2014

This is a timeline of events that occurred in 2014.

#### 6th

* In Sokovia, a massive riot for justice breaks out, putting civilians against the police. During this riot, the Scepter is finally delivered to Wolfgang von Strucker, who immediately puts Doctor List to work. List informs Strucker that they need living human test subjects. Strucker tells him that he can use any of the people from the continuing riot. List tells the rioters that he can give them the abilities to stand up to their oppressors if they volunteer to go with him. Twins Pietro and Wanda Maximoff are among the many to go with him.

#### 7th

* List begins work on the Maximoff twins, excited to see the successful results of his experiments on the twins, following many failures. Subjection to the Scepter's energy awakens the twins' dormant supernatural powers: Pietro gains super speed, while Wanda obtains telekinesis, energy projection, and the ability to harness Chaos Magic.

#### 8th

* Early in the morning, Emmett and Steve meet in Washington D.C. to jog. Steve passes Emmett, and Emmett retaliates by pushing him in the lake.
* On their run, the two meet former soldier Sam Wilson on his morning jog. Wilson comments Emmett held up pretty good for a kid, and guesses he's the White Knight. Sam and Steve discuss the difficulties of adapting to life after active service, and Wilson recommends Rogers listen to Marvin Gaye's "Trouble Man" album. Natasha Romanoff picks Rogers and Emmett up and briefs them about their latest mission: rescuing hostages from the *Lemurian Star*, a S.H.I.E.L.D. ship which has been hijacked by Algerian pirates, led by Georges Batroc.
* **Hijacking and Retaking of the Lemurian Star:**
	+ That evening, Captain America and the Black Widow join agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. subdivision STRIKE as they recapture the *Lemurian Star* and rescue the hostages. After fighting the pirate leader Georges Batroc, Captain America and White Knight discover the Black Widow extracting data from the ship's computers, an element of the mission they were not informed about.

#### 9th

* At the Triskelion, Steve Rogers confronts Nick Fury about keeping certain parts of the rescue mission secret from him, with Emmett there to ask what the mission was for. Fury shows them S.H.I.E.L.D.'s latest endeavor: Project Insight, three Helicarriers connected to orbital satellites and designed to preemptively eliminate potential threats. However, Rogers finds this project morally questionable. As he leaves, Fury asks Emmett if it's right, and Emmett says it depends on whose hands it's really in.
* Rogers goes to the Smithsonian Institution's Captain America exhibit and reminisces about his time in World War II. He then visits Peggy Carter, who is now nearly 93 years old, in a retirement home.
* Sam Wilson hosts a counseling session for war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Rogers attends and listens to the testimony of a veteran named Garcia and Wilson's speech.

* Nick Fury tries to read the data the Black Widow extracted from the *Lemurian Star's* computers, but to his surprise he is denied access. He informs Alexander Pierce of this, and requests Project Insight be postponed due to his underlying suspicions.
* **Attack on Nick Fury**:
	+ Fury leaves the Triskelion and contacts Maria Hill to arrange a meeting. On the way to the rendezvous point, he is attacked by assassins posing as police officers. He evades them, but is confronted by the Winter Soldier, who shoots a Disc Grenade under Nick Fury's SUV, forcing it to upturn. Severely injured, Fury escapes by using a "Mouse Hole" device to cut through the road and into the sewers.
	+ Steve Rogers returns to his apartment with Emmett, where they find Fury sitting in his living room. Fury manages to tell Rogers and Emmett that S.H.I.E.L.D. has been compromised and gives them the USB containing the data from the *Lemurian Star*. The Winter Soldier shoots and appears to fatally wound Fury. While his neighbor (who reveals herself to be an undercover S.H.I.E.L.D. agent codenamed "Agent 13") gets Fury to safety, Rogers and Emmett pursue the Winter Soldier, but fail to catch him.
* Nick Fury is taken to a hospital in a critical condition. His heart stops during surgery, and the doctors are unable to revive him. After he is pronounced dead, Maria Hill collects his body. Rogers hides the USB Fury gave him in a vending machine. Emmett texts Natasha, telling her to buy some chips, hoping she'll find it.

#### 10th

* Believing Steve Rogers may be withholding information from S.H.I.E.L.D., Alexander Pierce questions him and Emmett about the circumstances of Nick Fury's death. Rogers does not tell him about the USB or anything Fury said to him before he was shot, and Emmett backs him up. Pierce reveals that Fury hired Georges Batroc to hijack the *Lemurian Star*, and Romanoff's extraction of data from the computers was the real mission.

* **Chase of Captain America and White Knight:** On his way back to the hospital to retrieve the USB, Rogers and Emmett are attacked by several STRIKE operatives in an elevator, but manage to defeat all of them. He jumps out of the elevator to avoid arrest, drives away on his motorcycle and evades an attacking Quinjet. Pierce tells the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. that Rogers is now a wanted fugitive and must be hunted down. He promotes Agent John Ellis, with the mission to retrieve Emmett alive.
* Rogers returns to the hospital, but the USB is no longer in the vending machine. Natasha Romanoff reveals that she has it, and explains who the Winter Soldier is. Emmett admits to telling Natasha about the USB, and says they can trust her.
* At an Apple computer store, Emmett, Rogers and Romanoff try to read the data on the USB. While the information itself is inaccessible, they manage to trace back the location where the program was first written: a S.H.I.E.L.D. bunker in New Jersey. STRIKE operatives led by Brock Rumlow search for the fugitives, but do not find them.
* In Pensacola, Florida, Grant Ward kills Thomas Nash, a reject of the Index.
* Melinda May receives a message that Nick Fury is supposedly at the Triskelion.
* Stealing a car, Rogers and Romanoff drive to the location and he recognizes it as Camp Lehigh, the military training camp where he trained during World War II. In the bunker, they find an old supercomputer, the preserved consciousness of Arnim Zola. Zola explains that HYDRA has continued to operate within S.H.I.E.L.D. since its creation in the 1940s, and several S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives are actually sleeper agents for HYDRA. He also explains to Rogers and Romanoff that Emmett appeared out of the blue in 2012, and his records are fake. Finally, he reveals the information on the USB is an algorithm Zola produced for Project Insight. Before Romanoff can get any more information from him, a S.H.I.E.L.D. fighter jet bombs the bunker, destroying the computers. Surviving the explosion, they once again evade S.H.I.E.L.D. capture.
* At his home, Alexander Pierce is visited by the Winter Soldier, and sets him a mission to terminate the fugitives. Renata witnesses the exchange and is killed by Pierce.

#### 11th

* On the car ride home, Steve asks Emmett about his history. Emmett tells him about him being from an alternate universe, and his two fights. He explains that someone is after him, but he doesn't know who. He says he has a chip in his amputated leg that keeps him from aging. He says he hopes to be able to go home someday, and he came to S.H.I.E.L.D. to avoid the people who are looking for him. Steve asks why he never told anyone, and Emmett says knowing too much is a problem, as too drastic a change in reality could light a beacon to whoever is hunting him. He tells Steve he trusts him, and asks that he keep his story secret, which Steve promises to do. Steve asks if they win, and Emmett says his being there ought to tell him something.
* Steve, Emmett and Natasha seek refuge at Sam Wilson's home. He agrees to help them, and reacquires the EXO-7 Falcon flight harness he used while serving in the army.
* While Steve gets ready, Emmett fills Natasha and Sam in on what he told Steve. Natasha asks when he's going to leave, and he says when it's safe. He says he'll always come back to help, and Sam says they'll need him
* **Battle of Washington, D.C.**:
	+ The team abducts Jasper Sitwell and interrogates him about the nature of Project Insight. He reveals Arnim Zola's algorithm will seek out any individual or group that poses a threat to HYDRA. The Insight Helicarriers will then eliminate the targets, placing a majority of the East Coast at risk. The Winter Soldier attacks, kills Sitwell and battles Rogers. During the fight, Rogers removes the Winter Soldier's mask and recognizes him as Bucky Barnes. A S.H.I.E.L.D. team soon arrives and arrests Rogers, Romanoff, and Wilson.
* Maria Hill and Emmett, disguised as escorts, rescue Rogers, Romanoff, and Wilson, and take them to Nick Fury, who faked his death by means of an anti-stress serum created by Bruce Banner. The group formulate a plan to stop Project Insight using three special computer chips that will reroute the Helicarriers' targeting system, forcing them to destroy each other.
* In order to establish a line of communication with Jemma Simmons, who has been transferred to the Hub as a consultant on Deathlok, Leo Fitz creates a hidden phone line but discovers the hidden phone line of Melinda May.
* Victoria Hand takes control of the Bus and sets it to dock with the Hub, believing Phil Coulson and his team may be part of a conspiracy within S.H.I.E.L.D.
* Agent Hand sends two S.H.I.E.L.D. UAVs to kill John Garrett, whom she suspects along with Coulson of being part of the same conspiracy. Garrett manages to evade his attackers and docks with the Bus.

