Timeline

This is a summary of events that have led up to the current state of affairs in the United States and in the world at large. This is an alternate Earth, so in this world things happened differently. This should give a good idea of the world the characters are living in, and there are various important notes about certain countries as well as about various X-Men that may or may not affect your character.

1997- At the start of the year a young man, Adam Didriksen rose to power in Italy. He began massive anti-mutant attacks across his entire country. Various other countries, Germany, Austria and France followed suit. It wasn't long before the world was split; China, Britain, most of Africa and the North American Canada area being the free mutant areas. Professor Xavier was placed on the UN as a counsel for mutant affairs. In a battle to stop Apocalypse from seizing control of a large area of Canada the X-Man Cable was believed to have been killed at the end of the battle. A body is never recovered.

1998- Prime Minister Didriksen of Italy moves to have the UN declare mutants a worldwide threat. America is outraged and leads the cry against Mutant Oppression. President Clinton declares America a mutant haven opening its boarders to mutants in need and refugees of camps. The X-Men and Avengers lead a systematic attack on the mutant terrorists of Genosha who are planning on killing the anti-mutant world leaders of France, Germany, Austria, France and various other smaller countries. Magneto is killed in a battle with Thor and Xavier. Charles leaves the X-Men acting simply as a consultant to the UN as well as take time to mourn the loss of his old friend Magneto.

1999- President Clinton is assassinated by the mutant terrorist, Lady Deathstrike. She is being controlled by technology owned by AIM, Advanced Idea Mechanics, and is being used by the Italian Government. The United States goes to war with Italy. The Avengers are disassembled because of distensions over the war. Jean-Grey, the Phoenix, dies at the hands of the psychic monster Cassandra Nova. Xavier battles Cassandra and defeats her after a day long struggle.

2000- President Bush takes control of the country keeping mutant rights in tact as President Clinton had set them up. He gets approval for a continued attack on Italy. Backed by Britain and China the small country is quickly over run. The three super powers set a democratic pro-mutant government in place. Didriksen escapes capture but is later killed by Wolverine for his anti-mutant crimes. After the war in Italy ends the governments of Poland and France form a new alliance and begin killing all of the mutants within their borders. It threatens to turn into World War 3.

2001- After a political discussion with Xavier and pressure from various groups Poland and France end the mutant camps and set up laws to protect mutants. David is rescued by Xavier, Cyclops and Wolverine from the second generation Weapon X program. As Riot, a former Acolyte of the deceased Magneto, seizes command of Genosha three X-Men; Beast, Cyclops and Angel are supposedly killed by him. Beast is actually alive and taken underground by Dark Beast of the Age of Apocalypse universe and he is driven mad by the alternate him. The two remain hidden beneath Genoshian soil and are mere legends or myths in Genosha. 2002- The Phoenix is reborn bringing Jean Grey back from the dead. Jean mourning for Cyclops' death leaves the Earth unable to deal with the loss. She spends the next year living in Shiar controlled space as an advisor to Queen Lilandra. Nightcrawler gains control of the X-Men as field leader. Charles Xavier resumes his duties as headmaster of the Xavier Institute. It was in this year that a void to an alternate reality opened and the X-Men were called to close it. It was a tear between this reality and one completely controlled by the Brood alien species. The Brood came through the gateway devastating a town in northern Arizona. Charles Xavier dies fighting the strongest of the Brood queens aside his brother Juggernaut. Jean-Grey returns for Xavier's funeral and stays on Earth taking the role of X-Men team leader alongside Nightcrawler and establishing herself as the Headmistress of the Xavier Institute. It is also this year that Nightcrawler is married to the X-Woman, Rachel Grey. The two attempt to have a child that dies during birth. Jean and Wolverine wed in July of this year, after Elisa is born. Iceman and Nightcrawler are named Elisa's god-parents.

2003- Storm dies fighting many members

of the Madri, affectively stopping Apocalypse's return. The X-Men disband. A small skeleton force remain on hand as Professors at the school while the others become reserve members. Iceman leaves the school moving into a small home in Syracuse, New York. Excalibur is formed across the seas by its new founding members; Captain Britain, Psylocke, Bishop, Sage, Dazzler and Nocturne. The Shieken Kyougi slaughter Weapon X and free Dagger. David is placed under Jean’s direct care hoping to recuperate the boy. 2004- David is officially adopted by Jean to avoid the government declaring him unfit for society and placing him into a home. Jean begins rehabilitating him herself in a more full capacity leaving Nightcrawler in temporary control of the school. Free-mutant legislature is passed in America furthering mutant rights. Mutants becoming regarded as full citizens with full rights and laws to protect those rights. The Inhuman Royal family leaves Earth along with the entire city of Attillan, headed to the Kree Empire, setting themselves up as its leaders. 2005- Shadowcat and Colossus are married. She wins her first election as a government official. She is a mayor of a town in California. Rachel Grey is diagnosed with severe cancer. She refuses non-medical treatments afraid it may trigger the Phoenix inside her.  Captain America is killed fighting a group of warriors from Hydra. His death is publicly displayed by the terrorist group causing a massive super human backlash against the organization. Hydra is nearly destroyed, left as a crippled organization after the attacks

against it.

