Chapter Summaries

Daisy failed to understand Mandarin’s cultivation notes and discovered that the Three Channels and Seven Chakras were unsuitable for her to practice. Meanwhile, Lorna asked Daisy to help her control her abilities, and Daisy began demonstrating how magnetic force worked.

• Pepper left Long Island after confirming Daisy had no plans to meet Stark, while continuing to rush the Supercomputer installation at a loss to keep them apart.
• Daisy read Danger’s translation of Mandarin’s notes and tried using the Three Channels and Seven Chakras to connect with the alien rings.
• Daisy found that the available cultivation guides were unreliable and concluded she could not practice the male-focused methods, so she told the artificial intelligence to keep studying the rings.
• After two carefree days, Lorna sought out Daisy and asked for help because her abilities had not appeared again since the incident.
• Daisy tried teaching Lorna to make a coin fly, then offered to demonstrate magnetic force when Lorna could not move it.

Daisy demonstrated her magnetic control to Lorna before returning to S.H.I.E.L.D. for an emergency meeting about the Hulk. The chapter ended with senior agents gathered in Nick Fury’s office, while Daisy’s feud with Victoria Hand flared on the way there.

• Daisy used gravity and magnetism to propel a coin into Lorna’s hand, then told Lorna to practice sensing the force herself.
• After her month-long leave ended, Daisy returned to S.H.I.E.L.D., where Hill told her General Ross had requested agents to help deal with the Hulk.
• Daisy mocked Victoria Hand over the twelve agents killed during the previous mission, and the two exchanged insults about their respective records.
• Hill defended Daisy when Victoria Hand questioned her villa’s funding, and Victoria Hand pulled Jasper Sitwell into the dispute for support.
• Daisy, Hill, Victoria Hand, and the other senior agents entered Nick Fury’s office, where the emergency meeting was about to begin.

Daisy proposed using adjustable spectrum lights to suppress Hulk’s anger and weaken him, convincing S.H.I.E.L.D. that the capture might be simple. Nick Fury asked her to demonstrate the theory on site before the agency committed to the plan.

• Nick Fury called on Agent Daisy Johnson to suggest how S.H.I.E.L.D. could capture Hulk after the other agents avoided volunteering.
• Daisy argued that Hulk’s strength was tied to his brain and emotions, and that spectrum emitters could calm him and make him weaker.
• Daisy withheld her knowledge that suppressing Hulk’s emotions could cause a stronger backlash later.
• Nick Fury questioned whether Daisy’s inexpensive-sounding plan would work and asked her to demonstrate it on site.
• Daisy agreed to modify a laser light for the demonstration.

Daisy demonstrated that her emotion-control lamp could rapidly alter Sitwell’s mood, prompting Hydra agents to consider adapting it for brainwashing. Nick Fury took Daisy to meet General Ross, who questioned whether a cheap lamp could stop the Hulk and ended the chapter shaken after consulting the Department of Defense’s brain researchers.

• Daisy assembled a laser-based emotion-control lamp with help from senior S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
• Daisy tested the lamp on Sitwell, first intensifying his excitement and then making him listless.
• Crossbones and Pierce concluded that the lamp could be modified for safe, effective brainwashing, while Sitwell worried that he might have revealed Hydra secrets.
• Nick Fury asked Daisy whether the lamp could defeat the Hulk, and she estimated that its chances of success were high.
• Nick Fury canceled the planned rally, tasked Pierce with calming the returning branch directors, and took Daisy to the Pentagon to meet General Ross.
• General Ross called a Department of Defense brain-research official and put down the phone with an ashen face.

Daisy joined General Ross and Nick Fury for an operation to capture the Hulk, and she persuaded Ross to abandon an attack on the University of Virginia to avoid civilian casualties and political fallout. Ross then asked Daisy to protect his daughter, Betty Ross, during the revised plan.