#### 12th

* With his suit damaged, Rogers breaks into the Smithsonian Institution and steals a 1940s Captain America costume on display.
* **Battle at the Triskelion**:
	+ Alexander Pierce invites the World Security Council to the Triskelion to show them a demonstration of Project Insight. Captain America and White Knight infiltrate the headquarters and reveals the nature of Project Insight and the HYDRA infiltration to everyone present. Emmett secretly deletes his files, and stores them on a USB.
	+ Pierce takes the Council hostage, but Black Widow, disguised as Councilwoman Hawley, defends them and holds Pierce at gunpoint. She and Fury then upload all data regarding S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA to the public, and Fury executes Pierce after he kills the Council in an attempt to escape. Captain America and Sam Wilson, going by the codename Falcon, board the Helicarriers as they take off and manage to install two of the chips. White Knight takes out HYDRA agents on the Triskelion, barely escaping its destruction.
	+ On the last Helicarrier, Captain America is confronted by the Winter Soldier, and after a brutal altercation, Captain America manages to install the chip.
	+ The Helicarriers target each other and blow each other out of the sky; the Helicarrier holding Rogers and the Winter Soldier crashes into the Triskelion, reducing it to rubble. The Winter Soldier, slowly remembering his past life as Bucky Barnes, saves Captain America from drowning in the Potomac River.

* HYDRA sends out a coded message to all of its agents, ordering them to take direct control of S.H.I.E.L.D. Skye decodes the message, leading the team to distrust each other.
* Exposed to the public, HYDRA begins purging all infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. facilities in an attempt to retain control. The Cube and S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy are among the targeted facilities.
* **Battle at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy**: Anne Weaver, the director of the Academy, is contacted by Jemma Simmons and Antoine Triplett as HYDRA invades the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy. She warns them about the HYDRA infiltration before the connection is lost. During the battle, HYDRA release an Enhanced person. Weaver fights the Enhanced by herself, but then Tomas Calderon saves her and more students with his Quinjets squadron.
* **Battle at the Hub**: The Bus lands at the Hub, where Garrett soon reveals that he is the Clairvoyant and an agent of HYDRA. Coulson's team are nearly killed by Garrett, but Agent Hand, having heard the exchange, saves them. All HYDRA agents present in the Hub are then detained.
* **Battle at the Sandbox**: Donnie Gill, a victim of the Faustus method, is used by HYDRA as a one-man army to take the Sandbox.
* Hand informs Isabelle Hartley that the Battle at the Hub is over.
* Coulson and Hand watch footage of Project Insight as they assess the losses of S.H.I.E.L.D.
* **Battle on the Iliad**:
	+ HYDRA forces aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft carrier *Iliad* begin executing loyal S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives. The Lead HYDRA Agent of the attack watches footage of Project Insight before killing Tim Maguire. Acting on orders from Nick Fury, Agents Bobbi Morse and Isabelle Hartley rescue Alphonso Mackenzie and Robert Gonzales.
	+ Together, they make their way to the bridge where Morse attempts to extract classified material from the ship's computers, though this places the remaining S.H.I.E.L.D. agents on board at risk.
	+ Having second thoughts, Morse resigns from her initial orders and works with her fellow agents in reclaiming the ship from HYDRA. Now acting solo, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents aboard the *Iliad* decide to start a new S.H.I.E.L.D. under Gonzales' command.
* **Assassination of Victoria Hand**: Victoria Hand and Grant Ward escort John Garrett to the Fridge for incarceration, but midflight, Agent Hand was killed by Ward, revealing him to be Garrett's fellow HYDRA mole.

#### 13th

* Bill Foster takes Ava Starr in to help her following the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D..
* Grant Ward releases Raina from S.H.I.E.L.D custody.
* Skye and Coulson watch the news as they assess the secured bases of S.H.I.E.L.D..
* Grant Ward and Raina arrive at the Barbershop Headquarters in Havana, Cuba. Here Raina meets the Clairvoyant for the first time and discovers he has no powers.
* In the Hub, Coulson's Team repair the Bus. While doing this, Phil Coulson receives a message from Glenn Talbot.
* S.H.I.E.L.D is declared a terrorist organization by the United States government.
* After receiving the message from Glenn Talbot, Coulson decides to leave the Hub. On the Bus, Skye deletes the identity of every member on their team, including Ward.
* Skye informs Ward that his identity has been deleted and Garrett instructs Raina to recreate the drug GH.325.
* Phil Coulson discovers Nick Fury's coordinates to Providence.
* Agent Kaminsky and others arrive in Cuba after being defeated at another S.H.I.E.L.D. facility. Garrett decides to hit the Fridge.
* May tells Coulson that Fury was not behind Project T.A.H.I.T.I..
* **Raid of the Fridge**:
	+ John Garrett and Grant Ward arrive at the Fridge and steal the 0-8-4 from Peru, the Gravitonium, the Berserker Staff, and Donnie Gill's icing machine.
	+ They also release from the Fridge many prisoners, including Marcus Daniels and Ian Quinn.
* Coulson's Team finds Providence and meets Eric Koenig. Here they are informed that the Fridge has been taken by HYDRA. Skye calls Ward, because she is worried about him, giving him the coordinates of Providence.
* Raina tells Ward and Garrett that the hard drive cannot be accessed without Skye's pass codes. Garrett sends Ward to obtain the pass codes or Skye herself.
* Maria Hill applies for a job at Stark Industries and is accepted.
* Grant Ward arrives at Providence, where he lies to the team about what happened at the Fridge and gives Skye the hard drive. Ward suggests to back it up now that they are at a secure facility, but Coulson wants her to first pull up a list of all the inmates at the Fridge.
* Ian Quinn arrives in Cuba and is presented with the Gravitonium by Garrett.
* 200 miles out of Portland, Marcus Daniels kills a fisherman so he can use his car to travel to Portland.
* After seeing Marcus Daniels on the list, Coulson decides to take a splinter team to capture him. Before they are allowed to leave the facility they have to go through an orientation on a Lie Detector.

