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Days Of Future Present, Past Participle - part 3
Once upon a time, they were Canada’s greatest heroes. But that was before they tried to change the course of history in an effort to save a former villain as well as rescue their founder from certain death! Now? All bets are off! The only thing we can say for certain is…they are…the All-New, All-Different Alpha Flight!
Upon his arrival in New York City, the Canadian super hero known as Guardian made it a point to confront the megalomaniac madman and manufacturing maven named Jerry Jaxon, who also disguised himself as Box. All Guardian would say about his victory over Jaxon and the forces of Roxxon was ‘forewarned is forearmed’. As with Jim Carey or Michael J. Fox, it did not take long for America to once again express its love for all things Canadian, and Guardian soon convinced his country men to join him in the States, it was there that Alpha Flight finally routed itself into the hearts and minds of the Great 51.
Not long after that, Guardian, Snowbird, Northstar, Aurora, Sasquatch, Shaman and Puck became as popular as such born-in-the-USA natives as Captain America, Iron Man and Speedball, and were celebrated in massive parades. But not that it was all love and flower grams from their adoring public, Alpha North America (as the team came to be known, as a nod to the continent both countries shared) certainly pulled their weight, confronting such threats as Magneto, Dr. Doom and Angar the Screamer.
No one argues that the Canadian heroes’ presence was all that allowed for the defeat of the Universe-altering power of the being called Onslaught, and one can only imagine the fate of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes had not Alpha North America been onon hand to turn the tide of the battle. The only downside is that the Alphans weren’t on hand to battle a threat to their homeland…when a hundred thousand unaccounted for Plodex eggs were hatched! Overnight, this alien menace laid waste to the entire Great North - its people utterly defenseless without Alpha Flight on hand to protect them.
And so, the world authority took the only action available, they had no other choice but to…nuke Canada. And not just once. As often as it took to save the rest of the world, one country died, that a world might live. If only Guardian had returned from the United States after his victory over Jaxon…how differently things would have turned out.
(Present)
Nemesis, Alpha Flight’s deadly goddess of vengeance switches off the computer screen that just detailed to her and her remaining teammates what happened to the world since their last foray back in the past. Nemesis declares that this is no time for recriminations and reminds the handsome Yukon Jack a.k.a. Yukotujakzurjimozoata and Zuzha “Puck” Yu that they opted to wrestle with destiny by engaging with time travel, and now they are forced to pay the price for science gone awry. Motioning to Doctor Walter “Sasquatch” Langkowski, who is preoccupied with scientific equations on his whiteboard, Nemesis points out that they are not going to get much help from him, before stating that, as incredible and undesirable as it sounds, ‘The fate of the world as we know it rests on the shoulders of a frightened barmaid and an arrogant royal’.
Zuzha tells Nemesis that if she is trying to inspire her, that it is not working, but Nemesis informs Zuzha that she is telling her that she must return to the past and convince Guardian that he needs to return to Canada after his victory over Jaxon. ‘I hateth this team’ remarks Yukon Jack as he is struck by Nemesis’ deadly sword. Nemesis agrees, before turning her attention to Zuzha, who profusely asking Nemesis to wait, and suggests that they contact the Fantastic Four and borrow their time machine. She declares that they may have been going about this all wrong, as the Fantastic Four do have more experience with this sort of thing. She adds that that there has to be a better way than killing her and sending her back in time through the sword. ‘Eh?’. ‘Nope’ declares Nemesis before shoving her sword into Zuzha.
(In the Weigh-station, between life and death)
‘Stab my eyes!’ shouts Nemesis as she stumbles upon Yukon Jack and Zuzha kissing on a beach. Yukon Jack asks Nemesis if she doesn’t have any sense of privacy, but Nemesis reminds him that she is this place, as it is her, even if she wishes otherwise. Nemesis declares that all secrets are revealed here, and in this case she now sees that Yukon Jack has an all-encompassing need to be loved, which she suggests is no doubt to compensate for a lifetime of rejection by his people.
Zuzha declares that she feels so cheap, and that she has the hots for Mapleleaf - doesn’t she? ‘That we should only live long enough to find out’ remarks Nemesis.
(In the past)
‘Hark! Thou art the renegade ne’er-do-wells known as Omega Flight, be ye not?’ exclaims Yukon Jack as he and Zuzha enter a room where several super beings are standing. ‘Ixnay on the erdowellsne’ay’ whispers Zuzha. Alec Thorn a.k.a. Smart Alec tells his fellow Omegans that this is what he was talking about - they were relegated to Beta and Gamma flights while Guardian was out recruiting new members for Alpha Flight without telling anyone. Wildchild exclaims that it doesn’t matter who they are, that he is itching for a throw down! Flashback sits up from his chess game, declaring that chess against your future self is not fun when you already know how it is going to end! Yukon Jack pushes Zuzha out of the room, informing her that this is no place for the wife of Yukotujakzurjimozoata and tells her to attend to the plight of Doctor Hudson. ‘Have at thee, base scoundrels!’ Yukon Jack exclaims as he leaps towards Omega Flight.
The new Puck darts through various room, searching for Guardian, when she suddenly stumbles into a room where a certain red-head - Heather McNeil Hudson is tied up. ‘Oh sorry!’ exclaims Zuzha, but as Heather cries ‘Wait!’ Zuzha slams the door closed. Suddenly, Guardian comes up behind Zuzha, ‘Hello young lady, I’m looking for a seven-foot-tall blue and silver robot’. Zuzha is relieved to see Hudson, and rattles of a huge speech about how he probably is not going to believe her, but that she is from the future and is here to tell him that after he defeats Jaxon he has to return to Canada, or else the rest of Alpha Flight is going to make their way here to the USA and become hugely popular super heroes and so they won’t be on hand to stop an infestation of newly found Plodex eggs which is why the rest of the world has to nuke Canada so the alien’s don’t take over the planet.
‘Oh’. replies Hudson, before asking Zuzha, just to be clear, if she is from the same future where Louis Sadler Jr. told him not to go to New York all so that he is not murdered by his own faulty power pack - only to be told moments later by Rutherford Princeton that he does need to come to the States and defeat Jaxon before he becomes so powerful that he makes his way back to Canada with an army of Box warriors? Hudson tells Zuzha that it is not as if he doesn’t appreciate the effort, but he really thinks they should have spent a little more time figuring this thing out before they started down the slippery slope of chronal manipulation.
Meanwhile, Yukon Jack stands over the defeated bodies of Diamond Lil and the other members of Omega Flight, when suddenly ‘So, what’s this all about, eh?’ asks Eugene “Puck” Judd as he and the original Alphans - Snowbird, Sasquatch, Northstar, Aurora and Shaman enter the room. ‘It…is not as it appears’ replies Yukon Jack as he wipes the blood from his knife.
Elsewhere, Zuzha begins searching for Yukon Jack now, when suddenly, someone grabs her arm and declares ‘Hold it right there, young lady!’ Zuzha spins around and is relieved to see Major Mapleleaf and Centennial. She hugs Mapleleaf before the handsome hero informs Zuzha that when they did not disappear after Hudson left for the States, he and Mr. Princeton thought it best if they tailed him. ‘In Mountie school I excelled at tailing!’ Zuzha tells Lou that he should be happy to know that she and Yukon Jack just came back and while he has been dealing with Omega Flight, she has set Dr. Hudson back on the right track, so that everything should be perfect now. ‘A gold star for you then!’ smiles Lou. But Rutherford strokes his chin, and wonders why they are still here, if everything has been set correct.
(Present)
Back in Langkowski’s lab, the young Plodex known as Mar tries to get the handsome scientists attention, but Walt is too transfixed with his work. Puzzled, Mar finds Nemesis standing against the table on which lays the body of Centennial, her one true and former love. ‘Oh Rutherford’ she whispers as she holds him. Mar watches, but Nemesis cannot find the words she has to say. Suddenly, Mar notices that the acid rain has stopped pouring down outside, and alerts Nemesis to the development.
Nemesis takes Mar’s hand as they walk out of their headquarters and into the snow, Mar smiles, ‘So it would seem!’ exclaims Nemesis. Suddenly, a voice says ‘Step down, woman’ and Nemesis turns to see an army of men before her, the commander declaring that by the authority of the Canadian Militia for a Super-Hero-Free Country, she is ordered to surrender immediately, to drop her weapon and be spared a slow and painful death. ‘Too late on that count, gentlemen!’ exclaims Nemesis as she rushes head-first into the army of men, ready for battle.
Elsewhere, the Watcher looks puzzled, shrugs his shoulders and declares ‘You’re on your own, people!’


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Days Of Future Present, Past Participle, part 4
You got me. I am totally stumped at this point. I don’t know it I’m coming or going. I don’t know if it is day or night. Are they winning or losing? Who can tell? My best guess is that this team of Canadian heroes tried to go back in time, more than once, and only made things worse with each passing effort! Oh yeah, they are - or were - or will be called - the All-New All-Different Alpha Flight!
‘Hey honey…I’m home…,’ mutters Nemesis as she enters the All-New All-Different Alpha Flight’s headquarters in the Arctic regions of Northern Canada. Her uniform tattered and clutching a wound from her battle with soldiers of the Militia for a Super-Hero-Free Canada, Nemesis makes her way to a seat, while the young Plodex child, Mar, begins to board up the door with planks of wood.
