2018/Zombie Outbreak

## Timeline

### Current

2018

*"Like too many great catastrophes, this one sprang from a place of love and hope. Two weeks earlier, Dr. Hank Pym journeyed into the Quantum Realm, searching for his long-lost wife. But in this universe, Janet van Dyne contracted a quantum virus that corrupted her brain. So when she finally reunited with her husband after 30 long years... Oof. That happened."*
―The Watcher[src]
This is a timeline of events that occurred in **2018** in a reality where Janet Van Dyne's rescue brought a zombie virus which doomed the Earth.

## 2018

### May

#### 16th

* **Rescue of Janet van Dyne**:
	+ Hank Pym enters the Quantum Realm and finds his long-lost wife, Janet van Dyne, who had been trapped there for thirty years. He sees van Dyne and realizes that she had been infected by a Quantum Virus, which turned her into a zombie. van Dyne infects Pym.
	+ van Dyne and Pym return to Earth, where Scott Lang and Hope van Dyne await Janet's return. Pym and Janet jump out of the Quantum Vehicle and lunge toward Hope, who flies away. They attack Lang, turning him into a zombie.

#### 17th

* In under twenty-four hours, the zombie contagion spreads across the Pacific Northwest.
* **Attack on San Francisco**:
	+ The Avengers arrive at San Francisco to eliminate the zombies who are infected with the virus. However, the zombified Hank Pym infects Captain America before the other zombies proceed to infect the rest of the Avengers.
	+ Wanda Maximoff becomes infected with the quantum virus.
* Vision realizes that the zombies have an aversion to the Mind Stone. He takes T'Challa, Maximoff, and Scott Lang to Camp Lehigh, trying to find a cure. He keeps T'Challa alive to feed Maximoff.

#### 23rd

* Experimenting with finding a cure for zombies, Vision successfully cures Scott Lang of his infection.
* Vision takes his cure to Wanda Maximoff, but realizes that her powers are too strong for the treatment to work. He resolves to continue feeding T'Challa to Maximoff and keep her contained. He sends out a distress beacon, hoping to lure people to the base so that Maximoff can eat.

#### 26th

* Survivors respond to a distress beacon at Camp Lehigh. Vision feeds them to Wanda Maximoff.