#### 14th

* Daniels arrives in Portland where he goes after Audrey Nathan, his obsession. Before he could get to her she is saved by Jemma Simmons and Antoine Triplett, while Leo Fitz uses his D.W.A.R.F.s to capture him. This does not work.
* In Providence Skye tries to track the other freed prisoners, when she has the idea to hack a NSA satellite to get visuals on them.
* In Portland, Fitz comes with the idea to use Audrey Nathan to draw Daniels.
* **Assassination of Eric Koenig**: When Ward plans to kill Melinda May he noticed she is leaving the facility. He then goes after Koenig to kill him.
* In Canada, May is picked up by her mother Lian and she starts her search for Maria Hill.
* **Ambush at the Outdoor Theater‏‎**: On an outside stage Audrey starts playing the cello, drawing Blackout to her. Coulson and his team defeat him.
* Skye uses a tracking system to search for Eric Koenig. She finds his body in a storage room, after which she writes down a message for Coulson, saying Ward is HYDRA.
* **Kidnapping of Skye**: The Bus is taken by Grant Ward who wants Skye to give up access codes to Coulson's Team Hard Drive.
* When Coulson and his team return at Providence they notice that the facility is empty and the Bus is gone.
* Natasha Romanoff goes to government hearings about the downfall of S.H.I.E.L.D.
* Maria Hill goes to Senate hearings about the downfall of S.H.I.E.L.D. As she leaves, she is confronted by Melinda May.

#### 15th

* Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Phil Coulson, and Antoine Triplett try to figure out why Melinda May, Grant Ward, Skye, and Eric Koenig are not at Providence, rewatching the security footage. Simmons decides to make something to eat. Fitz asks why Ward and Skye would not have told their team what was happening, and Simmons reminds him to be happy. Simmons suggests making pancakes to cheer everyone up. She goes to check for pancakes and Fitz goes to turn on the griddle.
* Fitz realizes that one of the windows, which is supposed to change displays between nighttime and daytime, is stuck on night, while Simmons looks for pancake mix. Coulson and Triplett run scenarios and speculate what happened to their team. Fitz notices the fake window is propped while Simmons collects cooking supplies. She goes to turn the light off and notices blood next to the doorframe. Fitz discovers a message left by Skye that Ward is working for HYDRA, and Simmons screams, having found Koenig's body.
* Nick Fury talks to Steve, Sam, and Emmett before leaving for Europe. Captain America and Falcon begin their search for the Winter Soldier. White Knight goes back to his base universe, to check in with his team.
* Wanda Maximoff walks into a room at the HYDRA Research Base which contains the Scepter. The door closes behind her, and she is asked to state her name and confirm her status as a volunteer by a scientist. She is told to begin, as another scientist mentions that nobody has survived contact. The other scientists cuts him off and instructs Maximoff to touch the Scepter.
* Fitz panics about their revelation, in denial about Ward being HYDRA, while Simmons performs an autopsy on Koenig. Coulson and Trip try to calm him down. Simmons reports that Koenig died after May left the base, and that a thin wire strangled him in a hurry, and confirms that Ward was responsible. Fitz starts throwing appliances in frustration, and Coulson tells him to focus the pain on saving Skye. Coulson asks Fitz to track the Bus and determines to find Skye, confident that she has a plan.
* Skye and Ward arrive at the diner, and Skye tells Ward that decrypting the hard drive will take an hour at least to complete, upsetting Ward.
* Triplett and Coulson activate a computer and take stock of their situation, realizing that John Garrett is alive and Victoria Hand is dead, and that Ward and Garrett stole weapons from the Fridge. Coulson realizes that Ward is after the information on the hard drive, and that Ward needs Skye to decrypt the hard drive. The Bus is located in Los Angeles, and a perimeter alert is set off.
* Maximoff watches *The Brady Bunch* while in isolation. The HYDRA scientists watch her and rewatch the footage of Maximoff interacting with the Mind Stone repeatedly. One scientist comments that it makes no sense and wonders what happened.
* Maximoff stands up and walks toward the television, using her newfound abilities to turn the television off.
* Skye works on the hard drive and shows Ward that she is still working. Skye scolds Ward for being impatient, and he apologizes. Skye suggests Ward call Coulson, but Ward says that they need to stick to their plan. The encryption is denied since they are at the wrong location, and Skye gets nervous. Ward attempts to comfort her and asks what's wrong. Skye lies, saying that she is bothered by their situation as fugitives. Police officers enter, and Ward gets a menu to look less suspicious.
* **Attack on Providence**: Coulson, Triplett, Simmons, and Fitz prepare to fight whoever is at the door. The door is unlocked as Glenn Talbot's soldiers enter, lead by Talbot and Maria Hill.
* A man mourns at a cemetery and finds Melinda May digging up Coulson's grave. May climbs out of the grave and offers her condolences to the mourner. She goes to her car and looks at the file she recovered, finding a classified file regarding Project T.A.H.I.T.I..
* Simmons insists to Talbot that S.H.I.E.L.D. are not criminals. Talbot questions the agents and offers them time served in exchange for intelligence, but they refuse. Simmons scolds Talbot for stopping them from saving Skye.
* Hill asks Coulson to accept Talbot's offer of turning over Providence, but Coulson refuses. Coulson scolds Hill for asking him to still keep secrets, including those involving the T.A.H.I.T.I. project. Coulson tells Hill that Ward is with HYDRA and asks for help. Talbot asks to move along, and Coulson and Hill fight through his soldiers.
* **Kidnapping of Skye**:
	+ Skye is brought coffee, and she tells Ward that she has half an hour left for her encryption. Ward grows impatient as he thinks the police officers are looking at them. He notices another police car pull up. Skye distracts him by asking about the last time he went undercover. Ward talks about it, saying that she does not know how Garrett was able to bring himself to be a double agent.
	+ Ward tries to change the subject, but Skye asks what he would say if he could talk to Garrett. Ward asks what she is doing and notices that the police are clearing people out. Ward suggests leaving, but Skye refuses. She revealed that she called the police on Ward and that she knows he is HYDRA. The police come to arrest the two agents, but Ward breaks free as Skye runs away.
	+ Skye runs outside and surrenders to the police, asking to be arrested. The officers arrest her, but Ward comes out of the restaurant and shoots them. Skye steals the police car and gets away, but Mike Peterson arrives and captures her.
	+ On the Bus, Peterson and Ward argue about whether Peterson should have gotten involved. Skye refuses to give Ward the location, and John Garrett gives Ward five minutes to retrieve it. Skye scolds Ward for lying to her and punches him, so he handcuffs her to a rail. Ward says that it was not personal, so Skye continues to scold Ward. Skye asks if he is going to kill her, but he says that he would not let that happen to her, disgusting Skye. Ward tells Skye that it was hard to make the decisions he did, but Skye says that he is a serial killer and that she does not like him. Ward insists that she will understand some day, but Skye refuses and sits down.
	+ Peterson attempts to decrypt the hard drive and gets an invalid signal location notification. He receives a message that Garrett is done waiting and is instructed to go to plan B.
	+ Skye struggles to break free of her handcuffs, and Ward threatens that Peterson will torture Skye. Skye pleads with Peterson, but Peterson demands the information. Skye continues to try to reach out to Peterson, and he stops Ward's heart. Skye decides to give up the information in order to save Ward, revealing that they need to reach a high enough altitude. Peterson demands that Skye start the hack and orders Ward to take off.
	+ Skye delivers the codes to Ward and Deathlok but installs a trojan horse in the drive.
	+ Ward prepares to take off, but is interrupted by Hill. Ward asks her to get out of his way, but Hill demands Skye. Ward calls her bluff and tells her not to test him. Ward takes off, and Hill tells Trip not to pursue. Coulson sneaks onto the Bus.
	+ As the Bus takes off, Coulson makes his way through and finds Skye, hugging her. She confesses to having unlocked it, and Peterson engages. Coulson and Skye go to the cargo hold, and Ward rushes after them. The two get inside Lola and leave the bus, while firing at Peterson. Peterson returns fire and Ward joins, but Coulson and Skye leave in Lola. The car's flight systems break at first but activate just before they hit the ground. The car lands and a man charges them for parking.
* Ward suggests going after Coulson and Skye, but Peterson demands they stay with Garrett's plan. Ward threatens Peterson for going after Coulson and Skye, but he says that it was not personal.
* Coulson tells Hill he is going after Ward, and asks for backup from Hill, which she denies. Hill says that S.H.I.E.L.D. is over, but Coulson insists it should remain active. Coulson says that he does not want to work in the private sector, and Hill leaves.
* Fitz and Simmons speculate about why Ward betrayed them, and Fitz refuses to believe that Ward is evil. Fitz asks Simmons tell him that she is not HYDRA, and she does so sympathetically. Fitz says that he also is not with HYDRA. Skye makes fun of Triplett for eating junk food, and Coulson encourages Triplett to rest. Coulson gets food from the vending machine and promises Skye that they will get Ward. Skye tells them that she left them a present when she decrypted the drive. Coulson give Skye part of his candy bar, and they share it.
* Coulson returns to his room and finds May inside. She says that Hill told her about Ward's betrayal, and tells him that he needs to see something. She shows him a video of himself saying that the side effects of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. are too extreme, with memory replacement being the only way to undo the effects, and recommending that the cost of the project was too great to continue. Coulson is shocked at this discovery.

