Last Week in XProject
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May 28: http://x-logs.livejournal.com/tag/end%20of%20the%20beginning"End of the Beginning": The captured mutants are brought before President Moreau and his brother Thomas; President Moreau demonstrates how scary he can be when he intimidates and abuses his prisoners to try and break down their will to fight; Thomas Moreau demonstrates to the captive mutants what will happen if they retaliate; Charles and the Genoshan ambassador have a brief meeting that shakes Charles to the core; Charles leaves a voicemail for Moira and Nathan regarding Rachel; Charles makes a post to x_journal announcing the Genoshan's trap and the capture of their fellow mutants, asking everyone else to check in, regroup, and be safe. http://x-logs.livejournal.com/tag/in%20the%20balance"In the Balance: A group of the captured mutants, deemed to be "terrorists" by the Genoshans, are transported to the Citadel prison and introduced to the warden. http://x-logs.livejournal.com/tag/stemming%20the%20tide"Stemming the Tide: Polaris reports in on the x_communication channel that their mission failed and the remaining members were regrouping; The survivors of the Genoshan's trap assemble and head for safer ground; Lorna and Warren spy Emma, Marius, and Wanda's chopper going down and go to their aid, leaving the crash site with their fellow mutants and with a local guide to boot; Finally all together at the cache, the older members of the group gather to determine what happens next; While the adults talk, Matt and Molly try and process the last 24 hours; Marius gets first aid treatment in the form of a donation from Catseye and then they have the difficult task of telling Meggan what happened to her boyfriend and family back at the Citadel; Warren checks on Megan, who is doing okay but needs an ear; Wade makes a point of talking to Matt and manages not to go and kill every Magistrate he can find; The two members of the group with actual connection to Magneto talk about choices; Wade and Lorna calm down a very angry Fred; Wade leaves a couple of voicemails to update the Professor in his own unique and somewhat encrypted way; Emma comforts Molly and is rather motherly; Wade can't sleep and neither can Molly, so he tries to help her out. http://x-logs.livejournal.com/tag/step%20by%20step"Step By Step: Bishop, Sooraya, Jean-Paul, and Artie evade Magistrate patrols in the city to get to a safe house; Jean, Garrison, and Angelo make their way to the city safe house from the sewers; Callisto, Nico, and Maddie make their way to the city safe house through a gap in the Citadel's perimeter fence; John and Sam head for the safe house from the edge of the Citadel; Four groups of people convene at the safe house for medical attention, food, sleep, and catching up on events; Sooraya checks up on Angelo in the safe house, while Angelo breaks the news about Amara's capture to John. http://x-logs.livejournal.com/tag/the%20unrelenting%20struggle"The Unrelenting Struggle: A group of the prisoners find themselves loaded aboard the 'mutant train'
May 29: Stemming the Tide: Emma, Wade, Lorna and Warren negotiate a price for Jayresh to bring their group to safety; On the way to Jayresh's camp, some ethical issues are discussed - Wanda explains to Marius how her power works and he asks about the effects her chaos can have on people, Lorna checks in on Sharon and reflects on the necessity of killing in order for friends to survive, Matt tells Meggan about overhearing the adults talking about killing people, Wade tries to warn Megan and Molly that they might have to witness killings, Fred and Warren debate the ramifications of being labelled as terrorists and actually behaving like real terrorists, while Emma and Jean-Phillipe agree that in their situation, Magneto's methods were perhaps necessary for them to save themselves. In The Balance: In prison, Remy, Marie-Ange, Haller and Scott play cards and discuss their incarceration and strategy; Doug is interrogated but refuses to provide the 'right' answers; Terry is brought into Doug's interrogation and the both of them are tortured; Lex, Sarah and Tabitha meet the ex-President of Genosha in the prison yard and he provides insight on how the prison system works and why it works the way it does; Amanda and Korvus are interrogated separately, but are treated to 'good-cop' persuasion methods because of their countries of origin; Scott asks Haller about Jean, and Haller admits to being the cause of Jean's projected emotions down the couple's link when he saw Betsy during the fight. Step by Step: As Jean settles into the safehouse, she recalls the last private conversation she had with Scott. The Unrelenting Struggle: During the train ride, Jubilee and Ororo secretly work on their restraints while the rest distract their guards with insults; An unexpected explosion derails the train and the group evacuates, only to meet a resistance group led by Jenny Ransome who swiftly recruits them to her cause and returns their powers to them; ; Kurt and Cammie are happily reunited; Kurt and Jubilee can't sleep and instead swap life stories with each other.