2006- Rachel Grey dies of cancer and Kurt resigns as an Headmaster moving to Logan's private cabin in Canada for a few years. With the X-Men and the Avengers already disassembled the resulting lack of super teams causes a widespread panic within the United States. Four teams known as Avengers North, South, East and West are set up by the United States Armed Forces. They are comprised of former Avengers, X-Men, Etc.

2007- Some former X-Men decide to assist SHIELD and the Avengers teams in protection of the world. SHIELD sets up X-Corps teams stationed in Brazil, Japan, Iraq, Australia and Germany. The teams spread out and shut down villain activity nearly planet wide. Latervia, ruled by Dr. Victor Von Doom, is declared a free democracy upon Dr. Doom’s natural death. The country elects a female leader who swears to change the

image of the country as a terrorist nation. Excalibur remains established as the British super team.

2008- Domammu the long time enemy of Dr. Strange and the most powerful dark warlock on Earth rises to power slaughtering X-Corps in Germany, the German team is not re-established at this time. He kills Dr. Strange in a month long battle of mystics over German soil. The X-Corps teams all move to strike accompanied by members of the former X-Men team and most of Excalibur. Nearly all of them are defeated by Domammu and his demon hoards. Domammu is finally felled by the timely return of Nightcrawler. He is able to assassinate the sorcerer where others had failed by teleporting in close to him past his spells and using the Soul Sword that Magik had hidden inside him years ago. 2009- Seraph, a relatively new and unknown villain, is driven mad when the Japanese Emperor denies him the hand of his daughter in marriage. The two had been privately courting behind the Emperor’s back for years. He loses control of his powers in his rage causing an earthquake of intense magnitude slaughtering most of the inhabitants of Japan as well as leaving entire cities in ruin. The event is marked as one of the largest tragedies of all time and various memorials to the people lost in the event are set up all over Japan. Seraph is placed on the most wanted list higher than any other person alive at this point. It is then that Genosha opens its borders to him and makes him a member of the high council. Riot the leader of Geonsha makes Seraph his most trusted general. The X-Men's Rogue is kidnapped by Mr. Sinister. He makes a very public declaration of intent against his old foes, the X-Men. 2010- Unable to locate Rogue the X-Men devote themselves to this task. It brings most of the X-Men back from the X-Corps or out of retirement. The X-Corps, Excalibur and currently acting X-Men, work together to find any leads on Rogue. Finally able to locate Rogue with the help of the White Queen; the X-Men mount an offensive to rescue her. They are able to free her and imprison Sinister. But Rogue has been stripped of her powers outside of the fire that she acquired from Sunfire at his death. It seems to have somehow bonded with her in a fashion different from the way her powers normally absorbed mutant abilities. Carol Danvers is kidnapped by the Kree, leading to the Avengers North team to leave Earth to find her.

2011- Most of the X-Men either retire or leave to return to X-Corps. The remaining go to Excalibur upping its numbers. Excalibur is officially sanctioned by the British government and all of its members are trained in warfare tactics, becoming a United Nations sponsored team. The former X-Men back in America are made into celebrities by the government, alongside the former Avengers. All seen as heroes of some sort, the populace loves them. Certain members embrace the fame loving every minute of it. Iceman actually starts a hit T.V. crime drama starring himself as a mutant detective. For a long time it is rumored that the red headed Siryn is dating various different movie stars, a couple of whom have rather mysterious deaths.

2012- Jean for all intensive purposes, as Xavier's primary estate controller and the owner of Warren's stock in Worthington Enterprises, shuts down the Institute sending most students home or to other schools. Iceman's show begins its last season as people lose interest in the program. The Fantastic Four retire all except for the Human Torch who reforms the team as its senior member. The new team is; Franklin Richards, Human Torch, Husk of the X-Men and Magma of the X-men. The FF is still stationed at the Baxter Building despite Reed Richards and Sue Storm’s inactivity, the couple just living in the building, acting as support for the team. Wanda Maximoff and Tony Stark are married in a very large and public wedding.