#### 16th

* Deathlok kills drug lord Alejandro Castillo. Coulson's Team watches footage on the morning news.
* **Infiltration into Cybertek Corporate Headquarters**: Coulson and his team arrive at Cybertek Corporate Headquarters and discover that John Garrett was the first Deathlok and that he plans to use the Centipede Serum to cure his own disabilities and to create an army of Deathloks.
* **Kidnapping of Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons**: Fitz and Simmons find the Bus, but are captured by Ward and taken to Garrett. Fitz nearly kills Garrett by the use of an EMP but he and Simmons are forced to take refuge in a Medical Pod. Ward finds the two and ejects it into the sea.
* Raina injects Garrett with synthesized GH.325 which heals his failing organs and gives him superhuman strength but starts to give him a psychotic personality.
* Ian Quinn bargains with representatives of the United States Armed Forces in Washington, D.C. about the creation of an army of Deathlok Soldiers for the Military.
* **Ambush at the Barbershop Headquarters**:
	+ Coulson's Team arrive at the Barbershop Headquarters in Cuba but are ambushed by Centipede-enhanced soldiers controlled by Cybertek and Kaminsky, wielding the Berserker Staff.
	+ They use the Trojan horse computer program to discover the location of the Cybertek Manufacturing Facility.

#### 17th

* Raina declares to John Garrett that she is not in league with HYDRA. She is only interested in new ways of evolution.
* Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons are rescued from the sea by Nick Fury, who sends them to the Playground for recovery.
* **Battle at Cybertek**:
	+ Garrett kills one of the generals in attendance at Ian Quinn's presentation of the Deathlok soldiers. Raina and Quinn abandon the Cybertek facility, taking the Gravitonium with them, while Coulson's Team invade Cybertek with a group of U.S. Marines. Grant Ward tries to capture Skye, but Melinda May defeats him in a fight and he is taken into custody.
	+ Phil Coulson battles Garrett, but is outmatched.
	+ Fury arrives to aid Coulson, while Deathlok steps in to defend Garrett. Skye releases Ace Peterson, prompting Deathlok to turn on Garrett and fire a missile at him. The remaining Centipede agents are arrested, and Deathlok flees the scene. Garrett tries to upgrade himself with Deathlok parts, but Coulson vaporizes him with the 0-8-4 Weapon.
* Fury appoints Coulson as the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D. and gives him a small device called "the Toolbox", which shows him coordinates to their new base, the Playground.
* Raina and Ian Quinn travel in a van with the gravitonium taken from John Garrett. Raina opens its container, however, and the material absorbs Quinn into itself completely.

#### 18th

* Upon arriving at the base, the team meet Agent Billy Koenig, the identical twin brother of Eric Koenig.
* Coulson starts to experience the same side effects of the GH.325 that affected Garrett, rewriting the same symbols Garrett wrote.
* Raina visits Calvin Zabo and tells him that she had found his daughter, Skye.

#### 19th

* At the secret HYDRA facility where Loki's Scepter is being held, Wolfgang von Strucker assures the personnel that their work will continue in spite of HYDRA's recent loss at the Triskelion. As he observes Pietro and Wanda Maximoff practicing their abilities, Strucker comments that the "Age of Miracles" has begun.
* At the Captain America Exhibition, in the Smithsonian Institution, The Winter Soldier finds out who he really is, James Barnes.

#### 20th

* Under Kilgrave's influence, Jessica Jones kills Reva Connors. Jones rebels against Kilgrave's control and leaves Kilgrave, who is hit by a bus.

#### 22nd

* General Glenn Talbot continues to lead teams to search for remnants of S.H.I.E.L.D. through the winter, to no avail.

#### 23rd

* Having almost been killed in the accident, Kilgrave searches the help of Doctor David Kurata and forces Jack Denton to donate both of his kidneys to him. Kurata is forced to perform the surgery on Kilgrave without any anesthesia to numb the pain, because the anesthesia nullifies Kilgrave's powers.
* Denton has a stroke from the shock of losing his kidneys. Kilgrave then ensures that his death has been faked and disappears, while Jessica Jones continues to believe that he died in the accident.

#### 24th

* Cybertek ship HYDRA's remaining gravitonium on a boat called the *Principia*. However, the boat hits a storm which supercharges the gravitonium and causes it to float 25,000 feet into the sky. It is assumed to have sunk.

#### 26th

* Leo Fitz awakes from his coma, having spent nine days unconscious.

#### 30th

* Phil Coulson assigns Jemma Simmons the duty to infiltrate in HYDRA so she can give him information about the terrorist organization. Secretly, Coulson assigns agent Bobbi Morse to protect Simmons as she also infiltrates HYDRA.

### February

#### 5th

* Luke Cage stands over Reva Connors' dead body, lying in a coffin at her funeral.

### March

#### 18th

* Phil Jackson becomes president of the New York Knicks.

### April

#### 4th

* At 17:27 p.m., footage from the Battle at the Triskelion is retrieved. This footage would be shown to Hawley two years later.

#### 10th

* Felix Blake is released from hospital. Having found out about HYDRA, he disappears, angered that the S.H.I.E.L.D. he signed up for was not what he thought it to be. Bitter, he looks to find other people to align himself with who want to protect the world from aliens.

#### 15th

* **Assassination of Ahmad Zubair**: William Rawlins, still going by Agent Orange, has Homeland Security liaison Ahmad Zubair captured and tortured, claiming he is a terrorist. The Cerberus Squad stand around watching as Rawlins beats him for information, but he claims to have none. Zubair exclaims that he is not a terrorist and that he has a family, begging for his life, but Rawlins says that if he has no information, he will be killed. Obeying orders under the assumption that it is necessary to protect the United States of America, Frank Castle shoots Zubair through the head. Unbeknown to the rest of the squad, Emmett Henderson, starting to suspect that the Cerberus leaders have ulterior motives, secretly films the assassination.
* Castle and Henderson are given the duty of burying Zubair, with Castle removing the bullet from his head as instructed. Henderson highlights to Castle that what they are doing feels like disposing of evidence of a crime.

#### 24th

* Rosalind Price is transferred to the Washington, D.C. branch to serve as a special adviser to Congress.
* Moira Queen is killed by Slade Wilson on Lian Yu.

#### 25th

* Without revealing that he has been doing the same, Phil Coulson gives Skye the assignment of translating the Words of Creation that were written on the Bus by John Garrett. During her investigation, she contacts Rising Tide, but they cannot help her.

### May

#### 14th

* **The Siege:**
	+ Slade Wilson and his men begin their siege of Starling City. The siege took several lives, including District Attorney Kate Spencer, Anna Loring and many others. S.T.A.R. Labs successfully develops a Mirakuru cure just in time to combat Slade Wilson's siege. Starling City Mayor Sebastian Blood had a last minute change of heart and helps Team Arrow. He was killed by Isabel Rochev as a result. Sara Lance returns to Starling City to aid Team Arrow, bringing along the League of Assassins. Oliver and his team successfully defeat Slade Wilson and his men. Isabel Rochev is killed in the battle by Nyssa.