The All-New, All-Different Alpha Flight’s leader, Dr. Walter “Sasquatch” Langkowski is still trying to work out some equation on his whiteboard and declares that the first thing he would like to do is to save every day like treasure. Nemesis sighs as she witches on the television, where screening tonight on the history channel is “Blame Canada!”
(On television screen, showing what happened when time diverged from Alpha Flight (1st series) #12)
‘Shortly after a brief sojourn Stateside, the super hero known as Guardian returned to Canada with another half dozen fellow countrymen at his side, and together, the two teams formed a single fighting unit that allowed Alpha Flight to protect all of Canada from every threat, foreign and domestic: Snowbird! Sasquatch! Northstar! Aurora! Shaman! Puck! Diamond Lil! Flashback! Smart Alec! Box! Wildchild!
Or more accurately, most threats. For the one they could not defeat was themselves, as internal politics divided them in what became a super-powered civil war that threatened to tear the country asunder! As the battle raged, the normal, non-powered Canadian citizens grew weary of living in a war zone. And as is the way of many great capitalistic and free societies, the militia for a super-hero free Canada started as a grass-roots effort to -’
(Reality)
Nemesis switches the television off, understanding now why she was attacked by the Militia for a Super-Hero-Free Canada. She now knows that Hudson has to come back right away from the States, but without bringing a repentant Omega Flight with him, and stabs herself with her own sword to send herself back in time.
(In the Weigh Station, between life and death)
A fire rages at a large house in the middle of a farm. A woman lies in a dirt patch some distance from the fire, gasping for breath. Nemesis approaches the dying woman. Nemesis kneels down beside her past self, and holds her in her arms.
(Reality, in the past)
Nemesis watches as Guardian curses his overheating power pack, knowing that it was blow any second unless he cuts it loose. Nemesis turns and walks out of the room as Guardian mutters that he has about ten seconds. Suddenly, Nemesis is approached by a redhead with glasses who declares that she is trying to find her husband. ‘Tall, handsome, wearing an EM suit? Probably dressed like a Canadian flag’. The woman asks Nemesis if she hasn’t seen him while she has been skulking around.
Matter-of-factly, Nemesis replies that she has seen him, but informs the woman that if she bothers him just now, it would be the death of him, and she stabs Heather McNeil Hudson through the chest, killing her.
(Present, timeline diverged from Alpha Flight (1st series) #12)
Sasquatch is blown away from his whiteboard, wondering what Nemesis has done, when suddenly, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, a.k.a. Aurora is standing at his doorway, with a very thick French-Canadian accent, short hair, and dressed in a revealing white and yellow costume, Aurora remarks that this is just where Guardian said he would be. Sasquatch is surprised to see Aurora and points out that she has been missing for so many months.
Aurora tells Walter that there is no time for adoration, as the others are waiting for him. Sasquatch asks ‘Are they?’ and wonders why Aurora’s accent is worse than he remembers. ‘What accent?’ remarks Aurora as she leads Sasquatch from the base. Walt carries Nemesis’ sword as Mar watches from a distance.
Aurora carries Sasquatch as they fly from the North to Parliament Hill, and Aurora remarks that he has been so silent during their journey, which she thinks is so unlike him. Sasquatch apologizes and declares that he is analyzing the differences between this timeline and the one he knows is the actual present, remarking that any changes appear negligible at best. Referring to “Negligible” Aurora remarks that that is one of the words she so loves. However, noticing a huge state of James MacDonald Hudson out the front of Parliament Hill, Sasquatch wonders if he spoke too soon.
Sasquatch follows Aurora into a room and greets Mac, ‘Um, hail and fare-thee-well, Dr. Hudson’ he says before adding, ‘Nice statue’. Mac replies that it does the job, in all kinds of weather, night or day, any time of the year, which is more than he can say for most people. Mac declares that since Heather was killed when they visited New York, his own life has had no meaning or direction, so if he had not had the idea of directing all his rage and loneliness into becoming ruler of the world, he doesn’t know what he would have done.
‘Everyone needs a hobby’ Walt tells Mac before asking him where he is going with this. Suddenly, Wildchild brings a bedraggled Nemesis into the room, Nemesis apologizing to Walter as she told Mac everything. Guardian motions to Nemesis and asks Walt if he didn’t think for an instant that he would not track down the woman who murdered his wife - and her associates. As Diamond Lil and Box grab Sasquatch, Walt tells Mac that he doesn’t know why Nemesis killed Heather, but that he can explain everything…most everything…hardly anything.
Suddenly, a large explosion ensures and knocks Mac sideways as he protests that he did not authorize an explosion. Sasquatch asks to be pardoned for the expression, before declaring ‘Its about time!’ to a one-eyed Yukon Jack, a machine gun toting Major Mapleleaf, a skanky Zuzha Yu and a leather-jacket wearing Centennial. Rutherford “Centennial” Princeton the Third tells Sasquatch not to blame them, as they were waiting on him.
The handsome Yukon Jack declares that he has a swell of elation at the thought of them being united again, to which Zuzha “Puck” Yu quickly tells Yukotujakzurjimozoata that no one wants to hear about his swellings. Yukon Jack declares that they have to set things right, to which the now bearded but still handsome Lou Sadler a.k.a. the second Major Mapleleaf exclaims, that chronologically speaking, Yukon Jack is right.
The All-New, All-Different Alpha Flight begin to engage Hudson’s allies in battle, while Nemesis and Sasquatch look at each other, and Walt pulls from under his fur Nemesis’ sword, which he then uses to stab himself, enabling himself to be sent back to the past.
(The past, circa Alpha Flight (1st series) #12)
In New York, Sasquatch, Snowbird, Northstar, Aurora, Shaman and Puck approach Yukon Jack who had just defeated Omega Flight, when suddenly, the present-time Sasquatch pulls Shaman aside. While the past Sasquatch, Snowbird and the others engage Yukon Jack in battle, Shaman wonders how Sasquatch can be both here and there, then sees that his magic tells him that they are both the true Walter Langkowski, and wonders how that is possible.
Sasquatch tells Twoyoungmen that the short version of a very long story is that he messed up, and asks Shaman if he has a spell or abatement or something in his bag of tricks that allows for them to talk in private for a moment. Twoyoungmen replies that he does, and turns to his teammates and says “Shush”. ‘”Shush?”’ asks Sasquatch ignores him, asking him what his problem is.
Walt declares that this is all kind of embarrassing for him to admit - but he used magic to try and affect a scientific outcome on a situation where time manipulation would allow him to alter a chronological alternative chain of events. Shaman reminds Sasquatch that time travel is very, very delicate, to which Walt replies that he knows, and that the more he tries to solve a magical problem with a scientific equation, ‘the worse the situation got!’ surmises Shaman, alluding the situation to trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
Sasquatch tells Twoyoungmen that it occurred to him that the only way to set things right was by using magic to correct the situation. Shaman rubs his head and tells Walt that that is a rather dicey proposal, but Sasquatch asks his old friend for one little spell. Shaman tells Walt that there is no such thing as “One little spell”, before reaching into his medicine pouch and pulling out seven coins, each one with the face of an Alphan on it - Snowbird, Northstar, Aurora, Puck, Guardian and Heather Hudson, and himself too.
Shaman and Sasquatch look down at the coins, before Twoyoungmen blows at them, turning into dust. Sasquatch looks around, and sees only himself and Yukon Jack still standing - his past self, Narya, Jean-Paul, Twoyoungmen and the others have all disappeared. Smoke begins to pour out of Shaman’s medicine pouch, Yukon Jack calls to Sasquatch and asks him what it is that is happening, Walt just shouts ‘Magic!’
(Present…relatively speaking…like back to Alpha Flight (3rd series) #9 to be precise)
Everything is as it was when the All-New, All-Different Alpha Flight began this particular misadventure - well, maybe not everything is as it was. Walt tells Alpha Flight to stand down after just defeating the Japanese super hero team, Big Hero Six. Sasquatch holds up a small device and tells Hiro that someone must have placed it inside his teammates, and used it to mind control them into attacking Alpha Flight.
Suddenly, Gardiner Monroe comes running up to Sasquatch, just like Walt expects him to. Walt tells Flashback that he hasn’t seen him since the Omega Flight incident, but Flashback smiles and tells Walt that he is just Gardiner Monroe now, and hands Sasquatch the medicine pouch belonging to Shaman, just as he promised he would all those years ago.
Sometime later, at the All-New, All-Different Alpha Flight’s base in the Arctic Circle, Zuzha asks Walt why he doesn’t just open it, as it is a purse. Walt informs everyone that it is more than just a purse, as it is Twoyoungmen’s magical pouch, from which he draws various magical items from an one-dimensional crossroads. Yukon Jack asks what that means, to which Sasquatch replies that he does know, as he is a scientist, and before that a football player, so magic is not really his thing. Walt informs everyone that he does know Smart Alec looked directly into this pouch once and lost his brilliant mind for doing so.
Centennial reminds Walt that Flashback said to him his friend gave it to him years ago, and asks how that can be possible when they saw Shaman leave with the pouch when he went into space with the rest of Alpha Flight? Before Sasquatch can answer, Major Mapleleaf declares that if looking into the pouch is out of the question…his voice trails off as Walt understands what he is suggesting, and proceeds to empty the pouch, where the coins depicting the original Alphans begin to fall out.
