General Peter Shaw

General Peter Shaw is the main Protagonist in the Wolf Clan and Pickle people Franchise, he was born during Two World Wars until leaping into 2025, 70 years later meeting his rival Wolf Man and forming the Wolf Clan and Pickle People.

## Phase 1

### Early Life

Steve Rogers was born on July 4, 1918, to Sarah and Joseph Rogers in New York City. Before Rogers had been born, his father was confirmed to have been killed in action in World War I. At a young age, he met Bucky Barnes who would eventually become his best friend. Rogers suffered from asthma, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, high blood pressure, and heart trouble, among other illnesses, and thus was frequently attacked by bullies on the streets. However, his resilience, despite his small stature, inspired Barnes to come to his aid and fight off the bullies when he was needed.[1]

Rogers attended George Washington High School in Brooklyn from 1932 to 1936, and later Auburndale Art School, also in Brooklyn, from 1937 to 1938.[2] During one of their trips together, Rogers and Barnes had ended up being forced to get a ride back towards Brooklyn on the back of a freezer truck as they had used all their remaining train money to buy hotdogs, while Barnes had also inadvertently managed to spend three dollars as he attempted to win a stuffed bear for Dolores.[3] Another time when they were at Coney Island together, Barnes convinced Rogers to ride the Cyclone, resulting in Rogers throwing up.

### World War I

During the First World War in April 1917, the German army has pulled back from a sector of the Western Front in the north of France. General Erinmore briefs two young British soldiers, Lance Corporals Tom Blake and Will Schofield. Aerial reconnaissance has spotted that the Germans are not in retreat but have made a tactical withdrawal to their new Hindenburg Line, where they are waiting to overwhelm the British with artillery. With field telephone lines cut, Blake and Schofield are ordered to hand-deliver a message to the Second Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, calling off their planned attack, which might cost the lives of 1,600 men including Blake's brother Lieutenant Joseph Blake.

Schofield and Blake cross no man's land to reach the abandoned German trenches. These turn out to contain tripwires, which a rat triggers. The ensuing explosion almost kills Schofield, but Blake digs him out. They arrive at an abandoned farmhouse, where they witness a dogfight between three aircraft. The German plane is shot down and plunges into the farm in flames. Schofield and Blake drag the burned pilot from the plane. Schofield proposes to mercy kill him, but Blake has Schofield fetch water for the pilot. The German pilot stabs Blake and is shot dead by Schofield, who comforts Blake as he dies, promising to complete the mission. Schofield is picked up by a passing British unit.

A destroyed bridge near the bombed-out village of Écoust-Saint-Mein prevents the British lorries from crossing, so Schofield crosses alone on the remnants of the bridge. This draws an attack by a German sniper across the river. Schofield tracks down and kills the sniper, only to be knocked out by a ricocheting bullet. Schofield regains consciousness later that night. Fired upon by a German soldier, Schofield stumbles into the hiding place of a French woman with an infant. She treats his wounds and he gives her his canned food and his canteen filled with milk from the farm. Continuing, Schofield is shot at amid flares lighting up the night sky. He later meets more German soldiers, strangling one and pushing past another who is too inebriated to stop him. Other soldiers give chase, but he escapes the gunfire by jumping into a river. Schofield reaches the 2nd Devons just before the British attack begins.

Failing to stop the start of the attack, he sprints across the battlefield after realising that the trenches are too full of soldiers for him to make it to the commander in time. As the British infantry begin their charge, they, along with Schofield, are bombarded by German artillery. Schofield forces his way into meeting Colonel Mackenzie, and the attack is called off. Schofield asks for Joseph and learns that Joseph was among the first attacking wave. After a futile search among the wounded in the British medical tent, Schofield locates an unhurt Joseph nearby. Joseph is upset on learning of Blake's death, but thanks Schofield for his efforts. Schofield asks to write to Blake's mother to tell her about Blake's heroics, to which Joseph agrees. Schofield walks away and sits under a nearby tree. The film ends with Schofield looking at several photos with his two young daughters and his wife, one with a message written on it: Come back to us.

In the Spring of 1918, Lawrence sent Bedouin warrior Zara Ghufran to recover a communication code book from a derailed Ottoman train. She successfully found the book but was caught by Tilkici and his men. Mistaking Zara for Lawrence, Tilkici proceeded to mock her until she signaled the rebels to take out Tilkici's men. With the tables turned, the real Lawrence reveals himself and states he was counting on Tilkici to show up so that they could capture him. Before he can say anything else, Tilkici starts to antagonize Zara stating that the rebels would soon be free of the Ottoman rule with their deaths, prompting Zara to cut him across the face and ear with her knife. Before she can kill him, however, Lawrence talks her down and reminds her that they still need Tilkici. Zara agrees and starts questioning Tilkici on how to communicate with the Ottoman Armored Train so that they can lay a trap for it and destroy it. Refusing to comply, Tilkici states that it would be pointless to tell them anything as they would still need a code book to communicate with the train to which Lawrence directs him toward the code book that Zara just recovered.

### Parents Death

In 1936, Rogers' mother died of tuberculosis[2] and buried next to her husband. Following the funeral, Rogers spoke to Bucky Barnes, who offered to have Rogers stay at his place and do errands to earn his keep. Rogers declined, saying that he could get by on his own. Seeing Rogers struggling to find his house keys, Barnes revealed his secret key and told him that he did not have to because he was with him "to the end of the line.

A year later, during their art class, Barnes and Rogers found out that the United States of America had joined the World War II. Rogers wanted to join the United States Army to go fight in Europe against the Nazis, so Barnes trained him for two weeks at Goldie's Boxing Gym. Soon, Barnes and Rogers went to a US Recruiting and Induction Center in New York City where Rogers was classified as 4F and rejected from service, but Bucky later enlisted in the Army.

### Rejected from the Army

Seeing the rise of Adolf Hitler and the horrors of World War II, Rogers became determined to enlist in the United States Army. While in New York City in 1943, Rogers made another attempt to be enlisted, using a false enlistment card which claimed he was from Paramus. While waiting to be called up, Rogers read a newspaper with another recruit who claimed seeing the horror that was happening in France made he reconsider signing up, to which Rogers insisted he had not changed his mind

Upon getting to the desk, Rogers was asked about how his mother and father had died following the ending of World War I. Due to all his various health and physical issues, Rogers was rejected for service in the military, despite his multiple attempts at several enlistment offices. However, he had remained determined to fight alongside his friends and other soldiers in the war and would try to convince the doctors to at least give him a chance to fight, but to no avail.

Disappointed that he would still be unable to go overseas and join in the war effort, Rogers went to a local cinema to try and take his mind of the situation. While at the screening, Rogers watched as an advert was played showing the different ways soldiers and civilians can help with the war effort, showing footage of the rise of Nazi Germany and the efforts the United States of America and the other Allied Forces were putting in to stop Hitler's advancements. While the film showed soldiers signing up, Rogers considered the footage of all the efforts people at home could do if he was still unable to fight overseas

When a loud jerk inside the cinema yelled at the screen and showed disrespect to the message of the film, Rogers told him to show some respect. When the bully continued yelling out and insisting that they stop showing the footage and finally play the movie, Rogers was the only person to stand up to the bully, telling him to shut up, only for the bully to stand up and reveal himself to be considerably bigger than Rogers and ready for a fight whoever told him to shut up

The bully proceeded to take Rogers outside before he then began to beat him up for telling him to shut up. Despite being smaller and unable to defend himself, Rogers still refused to give up, getting up from every punch and using a garbage can lid to defend himself and insisting he could do this all day, until he was finally knocked over and beaten. Rogers was then rescued by Barnes, who chased off the bully before helping Rogers to get on his

Looking at his friend, Rogers then realized Barnes was wearing his uniform while he confirmed he would ship out with the 107th Infantry Regiment to go to England the next day. While Rogers expressed his disappointment that he would not join him, Barnes then smiled and insisted that they had to celebrate his last night before heading out into combat by going to the Stark Expo, which Rogers agreed to go to despite his poor mood, still wanting to support Barnes

In his attempt to cheer up Rogers, Bucky Barnes convinced him to attend the Stark Expo and see an exhibition of the future technologies with him as well as two girls as a double date which Barnes had kept a secret from Rogers. Upon seeing Bonnie and Connie excitedly waving at Barnes, Rogers questioned what he had told his date about him, to which Barnes insisted he had only told her the good stuff, which had made Rogers even more nervous.

While they explored the Expo with the girls, Rogers and Barnes had then witnessed Howard Stark demonstrating his flying car prototype which would be built by Stark Industries, with Stark enthusiastically claiming that with his technology he and his company were currently developing, automobiles of the future would not even have to touch the ground at all. As the demonstration went underway, Rogers tried to offer Connie some sweets which she rejected before they watched as Stark's car then promptly crashed to the ground due to still being unfinished, much to the great amusement of the crowds\

Despite all of the incredible exhibits that were being displayed at the Expo, when Rogers had seen a nearby enlistment office adjacent, he had quietly snuck away from Barnes and the girls as he then made another attempt to go enlist in the United States Army once again so he might finally have a chance of fighting overseas with his fellow men. While waiting his turn to enlist in the Armed Forces, Rogers then posed beside their picture of a soldier who was wearing an army uniform, although Rogers' own short stature meant he rather apathetically only came up to the picture's chin while looking at himself.

Barnes noticed his absence and later found Rogers, attempting to convince him not to enlist again in case he was arrested for lying on his enlistment form again, but Rogers insisted that he needed to fight for his country as the threat of World War II and Nazi Germany still continued to grow. Finally, Rogers argued that he had no right to do any less than the other men fighting for their freedom before he and Barnes said their goodbyes, knowing that Barnes would be shipping out onto England with the 107th Infantry Regiment the next morning, with the pair sharing joking insults and a hug as Barnes left

## Entering the Army

Daniels went to boot camp as he enlisted to the United States Army. He was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, 16th Infantry Regiment. He met his squad in basic training and hated Robert Zussman in the first week, but he eventually became Daniels' best friend.

Rogers agreed and under the supervision of Abraham Erskine, he traveled to Camp Lehigh to begin his training. Upon arriving, Rogers watched as Peggy Carter introduced herself and showed her strength by hitting Gilmore Hodge when he attempted to disrespect her. Chester Phillips then arrived and gave a speech to the cadets, taking an instant dislike for Rogers as he believed that such a small man should not be involved in their operations.

Rogers trained hard in his attempts to prove himself to be a worthy soldier with the United States Army, but struggled on much of the physical training, managing to get tangled in a rope climb and falling upside down. Rogers was also often mocked and bullied by the other soldiers, including Hodge who would kick out the structures behind him to ensure that the barbed wire fell on Rogers which he would be forced to crawl through all of the mud.

Daniels landed on Omaha Beach with his squad on June 6th, 1944. He is ordered by his officer, Lt. Joseph Turner to blow the seawall with a Bangalore torpedo as Kopelson and James were killed. Daniels successfully got to and destroyed the seawall with Zussman's support. He then cleared four bunkers with the squad, and is ordered to clear the 5th bunker with Zussman alone. When Daniels enters the bunker, he is attacked by a German soldier. Zussman punches the soldier but he got stabbed in retaliation. Daniels knocked out the soldier with a Stahlhelm and dragged Zussman to a field hospital. Daniels then went to destroy a GPF cannon which was firing on the beach at still landing troops. He returned to Zussman and promised that he will fight with him to the end.

Daniels meets Augustine Perez of the 745th Tank Battalion on July 25th. His squad is suddenly attacked by German Stukas. After the squad captured the AA Guns and destroyed the German planes, they regrouped with Perez and took out the PaK 38 guns. The squad regroups with Turner and were ordered by Col. Davis to rescue Charlie Company with Jeeps.

The next day, William Pierson leads the squad to assault Marigny, Manche. After the squad captured the church, Pierson orders Zussman and Aiello to destroy the AA guns. While Daniels, Pierson, Pvt. Jones and some US soldiers were providing sniper support for them. After clearing the way for the two men, an AA gun that was still operated by enemies fired at the bell tower, leading it to collapse. The squad regrouped with Turner and held off the German counterattack, successfully captured Marigny.

The squad teamed up with British Special Operations Executive agents Arthur Crowley and Vivian to stop a German armored train carrying V-2 Rockets near Argentan. The squad failed to infiltrate the station before the train leaves. Daniels and Zussman drove a jeep to chase the train. A Stielhandgranate exploded and hit the jeep, causing it to crash into the train, leading the train to derail. After derailing the train, they met Camille "Rousseau" Denis as she escorted them to rally with the squad. Daniels and Zussman then went back to wreckage for some papers for a mission in Paris.

On August 25th, the squad planned for an ambush on a Nazi garrison at their headquarters. After Rousseau and Crowley blew the gates, Daniels and the squad assaulted the garrison with the French Resistance. After regrouping with Rousseau and Crowley, he and Zussman went into the headquarters to provide sniper support for the resistance against the German counterattack. Paris was successfully liberated and the S.O.E. and French Resistance separated from the squad.

Red refusing to open Hazel's letter.On October 17th, the 1st Platoon arrived in Aachen. Aiello took a letter wrote by Hazel and handed it to Daniels. Stiles saw "Ronald Daniels" is written on the letter instead of "Red", telling Daniels that it is a break up letter. Daniels refused to read the letter and believed Hazel is still still by his side.

The 1st Infantry Division advanced into the city of Aachen on October 18th. The squad couldn't advance because of the PaK 38 artillery. Daniels and Pierson called in support from "Villain", Perez and Rabson's tank squad. After Perez cleared the Stadttheater, the squad was ambushed while advancing to the hotel. They captured the hotel and went to the basement. The squad heard a kid's voice, so Daniels lured Anna with his candy bar that Turner gave him. The squad then found out her sister Erica and other civilians were taking shelter in the basement. Turner orders the squad to escort the civilians to a truck. Daniels went back to the basement after Erica noticed that Anna was missing. Daniels brought Anna to the truck and held off a German counterattack. When the truck was ready to go, they were ambushed, causing Erica to be killed.

Before the battle, Daniels finally decided to open Hazel's letter. He found out that Hazel is pregnant, instead of leaving him. He stared at the photo of Hazel until Zussman reminded him that the mission briefing is about to begin.

After defending the bridge, Joseph Turner and William Pierson splitted into two teams to reach Hill 493. After Turner's squad eliminated a mortar team, they were attacked by artillery. Daniels fell to the ground from a hill and saw Paul in an illusion. He got pass the Dragon's Teeth and regrouped with Turner. After taking out the German sniper who was shooting at them, they captured the mill with Stiles. Turner's squad waited for Pierson's squad to arrive at the base of Hill 493. But they later found out that Pierson was leading his squad and second platoon to assault Hill 493. Turner's squad advanced to the hill immediately. Daniels escorted Pvt. Parker to plant a Pole Charge on the MG pillbox. After clearing the bunker, Daniels was ordered to disable 3 150mm artillery with Thermites. After disabling the artillery, the squad is attacked by a German tank
Red dragged by his squadmates while trying to save Turner.

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Daniels uses thermites to disable the tank and crawled away from the tank which was backing down. Turner got shot by the tank commander after he just killed the crewmen of the tank. Daniels grabbed Turner's revolver and kill the commander. He then dragged Turner to cover but the squad was ordered to retreat. Daniels refused to leave Turner but got pulled out by Zussman and Pierson and watched as Turner is killed.

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After Turner's death, Daniels is promoted to Corporal. He and the squad celebrated Christmas the midnight of 25th December. In the morning, Daniels met Howard, an engineer originally serving in a segregated African-American Regiment. As the convoy is passing by, the Ardennes Forest is suddenly attacked by German artillery fire. After the bombardment, Daniels helps Howard to operate the radio, calling in close air support from Rover Joe. While the squad was holding the front line,

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being attacked by German tanks and Anti-Tank units. Pierson ordered Daniels to call in air support on the tanks inside the safety limit but refused. Pierson forced Daniels to give him the coordinates and called in air support himself. Daniels was dragged by Zussman into a foxhole, surviving the friendly bombers attack.

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Two days after the battle, the 1st Infantry Division launched an operation to sneak attack a German air base in the Ardennes. Daniels and Zussman are ordered to sneak into the base and provide sniper support from the overwatch positions when the attack begins. The overwatch tower they were in was shot by a German tank, causing the two men to fall to the ground. They were about to be captured and transported away by a truck, when their squad killed the Germans near the truck but Zussman was already inside. Daniels disobeyed Pierson's orders and grabbed a jeep to chase after the truck but failed. He was about to be executed by Pierson but Stiles and Aiello arrived, saving his life. Daniels was discharged from the 1st Platoon.

Daniels had been staying in the 42nd Field Hospital in the Ardennes Forest, as Zussman had been in captivity for 8 weeks. He was visited by Colonel Davis and Daniels stated Pierson didn't care about Zussman, just like the soldiers who died in the Kasserine pass. But Davis told him the truth about why Pierson is so serious about orders. Daniels thought himself that he will be punished with court-martial but instead was honorably discharged because of the intelligence he found on the escaping German prisoner. Daniels was called a "bona-fide hero". After Davis leaves, Daniels held the Saint-Michael pendant that Aiello gave Zussman right before D-Day. He dreamed of returning to Longview, Texas and reuniting with Hazel and Paul. He went to hunt with Paul and being called a "bona-fide hero" by him. Daniels then remembered the promise he made with Zussman after the beach landings.

The 1st Infantry division, 99th Infantry Division and 9th Armored division launched an assault on the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, the last standing bridge crossing the Rhine. Daniels and the squad attacked the bridge with the other soldiers, while Howard's squad went to defuse as many charges as possible under the bridge. After crossing the bridge, Daniels got on an Anti-aircraft gun and stopped the Stukas trying to destroy the bridge. The friendly air support came in and swept the battlefield, leading to the surrender of the Germans defending the bridge.

"I thought I knew what cruelty was, I didn't know everything. But one thing's for certain. What I saw will stay with me forever." — Red after liberating concentration camps.
After the battle of Remagen, The squad was informed that there were POW camps in the area and ignored Davis' orders, going off to find Zussman instead. They liberated concentration camps along their way and arrived at the smaller labor camp in Berga. After walking through the camp, Pierson realized that the prisoners might have been marched out to the woods for execution. Daniels arrived in time and killed Metz, saving Zussman from being executed.

After saving Zussman, the 1st Infantry Division was given a speech by Davis in the Port of Le Havre. The squad mates said their farewells to Daniels and returned to their daily lives. Before saying goodbye to Pierson, he tells him that he will tell stories to his son of the war and about "that crazy bastard Pierson" but Pierson replies with what Daniels said after tearing up his discharge papers. Later, Daniels went to the hospital to visit Zussman and explained to him on why he decided to save him instead of returning home, saying he couldn't live the feeling afterwards. The two shake hands, fulfilling Daniels promise to Zussman he made after they landed in Normandy.
Ronald "Red" Daniels returned to Longview, Texas on June 13th, 1945. He put his Bronze Star medal on top of his brother's grave and reunited with Hazel and his son, who Red named Joseph Turner Daniels in honor of Lieutenant Joseph Turner's sacrifice on Hill 493.

## Super Solider

On the day of the procedure, Rogers was escorted to a secret facility by Peggy Carter. As they drove together, Rogers pointed out many of the locations in New York City where he had been beaten up as he and Carter talked about being picked on and ignored for something they could not change; Rogers for his height and Carter for her gender. Despite Rogers' awkwardness while speaking with her, Carter was charmed by Rogers' sincerity and good moral values.

Once they had arrived, Rogers followed Carter into the Facility where the Strategic Scientific Reserve members were awaiting their arrival in order to begin the procedure as was planned. Rogers then watched agent Carter as she greeted the elderly woman who was standing behind the shop desk, giving her their secret code which granted them access into the secret facility, which was being hidden behind a large bookcase to avoid suspicion from members of the general public.

## In Ice

informing her that the Red Skull had been killed, he told her that the plane was en route to New York City and it was going too fast for him to think of a plan of stopping it. He then told her that the only way to save New York was to crash land the ship into the Arctic, sacrificing his own life. As Rogers descended the ship down, he and Carter spoke to each other as if Rogers was not going to crash, arranging a date to finally go dancing. When the ship finally crashed, it left him trapped and preserved in the ice.[

## Entering 2025

Having remained trapped within the ice for nearly seven decades after Rogers' crash landing following his fight with Red Skull onboard the Valkyrie, a S.H.I.E.L.D. team led by Director Nick Fury had once again gone in search for his body. A big fan of Captain America, agent Phil Coulson was part of this small team. They searched for a year to find Rogers' body. When they had finally found him, Rogers was discovered to miraculously still be alive while frozen

When Rogers arrived in New York City, he was defrosted and kept in a simulated 1941 environment to try and ease him into what was now happening. When he awoke, he quickly became suspicious; the baseball game broadcast from the radio in the room was one of the Brooklyn Dodgers home games, which he had personally attended at Ebbets Field

As Rogers put together that he was now being deceived, he was then greeted by a female Agent who wished him a good afternoon. Rogers demanded to know where he was before noting that the Game was from the wrong year and demanded the truth. Scaring the agent, she called for back up as Rogers quickly escaped into the streets of New York City. In Times Square, he discovered to his horror that everything around him had considerably changed.

As Rogers stood in amazement, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents surrounded him before he was then greeted by Nick Fury, who informed him that he had been asleep for nearly seventy years. Rogers realized that many of his friends from the Howling Commandos were all likely dead and he was now lost within a world which he knew nothing about. Thinking sadly about Peggy Carter, Rogers then informed Fury that he had a date with Carter which he unfortunately missed

Rogers found himself lost in a world that had moved on without him and found it difficult to adjust to his new surroundings considering where he had left his life during World War II. He spent a few weeks inside seclusion at the Retreat that was one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s many Safe Houses.[21] He then moved into an apartment in New York City. While there, Rogers looked through some files of his friends from the 1940s. He eventually found the file for Peggy Carter, which stated she was still alive

The file also contained her current phone number, but he hesitated to call because he was afraid of how Carter would react to seeing him after so many decades assuming he was dead. Later, he went to a nearby diner in New York and met Beth, a waitress who asked if he had sat outside Stark Tower in the hope of seeing Tony Stark fly by as Iron Man. When Beth noted they had wireless, Rogers mistakenly thought she meant radio, while a man encouraged him to ask for her number, but Rogers did not. He then went to a boxing gym.

On October 24th 2019, during an assignment, Captain Price was contacted by CIA Station Chief Kate Laswell about a failed CIA mission to secure Russian chemical gas in Verdansk which left multiple Marines killed. Given the risk that the gas could be deployed anywhere in the West, Price agreed to help as he finishes his current assignment. The next day on October 25th, multiple terrorists affiliated with Al-Qatala launched a terror attack in Piccadilly Circus in Central London, with the Metropolitan Police Service and CTSFO units struggling to contain the attacks. Bravo Team was called in to help secure the area. Captain Price's unit helped contain the attacks and saved Sergeant Kyle Garrick from an Al-Qatala fighter inside an electronics store. Together with Garrick, Price cleared the building, although they could not save a hostage that was forced to wear an explosive vest. Price pushed the hostage with the vest from the second floor to save the others from its inevitable detonation. After securing Piccadilly Circus, Price was informed by Garrick that the MPS had actionable intelligence of the terror cell but could not take any of these actions in order to keep the public calm; with the intel, Price took Garrick under his command. Two days after the Piccadilly attacks, SAS units under Price's leadership cleared a terror cell in a townhouse in Camden Town, North London. Price and Garrick cleared the townhouse of hostiles, and gained intelligence and the current location of Al-Qatala leader Omar "The Wolf" Sulaman.

Thanks to the intelligence from the London townhouse raid, US Marines and CIA officer Alex captured Omar Sulaman in Rammaza Hospital in Urzikstan the next day, and brought him to the Urzikstan U.S. Embassy for interrogation and SAS extraction. However, Al-Qatala's second in command, The Butcher, rallied Al-Qatala forces in front of the Embassy, outnumbering the Marines. Price and Garrick were inbound in a Black Hawk to extract Sulaman, but were shot down by an RPG as Al-Qatala breached the Embassy and started killing indiscriminately. Price survived the crash, and continued with Garrick to meet up with the Marines. Price held Garrick back during The Butcher's intimidation attempts, which included the murder of a father and young son. Price assured Garrick that they will eventually capture the Butcher. The pair then managed to clear the way to the Embassy safe room where they rendezvouzed with Alex and Farah, who had secured Sulaman. Price led Farah, Alex and allied units escorting Sulaman to the Ambassador's residence, while Garrick helped the Ambassador's assistant to safety. Outnumbered, Price's group and the remaining Marines held back Al-Qatala forces as best they can with the assistance of illumination rounds from a mortar and a drone provided by Laswell; however, they were unable to stop Al-Qatala from retrieving Sulaman.

Due to the situation, Price divided his assets to try and stop The Wolf from escaping; Alex and Farah went out to the Highway of Death to intercept The Wolf. Price and Garrick arrived after Hadir had stolen and used Russian poison gas in a chemical attack with the help of Al-Qatala forces. Price found Alex and Farah barely alive in a bunker, both infuriated by Hadir's betrayal.

With the situation unraveling further, Laswell gave Bravo Team execute authority on The Wolf, The Butcher and Hadir; Bravo, with Price leading, then launched an assault on The Wolf's compound in Takkari, Urzikstan. Price and Garrick secured the compound with SAS and CIA forces, while Alex and Farah found The Wolf and killed him. Due to the chemicals still being missing and Hadir's recent involvement with Al-Qatala, the U.S. had listed Farah's Urzikstan Liberation Force as a terrorist threat, which incited anger from Price, who threatened Marine Colonel Norris about the decision.

Eastern EuropeEdit

Intelligence obtained during the raid of The Wolf's compound suggested that Al-Qatala, with the help of Hadir, were planning another terrorist attack on St. Petersburg, Russia. Price argued with Laswell about either warning Moscow or letting the attack happen, before Price offered his own plans: an unsanctioned "black" operation to capture Hadir and The Butcher in Russia with the help of one of Price's FSB contacts. Price then allowed Garrick to join him, arguing that he is ready for this type of operation.

In St. Petersburg, Price and Garrick managed to link up with Price's FSB contact, Nikolai, who supplied them with silenced weaponry and assistance in the field. When The Butcher tried to escape, Price and Garrick chased him and killed a number of Al-Qatala operatives, until Nikolai hit The Butcher with a van, stopping him. Price then secured The Butcher inside the van while Garrick held off approaching Al-Qatala. After escaping, the group then brought The Butcher to a warehouse for interrogation. Because The Butcher was unwilling to cooperate, Price had Nikolai capture The Butcher's wife and son as a bargaining chip for information, which he then divulged under stress when his family was threatened.

After finding out that Hadir had moved to General Barkov's personal estate in Moldova with Al-Qatala assisting him, Price and Garrick moved out to find Hadir. At the estate, Price provided overwatch for Garrick as he discovered several tortured interrogation victims, who turned out to be Barkov's relatives. When Garrick learned Hadir was inside the mansion on the estate, Price regrouped with him and moved to the main house to secure Hadir and leave with him, narrowly escaping Barkov's forces.

After securing Hadir and the plans to Barkov's chemical factory in Georgia, Price was met on the way back by Laswell and a group of Marines. Laswell informed Price that Russia wanted Hadir in their custody, and the U.S. complied in order to avert a potential diplomatic crisis; Hadir had to be transferred to Russia. Price, annoyed and frustrated at this, agreed to hand Hadir over, but he kept the intel on the gas factory.

GeorgiaEdit

Acting on the intel acquired from the previous operation, Bravo Team recruited Farah, Alex and the Urzikstan Liberation Force to help destroy Barkov's gas factory in Georgia. With assistance from Laswell via an APC, a missile drone, and remote explosives provided by Nikolai, the team assaulted Barkov's gas factory. The team was divided into two; Price and Garrick would bomb the pipeline while Farah and Alex would enter and blow up the interior furnace. Price and Garrick successfully planted their explosives, but Alex, with his remote detonator broken, decided to sacrifice his life to detonate his explosives manually. Price, Garrick and the Urzikstan Liberation Force escape after destroying the chemical lab.

Forming Task Force 141 and Countering New ThreatsEdit

After the attack on the gas lab, Russia officially disowned Roman Barkov, his forces, and his actions. Sometime after, Price asked General Shepherd for personal files on several Special Forces individuals. Laswell met Price to discuss the files, with Price wanting to create a task force to tie up loose ends. Originally, Laswell refused, which prompted Price to threaten walking out. Laswell changes her mind, and informs Price that Victor Zakhaev, the son of Imran Zakhaev, is gaining power; stopping Zakhaev will be one of the first missions for the task force. Price officially Kyle Garrick, John MacTavish, and David Patterson, and names the team Task Force 141.

Not long after Price assembled Task Force 141, Laswell informed both Nikolai and Price that a new individual had taken control over Al-Qatala and gained new resources which heavily fortified the Al-Qatala army and led to them occupying the city of Verdansk. Sergeant Kamarov of the FSB, another contact of Price's, then informed that the West and Russia will cooperate to take down this new threat. Price, Nikolai, Laswell and Kamarov gathered their operatives and began their attempt to stop Al-Qatala again.

n 2011, a civil war has broken out in Russia between its government and ultranationalists who seek to restore Russia to its Soviet-era glamor. Meanwhile, a separatist group led by Khaled Al-Asad seizes power in a "small but oil-rich" country in the Middle East through a coup d'état, executing its president, Al-Fulani. Al-Asad is ruthless and has extreme anti-Western views, which prompts the United States to invade the country. In the afternoon of the second day of the invasion, a platoon of USMC 1st Force Recon, led by Lieutenant Vasquez, is sent to capture Al-Asad. The platoon attacks a TV station in which Al-Asad was believed to be broadcasting live, but discover only a looped recording. The group later engages in urban combat in an unnamed city south of the capital. During this time, they help support and subsequently repair a downed M1 Abrams tank to assist them.

In the meantime, John "Soap" MacTavish is recruited into a British Special Air Service (SAS) squad led by Captain Price. The group shortly conducts two operations, one which leads them to infiltrate a cargo ship in the Bering Strait. Neutralizing the armed Russians on board, the group discover a nuclear device labeled in Arabic and retrieve its manifest. Enemy MiGs then attack and scuttle the ship, but the SAS narrowly escapes by helicopter.

The second operation takes them to Russia in order to rescue one of their allies, a Russian informant named Nikolai working within the Ultranationalist party. Assisted by Russian loyalist forces, Price's team succeeds in rescuing Nikolai. However, their helicopter is later brought down, forcing the group to make their way through enemy territory with support from an AC-130 gunship before they can be extracted. Intelligence gathered from these two missions indicates that Al-Asad may be in possession of a Russian nuclear device.

In the evening of the third day, the U.S. launches a full-scale assault on Al-Asad's presidential palace, aware of the SAS warning about the possible nuclear device. As U.S. Navy SEALs invade the palace, the Marines engage Al-Asad's ground forces. The assault, however, ends in catastrophe when the nuclear device suddenly detonates, wiping out most of the city along with everyone in it.

Refusing to assume Al-Asad dead, Price's strike team supported by Russian loyalists raids a potential safe house in a village in Azerbaijan to eradicate the occupying Russian forces and capture Al-Asad. Shortly into the interrogation, Al-Asad's phone rings. After hearing the voice of the caller, Price executes Al-Asad and reveals that the caller was the leader of the ultranationalists: Imran Zakhaev. Price informs his squad about his assassination mission against Zakhaev in Pripyat, Ukraine in 1996. In the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Zakhaev took advantage of the turmoil to profit from nuclear proliferation and used his new wealth to lure soldiers from the Soviet Army to form his ultranationalist party. Price, then a lieutenant, and his superior, Captain MacMillan, were sent on a black operation to eliminate him. Making their way through Pripyat and into Chernobyl, the two reached their vantage point in an abandoned hotel, with Price firing upon Zakhaev with a Barrett M82 sniper rifle; however, the shot only severed Zakhaev's arm. Price and MacMillan barely escaped Zakhaev's henchmen.

Following the death of Al-Asad, Price's team hold off against Ultranationalist forces who arrive to avenge him. Later, a joint task force, composed of the SAS, Force Recon, and the loyalists, attempt to capture Zakhaev's son, Victor, to learn Zakhaev's whereabouts. After ambushing him in an enemy convoy at a vehicle checkpoint, Victor flees the scene but is soon cornered on the roof of an apartment building. Refusing to surrender, he commits suicide. Enraged, Zakhaev retaliates by taking control of a nuclear launch facility.

An operation is launched by the task force to take back the site from Zakhaev's forces via halo jump. However, Zakhaev promptly launches nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles at the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, with the potential of causing 41 million casualties. The SAS and Force Recon, however, manage to breach the facility, seize the command room and remotely destroy the missiles over the Atlantic Ocean. They escape in military trucks with Zakhaev's forces in hot pursuit.

An ultranationalist Mi-24 Hind helicopter destroys a vital bridge and traps the joint force. In the ensuing fight, a tanker explodes, and many of the group are either killed or injured. Zakhaev himself arrives and begins killing wounded soldiers when loyalists in a Mi-28 Havoc suddenly destroy his Mi-24 Hind and join the fray. Distracted, Zakhaev turns to the loyalist forces at which point Price gives Soap an M1911; the latter kills Zakhaev and his escort. Loyalist forces start tending to the wounded immediately.

espite the efforts of the U.S. Marine Corps and British Special Air Service by preventing a nuclear war, the ultranationalists seize control of the Russian Federation, making Imran Zakhaev a martyr and straining diplomatic relations with the United States. Vladimir Makarov, Zakhaev's right-hand man and an ultranationalist extremist, begins a campaign of revenge against the West by committing acts of terrorism on European and International soil over the course of five years.

In 2016, Private First Class Joseph Allen participates in a military operation alongside United States Army Rangers stationed in Afghanistan, by assisting them in taking back a city from insurgents. Impressed by Allen's capabilities, General Shepherd recruits him into Task Force 141, an elite unit that recruits the best special forces operators from around the world. While Allen prepares for an upcoming assignment, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish and Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson infiltrate a Russian airbase in the Tian Shan mountains to retrieve an Attack Characterization System (ACS) module from a downed American satellite.

Allen is soon sent on an undercover mission for the CIA, joining Vladimir Makarov in a mass shooting at an airport in Moscow, Russia. Makarov, aware of Allen’s true identity, kills him as they escape and leaves his body behind to spark a war between Russia and the United States. Outraged by an apparent American-sponsored terrorist attack, Russia retaliates by launching a surprise invasion on the East Coast of the United States.[b][26] With no evidence of Makarov's involvement in the airport massacre, Task Force 141 is sent to Rio de Janeiro to capture his arms dealer, Alejandro Rojas. They succeed and learn that Makarov's nemesis is being held in a Russian gulag. They assault the gulag and rescue the prisoner: Captain Price, Soap's previous commanding officer in the SAS.[c]

Price takes command of Task Force 141 and insists on ending the United States' war with Russia despite Shepard’s orders to find Makarov. After raiding a Russian port, Price launches a ballistic missile towards Washington, D.C. and detonates it in the upper atmosphere. The resulting EMP blast disables all electronic devices across the Eastern Seaboard, giving the Americans a much-needed advantage.[d][27] Soldiers fighting in D.C. narrowly avoid a bombing run of Russian-occupied strategic structures by the United States Air Force, lighting green flares atop the White House to show that the city remains in American hands.

Meanwhile, Task Force 141 narrows Makarov's hiding place to two locations; an aircraft boneyard in Afghanistan, and Makarov's safehouse on the Georgian–Russian border. Roach and Simon "Ghost" Riley successfully raid the safehouse, but are then betrayed and murdered by Shepherd and his own private military force. It soon becomes evident that Shepherd is the catalyst of the Russian–American war, intent on cementing his status as a national hero and prolonging military action as revenge for the men he lost to the nuclear device five years earlier, during the campaign against Khaled Al-Asad.

Price and Soap learn of Shepherd's betrayal and narrowly escape a battle between his and Makarov's forces at the boneyard. After learning of Shepherd's mountain base in Afghanistan from Makarov, Price and Soap raid the base to take revenge on Shepherd in a suicide mission. The duo pursue Shepherd as he escapes by boat, and Price manages to shoot down his helicopter extraction as he and Soap tumble over a waterfall.[26] A dazed Soap stumbles towards the crash site and attempts to kill Shepherd, but is overpowered and stabbed in the chest. While Price arrives and engages Shepherd in a fist fight, Soap pulls the knife out of his chest and throws it at Shepherd, killing him. Nikolai arrives and helps Price evacuate Soap for medical attention

Hours after killing General Shepherd, Price and Nikolai take critically wounded Soap to a Russian loyalist safe-house in Himachal Pradesh for treatment. When Makarov sends troops to eliminate them, the group evacuate with the help of Yuri, an associate of Nikolai with a common grudge against Makarov. Meanwhile, an American four-man Delta Force team call-signed *Metal* aids in repelling Russian forces in New York City, destroying a Russian spectrum jamming tower on top of the Wall Street Stock Exchange, and hijacking an Oscar II-class submarine to eliminate the Russian Navy in the New York Bay. As a direct result, Russia withdraws its forces from the East Coast.

Two months later, Makarov and his operatives hijack a plane en route to Hamburg, containing the President of Russia, Boris Vorshevsky, to derail his planned peace treaty with the United States. After killing several members of the FSO, Makarov reveals to the Russian President that he intends to have Russia "take all of Europe" by using its nuclear arsenal. Vorshevsky refuses to give over the launch codes, so Makarov orders a search for his daughter, Alena, to break him. Subsequently, he orders for chemical bombs to be transported from Sierra Leone into every NATO-affiliated country's capital cities, in order to cripple their intelligence networks and military bases. Despite the efforts of a SAS team to prevent the detonation in London, the attack proves successful, allowing Russian forces to invade most of Europe.

In response, the U.S. military is deployed to assist in repelling the invasion, including a rescue operation to rescue the Vice President of the United States in Hamburg from captivity. During the chaos, Price's team gets a lead from his former commanding officer, MacMillan, that allows him to identify the bomb maker as Volk, the CEO of Fregata Industries. After killing Volk's Somali contact Waraabe, Price relays the intel to Metal. Metal captures Volk in Paris with the help of the GIGN and other U.S. forces. After interrogating Volk, Metal informs Price of a meeting that Makarov intends to hold within Prague. Aided by loyalist Russian forces under the command of Sgt. Kamarov and Czech partisans, Price's team attempt to assassinate Makarov, only to learn that he anticipated this and arranged a trap for them. Kamarov is killed by a bomb vest and despite managing to escape the trap and Makarov's men, Soap is mortally wounded during the chaos, and dies shortly after revealing to Price that Makarov knew Yuri.

A furious Price interrogates Yuri at gunpoint and Yuri confirms to Price his former affiliation with Makarov and Imran Zahkaev, aiding the pair in Pripyat after Price's assassination mission, but was disillusioned by the pair's use of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. When Yuri attempted to defect and warn the authorities of Makarov's plans, Makarov critically shot him before the airport massacre in Moscow and left him for dead, leaving him to be rescued by airport security after collapsing when chasing Makarov into the airport concourse. Price begrudgingly maintains their alliance, and with assistance from MacMillan, infiltrates Makarov's castle base near Prague for intel on Makarov's location.

Learning that Alena has been discovered to be hiding in Berlin, Price passes on the information to Team Metal. Though they fail to rescue Alena before she is captured by Makarov's men, the Vorshevskys are tracked to a Siberian diamond mine, with Metal, Yuri and Price launching a rescue mission. Although the group are successful, Metal sacrifice themselves to ensure the safe extraction of Yuri, Price and the Vorshevskys, as the mine begins to collapse. "Frost" is not present on the ground in this mission, leaving his fate unclear. In the aftermath, Russia and the United States call a ceasefire, leading to the withdrawal of Russian forces from Europe as the two nations focus on peace talks. Meanwhile, Price and Yuri track down Makarov to a hotel in the Arabian Peninsula by January 2017. With Nikolai's help, the pair manage to overcome his remaining forces with heavy "juggernaut" suits. Yuri is impaled by a rebar after a helicopter attacks the upper floors, though he urges Price to continue pursuing Makarov. As Makarov escapes by helicopter, Price boards and struggles for control. They crash, and a critically injured Yuri saves Price but is killed by Makarov, his distraction allowing Price to strangle and hang Makarov with a steel cable. As the police approach the hotel, a victorious Price smokes a cigar, watching Makarov's twitching corpse.

## Powers of the infinity Cage

During the first tournament, Bi-Han (elder Sub-Zero) is slain by Scorpion, despite Raiden's efforts to change Scorpion's mind. Before the events of the first tournament, Bi-Han's younger brother, Kuai Liang, was known as Tundra. During the second tournament, Tundra assumes the identity as Sub-Zero to honor his brother's death and quickly joins the second tournament to identify and avenge his brother's killer. Sub-Zero is seen with Smoke as they attempt to gather information on Bi-Han's disappearance. The two split and Sub-Zero then heads off to investigate something, when he is confronted by Cyrax, finally automated and turned to a cyborg, much to Sub-Zero's horror. Cyrax tells him he has to come with him so he can become a cyborg, but Sub-Zero tells him that he will never comply. They fight and Sub-Zero wins.

