Template:Selected anniversaries/December 23
December 23rd
2003: Alison smuggles the Guthrie clan to Salem Centre to visit Paige and Sam. Emma reads about Shaw Industries winning a contract to build a detention facility for super-powered criminals called the Vault. Alex is released from medlab.
2004: Forge gets a taste of what Dani's uncontrolled power can do. Scott and Alex arrive at their grandparents' for the holidays.
2005: Hours after her encounter with Haroun, a distraught Domino shows up under Nathan's bedroom window. The two of them have a talk that was long overdue in a lot of ways, and good for both of them, however difficult it is. X-Men Mission: Merry Christmas Magneto: In Hawaii, Pietro waits for the arrival of Scott and the team. Toad, of course, jumps to the conclusion that they're there for his new prized gadget. Toad turns out to have protected his gadget - rather well, as a matter of fact. Sam and Cain ponder the problem. So does Lorna. Rematch time, as Toad spots Jean. But there's been a lot of water under the bridge since Liberty Island, and Toad is no match for Phoenix. Back to the forcefield. Sam and Cain indulge in a little nostalgia. It doesn't precisely work. Scott, sitting in the plane, is joined by Pietro, with the list. Pietro doesn't take Scott's concern for him very well, but that's just his way. It turns out that it's a very good thing Lorna's on-site. She's the only one who can figure out Toad's remote. Elsewhere, the last part of the plan falls into place as Alison knocks Pietro out, somewhat ostentatiously. Wanda lies in wait for Scott in his office and demands something out of him. Scott doesn't mind but Pietro might. Haroun's sitting on the back porch enjoying some tea and the view of the back yard when Nathan joins him to talk about Domino. Bobby posts from his parents' house to wish the school happy Christmas. Jamie also posts from his family's farm, and acts as go-between for his mother and Alison's talk in code.
2006: Nathan, Angelo, Rahne and Sooraya go to Muir for the holidays. Sam and Marie horserace. Marius is invited to go back to Jennie's father's house for the holidays, with a minimum of threats. Logan and Crystal encounter each other for the first time since the incident in the Gym, and they neatly avoid talking about anything. Scott and Kurt discuss leaving Mystique to the Chinese Army and Scott suffers traumatic amnesia in the middle of it.
2007: V=IR: Doug and Forge discover Tesla's machine in Croatia, but find Milan and Cortez have tracked them to the site; Forge activates the machine and it isn't a weapon - it's a storage device for Tesla's brainwave imprints, and the inventor is unhappy with Milan; a fight breaks out, and Forge is overwhelmed by Cortez and Milan's powers, almost dying of overload; Tesla expends his energy to revive Forge; Doug takes Forge back to Muir for treatment/observation and alerts the X-Men and X-Force as to what happened. Warumbe: T'Challa discovers agents within his own country were responsible for Moses' escape and returns to Wakanda.
