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August 17

PHASE 1

2003:

2004: Angelo returns from his mother's house. Trojan Horse: Amanda tries and fails to find Nathan with the location spell; Nathan manages to escape for a brief time and calls Moira; during the reconditioning, the Askani are shunted into Manuel and Moira.

2006: Angelica meets Forge, then Julio. Worlds On Fire: The Snow Valley team investigates strange happenings in South America.

2007: Alexander's Wall: Haller and Nate arrive in Dagestan and reflect on their purpose there. Forge has breakfast with Marie-Ange and Doug the day after Mark's birthday and takes some of the teasing about his lack of a romantic life too seriously.

2008: Nathan wakes up. Red X Mission: Shake Hands With The Devil: James Hudson notifies Charles the Red X team are on their way home.

2009: Jeanne-Marie meets Cyndi by the lake and things get extremely awkward between the two DID patients; later, Jim emails Jeanne-Marie to apologise for his alter. Johnny announces he and Vic are both sick. Jean-Paul posts The Love Eaters, an unusual comic, while considering the pros and cons of teaching graphic novels in his Lit class. House of Wolves: Exploring the museum at night, Wanda and Illyana discover Agatha has been hiding a large number of magical artifacts in the museum; Mark and Jake examine the security tapes, but catch sight of something heading Wanda and Illyana's way; Ian McNee, fleeing for his life, runs into Wanda; after battling the shadow wolf and barely surviving, the group sees it turn into their various worse fears before becoming a young man marked with the same symbol seen in the sewers and in Africa; comforting each other later, Wanda and Jake wind up having sex. Jean-Phillipe asks for those taking the French class to see him for placement tests.

2010: Jean-Paul seeks out Jean to talk about her letting Kevin know Jean-Paul had left, and winds up with a broken nose as they talk in circles; it clears the air somewhat.

2011: Yvette makes a journal entry about university starting in two weeks' time, and asks if there's any interest in having an end of summer BBQ. Sing Me A Prayer: The team moves onward to Jerusalem in their search, where chaos breaks out, leading to a rescue and a warning. A jogging Wade and a gardening Adrienne meet, and the latter becomes convinced that the former is mad. Jean texts Adrienne about ambushing Warren in Vanessa's apartment. Callie posts about the joys of adulthood and independence, and eating cake in one's underwear.

2012: Nico posts expressing her lack of productivity. Clarice posts to advise never to fall asleep while watching a Jay & Silent Bob marathon. Tandy emails Dori informing her that WoW: Mists of Pandaria has been released at Gamescon. A Kind of Magic: Wade posts that he is witnessing a strange phenomenon at Union Station where Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’ is being played over the PA system on repeat; later, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority apologises for the ‘technical difficulties’.

2013: Callie announces on x_grads she and Yvette will be having a joint 21st birthday celebration at Harry’s. No Way Back: Hope has a tense dinner with her parents. As Dori massages Kyle’s back, he lets slip with the “L” word for the first time. Jubilee gives Marie-Ange an early birthday gift of crocheted minions.

2014: Hope gets an email from Amy Wright telling her about a forum discussing how politics and sociology and philosophy relate to mutants, run by a group called Foundation for Genetic Harmony. Adrienne and Sue discuss the events of Europe. Fury Said To A Mouse: Garrison gets a call from Heather Hudson and offers to send an X-Men team to Slorenia to investigate Slorenian military intervention in a supposed accident at a lab where Lionel Jeffries was working as a scientific mercenary developing a new skin graft; the team arrives in Slorenia and finds a massacre in the town so they break up into groups to search the lab and the town’s outskirts; Fred, Lorna, and Clarice search for survivors in the town; Scott, Jean, Marius, and Garrison find out that the skin-graft is being marketed as a weapon and is called The Fury before Jean alerts them to something wrong outside; after searching their side of the town Yvette, Tabitha, and Angel encounter The Fury, a cybiote, and the rest of the team joins them to battle it, some getting seriously injured before Fred collapses a building on it; everyone regroups after the battle and develop a plan to take down The Fury; Scott and Jean have a snuggle before the battle and Scott convinces Jean to use him as a filter for everyone’s thoughts so she won’t get overwhelmed coordinating the battle; when The Fury has been reactivated Lorna, Tabitha, and Angel lead it to a quarry where the rest of the team is waiting to ambush it; while Fred, Yvette, and Garrison are slicing The Fury apart Clarice transports the pieces to Marius who searches for the piece they need to defeat it; Marius makes sure The Fury can no longer heal so Fred, Yvette, and Garrison can take it apart and then Angel, Lorna, and Tabitha use their energies and flames to make sure it’s destroyed; after the battle Jean and Marius treat the wounded.

PHASE 2