Conquest of Serpent

The **Conquest of Serpent** was a big epic war-like battle from Marvel's *Guardians of the Galaxy*. It deals with the Guardians of the Galaxy and their allies fighting against Odin's evil brother, the Serpent who is trying to conquer the Galaxy. The battle takes place in the last few episodes of Season 3 and ended on the series finale episode, "Just One Victory."

## History

### Background

It all started when Odin's brother, Cul who planted Yggdrasil the World Tree when it was just a sapling so he could use it as a weapon to conquer the Galaxy. Later in life, Cul became obsessed with the Destroyer after it was created in Asgard's forge so he created an army of robots just like it called Darkhawks who could magically duplicate any being they touched including their memories then Cul changed his name to the Serpent. Serpent tried to use the Darkhawks to take over and/or destroy Asgard which lasted for centuries but he and the Darkhawks were defeated by Odin. Who used a powerful sword he made and had enchanted by Hela the Goddess of the fallen called the Dragonfang which had the power to purify the World Tree. Then Serpent and the Darkhawks were banished to another realm at the edge of the Galaxy. However, in the process of Odin using Dragonfang, the sword broke into three pieces which were scattered throughout the Galaxy. As a result, Odin banished Hela to the realm, Niffleheim as punishment for it and locked her full power away in a magical chest to keep her imprisoned there. Which caused Hela to develop a hatred for all Asgardians and make sure that no one could ever escape from Niffleheim alive. Years later, the Serpent had returned and sent his Darkhawks out through the Continuum Cortex on Knowhere to secretly capture certain people in strategic locations in the Galaxy like the Galactic Council, and replace them in order to take full control of the Galaxy itself. The Darkhawks also tried to duplicate Thor on the Galactic Council too but Thor was able to stop them using Mjolnir to destroy the Thor Darkhawk. After that, Odin had Heimdall seal the Bifrost and closed Asgard off from the other worlds so the Darkhawks couldn't infiltrate it, leaving the rest of the Galaxy to fend for themselves. Odin even sent the Destroyer to patrol Asgard and keep out intruders but Thor in secret with help from Heimdall sent out an Asgardian Warrior named Valkyrie to find the Guardians of the Galaxy. So they could help stop the Darkhawks by sneaking into the Darkhawk Realm who eventually came back after being gone in the Black Vortex for months which resulted in Groot becoming young again.

### The Battle

The Guardians deal with a Darkhawk who was disguised as Nova Prime on Xandar who rules both the planet and the Nova Corps with an iron fist, demotes and arrests anyone in the Nova Corps who opposes her, and tries to execute Nova in a vaporization pit but the Guardians save him by returning his helmet to him. Then both Nova and a Nova Corps Officer named Rhomann Dey set up a resistance on a deserted island on Xandar to take down the Nova Prime Darkhawk. After that, the Guardians go to Knowhere on the newly rebuilt Milano to find out more about the Darkhawks where they run into Valkyrie who tells them about her mission. But then the Guardians deal with some more Darkhawks who are disguised as J'Que, Star-Lord, and Cosmo who destroy Star-Lord's Element Blasters. Then the Guardians discover that the Darkhawks are using Knowhere's Continuum Cortex to transport those they captured to the Darkhawk Realm in prison pods including the citizens of Knowhere. The Darkhawks even try to duplicate Valkyrie in order to gain access to Asgard but they are defeated by the Guardians and Valkyrie who later takes the Guardians to Asgard. But when they arrive, they are attacked by the Destroyer which the Guardians fight off then Odin has the Guardians thrown into the dungeons because he doesn't believe that they aren't Darkhawks while also revealing to them about the origins of the Darkhawks and the Serpent. Odin even has Thor thrown into the dungeons too and takes away Mjolnir for disobeying his orders and bringing the Guardians to Asgard in the first place. He also punishes both Heimdall and Valkyrie for helping Thor by taking away their weapons and sending them to watch over his statues. Thor, Rocket, and Groot manage to escape from the dungeons and reluctantly free Loki as well who was also imprisoned in the dungeons to help them get to the Darkhawk Realm. But Rocket convinces them to leave Star-Lord, Gamora, and Drax behind as a precaution in case one of them is secretly a Darkhawk. They try to get Heimdall's Sword which is now guarded by the Destroyer so they can use the Bifrost to get to the Darkhawk Realm. But after they get it after fighting off the Destroyer, Rocket reveals himself to be a Darkhawk and that the real Rocket was captured on Knowhere and taken to the Darkhawk Realm with the other prisoners. The Rocket Darkhawk then goes to try and blow up Asgard by using the Destroyer's power core to turn himself into a living bomb. After Thor releases Star-Lord, Gamora, and Drax from the dungeons they all try to stop the Rocket Darkhawk along with Heimdall and Valkyrie. Eventually, the Rocket Darkhawk is stopped by Groot but the bomb is still about to go off until Loki stops it with his scepter. Thor and the Guardians then regain Odin's trust and convince him to help stop the Darkhawks so Odin lets the Guardians go to the Darkhawk Realm to rescue Rocket and everyone else who was captured by them. The Guardians even decide to take the Darkhawk Rocket's bomb with them so they can use it to destroy the Darkhawk Realm.