#### 15th

* Phil Coulson has another episode where he is driven to carve strange symbols on the wall, which Melinda May records for him.
* Thea Queen leaves Starling City with Malcolm Merlyn.
* Slade Wilson is imprisoned on Lian Yu.
* Quentin Lance is promoted to SCPD Captain.
* Ray Palmer successfully buys Queen Consolidated.

#### 16th

* Phil Coulson leaves the Playground to travel, looking for people across the globe who remain loyal to S.H.I.E.L.D.

#### 29th

* Phil Coulson tells Melinda May that he is on a recruiting trip to London, but instead secretly meets with Sam Koenig in the United States to discuss Theta Protocol, a project created after the collapse of S.H.I.E.L.D., to repair Helicarrier No. 64. Koenig mentions that Simmons is settling in at HYDRA, and Coulson tells him the Skye is doing well in her training with May, Antoine Triplett is now fully on the team and Leo Fitz is making a little progress. They also discuss the new recruits Lance Hunter, Isabelle Hartley and Idaho. He also asks for Koenig to keep looking for Robert Gonzales, who they believe is highly likely to be dead.

#### 30th

* Phil Coulson sends the group of mercenaries he has recently become involved with, (Lance Hunter, Isabelle Hartley and Idaho) to Alexandria, Virginia to buy a file from Roger Browning that contains information about the Obelisk, a mysterious artifact that HYDRA is looking for.
* The negotiation is interrupted by an assassin who kills Browning and escapes.
* Glenn Talbot gives an interview, saying that S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA are enemies of the United States of America and that he will do anything to defeat them.
* Coulson returns to the Playground and tells May about his supposed recruiting trip. He sends Skye to get information from their prisoner, Grant Ward. Ward tells her the history of Carl Creel and how HYDRA is communicating with him. She leaves before he can discuss her father.

#### 31st

* **Ambush on Glenn Talbot**: Carl Creel attacks Glenn Talbot, but he is saved by Skye and Melinda May. As Creel is detained by the United States Armed Forces, May and Skye take Talbot to the Playground.
* Coulson tries to force Talbot to reveal information. He refuses and Coulson resorts to his back-up plan and knocks him out with an I.C.E.R..
* **Infiltration into the Government Storage Warehouse**:
	+ Creel uses his powers to become transparent and escape from his detainment. Coulson sends a team on a two-pronged mission: to obtain a Quinjet and retrieve the Obelisk.
	+ When Hartley finds the Obelisk, the Absorbing Man attacks. She grabs the object in order to defend herself, but instead it begins to kill her.
	+ Hartley, Hunter and Idaho attempt to escape to get Hartley medical attention, but Creel flips their S.H.I.E.L.D. SUV, killing both Idaho and Hartley. Hunter fakes being dead as Creel takes the alien artifact.
* Later, Sunil Bakshi approaches Daniel Whitehall to tell him that Creel was successful.
* Melinda May finds Idaho, Isabelle Hartley, and Lance Hunter's flipped SUV. Only Hunter has survived. Hunter tells May to pursue the Absorbing Man. While May chases Creel, Hunter is surrounded and taken by the United States Armed Forces.
* May tracks Creel to a restaurant. In the restaurant, Creel is accidentally touched by a waitress, and she turns to stone. Creel escapes the scene.
* At the Playground, Skye and Antoine Triplett arrive back in the newly acquired Quinjet as they learn of the deaths of Hartley and Idaho. Alphonso Mackenzie looks over the jet's cloaking technology so it can be duplicated for the Bus.
* Hunter is collected by Glenn Talbot, who asks him to betray Phil Coulson because there is a senator who wants his arrest. Hunter wants Hartley to have an honorable funeral in return. Hunter tells Talbot that in return for a proper burial for Hartley and two million dollars, he will hand over Coulson in the next two days.
* When Hunter returns to the Playground, Coulson already knows that Hunter has talked to Talbot. He sends Skye to pack the deceased's possessions.
* Fitz finds the DNA file on the Absorbing Man and decides that he will help in his capture. Mackenzie helps a struggling Fitz to decode his old work to find a solution.
* In the night, Raina visits Creel and gives him a ring that will help him fight against the adverse effects that the Obelisk is having on him. However, unbeknownst to him, the ring contains a tracking device. Raina contacts Coulson and tells him about the tracking device.

### June

#### 13th

* *How to Train Your Dragon 2* is released in the United States of America.

#### 15th

* **Massacre of the Kylosians**: Under Thanos' orders, Ronan the Accuser attacks the planet Kylos, forcing its population to divide into two halves. Drax is separated from his wife, Ovette and his daughter, Kamaria, during this division. Ronan kills the half that Ovette and Kamaria are in. Drax watches Ronan laugh while he slaughters Drax's wife and daughter. Drax swears revenge, eventually killing twenty-two people and causing grievous bodily harm to five more. This earns him the nickname "Drax the Destroyer."

### August

#### 1st

* **Massacre of the Korbinites**: On Korbin, Nebula battles Korbinites, fighting under her father, Thanos' instruction. A Korbinite goes to attack her, but her adoptive sister Gamora arrives and kills it from behind. She then tells Nebula Thanos has found an Infinity Stone.
* Thanos tells his daughters that Ronan the Accuser has located the stone, and that he is sending them to Ronan's ship.
* In an attempt to separate from the Ravagers, Peter Quill, known as "Star-Lord", travels alone to Morag to retrieve the Orb. Quill starts up his Walkman, playing *Come and Get Your Love* by Redbone to entertain himself as he goes to get the Orb. He starts to groove to the song as it begins. Using a tool he brought, Peter Quill unlocks the temple door and breaks in, before placing a Plasma Sphere on the ground for light. He sees the Orb is ahead, sitting in a protective field.
* Korath the Pursuer arrives on Xandar with Sakaaran soldiers.

* **Battle of Morag**: Quill uses a Gravity Mine to draw the Orb out of its field, and is successful. At that moment, Korath and his soldiers break in. Korath asks how he knows about it, but Quill claims to just be a junker looking around. When Korath makes off with the Orb, Quill breaks the Plasma Sphere, which disintegrates the soldiers. He then shoots Korath with his Quad Blasters and picks up the Orb when the Kree drops it. Korath shoots at him but he dodges. The blast hits the wall behind Quill, and he flies out through it with his jet boots. He then runs to escape as Korath pursues him, throwing a Gravity Mine to suck in the remaining Sakaaran soldiers and hold them down, then leaping for his ship, the *Milano*. Quill slides into the *Milano* cockpit as the Sakaarans free themselves from the Gravity Mine and prepare to stop him. Korath leads them in preparing a cannon, then starts firing as Quill pilots the ship away, dodging the blasts. The *Milano* gets caught in a geyser which propels the ship into the air, and Quill falls out of the pilot seat. However, before he can crash, he manages to grab the controls and stabilize the ship.

* Korath informs Ronan the Accuser of Quill's taking of the Orb, and sends Gamora to retrieve it, not realizing that she is actually working for the Collector.

#### 2nd

* **Attack on Peter Quill**: Star-Lord travels to Xandar and attempts to give the Orb to the Broker, but upon learning that Ronan the Accuser seeks it for himself, the Broker cancels the deal. Gamora attacks Quill and makes off with the Orb. Two criminals, Rocket Raccoon and Groot, attempt to capture Quill to collect Yondu Udonta's bounty, and they, Quill, and Gamora are all apprehended by the Nova Corps and imprisoned on the Kyln.
* Gamora is nearly killed by vengeful inmates led by Drax the Destroyer, whose wife and daughter were murdered by Ronan, but is saved by Quill. Upon learning that the Collector is willing to pay a substantial amount for the Orb, Quill, Rocket, and Groot agree to help Gamora escape the Kyln in exchange for splitting the payment between the four of them.

