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Young Cyclops, still suffering from his injuries just thought the evening’s excitement was over when he beat a rogue demon. Unfortunately, he finds out said demon brought friends.
He shouts for Beast, even as the tentacles of one demon entrap him. Hank comes out of his lab to help, apologizing for being preoccupied this evening. He manages to free Scott, who demands what the hell has he been doing in that lab? As Hank helps him move away, he hints that is an extremely long and elaborate story.
In the meantime, their teammates Bobby, Idie and Evan are walking at the each in Miami and Bobby is still gushing about the young Inhuman Romeo he met in the club they visited. He refuses to care about the simmering conflict between mutants and Inhumans. Adult Cyclops was a one man Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. No way is he going to take his side. That’s their whole thing, right? Not taking sides. He muses about the boy’s name - Romeo. How on the nose is that? But he’ll be that guy’s Juliet.
Idie and Evan interrupt him, as they see a huge demon rising from the ocean. Idie halfheartedly points out that it is her turn to look after bystanders. Genesis reckons the bystanders are on their own this time.
Suddenly, something flaming flies towards the monster’s head. It’s Angel, carrying Wolverine. She jumps towards the demon’s eye and smashes right into it. The monster falls.
Idie and Bobby are somewhat disgusted. Laura works her way outside the demon’s head. She and Angel explain there has been weird monster stuff popping up all over town this night. They found the monsters with the help of the internet but so far no reason. Wolverine warns them this might turn out to be a long night.
Downtown Miami:The Goblin Queen walks the street with her Bamf Dragon, surrounded by scared bystander. She muses she has been working too hard. All the traveling she has done in her life has been for work. Alaska for flight school, then bouncing all over hell in that cargo plane. Westchester to and fro. Playing X-house with ol’ one-eye. She’s never even been to Manhattan for fun! Just that one long weekend sacrificing babies to the pit. For some elaborate work-presentation. Satisfied, she announces she has come a long way: no pasty-skinned creepo boss barking orders. No long cons to run or fraudulent marriages to propose. She doesn’t even have a real plan to speak of. Just mayhem and mojitos in South Beach, with a couple of hundred new friends bound by blood and mayhem. She looks at the flying demons.
In their Airstream, Beast explains to Cyclops that their parking space is located over a dimensional gate between their dimension and the darkness that lies beneath. He’s been using the Airstream’s spatial expansion matrix to widen that portal into a sort of doorway. The experiments have been eye-opening, but now it seems black magic has corrupted the matrix. He continues that magic isn’t much different from science. You study. You experiment. You follow a set of rules.
Cyclops angrily points out that there is a line of fire rising from their living room floor! Hank explains elements from the demon world are crossing over into theirs. And the Airstream is growing to accommodate. They need to hurry into his lab or this could grow worse in a hurry-
Could get? Scott screams. He has them walking through literal fires of hell! He accuses him of recklessness and compares him with his older alter ego. Hank is taken aback. Scott asks if it is the time travel block. He’s sure that’s frustrating… Hank interrupts, he solved time travel the day he and Evan returned from Egypt. He’s been home. And what he’s found there… Scott interrupts him urgently, as a fire-breathing monster is about to attack.
On the beach, Angel muses that the foes are actually kind of cool-looking gremlins. Laura has little understanding and orders him to shut up and help!
Oya and Iceman freeze their foes and Oya then proceeds to use her flames to fry them. Angel still insists that, apart from the violence, their foes are cute. Annoyed, Genesis repeats the order to shut up.
They have barely finished with their foes when they see a large, red, one-eyed demon towering over the city. Didn’t Wolverine finish that one off earlier? Genesis asks. Laura figures it has regenerative abilities. These aren’t goblins but demons. Genesis decides they need a genius now. They need Hank!
Hank has his own problems, as Cyclops and he try to flee from their monster. Hank berates himself as an idiot. Cyclops helpfully points out that only a genius could dream up this much god-awful. Hank begins to formulate a plan but is interrupted by Scott, who orders him to duck, moments before a snake-like demon tries to eat Hank.
As Scott half carries the injured Hank outside, Hank rambles that he’s been flailing. Desperate to hang on to an identity that clearly no longer fits. His mind is still sharp, but the technology here is so far beyond him, he doesn’t know where to begin. He’s tried to catch up. He’s tried to go back! A failure on both fronts: Nothing gained - nothing learned. Except perhaps the obvious truth: He’s no genius here, no scientist. Just a smart boy with big hands and feet willing to let loose hell on Earth to feel special again.
They reach the door to the lab and Hank uses his strength to pry it open. Scott announces they all make mistakes and Hank wonders if this is how it happened to the other Hank: How he lost control…. Sight. Lost regard for the consequences of his actions. He won’t become what his future self is, he vows, even if that means he will never become much of anything! No more magic! No more reckless flailing! That won’t ever happen again!
And, to prove that, he jumps straight at the magical monstrosity hovering over his machine. An explosion later, Hank (holding Scott) makes it outside the Airstream. They watch as it implodes.
A moment later, the other X-Men are there. They ask what happened. Hank comes clear. He was experimenting with sorcery. Things went bad. Scott stepped in, and together they shut it down. He is ashamed to say the Airstream, their home, paid the price.
Genesis is disgusted by his self-pity. No one cares! Just tell them he made the demons go away! Hank believes so. All the monsters and demons were contained in the Airstream, he explains, apologizes again and promises to replace what was lost.
Genesis asks what he means about the monsters being “contained.” What about the other demons? What about all the demons out here? They are still attacking the city.
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As her demons lay waste to the Miami beachside, the Goblin Queen Madelyne Pryor leans against her Bamf Dragon, slurps a cocktail and muses that she was never much of a beach girl. She never understood the appeal of lounging sweaty in the sand, when there are so many more appealing ways to spend your limited free time. But when the universe inexplicably cracks open twelve hell gateways all in the same area code… this Goblin Queen is on the first plane to demon town. Now she’s gotta say… South Beach is winning her over.…
The C. R. Bunn Library of the Occult, in Miami:Beast has made his way here. As he gathers some books and items, he blames himself for the current demonic infestation. He became aware of the hell rift weeks ago but, instead of worrying about the how and why or trying to seal it, he hunkered down and ran experiments. Science blinders strapped on. It never occurred to him there might be more or what the repercussion could be. Is he really so reckless? he wonders, only to answer in the affirmative. A beast indeed.
But he has not come to indulge in self-loathing, he chides himself. He is the closest thing they have to a sorcerer, and that is little better than nothing! He can’t even guess what most of those items are meant to do. There’s a 90-foot kaiju demon stomping through the ashes and science won’t cut it this time. He takes the globe. He hopes he is a quick study.
The other X-Men, including Cyclops, have gathered some distance away from the giant demon. Angel criticizes that they aren’t fighting it. Scott tells him that this is the smart play. Hank will come up with something.
Angel asks if they have any idea what the demon lady’s deal is. Apart from being hot, despite the horns. Iceman announces the internet is amazingly unhelpful. The only time he ran into site this convoluted is when he tried to check out adult Scott’s old future son. He’s pretty sure she calls herself the Goblin Queen and prefers provocative hemlines. Oya wonders what she wants. Cyclops considers that irrelevant. They know she is trying to turn Miami into ashes.
Hank finally joins them and agrees. The Goblin Queen is an agent of chaos. She probably just wants to put her demon puppets on strings and watch the world burn. He has gathered all the magic they need to extinguish the fire and vanquish the creatures back to hell… he thinks. But it may take a fair amount of trial and error to get there.
Hank begins to outline his plan. He needs them to keep the demon horde busy until that is done. Laura and Angel immediately agree. Idie and Bobby look at each other in disbelief and Evan asks if this is his big solution. He reminds about the last time he messed with magic. Hank evades his argument, pointing out this is escalating rather quickly. They don’t have any other option. They don’t have this option! Genesis retorts. They fought these things all day yesterday. There is no winning. It’s a lost cause! Idie agrees they won’t beat them. But they don’t have to. All they have to do is fight, and they do, though both Genesis and Cyclops spell out that this is a terrible idea born out of desperation. But they have no choice.
Wolverine complains her foes’ wounds heal instantly and their foes are replaced. She wonders if fighting her is this frustrating moments before a giant demon beats her down.
In the air, Angel attacks the flying demons with the flames of his cosmic fire wings. Unfortunately, they actually enjoy flames. Luckily, he is saved by Oya who fights them with ice. Her plan works and Iceman joins her.
Some distance away, the Goblin Queen considers doing something about that, but she is still enjoying her mojito. She orders her Bamf Dragon to handle it. The dragon teleports to the X-Men and attacks Oya and Iceman.
Inside the library, Beast tries to cast a spell to stop the demonic invasion. When the first one doesn’t work, he decides to move to potions, or as he calls it ‘nonsense chemistry.’ He pours some of the fluid out and something seems to explode.
On the battlefield, his teammates are about to be overwhelmed, though Oya holds her own bravely, claiming she has been fighting demons worse than that all her life. Even the Goblin Queen is impressed and challenges her to a one on one fight. However, when Idie lashes out, Madelyne has her Bamf Dragon attack her. Why fight fair after all, when you can cheat and win?
