Template:Selected anniversaries/December 18
December 18th
2003: Alex blows up and Lorna is caught in the crossfire, causing Emma to sound the evacuation alarm. The group returns from Mexico and Angelo discovers Marie brought his mother back to NY. Leech is now known as Miles Blaire. Two CIA agents activate a secret project to send a possible assassin to Xavier's.
2004: Amanda plays facilitator and gets Domino and Nathan to talk about Volgograd. Amanda semi-collapses of exhaustion halfway up the stairs and Theo carries her the rest of the way, claiming her as Pack. Bridge tells Haroun a few things about Domino, then agrees to get word to his family. Remy gives Miles a Juggernaut plushie and they have a nice chat... right up until Miles mentions being a Morlock. Domino goes to let Alison know how things went with Nathan, to Alison's relief. Madelyn tries to save Remy from drinking himself to death, but it doesn't go well.
2005: Before heading out to New York for the Christmas choir, Forge and Jubilee get a few moments to talk, reminiscing on the past year and hopes for the future. Tommy and Shiro manage to have a rather long conversation for them about the pointlessness of General Education and the dread of Power Training. Shiro even shows off his mutation twice and Tommy doesn't say a thing.
2006: Living Pele: Scott asks Garrison to look for information as he proposed; Shiro finds Alex but encounter Pele as they're escaping; Alex comes up with a plan to defeat Pele, and they overload her powers. Forge and Medusa discuss lighting for the Winter Ball. Remy returns to New York.
2007: V=IR: Doug cracks the code and he and Forge decide to chase up what Milan is up to, especially after discovering he has outstanding warrants in Italy; Doug and Forge announce their departure on a 'research trip'. Sooraya and Yvette talk about why they remain at the school.
2008: Yvette asks for help for a dress to the Winter Ball. Jean-Paul discovers a rat in his room, a gift from Morgan. Ktenology 101: Marie and Christian continue their search, this time in Spain. Bishop and Lil go on their shooting date. Julian comes to collect books from Jean-Paul and meets his new friend. Angel asks if she's able to wear a red dress with her hair colour; Adrienne offers dresses from her modelling agency for use by Xavier's students. Jean posts about the benefits of TK with broken limbs. Wanda emails Scott to tell him her powers broke Bishop. Manuel runs into Callie while carrying tea and gets scalded and an anger loop ensues; Callie posts angrily to her journal not wanting to see anyone; Jean-Paul emails her in concern; Julian tries to find out what is wrong and is rudely rebuffed. Angel meets Julian and a lot of flirting happens; later, in the gym, the flirting continues and Angel accidentally slags a weights machine.
2009: Doug posts a link to a prospective college course for Cammie: a Bachelor of Arts in Traditional Eastern Arts. This Devil's Workday: Adrienne tries to get Cammie to go back to New York and Cammie manages to talk/trick her into going back to the police with the further information Cammie has dug up about Amy's death and a mysterious house she'd been staying at. Angel happens upon Kevin in New York and makes him buy her lunch.
2010: Yvette checks on Klara and finds her in the greenhouse, practicing her powers.
2011: Doug talks about the new Star Wars MMO. X-Men Mission: X-Mas in Milwaukee: The FBI investigation doesn't lead anywhere, so Garrison, Terry and Abigail Brand are forced to start thinking creatively.
2012: Sam pays Angelo a visit to discuss his future plans and making a big change in his life.
2013:
2014: Sue posts about seeing huge footsteps leading into the woods and asks if people forgot to mention if there is a mutant living here they forgot to tell her about. Logan posts asking which one of the residents is leaving behind the footprints out in the woods.
2015: Little Paper Dolls: The team arrives in Canada and quickly track down the source of the strange telepathic message, however things don't quite seem right; X-Force storms the underground base, having far more fun with it than should be legal; Jean and Emma find the source of the distress call, and Emma and the strange girls clearly do not get on; someone touched something they shouldn't have, and suddenly it's all going to hell; even if the other you isn't really you at all, talking to ‘yourself’ is an incredibly surreal experience, and it doesn't help when they're both incredibly paranoid. Miles makes a journal entry about how awesome the new Star Wars movie is. Molly and Topaz brave the mall to go Christmas shopping.