Suddenly, Snowbird, Guardian, Northstar, Aurora, Heather McNeil Hudson, Puck and Shaman appear before the All-New, All-Different Alpha Flight. Walt wonders how this is possible, as the past Guardian asks Sasquatch what is going on, as a moment ago they were at the Roxxon Corporation in New York City. The past Shaman declares that they have all been magically transported to this place, somewhere in the future! Snowbird declares that she was not in the states with them all, and asks what she is doing here. ’Not too confusing, eh?’ asks Judd.  ‘This is exactly why I don’t deal in magic!’ exclaims Walter.
Soon, the past Guardian declares that this doesn’t make any sense, as how can they be here in their future, when their present selves are supposed to be in outer space? Walt exclaims that he doesn’t know, but that they must be here for a reason, so it is probably best that they do not try and mess with the time line by sending them back. The past version of the handsome mutant speedster, Northstar, goes up to Centennial who is cooking on a barbeque and asks him for a burger for his sister.
Nemesis approaches the past Shaman and asks him for a word, reminding him that they are both magical in nature, therefore they are the only ones who remember what exactly transpired on this day, but for how long, she asks. The past version of Twoyoungmen replies that only the Gods may say, before motioning to Centennial and declaring that the more important question, is whether or not she is going to confess to her one true love the secret which rages in her heart.
Shaman tells Nemesis that he doesn’t mean to be cruel, but that there are not a lot of pages left. Nemesis, looking at Rutherford, admits that she is holding out for a mini-series, or perhaps a one shot. ‘Uh, yeah. That’ll happen’ mutters Twoyoungmen. Nemesis declares that the first thing you learn as the Living Embodiment of Retribution is that Hope Springs Eternal.
The past version of the original Puck motions around to the gathering of heroes, past and present, and declares that he is not pretending to understand any of this, ‘But what the heck are we going to do with thirteen members of Alpha Flight?’
Afterwards, the original members of Alpha Flight reclaimed their name and went on to become heroes beloved and respected by the entire world.
Yukon Jack, having divorced all of his previous wives, married Snowbird, and returned to his lost city, where they have reigned happily ever after.
While they continue as two of Canada’s greatest super heroes, Major Mapleleaf and Zuzha enjoy weekends with their family, their son and the original Major Mapleleaf.
Mar now lives in Atlantis under the watchful eye of Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner.
After nearly a hundred years apart, Rutherford “Centennial” Princeton and Amelia “Nemesis” Weatherly were finally and eternally united, in death.
Thunder went on to form the League of Super-Pets.
Doctor Langkowski has since returned to his lab in the arctic circle where he continues to push the boundaries of technology using his favorite subject…’Whoops!’ he declares as an explosion occurs in the lab.


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Unity: Just Watch Us
Montreal, where a pro-Unity Party poster lines a building. Suddenly, ‘Fascist!’ someone calls out. ‘Please, sir. We’re Canadian’ an attractive young blonde woman replies as she stands next to the man’s car. She is a Royal Canadian Mountie and is writing him a parking ticket. ‘You can’t ticket me! This is voter suppression!’ the man exclaims. ‘And that is a fire hydrant’ the young woman points out. The man asks the woman what is wrong with her. He declares that this country is going down the toilet. ‘Fifteen percent unemployment, inflation out of control - and you’re harassing the patriots trying to change things?’ he asks as he motions to a queue of Canadian citizens waiting to cast their vote. ‘Just move your car, sir. Polls stay open ‘til eight’ the young woman replies as she hands the angry man his parking ticket.
‘“Anne McKenzie”, huh? Well, commandant, your superiors will be hearing about your Gestapo tactics!’ the man declares. Anne begins to walk away and tells the man that he can contest the infraction by mailing the ticket to the municipal court within thirty days. But the man suddenly rips the ticket up. ‘Do you see this? Do you see what I’m doing? I’m taking a stand for the people!’ he declares, when suddenly, there is a BRRRZZZT and the city is plunged into darkness. ‘Hey! What happened to the lights?’ the man wonders. ‘Dammit…’ Anne whispers.
Meanwhile, in Ottawa, The side of a small truck has a television screen on it, which is playing an important speech - from Gary Cody, the leader of the Unity Party. ‘The right has no ideas. The left has no guts. And so the country’s been driven into a ditch. It’s time for a new way…the Unity way!’ Gary proclaims. Standing in a nearby park, two very important people are watching Gary’s speech. ‘Tired of hearing that guy flapping his yap everywhere I go. Promising everything to everyone, just like always’ declares James “Mac” MacDonald Hudson - better known as Guardian. ‘It’s just Gary, Mac. And for the most part, he delivered’ Heather McNeil Hudson a.k.a. Vindicator tells her husband. ‘Except when it mattered’ Mac replies.
Looking at a woman and her child playing nearby, Heather assures Mac that they will get their daughter back, she knows it, before suggesting that they talk about something pleasant. ‘It is our day off -’ she begins, before the two Canadian super heroes both hear a communications alarm sound. Heather sighs and mutters that she had to jinx it. They remove their jackets, revealing their red and white costumes underneath. ‘Department H, this is Heather Hudson. Priority Call A received’ Heather reports back, and as they take to the sky, she announces that they are en route now.
At that moment, inside the Grand Lac Victoria Indian Settlement Hospital, several nurses and other medical professionals hover around a very talented surgeon, ‘All right, Rita. Clamp that down’ the surgeon orders. ‘Yes, Dr Twoyoungmen’ the nurse replies. Suddenly, the power goes out. Dr Michael Twoyoungmen looks up and tells the staff not to worry, as the emergency generators should kick in in sixty seconds. ‘Oh for the love of…this is the third blackout this year!’ Rita complains. Suddenly, Dr Twoyoungmen receives a signal - the same signal that Heather and Mac heard. His eyes glaze over as he replies ‘Very well. Shaman responding, Department H’.
‘And now Ottawa calls. And, as usual, the Rez can wait’ Rita mutters. Shaman informs the medical team that he suspects this is not your garden variety blackout, and that he has to step out momentarily. ‘Wait - you what? In the middle of open heart surgery?’ Rita shouts. Shaman tells her that there is no need for alarm, as his body will complete the operation during his spirit’s absence. ‘Don’t think I’m not reporting this to the union’ Rita warns Shaman as his spirit leaves his body, while his physical form asks for the clamp.
At the La Grande Dam Power Station, at the St Lawrence River, a civilian is confronting some soldiers, ‘The lights are going out all over Quebec! And they’re staying off - ‘til the truth about Unity is illuminated!’ the villain declares. Gun shots are heard, while flying towards the damn are Aurora a.k.a. Jeanne-Marie Beaubier and Dr Walter “Sasquatch” Langkowski. Aurora keeps the handsome Walter aloft as she informs him that the terrorist’s name is Citadel, an anti-government fanatic in an adamantium exoskeleton. ‘Wow, Aurora. Actually reading “H”s’ briefing papers these days?’ Walter asks, smiling. Aurora ignores the question and suggests that they start with a drill-and-punch, just to see what he’s made of.
‘I like this new you. Efficient. Authoritative. Masterful’ Walter replies. Jeanne-Marie tells him that it is called therapy, and that he should try it. ‘Love to! Tonight at eight, my place?’ Walter suggests. Jeanne-Marie tells Walter that she is sorry, but doctor’s orders are that she is supposed to drop her baggage. With that, she lets go of Walter, who is wearing a specially-designed jumpsuit to protect from the super-speed that Aurora travels at. Walter begins tugging at the jumpsuit as he shifts into his Sasquatch form, and shouts ‘I…love…this…job!’ as he lands on the surprised Citadel, smacking the villain into the ground.
‘You celebrate your enslavement, Sasquatch?’ Citadel asks as he punches Sasquatch off of him. ‘While your government is being stolen beneath your nose?’. Suddenly, Aurora lands beside Citadel and casting a blinding light, she remarks that the property damage is bad enough. ‘Do you have to bore us with politics, too?’ Citadel gains the upper hand and tells Aurora that if she was just stupid, she could be forgiven. ‘But wilful ignorance?’ he asks as her grabs her and wraps a hand around her neck. ‘That’s a crime’. Jeanne-Marie warns Citadel that if he was not wearing that armor, she would cut off his hand.
Aurora suddenly speeds up, and liquifies Citadel’s hand, causing the villain to cry out in pain. Aurora takes flight, and Citadel tells her to run, to stay blind, and that when the truth comes out - ‘You’ll be reading it in prison!’ Vindicator announces as she attacks Citadel with a blast of energy. ‘You’d like that, eh, Vindicator?’ Citadel asks as he turns around, informing her that the exoskeleton that her government grafted onto him grounds him against even her blasts. He leaps towards her, and declares that it is such a pleasure, using the regime’s own weapons. ‘Uh-oh’ Heather utters, ‘To bring down it’s champions!’ Citadel booms as he smacks into Heather, but as she is knocked aside, Heather is picked up by Aurora.
Heather tells Aurora that she is fine, and calls out to Sasquatch, alerting him to a nearby turbine. ‘What, this old thing?’ Walter asks as he rips the turbine from its mooring - and throws it at Citadel. ‘Fools! You can’t crush me!’ Citadel replies as he swats the turbine away with ease, shattering it. ‘Good point’ Heather remarks. ‘So we’ll just have to sweep you off your feet’ Heather adds, while telling Marrina to have fun. Controlling the water from the nearby river, Marrina, sporting a new look, enters the dam, and does indeed sweep Citadel off his feet. Marrina climbs onto Citadel’s shoulders. ‘Tough shell. Squishy center. Come with me, land mollusk’ she tells him. ‘No! Get off of -’ Citadel exclaims.
