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A blast from the past!
Mansion Alpha, the home of Canada’s premiere super hero team Alpha Flight, has been destroyed. The roof is gone, and the mansion gutted. Smoke billows from what is left of the once grand mansion. But help has arrived, albeit too late, in the form of Wolverine! The former Alphan enters the ruins, recalling that he had a feeling he might have been too late when the mansion’s defences didn’t question his approach. He snarls and tells the long-dead James Hudson that he hopes he is happy, for it now seems that one of his creations has destroyed his super team.
But as a small red and silver thing skits out in front of Logan, he picks it up, and though it look, sounds and smells mechanical, it feels alive. He pops one of his claws, ready to tear into the small armor, when suddenly it is not so small anymore and changes form, increasing in size, revealing to be the Alpha Flight member Madison Jeffries a.k.a. Box. Jeffries suddenly phases from the Box armor, disorientated he repeats ‘Outta my mind, outta my mind’ over and over again.
Wolverine slices a nearby water pipe, causing cold water to splash onto Jeffries, bringing him back to his senses. Jeffries looks up at Logan, who takes his jacket off and puts it on Jeffries. ‘Oh my god!’ cries Jeffries. Logan takes Jeffries by the shoulders and tells him that there is no time for tears, before asking what Bedlam did with - or to - the others. Jeffries looks at Wolverine and starts to ask him how he knew, but Logan cuts him off and tells him to just talk - so Jeffries begins his story, ‘It was a day like any other…’
(Flashback, earlier that day)
With no imminent  peril facing Canada, Alpha Flight had scheduled a training session. From the control center of the training room, Jeffries tells his lover and team leader, Heather “Vindicator” McNeil Hudson that he wishes he was doing it with her instead of watching her. Heather reminds Madison that Alpha Flight’s training session doesn’t work like the X-Men’s Danger Room. Jeffries agrees, pointing out that the X-Men have a machine called Cerebro to make menaces for the X-Men to fight, but here, he has to make machinery into menaces for Alpha.
As Vindicator blasts some mechanical enemy, she tells Jeffries that that is the price he pays for being a transmutator of metal, and for being unable to manipulate machinery whilst inside the Box armor. ’I’ll give you a private workout later!’ Heather tells Jeffries before reminding him that she currently needs to evaluate the combat readiness of the Beta Flight trainees.
Young Whitman Knapp a.k.a. Manikin calls to his teammate and girlfriend Kara “the Purple Girl” Kilgrave, warning her to look out as one of Jeffries creations approaches to grab her from behind. Whit knows that Kara’s mind controlling powers have no effect on machinery, but he has his own way to help Kara, by summoning his past and future selves to protect her. With that, Apeman, Highbrow and Proto spring forth from Whit and rush to Kara’s protection.
Alpha Flight’s Albino Sasquatch, Wanda Langkowski currently finds herself tied up thanks to Jeffries machinery and asks ‘Four-in-One’ for an assist. Manikin tells Sasquatch that it is not she who needs the services of his other-selves and tells Kara that his past and future is at her service. The Purple Girl frowns and tells Whit that if he is implying just because her powers don’t work on machinery means she is helpless…Whit tells her he was trying to prevent her from getting hurt.
Suddenly, a robot pops up behind Whit and knocks him to the ground as Kara tells him he should have kept his cavalry in reserve for himself. ‘But don’t worry kiddo! The Purple Girl will protect you!’ Kara exclaims as she runs over to Whit, and uses her powers on his past and future selves, enabling her to order them to take out the robot, which Highbrow does, teleporting him away. Everyone crowds around Kara and Heather congratulates her on fast thinking. Kara mocks Whit, who rubs his head and tells Kara that it never occurred to him that she might be able to control his other-selves.
Heather flies up to the control booth where Jeffries is and waves to him behind the window, telling him he gives good training, before smiling and reminding him of that private work out she told him about. Jeffries smiles back when suddenly, the floor of the training room rumbles, and the ground is shaken up and broken. Whit tells Jeffries that he thought training was over, to which Jeffries replies it is as he quickly phases into his Box armor - only to be blasted upwards through Mansion Alpha’s roof and into the air.