2016: Jean wonders what the mansion thinks are the best Christmas movies to introduce to her niece and nephew.
2017:
2018: The Danger Room Paradox: Maya boasts about being a Star Wars hotshot pilot; Laurie texts Kyle about arguing with Jean about wanting to cut into Natasha’s head to cure the zombie virus; Terry texts Kyle to let him know Minecraft doesn’t count as a second date.
2019:
2020: Operation: Siege Perilous: X-Force holds a briefing on a new case, a series of deaths where the cause is unknown but they look drained of all life energy and it’s decided Jean should be brought in for psychic help; Gabe and Natasha go to a dump site to look for clues; Kevin and Clea call on a member of the magical underground; Amanda brings tea while Wanda hits the books; Marie-Ange gives new recruit Topaz a lesson in field work; Artie and Amanda meet after using their respective resources and finding nothing; back at the office, Doug starts teaching the injured Jubilee more about computer research; Jean and Emma look for psychic residue in Central Park and are ambushed by the culprit, a psionic parasite called Roma who pulls all of them into a pretend dimension; in Roma’s dimension, X-Force is called on to protect Dr. Strange, who is being attacked by the Black Court of the Hellfire Club, breaking a truce between the two groups; both groups set about locating Illyana Rasputin, the Hellfire Club so they can steal her Soulsword, X-Force because Strange left hints about her and the Darkhold, a mythical magic text; Cypher is hired by both groups to assist, but sets up X-Force in a trap when he tells them Illyana’s location but not that the Hellfire Club will be there; meanwhile, Sarah Morlocke looks for help from X-Force as her people are vanishing; during the ambush, leader Remy Lebeau is captured and Natasha Romanoff and Wanda Maximoff killed while Felicia Hardy is rescued from certain death by the enemy, Gabriel Cohuelo; Cypher kills Charlie Plunder back at X-Force headquarters; Remy is brought before Selene, the Black Queen and manages to kill Sebastian Shaw before being killed by the Black Knight, Amanda Sefton; the remaining team arrives back home to find Charlie’s body and Sarah letting them know a mass abduction of the Morlocks has taken place; in a suicide mission to stop Selene getting the Soulsword, X-Force attacks the ritual; Jubilee is killed by Amanda before Amanda is herself killed by X-Forcer Adam Destine; Kevin, disguised as North, is taken before Selene and reveals the reason for his disguise - he has hidden forty pounds of Semtex in the gut of the larger man which went unnoticed; Kevin blows himself up and badly injures Selene; in a series of flashbacks, Kevin undermines Gabe’s loyalty to the Hellfire Club; Remy meets clandestinely with the magically-enslaved Emma Frost and makes her a deal; Amanda sees the departure of her lover Marie-Ange as the result of Remy’s death; back to the ‘current time’, Emma turns on Selene and with Adam’s help infuses Jean with the power of the Darkhold, which had previously been in Illyana; Black Court members Topaz and Clea attack Adam while he’s vulnerable, but Emma saves him and he teleports out with Illyana; Jean battles Selene, killing her with the combined power of the Darkhold and… something else; the amount of power Jean carried lets her reveal Roma’s machinations and with Emma helping her stay sane, defeats her and uses the pent-up psychic energy released by her death to heal the cracks in Xorn’s patchwork universe and exposes the truth about M-Day; X-Force return to themselves, realising no time has passed at all and that the other world wasn’t real; Emma calls everyone back to talk about the ramifications; Jean, distraught about what she has learned, goes to Kevin (who was her lover in Roma’s dimension) for comfort. He does his best but emotions are weird.
2021: On the day of X-Force’s office relocation to District X, Artie texts Amanda to remind her she needs to pack up her cubicle; Jubilee helps Kevin pack his bar; Kevin and Felicia check out a potential new local ‘The Original Kirby’s’; Darcy helps Wanda organise the layout for the new “Weird Magic Shite” offices and storage; Jubilee lets X-Force know she and Clarice will be handing out wine candy in the new office’s reception area, in costume; Marie-Ange and Topaz work on unpacking Avalon-lite - one of the back offices in the new building.
2022:
