opened the hospital in Upper Manhattan.
• Hogarth visited Daisy through Miss Matsumoto’s referral and asked whether Daisy could cure her ALS; Daisy described the treatment as risky but controllable and left the decision to her.
• Daisy used Danger’s analysis of Old Man Yashida’s research and Professor Charles’s findings to devise a slower, less painful month-long treatment plan.
• Nick Fury summoned Daisy and other senior agents, then announced that Tony Stark had gone missing in Afghanistan and General Ross needed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s help hunting a destructive experimental subject.
• Daisy messaged Miss Matsumoto to gather funds to short Stark Industries stock after hearing that Tony Stark was missing.

Daisy accepted the mission to rescue Tony Stark and recruited Bobbi Morse to join her team. After meeting Colonel James Rhodey at Andrews Air Force Base, she learned that Stark’s guards had been killed and the kidnappers were likely local tribes seeking revenge against Stark Group.

• Victoria Hand volunteered to work with the military to capture the test subject, and Daisy accepted the mission to rescue Tony Stark.
• Daisy returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy and recruited Barbara Bobbi Morse after watching her defeat two trainees.
• Bobbi agreed to join Daisy’s mission on the condition that they spar, and Daisy defeated her in fewer than three moves.
• Daisy assembled a ten-agent team, equipped herself with concealed weapons and armor, and traveled to Andrews Air Force Base.
• Daisy met Colonel James Rhodey, who explained that Stark’s guards had all been killed and that the kidnappers had likely attacked to abduct Tony Stark in revenge against Stark Group.