Arming himself, Box is shocked that Mansion Alpha has been blasted open, and begins to scan for survivors, and registers eight life signs in the mansion when there should only be seven. He flies back down to the combat room, wondering who the eighth person is - and he is shocked at what he sees. ’My creator called me Bedlam the Brain blast!’ declares the hideous being who is holding onto a badly wounded Heather, as the others lie scattered around his feet.
Bedlam lifts everyone up telekinetically telling them to prepare themselves for a long journey, as Box flies down and tells him that he is not taking Alpha Flight anywhere. ‘Oh, but I am’ replies Bedlam who strikes Jeffries with a telepathic blast. Jeffries screams, and begins to cry ‘Outta my mind’ over and over, as he transform his Box robot into a small box, for protection.
(Present)
Logan understands that Jeffries had to reduce himself into a small box for protection, by closing his mind, Bedlam could not kill him. Forlorn, Jeffries realizes that Bedlam must have taken the others, but wonders where and why it is that he attacked Alpha. He asks Logan what it is that Bedlam wants, to which Logan replies as he leaves the ruins of the mansion ‘Revenge - on a dead man’. Jeffries phases back into Box, and follows the X-Man.
Meanwhile, in the Arctic Circle, a sprawling complex was not here yesterday. Inside, Vindicator, Sasquatch, Manikin and Purple Girl are trapped, as prisoners of Bedlam, along with four other people. Sitting on his throne, Bedlam tells his “guests” that it is time to know each other - and he rips into their minds, displaying events of their pasts.
(Flashbacks over the course of various time periods)
Vindicator: Heather Hudson started out as a mild mannered secretary, before marrying James MacDonald Hudson, a.k.a. Guardian, leader of Alpha Flight. Though Heather remained behind the scenes for much of Department H’s early history, she would eventually lead Alpha Flight, after Mac’s death. First, with only the power to lead, but later, with a battle suit of her own, as Vindicator.
Freakout: He was a singer - until he became hideously deformed. He was taken to Doctor Lionel Jeffries at the New Life Clinic to be cured, but Jeffries was also known as the villainous Scramble! Held prisoner, Freakout eventually escaped - only to be captured again, this time, by Bedlam!
Sasquatch: Doctor Walter Langkowski, one of Alpha Flight’s greatest members, Sasquatch served as the backbone of the team - until he died. His mind however roamed aimlessly through a dimensional void, eventually enabling him to return to life in the body of the recently deceased Snowbird - with one major difference, Walter was now a woman.
Janus: A painter, somehow driven mad, Janus was brought to Lionel Jeffries, who found better things to do with him than cure him, and Janus was eventually caged, only to break free with several others. His freedom was not long, as he was soon recaptured, this time, by Bedlam.
Purple Girl: Kara Kilgrave was a normal girl - until she suddenly turned purple. The daughter of the criminal Purple Man, Kara at first used her powers for personal gain, and kidnapped Northstar, whom she had a crush on. Despite misgivings, Kara was inducted as the first member of the new Beta Flight, under the watchful eye of Heather and Jeffries.
Breakdown: She was a mother and a wife, until domestic pressure got to her and activated her latent powers. She was brought to Dr. Jeffries at New Life, but he could not do anything with her, and caged her. Free of the straight jacket, but still a prisoner, she broke from the cages, only to be picked up by Bedlam.
Manikin: A handsome young intern, Whitman Knapp was thrilled to be working with someone he admired, until Whit became suspect of Dr. Jeffries’ malpractice. This caused the irate Scramble to use his flesh-changing powers on Whit, activating his latent mutant power. Helping Alpha Flight out when they faced off against Scramble, Whit revealed he could summon past and future selves, and he became the second member of the new Beta Flight.
Goblyn: A frightened young girl, sometimes vanishes and is replaced by a ferocious grey “Goblyn”. She was brought to the New Life Clinic, caged with others, and broke free with others - only to be captured by Bedlam.