May 30th: Back home, Fred Duncan, Val Cooper, David Langstrom and Nick Fury meet to discuss the situation, concluding that their hands were tied as far as official channels went; The Genoshean ambassador later visits Langstrom at his office with a 'proposition' to 'take care' of troublesome American mutants, but Langstrom is quick to show him the proper order of things. The Unrelenting Struggle: Kurt comes across North who is hiding drug withdrawal symptoms and they converse in German until daybreak; Kurt, Ororo, North and Paige meet with Jenny to discuss the resistance's next course of action and Jenny is reluctantly convinced of the necessity of taking out the power plant; Kurt tries to tell a guilt-ridden Layla that it was not her fault Rachel Kinross was killed. In the Balance: Amanda's interrogator tries to talk to her again but she declines outright to cooperate; At the top of the Citadel, Sarah Morlocke is treated to a personalized interrogation method. Stemming the Tide: A Magistrate patrol comes across Matt, Meggan and Molly who are straggling behind in the jungle; Fred and Jean-Phillipe rescue the kids before the Magistrates radio for backup; Catseye and Wanda take out the guards at a command post while Wade kills the commander and Emma wipes all memory traces of their presence. They make off with weapons and maps; As aerial back up, Warren, Lorna and Megan bring down a chopper, disarm its Magistrates and make them high on Pixie dust. Step By Step: Kane emails the Professor with updates on the situation in Genosha and provides him with a way of contacting them; Kane contacts his British agent father who helps the city group come up with their next course of action.
May 31st: Kyle helps Cammie remove her skin suit and ends up throwing up. Stemming the Tide: Polaris contacts the Professor reporting that they had arrived at the camp; The group has finally reached the refugee camp where they are given tours and stories are exchange; Marius and Molly meet Zoe and they are given a tour of where they will be staying and end up talking about bugs and powers; Wanda Meggan and Mirannda talk about Genosha. Step by Step: Sooraya attempts to make some hot food to improve morale and she and Jean talk; Jean, Garrison, Angelo and Bishop meet with Russell Davis, who tells them that two popular members of Commissions may be persuaded to speak out against the Genoshan government if they're provided with evident of mutant mistreatment; Nico, Sooraya, and Artie break into the Genoshan administration office to access the computer filing system, noting mutants who have been 're-assigned' living quarters out of the enclave, but never show up in other enclaves. They also find suspicious support requirements in isolated locations outside of the city; Sam and Callisto fly over a mining site to video some mutant mistreatment; Maddie, Jean-Paul and John break into the Genoshan Power Authority building in the city and make some discoveries about operations in the geothermal power plant; Back from their intel gathering missions, the group shares what they've learned, but their safe house is found out by the Magistrates and they're forced to scatter. The Unrelenting Struggle: Adrienne and North do a little impromptu weapons training; Kurt and Ororo help Jenny cope with the burdens of leadership; Kurt offers to spar with Kyle to help distract him, though audience participation winds up shifting the focus when Layla wants to learn stuff; North decides to test a developing hypothesis on Layla who does not seem to be what she things she is. In The Balance: Clarice is interrogated and she talks, but it is not truthful or serious; Remy is interrogated and an offer is presented; Lex begins with the good cop routine and frustrates his interrogator.
May 31 - In The Balance: Haller is questioned and his mental state causes an attempt to medicate him. His responses provokes a rather share reaction; Marie-Ange is next and is very cooperative; Haller unexpectedly finds himself in his second interrogation of the day.
June 1 - In The Balance: Doug is interrogated again, and this time he's far more cooperative; after time in solitary, Tabitha is questioned and proves a tough nut to crack until the threats begin; Lex's interrogation turns violent; Terry cracks and tells her interrogator of an escape plan; Scott's interrogation reveals the truth of Haller's paternity and Scott feels betrayed that Charles didn't tell him. Step By Step: The Xavier's group meets with the two Commission members, with proof of abuse of mutants and mutates; Jean reports in to Charles to let him know their plans for revealing the truth of the mutate process. The Unrelenting Struggle: The night before the attack on Prenova, Paige and Kyle discuss coping methods; Jubilee and Vance exchange their different perspectives on the hero gig; Layla, Cammie and Angelica help out around camp.