#### 30th

* Bruce Banner is transported through the Bifrost to Earth to warn the Avengers about the coming threat of Thanos, who intends to recover all of the Infinity Stones to perform the Snap.
* Banner crashes into the New York Sanctum and states his warning. He stands up and realizes that no one is there. The Cloak of Levitation watches him as he asks out loud for clothes.
* After changing clothes, Banner goes outside and finds the streets deserted. He becomes worried that he arrived too late.
* **Attack on Greenwich Village**:
	+ Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian, members of Thanos' Black Order, arrive on Earth. Banner attempts to transform into the Hulk, but cannot as Maw announces his intentions to kill Banner. Hulk refuses to transform, confusing Banner.
	+ While Maw continues talking, a portal opens behind him, as Tony Stark blasts him with his repulsor beam, causing Maw to fall on the ground. He comes through a portal with Doctor Strange and Wong, and Banner celebrates his friend's arrival.
	+ Banner watches as Stark, Strange, and Wong engage Maw and Obsidian and cheers them on, but the fight starts to turn violent as Stark, Strange and Wong begin eating Maw and Obsidian. Banner comments on it being a bit much.
	+ Stark stands up and turns around, revealing to Banner that he had been turned into a zombie, scaring Banner. Strange, Wong, Maw, and Obsidian rise in their newly zombified form. While Stark prepares to attack Banner, the Cloak of Levitation wraps itself around Stark's leg and throws him into Maw.
	+ Strange begins to cast a spell, but the cloak stops him as Banner tries to flee. Wong opens a portal in front of Banner, who falls backwards and screams for Wong not to eat him. Wong lunges at Banner, but is stopped by the cloak. The portal closes around Wong's head killing him.
	+ While Stark tries to destroy the cloak, Maw uses his telekineses to bring Banner toward them. Stark, Maw, and Obsidian begin walking toward him, while Banner pleads with them not to eat him. The zombies suddenly get attacked by ants, which Banner finds disgusting.
	+ Hope van Dyne appears and kills Stark, while an enlarged ant eats his head. van Dyne tells Banner to run, and that she and her group are all that is left. Peter Parker then arrives and takes Banner away. Banner asks what happened.
* Parker shows Banner his orientation video. Okoye cuts them off and introduces herself to Banner, saying that T'Challa went missing weeks prior, but that they now have hope since a beacon came through.
* Okoye reveals that another survivor camp claims to have made a cure for zombies. Although Parker is happy, Bucky Barnes points out that the beacon was corrupted and they do not know where it was from. However, Banner recognizes the code, and Sharon Carter realizes that the code came from Camp Lehigh. Okoye resolves to leave at sundown.
* Happy Hogan drives the survivor group to Grand Central Terminal, when they are approached by a zombie. Hogan enlarges their truck and destroys the zombie as they arrive.
* The group enter the station, and Okoye orders Banner and Hope van Dyne to try and hot-wire a train, and Kurt Goreshter offers to go. Parker is hesitant to split up, but they do anyway while Okoye, Carter, Hogan, and Barnes guard the perimeter.
* Banner, van Dyne, Goreshter, and Parker struggle to get the train working, and van Dyne attempts to start the engine from the inside.
* van Dyne works on the engine, noting that the spark ignition will not fire and that they need a push. Goreshter asks Banner if Hulk can help, but Banner says that it is not possible. van Dyne says that they would need a giant slingshot, so Parker says that he has an idea and to engage the brake lock.
* Parker attaches his webs to the back of the train and pulls back on them.
* **Ambush at the Grand Central Terminal**:
	+ While patrolling, Hogan and Carter suddenly encounter a group of birds, which Hogan attacks with his Iron Man Gauntlet. Hogan is suddenly hit with an arrow and pulled back, where he tries to attack the zombies unsuccessfully. Carter reports on Hogan's loss, upsetting Parker. Carter is suddenly shot with an arrow as Clint Barton appears, and Carter tells the rest of the group. Wilson flies toward Okoye and Barnes. Okoye jumps on top of Wilson while Barnes aims a gun at him.
	+ A zombifed Sam Wilson enters the station above Okoye and Barnes, while Carter is approached by zombies, including Hogan. She reaches for her gun but cannot reach it. She is nearly hit by a repulsor blast from Hogan twice.
	+ Okoye flies on top of Wilson, struggling against the zombie. She is nearly hit by the second floor, but flips off of Wilson onto the floor, as Barnes fires at Wilson.
	+ Parker pulls the train back.
	+ Hogan holds his gauntlet to Carter's face. Carter apologizes and turns the gauntlet around, causing the zombie to kill himself. She is nearly hit by another arrow as more zombies approach her. She pulls an arrow out of her chest as Barton prepares another shot.
	+ Wilson lunges at Barnes, but Okoye jumps in and cuts him in half. Okoye apologizes for killing Barnes' friend, but Barnes says that while he should be sad, he is not. Okoye and Barnes start running.
	+ Carter takes Hogan's gauntlet and flees the zombies.
	+ Parker continues to pull the train back and says that he has enough thrust. He asks the group to tell him when they are ready. Parker is suddenly approached by a group of zombies, frightening him as the Cloak of Levitation appears and attacks the zombies.
	+ Banner cheers for the cloak, when a zombie's hand breaks through the window. Banner grabs it and van Dyne punches the zombie, flying out to fight. She destroys several zombies while Goreshter comments that she is remarkable. She destroys more zombies and tells Barnes, Okoye, and Carter that the train is ready. Barnes reports that they are on their way.
	+ They reach the train, where they see more zombies, which Carter hits with her gauntlet. They rush onto the train and disengage the brake, allowing the train to push forward.
	+ Parker falls backwards and becomes surrounded by zombies. He is picked up by the cloak and brought onto the train, which runs over all the zombies in their path. Banner is satisfied that they have succeeded and are going to Camp Lehigh. The train leaves the station.
* Parker rejoins the group, wearing the cloak, and van Dyne compliments it. Okoye apologizes and says that the group should have stayed together.