(Present)
Bedlam exclaims that Canada has cultivated ‘quite a crop’ of super beings since his incarceration and informs them that they shall get to know each other very well soon, but as he lifts Vindicator up apart from the others, he tells her that it is her thoughts that interest him the most, especially as they reveal she may be a living link with his creator…Guardian!
(Flashback, as seen in Alpha Flight (first series) #52, takes place before the Alpha Flight Special)
Mac tells Logan that funding for Department H is on the line, and reveals that if he cannot locate super beings soon, then he may have to create some!
(Present)
The immobile Vindicator wonders if Mac created Bedlam like he created Wolverine. ‘Was my late husband that mad?’ Reading Heather’s thoughts, Bedlam leers down at her and tells her that yes Hudson created him, freeing his latent powers of the mind over matter of a condemned criminal.
(Flashback, takes place after the flashback in Alpha Flight (first series) #52)
A wounded Mac struggles on the ground as Bedlam hovers over him. Wolverine rushes to Mac’s defence, reminding him that he told him a leopard wouldn’t change his spots, which is exactly the case with the prisoner from Nova Scotia he enlisted to be part of his super team - Bedlam. Logan slashes at Bedlam, who knocks him back with a telekinetic blast, boasting that he can attack the wild beast from his mind.
Mac gets up and blasts Bedlam with some electromagnetic energy, exclaiming that he will not let one of his creations destroy another. Telekinetic fury meets electromagnetic power as the two men face off against each other. Calling Mac “Creator”, Bedlam tells him that because he prides himself on his intellect, his mind is therefore the most vulnerable of all.
(Present)
Bedlam reveals that somehow, Hudson defeated him, and he was then placed inside the life support cocoon and forgotten about. But that was until Gary Cody, Alpha Flight’s bumbling government liaison inadvertently set him free. Bedlam tells Heather that Cody’s secret spying into Department H files led him to believe that he could recreate Hudson’s experiment, in creating for Canada super beings that the government could control themselves - and Cody paid for his error with his mind. Heather tells herself that Gay was Alpha Flight’s friend - or so they thought, but she knows that neither he, nor Alpha’s own government really trusted them. She decides that should Alpha Flight survive this, then they will sever all ties with Canada.
Bedlam grabs Heather fiercely at her throat and tells her that she will not survive, for Guardian created him, essentially making him the child that she and Guardian could never have. ‘No!’ cries Heather, before Bedlam jibes her, declaring that Mac would have killed his only son.
Bedlam telekinetically lifts all of his prisoners up as he exclaims Heather’s memories tell him that Guardian is dead, therefore he will have to revenge himself upon Guardian through Heather - his “mother”. Bedlam tells Heather that her fate will either be to die, or live subservient to him. His evil voice cackles that the question shall be determined by how well Heather and Alpha Flight fare against the four super beings whom he has named the Derangers. Bedlam exclaims that the two super teams will fight for the privilege of becoming the core of his new master race - the epitome of his father’s dream.
Vindicator tells Bedlam that he is mad, that Alpha Flight will not battle another super team because he decrees it. ‘What makes you think you have a choice?’ laughs Bedlam as the mind-controlled Derangers attack Alpha Flight. Heather’s mind is a blur, trying to sort out so many images, as she realizes that Mac would have probably tried to recruit the Derangers into Alpha Flight. She remembers that all of their thoughts merged when Bedlam ripped their minds open and exposed them to his brain-probe.
She sees Sasquatch fighting the one called Freakout, who was a heavy metal rock star before drug abuse fried his mind, and as Heather sees Sasquatch tearing at the muscle-man Freakout, she realizes his brain no longer registers the pain inflicted on his body. Heather sees Manikin go up against Janus, who would have become a talented painter if the psychopathic side of him did not disrupt his creativity. Able to create a duplicate of himself, Janus took the name of the two-faced Roman god. One of the Janus’ holds his own against Manikin’s past and future selves, while the second Janus knocks out Whit with one kick.
Heather turns to the older female Deranger, Breakdown, whom Heather knows was a Canadian housewife, until domestic pressure activated her latent powers and she broke down - literally. Heather witnesses Breakdown’s power first hand, for the woman is a living energy cluster bomb, and she unleashes an assault on Heather. Heather’s force field is nearly shattered, but after receiving a barrage, she flies away from Breakdown, who needs time to reconstitute herself.