June 2 - Angelo sends his mother a postcard to let her know he's all right. Step By Step: Jean and Callisto use a faking-sick Maddie to get into the Genoshan Broadcasting Commission building; Angelo, Jean-Paul, Sam and Artie break in the back way and secure the transmitter controls; Garrison, Sooraya, Bishop, John and Nico accompany Joseph and Jobeth to the broadcast booth and release the pictures and video they acquired; Mutate 42 - Laurie - and her handler, Semoko attack the broadcast studio, with the group barely escaping and the two Commission members gunned down on live television; the rest of the Xavier's group is attacked by Magistrates on the roof and are nearly taken down when Mutate 1337 - formerly Sarah Vale - joins in, but quick thinking saves the day; Sooraya and Angelo talk about the man she killed to save Maddie. Stemming the Tide: Matt and Wade encounter an advance patrol of a Magistrate attack on the camp and Wade has to kill a Magistrate in front of - or on top of - Matt; Marius and Wanda use chaos blasts to defend the camp, until Wanda has to absorb a hex bolt from a furious Marius to prevent him killing someone; Lorna, Catseye and Molly are trying to keep safe and protect the refugees when they are attacked by Mutate 557 - Callie - and Molly is poisoned; Warren and Pixie patrol the skies while Meggan keeps watch in a tree and they see Magistrate reinforcements coming in, too many to fight; Emma, Fred and Jean-Phillipe are making good headway against the invasion until they run across Mutate 105 - Yvette; Wanda and Marius join Emma's team to take down Mutate 105 with new powers applications and hard decisions; Lorna works to free Meggan from the tree while Warren evacuates the injured and Pixie, Catseye and Lorna try to fight back against Mutate 557, with Warren having to resort to desperate measures to get everyone clear; the Magistrates retreat, but only to clear the ground for an airstrike and the Xavier's people are advised to go join the others at Petrova. The Unrelenting Struggle: Ororo's team - Vance, North, Layla and Adrienne - begin the attack on Prenova; Kurt's team - Kyle, Angelica, Cammie and Jubilee - fight their way to the geothermal plant and set free the mutants they find there; Magistrate Braddock and Mutate 606 - Amara - attack Ororo's team and are nearly too much for them; Kurt's team gets the imprisoned mutants out before bringing down the power plant; at the end, a group of workers confronts Jenny Ransome about the destruction of the power plant, calling her a traitor to Genosha. In The Balance: The breakout attempt begins, with Haller and Korvus staging a fight and Tabitha lifting a key card from the guard who goes to break it up, before passing the card to Marie-Ange; Marie-Ange, Lex, Scott, Doug and Clarice provide a distraction in the form of a chemical fire after breaking into a store room; Amanda, Remy, Sarah and Terry fight their way to the guard security office; bringing up the rear, Korvus, Doug and Clarice have to stop, with Clarice too broken emotionally to go on; the escape fails when Sarah and Amanda are betrayed by Remy and detained, with Sarah attacking Remy and stabbing him with a bone knife in the leg, but Remy's identity as Gambit means Wittecombe reneges on the deal; with Remy in solitary and Sarah hauled off for the mutate process, the remaining prisoners end up fighting among themselves, with the guards pleased to see the group's cohesion broken; later, Amanda teleports into Scott's cell, revealing her magic is still accessible, and they discuss the plan as it stands so far; Doug reflects on his part in the plan and the balance of personal over important.
June 3 - http://x-logs.livejournal.com/tag/savrola"Savrola": President Moreau meets with his cabinet to discuss responses to the ongoing problems in Genosha and cracks start to show. Sarah M is taken to undergo the Mutate process and discovers the Geneengineer is none other than Essex who undoes Betsy's conditioning and restores Sarah M's powers. Jean-Paul, Jean, Artie, Sooraya, Sam, Maddie, Nico, Garrison, Bishop, Callisto and John all sneak through the city trying to approach the citadel. The resistance, Ororo, Kurt, Lorna, Emma, Jubilee, Marius, Molly, Wade, Meggan, Adrienne, Catseye, North, Layla, Jean-Phillipe, Fred, Kyle, Wanda, Angel, Megan, Cammie, MAtt, Vance, Paige and Warren make plans to assault the city. Marius, Ororo, Vance, Layla and Molly run into some unexpected resistance. Kurt, Adrienne, Meggan, Paige and Fred head into the Citadel's motor pool but Adrienne see's trouble ahead. Lorna, Jean-Phillipe and North, head to the power plant before North senses a Mutate Sarah V approaching. Wade, Jubilee, Kyle, Warren And Emma attack the tank laager and run into Mutate 42. Megan, Cammie, Wanda, Catseye and Matt try to flank the citadel but end up running into Mutate 557, Callie. Garrison, Angelo, Maddie. Artie, Jean, Sooraya, Bishop, John and Callisto run into Dr Ryan and Tam Anderson as they make their way through