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

* In Washington D.C., Steve Rogers meets former soldier Sam Wilson on his morning jog. They 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 up and briefs him 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 discovers the Black Widow extracting data from the ship's computers, an element of the mission he was not informed about.

#### 9th

* At the Triskelion (S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters in Washington, D.C.), Steve Rogers confronts Nick Fury about keeping certain parts of the rescue mission secret from him. Fury shows him 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.
* 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, where he finds Fury sitting in his living room. Fury manages to tell Rogers that S.H.I.E.L.D. has been compromised and gives him 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 pursues the Winter Soldier, but fails 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.

#### 10th

* Believing Steve Rogers may be withholding information from S.H.I.E.L.D., Alexander Pierce questions him 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. 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**: On his way back to the hospital to retrieve the USB, Rogers is attacked by several STRIKE operatives in an elevator, but manages 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.
* 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. At an Apple computer store, 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, when he threatens Skye. Ward is taken into custody on the Bus.
* 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 including Alexander Pierce, Jasper Sitwell and Brock Rumlow are actually sleeper agents for HYDRA. The information on the USB is an algorithm Zola produced for Project Insight. Before Rogers and 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

* Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff 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.
* **Battle of Washington, D.C.**:
	+ The trio abduct Jasper Sitwell and interrogate 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, disguised as an escort, rescues Rogers, Romanoff, and Wilson, and takes 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.

#### 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 infiltrates the headquarters and reveals the nature of Project Insight and the HYDRA infiltration to everyone present.
	+ 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.
	+ 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.
* 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.
* **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..
* S.H.I.E.L.D is declared a terrorist organization by the United States government.
* Coulson's Team finds Providence and meets Eric Koenig.

#### 14th

* Ward goes after Koenig to kill him. He takes the Bus and Skye. The rest of the team learns Ward is HYDRA.
* Natasha Romanoff and Maria Hill go to government hearings about the downfall of S.H.I.E.L.D..

#### 15th

* Nick Fury talks to Captain America before leaving for Europe. Captain America and Falcon begin their search for the Winter Soldier.

* Skye confonts Ward, who explains that Garrett was a father figure to him, and his loyalty is to him.
* Phil Coulson rescues Skye using Lola.

#### 16th

* 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.

#### 17th

* 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.

#### 18th

* 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.

### April

#### 24th

* Moira Queen is killed by Slade Wilson on Lian Yu.

### 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.
	+ 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.

#### 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.

### 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.

### May

#### 30th

* Phil Coulson sends the group of mercenaries to Alexandria, Virginia to buy a file that contains information about the Obelisk.
* 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.

### September

#### 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.
* Skye tries to get information from Grant Ward. Ward tells her about HYDRA's protocol when it concerns the "gifted", which is to either recruit or kill them.

#### 20th

* Ward reveals to Skye that her father is still alive and he wants to meet with her.

### October

#### 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, Ayesha 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. Yondu uses the Yaka Arrow, controlled by his new fin, to kill all of the Ravagers. 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.

* 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. They discover hundreds of skeletal remains in the cave; the remains of Ego's children.
* 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. Ego reveals his master plan to Quill: he traveled 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. 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. Quill is hypnotised 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.
* **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.
* 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.

* 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.

### 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

### December

#### 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.