Looking towards the Purple Girl, Heather is most worried about her, for the seemingly harmless child she is trying to comfort - is Goblyn! As Kara places a hand on the little girl, the girl vanishes and is replaced by Goblyn, the most terrifying Deranger of all.
Heather blasts Breakdown, recalling that the Derangers were originally assembled by Scramble, as they were psychiatric patients brought to his New Life Clinic. It was when Scramble became Omega and was busy fighting Alpha Flight that they escaped - only to be found and forged into a fighting team by Bedlam. Heather doesn’t think that the Derangers are responsible for their actions, any more than Alpha Flight are. She realizes that whatever team wins the battle, ultimately loses by becoming Bedlam’s slaves in the end. Bedlam’s mental powers suddenly alert him to the arrival of new players for his “game”.
Wolverine’s small plane glides downwards in the snowy sky, Logan asking Jeffries if he has a fix on the others. Jeffries replies he does, to which Logan thinks that Bedlam must want them to find the others. Box asks if Bedlam is that powerful, before realizing he must be, and asking Wolverine how he knew about Bedlam in the first place. Logan scowls as he informs Box he was there when Hudson created him, adding that when the experiment blew up in Hudson’s face is when he quit.
Box asks if that is the reason Logan left Department H to become a free agent before joining the X-Men. Logan replies that it was one reason, and that the other was Heather. This surprises Jeffries, who wonders if Logan loved Heather while she was married to Mac - and does he still? He thinks that Logan must, which would explain why he has returned to rescue her. However what concerns Jeffries too, is how Heather feels about Logan - and where it leaves himself in all of this.
Wolverine looks at Jeffries and smiles, admitting to him that after Mac died he was hoping Heather would find somebody who was worthy of her, and though he thought it would be Puck, he realizes he cannot be right all the time. Jeffries is again surprised and asks Logan how he knew. Wolverine reveals that Heather drops him a postcard now and then, and congratulates Jeffries, before telling him that Mac and Heather were family to him when he had no one, but since he left, he found another family in the X-Men.
Logan declares that Bedlam is part of his past - like Heather and Mac - and reveals that Mac set an alarm to notify him should Bedlam ever wake, figuring that he would answer it. A sensor goes off on Box’s armor and Jeffries informs Logan that they have arrived, to which Logan snarls and tells Box to get ready - and as if on cue, Bedlam uses his powers to blast the plane, then declaring that he no longer detects their minds.
However, Madison had configured his armor into a plane, and with Wolverine inside, dives down into the snow. Jeffries returns the armor back to his default form and Logan jumps out from a compartment inside. One is now more machine than man, the other more beast than sentient being. By burying their minds, they hope their approach to the complex will go undetected by Bedlam, as the duo rush furiously to the rescue of Heather and the others.
Meanwhile, back in the complex, Sasquatch finds herself ripping Freakout to shreds - and yet she cannot stop herself, Bedlam is making her do it. She knows that even if he cannot feel the pain, it is only a matter of time before she kills him - unless…Sasquatch suddenly reverts to her human form, Wanda Langkowski - a form that cannot hurt Freakout. Wanda falls to the ground and turns to Freakout, who stands over her, fists raised in the air ready to strike. Wanda tells him it is his move, but Freakout halts, causing Bedlam to rush over, commanding Freakout to finish Wanda.
Across the complex, the Purple Girl runs from Goblyn, who is quick on her heels. Kara’s mind manipulative powers have no effect on Goblyn, and she is too scared to think of a plan, but knows she has to. As she runs towards Janus, she sees Manikin in worse shape than she is, and shouting ‘Get off of him two-face!’ Janus falls under Kara’s possession and leaves. Kara tends to Whit who thanks her, but Kara tells him not to thank her, but save her as Goblyn leaps towards her.
