2018/Quantum Gravity Time Travel

## Timeline

### After

2021

*"When you do things for other people, you get strength from that. From them. And no matter how many times you go down, you get right back up. Over and over, as many times as you have to."*
―Gert Yorkes to Morgan le Fay[src]
This is a timeline of events that occurred in **2018** in an alternate reality where Gert Yorkes died during the Battle at the Hostel.

## 2018

### August

#### 26th

* Nico and Tina Minoru notice Morgan le Fay's army attempting to cross over into their world from a mirror.
* Le Fay's Coven performs a spell as she watches more and more people use the phones.
* Dale and Stacey Yorkes talk about Dale trying to make a centrifuge out of Stein's protein shake blender to complete a device and inoculate everyone.
* Tina Minoru confesses to Nico that le Fay used to be her friend, and that she stole the Staff of One for herself once le Fay asked her to steal it.
* Dale and Stacey Yorkes head upstairs to check in on Geoffrey Wilder.
* Tina Minoru prepares a spell to hold off the army, and Nico goes to warn the others.
* Nico Minoru warns Alex Wilder about the army.
* Geoffrey Wilder screams in pain, and Stacey Yorkes continues to treat him. Leslie Dean delivers a medical kit.
* Nico Minoru stops Karolina Dean and talks to her about the disagreements they have been having. Karolina promises she will never give up on her, and they kiss. Leslie calls, asking for help treating Geoffrey Wilder, so she goes.
* Gert Yorkes and Molly Hernandez watch Dale create the serum. He gives it to Hernandez, but Gert realizes that it could weaken her connection to Old Lace. She reluctantly locks up Old Lace for safety, and then takes the serum.
* Victor and Janet Stein continue hacking, while Chase goes to meet up with the others.
* On his way, Stein finds a box and opens it, only to find a Corvus phone inside and become accidentally enchanted by it.
* Minoru thinks things over in her room.
* The enchanted Stein walks down the stairs of the Hostel, and attacks Gert Yorkes, but Hernandez stops him and they inject him with the serum, breaking the spell.
* **Battle at the Hostel**:
	+ Morgan le Fay arrives at the Hostel through a portal and approaches the Runaways. Chase Stein and Karolina Dean try to attack her, but she blocks and demands to know where Nico Minoru is.
	+ Minoru overhears le Fay's arrival and uses a transportation spell to get to her quickly.
	+ Minoru appears and throws her dagger at le Fay, but it does not kill her, instead only giving her strength due to not being in the Dark Dimension.
	+ Le Fay tells the Runaways that she is too strong to kill, even using the Staff of One. She offers to spare the Runaways' lives in exchange for submission, but Minoru refuses. Le Fay tries to convince them that she can change the world for the better, and Wilder kneels, accepting defeat. All of the other Runaways kneel as Minoru watches.
	+ Dale Yorkes watches and tells Stacey, Geoffrey Wilder, and Leslie Dean that le Fay has won.
	+ Le Fay threatens Minoru, but Janet Stein finishes disrupting the phones. This weakens le Fay, and the Runaways stand up, telling her that their submission was merely an act. She attacks the Runaways, but Minoru magically protects them from le Fay's attack as they run for cover.
	+ Minoru starts to become overwhelmed by le Fay's power, but Karolina Dean protects her using her powers to form a shield around her.
	+ Cassandra and Bronwyn arrive at the Hostel, and Stein incapacitates Cassandra with the Fistigons, but Bronwyn then magically incapacitates him.
	+ Bronwyn walks into the room where Stacey and Dale Yorkes, Geoffrey Wilder, and Leslie Dean are, but Alex Wilder stabs her from behind with his knife, killing her.
	+ Stein gets up from the attack.
	+ Nico Minoru continues to hold off le Fay with Dean's help.
	+ Hernandez exclaims to Gert Yorkes that they need to something. Yorkes asks Tina Minoru, who is continuing to hold back le Fay's army, for the salt, and takes it.
	+ Le Fay overwhelms Karolina Dean and starts to torture her. Hernandez and Yorkes approach her from behind, but she throws the two of them out of the way, with Yorkes landing on a chandelier, causing her to start to bleed. Distressed, Old Lace bangs at the locked door of the room she is being held in.
	+ Le Fay refers to the Runaways as "pathetic children", prompting a speech from Yorkes in which she mocks le Fay's outfit. She talks about le Fay's desperate quest for power, and walks in a circle around le Fay, dropping salt behind her as she goes.
	+ Yorkes smiles as she closes the circle, trapping le Fay, and Tina Minoru arrives and banishes le Fay back to the Dark Dimension for good, causing the storm outside to end.
* Gert Yorkes collapses as she bleeds out. Stein rushes to hold her, and she caresses his face one final time, but dies in his arms.
* Stein weeps, and the Runaways and PRIDE gather around Yorkes to mourn her. Old Lace breaks out of her room and roars with sadness.