Shamans’ spirit appears, and Heather tells Citadel that if he has a problem with the government, there is an easier way to change it. ‘It’s called an election. Y’know, like the one you’re trying to disrupt?’ Heather adds, before telling Shaman that he is up. The water swirls around Citadel as Shaman’s spirit hovers over him. ‘Hey, Indian! What has the regime done for your people? You should understand!’ Citadel exclaims. ‘What I understand is the nearly overwhelming desire to punch the hell out of anyone who tells “Hey, Indian” at me’ Shaman replies, before remarking that, for the moment, he will just probe into Citadel’s darkest depths. Shaman soon learns that Citadel taking out Montreal’s power grid was but means to another end. ‘The real danger, my friends…lies back in the city!’ Twoyoungmen announces.
At that moment it. ‘You got it, didn’t you, Jean-Paul? You got the “ping”’ remarks Kyle as he stands and gazes out the window of their high-rise apartment. ‘How would you know? You can’t hear it’ Northstar tells his boyfriend. ‘Because you made a face like you bit down on something bad’ Kyle replies. ‘Then you can guess whether or not I’m going to answer it’ Northstar replies as he continues to read a newspaper by candlelight. Gazing out the window, Kyle announces that he hears sirens, and tells Northstar that it looks like there is a major fire down the block on Notre-Dame. ‘I bet there’s looting’ Kyle adds. ‘All the more reason to stay here with you, Kyle’ Northstar tells his boyfriend, reminding him that he got this place in his hometown to get away from super-craziness.
Kyle goes over and wraps his arms around Jean-Paul, telling him that is very logical, very sensible, with only one problem. ‘Super heroes are hot’ Kyle exclaims. ‘Groupie’ Jean-Paul smiles. An instant later, Northstar’s suit has vanished and he stands wearing his costume, informing Kyle that her will do one sweep of the city - just one. ‘Yah!’ Kyle exclaims, while telling Northstar that even when he is expecting it, he cannot get used to his super speed. They go out onto the balcony, and Northstar tells Kyle that he will be back in twenty minutes, and that he needs to stay inside. ‘No way! I’m still your PR rep! I need photos of you in action for the press file!’ Kyle replies as he waves at Northstar, who flies off into the darkness.
Meanwhile, at the AmCan offices, a SWAT team has surrounded the building. A chopper hovers in the air, while someone reports to Guardian that motion sensors indicate the bogie is on its way out, with an ETA of two minutes. Guardian calls the officer Sergeant Mercier and tells him that he is ready to move on his signal. Suddenly, ‘Look at you, Hudson. Literally draped in the flag, “guarding” the corporate headquarters of the largest energy conglomerate in the country’ Northstar exclaims. Jean-Paul then sarcastically tells Mac that he is glad to see the rich and powerful are first protected in any crisis as he hovers alongside Mac, arms folded across his chest, unimpressed.
‘Hey, Northstar. You refused my offer to rejoin Alpha Flight. Don’t you think that means you gave up the right to criticize policy?’ Mac replies. ‘No. Kind of the opposite, actually’ Jean-Paul replies, matter-of-factly. ‘Look, you know I’ve had my own problems with the Department. But I’ve chosen to change the system from within’ Mac tells Jean-Paul. ‘Good luck’ Northstar tells Mac as he hovers alongside him. ‘And far be it from me to contradict your precious self-righteousness with facts - but the police have located a super-perp within AmCan that may be the source of all this -’ Guardian begins, when suddenly, one of the SWAT team shouts ‘Lock and load! Here he comes!’
But “he” is actually a “she” - a purple-skinned woman, armed with a machine gun and carrying a server. The SWAT team calls out to her, both in French and English, ordering to her drop her weapons and lay down on the ground. ‘Mmm. Pass’ the young woman replies. ‘Instead, this!’ she exclaims as she uses her powers on the SWAT team, ordering them to take their weapons and point them to the sky. Mind controlled, the SWAT team all have purple skin now, too, and they do as they are commanded. ‘Don’t tell me that’s little Kara Kilgrave!’ Northstar asks. ‘They grow up so fast’ Guardian remarks as they look down at their ally - now apparently former ally. ‘And now down Alpha Flight!’ Kara, known as Persuasion and formerly Purple Girl, exclaims as she rushes away in the other direction, dressed in a blue and green spandex costume, with a trench coat wrapped around her.
‘I am not a member of Alpha Flight! Why does everyone just assume that?’ Jean-Paul declares. ‘Ah, don’t fight it, Jean-Paul’ Mac tells his friend as he blocks the dozens of bullets with an electro-magnetic shield. ‘See all the fun you’ve been missing?’ Mac remarks as the bullets bounce back at the SWAT team, who are protected by their armor. Northstar speeds down to the SWAT team and engages them in physical combat, while replying to Guardian: ‘Oh, yes - being shot at as a “national hero” when not being spat on as a mutant!’ Jean-Paul replies, before remarking ‘Though…if we beat up les blues more often…’ his voice trails off.
Guardian radios Heather, and informs her that he is in pursuit of Citadel’s accomplice - Kara Kilgrave - who is fleeing northeast on foot down Sainte-Catherine. ‘Be advised -’ Mac begins, but Heather interrupts: ‘Wait. What? Kara - Purple Girl? From Beta Flight?’ Heather exclaims. Mac replies that he thinks they will have to call her Purple Woman, from now on, but yes, that is her. ‘This - I don’t believe - there has to be some kind of explanation -’ Heather declares.
Down below, Kara dashes through the crowd, ‘You. You. You’ she exclaims as she puts several under he spell - including Kyle, who was amongst the crowd taking photos of Northstar! Mac tells Heather that he doesn’t know what the explanation is, and reminds her that she has had more contact with the trainees than he has. ‘Just be advised as Alpha approaches the city to stay out of range of her pheromone power’ Mac reminds his wife, before announcing that they have got to figure out how to get close enough to lower the boom. ‘Be as one!’ Persuasion suddenly shouts, and several dozen civilians begin climbing onto each other. Guardian begins to suggest that Shaman might be able to assist, when suddenly, ‘CANADA WANTS UNITY, GUARDIAN?’ Persuasion shouts. ‘I’LL SHOW YOU SOME UNITY!’ she declares as the dozens of civilians have formed one large being - and race towards Northstar and Guardian.
‘Kyle!’ Northstar gasps as he sees his boyfriend as part of the being. ‘Hudson, be careful, that’s my -’ Jean-Paul begins as he holds Mac back, but Mac replies ‘Of course, Jean-Paul. Just get out of my -’, but it’s too late, as the large mass of civilians smacks into the two heroes, knocking them aside.
Kara rushes towards her getaway vehicle, only to find a ticket stuck to the window. ‘Who gives me a !@#$% ticket?’ she shouts. Suddenly, Anne McKenzie appears, and informs Persuasion that if she wishes to contest the alleged infraction, she has thirty days. ‘Have you lost your mind?’ Kara asks, not recognizing who Anne really is. ‘We took out an entire city’s freaking power grid to unlock security on the AmCan mainframe room! The data on this server proves what Unity really is! People deserve the truth!’ she exclaims. ‘You think I’m going to let some overzealous meter maid stop me?’ Kara asks, before using her pheremone power: ‘Take your ticket book and shove it up your -’ she tells Anne - but Anne vanishes, replaced by a polar bear!
‘Ahh - I mean - rip your own throat out with -’ Kara declares, but the polar bear morphs into a snow owl. ‘Your wings! Your wings can’t -’ Kara exclaims, but the owl morphs into a seal. ‘Gahh - transforming too fast - too many minds - can’t -’ Kara shouts as the seal gives way to the form of a small lizard - before the goddess Narya a.k.a. Snowbird, transforms into her default form and punches Kara in the face, knocking her out. Snowbird looks down at Persuasion, as Vindicator and Shaman’s spirit arrive on scene. ‘Impressive’ Shaman tells Snowbird, who replies that it was child’s play, pointing out that a prairie skink does not have the higher brain functions Persuasion’s pheromones could affect.
Vindicator picks up the server, and exclaims ‘Kara - you plunged an entire province into chaos over this? How could you?’ Mac goes over to his wife and asks her if she is all right. ‘She was my student once. I’m just…tired…tired of losing my children’ Heather replies as she and Mac look closely at each other. ‘Ah, Heather…’ Mac whispers, before Agent Jeff Brown approaches them and informs them that Department H will take it from here. Heather tells Agent Brown to be gentle with Persuasion. ‘She used to be one of us’ Heather declares. As Kara is loaded into a Department H transport, Agent Brown tells Heather that Persuasion will not be able to tell the difference between him and her own mother. ‘Ah - hell. Poor choice of words…sorry’ Agent Brown mutters. ‘Kill yourself -’ Kara begins to say to one of the paramedics. ‘Nighty-night!’ the paramedic replies as he injects her with a drug that knocks her out. Agent Brown tells Heather to let Department H take care of this. ‘You guys go do what you do best…and be adored!’ he exclaims.