Sub-Zero allows Cyrax to escape, intending to finish his task. He is then met by Sonya and Jax who were following Cyrax. Upon seeing him, they are confused and say that he is dead. Sub-Zero explains to them he is Bi-Han's younger brother and inquires what they know about his death. Sonya tells him he was killed by Scorpion and to check the coliseum. They are then confronted by Ermac, who causes Jax's arms to explode. After his victory, Sub-Zero tells Sonya he must go the coliseum, and directs her to a nearby portal back to Earthrealm.

Sub-Zero goes to the coliseum and demands that Shao Kahn let him fight Scorpion. Shang Tsung, however, makes him fight Reptile. Sub-Zero defeats him, and eventually, Quan Chi summons Scorpion. Sub-Zero defeats Scorpion, but before he can kill him, Lin Kuei cyborgs, led by Cyrax and Sektor, capture him. Cyrax and Sektor swear alliegence to Shao Kahn in exchange for Sub-Zero. Shao Kahn agrees and Sub-Zero is taken back to the Lin Kuei Temple to be automated.

During the Earthrealm invasion, Sub-Zero appears once more, now in his automated form as Cyber Sub-Zero. He attacks Kabal but is defeated. At Smoke's request, he is brought to Jax, who removes the slaving protocols in his CPU, giving him his free will back. He regrets all the things he did for Shao Kahn, so he joins the Earthrealm warriors, and goes to spy on Outworld. After a brief discussion, Sektor orders Sub-Zero to go on a mission with him. He informs Sub-Zero that he scanned his neural net, and knows he has been reprogrammed. Sektor ordered him to open his access panel, but he attacks him instead, starting a fight between the two, which Sektor loses.

By searching in the defeated Sektor's data banks, he discovers the location of Kano, Kintaro, and Goro. He finds the three of them in the Bell Tower torturing soldiers. After a failed attempt to get information, he freezes the three of them, and frees the soldiers. After they escape, Kintaro and Goro break free of the ice they were trapped in, leaving Sub-Zero to fight both. He does so, and emerges victorious. The freed soldiers are then pushed back by Ermac. Sub-Zero warns them to stay back, then fights and defeats him. After asking the soldiers their next location, he goes to the graveyard. The soldiers wish him good luck, another jokingly saying he didn't need it.

In the Graveyard, Sub-Zero comes across Quan Chi and Noob Saibot as Chi conjures up a spell to create a Soulnado. When he confronts Noob, he discovers that Noob is his older brother. After Noob relinquishes any family ties with him, they fight, with Sub-Zero emerging victorious and claiming that he was right: they are no longer brothers. At Nightwolf's advice, he reports back to Raiden. When Raiden leaves with Liu Kang to try to talk to the Elder Gods, he is left under Nightwolf's command. Some seconds later, he detects the Lin Kuei Cyborgs, and they are ambushed. After they dispatch the Cyborgs, Sindel appears and states that she "will finish what the Lin Kuei did not". The Earthrealm warriors engage her in battle, and he, along with most of them, is killed when Sindel destroys his circuits. He is later resurrected by Quan Chi to serve him in the Netherrealm. Smoke, Jade and Cyber Sub-Zero prepare to fight Raiden, but then Raiden leaves to deal with the Emperor Shao Kahn.

## Recruitment into the Wolf Clan and Pickle People.

While working out in a boxing gym, Rogers recounted various events that took place during his era in World War II including his victorious fights against HYDRA alongside the Howling Commandos. However, Rogers recalled Bucky Barnes' death, his fight with Red Skull, his sacrifice, the last conversation with Peggy Carter, and being discovered and defrosted. These memories of his life before waking in 2011 infuriated Rogers until he broke the punching bag.

Just at the moment when Rogers was putting up a second punching bag, Director Nick Fury approached him and questioned if he was having trouble sleeping, to which Rogers noted that he had almost slept for seventy years and therefore had had his fill. As he took off his gloves, Rogers noted how when he had awoken, he was told the war against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party had been won, but he was unsure what America had lost in the meantime. Fury then explained that he had come to Rogers with a new mission that he was needed for, which was not just to get Rogers back out into the world, but was in fact to save the entire world from ultimate destruction

irector Fury then informed Rogers that a dangerous and powerful being known as Loki had stolen the Tesseract and intended to use it to conquer and rule the Earth. Having heard this, Rogers was not thrilled to learn that HYDRA's secret weapon and power source had found its way into this era, as Rogers had last seen it falling into the sea following the defeat of Johann Schmidt during the Battle in the *Valkyrie*. Fury then explained that Howard Stark had discovered the Tesseract while searching for Rogers, believing that this could be the key to unlimited and sustainable energy all around the world.

Rogers accepted the assignment to track down the Tesseract and Loki as Fury noted that S.H.I.E.L.D. would bring him up to speed on everything before the mission to find Loki went ahead. When Fury noted that since he had been asleep the world had become even stranger than he knew, Rogers and Fury made a bet for ten dollars that nothing would surprise him anymore. When Fury had asked him if there was any more useful information regarding the Tesseract that S.H.I.E.L.D. was not already aware of, to which Rogers stated that they should have left it in the ocean before walking out

On his way to S.H.I.E.L.D. for the mission aboard the Quinjet, Rogers was debriefed by Phil Coulson about the selected people who were part of the Avengers Initiative. One member in particular that intrigued Rogers was Bruce Banner. Coulson revealed to him that Banner attempted to recreate Abraham Erskine's Super Soldier Serum, resulting in Banner being exposed to high levels of gamma radiation and transforming into Hulk, although Coulson had insisted that Banner was still a genius

oulson and Rogers shared an awkward moment when he revealed that he watched Rogers being defrosted following his discovery in the Arctic and then expressed with great enthusiasm how much of an honor it was to have Rogers on board to lead this team. Rogers was somewhat skeptical of himself being the right candidate to lead this new team against Loki: However, Coulson reassured Rogers that he was before explaining and that he had personally had overseen the development of their Newly Constructed Uniform for Rogers to wear which included design input from himself regarding the look.

## Phase 2

Captain America comes together with the heroes of the Marvel Universe, such as the likes of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, to help stop Loki and his villainous cohorts from building a weapon of mass destruction from the shattered bricks of the Silver Surfer's surfboard.

Captain America is seen helping Mr. Fantastic in the Baxter Building, under the control of Doctor Octopus Chasing the villain, the two heroes are joined by Spider-Man and the three heroes defeat Doc Ock, but the Cosmic Brick is stolen by the Green Goblin who heads to Oscorp Tower.

Captain America arrives shortly to join up with Iron Man to get his new armor. They head to Stark Tower, only to find Jarvis and the entire place hacked. The two managed to dodge the traps and proceeds to chase after Mandarin and Aldrich Killiam who are the ones to break in the tower. Luckily Iron Man manages to fix Jarvis and the systems, restoring the tower in the process and Iron Man gets his new suit as well. They catch up with Mandarin and Aldrich Killiam with Loki, who steals the power core and ditches the duo. They are chased outside by Captain America and Iron Man. After being beaten up for a while, the Mandarin hijacks the Hulkbuster armor. However, he is defeated by Iron Man and his remaining armors.

Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Human Torch go to a HYDRA base to find Red Skull and Loki, but the former two are knocked out by Loki. Luckily, Captain America shows up and helps Human Touch deal with the Red Skull and they defeat him.

Following that, Captain America and Human Torch leave to meet with Wolverine and Thor to go and face Loki in Asgard. Upon arrival at the Bifrost Bridge, they find that Loki has allied with the Frost Giants. They fight their way to Loki and are forced to battle the Destroyer armor. After that, Loki escapes leaving behind the Tesseract.

Captain American teams up with Thing to head to Asteroid M at the island before Magneto. Black Widow transports them to the island, and they travel on foot where they fight Magneto's men and dinosaurs. Suddenly Storm shows up and helps them fight Rhino and Mystique (disguised as Magneto). Then the real Magneto escapes in the Asteroid M, but Captain America, Thing and Storm secretly sneak in.

Captain America, Thing and Storm appear and join with Spider-Man to help fight Doctor Doom after he and Loki knock out Iron Man and Thor. They are able to defeat Doctor Doom. Iron Man and Thor catch up to help stop Loki, who reveals his true plan, unleashing Galactus to destroy Earth and Asgard. With no other choices, Nick Fury calls upon the villains to help the heroes defeat Galactus, he is sucked into a portal with Loki and the villains leave the Helicarrier as part of their agreement with the heroes.

The Flash first appears alongside the Justice League, fighting off the group of villains assembled by Lex Luthor to occupy them. Upon witnessing Shazam's Thunder of the Gods, the Flash asks Green Arrow what they are to them, to which the Arrow replies "the poor slobs who clean up the mess". When the Joker prepares to detonate the nuclear bomb given to him by Luthor, the Flash runs ahead of the other heroes to try and stop him. However, he isn't fast enough to reach them as Batman, the Joker, and several of the heroes are pulled from their dimension into an altered reality. Back in the Watchtower, the Flash and Cyborg begin working tirelessly to locate their allies. The Flash suggests he vibrate at the same frequency as the energy signature and follow them. However, Superman tells him that they don't know where they could've ended up yet, or if they ended up anywhere at all.

In the altered reality, the Flash appears as a member of Superman's One Earth Regime. He and their universe's Shazam venture to Atlantis to meet with their Aquaman and finalize the treaty he agreed to sign, unaware that the Aquaman that they meet with is actually the displaced Aquaman from the other dimension. Upon reading the treaty and finding out that it entails Superman's complete takeover of Atlantis, Aquaman refuses to sign it, prompting a fight between him and the Flash, which Aquaman wins.

Back in their dimension, the Flash and Cyborg devise a plan to pull their allies back into their dimension using the Flash's Cosmic Treadmill. They make the necessary modifications and put their plan into action. However, the inter-dimensional gateway belonging to the Insurgents activates at the same time, pulling Cyborg into their dimension.

The alternate Flash later appears in the Watchtower alongside Shazam. Both of them begin to question whether or not they're still doing the right thing in following Superman's Regime. Just then, they're confronted by Deathstroke, who knocks them both into the reactor room using motion sensor bombs. The Flash clashes with Deathstroke but is beaten, followed by Shazam. He and Shazam are teleported off of the Watchtower by the displaced Cyborg before it explodes.

After the attack on Stryker's Island, the Flash and Shazam appear at Superman's council meeting, where he announces his intention to destroy Metropolis and Gotham to set an example to the people, then invades the duplicates' universe for interfering. When Shazam challenges Superman's decision, he promptly kills him by using his heat vision to burn through his eyes all the way through the skull, thus confirming the Flash's belief that they are no longer doing the right thing. The Flash defects from the Regime, subduing Yellow Lantern and Solomon Grundy when they attempt to stop him from leaving. Using the coordinates given to him by Killer Frost , the Flash rushes to warn the Insurgents of Superman's plan. He briefly detours upon seeing Sinestro about to execute several renegade soldiers before the entire army. The Flash quickly disarms all of the soldiers and confronts Sinestro, who promptly launches him into the air. He lands in front of Wayne Manor, where he and Sinestro face off. Once he has him beat, the Flash builds a pyramid of stone bricks around him so he won't escape. He then proceeds to the Insurgency, where he is surprised to encounter the displaced Green Arrow, who he believed to be dead. Seeing him as a threat, Green Arrow attacks the Flash, but they both manage to come to an understanding.

The Flash explains Superman's plan to the Insurgents and helps defend their base when they are attacked by the Regime. When the battle is moved to the streets of Gotham, he fights Yellow Lantern by running circles around him, only to be knocked back by the Lantern's shockwave attack.

In the epilogue, the Flash willingly turns himself in due to his previous allegiance with Superman's Regime to answer for his crimes and atone for his sins. He manages to give Green Arrow one last smile before he is taken away.

## Ghosts Protocol Mission

In 2017, U.S. Army officer Elias Walker tells his teenage sons Hesh and Logan the legend of how the Ghosts, an elite coalition of all U.S. Special Operations units, first appeared. Meanwhile, in space, the "Federation of the Americas" hijack the Orbital Defense Initiative (ODIN),[9] an orbital superweapon that consists of a network of satellites that utilize kinetic bombardment. The Federation use it to destroy several cities in the southwestern United States. U.S. Air Force astronauts Baker and Mosley sacrifice themselves to self-destruct the space station and prevent ODIN from launching other payloads further inland. The Walker family narrowly escapes the destruction of San Diego, California.

Ten years later, the war between the United States and the Federation has been a bloody stalemate along a front that comprises the destroyed cities (known as "No Man's Land"), which has become a war of attrition as more Federation forces attempt to break the frontlines. However, the U.S. stands its ground, fighting near the former United States-Mexico border. Hesh and Logan are part of a U.S. special unit under the command of Elias and are accompanied by Riley, their loyal military-trained German Shepherd. During a mission into No Man's Land, they spot Federation agent Gabriel Rorke interrogating Ghost member Ajax. The brothers meet and join Ghost members Thomas Merrick and Keegan Russ in their mission to rescue Ajax, but are unsuccessful as he is killed.

The brothers return to Santa Monica, California, where U.S. forces hold out against an assault from the Federation, and reunite with their father, who reveals himself as the leader of the Ghosts. Recruiting his sons into the Ghosts, Elias tells them about how Rorke was the Ghosts' previous commanding officer until Elias was forced to abandon him during a successful mission in Caracas to assassinate former Federation leader, Diego Almagro. The Federation captured and brainwashed Rorke, and are now using him to hunt down the Ghosts.

The Ghosts assault Rorke's base and capture him, but Federation forces destroy their plane and rescue him. The team lands in the Yucatán Peninsula, where they witness the launch of a mysterious Federation missile. The Ghosts infiltrate a Federation base and discover plans to create a new superweapon. Constructing a counter-attack, the Ghosts make significant gains against the Federation, successfully destroying their Atlas oil platform in Antarctica and sinking a destroyer guarding the Brazilian coast. The team then breaks into a Federation laboratory and discovers that the Federation reverse-engineered ODIN into their own orbital bombardment system named LOKI.

After destroying a Federation factory in Rio de Janeiro, the Ghosts regroup at a safehouse in Las Vegas, but are captured by Rorke, who executes Elias. In a last-ditch effort, the U.S. pools all its remaining forces, including its last aircraft carrier USS *Liberator*, in a synchronized all-out assault. A team of soldiers board a shuttle and take over the Federation space center in the Atacama Desert, while forces in space take over the Federation space station. They seize control of LOKI and decimate Federation forces by turning its weapons on them. Hesh and Logan then pursue Rorke to avenge their father, disobeying Merrick's orders. Despite being shot by Logan and left to drown, Rorke survives the encounter and captures Logan, aiming to try and brainwash him into becoming a fellow Federation agent.

In a post-credits scene, Logan is seen being kept inside a pit in the jungle, presumably going through the same torture methods that Rorke went through

## Rise of Orion

Gideon leads a small Atlas rescue team that is escorting a high-value individual across Seoul. Jackson notes that Gideon is working for Will Irons' father's company.

Mitchell Joining Atlas, Rescuing the Nigerian Prime Minister and Seattle Power Plant
After Mitchell joins Atlas, he becomes acquainted with Gideon during a tour of the Atlas headquarters. Gideon takes Mitchell through basic training. He and Mitchell work closely throughout many operations, including the rescue of the Nigerian president and an assault on a power plant in Seattle that had been taken over by KVA forces.

Four years later, Mitchell, Gideon, and Joker are stationed in Detroit in order to find and capture Hades' right-hand man Dr. Pierre Danois. With assistance from Torres, they locate Danois in an abandoned hospital and take him back to Atlas headquarters to be interrogated. After Danois is interrogated by Ilona, they find out that Hades is meeting in Santorini, Greece with his top financial advisors.

In Santorini, Gideon leads Alpha Team on Hades' compound where he is meeting with his advisors. After a double of Hades is killed, a bomb on the double explodes, killing one of the members of Alpha Team. Gideon and the other member escape with some support of the Sniper Drone controlled by Mitchell.

After the KVA is defeated and Atlas is at its most powerful, Ilona finds out through a recording from Hades that Jonathan Irons deliberately covered up warnings of the catastrophic KVA attacks of 2055 in order to make a profit through aiding the victims. Although Mitchell and Ilona are determined to leave Atlas after watching the recording, Gideon stays loyal to Irons and insists that the recording was faked. Mitchell and Ilona escape Atlas custody and defect to the Sentinel Task Force, and although Gideon is ordered to find and kill them as they escape the Atlas headquarters, he and Joker deliberately let them both escape from Atlas and he stays behind in order to conduct his own investigation on Irons.

Gideon is sent into Antarctica after Sentinel attempts to dispose of a large shipment of Atlas' new experimental biological agent Manticore. Gideon and two Atlas soldiers Juarez and Michaels hold Mitchell, Ilona, and Cormack at gunpoint, but Gideon who has deduced that Ilona was right about Irons, betrays and shoots Juarez and Michaels. After he helps Sentinel dispose of the Manticore shipment. Gideon joins the Sentinel Task Force but has distrust with Cormack before their mission in Bulgaria. Mitchell gets Cormack to let Gideon on the ground in bio lab in Bulgaria that is producing Manticore. He and Mitchell escape from Atlas soldier who EMP their hover craft, the two use cloak to hide from Atlas PMC's. Regrouping with Cormack and Knox, the team infiltrate the lab and destroy it and escape in a T-740 Hovertank. Gideon then destroys the Hovertank, gaining Cormack's trust in the process.

After Irons declares war on the governments of the world, Gideon assists Mitchell in repelling Atlas forces in San Francisco, but they fail to prevent an attack on the Golden Gate Bridge that wipes out thousands of civilians, police forces and Sentinel operatives. Sentinel launches an attack on the Atlas headquarters in New Baghdad, which Gideon takes part in, but the Sentinel forces are wiped out after Irons deploys Manticore. Mitchell, Ilona and Gideon are unaffected, as they are former employees of Atlas and their DNA is on Manticore's database. The three are taken to an Atlas prison camp, where they learn of Irons' plans to launch Manticore rockets at every major military base in the world. They escape, but Cormack dies from blood loss, caused by a fatal gunshot wound inflicted by Irons. Mitchell, Ilona and Gideon then vow to kill Irons and stop Manticore from being launched.

In one final act of desperation, Gideon and Mitchell infiltrate Atlas' Command Center using A.S.T. mech suits to enter as Ilona guides them. Entering by the river to the underground launch center and slaughter every PMC in their way, they make it to the launch chamber and push to themselves to the rockets. As the rockets are preparing to take off, Gideon and Mitchell destroy the engine's generator and stop the rocket, in the process of their mech suits being destroyed and Mitchell incapacitated. Gideon helps Mitchell and carries him to the lobby as the two finish the rest of PMC's, changing their goal, they hunt Irons. When the two reach the spire, they are greeted by Irons who shuts down their exoskeletons. Irons explains his ideologies and intentions, elaborating on his disappointment in Mitchell and his ultimate goal to liberate the world, beginning with extermination. Irons makes a escape, Gideon tells Mitchell to manually unlock his exo, doing so, Gideon's exo will not unlock. Gideon than orders Mitchell to stop Irons, Mitchell runs ahead and catches up to Irons, who ends up falling off the top of the Atlas headquarters. Gideon arrives in time to help an injured Mitchell, and the two begin to leave

## Orion's first Assault

While on a jog in Washington, D.C., Rogers frequently overlapped a man; every time he passed him, Rogers jokingly called on to him "on your left". He later caught up again with the man who introduced himself as Sam Wilson, a former army veteran with the United States Armed Forces who was now outside the military working in the debriefing system.

Wilson was able to fully understand Rogers' experiences of being a veteran returning home from World War II and all of the difficulties surrounding that experience, with the pair discussing how sleeping on a comfortable bed had become much more difficult for them and Rogers listing off all the ways that living in 2014 was not as bad as it might appear, pointing out how helpful the internet was with helping him catch up with what he had missed while frozen. The two talked about their lives and Wilson recommended some music for Rogers to catch up on, including Marvin Gaye which Rogers added to his list of things in the new world he had to watch, listen to or experience.

They were interrupted when Natasha Romanoff had picked Rogers up for the newest S.H.I.E.L.D. mission. As Rogers was leaving, he teased Wilson by inviting him to go running some other time while Wilson then invited Rogers to come and join him at a meeting for those suffering with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder which Rogers then promised to do so. As Romanoff pulled up, she jokingly asked where the Smithsonian was, comparing Rogers to a fossil.[6]

Taken onboard a Quinjet to be flown to the mission while also being debriefed, Rogers was told by Brock Rumlow that their mission was to rescue hostages of Georges Batroc who had hijacked S.H.I.E.L.D. ship, the Lemurian Star, somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Captain America ensured that he knew exactly how many hostages were onboard, which included Jasper Sitwell, before complaining about Director Nick Fury was sending them on missions like this to cover Fury's errors. Captain America gave Rumlow and the other members of STRIKE their mission orders before then preparing to go into combat himself.

Rogers was tasked with attacking the ship first; as his own strength enhanced by the Super Soldier Serum would give him the advantage in the battle. As he prepared his own Uniform ready for the mission, Rogers spoke with Natasha Romanoff who tried to set him up with a date, much to Rogers' disagreement as he still loved Peggy Carter. Much to Jack Rollins' surprise, Rogers then dived off the Quinjet into the ocean without a parachute to protect him from the fall.

Having landed on the Lemurian Star alone, Captain America single-handedly defeated almost every pirate on the ship without raising the alarm. Using his shield to gain the advantage, Captain America managed to get past teams of Batroc's soldiers before they could fight back. When one pirate came close to alerting Batroc, Rogers stopped him with a knife throw before being saved by Brock Rumlow shooting another pirate before continuing on his own mission.

Rogers requested that Black Widow give him an update, but she was busy subduing Gerald Durand along with all of Batroc's pirates. Once Widow was in position and had ensured that the ship would not be moving, Rogers orders his S.H.I.E.L.D. team to get ready as Rumlow shot the remaining pirates and rescued the hostages and Romanoff cleared out the engine room. While Rumlow's team shot the pirates, Rogers threw his shield at Batroc who made his escape.

With Sitwell and the other hostages now safe, Captain America then went searching for Batroc, while Rumlow then informed him that Romanoff had seemingly vanished during the mission and had not met with STRIKE like she was supposed to. Before he could find out where Romanoff was, Captain America was suddenly ambushed by Batroc. Captain America accepted Batroc's offer to fight without the use of Rogers' own shield or any other kind of weapon.

Accepting his other to fight by speaking in French, Captain America then fought against Batroc in purely hand-to-hand combat. As they fight began, Captain America discovered that Batroc was a more formidable fighter than he had anticipated as he had able to deflect all of his own attacks. But all of the continued fighting against him, Captain America proved to have the advantage due to the Super Soldier Serum inside his veins which Batroc did not stand a chance against. Eventually, Captain America won and knocked out all of those attempting to kill him, by smashing Batroc through a locked door and knocking him out with a final hard punch.

After the fight, Rogers discovered Romanoff hacking into the ship's computer. He learned Romanoff had a secret assignment to recover some S.H.I.E.L.D. data from the ship through a USB drive. This somewhat annoyed Rogers, who was unhappy at being kept in the dark about the fact that Romanoff had now been given a secondary mission by Director Nick Fury. It was made worse when Batroc woke up and threw a grenade at the pair. Rogers deflected the grenade and they leaped out of the path of the explosion. They both survived the explosion, but Batroc escaped during the chaos. Rogers made it clear he blamed Romanoff for the failure to capture Batroc.[6]

Reporting back to Director Nick Fury at the Triskelion, Rogers then expressed his anger with Fury for lying to him. Rogers claimed that Fury's plan to give Black Widow a secret plan endangered the entire mission, noting that his own team should be able to trust each other. Fury argued that he had sent in Captain America purely so that this did not happen and that the last time he trusted someone he lost an eye. Eventually, he promised Rogers that he would now be more honest with him.

Fury then took him to the facility's sub-levels, along the way he told Rogers the story of how his own Grandfather used to carry a large gun with him at all times in order to ensure he was never mugged for his lunch. Fury told Rogers that they had something bigger than his Grandfather's gun as he showed him the new Helicarriers were being constructed in the hanker with brand new technology and weapons designed by Tony Stark to make them more advanced.

Introducing Rogers to Project Insight, Fury explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. now planned to use the Helicarriers to fight threats against the United States of America before they even happened. Rogers was discontent with this, finding S.H.I.E.L.D.'s newest methods to be too extreme. When Fury noted what Rogers' generation did during World War II, Rogers insisted this was not the same, claiming Fury was spreading fear and not freedom. When Fury insisted Rogers get behind the program, Rogers refused.[6]

Disillusioned by Director Nick Fury's new attitude to world safety, Rogers revisited his past by visiting the Captain America division of the Smithsonian Institution. There, he saw videos of his time in World War II with all of the Howling Commandos fighting against Red Skull. When a young boy recognized him, Rogers smiled and asked him to keep quiet, which the amazed boy agreed to do.

Rogers found a memorial for Bucky Barnes, which presented him as Rogers' friend and the only member of the Howling Commandos to lose his life in the fight against HYDRA. Rogers then watched an interview with Peggy Carter where she discussed her relationship with Rogers and how he changed her life even after she believed him to have been killed in action, telling the story of when he had saved over 1000 men, including the man who became her husband.

Rogers went to see Carter in her retirement home, now aged past ninety years. They discussed the changing world, and Rogers told her that the reason he stayed at S.H.I.E.L.D. was partly because she helped found it. Rogers went on to say that he had hoped that now serving with S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers would help him find his place in the new world, but it just was not the same or as simple as it was during World War II, with Carter then laughing that Rogers was always over dramatic about this sort of thing.

Carter told Rogers that while he had saved the world, she and others had mucked it up while he had been gone. When Carter began to cough, Rogers handed her a glass of water; she looked up and appeared to have forgotten their entire conversation and reacted like she was seeing Rogers for the first time in seventy years. Carter had developed a form of dementia. Rogers smiled and told her that he could never leave his best girl while she owed him a dance.

Seeking some new advice, Rogers decided to visit the Department of Veterans Affairs to listen to Sam Wilson talk to soldiers who were suffering from Posttraumatic stress disorder. Rogers found himself feeling at home around other United States Armed Forces soldiers as he listened to their stories about how they had come home to have a feeling of being out of place while Wilson offered them all whatever advice he could to try and help them move forward.

He spoke to Wilson after the meeting as they discussed what they were going through as former soldiers, with Wilson explaining that his friend and partner Riley was killed in action. When Wilson questioned if Rogers was considering retiring, Rogers told him that he had no idea what else to do with his life other than obey orders and serve. Wilson joked he could be the Ultimate Fighter before he told him he could do whatever it was that he wanted to do.[6]

Riding his Motorcycle back towards his apartment building late in the evening, Rogers parked it and then went upstairs towards his own apartment to rest, still considering both of his recent talks with Peggy Carter and Sam Wilson and his place within S.H.I.E.L.D. in the wake of learning of the new Project Insight and his strong disagreements about the moral implications of possibly supporting such a Project, still believing that it's use of preemptive targeting now promoted fear for America rather than freedom.

Once back inside the building, Rogers had a brief talk with his own neighbor about how her work as a nurse was going, even building up the courage to then ask her out on a date by offering to let her use his washing machine in exchange for having a cup of coffee with him, which she said she however could not do, much to Rogers' disappointment. However, he got suspicious when she told him that she had heard his stereo playing, which he had turned off.

He sneaks in through the window and finds Nick Fury sitting in his couch. Fury claimed to Rogers that his wife kicked him out; however, when Rogers turned on the light, he saw that Fury was covered in cuts and bruises and the latter reveals on his phone that they might be overheard by someone as enemies were listening in, telling Rogers that only his friends knew the truth about him. Without warning, Fury was shot several times in his back through the wall, falling down into Rogers' arms.

With the remaining strength he had, Fury gave the Lemurian Star flash drive to Rogers and then told him not to trust anyone before falling unconscious. While Rogers pulled Fury out of the way and behind cover, his neighbor then smashed in the door, armed with a gun and revealing herself to be Agent 13, hired by Fury to keep an eye on Rogers. Agent 13 called for medical assistance and explained the situation to S.H.I.E.L.D. while desperately trying to save Fury.

Rogers spotted the assassin attempting to make his getaway, so Rogers grabbed his shield and went in pursuit, leaping from his apartment window into the building across the street and leaving Agent 13 to take care of Fury. Rogers smashed his way through various office doors and was still barely able to keep up with the incredibly fast assassin. Using all of his strength, Rogers kept just behind the assassin until he saw a chance to confront him.

He eventually caught up and threw his shield at the assassin, but the masked man easily caught the shield with his cybernetic arm. Rogers was amazed that Winter Soldier was able to do this as the two enemies locked eyes with each other before the assassin threw the shield back at Rogers with some considerable force. Rogers was so stunned that he paused for just a moment, allowing the assassin to escape as Rogers looked out over the city for him.

Fury was taken to a hospital where Rogers rejoined him and watched the operation with Natasha Romanoff by his side. They watched together in horror as it was reported that Fury's heart had stopped. Rogers and Romanoff were joined by Maria Hill and other Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as the doctors operated, but were unable to revive him and Doctor Fine pronounced him dead. Fury was taken away and Hill asked to take care of the body. Romanoff began to question Rogers about the identity of the shooter, predicting that the bullets used were Russian upon hearing about his incredible speed and robotic arm, indicating she knew who the assassin was.

Upon being questioned about why Fury was inside his apartment by Romanoff, Rogers feigned ignorance about why Fury went to him. Before they could continue the discussion, Agent Brock Rumlow told the Captain that he was wanted for a hearing at the Triskelion with Alexander Pierce to discuss what had happened. Romanoff told Rogers that he was a terrible liar, he then used this quiet moment to hide the USB Fury had given him in a vending machine.[6]

When he arrived at the Triskelion, Captain America had encountered Agent Sharon Carter just as left Alexander Pierce's office. As Rogers and Carter passed one another, Rogers barely acknowledged her before shaking Pierce's hand, with Pierce claiming it was an honor to meet him as his own father had served with Rogers during World War II. Rogers was questioned by Pierce who said he was one of Nick Fury's closest friends, explaining how they met in Bogotá and he wanted to know who was responsible for Fury's death.

Pierce questioned Rogers over why Fury had been in his apartment before they discussed how Rogers' apartment had been bugged, with Pierce noting that it was Fury himself who had bugged it. Pierce then showed Rogers video footage of Georges Batroc while he was being interrogated and revealed that Fury was secretly responsible for the Hijacking of the Lemurian Star, as the current theory was that Fury was attempting to cover up the sale of classified documents.

Attempting to prove his own loyalty to Fury, Pierce told Rogers that he had taken a seat of the World Security Council because Fury had once asked him to, claiming that they had both shared the idea that to build a better world, sometimes meant tearing the old one down. Knowing that he could not trust Pierce, Rogers told him nothing of what Fury said, and left him to return to the hospital, despite Pierce warning that he would not allow anybody to stand in his way.[6]

With his meeting completed, Rogers then got inside the elevator and prepared to leave the Triskelion. Before their elevator could go down, however, Rogers was joined by Brock Rumlow who greeted Rogers before expressing his own condolences for the death of Director Nick Fury, claiming that what had happened was messed up. As they went down, Rumlow noted that forensics had found hair fibers of Fury's possible assassin on the rooftop, although Rogers recommended that they wait a bit longer before investigating personally, before the elevator then stopped and collected more some people.

When the had elevator slowly begun to fill up with even more agents from STRIKE, Rogers soon became more suspicious that something was wrong. Once Jack Rollins stepped inside with his hand on his weapon, Rogers noted that another agent was sweating as he came to the conclusion that Alexander Pierce had organized an ambush for him for withholding information. Giving them all one chance to leave, Rogers asked if anyone wanted to get out, then the fight began.

Losing all pretense, Rollins and these other agents attacked Rogers, who used his enhanced strength as martial arts training to gain the upper hand. As all of the attackers had successfully managed to take away Captain America's Shield, they also desperately attempted to use a pair of their Magnetic Handcuffs to keep Rogers from fighting back, but they could only get one on as Rogers was unwilling to give in. Having only one free hand, Rogers fought off the attackers.

Despite Rumlow attempting to use his own Taser Rod to subdue him, Rogers then managed to break free of the magnetic handcuff and proceeded to take out two more agents with considerable ease. Eventually, the last conscious double agent was Rumlow, who told Rogers that the fight was not personal. Rogers managed to subdue Rumlow and told him that it felt personal before striking at him with his Taser Rod, managing to get two hits in against Rogers.

Finally, Rogers managed to land a hard strike against Rumlow before throwing him into the ceiling and knocking him out, noting that this attack did feel personal. As Rogers then attempted to find a way out of the building to avoid arrest, he discovered more STRIKE agents were coming having been sent by Jasper Sitwell. Seemingly trapped, Rogers found that the only clear way out he could find was to jump out of the elevator before he could be captured by STRIKE.

Realizing that Sitwell and Pierce had sent agents onto every floor to recapture him, Rogers finally threw himself out of the elevator and fell several floors onto the ground below, using his Shield to absorb to impact. While the horrified S.H.I.E.L.D. looked on, Rogers managed to get back to his feet, despite being in considerable pain and then continued attempting to escape, all while Sitwell watched all of this unfolding on his monitors and ordered that Rogers be stopped.

With little time left to spare in his escape as Sitwell had just ordered that the Triskelion be locked down, Rogers had managed to get to and drove away on the back of his Motorcycle, successfully escaping a roadblock set up for him. However, as Rogers rode straight down the bridge, he discovered that Sitwell had sent a Quinjet to stop him. Rogers had remained unintimidated however and instead continued riding straight towards the Quinjet, avoiding all of its gunfire.

Rogers managed to ride right up onto the Quinjet before throwing his Shield into one of the engines and launching himself on top the jet's roof. From here, Rogers proceeded to damage the jet by throwing his shield at its back wings before leaping off, thus causing the jet to crash land before Rogers escaped in Washington, D.C..[6] In order to keep S.H.I.E.L.D. from tracking him, Rogers hid his uniform inside the duffel bag of a high school coach and took those clothes.[28]

Having successfully escaped from the Triskelion ambush, but aware that Jasper Sitwell's agents were hunting him, the now disguised Rogers arrived later into the hospital where he noticed that the USB was gone from where he had hidden it inside of a vending machine. As Rogers was looking for the USB, Natasha Romanoff appeared behind him, revealing that she had managed to already take it.

Pushing her inside an empty room, Rogers aggressively questioned where the USB was, while Romanoff questioned why Nick Fury had given it to Rogers. Upon being told that Fury hired Georges Batroc to Hijack the Lemurian Star, Romanoff confessed to knowing who killed Fury. Romanoff told Rogers that the masked man was an assassin known as the Winter Soldier, credited with several assassinations in the last fifty years, and she had encountered him once before.

Despite the high risk levels, the pair came to believe that they could still trust each other as Rogers and Romanoff both put on a quick disguise, with Rogers complaining about his shoes being too big for him, and went out in public looking for answers regarding what was happening. While Romanoff gave Rogers tips on going undercover, they then went to a Apple Store and used the USB in a laptop to see if they could find any valuable information to be found on it.

While Romanoff hacked into the computer to access the USB drive, they were greeted by Aaron who enthusiastically offered to help them but Romanoff managed to politely move him away by pretending to be Rogers' fiancé. With Rogers keeping an eye on the time as they knew S.H.I.E.L.D. would be able to track down their USB, Romanoff eventually tracked the location where their USB could be unlocked down to New Jersey, with Rogers insisting that they leave.

While leaving the mall, they soon realized that STRIKE had already arrived, having traced the USB being activated, as they managed to get out of the shop before Jack Rollins could find them. Trying to avoid being detected, Romanoff told Rogers to be intimate with her by holding her close and laughing. Spotting Brock Rumlow coming towards them, Romanoff responded by kissing Rogers publicly to deflect attention away from Rumlow before they escaped.[6]

Having gotten away from Brock Rumlow's STRIKE team just in time, Rogers and Natasha Romanoff then stole a car and drove towards New Jersey. As they drove along, Romanoff questioned where Rogers had previously learned to steal a car as he answered during World War II. Romanoff had then teased Rogers about if that had been his first kiss since the 1940s, which he firmly insisted it was not.

During their drive, Rogers and Romanoff began discussing how she managed to hide her true self for so long, resulting in Rogers still not having a clear idea of who she was despite all of their time working together in both S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers. When Romanoff had questioned who Rogers wanted her to be, he just told her to be his friend, which Romanoff smiled at and advised that Rogers might be in the wrong business if he was actually looking for friends.

When they eventually arrived at the location, Rogers had realized that they were at Camp Lehigh, the old training camp where he had once trained during World War II before undergoing Project Rebirth. While they walked around the base, Rogers thought back to his days of training as Michael Duffy pushed him during running exercises, which the skinnier Rogers had struggled with. Eventually, Rogers spotted an ammunition hut in the wrong place and went to investigate.

Inside they found a S.H.I.E.L.D. secret storage room which had been clearly left untouched for decades, with photographs on these walls featuring Howard Stark as well as Colonel Chester Phillips, as Rogers was asked by Romanoff who Peggy Carter was upon seeing another photograph of her as well. Moving downstairs inside the facility, they full of old computers inside a S.H.I.E.L.D. office. There, they found a more modern looking USB slot and they put the USB inside.

The computers powered up as a voice appeared from the computer which recognized Rogers and Romanoff, before noting that he and Rogers had met back in 1945 before Captain America had previously managed to capture him during World War II. Rogers quickly realized that the voice was that of Red Skull's scientist Arnim Zola, as Zola revealed that his consciousness had been put into a computer before his death in 1972, allowing his own mind to continue living on.

As Rogers listened on in horror, Zola explained to them how he had been recruited by Operation Paperclip after World War II's end, and from his new position as apart of S.H.I.E.L.D., he was able to quietly rebuild HYDRA within the United States. Rogers refused to believe this, but Zola accessed his data files and explained how they changed strategies following the War and began tricking the entire world into surrendering their own freedoms through decades of their careful manipulation.

While Zola explained that he had been working on an algorithm that HYDRA wanted, he told them that some of the deaths of S.H.I.E.L.D. leaders had been due to HYDRA, showing them a picture of Howard Stark, implying that his fatal car crash might not have been a sudden accident and instead caused by Winter Soldier, as was the death of Nick Fury, leading to this world willing to accept Project Insight to gain peace of mind, claiming this was HYDRA's ultimate victory.

Before Rogers and Romanoff could get any more information out of Zola, they realized that Alexander Pierce had sent a missile to their location. Zola locked them inside and, with seconds to spare, Rogers ripped out the floorboards and pulled Romanoff with him just as the missile blew up their location. Rogers used his Shield to keep all the debris from crushing them. He pulled Romanoff out of the rubble and ran to safety just as Brock Rumlow's STRIKE team had arrived.[6]

Having managed to get away from Camp Lehigh's destruction just in time, Rogers and Natasha Romanoff then went to seek refuge. With just a few people they felt they could trust left, Rogers brought them to the home of Sam Wilson. Not wasting any time, Rogers apologized to Wilson and explained that they were looking for somewhere to hide out, before Romanoff noted that everyone they knew was trying to kill them, before Wilson allowed them to come in.

As they got cleaned up, Rogers spoke to Romanoff and asked if she was okay following what they had learned about S.H.I.E.L.D. and all that had been going on behind the scenes. Romanoff noted how she had thought she was fighting the good fight by joining S.H.I.E.L.D., but now felt she had just traded the KGB for HYDRA, commenting on how she had now struggled to understand who exactly she had been lying for and whether she had been fighting for the wrong side.

Romanoff noted how Rogers had saved her life and questioned if it had been the other way around, would Rogers have ever trusted Romanoff to save his life, to which he answered that he felt he could following this conversation. Lightening the mood, Romanoff joked that Rogers seemed chipper for the man who just recently learnt he had died for nothing following World War II's conclusion before they were then interrupted by Wilson inviting them to breakfast.

Sitting down to discuss the situation, they agreed that the air-strike would have been ordered by Alexander Pierce, and they would have to find a high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D./HYDRA agent to learn more. As they noted that Jasper Sitwell was also clearly involved with Pierce's operations, Wilson told them that he was part of the military project called EXO-7 Falcon, testing of a new form of winged Jet-Packs and agreed to help Captain America in whatever way he could.[6]

The team then traveled back to Washington, D.C. in order to corner and talk to Agent Jasper Sitwell, following their recent discovery that he had been secretly working for HYDRA all along. While Sitwell had just finished his private meeting with Senator Stern, who just before saying goodbye whispered Hail HYDRA to Sitwell as his sign of loyalty, leaving Sitwell alone. Taking advantage of Sitwell being on his own, Sam Wilson then personally called up Sitwell and forced him up on the roof of a tall building nearby their location, under the threat of Sitwell being shot at by a sniper if he attempted to disobey.