Inside, Hank tries to reach another magical power and fails again. He realizes he hasn’t got the time to lean what he needs, and his friends are dying in the meantime. He doesn’t know what else to try. It has his blood. It has his shame. He is on his knees and begging. This whole mess is on him and he has to clean it up. If there is anything else he can do, show him. He will do anything!
Suddenly, the artifact he is addressing flies toward him and hits him in the stomach. It bonds to him. Hank screams as he transforms into a furry demon version of himself with horns.
Outside, the Goblin Queen’s demons have overwhelmed the X-Men. Suddenly, she is hit by a white energy blast, courtesy of Beast wielding magic. Madelyne raises her eyebrow. Isn’t he something.
Beast’s spell vanquishes the demon army. The Goblin Queen addresses her Bamf Dragon that this is probably their cue. She tells Hank they’re going to talk really soon. Count on it. Then she and the dragon disappear leaving the X-Men and the closing demon portal.
They look at Hank, who is reverting to his human form and assures them he is fine and that it’s over, aware that he is lying on both counts.


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Iceman is on the fourth date with his Inhuman boyfriend Romeo. They are icesliding and he is smitten. Not paying attention, Bobby slams into a street sign and they both fall off the slide. Romeo laughs. Bobby is the worst iceslide driver in the world, he decides. Not usually, though, Bobby defends himself, though Romeo clearly doesn’t believe it. They say goodbye and Bobby promises to call him.
Inside, Bobby berates himself for not kissing Romeo. He notices his teammates waiting for him and they don’t look happy. Beast announces they need to talk. He explains he just attended a meeting, an X-Men tribunal of sorts. The leaders of every faction sat down at one table. The older Beast called them together to discuss a discovery he made. It’s grim, he warns Bobby who tells him to spit it out.
Beast’s narration:Hank explains the older Beast has been working closely with the Inhumans to solve the Terrigen Mist M-pox problem from the inside, but he had little to no success. The Terrigen Mist is still quite deadly to mutants. But that’s not the worst of it. He found out the remaining Terrigen cloud is quite instable. In roughly two weeks’ time, the cloud will collapse, dispersing deadly Terrigen into the atmosphere. At which point this planet will become uninhabitable for mutants.End of narration
Decisions had to be made, actions must be taken. The first of which will be an attack on New Attilan tomorrow morning. He knows what that means for him and Romeo. He understands how complicated it is but…
Flashback to date 1:Romeo on a mountain run. Lagging behind, Bobby assures him he likes running. He’s just more of a treadmill guy. Flat surface, air conditioning, reruns of Supernatural with the pretty brothers in the car.
When they reach the summit, Romeo explains why he took him on a run…
Present:Bobby swears. Romeo lives in New Attilan! he shouts. They are saying they are attacking his boyfriend’s home? No one wants this, Beast clarifies, but… “But what?” Bobby cuts him off as he ices up. What could possibly come after that “but” that wouldn’t sound totally… Hank asks him what he would have them do instead. Anything, he replies forcefully. Anything that isn’t killing a bunch of innocent people.
Hank tells him to calm down and thinks straight. This a surgical tactical strike. Specific targets inside New Attilan and out. And detainment obviously, not killing. They simply need the Inhumans off the table for a short while so they can… solve this. Solve this? Bobby spits. Like old crazy Cyclops solved the other cloud? Just go ahead and destroy the cornerstone of Inhuman society? They wanna be monsters? They wanna be Cyclops? No offense taken, young Cyclops mutters.
Hank calmly states that, if the cloud stays, they are all going to die in excruciating agony. Every mutant. Everywhere.
Bobby turns away and walks out.
The assault of the different X-teams on New Attilan begins. Young Iceman is among them. Still in their HQ/van are Beast, Oya and Genesis, who comment on Bobby being up there. Genesis is suspicious of his motives while Beast simply believes as an X-Man he is doing his duty.
Flashback: Date 2A laser tag arena: Romeo gently makes fun of Bobby for still doing laser tag while they are stalking each other. Bobby believes he is winning, until Romeo fires at him and hits.
Present:Bobby makes his way through New Attilan until he is blasted by Inferno, who is in turn attacked by someone else as the battle of mutants and Inhumans rages on. Bobby slides away on an iceslide, having a certain destination.
In a corridor, he is stopped by a green Inhuman girl, who orders him to stop. Addressing her as Sasha, he tries to talk her down by icing down.
Flashback:Bobby, Evan, Idie, Romeo and Sasha are at a public swimming pool having fun. They split up for Romeo, Idie and Evan to get corndogs, while Sasha and Bobby want to get towels. Sasha observes he’s got it bad, then assures him Romeo feels the same. She’s never seen him like this.
Present:Sasha tells Bobby Romeo is in his room behind the blast door. They have the non-combatants on lockdown. Bobby thanks her, then breaks through the door.
Romeo sits on his bed. Suddenly, the steel-enforced door freezes and breaks. Bobby steps in. The next moment, the two of them kiss. Bobby assures him he is not with them. Not really. He had to pretend to come and get him. Romeo assures him he gets it and that he is fine. Bobby asks him to tell him what to do… he will even switch sides. Say the word. Can they just go? Romeo asks and a little later both leave New Attilan on an iceslide.


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The fight against the Inhumans is over, mutants have a future on Earth again.The original time-displaced X-Men and their friends are outside a motel.
Oya and Genesis sit on a bank musing about everything that has changed. Just seems like the end of a thing, Idie muses. No more Terrigen death cloud. No more Inhumans versus X-Men. Evan agrees. Both are thankful. But they wonder where they even are, or what’s going to happen. Idie asks if he has heard anything from the school. Nothing yet; he would kill for a little old-fashioned book learning right now, Evan admits.
They watch Iceman and his Inhuman boyfriend Romeo, who shows Bobby how to fire up a public grill. Romeo teases him about his privilege, when Bobby admits his family has a grill at a private lake house. Seeing that the grill doesn’t light up, Angel uses his fire wings to start a fire – on the grill and all around.
Laura Kinney (aka Wolverine) takes out a human trafficking ring in the backwoods. She is still there cleaning up. Angel only came because Hank called this super-secret meeting. What do they think that is about? That moment, a blackbird jet lands and the person stepping out greets them.
Not far away, Cyclops is training his optic beam, keeping a car in the air before destroying it. She sure hopes nobody needs that car, Jean Grey observes. What did she miss? she asks jokingly before asking what his beef with the station wagon is. He replies that the hotel manager said it was for target practice. The two hug, then Jean draws back sensing bad vibes from him. She asks if he is okay. Why does she ask, when she already knows the answer? Jean replies she doesn’t read people without consent anymore. But the dark and stormy coming off of him is hard to miss. What’s going on?
Frustrated, he bursts out that Emma Frost escaped and she caused all of this. The war with the Inhumans. Then she gets off scot-free, like nothing! Jean agrees that that sucks, but that’s what villains do. It’s what gives the heroes job security. Seriously, he replies. Emma ruined his life, set his name on fire then put it down on the pavement, so it could writhe all twisted. Made him afraid to grow up. Afraid he had been born a monster. She shouldn’t get away with that. She deserves comeuppance. He deserves…
…to optic blast her rusty bumper off? Jean suggests as she hugs him lightly. She agrees but how much better does he think beating up “Victoria’s Secrets” will make him feel? A little, he suggests.
Jean points out the important thing is they know it was a lie. He has nothing to fear anymore. The adult Cyclops wasn’t a villain. He didn’t do that stuff. His destiny is free and clear. He concedes the point, but most people don’t know that. As far as they are concerned… She reminds him that they are X-Men. Since when do they care about what everyone else thinks?
He fires his blast and asks what she is even doing here. Nervously, she replies Hank called her. They join the others. There is something he wants to talk about with the original five, he tells them. He hasn’t had time before and the magic is complicated.
Scott recalls Hank telling him he already solved time travel and has been home. But he forgot!
A little later all the original five are gathered around Beast. Jean peeks as he puts on the magic mask and briefly turns into a horned monster.
Then they reappear at Xavier’ School, with Hank looking normal again.
Scott is ecstatic, Hank is exhausted and Bobby is furious at him for yanking them through time without asking. Scott, on the other hand, enthuses that everything is perfect. They walk into the kitchen, where Scott is happy to see even the food is typical of their time. Angel announces this is messed up. Hank replies that it’s complicated. Jean orders Hank to explain, while Bobby demands to be taken back home (meaning the future). Jean orders that he needs to end this. Hank sighs. He knows and asks Cyclops if he remembers the bank.
In Manhattan, Unus the Untouchable is in the process of robbing a bank. Pickles teleports the X-Men into a nearby alley. Scott explains it’s one of the fights they missed after being yanked into the future. He’s read the other Scott’s journals. He knows how to beat Unus this time. As Scott describes his plan, Jean tells Hank now would be a good time to tell him. When Scott plans to attack, Hank tackles him to the ground and asks him to just watch.