Shortly, Heather, Mac, Snowbird, Sasquatch, Aurora, Twoyoungmen and Marrina are gathered for a team photograph in front of several cameras. Suddenly, Martina pulls the finger at one of the cameras that was focussing in on her: ‘What’s that? Gotta have pictures of the freak, huh? Yeah, that’s right. I’m an alien - and proud of it - bit me, Earth media!’ she shouts.
Nearby, paramedics have set up emergency tents to treat those injured in Persuasion’s attack. ‘Kyle! You’re all right!’ Northstar exclaims as he drops down beside his boyfriend. ‘Thanks to you - and Alpha -’ Kyle begins, but Northstar declares that if it wasn’t for Alpha Flight, he would not have been out here in the first place. ‘Jean-P -’ Kyle begins, but Northstar interrupts again: ‘Listen to me! I don’t care about the fame or the adrenaline rush. Or politics’ he exclaims, telling Kyle that he just wants to be with him. ‘You’re the only cause worth fighting for’ Northstar announces. ‘Wow. Major boyfriend points’ Kyle replies, before they kiss passionately. Breaking, they turn and look at a nearby television monitor, which depicts Gary Cody, looking very proud of himself. Kyle tells Northstar that in all the hubbub, he realized he forgot to vote - and a notice flashes across the monitor: Unity wins in landslide….


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Pride of a Nation
Vancouver, British Columbia, on the Pacific Coast. A soldier stands on a newspaper, with the headline “Nation United: Cody heads new coalition government”. An army truck, loaded with civilians drives off in a hurry, but one of the women calls out: ‘Wait, no! My daughter! Jenny!’ she cries. ‘Mommy!’ Jenny calls out as the soldier holds her up. The soldier assures the woman that Jenny will be on the next transport. ‘Final call for evacuation!’ another soldier calls out as more civilians are loaded onto army transport vehicles. ‘Come on, people! Let’s move, let’s move!’ the soldier holding Jenny orders, and as he places Jenny on the back of the truck, tells the driver to go, as they are loaded. But the driver revs the vehicle and announces that it will not start. ‘Oh, hell’ the soldier remarks as he stands behind Jenny. ‘This is…this is it, isn’t’ it?’ another asks as they all look up. ‘This is the end’ the soldier utters as water washes around his feet - and a MASSIVE wave washes over the city.
In amongst the wave are various Atlantean warriors, all carrying weapons, and large sea creatures, which move across the Vancouver buildings. But at the center of the wave is none other than Attuma, now calling himself Nerkkod! Wielding a massive hammer, Nerkkod boasts that he is the breaker of oceans and despoiler of Atlantis. ‘In the name of the Serpent - I gift you terror - and DEATH!’ he booms as he casts forth a massive ship, which rides a wave towards the remaining civilians and soldiers. An old woman begins to say a prayer, while the soldier tells young Jenny to close her eyes. But, suddenly, ‘Hey, you can’t park that thing here!’ Sasquatch a.k.a. Dr Walter Langkowski declares as he uses his incredible strength to knock the ship off course. ‘Sasquatch!’ the soldier calls out as a wave of water washes over the boat, and Jenny falls from it.
The soldier calls out to her, while Jenny screams - before anyone else can act, water and debris hit a force field that has surrounded the vehicle. ‘Why aren’t we drowning?’ someone asks. Dr Michael “Shaman” Twoyoungmen hovers nearby, and answers that question: ‘The sea spirits defer to my presence’ he explains. ‘Shaman! Thank God! Or, uh, thank whatever it is you believe in…’ someone remarks. But, flailing about in the raging water, Jenny calls out to her mommy as she struggles to stay afloat. Suddenly though, ‘Don’t worry. You’ll see her soon. I know she misses you very much’ Heather McNeil Hudson a.k.a. Vindicator reassures Jenny as the remarkable super hero pulls Jenny from the water, and flies up above the rising water, where she watches as Shaman levitates the truck Jenny fell from out of the water, before Vindicator goes over and drops Jenny down into the arms of the soldier.
Nearby, inside a chopper, reporter Alice Hu is keeping the rest of the nation informed of the trouble in Vancouver, as she announces that Vindicator and the rest of Alpha Flight have arrived - that Canada’s own super hero team is doing what they do best against a crisis of unimaginable magnitude. Alice Hu explains that Alpha Flight’s enemy appears to be a shockingly powerful new incarnation of the Atlantean warlord, Attuma, and informs her viewers that Alpha Flight fought Attuma’s undersea barbarians before. ‘If anyone can handle this -’ she begins, but does not get to finish her sentence, as Nerkodd heaves his hammer towards the chopper, and it breaks the tail.
Alice screams as the chopper plummets downwards, Heather looks at the situation, but before she can act, her husband, James “Mac” MacDonald Hudson, better known as Guardian, flies through the opening of the chopper, and rescues Alice and the pilot. ‘Hold on, miss. I’ve got you’ Mac announces, while the cameraman continues to fall to the water below, although Alice calls out to him, and orders him to keep shooting - lucky for him, Vindicator flies over and grabs him. Alice holds her microphone to Guardian and describes him as Canada’s most beloved super hero, while asking him how he feels about Northstar’s apparent rejection of all things Alphan. ‘Well -’ Mac begins, but Alice continues with the questions, asking why Puck is not on the team. ‘Uh…’ Mac responds, before he sets down on a rooftop, where Department H foot soldiers have assembled.
Alice’s questions continue, as she asks Guardian about the ongoing legal dispute over the custody of his daughter. ‘Do you feel you should be above the law because you’re the nation’s first official super hero?’ Alice asks, before moving on to the next question, asking if it is true Mac’s daughter was born on Canada day. ‘How apt! How long until she gets her own maple leaf uniform -’ Alice asks, but Heather drops down on the rooftop, landing purposely between Alice and Mac. ‘Watch it!’ Alice shouts as she is knocked to the side, while Heather sets the cameraman down. ‘Pardon me, Ms Hu. Duty calls ‘Vindicator announces. Heather and Mac take flight, as Mac thanks his wife for the save. ‘Don’t mention it. Didn’t particularly see the need to air our private tragedies…when there’s a big fat public one waiting to have its ass kicked!’ Vindicator replies as they swoop down towards the water.
‘Die, Earth scum!’ Marrina, exclaims as she smacks her old foe, Nerkkod, I nthe face with her now webbed feet. A whirlpool forms as Nerkkod shouts ‘Fools! You cannot escape the hammer of Nerkodd!’, as Guardian drops down and picks Marrina up out of the water, asking her what they said about her new battle cry. ‘That it was awesome?’ the Plodex replies. Mac tells Marrina that he is glad she is getting something out of those “alien pride” message boards, but reminds her that they are the official Canadian super hero team. ‘We have a certain reputation for politeness to maintain’ he explains. ‘Die, human scum’ Marrina whispers. ‘What?’ Mac asks. ‘Nothing’ Marrina tells him, before they both punch Nerkkod upwards, where Snowbird a.k.a. the goddess Narya hovers. ‘Hey, Snowbird! Want a piece of this?’ Marrina asks. ‘Just a nibble’ Snowbird replies, before transforming into a gorgosaurus, an ancient Arctic dinosaur, and bites down on Nerkkod’s arm.
‘Save me some, Narya! I wanna pop open a beer on his helmet!’ Sasquatch calls out as he slams an Atlantean robot into the wall of a building. ‘Burn, abomination!’ an Atlantean exclaims as two of them fire their weapons at Sasquatch, striking him in the arm. ‘Actually, that’s an entirely different gamma-powered monstrosity’ Walter replies, when suddenly, the Atlanteans look confused as their weapons mysteriously disappear - only to re-appear an instant later, in the possession of Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, a.k.a. Aurora, who flies upside down in front of Sasquatch, with her back to him, as she fires the weapons back at the Atlanteans.
‘You’re a welcome sight, Aurora. In pretty much every way imaginable’ Sasquatch declares. Aurora tells her long-time off-again, on-again lover to stop looking at her rear, as he is throwing off her aim. ‘I’m not looking at it. It just happens to be in the way of my eyes’ Walter jokes. Nearby, Alice Hu has resumed her reporting, announcing that one-half of the super-speed due of Aurora and Northstar has arrived to help repel the aquatic hordes. Alice explains that controversy rages as to why Aurora’s twin brother Northstar has refused to join the pride of the nation. Alice adds that a recent CBC poll shows four out of five Canadians prefer Northstar and Aurora as a crime fighting team, and a whopping fifty-three percent believes Northstar hates Canada.
At that moment, in Montreal, inside the apartment home Jean-Paul “Northstar” Beaubier shares with his boyfriend, Kyle. ‘Psychomotor agitation. She’s started again’ Northstar declares as he holds a television remote and watches the report on Alpha Flight’s battle with Nerkkod. ‘Psycho what?’ Kyle asks as he stands in the kitchen. ‘Obsessive movements. Hand-wringing. Twirling her hair. She’s displayed five repetitive behaviors in the last ninety seconds’ Jean-Paul explains. But Kyle asks him how he can tell anything from that footage. ‘Your sister moves so fast she barely qualifies as a blur!’