Together with Natasha Romanoff, Rogers had managed to get Sitwell onto the roof and demanded that he tell them everything he knew about Arnim Zola's algorithm, although Sitwell denied all knowledge, also denying he had been onboard the Lemurian Star for any reason. When Sitwell noted that Rogers was not the kind of man to push him off the roof, Rogers handed over to Romanoff to kick Sitwell off before Falcon caught Sitwell and then brought him back up.

Terrified, Sitwell proceeded to tell them that Zola's algorithm could calculate if a person would be a threat to HYDRA in the future. He also told them that HYDRA was soon going to use Project Insight as a weapon to eliminate what they saw as their threats against all the world; mentioning Tony Stark and Bruce Banner were some of their planned targets along with Stephen Strange. This would also mean that millions of innocent people would die as a direct result.[6]

The group took Jasper Sitwell into their custody and began driving towards Washington, D.C.. As they drove, Rogers explained his plan to use Sitwell to gain them access to the Triskelion and force him to shut down Project Insight before it had the chance to be activated. Sitwell, however, exclaimed that this was a terrible idea that would never work while Rogers and the others simply ignored him and continued driving.

However, before they could all reach the Triskelion and continue with their plan, they were attacked by Winter Soldier and his men who had been seemingly sent by Alexander Pierce. Before they even had a moment to react, Sitwell was then ripped out of the car and killed by being thrown into traffic, before the Winter Soldier then shot into the car and proceeded to then rip out the car's steering wheel and caused them all to lose control and crash the car on the road.

Rogers, however, had saved his allies by kicking off the car door and allowing them to ride it onto the road to relative safety while their car crashed multiple times, leaving them to face the Winter Soldier and his team of HYDRA soldiers who had instructions to kill them all. The battle broke out and Rogers saved Natasha Romanoff when he had managed to block a grenade blast, fired by the Winter Soldier, with his own Shield, with the explosion managing to knock Rogers off the bridge and into an oncoming bus, briefly taking him out of the clash, leaving his allies to fend for themselves against Pierce's soldiers who immediately began firing upon them without any sense of mercy.

When Rogers had come too he was almost immediately fired at by the HYDRA soldier armed with his minigun, but Rogers regained his shield and blocked the bullets before he subdued the soldier while being aided by Sam Wilson, who kept all the soldiers at bay, having stolen one of the guns and war currently firing back at them. With the soldiers being dealt with, Rogers then began chasing after the Winter Soldier who was now attempting to assassinate Romanoff.
Winter Soldier hits Caps Shield
Rogers comes to Natasha Romanoff's rescue

Rogers soon found Romanoff using her bites to try and defeat the Winter Soldier herself, but she was then shot through the shoulder and defeated. Before she could be executed, Rogers charged in and ambushed the Winter Soldier, blocking a strike from his Prosthetic Arm with his own shield. Having deflected the punch, Rogers was then kicked off the car roof before being shot at by the Winter Soldier, as Rogers blocked the shots with his shield.

Winter Soldier proceeded to use every weapon he had available to him to shoot at Rogers, although he was still unable to get a clean shot as Rogers continued using his shield to defend himself before fighting the Winter Soldier to hand to hand. The Winter Soldier briefly managed to get his hands onto Captain America's Shield, which he had proceeded to launch at Rogers before their fight then continued, with the Shield becoming embedded in the side of a nearby van.

While they fought, Rogers did everything he could to defend himself while the Winter Soldier drew a blade and then attempted to slash at Rogers in an attempt to kill him, however, both had quickly proved themselves almost equally matched as neither could land a final hit against the other. As the fight continued, Rogers managed to get some defensive blows in against his enemy before kicking him into a nearby parked van and attempting to finish the fight.

The pair were forced to resort to hand to hand combat as the Winter Soldier had struck back against Captain America, managing to avoid being slammed to the ground before using his Bionic Arm to attempt to strangle the Captain before then launching him across a car. Once Captain America was briefly defenseless on the floor, Winter Soldier attempted to finish the job by striking a hard blow but he missed and instead cracked the concrete as Rogers moved out of the way.

Rogers found that the longer the fight went on, the more aggressive Winter Soldier became as he was seemingly incapable of allowing his target to live. As the Winter Soldier continued striking Rogers, he drew another knife before pinning Rogers against a nearby van and using his Bionic Arm to give him even more strength, Winter Soldier plunged the knife into the van and tore through the metal, as Rogers avoided the blade and then threw the Winter Soldier off him.

While the Winter Soldier was getting back onto his feet, Rogers was able to reclaim his shield, which was still embedded in the nearby van, as he blocked all of the Winter Soldier's continued strikes with his knife. Despite the Winter Soldier continuing to become more enraged by the fight, Rogers was still able to dodge one blow and proceeded to embed his shield into the Winter Soldier's Bionic Arm, causing serious damage and giving Rogers a clear advantage.

Eventually, Rogers had managed to throw the Winter Soldier over his should which had resulted in his mask being ripped from his face, revealing that he was Bucky Barnes. When a horrified Rogers said his name, Winter Soldier said he did not know who that was before attempting to shoot Rogers again until Falcon kicked him over from mid-air and Romanoff drove him off with the grenade launcher which he had dropped earlier, leaving Rogers still utterly horrified.

While Rogers was still distracted by the revelation, they were then surrounded by Brock Rumlow and his S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Rogers, Romanoff, and Wilson were then arrested by all of Rumlow's men, with Jack Rollins keeping his gun trained on Rogers' skull despite Rumlow ordering him not to kill Rogers there as there were too many cameras. Rogers did not resist as he questioned how Barnes had survived since World War II and was now the Winter Soldier.[6]

While in the HYDRA van being driven away by Brock Rumlow, driving them to an unknown location in order to execute them, Rogers then discussed how Bucky Barnes had survived since World War II. While they were speaking, one of the HYDRA guards suddenly tested the other and revealed herself to be Maria Hill. They then used a Mouse Hole to escape before Rumlow discovered the deception.

Agent Hill took them all to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Dam Facility where they immediately called upon Doctor Fine to treat Natasha Romanoff's wounds. Upon their arrival, Hill showed them into the room where Director Nick Fury was resting, revealing that he did not die and had survived with the aid of Fine as well as the use of Bruce Banner's Tetrodotoxin B, though he was still severely injured due to the gunshots through to his chest.

The group discussed Alexander Pierce's plans and how HYDRA had used Barnes and Arnim Zola to finally achieve all of their goals of controlling the world. Hill and Fury told them that Project Insight was only hours away from launching and that they had to act quickly in order to save millions of lives. The Helicarriers would hover in a triangle, connected, targeting all its targets before firing. The only way to prevent this would be to use three special chips that would take away S.H.I.E.L.D.'s control over the Helicarriers. Rogers then demanded that they also destroy S.H.I.E.L.D. in this mission as he blamed them for the disaster, which Fury agreed to.

Stepping outside, Rogers thought back to living in Brooklyn shortly after his mother had died, and how Barnes had been there for him at that time. Rogers was then joined by Sam Wilson who reminded Rogers that when they went into the mission, Barnes would be there waiting for them as Winter Soldier and Rogers would need to stop him. Rogers insisted he could still save Barnes despite Wilson noting that he may not have any choice with that.

Rogers told Wilson to collect his EXO-7 Falcon to be ready for their mission, noting that if they were to fight in a war then they would need to have a uniform. Having lost his suit earlier in order to avoid detection, Rogers broke into the Smithsonian Institution museum and stole his suit from World War II. After which, the group went off to stop Project Insight, arriving just outside of the Triskelion in order to complete their mission and save millions of lives.[6]

With both the Falcon and Maria Hill by his side, Captain America then successfully broke inside the Triskelion, all while Black Widow was infiltrating a meeting with the World Security Council by using the Photostatic Veil to disguise herself a Hawley. Meanwhile, Captain America then managed to take over the control room with ease by banging on the door and waiting for Agent Moore to investigate before finding himself being held at gunpoint by the three heroes.

Rogers used the microphones to send out his message to the base and informed the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents listening of HYDRA's infiltration within their organization, and that Alexander Pierce was their leader as well as Brock Rumlow's STRIKE also being HYDRA. Rogers told everyone HYDRA was responsible for Director Nick Fury's apparent assassination and that they could not allow HYDRA to initiate Project Insight, before asking them to stand against HYDRA with him.

Once he had finished his speech, Rogers and Sam Wilson prepared to assault the Helicarriers and battle all the HYDRA guards onboard to ensure they could not complete Pierce's plan to use Arnim Zola's algorithm to murder several million people across the world, which would include Bruce Banner and Stephen Strange. While they ran towards the Helicarriers, which were just beginning to launch, Wilson questioned how they would be able to tell the good guys from the bad guys as everyone appeared to be S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, before Captain America simply told him to look for the agents shooting at them. With that Wilson used his EXO-7 Falcon to fly up overhead and battle the Quinjets which were now being sent to shoot them.

While Falcon flew overhead, Captain America leaped onto a nearby launching Helicarrier where he had charged towards all the HYDRA agents who had been sent to stop him. Without breaking his pace, Rogers avoided the gunfire while using his Shield and his own superior skills to strike back against his enemies. While he was fighting, Maria Hill reminded Rogers that they still only had eight minutes to spare to then complete their infiltration mission.

Having managed to take out the HYDRA agents on the Helicarrier, Captain America ran into the main weapons center where he then managed to insert his own chip which would allow them to force the Helicarriers to target each other. Hill then confirmed with Falcon that they had managed to insert two of the chips, with some hardship, leaving just one more to be inserted in order to complete their own mission and save millions of innocent lives from HYDRA.

Although he had successfully placed their computer chip, Captain America was soon discovered by all the remaining HYDRA agents onboard the Helicarrier who began firing at him. With little time to spare, Captain America requested Falcon's help as he leaped from the Helicarrier and fell towards Washington, D.C. several hundred feet below. Falcon managed to catch up in time and pulled Captain America all the way back up to the third and final Helicarrier.

However, just as they began to relax, Captain America and Falcon were ambushed by Winter Soldier who pushed Rogers overboard and damaged Falcon's Wing Suit before also kicking him overboard, causing Falcon to fall back to the Triskelion where he got caught up in a fistfight with Agent Brock Rumlow while Rogers nearly fell to his death, although he was able to stay onboard their Helicarrier. Now it was all on Rogers to complete the plan and defeat HYDRA.[6]

Captain America entered the Helicarrier in order to put their final chip in place before he was confronted by Winter Soldier who stood firmly in his way. Rogers desperately begged Barnes to listen to him, noting that Project Insight would soon kill millions of innocent lives. However, Rogers saw that Barnes was simply not going to listen to reason and, running out of time, Captain America then steeled himself for what must be done in order to complete his current mission.

Despite what Rogers wanted, the two former friends fought violently against each other, as Captain America began the furious fight by launching Captain America's Shield at the Winter Soldier, which he blocked with his Bionic Arm before they began their struggle. Rogers used his shield to block all the Winter Soldiers gunshots before then disarming him and attempting to keep him away while he rearmed the Helicarrier in order to complete his own current mission.

While the pair both attempted to take control of the chip; the Winter Soldier responded by throwing Captain America off the ledge before they continued their fight with Rogers desperately attempting to keep the chip safe from harm. In his attempt to win their fight, the Winter Soldier launched Rogers' shield at him, before firing at him, which Rogers managed to block with his shield before launching the shield back at the Winter Soldier who used his arm to block the blow.

Following a long and brutal battle between the pair where the Winter Soldier attempted to kill his target while Captain America tried to emotionally reach him, the Winter Soldier managed to get his hands on the chip, before Captain America had put him into a tight chokehold and demanded that he drop it. Captain America finally managed to subdue the Winter Soldier, by choking him out until the Winter Soldier lost consciousness and dropped the chip.

Rogers attempted to get the chip into place with only seconds left before Project Insight would initiate. However, he was shot multiple times by Barnes, including the shot that went through his stomach. Using whatever energy he had left, Rogers managed to get the chip in place and Maria Hill took control of the other Helicarriers. Before making them fire on each other, Hill had acknowledged that Rogers was still on-board, but he commanded her to do it anyway.

With Rogers still onboard, their mission went ahead exactly as they had planned, with all of Alexander Pierce's Helicarriers firing at one another. The Helicarrier that Rogers and Barnes were in was the last remaining one while the other two were blown out of the sky. Their Helicarrier crashed into the Triskelion, causing it to collapse and also crushing Brock Rumlow under the debris. As the Helicarrier had still continued to fall, some debris landed on Barnes, trapping him.

Running to his aid, Rogers had freed the trapped Winter Soldier who immediately betrayed him, despite Rogers insisting that the Winter Soldier did indeed know who he was, desperately trying to remind him that his name was James Buchanan Barnes and telling him of their friendship in the 1940s. While the Winter Soldier now attacking Captain America, Rogers still refused to fight Barnes, and dropped his shield allowing Barnes to secure an easy victory.

Refusing to accept the truth about his past, the Winter Soldier began to savagely beat Rogers with his metal arm, determined to complete his mission to kill Captain America for HYDRA. Before Rogers had lost consciousness from the terrible beating, he promised Barnes to be with him until the end of the line; a promise Barnes once gave him decades ago in 1936 following Sarah Rogers' funeral. This caused Barnes to realize what he was doing to his long-time friend.

However, just as Barnes came back to his senses and stopped the beating, a large piece of debris fell and caused the floor to collapse underneath them. The unconscious Rogers then fell into the water below and nearly drowned, but Barnes decided to not allow his old friend to die and dived in, saving him. Barnes then dragged Rogers back to the shore and walked away, leaving Rogers to be found and receive medical attention while Barnes had then disappeared.[6]

Rogers eventually woke up sometime later following the Battle at the Triskelion in a hospital, where Sam Wilson then filled him in on what had happened after he was found. S.H.I.E.L.D. had gone through some major changes, having been dismantled as a result of the HYDRA Uprising. Having successfully killed Alexander Pierce during the battle, Nick Fury was officially dead, and he had destroyed all evidence of being alive, even replacing his eye-patch for sunglasses.

Standing by his headstone, Fury ordered Rogers to tell anyone who asked that he was dead as he left to thwart HYDRA operations in Europe. Meanwhile, Natasha Romanoff went to a Senate hearing to defend their actions, saying that they could not arrest them because they are the best qualified to protect the world. Rogers decided to start looking, with the help of Wilson, for Bucky Barnes, so that he could convince him of who he really was and save him.

Captain America then greeted the New Avengers team, consisting of the Vision, Scarlet Witch, War Machine and Falcon.[26] Before long, HYDRA collected many of the parts of the destroyed Ultron Sentries and took them to an undisclosed location in Eastern Europe, where they used the parts to create a giant robot called Ultimo. HYDRA then used the Ultimo to attack a village. Rogers led the Avengers to an attack on the giant robot and managed to destroy Ultimo

After intercepting a consignment of V.X. nerve gas in Minsk, bound for Syria, IMF agent Ethan Hunt is convinced that he can prove the existence of the Syndicate, an international criminal consortium of rogue agents and trained killers. Reporting into an IMF substation to receive his orders, the Syndicate reveal their existence to Hunt, having infiltrated the station to subdue him. Hunt is rescued by disavowed British agent Ilsa Faust, a Syndicate operative who offers no explanation for her actions. With their existence confirmed, Hunt begins following his only lead: a blond man in glasses who oversaw his capture, later identified as former MI6 agent and Syndicate leader Solomon Lane.

Meanwhile, CIA director Alan Hunley and William Brandt are summoned before a Senate oversight committee to justify the continued existence of the IMF. Citing their reckless behavior and near-miss in San Francisco during the events of 2011, Hunley demands that the IMF be disbanded and absorbed into the CIA. With Brandt unable to reveal operational details without permission from the IMF Secretary, the committee side with Hunley, whose first act is to name Hunt as the CIA's most-wanted man.

Six months later, Hunt leads a CIA team to an empty safe house as a means of passing information on the Syndicate to Benji Dunn. Suspicious of Hunley's actions and believing he will kill Hunt at the first opportunity, Brandt recruits Luther Stickell to discreetly find Hunt, using a likeness of Ilsa found at the safe-house. Hunt arranges for Dunn to attend an opera in Vienna, recruiting him to take part in a covert mission to locate the man in glasses. Realizing that the Syndicate plans to assassinate the Chancellor of Austria at the opera, Hunt intervenes by shooting him before the Syndicate can. Escaping with Ilsa, one of the intended shooters, he is powerless to prevent the Chancellor from being killed by a car bomb put in place as a redundancy, with Lane nowhere to be found.

Ilsa partners with Hunt and Dunn to locate a file hidden by a Syndicate traitor on a high-security server terminal used to regulate a Moroccan power station. Believing it to be a ledger containing the names of all Syndicate agents, the trio secure it before Ilsa betrays Hunt and Dunn. She returns to London, passing the file on to her handler, Atlee. However, Atlee discreetly erases the file, forcing Ilsa to return to the Syndicate and prove her loyalty to Lane.

Regrouping with Brandt and Stickell, Hunt and Dunn follow Ilsa back to London, where they debate the nature of their work. Having betrayed one another so many times, they can no longer be certain of their own loyalty, question what to do next as they cannot be sure that Lane has not anticipated and moved to manipulate them. When Dunn is abducted by Lane's men, Hunt realizes that Lane will always have a plan to acquire the files, and that the only sure way to stop him is to force a confrontation with him. He agrees to Lane's ultimatum to abduct the British Prime Minister and use his voice print to unlock the file.

Disturbed by this turn of events, Brandt contacts Hunley and reveals their location. Hunley arrives at a charity auction to try and prevent Hunt from attacking the Prime Minister, and take him with Brandt and Atlee to a secure room. Having posed as Atlee, Hunt reveals himself and has the Prime Minister confirm the existence of the Syndicate: a top-secret black project that sought to recruit disavowed foreign operatives to carry out clandestine missions; an initiative that the Prime Minister rejected as too extreme. When the real Atlee arrives, Hunt subdues him, and he admits that Lane hijacked the project for his own ends and went rogue, turning the Syndicate against him and MI6, and that Atlee has been covering up its existence ever since.

Stickell discovers that the file is not a ledger of agents, but contains the location and access codes for billions of dollars in untraceable funds that Lane has been desperate to get to expand the Syndicate's operations. Hunt memorizes the data and destroys the file to force Lane to release Dunn in exchange for what he knows. He lures Lane out into the open and into a trap set up by Stickell. Imprisoned in a bulletproof cell, he is gassed and taken into custody.

Some time later, Hunley and Brandt return to the oversight committee to reinstate the IMF. Hunley suggests that their original meeting gave them a pretext to let Hunt's team infiltrate the CIA and take down the Syndicate without arousing suspicion. The committee is skeptical, believing Hunley is trying to save face, but agree when Brandt again refuses to discuss operational matters without permission. Outside, Brandt addresses Hunley as the Secretary of the IMF, revealing that the entire scheme was an elaborate ploy to destroy the Syndicate

### Power

In the past, Kuai Liang took on his brother's colors and codename, Sub-Zero, and fought his killer, Scorpion, in Shao Kahn's tournament in Outworld. Sub-Zero defeated Scorpion and was ordered by Shao Kahn to finish him. Kuai made it clear he would not kill for him, but for his brother and prepared to finish Scorpion when a group of cyborg Lin Kuei appeared around him. Sub-Zero screamed in defiance that he would not be turned but was captured and put through the cyborg process.

Kuai eventually regained control of himself but was shortly killed there after by Sindel. When he next regained consciousness, he was in the Netherrealm before the arch sorcerer Quan Chi. Sub-Zero was confused by the fact his friend Smoke was restraining him along with Jax Briggs and Quan Chi explained their souls belonged to the Netherrealm, as Kuai's now did as well. Quan Chi told Kuai his army needed resilient souls for the coming war, and while Kuai defiantly declared he would not be his slave, Quan Chi retorted he would be his puppet and used his magic to lift Kuai into the air before destroying his cyborg body, freeing what little remained of his organic body.

Quan Chi then used his dark sorcery to regrow Kuai's human body, reviving him as one of his revenants and forcing him to serve the Netherrealm.

In the final hours of the Netherrealm War, Sub-Zero fought alongside fellow revenants Scorpion and Jax Briggs against a squad of Special Forces soldiers in Quan Chi's fortress. Sub-Zero was ordered by Scorpion to protect Quan Chi but was too late as Sonya Blade defeated the sorcerer, allowing Raiden to finish his incantation, knocking Kuai unconscious.

Kuai would awaken months later, confused and believing himself in another hell. When a voice called out to him, Kuai lashed out in anger with an ice blast, but Raiden easily deflected it, telling Kuai he was safe in the Sky Temple. Kuai was confused about being truly alive again and Raiden explained his restoration to life was due to his power combining with Quan Chi's and the thunder god welcomes Kuai back. Kuai expresses his deep remorse over the actions he committed under Quan Chi's control, asking Raiden how he could live with himself.

Raiden told him to make amends and explained Earthrealm needed his help. The thunder god then assigned Sub-Zero to retrieve one of the Kamidogu, the dagger having been stolen by the Red Dragon clan.

Sub-Zero attacks the temple in Linxia, China, where the dagger is held in a vault, slaughtering the Red Dragon soldiers inside with ease. Holding the last one hostage with an ice knife at the soldier's throat, Sub-Zero makes it clear he is no longer in Quan Chi's service and demands the door to the vault be opened. When the soldier refuses, Sub-Zero simply throws him through the doors, breaking them open.

Inside the chamber, Sub-Zero sees the dagger is gone and demands to know who has it. Kuai is then attacked from behind, a lazer beam knocking his mask off, before the Black Dragon mercenary Kano gets him in a headlock, dragging the Kamidogu over Kuai's eye, scarring him. Kuai tries to tell Kano the dagger is cursed as his eyes turn red, but Kano retorts that Raiden lied to him and prepares to tell the cryomancer the truth behind the Kamidogu.

Sub-Zero manages to escape Kano's grasp by slamming him into a nearby pillar, but Kano is able to stab him in the shoulder with the dagger, wounding him. As Sub-Zero collapses to his knees, Kano reveals that those cut by the Kamidogus become possessed, and only death can free them. Refusing to die again, Sub-Zero freezes and smashes Kano's optic implant, bringing the mercenary to his knees. While Kano curses at him, Kuai Liang collects the dagger and escapes.

In Raiden's vision, Sub-Zero is seen fighting the automated Lin Kuei.

Sub-Zero's whereabouts are revealed, having been on the run with the Kamidogu dagger he recovered years ago. In Bukittinggi, Indonesia, Sub-Zero attempts to flee from automated Lin Kuei cyborgs, who unsuccessfully attempt to convince him to return and be converted, proclaiming it removes all weaknesses. Telling the cyborgs that they are not Lin Kuei and declaring he has no weaknesses, Sub-Zero draws the Kamidogu and offers it his blood, invoking the Blood Code.

Using his enhanced power, Sub-Zero freezes the squad of Lin Kuei, as well as the entire building they were standing on and part of the city. Possessed by the dagger, Sub-Zero admires it as the voice of the demon dwelling within it proclaims the time of the Blood God is near.

Kuai froze the entire city of Kahishari, Japan and more Lin Kuei cyborgs that had been pursuing him, killing thousands of innocent people in the process. Resting at a frozen temple, Kuai hears the voice of the demon as Hanzo Hasashi and his apprentice Takeda Takahashi approach, the demon reminding him of Hanzo's role in Bi-Han's death and warning him that Takeda is not to be trusted, proclaiming that both have defied the Blood Code before ordering Kuai to remove their spines.

Kuai greets Hanzo, saying he did not recognize him without the fire in his eyes before demolishing the frozen temple with a single punch. Hanzo declares that while killing Kuai won't bring back the people he killed, it will stop him from hurting anyone else. The demon takes full control of Kuai as he draws the Kamidogu, spikes of ice emerging along Kuai's back, arms and shoulders, and speaks through him to mock Hanzo as his Scorpion persona takes over, much to the demon's joy, forcing the rematch between Scorpion and Sub-Zero to begin.

Before the battle begins, Scorpion demands to know if he is speaking with Kuai Liang or the demon within the Kamidogu. The possessed Sub-Zero mockingly asks if Raiden had not explained that the dagger is a key, not a vessel, and declares that the real power is in the blood as he cuts his wrist with the dagger to further empower himself with Blood Magik. Sub-Zero points to Takeda as the demon reminds him of when he executed his friend Fox.

Scorpion holds his student back before launching his first attack, throwing both of his spears to impale Kuai before igniting them with hellfire and dragging the cryomancer towards him. Sub-Zero recovers and grabs the chains, freezing them solid and extinguishing the hellfire before shattering them. Sub-Zero throws an ice blast at Scorpion, but he teleports to dodge the attack. The possessed Kuai demands Scorpion stop dodging and "Get over here!"

When Scorpion reappears behind Sub-Zero, Kuai causes the spikes along his body to turn into deadly glacier spears that impale Scorpion. Sub-Zero flips Scorpion over him while mocking him for going through the motions, claiming he is a wraith and that the man is a lie before sliding into Scorpion to knock him over. Kuai then kicks Scorpion into a glacier, shattering it, all the while the demon continues to speak through him, claiming Hanzo Hasashi is a weak impostor and that when he is destroyed, the real Scorpion will rise.

The possessed Kuai suddenly realizes his Kamidogu is gone and sees Takeda absconding with the dagger. Amused, the demon uses the last of the Magik in Sub-Zero's blood to 'freeze a moment in time' and uses Kuai's enhanced power to unleashes a massive blast of ice that traps Takeda and Scorpion in ice, freeing Kuai from the possession as the Blood Magik is used up. A wounded and bleeding Kuai is shocked and confused, looking around the destroyed city and wondering how he did all the damage. When he sees Hanzo frozen in a glacier, Sub-Zero reacts in time to summon two Kori Blades to parry Scorpion as the Shirai Ryu breaks free with his sword drawn.

As Sub-Zero clashes his Kori Blades with Scorpion's hellfire coated Mugai Ryu, Kuai pleads his innocence to Hanzo in desperation but Scorpion refuses to listen, only kicking Sub-Zero back while following up with his swords, all the while mocking Kuai for blaming his actions on the Kamidogu before shattering his kori blades. Kuai declares that the dagger possessed him while firing an ice blast at Scorpion and kicking him over with a slide.

Kuai promises to return with Scorpion to Raiden to explain his actions but Scorpion only rages about how Kuai's brother denied the Lin Kuei's involvement with the destruction of the Shirai Ryu. Angered by Hanzo's inability to let go of the past, Kuai shouts at him to move on and proclaims that there are no more Lin Kuei, revealing the cyborgs killed all those who would not convert, with Kuai claiming he is all that is left of his clan.

Scorpion summons two demonic minions to hold an off-guard Sub-Zero in place, declaring they will finish their feud before impaling Kuai Liang with both of his swords. Spitting blood, Kuai weakly tells Hanzo he is not a monster and pleads with him to remember the horrible things they both did in Quan Chi's service and asks him to remember the agony of being controlled by an evil spirit.

Scorpion denies ever being controlled, and removes his mask to reveal his burning skull before unleashing a breath of hellire on a screaming Kuai. Sub-Zero is spared from death when Scorpion's student Takeda manages to escape the ice and reason with his master. Hanzo then dismisses his demonic minions and removes his swords, telling a burned Kuai he may live, not for long, but long enough to reflect on his misdeeds. Kuai then collapses in a pool of his own blood as Hanzo and Takeda depart, leaving Sub-Zero in the ruins of the city he froze and destroyed.

Left for dead by Hanzo, Kuai futilely tried to struggle to his feet when a voice called out to him, telling him to stop or he would bleed out faster while telling him to ask himself what his life has meant up to this point. The stranger then treats Kuai's wounds as Kuai explains his story up to that point, and tells the man who saved his life, Bo' Rai Cho, that he will never be free, saying he will always be forced to kneel before sorcerers and demigods. As Bo' Rai Cho helps Sub-Zero up, the cryomancer contemplates hara-kiri, but Bo' Rai Cho laughs this off and tells him Raiden owes him a favor, which confuses Kuai.

Sometime later, Kuai Liang has been training with Bo' Rai Cho in Pura Bratan, Bali. Smashing several layers of bricks with a single blow, Kuai pauses in his training when Bo' Rai Cho arrives, informing him that their thief has done his job. Impressed how fast that was, Kuai takes the flashdrive Bo' Rai Cho removes from the delivered envelope, telling his perplexed teacher that this is what he has been waiting for. Kuai Liang then declares that it is finally time to shut down the cyber Lin Kuei.

Accompanied by Bo' Rai Cho, Kuai heads to the outskirts of Shulianghua, China, where he reveals the location of Sektor's army of cyborg ninjas is an old fallout shelter. Telling his teacher the door is the only way in or out, Kuai begins to freeze the door as Bo' Rai Cho asks if the cyber Lin Kuei are waiting for him. Telling Bo' Rai Cho that he's "Counting on it" Kuai shatters the frozen door with an ice covered fist.

An alarm is issued as Kuai charges in, sliding under a missile fired from a nearby cyborg that he quickly dispatches with a punch before tearing it half. Sliding down the stairs in a trail of ice, Sub-Zero freezes another door and shatters it, arriving in the cyber Lin Kuei's databanks room. There, Kuai inserts the flashdrive into one of the computers, though the system is quick to detect a virus.

Sub-Zero dispatches another cyborg with an ice Kori Blade, and then moves on into the next area. Discovering a massive production facility, Kuai is disgusted as he realizes that Sektor began a cloning program to convert more cyborgs to expand his army. Leaping onto the floor below, Sub-Zero destroys four cyborgs using ice as armor while creating two more Kori Blades. He takes out eight more cyborgs using his cryokinesis and martial arts skills before he is finally subdued.

When one cyborg states that Sub-Zero will be prepared for conversion, Kuai defiantly shouts that he will never be converted again. The cyborgs begin leading Kuai away, and when he demands to know where he's being taken, they inform him they are leading him to their master. Kuai is presented before Sektor and Cyrax, and the red cyborg greets Sub-Zero, welcoming him back to the Lin Kuei while calling him traitor. Kuai tells Sektor that he is not back and that this no longer the Lin Kuei but a failed experiment, which earns him a rocket powered punch across the face from Sektor.

After vowing to mercifully terminate Kuai, Sektor demands to know what the virus is doing to the Lin Kuei's system. Seeing that the virus has almost completely uploaded, Kuai simply tells Sektor that it is fixing their system, while discreetly gathering ice in his hands. Though Sektor orders Cyrax to initiate a memory dump of their system to purge it of the virus, Cyrax hesitates, allowing Sub-Zero to freeze the cyborgs holding him in place and break free of their hold. Kuai tells Sektor that he's learned that while you can temporarily override someone's consciousness, you can't delete their humanity, all the while using one of the frozen cyborgs as a shield from Sektor's missile.

As the virus finishes installing, the system announces the slaving protocols have been disengaged, to which Sektor responds by mockingly informing Kuai that the cloning program made those obsolete and that there is no one there who shares Kuai's morality. Firing a missile that knocks Kuai over, Sektor orders Cyrax to immobilize him, and Kuai reaches out to Cyrax as the yellow cyborg prepares to fire his energy net, telling him he doesn't have to do this.

Cyrax disagrees, and suddenly fires his net at Sektor, revealing he has been freed from the slaving protocols. Sektor dodges using his teleport uppercut, and as Kuai moves to help Cyrax, welcoming him back to humanity, both are caught in the flames of Sektor's flamethrowers as more cyborg ninjas rush in.

Kuai counters Sektor's flames with a wave of ice, both elements canceling each other out. Confidant that Sektor couldn't keep his assault up for long, Kuai asked Cyrax if he could shut down the cyborg reinforcements arriving, and Cyrax revealed that only Sektor could, as each clone required a central master to operate. As Sektor boasted that his clone cyborgs had already quantified Kuai's strength, declaring he was no match for the crimson cyborg, Sub-Zero slid under the flames, using a shield of ice to protect himself.

Summoning two Kori Blades, Kuai severed Sektor's arms and flipped over the cyborg, tearing his head off clean with his bare hands, revealing he had been holding back the entire time. As the cyborg clones stood in confusion, Sub-Zero held Sektor's head for all to see, and the clones quickly declared Cyrax to be their new master. The yellow cyborg sent the clones out, and Sub-Zero told his old friend that their was hope now for the Lin Kuei and that he believed Cyrax and the clones could be restored to human forms.

Cyrax suddenly told Kuai that the clan's honor could only be restored by him and Kuai was confused when Cyrax thanked him for allowing him to fight beside him one last time. Kuai tries to convince Cyrax there was hope, but Cyrax declared that the Lin Kuei needed a clean slate and activated his auto-destruct sequence. Before the detonation went off, Cyrax declared Kuai Liang the Lin Kuei's new master and told him to make it count.

Sub-Zero survived the explosion by shielding himself in a barrier of ice. Stepping outside, Kuai found Bo' Rai Cho covered in flames and used his ice to freeze his master to save him. Shattering the ice around Bo' Rai Cho, Kuai apologized and promised his teacher a round of drinks.

Needing some time alone, Kuai retreated to Arctika, where he remained for several weeks, establishing a palace for the Lin Kuei there. As he was meditating before a Buddhist statue, someone approached him from behind. Flipping the interloper and easily pinning her down, Kuai demanded to know who she was and what she was doing there. The girl revealed her name to be Frost and explained that Raiden had sent her for a tournament.

Kuai was further confused when Frost explained it was a tournament to join the new Lin Kuei. Kuai was shocked to see Frost was not alone, dozens of other warriors having accompanied her. Standing before them, annoyed, Kuai told the large group that maybe one or two of them were worthy of becoming Lin Kuei and told them if they were to stay there was only one rule. Looking at Frost, Kuai stressed they were not to attack their new master. Bidding the warriors to follow him, Kuai mused he had much to figure out and that he would need to speak with Raiden.

Kuai Liang, who has taken the role of grandmaster of the Lin Kuei, invites Hanzo Hasashi at the Lin Kuei temple to make amends. Hanzo thinks it is a ruse to completely exterminate the Shirai Ryu from existence, because for the longest time, he thought the Lin Kuei was responsible for the extinction of his clan. Kuai Liang explains that the Lin Kuei's honor was already blemished even before the Cyber Initiative. All of a sudden, Frost appears to attack the former Scorpion, making Hanzo believe Kuai Liang did want to kill him and fights him.

With Hanzo about to kill Kuai Liang, Frost prepares for another sneak attack, but she is intercepted by Kuai Liang, encasing her in ice. To prove his sincerity, Kuai presents Hanzo Sektor's severed head, and shows him the cyborg's preserved memories. It is revealed that it was actually Quan Chi, the very person Scorpion served as a revenant, who was responsible for the murder of the Shirai Ryu, Hanzo's wife Harumi and their son Satoshi. With the truth finally revealed to him, Hanzo and Kuai Liang have since gained mutual respect as allies.

Five years later, Kuai Liang is met by Cassie Cage and her team under orders from Cassie's father Johnny. Not wanting to converse with them, he and his warriors engage them in battle. Defeating Cassie and her team, Kuai reveals that the encounter is a test set up by him and Johnny, chastising Cassie's team's lack of unity while commenting that they have great potential.

Sub-Zero eventually horrifically witnesses the corruption of Earthrealm's Jinsei. Later when Cassie Cage and her team were ambushed by Kotal Kahn and his forces, Sub-Zero appeared along with his Lin Kuei warriors and said he would drive Kotal Kahn and his forces back to Outworld. And he successfully did so.

## Phase 3

Bloodied and exhausted, Rogers still refused to stand down, even as Stark charged a repulsor blast. Barnes, who was still alive, managed to grab Stark's boot before Stark kicked Barnes in the face. This provided a distraction for Rogers, who grabbed Stark from behind and violently slammed him into the ground. Rogers pinned him to the floor and pummeled him with every bit of remaining strength he had, smashing his helmet to pieces and shattering his Arc Reactor with his shield.

As Rogers carried the injured Barnes away, Stark claimed Rogers did not deserve the shield, as Howard Stark had made it. Acknowledging that he had proved himself unworthy of the weapon and out of sympathy for his former friend, he surrendered it back to the Stark family and left the scene with Barnes and Leaving Wolf Man Behind alone Defeated.[4] Once outside the facility, Rogers and Barnes were confronted by the Black Panther, who revealed that he had overheard everything and had already apprehended Zemo. Before leaving to take Zemo to the authorities, Black Panther told Barnes that he had resources in Wakanda that could help him in removing his Winter Soldier programming.[33]

Two days later,[4][33] after finishing his plan on how to infiltrate the prison, Rogers took a Quinjet to the Raft, and, while also reassuring Barnes that he was still "with him 'til the end of the line", Rogers liberated his teammates from the Airport Battle. Rogers was joined by Sam Wilson in his vigilantism, while Barton, Maximoff, and Lang returned to their homes.[33]

At the same time, seeking to make amends, Rogers sent Tony Stark a package containing a letter and a cell phone. In the letter, Rogers apologized for the events that had transpired, specifically withholding the knowledge of Stark's parents' murder and the fact that they couldn't agree on the Sokovia Accords. He assured Stark that if the latter would ever need him, or any of the other Avengers, he would be a phone call away

Some weeks after the Escape from the Raft,[33] Rogers and Barnes were told by T'Challa that Bucky Barnes would have to return to cryo-sleep stasis to have a better chance of having his Winter Soldier programming removed. Though Rogers disagreed, he left the choice to Barnes, who decided to give it a chance. After Shuri explained how she intended to remove the HYDRA programming,[33] Rogers stayed by Barnes' side as he went into the ice once again.

Rogers thanked T'Challa for his actions in protecting Barnes, with T'Challa noting that both Barnes and T'Chaka were victims and he wanted to help one find some kind of peace. Rogers warned him that if the United Nations would discover that Wakanda was harboring the Winter Soldier, they will come as Thaddeus Ross and Everett Ross were still furious that he had gotten away, to which T'Challa boldly stated that they may try.[33

Three years after his last adventure, Nate has settled into a normal life with his wife Elena in a suburban home in New Orleans, didn't seem to have changed much personality and there were still remnants of his old obsession as he is seen throughout the game picking up objects, surprising himself in his inventions and making some excuses. He is now working as a diver for a local salvage company owned by his boss Jameson. After successfully salvaging a sunken train car with its cargo intact, Nate was offered a salvage job in Malaysia by Jameson which he declines due to the lack of legal permits required.

Later that day, Nate joins Elena for dinner and the two exchange their day. While listening to Elena, Nate remembers his past life as a fortune hunter and stops listening. Elena then assumes he is troubled about the Malaysia job and after a discussion and some playtime, the two share a kiss.

Sometime later, as Nate works in his office, he is visited by his brother Sam whom he thought was shot and killed in a Panamanian prison escape fifteen years prior. After Nate tells Sam of his previous exploits and adventures, Sam narrates how he had escaped the prison. His cellmate, drug lord Hector Alcazar breaks him out in exchange for half of Henry Avery's lost treasure. Sam then forces Nate back into his former life of fortune-hunting in order to save his brother. Just before they leave, Nate lies to Elena that he had taken the Malaysia job.

Sam presents Nate with a promising lead on Avery's treasure, a cross of Saint Dismas, similar to the one they had found in the Panamanian jail fifteen years ago, but intact and is being sold for auction in the Rossi Estate in Italy. Nate and Sam head to the estate with help from Nate's mentor, Victor "Sully" Sullivan whom Nate hasn't seen or talked to since their last adventure. Sully secures their invitation to the auction and they plan to steal the cross before it is put up for auction. However, before they could get the opportunity to do so, the order was changed and the cross was suddenly put up for auction. Nate and Sam plan to kill the power in order to steal the cross from the display.

Meanwhile, Sully bumps into Nadine Ross, head of private military army Shoreline and Rafe Adler, a rich fortune hunter who was with Nate and Sam in the Panamanian jail looking for clues to Avery's treasure. Sully learns that Nadine and Rafe had partnered and are aiming to outbid everyone to get the cross. Sam impersonates a waiter in order to get as close to the cross as possible. Just as Nate arrives in the power room, the bidding for the cross starts. Sully tries to outbid Rafe in order to buy time for Nate to kill the lights.

Once the lights go out, Sam steals the cross and he and Sully leave the room, just before the emergency lights turn on. Nate exits the power room and makes his way to Sam and Sully while trying to avoid security. En route, he encounters Nadine and she immediately and swiftly subdues Nate, demanding the cross. Nadine unintentionally throws Nate out of a window and he makes his way to Sam who is pinned down by security in the auction room. After fighting their way through security, Nate and Sam are rescued by Sully in a limo and they escape the Estate and head to their hotel. Once at the hotel, they break open the cross and find a paper that points to a specific grave near the Saint Dismas cathedral in Scotland

The three head to Scotland in Sully's Hog Wild seaplane. The Saint Dismas cathedral area is now owned by Rafe Adler who had purchased the area after recovering the previous cross in the Panamanian prison fifteen years ago. The cathedral is now a dig site occupied by Shoreline mercenaries while the adjacent graveyard is untouched. Nate and Sam make their way to the graveyard and find a grave that fits the description found on the paper in the cross. After finishing a test, the grave points them to a cave underneath the cathedral.

