Template:Selected anniversaries/October 28

October 28

2003: Pete becomes the new Self Defense teacher. Jamie receives therapy and regains the use of his powers.

2004: Reclaimed: Colin MacInnis calls Nathan to tell him Mick Foley's conditioning has cracked as a result of Vermont; Nathan and Alison go to Belgium to retrieve him. Alex emails Moira about powers training in the wake of the attack on him and Scott.

2005: Clarice and Shiro take the next step in their relationship. X-Men Mission: Air Xavier: The Pack requests the X-Men's help after they rescue a number of children from a training camp in Chad; the team evacuates the Pack and the children, and then Scott outflies the Libyan airforce when they try to intervene. High Cost Of Living: Betsy comes to talk to Amanda and discovers her secret; Marie-Ange visits Remy and avoids the subject of what Amanda did.

2006: Mark makes Akira jokes on the journals, referring to the meat computer. Ororo and Nathan have a flying lesson, which ends with Ororo being tossed into the lake for laughing at him. The Gates: Elpis makes final preparations for Prague. Mommy Dearest Redux: Kurt's brother Stefan arrives at the mansion, to bring Kurt home to the caravan at his mother's behest. Marius undergoes the experimental procedure to 'cure' his maladaptive mutation. Crystal tells Kyle about the incident with Logan.

2007: Thirteen Days: Scott posts to x_journal, telling the students how proud their teachers are of them; the X-Men go into space, finding getting there is the easy part; the attack on the station is chaotic and messy, but Scott manages to destroy the laser controls before the station begins to fall apart; scattered X-Men, Brotherhood of Mutants and cosmonauts crash to Earth, mostly in remote areas; Forge sounds the alert for the remaining team to help with search and rescue; Jean and Terry land in Siberia, fleeing Mystique, Katu and Kamal; Nathan, Angelo and Clarice wind up in Tibet with Toad and Senyaka; Garrison and Marie land in Japan with Magneto, and Garrison's throat is cut as he tries to apprehend the mutant terrorist; Amanda asks Marie-Ange for support when comms are lost; Ororo organises the recovery, using the trainees as well as the remaining X-Men; the evacuees have a movie night, and it's obvious things are tense; Nori uses her own methods to calm her powers; Jay discovers something startling about Kevin's powers. Doug mourns Colorado's loss of the World Series.

2008: Day Zero: Foxtrot and the human resistance presses forward despite resistance from Apocalypse's supporters; the search and rescue team is attacked by Famine whilst evacuating people, with Famine's arm being broken in the ensuing fight; Marie-Ange has a vision of an attack on Silver and warns everyone; Silver comes under seige from David Angar and friends, and Mark kills one of his supporters during the fight; the New Mutants run into an injured Famine, who nearly takes them all out before they drop an electrified billboard on her and run; with Doug acting as their Trojan Horse, Emma, Remy and Jubilee attack the NYSE and Pestilence/Ignatova and barely manage to break her hold on things before she flees back into the digital ether; Foxtrot finds themselves up against an insane religious man - Sebastian Madrias - and his cult of Apocalypse worshippers and Morgan kills him to end the fight; Karolina reflects on how quiet things are; Team Charlie in the sewers finds themselves in a running battle with meatspores all the way to the power station; Forge and Amanda realise turning off the power will effect Post's connection with the city as well, and do so despite the risk to Amanda herself; Yvette and Angel, taking point for the New Mutants, stumble on Marius and Kurt and after a moment of reassuring themselves that they are the X-Men, agree to go with them to the Citadel; Team Alpha discovers Agent Zero - a bomb-collared Sabretooth - and while Zanne and Adrienne try to disarm the neutron bomb, Sabretooth, Scott, Laurie, Zach Garrison and Kyle battle War; War is defeated, but Sabretooth manages to escape in the confusion; Team Charlie battles an enraged Post in Times Square, with Amanda using the trick she learned in London to get the jump on him and allow Sarah to kill him; Team Echo in Central Park take to a jeep to battle Apocalypse's supporters; Team Bravo take on the Citadel, with Nathan assisting, and Cain gives his power to Marie to achieve their goal, despite the fact it leaves him powerless and old; Death, Pete and Betsy battle each other in the Citadel, with Pete and Betsy resorting to recalling the assassination of Alphonso de la Rocha to shock Alison out of her mind controlled state; at the end, Apocalypse finds himself facing a mixed team of X-Men, X-Force, New Mutants and others and is defeated before Garrison arrests him and hands him over to SHIELD; Amanda posts about X-Force being homeless and having to stay at the mansion; Meggan, Kurt and Amanda have a family meal; Garrison announces Apocalypse's fate; Pete tries to regroup mentally; Haller announces Charles is out of his coma, although weak; Sofia asks about official relocation addresses; Forge complains about the sewers and mentions Jennie's non-death; Nori has a meltdown, reluctantly, on Julio; Betsy is brought back on the Blackbird and Haller takes care of her; Clarice's father arrives and is not happy with the situation.