As the Guardians prepare to enter the Darkhawk Realm, Odin upgrades their weapons in the Asgardian Forge and even gives Groot a power boost. Odin, Thor, Fandral, Hogun, and Heimdall plan to storm Knowhere and fight off the Darkhawks controlling it to distract them so the Guardians can invade the Darkhawk Realm and sneak into Serpent's Fortress to plant the bomb at the heart of it to destroy both it and the Darkhawk Realm. After that, the Asgardians will use the Continuum Cortex on Knowhere to rescue both the Guardians and all the prisoners with Odin planning to destroy all of Knowhere if the plan fails. Heimdall sends the Guardians to the Darkhawk Realm using the Bifrost where they arrive at Serpent's Fortress after jumping off a moving asteroid. They are able to infiltrate Serpent's Fortress and find the prisoners in prison pods after fighting off some of the Darkhawks and hiding in some of the prison pods but also find out the Rocket has escaped from his. Rocket then appears and tries to attack the other Guardians with a new weapon he made from Darkhawk parts because he thinks they are Darkhawks until they are all surrounded by Darkhawks which convinces Rocket that the other Guardians are all real. The Guardians fight off the Darkhawks and defeat them then they try to free all the prisoners with help from Nova Prime and Cosmo after freeing them from the prison pods. Nova Prime and Cosmo get all the prisoners in their prison pods transported back to Knowhere through the Continuum Cortex after the Asgardians have taken care of all the Darkhawks there including the Darkhawk Cosmo. The Guardians then try to plant the bomb in the center of Serpent's Fortress near Serpent while he's sleeping but accidentally wake him up in the process. The Serpent attacks the Guardians with large snakes made of dark energy but the Guardians fight them off but during the fight, Star-Lord accidentally sets off the bomb too early. The Guardians try to escape through the portal to Knowhere after Cosmo saves all of the prisoners but Serpent tries to go through the portal as well with his Energy Snakes. The Guardians are able to defeat him and escape through the portal but Serpent is able to pass through the portal as well with his Energy Snakes. The Asgardians fight him and his Energy Snakes off but Serpent is able to defeat them and prepares to destroy Thor until the Guardians, Cosmo, and Nova Prime all help the Asgardians out, defeat Serpent, and send him back to the Darkhawk Realm but his Energy Snakes still remain. So everyone destroys the portal just as the Serpent tries to get back which sucks both him and his Energy Snakes back to the Darkhawk Realm then the portal closes just in time before the whole Darkhawk Realm gets destroyed by the bomb. After that, everyone takes out all the Darkhawks that replaced all the people who were captured around the Galaxy. With Rocket and Nova Prime taking out the Nova Prime Darkhawk on Xandar, Thor, Groot, and the Supreme Intelligence taking out the Supreme Intelligence Darkhawk on Hala, Drax, Cosmo, and the Rigelian Grand Commissioner taking out the Rigelian Grand Commissioner Darkhawk on Rigel 3, Gamora, Heimdall, and Victoria taking out the Darkhawks on Spartax, and Star-Lord taking out the Star-Lord Darkhawk on Knowhere but gets outshined by Fandral.