• General Ross called off the grand combat plan and brought Nick Fury and Daisy along to capture the Hulk, while introducing Captain Blonsky as a distinguished frontline soldier.
• After the team reached the University of Virginia, Daisy warned Ross against conducting a forceful operation on campus, and Ross ordered his soldiers to stand down and switch to Plan Two.
• Blonsky resented Ross and Daisy after Ross rebuked him, and Daisy mocked him by repeating Ross's praise of him.
• Ross asked Daisy to protect Betty Ross, and Nick Fury assigned the task to Daisy after hearing that Betty was with the Hulk.

Daisy helped General Ross capture Bruce Banner by luring Betty away and provoking Banner into becoming the Hulk. The Emotion Controllers subdued the Hulk, and Betty begged her father to release the unconscious Banner.

• Daisy disguised herself as a science-loving student and seized Betty while she and Banner walked together.
• Banner saw Daisy run off with Betty, lost control of his anger, and transformed into the Hulk.
• The Hulk chased Daisy and Betty until three armored vehicles surrounded him and used Emotion Controllers to calm him.
• The soldiers forced Banner back into human form, tranquilized him, and secured him with handcuffs and shackles.
• Betty recognized her father’s involvement and tearfully begged General Ross to let Banner go.

After General Ross brought Bruce Banner and Betty Ross back to the Pentagon, Blonsky decided to free Betty and Banner so he could challenge Banner to a fight. He escorted Betty out of detention, leaving them headed toward the underground facilities.

• General Ross took Betty Ross and the subdued Bruce Banner back to the Pentagon, where soldiers restrained Banner with sedatives and equipment.
• Betty Ross searched for a way to escape her guards and rescue Banner as General Ross faced political fallout over the operation.
• Blonsky knocked out Betty’s two guards, bound and gagged them, and led Betty out of the detention room.
• Betty asked Blonsky why he was helping her, and he said he wanted to fight Banner.
• Blonsky explained that seeing Daisy’s speed had shaken his belief that he was the world’s strongest warrior, and he intended to free Banner for a fair fight.

Blonsky fought past the guards and forced Betty to awaken Banner, whose suppressed rage transformed him into Hulk. Hulk smashed free, defeated Blonsky with one punch, and left the facility as Betty followed; Blonsky later regained consciousness, badly injured.

• Blonsky knocked out the guards protecting Banner’s steel cell, but found he could not break into it.
• Blonsky pointed a gun at Betty and demanded that she wake Banner and make him fight.
• Betty called to Banner, and his anger overcame the sedatives, transforming him into Hulk.
• Hulk punched through the cell and escaped, then sent Blonsky flying with a single blow.
• Betty ran after Hulk while Blonsky slowly regained consciousness, severely injured.

Blonsky injected Hulk’s blood and transformed into a towering, monstrous creature before pursuing Hulk. As Hulk fought his way through the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense deployed Hydra energy weapons against him, but their beams barely broke his skin.

• Blonsky injected himself with Hulk’s blood, which rapidly healed and transformed his body into a nearly two-and-a-half-meter-tall monster.
• Blonsky accepted his new appearance and chased after Hulk.
• Hulk rampaged through the facility, leaving soldiers and officers dead as General Ross faced the consequences of Blonsky’s actions.
• The Secretary of Defense ordered soldiers to use Hydra energy weapons and deployed laser tanks to stop Hulk.
• Helicopter-borne soldiers fired the energy weapons at Hulk, but the beams only barely broke his skin.

Hulk continued rampaging as the military failed to stop him, so Daisy proposed using puppies to calm him down. Nick Fury and Black Widow helped assemble the plan, then called Coulson to carry the puppy cage toward the crisis.

• Hulk dragged a helicopter to the ground, killing the five soldiers aboard, while the military called for reinforcements.
• Nick Fury summoned Daisy and showed her footage of Hulk's rampage; Daisy said she could not fight him and doubted Professor Charles could control him.
• Daisy suggested using puppies to soothe Hulk, and Nick Fury trusted her plan enough to requisition seven puppies from a pet shop.
• Nick Fury, Daisy, and Black Widow all refused to carry the puppy cage, so they called Coulson to take it.
• Coulson accepted the task and bravely carried the cage toward the crisis.

Daisy lured Hulk away from Washington, but his rampage caused severe civilian casualties as she waited for the military’s anti-Hulk weapon. The Red Skull-brand Laser tank reached the ambush zone, but its outdated targeting system could not track Hulk, leaving Daisy waiting for it to fire.