the city and a deal is broached. http://x-logs.livejournal.com/tag/onwards%20to%20victoryOnwards to Victory:Thomas Moreau orders for Amanda, Scott, Remy, Marie-Ange, Jim, Lex, Tabitha, Clarice and Terry are taken to a room and chained to the wall. From there they reenact there real escape plan and manage to escape, having their powers returned in the process. Garrison, Angelo, Maddie. Artie, Jean, Sooraya, Bishop, John and Callisto head towards the labs of the Geenigineer and encounter the Marauders. There is a brief fight, but both are forced to flee as the lab are torn apart by explosions. Betsy Braddock awakens in Essex' lab and he explains everything, leaving with Kwannon. Betsy and Sarah M. flee as explosions begin to rip things apart. Layla, Ororo, Vance, Molly and Marius deal with mutate Yvette by taking out her handler. Paige, Fred, Adrienne, Meggan and Kurt deal with mutate Amara by knocking her out with grenades. Lorna, Jean-Phillipe, North, Angel deal with mutate Sarah V. by knocking her out with heat. Emma, Kyle, Wade, Jubilee and Warren deal with mutate Laurie by knocking her out. Wanda, Catseye, Cammie, Megan and Matt deal with mutate Callie by also knocking her out. Amanda, Scott, Remy, Marie-Ange, Jim, Clarice and Terry are attacked, but with their powers back they deal easily with the Magistrates. Then they encounter an changed Thomas Moreau, who has changed in some kind of techno-organic monster. Their powers don't do shit against him. Garrison, Angelo, Maddie. Artie, Jean, Sooraya, Bishop, John and Callisto stumble across Betsy and Sarah and they guide people to the mutate lab by the prison where they can reverse the process after explaining. Remy gets knocked of the roof and gets saved by Storm and her team and then he explains. Doug, Marie-Ange and Terry discover where Philip Moreau has been held and free him. Kurt and his team guide the mutates to the lab and change them back. Wanda and her team find Dori in a cell. Emma's team shuts down power in the Citadel
June 4 - http://x-logs.livejournal.com/tag/the%20dawn%20of%20liberation"The Dawn of Liberation": Jean's team arrives at the citadel and joins the desperate fight against Thomas Moreau. As Thomas finds out about his brother's death he goes on a rampage as more mutants arrive and join in the fight. Unable to close with the monstrosity the mutants first task is to take out Moreau's heat shields. In a show of teamwork the combatants are able to take out Moreau's lava guns. In order to counter Moreau's ranged attack ability the mutants destroy the missile launchers used by the enraged Moreau. After almost being caught by surprise by Moreau's gas launchers a team is able to safely destroy them. The mutants are forced to deal with an attack poison inhalant and a lichen repair system, as Moreau started to run Remy send the fliers to track him as the combatants followed him to the top of the Citadel. As he reached the top of the Citadel Moreau uses his minigun launchers to lay down suppressive fire on the first mutants to catch up to him leading them to destroy the guns. Spotting a pattern a coordinated attack by a team of mutants leads to the destruction of Moreau's tactical computer. Beating on the slowly diminishing monster a coordinated strike by the mutants is able to sever Moreau's tail. As they drove Moreau back the mutants turned their attention to his tentacles, tangling and eventually destroying them. Frustrated by Moreau's armor the combatants devise a plan to shatter his armour and leave him vulnerable. In anger Moreau unleashed a blast of power that destroyed the top 3 floors of the Citadel believing that he had killed the mutants before they stepped out of their hiding place ready to finish the battle. Another team is able to breach his armor and then starts removing it, leaving him vulnerable. The various psi's gathered with a few others deal with Moreau's conscious spread out in his whole body on the Astral plane. Finally the combatants are able to sever his head and electrocute it, thus ending the existence of Thomas Moreau. After the fight Kyle and Marius have a talk about shapeshifting and growing new limbs; Amanda seeks out Angel to give him the news about Rachel personally; Kyle and Dori discuss the events of Genosha and a few very important topics; Meeting the Executives, following the battle and medical attention, several members of Xavier meet with the remains of the Genoshan Leadership; A Speech on the GBC by Interim Speaker Okim Etunfunwa who talked about the lies that David Moreau and his brother told the people of Genosha, the raise and fallen heroes who helped saved Genosha from the tyranny, and that peace has come at last to Genosha.
Jun 5 - Adrienne inadvertently gets a reading off North's gun highlighting his drug problem to her. Angel and Yvette catch up on the plane ride home and make plans for a water fight involving Vance after life returns to normal. Meggan visits Kurt and finds out about Rachel as the brother and sister mourn together.