2000s

1st

 * New Years Day comes, and the distraught Aldrich Killian is still waiting for Tony Stark on the building's roof. Seeing the New Year's celebrations below inspires him to continue his work without Tony. That morning, Maya Hansen wakes up to find Tony has discreetly left her.

3rd

 * Aldrich Killian accepts Maya Hansen into A.I.M., and they continue to develop the Extremis virus.

13th

 * After the 9/11 attacks, Thaddeus Ross convinces the US Military to revive the Bio Force Enhancement Project, based on Project Rebirth in World War II. Bruce Banner joins the group at Culver University at the insistence of his girlfriend Betty Ross. Thaddeus lies to the scientists on the project, claiming their work will help protect soldiers from depleted uranium.

28th

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. sends Agent Phil Coulson on a mission in Peru.

29th

 * In Peru, Coulson meets Camilla Reyes, with whom he had a romantic relationship.

12th

 * Under the threat of funding cuts, Bruce Banner tests the Bio Force Enhancement process on himself, but the combination of Gamma radiation and the serum Betty Ross developed results in the accident that turns him into the Hulk. Gamma pulses stored in Bruce’s brain’s Amygdala and released during high stress moments trigger each transformation. Betty is injured and hospitalized, and Bruce goes on the run. The Military closes the lab building for a year and shuts down the Bio Tech Force Enhancement project. Thaddeus Ross keeps some project data, while Betty also secretly holds onto data and remains at Culver University. Angered by her father's treatment of Bruce, Betty stops talking to him.

7th

 * Bruce Banner tries to contact Betty Ross, but the e-mail is intercepted by the Military and she never receives it. He travels through the Dakotas.

27th

 * Bruce Banner is spotted via satellite Recon photo in Canada.

28th

 * The Hulk is sighted by locals, who mistake him for a "green Sasquatch".

14th

 * Akela Amador and two other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents conduct a raid to one of Vanchat's gulags. The agents are murdered and Amador is captured, spending four years in a cage.

17th

 * Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. sends a second team to the gulag raided by Akela Amador's team. they find several corpses, but do not locate Amador.

21st

 * The last sighting of Bruce Banner for at least five months.

31st

 * Aldrich Killian injects himself with Extremis, which heals his disabilities and enables him to walk without a cane.

14th

 * Aldrich Killian finds candidates for his Extremis program, including Ellen Brandt, Chad Davis, Eric Savin, and Jack Taggert, all of whom were in the United States Army and suffered serious injuries.

19th

 * The candidates are given Extremis. Some of them do not survive, and their bodies explode. The successful subjects heal from their injuries and regrow lost limbs.

3rd

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. is brought in to help Thaddeus Ross, and continue helping him until 2012. Stark Industries sells him Jeep-mounted sonic cannons.

13th

 * The Military loses Bruce Banner in the Arctic Circle.

4th

 * Bruce Banner is spotted in Rome, Italy.

12th

 * Chad Davis explodes from an Extremis malfunction in Rose Hill, Tennessee. Five other people are killed in the explosion.

8th

 * Grant Ward serves in the South Ossetia war and makes several contacts.