2013- Italy's government is thrown into turmoil as factions of former country controlling political part affiliated with despot Adam Didriksen attempt to reclaim control. The dissenters are stopped by Excalibur and the new Sorcerer Supreme, Magik. Wong was acting Sorcerer Supreme from the time of Dr. Strange’s death until this point but he was unwilling to continue as the master of mystic arts and handed over the mantel to the more experienced and former rules of Limbo, Magik. Wanda Maximoff has a son who ages at a rapid rate. His mother chaos powers having caused him to age much faster then normal. She is able to stop it so that he begins aging normally. This same year she is killed by an anti-mutant organization called the Friends of Humanity. Enraged Tony Stark kills many members of this group before taking his own life. 2014- Elisa moves in with Iceman, its seventh grade and she spends the school year at his home in Syracuse. Jean sends her there hoping she can have a more normal upbringing then one provided at the mansion. Excalibur is fully active and one of the only super hero teams left besides the X-Corps. The various Avengers teams, the remaining three being Avengers South, West and East, are shut down due to government funding issues and its members are spread out through the X-Corps ranks or moved into retirement by their own accord. A new X-Corps is set up in California and the German one is established again. 2015- The X-Corps is officially the UN Global Protectorate. There are offices of X-Corps in most major countries, besides the UK who retains Excalibur as their acting government sponsored team. The various mutant and super human factions are all lead by the X-Corps director Sean Cassidy as well as deputy directors stationed at each local headquarters. Cassidy is working in close proximity with the head of SHIELD Natasha Romanoff, who  have joint control of the X-Corps in California. Magik turns over the reigns of Lobo to Wong. As Sorcerer Supreme she doesn’t have enough time to properly defend the dimension and she knows Wong is more then capable.2016- The Tokyo X-Corps is slaughtered by the Sheiken Kyougi. The two teams face off in downtown Tokyo after the assassins finish a job killing the Silver Samurai. The X-Corps gives a good fight but in the end are over run by the superior skills of the Sheiken Kyougi. Jubilee, Synch, Skin and Strong Guy are the X-Corps members killed. This is when the Sheiken Kyougi became the number one on the most wanted list of the entire world. Outside of that the teams remain stable and there isn't much world turmoil. Most countries are mutant friendly at the very slightest though mutant segregation does still occur in large parts of the world. 2017- Jean and Wolverine briefly open their doors again. Four students come and spend an entire year of schooling and training. At the end of the year Jean decides to close the school until Elisa was back home and she felt she could trust David to be stable. He was living in the Boat House along the lake of the school under constant supervision. She wanted her daughter to train with the next incarnation of the X-Men. Aisha is the only one of these students to return to the Institute three years from this time when the doors were open again. Nocturne, Nightcrawler`s daughter along with Faith the girl who can turn into a dragon, were also on the team and when it disbanded they joined Excalibur. Allen or Boxer is also on this short lived team. Jean keeps Aisha and the others on a reserve status for the X-Men. 2018- David is declared safe by Jean and another psychologist who is working with him. Unknown to David and others this is because Jean erased his knowledge of who he used to be the old memories causing his instability. Reed Richards played a large part in the final reconstruction of David’s mind. Excalibur battles a newly formed Brotherhood in New York City. Wolverine assists in the battle. August of this year the X-Men are declared national heroes by the acting president and a monument is built in downtown New York City to the Avengers and X-Men who have either retired or fallen in battle. The monument is where the Avenger's mansion used to be and its building is funded by Dr. Reed Richards and Tony Stark Inc. Jean sells her fifty percent controlling stock in Worthington Enterprises to Tony Stark's son Pietro Anthony Stark for a reported five hundred million dollars. The company merges with Stark Inc. to create Worthington Stark Inc. The merger makes the technology company worth nearly four billion dollars. Jean places her money into trust funds and various bank accounts. She also starts two charities to support down and out mutants and humans. Wolverine broaches the idea to reopen the school after a meeting with Dazzler. The younger mutant woman actually recommends it to Logan.

2019-

AUGUST: Jean reopens the school in the beginning of the month. The first group of students; Elisa, David, Aisha, Jade, Jarret, Jamie, Wil, Dallas, Lydia and Charlene join and embark on a mission against the terrorist group FOH; Friends of Humanity. During the mission they meet Gunner who also joins the school.

SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER:

The mansion remains fairly quiet except for a brief mission stopping a riot in downtown New York City. The students live out the first semester at the Institute learning basic skills and fighting techniques as well as attending classes for both high school and college credits. Emerald Nightingale arrives.

David is declared team leader and this original group start to work well as a team. They are becoming a well oiled machine. Wolverine intensifies training. Chance arrives towards the end of the semester.Christmas vacation home is allowed for the students who want it.

2020-

JANUARY-FEBRUARY:

New students Sarell, Thomas, Raphael, Natalya arrive and Jade and Jarret leave shortly after. Banshee arrives at the school as well as a mutant known as Plasma Whip. Both work for the government and are asking for the new X-Men's help in Genosha. Banshee explains that X-Corps is busy with various other missions and unable to answer field the men for the mission. Right before the students leave on the mission a few new students arrive. Four students; Chance, Raphael, Ilima, Clover and Natalya all stay behind at the mansion. A month later Raphael's sister goes into the Hospital back in Italy and he leaves.

The X-Men and Shieken Kyougi shack up together in Genosha to face Riot and his forces. (for more information on this mission see Genosha Mission File). During Genosha the mutant vigilante Richard Tred and Dynamite both join the students. Charlene dies while facing Riot in battle.

MARCH:

When the students arrive back at the mansion on March 4th Elisa and Natalya all leave the school after the funeral. Jean declares the time as a grieving period and allows the students who wish to return home to do so as no classes will be held for two weeks. Thomas and Richard both leave for short vacations home. Classes restart on March 18th, and Dallas and Sarell begin dating March 17th. David, Emerald, Chance and Wil embark on a mission to find Elisa. More new students arrive at the mansion; Cesca and the Jenkins sisters. Ilima's mutation surfaces suddenly and without warning as a result of Clover's enhancement powers. Only two days later Dyanmite and Mycroft, who are actually one person with a split personality, split into two people as a result of Clover's powers remaining uncontrolled. Elisa returns to the mansion, having spent her time away with a female gang in Los Vegas. Emma Frost comes to the mansion with Betsy Braddock. Both are coming to assist Jean in her attempt to locate and destroy Apocalypse before he can gain a host body. Jean is thrown into a coma by sabotage done by Mystique in Jamie's form. Jamie is missing as he was replaced by Mystique for a long time. Ippy of the Shieken Kyougi arrives alone at the mansion saying Apocalypse's forces captured her brother Dagger. As the X-Men prepare to go into battle against Apocalypse, the teams are split into two separate groups. The first group of psychics Chance, Psylocke and Emma Frost going to the temple in Canada along with Jade, Jarret, She-Hulk and Juggernaut. The second team consisting of the senior students goes to face Apocalypse in Southern California. Apocalypse’s priests work to bring the man back to life in his new host body, the captured X-Man Richard Tred. Death, the mutant assassin Dagger, battles Ippy and Gunner. It is revealed Jamie has been turned into the Horseman Famine. Jamie and Cable are keeping the entire team at bay. During the battle David loses his blades to Cable. While Cable escapes, Jamie is taken down and teleported back to the mansion. The psychics fought Apocalypse and the Shadow King on the psychic plane. They were able to stall Apocalypse long enough for his body to be destroyed by Wolverine. Logan stabbed his body through the head and freed Richard trapping Apocalypse on the psychic plane and the combined power of the psychics was too much for En Sabah Nur to handle. During the mission a large number of Infinites, Apocalypse’s robot army, lead by Seraph the Horseman Pestilence attacked the mansion. The students who had remained behind were not faring well despite the assistance of Rogue, Nightcrawler and Mystique. A series of new students had shown up during this time and all were in grave danger. Jean lost her life and was resurrected in a younger and more powerful White Crown Phoenix form. As the White Crown Phoenix she was able to destroy the Infinites and drive Seraph from the school saving her students lives.

MAY:

After the Apocalypse mission things seemed to calm down at the mansion albeit only briefly. As classes continued and the end of the year neared Nightcrawler received information from a reliable source that the FOH were holding mutants against there will for testing in Northern Idaho. Selecting three of the less recognizable students; Clover, Cesca and Gunner, they were sent to Boise undercover as a homeless mutant family acting as bait. The plan worked after a short couple of weeks the three were picked up and transported to a holding facility in Idaho.

The team dispatched immediately to rescue their teammates, but once on the mission the team arrived to find the facility mostly destroyed. Dagger and Ippy, hired by Gunner, had destroyed large sections of the building in an attempt to cripple the FOH. The team located Cesca and Clover as well as various other captured mutants and freed them.David followed Gunner’s scent and walked in on Ippy, Dagger and Gunner holding the head of the FOH hostage. After a tense situation David and Gunner left with no one harmed in the process, though Gunner had been prepared to kill his own mother, the head of the FOH. While the team had been gone on the mission the newly formed Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, including Seraph and Jamie attacked the school. Aisha lead the students in a defense of the mansion. The Brotherhood was defeated but Seraph had torn the mansion to shreds. The team returned home and prepared to leave for the summer. Dallas had been sent away by his father who claimed Dallas was a drug addict and had him committed. Nightcrawler legally adopted Dallas King so that the boy could return to the mansion before graduation. The senior students graduated, with Aisha and David the heads of the class. The students all left for the summer and the mansion was rebuilt. For further information on what occurred for students over the Summer Break see the Summer Posts on the Tales of Grey site. August - December: Upon the start of the new year, students Dynamite and Mycroft got a place together in an apartment in New York City, leaving the mansion behind. Clover's long time girlfriend Ilima left the mansion as well, returning home to her place in California. All of the other students returned and began the second school year at the Grey Mansion. As the students began to change and move in and out, various former X-Men from around the country began disappearing. Shadowcat, a US Senator, and other mutants all were disappearing,until eventually most of the former X-Men were captured except for Sage, Mimic, Jean, Wolverine and Nightcrawler.

Meanwhile, The students were sent to Washington DC to fight off an attack by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Brotherhood was actively trying to destroy the Italian Embassy. It ended with the Senior team stopping them, but questioning their motives for fear they may have been in the wrong, as the Italian Government trying to pass anti-mutant laws once more.

The mansion was attacked by Nightmare, Dark Beast and Beast. Nightmare made quick work of the team and kidnapped the remaining X-Men. The X-Men's Nightmares were fueling his power and Beast was using him as a tool for revenge against the X-Men he had believed to abandon him for dead. All of the students along with the remaining members of Excalibur staged a huge mission to rescue all of the captured X-Men. The X-Men were saved, but not without a cost. The student, Sarell Manic, was killed during the mission and Nightmare unlocked all of David's old memories, causing the new X-Men leader to leave the school to seek out the assassin Dagger to discuss their time in Weapon X.Sarell's death lead to a general funk in the mansion and some students shifted around and left. After a quiet period at the mansion, filled with sadness and reflection, the students ended their semester, and were sent home for the Christmas holiday. David came back shortly before the end of the Semester, officially breaking things off with his long time boyfriend Wil, because Wil had left along with his sister and went home to take care of their father who was very ill. The mansion wasn't exactly the way it had been when it first opened, Sarell's death hanging over the students like a cloud. 2021 - JANUARY - MAY: The new semester started off with an influx of some newer students, June, Raquel, and the dragon from Excalibur, Faith, then June's sister, Meredith. The students welcomed the new blood and things seemed to pick up and look better. Several new professors as well as a school psychologist were hired, to help all of the students and to get a more proper education then previously provided to the students. The Professors included Reed Richard's of the Fantastic Four who came in to teach an applied technology and computer class.