Highbrow, Proto and Apeman suddenly appear and Highbrow teleports Goblyn away. ‘My hero!’ cries Kara as she hugs Manikin. Turning around, Manikin sees that they are still in trouble as Breakdown is preparing to unleash more energy upon them - just in time Vindicator flies past, crying ‘Teamwork Betans!’ and knocking Breakdown back with her electromagnetic powers and telling the Purple Girl to freeze Breakdown in her harmless state, which Kara does just in time.
Heather points out that the tide is turning, for Bedlam cannot control them all at once, therefore he could not prevent Alpha Flight from immobilizing Breakdown and Janus. Bedlam takes everyone in a telekinetic grasp as Heather exclaims he is powerless over the mindless Freakout and Goblyn, adding to that he has to try and fend them off while keeping Alpha from attacking them. Heather orders the heroes to keep at Bedlam, to not give him a minute to think.
Bedlam reveals that his brain-blasts affect matter as well as minds, as Wanda finds out when the floor transforms into tendrils and ensnares her. But Wanda it seems has an admirer, and champion, in Freakout, who comes up behind Bedlam and punches him. Bedlam tells Freakout to never raise a hand against him again - but Freakout punches him again, drawing blood this time. Bedlam knows that in his berserker state, Freakout has no mind to control, nor can his body feel pain - but it is not to say he cannot be killed, and Freakout soon finds several stakes telekinetically shoved throw his body.
Bedlam asks the heroes why they are stunned and reminds them that only those who were suitable to be his servants would survive the test. Suddenly, Goblyn comes up behind Bedlam and rips her sharp claws down his back. Bedlam cries out in agony as Heather flies forward, pointing out that Freakout and Goblyn have given them precious time to mount a new attack. Bedlam quickly heals himself, pointing out to Vindicator that as he heals his own body he can just as easily destroy another. He blasts Breakdown, killing her, before turning to Janus who called out to Breakdown. He tells Janus to save his mourning and save themselves - turning the split personality of Janus against one another.
Bedlam immobilizes Alpha Flight so they cannot help Janus, only stand and watch in horror, when suddenly, Wolverine and Box blast their way into the complex. Bedlam exclaims that he thought he destroyed them as Wolverine attacks him with his claws. Beldam tries to fend them off, realizing that they have buried their minds so that he was unable to detect their approach. Beldam informs them that he may not be able to control them, but he can still turn everything in the complex against them, and sends shards of equipment flying up at them.
Heather looks at Jeffries and Logan and wonders what Logan is doing here, before realizing she doesn’t want him to find out that Mac created both him and Bedlam. Bedlam was reading Heather’s thoughts and tells her that if that is what she believes then she is in error, before telling her he does not care if he reveals the lie and shocks Wolverine out of his berserker state. Bedlam does just that, turning to Logan and asking him why they should fight when Hudson made them both on the lathe of his ambition.
Wolverine is indeed shocked out of his feral state, and asks if this is true - to which Bedlam wickedly tells him it is not, but taking possession of Logan’s mind, orders him to kill Box. Unable to act, Heather wonders if she was indeed wrong - that Mac didn’t create Wolverine, that he didn’t take the wounded man, tear him apart and lace his bones with adamantium. Heather is furious and realizes that she had no reason over the long lonely months recently passed to loathe the memory of the man she loved. She tells Mac that she is so sorry, fearing now that her mistake may have doomed both Wolverine and Box.
However, Heather remembers that Mac once defeated Bedlam, but how? Mac’s power was no greater than hers is now. Box defends himself from Wolverine’s savage attack by smashing him in the back, as Heather recalls that Mac was nothing more than a mere mortal wearing a battle suit, like she is - but a battle suit that is manipulated by his own mind. ‘That’s it! Bedlam only immobilized my body!’ she suddenly realizes this and flies towards the startled Bedlam after Logan claws Box.
Furiously, Heather tells Bedlam that he commanded her body to be still, but forgot to forbid her mind from ordering her battle suit into action! She adds that even if he takes over her mind now, the suit is on auto-power and she will keep smashing at him until one of them is destroyed. She flies straight into Bedlam knocking both of them to the ground. Suddenly, Bedlam’s face is replaced by that of a young girl, who calls Heather “mother” and tells her that she surely cannot allow her battle suit to kill her daughter.