What they see is themselves, the original five in their original costumes attacking Unus. While the doubles fight Unus, Hank explains he had to show them, because they wouldn’t have believed it otherwise. This is the reason they couldn’t return home - they never left! It is the only thing that makes sense. This isn’t their timeline. Or everything would have changed when they left. Which means, their time…
Hank groans as he is transformed into horned beast again. And they are back to the future.
Hank turns normal again. Scott is in denial, shouting that wasn’t home. Their past has to be somewhere! Hank is afraid that is the only past this reality has. And it took all he had to keep them there as long. Same as last time. They don’t belong there. The universe rights itself. Scott demands he take them somewhere else. Dejected, Beast asks where Scott doesn’t know. Neither does Hank. Furious, Scott stalks away. Jean follows.
Outside the motel, Scott lets loose his optic blast. Jean hugs him. Scott asks where they go from here. Forward, she replies and assures him it’s going to be great. Scott kisses her and Jean doesn’t reciprocate. He apologizes for making it weird. She gently tells him this isn’t weird but it wouldn’t be moving forward. It’s backward or sideways or something. They shouldn’t. She’ll always love him but they know where that path leads, and nobody wants that. Reluctantly, he agrees.
She takes his hand and they join the others, including Laura, Idie, Evan and Romeo who are eating tacos.
Jean assures Hank that Scott is fine but wants to know what’s going on with him. She peeked and saw his other form. He tells her it’s none of her business. To change the subject, he suggests a baseball team. Evan instead turns on the iPod and they dance.


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James MacDonald Hudson stands alone in the top secret complex beneath Parliament Hill, and ponders over the recent disbanding of Alpha Flight by the Canadian government. He recalls their last battle with the Wendigo in which he, Snowbird and Shaman teamed up with Wolverine and Nightcrawler of the X-Men. He wonders what will happen, not only to the members of Alpha Flight, but their training groups, Beta Flight and the raw recruits Gamma Flight. Gary Cody, Alpha Flight’s governmental liaison, arrives and reminds Hudson that the power is being switched off soon. However he also offers to keep in touch with Hudson, as an unofficial liaison. Vindicator reminds Cody that he will still be there to serve his country, after all he has nothing else to do, and departs, wondering if Captain America ever had problems like this.
Two thousand miles Northwest. An elderly and seemingly mad man sits outside his tent. A small fire dwindling and belongings scattered around. The man is obsessed with death and thinks to himself about those who have laughed at him. He arises and begins to carve a shape into the snow - an enormous shape, one that resembles a humanoid figure. With his task partly completed he returns to his camp and retrieves an ancient metal headband, places it upon his head, and it begins, as magic swirls in the air.
The Sarcee Reserve, just outside of Calgary Alberta. In his office, Dr. Michael Twoyoungmen sits at his desk - but is suddenly startled by subtle mystic signal from his grandfather. Knowing some trouble stirs, as his grandfathers' spirit only contacts him when modern science cannot be a match for the peril, Shaman opens a box, with his grandfathers' skull inside it. He waits to be spoken to.
LaValle, Quebec, more specifically, Madame Dupont's School for girls. Jeanne-Marie Beaubier walks through the quiet old school, when she is mobbed by schoolgirls, asking if the rumors regarding her famous brother's visit were true. As if on cue, Jean-Paul Beaubier, famous Olympic skier, arrives in a sports car. It is he who then becomes the center of attention as the schoolgirls bombard him with questions. Jean-Paul mentions to his sister the two's recent adventure in New York with the Machine Man, but Jeanne-Marie quiets him and leads him away from the schoolgirls to her room.
On the way they are stopped by Sister Anne, a nun who reminds Jeanne-Marie of the rules regarding men in her quarters. Jeanne-Marie replies: “This is not a man - I mean of course he is a man, but he is also my brother.“ The nun apologizes and the siblings enter Jeanne-Marie's room.Northstar asks Jeanne-Marie why in the two weeks since Alpha Flights disbanding she has not left the school to live with him. Jeanne-Marie replies by saying that she is home, with the nuns who raised her. Jean-Paul tells her this is not a home, but a prison. Someone with such a free spirit as her should not be caged, nor should she hide her mutant powers. Jeanne-Marie disagrees, should she use her powers as Northstar does, for personal gain? Northstar angrily tells her that one should use any gifts they are given to their fullest. Jeanne-Marie tells him he is cheating, but Jean-Paul tells her it is she who is cheating by hiding behind reading glasses she does not even need.
Jean-Paul tells his sister that he has no love for James Hudson, other than the fact that it was he who reunited the twins and set Aurora free, and that she shouldn't be denied. Jeanne-Marie angrily remarks: “Deny her? I hate her ! She is a devil, a foul imp who uses me. She is perverse !“Jean-Paul drags his sister in front of a mirror and tells her that Aurora is her true face as Northstar is his. Jeanne-Marie is no contest for Northstar, though she knows the words he speaks are true and that he is concerned for her. She passes out. Northstar contemplates: “What could be greater harm, than which you do yourself ?“. He curses Hudson for bringing them back together, when all they can do is fight, and he curses the government for closing down Department H, for while he hates Alpha Flight in general, he fears Aurora can have no life without it.
138 Laurier Drive, Ottawa, the flat of James and Heather Hudson. Heather waters her plants after neglecting them for some time, when Vindicator flies through an open window. They talk about Hudson's last day at Parliament Hill before cracking a joke about getting married. “How about ten years ago next Thursday ?“ The phone rings and it is Gary Cody who suggests the Hudsons turn on the television. The scene they see is of Resolute Bay, where a brilliant light, which scientists have confirmed not to be a manifestation of the Northern Lights, is visible. The Hudsons learn it started about forty minutes ago, though no one knows for sure what is happening. Vindicator tells Heather that he is going to investigate. Heather suggests he contact Snowbird or Shaman, as it is more their field of expertise. She really thinks he should contact the rest of Alpha Flight. As he leaves the same way he came in, James tells his wife that there is no Alpha Flight.
Not one to sit by idle, Heather pulls back a book from a bookcase, opening a secret room. Computer cards that hold the signal to contact the rest of Alpha Flight, as well as cards with Beta, Gamma and potential recruits lay scattered on the floor. Heather searches through for the gold-edged Alpha Flight cards in doing so discovers two whom she has never met, labeled Puck and Marrina. She realizes they must have been Beta Flight members who were ready to move up to Alpha Flight had they not been disbanded. She inserts the cards into the computer: “So as of now you're all officially active !“
Toronto, Corky's Tavern, in a run down part of town. Mary, the waitress, is being hassled by two drunks. The barman asks Eugene Milton Judd if he will do something about it. The short man agrees to, and tells the revelers to lay off. The men just laugh at him - until he easily knocks the two of them out. Suddenly a microscopic implant within his skull is activated - Puck has received the Alpha signal. Ecstatic he rushes out of the bar and cartwheels down the street.
Newfoundland. A lone figure stands on the rough edge of the ocean staring out, until someone shouting startles her. The strange yellow skinned woman turns around and realizes it is Dan Smallwood. He rushes up to her bringing her a brooch, he tells her he thinks there has been a signal. Marrina is puzzled as she thought Alpha Flight was no more, but agrees something must be amiss as the stone still pulses. She strips off her clothes revealing a green swimsuit of sorts underneath, and dives into the rugged ocean. While Dan looks on, worried about what may happen to her, and what he would do if something did.
The Great Forests of Northern British Columbia. Dr. Walter Langkowski enjoys a pastime hiking, when he receives the signal also. A former grid-iron star he acts instinctively charging forward, stripping his clothes as he goes, and begins the transformation - from man into monster – Sasquatch. The doctor also thinks to himself how painless this recent transformation was, that his body chemistry must finally be adapting.
Resolute Bay. An Ookpik (arctic owl) flies through the sky, however, as the bird moves closer to the strange lights that swirl above the shape on the ground, it too changes shape, into that of a beautiful female humanoid shape, though not the creature’s true form. She is Snowbird, her metamorphic powers are but one of many gifts the demi-goddess possesses. Snowbird invokes her mother, Nelvanna, to give her the strength she will need to battle here, as she senses the energies of her ancient enemy. Narya worries as she realizes the strange shape on the ground will become Tundra, the Great Beast who imprisoned the Northern Gods beyond Earth's realm. If they could not stop Tundra, how could she? Snowbird observes the human agent, whose decayed form lays scarred into the landscape, and whose life-force has been consumed, igniting the spark that will give soul to the Beast. It begins. The rough shape that was drawn into the land begins to rise, out of the tundra that it is. It arises, enormous, and curses its ancient enemies.
Meanwhile the captain of the Weather ship, Tango Delta Nine, discusses, with a crewmate, a sudden anomaly that appeared on the radar - moving at eight hundred knots. The captain is in disbelief - no ship could move that fast. His crewman replies saying that it is not a ship, but organic...."It" is in fact Marrina. She moves through the ice cold depths with ease, and though her speed is extremely fast, she turns up at a 90 degree angle and leaves the ocean - on a water spout, which towers above the Tango Delta Nine.
Northstar and Aurora are flying en route to Resolute Bay. Aurora wants to play games with her brother and go faster, but Northstar tells her to conserve her strength, as they do not know what lies ahead. Aurora tells her brother that he is too cautious and that she must be allowed to fly and be free. Northstar calls her Jeanne-Marie - and Aurora reminds him not to call her that - she is Aurora, not Jeanne-Marie. Northstar tells her she is a puzzle within puzzles and she tells him that he is never content. Jean-Paul asks Aurora why must Aurora and Jeanne-Marie treat each other as strangers? Northstar and Jean-Paul are one and the same. She replies by telling him ”because it pleases us to do so” before flying off and telling him to catch her if he can. Of course he could easily catch Aurora, for while she can fly longer, he can fly faster. Northstar contemplates, and fears that his sister might actually be mad.
Mansfield Airbase, twenty miles west of Toronto. Puck approaches the guard, telling him he is with Alpha Flight and needs a plane as he is on a priority-1 call. The guard shrugs him off. He has seen pictures of Alpha Flight and Puck was never in any of them. Puck flips the guard over, telling him he is called Puck - and the guard laughs - what kind of name is that? He continues that if Eugene Milton Judd wants to get in, he needs written clearance. Though he could sneak into the airfield easily, Puck does not want to have to fight the whole base, and storms off angrily, still looking for a plane.
Back at Resolute Bay, Snowbird reminds herself that she must stop the Beast within twenty minutes, before its power is fully reawakened. In a language she has never spoken, though can speak more easily than English, Snowbird talks to Tundra. Tundra is about to brush Narya off when he recognizes her true stature - that of his sworn enemies. Using his control over creatures of the North he summons mosquitoes to surround Snowbird. Too afraid to use her transmorphic powers (should Tundra wrestle control over her) Narya can only be consumed by the insects.
At that time, Vindicator arrives, amazed at the giant Beast made from land. He quickly recognizes Snowbird trapped in the black cloud of bugs, and uses his electromagnetic powers (derived from the super powered suit he wears) to create a plasma funnel, thus Snowbird can escape the mosquitoes. In turn, Tundra hurls rocks at Hudson, but he is protected by his electromagnetic forcefield.
Shaman arrives, recognizing the Beast, and tries to reason with the mortal mind within - but Tundra is too powerful for him, and proceeds to step on him, intending to crush the Indian beneath tons of mass. Shaman barely escapes and understands that the mortal man whose spirit gave life to Tundra was weak, for Tundra to wrestle control so easily.
Vindicator tries an electromagnetic blast on Tundra - science versus sorcery - and the Beast screams. The land echoes in agony, and for one hundred miles around, the land is ripped apart. Snowbird flies by and orders Mac to stop, as Tundra is one with the land, and by attacking it Vindicator may shatter all of Canada. Tundra concurs with the goddess, and to prove he is one with the land - he lumbers forward, the earth trembling in his wake, and quadruples in size.
Just above Tundra, a Canadian Armed Forces helicopter drops off Sasquatch, who plummets towards Tundra - something big enough for him to finally test his strength on. Sasquatch lands on Tundra, who doesn't notice the one ton impact, until Sasquatch rips chunks of land out of the Beasts body. Moving quickly, Tundra flicks Sasquatch away - who is pushed past the mutant twins now arriving. While Aurora expresses concern for her teammate, Northstar tells her to forget about him. It is now their turn to act, and they do. Flying at super speed around the Beast, landmass slowly starts to crumble away from it.
Realizing how long it will take, Vindicator is about to suggest something else until Shaman steps in and tells him that only the forces of natural erosion can stop Tundra. Snowbird warns Shaman to act fast before the Beast can protect itself. Summoning mystic forces, Shaman unleashes torrential rain on Tundra, which begins to wash the giant away. While Vindicator thinks it is working, Shaman tells him Tundra already replenishes itself, and that there is not enough water in the air for a second rain.
Snowbird sees what looks like a waterspout, but it can’t be, as they are miles away from any open water. Vindicator notices it too, and also who is responsible for the spout. He wonders what Marrina is doing here. He tells Shaman that all the water he needs is there, and flies towards the waterspout. The twins realize that a diversion is needed so that Tundra does not see it. They link hands, and the most brilliant light floods the entire land.
Hudson pulls Marrina from the spout and Shaman casts a spell again, "grabbing hold" of Marrina's waterspout, and floods Tundra with it...ending it’s control over the land, as it is dissolved. A small salty lake is formed where the Beast stood, and it slowly seeps into the ground. At the bottom of the new body of water, the madman is sinking in the mud.
(twelve hours later)138A Laurier Drive. The Hudson’s landlady, Francois complains to her husband Georges about all the strange visitors the Hudsons are receiving. He shrugs her off, after all, they pay their rent on time. Upstairs, in the Hudsons flat, Heather tells Mac that she isn't happy with Aurora being here, but she can stay as long as she stops making goo-goo eyes at James. He replies by telling her to be patient with Aurora, as she is...troubled. The join the others in the living room.
Dr. Langkowski tells James that they have an announcement. As the heroes work well together, they have decided to stay together, even without the support of the government. Vindicator is very surprised, especially by Northstar, who will stay, but mainly because Aurora is in the team. Snowbird tells Hudson that some serious organization is needed, and that they were lucky Marrina showed up. Marrina asks if there is a place for her on the team, and Hudson tells her she was ready, there will always be room.
Heather suggests the team change its name, to assert its independence. Hudson agrees, as with no more Beta or Gamma Flight's it makes no sense to call them selves Alpha. However he thinks their American cousins have taken all the good names. Suddenly a knock on the door - it is Puck! Hudson asks if he got the call too? Puck replies he was ready, wasn't he? Hudson agrees, and tells him to come in and meet the others, that they were just trying to decide upon a new name - when Puck tells him he want to be in ALPHA FLIGHT. Walter picks up Puck by the neck and agrees that Alpha Flight is a fine name, and that the team could use a mascot...Puck gets offended and begins a fight with Walter, while Heather thinks this is suddenly not such a good idea ...


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In The Beginning ... (2nd story)
First story :
Twenty miles out of Fort Albany, Ontario, lies the vast, undeveloped area of land which is in fact, the top secret Albany River proving grounds, where most of Canada’s secret military is tested. This morning, however, it serves a different purpose – it serves as the training grounds of Canada’s premiere super hero team: Alpha Flight! James “Vindicator” MacDonald Hudson flies through the air due to his electro-magnetically powered super suit – when is caught completely off guard by the super fast mutant twins, Northstar and Aurora, whose speed causes Mac’s suit to disable, and he falls – into the arms of Sasquatch – his other current opponent. Sasquatch hurls Vindicator across the training grounds, as he is unaware that his team leaders forcefield is now inactive, and such a throw could kill him!
Luckily, the Sarcee medicine man Shaman is prepared, and throws arcane dust from his medicine pouch at a tree – which magically changes shape to become a sort of net, breaking Vindicator’s fall. Sasquatch congratulates Shaman on his save, but if Hudson wants to play these games he has to realize that some of them will get a little bruised! Marrina emerges from the water – telling Dr. Langkowski to watch out for himself, as she uses her incredible strength to ‘lift’ water out from the river, drenching her teammate. This causes the final present member of Alpha Flight, Puck, to burst into uncontrollable laughter. Sasquatch to get mad – and he begins to chase his teammate, intending to find out if the little guy is as resilient as his namesake.
Mac tells the team to take a break, and asks Aurora to calm Walt down. Shaman tells Mac that this was a good session, as the team was getting out of practice. Vindicator agrees, though he wishes that Snowbird could be present, however she was tied up with her RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) duties. Mac feels she needs to get more involved in team activities - and that she should loosen up. Shaman agrees to disagree – after all, Snowbird is not human. But Hudson is, and the doctor continues, he looks like he could use some cheering up.
Vindicator tells his friend that it is not all that easy – he never wanted to be team leader, especially after he nearly killed a civilian on his first mission, which is something that he thinks about often. It is a lot for him to vindicate. Shaman explains to him that is why he changed his codename from Weapon Alpha to Vindicator, and suggests it is time he claimed and identity of his own. Mac asks not for a lecture, he knows what he is doing, and with no Wolverine, it is he that leads the team, and he has accepted that. Shaman suggests that because Mac wears the flag of Canada as his costume, perhaps he should wear Canada’s spirit as well. Hudson is puzzled. Shaman continues - while saying that Hudson is Canada’s own Captain America, he feels he has much to vindicate, however, Canada does not. Hudson picks up at what Hudson is getting at – he should pick a new codename, more in keeping with Alpha Flights image – like Guardian …
At that moment, Northstar, Aurora and Sasquatch return. Northstar tells his teammates that his sister has “succeeded in soothing our orange oaf”. Sasquatch tells Jean-Paul to watch his mouth – or he may suddenly get a craving for frog’s legs! And peacemaker Aurora tells him to stop bickering – after all, they are not the Avengers!
Guardian suggests the team leave – when Puck notices something wrong with Marrina. He asks her if she is all right. She says that she feels very strange. Puck thinks to himself that he always thought there was something ‘fishy’ about Marrina, and that he hopes this isn’t where they all find out. He tells her to take it easy – and she tells him not to touch her as he places his hand on her shoulder. Puck tries to soothe her. She removes her hand that was covering her face - and lashes out at her friend. Alpha Flight are frozen in shock – none of them have known her very well, and they wonder if this is the real Marrina? Puck holds the contents of his stomach in, choking for help, and Marrina, albeit uncontrollably, dives into the river – with a sense for…home? However, as Marrina enters the river at super speed, she suddenly realizes she doesn’t know where home is anymore.
On the riverbank, Northstar and Aurora leap into flight. Guardian tells them to wait, but they do not hear him and they speed across the river, parting the waters as they fly. But the mutant twins return soon after. Guardian tells them it was a nice try, but a wasted one, as Marrina was doing over 900 knots the moment she hit the water. Northstar is amazed – Marrina would have been a dozen kilometers away before they even moved. Guardian confirms: while the twins are infinitely faster than Marrina, their reaction time is not, and she was way out of reach before they could react. Aurora is surprised – even the Sub-Mariner cannot swim that fast!
Sasquatch worries that she is going to get away, though Guardian tells him they can track her via her Flight signal in her medallion, but right now he is more concerned with Puck. Shaman tells him he has used his magicks to ease the pain, and stabilize him, but he was nearly disemboweled, and he has lost a lot of blood. In this case, Eugene Milton Judd needs Shaman’s medical skills, more than his magical ones. Within minutes, the team’s dwarfen member is carried onto Alpha’s Omni-Jet, headed for Fort Albany.
Two hours later, at a hospital, two staff members are discussing what Dr. Twoyoungmen is doing there, as they believed he had given up medicine. Yet at any rate, he is still the best surgeon in all of Canada! Michael tells Mac and the others, all dressed in civilian clothes, that Judd is stabilized, but he is just as human as everyone else, and has no more physical defenses than they. Walter suggests that they have more pressing things to attend to now, such as finding Marrina. Mac agrees – they must find her, and if necessary, stop her once and for all. And with that, Mac, Walt, Jean-Paul and Aurora run out of the hospital, and Shaman invokes the aid of the Great Spirit to help them.
At the same time, only a thousand miles away, at a desolate RCMP post in the district of MacKenzie, NWT. Corporal “Anne McKenzie” sits at her desk, and does a very human thing, for a goddess that is, as Narya, a.k.a. Alpha Flight’s Snowbird, distresses over her current predicament - something she does not have control over, and that is something she is not very well accustomed to. Her current boss, Chief Inspector Hamilton, Narya is certain, hates her and is determined to frustrate her. She has already spoken to Hudson about it, and he told her she can do nothing, though Mac fears Narya may use her powers against her boss, and she wishes she could.
Suddenly, she is startled – she has picked up on Shamans words invoking the Great Spirit. Believing that something must threaten Alpha Flight, Narya transforms from the uniform clad human guise of Anne McKenzie, to the sultry Snowbird! As she flies through an open window, Chief Inspector Hamilton, just missing her by a split second, walks into her office asking for some files. Hamilton is joined by RCMP officer Doug Thompson, who reminds him of Anne’s open hours that were arranged by his predecessor. Hamilton doesn’t care – Chief Inspector Cramner is dead – and he will have Anne McKenzie brought up on charges – and have her secret – whatever it is! While this discussion occurs, Snowbirds ultra senses guide her towards Alpha’s Omni-Jet
Meanwhile, aboard the Omni-Jet, Guardian talks to Alpha Flight‘s unofficial team liaison, Gary Cody, via secret communications, and he relays to Cody the recent events about Marrina, and tells her she seems to be heading for the magnetic North Pole. Gary Cody is relieved – at least that is still in Canada, if she goes over the Pole, there could be major diplomatic repercussions for invading Soviet waters. Guardian agrees, and tells Cody that he will keep him posted. Northstar, Aurora and Sasquatch ask their leader to tell them about Marrina, they feel they are due for some information. Guardian agrees – though he says even what they do know, is not a lot.
(flashback, 18 years ago)
Somewhere off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland., a small fishing vessel, the Mary D, gets tossed about in a seriously bad storm. The man at the ships wheel tells his skipper, Tom Smallwood, not to go outside, he won‘t last two minutes. Smallwood tells his first mate that neither will the nets if he doesn’t tie them down, and his insurance doesn’t cover him in a mad trip like this! Smallwood in fact lasts five minutes before being swept over board, though he is a strong swimmer, the messy sea engulfs him and he was caught in the nets, while the sinkers pulls him down.
At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, a drowning Smallwood sees a light. Freeing himself enough to reach out to it, he grabs the light – which is actually solid, and not at all a light. It pulses in his hands as if it were alive… and freed from the mire of the bottom, it buoys to the surface of the ocean – with Tom Smallwood attached. Smallwood is rescued from the ocean by his first mate.
Three hours later at Smallwood’s home, a mile away form the coast. Smallwood's wife Gladys asks her husband what it is. He replies that he has never seen anything like it in all his years. Their grandson, Dan, pipes up saying it is an egg, and there is a chick inside it! His grandmother tells his he is right – but it is not a chick inside it - something else, which is alive though! Gladys Smallwood sees the creature inside the egg move, and realizing that it is trying to hatch, she breaks the egg. While she would eventually tell James Hudson that she was sure the creature wasn’t’ human before she opened the egg – the creature she pulled from the egg resembled that of a newborn humanoid baby.
(various flashbacks)
The Smallwoods named her Marrina, and within a year, she was very much like any other one-year-old child. She was accepted by the local townspeople, despite her yellow-green complexion, because of the closed nature and frequent inbreeding of the community. ‘Freaks’ were not uncommon. Marrina attended school, proving her intellect was above average. When she turned sixteen, things changed. Marrina swam – and swam. Though swimming was nothing new to her, or anyone else in the community, no one had ever swum like she did.
(present)
Back aboard the Omni-Jet, Hudson tells his friends that ten months after that, Marrina's ‘brother’ Dan Smallwood contacted the Ministry of Defense. From there, Marrina was inducted into Department H, and she became one of the first members of Gamma Flight, and was soon move up to Beta Flight. Walt acts surprised - wasn’t she given all the standard psyche tests as they all were? Hudson tells the doctor that she was, and passed with flying colors. Whatever has happened to her now – well, there was no indication of it on any tests…
A hundred miles ahead, and in the close-to-freezing waters, Marrina swims easily through them…she approaches a cavern sensing it is the place that calls to her. The silence is eerie, yet she still senses the call that pulses through her entire body. In the strange melding of ice and metal, she does not feel out of place – more like comforted. She creeps forward – until she comes across a seated man - who tells her there is nothing to fear…for she is home! Marrina is confused – home? Her home is three thousand miles away! She asks him what he has done to her. The mysterious being tells her he has done nothing – save revealing her true nature…and she may call him Master! And with this, Marrina’s memory and any sense of control she had remaining fades away…
Second story :
(ten years ago)
James MacDonald Hudson, Jerry Jaxon, and an American military General are in Hudson’s lab at the research and development section of the AM-CAM Petroleum Company, Edmonton, Alberta. Hudson has just discovered the superhuman research and exploration suit he designed is going to be sold to the American military, and is naturally, extremely angry. Jaxon apologizes to the General, who understands Hudson’s anger. However Jaxon is not so kind, and reminds James that his ‘toy’ would never have been built if he (Jaxon) and AM-CAM had not been prepared to take a financial risk. He continues that the majority of their funding is American, and their parent office has made deals with the American army before. Hudson storms out of his lab saying they haven’t made deals with him!
As he storms through the corridors a woman, who apologizes, interrupts him. She says she wanted to warn him, but Jaxon wouldn’t let her. Hudson realizes who he is talking to - Jaxon’s private secretary, Miss McNeil. Heather tells James she was Jaxon’s private secretary, but quit when she found out what Jaxon was going to do. Hudson is surprised, but flattered nonetheless. He tells her she shouldn’t have. Heather interrupts him saying she couldn’t work for Jaxon, after knowing how he betrayed a great man like him. Heather asks Mac if he would like to come to her place tonight, and she could make him her famous lasagna, and they could talk – James seems taken aback, but refuses, telling her he other plans. Perhaps some other time though?
That evening, alone in his apartment, James distresses some more – four years of his life he dedicated to that suit, which was designed to increase efficiency in exploration and development, not to be used for violence. Why must science be perverted by warmongers? Mac becomes determined though - not to let it happen to him.
Later sat night, AM-CAM’s security guard is surprised to see Hudson return to the company. Hudson tells him he has got one more job – then he will be really done. Inside, James thinks about how he trusted Jaxon, thought he was a friend, someone he thought he could trust - only to find out he’s a corporate viper. Putting on his invention, Mac realizes substantial argument could be made that the suit belongs to AM-CAM, and if needs be, he will return it – once he has finished one particular job.
Though the suit was not really designed for interior use, Mac blasts a hole in the floor, and the next and the next…ten floors down until he reaches the sub-basement with the maximum security safe. Using the considerable strength this exo-skeleton suit possess, James rips the vault door out, also realizing that there is a glitch in the suit, as it seems weaker than anticipated. Anyhow, Mac finds the blue prints to the suit, and the helmet that operates the suit. Thankfully also, the seals are unbroken, meaning Jaxon could not have made copies. Hudson then fries them with an electromagnetic blast to burn them.
Hudson now ‘tests’ the suits flight capabilities – by flying through the roof of the building. Manipulating the electromagnetic fields of the earth, it is a simple enough process to lift and carry a man. Steering the suit is accomplished the same way, though he is a little more concerned about how he is going to land…and crashes! Emerging from the flames, Hudson discovers that the suit is intact, and that the forcefield protects the armor as well as the wearer. Climbing out of the suit, Hudson decides to leave it there, where someone can easily find it. After all, he only really wants the cybernetic helmet that he designed and built before he came to AM-CAM. And  without it, the suit is useless. And in the dead of the night, James Hudson walks away…


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First Story:It has been one hour since Alpha Flight’s resident goddess, Snowbird, has heard fellow Alphan, Shaman, invoke the Great Spirit. She flies gracefully across the sprawling whiteness of the North, where she feels a great evil surrounding, and as she is one with the land, it touches her very soul. She wonders how this evil could have occurred so quickly and knows that she has to find the rest of her team. Suddenly, Narya spots Alpha Flight‘s Omni-Jet, badly damaged, crashed in the snow, and realizes that it must have been attacked before it crashed. Thankfully, Snowbird does not see or feel the touch of Death, but she wonders where Alpha is now, and who of her teammates were aboard.
Narya stands still, frozen across the landscape, and her unhuman eyes slip closed, waiting… when she open her eyes again a minute or more later, the damaged Omni-Jet pulses with an aura that only Snowbird can see. Realizing the crash was recent, Snowbird is able to use her post-cognitive powers, so she can find out what happened to Alpha Flight. At first nothing happens, then with a thunderclap, time peels backwards and before Snowbird‘s eyes she sees the events of the past hour – she sees Alpha Flight‘s aircraft shot down by a laser beam. Snowbird‘s control over time continues, as the events are played out still. The goddess watches as Guardian, Sasquatch, Northstar and Aurora emerge unscathed from the wreckage of the jet. Snowbird wonders why Shaman and the new recruits Puck and Marrina weren’t among them. She drops her control over time, and the visions of her friends’ fade.
Snowbird transforms into a polar bear, so she can use it‘s stealth to track her teammates easier. Snowbird‘s mind is almost lost among the polar bear’s but, she has enough control to direct the activities of the bear, and she lopes across the snow, tracking Sasquatch’s footprints until she comes across an opening in a snow covered hillside the same sort of melding of ice and metal that Marrina discovered. The door is ripped from its hinges – Sasquatch has come this way. Snowbird senses more than just the hum of a mechanical vibration in the walls – she feels the place is alive – and evil.
Half a mile ahead of where Snowbird’s location, Sasquatch and Guardian are ripping apart a wall, which dropped in front of them, separating them from Northstar and Aurora. Sasquatch thinks the wall is growing.
While three feet away, in pitch-blackness, bar the luminescence of the twins’ costumes, the mutant siblings worry as the wall pushes them further and further away from their teammates. Realizing there is nothing they can do, they attempt to look for another way out – and clasp hands for an instant, letting a pure white light fill the extremely vast and cavernous chamber they are in. Aurora asks her brother where they are, but he doesn’t know. Northstar sees an opening however, and they fly towards it. Aurora follows her brother, telling him to go slow, for if he should strike a wall… when suddenly a wall strikes him, as large metallic bars sprout from the wall, and knock Jean-Paul unconscious.
Aurora is rather shaken, she reaches out to Northstar, worried that she may once again loose the brother she has only recently met…when rods begin to poke out from the floor and walls, at all directions, too fast for her to get some momentum and escape. The rods move in on her, shrinking the space around her…Aurora is very afraid…and she no longer wants to be here, so she lapses out, and Jeanne-Marie is now the dominant personality…
Suddenly (and just in time) Sasquatch bursts through the rods, breaking them to get to the mutants. Sasquatch tells Guardian he was right in suggesting they find another way in, rather than follow the tunnel. Mac tells the doctor to save the compliments until they are out safely, before trying to bring “Aurora” around. She wakes, but is confused, the last thing she remembers is being at the school with Jean-Paul – and what is she doing in this shameless costume ?Guardian is very concerned. He was always a little worried something like this might happen – Aurora has slipped back into her Jeanne-Marie persona! It is now Sasquatch who is concerned, he asks James if there is something he “forgot” to tell them about Aurora and seems generally rather startled by this revelation. The team leader tells Walter there is no time to explain, and that he must go find Northstar, as he is the only one who can bring Aurora out of this.
At the same moment, Northstar wakes, and wonders where his sister is, when suddenly hears a shrill cry. At first he thinks it is his sister, but then realizes that in fact it is Marrina – the reason he and his teammates are even at this dangerous place in the first place. He flies away to find her. What the fast flying mutant does not know, is that Marrina is several miles away still, and it is only the strange acoustics of this vast complex that carries her cries.
Marrina is laid out across a table, stretched from limb to limb prodded with various instruments, and the pain is unbearable. Suddenly, a voice soothes her – it is the Master of the World…the mysterious man tells her not to resist the probes, to let them inside her…but Marrina still fights them. She pleads with the Master – she has never harmed him or anyone else ever, until he reached out to her mind and made her turn on her teammates. The Master tells Marrina that it was not him who made her hurt Puck, but the vessel they are in now. He continues. Marrina has lived upon Earth almost twenty years, and the time of reckoning has come. The Master realizes Marrina must be confused, and begins to tell his tale to the woman laid out in front of him, despite her being a monster in his eyes…
(flashback, 40.000 years ago)The world was an unending winter, uncounted millions of living things died. Some survived though, a few strong ones, who set out to find the land where summer may still reign. However, while everyone was trying to survive, some individuals wanted more. One in particular who would not accept the current order of things, and would demand more – more clothes, women, food. He was a bully, strong and skilled, but alone. The rest of the tribe finally had enough of his arrogance, and banded together to drive him out.
The tribe had a code against killing – but isn’t that what they did by driving this individual out? It may have been – if he had died. Realistically he should have, on one of the first days. But he didn’t. He headed South, until for no reason in particular he stopped in his tracks, and headed North, further and further, drawn by some inner madness, a relentless tugging at his soul. He passed others (men and animals) who had felt the same call, their corpses now rotting. He survived by eating them, until…this primitive savage came across what would be known as a star ship, fallen from the sky. Of course he had no comprehension for this type of thing, yet was perplexed, and its mystery had engulfed him.
The irresistible beckoning still tugged at him, drawing him closer to the vessel. As he was within an arms reach of the strange alien metal, the strange call disappeared, and he was released from it‘s control, but it was too late for him to run or to escape, as the vessel captured him, it was indeed alive. Next the primitive savage was restrained and various instruments started probing him.
(present)The Master asks Marrina if she thinks she suffers now. Well, what she is going through is more pain than anyone has endured for forty thousand years, but it is nothing compared to what this primitive man was endured to. The Master tells Marrina he believes this man went insane. This man had his body stripped of flesh, as muscle, tissue and bones were scraped and all of his cellular body was distilled and studied. Everything, except for his brain that is. His brain was kept alive and incorporated into the vessel, becoming, at first, just a tiny extension of the whole. But his will was strong, and though it took him thirty thousand years to do so, he escaped his madness, and turned his prison into his castle. He came into control over the mechanics of the vessel, and commanded them to reconstitute his mortal form, but a perfect form this time.
The Master now reveals to Marrina some startling information – he was that primitive human, and, now that his link over Marrina’s ship is complete he has knowledge at his disposal, and is aware of everything about Earth. Marrina is confused – her ship? The Master tells Marrina that her origins lie in fact within this ship, and beyond Earth. That she too has waited many thousands of years to ripen, and the hour of conquest to begin. But the Master tells her, that he is first and foremost at human being – and he does not want to rule a world of fish-things. That is why, Marrina and her brood-mate, when he is located, have to be destroyed, so that he may finally and fully assume his rightful role as Master of the World.
Intruders suddenly startle the Master – they have heard at least part of what he has said recently, and they are not going to let the Master take over the world. He will find a planet full of beings that will oppose him, and here are two now – Namor the Sub-Mariner and the Invisible Woman!
Second Story :(ten years ago)
James MacDonald Hudson sits alone in his apartment, in Edmonton, Alberta and contemplates his future after the recent events which occurred last night, when he “stole” the cybernetic helmet from his employer. Suddenly, the door bell rings – it is Heather McNeil! James is confused, what is she doing here? How did she know he lived here. Heather tells him, having access to Jaxon’s address book helped, and she is here because he just lost his job, and if he is anything like any of Heather’s six brothers, then he has probably got an empty fridge, so she bought him some groceries. Mac is a little taken aback, but seems happy to see her. He tells her she shouldn’t have done this, after all she lost her job too. Heather tells Mac that she has actually got three weeks left working for Jaxon, which isn’t as drastic as his position, and she has enough money in the bank, and a rather indulgent father.
Heather starts putting away the groceries, when she tells James that his quitting may have been premature. Mac is confused. Heather reminds him he quit because Jaxon was going to sell his exploratory suit to the American military, but someone has stolen the suit, and destroyed the only set of plans. The suit was found outside of town, except for the cybernetic helmet, which controls the suit, which is missing. James tells her he knows…Heather is puzzled, not even she should know – though as she follows Mac into another room she sees the helmet. Heather is a little startled, but realizes that Mac stole it so Jaxon couldn’t give it to the army.
James is somber, only now he doesn’t know what to do – except that he will probably end up going to prison. He tells Heather he doesn’t want her to shield him. Heather tells him she wouldn't think of it…and besides, a wife can’t testify against her husband…Heather is not sure what she just said, it all came out so quickly. James is shocked, Heather tells him that she knows it sounds crazy, and that he doesn’t even know her yet, but she fell in love with him the first time she saw him and she wants to take care of him. Mac asks Heather how old she is, she’s just a kid, and he could probably get arrested for even having her in his apartment with the door closed. Heather tells him she will be eighteen next month, but that doesn’t change the way she feels about him. James says it should…though he can’t deny something he felt yesterday when they spoke yesterday, when she told him she had quit in protest.
James tells her that he is going to go to jail, and can’t ask anyone to share that kind of life with him, and why does she still call him ‘Doctor Hudson’? Heather tells him she will call him something else if doesn’t stop feeling sorry for himself, and do something. Mac thinks he’s probably done enough already, and doesn’t see a way out of this mess. Heather does however. And five hours later they are aboard an Air Canada plane, headed for the country capital, Ottawa.
Over the course of the next two days James and Heather spend most of their time being shunted from one office to another, a little tired, they finally end up in a small office on Parliament Hill.It is in this office that Mac and Heather are speaking to Frank Hulme, a government official who confirms with James that he did design and create the cybernetic helmet while he was still in college, and that no work was done on it during his tenure with AM-CAM. James agrees. Hulme asks Mac if he has a government student loan, and if it has been repaid…yes and no, in that order is James’ answer, though is puzzled as to what this has to do with his reason for being here. Hulme begins to make a phone call.
Twenty minutes later, Hulme tells Hudson that the Canadian government will be happy to pay AM-CAM for any incidental damages that were caused when Mac was collecting his property. Hulme also says that Mac has been employed by the government retroactively for the past six years. Mac asks if that is legal, and Heather tells him better not to ask. Several minutes later, James and Heather are met by the Canadian Prime Minister, who informs Hudson of a project he thinks may be of interest to him.
(over the next three years)Interest, was putting it mildly. Hudson worked continuously in the early stages of development of Department H. The super secret research and development part of the Ministry of Defense. During this time comes Hudson’s greatest success and greatest failure - the mutant code-named Wolverine.
Mac and Heather also find time to marry. Hudson arrives home one day, and finds Heather quite astonished by what she has read in the paper – an article about Reed Richards, someone Mac has heard of, and three others who were bombarded by cosmic rays, and transformed into super heroes called the “Fantastic Four”. This gives Mac an idea, and he and the scientists of Department H begin work on furthering the exploration suit he designed, and for the next six years, all his life is about is making this a reality, and to his eventual, though somewhat reluctance at becoming Guardian.


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(about an hour before the end of last issue)
At the North Pole, Susan Storm, also known as the Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four, is working on the controls of the Fantasti-Car, as she flies behind Namor the Sub-Mariner. Actually she wonders why she accompanies Namor to the North Pole, when in fact she should be looking for her husband, and tending to the Silver Surfer. Namor answers that she followed him for the simple reason that he asked her to come along. She of all people should know he does not request the aid of humans, even her, unless the need is dire. Namor feels they are near the ice where he encountered trouble. Sue asks him how he can tell one block of ice from another, when the Fantasti-Car’s sensors pick up something beneath the ice. Sue cannot get a clear fix on what it is, and wishes her husband were here, as he may be able to alter the sensor to get a proper fix. Namor reminds Susan that Reed is not here, so she must do her best, as she always has. Taking in the compliment, Susan smiles and adjusts the controls: Now the display shows some sort of complex, as Namor sees it, a vast technological structure beneath the ice. The edges of the structure seem to blur as if there is no sharp definition between metal and ice.
Suddenly the duo picks up an energy reading on the sensors, but before they can further investigate, they are blasted by a laser beam, and the Fantasti-Car is engulfed in flames.
At exact the same time, only three and a bit miles away, a polar bear, whose intelligence is more than average, turns it’s head towards the sound of the explosion. Standing in front of giant metallic broken doors, it’s more human-than-animal senses scan the area, and it wonders if the explosion is in any way connected to the wreckage it found earlier – when it was not a bear. Suddenly, the bear changes shape, and is a bear no more. Snowbird has returned. She again feels a great evil emanating from the complex and wonders about the explosion having occurred at about the same spot where she found the wreck of Alpha Flight’s Omni-Jet. She think it only logical to assume that the two events are connected, though as she senses her fellow Alphans are nearby, she decides that she has not the time to investigate. Despite the ebbing evil around her threatening to smother her mystical senses, Snowbird takes flight and enters the huge complex.
(present)
Several levels below. Guardian kneels beside a somewhat shaken Jeanne-Marie, while Sasquatch looms over, questioning Mac about his conclusion that Aurora has retreated into her Jeanne-Marie persona. Sasquatch asks aren’t they the same persona?  Mac says not exactly, but now is not the time to discuss it, but Walt tells him to make time, as he is not going anywhere until he knows what is going on here. He tells James that he has known Aurora since she was inducted into Alpha Flight, and never though she was any thing more than free-spirited, only now she has become the complete opposite. Mac gives in, and tells Walt that Jeanne-Marie is a classic paranoid, what people call a split personality. She thinks of her Aurora identity as someone else, someone she hates.
Walt makes a comment about how James could ever think she was the suitable kind of person for super-heroing. Mac tells him that when he first met Aurora, she was in her Aurora persona, and did not learn of Jeanne-Marie until it was too late. Jeanne-Marie stirs, and Mac helps her up, and making a big mistake he calls her Aurora. Aghast, and in with a very think French accent, Jeanne-Marie tells Mac to take his ‘paws’ off her, and she runs away, saying she must get away from Aurora. Mac calls out, apologizing, but to no avail. He mutters to Sasquatch about how much of a stupid mistake that was, especially after he had just explained her situation to Walt. He says he is going after her, but Walt stops him, telling Mac that he should look for Northstar, while he goes after Jeanne-Marie himself, as he has… known her better than Mac. Mac looks rather taken-aback, and Dr. Langkowski tells him to ask no questions and he will get no lies, before departing to look for Jeanne-Marie. Guardian goes the other way, with a troubled glance over his shoulder.
As Sasquatch runs, his form changes, from that of beast into man, thinking it may be able to reach Aurora through Jeanne-Marie, but easier in his human shape – assuming he can find her without his glasses. To give him more trouble, Walter is sure the corridors keep altering their size and direction, as if the whole place is alive. As he rounds a corner, Walt finds Jeanne-Marie, huddled in a groove. Wearing only his boxers he approaches her cautiously, asking if she remembers him, and that he would never hurt her. Jeanne-Marie tells Walt that it is not in her habit for associating with naked men, though Walt replies that there are beaches in this country where he would be over-dressed, and asks her to come with him so they can join the others. As he reaches out for her she tells him not to touch her, and she does not want to see the others, she only wants to know where she is, and why she is here. Walt puts his hand on Jeanne-Marie’s shoulder, and talks to her, his deep voice is calm and soothing, and his touch is gentle. He talks to her about the night they spent together in New York weeks ago, of two people sharing something, something more than friendship, almost love. Somehow Jeanne-Marie is not as disgusted at herself as she thought she would have been, and she remembers - but as Jeanne-Marie her glazed over look becomes fierce and she smacks Walt in the face crying “Animal”, and Walt thinks this isn’t going to be as easy as he thought…
Meanwhile, Northstar continues his search for his lost teammate, Marrina, the very reason he, Guardian, Sasquatch and his sister are at this strange and disturbing place. He has raced through at least five hundred miles of corridors, in which there had been no sign of his sister, either. Jean-Paul thinks he has already traveled down his current corridor, several times, and each time it has looked different. He concludes that he is very much lost. At that very moment, a voice startles the mutant speedster - it is Guardian, saying he thought Northstar would never get here! Jean-Paul is confused – did Mac follow him? That would have been impossible. Guardian tells his teammate that he was able to use the cybernetic circuitry in his battle suit to tap into the internal systems of this complex, and it ‘speaks’ back. He was able to locate all of his teammates this way. Northstar is glad, now they can get to his sister. James tells him that Jeanne-Marie is safe with Sasquatch, though not for much longer, as she, and the entire world population are at risk. Northstar asks for a proper explanation, and Mac tells him he has discovered the purpose of this complex, and unless they shut it down, it will bring about the extermination of all life on Earth!
(several minutes earlier)
Outside the sprawling complex. Namor, carrying the Invisible Woman land safely on the ice. They managed to escape the destruction of the Fantasti-Car as the Invisible Woman threw up a forcefield around the two of them. Like Snowbird did earlier on, Namor senses the evil that surrounds this place, and even the Invisible Woman feels something missing in the ice. As an aerial approach did them no good, Namor decides another angle needs to be taken, and rips up an enormous chunk of ice, revealing the deadly cold waters below. Though time is of the essence, for Namor could not withstand too much time in these waters as they are poisoned. Sue worries, but surrounds herself in a forcefield bubble, and Namor propels her through the icy waters. It takes several long minutes in the dark waters, and Namor grows week, however it seems they have arrived at their destination, and neither of them can believe it when they see it. A gigantic sprawling complex, more like a city, which is connected to the ice above, yet is all one living organism.
Soon, the fantastic duo emerges inside the complex, and discovers that it has been feeding on the waters, draining the vital elements out of them. Sue agrees, and adds that everything about this place suggests it is growing. The two begin to walk through one of the corridors, invisible, much to Namor’s unamusement, as he tells the Invisible Woman it is very unnerving to be rendered invisible, however Sue tells him it is their only way to get through the complex without being detected.
(forty minutes later)
The Prince of Atlantis and the Invisible Woman stand invisible on a ledge in the Masters central room, where Marrina is being tortured. The Master, unaware he is being watched tells Marrina to stop resisting the probes. Marrina continues her pleas, and asks why if this ship tortured him forty thousand years ago, why does he inflict the same pain upon another? The Master reminds Marrina that he told her how he became master of this ship – her ship, and asks her why she continues to pretend not to know its purpose. He tells her he will prove to her that he already knows what Marrina is trying to keep from him…and the Master tells a different side of the story…
(various flashbacks, mostly 40.000 years ago)
In the immeasurable outer reaches of space, deep within in the endless sea of time…there lay a dying planet. It’s every acre inhabited, it’s moons inhabited, and all resources spent the same for the neighboring planets it colonized. This planet was the core home of a race whose very existence was that of conquering other worlds. When the planet was no longer inhabitable, endless amounts of ships departed, headed for the next conquest. As a thousand worlds were conquered, they each would take a thousand more. A hundred such generations and entire galaxies could be sucked dry. The ships were programmed to seek worlds in the early stages of development. They landed in a region most deadly to the native fauna, and upon landing the ship actually grew, feeding off the soil and water. Within a hundred years, it was no longer a ship, but a massive colonization complex, intertwined to the planets fibers.
Then a strange hypnotizing signal is sent out, calling one of each and every life form on the planet forward. The one that survives the long journey and hardships of the land is deemed the representative life form of that planet. The creature is captured by the ‘ship’ and butchered, every molecule, fiber and strand of DNA tested. After everything is analyzed, the information is fed into the colony spores, millions of egg pairs, which once the genetic code of the dominant life are written upon, are no longer blank slates. Once conditioned, the sturdy egg-pairs are fired on ballistic paths, and scattered across the entire globe. Not all of the eggs will survive though, nor will all find their brood mate, but there are millions of them. On as many different worlds, these beings have adapted to countless life forms, assuming domination of the planet.
This too, would have happened on Earth, but there was a flaw in the colony ship, and after ten thousand years in space, one of the drive units exploded. It did not land on Earth, but crashed, here in the North Pole. Damaged as it was, the ship fired off it’s precious cargo, the eggs, before they were fully ready, before the genetic programming had been laid in. Therefore, the egg that was forced open by Gladys Smallwood was still primed for conditioning, and the instant that the unidentifiable creature made contact with the human female, it adapted itself to her. However previous to that, the egg had drifted across the ocean floor for forty thousand years, and to survive those centuries the egg became water resistant, and the monster within was amphibious. That monster is Marrina.
(present)
The Master continues his story, of all the millions of eggs that were sent forth from this ship, it seems as if Marrina’s was the only to survive, damaged as it was. Marrina’s programming was not damaged however, she is still a brood female, with the sole purpose of colonizing this world!
Marrina cries out in pain, confused and scared, she knows nothing of what the Master of the World says, she is human not alien! The Master tells his story is true, otherwise she would not have responded to the ship’ summoning call and nearly killed someone trying to get here.
The Master says that for him to fully assume the rightful position of Master of the World it has come time for the Marrina to die.
At that instant the Sub-Mariner and Invisible Woman make their presence known to the Master as they leap down in front of him, telling him he will not succeed in his plans. The Master knows who they are, and calling them by name he tells them he is surprised to have come into contact with them so soon. Mechanical grabbers reach out for the fantastic duo, Sue comments about how they just grew out of the wall, and Namor reminds her that this is some sort of living organism. The Invisible Woman tells him to stop wasting his breath on explanations, he is starting to sound like her husband, and Susan’s forcefield seems to be confusing the tentacles however. But they must stop the Master himself. While they are busy fighting, the Master descends further into the depths of the ship, thinking to himself how he must give the heroes the illusion that they control their own destiny, when in fact it is beyond their control. The Master bids farewell to Marrina, saying that what occurs now, occurs for the good of all mankind… and the shackles that bind Marrina begin to move further away, tearing her from limb to limb.
At that moment, out of a nearby circulation duct, hundreds of mosquitoes emerge…. And as they swarm across the chamber, closer to Marrina, they begin to take shape…that of the all-powerful Snowbird! Marrina cries out in surprise, and as Snowbird smashes the shackles with her bare hands, she tells Marrina Sasquatch is not the only one with strength. The Invisible Woman is surprised to see the goddess, and asks her if the rest of Alpha Flight is involved. Snowbird tells Susan and Namor they have taken her by just as much surprise and that her teammates are here, before helping them stop the mechanical grabbers.
Deep below and nearly ten miles away, the Master is carried along a tunnel by his chair attached to a rail system. He seems to know where the other Alphans are as he knows Guardian and Northstar are being guided via Guardian’s cybernetic circuitry intertwined with the ships, and they are headed for the prime power complex, suddenly a blast erupts beside the Master, and all he says is “Now. It begins!”
At that moment, at another part of the complex, Guardian and Northstar are flying away from the explosion, and Northstar tells Mac he thinks they broke too much of the place. The team leader disagrees, they had to do maximum damage to ensure they were knocking out all vital systems, and it is working as Guardian is still linked to the complex cybernetically and can tell that whole areas are blacking out. As they round a corner they come across Sasquatch who is holding a very distraught Jeanne-Marie in his hand, and guesses that James and Jean-Paul are responsible for the present disturbance. Mac tells his friend they are, and Northstar tells Sasquatch to let his sister go, only to discover that she has become Jeanne-Marie again!
Entering the next room, Guardian is very surprised to see Snowbird here as well as Namor and the Invisible Woman. The two groups exchange stories, and Susan tells Guardian they better find the Master. Guardian guesses that the Master is the other life form he has been scanning, and he is some ways off, however they don’t have time to look for him, as all the damage they caused has caught up to them...
Outside, the calm ice covering the North Pole for miles suddenly ripples, and starts to slowly break, before exploding in a blazing mess, as ice shards scatter, and melt before sinking into the ocean below. At that moment a bubble emerges from the water – it is Alpha Flight! They and Namor managed to survive inside the Invisible Woman’s forcefield bubble. Namor tells Sue to open it and the bubble transforms into an invisible raft. Namor dives into the waters, as there is a chance the Master may have survived and they must find him. Marrina joins him, but twenty minutes later the water bound duo returns, announcing there is no trace of him, or no sign of the complex, even wreckage, it is as if it just dissolved.
Snowbird tells her companions their task is done and takes flight. Guardian yells out behind her to keep in touch and the Invisible Woman thinks Snowbird is very cold. Marrina stands beside Guardian, and suggests that she – and Namor leave too. Guardian is confused, and asks Namor to elaborate. The Sub-Mariner tells Guardian there are many questions still surrounding Marrina, and his people are better suited to solve them. He has invited Marrina to stay in Atlantis, and she has agreed. Guardian wishes Marrina good luck, she will be missed.
Everyone departs, Namor and Marrina go via New York to return the Invisible Woman home, while the silent twins head for La Belle Province, Northstar carrying Jeanne-Marie. Guardian carries Sasquatch who comments that they can cross the Master off their list of open cases. But Guardian tells him not to write the Master off so quickly…and head for Newfoundland, where Mac has one last unnerving task.
Hudson and Dr. Langkowski arrive and call out to Dan Smallwood, who sits on the rugged coastline He sees the men and tells Hudson it is good to see him again, and asks if Marrina is with him. Smallwood seems quite excited, after all he was Marrina’s brother of sorts. However Hudson recognized from early on that Dan’s love for Marrina was more than fraternal, and what he has to do now is hard. Mac tells the younger man quickly, and tries to make it as painless as possible. But Dan’s anguished face speaks volumes. Alpha Flight may have saved the world today, but for one man, the world is ending.