Northstar announces that Aurora moves at a kilometer a second, the same as his own extraocular muscles. ‘Yeah, but the video’s only twenty-four frames per second, so -’ Kyle begins, but Northstar interrupts him, declaring that he is reading the blurs and knows what he sees. ‘Damn you, Hudson. I told you. I told you she wasn’t ready for this’ Jean-Paul mutters. Kyle smacks several cans and other food items on the counter, knocking them over, and exclaims ‘Okay, fine, I believe you! But Jean-Paul, the whole world’s going up in flames! Everybody’s freaking out - I’m freaking out!’ he declares, before reminding his boyfriend that New York is burning and DC is under attack. ‘I still haven’t been able to get my sister on the phone. And she doesn’t have super-powers’. Northstar looks at Kyle, before going over to him, and putting an arm around him. Kyle rests his head on Jean-Paul’s shoulder and tells him that he does not want to start another fight over this. ‘But if there was ever a good time for Northstar to get back in tights…’.
Meanwhile, inside Department H, beneath Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Jeff Brown stands in a communications room, various images of the current catastrophe displayed on monitors, ‘Guardian, this is the Director. Do you read me?’ Brown announces through a communicator. ‘Brown! I’m uploading energy readings to the H servers!’ Mac replies as he blasts past an Atlantean warrior, while asking Brown to get Shimizu cranking, as he needs to know exactly what is Attuma’s power. ‘Fine, good. But something else has come up…the Prime Minister wants to talk to you’ Brown replies. ‘Cody? Follow protocol - send him to General Edmundson’ Mac replies as he flies towards Nerkood, who has just hit Snowbird, still in her dinosaur form, with his hammer, knocking her backwards.
Director Brown explains to Guardian that the Prime Minister asked for him, and that he is preparing some kind of address. ‘Is this all you can muster?’ Nerkkod demands. Mac reminds Director Brown that Gary Cody wanted his face on his Unity Party posters, despite the fact that Alpha Flight members are constitutionally prohibited from electioneering. ‘Tell him I’m a little too busy for public relations right now’ Mac declares as he blasts Nerkodd from behind, while Nerkkod smacks Sasquatch in the face. Director Brown reminds Mac that Gary Cody is not just the Unity Party leader any longer, but now he is the Prime Minister. Mac replies that he is well aware of that, before informing Brown that he serves the nation, not the Prime Minister, before ending their communiqué. At Prime Minister Gary Cody’s location, Gary is getting made-up before his press announcement. ‘He…hung up, Mr Prime Minister’ an assistant announces. ‘Hrm. His loss’ Gary mutters, before mysteriously adding ‘We’ve already signed up the Alphan that we really need’.
‘Now, lung men - behold the true power of the ocean breaker - and the wrath of the Serpent!’ Nerkkod booms as clouds swirl overhead, and he causes the water to rise upwards, with he on the top of a funnel like water spout. Alpha Flight are tossed about in the water, debris floats alongside them. Vindicator gets close to Marrina and asks her if she can break though this, but Marrina replies that even in the heart of the strongest whirlpool she has never felt such power. Aurora is tossed about roughly, and screams something in French, although Sasquatch does his best to get to her, assuring her that he is coming for her.
Snowbird is still in her dinosaur form, and her head bobs up out of the water, with Shaman clinging to her. ‘Do you feel it Michael? The coldness radiating from him -’ Narya begins. ‘Yes, Narya. Attuma has never evidenced such raw might - there are much darker forces at work here. Older ones’ Shaman replies as his spirit form rises up from his physical body, and soars towards Nerkkod. ‘Walking through the Atlantean’s soul in my psychopomp form might -’ Shaman begins, before pain washes over him as his spirit form connects with Nerkkod, and he shouts ‘The Serpent! Coiled around Earth mother since before the first man! Squeezes her last breath!’ Guardian uses this opportunity to fly over to Nerkkod, and wrapping an arm around his neck exclaims ‘Kind of starting to wear out your welcome, you know’. But Nerkkod asks ‘Haven’t you learned yet? You cannot defeat me’. ‘Yeah, well. I guess we’ll just have to see if I can -’ Mac begins, before vanishing.
Cape Race, Newfoundland, on the Atlantic Coast. ‘- move you!’ Mac finishes his sentence as he re-appears in a blaze of electromagnetic glory. ‘And stay out, eh?’ Mac declares as he lets go of Nerkkod, and fires another bolt of EM energy at him. As he falls to the ocean below, Nerkkod declares ‘Well played, lung man. You’ve actually drawn blood from a hammer-wielder. But how much worse…have your hurt yourself?’ he asks before plunging into the water. Mac begins to fall, too. ‘Mac! Do you read? Are you -?’ Heather asks over their communicator. ‘Fine, Heather…just used the battle suit to tap into Earth’s magnetosphere and travel instantaneously…but never tried…carrying such a payload’ Mac explains, admitting that it took a bit out of him, before he crashes down onto the cliff that hangs over the raging water beneath.
Back in Montreal, ‘Oh thank God I finally got through to you!’ Kyle exclaims down the phone, asking his sister if she is still in Georgetown. ‘No, I’m on the bus - they’re evacuating us to freaking Baltimore’ comes the reply. ‘Jean-Paul! It’s my sister Stevie! She -’ Kyle begins, before seeing a note on the bench. Kyle stops his sentence, and goes over to the note, while Stevie tells him that it was insane, that they could hear the gunfire and spent three hours in the bathtub. The note says that Jean-Paul has gone to Vancouver, and that he will be back by dinner. ‘Don’t worry, Stevie…everything’s going to be all right’ Kyle tells his sister. However, out on the balcony, in amongst some potted plants, a small piece of metal equipment of some sort is seemingly hidden, and something inside it begins to beep.
Back in Vancouver, the water has departed. Boats and debris lie strewn through the streets, as the Atlanteans race back to the ocean. Snowbird has transformed into a deer, while Shaman hovers in the air. Sasquatch sits next to Marrina and exclaims that the Atlanteans are not so brave without “Commander Hammer Time” egging them on. ‘Maybe they just caught a whiff of your fur when it’s wet’ Marrina mutters, holding her nose. ‘Hey, whatever it takes’ Walter replies, adding that it is too bad Vindicator had to go and fetch Mac, as she would love to have seen this.
Suddenly, ‘Don’t break your arms patting each other on the back just yet. Those Atlantean water helmets require an external power source - it took me three minutes to find which of their vessels housed the generator. Apparently it doesn’t work without this’ Northstar announces as he drops down amongst his teammates, holding up the small generator. He announces that he remembered that from the briefing the last time they warred with Attuma. ‘Oh, right. Back when Northstar was a hero…not a quitter who shows up at the end of a battle trying to take credit!’ Jeanne-Marie exclaims. Northstar says something to his sister in their native French, but Aurora tells him to say his piece in front of the others or he can shut his mouth. ‘Not that I’ve ever known you to choose the latter’ she remarks.
‘As you please. I suppose they should hear this, anyway’ Northstar replies, before announcing that he has been watching his sister. He tells her that she is not well. ‘The stress of this crisis - I don’t want you to undo all you’ve achieved in therapy -’ Northstar begins, only for Aurora to lunge at him, slapping him across the face, she tells him that she is jealous of the success that she has. ‘Alpha Flight is back - and loved by everyone! You have to be the only one praised’ Aurora exclaims as she begins to leave with her teammates. ‘This is exactly what I’m talking about - you’re not making any -’ Northstar begins, but Aurora shouts ‘Enough! I’m happy, and you’re just going to have to deal with it!’
At Parliament Hill, Prime Minister Cody sits at a desk, two Canadian flags stand at each side of him. ‘My fellow Canadians. I speak to you, at a moment of grave worldwide crisis’ he begins his live televised speech, as Alpha Flight arrive back at Parliament Hill, their jet soars into the hangar bay beneath the lavish parliament buildings. Gary Cody continues: ‘Though our brave super heroes saved countless lives in Vancouver, the situation there remains critical’. Gary reveals that refugees from the attacks in the United States have begun to clog up checkpoints, and the Border Services Agency has requested the assistance of the Armed Forces, who took up their positions an hour ago.
Cody announces that, following an analysis of the facts, his administration has decided, with the full support of Parliament, to proclaim the Emergencies Act. He informs the nation that his government did so at 4:23 this afternoon, in order to permit the full weight of government to be brought quickly to bear on all those persons seeking to exploit this crisis through rioting and looting. ‘The Emergencies Act gives sweeping powers to the government - it also suspends the operation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ the Prime Minister reveals, explaining that the police now have the powers they need to detect and eliminate conspiratorial organizations which seek to rake advantage of this calamity.
The Prime Minister continues, explaining that the new powers of the police include the rights to search and arrest without warrant, and to detain suspected persons without laying out specific charges, or bail. ‘Grave times require serious responses. But I assure you we in Ottawa recognize out responsibility to protect both people and our democracy…and will revoke this proclamation as soon as possible’ Cody assures the nation, remaining calm as he announces that this government is not acting out of fear, but act to prevent fear from spreading, and destroying everything that they all hold dear.
In the hangar bay, Snowbird, Shaman, Sasquatch, Aurora and Marrina walk together towards the exit, as Shaman tells his friends that the entity to which Attuma has pledged allegiance is evil beyond conception. He adds that deep meditation will be required to understand it fully. Snowbird informs Shaman that she will watch over his corporeal form as he attempts this meditation, while Marrina exclaims ‘Man! I got Mother Mother tickets tonight - you don’t think they’re gonna cancel just because of some dumb apocalypse?’