Heather hesitates for a moment, wondering if the convict Mac turned into a monster was a woman. But she sees past it as a lie, an illusion meant to weaken her will. Suddenly Bedlam regains his power, leaping up, he pulls the ground up to knock Heather back and declares that all is fair in love and war. He attacks Heather’s mind again, but Heather tells him that he cannot stop her battle suit.
Heather is trapped in tendrils as Bedlam grins wickedly and tells her that it is a shame, for despite her personal powerlessness, her command of her husbands invention would have made her a formidable addition to his team of super slaves. But Bedlam shouts that he is left with no choice but to tear Heather and her battle suit apart. Heather gasps for breath, but manages to choke out ‘Monster, if I die, I’m taking you with me!’ she blasts her way free, before unleashing a plasma blast, point blank at Bedlam’s head.
It is soon over, Vindicator, Wolverine, Jeffries, Wanda, Manikin, Purple Girl and Goblyn remain standing, while Bedlam, Freakout, Janus and Breakdown lie broken on the floor. Goblyn suddenly leaps out of a window before Kara hugs Manikin and exclaims that she wants to go home. Box points out that they have no home to go to, as Mansion Alpha has been destroyed, to which Wanda jokes ‘There goes my inheritance’.
Everyone turns to Heather and Wolverine, as Logan points out that this complex seems as good as any, for at least they will not have any unwelcome company dropping in. Heather is taken aback at the idea of setting up house in the North Pole, but decides they will consider it after the double-dealing of the Canadian government. Wolverine tells Heather that in the mean time she will not need him any more than she needed him to help defeat Bedlam.
Logan tells Heather that she is a good leader - one of the best - and that Mac would be proud. Logan reminds everyone that his plane has been destroyed so he needs to get started on his journey back to New York, when Manikin steps forward and calls to Highbrow, who teleports Wolverine home. Heather waves goodbye and thanks Logan.
Box asks Heather as she takes off her visor and looks at him if she has any regrets. Heather smiles and tells Jeffries that Logan and she were never more than friends who loved the same man, he like a brother and she like a wife. Jeffries emerges from the Box armor and Heather declares that she can now let Mac rest in peace, and as they embrace each other, she can start to love again.


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Goblyn!
She sits huddled in the freezing snow, the icy wind whips all around - its cold outside - very cold. It is warmer inside, but that is where they  are. Her name is Goblyn, and she had been inside, fighting alongside Alpha Flight, and the Derangers against the horror known as Bedlam. What was it that drew her out into this Dead-World? Goblyn remembers it was her twin, her terrified trembling twin had caught the attention of one of the Alphans - the Purple Girl. The Purple Girl had gone to Laura as Bedlam made the two teams of super beings fight, and the Purple Girl hoped that whatever the kid’s powers were that they wouldn’t have to fight, if she took over her mind - but the Purple Girl couldn’t, for Laura fled to Live-World, calling Goblyn back to Dead-World. Goblyn fought in the battle and survived.
But she fled outside and now she freezes. This is how Goblyn remembers Dead-World - pain, unending pain. She would go back to Live-World if she could, but she cannot, for Laura would die were Goblyn to trade places with her now - and Laura must live, for Goblyn owes her that much - therefore, Goblyn must take Laura inside.
Inside the complex created by Bedlam the Brain Blast, Alpha Flight are the only survivors of a battle of super beings. Madison Jeffries a.k.a. Box uses his incredible robot-like strength to block up a breach in the complex before phasing out of the armor, and then using his mutant power to transmute the metal so that it is fused. He wishes he could transmute metal while inside the Box armor, but Alpha Flight’s leader, and his lover Heather “Vindicator” McNeil Hudson compliments him and tells Madison that if he keeps doing his part then they will have the place sealed in no time.
