January 2015

Timeline

Jan 1 - Matt and Rachel celebrate the new year with a change in their relationship. Rogue posts a meme for New Year’s Day.

Jan 2 - Wade posts Rogue’s meme. Topaz threatens death to the person who made her sick.

Jan 3 - Clint emails Matt about his possible sex life. Cecilia announces her return from Puerto Rico and asks to be filled in on what she might have missed.

Jan 4 - When Miles returns to school after winter break, Gabriel confronts him about his secret nocturnal activities.

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Jan 6 - Wade texts Logan to invite him to play darts in the boathouse. Sue texts Tandy about having a shopping weekend to celebrate Tandy’s college acceptance. Cecilia makes a journal entry about having a quiet birthday at the mansion.

Jan 7 - Finding herself mostly alone at X-Factor Investigations, Adrienne talks to Jessica about coming to work there. Yvette makes a journal entry asking if anyone’s interested in assisting Red X with helping the homeless.

Jan 8 - Clarice makes a journal entry about it being David Bowie’s birthday. Rogue shares a list of resolutions for slobs.

Jan 9 - Laurie posts about making it to 2015, and having completed another year of med school, as well as plans for the coming year.

Jan 10 - Artie shares a link to some interactive digital projection dancing videos.

Jan 11 - Adri complains about the latest Hobbit movie which Tandy dragged her to go see.

Jan 12 - Gabriele emails Clint to get him to stop doing homework and pay attention to him.

Jan 13 - Rogue’s art class with Namor and Jessica turns into a fun mess. A Touch Of Brimstone: On Muir, Marius and John discover the island complex has been infiltrated by the Brotherhood of Mutants and raise the alarm; Cyclops alerts the team and sets the mansion on lockdown; Cyclops sets out the gameplan; Clint texts Gabriel, who is working, about the lockdown; Wade texts Clarice asking for details on the lockdown, and then texts X-Force to let them know what is going on; Laurie texts Doug to let him know she’s on a mission and then texts Wade to ask him to watch over Doug if something should happen to her; Nightcrawler takes a team into the sub-basements and they fight off the Brotherhood attempting to break into the safety bunker; Matt texts Wade from Muir; Cyclops’ team arrives at the front gates and take on the bulk of the Brotherhood there; Phoenix leads a smaller team to flank the Brotherhood at the front of the building; Polaris leads a team to the security and comms centre, only to discover multiple teleports incoming; following the Brotherhood, John discovers the Dark Riders are also on site, with a bomb; Polaris’ team is trapped in the comms centre by members of the former Preservers and Magnetic North, requiring an unusual exit through the ceiling; in the sub-basements, Nightcrawler’s team is ambushed by Tusk, Psynapse and Gauntlet of the Dark Riders, with Meltdown being killed, Wallflower losing an arm, Dust, Bevatron and Nightcrawler all injured before John comes in and gets them out via Blink, taking a shot himself; at the entrance to the facility, Cyclops and Phoenix’s teams are also ambushed, with Catseye and Penance being killed and Cyclops, Dominion, Wolverine, Firestar injured; Phoenix calls for the retreat as she goes after Magneto; on the roof, Cannonball and Daredevil are killed, while Roulette and Emplate avenge them by killing Foxbat and Barrage but are also severely injured, and Polaris holds off Magneto; Rogue and Phoenix arrive and Polaris takes Roulette and Emplate to the Blackbird; the Dark Rider’s bomb goes off and in the air above the ruins Jean manifests the Phoenix and kills Magneto and any remaining Brotherhood and Dark Riders; realising what she has done, Jean flees and disappears, leaving Rogue to meet with the Blackbird and tell them what happened.

Jan 14 - A Touch Of Brimstone: Jubilee threatens Kurt over text if he gets hurt on the mission, unaware of what’s already happened; Cecilia calls for more coffee in the medlab as she works on the injured; Wade lets Cecilia know he’s “borrowing” some Vicodin for Marie-Ange’s precognitive migraines; Adrienne texts Rogue and Jessica, needing to work so she doesn’t think about what happened or Garrison’s condition; Rogue updates everyone on the situation on x_journal; Topaz asks Tandy for movie time; Wade asks Marie-Ange for someone to kill in the wake of hearing about Matt; Rogue invites Jessica over for a slumber party; Jessica lets Adrienne know she’s up for company at X-Factor; Clint tells Gabriel that Matt is dead; Arthur asks Cecilia and Wade if there’s anything he can do to help; Namor lets Scott know his father is insisting on his return to Attilan and asks for something to do instead of going; Arthur emails Jennie and Wanda to let them know he’s had a string of bad luck which might mean something bad; Tandy lets Sue and Julian know what she’s doing (watching movies with Topaz and trying to process Matt’s death); Angel leaves a voicemail with her father apologising for a missed interview and asking him not to ask questions; Amanda asks X-Force when they’re deploying to address the Muir incident; Julian, rather abruptly, texts Rogue to demand what happened; Angelo posts in memoriam of those killed, including his mother who was visiting Muir; Angel texts Sooraya to seek company; Lorna lets everyone know she’s not up for cooking for a while and that there are leftovers and pizza; Rogue counsels a distraught Miles; Cecilia posts an update on x_medical for the medlab staff; Molly sends a text to Matt, even though he’s gone; Wade asks Molly what he can do to help her and she asks for Batman; Arthur sets up a TV night, and he and Wade clash about what to put on; Rogue asks Logan to come join in the TV night; Wade texts Adrienne about wanting to kill those responsible for Muir; Arthur texts Marie-Ange asking her to deal with her boyfriend’s disruption; Wade texts Arthur and the two of them agree to put aside their issues for the kids. Fires From the Ashes Senior members of X-Force and the X-Men gather to discuss the fallout from the attack on Muir and plan their next moves. Wanda emails Arthur asking for his help with the situations.