#### 3rd

* Yondu Udonta and Kraglin visit the Broker, who reveals to them the nature of the Orb.

* Ronan the Accuser is summoned by Thanos to discuss Gamora's desertion. Ronan kills the Other and berates Thanos for not taking the situation seriously. Thanos ignores Ronan's insults and threatens to destroy him if he does not bring him the Orb.
* **Escape from the Kyln**:
	+ Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot stage a mass breakout on the Kyln. Assisted by Drax the Destroyer, they shut down the prison's power, triggering emergency containment procedures, and then hijack the prison's watchtower. They shut down the artificial gravity and pilot the watchtower to the prison's hanger bay via hacked security drones. They reclaim the Orb and escape in Quill's ship, the *Milano*, but Quill remains behind to recover his walkman headset. He manages to regroup with the others, and they flee from the system.
* **Massacre at the Kyln**: Ronan and Nebula invade the Kyln but find that Gamora has already fled. Before leaving, Ronan orders for the prison to be "cleansed".
* The *Milano* arrives at Knowhere, where Gamora schedules a meeting with the Collector. While waiting, the group spend time in the Boot of Jemiah, where Drax, Rocket, and Groot bet on Orloni fights. Star-Lord makes advances towards Gamora, who violently rejects him. Drax and Rocket, both drunk, get into a fight, after which Drax storms off and the rest of the group are summoned by the Collector.
* **Skirmish on Knowhere**:
	+ They give the Orb to him and he opens it, revealing the Infinity Stone inside. After explaining the stone's origins, the Collector prepares to give the group their payment. His slave, Carina, grabs the stone in order to free herself from slavery, but the power overwhelms and kills her.
	+ A massive explosion destroys the Collector's Museum, and Gamora reseals the stone into the Orb. Ronan, Nebula, and their Sakaaran allies are summoned to Knowhere by a vengeful Drax, who is subdued in battle with Ronan. Nebula pursues Gamora into space, leaving her stranded and nearly killing her. While Ronan and his minions make off with the Orb, and Star-Lord contacts the Ravagers to pick up him and Gamora, giving her his helmet to survive.
* After leaving Knowhere, Ronan contacts Thanos and betrays him, deciding to keep the Infinity Stone for himself, grafting it into his hammer. Nebula chooses to remain with Ronan out of spite for Thanos.
* On Knowhere, Groot convinces Rocket to rescue Star-Lord and Gamora. On the *Eclector*, Star-Lord and Gamora negotiate a truce with the Ravagers, agreeing to give the Orb to them if they help them stop Ronan from using it to destroy Xandar. Rocket, Groot, and Drax suddenly arrive and threaten to destroy the mothership with a Hadron Enforcer, but Star-Lord is able to stop him. Star-Lord's group and the Ravagers formulate a plan to hijack Ronan's ship, the *Dark Aster*, and kill him.

#### 4th

* Star-Lord contacts Nova Corps officer Rhomann Dey and warns him of Ronan the Accuser's attack. Dey forwards the news to Nova-Prime Irani Rael, who prepares Xandar's defenses.
* **Battle of Xandar**:
	+ The *Dark Aster* arrives at Xandar, and the entire Nova Corps fleet is sent in to intercept it. A Ravager fleet led by Yondu Udonta arrives, distracting the *Dark Aster*. The *Milano*, carrying Star-Lord, Gamora, Groot, and Drax the Destroyer, slips through the chaos and infiltrates the *Aster*. Rocket Raccoon, piloting the *Warbird*, aids the Nova Corps and Ravagers in dealing with the Sakaarans. The Nova Corps fleet sets up a force shield to keep the *Aster* from landing. All Sakaaran ground and air forces are subdued, but Ronan, using the Infinity Stone inside the Orb, decimates the entire Nova Corps fleet, including Denarian Garthan Saal.
	+ On board the *Dark Aster*, Gamora duels Nebula, who escapes on a hijacked M-ship. Drax kills Korath the Pursuer and Groot slays the rest of the Sakaaran soldiers, and the group then converge on Ronan, who defeats them with ease. Rocket pilots the *Warbird* through the *Aster* and into Ronan, incapacitating him and damaging the vessel and causing it to crash into Xandar. Groot shields his comrades in a cocoon of branches to protect them from the crash, and is pulverized in the impact.
	+ Ronan emerges from the wreckage unscathed and prepares to destroy Xandar with the Infinity Stone, but Star-Lord distracts him, allowing Rocket and Drax to destroy his hammer with the Hadron Enforcer, freeing the stone. Star-Lord catches the stone and, with Gamora, Rocket, and Drax sharing its burden, uses it to destroy Ronan. Gamora then seals the stone in a new makeshift container, and instead of giving it to the Ravagers, Star-Lord gives them a decoy. The stone is then taken by the Nova Corps and contained.

#### 8th

* While talking with Irani Rael, Star-Lord's alien ancestry is revealed.
* Star-Lord's group, now calling themselves the Guardians of the Galaxy, are exalted for their heroics and their criminal records are expunged. Departing in a repaired *Milano*, the group depart Xandar in search of adventure. They bring a sapling cut of Groot with them, which begins to regenerate.

#### 20th

* Having grown a bit bigger, on the Milano Groot begins to dance to "*I Want You Back*" by The Jackson 5 behind Drax, freezing whenever Drax looks his way.

### September

#### 10th

* Nebula is captured by the Sovereign attempting to steal Anulax Batteries.
* Star-Lord and Rocket Raccoon have fun flying together using Aero-Rigs.

#### 11th

* Phil Coulson, Melinda May and Skye record a birthday message video for Jemma Simmons for her 27th birthday, as she is not at the base with them, instead on an assignment for Coulson at HYDRA. They tell her to make a wish and then blow out the candle for her. Leo Fitz, still believing that Simmons left to see her parents, records a more personal message, asking her to say "hi" to her parents for him, and promising her that they will see each other soon.

#### 18th

* Daniel Whitehall tries to control the agent Kara Palamas after her previous kidnapping.

#### 19th

* Agent Jemma Simmons, undercover within HYDRA per Phil Coulson's request, goes to her new workplace in HYDRA Laboratories.
* In the Playground, Coulson alerts Melinda May that HYDRA has captured Agent 33.
* Simmons discovers that HYDRA is looking for Donnie Gill, whom she knows from their previous encounter, and that they are studying his abilities.
* In Marrakech, Gill is found by two HYDRA agents. He freezes one of them and takes his cell phone.
* Simmons meets with Coulson and tells him about Gill, and that she believes he must have gained some kind of powers after he was struck by lightning. Coulson decides that they must try to recruit Gill before HYDRA reaches him.
* Skye tries to get information from Grant Ward. Ward tells her that he was never loyal to HYDRA, only to Garrett. He also tells her about HYDRA's protocol when it concerns the "gifted", which is to either recruit or kill them.