Nate and Sam make their way through the cave, pass tests and eventually find themselves in a chamber with a scale that has a jeweled cross on one end and a pile of coins on the other. Picking up a coin from the pile they pass the test and a map of Madagascar is shown pointing to King's Bay. Nadine enters the chamber and Sam tricks her into picking up the cross, setting off a trap. The brothers fight their way out of the cathedral and make their way to the plane and head straight for Madagascar.

The coin is minted with a mark of a volcano that coincides with a volcano near King's Bay. Nate, Sam, and Sully make their way to the volcano and find towers marked with the sigils of pirate captains from Avery's time. They eventually find a tower marked with Avery's sigil and discover the map that reveals the locations of all twelve towers and their sigils. Using the coin, which is also minted with a sigil, they narrow the best possible location of Avery's treasure to two towers on opposite ends of King's Bay. The trio split, with Sam, headed to Joseph Farrell's tower and Nate and Sully headed to Edward England's tower.

Nate and Sully solve the puzzles in their tower and learn that theirs is the correct tower. However, they didn't find the treasure but they found only a map marked with Pro deus qoud licentia. Before Sam could make his way to Nate and Sully's tower, Rafe calls Nate and informs him that he hacked their phones to get their location and Shoreline mercenaries to ambush the three in their towers. Nate, Sully, and Sam are chased all though out the city and countryside by mercenaries until they finally lose them and meet up at their motel room.

The Latin cipher Nate and Sully discovered points to the existence of Libertalia, the legendary pirate utopia which was likely founded by Avery and the eleven other pirate captains he had recruited. Just before they could leave, Nate is confronted by Elena, who is emotional over Nate lying to her about the Malaysia job and Sam's existence. Elena walks out on Nate and is followed by Sully who stays back to watch on her.

Nate and Sam continue on to head towards an island that was pointed out in the map they had discovered. On the island, they solve elaborate puzzles which point them to another, larger island where they hope Libertalia is located. Just as they were about to leave, Rafe and Shoreline mercenaries arrive and a storm brew. Nate and Sam race towards the larger island while being attacked by Shoreline vessels. Before they could reach the island, their boat is rammed by a larger Shoreline ship, separating Sam and Nate and marooning them both on the island.

Nate awakes in the middle of the storm and attempts to make his way to Sam until he passes out. The storm passes and Nate wakes up to a Morse code signal from Sam. He climbs and fights his way through the island jungle and eventually reunites with Sam. Nate expresses his concerns over Sam's obsession with finding the treasure, what he had sacrificed and that his feelings about giving up. Then they suddenly discover the remains of civilization and later find themselves standing in the commercial district of Libertalia. Sam expresses his excitement for the discovery and they make their way to the treasure building. On the way, they find clues about a rebellion and a civil war that deserted the legendary pirate utopia.

When they arrive at the treasure building, the treasure was no longer there. According to manifests and evidences, Nate and Sam conclude that the twelve pirate captains who were the founders of Libertalia stole from the colonists and kept the treasure for themselves. They also concluded that the most likely place the founders took the treasure is to a place called New Devon, the residence of the founders, in the northern part of the island. As they make their way to a tall tower, they are ambushed by Shoreline mercenaries who destroy the tower and Nate and Sam are confronted by Nadine who single-handedly hustles the two Drakes.

Just as the brothers get the upper hand, Rafe and other mercenaries arrive. After attempting to strike a deal, Rafe reveals that he was the one who had freed Sam from prison and that Hector Alcazar has been killed over six months prior. Furious, Nate still attempts to bargain with Rafe to let them go home. However, Rafe intends to execute Nate but shoots Sam instead who takes the bullet for Nate, but not before he accidentally pushes his younger brother off the cliff, in which Nate hits his head on one of the rocks, knocking him out as he falls into the river.

Unconscious, Nate awakens to find that he is found by Elena, who had changed her mind about walking out on her husband and followed him to the island with the help of Sully. Nate finally reveals his true identity and past to Elena and the two head to New Devon where Sam is likely to be taken. On the way, the two reconcile about their marriage and remember their promises to each other not to go back to a life of fortune-hunting.

When they arrive at the walls of New Devon, they find hundreds of colonists who were imprisoned in gibbets by the founders for acts of rebellion. Once they scale the wall, they find the place completely flooded and deserted. While traversing through some of the pirate captain's individual residences, Nate and Elena learn that after squashing the rebellious colonists, the founders turned on each other for the treasure. Upon arriving at the residence of Thomas Tew, second-in-command of Henry Avery, Nate and Elena find the corpses of the ten founding pirate captains who were invited by Tew to 'abandon their animosities' and were subsequently poisoned by Tew and Avery, who wanted the treasure for themselves.

They finally arrive at the residence of Henry Avery, where Nate and Elena find a letter that suggests Avery and Tew turned on each other for the treasure. They find footprints, left by Shoreline mercenaries and Sam, and follow them through the catacombs beneath Avery's mansion. Avoiding traps set by Avery to prevent anybody from following him to the treasure, they follow the catacombs to a ship graveyard where a fight ensues between Sam and Shoreline mercenaries.

Nate and Elena reunite with Sam, then later with Sully and they plan to leave while they can. A reluctant Sam begs Nate that they go and find the treasure, assuring a safer shortcut to Avery's ship which is located on a cove underneath the mountain. Nate ultimately refuses to which Sam finally agrees to and the four head towards Sully's plane which is docked nearby. However, an accident causes Sam to be separated from the group and against Nate's orders, Sam leaves to find the treasure.

Nate, Elena, and Sully chase after Sam but after another accident, Nate is forced to go alone and leave Elena and Sully behind. Nate chases after his brother up and inside the mountain and eventually spots the grounded Fancy, Avery's ship, inside the mountain in its cove. He overhears a conversation between Nadine and Rafe with the former expressing doubt over recovering the full haul of Avery's treasure since she had lost so many men on the island. After attempting to leave with a box full of gold, her own mercenaries turn on her and side with Rafe and he demands that they board the ship to recover the full haul to which Nadine complies. Sam steals one of their boats and arrives at the ship first, followed by Rafe and then later Nate.

A trap inside the ship explodes, setting the ship on fire and killing most of the remaining mercenaries. Nate arrives in the ship's treasure hold and finds Rafe and Sam, who is stuck underneath a collapsed beam. Nate begs Rafe to help him save Sam so they could go home. Nadine arrives, disarms both Rafe and Nate and points out to the corpses of Avery and Tew who had killed each other for the treasure and says that obsession over the treasure will land them the same fate as the two men. Nadine leaves the three inside the burning ship hold and Rafe, furious over Nate and Sam's achievements, engages Nate in a duel.

Rafe eventually gets the upper hand but Nate kills Rafe by dropping a pile of treasure over him. Nate then blows up a hole in the ships hold, flooding the area in order to lift the collapsed beam and free Sam. They swim through the hole and escape the collapsing ship and cove, making it to safety outside where Elena waits for them and are picked up by Sully. They head back to Madagascar where Nate and Sam part ways. Nate fully retires to a life with Elena and Sam partners with Sully.

Sometime later, Jameson informs Nate that he is selling his company to him. Elena arrives and tells Nate that they are buying the company using Libertalia coins Sam had managed to sneak from the hold. Elena also reveals that normal life isn't for them and that she missed the adventure. Using the company and the money, she will attempt to resurrect her old show and go on adventures with Nate to continue treasures.

## The Decision

After the Regime's fall, Batman pardoned the Flash due to his assistance in taking down the Regime under the condition that Barry would not use his powers. However, Barry still feels the guilt of being a part of it, which is further reinforced by the people's unwillingness to trust him.

To escape from the public eye, he took a job at the Luthor/Wayne Climate Research Center up north. He visits Dr. Randall, who is busy fixing communications, which were downed by Brainiac's invasion. When asked if the workers are treating him well, Barry responds that they still associate the Flash as a Regime criminal, to which he is corrected as a "pardoned" Regime criminal.

Barry is present when Doctor Randall contacts another research center, which is in a panic due to the downed communications and the appearance of Brainiac's spaceship. When Dr. Randall asks him how fast he could go to Metropolis, Barry protests that it would violate his pardon agreement, with the doctor countering that it wouldn't matter in the face of an alien invasion. She reminds Barry that he helped take down the Regime, and revealed that Batman asked her to take Barry in, which indicates that Batman thinks that Barry could have a second chance. Invigorated, Barry changes into his costume and runs off toward Metropolis.

The Flash later defeats a group of Brainiac's forces that had gathered up civilians. However, Brainiac was observing the fight, with Gorilla Grodd reporting that the task force is ready. As the Flash runs through Metropolis, Deadshot fires a supersonic bullet at him, crippling him in the leg. Captain Cold arrives, and compliments his aim, to which Deadshot tells him to get the job done. Captain Cold freezes the Flash's injured knee, stating how it won't be so fast in absolute zero. When Barry tells him to look around, Captain Cold retorts that it was like Superman's Regime, and reminds the Flash of his part in it. The Flash tells Captain Cold that they need to save the innocent people, to which an enraged Captain Cold states how it was those same people who cheered Superman as he murdered his friends, including his sister. Barry apologizes, and tells him that he doesn't hurt civilians and was above that. Captain Cold admits that he was like that in the past, and the two fight.

The Flash defeats Captain Cold, stating that they both let each other down. He is eventually confronted by Deadshot, who states that he's running a little slow, and fires at him. Barry states that tiring will do that to him, dodges the bullets, and runs behind Deadshot and holds his arms in place. When the Flash asks him why he isn't fighting the invasion, Deadshot reveals that Gorilla Grodd placed a bomb in his head, which would be personally detonated by Grodd should Deadshot rebel, and takes the opportunity to stab the Flash through himself. Deadshot tells the Flash that regardless of Flash's opinion, he will always do Grodd's dirty work, and attacks him.

After the Flash defeats Deadshot, he is ambushed by Reverse-Flash, and is kicked into the street. When Barry recognizes him, he protests that he shouldn't be here (timeline-speaking), to which Reverse-Flash responding, "And miss the return of Barry Allen?", and knocks him down. Barry runs out of Metropolis with Eobard in pursuit.

The two speedsters end up in Gotham, exchanging high-speed blows throughout traffic. Reverse- Flash eventually stops Barry, and states that he's run a long way from the future to hurt him. When Barry tells him to return to his own timeline, Reverse-Flash kicks him, and states that he's unable to due to the Regime killing one of his ancestors, trapping him in the current timeline. He states that he is unable to go home, but he can at least hurt the Flash, and the two speedsters fight.

Flash defeats his nemesis, who runs off. When the Flash wonders about how many reunions he can take, Green Lantern approaches him, guessing that he could come back later. Barry is stunned by Hal's appearance, and asks him which dead hand he took the Green Lantern ring off of. When Hal tells Barry that he knows how the ring chose him, Barry expresses doubt, considering that Hal "bailed out on the Guardians and joined the Sinestro Corps." When Hal states that he earned the second chance the Guardians gave him, Barry declares that the Guardians made a mistake, and the two former friends fight.

When the Flash defeats Green Lantern, he asks if Hal was holding back, and helps him up. Hal reiterates that he's been trying to make things right, and expresses that he betrayed his Corps, his planet, and his friends. Barry tells him how all day he's been reminded on how he failed to be hero, and the difficulty of regaining trust, and acknowledges that the two of them were on the same path. The Flash and Green Lantern join together when Hal tells him that it would be easier to go down the path together.

In the Batcave, the Flash argues with Batman over needing Hal's help, with Barry reminding Bruce of giving him a second chance, and Batman retorting that his second chance was only because he helped in taking down the Regime. Flash witnesses Green Lantern's argument, and Batman widening his circle of trust. When Batman reveals that they'll need Aquaman's help, the Flash expresses doubt with the consideration of Aquaman's hidden status after the Regime.

After Brainiac initiates the second phase of his plan, the Flash is seen alongside Green Lantern observing a map showing the locations of the large ships Brainiac sent out, which are over the major cities. When Batman states how Blue Beetle and Firestorm remain busy, the Flash questions how they couldn't be busy for the invasion. When Batman states their purpose of the final defense, Barry states how if Brainiac won't stage a breakout attempt, Wonder Woman and Black Adam will, and surmises that if the situation gets worse, more people will think to release Superman to help, which results in Batman staring at the Flash, to which Flash defends himself.

Flash is seen at the Justice League table with the other heroes, Catwoman explains the plan to defeat Brainiac. After Superman's apparent death, Flash is among the heroes to witness Brainiac offer a deal: give up Supergirl and the Earth will be spared, though they don't take it.

Flash is later seen among the heroes to join Batman and Superman on Brainiac's ship. Batman and Superman then reveal that not every city could be saved, some were locked away in the ship's memory, while others, including Metropolis and Coast City, were lost forever. Wonder Woman manipulates Superman's grief again, who approaches and prepares to execute an incapacitated Brainiac, but Batman intervenes, believing that they should spare him. The team of heroes then divide into two teams: to kill Brainiac or spare him. Flash sided with Batman, along with Green Lantern and Supergirl. He fights Wonder Woman and manages to her. Flash and Supergirl then return to Earth to stop Superman's assault on Green Lantern, but Superman simply blows them away. Superman then knocks Supergirl away, leaving Flash to exchange many fast punches to Superman. Superman finally manages to stop Flash and toss him away to a building. Superman calls Flash a traitor and blames him for the lost cities, claiming that since he helped stop the Regime, it left the Earth vulnerable to Brainiac. Flash responds that he was a traitor when he was part of the Regime and the two fight, with Superman emerging victorious

## Mission Goes Wrong

Two years later, Ethan is given a mission to intercept three stolen plutonium cores before a splinter cell of The Syndicate known as "The Apostles" can sell them to a fundamentalist named John Lark. He joins Benji and Luther for the mission, but fail when Ethan chooses to save Luther's life and the plutonium is taken by the Apostles. The team capture nuclear weapons specialist, Dr. Nils Delbruuk, and learn that he built three portable nuclear weapons for the Apostles.

Ethan and CIA Special Activities Division agent August Walker infiltrates a fundraiser party in Paris by HALO jump where Lark is believed to be buying the cores from an arms dealer known as the White Widow. They track a man whom they suspect to be Lark, but he is killed when Ilsa Faust intervenes. Ethan impersonates Lark and meets the White Widow. He warns her that agents of the Apostles have been sent to kill her and the two evade their pursuers.

Ethan is tasked with extracting Solomon Lane from an armored convoy moving through Paris and provided with one of the plutonium cores as a payment in kind for the mission. Ethan and Walker attack the convoy and lead the police and the White Widow's men on a chase across Paris while Benji and Luther secure Lane at the same time.

Suspecting that Walker is the leader of The Apostles and is John Lark, Ethan and his team hatch a plan to expose him by having Benji to disguise as Lane and send Hunley to capture him. They inform CIA Director Erica Sloane of this information, who sends a task force to capture everyone indiscriminately. However, the IMF team is attacked by members of The Apostles disguising as task force and Hunley is murdered in the process. Ethan pursues Walker in London and is unable to capture him.

Meanwhile, Ethan and his team discover that Lane and Walker plan to detonate two remaining nuclear weapons over a glacier in Kashmir and contaminate the water supply of Pakistan, India, and China to starve a third of its population. Reaching the medical camp, Ethan finds that Walker has arranged for his estranged wife Julia to be assigned there to raise stakes against him. Ethan pursues Walker in a helicopter while Luther, Benji and Ilsa find the bombs in two separate locations.

As the lengthy chase goes on, Walker discovers Ethan and attempts to shoot him down with his machine gun until Ethan quickly rams Walker's helicopter out of the sky. They crash onto the snowy mountain where both Ethan and Walker fight on the cliff edge and Ethan kills Walker using the helicopter's hook. In the process, Ethan gains control of the detonator, allowing Luther, Benji and Ilsa to disarm the bombs at the same time and recover the remaining two plutonium cores.

With the crisis averted, Sloane hands Solomon Lane back to MI6 through the White Widow, in which earns Ilsa's exoneration. Ethan is taken to the medical camp by helicopter and recovers from his injuries with Julia's help while the rest of the team joins him in victory

have officially joined the Rebel Alliance and after the battle at Theed, they join the Alliance on their capital ship. Months later they are contacted by a concerned Princess Leia. One of her Generals has gone missing but she believes him to be on the planet Takodana. He isn't answering his comm so Leia asks Iden to travel to Takodana and locate Han Solo.

The next scene takes place at the castle of Maz Kanata. Han Solo is exactly where most would expect him to be. At the counter trying to talk Maz out of a free (or pay later) drink. Initially it doesn't work and Maz wants to know where Chewbacca is. Han tells her the wookie is working on the communications in the Millennium Falcon. She think's Han is up to something and wants to know what it is. He divulges that he is meeting a turncoat with information on how to free the wookies on Kashyyyk, their home world. Maz hasn't seen the man and isn't sure where he would be but suggests Han talk to the now mostly-intoxicated plethora of patrons.

After talking to several patrons, Han locates Imperial Specialist Ralsius Paldora and they leave Maz's palace together. The information Han needs is stored on a datacube that Paldora has hidden in case he is caught. There is also additional information stored on a second datacube that could prove useful to the Republic. The Imperials are on the planet's surface looking for Paldora per the Admiral's instructions.

After eliminating Imperial troops, Han and Paldora locate the first datacube near what appears to be several water pumps. The second datacube is in another camp. After collecting the second cube, Han heads for the Falcon with Paldora in tow. Han fights his way back and directs 'Chewie' to get the ship ready to fly. In the meantime Han holds the Imperials at bay. Once in the air, Han is contacted by a very angry Maz. She is furious that Han has once again brought Imperials to her doorstep and insists he eliminate them. There is a star cruiser and multiple TIE fighters that need to be eliminated. Iden, Shriv and Del have arrived and help take out the Imperials.

Iden is ready to escort Han back to the Rebel fleet but Han has something else in mind and gives Iden coordinates to meet him there

## Exploring Places of the Refugees

Kabede Bimro, an Ethiopian Jew, works with the Israeli Mossad agent Ari Levinson to evacuate Jewish-Ethiopian refugees to Israel. Ari realizes that his ability to operate in Ethiopia would be improved if he had a cover activity that would give him a reason for having a building and vehicles. He proposes to Israeli intelligence officer Ethan Levin a plan that would allow him to evacuate significantly more refugees: rent the Red Sea Diving Resort, an abandoned Sudanese coastal hotel, and run it as a front to facilitate moving refugees out of the country. The unorthodox plan is reluctantly approved, and Ari recruits his former Mossad colleagues Rachel Reiter, Jake Wolf, Max Rose, and Sammy Navon, to assist him.

Shortly after the team's arrival in the Islamic country of Sudan, the brochures they had printed inspire actual tourists to begin arriving at the resort. Although hosting guests was not originally part of the plan, Levinson realizes the tourists will provide cover for the team's operations, so the team runs the resort as a legitimate business while simultaneously evacuating refugees to a waiting Israeli ship off the coast. The plan is initially successful, and multiple extraction operations are carried out, but the Sudanese Colonel Abdel Ahmed learns of Bimro after interrogating and then killing a group of refugees. Ahmed visits the resort to investigate but does not discover the refugee operation.

One night, Ari and Sammy are arrested after an evacuation mission narrowly escapes from Sudanese soldiers. They are released and return to the resort to find Levin awaiting them; he tells the group the mission has been compromised and that it is canceled.
Ahmed again visits the resort, and Rachel is forced to kill one of his men after the soldier discovers a group of refugees hiding there. To evacuate them, Ari decides to perform a final refugee extraction by cargo plane with assistance from Walton Bowen, a CIA officer. Ari and his team transport the refugees to an abandoned British airfield. The team and Bimro narrowly escape Ahmed and extract themselves and the refugees.

## In Russia

Alexei Shostakov was born in Moscow, and was the husband of Natasha Romanova. Both he and his wife became agents of the Soviets: the latter as the Black Widow while the former became a test pilot and KGB agent and then trained as a Soviet counterpart to Captain America as the "Red Guardian".

Alexei Shostakov was one of the Soviet Union's most acclaimed pilots. During World War II on the Eastern Front, he shot down a large number of Luftwaffe fighter planes in aerial battles and was credited for helping the Soviet Air Force win air supremacy over the skies of Stalingrad and Kursk. Because of his extraordinary skill, Shostakov was chosen for the most secret and dangerous tests and new aircraft for the Soviet Union. This included being the first pilot to test fly the MiG-15. The Soviet state controlled news media greatly publicized this and certain other missions of his such as his aerial battles against the U.S. Air Force over MiG Alley during the Korean War. As a result, Shostakov was decorated as a hero of the Soviet Union. Shostakov was also successful in his private life, having married the equally famous ballerina Natalie (familiarly known as Natasha) Romanova

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev realized that the Soviet Union needed its own equivalent to Captain America. Khrushchev chose Alexi Shostakov over Yuri Gagarin who would later become the first man in space. The KGB faked his death and trained him in secret, keeping his survival a secret from Natasha. He became a master of hand-to-hand combat and a highly skilled athlete. In addition, he carried a throwing disc on his belt which could be used against an opponent. Magnetic force returned the disc after throwing. The disc had the yellow hammer and sickle symbol on it and his costume was red with a star on his chest to symbolise the Soviet flag. While the Black Widow became disillusioned with KGB masters and defected to the United States, the Red Guardian remained loyal and became more ruthless and vindictive. The Red Guardian battled the Avengers with his Chinese ally Colonel Ling, to protect a Communist Chinese secret weapon located at a secret military base at an unrevealed location in the People's Republic of China, encountering the Black Widow and Captain America (Steve Rogers). When the Black Widow noticed "something familiar" about him, Red Guardian revealed his identity. He was shot and mortally wounded minutes later by Colonel Ling while saving the lives of the Black Widow and Captain America. He was buried under molten lava when the laser blast caused the eruption of a long-dormant volcano.[5]

Some time later, a Life Model Decoy was patterned after Alexei Shostakov was introduced in the "Widow Maker" crossover between the Hawkeye & Mockingbird and Black Widow titles as Ronin.[6] The LMD initially starts assassinating spies and eventually targets Mockingbird and Black Widow. After he was seemingly destroyed in his first battle with the Black Widow,[7] the LMD was later revealed to be alive and had risen very high up in power within Bulgaria as Ronin. The LMD was responsible for a plot to capture and try his "former wife" for crimes as a Soviet super soldier but his plan is foiled with the help of Daredevil and the Avengers.[8]

## Wakanda

Romanoff used her KGB contacts to track down a terrorist organization supplied with Chitauri fueled weapons in Syria. Infiltrating the terrorists, Rogers, Wilson and Romanoff disabled the weapons and then left for Lebanon.[32] While retaking Chitauri technology from terrorists, Rogers, Romanoff and Wilson were met with by Nick Fury, who tried to get Rogers to contact Stark to work through their falling out of the Civil War. sometimes things did not go the way he expexted.

A week of after taking out Syrian forces Peter Shaw never was interned to return to back to america much to the Civil War.

week after his his father's death at Helmut Zemo's hands, T'Challa was preparing to be formally crowned king. However, T'Challa decided to retrieve Nakia from her current War Dogs mission as he wished for her to be present during his coronation. Picked up by Okoye in the Royal Talon Fighter, the two flew to Nigeria where Nakia was located.

Preparing for his mission and equipping his Panther Habit, T'Challa used one of the tablets to look at where Nakia and the missing Chibok girls are located, informed by Okoye where they're heading for the border of Wakanda. He was then given EMP Beads to disable their kidnappers' vehicles but before he was dropped down to the field, Okoye told him to not freeze when he sees Nakia, remarking that he never freezes.

Holding himself with a Wakandan pose, T'Challa was dropped down by a chute hole on the ground of a Royal Talon Fighter, diving in the air and looking down to see the Boko Haram group driving to their destination. T'Challa sends EMP beads downward onto their trucks, immediately delivered a powerful EMP which forced all the vehicles to stop and made them unable to start again. Taking the opportunity, T'Challa landed onto a tree and stealthily wait until traffickers approached him.

As the traffickers noticed the trucks were hit by an EMP, they regrouped by splitting each other up in one location until one of them found a dog barking and suddenly T'Challa was spotted and began to attack the man by sending him off and hit a car door, instantly knocking him down. T'Challa then began to fight against several traffickers with guns shooting at but was impervious to bullets, leading to him defending off of them one by one.

While taking down multiple men, T'Challa took attention to the particular one who was shooting at him, ready to kill on sight, Nakia stopped him and told that the shooter was just a boy and was kidnapped alongside the women who were as well. T'Challa took a moment to look at Nakia, having her attention only to simply greet her. Wanting to talk to her, T'Challa was interrupted by another man, threatening to shoot one of the women, only for him to get killed Okoye.

Once Okoye killed the shooter with her Vibranium Spear, T'Challa was teased by her for his lack focused, leading him to freeze. T'Challa took off his mask and looked towards Nakia, she told them that they ruined her mission but T'Challa took it upon in urgency to tell her that his father was dead and is going to be crowned as King the next day. Nakia accepted his invitation and walked together in their Royal Talon Fighter, saving the kidnapped women and a child soldier.

Upon on the horizon, T'Challa and Okoye succeeded their mission and head on home to Wakanda with Nakia. As the sun rises from above, T'Challa was comforted by Nakia, as he was deeply saddened from his father's death. While getting together, Okoye announced their arrival as they flew by the border and into the holographic dome, reaching into Wakanda's capital known as the Golden City.[7]

Upon arriving at Golden City, T'Challa was greeted by Ramonda and Shuri, who held great expectations for him as the new heir. As Nakia left to go to her tribe, Shuri asked Okoye if T'Challa froze during his mission, to which Okoye responded with a resounding insult, much to T'Challa's dismay of mockery. As the Dora Milaje left, T'Challa greeted Shuri for being on with him, asked for her EMP Beads, he was updated on a new habit only for him to be in disbelief, resulting into bantering with Shuri for her inventions.

TT'Challa remarked at Shuri as she left with EMP beads that he can not wait for what update she would bring to her invention. Upon receiving a middle finger by Shuri, T'Challa asked how is she is feeling, to which she responded by saying she was proud, noting his father and her were talking about the coronation all the time, missing him, she told T'Challa that he is with them but now it was time for him to be crowned as King of Wakanda.

TAs the four of the tribes of Wakanda arrive the next day after a ceremonial celebration of the Prince's coronation, T'Challa prepares himself inside the Royal Talon Fighter and walks into the arena of Warrior Falls. Zuri came to explain the challenge and went off to give T'Challa a potion to let the powers of the Black Panther to be stripped away, leading him to feel nauseous, quickly recovered from it.

TOnce the challenge became fair, Zuri asked every tribe from any royal bloodline to fight for the throne, only for all of them to decline to challenge the throne, Shuri then raised her hand up and told Zuri that her dress is feeling uncomfortable and asked for her and the rest of the people to go home only to be mocked for the public. The Jabari Tribe led by M'Baku, arrived to challenge for the throne, ranting about how Wakanda has progressed and how the Prince of the country couldn't keep his father safe.

While outright mocking T'Challa and his father, T'Challa willingly accepted M'Baku's challenge. As they prepare for their intense duel, T'Challa was put on a panther mask and was guarded behind by the Dora Milaje while M'Baku did it with his own tribe. They began to fight each other as they threw multiple blows that resulted in each other getting hit or dodging with each swing of their weapons.

As their fight began to be difficult towards T'Challa, M'Baku then broke his weapons during the duel, as they began trading blows only for T'Challa to be caught off guard in his grasp. Severely wounded, M'Baku was mocking him for being just a boy without his mantle, but his family cheered him off, leading him to fight back. Getting impaled afterward, T'Challa yelled at M'Baku that he is who he is and proceeded to remove the blade and attacked M'Baku with a chokehold.

Despite pinning him down, T'Challa decided to spare M'Baku, saying that his people need him, and yelling at him to yield before he would die. Once M'Baku forfeited, T'Challa took a breath to finally recover from his injuries. As the crowd goes wild with excitement and his family supporting him, T'Challa was crowned as King of Wakanda. Branding himself with Bashenga's necklace,[8] T'Challa hugged Zuri as he thanked him as he was remarked as a King.[7]

Following his challenge for the throne, T'Challa went to the cave where his ancestors gain the power of the Black Panther, with many women and children setting up the ceremony and getting the Heart-Shaped Herb for consumption. As T'Challa laid down on the sand, Zuri gave him the potion of the herb, letting him consume it. While manifesting his powers, T'Challa was buried deep into the sand, as his body began to quickly dissolve due to the side effects of the herb.

In the Ancestral Plane, T'Challa woke up from the sand he was buried in and noticed inside the plane was a grassland field with purple skyline across it, noticing a group of black panthers on top of a tree. As one approached, turning into his father, T'Challa became incredibly shocked the sight of him being with him hugged him as he cries for his forgiveness and kneeled down before him, only to get a remark from him being a King of Wakanda.

TOnce he picked himself up to talk to his father, T'Challa told him that he wasn't ready to be King just yet but T'Chaka told him that he trained and studied for all his life to be King. T'Challa told his father that was not what he was talking about, telling him he was not ready to be King without his father, leading T'Chaka to tell him that he is a good man with a good heart and its hard for a good man to be a great King. With that revelation, T'Challa awoke from his burial and told Zuri that his father was in the Ancestral Plane.[7]

Following his reunion with T'Chaka in the Ancestral Plane, T'Challa spoke with Zuri about how he became the Black Panther. He remembered watching his father rule as Black Panther, performing amazing feats, but was told by T'Chaka that he'd gotten too old for the mantle, and passed it to his son so that he may rule simply as King. However, Zuri claimed that the only reason T'Chaka had given it up was that he'd gotten too fat to fit the Panther Habit, much to both of their amusement.

T'Challa then mournfully stated that he'd tried to keep his father from speaking in Vienna, and questioned why his father abandoned the isolationist ideas he'd raised T'Challa to follow. Zuri responded by stating that time changed T'Chaka, causing him to look back on his actions in the past, and attempt to correct them.[9]

"Klaue has escaped our pursuits for almost 30 years. Not capturing him is perhaps, my father's greatest regret. I wish to bring Klaue back here to stand trial." ―T'Challa[src]
Having finished his coronation for today, T'Challa took the time to walk with Nakia on the streets of Golden City, wanting to have her stay there, however she decided not to as she wanted to support his father and that she isn't happy to abandon any other people that have nothing.

T'Challa then asked what would Nakia do about Wakanda and told him that provide aid, access to technology, and refuge to those who need it, using other countries as an example and do them better than them. T'Challa rebuttals Nakia's motives, saying that Wakanda would lose its way of life despite how she tells him that the country can help refugees and protect themselves. T'Challa remarks that she would make a stubborn Queen, but was responded by him that she would make a great queen because of her stubbornness.

T'Challa then took the time to visit the Border Tribe and see how W'Kabi was doing in his farm, looking at one of his White Rhinoceros and commenting on how it is still growing with all the food it is consuming. T'Challa was later asked if Nakia and he were working things with each other, only for him to become silent about it. Having W'Kabi telling him what was wrong, T'Challa was thinking about Nakia's idea of foreign aid, listening to W'Kabi that if refugees gain access to the country they'll bring their problems.

After talking about aiding other countries with W'Kabi, T'Challa was contacted by Okoye and greeted W'Kabi as her love, she informed that a misidentified Wakandan artifact was stolen at the Museum of Great Britain, learning that Ulysses Klaue has plans to sell it to an American buyer in South Korea. Inside the council, T'Challa decides to pursue Klaue, promising W'Kabi that he will kill where he stands, and proceeding with the mission.[7]

Gaining information from Okoye about Ulysses Klaue about his plans to sell Wakandan artifacts, T'Challa started his mission by deciding to go inside of Shuri's lab with his Dora Milaje beside him along the way. Once T'Challa entered inside the Great Mound where the lab is located, he greets the other guards who are protecting their doorways, seeing Shuri waiting for him and greeting him as a King.

As Shuri was mockingly introducing her brother, T'Challa told her to stop it while chuckling with laughter and committed a handshake with her. T'Challa was then being toured around back to her lab to show him new improvements to his equipment, such as a vibranium car that was sent to Busan to take it on his upcoming mission. When Shuri asked who will be coming along with his mission, T'Challa responded that Okoye and Nakia will be with him, saying it would be fine to take his ex on the mission, considering that Shuri would be called for backup.

Looking further into the lab, T'Challa was introduced with new communication devices with unlimited range, equipped with an audio surveillance system, and new Remote Access Kimoyo Beads. T'Challa then asked what are the new Sneakers that were showcased, only to be made fun of for wearing royal sandals from Shuri. Despite being made fun of, T'Challa showed off his sandals, saying he decided to go old school for his first day as King.

Once he wore his new sneakers, T'Challa was impressed with how it was automated and soundproof, to which he was made fun of again by Shuri for calling them Sneakers. Shuri the showcased the most significant change to his Panther Habit, which T'Challa told that his previous design was set for an update, Shuri countered that it was functional, it could be changed, making fun that if people are shooting at him, he would need put on his helmet.

TT'Challa was then introduced to a model with a golden necklace, but T'Challa proposed the idea to not be seen, he decided to pick the model with a silver necklace. Shuri then asked T'Challa to summon the Panther Habit, letting it materialize, stored into the necklace when not in use. T'Challa was then asked to strike it, only for Shuri to angrily yell at him. T'Challa then noticed that the suit was glowing, informed that it can absorb damage and emit it back for redistribution.

T'Challa was then asked to kick the Panther Habit again at the same spot, however, Shuri started to video record from her Kimoyo Beads, gaining suspicious at her, T'Challa asked why is she recording him before he could kick the mannequin. After Shuri responded that it was only for research purposes, T'Challa proceeded to kick the model only for the kinetic energy to blow on impact, sending him flying into the air. Lying on the ground, T'Challa asked Shuri to delete the footage of him in pain.[7]

"Did you think we would forget? Look at me, murderer! Where did you get this weapon?"
"You savages didn't deserve it. Whoa. Mercy, King, mercy!"
"Every breath you take is mercy from me." ―Black Panther and Ulysses Klaue[src]
Once he learned that Ulysses Klaue had stolen a vibranium artifact from the Museum of Great Britain and was planning to sell it on the black market, T'Challa used is new Panther Habit intact and traveled to Busan to arrest Ulysses Klaue. T'Challa then assigned Okoye to come along with the mission with Nakia in their car, arriving at South Korea.

Getting out of the car, T'Challa arrived at a fish market that held a casino clubhouse behind the store owners' marketplace. Following Nakia, he listened to her talking to a woman who owned a fish market business, telling her to gain passage with her friends, despite looking like she became too suspicious, she would then let them come into to the casino. T'Challa went past the security check, walking inside the casino and focusing on the mission to find the buyer. T'Challa told Okoye to stay on the lookout on where they arrived and courted Nakia off the staircase to talk closely on how the mission would proceed.

When Okoye interrupted their conversation in an intercom, T'Challa and Nakia separated from each other, noticing Everett Ross, noting that this mission had gotten complicated. Surprised to find that Ross was the buyer Klaue, T'Challa greeted and questioned Ross' motives. Ross pointed that he would not listen after knowing that he wore a bulletproof cat-suit, despite being confronted for his secret, T'Challa swore to him that Klaue will be taken custody by him.

Telling him to stay away from Klaue, T'Challa left the casino and stay in the distance until Klaue entered the room. Ross would returned to T'Challa and noted that the Vibranium that Klaue had managed to steal appeared to link back to what was used by Ultron during the Battle of Sokovia, promising that they could then discuss handing Klaue over to T'Challa once the CIA was finished with him, but T'Challa refused to make a deal.

Eventually, Ulysses Klaue arrived at the Jagalchi Market Casino, with Klaue surrounded by bodyguards who filled up the casino as Klaue went downstairs to make the exchange with Ross. T'Challa informs Okoye that Klaue is with Ross, noticing more Americans surrounding Klaue, T'Challa stood across the room to hear about the deal. Noticing commotion, T'Challa tells Okoye to stand her ground and not bring attention to Klaue's henchmen. However, once Okoye decided to fight, T'Challa noticed one of them landed on the pool table.

However, the exchange was then unexpectedly interrupted by the position of Okoye, resulting in T'Challa furiously throwing one of Klaue's bodyguards away to save Ross' back from the shootout. Seeing this, T'Challa then apprehended one of Klaue's henchmen and fought against multiple of them in the middle of the room. T'Challa looked over the balcony to see Klaue getting away from the scene, he leaped over the top and yelled at him for being a murderer.

Once Klaue shot at him with his sonic arm cannon, T'Challa got up from the ground after getting knocked out from the balcony. T'Challa called Shuri once he got out of the casino, telling her to drive and quickly equipped the new Panther Habit and backflipped onto the car. As he stood onto the car, T'Challa was taken up for a ride, chasing one of Klaue's henchmen and took a turn from the car once they notice lane with an intersection.

Chasing Klaue's henchmen outside of their van, T'Challa pursued them through at the back of the van with help from Shuri to drive closer to it. While stopping the thugs, T'Challa ripped through the roof and threw one of the drivers that landed on the ground and killed by Shuri, as an accident. Once he subdued the last henchmen inside the car, T'Challa managed to hop onto the car and entered in the freeway.

Going into a bridge, T'Challa saw one of the henchmen began to shoot him down, withstanding the bullets coming to contact with him. T'Challa then listened to Shuri about how he was charged with kinetic energy and needed to release it. Having an idea, T'Challa told Shuri to drive past the other car and front of the henchmen's van. T'Challa managed to land onto the van and disable the ride with a kinetic pulse, doing a backflip and landed onto the car.

Following the last vehicle, T'Challa prepared to kill Klaue, noticed that he was in the passenger seat. Once Klaue notice him on the spot, T'Challa dodged away from the sonic cannon while the car was blown away, T'Challa landed onto the ceiling wall of a neon sign and leaped onto the side the van, shoving his claws into wheels, disabling the car. T'Challa landed onto the ground as the van crashed toward a fruit market.

After the van crashed, T'Challa madly walked up to Klaue and equipped his claws, absorbing the blast with his Panther Habit and then ripped Klaue's Prosthetic Arm off. Getting close, T'Challa yelled at Klaue, telling him about the people he killed. Being called a savage, T'Challa threatened Klaue to kill him outright but after Nakia arrived to see him and told him that hundreds of eyewitnesses are present in the plaza, he handed him over to Ross.[7]

With Ulysses Klaue finally in their custody, T'Challa decided to take him back to CIA South Korean Black Site to answer for his crimes. Taken into the interrogation room, T'Challa and Okoye looked after Klaue as he was handcuffed to chair from his hands and ankles. While Klaue was mockingly kissing at their mirrored glass while he was standing, T'Challa listened to Everett Ross, who suggested that he would speak with Klaue for five minutes, Okoye spoke to T'Challa in Xhosa, about not leaving Klaue with Ross, responding that he will take him to Wakanda after Ross is done with questioning.

Speaking in English again, T'Challa insisted that he allowed taking Klaue back to Wakanda once Ross finished his interrogation, which Ross rejected. When Ross casually tapped T'Challa on the chest, Okoye threatened him in Xhosa, telling T'Challa she will impale him to this desk if he touches him. Leading Ross to go inside the other room, T'Challa interrupted Ross before going inside, placing his hand onto his shoulder and thanked him for all of his help with capturing Klaue.

Unbeknownst to Ross, T'Challa had secretly planted a listening device on the agent, so he could listen to their conversation. In the room, Klaue recommended that Ross put more trust in him rather than the Wakandans, which Ross dismissed before asking about Klaue's Prosthetic Arm and where Klaue had gotten it from. Klaue explained that the arm was an old mining tool which he had modified. Listening further, T'Challa realizes that Klaue is spilling out information about Wakanda that shouldn't be said.

During his interrogation, Klaue explained to Ross that Wakanda is not a third-world country as everyone was led to believe, and the vibranium he had stolen was insignificant to the mass amount they possessed to date. Once Ross stepped out of the room T'Challa was confronted over Klaue's claims about Wakanda, being told at the U.N, that Klaue had stolen all of the vibranium that they had, although T'Challa had retorted such statements, he was furthered questioned.

As Ross confronted T'Challa about the truth of his country, he was informed by Nakia that an attack is being held at the moment, only for an explosion to hit near them in the interrogation room. When an armed gunman breached the wall of the interrogation room, he threw a grenade at the office, T'Challa equipped his Panther Habit to stop it from exploding. Once he stopped the grenade, T'Challa stood up to see that Klaue was abducted.