The Guardians of the Galaxy are soon praised by Odin for their actions in stopping the Serpent and are rewarded as honorary Asgardians by being given medals and Asgardian titles. However, the celebration is cut short when Serpent somehow escapes the Darkhawk Realm and invades Asgard by controlling the World Tree. The Guardians and the Asgardians try fighting him off but Serpent becomes too powerful by drawing power from the World Tree then Serpent defeats Odin, takes his staff, and traps the other Asgardians within the World Tree. But the Guardians manage to escape with help from Groot who puts them in a big tree ball and they all fall down into the Asgardian Forge along with Loki who somehow managed to escape the World Tree and hitched a ride with the Guardians. The Guardians claim that Loki helped the Serpent get into Asgard but Loki claims he had no part in it, then they are attacked by the guardian and fueler of the Asgardian Forge, the Stone Giant. After Star-Lord freezes it, Rocket comes up with a plan to stop Serpent by using weapons from the Asgardian Forge but Loki claims that they need an Asgardian to operate the forge and he refuses to do it until Rocket puts a teleportation anchor on Loki's arm to keep him from escaping. But then the Stone Giant escapes and attacks the Guardians and Loki again but they all manage to get to the main Asgardian Forge and the Guardians convince Loki to help them just to make him look good in front of Thor and Odin. However, Loki claims that none of the weapons in the forge can defeat the Serpent but the Gamora comes up with a plan to contain the Serpent instead. So together the Guardians and Loki use the forge to make magical power-inhibiting cuffs, Rocket upgrades his weapon, and they all escape the Asgardian Forge on an Asgardian Ship. Star-Lord, Gamora, and Drax fight off the Serpent along with Odin and Thor who somehow manage to escape the World Tree too then Rocket blasts the cuffs on Serpent which Loki activates. Which works at first, but then the Serpent is able to break free, traps Odin within the World Tree again, takes his sword, and prepares to take over the Nine Realms and the Galaxy using both the World Tree and the Bifrost to drain all of their life essences. Seeing this as a losing fight, the Guardians along with Loki escape to the Bifrost on the Asgardian Ship while Thor tries to hold back Serpent. But when the Guardians and Loki get to the Bifrost, they discover that Heimdall was replaced by a Darkhawk which was how the Serpent was able to get into Asgard. After defeating the Heimdall Darkhawk, the Guardians fight off the World Tree branches trying to get to the Bifrost but since there are too many of them, Thor tries to destroy the Rainbow Bridge with Mjolnir but gets captured by Serpent. So the Guardians and Loki finish destroying the Rainbow Bridge which causes them to get stranded on the Bifrost Chamber while it drifts through space while Serpent destroys Mjolnir and declares himself All-Father of Asgard. The Guardians and Loki all decide to work together to stop Serpent but they would need to get help first so Loki uses Heimdall's Sword to split up the Guardians with the Bifrost so they can bring in allies to fight back against Serpent. With Rocket getting Iron Man and Hulk from Earth, Groot getting Nebula and Yondu from Veros Seven, Gamora getting Nova from Earth, Star-Lord getting Howard the Duck from Conjunction, and Drax getting Cosmo from Knowhere.

After getting together, Star-Lord explains to them about the Serpent then they discover that Serpent is corrupting the World Tree's spores and using them to conquer the Galaxy. Loki reveals that the only way to stop Serpent and purify the World Tree is with the sword, Dragonfang but in order to do that, they would have to find the pieces and reforge them back together. So the Guardians and their allies all split up into three teams to find them with Iron Man and Loki using the Bifrost combined with Stark technology to locate the pieces and transport everyone to those locations. The first team consists of Rocket, Groot, Cosmo, and Howard the Duck who get the first piece from a star near the planet, Soonevh by using the planet's gravity matrix to pull the piece from the star. The second team consists of Gamora, Drax, and Hulk who get the second piece from a military facility on the planet, Sirius IV after fighting off some of the robot guards there. The third team consists of Star-Lord, Nova, Yondu, and Nebula who try to save the planet, Dasos from being attacked by the Serpent's Spores which contain monstrous bugs that drain the Dasos' life energy and bring it back to Asgard for the Serpent. They manage to fight off the Spore Bugs and save the people on the planet but in the process, they lose Yondu to them, and his Yaka Arrow gets broken. The Guardians along with Loki and Iron Man who has the other two pieces then go after the final piece which is with Hela in Niffleheim while the other allies remain on the Bifrost to protect it from any danger. The Guardians try to have Loki distract Hela while they try to find the last piece with help from Iron Man. However, they all end up getting captured by her but Loki offers Hela that he will give her the other two sword pieces and have Iron Man fix Dragonfang as a gift to her. In exchange, she would give them her sword piece to fix it and let them use Dragonfang to defeat the Serpent which she accepts. But Rocket takes over fixing Dragonfang by disabling Iron Man's armor and using him as a tool kit but after Dragonfang gets fixed and Rocket reactivates Iron Man's armor, Hela tries to turn them all over to the Serpent who had also made a deal with her. The Guardians, Iron Man, and Loki all escape and try to fight them off with Iron Man using Dragonfang but Hela defeats them, decides to keep Dragonfang for herself, and lets Serpent have Iron Man, Loki, and the Bifrost. Serpent then tricks the Guardian's other allies into going to Asgard by impersonating Loki, defeats them, and imprisons them all inside pods. While Hela keeps the Guardians as her prisoners for her own amusement and tries to use Rocket to regain her full power by opening the chest it's imprisoned in so she can escape Niffleheim, defeat Serpent, and conquer the Nine Realms. However, the other Guardians manage to escape with help from Groot who picks the lock to their cell and they defeat Hela's Guards but the Guardians' life force starts to fade due to being in Hela's castle for too long. But the Guardians all manage to escape the castle along with Rocket and Dragonfang after Rocket tricks Hela then they try to escape Niffleheim on an old Asgardian Ship but end up getting stranded in space with the ship's air dome cracking.

