2013

This is a timeline of events that occurred in 2013.

#### 6th

* In a therapy session, Tony Stark recounts the events of Aldrich Killian's War to Bruce Banner, but after he finishes his story, he realizes Banner has fallen asleep.

### August

#### 29th

* An incident occurs on the LexCorp Tower construction site in Metropolis. It will be the last for 106 days.

### October

* Clark Kent teams up with the *Debbie Sue*'s crew at Dutch Harbor.

#### 31st

* Thor leads the Asgardian army on a crusade to end the threats attacking the other Realms.

### November

#### 11th

* Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis arrive in London, but are unable to locate Erik Selvig.
* **Battle of Vanaheim**: Thor's army, including Skurge, arrives in Vanaheim, the birthplace of Hogun and the final realm they must save. They defeat the Marauders who have been terrorizing the area, and Hogun decides to stay among his people while the rest of the army goes back to Asgard.

#### 12th

* In the Asgardian evening, several hours after the army's victory in Vanaheim, a feast is held to celebrate.
* Meanwhile, it is the late morning in London, and Jane Foster goes on a date with a man named Richard Madison.
* Darcy Lewis interrupts the date with her intern Ian Boothby to tell Foster of bizarre atmospheric occurrences, which are actually signs of the Convergence. They take Foster to a nearby factory, where they meet three children named John, Navid, and Maddie.
* Erik Selvig ends up streaking around Stonehenge naked and is then arrested and taken to a mental ward in London. The incident is filmed for *ITV News*.
* The children show them many objects around the factory are disappearing in mid-air, and even floating. Foster separates from the group and accidentally falls through a portal into the hiding place of the Aether, which infects her with its power.
* In Asgard, Thor leaves the merriment to visit Heimdall, who discovers that the Convergence is taking place. Heimdall realizes he cannot locate Foster, and Thor decides to travel to Earth to find her.
* Foster then falls into another portal which returns her to London, having been gone for 5 hours.
* Thor and Jane Foster reunite on Earth. A police officer tries to apprehend Foster for trespassing in the abandoned factory, but when he touches her arm, the Aether attacks him with a blast of energy.
* A concerned Thor takes Foster to Asgard.
* An Asgardian doctor, Eir, tries to discover what has happened to Foster. Odin does not approve of Thor bringing a human to Asgard, but recognizes the infection as the Aether.
* The reappearance of the Aether causes Malekith and his army to awaken from their five thousand-year sleep. His second in command, Algrim, volunteers to become one of the Kursed to increase his strength.
* As morning arrives on Asgard, Algrim is arrested by the Asgardians.
* Frigga projects herself into Loki's cell to talk to him. She is disheartened to see that he has not read the books she sent him. Loki asserts that Odin and Thor do not care about him, and points out that Odin is not his father, then extending that to hurt her by saying she is not his mother.
* Frigga dissipates her projection as Thor, elsewhere, approaches her in the flesh. Frigga explains that she does not regret teaching Loki magic. Thor tells her he wants to inform Odin about the Nine Realms being at peace, but Frigga says that Odin is not there, and will be where he is "most at ease".
* Loki tosses a cup up and down in his cell.
* Jane Foster is given a blue dress by an Asgardian maiden. She asks if they have anything with pants, but they do not understand, and she accepts it.
* Frigga walks with her maidens. She instructs them to get Loki soup and astronomy books in the hope of cheering him up in his cell.
* Frigga continues to walk with her maidens.
* Jane Foster wakes from a rest in Asgard, and sits up. She then looks around her room.
* Foster pushes the rest of the covers off and stands up. She picks up her blue dress and heads out.
* Foster steps outside and looks over the majesty of Asgard.
* Thor finds Jane Foster roaming the streets, fascinated by everything she sees, in particular a floating, moving metal orb. Thor explains that to them, all it is a ball that children on the street are using for play.
* Thor explains to Foster that she may have found a point where the borders between worlds were blurred by the Convergence. They end up kissing, and Thor insists he will find a way to save her. They are interrupted by the arrival of Frigga, who Thor introduces.
* **Sacking of Asgard**:
	+ Inside the dungeons, Loki continues to toss a cup up and down. Algrim uses his newly gained strength to free the other prisoners, including Lorelei, who has been imprisoned for over 600 years. While Loki stays in his cell, he informs Algrim of the easiest route out of the dungeons. Malekith and the rest of the Dark Elves arrive in Asgard, and reuniting with Algrim they search for Jane Foster. Frigga hides Foster and makes a temporary duplicate of her. Malekith and Algrim confront Frigga in her chambers, but when they discover the duplicate of Foster is not real, they kill Frigga.
	+ Witnessing his mother's death, Thor strikes Malekith with a lightning bolt from Mjølnir, leaving a permanent scar on the right side of his face. The Dark Elves retreat, finding no trace of Foster.

#### 13th

* Late at night on Asgard, the Asgardians hold a funeral for all their fallen warriors. Thor asks Odin if he can get revenge on the Dark Elves for their attack. In deep sorrow for the loss of his wife, Odin refuses. Thor makes a plot against Odin's wishes with Heimdall, Sif, Volstagg, and Fandral to free Loki, who has knowledge of portals other than the Bifrost Bridge.
* In the afternoon in London, Erik Selvig explains the Convergence to the patients in his mental ward, one of whom is the Watcher Informant.
* The morning after the Sacking of Asgard and Frigga's death, the Asgardians discuss how best to recuperate and their next course of action.
* In London, Darcy Lewis tries to call S.H.I.E.L.D., but they do not return her call. She and Boothby then see the evening news about Selvig's arrest, and decide to get him out of his mental ward.
* Thor approaches Heimdall about a secret plan he wishes to enact to save Foster and Asgard. Heimdall agrees to help, and Thor makes plans with Sif and the Warriors Three.
* U.S. Military discover an alien vessel on Ellesmere Island.

#### 14th

* Thor frees Loki from the dungeons and takes him to a ship the Dark Elves left behind. Taking Jane Foster with them, they abandon the ship and transfer onto a flying boat steered by Fandral. While Fandral jumps off the boat to fend off a group of Asgardian soldiers, Thor, Loki, and Jane fly through the portal and arrive in Svartalfheim.
* Darcy Lewis and Ian Boothby get Erik Selvig out of the mental hospital so he can help them.
* **Second Battle of Svartalfheim**:
	+ Thor, Loki, and Jane devise a plan to make the Dark Elves think Loki will betray Thor. To gain the trust of the Elves, Loki uses magic to make them think he has stabbed Thor and cut his hand off.
	+ Malekith extracts the Aether from Jane, but while Thor tries to destroy the Aether by striking it with Mjølnir, it only reconstructs itself. Algrim stabs Loki in the chest, but he uses Algrim's own weapon to kill him. Loki survives the wound, but tricks Thor into thinking he is dead.
	+ Thor and Jane travel around Svartalfheim and enter a cave. In London, Richard Madison calls Jane, and oddly manages to get service. Foster answers the phone call and finds a portal in the cave, which takes them back to London.
* Thor and Foster regroup with Lewis, Boothby, and Selvig. They deduce that the area where the Convergence will take full effect is Greenwich, meaning it will also be the area where Malekith tries to plunge the Nine Realms into eternal darkness.
* In Svartalfheim, Loki finds a portal to Asgard and uses magic to trick Odin and claim the throne.

#### 15th

* **Battle of Greenwich**:
	+ Thor, Jane Foster, Darcy Lewis, Ian Boothby, and Erik Selvig put four sensors around Greenwich. Malekith and his army arrive in the city and begin their assault.
	+ Thor and Malekith fight, but constantly fall through portals to other realms. The Royal Air Force retaliate against the Dark Elves; two of their jets fly through a portal to Vanaheim, but eventually find their way back to Greenwich.
	+ During their battle, Thor and Malekith are briefly transported to Jotunheim, where a Frost Beast follows them and becomes stranded on Earth. Malekith and his ship are involuntarily teleported back to Svartalfheim, and the wreckage of the ship crushes him. With the battle won, Thor says his goodbyes and returns to Asgard with the Aether.

#### 17th

* Loki, disguised as Odin, tells Thor he did the right thing by disobeying him and offers him the throne of Asgard. Thor declines, preferring instead to stay on Earth with Jane Foster. The disguised Loki allows him go to Earth, leaving him with full control of Asgard.
* Sif and Volstagg go to the museum of the Collector and request he keep the Aether safe, explaining the Tesseract is already being stored on Asgard and it may be dangerous to keep two Infinity Stones together in one realm. He accepts, but unbeknownst to them he is secretly collecting the six Infinity Stones.
* **Skirmish at Conjunction's Casino**
	+ Gamora arrives at Conjunction's Casino for a meeting with the Collector, though she is first drawn into a brawl there.
	+ The Collector contacts Gamora, tasking her with finding the Orb.
* Thor and Jane Foster reunite at her team's apartment in London.