As the heroes reach the door, they find it will not open. ‘Hey! What’s the deal? Open the pod bay doors, Hal!’ Sasquatch calls out. ‘Sapristi! Can you let five minutes go by without a cultural reference?’ Aurora asks. ‘That guy’s name is Benjamin!’ Sasquatch explains, before asking if he ever mentioned that there are few things hotter than a young lady in spandex who knows her ‘60s sci-fi. ‘Ugh’ Aurora mutters, however as they stand by the closed doors, no one notices several pieces of metal equipment lying in the back of the hangar bay, which begin to beep.
Back in Montreal, the metal equipment on the balcony of Jean-Paul and Kyle’s apartment begins to take a very familiar form. Kyle hears something and calls out - ‘Jean-Paul? Even by your standards - that was quick!’ he exclaims, before announcing that he has good news. ‘I finally got ahold of -’ Kyle begins, only for a Boxbot to burst into the apartment, causing wall to fall on Kyle, which knocks Kyle over, head-first into the glass coffee table. ‘Box unit 235908HF: On-line scanning: subject: Northstar H-Protocols: Executing…’ the Boxbot announces as it stand over Kyle’s unmoving body.
In the hangar bay beneath Parliament Hill at that very moment, the pieces of equipment have all transformed into five more Boxbots, each of who walk towards the five Alphans, each assigned to one of the heroes. ‘Box unit: On-line scanning: Subject: Snowbird H-Protocols: executing’ one of them states, while the others are assigned to Aurora, Sasquatch, Shaman and Marrina.
At Newfoundland, Guardian stands up, his battle suit slightly damaged. A voice calls out ‘Hey, you!’, and Mac looks up. ‘Hey, yourself’ he replies, before announcing that they need to get back to Department H before Gary does something stupid. ‘He’s a well-meaning enough guy, but I never thought he was cut out for high-level decision making -’ Mac begins, before suddenly, he is attack from above by a burst of energy. Mac falls to the ground. ‘Brainwashed?’ he asks. ‘No’ the voice from above replies. ‘Robot?’ he asks. ‘I’m afraid not’ comes the reply. ‘Alien?’ Mac wonders. ‘For your sake, I almost wish I could say yes’ the voice replies, before dowsing Mac in another burst of energy - ‘But it’s me, Mac. It’s really me’ Heather announces as she hovers in the air. A flock of gulls swarms around Heather as the sky turns a purple-orange color and Heather stares down at the motionless Guardian….


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Born on the First of July
Flashback, six weeks ago:Inside a court room of the Superior Court of Justice, Ottawa branch, a Family Court hearing is in session. A young red-haired girl sits on the lap of a red-haired woman. She is looking at the pictures in an upside down children’s book, as the judge announces that the issue before them today concerns delicate matters of the highest personal and public responsibility involving one Claire McNeil Hudson, born on the first of July, eighteen months ago to Mr and Mrs James MacDonald Hudson, who was since placed in the care of Mrs Hudson’s distant cousins, David and Yvette McNeil, once the mother and father were declared deceased after one of their so-called “adventures” with the government’s paramilitary superhuman force, “Alpha Flight” misfired. As the judge explains the situation, David and Yvette look at each other, while the lawyer stares at the judge.
James “Mac” MacDonald Hudson - also known as Guardian - listens to the judge, who remarks that news of their deaths was obviously premature, as they have seen fit to return and ask their daughter be given back to them. The judge announces that the child’s lawyer’s report shows that Claire has already bonded with the McNeils. ‘Hey, Claire!’ Heather McNeil Hudson a.k.a. Vindicator whispers to her daughter from across the courtroom. The judge continues to read from her judgment, remarking that given the high risk of the birth-parents’ careers as quote-unquote “super heroes”, in which death and resurrection appear to be the rule rather than the exception, the court has no choice but to rule in favor of the respondents, and leave Claire in the care of her new, legitimate parents, the McNeils.
Heather hangs her head, but Mac stands up and shouts ‘NO!’, before declaring that he has literally given his life for this country - twice. The judge warns Hudson to control himself, while Heather whispers at her husband, telling him that this will not help. James tears his suit back, revealing his Guardian battle suit beneath, while exclaiming ‘And you sit there - and you pass judgment on me?’ But the judge replies ‘The life you’ve chosen -’, to which James asks ‘You think I chose this? The endless fighting and danger? I’m an engineer who built an electromagnetic harness for oil exploration! The government put the maple leaf on this thing!’
‘Mister Hudson!’ the judge shouts with a stern voice. ‘I’ve given everything I’ve ever had to the nation. And you won’t grant me -’ Mac begins, but the judge once again interrupts, telling him that does not make him above the law, and that if he thinks he does, then all he has fought for is meaningless. Claire begins to cry, so Heather stands up and puts a hand on Mac’s shoulder, telling him that he is scaring Claire. Mac hangs his head, and begins to glow with electro-magnetic power, ‘I never fought for the law. Or for the flag. I fought for the people’ he announces, before turning and burning a hole in one of the courtroom windows, and flying out through it, adding that now he just wants to be treated like one of the people. He then soars off across the city.
Present:‘Vindicator to Department H. Cipher code B3’ Heather calls out as she flies across the city of Ottawa in an electromagnetic blaze - an unconscious Guardian held in her stasis field. ‘ETA in fifteen’ Heather announces, before asking Agent Brown what his status is. ‘Status awesome, Vindicator’ Department H’s new Director replies via the communicator.Department soldiers walk past Brown, wheeling the unconscious Marrina and Michael “Shaman” Twoyoungmen past him. Brown informs Heather that the Box units executed the Hudson Protocols perfectly, and that the team has been successfully neutralized. ‘Alpha didn’t know what hit them’ he adds.
Flashback narrated by Agent Brown:‘What the devil -’ Walter “Sasquatch” Langkowski called out as he and his teammates were suddenly confronted by several Boxbots. Agent Brown in forms Heather that Marrina was dehydrated almost instantly with high-intensity microwaves, while quasar-level gamma rays counteracted the “Hulk-stuff” in Sasquatch’s cells, reverting him to his human form, he was then quickly subdued. Agent Brown tells Heather that the Box unit calibrated to Aurora’s speed countered her as soon as she moved, rendering her unconscious, while as far as Shaman goes, once you take away his medicine pouch, he is no match for the killer robots. ‘But the best was Snowbird! Aw, you shoulda seen the look on her face! Our creepy ally gave us a bone fragment from Neooqtoq the Ravager - one of those - whatchamacallit - Great Beasts - that prevented her mystical shape-changing abilities, then -’.
Present:Before Agent Brown can tell Heather what actually happened to Snowbird a.k.a. Narya, Heather interrupts him, ‘Spare me how in love you are with yourself, Brown’ she declares, before announcing that she assumes Northstar was taken out with the same basic Box unit that subdued his sister. ‘Ahh…that’s a negative, I’m afraid. The Box dispatched to Montreal failed to track him down. We’re still trying to locate -’ Agent Brown explains, as Heather flies into the current Department H facility, based underneath Parliament Hill. She gasps ‘What? Why are you wasting time talking to me, then?’ she demands. Agent Brown tells her not to panic. ‘No expense is being -’ he begins, but Heather yet again interrupts him, ‘Not good enough! Find him!’ she demands, before asking Agent Brown if she has to remind him what Northstar used to do before he was a super hero. And as the steel doors begin to close behind Vindicator and the unconscious Guardian - a blurred figure speeds into the hangar bay, just in time.
In another part of Department H, ‘Hallway 52B all clear’ a Department H soldier announces as he patrols the area. ‘Copy that’ someone replies from another location. But, suddenly, ‘Bonjour!’ a voice calls out. The soldier spins around, but before he can act, his helmet and weapons have been removed at super-speed, ‘And bonsoir’ Jean-Paul “Northstar” Beaubier declares as he renders the soldier unconscious. ‘Ah. Security cam’ Northstar whispers as he looks up to the ceiling and sees a camera. ‘Pretty quick. But nothing’s as fast as I can be…when I need to be there for my sister’ he boasts as he places the soldier on a bench, posing him as if he was simply resting, before Jean-Paul speeds out of the corridor.
At that moment, Northstar’s sister - Aurora a.k.a. Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, suddenly wakes in the darkness. ‘Wha - where… can I have some light?’ she calls out, then again, asks for light in French. A voice from within the darkness replies ‘Tch. A grown woman. Afraid of the dark. You should be ashamed of yourself’. Aurora spins around and asks ‘Who’s there?’ as she asks once again for light. The voice suggests to Aurora that she put on some light herself, as she is a mutant and has the power. ‘B-but…’ Aurora begins. The voice shushes her and tells her that it is all right. ‘I know why’ the voice calls out. ‘Whenever your abilities manifested themselves at the orphanage…well, they’d lock you away, wouldn’t they?’
Suddenly, a figure appears before Aurora. ‘Oh, God, not…not him’ she calls out as the figure is dowsed in light. ‘In the deep, endless dark’ the voice calls out. Aurora crouches and puts her head between her knees, ‘N-no, I’ll be good - just don’t’ she begs. ‘Don’t let him -’ she begins. ‘Who?’ the voice calls out. ‘Your social worker, Monsieur Laclose?’ Aurora looks up and sees an elderly man, bounded to a chair and gagged. ‘We know. You needn’t fear him any longer, Aurora. We’re protecting you. We know what he did. And it wasn’t just to you’ the voice calls out., informing Aurora that there were others, so many others, that they have not found them all yet. These other victims, young girls, apparently appear behind the forlorn Aurora, as the voice tells remarks ‘Why, whenever he got found out, his superiors just shipped him off to another town. Another round of victims. But now he can’t hurt anyone. Ever again’ the voice assures Aurora, before asking Aurora if she wants to do things to him. ‘What…what do you want from me?’ Aurora asks. ‘Not much’ the voice replies. ‘Just…Unity’ .