* **Attack on the Escape Train**:
	+ Carter looks out the back of the train and prepares to rejoin the group, when she hears someone walking on top of the train. She prepares to fight as they crash through the ceiling. Carter blasts the zombie, but gets infected and screams, and is heard by Barnes, who rushes after her.
	+ Barnes rushes out and sees that the zombie who attacked her was Steve Rogers, who stands up and stares Barnes down before attacking him. Barnes kicks Rogers away and is approached by a zombified Carter, who Barnes pushes away. van Dyne joins the fight and flies into Carter's mouth.
	+ Rogers throws his shield at Barnes, but Barnes catches it and throws it back, cutting Rogers in half. Rogers falls off the train and apologizes to his former best friend, taking the shield. He turns and sees Carter, who suddenly explodes as van Dyne enlarges inside of her.
* van Dyne is grossed out, and Okoye mentions that Parker has hand sanitizer. Banner and Goreshter rush in, and Banner notices that she had an open cut when she entered Carter, which would lead to her getting infected.
* Banner asseses van Dyne's health, van Dyne asks them to kill her, but Okoye says that they could be minutes away from a cure, and Parker agrees.
* van Dyne asks how he stays upbeat, and Parker says that it was from practice. He says that he has lost a lot, but that his aunt always said that if they do not keep smiling, then they might as well be gone as well. Parker says that they would want them to keep going, and Banner and van Dyne smile at him.
* Goreshter tells everyone that the train has run out of fuel, Goreshter says that they will have to walk through a horde of zombies to get there. Okoye realizes that they cannot make it through them, but van Dyne says that she can bring them over the horde, blaming herself for the outbreak. Banner attempts to say it was not her fault, but van Dyne disagrees and is determined to help them finish it.
* The train is attacked by zombies as van Dyne enlarges herself, carring her friends through the horde as the sun sets. She places the survivors safely on the ground and is attacked by zombies. She asks Parker to smile for her as a zombie punches her helmet and breaks through. van Dyne falls over as the group watches and bow their heads.
* Barnes notices that the zombies are not climbing the fence into the camp, and Parker notices that they are not entering the camp at an opening of the camp. Vision approaches the group and realizes that the Mind Stone has helped Vision keep the zombies at bay. They enter the camp as Vision explains that the stone emits a frequency that they do not like. Vision explains that he experimented on whether he could use the stone to reverse a zombie infection. Okoye asks if he was successful, when Scott Lang announces himself, revealing that only his head is still alive.
* Parker realizes that he could cure others using a satellite, Vision claims that is beyond human capability. Okoye says that Wakandan technology could help, and that their forcefields kept the zombies at bay. Barnes begins searching the base for transport to Wakanda, but Vision insists that he will not find what he is looking for. Barnes searches anyway, using a flashlight to navigate.
* Banner looks at the security logs and notes that they are not the first survivors to respond to Vision's signal. Parker asks where the other survivors are, and Vision glares at them.
* Barnes looks around, and notices a pile of clothes. He sees Wanda Maximoff behind glass and fires, but T'Challa tells him to stop at risk of angering her. T'Challa and Barnes reunite, and Barnes sees that T'Challa is missing a leg. Barnes asks who hurt him, and T'Challa says that they have to run. They walk away as Maximoff watches and breaks the glass holding her.
* Vision apologizes to Banner, who asks what the place is. T'Challa reveals that it is a trap, and that Vision had been keeping him alive to feed Maximoff. Vision says that his actions were born of logic, and that her powers are too strong to cure her, and that the only course of action to treat her, since he cannot bring himself to kill her.
* **Battle of Camp Lehigh**:
	+ Banner scolds Vision for his actions, and Okoye prepares to attack Vision, when Maximoff arrives, hungry. He pulls Goreshter towards her and approaches the rest of the group. Barnes starts firing at her, but she throws a door at him. The door hits Lang's chair causing his head to nearly fall, but the Cloak of Levitation catches him.
	+ Parker shoots webs at Maximoff while Vision helps them to escape. Okoye throws her spear at Maximoff, who lets out of burst of magic, capturing Okoye, who is pulled back by Maximoff. Vision blasts a hole in the base which the survivors flee through, before Vision collapses the building, telling the group to rush toward the Quadjet.
	+ Wanting to atone without leaving Maximoff, Vision rips the Mind Stone out of his forehead, allowing the zombies to enter the camp as Banner picks it up and Maximoff recovers.
	+ Barnes aims his weapon at Maximoff and tells them to run. Maximoff kneels over Vision's corpse while Barnes fires at her. She stops the bullets and returns them to Barnes, who blocks them with Captain America's Shield.
	+ As the remaining survivors rush toward the Quadjet, Maximoff lifts Barnes into the air and launches him backwards. She turns her attention to the survivors and bites Banner's arm, but the Hulk protects him. T'Challa starts the plane, and Parker asks if he can fly it.
	+ Banner says that he can buy them time, as Parker begs him to stay. Banner hands him the mind stone and tells him to avenge them, leaving the plane.
	+ Banner approaches the zombies and asks Hulk to come out. The plane fails to launch as Banner is overrun by zombies. However, Hulk suddenly comes out and pushes the zombies away. Hulk and Maximoff fight each other while the plane successfully takes off.
	+ Lang celebrates their escape, but is interupted by van Dyne, now a zombie, grabbing the plane. T'Challa fires the Quadjet's thrusters, forcing van Dyne to let go. Lang mourns van Dyne as she angrily throws a zombie at the jet. The zombie hits the wing and falls off.
* Parker extends his condolences to Lang, saying that van Dyne gave her life to help them find a cure. Lang says that that is the second time she saved him.