• Daisy jumped from the Quinjet and used Shockwaves to provoke Hulk into chasing her away from Washington.
• Daisy drew Hulk south, and his enormous leaps crushed cars, homes, and civilians along the way.
• Daisy contacted the team for help as Hulk’s stamina outlasted hers and he began throwing cars at her.
• The military brought a Red Skull-brand Laser tank to the ambush zone, but its driver could not track Hulk with the outdated sight.
• Daisy waited beside the tank, puzzled as its barrel moved without firing.

Daisy lured the Hulk back toward Virginia after Nick Fury told her a yellow-skinned monster was attacking the Pentagon. She found Blonsky waiting for them, and he recognized her as the world seemed increasingly unfamiliar to him.

• Daisy directed a tank crew to bombard the Hulk, but the tank ran out of energy and its soldiers fled.
• Nick Fury told Daisy that a yellow-skinned monster had appeared at the Pentagon and that the generals wanted her to bring the Hulk back to make the monsters fight.
• Daisy agreed after Fury said General Ross would take responsibility, then turned back toward Virginia with the Hulk pursuing her.
• Blonsky attacked Daisy with a billboard, and she identified him as a partially transformed, yellow-skinned monster.
• Blonsky explained that he had attacked the Pentagon to force Daisy to bring the Hulk back, and he grew uneasy when he realized the world seemed different from the one he knew.

Hulk and Blonsky fought across a Virginia town, causing widespread destruction while Daisy and S.H.I.E.L.D. watched. Nick Fury explained that distrust between S.H.I.E.L.D., the government, and the military had let the Hulk experiment happen, leaving the agency struggling to contain the crisis.

• Daisy teleported away from Blonsky, and Hulk attacked him instead, overpowering him in their first exchange.
• Blonsky gave in to rage, struck Hulk with a lawn mower, and drove him into a building before the two began trading brutal blows.
• Hulk and Blonsky damaged buildings and endangered civilians as their fight moved around town, drawing media attention and military evacuation efforts.
• Coulson asked whether they should help the civilians, but Daisy, Nick Fury, and Natasha ignored him.
• Daisy questioned Nick Fury about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s responsibility for the Hulk experiment, and he described the agency's lack of manpower and the government's and military's distrust.

Daisy proposed pulling S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel out of the East and discussed superhero identity registration with Black Widow before Nick Fury redirected them to the mission. As Blonsky gained the upper hand over Hulk, Black Widow and Daisy joined the fight to support Hulk, while Coulson stayed behind with the puppies.

• Daisy suggested that S.H.I.E.L.D. abandon its Eastern outposts, but Nick Fury declined to discuss the proposal and asked for a formal report.
• Black Widow asked Daisy how she would respond if the government made agents reveal their identities, and Daisy proposed linking disclosures to government transparency and agents’ choices.
• Nick Fury told Daisy, Black Widow, and Coulson to focus on the mission as Blonsky’s armor absorbed Hulk’s attacks and Hulk’s rage began to subside.
• Nick Fury called for the agents to support the weaker fighter, and Black Widow took a Quinjet toward the battle while Daisy flew in to assist.
• Black Widow attacked Blonsky with missiles and gunfire, creating an opening for Hulk to smash his chest armor, as the battle continued amid the ruins of Culver City.

Daisy redirected the battle’s aftershocks to trigger a volcanic eruption that overwhelmed Blonsky and destroyed the city. Hulk escaped carrying seven puppies, while Nick Fury chose to keep tracking him rather than capture him.

• Daisy channeled the battle’s accumulated force underground and blasted Blonsky into the air with a torrent of magma.
• The magma eruption spread through the city, setting it ablaze as Daisy, Black Widow, Nick Fury, and Coulson escaped by aircraft.
• Hulk ran south through the burning ruins, rescued seven puppies from falling rubble, and carried them to safety.
• Nick Fury learned that Coulson had placed trackers on the puppies and ordered him to keep watching Hulk.