The team was attacked as school began, half of the students waking up in another reality, while the other half were under a psychic attack, trapped at the mansion. Dallas King was the only student not captured, and he traveled to all the other major super hero teams asking for help, unable to get back into the mansion due to a telekinetic mystical shield around the building. Eventually Dallas was able to get help from his adopted Aunt Magik and her apprentice, Wiccan.Meanwhile the rest of the students fought an Alternate Universe version of our own team, alongside that Universe's Sorceress Supreme Clover Young. The teams managed to defeat the evil students and the two  Sorceresses, Magik and Clover, determined that the rift had been caused by the  Dark Phoenix of the other universe trying to take over our Jean's body. Jean gave up her life and Phoenix powers in order to stop the Dark Phoenix from coming back and seizing control of the students under her care. After Jean's disappearance, Logan left the mansion, upset about the turn of events. Unknown to the students, Charlene and Ethan (David's alternate) from the other universe hitched a ride back to the Grey Universe. SHIELD, the Shiar, Wolverine and various mystics have all begun a search at this point to try and find evidence of Jean or the Phoenix Force as no one actually believes it was fully destroyed. Their was a couple of smaller missions, including one mission to locate and assist a student with destroying a computer program called CHARLI, but the general world was quieter, not having a lot going on with the super villain front worldwide. The search continued, with varying success, Wolverine making stops into the mansion to report and see students at different times. The student Allen turned out to be selling information about the students to other less then reputable organizations. He was chased from the mansion and not seen for some time. The teams were dispatched to save various students from Allen's treachery, a couple former students dying in the process. It didn't take long to find out that Ilima, a former student, was in danger of being killed. But, the two teleporters meant to take them to rescue her were indisposed, on their own adventure in Vegas.

Students Raquel Santiago and Dallas King had gotten in over their heads, getting in trouble for an outing into Vegas. The outing involved stealing money for Raquel's father's debt as well as using their powers for gain and assisting essentially a mob boss. Dallas was taken captive for a large some of money from his place of employment in Vegas, the man  ending up a pawn in the Vegas Mob's game. Two teams were dispatched, one to handle the crisis with the assassins hired to take out Ilima's family and one team to rescue Dallas from the Lilim. It turned out the Brotherhood member Seraph, had his own spy in the Lilim and he showed up too, causing the Brotherhood's involvement in the mission. After the mission new counselor Selmer was used as well as a probationary status used, to make sure all of the students did as they were told, using Raquel and Dallas as examples. The semester ended with some older students such as Apollo and Faith leaving the mansion for good and new students such as Aaron coming on to join the school. The school year ended on something of a high note, with things seemingly picking up from the beginning of the last school year when Sarell had died. Summer Summaries explain what happened over the summer months, for more information see the summaries on Tales of Grey for this time period. AUGUST - DECEMBER: As the new school year started up, a certain arrival got a lot of attention. Vincent, the apparent Great Nephew of David, who was much older then he rightfully looked. The entire ordeal was over shadowed though by the sets of news that came piling into the mansion. The marriage of Cesca and her Vegas found Husband, she married over the summer. A love triangle of sorts exploded on campus as Elisa and her boyfriend Dallas brokeup, fighting very publicly and causing a big stir around the mansion on the first day back to school. Shortly after a team showed up, apparently hired by Wolverine in space, came to collect the X-Men to assist their former Headmaster. Wolverine had gotten into trouble while attempting to rescue Jean from a shard of the M'Kraan crystal.

Half of the team left right away, heading for the planet Wolverine was on, a trip that took several months. This team was lead by longtime leader Aisha Jaspers. The space mission was meant to go ahead while  Dr. Richards and Forge worked together to update the X-Men's Raven for long term space travel. The rest of the student body was left antsy with no news from the space traveling team. David's team prepared to leave in the newly remade jet as soon as possible. But, like so many things do, something went wrong. David's team ended up back in the past, meeting with the old X-Men team of the nineteen nineties and battling with the original Brotherhood team. Magneto actually killed David Grey, who was saved only by his advanced healing factor and the timely intervention of his fellow student Thomas Sinclair. The team ended up spending a couple of days in the past, inadvertently being the reason Xavier and Wolverine knew to look for David at Weapon X in the first place. The team in space did battle with an alien government's military and alongside Wolverine's hired allies, they rescued the piece of the M'Kraan crystal and by default Jean Grey. Jean came back along with Logan on the return flight home from space. When all of the others came home, their was a lot of excitement over the reunions and people were generally in a uplifted mood. Bridges seemed to mend some with the return of Jean, albeit she didn't stay long. Deciding that without the Phoenix force, which was gone from her, she'd rather just retire and live with Logan, the two moved into the same neighborhood as Iceman in Syracuse, NY.