Jan 15 - A Touch Of Brimstone: Late at night, Hope asks Topaz if she can join in the TV night; Cecilia sends Wade a YouTube link to distract him; Logan suggests to Wade that they go to Harry’s and attempt to get drunk; in the morning, Jennie texts Wade about how Matt died and what happened to his killers; an extremely high Laurie posts to the journals about her missing arm and Tabitha’s death. Fires From The Ashes: Angelo leads a team made up of Hope, North, Cecelia and Jessica to Africa to investigate the last previous location of the Dark Riders. Doug, Sarah, Namor, Sue and Gabriel perform information gathering, hacking and calling people from the brownstone to figure out what’s happening. Emma, Wanda, Adrienne, Amanda, Topaz and Billy head to the Hellfire Club’s archives in London to find out about En-Sabah-Nur. Ororo, Marie-Ange, Callisto, Wade, Rachel and Cammie head to Africa to locate Apocalypse’s base. Remy, Artie, Jubilee, Arthur hunt for information about Apocalypse in Cairo. Adrienne texts Tandy and Rogue to tell them that she had been dragged off to London and telling them they could have her stuff if she didn’t make it back. Namor texts Clint to let him know that he skipped out on his plane home and got shanghaied into helping Doug search for information. Clint texts Gabriel teasing him about hacking with Namor.

Jan 16 - A Touch Of Brimstone: A delayed-mailed post from Tabitha shows up on the X-Men comm. Fires From The Ashes: Wade contacts Weasel warning him that if he doesn’t hear from Wade to clean out some accounts and run. Wade emails Cecelia warning her that if anything happens he has a safety net in place to let her escape and take people with her while she does. Doug and Wade exchange texts asking for help if the other one were to die. Wade texts Scott asking if there was anything new to hear about Jean. Arthur posts multiple twitter posts to a locked account letting people keep up on his adventures in spying. Jubilee texts Arthur, not pleased with his tweeting at all. Amanda confirms for Remy that Apocalypse is on the move in one of the Pheonix sites in India. Remy and his team track Apocalypse to India and stumble across the Phoenix, barely escaping moments before she destroys the city. Angelo and his team engage in combat with alternate versions of themselves dressed like they came from the 80s, they beat them but Cecelia is hurt during the fight. Doug’s team is attacked by Nazi imposters of themselves and barely manage to defeat them. Emma’s team run into demonic versions of themselves, they make it through though significantly worse for wear. Ororo’s team faces off against cyborg versions of themselves, and have a brush with an illusion of Lady Death. Lilandra sends Charles an email demanding that Jean Grey be turned over to the Imperial Guard for trial and severing all ties with the X-men. The Professor asks Paige to build him a suppressor which could be used to contain Jean’s powers. Topaz sends Taboo a message telling him she can’t forget what he did but she forgives him. Longshot posts a picture he took of someone who looks like Jean just before she wiped out Visakhapatnam. Wade sends Marie-Ange a text saying he saw Longshot’s twitter and is willing to take down Jean if they can find her. Rogue texts Logan, Jessica and Adrienne admitting she’s scared and asking them if they’re all ok.

Jan 17 - Fires From The Ashes: Adrienne sends Garrison an email telling him she loves him; Doug tests Wade asking him what’s up with all the dopplegangers floating around at the moment; Jubilee complains about feeling like she was hit by a truck and asks about what’s to be done about Jean - or maybe her doppleganger; in medlab, this time as a patient, Cecilia reflects on Amelia’s bedside manner. The Trial of Jean Grey: Namor lets his friends know he didn’t take the flight back to Attilan as expected and instead is on his way to help with the search for Jean.

Jan 18 - The Trial of Jean Grey: Paige, Sue and Sarah V. finish work on the psionic suppressor for Jean; on the Atlantic, Emma, Haller and Rachel use their telepathy to try and locate Jean; Jean is located at the bottom of the ocean, and Rogue, Pixie, Julian, Namor, Lorna and Clarice bring her to the surface; the Imperial Guard arrives and demands Jean be released into their custody for the destruction of Visakhapatnam; the team resists and in the ensuing fight, Namor is killed by Starbolt and Jean surrenders to avoid any further casualties on her behalf; back at the mansion, the various team leaders discuss what to do and the decision is made to retrieve Jean; Julian says goodbye to Tandy before he leaves for India with the rest of the rescue team; Rogue lets people know she’s still available to talk about things, although her phone was fried during the fight with the Guard.

Jan 19 - The Trial of Jean Grey: Scott lets everyone know about Namor; Scott emails Lorna to check on her after the disastrous mission to find Jean; Tandy texts Adrienne, who is on her way to India as well;

Jan 20 -

PHASE 2 BEGINS

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Jan 22 -

Plots

A Touch Of Brimstone

Fires From The Ashes

The Trial of Jean Grey

Reality Comes Down

The Dark Phoenix

External Links

January 2015