Template:Selected anniversaries/January 7
January 7
2016: Arthur leaves Cecilia a birthday present in the medlab; Cecilia thanks Arthur for his gift and for the luck. Something Slender This Way Comes: A ten year old goes missing in New York. Miles and Jean catch up and realize they have a lot in common - such as being huge nerds.
2017: Quentin and Nica attend a pro-mutant rally and differ over their personal ethics about powers use.
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2020: Jean-Phillipe is shocked that he missed his first favorite time of year, Miss Universe 2019.
2021: Marie-Ange emails Doug and Fourteen about similarities between Fourteen’s medication issues and Manuel’s.
2022: Marie-Ange asks on her journal about who might have changed her ringtone to “We don’t talk about Bruno”. Jean and Sooraya run into a problem while volunteering at a homeless shelter in District X.
2023: Illyana reaches out to Clint to learn more about the portal. April finds Forge after a meeting in his lab and things take a pleasant turn. Alani texts Sooraya to ask her to brunch the next day. Terry texts Pyotr to ask for him to play enforcer again.
2024: Behold A Pale Horse: Scott makes an all call to X-Men available to head to France; the X-Men arrive at the Fête des Mutantes in France only to discover that their fears were correct and it is a target; Blink and Echo engage the attacker to find out it’s Wade Wilson, now Deadpool; Rogue and Spectrum take over for Blink and Echo, engaging Deadpool to keep him away from the fleeing festival participants; the Marauders then arrive just as things with Deadpool are meeting a head; Phoenix and Cyclops meet the Marauders head on as a three sided fight erupts; Bevatron and Dazzler take the next wave of Marauders, hampered by Deadpool’s continued interventions; Dust moves to support the injured Echo, but ends up on the receiving end of attacks by Greycrow, Vertigo and Deadpool; Dazzler, Spectrum and Blink face a barrage from the Marauders and Deadpool and respond in kind; Malice and Deadpool continue to fight, and he reveals that he is not the Death they are looking for; Phoenix and Rogue move to neutralize Malice; Dust and Cyclops finish off the last of the Marauders and start to come to some unsettling conclusions; the X-Men retire from the massacre, only to realize that this was not the main fight after all; Dominion texts X-Force asking if they have assets in District X and makes a general alert to all members of the mansion to head to District X to help evacuate civilians and contain the threat; in a besieged District X, Tarot takes command on the ground, coordinating with Dominion while Illyana ferries all hands available from the mansion; Angelo and Inez find themselves escorting a mutant youth group to safety; Rictor and Shatterstar team up together, covering the escape route for the youth group; Matt posts from the basement of the Chapel on wormhole duty, requesting non-combatants come there for shelter; Sam texts Paige and Jay to ask them to stay at the mansion; Conduit sends Tarot a text about possibly spotting Death; Clint texts Sam to ask him to be careful; Tarot sends an all text about Death, asking for info; Conduit sets up as a rooftop sniper; Death enters the battle for the first time, facing Velocidad and Molly; after Velocidad and Molly distract Death, he runs across Arthur as well as the mansion’s newest resident, Hope S.; in search of a safe space, Liam gets drawn into action and becomes Conduit’s spotter; Terry, Sam and Meggan look to help the wounded and trapped in District X; Sue and Madin provide a crowd of Akkaba loyalists with an astonishingly bad day; Conduit and the rest of the eyes in the sky continue to direct resources around the scene; Death faces the Scarlet Witch, Topaz and seemingly the city itself. Thanks to her powers, Trance and Facade are able to do something no one ever had: ambush Death; Cypher and Changeling support the spotting efforts, with Changeling employing his decades of experience as a sniper against their foes. Liam alerts Conduit to a certain feline getting into trouble; despite the momentary respite, Sharon finds herself in a dire situation, where only luck can save her; Warren and Bobbi help evacuate residents of District X to varying degrees of frustration and gratefulness; Death’s race with Nightcrawler turns out to be a ruse to lure him to Jubilee and Daytripper; Wildchild, Nightcrawler and Mayhem are able to bring Death to a halt, but not to put him down, as he initiates his final attack;. Warren texts Tarot about Death standing in the centre of the park unleashing some kind of energy; an all-call alert is sent by Tarot to evacuate everyone; as Death deploys his avatar powers, ready to claim not just District X but the heart of New York, Dominion has time for one last desperate gamble involving his chaos aura; in the aftermath of the battle for District X, it’s clean up, triage and retreat; a whole heckload of people start checking in on each other via text; Fourteen lets everyone know that nobody they know died. (It’s an after Christmas miracle); Jean checks in on an injured Garrison; Doug meets Hope S. at the DXCC triage staging area and confiscates Arthur's phone (but is very nice about it).