#### 20th

* Donnie Gill goes to a freighter. He stands near it and freezes the water.
* Sunil Bakshi accuses Simmons of lying for not telling him that she knew about Project Blizzard, the project that gave powers to Gill. She covers by saying that she did not know who the subject of the project was until yesterday, which is true. Bakshi asks if she is loyal to HYDRA, to which Simmons simply replies that she is loyal to science.
* Coulson and his team hear about the frozen ship in the sea. They prepare to leave on the Bus.
* Bakshi brings together a group of agents with Simmons to go and find Gill.
* Fitz is shocked when he enters Grant Ward's cell. Ward tries to explain himself to Fitz, to no avail. Furious, Fitz explains what Ward has done to him, and starts draining the oxygen from his cell. Ward tells him that Coulson and the others do not understand that Gill was brainwashed and was used by HYDRA to take the Sandbox in one of the battles during the HYDRA Uprising. Fitz tells Mack about Gill and that they have to alert Coulson.
* **Battle on the Maribel del Mar**:
	+ At the freighter, Mack calls Coulson and tells him about Gill being brainwashed by HYDRA. Coulson orders his team to stop HYDRA from talking to Gill to prevent the brainwashing from being triggered again.
	+ When May notices Simmons, she takes out Hunter so as to prevent him from killing her, as he does not know who she is. Alerted by the noise, Gill runs. Coulson orders his team to maintain Simmons' cover.
	+ Gill runs into Bakshi, who speaks the brainwashing code to him and Gill falls under his sway. Bakshi orders Gill to freeze the ship, but he is shot by Skye. Gill falls into the ocean.
* Skye monitors channels, trying to learn if someone has found Gill's body. Skye tells May that she does not understand why Coulson did not tell anyone about Simmons, but May simply states that she will handle it.
* Coulson goes to talk to Fitz, reminding him that he is still an important part of the team, but that he saw what he did to Ward. Fitz says that he is not a killer. Coulson explains that he hates Ward as much as him, but they need to find out more about HYDRA from him. Coulson reveals to him that Simmons is on assignment, and that is why she has made no contact. He also tells Fitz that is a lot more he is hiding.
* Whitehall tells Bakshi that S.H.I.E.L.D. is becoming a problem and he wants to know who is in charge. Agent 33 then reveals herself, now brainwashed and loyal to Whitehall.
* Ward reveals to Skye that her father is still alive and he wants to meet with her.

### October

#### 15th

* The 1987 news story "Perfect End to Historic Season", about Eddie Axton leading the New York Knickerbockers to victory at the 1987 Championship Series, is reprinted in a newspaper.

#### 17th

* **Battle on Sovereign**:
	+ The Guardians of the Galaxy are hired by Ayesha, the High Priestess of the Sovereign, to defeat the Abilisk: a beast who is slowly devouring her home planet's power source, the special Anulax Batteries.
	+ They agree to kill the monster in exchange for Nebula, whom the Sovereign captured not long after the Battle of Xandar. The team defeat the beast by exposing a cut on its neck, and Gamora using her sword to stab into the cut and slice down through the Abilisk.
* After the battle, the Guardians meet with Ayesha, and Nebula is handed over as promised.
* They intend to leave Sovereign peacefully, however, Rocket Raccoon has decided to take some Anulax Batteries for himself. When this is discovered, it angers Ayesha and the Sovereign people.
* **Escape from the Sovereign Fleet**: The Sovereign send their fleet to chase and attack the Guardians of the Galaxy, heavily damaging the *Milano*. The group is forced to crash-land on a nearby planet, but before the Sovereign fleet can kill them, it is single-handedly destroyed by Ego. On landing on the planet, Berhert, the Guardians argue, when Ego suddenly lands and reveals himself to be Quill's father.
* On Contraxia, Yondu Udonta has a run-in with Stakar Ogord, nearly 20 years after Ogord banished him for child trafficking. Ogord reiterates Yondu's exile from the greater Ravager community, despite his protests. Ayesha then arrives and hires Yondu to recapture the Guardians.
* Ego invites Quill to return to his home with his protégée Mantis. Quill is cautious, and speaks to Gamora about his concerns regarding Ego's claims, but she reassures him that things will turn out alright. Meanwhile, Drax and Mantis are acquainted.

#### 18th

* Gamora, Drax, and Star-Lord leave with Ego and Mantis to Ego's planet. Rocket and Groot remain to repair the Milano and guard Nebula.
* Mantis demonstrates her empathetic abilities to the trio on Ego's Ship as they travel.
* The Ravagers land on Berhert, where the *Milano* crash-landed. As they approach the ship to kidnap the Guardians, they step into Rocket Raccoon's traps.
* **Attack on Berhert**:
	+ Rocket enjoys setting off several traps for them, taking down numerous Ravagers, but he is forced to give in when Yondu Udonta arrives and threatens him with his Yaka Arrow. However, when Yondu shows reluctance to turn Quill over to the Sovereign, some of the group question whether he is being too soft, and Ravager Taserface uses the opportunity to lead a mutiny against him.
	+ Nebula tricks Groot into releasing her, claiming that she will help, but instead she shoots Yondu's fin, knocking him out and helping the Ravagers. Groot, Udonta, and Rocket are incarcerated on the Ravagers' ship, the *Eclector*.
* Quill, Gamora, Drax, Ego, and Mantis arrive at Ego's home: a living planet that is an extension of his body. Ego explains that he is a god-like being called a Celestial, and he created a humanoid avatar to travel across the galaxy and interact with other species.
* Yondu Udonta and Rocket Raccoon are forced to watch as Yondu's loyal men are killed, thrown out the airlock of the *Eclector*.
* Nebula is given a ship in return for having helped the Ravagers, and leaves to pursue her sister and get revenge on her.
* Ego teaches Quill to access and manipulate the power within his planet, to Quill's amazement.
* Drax becomes friendly with Mantis, who anxiously begins to attempt to reveal a secret about Ego, before being interrupted by Gamora, asking for Mantis to take them to where they will be staying.
* Rocket and Yondu are thrown in a cell, to be delivered to the Kree in the morning. In their imprisonment, Rocket and Yondu discover they are very alike, and Yondu shares his low opinion of Ego, who originally hired Yondu's Ravagers to deliver Quill after his mother's death. Meanwhile, Groot is spared, but humiliated by Taserface's men.
* Once the Ravagers have gone to sleep, Groot walks away, dejected, and goes to Yondu and Rocket's cell. Yondu calls him over, and gives him instructions on how to find a prototype version of Yaka Arrow Controller in the captain's quarters, to aid their escape. Groot excitedly runs off to find it, but Rocket is skeptical as to whether Groot understood the instructions.
* Groot returns, but with Yondu's underwear. They send him back several times, but he does not understand, bringing useless and strange items like a severed toe and a large desk.

