Guardians of the Galaxy

"You can call the Guardians whatever you want to. But to the rest of the galaxy, all the people we've helped crawl out from under you and crap like you...the Guardians are the good guys. Not to brag, but we actually go out of our way to help people. We help people who can't help themselves."

- Star-Lord

The Guardians of the Galaxy are a group of various superheroes from across the galaxy that had formed together to stop the Phalanx Conquest of the Kree system. After the initial conflict was over, on the recommendation of their ally Nova, Star-Lord agreed to lead the team during any future conflicts that threatened the entire galaxy. The group set up base on Knowhere, working alongside head of security Cosmo the telekinetic Russian space dog.

The team was first official mission as a team was when they encountered an out-of-time Vance Astrovik, also known as Major Victory, while they were investigating Universal Church of Truth. Despite the success of the mission, the teammates found they couldn't trust each other enough and agreed to work on seperate missions.

While others went to investigate further calls for help, Rocket began recruiting for the team, letting Bug, Groot, Mantis, and Major Victory join the team. Elsewhere, Star-Lord managed to work alongside Jack Flag and contacted the Guardians to defend Earth from Blastaar's attempted invasion through the Negative Zone.

Elsewhere, Drax the Destroyer and Quasar began searching for Drax's missing friend. They found a seer who told them about the impending War of Kings before telling them he knew Heather was at Oblivion.

They traveled to Oblivion, where Drax noticed Phyla was missing her Quantum Bands and believed they may have died. In their confusion, they were quickly ambushed by Maelstrom and Phyla was fed to the Dragon of the Moon. As Drax continued to fight Maelstrom and prevent being the next meal, Wendell Vaughn came to his rescue just as Phyla burst out of the Dragon's belly with a newly resurrected Moondragon. Later it would be revealed that Phyla made a deal with Death while in the belly of the beast that she would become the new avatar of Death if Moondragon could return with her.

They went back to Knowhere, reuniting as one big team and preparing for the coming war between the Shi'ar Empire, with their new Emperor Vulcan, and the Kree, now led by the Inhumans and their King Black Bolt.