2004: Jake and Pete exchange information on an assassin called Remy LeBeau, but agree the new student is too young to be him despite having the same name. Alison retires as counsellor. Manuel gets a journal lesson on etiquette.
2005: Jubilee and Madelyn visit the Lee family graves; Jubilee makes a vow to help make the world safer. Forge is upset about his 'failure' during Proteus. Sam returns to the school and decides to be more active. Haroun hits his head whilst training and it becomes obvious he's been overdoing since Proteus because he feels incapable powers-wise. Dani receives divorce papers in the mail. Amanda and Manuel arrive in Berlin and Amanda drives out the last of Selene's influence. Alex and Lorna return from Alaska. Rahne returns from Scotland.
2006: Trinity: Nathan and Angelo go riding and discuss strategy, before Nathan broaches the subject of college; later, they get in to see the Interior Minister, who is very distressed by the evidence from the school. It's a start. Haroun and Nathan snipe a little but manage some productive discussion too, before Nathan has another precog fit. Moira informs the team and Charles Xavier about Gideon's visit. Alex warns the school at large to watch out for his puppy, Crush, on the stairs. Scott emails Alex about Lorna possibly rejoining the team, but it leads to an argument.
2007: X-Men Mission: Phalanx: Nathan discovers much of the old Mistra complex has been bulldozed, and makes a memorial of his own to the dead; Logan makes his own gesture; Garrison officially complains to Scott about Haller; Logan checks on Marie and she's having issues with not having told Scott about Jack emerging. Logan emails Sarah about going out. Marie-Ange emails Garrison, checking on him. Nathan decides to leave for a few days, as it is also the first year anniversary of GW's death coming up. He (reluctantly) takes Angelo with him and Domino, to go climbing. Logan and Kurt meet up at Harry's Hideaway after the mission and Logan manages to get Kurt to stop using the image inducer; Kurt posts drunkenly to the journals in Romani.
2008: Jean emails Logan and confirms that Noriko is his great-granddaughter. Crystal is excited about her first day as a teacher, and concerned about Noriko missing classes. Marius is smug about not having had classes start yet. Amanda passes on the information about Marius St. Croix that Monet asked for, and provides some unwelcome commentary. Operation: Shaboom: When investigations into Doug's missing contact dig up a number of anomalies about the town he was interested in, X-Force goes to investigate; upon reaching Adensville, they discover some kind of timewarping effect around the town that puts them back in 1959. Jennie and Shiro are on comms duty and discuss the Alex situation; Jennie is less than sympathetic to Shiro's situation.
2009: Emma emails Adrienne about her Christmas gift and Manuel about the White Court, plus delivers her Christmas gifts to X-Force. Jennie and Amara go shopping. Manuel announces he is staying in a hotel in New York for the duration; Manuel emails Bishop about their weekly chess game; Morgan checks that Manuel's okay. Mechanisms of Revenge: Remy announces to X-Force that contacts place Apocalypse at Blue Area Mesa, a mutant commune; Remy and Scott plan a joint attack. Doug emails Emma about his Christmas gift. Lil is startled when Kurt teleports into the gym. Morgan brings Jubilee food and an apology for their first meeting. Jubilee sends Mark a musical link. Inez and Julian have that hot chocolate and Inez opens up more than she has before about her family.
2010: Fred posts to his journal to let everyone know he's back in the land of the living (and back from Muir). Cammie tries to apologise to Adrienne for getting her nose broken, but it doesn't go well and Cammie falls back into her old "don't care" attitude.
2011: Garrison and Laura spar, testing out his new Danger Room scenario. Vanessa posts about humans wandering into District X and being shocked.
2012: Vanessa emails Doug about getting an ID to match her new pink self, as she doesn't seem to be turning back to her blue self. Adrienne gets a new Wii game and invites Vanessa to come play with her. Bishop gives Sooraya hands on instruction with various handguns.
2013: Sarah V. posts about the crazy things autocorrect does and starting university.
2014: Dori bemoans the addictiveness of Long Live The Queen. Yvette announces a Red-X initiative to help homeless New Yorkers find shelter against the bad weather.
2015: 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.
