January 2024

Timeline

Jan 1 -

Jan 2 - With the Guthries’ arrival, Alani makes a point to meet Jay. Kevin catches up with Gabe. Jean and Garrison finally have the conversation they've been avoiding for weeks now.

Jan 3 - XFI and friends get together to give Alex a send-off, where stories are told and there's toasting and roasting (the latter mainly of Warren).

Jan 4 -

Jan 5 - Hope A meets Haller briefly while escaping the noise from the kitchen repair. Amanda posts to XP-Staff asking for powers testing for Jono and a few other things. Amanda texts Artie to request a lend of a speech converter and Jono to apologise for abandoning him to the whims of the mansion and give him the lay of the land. Amanda also takes a moment to warn Angelo that there’s a new Jono. Melody and Jay discuss Sam’s boyfriend. Melody then texts Sam about her un-date, and asks him about his day. Alex says goodbye to the mansion for now. Behold a Pale Horse: Amanda texts Doug to ask him to keep an eye on the media. Q leaves for the West Coast to help a victim of Radha. Jay tries to bait Sam into fighting him.

Jan 6 - Behold a Pale Horse: Kevin sends a missive to both X-Men and X-Force that the Fête des Mutantes in France may be a target of the last Horseman, Death; Kevin later asks X-Force what their current resources are for the event and suggests having X-Men on standby for emergencies. Paige and Catseye meet for the first time. Stephen Strange asks Clea to meet up for lunch. Paige runs into Sooraya in the library. Alani, Clint, and Namor navigate JFK so they can get to their destination of research in Hawai’i.

Jan 7 - 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, Hope 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).

Plots

Behold A Pale Horse

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January 2024