Noticing Klaue escaping in their grasp, T'Challa chased them only for one of them holding a grande launcher and aimed it at T'Challa, exploding on impact. After being saved by the blast in his suit, T'Challa hesitated after seeing a man wearing a Wakandan Royal Ring around his neck similar to his father's, allowing them to escape. Getting up from the ground, T'Challa was informed that Ross was shot in the spine, looking back he decided to go inside again.

Into the room, T'Challa returned to the others to find that Ross had been severely injured while protecting Nakia. As Ross dove on top of Nakia and taking a bullet into his spine as a result, T'Challa used a Kimoyo Bead to stabilize his wound. Understanding the risks of bringing a foreign agent into his home, T'Challa ordered Ross brought to Wakanda to heal him in gratitude for saving Nakia.[7]

Despite Okoye's objections, T'Challa brought Everett Ross back to Wakanda, taking him inside the Royal Talon Fighter and traveled back to Wakanda. Standing above Ross from his medical bed, T'Challa was asked by Okoye about how should they justify bringing him to the country. T'Challa responded that since he can not just let Ross die knowing that there they could save him due to their medical advancements.

Bringing Ross to Shuri's lab, T'Challa put Ross on the medical board and took him down the hallway with Okoye and Nakia beside him. Taking in his care, Shuri looked at Ross and was quite pleased that her brother brought "another broken white boy" for her to fix, T'Challa then placed onto the table and let Shuri examine his spine with her Kimoyo Bead. Analyzing Ross' X-Ray scan, T'Challa was informed by Shuri that he will survive from the injuries.

Noticing a call, T'Challa walked over to W'Kabi who arrived for Ulysses Klaue's return for his crimes. When asked if he brought Klaue, T'Challa told W'Kabi that Klaue was slipped through from their hands. Seeing W'Kabi disappointed, T'Challa was told that when his father took over as King for thirty years, he did nothing and having his friend would be different. Watching W'Kabi leave, T'Challa was left in distraught on how close he apprehended Klaue.[7]

T'Challa confronted Zuri and demanded the truth about N'Jobu, whom T'Chaka said disappeared one day. He went on to explain the arrival of a man wearing his grandfather's royal ring who helped Ulysses Klaue escape from capture. Zuri, hesitant, stated that he had promised T'Chaka, his former king, he would not tell of N'Jobu's fate, but T'Challa furiously stated he is the current King of Wakanda.

Reluctantly, Zuri explained that N'Jobu fell in love with an American woman while on a War Dog assignment, and was discovered through Zuri to have hired Klaue less than thirty years ago to steal vibranium from the country to aid in the civil unrest in America after witnessing the tragedies happening to the African Americans there. N'Jobu was upset that T'Chaka couldn't understand the need to share the rare metal with the rest of the Africans in the world.

When T'Chaka ordered his brother to return and face punishment, N'Jobu pulled a gun on Zuri for betraying him but was quickly disarmed and killed by T'Chaka, leaving the king heartbroken, ordering Zuri to keep his actions a secret. Zuri explained that T'Chaka knew of N'Jobu's child with the American woman, but decided to leave the boy to maintain the lie that N'Jobu disappeared. T'Challa was left appalled by his father's actions, upsetting the fact that T'Chaka had lied about his uncle.

Sitting near a cliff with Nakia, T'Challa talked to her about his father killing his uncle and left a child behind with nothing, questioning why would he do such thing. T'Challa was told by Nakia that no man is perfect. T'Challa realizes that his father never gave him a proper burial, after his uncle betrayed his family, thinking he may have created something even worse. Despite his concern, Nakia advises T'Challa that he must not let his father's mistakes determine what T'Challa will do as the king.

Having a call from his Kimoyo Bead, T'Challa was informed by Shuri that she had some important news that he must attend to the lab. Having been joined by Everett Ross and Shuri, T'Challa listened to the group on everything he knew of Erik Stevens' background as a member of a highly trained section of the United States Navy SEALs where he got a reputation as a killer, nicknamed Killmonger. While Ross explains and the other Wakandans listened closely, T'Challa began looking at Killmonger's record.[7]

"I don't care that you brought Klaue, the only reason I don't kill you where you stand is because I know who you are. Now, what do you want?"
"I want the throne." ―T'Challa and Erik Killmonger[src]
Returning to the Golden City, T'Challa held a meeting with the Tribal Council, when Erik Killmonger was brought up to the council with W'Kabi, who was presented with Ulysses Klaue's corpse at the border of Wakanda, much to T'Challa's surprise.

Once Killmonger was invited to speak, T'Challa was told that he is standing in the room, further noting that he had served justice to Wakandans by killing Klaue who had been responsible for the previous Attack on Wakanda and had stolen Vibranium, telling to council that he was able to deliver justice to the country. Angered by this insult, T'Challa got up from his throne and personally confronted Killmonger, walking up to him, closely followed by Okoye. T'Challa pointedly clarified that he doesn't care about him bringing Klaue and the only reason he didn't kill him where he stands is that he knew who Killmonger really was.

Asking a question, T'Challa listened to Killmonger, saying that he wanted the throne. Noticing the council was sitting down comfortably, Killmonger told T'Challa that two billion people all over the world that look like his ethnicity, saying their lives are a lot harder and Wakanda has the tools to liberate. T'Challa then asked for what kind of tools is Killmonger wanting, abruptly told that it was Vibranium. Aggressively, T'Challa responded that he will wage war on the world.

T'Challa would counter that it is not Wakanda's way to be judge, jury, and executioner for people who are not their own. Killmonger retorted by asking that life started in right on the continent of Africa, all people should be his people. T'Challa responded that he is not King of all people, only a King of Wakanda, telling it was his responsibility to make sure his people are safe and that vibranium does not fall into the hands of a person like Killmonger.

Demanding the king to ask his name, T'Challa dismiss Killmonger's request and told his guards to take him away. However, when the River Tribe Elder asked for Killmonger's identity, Killmonger told what his name was N'Jadaka and was the son of N'Jobu in Xhosa, taking T'Challa by surprise. With evidence by W'Kabi showing his ring, T'Challa was challenged for the throne and the Black Panther mantle. Pondering on the idea, T'Challa decided to accept the challenge.[7]

"As they had prepared for the duel, T'Challa and Erik Killmonger were both taken to Warrior Falls where Killmonger was then given his spear and sword, while the Tribal Council watched closely. Zuri used a potion to stripped T'Challa's powers of the Black Panther strength, leaving them on equal footing ready for the challenge.

Once he stood back up, T'Challa gave Killmonger one final chance to lay down all his weapons so they could handle the situation another way. Instead, Killmonger then removed his Bulletproof Vest and shirt, revealing his tribal Crocodile Scarring, and told him how he had lived his entire life for this one moment, noting how he had killed all across the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Africa, just so that he could kill T'Challa. With everything in place, Zuri had then announced that the challenge could begin as T'Challa immediately began on the defensive as Killmonger attacked him by swinging his weapons, landing a deadly blow against him.

With all of Killmonger's military training allowed him to push him back, T'Challa soon found that his skills with the tribal weapons took the advantage as he managed to lock Killmonger into a block and held him back, using his shield to defend himself. As Killmonger became frustrated, T'Challa endured several heavy strikes that were landed against him repeatedly, in an attempt to beat him into submission. However, T'Challa was able to use all Killmonger's rage against him, knocking him off balance and onto his back, telling Killmonger to yield the duel.

After Killmonger refused to back down once he got back onto his feet, T'Challa continued gaining the advantage as he sliced Killmonger across the face with a non-fatal strike. When Killmonger stood back up, T'Challa continued to gain the upper hand at first, eventually, Killmonger was able to land a heavy kick and managed to slice T'Challa across his inner thigh. Once he was hurt, T'Challa was beaten down before being sliced across the chest and arm.

When T'Challa then attempted to punch Killmonger, T'Challa was easily beaten down in front of his horrified family. Killmonger then raised his blade and prepared to execute T'Challa, telling him that it would in revenge for T'Chaka killing his own father. Before Killmonger could deliver the final blow, Zuri intervened, claiming that he was truly responsible for his father's death and that he should take his life instead. Despite that, T'Challa told Zuri to not stop the duel, Killmonger happily obliged

Distraught over Zuri's untimely death, T'Challa lunged at Killmonger once more but missed. As Killmonger stood over, T'Challa was now unable to get up as he called out to those watching and claimed that T'Challa would never be able to lead them and was unworthy of being Black Panther. Once he finally gathered enough strength to try and fight back, T'Challa was picked up on his feet before throwing him off the side of Warrior Falls and landed into shore.[7]

Flowing all the water shores, T'Challa was found in the Jabari Land in the freezing rivers where their fisherman was doing their labor and brought him back to their domain. M'Baku decided to save his life as repayment for his mercy at the falls earlier. Unconscious, T'Challa was in a comatose state and covered in snow before almost dying from the wounds he endured.

Once Nakia, Ramonda, Shuri, and Everett Ross had escaped from Erik Killmonger's consolidated power, they were taken into M'Baku's chamber and attempted to give away one the Heart-Shaped Herbs. M'Baku then had shown T'Challa in his comatose condition, stabilized by the surrounding snow, Ramonda remembered to use the herb to bring him back. Awaking in the Ancestral Plane, T'Challa was greeted by T'Chaka and invited to join him and the rest of his ancestors.

Instead of staying with his father, T'Challa was furious at T'Chaka for what happened to his uncle and cousin and angered by the other Black Panthers for how their strict isolationism has led to suffering around the world. T'Challa declared his work wasn't done yet and must take the mantle back and write the wrongs of his father. In the brisk of the cold climate, T'Challa woke up in the relief of his loved ones, looking at everyone in his direction and asked for a blanket as they laughed and smiled from his remark.

Once he had rested in M'Baku's land until morning dawn, T'Challa was informed that Killmonger is reigning supreme in Wakanda, having the full support of the military and burned the garden of the Heart-Shaped Herb, as he was trained to destabilize foreign countries. Informed that their weapons will be sent all over the world, T'Challa declared that he must get his family out of Wakanda safely, saying that his challenge will have to continue.

Arguing that his duty is to keep his people safe, T'Challa responds that if Killmonger gets control over their technology, nowhere will be safe. When Shuri got up from her seat, T'Challa was given his silver necklace that will equip his Panther Habit, saying that the Black Panther lives and will be right there beside him, as Nakia and Ross decided to join in the fight alongside him. As they have a moment of uniting as a team, T'Challa was caught off guard when M'Baku was yawning very loudly and asking them if they were done talking before they take action.

Ordering his family, Nakia, and Ross to leave the room for privacy, T'Challa thanked M'Baku for saving his life as they both gained truce once M'Baku expressed he spared his life in their duel for the throne. Once they were settled down, T'Challa requested that his mother to stay with his land and he and the rest of the Jabari would help overthrow Killmonger, M'Baku agreed with his statement but in a serious manner, he quickly declined.

Saying that he is the first King to come for his tribe in centuries, M'Baku questions that he spoke for his tribe, T'Challa retorted that he can't speak for all the Kings in the past but with Killmonger on the throne, he proposed who will be next the group of people to overthrow. With M'Baku declining to help, T'Challa and his group left the tribe, with Panther Habit prepared for the coming battle.[7]

Preparing for battle, T'Challa went over to Wakanda while Nakia, Shuri, and Everett Ross secretly go over there to sneak around the Great Mound. As Erik Killmonger and the Border Tribe prepared to deliver Vibranium weapons to War Dogs around the world, T'Challa destroyed the aircraft, crashing into the ground.

With the aircraft on fire, T'Challa emerged from the debris and removed his mask to reveal his identity. T'Challa then walked over the field and yelled at Killmonger, shouting his real name and that he never yielded nor was killed in his challenge with him. Despite that Killmonger had stated that the Ritual Combat was over, Killmonger ordered W'Kabi to kill T'Challa and the Border Tribe began to charge at him. While Okoye and the Dora Milaje betrayed Killmonger's reign, Black Panther called Shuri to move along inside the lab and began to fight the Border Tribe.

When the Border Tribe's use of defense shields, T'Challa jumped over them and used his kinetic pulse to release, resulting into exploding on impact, grabbing onto one of the soldiers' Sonic Spears and threw it at one of the aircraft. As the destruction started to brew more attention, half of the Dora Milaje were sent down to battle out W'Kabi's men, fighting for the King. On the brink of the battle, T'Challa subdued many of W'Kabi's soldiers that were attacking him.

As the battle when on, T'Challa took off his mask and confronted W'Kabi, telling him to stop his soldier's from fighting, but refusing to listen to him, W'Kabi continued to blow on his airhorn, much to T'Challa shouting no to him. As the Border tribe members shout over the airhorn, the White Rhinoceros began to huddle in groups and crash into the broken aircraft that T'Challa recently destroyed. After the Rhinos hit several Dora Milije members, T'Challa chased one of them down and grabbed its horn, subduing it onto the ground as the piece of debris had pinned it down

Continued to battle, T'Challa fought against several of W'Kabi's soldiers until one of the rhinos hit him so hard that flew across the field and landed onto the ground near a rock. As Killmonger, wearing the other Panther Habit, defeated Okoye and three of the Dora Milaje members, he turned his attention to Shuri. Seeing this, T'Challa released his kinetic pulse and began to charge at Killmonger, tackling him, causing both to fall into the Great Mound.

As they proceeded to fall several stories high, T'Challa began to trade blows with Killmonger in between to get away from each other, resulting into him landing onto the railroad of the Wakandan Maglev Train. On the platform, T'Challa dodged an incoming attack by Killmonger and fought on the tracks of one of the vibranium transport trains. T'Challa asked Shuri to activate the train, knowing it would activate the Sonic Stabilizers, rendering his, and Killmonger's suits useless from time-to-time.

After the railroad was activated, T'Challa was able swiftly to avoid the train while Killmonger began to attack him outright. As the two escaped from the railroad, T'Challa noticed that his suit was tearing and repairing, along with Killmonger's as well. As Killmonger began to denounce his reign, T'Challa countered that he just want Wakanda to be just like the people he hates by dividing and conquering a foreign land.

When Killmonger tried to rebuttal, T'Challa responded that he will become just like his oppressors and will destroy the world, Wakanda included. As Killmonger cried out that the world took everything away from him, T'Challa was threatened that he will be even by tracking anyone who will ever think about being loyal to him and kill them just like Zuri. Knowing that he will never stop murdering the one he loved, T'Challa screamed at Killmonger and began to charge at him, continuing to fight each other.

As the fight started to become more frantic, T'Challa fought against Killmonger, gaining the upper hand by throwing him off the railroad and ended hurting him, while trying to stay at bay. Once Killmonger grabbed a short spear, T'Challa avoided his strikes once the duel continued. T'Challa was pushed back, trying to switch the blade toward him, only to move over to his side. When the train moved along, T'Challa punched the knife away and in the air, T'Challa rolled over, catching the spear, and fatally stabbed Killmonger in the heart.

Knowing the fight was over, T'Challa listened to Killmonger's memories about his father, and how he told him that Wakanda was the most beautiful place in the world. After this, T'Challa helped Killmonger go on top of the mine reached the cliff to watch the sunset. While there, T'Challa offered to heal Killmonger, but Killmonger refused, saying that he would rather die, pulling the spear out of his body, bleeding to death.[7]

Periodically after reclaiming Wakanda, T'Challa buried Erik Killmonger, as the rest of the Dora Milaje and the Border Tribe settled down after their battle was over, stopping the weapons that were meant to be send out into the world. T'Challa reassigned himself as the King of Wakanda, going over to reclaim his throne inside the Tribal Council.

BAs Wakanda was finally prospering, T'Challa went over to the streets of the Golden City to meet up with Nakia at a stairwell, deciding to talk about their recent actions. After greeting the locals that were walking up the stairs, T'Challa proceeded to thank Nakia for her actions by saving him and his family. Nakia then responded that the people's nation was her duty to fight for what she loved before stumbling her words toward T'Challa.

Once she continued on, T'Challa interrupted Nakia's sentence by kissing her and after stopping he tries to rationalize by almost dying. After making a remark, T'Challa was then kissed by Nakia and once it was done, he asked Nakia to stay, knowing a way to still fulfill her calling, pleading for her stay in the city. Deciding to stay there, T'Challa was tenderly kissed by Nakia again, settling their relationship.

Later on, T'Challa and Shuri went over to Oakland in California and looked at the old apartment building of his uncle. Shuri would remark on what T'Challa said by going to California for the first time, she thought of Coachella or Disneyland. Asked why by Shuri they were there in the first place, T'Challa told Shuri where their father killed N'Jobu, informing her that it will not be tearing down, which to her relief while reading the sign.

Breaking the news to her, T'Challa told Shuri that he bought the old apartment building and a couple of other landmarks, saying that it will be Wakanda's first Wakandan International Outreach Centre. T'Challa also announced the news that Shuri will be ahead of the science and information exchange, having her in disbelief. Activating a new Royal Talon Fighter up from the sky as a gift, T'Challa made it nontransparent in the basketball for Shuri to ride.

As the children noticed the ship, gawking at the sight of it and planned to sell the parts of it, until Shuri told the kids that it was hers and when asked of where she came from, she told them that she was from Wakanda, much to their confusion. As T'Challa leaned over the fence, he was asked by one boy with braids on his hair if the ship on the court was his or not and later realizing that he is likely the owner of the jet, asked who he was, smiling at him.[7]

Heading over to United Nations, T'Challa walked into over to the Vienna International Centre with Okoye Nakia, and Ayo beside him as he entered. When Everett Ross arrived to meet up, T'Challa was greeted by him before being asked for a private conversation, to which T'Challa asked to give them space. T'Challa listened to Ross' recommendation that he should not reveal their wealth and power to the United Nations, fearing the response could be dangerous.

T'Challa, however, insisted to Ross that he would no longer rule out of fear like his father had done, believing they should lead by example. While Ross heard this, T'Challa's decision was accepted and went off with his people to let him make his speech. Before leaving, however, T'Challa was wished good luck in Xhosa, however, he mispronounced some words which caused Okoye and Ayo to laugh alongside Nakia while Ross insisted that he practiced his phrase, T'Challa thanked him in Xhosa.[9]

Entering the room with photographers and cameramen on him, T'Challa then gave his speech in which he established full relations between Wakanda and the rest of the world, promising to share their Vibranium and technology. Continuing his speech, T'Challa spoke about letting Wakanda to no longer watch from the shadows and the people will work to be an example of how Human beings on Earth should treat each other, with no illusions of division threaten our very existence. Focusing on every listener, T'Challa told the public that a connection between other countries is now more in need than ever. When one of the senators questioned what a small country in Africa with no resources could do, he gave a speech that officially ending Wakanda's isolation and proclaiming all of Earth as one tribe, much to the utter amazement of the rest of the world who were watching.[10]

## Out of Hiding

Steve Rogers, who had been called by Bruce Banner, located Vision's area, alongside Natasha Romanoff and Sam Wilson. Rogers stepped into the light as Vision and Wanda Maximoff looked hopeful and relieved. While all parties are distracted, Sam Wilson swooped in and kicked Proxima Midnight across the platform and through the closed café's security gate and furniture

a coordinated attack, the three rogue Avengers engaged the Black Order, attacking together and even using their own weapons against them. With Wilson knocking Midnight away, Romanoff managed to use Midnight's spear to severely injure Corvus Glaive, while Rogers retrieved Glaive's weapon. Rogers began attacking Midnight, while she summoned her spear from Romanoff and attempted to kill the Avenger, only to be blocked by Rogers.

Once in place, Rogers and Romanoff managed to overpower and disarm Midnight, briefly engaging in a melee duel, before Wilson flew in and knocked her down, scuttling over to Glaive. While Wilson holds both Midnight and Glaive at gunpoint, Romanoff threatened to kill them. Infuriated, Midnight countered, claiming they would never get the chance before the two retreated to their waiting Q-Ship to nurse their wounds. As the two individuals were beamed up, Rogers was carrying Glaive's weapon until it was snatched from his hand

Running over to the other side, Rogers went to Maximoff's help along with the rest of the Avengers who notice that Vision had been wounded in the abdomen and is in need of help. Vision thanks Rogers for his need of help as he was grieving in pain, Rogers was glad and told him to get on the Quinjet. As the Avengers fly away from Scotland, Falcon suggested where to go, to which Rogers replied with going home.[39]

Upon arrival in the New Avengers Facility, Rogers was greeted by Thaddeus Ross, who mocked him that he is wrong to believe that he is allowed to be a hero again. However, Rogers told Ross that he was done asking for permission or forgiveness reminding him that Wolf Man was no longer here to defend the Earth, and went as far as to threaten war with him and the Governments of the World if they try to get in the way. When Ross ordered Rhodes to arrest them, Rhodes chose to cut off the communication and join Rogers.

Reassembled in a room, the Avengers discussed their course of action and Banner warned them that Thanos was coming for Vision's Infinity Stone. Both Maximoff and Rogers protested when Vision offered to sacrifice himself to destroy the stone. When Vision proposed his life on the line, Rogers was still unwilling to let him sacrifice, but Vision reminded Rogers of his own act of sacrifice, asking how his own choice was any different. Once Banner proposes a solution of removing the Infinity Stone, Rogers decided to know where to find it in Wakanda

Arriving at Wakanda with his team, Rogers greeted T'Challa, now the king of the African country, and reunited with his old friend, Bucky Barnes. Inside the citadel, Rogers watched Banner and Shuri's discussion on how to safely remove Vision's Mind Stone. Once Okoye gained a signal of a massive Outrider Dropships crashing onto Wakanda's dome, T'Challa ordered the city to be evacuate the entire city and engage all of its defenses. Rogers was given dual Wakandan Shields at the king's request as well.[39]

As the Avengers and the Wakandan army prepared to face Thanos' army of Outriders, Rogers and Romanoff accompanied T'Challa to face Midnight and Cull Obsidian. Finding their opponent nonnegotiable, Captain America rejoined the rest of the army as they prepared for the alien invaders. Countless alien soldiers began pouring out from the ship and charging into Wakanda's barrier force field. Despite killing numerous amount of them, more and more began to force themselves through the barrier, they were quickly dispatched by the allied army

Unfortunately, they were forced to open the barrier in order to prevent the city from being encircled and to force the enemy to focus their attention on them. Once Black Panther ordered a gap to be open on their section of the barrier, Captain America joined Black Panther were the first to engage with the army. Fighting off numerous outriders, the situation grew grim as the allied army began finding themselves overwhelmed by the innumerable enemy army

Eventually, Maximoff was forced to enter the battle in order to give them an edge. The arrival of Thor, Groot and Rocket Raccoon turned the tide of the battle. Unfortunately, Maximoff's participation left Vision open to get attacked by Glaive who have infiltrated the city, which ruined the process to remove the stone. Captain America raced to save Vision.[39]

continued to torment Vision, stabbing and further crippling the android. However, Vision was saved by the sudden arrival of Steve Rogers, who beckoned Vision to run while he held off Glaive. Engaging in a duel, Rogers battled with Glaive, blocking his glaive using his shields. Rogers managed to disarm Glaive, but was thrown over a tree and pinned. Before Glaive could kill the Avenger, however, he was suddenly impaled from behind and killed by Vision, having taken and used Glaive's own weapon against him. As Rogers recovers from the duel, he tells Vision that he thought he ordered him to run. Vision retorted by telling Rogers that he doesn't trade lives; echoing a statement made by Rogers earlier on.

## The Lords Victory

As victory was almost at their grasp, Rogers was told by Banner that Thanos had arrived in a space portal. Having acquired almost all of the Infinity Stones, Rogers, with only a final reminder to stay sharp, rallied the Avengers to hold Thanos off for as long as they could. Desperately, Rogers faced Thanos with the dire situation of his allies being subdued. As Maximoff tearfully destroys Vision's Mind Stone, Rogers and his allies find themselves hopelessly outmatched by Thanos and his dominion over the fabrics of existence granted by the nearly complete Infinity Gauntlet. Rogers was the second one to be taken out by Thanos, who used the Power Stone to send in a concussive strike to blow him away

With the only being left standing to fight, Rogers desperately fought back to buy time, as he held Thanos off by grabbing his hand, a feat that managed to momentarily surprise the Mad Titan. Rogers was eventually swiftly defeated by Thanos by being incapacitated with a single punch, leaving him powerless to prevent Thanos from getting the Mind Stone and completing the Infinity Gauntlet. Despite Thor's attempt, Thanos achieved his goal of killing off half the universe

## Velock's Victory

As Thanos retreated from the battlefield, Rogers was able to get back up on his feet and asked Thor on what happened, but his comrade remained silent as he lamented his failure. After Rogers further asked Thor on where did Thanos go, he soon realized that Thanos had won as Barnes was disintegrating in front of him, leaving him in absolute shock and horror as he stared at Thor, who was also left shell-shocked. In the aftermath of the battle, Rogers knelt next to Vision's demolished body, unable to do anything accept knowing half of the population were dead

## Stranding

After having left Bridges for 10 years, Sam is sought out by Amelie and Die-Hardman. He is briefed on the situation they find themselves in – Amelie having been captured by the Homo Demens in Edge Knot City while on a westward expedition. They plead with him to continue on Amelie's journey connecting cities and communities from east to west to the Chiral Network, and bring her back to Capital Knot City so that she may assume the role of President of the United Cities. Sam is dismissive at this point, however, and leaves the meeting unconvinced.

During a field operation, Sam and two Corpse Disposal Team 6 operatives find themselves surrounded by BTs after one of the CDT 6 operatives is trapped underneath an overturned vehicle. When the two operatives are overwhelmed by hunters, Sam is caught in a large-scale voidout triggered by a colossal catcher devouring one of the CDT 6 operatives. While on his expedition to the west, Sam is offered a job working for Fragile. He is again encountered by her just as BTs begin manifesting near him. After the entities leave, Sam and Fragile watch as five floating figures survey from the sky momentarily until they disappear. Afterwards, Fragile warns Sam to be mindful of the BTs' return, and remarks that timefall cannot wash everything away – the ever-clinging past in particular – before

## Meeting Kallen

Following the Battle of Wakanda, Steve Rogers, along with James Rhodes, Natasha Romanoff and Bruce Banner, returned to the New Avengers Facility. Having discovered the Transmitter Pager Nick Fury had activated prior to his death, the Avengers bypassed the pager's battery in order for it to continue to send out its signal

As Rogers and Romanoff were witnessing reports on the aftermath of the Snap, Rhodes, who was monitoring the pager, informed the pair and Banner that the pager had stopped transmitting the signal. Rogers requested that they reboot the pager and resend the signal, only for Banner to respond that they had no idea what the signal was for. As Romanoff explained that Fury knew whom the signal was for and that she wanted to know who it was as well, she came face to face with Captain Marvel herself, who demanded to know where Fury

## Finding Wolf Man

Not long after meeting Captain Marvel, Peter and the Avengers managed to locate the whereabouts of David Patterson. Sending Danvers to retrieve him, Rogers stayed at the New Avengers Facility to shave his beard off with a razor. Once Rogers was finished, he noticed his mirror shaking, knowing it was coming from outside of the facility.

Captain Marvel flew with the Benatar on top of her and landed at the field of the New Avengers Facility. Once Rogers and the rest of the Avengers were outside, including Pepper Potts, Peter was then reunited with David who was with his new ally, Nebula. Stark noted to Rogers that he was unable to stop Thanos, to which he responded that he couldn't as well. Stark then looked at Rogers and told him that he lost Peter Parker in the process before he was injured.

## Battle for America

After Captain America managed to briefly tip the balance by pulling the blade towards Thanos' throat, he was once again able to break free from their grasp; flipping Captain America over his shoulder and punching him hard in the face, leaving him unable to stop the Mad Titan from seizing the Gauntlet. Iron Man then stole the Infinity Stones back from Thanos, forming another Nano Gauntlet within his Armor, and then snapped his fingers; causing Thanos and his army to disintegrate.

Captain America witnessed Thanos' army disintegrating in front of his eyes, along with Thanos' shock in horror from all the death surrounding him. Captain America took a long look at Thanos' failure before he crumbled into ash. Along with War Machine, Spider-Man, Pepper Potts, and Thor, Captain America tearfully stood by Stark as he died from his injuries caused by the resulting cosmic blast.

### Last Mission

After Wolf Man's funeral, the Avengers decided to return the Infinity Stones and Mjølnir to whence they were taken to prevent devastating branches in those timelines. Rogers volunteered for this mission, and met up with Hulk, Bucky Barnes, and Sam Wilson in the forest outside the destroyed New Avengers Facility, where Banner has constructed a new time machine. Banner then told Rogers that when he reversed the Snap, he tried to bring Black Widow back, but couldn't, and that he misses her, leading Rogers to share his grief

As he walked to the time machine, Wilson offered to go with him as backup, but Rogers reassured him that he can do it alone. He then says goodbye to Barnes, puts on his Advanced Tech Suit, and travels back in time along with the Infinity Stones and Mjølnir. Rogers then proceeded to return the mythical objects to their proper places in the timeline,[15] including returning the Soul Stone to Vormir, where he encountered the Red Skull for the first time since World War II.

### Retirement

After his job was done, Rogers chose to travel to 1949 in order to live out the rest of his life with Peggy Carter instead of returning to 2023 as planned, thus creating an altered timeline.[41] Reunited with Carter, he finally gives her the dance he promised her, and the two eventually get married.[15] After his marriage, Rogers retired from his "Captain America" moniker, but would continue to help out when he was needed in his new timeline

Wilson asked what happened, and Rogers told him that he decided to live the normal life that Wolf Man suggested. When Wilson asked how it worked out, Rogers said that it was beautiful, and Wilson said that he's truly happy for him, although he is upset now the world doesn't have Captain America. Rogers then opened a circular case and took out his shield, giving it to Wilson. Though Wilson was hesitant at first, Rogers noted that it doesn't belong to anyone

Wilson then promised Rogers that he'll do his best protecting the world, and he noted that that's why he chose him. Noticing a ring on Rogers' finger while they shook hands, Wilson asked if he wants to tell him about her, but Rogers politely refused, smiling at a memory that he recalled from a dance he had with Carter that he promised to her all those years ago, and proceeded to kiss her

## Post Endgame

Joel arrives home late from work, putting Sarah to bed after watching television together.[9] During the early hours of September 27th, 2013, Joel's struggle to raise a child on his own is interrupted when the infection breaks out and Joel is forced to take his daughter out of town, just hours after his birthday. He is forced to shoot his neighbor dead in self defense. After calming Sarah, he is joined by his brother Tommy in the evacuation.

After driving towards the highway and trying to make sense of the situation, the group finds the road blocked and are forced to take another route, only for their car to collide with an oncoming vehicle. Once he comes to, Joel kicks the windshield out so he and Sarah can continue on foot. After running through the city, Tommy stays to hold off the infected so Joel and Sarah can flee.

The pair make it to the highway, but encounter a soldier. The soldier is ordered by his commanding officer over the radio to kill the two, reluctantly opening fire. Joel tries to shield Sarah from the shots, but she still takes a fatal hit. Just before the soldier can execute Joel, Tommy arrives, gunning down the soldier, but he and Joel cannot do anything to stop Sarah's bleeding. The opening ends with Joel sobbing over his daughter's body, his world torn from under him.[10]

Shortly after Sarah's death, Joel found himself in a triage clinic after making it to the highway. He witnessed how families had been torn apart and how much chaos had erupted in the world.[11] While there, he considered committing suicide[12] but was unable to, finding something to fight for. However, what he found was worth fighting for was something his brother, Tommy, greatly disliked.

Over the years, the pair survived by descending in to a sinister way of life, hurting innocent people; going so far as killing them; all to survive. It's heavily implied that Joel tortured, deceived and killed several people, becoming a hunter. He adopted tactics such as tricking passerbys in to thinking he was hurt so he, Tommy, and likely others could ambush them when they let their guard down.

The pair eventually reached the city of Boston, smuggling themselves in to the city. Tommy finally had enough of Joel's philosophy on how to survive, abandoning his brother to join a growing militia group known as the Fireflies after being persuaded by the leader, Marlene. The two argued furiously over this, Tommy finishing with "I don't ever wanna see your goddamned face again!" Tommy eventually left the Fireflies as well but did not return to Joel, leaving Boston to go to Wyoming.[13]

Joel spent a considerable period of time alone, eventually meeting a woman named Tess. The pair grew close, teaming up to act as smugglers in the quarantine zone. They worked with several people, namely Robert (whom they grew to heavily distrust), Bill (who owed Joel some favors) and Donovan. It is unknown if the pair ever had a romantic relationship, though dialogue heavily implies they both care deeply for one another

Twenty years after the outbreak, 2033, which claims the lives of millions across the United States, Joel and Tess are betrayed by Robert, when he hires two men to attack Tess causing the pair to confront him, the man having earned their wrath.[14]

While crossing to his hideout, they are forced outside the wall when a group of Fireflies attack the checkpoint, causing the soldiers to lock it down. While traversing to their hideout, the pair learn that Marlene, the "queen" Firefly, is also looking for Robert. The pair reach the slums, bribing their way in with ration cards. Joel almost attacks one smuggler that tries to block his path but the man complies upon seeing Tess.[15]

The two finally reach Robert, proceeding to torture him; Joel kicking his face and breaking his arm. Robert reveals he sold their guns to the Fireflies, so they kill him, deciding they need to reason with the Fireflies to get their weapons back. Marlene, the Fireflies' "queen" unexpectedly shows up, albeit wounded, and strikes a deal: they will transport something to a group of Fireflies waiting at the Capitol Building. In exchange, they can regain their weapons and receive even more. Joel and Tess are reluctant, but go with Marlene anyway.[16]

On the way, the three are confronted by a small group of soldiers, successfully killing them but not before the soldiers kill the Fireflies they captured. Marlene is greatly saddened by the loss of her men, but Joel convinces her that they need to move on.

Marlene takes them to a kitchen, Joel picking her up when she falls due to her wound. To his surprise, a girl (revealed to be called Ellie) tries to attack him with a switchblade, though is stopped by Tess. Marlene reveals the "cargo" is Ellie, surprising Joel, who avoids looking at the girl. After a discussion, Joel reluctantly agrees to take the girl to an apartment near the outside wall and wait for Tess to return from verifying the weapons with Marlene.[17]

While escorting the girl, Joel asks her where her parents are and why the Fireflies are so interested in her. Ellie reveals that her parents died "a long time ago" but refuses to reveal why Marlene wants her to be smuggled. Joel remarks that that's the best thing about his job; "I don't gotta know".

Once at the apartment, Joel quickly lays down on a couch and goes to sleep, telling Ellie to "figure out... what to do". The girl remarks how his watch is broken, but Joel doesn't reply. By nightfall, Tess arrives, Joel agreeing to take the job upon learning the payment is high.[18] As they are leaving, he asks Tess why Marlene is having them do the smuggling, learning that they weren't Marlene's "first choice, or the second".

On their way to the checkpoint, they are captured by a military patrol. While they are being checked for infection, Ellie panics and attacks one of the soldiers. The soldier tries to shoot her, but Joel defends her, killing the soldier while Tess shoots the other. The pair are, however, surprised when Ellie is revealed to be infected. Before they act, another patrol soon shows up and the three are forced to flee.[19]

They manage to avoid the soldiers, making it to the outskirts. There, Joel tries to convince Tess that they should abandon the mission, but his partner actually believes Ellie. With Tess and Ellie marching off, Joel stands in sadness before following.

Deciding that their path is blocked, they take a detour through a derelict skyscraper and a subway, both filled with Infected. The trio then go through an old museum, where Joel briefly gets separated from Ellie and Tess. After making his way through a room full of Clickers, Joel finds Tess and Ellie fighting off a horde of Runners.

Eventually, the three manage to reach make it through the outskirts, despite encountering several Infected and learning a small group of soldiers had died in one of the buildings. During the journey, Ellie remarks how skilled the pair are at dealing with Infected but Joel puts it down to "luck, and it will run out". After crossing a building via a plank, Joel asks Ellie if "[the view] is everything [she] hoped for". After Ellie responds, Joel briefly glances at his watch, reminded by his daughter Sarah. However, Tess snaps him out of his daydreaming.[20

They finally reach the rendezvous point in the Capitol Building, only to find the Firefly extraction team dead (something Joel had begun to expect after finding several notes left by them) and the military closes in. When Joel tries to convince Tess they should "just go home" and that such a thing is "not us", she reveals that she too had been infected (most likely from the struggle with a Runner in the museum). She compares her bite to Ellie, proving Ellie's immunity by how Tess's bite is swollen and throbbing while Ellie's is clear and healed. Tess insists Ellie and Joel continue on their own and find Tommy, who will guide them to another Firefly group. The military are then outside the Capitol building. She says that she can buy them some time by fighting the military, fully knowing that she will die in the conflict.[21] Reluctantly, Ellie and Joel flee the area while Tess is killed. Ellie feels guilty about Tess' sacrifice, but Joel firmly says to never bring it up.

The pair make it to a subway, avoiding soldiers and a Humvee. They cross through a dark, flooded, subway; seeing that Ellie can breathe in the spores without any sign of her infection worsening solidifies Joel's belief that she is immune.

Joel plans to go to a town where he believes they can meet Bill, the mechanic who owes him a favor. They spend the morning heading there, soon coming to a woods which separates the road from the town. Determining it to be quicker than the road, Joel leads Ellie through the woods. Joel is astounded that Ellie has never walked in the woods or seen real fireflies before.

They manage to get inside, finding the place full of Infected and booby-traps. Joel reveals he has never visited Bill personally at the town, preferring to rendezvous at various checkpoints nearer Boston; he claims Bill is the only person living there, "as far as [he] knows." They manage to make it past Bill's barricades, but one trap snags Joel's foot, causing him to dangle from the ceiling upside down. The trap having attracted Infected, he is forced to fight off Infected with just his revolver while Ellie attempts to get him down. Once down, a Runner attempts to bite him, but he is saved by a masked man (revealed to be Bill) who decapitates the Infected with his machete.

Once safe, the meeting does not go well. Bill is annoyed that Joel and Ellie destroyed many of his traps to find him. After making peace, Bill devises a plan to retrieve a battery from a crashed military truck, stating that if he does this, he owes Joel nothing from then on.[22]

Joel and Ellie are taken by Bill to a church, Bill's personal armory. While Bill loads two shotguns, he tries to convince him to give up on the mission, citing that Tess can't be happy with his "worst job on record... a suicide mission." Bill lectures Joel about "caring for someone". Not desiring to hear Bill's complaints, he asks if they can just "get on with it", irritating Bill.[23] Just before they leave, Bill gives him a nail bomb and teaches him how to make one. As they do leave, Joel tries to stop Ellie from staring at burnt corpses but the teenager just states she had "seen worse".

Despite encountering numerous Infected and even a Bloater at an old high school, it seemed all for nothing when the car battery they needed was not where it should be. Joel begins to ask Bill what their next plan is only for it to results in the pair arguing, Bill insulting Tess in the process, greatly infuriating Joel. Just as he goes to fire back, Bill freezes in place, staring at a hung corpse. Joel spitefully asks who the person is, quickly changing his tone to one of remorse when he learns it is Bill's former partner; Frank. Joel tries to console Bill but the sound of an engine distracts them, reminding them of the need to press on: they can't dwell on the past.

It turns out Frank had acquired the battery for himself, having fitted it in a truck Ellie has just started. Watching Bill assess the vehicle, he learns they need to push the truck to recharge the battery via the alternator. Ellie asks him what he wants her to do; Joel trusts Ellie enough that he lets her drive the vehicle.[24] After several attempts (and holding off Infected as they do so) they manage to start the truck and take off, returning to Bill's armory.

Joel leaves Ellie to keep the motor running as he bids Bill farewell. The pair briefly remark how Ellie "held her own back there" though Bill believes he and Ellie "ain't gonna make it". Joel is gifted a siphon hose by Bill and awkwardly attempts to offer his condolences regarding the loss of Frank; Bill just scrubs it off, asking if they're "square". Joel confirms they are: Bill no longer owes him anything. With that, he returns to the truck, taking off with Ellie for Pittsburgh.

Joel spends much of the journey driving, leaving Ellie to sleep. As the morning arrives, Joel comes to a blocked entrance at the city of Pittsburgh. Although he is weary about entering the city, he does so anyway. The pair drive deep into the city before Joel slams the brakes at the sight of a man stumbling in the road, pleading for assistance. Although Ellie wants to help the man, Joel frantically puts his seatbelt on, telling her to do the same. Joel, recognizing a tactic he had used when he was a hunter, knows the ruse. He accelerates in to the man, almost being shot as the man drops the act and orders his comrades to attack the truck. Eventually, the pair crash in to a bookstore. Joel and Ellie manage to escape, almost being killed in the process, fleeing away from the highway.[25]

They then battled through the city, fighting numerous hunters on the way. Joel spies a Humvee being used by the hunters to kill "tourists", their word for outsiders. The two bond as Joel answers Ellie's questions regarding life before the disease destroyed the world. One question in particular, regarding a Dawn of the Wolf poster, reminds Joel of Sarah; that pair had saw it shortly before the outbreak. When asks why Joel would have watched such a "dumb teen movie" he lies saying he doesn't remember, wanting to avoid telling Ellie about his daughter. To "lighten the mood", Ellie's reveal a joke book she possesses, quoting several jokes from it as they go to take their minds off of the dangers in the world, if all too briefly.