### September

#### 2nd

* Nico Minoru leaves the Runaways, going to train with a Master of the Mystic Arts.
* The Runaways pledge to move on and try to lead normal lives in the wake of Gert Yorkes' death. Alex Wilder turns his focus to innovation, Karolina Dean turns to further education, Molly Hernandez returns to Atlas Academy to repeat her freshman year, and Chase Stein retreats to his lab.

## References

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 *Runaways: 3.09: The Broken Circle*
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 Prior to *Runaways*: Season 3, evidence pointed to Season 2 finishing in late January 2018. *Smoke and Mirrors* is said to pick up "36 hours" later (the second morning after). 2 days pass, then the team are taken to the Dark Dimension. In *Enter The Dreamland* and *Merry Meet Again*, it is said when the team return that they have been in the Dark Dimension for "6 months", which would take the season to early August 2018.
In *Merry Meet Again*, Dale Yorkes says it is now "Day 189 of living off the grid", making it either 188 or 189 days since the end of Season 2 (depending on whether Dale counts that final day of Season 2 as "Day 1", or the day after), matching with it being early August 2018. In the scene, behind Yorkes is a calendar open to a month beginning on a Wednesday, which matches with being August 2018. However, he has crossed off 22 days, suggesting it is August 23, 2018, not early August. The main events of *The Broken Circle* occur just a few days after this, then *Cheat The Gallows* shows the 3-year anniversary of those events to be during school term time, also suggesting the events of *The Broken Circle* should be late August rather than early August. So, Dale Yorkes' calendar August 23, 2018 date may be taken, thus meaning Season 2 in fact ended on February 15, 2018 (if "Day 1" was the day after) or February 16, 2018 (if that was "Day 1"), and the events of Season 2 should be stretched accordingly. To keep the stretching to a minimum, February 15, 2018 is chosen. Thus, Season 3 begins on February 17, 2018, and the main events run February 15-19, 2018, then February 19-August 22, 2018 for the "6 months" in the Dark Dimension, then August 22-26, 2018.
This means that when the team return from the Dark Dimension in *Enter The Dreamland* and see that Alex Wilder's computer has not been backed up for "6 months, 22 days, 4 hours", it is since January 31, 2018. This lines up as being during the period from January 14, 2018 to February 2018 where the Magistrate's Son was taking over Wilder, with January 31, 2018 indeed likely being the approximate time that the Magistrate's Son would have got near full control, and thus when Wilder would have stopped backing up his computer.
*Cheat The Gallows* shows the 3-year anniversary of the events of August 26, 2018, which would make it August 26, 2021. However, Karolina Dean is shown to have a "Summer 2022" timetable up, suggesting it is in fact 2022. However, with the firm evidence for Seasons 1-3 being set December 2017 (see 2017 references)-August 2018 otherwise, this explicit 3-year anniversary should be August 2021. So, it must be taken that Dean has finished her second year at college and it is August 2021, with her having a draft timetable for her April-June 2022 term already up 8 months early. The timetable includes "English Lit 301", the "301" suggesting it is a third year course. Karolina Dean is a junior during the course of the show (see 2000s and 2017 references), meaning she would graduate high school almost a year after *The Broken Circle* (at the earliest, could be delayed due to her time off school), so her third year summer term would indeed be just under 4 years after *The Broken Circle* rather than 3 years, further justifying that this is a timetable for the future, and it is August 2021. So, August 2021 may be taken, in alignment with August 2018.
In *Devil's Torture Chamber*, a letter is momentarily shown with a "July 25, 2019" date. This may easily be discarded as an error. The fact that the season takes place through to August 2018 also means that it does cross into post-Snap territory, but this is unavoidable. It must just be taken that while it happened, no one references it on-screen.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 *Runaways: 3.10: Cheat The Gallows*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 In *Cheat The Gallows*, 2018 events are shown simultaneous to the events of *The Broken Circle*. With the time-traveled Runaways making no impacts of significance in many parts of the Hostel until 2028 Stein stops 2018 Yorkes from taking the salt, most of the events of *The Broken Circle* up to that point can be taken to play out essentially identically in the main reality. Similarly, events such as the Yorkes parents talking about the blender and Karolina Dean and Nico Minoru talking, shown only in *Cheat The Gallows*, are unaffected by the time-traveled Runaways' actions, so can be taken to have also happened in the *The Broken Circle* reality.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 In *Cheat The Gallows*, it is said that when Nico Minoru left the Runaways after Gert Yorkes' death, she was "gone for 3 years" before their reunion on Yorkes' 3-year anniversary. So, she must have left not long after Yorkes' death. When she talks to her younger self later in the episode, she says, "I know what's going through your mind. You think that you can't have it all [...] I think I made a mistake in this moment," implying she made up her mind that day, on August 26, 2018 (see other references). So, it can be taken that Minoru left around a week later, so September 2, 2018. This can also be assumed as when the Runaways made their pledge "to move on, to try to lead normal lives".