#### 19th

* **Escape from the *Eclector***: Soon before the morning, Groot goes one final time to find the fin, but yet again retrieves the wrong item. Kraglin Obfonteri sees this, however, and assists Groot in taking the arrow controller and freeing Yondu, who forgives Kraglin and tells him to prepare the Quadrant for their escape. Together, Rocket, Groot, and Yondu walk through the *Eclector* to make their escape. The Ravagers are alerted and woken, but as they rush to stop the escape, Yondu uses the Yaka Arrow, controlled by his new fin, to kill all of them. Taserface alerts the Sovereign of the escape, and gives them the coordinates of Ego's planet so they can go after Yondu and the Guardians, before Yondu kills him as well in an explosion ignited by the Yaka Arrow.
* Rocket, Groot, Yondu, and Kraglin escape in a detachable section, and engage in a risky space maneuver of 700 consecutive jumps to reach Ego's planet in time to help Quill.
* Quill, happy to have found his father and his new powers, attempts to get Gamora to dance with him, and she eventually obliges. However, they quickly fall out, as Gamora is upset that Quill is valuing his biological father over the second family he found in their Guardians team. Gamora storms off to sit peacefully on her own in a field.
* **Attack on Gamora**:
	+ Nebula arrives at Ego's planet in the ship from the Ravagers and tries to kill Gamora. Gamora fights back, and the two of them end up fighting in the caverns beneath the planet's surface. Gamora gets the upper hand, but lets her sister live.
	+ Nebula takes the opportunity to pin down Gamora, but changes her mind about killing her, satisfied with just having beaten her for once.
	+ The two sisters reach an uneasy truce, and together they explore the caverns beneath Ego's planet's surface.
* Ego and Peter Quill bond over the song *Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)* by Looking Glass. Ego then tells Quill that he wants to show him something.
* Mantis wakes Drax, desperate to warn him about Ego before it is too late.
* Gamora and Nebula are concerned as they approach a sinister cave.
* Ego reveals his master plan to Quill: he travelled the universe and planted seedlings on thousands of worlds, so that he could terraform them into new extensions of himself. However, he needed a second Celestial's power to activate the seedlings, so he conceived children with hundreds of women all across the galaxy and hired Yondu's Ravagers to collect them.
* Meanwhile, Gamora and Nebula discover hundreds of skeletal remains in the cave; the remains of Ego's children.
* Ego reveals that every child of his was killed when they proved unable to access Celestial power, but Quill is the first able to harness the power, and Ego uses him to activate all the seedlings. His "expansion" begins, as he uses Quill to activate the seeds' terraforming, that will eventually consume all those worlds, and every person on them.
* As Rocket, Groot, Yondu, and Kraglin come to the end of their dangerous 700 jumps, one of the jumps passes by a conversation between the Watchers and one of their informants. Once the interruption has passed, the informant continues telling his tales to the Watchers, from where he's been planted at different points in time.
* Quill is hypnotized by Ego's power until Ego reveals he deliberately caused the death of Quill's mother. Quill breaks free of his trance and fights back.
* On Earth, Xandar, and all other planets that have Ego's seeds, the process of terraforming begins. In Missouri, the source of the Earth seedling, people admire the biomass, but when it begins to grow, the citizens run and drive away as fast as they can.
* One of the people escaping is Peter Quill's Grandfather.
* **Battle on Ego's Planet**:
	+ Mantis informs Gamora, Drax and Nebula of Ego's plan just as Rocket, Groot, Yondu, and Kraglin arrive. Reunited, the Guardians blast through layers of Ego to get to his core and kill him.
	+ As the Guardians fight their way through to the core, a fleet of Sovereign Omnicrafts arrives following Taserface's information, to kill the Guardians. The team retaliate against the Sovereign while having to fight Ego himself.
	+ Rocket sends Groot into the thick shell at the core of Ego's planet, protecting Ego's brain, to plant a bomb with the Anulax Batteries and kill him.
	+ Mantis attempts to keep Ego at bay by trying to make him sleep, while Quill and Yondu defeat the Sovereign. Their ship is destroyed, but the duo escape unharmed.
	+ As Ego looks likely to win, the Guardians put in a final push of attack. Groot plants the bomb and most of the Guardians escape, while Quill remains to battle his father, using his access to Ego's celestial power.
	+ When the bomb explodes, Ego dies and the planet collapses. Yondu gives his spacesuit to Quill to save him, sacrificing himself as he dies in the atmosphere of space.
* The Watchers become tired of their informant's stories and walk away, leaving him concerned as to how he will return home.
* Nebula reconciles with Gamora, but chooses to leave anyway, to finds a way to kill Thanos once for all. The two part as caring sisters.
* The Guardians give Yondu a traditional Ravager funeral, and dozens of Ravagers, including Stakar Ogord, arrive to pay their respects, releasing a string of fireworks.
* Kraglin Obfonteri tries to use the Yaka Arrow and its controller, but accidentally fires the arrow into Drax's shoulder, causing him to scream in pain.
* The Ravager leader Stakar Ogord is moved by the death of Yondu, his friend and former teammate, and reunites with fellow ex-teammates Charlie-27, Aleta Ogord, Mainframe, and Krugarr, to reform their old team.

#### 25th

* Adam Warlock is created by the leader of the Sovereign, Ayesha, in order to find a way to kill the Guardians of the Galaxy.

#### 26th

* Emmett, investigating the mysterious blue biomass, which he has erased from everyone's memory, finds the Guardians of the Galaxy. He eventually helps them find a new ship, the Benatar.

#### 30th

* April Van Kempen is born to Dr. Levi Van Kempen.

### November

#### 15th

* In Kandahar, Afghanistan, with only 29 days remaining of his rotation, Frank Castle receives a card from his family back home for his birthday. He opens it and is delighted to see that his wife, Maria, has bought him tickets to see Bruce Springsteen perform live.
* Castle is called in with Russo to have a mission briefing with Agent Orange and Ray Schoonover. Agent Orange explains the plan, but Castle expresses disapproval, highlighting that the fact that the target they have been after for months has suddenly shown up likely means it is a trap, as the Afghans have become aware of their operation. Agent Orange overrules him and tells him to proceed, and Castle reluctantly agrees, warning that he thinks people will die.
* **Ambush in Kandahar**: As Castle predicted, when the Cerberus Squad arrive at the location, they are ambushed. Several members of the squad are killed, and Castle realizes that enemy mortars will soon target them. He decides he has to act and enters the opposition's compound alone, forced to kill numerous insurgents, shooting them and then using his combat knife once he runs out of ammunition. With the insurgents dead, the squad can fall back to a safe location where a helicopter can evacuate them.

#### 16th

* Back at the Cerberus Squad Compound, Castle vomits from the physical exhaustion and horror of the events of the ambush. Agent Orange returns, but shows complete apathy at the deaths of the men, simply asking if they managed to kill the target. Castle is enraged at the man and attacks him brutally in anger, punching him in face and blinding him in one eye. Billy Russo rushes to hold him back and pulls him aside, telling him that no matter how unethical Agent Orange is, he will never be blamed as the blame always falls on the soldiers. Protecting you, it's never on them. He informs Castle that he is transferring back to the Marine Force by request.

#### 17th

* Frank Castle is taken away from Operation Cerberus to serve elsewhere, where he is assigned to a further 4-and-a-half months' service instead of the originally planned 4 more weeks.

#### 21st

* Darren Cross posts on Google+ saying *"The ability to create life artificially with such ease? Times are indeed changing. (Link - http://www.wired.com/2014/11/opentrons-bio-robots/)"*.

### December

* Samantha Reyes is honored by The New York Trial Lawyers Association. *"Awarded On Behalf Of The Board And Membership In Recognition And Appreciation Of Her Service To The Profession"*

#### 5th

* **Rite of Blood**: PRIDE has a meeting, performing their thirteenth Rite of Blood ritual, where they sacrifice 20-year-old runaway Emily Wong to revitalize Jonah.

#### 6th

* Jonathan Pangborn is admitted to hospital for recovery. He is given treatment three times a week for the next few weeks.

#### 9th

* Pangborn has x-rays taken of his serious injuries and the operations performed.

#### 11th

* Pym Technologies posts on Google+ saying: *"Pym Technologies has been supporting ideas for improved sensory-technology. Swarm robots with no sensory limitations? We think yes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant\_robotics)."*

#### 14th

* A fire occurs in the church of Santa Maria de las Flores in Miami, Florida. The entire church burns down, except for a painting which is over 500 years old. This painting has the Words of Creation (alien signs Phil Coulson has been drawing) etched into its back. The priest of the church decides to organize an event so as to raise funds and rebuild the church.
* After the completion of Operation Cerberus, William Rawlins returns to the United States of America to continue his work as Deputy Director of Covert Affairs.

#### 18th

* Darren Cross posts on Google+ saying *"Extremely excited about virtual reality. Perhaps Pym Tech can take VR a step further? (Link - http://mashable.com/2014/12/18/street-view-virtual-reality/)"*.

#### 19th

* *Youth Suffer* by Clayton Hibbert is released.

#### 21st

* Under orders from Kronos, Luke Castellan steals Zeus' Master Bolt, as well as Hades' Helm of Darkness, in an attempt to start a war.

#### 22nd

* WHiH World News posts late at night on Google+ saying *"S.H.I.E.L.D. heavily connected to government conspiracies? More at 10."*

#### 23rd

* Government conspiracies and S.H.I.E.L.D. are discussed on WHiH World News.

#### 28th

* Jonathan Pangborn leaves Metro-General Hospital in order to find a new way to heal his injuries. He spends the next five months trying many different spiritual treatments.