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Comes a Dragon
His name is Eugene Milton Judd, he first came into this world 74 years ago, and has now come to this North-eastern Chinese province of Danwei to find a way out of it. For the man once as Puck has grown very weary of this world. Abseiling down the side of a cliff, Judd sees Chinese soldiers marching along the narrow cliff side road and wonders if they are after him. However, further down the road, the former Alphan spies some priests and realizes the soldiers are after them, but he knows there is nothing he can do about it. Solemnly, Judd frowns as he tells himself that Puck might have been able to do something - but Puck is “dead”, for he died when the Dark Fire Fountain released the demon Raazer imprisoned with him.
Judd remembers that it was because of the release of Raazer from within him, he was returned to his regular size and the soldier-of-fortune was deposited amidst the border countries of high in the mountains between India, China and the Soviet Union. Judd closes his eyes as remembers how he was returned to himself, freed of pain - except for the pain of having abandoned his beloved Alpha Flight. Judd recalls that it was his relative powerlessness that made him expendable, and Vindicator choosing to love Jeffries over him made Judd irrelevant.
Judd looks up at a giant temple as he admits he had grown tired of a team, a woman, a world that had no need of him, but while in Tibet he learned of a lamasery in a far flung border province, wherein lay the secret to the Doorway Between Worlds. Judd realizes that with the appearance of the Chinese soldiers, it would appear that others threaten to seize that secret before it is revealed to him. Being fluent in Chinese among several other languages, Judd is able to understand the conversation between the Chinese soldiers.
The Commanding soldier tells his comrades that this province straddles the strategic border between their country and the Russian bear to the North.  He declares that the Central Committee has for a long time sought to secure this province against subversion and infiltration. Judd wonders if the Commander is referring to him, but when the Commander declares that the refusal of Danwei’s ethnic minority to avoid their religion and embrace Marxism invites such dangers, Judd realizes that the Commander is talking about the priests.
The Commanders faces the Priests and tells them that such sedition must cease. A priest steps forward and tells the Commander that the High Lama that rules here practices no politics, adding that they pray for peace, not for power. The Commander exclaims that the peasants whose time would be better spent on their communes heed a foolish old mans words instead of Chairmen Mao’s. Amongst the group of soldiers, young Dei Guan recalls that his parents heeded Mao’s words, yet died for it at the hands of Mao’s widow. However he keeps such thoughts to himself, but as the Commander vents his fury on the unresisting priest by whacking his fist into the priests face and calling him a fool, Dei Guan’s fingers tighten on the butt of his rifle.
Judd clambers down the cliff, seeing that the troops are advancing and knowing the priests are massing to resist them, however, he knows of no mantra capable of stopping modern military technology, and decides he has got to help them - but he is no longer the hero he once was, remembering his days as the diminutive Alphan Puck.
The Chinese Commander orders his troops to fire on his command, and as they do so, the priests link hands and a blinding white light is produced. As he shields his eyes, Judd likens the light to that of the one emitted by his former teammates, Northstar and Aurora. However, the twin’s illumination never transformed itself into flowers. One of the soldiers calls to the Commander as the flowers continue to float around them all and declares that they cannot see to shoot. The Commander declares that he commands them to fire, so the soldiers do so, but the priests glow, and as Judd witnesses the battle below he sees the force field thrown up by the priests and watches as the priests retreat to their lamasery.
However, the soldiers are not so easily deterred, as the Commander radios an air strike against the priests. Suddenly, helicopters appear above the priests and begin firing at them, for their force field was no a dome and cannot protect them all the way to the lamasery. Dei Guan is shocked, ‘No!’ he thinks to himself as the Commander cries ‘Yes!’ Watching from behind the safety of a large rock, Judd is also shocked at what is taking place and wished that Sasquatch or Box were here, as their great strengths would take the guns on the choppers out.
But Judd knows that they are not here, meaning it is up to him - and the plastique explosive he obtained from Tibetan bandits in case things got interesting. He sets the explosive and races away from it. Seconds later, a large explosion comes from the cliff side, and as the Commander stands over the body of a priest he announces that it is not a priestly trick, but the armament of choice for subversives. He declares that their suspicions prove true and orders his comrades to execute everyone.
Seeing a priest look in his direction, Judd wonders if he senses his presence, and if so why he appears to be staring at him accusingly. He wonders if it is because while the priests passive resistance claimed no enemy lives, while his avalanche took out over a dozen attackers. Judd reminds himself that he did it to save them, but realizes that they may not want to be saved if it costs any lives except the lives of their own. The priests have learned from their first foray at resistance the priests now extend their force field so that the canons of the Chinese gun ships cannot penetrate it.
Judd walks up to the force filed where no one can see him, ‘A wall against the unworthy’ he thinks to himself, and reminds himself that he witnessed this mystical analogue of Vindicator’s force-shield on a much smaller level when he studied tantric yoga decades ago in India. Judd also learned that it could be penetrated by one whose mind bore no malice. Judd’s eyes glaze over as he stands completely still, before being able to walk through the force field. ‘Entrancing, eh?’ As he runs up the narrow path towards the temple, he thinks to himself that he is sure that whoever could conjure forth such a marvel could also unlock the doorway between worlds.
Meanwhile, the Commander orders the soldiers to charge, but they are knocked back by the force field. The furious Commander calls to Dei Guan and informs the young man that the running dog intellectuals who have curried favor with the Central Committee since the overthrow of the Gang of Four had him assigned to his unit over his objections and declares that he has never seen their claims that Dei Guan possesses special abilities tested.
Dei Guan asks his commanding officer if he would like him to demonstrate those abilities now, to which the Commander calls him a fool and asks what else he would want from him. Dei Guan’s body begins to transform, as the young man’s body become replaced with green scales and increases in size. Dei Guan declares that it shall be as his Commander, country, party and the revolution desires.  ‘For the Jade Dragon is nothing save a humble servant of the State!’ cries the giant dragon standing in Dei Guan’s place.
The Commander smiles as he looks upon the secret that his party had kept hidden from him. He declares that the Jade Dragon is a super being cut from the same cloth as the Radioactive Man and the Collective Man, to which the Jade Dragon boasts that he is far mightier than his powerful predecessors. He tells everyone to witness, as he unleashes a huge beam of flame from his mouth, directed at the force field.
When the smokes clears, the Jade Dragon announces that the force field is broken and tells the Commander that he may give the word to advance. The Jade Dragon takes to the air as he thinks that because of his aid, the troops can continue in their slaughter. ‘As my parents were slaughtered’ he thinks to himself, and their “crime” was being intellectuals during a Mao’s so-called “cultural revolution” before thinking back to the rest of his origin.
(Flashback)
Dei Guan’s parents were dead, but their orphan rose to manhood in a re-education camp, his political correctness being measured in the bushels of ore that he extracted from China’s iron mines. Exhausted by labor and exposed to incessant propaganda, Dei Guan no longer knew what to believe - until an impossible voice made him believe himself be mad.
A short man appeared before Dei Guan and informed him that their ancestors believed that Dragons of jade lay beneath the earth, lending their great powers to great warriors, their wisdom to priests and power to heal to physicians. Dei Guan informed the man that he has neither power nor wisdom and that he would wager he is an illusion wrought out of being sick unto exhaustion.
But the geomancer, such as he must have been, was real, Dei Guan learned that when he imparted the dragon power to him, allowing Dei Guan to free himself from the abyss. Guan’s rebirth coincided with his country’s, as the Gang of Four was deposed, the cultural revolution ended, and full of reformist fervor, Guan enlisted in the service of the new China.
(Present)
The Jade Dragon flies towards the temple as he tells himself he now participates in the extermination of a pacifistic priesthood whose only crime lies in worshipping a power other than the States. He wonders if others must suffer for their beliefs like his family suffered, or if China’s ancestors bestowed power upon him to oppress others - ‘I think not’ he realizes.
Meanwhile, Tamarind Island, off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. A speedboat races towards the former home of Canada’s former premier super heroes - Alpha Flight. ‘It’s beautiful!’ exclaims a woman when she sees the island from the boat, and as she steps onto the dock with her lawyer, who tells her that it is prime real estate. The woman asks if it can really be hers, to which her lawyer informs her it can, and legally too, pointing out that her husband died intestate without a will. The woman mutters that if her husband had lived to write a will, then she is sure he would have written her out of it. Her lawyer tells her she should be glad he died then.
The woman walks towards the mansion that stands on the island as she tells Mr. Childs that he said a callous thing before adding that they were about to divorce, when she suddenly gets a closer look at the mansion - broken, nearly destroyed. Childs tells her that all it needs is a few coats of paint, when suddenly they find themselves aimed at by guns and surrounded by armed men, as someone tells them to stand and identify themselves. ‘Soldiers!’ ‘Trespassers!’
A man in a tan trench coat tells Childs that it is he who is trespassing on property claimed by the government of Canada as a base for Alpha Flight. He asks the duo again - who are they and what do they know about the destruction of Mansion Alpha and the disappearance of its occupants. Childs tells the government official that the only questions he will answer will be in court and declares that this is private property. The government official starts to say something, but Childs cuts him off, telling him what he has said and what the law says are two different things.
Mr. Childs declares that the State can only take private property by exercising its right of eminent domain, and informs the official that there were no condemnation proceedings regarding Tamarind Island, or his office, executors of the Langkowski Estate would have known about them. The government agent asks Childs if he is a lawyer and asks if he was hired by Walter Langkowski. Suddenly, the woman takes off her hat and steps forward, declaring that Childs was hired by her - Veronica Langkowski -Walter’s widow!
Back in Asia, Judd abseils down the side of the temple, and smashes through one of the windows to get inside. He makes his way through a corridor, when someone cries ‘Greetings!’ Judd turns to see the High Lama floating behind him. The elderly man tells Judd that others call him the High Lama, while he would prefer to think of himself merely a humble seeker of alternatives to the wheel of life on which all mortals move.
The High Lama asks Judd if that is not what he also seeks - a way out of this life and its past associations. He touches Judd’s head and sees images of Judd, in his younger days as an adventurer, and as a member of Alpha Flight. In the High Lama’s native tongue, Judd replies ‘Yes!’ but the High Lama turns, and floats away from Judd, who runs after him as he is told he is unworthy, as he seeks not to shed the substance of his life, that all he wants is new adventures. ‘Is that too much to ask?’ exclaims Judd, still following the High Lama.
Judd informs the High Lama that he feels as though he has worn out his welcome on this world and that he desires new worlds to explore and new experiences. The High Lama interprets this as Judd wanting a new life, in which he may repeat old mistakes. The high Lama creates an illusion before Judd and informs him that he preaches the transcending the wheel of life, exclaiming that only when one leaves life can they truly be free.
Judd exclaims that without life there is only death, but the High Lama tells him that terms without meaning once morality has been transcended. Motioning to everything around them in the temple, Judd points out to the old man that he chooses to live, and to defend himself against the soldiers who now advance upon his sanctuary. The High Lama turns his back on Judd as he tells him that one must live life to learn universal truths before they can move on to other planes of existence, and declares that he has reached that point.
‘Then prepare for your journey, enemy of the State!’ declares the Jade Dragon as he bursts into the temple. Judd sees the dragon and races across the room to pick a vase up as the High Lama floats, unmoving before the Dragon, who declares that he doubted his Commanders accusation, but since finding him in collusion with a foreign spy, he believes him to be right. Judd realizes that this is not a dragon but some kind of Chinese super hero who is finding the high Lama guilty of treason by association - simply with him.
Judd boasts that he cannot let the harmless old man pay for his presence and heaves the vase at the Jade Dragon, but s the Dragon is whacked, the High Lama tells Judd his intercession is unnecessary, and as Judd is knocked back by the Dragon as he flicks his tail, the High Lama adds that his intercession is also unavailing. Judd stands up and picking up a metal pole, he is glad he has diverted the Dragon’s attention away from the High Lama, but exclaims that it is bad now that the Dragon is coming after him.
As Judd throws the pole at the Jade Dragon, Guan asks Judd if this is the best he can do, adding that it makes him wonder what his foreign masters hoped to accomplish by sending him here. Caught up in a wind caused by the Jade Dragon flapping his wings, Judd tells himself that if he still owed allegiance to his “foreign masters” then he bets that Ottawa would be horrified to find him here, risking an international incident.
As Judd is caught in the Dragon’s tail, he declares that he will die as he lived most of his years - as a free agent. The High Lama flies towards Judd, power ready, telling the former Alphan that he knows it is not what he desires. Judd calls to the High Lama, telling him not to intervene - but it is too late, as the Jade Dragon lets lose a mighty burst of flame from his mouth, incinerating the High Lama, who was protecting Judd.
‘What have I done?’ shrieks the Jade Dragon as the High Lama’s body drops to the ground, the Dragon flings Judd against a wall before pounding his fists on the ground and bursting out of the temple, announcing to his Commander that the High Lama is dead. The Commander motions to the other priests, lined up near a firing squad of soldiers as the Commander declares that the High Lama’s disciples are about to join him, but the Jade Dragon begins to attack the soldiers as he declares ‘NO!’
Inside the temple, Judd leans over the High Lama’s body, muttering ‘my fault, my fault!, but the High Lama’s spirit then appears before Judd, calling him ‘Seeker’ he tells Judd that it was his choice, and that by it, death has released him from the wheel of life, freeing him to pass through the Doorway Between Worlds, someday to reach the final goal. Motioning to the various worlds through the Doorway, the High Lama asks Judd if he will join him, to which Judd asks him if he means die.
The High Lama informs Judd however that he does not have to die, for just as they use the same doorway, they would travel entirely different paths, he would journey the spiritual realm while Judd walked the material paths. The High Lama tells Judd that he grants him release from his world in his present state, and tells him to chose any world he wishes to walk and he will then be transported to it.
Judd sees a certain world, where his former teammates, Alpha Flight, are currently fighting for their lives. The High Lama informs Judd he offered him this world first because it does host his friends, but Judd thinks the High Lama doesn’t understand, as Alpha Flight are in trouble - again. Judd thinks that if he ignores Alpha Flight he can chose another world and escape his past, but by doing so, he may dooms his friends. The High Lama smiles and tells Judd to chose - which he does, walking into a doorway, and ending up on…
…Liveworld! Alpha Flight are shocked as Judd is thrown towards them as they continue to battle the Dreamqueen’s warriors. The Dreamqueen sees the doorway and declares that at last, the dimensions are bridged, and their dimension is hers. She commands her Dream Warriors to slay Alpha Flight. ‘Uh, Proto’ says the Purple Girl to her boyfriends past self, ‘I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore’, and Box, holding the injured Vindicator, Sasquatch and Manikin all watch along with Judd, as the Jade Dragon, and the Chinese Commander and soldiers can be seen on the other side of the doorway. The Commander asks the Jade Dragon if he sees where treason leads, to which the Jade Dragon asks if this is what is meant by a foreign invasion.


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War! What is it good for?
Moscow, at some military base, ‘Yellow alert!’ is called to the General, who assumes the alert to be made because he believes Chinese troops to be massing on the Soviet border, but he is informed that there seems to be some sort of insurrection taking place in the Chinese border-state known as Danwei. The General doesn’t believe this, and declares that it is only what the Maoists would have them believe, and suggests that this rebellion is just a subterfuge while they prepare to invade the Motherland. He orders the alert to be upgraded to Orange level.
Meanwhile, in Washington, a high commanding military official is surprised to see that the Soviets are mobilizing. An officer informs her it is apparently because of a Red Chinese mobilization on their borders. The commanding officer asks if their spy satellites could be wrong, but another official exclaims that there could be nothing wrong with their satellites because of their resolution. ‘Something’s going on in Danwei!’ remarks another official.
‘Danwei? Never heard of it!’ shouts the Canadian Prime Minister in Ottawa. An aide informs Prime Minister Mulroney that it is a Chinese border state, and as they head into a communications room at Parliament Hill, tells the PM that the Americans thought they might like to see what their spy satellites picked up. ‘ALPHA FLIGHT!’ bellows the Prime Minister, still in his dressing gown as he sees before him on the enormous view screen, Canada’s long missing premiere super hero team, and their training team Beta Flight, engaged in battle with the extra-dimensional Dreamqueen and her Dream Warriors.
The Prime Minister shouts that he thought Alpha Flight were dead, and his aides begin making up excuses. ‘So did we, sir!’, ‘Destroyed by Bedlam!’ ‘Their headquarters was in ruins’ ‘But no bodies were ever found’. ‘We goofed!’ Furious, Mulroney tells his officials that they certainly did goof, as Alpha Flight are obviously alive, and battling some super foe in the heart of Red China. One aide mumbles that the evidence would seem to support what the PM just said, as the others try not to make eye contact mutter ‘Indubitably!’ ‘Of course we cant be sure…’ ‘Not till all the facts are in!’ ‘Ahem…’
Meanwhile, in Danwei itself, the Jade Dragon lashes out at the fleeing Chinese soldiers who are his former comrades in arms. One soldier fires at Dei Guan and declares that as a dragon he has thrust himself between them ands the lamasery they were attacking. The Commander of the squadron calls Dei Guan ‘A traitor aiding and abetting traitors’ and orders him destroyed. The Jade Dragon defends himself against the bullets fired at him as he asks if he is accused of treason merely because he defended the defenseless, before whacking everyone away with his tail, boasting that that is why he was granted the Dragon power in the first place.
The Jade Dragon unleashes a beam of fire from his mouth, creating a ring of fire around the soldiers as he declares that if there are any traitors here it is only those who betray their conscience by obeying the unconscionable orders of the State. The Dragon tells them that he has no wish to harm them and that the wall of fire shall prevent their advance. Looking up at the lamasery, Dei Guan wonders of the possibility that the priests within it do consort with China’s enemies as he was told, and recalls that strange beings did materialize there a few moments ago. The Jade Dragon decides that as he could not ascertain the truth while his comrades were attacking, he has a better chance now, and flies off towards the lamasery, while the Commander radios back to base for reinforcements and air support.
Meanwhile, back in Ottawa, the Pm wonders if his predecessor was surrounded by such blithering idiots before declaring that they were right not to trust Alpha Flight, ‘those blasted super hero freaks!’ he exclaims as he mutters that they think they can vanish when they please and reappear wherever they want, all without being controlled. He issues a recall order on Alpha Flight, to which an aide informs him that they are not in contact with Alpha Flight. Mulroney asks if what he is being told is that they cannot pull Alpha Flight out of China, before asking everyone if they have any idea as to the embarrassment this kind of international incident could cause Canada.
A soldier steps forward and tells the Prime Minister, with all due respect, that they may be “beyond embarrassment” by now. Mulroney turns to the soldier who reveals that Alpha’s presence in Danwei has apparently triggered a Red Chinese military build up. The soldier points to the large map that has replaced the screen of Alpha Flight and motions to Danwei, on the Sino-Soviet border, where the Russians are also moving to respond. The soldier continues, revealing that in turn, America has retargeted its nuclear deterrent forces. The PM asks the soldier to cut it down and explain what he means. ‘In a word, Mr. Prime Minister? WAR!’ The Prime Minister stares at the soldier, stunned.
Back in Danwei, Wanda “Sasquatch” Langkowski asks Madison “Box” Jeffries how they got here, as one minute they were searching for their missing teammates, the next they were under siege. Box guesses that it was magic, and motions to the Dreamqueen, who he believes has some mystical control in her own dimension and thanks to Alpha it is now spilling over onto Earth. Sasquatch cries out as she is struck by one of the Dream Warriors magical weapons, and declares that it has to be magic, as no matter how many of the Dreamqueen’s Dream Warriors they trash, more and more keep coming.
Box extends his robot arms, pushing dozens of the warriors back while Sasquatch stands up after being knocked over. The Albino Alphan then returns to charging through the warriors, declaring that she bets the key to beating these bozos is by defeating the Dreamqueen. Young Whitman “Manikin” Knapp of Beta Flight asks Sasquatch how they can prove that if they cannot even get to the Dreamqueen herself. The Dreamqueen senses Manikins’ thoughts and thinks to herself that Sasquatch was correct, for each Dream Warrior that is felled, a dozen more take his place - but in their minds only, and she declares that what Alpha Flight believes to be real can kill them just as dead as that which exists.
As the battle rages, there is an observer - when he was alive he was known as the High Lama, now he exists only in spirit form. The communist Chinese hated and feared his spiritual hold over his people, so the Chinese army attacked him and his lamasery and the Jade Dragon extinguished his life, but his spirit remains free. Freed, the High Lama could have passed on to a higher state of being, but this battle holds him back. He thinks to himself that the warriors from another dimension fight desperately  and wonders if they knew the peace he feels if they would not fight on, but even so, they are, in truth, battling nothing, for their adversaries are but dreams.
Though watching the battle, the High Lama understands that even dreams can slay the dreamer, as Manikin is knocked out by one of the Dream Warriors. Manikin’s past and future selves watch the “Prime Unit” fall to the ground while Whit’s girlfriend and teammate, Kara “the Purple Girl” Kilgrave rushes over to him. The High Lama thinks that the heroics is so senseless and recalls how his way has always been the path of peace, non-resistance and the quest for tranquillity. However, he begins to wonder…what if this is the strangers alternate path to spiritual transcendence. Could this be a path trod in strength to live bravely and long?
The High Lama’s comment aptly describes Eugene Judd, the three-quarters of a century old former member of Alpha Flight known as Puck. He carries the motionless body of his former leader, the woman he loved but who did not love him back, across part of the temple as he recalls how he came to Danwei to escape his past by passing through the Doorway Between Worlds, instead he discovered one of those worlds, Liveworld, where Alpha Flight was in serious danger. Judd knows he could have disregarded their peril and abandoned them to their fate, but they were his teammates and friends. He sets Heather “Vindicator” McNeil Hudson down on the ground, his love, so he gave up on his chance to explore unknown worlds, only to sit powerlessly watching what he believes to be Alpha Flight’s final battle.
At that moment, the Dreamqueen declares that she has breached this world, using the heroes as a bridge, so she asks them why they do not surrender to their inevitable doom. She boasts that as she stands upon their world she shall not be banished to her own dimension again. Box tells the green-haired sorceress that they are not letting her stake a claim to Earth without a fight. The Purple Girl alerts Jeffries to the sky, where a dragon is flying towards them. Highbrow asks if it could be another of the Dreamqueen’s pets, as the Jade Dragon himself wonders what madness this is before him - a full scale battle in the lamasery from which he had driven his murderous comrades.
The Jade Dragon doesn’t know who the warriors are but has ascertained that some try to protect the priests, as he tried to do, while the larger number do not try to protect the priests, and by that he realizes which side he must take, and plows into the Dreamqueen’s warriors. Box alters Alpha to the help they have just received, as young Laura Dean cries ‘Could you lend me some?’ as she is being cornered by some Dream Warriors. Suddenly Goblyn leaps to her sisters rescue. Laura exclaims that Goblyn is always there for her when she is in danger, and as Goblyn is knocked backwards by a Dream Warrior who gets the upper hand, Laura boasts that even though she is just an ordinary kid, she will somehow do the same and protect her sister.
Before the Dream Warrior can attack Laura, who is protecting Goblyn, Box destroys it with a pulse beam, and comes up to the young sisters, telling Laura that from what he heard, she already did protect her sister, referring to her origin. Laura thanks Box as she alerts him to the priests, as several Dream Warriors approach them. Box uses his transmutative powers to extend his body, trying to reach the Dream Warriors before they get to the priests, but his efforts were not needed - as the warriors run straight through the priests.
Box thinks that the priests made themselves immaterial, immune to the attack, when suddenly his scanners show him that it is the Dream Warriors who are not there. Jeffries wonders how then, if the warriors are not really there, they can hurt him and the rest of Alpha Flight, reiterated as he is knocked back by another warrior.
Back in the midst of the battle, the Purple Girl calls to her boyfriends past self, Proto, warning him as a Dream Warrior is about to bring a mace down on him. Proto oozed aside at the last moment as Sasquatch, who overheard Box’s comments earlier, picks up some Dream Warriors and wonders what kind of magic this is, before wondering where Shaman and Talisman are when you need them. Kara, still concerned with Proto, wonders what would have happened if Proto didn’t move aside in time, after all, he is Manikin’s evolutionary precursor - so if Proto ceases to exist, does Manikin?
The Dreamqueen continues to monitor the battle, eyes narrowed as she thinks that Sasquatch referred to other heroes, and decides that if she is to rule this world, she must learn more, so standing just inside the portal from her native Liveworld, the Dreamqueen conjures a dream scan from the minds of her foes and produces a dream-map of all the heroes that have held the name “Alphan”: Guardian, Snowbird, Northstar, Aurora, Puck, Shaman, Marrina, Talisman, the original Box, and of course the current unconscious leader, Vindicator. The Dreamqueen smiles, for even though she admits that Alpha Flight has a formidable roster, those with the mystical might to fathom and thus counter her power are absent - and no Alphan among her present adversaries has the ability to undo her!
No Alphan perhaps, but Puck no longer claims membership to Canada’s premiere super heroes. Judd runs past the Dreamqueen and finds the spirit of the High Lama, reminding him that it was he who had the power to open the portal from Earth to the Dreamqueen’s realm and tells him he has to close it. The High Lama simply tells Judd that it is he who has the power to end this madness, to which Judd points out that he is no more than a man - and old man at that. The High Lama reminds Judd that he has lived long and learned much. Judd wonders what it is he has learned, and thinks back over his years - as a foolish young soldier of fortune, who through greed became accursed, before learning that one can be alone even though they are a member of team, and that this world is no place for former dwarfs.
The High Lama tells Judd that there is much else in his wanderings which he learned but chooses to denigrate. The High Lama asks Judd if he did not study with the yoga masters of India, and as the High Lama places the palms of his hands together, asks him if he has forgotten how to do this. Judd does remember, and explains that it palm placed to palm indicates that a devotee is preparing to enter the peace state. Looking back to a room inside the temple, Judd asks that if he is in a trance, who will protect Heather, before realizing that those with the power to protect her will do so, while he must serve as best he can.
Judd’s mind is cleared, and his eyes now see the truth: Alpha Flight, Beta Flight and the Jade Dragon battling…nobody, just phantoms conjured forth by the Dreamqueen from the safety of the portal to Liveworld. The High Lama tells Judd that they are fighting demons, but so strong is their belief in dreams that they may be slain in them. Judd asks how, now that he knows the truth, he may help. The High Lama smiles and simply tells Judd that all he has to do is drive the dream-weaver back to the domain of dreams, before she destroys one of his friends.
The Purple Girl goes over to Laura Dean and asks her if she is okay, to which the young girl exclaims that she and Goblyn are very angry, for their own parents tried to destroy them before they were even born, because Goblyn was a mutant. The two girls watch as Goblyn ferociously attacks the Dream Warriors, when suddenly, Laura’s eyes turn pink as she explains that it was she who shielded Goblyn, phased her from the womb they shared to the safety of Liveworld - but looking at the Dreamqueen, Laura Dean declares that Liveworld was a lie.
Laura’s eyes glow with more vigor as she declares that the Dreamqueen made them believe it was paradise, only because she wanted to know how they got there, so she could follow them back and create a hell on Earth. ‘And I will!’ screams the Dreamqueen as Laura tells the Dreamqueen that it was she who opened a portal to send Goblyn to Liveworld, so maybe it wont be such a big deal to learn how to close one. The Dreamqueen calls Laura a brat and tells her that she will die of bad dreams before she allows her to do that.
‘Sorry, witch, but its time for your wake-up call!’ exclaims Judd as he cartwheels towards the Dreamqueen. ‘The dwarf!’ cries the Dreamqueen, ‘Please, that’s former dwarf!’ declares Judd as the Dreamqueen tells him that he will never reach her, as her dream warriors begin to attack Judd. Judd leaps at the Dreamqueen and tells her that her warriors lack a certain reality, and he pushes her back through the portal.
Alpha Flight witness the Dream Warriors begin to waver, to which they assume is Puck’s doing. The Purple Girl watches as Laura’s entire body glows now, and the young mutant declares that she thought Goblyn was the only mutant, but realizes that if that had been true, how was she able to save her sister in the first place? Laura asks the others if they understand - she has powers too, the power to open doorways between worlds - and to close them she adds as she directs her power at the portal, where Judd is holding the Dreamqueen back.
Box points out that Puck is still on the other side, to which Judd calls to Laura and tells her to do what she must. The Dreamqueen tells Alpha Flight that she has powers the cannot even begin to comprehend and orders them to release her. Judd mumbles that he wished to die exploring new worlds, to which the Dreamqueen tells him it looks like he will get to have his wish, before she sees the portal begin to close. The Dreamqueen curses Alpha Flight and tells them that they will not be able to stop her, that she will be free.
The Dreamqueen extends one arm through the closing portal and begins to emit some power, everyone clutches their heads as they feel pain in their minds. Wanda thinks the Dreamqueen is killing them all, but as Laura Dean finally closes the portal, the Dreamqueen screams ‘No, not “killing”, fools! Something worse!’
The purple glow that surrounded Laura Dean fades as Box asks about Puck. Sasquatch explains that he has gone back to Liveworld, with the Dreamqueen. They have lost him - again. The Purple Girl and Goblyn support the weakened Laura, as Box declares that Alpha Flight will never forget Puck, before remembering that Judd was protecting Vindicator. Proto hugs Laura as the Purple Girl sees Heather and points to where she is. Box sees Heather too - with the spirit of the High Lama above her, glowing as he does something to her.
Box flies over to his lover and asks the High Lama what it is he thinks he is doing. ‘Healing’ replies the High Lama as Heather stirs, coughing and clutching her head, before calling to Madison. She takes off her goggles as Jeffries phases out from the Box armor. ‘I’m here, honey!’ he calls as they embrace. Heather smiles as tears fall from both of them, and Heather smiles, telling her handsome boyfriend that he could use a shave.
The High Lama watches as Sasquatch, Beta Flight and the Jade Dragon rush over to Heather and Jeffries, thinking to himself that his life’s goal was to transcend his own life. He assumed that all humankind would share his goal, he thinks if only they knew the bliss that awaited them beyond, yet he has watched the heroes bravely fight for their lives. He realizes that perhaps there is more than one path to enlightenment, and if that is true, hopes that the heroes find theirs. Alpha Flight, Beta Flight and the Jade Dragon suddenly find themselves vanishing, teleported away by the High Lama.
The High Lama is greeted by his disciples as they rush over to him, asking him to take them with him. The High Lama tells them that he cannot, reminding them that he taught them to follow his path, but that he was wrong. He declares that witnessing Alpha Flight’s courage and compassion has shown him that there are many paths to happiness, and as he fades from view, tells his disciples that they must find their own path.
Outside, the Commander of the Chinese army orders his troops to advance, when someone brings him a radio-phone, with a call from Beijing. The Commander finds himself talking to the Chairman, and explains that it was he who ordered the reinforcement to crush the power of the High Lama. The Chairman explains what this has caused across the rest of the world, ‘World War III? I had no idea!’ the Commander exclaims, before ordering his troops to withdraw.
In Washington, the General is informed that both the Chinese and Russians have pulled back from the border. With relief, the General orders Ottawa to be notified. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister is informed that Alpha Flight dealt with whatever situation threatened global peace, before the transmission is ended. A soldier asks the Prime Minister if he wants to give a response, but the PM replies not until Alpha Flight gets back. ‘Then there’ll be the Devil to pay!’


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Inquisition
Ottawa, where a hearing is being held regarding the recent events surrounding Alpha Flight is being held, and being broadcasted live on television. Alpha Flight’s defense lawyer, Mr. Pace sits at a desk with team leader Heather “Vindicator“ McNeil Hudson and her lover and teammate Madison “Box“ Jeffries, whose Box armor stands behind them as do many RCMP. Mr. Pace addresses the members of parliament seated before them and on behalf of his clients denounces this inquisition. A member of parliament notes Pace’s objection for the record, but overrules it, before declaring that the hearing into the fate and future of Alpha Flight will commence.
Heather begins to say ‘If we stand accused of something…’ as her lawyer tells her to let him speak for her, but a member of parliament tells Heather that no charges have been preferred…yet, before motioning to a screen behind him where a recording of recent events in China is being played out, he explains that in light of Alpha Flights unauthorized incursion into China, he is of the opinion that an indictment should be lodged for high treason. A female member of parliament informs Heather that American satellite transmissions recorded Alpha Flight’s activities and another asks her what she was doing there.
‘Risking out blasted necks to keep the Dreamqueen from invading Earth!’ exclaims Jeffries, leaping up from his chair. ’And almost causing World War III in the process’ a balding member of parliament retorts, before revealing that as soon as the Chinese mobilized on their border, the Russians retargeted their nuclear arsenal as did the Americans.  He continues, suggesting that if the battle had not ended when it did, Alpha Flight may have been responsible for the destruction of the Earth.
Pace begins to talk to the member of parliament, but Heather tells her lawyer that while she appreciates him being assigned by the government to represent Alpha Flight before the tribunal, ‘But I must ask you to please SHUT UP!’ Pace starts to protest, but Heather cuts him off, declaring that she speaks for Alpha Flight, adding that she will not be represented by a mouth-piece appointed by the very government that so mistrusted Alpha Flight that it unleashed Bedlam to destroy them. Heather remembers Gary Cody before reminding the female member of the tribunal that she asked her what Alpha Flight were doing behind the “Bamboo Curtain“ and declares that she wants the reporters to be allowed to keep their cameras watching, as her answer is one she wants all of Canada to hear.
Canada indeed does get to hear what Heather has to say, as watching the proceedings by means of a television in a shop window on this cold snowy day are dozens of Canadian citizens. An elderly man grunts before asking what could ‘that super powered freak’ say in her own defense? A younger man tells the older to listen so he can find out as a third man declares that it sounds like Ottawa has some explaining of its own to do. A little girl in the crows asks her mother where the rest of Alpha Flight is, as someone else exclaims that Northstar is their favorite.
Walking alongside the crowd, unbeknownst to the crowd, is the one absent member of Alpha Flight - Wanda “Sasquatch“ Langkowski, and the members of Beta Flight - Kara “the Purple Girl“ Kilgrave, Whitman “Manikin“ Knapp, Laura Dean, and Goblyn, who is being pushed in a pram to hide her mutant appearance. Kara tells Wanda that she is glad they came out for air, and young Laura Dean agrees, exclaiming that being cooped up in the hotel by the government was driving her nuts. Laura remarks that the pool was nice as the handsome Whit adds that the food wouldn’t have been bad - if they weren’t so worried about their beloved government poisoning them.
Goblyn growls, but Wanda shushes her, mentioning that Manikin is right, for no matter the gloss, the government essentially penned them up in an all-expenses paid prison. Kara exclaims that all they have ever done is help Canada and asks why their country suddenly hates them. ‘Stuff it! Let’s get loaded!’ suggests Whit, as the group overhear a member of the parliament committee telling Heather that she does not ask them questions, that they do.
Back inside the hearing room now, the first question to be asked is who Alpha Flight’s young communist friend is. Heather asks the member of parliament why he doesn’t ask their new friend himself, pointing out that Alpha Flight have not been able to see him since their return. Before anyone can say anything in return, Heather continues with what she wanted to say, declaring that Ottawa grew afraid that Alpha Flight was becoming too strong, too unreliable because the new Flight did not contain a member from the original team, so a super being created by her late husband was resurrected to…monitor them. Heather reveals to those who do not know that Bedlam tried to destroy Alpha Flight - except they fought back, and won.
Heather adds that their victory did not come without a cost - for their home, Mansion Alpha was destroyed, then before they could occupy Bedlam’s complex they were attacked by the Great Beasts, but Box managed to convert the complex’s metal mass to energy, thus slaying Tundra. One of the parliament committee declares that this is absurd, however someone shows him a map and informs him that Heather’s story fits with the documented, sudden appearance by a crater, whose genesis shook seismographs across Canada. The government official scoffs if off as a ‘purely natural phenomenon’, but a stern faced Heather tells him there was nothing ‘natural’ in what happened next, revealing that aboard what they called the Boxship, they were blasted off the Earth by the force of the explosion.
Heather reveals that Alpha Flight somehow found themselves on Liveworld, the realm of the Dreamqueen. A member of the committee grins and asks ‘Mrs. Hudson’ if she is sure she didn’t dream this all up. Heather tells the cocky man that he can call her Vindicator, before exclaiming that if anything, the Dreamqueen was a nightmare. Dreams were the weapon of the Dreamqueen, and by Alpha Flight dreaming them, they were almost destroyed - but a former Alphan, Puck, defeated the Dreamqueen, though Heather adds that it may have cost him his life.
At a bar, several men sitting around the counter are watching the hearing on a television and wonder if Vindicator was talking about Puck as in Eugene Judd, who used to tend at the bar. Someone clearing some dishes declares that when Judd became an Alphan he put this bar on the map, as another person asks who cares and exclaims that he wants to see the Maple Leafs play. Wanda and Beta Flight enter the bar, and Whit points out a booth. Kara asks if they serve purple people here, to which Wanda jokes that the probably stock non-alcoholic goofy grape. Goblyn growls, causing Wanda to shush her again, as Laura exclaims that her sister is hungry.
A waitress comes up to the booth the Alphans are seated in and asks them what they would like. Wanda informs the waitress of what they want and Whit asks for „dog yummies“ for the baby- as Goblyn clamps down on Whit’s hand. The waitress looks over her shoulder at the heroes as she goes back to the bar, thinking to herself that she heard the baby growl. Motioning to the television screen, Wanda points out that it doesn’t seem like Heather is converting anyone to Alpha’s cause. The Betans and people around the bar watch the television as one of the government officials tells Heather that her testimony defies reason, adding that she commits treason, then has the temerity to accuse Canada.
A female member of the committee stands up and reminds her colleague that this is only a hearing, and that no one has accused the Flight of anything. ‘Then it’s bloody well time we started!’ the aggressive member of the committee declares. Another member of the committee brings up what Heather has recently mentioned - ‘Government created monsters, Great Beasts, Dreamqueens…’ the woman reminds the men that satellite photos did show Alpha battling an entity, to which the aggressive man asks how they can know for sure, and suggests that the Dreamqueen may have been fabricated by Alpha for their own purposes.
Heather leans across her table and exclaims that she gives her word. The aggressive man declares that the word of a super freak is worth less than the paper he holds in his hand. With those harsh words spoken, Heather blasts the mans desk with her electromagnetic energy. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police that line the room order Heather to ‘desist or we’ll…’ ‘We’’ what? Shoot?’ asks another, before they see that she has her force fields up. Jeffries phases back into Box and tells Heather that he is with her and they can take whatever is thrown at them.
The aggressive committee member points at the heroes and asks his fellows if they finally see, and begs the question - how can mankind live with beings capable of unleashing such forces against them? He declares that they have to neutralize the super beings while they still can. The woman asks the aggressive man what he suggests they do - execute Alpha? She reminds him that capital punishment has been outlawed in Canada for as long as she can recall. She asks him if he wants to regard the Flight as nonhumans, so in that case they can have the S.P.C.A. put them to sleep.
Another member of the committee tells the woman that this is hardly the place for levity, to which the woman declares that she is not joking, that she is just as serious as the others are, motioning to the aggressive man, she tells the others to understand that he is deadly serious and suggests they read his party’s anti-Alpha tracts. The man with glasses replies that he has read it and while he doesn’t condone their tone, he does see merit in their contention that Alpha Flight might be too mighty for Canada to control. He poses the question - should Canada be in control of the Flight? He admits that Alpha is powerful, but that their power has always been used on Canada’s behalf.
The aggressive man points out that it was the old Alpha Flight, who were formed, founded and funded for and by the State who used their powers on behalf of Canada, but that the new team is refusing to accept government oversight, and declares its independence of the State. Box and Heather watch, as the aggressive man tells his fellows that they need to take control of the Flight now, before Alpha Flight takes control of them.
Due to the international importance of the Alpha Flight hearings, they are broadcasted across Canadian borders and into the United States, where a shocked woman calls to her husband, Darby, who comes to his wife, Susan and asks her what it is. Susan has Darby look at the television, the people on it, and Darby recognizes them as the Canadian super team. Susan knows this, and tells him to look at the girl who is with them. ‘My God!’ cries Darby, ‘It’s Laura! Our daughter!’
Back at the bar, a patron switches the channel to the ice hockey, causing Wanda to call out to them, as she was watching the proceedings. The rugged man who changed the channel goes over to Wanda and the Betans and asks Wanda is a little ice action is not hot enough for her, calling her sweetie. He knocks a drink into the pram, causing Goblyn to growl. The rugged man’s friend asks if anyone smells wet fur as Whit calls him a ‘clumsy maggot’ and begins to stand up out of his seat. The second man begins to retaliate to Whit’s name calling, but Kara tells Whit that he is scaring Laura. Laura thinks to herself that she is not scared, but then realizes that she is a little scared.
The Purple Girl smiles and exclaims ‘You two jerks, get lost!’ causing the two men to turn purple and leave the bar. The rude waitress from earlier stands at the entrance to the bar and calls to them, asking where they are going without their jackets. ‘Getting lost…’ the hypnotized rugged man replies. The waitress sees that they are purple and asks how, as Wanda comes up behind her and suggests ‘bad beer?’ before informing the woman that they are leaving now, and she hands over her credit card.
The rude waitress grimaces as she looks at the card and tells Wanda that they do not take plastic, before declaring ‘Even if we did, this ain’t yours!’ For the name on the credit card is Walter Langkowski! A man comes over and as he pulls of Kara’s hat asks her if there is a problem. Motioning towards Wanda, the waitress informs the man that she tried to pay with some guys card. Wanda starts to protest, claiming that it is her name - well, was her name. Whit asks if Ottawa didn’t give them any spending money. Laura begins to tell Whit that the men approaching them look mad, as someone points out that one of the ‘deadbeats’ before them is purple!
Meanwhile, back at the inquisition, Heather informs the government officials that they are going to talk about Alpha Flight, the team her husband created, she inherited, and they tried to destroy. The balding official begins to tell Heather that they never sanctioned Gary Cody’s unleashing of Bedlam. Heather reminds the man that Gary worked for him, and bugged their mansion for him. The balding man backs himself up by reminding Heather that the headquarters was rebuilt for Alpha Flight with government money, and claims that they were merely overseeing their investment.
Box tells the balding man that it is bull, and exclaims that Ottawa were all scared of Alpha Flight - afraid that the team would reject their handouts if there were strings attached, so the government spied on them pure and simple. A member of the inquisition points out to Heather and Jeffries that if they didn’t like the conditions, which he believes hardly amounted to more than Alpha Flight being asked to serve their country, then they could have refused to cash the checks. Heather asks the man if then had Alpha Flight refused the checks, who it is that he would have hired to defend Canada in their place.
The balding man folds his arms and mutters that perhaps the ‘various and sundry’ super villains that Alpha Flight has battled would not have come to Canada had Alpha not drawn them to Canada. Box asks the bald man if he is suggesting that Alpha Flight is responsible for creeps like Omega Flight and the Master, to which the woman with glasses exclaims that there weren’t as many super villains in Canada before there were super heroes. ‘Why you -’ begins Box, before the woman sympathetic to Alpha Flight calls for order and declares that no one is accusing Alpha Flight of being in league with any of the menaces that they have defended Canada against. She explains that they are merely trying to find some way in which mere humans can comfortably coexist with super humans.
‘Coexistence! Such a lovely word!’ exclaims Manikin’s future self, Highbrow, as he and Manikin’s past selves have joined Beta Flight, including Goblyn who has left the pram. Wanda has transformed into her Albino Sasquatch form, and is lifting up a table with one hand - and all the frightened men look over the edge of the table as Sasquatch puts it over her head. In reply to Highbrow’s comment, Manikin tells him that it is easier said than done.
The rude waitress is shocked, and stammers, ‘You…you’re...’ she can't quite get the words out, so Wanda offers some help. ‘Two words, starts with „A“’. ‘Al…Alp…’ the waitress continues. ‘Right! Alfalfa Flight! Gonna call the R.C.M.P.’s?’ asks Sasquatch as she puts the table to the ground, causing all the men to tumble off it. The once-rude waitress now stands before Alpha Flight, mouth gaping open, as she replies that she is not going to call the R.C.M.P, but exclaiming that she always wondered if they were really real, not just some story! Now she knows the truth.
As Sasquatch transforms back in to Wanda, she tells the waitress that she is flesh and blood, just like her, with hopes and fears and desires. Kara hands Wanda her coat, and Wanda thanks her, exclaiming that it has gotten chilly in here. After Manikin’s past and future selves disappear, he asks Wanda, as they leave the bar, what it is they are going to do now. Wanda asks Whit why he keeps asking her, for even though she is the oldest Alphan, she is also the most confused! Wanda reminds the Betans that she doesn’t know if she is dead, alive, man, woman, mortal or goddess. As she pulls out the pockets in her jacket, Wanda exclaims that the only thing she knows for sure…is that they are broke!
‘And we don’t want your money!’ Heather informs the government agents, as the kindly woman asks Vindicator how they will exist without the money. She motions to the large screen behind her and points out everything that government money has bought the Flight - mansions, computers, armor, battle suits and aircraft. Jeffries mutters that all they had to do was kiss the fist that fed them, as Heather declares that everything Alpha Flight has done is being demeaned by being brought down to dollars and cents. Heather shouts that of course they accepted Ottawa’s money, so that Alpha Flight could continue to serve as Canada’s first line of defense. She declares that they did not risk their lives time and time again for praise or profit, but for love of the land that spawned them.
Overhearing Vindicator’s speech on a radio, Manikin agrees, exclaiming ‘Certainly not for profit!’ as Wanda suddenly stops in her tracks, and smiling, she declares that she must be nuts - for she is rich! Wanda grabs Kara as she informs the Betans that as Walter Langkowski she was a very well-to-do young man, even before she became an acclaimed biophysicist. She reveals that she has got piles invested, and drags the Betans to a nearby bank.
At the Bank of Canada, Wanda begins to fill out a withdrawal slip and signs it “Walter Langkowski“, before handing it over to the teller and smiling as she tells the Betans that all she has to do is watch the bank shovel over the cash. The bank teller looks at the withdrawal slip then looks at Wanda and frowns, before asking Wanda to wait a moment, as she leaves her post. Wanda leans against the desk as she wonders what they will buy first…a Porsche? A Ferrari? Or something practical…like lunch?
Pointing towards the bank teller, reapproaching with a senior banker and security guards, Kara tells Wanda that she shouldn’t spend her chickens before they are hatched. Wanda asks the elderly banker if something is wrong, to which he informs Wanda that the bank cannot honor her check. Wanda asks if there are insufficient funds, to which the man replies that Mister Langkowski’s account is ample enough to cover all drafts, but however only Mister Langkowski is authorized to withdraw funds. ‘And you, Madame, are not mister Langkowski’.
Forlorn, Wanda thinks of Snowbird and tries to tell the banker that she is Walter, or at least was, before she died and was reborn inside Snowbird’s female Sasquatch form. The banker frowns and declares that even if he were to accept so absurd a story, Wanda’s signature is not even close to Mister Langkowski’s, so therefore he must ask Wanda and her companions to leave. He rips up the withdrawal slip as Wanda shouts that she wants her money, and transforms into Sasquatch, grabbing the banker by his throat and lifting him up, shouting that she wants her money NOW!
Sasquatch lifts the man up so they are eye-to-eye and asks him if she gets the money or if he will get it for her. The banker calls the guards, but as they prepare to shoot, Goblyn leaps out of her pram and disposes of the guards guns. Before Sasquatch can do anymore damage, the Purple Girl uses her powers on her, ordering Sasquatch to put the banker down. As Sasquatch lumbers out of the bank with the Betans, Kara apologizes to the banker, adding that she knows he is only doing his job, and that they will not be back.
Outside, and sometime later, after the effects of the Purple Girl’s manipulation pheromones have worn off, ‘Traitor! Judas!’ shouts Sasquatch as she pummels garbage cans and other junk in a alley way. As Sasquatch transforms back into Wanda, Whit suggests to her that if she had kept her head then she would have seen that the bank manager had no choice, and that Kara was right to order her out of the bank before she hurt someone. ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah’ mutters Wanda before boasting that she is still going to get her money. Then sneezing, due to wearing nothing but a leotard in the snowy weather.
Meanwhile, in New York, ‘Flame off!’ cries the Human Torch as he flies though a window of the Baxter Building, home and headquarters of his team the Fantastic Four. He asks his teammates if he missed it, but the pretty Inhuman, Crystal informs the handsome Johnny that Alpha’s hearing is still on. Sharon Ventura a.k.a. the second Ms. Marvel, a.k.a. She-Thing praises fate that patents on Reed Richard’s countless inventions have kept the Fantastic Four free from government control, to which Ben Grimm a.k.a. the Thing declares that if the government tried to take control of the Fantastic Four, then he would clobber them.
At Hydrobase, home of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, said heroes stand around and watch the proceedings of their Canadian counterparts. Captain Marvel declares that they can sympathize with Alpha’s predicament, to which the She-Hulk agrees, exclaiming that the U.S. government has given the Avengers a share of headaches. The Sub-Mariner points out that it was a major factor in their relocation to Hydrobase, to which Thor agrees. The handsome Black Knight declares that Vindicator is one ‘tough cookie’ adding that she reminds him of Captain America. The Honorary Avenger, Marrina, who happens to be a former member of Alpha Flight, remains silent.
At a ghost town in the Australian Outback where the Uncanny X-Men have made their new home, the outlaw mutants watch Alpha’s tribulations, Colossus points out that it seems the USA is not the only country rife with anti-mutant hysteria. Storm asks if Alpha Flight is composed of mutants, to which former Alphan, the rugged Wolverine informs her that there have been a few mutants in Alpha Flight. Havok asks why Alpha Flight is taking this instead of just striking out, to which Rogue tells him it is for the same reason that the X-Men do not strike out.
Storm tells Logan that she is aware he harbors a certain affection for his former teammates and remembers that he aided them not long ago. Wolverine knows where Storm is going with this and tells her that he is an X-Man, and although he feels for Alpha, now that the X-Men are „dead“, Alpha Flight has to fight this battle alone.
Back in Ottawa, Heather asks what kind of country this is where Alpha Flight fights and dies for them, yet instead of praise they are persecuted. Instead of trust, they are tormented. Instead of support, they are spied on. ‘Why can’t you leave us alone?’ she screams. A well-dressed member of the committee asks Vindicator to understand their concerns - that they are only human, while she and Alpha Flight are powerful, and the only power the humans can exercise over super humans is the power of the purse. He declares that they can coexist, but that there must be some assurances - from both sides.
The well-dressed man asks that surely by allowing them to monitor Alpha so that they the humans can sleep somewhat easier at night is not so much to asking return for the required funding to allow Alpha to exist. ‘You cant stop us from existing!’ declares Heather defiantly as she folds her arms, before suggesting that perhaps when Alpha Flight were new and unsure of themselves, back in the Department H days, then they could have stopped the team, as Alpha needed the governments money, materials and moral support - but no more!
‘Wanna bet?’ asks Kara in reply to Heather’s comment as she watches her on a television through a shop window. Talking on a public telephone, Wanda asks the person she is talking to what they mean when they tell her that no stocks can be liquidated without the consent of Langkowski’s executors - ‘He’s not dead! I mean I’m not…blast!’ she cries as she throws the phone down.
Kara tells her teammates that she has a calling card and thinks that she should just phone her mother, as she will take her back. Kara tells Laura that her mother will take her in too, as Goblyn growls, Whit asks what will happen to her. Kara informs him that she can come too, as long as she uses the litter box. Whit informs the girls that he has been thinking of returning to medicine, as he believes curing cancer is just as important as saving the world. ‘Yeah, sure it is’ Kara agrees, while thinking to herself ‘But what about curing a broken heart?’
Wanda rushes past the Betans and drags them along with her as she declares that they are not beaten yet, as there is one more person she can turn to. When Laura asks ‘who?’ Wanda replies ‘My wife!’
Meanwhile, all across Canada, people are talking about the Alpha Flight inquisition. ‘Our defense!’ ‘Our danger!’ ‘National Menace!’ ‘Praise Alpha Flight!’ ‘Snowbird is my favorite!’
Back at the trial, the kindly official declares that it comes down to a decision - will Alpha Flight accept continued government funding with the preconditioning that the team take their marching orders from Ottawa? Before Vindicator can answer, someone to the side of the room shouts ‘NO!’ Dei Guan stands up from his chair as he informs everyone that he has attended all that has transpired through translation as they can understand him now too, and declares that he can no longer be silent as he transforms himself into the Jade Dragon.
He informs everyone that he was a servant to his State, bound to do its biding, even when it ordered him to oppress his own people. He reveals that in the end, he could not serve his State and became a traitor - and a free man. The kindly woman tells Jade Dragon that Canada’s system is not that of Red China, to which Dei Guan asks her to keep Alpha Flight free to insure that it never will be. The balding man asks since when have they taken lessons in civil liberties from authoritarians, fearing that Alpha Flight would have accepted…’this creature’ into its ranks without even consulting Ottawa. The balding man declares that he votes to cut off all funding for Alpha Flight - now and forever.
Another burst of opinions comes from around Canada - ‘Yeah!’, ‘But who’ll protect us?’ ‘Canada for humans!’ ‘But what about all the times they saved us?’ ‘A trick to lull us into a false sense of security!’ ‘So they could rule us when ready!’ ‘Defend em? We oughtta destroy em!’ ‘How?’ ‘They’re mightier than we are!’ ‘You sound as if you want to murder them!’ ‘Better than paying them to take power over us!’
‘I’ve heard enough! ’ shouts Heather as she gets everyone’s attention - including the photographers, by lighting up her electromagnetic powers around her body. She tells the members of the committee to not bother voting, for as she will resolve their dilemma for them. She tells the committee that she understands that they do not want to fund Alpha unless they can control it. Therefore, Alpha rejects their currency and control. ‘We’ll continue to defend our Canada our way!’
The kind chairwoman calls for order once more as the other members of the committee discuss amongst themselves what Heather has just declared. ‘They’ve rejected funding! I never expected! ‘No, you imagined they’d beg forgiveness for funding. Fools!’ They have their pride!’ ‘But they must accept out aid, they can’t survive without it’ the balding man whispers.
Heather and Jeffries begin to walk out of the courtroom, Jeffries telling Heather that she was beautiful, and to listen to them squawking to each other. The couple stop as Box asks what it is they are going to do now, reminding Heather that he is just a simple class guy who knows the value of the dollar - and knows you cannot go without it. Jeffries agrees with Heather that they are right not to take Ottawa’s money, but that Alpha is his family…if it dies….
The balding man overhears this and walking up behind Box asks if not all the Alphans share their leader’s obstinacy. He smiles as he informs Box that he came after him with the hope that they might be able to salvage some aspect of their relationship. He asks why should Alpha disband, suggesting that the team could continue, minus Vindicator, and a new, wiser leader could see Alpha’s freedom is possible despite government funding, and proposes that Box is that leader. He asks Box if he agrees and presumes that he does, so extends his hand to shake on it.
Box extends his hand too, and exclaims ‘Sure…creep!’ and crushes the balding man’s hand within his own robot armor. Box leans down over the balding man and tells him that if a robot could spit, then he would - ‘right in your lousy eye!’ A R.C.M.P. officer tends to the injured man as Box tells Heather to lead on, and where ever it is, he will follow. Vindicator turns to the Jade Dragon and asks him if he is coming with them, but Dei Guan replies that he has not yet decided, as he did not defect from China, but was transported to Canada with Alpha Flight by the High Lama, against his own will. Heather informs the Jade Dragon that if he were to stay, then they would be honored to have him join them. Dei Guan replies that the honor would be his.
Without another word, Heather turns her back on her government, and as she and Box walk outside, Jeffries asks Heather if, bluffing aside, what the real scoop is - is Alpha finished or what? Heather tells Jeffries that she did not want to tell the „honorable MP’s“ that the insurance money she received after Mac’s death should cover them in the short term, while Walter Langkowski’s fortune should see to it that they are comfortably situated for the rest of their natural lives.
Jeffries realizes that Heather had an ace in the hole all along, and picks her up in his armored arms, telling her that he loves her. ‘Enough to marry me?’ asks Heather. ‘Is that a proposal?’ Jeffries replies. ‘Bet your crankcase it is!’ smiles Heather, before Jeffries shouts WHA-HOO! And blasts off to the sky, carrying Heather in his arms.
Meanwhile, in an Ottawa suburb, Wanda leads the way up a long driveway as she exclaims ‘Home sweet home - well, one of them anyway!’ Admiring the large mansion, Kara declares that it is beautiful, and Whit asks Wanda if she lived here. Walking up the stairs to the front door, Wanda reveals that she lived here before the divorce, but that it was amicable, and she does not bear any hard feelings towards her ex. The door opens and a very fashionable woman stands before Wanda and Beta Flight. ‘Do I…know you?’ asks Veronica Langkowski.
‘How’s it hanging?’ Wanda asks Veronica, calling her „Ronnie“. Wanda smiles and tells Veronica to cut the comedy act, as it is she, Walter, her ex. She quickly declares that she knows she has changed, but that she is still the same old loveable guy she used to be. Veronica begins to tell Wanda that if she doesn’t get off her property at once then she will call the police, but as Veronica moves back inside the house, Wanda tries to stop her closing the door, by exclaiming that it is her house too. ‘You’re mad!’ declares Veronica as Wanda tells Veronica that she may be mad, but she is also her husband.
‘Walter’s dead!’ says Veronica as she closes the door and walks away-  until Wanda calls through the window, asking Veronica that if Walter is dead, how come she, as Wanda, knows about that time the two of them were photographed in their birthday suits at Biarritz, and Walt had to hock the ankle bracelet that he gave her to keep the pictures out of the papers.
Veronica stands still, shocked, before turning around and opening the door. Wanda exclaims that she thought that would stop her, but Veronica simply tells Wanda that despite Walter’s outward alteration, she knows it is him - especially as she just experienced the same sort of revulsion she used to feel before their divorce. ‘No doubt about it, you are the same man I loved…and loathed’. Veronica declares that it is fortunate however, that no one else will believe her.
Veronica grins wickedly as she declares that as far as the rest of the world is concerned, Walter Langkowski is dead, and his fabulous fortune, will remain hers. Veronica slams the door on her ex-husband and the Betans. Wanda just stands, speechless, before transforming into Sasquatch and screaming.


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A Real Gone Daddy!
There are some sights from which the eye of the night recoils. On this particular night, it is the sight of Zebediah Kilgrave a.k.a. the villainous Purple Man leaping out of his grave, crying ‘I LIVE!’ But as the zombie Kilgrave lumbers through the graveyard, he suddenly wonders if indeed he does live - when he realizes that he does not. He remembers being a captive of Dr. Doom, then battling the Sub-Mariner. He is certainly dead. They killed him. The Purple Man exclaims that he died, while all those who hated him still live. He sees images of Spider-Man, Dr. Doom and Daredevil in grave markings, as well as his former wife - and his daughter, whose summons he believes somehow raised him from his rest.
He lunges at the statue he believes to be of his daughter and smashes it, telling her that if she wants him, then she shall have him - and his friends! Graves open up all over the cemetery as more of the Living Dead rise, and along with Kilgrave they break out of the cemetery. The Purple Man then shouts ‘We’re coming daughter, set the table for us, with the first course being…your sweet life!’
‘NOOOO!’ screams Kara Kilgrave a.k.a. the Purple Girl as she sits up in bed, waking Laura Dean and Goblyn her friends and former teammates from Beta Flight. Goblyn howls and leaps out of bed as Laura asks Kara what is wrong. Kara hugs herself as she informs Laura that she had a nightmare about her father. Kara’s mother, Melanie enters the bedroom and tells the girls to hush the animal, because of the neighbors. Laura tells Mrs. Kilgrave that Goblyn is not an animal, but that Kara just scared her.
Melanie tells Laura that she is right, and asks her to tell Goblyn she is sorry for calling her an animal. Melanie switches a lamp on and asks her daughter what the matter is. Kara hugs her mother as she reveals that she dreamt about her father. Melanie asks if it because of the telegram, and feels that she should have known. As Goblyn hides under the covers of her bed, Laura asks ‘what telegram’. Kara informs her young friend that it was the telegram waiting for her when she got home - after the break-up of Alpha Flight!
(Flashback, takes place between Alpha Flight (first series) #61 & 62)
Following the Alpha Flight inquisition, Vindicator and Box rejected the governments funding, which led to a new turn in Alpha Flight’s future. Madison “Box” Jeffries carries his lover and team leader Heather “Vindicator” McNeil Hudson in his arms as the fly away from the hearing. Jeffries tells Heather she did good, bursting the bureaucrats bubbles about controlling the Flight once and for all. However, he asks her how they are going to survive, to which Heather reminds him that they have an ace in the hole, one that even Alpha Flight forgot about - the famous Walter Langkowski fortune!
Box and Vindicator land down on the snow covered side walk beside their teammate Wanda “Sasquatch” Langkowski and the Beta Flight kids Kara, Laura, Goblyn and Whitman “Manikin” Knapp. Depressed and slumped against a wall, Sasquatch tells Heather that she doesn’t blame her for counting her chickens before they hatch, as she did herself. Sasquatch grits her teeth as she declares that Walter was rich, and that being a successful biophysicist only added to his fortune. As Sasquatch transforms back into Wanda, she points out that the only problem is the obvious one - that since being resurrected in Snowbird’s Sasquatch form, Walter is now Wanda.
Box asks what all this means, to which Heather explains that as Walter was married, his ex-wife inherits everything. Kara declares that it is exactly what Walt’s ex-wife intends as Manikin suggests that tests could prove Wanda and Walter are the same. Wanda points out that she has been tested, but that nothing even remotely resembling Walter emerges - she is an amalgam of mythical beast, goddess and mortal woman. ‘All of which boils down to two words - Alpha’s broke!’
‘Wow! What a story!’ cry several reporters before a huge mob of them rush over towards Alpha Flight. ‘The vultures of the fourth estate!’ exclaims Heather before the reporters begin asking a million questions: ‘Back to Department H?’ ‘Rumor has it…’ ‘End of Alpha?’ ‘No money, no headquarters’ ‘Heard of death of X-Men…’ ‘Mutants?’ ‘Flag of truce?’ ‘Regret your high handed attitude?’ ‘Crawl back for funding?’ ‘You want a comment?’ asks Heather before declaring that she will give them a comment, and lifts two of the reporters up into the air and telling them to leave Alpha alone.
Manikin’s past and future selves emerge, and Highbrow uses his teleportation powers to teleport the reporters to safety after Heather drops them. Everyone else begins to scare the reporters, Kara hypnotizes some reporters and asks them what it is that they are going to write one thousand times. ‘We must not be rude’ the reporters reply, before Kara anxiously declares that she knows using her powers on “innocents” is wrong, but that she had to get the reporters off their backs. With that done, she asks what they are going to do next.
Box suggests they go home, to which Sasquatch reminds him that they don’t have a home to go to, as Bedlam destroyed it, but then exclaims that they can rebuild Mansion Alpha once she regains her fortune again, as her court date is coming up soon. Whit mutters that he could be old and grey by then, before revealing that now that he has tasted super-heroing, he would rather practice medicine. Kara asks Whit if he is actually leaving, and with his back turned to his girlfriend, Whit tells Kara that he wanted to break it to her easy, but yes he is. Kara thinks to herself that she could make Whit stay, but remembers that is how her father made her mother stay. ‘That’s not how heroes hold onto their heart’s desires!’ Kara thinks.
Everyone turns to Heather, Jeffries reminding her that she is their leader and asks them what they should do. All eyes on Heather, surely she must have an answer, some solutions to their desperate situation. But all she can answer is… ‘I’m sorry Alpha’.
(Present)
Kara tells her mother that her heart ached for Vindicator, and reminds her mother that she never knew her father. Kara tells her mother that while she was always there for her, Alpha Flight was like the first real family she ever had…but the family was breaking up!
(Flashback, continued)
At a train station, Kara is ready to board the train along with Laura and a heavily dressed up Goblyn. Kara tells everyone that she is going to miss them all. Kara and Whit hug, Whit telling Kara that he will write her, and asking if they can stay friends. Tears fall from Kara’s eyes as she tells him that he has a great beside manner, and hopes that his patients appreciate it. Jeffries opens his arms and asks Kara if she has a hug for her “Daddy-in-absentia”. While Whit looks on, Kara rubs her eyes and tells Jeffries that he was the first Alphan to open his arms to her. As they hug, she tells him she will miss him the most.
Heather and Kara hug and Kara asks Heather to say goodbye to the Jade Dragon for her. Heather replies that she will once he is let loose from the debriefing. As Kara leads Laura and Goblyn onto the train, she tells Laura that she cannot wait till they meet her mother. Jeffries wishes her luck, and Wanda declares that they will get back together somehow. Laura reminds Goblyn that she is not allowed to growl as a passenger asks their partner if they smell wet fur. Kara calls out the window, asking Jeffries and Heather to write her, as Heather tells her not to worry, she will be the first to get an invitation to the wedding. ‘The wedding? ALL RIGHT!’ shouts Kara as the train speeds off.
Sometime later, now settling back into home, Kara tells her mother that it was great of her to let Laura and Goblyn come and live with them, especially as Melanie had no idea of what she was getting herself into. As Goblyn rummages through the refrigerator causing a mess all over the kitchen, Melanie asks if it always eats like that. Kara replies that sometimes Goblyn can be a real animal.
Melanie tries to cope, so does Kara, but some of the neighbors are cruel. ‘Did you see the purple freak in 3-W?’ ‘She’s back!’ ‘With a menagerie’
But due to the togetherness of Alpha Flight, being excluded by the neighborhood kids in the early days made Kara feel empty, when suddenly, she comes home to find her mother laughing hysterically, shouting ‘At long last, I’m truly free!’ Kara asks her mother what she is free from, to which Melanie reveals she is free from Kara’s father, who finally got what he deserved. Kara closes her eyes and asks if he is in jail again, but Melanie declares that it is better than that, for Kilgrave the Purple Man is once and for all…dead! Kara’s eyes open wide with shock.
Kara understands how her mother felt, after all, the Purple Man used his powers on her to make her love him. He was a terrible man, but he was still Kara’s father. Sitting at his grave, she asks him why he had to die before she could have met him. Kara declares that she has read all about him and knows all the rotten things he has done, but exclaims that if he knew he had a little girl just like him, a daughter who loved him, he could have been different.
Kara cries and bases her fists against the grave stone, exclaiming ‘I could prove it, if only you we’re still alive, daddy! I want you to be alive!’ An unseen power flow hovers around the grave, but before long Kara gets up and leaves.
(Present)
Kara mutters that she knew even her power could not bring her father back to life, but that she had to try. Melanie asks Kara how she could do that, believing that if anyone’s evil could the survive the grave it would be her fathers. Melanie smiles however, and tells Kara that she understands her longing and explains that it is like that story she once read her, “The Monkey’s Paw”, where a family loses a beloved son and tries to wish him back from beyond the grave. Kara declares that she remembers - and only his corpse comes back. Melanie tells Kara that they should not try to undo what has been done, but that luckily evil only resurrects itself in stories.
On cue, the Purple Man smashes through Kara’s bedroom window yelling ‘Honey! I’m home!’ Melanie and the girls rush to the side of the room as Melanie declares that it can only be Kara’s father. ‘In the flesh wife, more or less’ Kilgrave exclaims. Melanie asks how and why he has come here, to which the Purple Man informs her because their daughter wished it. He tells his wife to come and kiss her loving husband, but Melanie points out that his power isn’t working, and suspects that because he is dead he cannot command the living. Kara declares that they have to get out of here and heads towards the door, calling Laura  -only as Goblyn lunges at some of the zombies who have entered the room.
Kara tries to go back into the room, but her mother and Laura try to pull her back out, crying that it is her fault her father came back, realizing her stupid scene at the grave must have worked. She declares that she cannot leave Goblyn to correct her mistakes, to which Laura points out that she cannot fight her own father. Kara declares that she has to, and tells her mother to let go and Laura to lead her out of here. She apologizes for using her powers on them and as they walk away, Kara shouts after them, declaring that she knows it is her fathers way to turn his mind-powers on those he loves, but she has to deal with him alone. She asks them to call the police once they are in the clear.
Goblyn howls and just as Kara is about to re-enter her room to help her, both girls are blasted back into the living room by a herd of zombies that come barging through. The Purple Man orders his zombie fellows after his wife, boasting that as she rejected him in life, she will be bound to him in death. Goblyn attacks any Zombies who try to reach Melanie or Laura as the Purple Man pushes his daughter onto the couch, telling her that her power makes her a powerful ally. Kara pleads with her father and asks him to go back to where he came from.
Kilgrave reminds Kara that it was she who summoned him back to the world of the living - ‘Where I could be reminded of everything I hate!’ he screams as he is about to drive his hands through his daughter’s body. Kara rolls of the couch just in time and begins to run out of the apartment, asking her father how he could hate her when he doesn’t even know her. Kilgrave informs her that he hates those he cannot command, and in death it seems he cannot command the living. As Kara races towards the apartment building lifts Kilgrave points out that she is the living, therefore he hates her.
Kara bangs on the lift door hoping it will hurry up, she realizes that her father is insane, as he was nuts alive and even more nuts dead, his mind already halfway to decay city. She realizes that if she could make him rise from the grave, she could make him return to it. ‘Get lost Daddy! Rot in peace!’ she screams, but it has no effect, as Kilgrave lunges out as his daughter, Kara dodging just as his arm bursts into the lift door.
Kara runs down the stairs, wondering why it didn’t work, and supposes that his mind could be too far gone to accept her commands, but then what is it that keeps him going? Suddenly, Kara wonders if it wasn’t she who resurrected him - ‘but if not me, who?’.
Meanwhile, upstairs, the still hypnotized Laura Dean and Melanie Kilgrave watch as Goblyn tears through the army of zombies, when suddenly the all decompose before she has a chance to finish the remaining ones off. Goblyn wonders what has happened and sniffs out Kara’s trail, following her scent down the stairs.
Kara meanwhile has come to a nearby gas station and her father backs her up against one of the pumps, telling her that he loves her, then that he hates her. Kara tells him that he is no making any sense and asks how he can both love and hate her. ‘you never even knew me!’ she shouts at him. Kilgrave mutters that she lives like his enemies, he hates the living, hates those who made him die. He leaps at her, shouting that he wants to make the living dead like him.
Goblyn leaps to intercept Kilgrave before he reaches Kara, but as Goblyn lashes out at Kilgrave, and breaks open a petrol pump, spilling out petrol in the process, Kara tells her to stop, as he is still her father. Kilgrave lifts Goblyn up above his head and tells her to die, before smashing her onto the concrete ground. Goblyn manages to get up, and scampers away, whining and clutching an injured shoulder.
Kara rummages through a tool box, cursing her father, and finding an axel she turns to him and declares that Goblyn was trying to protect her while all he wants to do is kill her. She asks him why he couldn’t have just stayed dead so that she would not have to chose between family and friends. ‘Kill! Kill!’ cries Kilgrave before Kara tells him that his act is getting stale, and that he needs something to spark it back to life. She scrapes the axel along the ground, causing it to create friction with the petrol covered concrete, causing the surrounding area to burst into flame.
The flame engulfs the Purple Man as Kara leaps out of the way. Goblyn comes over to Kara who tells Goblyn that it is okay, as her father is gone. Suddenly Kilgrave leaps out of the flames towards the two girls - only to fall and smash on the ground. Goblyn holds onto Kara as she cries.
Meanwhile, at an archaeological dig site in the Yukon Territory, someone calls to Elizabeth Twoyoungmen and asks her if she has finished the topographical sketches of level two. The former Alphan replies that she will have completed them by the time he is ready to dig. The young man tells Elizabeth that he has a feeling they are going to find something really big this time. Elizabeth agrees, when suddenly she cries out in pain. Her co-worker asks if she is okay, and as Elizabeth stands up she tells him he is fine, that it was just a migraine.
Elizabeth, who was once the phenomenally powerful Talisman goes and sits down somewhere else, thinking that she hated lying to Brad, but that she could not tell him that she felt a surge of power similar to that as she once wielded as Talisman. Elizabeth doesn’t understand how that was even possible, as her father, Shaman, assumed her Talisman powers when she left Alpha Flight. ‘I must be working too hard’ she thinks. Elizabeth returns to her drawings, not noticing the strangely glowing heap of stones rising up behind her, or the eerie knowing laughter that whistles with the wind.