As Heather uses her electromagnetic powers to seal part of the complex, she also thanks Beta Flight member Whitman “Manikin” Knapp for the assist of his other selves, Apeman, Highbrow and Proto. ‘Yeah, lets hear it for the blob’ Jeffries thinks to himself. Manikin uses his medical training to check for life signs on Bedlam or the Derangers and informs Heather that they are already cold, no sign of life from any of them. Wanda “Sasquatch” Langkowski points out that Alpha Flight are all going to get cold soon, for with Bedlam gone the temperature is dropping fast. Manikin’s future self, Highbrow, points out that moving all the debris would have been nothing for Bedlam, as his mental abilities surpassed his, and guesses that he must have been mentally controlling the temperature.
Jeffries phases back into the Box armor and suggests that they could mimic mechanically what Bedlam did mentally, but Heather tells him to forget it, as they are not going to be here long enough to worry about the cold, for as soon as the storm lets up outside they are going to head home. Box reminds Heather that Bedlam destroyed their Tamarind Island home, so they have no home to return to! Sasquatch points out that after the mansion was refitted by the Canadian government, who used it to spy upon them, and asks if they really want to rely on Ottawa’s handouts anymore.
Heather agrees, and declares that it was government treachery that unleashed Bedlam, for Canada hoped he would prove to be a malleable super being, since he was created by her late husband, rather than born with super powers. Jeffries reminds everyone that Bedlam tried to use Alpha to rule mankind, and Heather decides that this complex reeks of his evil. Jeffries tells Heather that while he cannot deodorize the place, he can change it into whatever she wants as most of it is metal. Transforming back to her human form, Wanda announces that as a scientist she is sure to be able to devise some climate control and life support systems.
Heather doesn’t agree, and tells her team that if Box can absorb the complex’s mass, then he can fly it and them out of here and reconstruct it in a more hospitable environment. Whit announces again that the Derangers are all dead, to which Jeffries thinks it is a shame, as his brother Scramble unleashed their powers, before Bedlam manipulated them, and they are now dead, which means they never got the chance to use their powers for good. ‘Maybe they were the lucky ones,’ Kara “the Purple Girl” Kilgrave thinks to herself, and recalls the disorder the emergence of her mutant powers caused.
(Flashbacks, from Alpha Flight (1st series) #41-42)
No sooner than Kara got over acne, did she turn purple! With the dose of permanent purple skin color Kara inherited the ability from the father she never knew - the Purple Man - the ability to control people’s minds. She started with the man she had a crush on - Northstar of Alpha Flight, but when he rejected her, she threw a teenage temper tantrum, and took over Alpha Flight before kidnapping Jeffries.
Kara figured that if she was going to be a freak, then she should at least have some fun, but just as she was manipulating Jeffries into taking her all over the place, the Auctioneer was waiting to manipulate her. While Alpha Flight could have left Kara to the mercy of the Auctioneer, they rescued her, and made her the first member of the new Beta Flight.
(Present)
Kara wonders why she is having this reverie, before realizing that just as Alpha took her in - ‘We’ve got to take a risk and rescue Goblyn!’ she shouts to Alpha Flight. Heather reminds Kara that the creature was the deadliest of all the Derangers, which, Kara points out, is why she survived, and helped save Alpha. She exclaims that they cannot leave without her, because that would be like … murder. Heather thinks to herself that her first responsibility must be to the safety of her team and not to worry about some savage stranger, but seeing the look in Kara’s eyes … she tells Kara that if Box and Sasquatch can make the complex temporarily hospitable then they will go look for Goblyn.
Suddenly, a loud howling sound, causes Vindicator, Sasquatch and Box to leave the complex in search of Goblyn. Heather tells Wanda and Jeffries to spread out, search and be careful, but Jeffries thinks she is going a bit far, as Goblyn is just a kid, but Wanda points out that she is a kid with claws capable of slicing the Box armor thinner than salami. Sasquatch knows her form will be suited to the environment, but it is still freezing and reminds the others that they find Goblyn before the freeze, but wonders how. Seeing Jeffries’ armor transform, Wanda realizes that it was foolish of her to not recall that his armor can transmute sensors.
Vindicator asks Jeffries if the beeps they hear mean he is registering a life sign, and Wanda asks if it is Goblyn’s. Box replies that it could be, before producing some bracelets and telling his teammates to put them on, as that way they can triangulate and converge on Goblyn from three sides. As Alpha prepare to split up, Vindicators what happens if while they are looking for her, she too is looking for them. Too right, as Goblyn is indeed watching Alpha Flight, and the hunters become the hunted.