Over the fall, it was revealed Dallas had been speaking regularly to the long time villain Seraph, who was manipulating the boy. Eventually the Brotherhood was seen attacking a government building in Venezuala, a lure to get Dallas and the X-Men down there, so Seraph could attempt to either kill him or make him into a Horseman of Apocalypse. Seraph used Mystique, who was assisted by psychics to pose as Dallas's dead fiance, Sarell.A team was sent to rescue Dallas and ended up fighting Dallas himself, who turned back to helping them after it was revealed Sarell was fake. Dallas saved the team when Seraph tried to kill them, but after the mission David officially asked for Dallas to step down from the team. The semester ended with students being on generally tense terms. 2022 - JANUARY - MAY:Magik came to the mansion after one of the Jenkin sisters, Morghan, didn't come back from winter vacation. The witch sisters were all worried about her and Magik came in to help out as the Sorceress Supreme. Morghan had been taken by the Pantheon once the group discovered Morghan had been wielding the Soul Sword. Morghan was taken into Limbo and the soul sword was being used to raise Agamemnon and return the Pantheon to power. They had successfully distracted both Belasco and Mephisto in Limbowith a small false skirmmish, so the two ruling powers in Limbo had turned a blind eye.Magik figured out where everything was happening and sent the teachers of the mansion, as well as members of the Fantastic Four, to Asgard. They were their to talk the Gods down, both sides blaming each other for the missing Goddess and the problems occurring in the world, none of them knowing the true culprit. Two teams of X-Men were dispatched, one into Limbo itself and the other to a place in the Rocky Mountains to a temple to save the life of the Goddess. While the mission took place, pockets to Limbo began opening in the mansion and demons attacked the students. Aisha and her team saved Morghan from Limbo, managing to defeat the Pantheon there. David's team saved the Goddess in time and Morghan was safe, albeit a little shaken. School continued on again normally after this, leading up to graduation. The day of graduation, a pack of wolves, after the Grey Institute student Gabe, attacked the graduation ceremony before it could even start. The battle took the students by surprise who were unprepared and nearly all involved were drastically injured. Clover had her wings ripped off by the leader, the Alpha Female, of this wolf pack. The mutant wolves also killed both Daniel and Zahra Jenkins, the two most pacifistic students. The deaths hit the students hard and the entire event was canceled.After the funerals all of the students were either sent home or given a place to stay on campus for the summer as it neared. Summer Summaries explain what happened over the summer months, for more information see the summaries on Tales of Grey for this time period. AUGUST - DECEMBER: Over the summer, David was tired of students dying and villains just getting away. He plotted with Dallas King, SHIELD and a couple of select students and they managed to lock the entire Brotherhood of Evil Mutants up in SHIELD cells. It was a huge relief and a quickly successful mission. As the new school year started and the students got settled back in, the deaths still hung over the school like a toxic air. However the students made the best of it, keeping each others spirits up as much as possible.

Shortly after the semester started, Aisha was caught having somewhat of an affair with another student, Grace. Clover, Grace's girlfriend, caught them and lost control of her powers. This ended up changing and mutating both Aisha and Elisa's powers permanently. The two team leaders were benched along with the rest of their team since neither woman could control her powers any longer. Another student, Dash, was also affected by Clover's outburst.  The Exiles, a team of reality hopping mutants, informed the X-Men that the Acolytes and Brotherhood were going to attempt to escape from the SHIELD prison, but they also had to get Ethan and Charlene out of this universe or it would have horrible consequences. The teams split up with the Exiles members and attempted to warn SHIELD. They knew SHIELD would never willingly hand over Charlene and Ethan, so they used psychics and a well trained team to break into a SHIELD jail to take them back to their proper universe. On the Helicarrier, Death the former leader of the Acolytes and Riot's wife broke out of prison, nearly destroying the Helicarrier in the process. She managed to get the woman who would be the new Pestilence out with her, almost killing an Exile in the process. The others who attempted escapes, including Seraph and Alice, were stopped by the X-Men and Exiles teams, only a couple of the enemies actually getting away. They also managed to get Charlene and Ethan out, teleporting them back to their own universe. The Exiles left once their job was done.SHIELD heavily fined the school for the interference, though they couldn't argue with the results of the mission. SHIELD began working more closely with Kurt and the mansion, contacting the X-Men for several mission opportunities. They dispatched Aisha's X-Men team to go out to a facility in Bolivar, MO. The team quickly infiltrated and shut down the facility, which was supposed to be a group of mutant terrorists. As it turned out the place was simply a commune and had not been breaking the law. Sage was not pleased and made it clear in a public screaming match with SHIELD Director Natasha Romanoff. As the school semester got close to an end, the long time team leader and student, one of the founding class of this new X-Men, was offered a leadership position with Excalibur. The British team was sending a team down to Egypt for a prolonged mission; the team consisting of various Excalibur members. Having grown up in Africa and herleadership experience, they asked Aisha to lead the team. After much debate, she ended up going, heading for the new mission and saying goodbye to her friends. Long time students Joaquin, Marina and Byron all left over this time period as well. 2023 - JANUARY - MAY: The new semester started on a high note, with everyone coming back together for Gunner and Raquel's wedding. The two were wed and a lot of former students showed up for it. Around this time the remaining Jenkins sisters decided it was time for them to go, with Morghan being so depressed and Bethany wanting to be their for her sister. Magik and Wiccan came, taking the Soul Sword. Figuring after the danger it had placed Morghan in and her current state, they couldn't leave her with the weapon. Overall the beginning of the semester had no major speed bumps and everything seemed to settle back to normal just fine.