At that moment, Jean-Paul speeds into another corridor, this one lined with a series of cells. ‘Northstar!’ a voice from within one of the cells calls out. ‘Kill this magnetic bottle and let me out!’ asks the imprisoned Citadel. ‘Not likely’ Jean-Paul tells the villain, when suddenly a voice from within another cell calls out to Northstar. ‘First they came for the super villains, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a super villain…yet’ calls out Kara Kilgrave. Northstar turns to his former associate and addresses her as the Purple Woman, before pointing out that she is sealed up where her pheromones cannot do any harm.
Kara leers at Northstar and tells him to let them out, suggesting that they can help him. ‘Like you helped nearly crush my boyfriend to death on election day? I think not’ Northstar replies. Kara reminds Northstar that they warned him then about Unity’s danger. ‘And you still can’t trust us?’ she asks him. ‘To think I had a crush on you as a teenager. The famous pro skier’ she reminds Northstar. Kara tells Jean-Paul that he was a fraud back then, using his powers to win Olympic gold, surrounding himself with hot women. ‘Crack that glass and I could make you love me…’ Kara declares. ‘Pass’ Northstar replies, before informing Kara that she can tell him why, when he went to Cape Race to chastise Hudson about his treatment of his sister, he found Vindicator blasting him. Before the Purple Woman can answer, a voice calls out ‘Therein lies a tale, eh, Jean-Paul?’ Northstar spins around, and is shocked at whom he sees.
Meanwhile, at the residence of the leader of the Opposition. The opposition leader and his supporters are watching a news report: ‘Inconceivable worldwide devastation…Canada is not immune…’. ‘Where the hell is Alpha Flight?’ the opposition leader asks, before ordering someone to get Gary Cody on the phone. But before anyone can do so, several Department H soldiers burst into the residence. ‘Everybody down! Under the authority of the Emergencies Act, you’re all under arrest!’ one of them announces. ‘What? Cody has overstepped his authority! You can’t manipulate the Act to trample the charter of rights and freedoms -’ the opposition leader begins, before one of the Department H soldiers shouts ‘You’ve got the charter. We’ve got the guns’ as he slams his gun handle into the leader’s face. As the opposition leader and his supporters are loaded into transport, one of the Department H soldiers radios back to headquarters, announcing that the targets have been acquired.
At the same time, in Calgary, at the Natural Resources Canada office, ‘Targets acquired!’ another Department H soldier reports back to headquarters as several men are lead away with covers over their heads. At the Red Cross camp in Vancouver, ‘Alice Hu? You’re coming with us’ a Department H soldier calls out as he grabs the reporter. ‘What? You can’t just -’ Alice begins, while another soldier grabs a camera from Alice’s cameraman.
At the General Hospital in Montreal, several patients are watching a report by Prime Minister Gary Cody. Cody states that there have been up to a hundred thousand murdered in dozens of cities around the world by mystically powered terrorists. He announces that it is his grim responsibility to report that a fifth column of home grown traitors has helped these demons spill innocent blood here on Canadian soil. ‘They have lived among us, pretending to be our greatest friends while plotting our destruction for years. But rest assured. We will not run in fear. The heroes and victims of Vancouver and St John’s will be avenged’ Cody declares. ‘Mon dieu…’ a woman gasps as she watches the report.
At that moment, ‘Everybody down!’ a Department H soldier booms as he and several others enter the waiting room and push past some civilians. ‘Wait, you can’t -’ a hospital staff member calls out as the soldiers try to enter an operating room. ‘The world’s under attack, pal’ the soldier retorts, as he bursts into the room and shouts ‘Put down the knife!’, the doctor spins around and explains that it is not a knife, but a scalpel, for operating on a patient. ‘You mean a terrorist’ the Department H soldier replies as he looks at the patient, he announces that Kyle Jinadu is a known associate of Jean-Paul Beaubier, a mutie and a former member of a violent separatiste cell. ‘He’s coming with us’ the soldier orders.
Back at Department H, Guardian wakes, to find himself held in stasis. ‘Heather! Let me go! What - what are you doing?’ he asks. ‘What I should have done six weeks ago’ Heather replies. ‘What, shoot me in the back and trap me in a magno-field?’ Mac asks. ‘No, Mac’ Heather replies, as she removes her mask, she admits that Mac was right, back in the courtroom. ‘We bled and fought and died for this country. And look how they reward us’ she remarks. Mac asks Heather what she is talking about, and reminds her that it was she who attacked him. ‘Because you were working for the old regime’ Heather tells him. Mac asks Heather what is going on here, to which Heather replies ‘You know what they say. “Never waste a crisis”!’ and tells Mac that the global calamity has given the strong and brilliant the opportunity to wrest this country from those who oppress them.
‘You deserve a nation that deserves you, Mac. And we will forge that nation. Together’ Heather announces. ‘Who the hell are you? Alpha Flight serves the nation - we don’t rule!’ he tells his wife, who presses a button on a panel and informs him that things are changing. ‘The others see it’ she tells him as a panel in the wall rises, and Mac sees Marrina in another room, apparently surrounded by adoring fans. Heather tells Mac that Marrina is learning how beloved she could be, even as an alien. Another panel opens, and Mac sees Shaman, apparently sitting next to his estranged daughter Elizabeth a.k.a. Talisman. Heather explains that Michael has reconciled with his daughter, and remarks ‘Look at your friends, Mac. They just want Unity’.
Heather presses another button on the wall and tells Mac that he is not going to really understand until he sees what they have saved for them. Heather enters the room and looks happy. ‘This is -’ Mac begins as he looks around. ‘The baby’s room. And she’ll be here. Any minute now’ Heather exclaims. Mac frowns and reminds Heather that he designed this facility - neuro-stims VR pods. ‘Box units to subdue Alpha Flight in case they ever fell under enemy mind control’ he points out, asking her if she thinks she can use it to brainwash him. ‘It’s not what you think, Mac. It’s…so much more’ Heather begins, adding that the procedure works best when the subject is relaxed. She begins to release an electromagnetic burst of energy at her husband, but is suddenly knocked aside as a familiar figure somersaults into the room, ‘Well, lemme see if I can help you with that’ exclaims Eugene Milton Judd. ‘PUCK!’ Guardian gasps.
Judd dodges an EM blast that Heather attacks him with as she shouts ‘filthy little freak, I told them to kill -’ she begins, before screaming as an EM blast slams into her - courtesy of Mac. Heather falls to the ground, drowsy, as Northstar enters the room. ‘Dammit, Hudson! I haven’t found Aurora yet! And now every guard in the building is going to be on the way…’ Jean-Paul exclaims. Mac apologizes and replies that he got carried away when he discovered his wife had become a murderous super villain. Mac looks down at Judd and thanks him for the assist. ‘We thought you were dead -’ Mac tells him. ‘Look who’s talking, eh?’ Judd replies, before Mac asks ‘Department H had you locked up?’ Judd looks at a stuffed toy and replies ‘They knew I held the truth’.
Puck reveals that he learned the truth from Baal, Archduke of the Seventh Circle and Berith, Grand Marquis of the Plains of Regret. ‘And…who…are they…?’ Mac asks. Judd explains that they are lords of the Lower Orders, known to mortals as Hell. ‘That’s where I’ve been’ Puck explains, adding that he held the shining Soulcutter Blade in his hand and cut down the damned like wheat to seize the throne’ Judd smiles as he announces that he gave all that up to come back and rescue Guardian. Jean-Paul and Guardian just frown. Mac turns to Jean-Paul, who holds up a hand and looks away as he declares ‘Don’t look at me, he’s been babbling like that since I sprung him’, while whispering that he thinks Department H might have scrambled his brains. ‘And I’ll save you, too…’ Judd tells the stuffed toy he is holding, while Northstar suggests they get out of here.
Too late, though, as several Box units enter. They scan their subjects - Northstar, Guardian and Puck, as one of them collects the unconscious Vindicator, another announces that they are executing the H Protocols. ‘If you’ll pardon me, gentlemen…I REALLY NEED TO BREAK SOME $#%@’ Guardian shouts as he unleashes several powerful EM blasts, taking out the Boxbots with ease.
The Box unit that took Heather however walks down a corridor, where Prime Minister Gary Cody is waiting. Heather regains consciousness, and Prime Minister Cody tells her that the Party will not forget the pivotal role she has played in saving her country. ‘But, Mr Prime Minister…Mac…and Puck and Northstar…’ Heather begins. ‘On the loose, beneath Parliament Hill. Yes. Not exactly ideal’ Cody replies, before smiling and telling Heather ‘You know their type. Give them a few killer robots to smash and they think they’re saving the world’. The Prime Minister then motions to a window, which looks down into a room below. ‘Meantime…our next subject is ready for Unity’ he remarks, as Aurora is strapped to a machine, razor-sharp prongs held out to her body, while she stares blankly ahead as a light shines down on her….