#### 23rd

* The NSA records Aquaman near the Tonga trench, where the Atlantean is found in the wreckage of a sunken ship. Curry attacks one UUV drone with his trident, while another drone records him swimming away at high speed, causing a sonic boom in his wake.

#### 24th

* **Kidnapping of Sana Amanat**: Captain America and Black Widow thwart the Cadre's kidnapping attempt on Professor Sana Amanat in Brooklyn. While there, Steve remembers growing up in the area.
* **Rescue at the Bright Aurora**: Superman saves a group of workers from a flaming *Bright Aurora*.

#### 26th

* Clark Kent gets a job as a busboy at a truck stop bar.
* Clark overhears a pair of soldiers talking about a discovery made on Ellesmere Island. At the same time one of the bar's patrons, a drunk trucker named Ludlow, begins harassing Clark's coworker, a waitress named Chrissy. Clark intervenes, asking him to leave, but Ludlow proceeds to throw an entire pitcher of beer into Clark's face. As Clark prepares to retaliate, Chrissy instead tells him that it wasn't worth the trouble. Agreeing, Clark begins to leave when Ludlow comments that he'd forgotten his 'tip', throwing a beer can at his back.
* While Ludlow is still drinking in the pub, Clark impales his rig on the logs it was carrying.

#### 28th

* Lois Lane arrives in a northern region in Canada to investigate a unique discovery that had been unearthed and is currently being kept under-wraps from the public by the military. Lois then meets with Colonel Hardy, Dr. Hamilton, and Officer Sedowsky, who inform her that a mysterious object buried deep within the ice is thousands of years old.
* Clark Kent discovers his heritage as Kal of the House of El.
* Lois Lane, while investigating the spaceship, is attacked and wounded by a Service robot. Clark Kent saves here and takes the spaceship away.

#### 29th

* Lois Lane is found by the US Army after her encounter with Clark.

#### 30th

* Editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet Perry White refuses to print Lois Lane's Arctic accounts, since the military and Pentagon itself were denying the story even occurred, and Lois has no solid proof.
* Lois, not wanting to drop the story of her alien rescuer, seeks out gossip journalist Glen Woodburn to spread the story all over the internet while she retraces the steps of her rescuer.

### December

#### 2nd

* The animated series *Rick and Morty* is first aired.

#### 10th

* Lois interviews Pete Ross, which leads her directly to Martha Kent, where she learns the name of her rescuer.
* Lois encounters Clark in the cemetery at the grave of his father, Jonathan Kent, and Clark tells her his story and why he doesn't want it to be told to the world. Lois comes to respect and admire Clark for what he's doing and, full of compassion for him, selflessly decides to drop the story.

#### 12th

* **Zod's message:** General Dru-Zod arrives on Earth and orders to Kal-El to surrender.

* Kal-El and Lois Lane are taken aboard a *Black Zero* dropship by Faora-Ul and presented to General Dru-Zod. The two have their minds probed before Zod and his forces head to Earth in search of the Growth codex growth.

#### 13th

* **Escape from Black Zero**: Superman and Lois Lane escape after inserting the command key into *Black Zero*.
* **Showdown in Smallville**: After attacking Martha Kent, Kal-E battles General Zod, Faora-Ul and Nam-Ek with intervention from the U.S. military before the hostile aliens retreat to their ship. Kal-El gains the trust of the military.

* **Black Zero Event**:
	+ General Dru-Zod attempts to terraform Earth into a new Krypton, but is stopped by Superman.
	+ Bruce Wayne watches the destruction of Metropolis as mankind is introduced to the Superman.
	+ Wallace Keefe loses his legs during the destruction of Metropolis.

* After realizing that the military is spying on him using drones, Superman grabs one and slams it into the ground in front of Swanwick's car before telling him to convince Washington D.C. to trust him and that he's on their side but on his own terms.

* *TIME* publishes an important article regarding the Kryptonian invasion.
	+ Freddy Freeman collects this *TIME* issue.