Joel becomes separated from Ellie when the pair climb an elevator shaft, the elevator giving way, sending Joel plummeting to the bottom. Ellie, safe on the ledge, tries to climb down to Joel but he demands that she stay put, wanting to make his own way to her. Joel manages to make it out of the basement, facing Infected as he does so. As he tries to return to Ellie, he is ambushed by a hunter, speedily being detained underwater. He desperately reaches for his handgun but can't reach it, the hunter grappling his arm to prevent his escape. Luckily, Ellie appears at the last second, shooting the hunter dead; saving Joel's life.

Despite the fact that Ellie is initially in shock from having killed a person for the first time, Joel scolds her for disobeying his orders. Ellie argues back, telling Joel that, though it wasn't easy for her, it was either "[Joel] or him", and he could at least thank her for "saving [his] ass." Joel brushes off the remarks and avoids thanking her as the two continue on.[26] However (seeing hunters in the distance) Joel eventually comes to trust Ellie with a hunting rifle, testing to see if she "can handle that". Although disappointed Ellie has only ever shot a BB gun at rats, he teaches her how to use it regardless. He also vaguely thanks her for saving him, making Ellie happier that Joel is starting to trust her, and that the two are beginning to bond.[27] After they kill the group, Joel finally feels Ellie has earned the right to carry a pistol, though he declares it is "for emergencies only".[28]

Soon after, The pair encounter the Humvee in person when traversing through the streets, managing to out run it despite its heavy fire power. The two decide to enter a building via the balcony in order to get off the streets.

While doing so, Joel is grabbed from behind by what he presumes is another hunter. Joel eventually overpowers him, however, Ellie shouts for him to stop; a teenage boy is pointing a gun at him. Joel backs off, making peace with the two. Upon learning their names, Henry and Sam, Joel cautiously agrees to follow them to a hideout; "it will be safer if we chat there".[29]

Once there, Henry offers Joel blueberries having found "a whole stash of them". Joel politely refuses, wanting to learn why they haven't left yet. As Ellie and Sam converse in the background, Henry explains that the bridge (the only real exit) is heavily guarded by day but is reduced to just a skeleton crew at night. After Joel reveals he is looking for the Fireflies as well, Henry tells him his plan to go to a radio station just out of the city to reunite with the survivors of his group. Joel agrees to join him, shortly going to sleep to "rest up".[30]

The four decide to team up to escape the hunter area through the sewers and suburbs. The pair slowly bonded with the brothers; Joel personally discussed his love of motorbike riding with Henry, who was envious for Joel riding one yet not going into detail about the story. When Ellie left them, Henry confessed his regret at having to tell Sam about the loss of their friends, which Joel sombrely nods to. By morning, Joel was up early, looking out the window as Henry made breakfast. However, they were disturbed by Ellie's screams, who came crashing into the room, tackled by an infected Sam. Joel raced to his gun but Henry shot at him, not wanting to see Sam die. Regardless, Henry shot Sam dead as Joel went for his gun again. Overcome with grief, Henry shot himself in the head despite Joel's efforts to dissuade the distraught man.

Following the events in Pittsburgh, the duo continue westward to reach the Fireflies. Fall arrives as Joel and Ellie reach Jackson County in Wyoming, where Joel believes his younger brother Tommy can show them the Firefly's location. They reach a dam and try to cross through. While opening the gate, a women and two men hold then at gunpoint. As Joel tries to get the the group to let them pass through, someone on the inside begins opening the door - the man is revealed to be Tommy. To Joel's surprise, his brother hugs him and briefly remark to each other about their age. Tommy introduces him to Maria, the settlement's leader. The woman says she is sorry, and comments that Joel is her brother in law, surprising Joel at the prospect of Tommy having gotten married. Maria takes note of Ellie, who has remained quiet, and invites them to eat.[32]

The group enter the settlement, amazed to find such a place. They see horses, Joel learning that Ellie also knows how to ride one. They learn the group is trying to restore the electricity. As they approach the cafeteria, Maria receives a call on her radio to check out the newly repaired generator. Tommy and Joel go while the girls eat. Before they do, Tommy gives Joel a picture he found back when he returned to Texas. Joel looks at the photo but, after a long pause, gives it back; he is too pained by the memories of his lost daughter to take it. Tommy accepts this, taking him to see the generator be activated. As they cross through, one worker jokingly bets "a million bucks it works" to which Tommy remarks "make it two". The two watch as the generator successfully starts. Joel jokes that Tommy is out two million dollars, Tommy laughs him off as they enter a room to talk privately.

Once inside, Joel and Tommy begin discussing why Joel has come so far. Joel confesses Ellie's immunity to his brother. Although doubtful, Tommy "bites" when Joel proposes he can show him. Joel admits he came here to pass Ellie on to his brother as the Fireflies were his "crusade", thus his responsibility. Tommy promises Joel gear but refuses to "take that girl off [his] hands". Joel is greatly angered, angrily stating that Tommy owes him this, only for Tommy to say that surviving "wasn't worth it". Greatly enraged, Joel shoves him against a locker, preparing to get even more physical. As he goes to do so Tommy warns him; "you lay your hands on me again and it won't end well for you". Before they argue further, the two are interrupted when bandits attack the dam.[33]

Joel helps fend off the attackers and rescue Maria and Ellie. He checks to see if Ellie is hurt, relived she isn't. As the group recovers after the attack, Tommy reluctantly agrees to take Ellie to the Fireflies. While he informs a heartbroken Maria, Joel is harsh to Ellie, avoiding the fact that the two are arguing. Maria confronts Joel, threatening his life if Tommy dies. As Joel tearfully goes to retrieve Ellie, Tommy is radioed by a comrade that Ellie has stolen a horse and fled into the woods.[34] Joel and Tommy give chase, tracking her to a ranch house.

Joel finds Ellie alone in an abandoned bedroom reading a diary. He tries to make her leave but she refuses. Joel reprimands her for running off, causing Ellie to bring up Sarah; having been told of Joel's deceased daughter by Maria. Joel is greatly angered, warning Ellie that she is "treading on some mighty thin ice." The two argue heavily about the losses in their lives, Ellie pushing Joel while doing so. Joel remains cold, asserting he isn't her dad. Tommy interrupts them, as bandits have reached the ranch.[35]

Once the trio dispatch them they depart back to Tommy's. While riding, Joel thinks back on his time with Ellie, concluding he doesn't want to abandon her and leave her scared. He asks Tommy for the Firefly lab's location, the University of Eastern Colorado. He has Ellie give her horse back and get on his. Tommy tries to convince him to come to the town so they can discuss it but Joel's mind is made up. With the promise of a home at Tommy's if they should return, Joel and Ellie depart for the University.[36]

Several weeks pass before they reach the University. While traveling they decided to name the horse Callus, though Joel doesn't approve of it. They search through the university for traces of Fireflies, finding a sniper's nest, Firefly symbols, and the mirror-like science building Tommy mentioned. Joel briefly encounters infected, including a Bloater - a former Firefly. Joel tries to assure Ellie that the Infected were there as a form of defense. While searching, Joel confesses his desire to be a singer and that he was in sports. Ellie also remarks that she wants to be an astronaut. When closing in on the abandoned and barricaded science lab, Ellie asks if Joel went to college. He confesses he didn't since he had Sarah quite young, but is reluctant to talk about his ex-spouse.

They reach the building but find that the Fireflies are gone. They do find monkeys (Ellie saying she had never seen them before) and evidence of the abandoned research. They search through the building, breaking in through the side gates due to how fortified the main entrance is with barbed wire. While searching, they manage to reach a blocked door.

Once inside, Joel finds a Firefly skeleton with a recording. As Ellie searches through some files, Joel plays the recording and learns the Fireflies have relocated to Salt Lake City. Knowing where to go, the pair go to leave, but notice a flash on a lower floor, narrowly avoiding being shot.

The two waste no time fleeing the building, killing several bandits in the process. They make it to the lower levels but Joel is surprised by one attacker, tackled off a ledge and crashes through a piece of rebar, mortally wounding him. Luckily, his attacker breaks his neck on the fall. Ellie frantically climbs down to Joel, unsure of what to do. Joel picks up his revolver. Grunting in pain as he orders her to move, shooting two more bandits as they charged through the doors in front of the pair. Joel fidgets, unable to get up. No other choice, Ellie pulls Joel up, the man screaming in pain from the effort.

Joel is up but his torso is punctured, causing him to lose a great amount of blood. Ellie checks the corridor as Joel limps behind her, insisting he doesn't need her assistance. They climb through a smashed window, Joel falling to the ground only for Ellie to pull him behind a desk; another bandit forced his way in to the room, not hesitating to fire at the pair. Joel tries to return fire but is pinned down. Ellie decides to flank him, Joel wearily telling her not to. She does so regardless, distracting the man long enough for Joel to shoot him dead. Ellie returns to Joel picking him up.

They carry on through the building, approaching the exit. Joel stumbles, almost falling, on the way out. Ellie once more tries to help but he pushes her off, causing her to shout that he's "not okay". They proceed through to the main hall, Joel's body giving in as he falls to the ground, attempting to shoot oncoming bandits. Ellie manages to kill them, forcing Joel to his feet once more but this time, he allows her to assist him.

They make it outside, Joel falling down the steps. They secure their horse and ride out of the university. Once a safe distance away, Ellie remarks that they are safe, only for Joel to lose consciousness, falling from Callus. Ellie tries to pick him up but can't, begging him to tell her what to do.[37]

Joel appears briefly in the Left Behind DLC. Carrying on from the Fall arc, Ellie has managed to drag Joel to an abandoned mall. He is severely injured because of the last major event in the fall, and only appears in the beginning and towards the end of the DLC.

Ellie briefly covers his wound with her summer shirt, using duct tape to keep it in place. She leaves him in the yogurt bar with Callus while she searches the Colorado Mountain Plaza for medical supplies. Ellie returns with a first aid kit, after having to fight through cannibals and Infected to get back. She stitches up Joel's wound and straps him to a sled to pull him through snow. They leave, eventually reaching Silver Lake. Ellie manages to secure him and takes him to an abandoned house near a lake. As the weeks pass, Ellie hunts for food while Joel recovers and contracts septicemia.
A few weeks have passed, and Joel is unconscious and feverish due to wound sepsis. Ellie has been doing her best to keep him alive and recover. She returns one day with a bottle of penicillin she obtained from two survivors named David and James, but he is still weak and can't move.
The next morning, Ellie looks out the window to find the same people trying to find her. Fleeing the area by horse to protect Joel, she is eventually captured by them; Joel is left alone but isn't found by the group.

Joel awakens, startled. The medicine brings him back to his feet, albeit weakened, but he is surprised to find Ellie missing. Upon leaving the hideout, he encounters the same group of survivors who seem to know her whereabouts. He chases after them, killing all but two. He tortures and interrogates them to learn of Ellie's location. Joel fears for her safety, enacting revenge upon the pair, brutally beating one to death and ruthlessly breaking the others' neck in cold blood.

Joel arrives in the survivors' settlement and discovers, to his horror, that they are cannibals. He dispatches the rest of them before finding Ellie, who had managed to escape before falling victim to their cannibalistic ways, brutally hacking at David with his own machete. He pulls her away from the corpse and holds her to calm her down. As a traumatized Ellie begins to break down, Joel holds her in his arms to comfort her; the first time he had ever embraced her. He calls her "baby girl," the same term of endearment he used for Sarah.

Spring arrives as Joel and Ellie reach Salt Lake City, their intended final destination. Joel tries to fill the silence in order to cheer up an estranged and traumatized Ellie, who warms up after seeing a herd of giraffes. Realizing what Ellie has been through, he tells her that they can leave and return to Tommy's settlement, but she declines his offer, remarking that she wants to go through with this after all they have been through.[41]

In the city, they encounter a horde of Infected, miraculously managing to fight through all of them. While crossing a flooded street via the roofs of vehicles and construction scaffolding, they reach a big gap. Ellie is scared that she won't make it, but Joel reassures her that he will catch her. She jumps but makes it without his help, something Joel congratulates her for.

While crossing the last bus to reach the end of the sewers, it gives way as Joel tries to climb it, forcing him to the front of the bus despite his efforts. He notices the door above him and proceeds to pull it. Ellie jumps on the bus too, kicking the door to open it. They succeed, but the bus sinks beneath the waves. Joel forces his way out, finding Ellie unconscious in the water. He reaches her and proceeds to carry her to the surface. However, she is not breathing. Panicking, he gives her CPR to save her life. While doing so, two Fireflies find them. Despite trying to convince them he needs to give her CPR, they knock him out.

When Joel wakes up, he finds Marlene and what remains of the Boston Fireflies at the hospital. Ellie was successfully revived but was immediately taken for research on Marlene's order, which will possibly create a vaccine for the infection, as Joel finds out at Marlene's disclosure. Marlene also tells Joel that in order to fully reverse engineer the fungus for a vaccine, the doctors must remove the fungus from Ellie's brain, which will result in certain death. Upon hearing this, Joel begins to protest for her. Marlene disregards him however, saying that he is not in a position to make decisions, and that her decision to sacrifice Ellie will save millions.

She spares Joel's life, but Joel, determined not to lose his new "daughter" like he lost Sarah, escapes and tortures his Firefly guard Ethan to find out the location of the operating room.[42] He battles his way through the facility and brings Ellie out.

At the hospital parking garage, Marlene corners Joel, who threatens him with a pistol. She tries to persuade him that it's pointless to run; Ellie will die anyway as he can't protect her. She lets her guard down as Joel considers this, willingly letting him decide Ellie's fate. She moves closer to him and reaches for Ellie. Despite this offer, Joel shoots Marlene in the abdomen, leaving her on the floor grievously wounded, firmly deciding he'd rather save Ellie than save humanity. Before killing Marlene, Joel secures Ellie in a car. Marlene begs for her life, but Joel coldly refuses, fearing that she will only pursue them if she survives. He shoots her point blank in the head, leaving her behind as he flees with Ellie.[43]

Joel delivers Ellie out of the city, heading for "home" at Tommy's. To spare her from feeling survivor's guilt, he tells Ellie a half-truth: that the Fireflies did actually find more people with immunity like her but had no success (true) so they have stopped looking for a cure (false). Ellie is greatly dismayed when she hears this. The two finally reach Tommy's Dam, where Joel remarks that they can return to their normal life. Unable to cross through the main road due to the truck breaking down, they detour in to the woods. Walking through the woods, he tells her that he used to hike with Sarah, believing the pair would have "been good friends". Eventually, Ellie confronts Joel and questions him whether what he tells her is true. Joel replies, "I swear", leaving a doubting Ellie to her own belief.[44]

## Days Gone

Deacon and Boozer continued to run solo for some time. They were contracted by Tucker to track down Leon who had stolen her camp's drugs in order to sell them to Copeland. Deacon and Boozer discovered Alvarez brutally beaten while they were tracking Leon, and she informs them that Leon had attacked her. They then give chase when he passes by and corner him. Wounded and with a horde of Freakers nearby, Deacon threatens to leave Leon to be torn apart if he does not give them information on the drugs, and will make his death quick if he cooperates. Leon hands over a map to his stash and Deacon performs a mercy kill.

Returning to their bikes, Deacon finds that his fuel pump has been destroyed by a bullet Leon had fired. Not wanting to wait til morning to fix his bike. Deacon and Boozer travel to an abandoned mechanic shop called Crazy Willie's. En route, Deacon and Boozer discuss the idea of traveling north to get away from the area and the many bad memories it holds, especially considering that Deacon seems to be acting more and more reckless. Deacon agrees that heading north may be for the best.

The place is swarming with Freakers, so Boozer leads as many of them away as he can while Deacon searches for a fuel pump. After finding the required part, Deacon radios Boozer to tell him he's ready to go. Boozer informs Deacon that he's encountered Rippers. Deacons rushes to find Boozer, only to find him being tortured by Rippers who use an acetylene torch to burn off his tattoos. Deacon dispatches the Rippers, helps Boozer, and the two flee just as a horde arrives.

Deacon and Boozer head back to their safehouse. Boozer heads to get some rest and Deacon heads back out to get his bike on foot. Discovering a group of Marauders who intend to take their safehouse by force along the way, he takes the time to eliminate them, as Boozer in his weakened state would be unable to fend them off. He then returns to the area he left his bike, finding it gone. Realizing that someone from Copeland's camp must have taken it, he spots someone from Copeland's camp and gives chase.

Arriving at Copeland's camp he discovers that his Bike has been stripped down by the camp mechanic Manny, who is scared when he realizes that it was Deacon's bike. Before Deacon can do anything to Manny, he is called by Copeland to talk. He mentions Leon was bringing him Tuck's drugs. Deacon denies knowing anything about Leon's whereabouts, but Copeland snatches Leon's hat, and knows that Deacon has killed him. Copeland tells Deacon that if he wants Manny's help getting his bike fixed he'll do runs for the camp, including bringing Leon's stash to him. Deacon reluctantly agrees. Copeland tells Deacon to head to an old radio tower and eliminate a group of deserters from his camp and reestablish the radio uplink so he can continue to broadcast Radio Free Oregon. Later after the Days were gone for almost 7 years David was reselected from the Soul World and to helping Peter and the Team Once More.

## Apocalypses

Dempsey and his allies (Consisting of Richtofen and Belinski) are teleported into a large warehouse infested with the likes of Nazi Zombies during round 27. Before heading to find the perks in the game, the trio realize that Takeo is missing and that leads to them trying to find a solution to their problems, Dempsey and Nikolai head to find the perks and leaving Richtofen to his work. Finding the Mystery Box downstairs behind a locked fenced door, Dempsey and Nikolai see Richtofen being chased by a horde of Zombies and they decide to go look for better weapons.

Dempsey manages to find a Springfield M1903A3 while Nikolai covers him and they both press on. Finding the perks machine and a whole nest of zombies guarding it, Dempsey decides to engage them even after Nikolai warns him that his weapon won't work. He retreats from the horde that is coming after him while Nikolai raids the perk machine and takes all the perks he can carry. Chased around the warehouse, Dempsey runs out of ammo and continues to book it from the vicious horde, however get distracted by Richtofen holding a teddy bear.

After catching up with Nikolai who was being chased by a Super Soldier, Dempsey manages to kill the soldier before it has a shot at the Russian. After killing the Super Soldier, Dempsey and Nikolai head to find Richtofen. Finding the crazed Nazi doctor, Dempsey witnesses an argument between Nikolai and Richtofen while partaking in the usage of the perks taken by the Nikolai. Meeting back up with Richtofen who used a Death Machine to kill off a horde of Zombies, Dempsey and the others head for the mystery box to get better weapons. Now packing a Browning M1919A4, Dempsey witnesses the box teleported elsewhere along with Nikolai. After being found and revived by Nikolai, the American orders his Russian comrade to cover him while he obtains a Juggernog Perk from the machine. With Nikolai getting ripped apart, Dempsey comes in guns blazing with his Browning and attempts to revive the fallen Russian and succeeding in doing so, goes to help Richtofen. Eradicating all the Zombies attacking the German, Dempsey is then beaten sensless by the same Super Soldier he killed before.

In the second installment, Dempsey arrives only seconds after the arrival of Richtofen and both meet up with Nikolai in the kitchen of a house. Realizing they lost Takeo again, they find Takeo running up to the house wearing no uniform and fending off a zombie horde with a Katana. Providing cover for their comrade, Richtofen and Dempsey came out packing a Thompson M1A1 and an MP40, slaughtering the zombies. Entering the home, Dempsey and Richtofen find a sword wielding Takeo wearing nothing but underwear and chilled to the bone because he was teleported while in the middle of a shower. Giving him a US Uniform, Dempsey and the others meet with Richtofen and discuss a plan, as well as giving Takeo a Colt M1911A1.

Accompanying the others to obtain perks, Dempsey tells Nikolai to get the perks, however because of the Russian's prior experience, he declines Dempsey. Helping himself to the perks, Dempsey and the others encounter the Super Soldier for the second time, who Dempsey taunts before shooting him in the head. The Super Soldier changes the round of the game to 10 and teleports away, leaving the others to put the blame on Dempsey. Following Nikolai to the Mystery Box, Dempsey obtains a Browning Automatic Rifle and uses it to fend off the zombies for a maximum time of 5 minutes (giving Richtofen enough time to get his portable teleporter to work). After grabbing hold of Richtofen along with his comrades, they are teleported away from the coming danger, however are separated from each other.

After being teleported away from the oncoming hordes of zombies, Dempsey and the others are somehow separated during their unconventional escape. Dempsey ends up in a convention center where the announcers alert the crowds to his unexpected appearance. Dempsey stands there, however is then chased by a crowd of Dempsey crazed fans. Attempting to shoot them, his weapon jams and he tries to clear it before he can run, but ends up tackled to the ground by the oncoming crowd. Nikolai finds Dempsey trembling and holding 3 My Little Pony toys. Both Dempsey and Nikolai are met up by Richtofen and they then realize that they lost Takeo yet again. Sure enough, Takeo appears from out of the back of a Honda Sentra and eventually encountering zombies left and right.

Dempsey covers the others and then picks up Richtofen's Wunderwaffe DG-2 after the Nazi dropped it while being hit with the Pack-A-Punch Machine that was thrown by Nikolai. Richtofen getting angry at Nikolai about destroying the portable teleporter, then projects his anger upon Dempsey, causing the American to verbally retaliate. Eventually the group encounter more zombies brought on by Nikolai and the group scatters. Dempsey ends up fighting the horde alongside Nikolai and they end up against the wall trying to hold them at bay with a hunk of wood. Managing to get the horde down to the ground, Dempsey and Nikolai engage the horde in combat. Nikolai accidentally knocks Richtofen to the ground, then is picked up by a medic while Dempsey watches and does nothing to help Richtofen.

Dempsey and the others eventually man a light armored car alongside Nikolai. While Dempsey and Nikolai man the guns, Richtofen and Takeo fight outside the vehicle. After running out of ammo from the horde that just came at them, Dempsey and the others having exhausted their ammo supply in their firearms, now must use their blades to compensate for bullets. Alongside his comrades, Dempsey runs towards 5 zombies engaging them in combat, leaving his and the other's fate unknown.

When he is teleported to the area, he realises Takeo is trapped behind a door and breaks it down, before telling him to get out of the way. When Richtofen realises Nikolai is not there, all three attempt to search for him - but to no avail.

On November 19th, 1917, Corporal "Tank" Dempsey of the United States Marine Corps was sent to spy on the German Group 935 due to reports of "prototype armored weaponry...strange lights in the sky...a mysterious plague...and even giant metal men," in Northern France. Specifically, he was assigned to grab a member of the organization as a H.V.T., and was given a transport in the form of a Mark IV Tank.

On April 14th, 1918, Dempsey reported, despite ongoing battles, he has fared well in Northern France. In a personal letter, he reveals that both the Japanese and Russian Armies have also sent spies to investigate the activities of Group 935.

On June 4th, 1918, Element 115 completely awakened the undead knights from The Great War and quickly consumed the camp. Dempsey, along with Russian spy Nikolai Belinski and Japanese spy Takeo Masaki unite with German scientist Edward Richtofen on the battlefield and help free a girl named Samantha from her imprisonment in Agartha. The four uniting marks the return of Primis from the original Great War, as the group were reincarninated versions of them. Samantha, who had been freed and sent to the House, then sent Primis to their next destination.

Dempsey, along with Nikolai and Takeo, upon learning of Richtofen's multi-dimensional travels, attempt to stop him for fearing that he will disrupt the established continuity of the dimensions. After several dimension jumps and failed attempts, they arrive at the Ultimis Timeline which has been slightly altered due to Richtofen's past actions of travelling through universes and killing his other selves, at the Der Riese facility on October 13th, 1945, just moments after Ultimis Richtofen trapped Maxis and Samantha in the teleporter with Fluffy. Dempsey, Nikolai and Takeo confront Ultimis Richtofen, telling him that there is a chain of events that must be carried out, and prompt him to awaken the Ultimis versions of themselves.

As the zombie horde approach them from outside, Richtofen ignored the three's warning and turns on the teleporter, only to find Primis Richtofen inside. Primis Richtofen then shot the Ultimis Richtofen in the head, killing him instantly. This triggered a fracturization across the Ultimis timeline. While the group expresses disappointment in Richtofen for tampering with history, he defends his action, believing that what he does will be to secure a better future. While the others fend off the zombies, Richtofen pretended to use the Summoning Key to acquire the Ultimis Richtofen's soul, which Dempsey noticed. Eventually, the four activate a beacon in the facility, allowing Maxis from another dimension to locate them.

After acquiring a Giant Robot from the Der Riese facility, the four pursue the scattered remains of Group 935 to Griffin Castle, codenamed "Eagle's Nest", on November 5th, 1945. The Germans had captured Ultimis Dempsey's cryo chamber from being experimented on by Ultimis Richtofen and planned to bring him to Griffin Station, with Primis close behind until a German soldier fires a Panzerschreck at the Giant Robot, disabling it before it could retrieve Ultimis Dempsey. After arriving at Griffin Castle, the young four watch as a rocket containing the Ultimis Dempsey launches to the Moon. After making radio contact with Dr. Groph, Ultimis Richtofen's second-in-command, Richtofen masquerades as his Ultimis, older self in order to fool Groph. However, Groph becomes suspicious of Richtofen's change of personality and announces him as an imposter. Using the Death Ray, the young four managed to bring the rocket containing the Ultimis Dempsey back to the castle, much to Groph's anger, who activated a failsafe so they couldn't touch the chamber.

Using the Vril Device obtained from the crash site, the young four awakened a ghost Keeper and help it return it to its physical form before it returns the favor and brings the M.P.D. from the Moon to the castle. However, the Keeper becomes corrupted, forcing the four to battle it, eventually defeating it. After defeating it, Groph expresses his extreme anger, vowing to destroy them and the castle itself. In order to tie up these loose ends, the four use the Summoning Key to launch several missiles towards the Moon, destroying it, ultimately destroying Griffin Station and killing any Group 935 scientist at the station, including Groph. After walking towards Ultimis Dempsey's cryo chamber, Richtofen activated the Summoning Key, forcing the others to levitate in the air.

Here, Richtofen's plan is revealed to the Dempsey and the rest of the group. Richtofen planned to kill the Ultimis versions of themselves to be put in the Summoning Key like he supposedly did with his own at the Der Riese facility. When Dempsey himself sadly put his older self down, Richtofen briefly comforted him after it was done, showing that he had laid his previous dislike of Dempsey off to the side. Richtofen then captured the Ultimis Dempsey's soul in the Key.

Dempsey and the other three then travel to a different fractured timeline, to an island, arriving on a Japanese vessel heading for a Division 9 Facility on October 18th, 1945, before being caught and the Summoning key being taken away from him. A brief fight ensues with the Japanese soldiers with Richtofen burning one alive before he notices the Key rolling toward the ocean, luckily Takeo had managed to barely catch the Key by his fingertips much to Richtofen's relief. The four then are forced to swim to a nearby island after the ship blows up. Later, Dempsey was present when the Ultimis Takeo Masaki was cured from being a Thrasher to collect his soul.

After the Ultimis Takeo honorably sacrificed himself for a better future, Richtofen then preserved his soul. Initially Dempsey suggested going after the Ultimis Nikolai but Richtofen said a "chain of events " must be set in motion. Realizing that he wants to save his three comrades from their eventual fate, Richtofen then takes them to Alcatraz on July 4th, 1941, where he meets his younger self and acquires the Victis blood samples.

Primis then jumps to another fractured timeline, in a war-torn Stalingrad on November 6th, 1945, to kill the Ultimis Nikolai Belinski and place his soul in the Summoning Key. Eventually the four are teleported out of the sky and parachute in front of Ultimis Nikolai's mech while he is distracted with vodka and listening to "The Ace of Spades" on his radio.

Upon seeing them the Ultimis Nikolai attempts to kill them until a dragon throws him into a building. Later, Dempsey and the others make a temporary truce with the Ultimis Nikolai in order to kill the dragon. Afterward, Dempsey and the other three demand Ultimis Nikolai to surrender to which he refuses and betrays them. After the Primis Nikolai kills his Ultimis self, Richtofen opens a portal in the sky with Maxis' help and lights a beacon from the Summoning Key which releases the Ultimis Nikolai, Takeo and Dempsey. After this, he says they will see Maxis soon.

Later, the mysterious voice contacts Dempsey, Nikolai and Takeo informing them that Richtofen can't hear him. He congratulates the crew on their progress of fixing the fracturing universe. However, he informs them that Richtofen had been searching for years for the correct versions of them to close off the dimensions, suggesting that the Ultimis timeline versions of the characters were the ones who determined the universe's disorder and fates of the incarnations of the alternate versions of the characters in other universes, who have all been erased due to the originals being killed off. He also tells them to not trust Richtofen and that's he's been in "The House" for "ages". Finally, the voice introduces himself as Doctor Monty, claiming it's so nice to see the characters.

Soon after the events of Gorod Krovi, Nikolai along with the rest of the Primis crew finally arrive at the house. There Richtofen reunites with Maxis, the two then destroy the MDT to ensure the house would remain safe. Letting his guard down Richtofen leaves the Soul key on a table unaware of who was trapped within. The voice inside calls out to Maxis and influences him due to his lack of soul making him easy to control. Maxis opens the Soul key releasing the Shadowman inside, exploring his new surroundings, he opens a portal to Agartha and unleashes an Apothicon invasion. Monty enlists the help of the Primis crew to defeat the Shadowman and save his perfect world from destruction.

With the help of Maxis and S.O.P.H.I.A, Primis manages to kill the Shadowman and banish the Apothicons to places unknown. As the world returns to normal Monty becomes concerned as Primis remains in front of him. Noticing the empty blood vials he becomes angered claiming that they are putting his realm at risk. Initially he decides to simply wipe them from existence but decides to instead send them somewhere else. The 4 then end up in the year 1299, in northern France just as the Great war comes to an end causing the cycle to continue.

Set before the events of Gorod Krovi, Primis enters the pocket dimension of Alcatraz to pick up the blood vials. Ending up far from their intended target, the group enters the underground lab and find another Richtofen. He gives the vials to the group and instructs Richtofen to re-read the Kronorium. Richtofen scans through pages exclaiming that pages have changed and that his blood is needed. He becomes enraged and throws the Kronorium before hearing a horde of zombies. The group then makes their escape but before entering the portal Brutus destroys it trapping the group within the twisted version of Alctraz.

Beside a mysterious machine known as the Dark Mechanism, The Primis crew battle against Brutus, Whom is being resurrected time and time again. Richtofen realized what the Kronorium meant and that the machine was intended to draw his blood, and stepped inside, sacrificing himself to free the others.

With Brutus finally unable to resurrect, the rest of Primis is joined by a post-Revelations Richtofen, who informed them that the future had changed, and that Nikolai had to keep his soul to defeat Doctor Monty. The future Richtofen explained that the cycle was broken, and that he wished he could say he was sorry to his younger self. Taking the Soul key the future Richtofen handed Nikolai the Kronorium telling him he would need to read it to defeat Monty. The remainder of the Primis members and the Dimention 63 Richtofen, leaving the new Richtofen alone and scared, the machine continuing to drain his blood.

In order to prepare for the coming battle; Primis makes a stop at Groom Lake to gain some allies. Within Hanger 4 the Ultimis crew were being held seemingly after the events of Moon, With Richtofen also retaining his body. As Ultimis Nikolai expresses glee at being able to drink uninterrupted, Primis Nikolai emerged from a portal asking his alternate self if drowning his sorrows in vodka is the best choice. The Primis crew rallies their alternate selves and recruit them to fight in the coming battle. As the they each face their alternate selves Ultimis Dempsey asks Primis Nikolai "What kind of war?" to which he replies "A war unlike any other that you have seen. A Great war."

After recruiting Ultimis at the Pentagon, Primis (alongside Ultimis) teleported to the Broken Arrow facility known as "Camp Edward" in order to retrieve the Elemental Shard - an especially powerful piece of Element 115. However, they were refused access to the A.P.D, which contained the shard, by the intelligence program Rushmore, who was assigned to protect the facility from intruders. However, after performing various tasks to gain Rushmore's trust, Primis was finally granted access to the A.P.D. However, the crew would soon realize that the undead was not the only threat within the facility, as they were now tasked with defeating the electrical entity known as the Avogadro. After defeating the Avogadro and sending it to the Hanford site in Washington, Rushmore allowed the crew to take the Elemental Shard. Not long after gaining the Elemental Shard, Samantha Maxis and the child version of Richtofen were teleported from the House within Agartha to Camp Edward by her father, Ludvig, who was killed by Dr. Monty in the process. Grieving the loss of her father, Samantha unleashed a pulse of energy, destroying Camp Edward in the process.

Not long after their mission to Camp Edward, Primis, Ultimis, and the children found themselves within a forest. There, they decided to start a campfire and take a rest before they went to go fight the Great War. The crew celebrated with alcohol and food, with Primis Nikolai constantly begging the question of where the crew wished to go after the war ended. Primis Dempsey responded to Nikolai's question by stating that he wished to be a drill instructor. Not long after, Dempsey, along with his comrades, were killed by a secret poison that was laced by Nikolai in the alcohol that they had been drinking

## Phase 4

Steve Rogers was a weak young man who lived during World War II and desperately wanted to enlist and fight the Nazis. However, he was deemed unfit to be in combat, until he was brought into a special program called Operation: Rebirth. There, he was the one who tested the Super Soldier Serum, which transformed him from a scrawny and weak young man to a Super-Soldier who supposedly was enhanced at the sustainable peak of human potential. However, before the serum's ingredients could be written down, the lead scientist was assassinated by a Nazi spy. Steve, now with the name Captain America, was given a shield and tasked with fighting Hitler's forces such as the Red Skull and Baron Zemo. With his sidekick Bucky, Cap fought for the American dream, serving alongside future heroes such as Wolverine and Nick Fury. However, while trying to stop a missile, Bucky was seemingly killed and Cap was flung into the ocean and frozen until modern times.

The Super Soldier Serum had kept him alive until he was discovered by the Avengers, who consisted of Iron Man, Thor, Giant Man, and the Wasp. He went on to lead them for many years. Eventually, he discovered Bucky was alive, under mind control as the assassin the Winter Soldier. He was soon freed and became Cap's ally once more. Captain America had to go against his friend Iron Man during the Superhuman Civil War, which he forfeited to stop the bloodshed. Afterwards, he was seemingly assassinated, but in reality he had been shot with a weapon that left him unhinged in space and time, appearing at events in his lifetime and fighting battles. The Red Skull brings Rogers back to the present, where he takes control of Rogers' mind and body. Rogers eventually regains control, and with help from his allies, defeats the Red Skull.and has since come back, becoming the head of Homeland Security and giving the Captain America persona to Bucky. He is also currently the leader of his own black-ops team known as the Secret Avengers.

Since World War II, Steve Rogers has fought for the side of good as CAPTAIN AMERICA! As one of his last friends from the war is laid to rest, Cap must contend with the mysterious robbery of a high-tech weapons company. But what is BATROC THE LEAPER planning, and how will this technology change the FUTURE of the AVENGERS?
The journey to MARVEL'S AVENGERS continues with a mystery and an adventure that sets the groundwork for THE SUPER SPY STARS IN THE FINAL ADVENTURE BEFORE THE LAUNCH OF MARVEL’S AVENGERS! Former Russian spy Natasha Romanoff has joined SHIELD, but when a spectre from her past resurfaces, where do her loyalties really lie? And what is the source of her deadly feud with the villainous TASKMASTER? Solve the mystery in this adventure leading up to the upcoming MARVEL’S AVENGERS video game as we explore a key episode from the dramatic saga of the woman called BLACK WIDOW!THE FIRST PREQUEL TO THE UPCOMING VIDEO GAME, MARVEL’S AVENGERS! Avengers Assemble! The road to Marvel’s Avengers begins here, with an all-new story leading directly into the events of the highly anticipated video game! IRON MAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, BLACK WIDOW, THOR, and HULK are the mighty Avengers, but as the LETHAL LEGION strikes, it’s going to take more than their usual teamwork to save the day! When TONY STARK discovers his enemies have co-opted Stark technology for nefarious purposes, it’s up to him to stop the leak. But can his teammates be trusted, or is something more sinister at play? Featuring the debut of the game’s AVENGERS, as well as never before seen takes on some classic villains, you won’t want to miss this landmark moment in comics history!

Steve Rogers has fought for the side of good as CAPTAIN AMERICA! As one of his last friends from the war is laid to rest, Cap must contend with the mysterious robbery of a high-tech weapons company. But what is BATROC THE LEAPER planning, and how will this technology change the FUTURE of the AVENGERS? The journey to MARVEL’S AVENGERS continues with a mystery and an adventure that sets the groundwork for an inciting incident in the upcoming video game!Along with Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and Black Widow, Rogers attended A-Day to celebrate the opening of their West Coast Headquarters and the unveiling of their personal helicarrier, the Chimera. During the event, he witnessed Kamala Khan stand up to a heckler, leading him to give her one of the comics needed for VIP access. Rogers also reassured her that they had read her comics, even claiming that Thor had gotten a kick out of her story. He was called away by Romanoff to appear on stage to talk about the Terrigen Crystal power source. Rogers personally introduced George Tarleton on stage to talk about the specifics of the generator.

When Taskmaster and his mercenaries attacked the Golden Gate Bridge, Captain America remained aboard the Chimera while the rest of the team dealt with the incident. While aboard, Rogers was attacked by Masters' agents sent to take over the Chimera's bridge. After defeating the attackers, he made his way to the Terrigen generator to help Tarleton, where he learned there was an unknown heat signature which upset the San Andreas Fault and was drawing them into the San Francisco Bay.

Knowing that the entire West Coast could be destroyed unless he destroyed the Crystal, Rogers ordered Tarleton to seal him inside the reactor and to get to the Command Deck. Once locked inside, Cap smashed the reactor with his shield. While the action did stop the reactor and the heat signature to disappear, the chain reactor caused the Chimera to crash and destroyed most of San Francisco. Theses also released Terrigen Mists into the air, creating countless Inhumans around the city. Due to the damage done to the Chimera, Captain America was believed to have died in the tragedy. It, along with Banner's testimony at Congress, were the main factors in disbandment of the Avengers.

Unknown to all except Monica Rappaccini, Rogers survived the events and was placed into cryogenic storage. Taking blood samples from him, she was able to create a regenerative serum, which she used to treat Tarleton when he began to display Inhuman abilities. Using her newly acquired resources from the AIM takeover of SHIELD, Monica hid Roger's body on the space satellite Ambrosia. Using his DNA to continually create her serum, he was kept in cryogenic storage to prevent him from escaping. Cap's fate and his presence on the satellite remained a secret to all except Rappaccini and several other trusted individuals.

Reassembling the Avengers

Five years later, Ambrosia was discovered by the Avengers through both Kamala's observations of it on Monica's console and a comment she made during an interrogation. After acquiring the necessary materials to finish a suit that could survive in space, Iron Man traveled to and explored the satellite, hoping it contained captive Inhumans. After he discovered the Hibernation chamber and opening it, Rogers awakened after five years of hibernation, leading to his reunion with the shocked Stark. Learning briefly what had happened over the five years, the two made their way to the escape pod.

Though initially weakened from the time in the chamber, Rogers was able to navigate the satellite and fought a number of AIM Synthoids sent to stop them. Able to escape before Rappaccini detonated the space station, they were drawn off course into deep space by the explosion. While trapped there, Rogers explained the reasons behind his destruction of the Terrigen reactor to Stark, who had seen the video recording of him doing so. Though they expected to die, their pod was grabbed by Thor, who brought them back to Earth and to the rebuilt Chimera.

Returning to a rebuilt Chimera, Steve reunited with the other Avengers and regained his lost shield. Whilst talking to Nat, they deduced that Monica had hired Taskmaster to steal the Terrigen crystals, thus causing the Chimera's security protocols to activate. Steve also realized that the Terrigen had reacted with something in the bay, causing the Earthquakes and destruction of San Francisco. Having learned of the damage done by his actions, he began to wonder whether he had done the right thing, but was reassured by Natasha. Interrupted by Kamala, Steve joined the rest of the Avengers in a briefing. Learning from JARVIS that AIM were using a recent incident in Manhattan to round up Inhumans, he decided to stop them and show the world their true colors.

## Confronting MODOK

After acquiring the necessary materials to complete their Stark Tech Suits, Rogers learned that AIM had deployed a Warship to round up Inhumans. Deciding to confront it, he ordered the team to intercept it in Manhattan and destroy the machine. Upon arrival, the group rescued captive Inhumans from both AIM forces and Watchdogs. After checking on them in a nearby safehouse, the group fought and destroyed the Warship, taking its black box to investigate further.

Noticing that the Warship had been deploying Dark Terrigen, the Avengers deduced that Tarleton was planning of destroying all Inhumans and released more across the glob. With JARVIS tracing the signal to the San Francisco Bay, Rogers decided to investigate the area and stop them. Outfitted with new costumes, the Avengers surveyed the area in the Quinjet, locating the base in the middle of the bay. With Hulk, Thor and Iron Man, Cap provided a distraction for Widow and Khan to slip in and hack into the security systems.

Arriving in a monitoring room, Cap learned that the attacks had started. Moments later, Tarleton, now calling himself MODOK, appeared on screen and revealed his plans to get rid of superpowered individuals across the world. Enraged, Rogers destroyed the screen and ordered them to press the attack. With Hulk, Cap located the forcefield generators and destroyed them. Having been singled out by MODOK, they were forced to fight a majority of AIM's forces, including Adaptoids and Quad Mechs.

With Widow able to get the doors open, Cap was able to get in before Tarleton overrode her actions. Separated from the other Avengers, he ordered them to provide a distraction whilst he navigated his way to the transmission tower. During it, Cap came to the conclusion that MODOK might have misremembered details of A-Day and come to believe the propaganda AIM had pushed. Arriving at the tower, he destroyed the cores, though the signal continued. Realizing that the tower was a decoy and the signal was coming from the excavation site, Cap made his way to it, covered by Thor and Iron Man. With the team assembling, he realized that it was actually MODOK who was producing the signal through his technokinesis.

When MODOK appeared to engage them, Captain America coordinated the Avengers and destroyed his Terrigen power source. He and Black Widow also focused their efforts on defeating him whilst the others either rescued Inhumans or fought an recently uncovered Kree Sentry: the object that had disrupted the San Andreas fault. Caught off guard and captured by MODOK, Cap was held within a forcefield during the Inhuman's fight with Black Widow. He was eventually freed, either by her destruction of MODOK's power-enhancing technology or by Kamala destroying the Sentry.

Some time after the mission, Rogers was present when Kamala awakened, complementing her for embiggening herself to destroy the Sentry. At Banner's request, he and the other Avengers gave them some privacy to talk.

## Reigning Supreme

Some time after MODOK's defeat, Captain America and the Avengers were contacted by Maria Hill, who informed them that Rappaccini had become AIM's new Scientist Supreme. Though considered criminals and vigilantes, he vowed they would expose the company's true motives and help their allies. Rogers led the Avengers on several missions, most notably attacking AIM's communications hub. He also coordinated an attack with both SHIELD and the Resistance on AIM's Manhattan facilities, ultimately bringing the two factions together. After taking on a massive Hive facility and defeating a clone of Rappaccini, Rogers and other Avengers decided to officially induct Kamala, now using Carol's old Ms. Marvel identity, into the Avengers.

## Taking AIM

After reuniting with Kate Bishop, Captain America and the other Avengers helped her and SHIELD investigate AIM's involvement with Tachyon Rifts. After apprehending and interrogating Dr. Lyle Getz, Rogers approached Bishop in the middle of practice, hoping to make amends for the lack of contact with the team. Believing he'd was partially responsible for this by not preparing the Avengers to move on without him, Cap offered to induct her into the team as a full-time member. He later joined Kate in investigating the source of the Tachyon disruptions, where they learned that AIM was developing time-travel technology and that Hawkeye was apparently working with them.

Cap helped the Resistance construct their own Time Bridge to retrieve Hawkeye before he went to the future. After successfully retrieving him, he assembled the Avengers to welcome Barton back and learn about Nick Fury's fate. From Clint, Rogers learned that the Kree Empire was going to invade Earth in the future and that Fury was currently helping the timeline's Monica combat the invasion. They also learned that the SHIELD director had decided to bring Barton to the timeline so he could collect information and travel back to warn them. Deciding to prepare immediately, Rogers asked Hawkeye how they should start. When Barton fell unconscious mid-answer, Cap helped Kate try to revive him.

## David's Betrayal

We can credit Jim Shooter for developing the tense relationship which has come to characterize Captain America & Iron Man's interactions. Through the events of Shooter's "Korvac Saga" story, Captain America is nearly apoplectic about the state of Iron Man's leadership. Most of this tension came from the fact that Iron Man had not seen fit to share his secret identity as Tony Stark with any of the Avengers, Cap included. In Avengers #167 (1978), S.H.I.E.L.D. requests the Avengers' help in investigating a massive space facility (which proves to be the base of the Guardians of the Galaxy). Iron Man is late in arriving to join the team because as Tony Stark, he had been in conference with Nick Fury. Cap is boiling mad with Iron Man's tardiness: "You're sorry you're late? A hundred men might die up there and--" to which Iron Man sharply replies, "Then shut up and get into the ship!" The problem worsens when they reach the station and Cap instinctively assumes command, issuing orders to the others. Iron Man reflects, "It's no secret what Cap thinks of my leadership! I suspect his resentment is growing and getting personal!" Iron Man began to respond cooly, answering that "all Avengers are guaranteed their personal privacy," to which Cap responded by punching him in his armor-plated face. "You low-life mercenary! Don't the Avengers pay enough for your services?" Now they were both angry, but before a real fight could begin the Scarlet Witch broke it off, shaming Cap by pointing out his own recent poor showings in battle. Cap sulked away

## The Dimensions

Peter Shaw eventually was sick and tired of David trying to be with his father but this time he did not care if was his Allie but all Peter could think of was that David was back to his terrorist ways and now calling David an enemy of America After battling a villain called the Green Skull, an eco-terrorist, Cap meets up with Sharon in a lone alley. Walking to a subway station, Steve and Sharon enter a secret elevator that leads to a subway car hidden within the station. The car then disappears into a flash of light, entering a mysterious realm and also injected with an anesthetic. He finds himself strapped into an operating table. In that moment, Arnim Zola appears before him, welcoming Steve to the Dimension Z. Steve frees himself from the table and jumps through a window and escapes with a baby, only to realize later that the baby was Zola's son. Cap then tries to escape Dimension Z on a jet, but is shot down by enemy forces.[128] Later, Cap and Zola's son, named "Ian," are trapped in a desert like environment in Dimension Z. Suddenly, Steve is attacked by two of Zola's mutates. Steve manages to fight them off, but is later captured with Ian and encounter the Phrox, an alien-like species living in Dimension Z, and Steve becomes partially mind-controlled by Zola because of an implant.[129]

Steve then begins training Ian in how to throw his shield properly and become very close, even to the point where Steve tells him that Zola is his real father.[130] Later on as Steve and Ian return to the Phrox's hideout and are ambushed by Zola's forces there. Steve grabs a blade and stabs himself in the chest, destroying Zola's implant, while Ian is being held captive.[131] Steve then infiltrates Zola's stronghold and kills all the mutates guarding its gates and has reached the tunnel that brought him to Dimension Z. Steve briefly considers returning to Earth and getting help from the Avengers, but he cannot leave Ian to his fate and crawls into the waste tunnels in order to infiltrate the fortress.[132]

Jet and Steve briefly fight each other in the fortress, but she reveals the truth behind Zolandia and they agree to work together to stop Zola. However, Ian was fully brainwashed by Zola, and shoots Steve in the back.[133] Steve later battles Ian again and urges him to make his own decision. However, Ian is shot by Agent 13 through the neck from behind and falls into an abyss below.[134] Sharon later reveals that she rigged Zolandia to detonate. Meanwhile, Jet Black is fighting her father and is losing until Cap arrives and intervenes. Jet Black then frees the Phrox prisoners of Zola. Later, Zola is impaled and savaged by Cap and finally on the verge of destruction and complete shutdown.[135]

The group later prepares to detonate Dimension Z as they leave so that Zola's mutates will not invade and infest the Earth. But Jet Black punches Sharon, steals her detonator, and races off on a sky sled. Later on after Cap and Sharon pursue her, Zola tells his daughter that she has failed him again. He then shoots deadly eye beams. Sharon almost falls to her death but Captain America grabs her hand. Sharon then tells Steve that she has a plan that they can still detonate Dimension Z and return safely to Earth. She slips from Cap's grasp, telling him that she loves him. Cap urges Jet to take their sky sled, but it is too late. Jet and Cap return back to New York and Steve later cries over his loss of Sharon

## Identity Crisis

Soon after his return, Steve embarked on a trip across the country to reconnect with the people and restore his reputation.[162] Meanwhile, in the power vacuum created by the fall of his Hydra counterpart, a new group called Power Elite started amassing influence.[163] After Steve completed his journey, he fell the prey to the group's manipulations and was framed for the murder of Thaddeus Ross.[164]

Steve turned himself in,[165] and was imprisoned in the Myrmidion until the Daughters of Liberty broke him out.[166] After the breakout, he decided that with the mantle of Captain America tarnished it was time to let it die. Picking up his old Energy Shield and the costume he wore as a S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander, Steve decided to continue the fight under his real name.[167]Back as Captain America Steve returned to his Captain America role and rejoined the Avengers [168] just in time to help Earth face the invasion of the Dark Council's armies.[169]

## Battling God Monsters

Lindow Amamiya was formerly the head of the legendary First Unit of the Fenrir Far East Branch. After happening upon critical top-secret info, Lindow was reported MIA (Missing In Action) during the Moon in the Welkin mission after being attacked by an Aragami. However, Lindow survived the mission, but a Dyaus Pita appeared afterwards and he was forced to fight it. The Dyaus Pita destroyed and devoured his God Arc's armlet, but Shio subsequently appeared and saved him.

While missing, his Aragami cells began to take over his body as his armlet was no longer there to control them with Bias Factor injections, resulting in his God Arc's now uncontained Oracle Cells completely subsuming his right arm and causing immense pain as well as affecting his behavior. While in this state, Shio helped him control the pain and slow down the transformation. Eventually, he mutated into a Corrosive Hannibal once the Aragami infection took over his entire body.

Notably, his previous personality was somewhat intact post-transformation, saving Tatsumi's group before his Aragami half took over and turned on them. However, arriving on the scene, the Protagonist saves them and experiences a resonance as he and Lindow clash before the Aragami departs. Officially resuming the search for Lindow that had since been called off, the Protagonist and Ren find him in this state, on Aegis Island, and engage him in combat, after which the Protagonist is sent directly into Lindow's subconscious via a second resonance. After a trip through Lindow's mind, the two eventually reach Lindow's true self, and Lindow, alongside the Protagonist, fights a manifestation of the Corrosive Hannibal to free himself from the mutation.

Presently, he is still a part of the Fenrir Far East Branch. Thanks to the sacrifice of Ren, who was in fact a manifestation of Lindow's own God Arc, the Aragami infection subsided and has ceased spreading.

## Journey to Hell

He awakened him to stop a demonic invasion of Mars instigated by his former protege, Dr. Olivia Pierce. He is released from the sarcophagus, supplied with his Praetor Suit, and sent to work. He journeys between worlds, destroying the Gore Nests that serve as Hell's links to our world. Samuel Hayden guides him through slaying the demons on Mars and Hell, equipping him with a dimensional tether allowing him to travel between them. The Doom Slayer, disapproving of Hayden's deadly Hell energy-siphoning operations, destroyed the Argent Energy filters he asked him to carefully remove. The Doom Slayer eventually retrieved the Crucible, used it to free the Wraiths from their subjugation and absorb their Argent Energy, and killed Olivia Pierce. Then Hayden uses the tether to return the Slayer to him, incapacitate him, and take the Crucible from him. Hayden explains that even though his attempts to siphon energy from Hell resulted in massive loss of life, he believes the massive energy crisis on Earth it's solving makes the ends justify the means. He claims that even though the Slayer destroyed the filters, he can rebuild his operation with the Crucible, which he reveals to be a long blade of pure Argent Energy. To prevent the Doom Slayer from trying to stop him, Samuel uses the tether to send him to a place where he can do no harm and where no harm will come to him.

It is confirmed that Doom Slayer is one of the generals of the Night Sentinels and he is human whereas the rest of the Night Sentinels are of different blood. In the distant past, after leading a successful battle against the demons of the Blinded Order, his army was killed by a group of demonic dragons. As he was about to be killed after a dragon tossed him into the air and he fell thousands of feet below, he was rescued by the Seraphim.

During the betrayal of the betrayer, Doom Slayer led the remnant of the Night Sentinels to destroy the foundry of souls, the source of the Kahn Maykr's power to turn the tide of the war against the forces of Hell. Deag Grav eventually trapped and stranded the Slayer and his warriors in the void.

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## Friends Severed

Months after the Dark Master mustered every inch of strength that she had since David walked away, she shaped the universe into countering the ways that only David could David encountered Shaw once more to have is suit gauntlet only for peter to hoot the missile burning David only for there friendship now to sworn enemies.

## Bio Terrorism

Five years after the events of There severed Friendship, Peter Shaw a member of the fictional Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA), is dispatched to Kijuju in Africa. He and his new partner Sheva Alomar are tasked with apprehending Ricardo Irving before he can sell a bio-organic weapon (BOW) on the black market. When they arrive, they discover that the locals have been infected by the parasites Las Plagas (those infected are called "Majini") and the BSAA Alpha Team have been killed. Chris and Sheva are rescued by BSAA's Delta Team, which includes Sheva's mentor Josh Stone. In Stone's data Chris sees a photograph of Jill Valentine, his old partner, who has been presumed dead after a confrontation with Albert Wesker. Chris, Sheva and Delta Team close in on Irving, but he escapes with the aid of a hooded figure. Irving leaves documents that lead Chris and Sheva to marshy oilfields. This is where Irving's deal is to occur, but they discover that the documents are a diversion. When Chris and Sheva try to regroup with Delta Team, they find the team slaughtered by a BOW; Sheva cannot find Stone among the dead. Determined to learn if Valentine is still alive, Chris does not report to headquarters.[5]

Continuing through the marsh, they find Stone injured but safe and track down Irving's boat with his help. Irving injects himself with a variant of the Las Plagas parasite and mutates into a huge octopus-like beast. Chris and Sheva defeat him, and his dying words lead them to a nearby cave to learn more. The cave is the source of a flower used to create viruses previously used by the Umbrella Corporation, as well as a new strain named Uroboros. Chris and Sheva find evidence that Tricell, the company funding the BSAA, took over a former Umbrella underground laboratory and continued Umbrella's research. In the facility, they discover thousands of capsules holding human test subjects. Although Chris finds that one of the capsules is Valentine's, it is empty. When they leave, they discover that Tricell CEO Excella Gionne has been plotting with Wesker to launch missiles with the Uroboros virus across the globe; it is eventually revealed that Wesker hopes to take a chosen few from the chaos of infection and rule them, creating a new breed of humanity. Chris and Sheva pursue Gionne but are stopped by Wesker and the hooded figure, who is revealed to be a mind-controlled Valentine. Gionne and Wesker escape to a Tricell oil tanker; Chris and Sheva fight Valentine, subduing her and removing the mind-control device before she orders Chris to follow Wesker.[5]

Chris and Sheva board the tanker and encounter Gionne, who escapes after dropping a case of syringes; Sheva keeps several. When Chris and Sheva reach the main deck, Wesker announces over the ship's intercom that he has betrayed Gionne and infected her with Uroboros. She mutates into a giant monster, which Chris and Sheva defeat. Valentine radios in, telling Chris and Sheva that Wesker must take precise, regular doses of a virus to maintain his strength and speed; a larger or smaller dose would poison him. Sheva realizes that Gionne's syringes are doses of the drug. Chris and Sheva follow Wesker to a bomber loaded with missiles containing the Uroboros virus, injecting him with the syringes Gionne dropped. Wesker tries to escape on the bomber; Chris and Sheva disable it, making him crash-land in a volcano. Furious‚ Wesker exposes himself to Uroboros and chases Chris and Sheva through the volcano. They fight him, and the weakened Wesker falls into the lava before Chris and Sheva are rescued by a helicopter, which is piloted by Valentine and Stone. As a dying Wesker attempts to drag the helicopter into the volcano, Chris and Sheva fire rocket-propelled grenades at Wesker, killing him.[6] In the game's final cutscene, Chris wonders if the world is worth fighting for. Looking at Sheva and Valentine, he decides to live in a world without fear.[5]

 On December 24, 2012, Redfield (Now ranked as a Special Operations Unit Captain), Nivans and a group consisting of Ben Airhart, Carl Alfonso, Finn Macauley and Andy Walker are dispatched into the Eastern European state of Edonia where the new B.O.W. species known as the J'avo are granted to the rebels in the midst of a civil war. After discussing their plan of attack, Redfield provided words of encouragement to Finn, the rookie of the group before moving out. However, as they approached the point Two of Hearts, Redfield and his team are ambushed by a troop of heavily armed J'avo, having their Armored Personnel Carriers destroyed in the process. The situation became even worse when a massive Ogroman was suddenly released in the battlefield. As Redfield and Piers faced the infected creatures, Finn managed to use the remaining APC firepower to injure the giant creature, forcing it to flee.

After the conflict, Redfield led his team to the Edonia City Hall. Alpha Team was forced to do another battle as an injured BSAA member was found in the middle of the bridge that connected the Two of Hearts section to the City Hall. Redfield proceeded to rescue his fellow soldier as Piers provided cover fire. With Finn's help, Redfield managed to rescue the injured soldier. Having crossed the bridge with the Alphas, Redfield ordered Finn to blow the bridge up in order to stop the incoming group of J'avo. Eventually, Redfield and his squad came across a D.S.O. operative Sherry Birkin whom Redfield recognized from Claire's stories and mercenary, Jake Muller who Sherry was tasked with protecting. The introductions, however, are cut short when the group was attacked by a duo of Ogroman (One was dispatched by a helicopter as the other one from the Two of Hearts section returned). Redfield and his squad teamed up with Jake and Sherry to defeat the creatures and brought a helicopter in to take Jake and Sherry to their destination. Before they departed, Redfield, believing that Jake looked familiar, asked if they met, but Jake responded in the negative.

Making it to the City Hall, the group encountered numerous Chrysalids and eventually a woman in a blue dress claiming to be Ada Wong who told them that the B.O.W.s including the J'avo are created by the C-Virus and an organisation calling themselves Neo Umbrella are the ones that supplied the virus to the rebels. Though suspicious about her, Redfield agreed to escort her out of the building, only to fall into a trap. "Ada" cut Redfield and Piers off from the rest of the group and trapped the other four in a cage before launching a Needle Bomb that infected Andy, Carl, Ben, and Finn with the C-Virus. Redfield and Piers could only look on helplessly as their squad mates mutated into Chrysalids and hatched into Napads which proceeded to attack. Redfield was beaten senseless by the Napad that was once Finn Macauley and had to be dragged to safety by Piers. The duo was saved by the BSAA support troops who killed their mutated comrades[25] and an unconscious Redfield was taken to a nearby hospital.

Upon regaining consciousness in the hospital, Redfield suffered from post-traumatic amnesia and he was unable to remember who he was or what occurred. However, wracked by an overwhelming and inexplicable guilt, Redfield ran away from the hospital before anyone could check on him.[26] For the next six months, hoping to dull the pain, Redfield became a moody and violent drunk, staying in a hotel and frequenting a bar in Eastern Europe where the female bartender and the patrons called him "the stray dog" and gained a reputation as the bar's worst customer. Redfield also made some money to fund his rent and bar tab by doing bodyguard work. All of the while, Piers and the BSAA worked to track him down.[26]

In June of 2013, Redfield, now a mere shadow of his former self, was finally tracked down by Piers at the bar that he frequented. When he was asked to leave by the bartender, he refused. Another patron stepped in to help her, only for Redfield to snap and physically attack the man, nearly hitting him with a bottle before Piers stepped in. After expressing his disgust about how far that Redfield fell, Piers forced Redfield to confront his past by showing him the images of their deceased comrades and the tragedy in Edonia to little avail. However, when Redfield recognized the BSAA logo on Piers' jacket, all of the bar's patrons revealed themselves to be BSAA operatives in disguise while Piers told Redfield that he belonged with him and they are taking him back to duty by any means necessary.[27] Peter Shaw eventually hears that David from Hector is still aalive but Peter withe timeless core ordered that if David posed a threat he will kill him on sight without hesitation

Though still unable to recall the incident, Redfield agreed to come back and was quickly dispatched to Waiyip in the Chinese province of Lanshiang which was in the midst of another Neo Umbrella bioterror attack. The mission was to raid a building in the point Ace of Spades where a few captured UN members are held hostage by the bioterrorists. Crossing the streets, Alpha Team immediately came into contact with the J'avo which was the same type of B.O.W. fought in Edonia. Approaching the Ace of Spades through the roofs, Redfield and his squad managed to neutralize the incoming infected.

Once inside the building, the hostages are released. However, BSAA's HQ ordered an air strike to the area as Redfield and Piers barely made it out alive. Upon seeing a cluster of Chrysalids, Redfield finally recalled the Edonia incident and vowed to get revenge on "Ada" for the deaths of his men. On their way, a BSAA soldier was attacked by an invisible monster. Redfield decided to chase the creature and put it down.

They soon encountered Jake and Sherry who went missing since Edonia and protected them from the swarms of J'avo. However, when Piers suggested that they should escort the two, Redfield coldly reminded him about their mission and departed. Making their way through the slums of Waiyip's Poisawan district, they are attacked by the Iluzija, a massive snake B.O.W. with camouflage capabilities. The abomination brutally killed all of them, one by one until only Piers, Marco Rose and Redfield himself was left. With the assistance of his fellow soldiers, Redfield managed to fry the monster using the building's electrical system. Unfortunately, "Ada" reappeared and shot Marco with a C-Virus-equipped dart before escaping. Marco rapidly mutated into a Gnezdo, forcing Redfield and Piers to kill him.

Afterward, when Redfield expressed his frustration, Piers angrily told him that they could have prevented some of their squad's deaths if he was not so focused on vengeance and when he went so far to accuse Redfield of forgetting about their mission and state that he felt sorry for "all of the men who died believing in [Him]," Redfield snapped and they briefly came to blows, ending when Piers remarked that he was glad that Finn was not around to see him like this. Nonetheless, they continued on.

Redfield and Piers were later ambushed by a helicopter in the Waiyip river, though they managed to destroy the armored vehicle. Seeing "Ada" enter a warehouse, Redfield and Piers entered in pursuit of her, unaware that David Patterson had returned to earth was in Pursuit with his Partner Helena Harper were doing the same. Though they managed to corner her, David arrived just in time and prevented Shaw from shooting her, resulting in a brief fight between the two before they drew their guns on each other. David told Shaw that "Ada" was a key witness and that they needed her alive, while Shaw shouted in anger that "Ada" was the actual mastermind behind everything, only to be retorted by David that the real culprit was none other than national security adviser Derek C. Simmons. Though Shaw told David that he lost all of his men because of "Ada," David replied that he lost over 70,000 people, including President Adam Benford, because of Orion and The NSC, and made it clear that They planned on defending "Ada" despite full knowledge of her allegiance to a New Corporation known as The DNA.

In the midst of the confrontation, "Ada" used a Flash Grenade to escape from the four. Redfield and Piers began to pursue her, but Leon stopped Redfield and told him that they both wanted the same thing. Finally snapping out of his revenge-fuelled rampage, Redfield resolved to stop "Ada" in the name of justice rather than vengeance, leaving it up to Leon and Helena to take care of Simmons.

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Redfield and Piers surrender "Ada Wong"

Redfield and Piers pursued "Ada" to the docks in a turret-equipped Jeep, managing to get on her freighter and corner her on the bridge, where "Ada" revealed her master plan: to spread the C-Virus all over the world and recreate the Raccoon City Incident on a global scale. However, just as she told them this, one of Simmons' henchmen arrived in a helicopter and promptly shot her in the chest, causing her to fall to her death. However, she left behind her suitcase, which contained a syringe full of an enhanced strain of the C-Virus.

Redfield and Piers subsequently learned that a nearby ship was equipped with air-burst missiles filled with the C-Virus in gas form, aimed right at the mainland. Hijacking a jet, they attacked the freighter but were ultimately unable to stop the missile launch, which quickly turned most of the city of Tatchi's population into zombies. Afterward, Redfield was contacted by Leon, who requested that he save Jake and Sherry from their imprisonment in Neo Umbrella's underwater facility. During this conversation, Redfield was shocked to discover that not only did Jake possess antibodies to the C-Virus, but he was also Albert Wesker's son.

Making their way to the facility, Redfield decided to retire from active duty after they rescued Jake and Sherry and pass his position on to Piers. When they met up with them, Redfield revealed that he was the one who killed Jake's father, leading to a tense moment in which Jake held him at gunpoint. Redfield admitted that he had every right to shoot him, but Jake managed to stop himself, telling Redfield that there were more important things at stake than the two of them.

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Redfield in battle against B.O.W Haos

On their way out, however, the ultimate B.O.W. HAOS which was meant to spread the C-Virus all over the world as Carla intended, hatched from its cocoon and attacked. As Jake and Sherry made their escape, Redfield and Piers remained behind to destroy HAOS. During the fight, HAOS severely damaged the facility and managed to grab a hold of Redfield, while Piers suffered a severe injury that crippled his right arm. With no other way to save Redfield, Piers deliberately injected himself with the C-Virus strain they had previously procured, gaining the ability to shoot electrical blasts. Now fully regenerated, HAOS broke out of its chrysalid and attacked the two agents. However, its decreased size and vulnerability allowed Piers to shoot electrical attacks that enabled Redfield to equip his combat knife and attack its vulnerable organs which badly damaged the creature. It made a final attempt to kill Piers but Redfield was able to rescue him and the two of them destroyed the B.O.W.s remaining organ, supposedly killing it.

Though Redfield repeatedly reassured Piers that he would be all right and they would get out of there as they made their way to the escape pods, Piers, realizing that he would eventually lose control and mutate completely, deliberately shut Redfield into an escape pod alone and launched him out, remaining behind to die with the facility. However, HAOS had recovered and attacked Redfield's escape pod in the water, only to be electrocuted and finally destroyed by an electrical blast from Piers' transformed arm just before the facility exploded. The following morning, Redfield was rescued by the BSAA.

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Redfield heading to his next mission

After the Lanshiang Incident, Redfield continued to serve in the BSAA as a field Captain even more committed than before, deciding to honor Piers' memory by turning his retirement down. At one point, he went back to the same bar that he routinely visited in June, though now able to remember his identity and overcame his drinking problem. A BSAA soldier under his command interrupted his meal, informing him that HQ had new orders for them. He then left the bar and went on his next mission against bioterrorism.[28]

The Mojave Desert and Sonido de Tortuga Incident (2014)Edit

In 2014, a year after the events of Lanshiang, Redfield returned to active duty. He received a phone call from Claire asking for backup but was unable to assist due to being on a mission with the BSAA in the Mojave Desert. He instead sent a team led by Parker Luciani to Sonido de Tortuga Island to help his sister.

Glenn Arias and the New York Outbreak (between 2013 and 2017)Edit

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Redfield ordering his men to enter Glenn's mansion.

"I got a job. We need your help."
— To Leon, ask for help on his mission.

Following the events of Lanshiang, Redfield was brought in to supervise a sting by the Mexican government against wanted weapons dealer Glenn Arias, rumored to be in possession of B.O.W.s and to rescue missing BSAA operative Kathy White and her son, Zack, who had both vanished in the midst of pursuing Arias.

Upon arriving at a seemingly abandoned mansion in Querétaro, Redfield and the team were ambushed by hordes of zombies, including Zack, before Redfield witnessed a strange new mutation from a bitten soldier. Forced to retreat, Redfield jumped out of a window on the second floor of the mansion, only to come face to face with Arias. As Redfield was badly injured due to the fall, Arias quickly disarmed Redfield and was able to overpower him in hand-to-hand combat before introducing the now-zombified Kathy, who seemed to only attack Redfield, while avoiding Glenn and his allies. While Redfield was soon rescued by a BSAA unit, he swore revenge against Arias, devastated by the loss of the unit. His mission to stop Arias soon brought him his team to New York City, where he rescued Rebecca Chambers from an outbreak of the same virus from Mexico. Rebecca explained that the mysterious virus contained traits similar to the Plaga parasite used by Los Iluminados, leading Redfield to take her in order to meet Leon in Colorado.

Redfield argued with a drunk and defeated Leon to ask for his help, as Rebecca managed to convince Leon to provide some intel about the Los Iluminados. Patricio, the man who sold Leon's unit, arrived just in time and is interrogated by Redfield and Leon. Suddenly, Maria Gomez and Diego Gomez attacked them. Rebecca is kidnapped in the process, and a mortally wounded Patricio dies after telling Leon to protect his family. As the new threat outcomes, threatening the lives of New York populace and Rebecca himself, Leon agrees to join Redfield in his mission to bring down Arias.

Redfield leads his platoon to New York City, briefing his mission objectives to his unit: stop the virus spread in the city, rescue Rebecca and eliminate Arias. As they departed in the city, Redfield and Leon took an armored Humvee and a Ducati, respectively, both vehicles provided by the BSAA. The two battle their way to Arias, blowing the trucks with has the virus inside. During the attack, Damien is killed by a pair of Cerberus. Leon leads the dogs away in his motorcycle as Redfield rushes to Arias' base. Entering the hideout, Redfield is contacted by Arias who tells him about the improved A-Virus strain Rebecca was recently infected with and even asks Redfield if he has the courage to put her down if it ever comes to it.

After that, Arias unleashes a horde of zombies to deal with Redfield but it ended up being a failed attempt. During this battle, Redfield proficiently made use of his marksman and hand-to-hand combat skills, completely annihilating the first horde of the infected before the arrival of Leon S. Kennedy. Redfield then made his way to the laboratory where Rebecca was being held, killing two mercenaries and confronting Diego in the process. Redfield sustained two heavy blows from Diego but managed to come out on top thanks to a flame grenade he used as a last resort. He then proceeded to threaten the doctor with his Beretta 93R who quickly spilled the beans about the location of the vaccine.

After learning what he needed to know, Redfield grabbed Rebecca and carried her up to the rooftop, only to be surprised by Glenn Arias who was monitoring Redfield's progress through his cameras. Both men proceeded to open fire on each other but failed to land a clean hit due to both of them being in a cover position. Redfield then took the initiative to leave his cover position and confront Arias. As soon as they came face to face, they engaged in a close quarters battle that involved both a gunfight and hand-to-hand combat.

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Redfield fights hand-to-hand against Glenn Arias

The fight revolved around both of them dodging each other's bullets, performing takedowns, disarms and even using their hand-to-hand combat skills. Notable features from Redfield were his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Judo takedowns and how he proficiently disarmed Arias at point blank range. At some point, Arias managed to grab a hold of Redfield's combat knife and they both engaged in a Filipino/Kali knife fighting sequence with Arias in the offensive position and Redfield in the defensive, Redfield eventually managed to disarm Arias by applying a shoulder block takedown. After that, they landed on a glass roof thanks to Redfield's shoulder block but Arias reverted the situation with a bodyslam which made him fall on top of Redfield but was instantly repelled by a knee strike from Redfield.

They instantly got up to their feet and proceeded to face each other in pure hand-to-hand combat. Arias was able to get the upper hand for a few seconds by landing a few punches on Redfield but that still wasn't enough to defeat Redfield who quickly outlined that unfavorable situation and applied a Sumi Gaeshi Judo throw, causing Arias to go through the glass and falling to his inevitable death. After winning the fight against Arias, Redfield made his way back to Rebecca and told her that she was going to be fine because he was going to find the vaccine.

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Redfield is immobilized by mutant Glenn Arias

However, Diego approached Arias in his dying state and triggered his final stage and both of them became one, resulting in a Tyrant-like mutation. The creature ambushed Redfield while he was carrying Rebecca but the captain was unable to avoid its grasp due to being extremely tired from the fights against both Diego and Arias. Lucky for him, Leon appeared and saved his life and eventually managed to get the creature's attention while Redfield went to look for the vaccine to save Rebecca. Leon was unable to be a match for the creature despite successfully dodging its attacks at the beginning of the encounter. However, the creature grabbed a hold of Leon just like it did with Redfield but the agent was saved by the BSAA member Nadia who shot the mutant with a railgun. The creature then turned its attention to the aircraft and attacked it. As a last resort, Leon used the Ducati in an attempt to finish off Ariego but that merely slowed it down and the creature still lived but, lucky for everyone, Redfield appeared at the nick of time and shot a grenade at the creature's heart, obliterating it completely.

After yet another successful mission, Redfield, Leon, Rebecca, Nadia, and DC proceeded to spread the vaccine around New York, curing the recently infected citizens who then turned back to normal. In the end, they all smiled back at each other and the New York City bioterrorist attack was over with the majority of the city's population being saved.

## Project Midnight

Peter Shaw saw that David had transformed into a hybrid human cat Peter burst out laughing for David surprise it was all nothing but a joke and Peter said that was a stupid idea on Edward Patterson's part. Later on Peter ordered David to team up with the Dark Master in oder to find the location of Orion's heart facility. only for David to purr silently and give him a grim look as he and the Dark Master took off on there mission.

## Final Mission

ary Goodspeed is the son of John Goodspeed, a former captain in the Infinity Guard, and Sheryl Goodspeed, a notorious space criminal. Sheryl was actually send to spy on John to find out his plans for an Anti-matter bomb, but ended up falling in love with him for real and having Gary with him. When Gary was still a baby, John finally caught on to Sheryl's true nature (he found her talking to her superior when he came to check on Gary), and ordered her to leave. This made Sheryl hate Gary, since she believed him to be responsible for John ditching her. As such, Gary was mostly raised by his father. John gave Gary a caterpillar named Mooncake, whom Gary deeply cared for. When Gary was still a kid however, John died in a mission to close a breach to Final Space with his own invention, the anti-matter bomb.

After his father's death and his mother abandoning him, Gary spent the following years stealing and living in his treehouse. He lost Mooncake, who had since transformed into a butterfly, to two bullies, who took the jar from him and smashed it, either killing or releasing him. When Gary finally decided to leave his home, he burned it down.

Five years before the start of Chapter 1, while seeking refuge from criminals Dr. Bluestein and Derek in a bar in New York, Gary encountered Quinn Ergon. He immediately fell in love with her, but learned that she was only interested in Infinity Guard members. Gary thus drugged a pilot and stole his uniform to impress her. All seemed to go well, until an emergency call came in and all Infinity Guards were ordered to return to the base, forcing Gary to try and actually fly a F71 Hawk to maintain his cover. He accidentally fired the ship's lasers and destroyed 92 Imperium Cruiser ships, along with a small family-owned Mexican restaurant. After being promptly knocked out by Quinn, he was arrested by the Infinity Guard. Gary was then sentenced to serve 5 years aboard the Galaxy One to repair satellites, devoid of any human contact, with only KVN, H.U.E. and a bunch of S.A.M.E.S. as company.

Gary has described his own life as being 'medium-to- good/borderline crappy.' During his five years in space, he send Quinn a video message every day. He also tried to get the S.A.M.E.S., some of which he named, to play cards with him, but they proved unable to.

Each episode of Season 1 begins with a scene of Gary floating in space, with his oxygen running out (he starts with 10 minutes, and has 1 minutes less each episode). The season itself slowly works towards the events that led to Gary being in that position.

In "Chapter 1", Gary's sentence is nearing it's end. While fixing another satellite, he encounters a small green alien, which he names Mooncake after his childhood pet. He decides to keep Mooncake, but this makes him a target for the Lord Commander, who wants Mooncake to open a gate to Final Space. One of the bounty hunters send to retrieve Mooncake, a Ventrexian named Avocato, is taken captive by Gary and the S.A.M.E.S.. While initially hostile, Gary quickly manages to get Avocato on his side, especially after he learns Avocato's son, Little Cato, has been taken captive by the Lord Commander.

Over the course of the season, Gary loses his arm to the Lord Commander, and gets a robotic arm as a replacement. He meets Quinn again, as well as a future version of her named Nightfall. Together they discover the Infinity Guard has been corrupted by The Lord Commander, and is helping him open a breach to Final Space. This breach, identical to the one John Goodspeed closed years earlier, is threatening to destroy the Earth. Gary and Avocato eventually find Little Cato imprisoned on Zetakron Alpha and rescue him, but Avocato dies in the rescue. Thanks to Nightfall, they learn Final Space is a prison for the Titans. She introduces them to Bolo, a good titan who is imprisoned in Inner Space. Trough him, Gary gets a chance to go back in time and meet his father one last time on the day of John's final mission, mainly to learn how the breach can be closed. From John, Gary learns there is a second anti-matter bomb on Earth. With help from The Resistance, Gary and friends manage to get this bomb and confront the Lord Commander to close the breach. Despite their best effords, Mooncake is captured and forced to open the breach further, allowing one of the titans to pull the entire Earth into Final Space before Quinn sacrifices herself to detonate the bomb and close the breach. Gary himself ends up drifting in space after being thrown off the Lord Commander's ship. The season ends with his oxygen running out.

At the start of Season 2, Gary is picked up by the Galactica Trash, a ship belonging to Clarence. He is reunited with Little Cato, H.U.E. and KVN, later followed by Nightfall and Mooncake. Along with Clarence and his adopted children, Fox and Ash Graven, Gary has a new mission; find the five Dimensional Keys that can free Bolo from his prison, so he can take them to Final Space, and Quinn.

This season, Gary gains a new enemy in Todd H. Watson, who blames Gary for the loss of the Earth and his family. He also meets his estranged mother again, who still has nothing but contempt for him. Near the end of the season, she and Todd even gang up against Gary. When an incident with a young Temporal Worm sends the team three years back in time, Gary uses the opportunity to free a past version of Mooncake. He also makes a deal with Time Swap Sammy to let them save Avocato the moment he originally died. The plan works, but joy is short lived; during a mission to Kanopus Prime where Gary hopes to contact Quinn through the planet's clearwater, Gary ends up possessed by the evil Invictus, until the creature decides Avocato is a better host and takes him. After this incident, Gary decides to officially adopt Little Cato, since the boy lost his real father for the second time.

Despite a betrayal by Clarence and Todd and Sheryl teaming up against them, Gary and friends eventually get all five keys and bring them to Inner Space, where they have a final confrontation with Velocks. Nightfall sacrifices herself to free Bolo so Gary can we with Quinn again. Thanks to Tribore, Sheryl realizes how wrong she was and begins to make it up to Gary for the years they missed. At the end of the season, the team enters Final Space in what is possibly a one way trip, and Gary is reunited with Quinn and makes contact with Velocks Ship blasting it and sending David to hold them off when a Pride ship intercepted them and Peter got hold of the hook that was attached to David but the blast from Orion Snapped the hook Causing Hector on full retreat and leaving David behind to the Prides once again as Peter screamed in rage Hector Promised that David will find a way to make things right to the Prides. As they crashed course back to earth Peter wonder for a year on were was David Patterson. Few ours went by David and Pride Commander Xander return only for Peter to salute his comrade once more and into a final act against Orion.

## Making Things Right

The Guardians of the Galaxy help defend Xandar from an attack by Kang the Conqueror, who wields a time crystal. Kang's ship, the Damocles, launches devices which cause a section of Xandar to disappear. Meanwhile, at Avengers Mansion, Nick Fury presents the Avengers with several missions: Captain America, She-Hulk, and Thor fight the Presence in Siberia; Iron Man and Captain Marvel defeat Attuma at his underwater base; and Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, and White Tiger battle several escaped supervillains on the Brooklyn Bridge. The Guardians arrive just before Kang, who uses his devices to steal Manhattan with the heroes inside it and makes it part of his battle arena called Chronopolis, consisting of various locales that he has stolen from across time and space with his citadel at its center.

Captain America leads a team through a portal to Medieval England, where they help Sir Percy reclaim his castle from the Enchantress and Nathan Garrett. A team led by She-Hulk follows Klaw through a portal to Wakanda, where Black Panther joins them to fight Man-Ape in the vibranium mines. The heroes converge in a version of Manhattan ruled by Hydra, where they battle Klaw and vibranium soldiers created by Arnim Zola, and defeat Baron Zemo in a dogfight. Thor, Captain Marvel, and She-Hulk travel to a swamp where they vanquish Man-Thing. Kang reveals that Man-Thing was guarding the Nexus of All Realities, which kept the various realms of Chronopolis separated. Kang destroys the Nexus and challenges the heroes to rise up and face him.

Regrouping at Avengers Mansion, the heroes detect a faint signal from outside Chronopolis. Searching for a device to boost its strength, the Guardians travel to the Old West where they battle MODOK and the Circus of Crime. Retrieving the device, they learn that the signal is being sent from Knowhere by Cosmo the Spacedog. The heroes plan to retrieve the fragments of the Nexus in order to bring Knowhere into Chronopolis and use its energies to bring down the barrier surrounding Kang's citadel. In preparation, Doctor Strange leads a team to the Sanctum Sanctorum where they fight Baron Mordo and retrieve the Book of the Vishanti, while Thor leads a party to apocalyptic Asgard to enlist the aid of Heimdall, facing Surtur in the process.

The search for the five Nexus fragments again splits the heroes into teams. Captain America's group travels to the underwater city of Lemuria, but falls into a trap and must battle the Red King and several versions of the Hulk in Sakaar. Joined by the Hulk and Stingray, they return to Lemuria and defeat Attuma, retrieving a fragment. Moving on to Ancient Egypt, they enter a Sphinx and join Horus of the Heliopolitans in facing Loki and N'Kantu, the Living Mummy to obtain another. Spider-Man's group visits the Marvel Noir version of Manhattan, where they help Iron Fist, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Spider-Man Noir defeat the Kingpin. Iron Fist accompanies them to K'un-L'un, where they fight Steel Serpent to free Shou-Lao and retrieve a Nexus fragment. Proceeding to the Alchemax building in Marvel 2099's Nueva York, Spider-Gwen and Spider-Man 2099 help them defeat the 2099 version of Green Goblin and a fusion of Venom and Carnage to obtain another fragment. In the Kree home world of Hala, the Guardians battle Ronan the Accuser. Meanwhile, in Attilan, the Inhumans defeat Maximus. Black Bolt and Medusa then head to Hala, where they free the Guardians from the control of the Supreme Intelligence and help them retrieve another fragment. As Kang observes the heroes' exploits and plots to destroy them, his assistant Ravonna becomes increasingly disturbed by his actions.

With the fragments gathered, the heroes assemble a device to bring Knowhere through a portal opened by Doctor Strange. Their first attempt nearly brings Ego the Living Planet through instead. Once Knowhere is in Chronopolis, they use an electromagnetic pulse to knock out the energy shield protecting Kang's citadel. As they begin their assault, Kang summons the Damocles. Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Star-Lord disable the ship, battling Korvac and escaping before it crashes. Captain America, Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, and Star-Lord enter the citadel and face Kang, who grows to gigantic size, uses the time crystal to reverse the Damocles' destruction, and wields it as a sword. Captain America creates a giant solid hologram of himself and uses it to defeat Kang. Ravonna betrays Kang and uses the time crystal to turn him into a baby. The heroes celebrate their victory, and Ravonna promises to return the components of Chronopolis to their original places in time and space once the remaining villains are dealt with.

In a post-credits scene, with everything restored to normal, Iron Man, Captain America, and Captain Marvel are visited by Ravonna in her new alias as Terminatrix. She is accompanied by an elderly Kang, the Supreme Intelligence, Cosmo, and Man-Thing, who inform the Avengers of a "chronal fracture incident".

## The Power of Velocks

    David was working on his suit for repair at his shop knowing that hearing the news the Velock's and Exile were planning attacks from both sides as the team group up in Washington DC with Hector, Jill, Dark Master, and everybody else including Peter Shaw Himself.David decided to live on Pride instead of his home world knowing that two planets would have guardians on there sides, David told Pete "Don't win the War to i get there", only for Peter to smirk. As David opened the Portal and saw his friend one last time until departure with Xander, David was still certain that they did not get rid of Velock's and Orion Completely

confrontation.

## Phase 6

Peter was resurrected from the soul world and encounterd a On Black Friday 2015, a viral epidemic, transmitted by a virus planted on banknotes, sweeps through New York City. The disease, known as "The Dollar Flu", causes widespread chaos, and major cities are placed under quarantine. The U.S. Government activates sleeper agents in the population who operate for the Strategic Homeland Division, or simply "the Division", to assist emergency responders and National Guardsmen, and the Joint Task Force (JTF), in restoring order. In Brooklyn, the protagonist, a Division agent, assists the JTF before planning to depart for the Quarantine zone with fellow agent Faye Lau. However, the VTOL meant to take them there is destroyed in an explosion, killing the Division Commander along with most of the second wave and severely wounding Faye Lau. Arriving in a JTF-commandeered news helicopter instead, the Division agents reclaim the James A. Farley Post Office Building as their base of operations. From there, the agents undertake assignments to rescue important personnel, help in restoring the base of operations to full working capacity and combat criminal groups, such as the Rioters, common street thugs in New York who generally want to take advantage of the quarantine, the Rikers, escapees from Rikers Island, and the Cleaners, insane New York Sanitation workers who wield flamethrowers and believe everyone is infected. In the course of the game, the agent helps rescue important personnel like Dr. Jessica Kandel, Captain Roy Benitez and Paul Rhodes. These personnel head the Medical, Security and Tech wings of the base of operations, respectively. Agents also recover a sample of Green Poison. Studying the sample reveals the virus was manufactured and then modified heavily by a controversial biologist named Dr. Gordon Amherst.

Eventually, the agents find footage of Division agent Aaron Keener going rogue and killing other agents, having gone insane after witnessing the chaos and destruction caused during the breakdown of order following the initial outbreak. It is also discovered Keener and the rest of the first wave of agents who went rogue along with him are assisting the "Last Man Battalion" (LMB), an equally rogue private military company that was abandoned by the government during the evacuation, and are now hostile to it. Working together, these two groups destroyed the VTOL and killed the Commander to weaken Division operations in New York. Intercepting a signal from the Russian consulate, the agents attempt to rescue Vitaly Tchernenko, a Russian virologist who claims to have information on the Green Poison. However, he is kidnapped by Keener and the LMB before the Division can reach him. After helping the JTF secure supplies and weapons, the JTF and Division agents launch an attack on the LMB's base, the evacuated United Nations headquarters. The agent finds footage of Keener and his fellow rogue agents abandoning the LMB, with Tchernenko as their prisoner. The leader of the LMB, Charles Bliss, initially escapes in a helicopter, but then returns to make a final stand alongside his men. In the end, the agent destroys the vehicle, killing Bliss. Lau informs the agent that most threats are destroyed or weakened, however the LMB was split into factions. New York is approaching stability, but an unknown signal leads the agent to a secluded laboratory. There, they find Dr. Amherst's remains, having discovered that he has died from exposure to his own virus. They also find a message from Keener, showing he has the technology to manufacture a new strain of Green Poison and intends to do so, and mysteriously tells the agent to explore the center of Manhattan, called the “Dark Zone.” The agent is informed that the information in the lab will further the development of a vaccine and is shown a recovered message from Amherst. In the message, Amherst reveals he engineered Green Poison as part of his eco-terrorist plan to decimate the human race and preserve the planet. If the player follows Keener's instructions, they will discover a message from Keener claiming that he plans to continue with Amherst's plot, as he has come to worship the virus as the judge of all humanity and plans to reverse engineer and improve it; he then offers the player a position beside him based on their actions in the Dark Zone.

## Warlords of New York

Seven months after the Green Poison outbreak, several Division agents are defending a civilian settlement from a bandit attack when the SHD Network, the system controlling their advanced technology and nationwide communications, suddenly shuts down. The Player's Agent receives a Division distress call from Washington D.C. as a new and larger force begins to attack the settlement. At a fellow agent's urging, they abandon the battle to respond to the call. The Agent arrives in Washington D.C. to find the Division and JTF's local base of operations, the White House, under attack by the Hyenas. After repelling the attack, the Agent is briefed by Manny Ortega, the city's Division controller. The Agent learns that most of the country’s leadership is either dead or missing and the city is mostly controlled by three hostile factions: the Hyenas, the Outcasts, and the True Sons. Ortega instructs the Agent to work with fellow agent Alani Kelso to assist civilian settlements, liberate the city, and restore the SHD network.

Ortega and Kelso uncover information that a cure to Green Poison might be located somewhere in the city, and that President Ellis may have survived the crash of Air Force One but is being held prisoner. Kelso is reluctant to waste time and resources to find Ellis, but Ortega points out that his security clearance may be needed to access the cure. The Agent eventually discovers Ellis and rescues him from Hyena custody. Ellis confirms that broad spectrum antivirals to cure not just Green Poison, but all viral infections, exist. However he can only access them with a special briefcase currently held in the True Sons' heavily fortified base at the United States Capitol. After the Agent repairs the SHD Network, reconnecting Division agents across the country, Ellis vows to restore the United States, no matter the cost. With the tide turning against them, the Hyenas, True Sons, and Outcasts retreat to their final strongholds. With the help of civilian militias and the JTF, the Agent assaults the strongholds and eliminates the leadership of most of the factions, with the Outcasts’ leader Emelline Shaw disappearing during the assault on her stronghold on Roosevelt Island, while recovering Ellis' briefcase from the Capital.

As the Agent and the Division celebrate their victory, a new faction, the technologically advanced private military company Black Tusk, invades the city. Many of D.C.'s landmarks are quickly seized and Ellis suddenly goes missing with his briefcase, forcing the Agent to head out to find Ellis and repel the Black Tusk. The Agent eventually learns that Black Tusk supplied weapons to the gangs of D.C. and were responsible for sabotaging the SHD network, Ellis has been working with the Black Tusks all along, and that Ellis's predecessor, President Mendez, did not commit suicide as previously believed, but was assassinated by his own Secret Service detail on Black Tusk's orders. Thanks to Ellis, Black Tusk gains possession of the broad spectrum antivirals, planning to transport them out of the city. The Agent successfully raids Black Tusk's stronghold at Tidal Basin, retrieving the antivirals and preventing a missile strike on the White House, although Ellis’ location remains unknown

## D.C. Outskirts

Further investigation reveals that Outcast leader, Emelline Shaw, survived the Division's assault at the aforementioned stronghold, and that she is currently at her new hideout at the Manning National Zoo. After fighting their way through the Zoo, the Agent manages to destroy Shaw’s heavily armed monorail car and kill her.

The Agent then joins a large JTF task force in an attack on Camp White Oaks, a heavily wooded former presidential retreat north of DC, which has since been taken over by Black Tusk, with the objective of locating and capturing President Ellis. The main assault force is annihilated when the bridge they are crossing is destroyed by Black Tusk and the remaining team is eventually overrun while trying to secure the main helipad to prevent Ellis’ escape, leaving the Agent to continue the mission alone. The Agent manages to reach the helipad too late as Ellis is evacuated by Black Tusk helicopter, disappearing for the second time.

Meanwhile, the Agent is then sent on an expedition to Kenly College to investigate the recent disappearance of a JTF Squad, where the Outcasts have taken over the campus and severed communications. There, the Agent removes the Outcasts securing stolen supplies at the College Library, infiltrates the Metro Station and water treatment facility underneath, and destroys the outcast base in the Student Union building.

## Pentagon: The Last Castle

The Agent is sent to investigate the Pentagon after the Division detects heavy Black Tusk activity at the facility. Upon reaching the site, the Agent discovers that Black Tusk is setting up a massive drilling operation in order to access the DARPA laboratories underneath the Pentagon, which hold numerous experimental technologies. The Agent sabotages the drilling operation to delay Black Tusk before stealing data from their servers to figure out what they are after. It is revealed that Black Tusk are after a perfusion bioreactor, capable of mass producing the antivirals the Division possesses.

The Agent proceeds into the DARPA lab to find Black Tusk attempting to smuggle the bioreactor out through the tunnel network beneath the Pentagon. The Agent is able to seize the bioreactor and transport it to a nearby helipad, eliminating Black Tusk forces so that the bioreactor can be extracted. Kelso congratulates the Agent, stating that even though they don't have staff qualified to operate the bioreactor yet, they are one step closer to ending the threat of Green Poison

## Conley Island: The Hunt

The Agent is sent to the ruins of Coney Island to rescue Vitaly Tchernenko, a virologist kidnapped by rogue Division agent Aaron Keener during the events of the previous game. Keener intends to hand Tchernenko over to Black Tusk at Coney Island in exchange for assistance with an unknown project. The Agent is tasked with rescuing Tchernenko to ensure his knowledge doesn't fall into Black Tusk's hands, and enlist his help in creating a vaccine. The Agent successfully infiltrates Black Tusk's defenses and has Tchernenko evacuated to Washington D.C.

It becomes apparent that Keener never intended to allow Black Tusk to leave with Tchernenko, as the island comes under attack by The Cleaners, a gang of deranged former DSNY workers that aims to violently purge any potential sources and carriers of the virus. Keener informed The Cleaners of Tchernenko's whereabouts, inciting them to attack Black Tusk so they can kill him. The Agent is forced to fight their way through the Cleaners and Black Tusk while hunting for Keener. After the Agent kills the Black Tusk's commander, Keener hijacks the video feed from a Division drone to gloat at the Agent about his successful double cross, escape, and ominous project.

## Into New York

The Agent and Alani Kelso helicopter into New York City, answering a distress call from Faye Lau, leader of local Division operations. They find the JTF and Division's base in City Hall devastated by a biological weapon deployed by Keener and his allies. The weapon is a newly engineered, instantaneously lethal, derivative of Green Poison called Eclipse. The Agent, Kelso, Lau, and JTF leader Roy Benitez regroup at Haven, a civilian settlement run by Paul Rhodes.

As Keener's whereabouts are unknown, the group decides to go after his lieutenants, who act as warlords in four Lower Manhattan neighborhoods. Keener's warlords are fellow rogue agents convinced or coerced to work for him alongside local gangs: Theo Parnell, an engineering and computer systems expert stationed inside The Tombs of Civic Center; Vivian Conley, a chemical engineering expert who commands the Cleaners gang from a wrecked oil tanker in Two Bridges; Javier Kajika, a covert and guerilla warfare expert based underneath Battery Park; and James Dragov, a heavy weapons expert who commands the Rikers gang from the Stock Exchange in the Financial District.

The Agent eliminates the four warlords and recovers intelligence placing Keener on Liberty Island. The Agent and Kelso commandeer a ferry to Liberty Island, but are attacked by Black Tusk who have suddenly arrived in Manhattan to attack Keener as well. The Agent single-handedly fights off Black Tusk to reach Keener's base inside the Statue of Liberty Museum, discovering a surface to surface missile system capable of delivering Eclipse payloads. Keener plans to launch a missile at Manhattan, killing everyone to enable the rise of a new society. The agent successfully destroys the system and defeats Keener in battle. A mortally wounded Keener activates a signal on his modified Division wristwatch before dying.

Keener's signal activates ANNA, an AI analogue to ISAC developed by Parnell to network and coordinate rogue Division agents across the country. It's also revealed that Lau betrayed the Division to ally with Black Tusk at some point, and was their reason for arriving in Manhattan after Keener's location was known. Lau tells Bardon Schaeffer, Black Tusk's leader in Washington D.C., that Keener's rogue agent network will help them end the Division. Back in Haven, Rhodes and Benitez thank and congratulate the Agent, but lament Lau's betrayal. Kelso informs the Agent of a rogue agent cell activated in Washington D.C..

## Space Force

In "Dulcinea", a small crew from the ice hauler Canterbury – Holden, Naomi Nagata, Alex Kamal, Shed Garvey and Amos Burton – respond to a distress call from a seemingly abandoned ship, the Scopuli. Once on board, they discover the distress call was planted. Shortly after, Holden watches as a ship with advanced stealth technology blows up the Canterbury, killing all the crew onboard.

In "The Big Empty", with oxygen dwindling, Holden and the surviving crew of the Canterbury struggle to stay alive in their shuttle. They theorize the Canterbury’s destroyers were Martian, since the distress call transponder was of Martian Naval origins. Holden broadcasts a public message that implicates Mars in the attack, thus ensuring he and his crew won’t be killed by Mars (for fear they’ll look more guilty). The message goes out just as a Martian warship, the Donnager, approaches the shuttle.

In "Remember the Cant", the Martian Navy detains and interrogates Holden and his crew over Holden’s public accusation that Mars destroyed the Canterbury. Holden is interrogated and made to doubt Naomi’s loyalty. The ship’s captain wants Holden to rescind his statement and blame Naomi and her supposed Outer Planets Alliance ties for the explosion, just as a fleet of aggressive stealth ships approach.

In "CQB", the Donnager comes under attack by a fleet of stealth ships just like the one that destroyed the Canterbury. The crew realizes this indicates Mars’ innocence. While Shed is killed, Holden, Naomi, Alex and Amos escape the destruction of the Donnager by commandeering a Martian attack ship, the Tachi.

In "Back to the Butcher", Holden and his crewmates escape the Donnager’s destruction through the fighter ship, the Tachi. They receive an offer of help and refuge from Fred Johnson. After much debate, given Fred’s reputation, they decide to take him up on his offer, shortly before disguising the ship with the new name of the Rocinante.

In "Rock Bottom", Holden and his crewmates arrive on Tycho, where Fred Johnson reveals that he was the one that chartered the Scoupli, the ship whose distress call started the chain of events that destroyed Holden’s ship, the Canterbury. He tells Holden and co. he needs their ship, the Rocinante, to go find the Scopuli’s sole survivor – code name Lionel Polanski. Holden agrees to lend the ship if he's part of the crew, as Lionel might be able to reveal who really destroyed the Canterbury. Fred agrees, and Holden, Naomi, Alex, and Amos decide to stick together until they get answers.

In "Windmills", on the way to retrieve Lionel Polanski, the person that can reveal who destroyed their ship, Holden and Co. elude detection by a Martian warship. They discover Avasarala’s spy, Kenzo stowed away aboard the Rocinante. Holden and Amos disagree over his treatment.

In "Salvage", out in space Holden and his crew find the Anubis at the coordinates provided by Lionel Polanski. They realize the Anubis was the stealth ship that blew up the Canterbury, and is filled with a dangerous substance that must have killed the crew. The crew traces the Anubis’ shuttle to Eros, where they meet Miller and escape U.N. Underecretary Errinwright’s team of assassins, only to discover the agent they’re looking for – Julie Mao - is dead and infected with the same strange substance.

In "Critical Mass" and "Leviathan Wakes", Holden and his crew compare notes with Miller. Both parties realize that the trails they’d been following point to the bioweapon that made its way from Phoebe. Eros goes on lockdown, and Miller deduces it’s the work of the same people responsible for the bioweapon. Believing this could reveal why the Canterbury was destroyed, he accompanies Miller on a search for answers while Naomi, Alex and Amos head to the Rocinante. Holden and Miller are hit with a fatal dose of radiation. Together, they manage to elude detention by those security forces keeping Eros on lockdown and then the pair get back to the Rocinante. After getting some medicine, Miller, Holden and the Rocinante crew vow to find Dresden, the scientist who is responsible for locking down Eros to use its populace as an experiment for the bioweapon.

In "Safe", in the aftermath of the Eros station disaster, Holden is still recovering from an almost lethal dose of radiation. Holden and the crew of the Rocinante go on the run, this time with a sample of the protomolecule, the extra-solar lifeform responsible for all of the havoc on Eros station. With so much at stake, they decide to reconvene on Tycho with Fred Johnson, the very man who sent them there in the first place. Naomi and Holden also embark on a romance.

In "Doors & Corners", once on board Tycho, the crew of the Rocinante hatch a plan to get rid of the protomolecule, the extra-solar life form that destroyed Eros. Holden and the crew of the Rocinante depart for Thoth, a black ops station hidden in the belt and the whereabouts of the foremost protomolecule scientists. Once on board Thoth station, Holden finds a group of protomolecule scientists. When his boarding team disrupts them, things go sour and only one of the scientists survives the resulting shootout. Holden, Fred Johnson, and Miller corner the lead protomolecule scientist, Dresden, and seem poised to finally extract the truth from him regarding the protomolecule, before Miller shoots him dead.

In "Static", after the battle on Thoth station, the crew of the Rocinante take some much-needed R&R. Naomi and Holden clash over Miller’s murder of protomolecule scientist Dresden; Naomi thinks that Miller was protecting the Belt with his actions and Holden believes Miller’s actions to be motivated by revenge. The two come to a truce, but their alliance and relationship may have been formed on a cracked foundation. Meanwhile, Holden works with Amos to extract vital protomolecule information from Cortazar, the only scientist to survive Thoth station.

In "Godspeed", Fred Johnson and Miller inform Holden and the Rocinante crew of their plan to get rid of the protomolecule threat on Eros once and for all: by using a commandeered Nauvoo as a battering ram, they plan to push Eros into the sun. Eventually, Naomi gets on board with the plan. Alex, Naomi, Holden and Amos take off with the massive generational ship the Nauvoo in tow, which will be used to destroy Eros (and the protomolecule). Once they get close to Eros, they encounter a small rogue Belter ship, the Marasmus, has boarded Eros and been exposed to the Protomolecule. Holden has no choice but to fire upon the Marasmus crew lest they infect the rest of the system with the protomolecule. Later, the Rocinante crew launches the Nauvoo into Eros, but the asteroid defies all physics and dodges the starship.

In "Home", with Eros now hurtling towards Earth at speeds that defy physics, Holden and the Rocinante crew convince the UN to give Fred Johnson the codes to a horde of nuclear missiles, so that he can control them remotely through information the Rocinante feeds him. The UN agrees, but it’s Miller that saves the day when he convinces a protomolecul-infected Julie Mao controlling the asteroid to crash into Venus instead of Earth.

In "Paradigm Shift", Holden and the Rocinante crew return to Tycho and are hailed as heroes. Holden pleads with Fred Johnson to return Earth’s nuclear missiles in his possession, but Fred sees these missiles as a valuable tool in keeping the Asteroid Belt’s residents from suffering because of Earth and Mars’ conflict. Worried about the sample of the protomolecule still in the Rocinante’s possession getting in the wrong hands, he convinces the rest of his crew to blast it into the Sun to destroy it. Naomi, thinking it may be valuable to the Belters, secretly saves it, lying to Holden in the process.

In "The Seventh Man", Holden witnesses Fred and Anderson Dawes vying for power within the Outer Planets Alliance. He tries to throw his support behind Fred, the only person in the room advocating peace. But Holden is quickly proven to be in over his head. Dawes wins the support of the Belter tribal leaders, and sniffs out the existence of Fred's secret weapon: protomolecule expert Cortazar. When Holden finds Cortazar's cell empty, the Roci crew race to catch him, but Dawes has scurried him away.

In "Pyre", with the knowledge that there is protomolecule on Ganymede, Holden and Naomi work to track down the prominent scientists on the Jovian moon who might be responsible for the contamination. Their search reveals a Dr. Strickland. One of Strickland’s acquaintances, Praxideke Meng, is one of the refugees that has just arrived on Tycho. Holden questions Prax, but the botanist doesn’t know anything about the protomolecule. Naomi and Holden argue over Holden's increasingly violent approach to stopping the protomolecule threat; other people may behave that way, but he's supposed to be better. As tenderly as he can, Holden explains that this time he can't back down until his job is done. In order to protect the Belt, Holden and the Roci crew depart Tycho with Prax, to go to Ganymede and destroy the protomolecule.

In "The Weeping Somnambulist", Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are en route to Ganymede, but need a way onto the damaged Jovian moon that is less conspicuous than boarding with a Martian gunship. They hitch a ride on an aid ship called the Weeping Somnambulist and conscript the unwilling help of two Belters for safe passage to Ganymede.

In "Cascade", Holden and the rest of the Rocinante crew, sans Alex, begin to canvas Ganymede for any signs of Prax’s daughter. Their search leads them to a corrupt video technician named Roma who is exchanging his access to the video feeds for canned chicken. After some aggressive negotiations, they find the last video of Prax’s daughter alive, being lead into the bowels of Ganymede.

In "Here There Be Dragons", on Ganymede, Holden and the Roci crew seek to track where Dr. Strickland was leading Mei, Prax's daughter. They find Strickland’s cronies and appear to be ready to negotiate, when Prax sees Mei’s backpack and abandons all tact or discretion. His agressive demands for immediate answers triggers a similarly hostile defensive response. In the ensuing gunfight, Amos gets wounded before Strickland’s crew escapes. Afterwards, they find one of Strickland’s young test subjects. It appears that the researcher was injecting protomolecule into humans. The calm is broken when a grenade is dropped in the lab though a quick reaction by Amos spares Holden's crew. Through the door where Strickland's associates fled, they hear a massive explosion and confrontation; someone or something destroyed the lab and everyone in it. Jim sees a protomolecule-human hybrid in open space without a vacuum suit and tells his team to suit up for battle.

In "The Monster and the Rocket", Holden, Alex, and Prax are in pursuit of the human-protomolecule hybrid on Ganymede. The creature seems to evade their every move, and Prax suggests that he himself try to reason with it, but Holden is convinced that it needs to be destroyed. When MCRN ships surrounding Ganymede target lock on the Weeping Somnambulist, Holden abandons the chase in order to save them. Unbeknownst to them, the hybrid creature seems to have latched onto the Rocinante and is now burrowing into the ship’s hull.

In "Caliban's War", Holden has an emotional reunion with Naomi aboard the Rocinante, but their jubilation is short-lived. They discover the human-protomolecule hybrid aboard the ship and must construct a plan to destroy it. In the ensuing battle, Holden gets pinned to the wall by one of the cargo boxes that the creature hurled at him. Luckily, the creature seems more interested in finding the ship's nuclear power-source than killing the captain. Prax and Naomi venture out to the exterior of the ship with one of the Roci’s nuclear missile cores and, when Alex cuts power from the Epstein Drive, the creature is attracted to the energy of the radioactive core. Prax hurls the core away from Rocinante toward open space, and the creature leaps after it. Then, Alex turns on the engines to vaporize the hybrid. Afterwards, Naomi admits to Holden that she gave their protomolecule sample to Fred Johnson instead of destroying it.

In "Fight or Flight", while the crew makes repairs and tidies up after having eliminated the protomolecule hybrid threat, Holden receives the news that the UN declared war on the MCR. Thus, he directs the crew to next change the transponder and drive signature. Amos approaches Holden to inform him of the decision to go to Tycho despite his and Alex's feeling about Naomi's betrayal. Holden, while still suffering the agony from his crushed leg, dismisses Naomi's attention and in a bout of frustration destroys the prized coffee machine. Preparing to go dark and hide out for the duration of the war, Holden begins a little investigation. He discovers a series of leads that suggest Strickland and Mei might be tracked to the Jovian moon Io. Holden admits to Prax that the crew used him and that he wanted to honor his commitment to help the botanist find his daughter. Despite Naomi's insistence that they head to Tycho, Amos agrees to follow Holden's new plan and Alex heads to the flight deck in order to set their new course. Learning of David's true plan to form a new republic Peter Shaw followed him and the two taunted each other but was aware of David's insanity. David and Peter Shaw both drew quickly on there guns and fired at each other only for Peter to hit David in the chest and David to hit Peter in the neck.

When the Canterbury receives a distress signal from the Scopuli on the asteroid CA-2216862, Holden is placed in command of the shuttle Knight with the crew consisting of Naomi Nagata, Amos Burton, Alex Kamal, and Shed Garvey sent to investigate. Amos joins Holden in the search of the Scopuli where they find a transmitter in ops. Immediately after the discovery of the transmitter, a suspected pirate ship appears and fires six torpedoes at the Cant. The crew of the Knight rushes back to the Cant to help save it but, both crews realize it'd be hopeless and in vain. Captain McDowell then orders Holden to fall back to the asteroid and continue broadcasting an SOS in an effort to keep the enemy crew from killing everyone on board of the Cant. Holden maintains a channel open with Ade as she counts down the time until impact with the torpedoes and the Canterbury is destroyed. He then sends a message to the enemy ship and attaches the personnel files of the crew of the Cant.
After the Cant'ss destruction, he becomes the Captain of the Knight and orders the crew to follow the stealth ship until Naomi protests and states the best course of action would be to call for help and ensure the safety of his crew to which Holden thanks her for her help. He then prepares a data package including all the sensor data from the Canterbury and Knight and after Alex tells him about similar stealth ships that were part of the Martian Navy when he was enlisted. Holden then discovers the logo of the MCRN on the battery of the transmitter from the Scopuli. He broadcasts this discovery system-wide and through that act, he effectively though unconsciously blames Mars for the attack.

    Holden then contacts the Pur'n'Kleen Water Company Saturn station for orders on what to do next. After three hours, he is contacted by Wallace Fitz, the legal counsel on the station. He orders the Knight to fly towards the Jupiter system where the shuttle will be picked up by the MCRN Donnager which will assist them in their investigation. In an effort to keep his crew from being harmed by Mars, Holden broadcasts another message stating that they are cooperating with Mars' investigation and being picked up by the Donnager. Alex then notices that they are being followed by six objects. Four days into their trip to meet with the Donnager, Fred Johnson of the OPA sends Holden a message. He assures Holden that Holden has allies in the Belt and, while Holden is in the custody of the MCRN, Fred suggests he use the word "ubiquitous" in his first sentence to let Fred know he is not being coerced.

## Trip back to Earth

While busking in Grand Central Terminal, Nick Vaughan (Chris Evans) sees a woman, Brooke Dalton (Alice Eve), drop her phone while running to catch a train. She misses the train and returns to the station where Nick returns her broken phone. When he finds her standing outside the terminal she confesses that she has just been robbed and is trapped in the city. He offers to pay for a cab to take her to Boston but his debit card is declined and his credit card is expired. When he tries to call a friend to come loan him the money he finds his phone has died. Nick offers to try to pay for a room for Brooke for the night, but she insists that she needs to reach Boston by morning.

Nick decides to help Brooke find her missing purse. They are able to track it down at a sweatshop that deals in stolen purses. Nick heads inside to retrieve the purse while Brooke uses a payphone to call her husband. After using the phone, she then gets a couple of police officers passing by to investigate the building Nick is in. The sweatshop owners get spooked, punch Nick, and run out along with the bag. Nick and Brook then head for the wedding of a friend of Nick's, hoping to borrow money. Along the way, Nick and Brooke open up more about why they're in New York. Brooke had just sold a painting and was going to surprise her husband by coming home early. Nick has an audition for a band that he has wanted to play with for a while. Instead of ending up at the wedding, they stumble upon an event where they are mistaken for members of the band. Nick and Brooke perform "My Funny Valentine" and flee when the real band shows up. After their last-ditch attempt to get a bus to Boston fails for lack of funds, Brooke borrows a man's phone, calls a friend, and begs her to retrieve a letter she has left for her husband that she does not want him to read.

Elated that her problem is now solved, Brooke offers to go to Nick's friend's wedding and pretend to be his girlfriend in front of his ex, Hannah. At the reception, Nick sees Hannah, but after being introduced to her new boyfriend, he leaves abruptly. Outside, Nick tells Brooke that this was the first time he had seen Hannah since she rejected his marriage proposal and broke up with him six years ago. At Brooke's insistence, Nick goes back to speak to Hannah and discovers that she is pregnant and that their relationship is truly over. Wandering around the city, the two find a psychic who is still open. After he reads her future, he allows Brooke to use his phone and she learns her friend could not get into her home to retrieve the letter.

After they leave the psychic, Brooke reveals to Nick that she discovered that her husband was cheating on her. Though he ended the relationship, she discovered that he was going to see his mistress again. Devastated, she wrote him a letter ending the marriage and went to New York for work. However, during her trip she received a phone call from her husband saying he was coming home early and realized that he had ended the relationship for good.

At a restaurant, Nick tells Brooke that her husband will most likely understand why she wrote him the letter and that if he doesn't, that's that. Brooke, worried about the possible end of her marriage, sneaks out the back of the restaurant and tries to hail a cab to the airport to fly to her mother's in Indiana. Nick appears, frustrated that she tried to bail on him, and they argue about their relationships. They then go to Nick's friend's hotel room. Together, they unwind from the night's adventures. They then share a kiss, write on the back of paintings in the room (a reference to an earlier encounter with a painting with erotic writing on the back of it) and reflect on their night.

In the morning, they return to the train station where they are about to part. Nick picks up a phone from a phone booth and, like an earlier joke, uses it as a "time machine" and pretends to call himself in the past, saying that he will meet a woman and "you will need her more than she needs you". They share one last kiss and finally depart. On her way home, Brooke finds a guest service paper that she and Nick filled out at the hotel. On the bottom it says, "Turn over". After reading what was on the back, she smiles

    Andy was left with the near-impossible task of being both an assistant district attorney and a father who must defend his son. Once Jacob was accused, Andy was forced to bring in a different lawyer to defend his son in Joanna Klein. Andy felt he could trust Joanna but occasionally overstepped his boundary as the lawyer in him came out. As Andy was not a lawyer for Jacob and had been taken off the Benjamin Rifkin murder case, he was allowed to take matters into his own hands and clear his son's name

With Andy's thoughts turning to Leonard Patz, he felt the need to continue investigations into the sex offender. These investigations included a talk with Matthew McGrath, an alleged victim to Patz who Andy believed may have more of and involvement in Patz's activities than was previously thought. Matthew contacted Andy and agreed to meet him, where he shed more light on his involvement with Patz.

With more evidence against Patz, Pam Duffy got a search warrant from Lynn Canavan to investigate Patz' house. This gave Andy a sense of relief that his son may not need to go to trial and that his family might be able to go back to normal. A knife was not found at Patz's house and this led to Andy taking matters into his own hands by pursuing Leonard once more, including ramming the back of his car.

As the case with Patz dried out, Jacob went to trial leaving Andy to second-chair Joanna during the proceedings. During the trial, many things were revealed about Jacob's activities including his computer possessing critical and images of violence. Furthermore, stories of Jacob's activities on online forums relating to Ben Rifkin's murder came unexpectedly to light from Derek Yoo. This cast a big doubt in Andy's mind, leading him to directly question Jacob as to whether he committed the murder.

During the trial, it was revealed that Patz hung himself and left a note to the Rifkin family that he murdered Ben. This caused the case to be dismissed and relieved the Barber family. Wanting to move on from this, the three decide they want to move out. Andy visited Lynn and Middlesex County Courthouse to collect his things before moving for which Lynne tried to convince Andy to stay but to also tell him that the case against Patz was finally resolved after encountering complications.

Feeling unnerved by this, Andy visited his father in prison once again where Andy pieces together that William hired James O'Leary to kill Patz. This meant Jacob may not be an assessment. With this, and he wanted to move away quickly and started to make those preparations with Laurie and Jacob.

Before they left, they decided to go to Mexico on their preplanned holiday. Here, Laurie was very content and Jacob met a girl called Hope Connors. Things were going smoothly until Hope went missing not long after Jacob had attended a party with her. This made Andy and Laurie very distressed, especially when Andy revealed to Laurie that Patz did not kill himself thus not proving Jacob's innocence.

Upon returning back to their home, preparations to move house were accelerated but Laurie, according to Andy, was like a ghost. While Andy prepared the house to move, Laurie took Jacob to get his hair cut where Laurie questioned him on whether he killed Ben and she became very distraught. With this, she accelerated rapidly, crashing into a wall. This left Jacob in a coma and Laurie also in hospital. Andy had tried to contact Laurie during this but received no response.

Flashing forwards, Neal Longudice questioned Andy as to whether this was intentional by Laurie to try to kill herself and her son. Andy maintained this was an accident and that is what the court concluded. Upon visiting Jacob and then Laurie in hospital, Andy returned to the Barber home alone and sat on Jacob's bed. Just in a Matter of moments in silences peter heard a distress signal of a low deep voice and in act Peter instantly knew who it was with still refusing to help him. Jill talked to Peter but always stubborn as he is, Hector budge in the conversation and briefed Shaw that the only way was to make things right, Peter still angry at the moment told the team to give himself a minute as exquisitely walked in his office in anger thinking on his next move on what to do next.

## Saving the Solar System

Holden tries to convince Fred Johnson to destroy the last sample of protomolecule. Naomi gets an important lead to her son. On Luna, Avasarala begins to hunt for Marco Holden and Fred deal with infiltrators on Tycho. Drummer's past comes back to haunt her. Amos returns to Baltimore. Alex and Bobbie's investigation on Mars leads to rogue soldiers. Naomi comes face to face with Filip. Holden and Fred turn the tables. Avasarala closes in on Marco's plot. Marco's grand plan shocks Earth, Mars, and the Belt.Amos and Clarissa are trapped in a collapsed building. Naomi contends with her old family. Holden assembles a new crew on the Roci. Alex and Bobbie make a dangerous discovery in the Belt.
Holden and the Roci go on the hunt. Amos and Clarissa seek shelter on a devastated Earth. Bobbie and Alex fight a desperate battle. Marco makes Drummer an offer she can't refuse. Avasarala returns to a position of power. Naomi makes a desperate attempt to save her son from Marco. On the Roci, Holden battles for the last sample of protomolecule. Amos returns to Baltimore with Clarissa. On Luna, Avasarala's alliances begin to shift. Alone and adrift, Naomi becomes a deadly lure. Amos, Clarissa, and a gang of thieves work together to leave Earth. Avasarala tries to head off a brutal military strike. Drummer's new family bonds are tested as Naomi's life hangs in the balance. Holden and the Roci face off against Marco's forces and Drummer, while Alex and Bobbie attempt a dangerous rescue of Naomi, and the balance of power in the Solar System shifts

## Timeless Core Missions

Upon returning to the United States, Peter was offered a deal by the federal government to try and track down the remain NSC bounty hunters that were incapable of the super solider serum. Months later he was awaken by a nightmare and went and undergo therapy sessions try to remain in the present instead of his past. Knowing that His wife was safe and also learning new information on the supreme king.

Following his therapy session, Peter met Yori Nakajima outside their apartment arguing with a neighbor named Unique for putting his trash in Nakajima's can. After Barnes settled the problem, he took Nakajima to their regular restaurant and bought his lunch. Nakajima boldy asked the waitress Leah if she would go on a date with Barnes, to his embarrassment. While they were eating, Nakajima brought up his deceased son, and how he did not know how he died, which made Barnes fall silent, realizing that he was the one who killed his son, while being brainwashed.

Barnes went to the restaurant and brought Leahflowers in a gentlemanly fashion. There the two played the board game Battleship and drank some beer. However, after Izzy brought up Yori Nakajima's deceased son, Barnes excused himself and left. He then went to Yori's apartment, feeling guilty for having killed his son when he was brainwashed as the Winter Soldier, where he paid Yori his lunch money and left

In his apartment, Barnes watched the news, and learnt that John Walker had been named as the new Captain America. and listened as he was announced to the world and was interviewed Seeing this prompted Barnes to go to a United States Air Force base to find Sam Wilson. Barnes found Wilson at the USAF terminal and asked him why he gave up the shield. Wilson had then informed Wilson of the Flag Smashers, as Barnes decided to accompany Wilson and Joaquin Torres to Munich on the airplane.

While onboard the plane to Germany, Barnes became frustrated about Falcon not having a plan of attack and mentioned that Steve Rogerswould've had a plan. Having witnessed Falcon leap out of the plane, Barnes followed in pursuit and surprised Torres, by jumping out of the airplane without any flight gear and landed roughly in the forest below.

He and Falcon met up at an abandoned factory and Falcon used Redwing to tease Barnes, who was not amused. There they spotted the Flag Smashers loading up heavy boxes. After Falcon informed them that someone was inside the first truck whom he believed was a hostage, Barnes rushed off to the rescue.

On the highway, Barnes hopped onto one of the trucks and found boxes of vaccines and medicine. He then spotted what he and Falcon believed to be a hostage, but it was the leader of the Flag Smashers, Karli Morgenthau who with superhuman force kicked Barnes out of the truck. Barnes was restrained by Matias and Gigi on top of the truck, until Falcon came in to fight them off and Barnes freed himself after fighting back Barnes and Falcon were aided by the arrival of John Walker and Lemar Hoskins who arrived via a helicopter and joined the fight against the Flag Smashers. During the ongoing fight, Barnes fell off the top of the truck and held onto the side of the truck, where Dovich attempted to kick him off. Falcon swooped underneath the truck and grabbed him, with the two rolling in the grass and Barnes landing on top of Falcon, who told him to get off.

Barnes and Sam Wilson had then returned to the highway and started walking towards the nearest airport which was twenty miles away. However, along the way they were found by John Walker and Lemar Hoskins, who invited them into their vehicle, but they refused initially, and then took the offer. However, after Hoskins mentioned he was called Battlestar and Walker called Wilson and Barnes Captain America's wingmen, the two got off the vehicle and left them.

While on the plane back to the United States of America, Barnes suggested stealing the shieldfrom John Walker again. However, Sam Wilsonreminded him of what happened the last time, that Sharon Carter become an enemy of the state and he and Steve Rogers were in hiding for two years.

## Stranded in Space

After a escaping a near death encounter with Invictus, The Team Squad begins their quest home inside the core of an unknown planet. Among a pile of dead Gary's floating in Final Space, Gary and Quinn embrace. It's a trap. Before they can properly reconnect, Invictus approaches the pair. The Crimson Light attempts to escape with Quinn and Gary still outside the ship, but it’s too slow. Sheryl wipes another Gary corpse off the ship’s windshield, revealing two massive Titans standing before them, on a direct collision course. They're surrounded. Bolo manages to hold one off. Sheryl attempts a short-burst light fold right through the Titan's skull, with her son still outside the ship. Avocato and Gary can do little to discourage Sheryl’s crazy plan, but against all odds, they manage to kill the Titan. With Invictus still on their tail, Mooncake exits the ship to help but, for the first time, his large green energy blasts prove ineffective against the horned demon. Bolo rushes towards the crimson light and hurls it forward. They’re saved from Invictus, but they're caught in an asteroid field. After a collision, Ava instructs the Team Squad to abandon the ship. As they are escaping, Hue learns that the ship is far too damaged to transfer Ava's into himself. They all brace for impact as they eject from the main ship, crash landing on an unknown planet. On the planet, they evaluate the situation, and Quinn knows the only course of action: Survive.