Editing Some Assembly Required (an Avengers PBP game) (section)

===2004===
* The mutant terrorist known only as '''Magneto''' makes his first public show of force, his terrorist group the '''Brotherhood of Mutants''' triggering an EMP in Lansing, Michigan that leaves thousands of Americans without power for weeks. Federal response is heavily criticized for its unpreparedness for the disaster. Public opinion is dire for the rising Mutant Menace, with reports of more mutants appearing every week. Geneticist '''Charles Xavier''' urges caution, claiming that "we know so little about these mutants, considering them a threat would be premature."
* Troubled American scientist '''Henry Pym''' loses his wife Maria at the hands of secret police on a trip to her native Hungary. Pym, deeply affected and suffering a psychotic break as a result of his lifelong schizophrenia vows to find some way to battle man's descent into inhumanity.
* British psychiatrist '''Anthony Ludgate''' takes perhaps the most important step in his quest to learn the secrets of the druids when he travels paradoxically to Tibet to study under '''the Ancient One'''!
* Wrestling Warfare America Promoter Ving McMaster offers a lucrative one million dollar contract for the first mutant wrestler to be able to prove their powers to him. He announces his intention to run a programme following this search labelled 'X-Factor'