#### 31st

* Peter Parker wakes up en route to Wakanda, and T'Challa says that they will arrive in twenty minutes. Scott Lang expresses confidence that they have won, but is disheartened when the others do not appear to be as excited.
* T'Challa, attempting to lift Parker's spirits, tells him that death isn't the end in the Wakandan culture. Parker says that once they get the Mind Stone to Wakanda, they will save the world.
* **Infinity War**:
	+ In Wakanda, a group of zombies struggle to pass the forcefield. A now zombified Thanos stands with other zombies, lifting his nearly-completed Infinity Gauntlet.

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 1.44 1.45 1.46 1.47 1.48 1.49 1.50 1.51 1.52 1.53 1.54 1.55 1.56 1.57 1.58 1.59 1.60 1.61 1.62 *What If...?: 1.05: What If... Zombies!?*
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 2.39 2.40 2.41 2.42 2.43 2.44 2.45 2.46 2.47 2.48 2.49 2.50 2.51 2.52 2.53 2.54 2.55 2.56 2.57 2.58 2.59 In *What If... Zombies!?*, says that Janet van Dyne was rescued "Two weeks earlier" from Bruce Banner's arrival on Earth. It can therefore be taken that Banner's arrival, which was unaffected by van Dyne's rescue, occurred on the same day as in the main *MCU* timeline, May 31, 2018 (see 2018 references), and that van Dyne was rescued later than in the main timeline, two weeks before on approximately May 16, 2018.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 In *What If... Zombies!?*, it is revealed that Vision successfully cured Scott Lang and attempted to cure Wanda Maximoff. This can be taken to have happened between Maximoff's infection on May 17, 2018 (see other references) and the sending out of Vision's distress beacon on May 30, 2018 (see other references), and can therefore be approximated to May 23, 2018.
4. ↑ In *What If... Zombies!?*, Vision says on May 30, 2018 (see other references) that Wanda Maximoff "hasn't eaten in days." This would refer to at least two days prior, and at most six before it becomes "a week." Maximoff can therefore be taken to have eaten somewhere in the midpoint, four days prior, so approximately May 26, 2018.