The entire time down in Limbo, Magik and Wiccan were doing battle with Belasco. They ended up killing him, or so they believed. Magik was too afraid to leave Limbo unguarded so in an unprecedented move, she simply bestowed all of her power on Wiccan, making him the new Sorcerer Supreme. Magik retained the Soul Sword and began working on setting herself up as the ruler of Limbo once more, to try and bringsome sort of settlement to the place, though many of Belasco's followers remained powerful in the realm and fought against them, it turned out this skirmish was a war designed to distract Magik, Wong andWiccan.

Belasco's body had been destroyed but he was very much alive, his spirit form entered and took control of one of the Grey Institute students Raphael. Belaaco was going to use Raquel's reflective teleporting skills to move the Elder Gods from their realm into his own, by passing Agamatto's spell and releasing Armageddon on Earth. Raphael fought and kidnapped Raquel, taking her to a place in China, the force's of Belasco meeting him their and at the opposite point of the earth in Southern America.

The spell was picked up by SHIELD mystics, who warned and told the X-Men. The Grey Institute deployed a team to both locations. After a long battle, many of Belasco's forces were defeated and the spell was stopped. Shane, the newest Grey psychic, managed to enter Raphael's mind and help him force Belasco out. The end of the world was averted, again, but not without consequence. Raquel was left in a coma, mystically induced. Wiccan and Reed Richard's failed to wake Raquel from her sleep for over a month. During this time time, Raphael was attacked by a group of men and bashed for his sexuality as a gay male. This ended with him in the hospital and the story, thanks to Clover's activist group, made national news. It shined a light on prejudice and Kurt paid for She-Hulk to fly overseas to America to be the prosecuting Attorney in the upcoming trial for the men who had attacked Raphael. Members of the Brotherhood were broken out of jail by the Horseman Death. The woman along with Plague and a series of Acolytes and Clan Akkaba operatives managed to free Brotherhood members from SHIELD's main holding prison despite psychic shields and large amounts of defenses put in place. SHIELD immediately began working on a new way to hold its prisoners more securely and have redoubled efforts to bring the escaped prisoners back into custody. The next mission was assisted by SHIELD, who wanted to make sure the wolf pack who were responsible for the death of Zahra and Daniel were brought to justice. Using Gabe as bait, the teams managed to defeat and capture a couple of the wolves but a large number of the pack got away. The wolves were placed in confinement in SHIELD's newest maximum security prison located in the Negative Zone. She-Hulk didn't have much time home after the trial with Raphael. Shortly afterwards, the X-Men Dallas, David and Aaron ran into Seraph and Cae at the Mall of America. The trio had a short battle with the two Brotherhood members that resulted in a few civilian injuries and large amounts of damage to the mall itself. The owners and the injured civilians sued the X-Men for damages and loss, and shortly after SHIELD stepped in and arrested the three X-Men. She-Hulk returned in their defense and Aaron and David were released until the upcoming trial. Dallas, a teleporter, was held as a flight risk. As the year ended, the three were found guilty and given varying sentences based on the degree of their crimes. With legal issues putting the school on the brink of being shut down, SHIELD stepped in and took control. The X-Men team has become government sanctioned and SHIELD run. Summer Summaries explain what happened over the summer months, for more information see the summaries on Tales of Grey for this time period. 2023 - September - December

The school started up in full swing with SHIELD agents coming onto staff and dictating the missions the X-Men will take from here on out. Despite the rough start with David, Aaron and Dallas coming home from jail the SHIELD control has been more openly accepted by most of the student body. The first mission of the year was to infiltrate a Hydra base and destroy sensitive documents and while the mission was successful overall several things went wrong. Longtime member June betrayed the team and disappeared . It was revealed the head of Hydra was actually Emerald Nightingale's birth mother and Raquel was attacked by Deadpool who had been hired by someone to kill her.

The betrayal hit hard and a lot of people were thrown by it. In November the team was once again sent out by SHIELD, this time to investigate a magical hot spot in China. Demons were attempting to open a gate allowing their Elder Gods to take form on Earth and kill most of the population of the

planet in the process. June was among these demons and claimed to be one of them. June came to her senses at the last minute and despite helping stop the demonic lords, her ties were weak at best with most the student body. She left the team temporarily to seek counseling.

Having been given the go ahead by SHIELD, David and Gunner selected a small group for a Black Ops team. The X-Men selected were Bear, Raquel and Emerald. The team isn't publicly known around the mansion, but they have begun taking down important villains and terrorists around the world for SHIELD. Their first mission was to stop a bomber in London, a mutant with self-detonation powers who planned to injure as many civilians as possible, by any means necessary. They ended up having to kill the man setting the tone for how the team would be going from here on out.

The Black Ops team was officially formed, the initial members; Gunner, David, Bear and Emerald. The four of them had their first mission which was a success. They managed to capture the hacker and former Acolyte Acid as well as take out the woman he was living with, a known murderer in Europe. The team had a second mission shortly after which ended in the death of the villain Elira, another former Acolyte and the capture of the woman Starfire.