Daisy learned how General Ross had escaped blame for the Culver City disaster and saw him begin a political career while maintaining his military influence. Three months later, the Supercomputer Ideal was installed at Daisy’s villa, and she told Lorna it could help train her abilities.

• Daisy and S.H.I.E.L.D. returned the unconscious, magma-scorched Blonsky to the Pentagon, where the soldiers struggled to detain him.
• At Obama’s dinner party, General Ross told Daisy he had left the military and asked her to keep Banner away from his daughter.
• Daisy discovered Ross had blamed the Pentagon’s destruction and the deaths in Culver City on a natural disaster, while officials and media suppressed reports of the giants.
• Ross introduced his daughter to Air Force Brigadier General Talbot, and he and Daisy applauded Obama’s campaign promises to rebuild Culver City.
• Daisy celebrated the installation of the seventh-fastest Supercomputer in the world, codenamed Ideal, with her subordinates and pets.
• When Lorna asked what Ideal could do, Daisy said it could build a training ground to help her improve her abilities.

Daisy powered up the Supercomputer Ideal and transferred Danger into it, where the AI analyzed the Ten Rings and found a way to replace the Mandarin’s control imprint. Three days later, Daisy received rings that accepted her identity and ran a subprogram from Danger.

• Daisy connected the Supercomputer Ideal to a knockoff Arc Reactor and started it up.
• Daisy transferred Danger from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters into Ideal and asked it to analyze the Ten Rings.
• Danger discovered that the rings sent signals every three hundred seconds and that the Mandarin had overwritten their original-owner authorization with his personal information.
• Daisy gave Danger the Mandarin's severed finger so it could identify and delete his stored information, then write Daisy's identity into the rings.
• Three days later, Daisy received the renewed rings, which accepted her and had Danger's subprogram in place of their original Personal Guidance Terminal.

Daisy tested the Atomic Cutter ring and discovered that its beam could pierce every material she tried, though it consumed energy and needed a long cooldown. She took Lorna for a drive to discuss school, but a handsome stranger who resembled Captain America caught her attention at a red light.

• Daisy tested the Atomic Cutter ring, whose beam pierced a metal target and the training-ground walls while using only 4.5% of its energy.
• Daisy spent the day testing the ring and found that even Secondary Adamantium could not stop it, while Danger said an Energy shield might defend against it.
• Lorna struggled to control her powers, and Danger explained that puberty could delay her ability to master them.
• Daisy drove Lorna in her Porsche and agreed to look at a middle school after Lorna asked whether she should attend school.
• A handsome young man complimented Daisy's car at a red light, and Daisy was startled by how much he resembled Captain America.

Daisy raced Johnny Stone in their cars after he challenged her, then drove Lorna to Midtown High School to discuss a student's enrollment. At the school, Daisy was shocked to find that the principal looked exactly like Phil Coulson.

• Johnny Stone flirted with Daisy and invited her to race after recognizing her from a magazine.
• Daisy accelerated past Johnny in her Carrera GT while Lorna urged her to catch him.
• Johnny modified his pursuit with nitrous, so Daisy used gravity to boost her car's speed before turning into New York City.
• Daisy and Lorna arrived at Midtown High School to discuss enrollment with the principal.
• Daisy recognized the principal's appearance as identical to Phil Coulson's and wondered how he had become a school principal.

Daisy enrolled Lorna at Midtown High School, where Lorna began making friends and gaining confidence. As Coulson welcomed her into the school, Daisy left Lorna in his care and later assigned Danger to oversee her studies and other research.

• Daisy brought Lorna to Midtown High School, where Coulson welcomed her and Lorna sat in on a class.
• Daisy told Lorna to use the self-defense techniques she had taught her and arranged for her bodyguard and driver to handle Lorna’s daily commute.
• Lorna excitedly described school and the classmates she had met, including Peter Parker, Harry Osborn, Mary Jane, Flash Thompson, Jessica Campbell, and Tracy Walker.
• Lorna befriended Mary Jane and considered becoming a reporter, while Daisy gave her extra study materials after deciding school was not teaching her enough.
• Daisy assigned Danger to guide Lorna’s studies and research light-year teleportation and whether Daisy’s bloodline could be further purified.