Template:Selected anniversaries/October 8
October 8
2003:
2004: Marie-Ange meets Dr. Stephen Strange for help with her pre-cog. Devil In My Mind: Gambit emerges whilst Amanda is talking to Remy and she panics; after battling Gambit in his mind, Remy knocks out Madelyn and escapes medlab, meeting up with Sarah and taking her with him so she can kill the CIA men responsible for the Morlock Massacre. Kurt is concerned by Betsy's drinking.
2005: Bobby decides he needs to sneak out of the mansion with Angelo to get caffeine pills so he can help find Lorna. Scott catches them and tells Bobby that caffeine pills are a slippery slope, and threatens to take him off the X-Men until he goes to see one of the medics about his sleeping problems. Kitty tells Bobby about Terry's concerns, and he decides to fix things between them. Down in the medlab, Jean lectures Bobby for being stupid, and sends him out with pills to help him sleep. Jubilee is more successful in sneaking out, but her date is effectively ended when Cain shows up at the coffeehouse to bring her home. Alison takes a stir-crazy Haroun out of the medlab for a little sun. X-Men Mission: Mutant Michelangelo: The next X-Men mission is going to be a formal affair.
2006: Marie and Yvette have a picnic in the treehouse and Yvette decides to apologise to Logan for cutting him. Logan talks to Remy about combat training for the younger members of X-Force, Sarah in particular. The Snow Valley crew throw a birthday party for Remy on the anniversary of him defeating Gambit; later he leaves a voicemail message for Lorna.
2007: Forge organises a Boy's Night Out for the grads. Kevin meets Marius in the wee small hours. Yvette discovers a lack of bouyancy due to her mutation, but Angel is there to rescue her from the lake. Garrison realises Kevin has a warrant out for his arrest and warns Scott before going to arrest him; Fred Duncan tries to talk to Kevin, but doesn't get far; Kevin uses his one phone call to leave a message for his roommate.
2008: Bishop and Jubilee work on her stealth and she tells him a little of her past at the school. Jubilee discovers Zero Punctuation. Shiro talks about the 2008 Nobel Prize winners in his own particular way. Amanda wishes Remy a happy birthday. Yvette wonders where Tabitha is when she isn't in the library as expected.
2009: Laurie comments in her journal how offensive Beauty and the Geek is. Callie wants to go apple picking and issues an invitation in her journal, asking if anyone wants to accompany her.
2010: Julian texts Nico for some 'alone' time. Garrison runs into Amanda at a cop bar and they talk about their respective relationship issues.
2011: The Problématique: Garrison emails Bishop some security footage from an airport that shows Vanessa being flown out of the country; Bishop sends the footage to Doug for analysis and Doug determines Vanessa is likely to be in Prague. Marie-Ange provides birthday cake for Remy and her co-workers. Layla is bored and asks Artie to go to Salem Center with her via pictures. Korvus and Wade meet up in the garage to make the mansion's first amphibious VW Beetle and they talk about a few different things, beneficial sexism included.
2012: Lorna posts about Canadian Thanksgiving and invites everyone to the dinner. Marie-Anges posts that Voldemort’s name in French means Elvis.
2013: Amanda announces there’s a New Orleans style brunch in the conference room in honor of Remy’s birthday, and also cake.
2014: Clint texts Sue to check on her in the wake of Maddie leaving, they both decide Batman is the coolest superhero. Julian texts Tandy to check and see how things went last night with Sue, the conversation degenerates into playful name calling.
2015: Felicia texts North about needing him to come back. Tabitha posts asking about who was making the explosions. Kevin texts Dom about making Grindr stop.
2016:
2017: Dark Dimension Homecoming: Amanda gets a mysterious email promising more intel; Topaz and Clea try to find food and get rest; Amanda, Marie-Ange, Doug and Jubilee follow up on the tip and meet a man calling himself the Ancient One, who explains the involvement of Dormammu but won’t help save the girls; Amanda and the X-Force brigade take matters into their own hands and steal the key to the Dark Dimension; Darcy endeavours to protect the library in Topaz's absence; Amanda formulates a mission and recruits a rescue team that includes Miles, Jubilee, Arthur, Megan, Marie-Ange, Stephen, Artie, Logan, Sharon, Doug, Julian and Jean; the team enters the Dark Dimension and meets danger; half the group are captured; the remaining mutants split into two teams, one to try to distract Dormammu and the other to free their friends; during their escape, the Ancient One and his followers and help the mutants keep Dormammu at bay; as the mutants return to their dimension, the Ancient One and Dormammu square off; as the rest of the group recovers, the Ancient One and Stephen then have a private conversation; Hope checks in on Topaz; Doug updates everyone on what turned out to be a packed two days.
2018:
2019:
2020: Kyle posts that he is going to be the werewolf from the Backstreet Boy video as he can do a backflip and he has the suit.
2021: Arise, X-Man: Kevin pulls apart Darcy's "oops" story, turning it into the start of a teaching moment. Doug and Darcy talk about their feelings like adults and it sucks.
2022: Jean texts Terry asking if she's ready for her birthday outing. Jubilee shares a video for costume ideas.