Afterwards, the Guardians are all rescued by Rhomann Dey on a Nova Corp Star Blaster who reveals to them that a Nova Corps fleet went to Asgard to stop Serpent and was on his way there but he can't seem to get ahold of the fleet. When the Guardians and Rhomann Day arrive at Asgard, they discover that Serpent defeated the Nova Corps and has completely overtaken Asgard with the World Tree. The Guardians and Rhomaan Day try to fight off the Serpent's Spore Bugs with the Star Blaster but are outnumbered and retreat back to Xander to get help from the Galactic Council but their forces are all too busy protecting their own home planets which are under siege by the Serpent's Spore Bugs. So the Guardians try to defeat Serpent by reluctantly enlisting the help of Thanos in the Nova Corps prison who Gamora is able to convince while Rocket also puts a shock bracelet on Thanos so he doesn't attack them. Once the Guardians and Thanos reach Asgard on the Milano, Thanos is able to break through the World Tree, fight off Serpent's Spore Bugs, and confront Serpent himself. Meanwhile, the Guardians fly the Milano into Asgard but it gets captured by the World Tree, forcing them to evacuate then they try to keep Dragonfang away from Serpent during his confrontation with Thanos. But the Guardians get captured by the World Tree, except for Groot then both Thanos and Serpent fight each other with Serpent getting stronger with the life energy he is collecting through the World Tree and Thanos fighting with his full cosmic power. During the fight, Groot tries to get Dragonfang to the World Tree to purify it because the fight between Thanos and Serpent is just a distraction but then Serpent beats Thanos and blasts him far away into space. However, Groot manages to use Dragonfang to stab and partially purify the World Tree, freeing it from Serpent's control, and draining some of his power in the process. So the Serpent confronts Groot and tries to get Groot to join him but when he refuses, Serpent tries to feed off of Groot's life energy but then the other Guardians escape the World Tree and arrive to fight off Serpent, saving Groot. Then after Star-Lord knocks Serpent down with one of his Element Blasters, the Guardians try to help a weakened Groot push Dragonfang completely through the World Tree but the Serpent stops them. However, with his last bit of strength, Groot is able to push Dragonfang through the World Tree, purifying it. But since Serpent is connected to the World Tree, it causes Serpent to lose all of his power and age into dust thus saving both the Galaxy, the Nine Realms, and Asgard and restoring the World Tree back to normal.

### Aftermath

Everyone is then freed from the Serpent's grasp and Odin regains both his power and rightful place as All-Father which he uses to heal Groot. The Guardians are once again praised as heroes and are given more medals which they give to Loki as thanks for helping them out. Then the Guardians and their allies go to celebrate their victory with Gamora and Nebula freeing the real Heimdall who was taken prisoner by the Collector. However, Thanos had been taken prisoner by Hela and is a great admirer of her work.

## Belligerents

### Guardians of the Galaxy

* Star-Lord
* Gamora
* Drax
* Rocket Racoon
* Groot
* Thor
* Loki
* Odin
* Iron Man
* Hulk
* Nebula
* Yondu
* Nova
* Howard the Duck
* Cosmo
* Nova Prime
* Rhomann Dey
* Fandral
* Hogun
* Valkyrie
* Heimdall
* Rigellian Grand Commissioner
* Supreme Intelligence
* Victoria
* Thanos
* Nova Corp
* Kree Empire
* Rigelian Empire
* Spartax Empire

### Serpent's Army

* Serpent
* Darkhawks
	+ Darkhawk Nova Prime
	+ Darkhawk Cosmo
	+ Darkhawk Kree Supreme Intelligence
	+ Darkhawk Rigellian Grand Commissioner
	+ Darkhawk Victoria
	+ Darkhawk Heimdall
	+ Darkhawk Rocket Racoon
	+ Darkhawk Star-Lord
	+ Darkhawk J'Que

* Energy Snakes
* World Tree Spore Bugs

### Other

* Hela
* Hela's Guards

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