Agent Dannielles, one of the two liaisons to SHIELD, showed his true colors and continued in June's path of betrayal. Knocking out his fellow SHIELD Agent Chevy Dupont, he attempted to finish where Deadpool had failed and kill Raquel. He ended up injuring a couple of students and managed to wipe most of the X-Men's computer database with a virus. Before he could be taken down he got a surprise evacuation from non-other then Gunner's estranged mother, the former leader for the Friends of Humanity, Leandra Knight. 

The Black Ops team deployed to find Dannielles and take him out, but they were unable to locate him and nearly got themselves killed as a trap had been set for them. Dannielles expected them and attempted to blow them up once they entered the bunker. Raquel managed to teleport the team out in time, but it a close call and David gave anyone who wanted it the chance to leave the squad if desired. No time to rest, the former Headmaster Logan Grey aka Wolverine was kidnapped and Jean was badly injured in an attack by Death and Seraph on their home in Syracuse, NY.

During this same time Aaron's club was burned to the ground by his insanely jealous boyfriend Brian. The club was lit on fire by Brian when Aaron dumped him. The students Chance, Raphael and Vincent happened upon the burning building and managed to save Aaron. Brian was arrested and placed in jail for arson and attempted murder. Raphael jokingly told Aaron they were even on saving each other now.

The team discovered, through SHIELD assistance, that the Clan Akkaba planned to bring Apocalypse back from his trapped form on the psychic plane. With the help of Death and Cable he had already achieved destroying the psychic barrier. As a spot of irony, Apocalypse attempted to use Cable's body to restore himself but the man had died in the process. Wolverine had been chosen as a more likely candidate to survive the procedure. 

The X-Men sent out both teams once they managed to locate Apocalypse's forces. The Excalibur teams were put on high alert and set as back up if the X-Men failed since they couldn't allow Apocalypse to return no matter the cost. While the teams were gone the mansion was surprise attacked by the Horseman Famine aka the former student Jamie and a group of Brotherhood mutants. The attack resulted in the mansion being completely destroyed and numerous student injuries including the Headmaster Kurt Wagner. He was crippled for life having lost his left leg.

The X-Men battled hard against Seraph who had finally been promoted by Apocalypse himself to the Horseman Death. Fighting Seraph, numerous Brotherhood and Clan Akkaba members the X-Men were beaten down hard, though in the end they managed to win though not without casualties. The first student and daughter of Jean Grey, Elisa, was murdered by Seraph. He was promptly killed shortly after by Dallas King and the X-men managed to combine their efforts to take down Apocalypse which unfortunately resulted in the death of Wolverine in the process. 

Distraught over the loss of her daughter and husband, Jean Grey turned over her funds to her only surviving relative David Grey. She disbanded the school, still owning the property, and had the place transformed into a memorial garden for the X-Men. The graveyard and a huge garden were set up along with multiple statues to honor the X-Men. The students were all sent down to Emma Frost's Massachusetts Academy to complete the rest of their school year. Jean retired and moved along with Iceman and Nightctrawler to Psylocke's castle in England.

At this point in the RPG we jumped five RP years. For more detailed accounts of what different characters did see the summaries on TOG or the character bios. 

2024 -

Students who had graduated already either went home or joined SHIELD full time. The X-Men didn't continue on in much of an official fashion, though a SHIELD squad of all former members was formed so they could continue protecting the world on some level. Excalibur still maintained the English and Egyptian teams and X-Corps still existed in various countries around the world. With most of the students and X-Men split around the world, a lot of them lost touch.

A few of the students that moved down to the Massachusetts Academy did join Emma Frost's more Elite group of students known as the Hellions. Others, such as Clover and Meredith, choose to continue their careers or schooling elsewhere, effectively splitting up the Grey Institute alumni. Still commanded by SHIELD, the Black Ops team kills a dangerous mutant terrorist in front of a news cast. The incident is quickly covered up by SHIELD publicists, however the nature of the team is fully revealed to any of the students who hadn't already known. 

The SHIELD X-Men were surprised to receive a request for help from the former Horsemen, Jamie. He had been attacked by his own undead father, the Vampire Gambit. Blood Gambit and Beast had managed to track down and turn four other former X-Men, Dani Moonstar, Rogue, Dazzler and Longshot. Rogue's husband and child were murdered by her in an insane rage after first being turned into a vampire. The group of mutant vampires were working with a witch and planning on taking over the United States by completing a spell to turn the world back to the Medieval Ages setting the Witch up as Queen of the American Continent. 

The X-Men, including many students who hadn't been active but were asked to help, gathered together to stop them. Along with the surprising help of Brotherhood members Jamie and Bass, they managed to kill the witch, ending the possibility of the spells completion and the world being thrown into chaos. Gambit was also killed in the process. The vampire Beast was captured and placed into SHIELD holding facilities while the remaining vampires were able to escape. 

2025 - 

The new semester opened with Tara finding out she was pregnant. There were a lot of rumors around the Massachusetts Academy as to who the father was, but Tara kept her mouth shut about it. She ended up getting her degree and leaving the school with early graduation. A large and very public wedding brought together old friends when Dallas and Faith were married. Meanwhile, Cesca had fallen deeper into her alcoholism. There was a large scene at Emma Frost's school where Cesca was forbidden to return. The marriage ended in divorce and with Cesca's admittance to a rehab clinic, forced their by her longtime friend Clover Young.