Back inside the complex, Whit and Kara are in a makeshift morgue, where the bodies of the Derangers and Bedlam are covered on tables. Whit compliments Sasquatch and Box on being a good team and making a portion of the complex habitable. ‘If you’re into morgues,’ Kara replies sarcastically. Marking something on a chart, Whit says ‘there but for our powers go we,’ and with tears in her eyes, Kara asks Whit if he thinks it was their powers that spared them from the fate of the Derangers. She thinks it was just luck. A tear lands on Whit’s hand as he writes something, but he drops the chart and takes Kara in his arms, seeing that she is really shook up. ‘Too much death,’ Kara replies.
Outside, Sasquatch looks at the bracelet and sees that she is close, but she knows she doesn’t need a fancy wristwatch to tell her that, as Goblyn’s scent is strong, almost as if she is on top of her - but where? Suddenly, Goblyn leaps up in front of Sasquatch from where she was hiding in a snowdrift, and scratches at Sasquatch’s eyes. Goblyn leaps away, while the blinded Sasquatch screams that she cannot see, alerting Vindicator to her plight. Heather wonders where Sasquatch is, as she cannot see more than a few yards in front, as the snow is so blinding. Suddenly, she sees Laura Dean, lying in the snow.
Heather swoops down and supposes that she is either freezing or frozen, and remembering Kara’s words about not leaving without her, as it would be murder, Heather kneels down beside Laura, thinking that out of the mouths of babes comes nothing but trouble. Heather tells the child that she is going to let her inside her force field to share her battle suit’s warmth, when suddenly Laura is gone, and Goblyn screams before attacking Heather, who blasts Goblyn back with a burst of electromagnetic energy. Vindicator sees that her circuits are shorting out and she is also bleeding.
In his transformed armor, Jeffries drives his tank across the snow, detecting the power surge that was let off by Vindicator’s power, and sitting right in front of him in the snow is Goblyn. Box scoops her up and places her in a globe, for her own protection before sending a homing signal to Vindicator and Sasquatch as he heads back to the complex with her.
Upon entering the complex Kara is pleased that Jeffries found her as Whit asks where Vindicator and Sasquatch are. Jeffries replies that he thought they would meet him here, when Goblyn suddenly bursts from the globe, causing Jeffries to phase out in pain. He falls to the ground as Manikin asks him what happened. Jeffries declares that one cannot tear apart a living robot without causing the operator pain. Manikin is about to tend to Jeffries as he is a doctor, when Kara suddenly orders him to stop, as he is moving right beside Goblyn.
Suddenly, Kara realizes her error, as by commanding Whit to stop, she has frozen him in his tracks, and Goblyn is about to attack him. The beast strikes him hard at the back of his head, and though he is alive, he is unconscious and bleeding. Goblyn glares at Kara and bares her teeth - Kara is the only one left, and she already knows too much about the worlds within.
‘I’M BLIND!’ screams Sasquatch out in the snow storm. Heather, clutching her own wounds locates the stumbling Sasquatch and using incredible will power, flies over to where Wanda is, but she crashes into the snow. Sasquatch feels for Vindicator and picks her up as Heather asks Wanda what happened. With one hand covering her eyes, Sasquatch uses the other to put Heather on her shoulders revealing that Goblyn caught her by surprise and clawed all around her eyes. She explains that she cannot see, and doesn’t know if it is just blood running into them from her brown or not. When Heather explains that her battle suit is crippled, Sasquatch tells her to be her eyes, while she be the legs. Heather declares that they have to get back to the complex before…she trails off. ‘Before?’ asks Sasquatch. ‘Just before!’ says Heather.
Back in the complex, Goblyn growls as she approaches Kara, who calls her a ‘good kitty’ and asks if they are friends, trying to keep her calm. Goblyn leaps up and slices through Kara’s jacket. Frightened, Kara tells Goblyn that if she wants to pick her own friends then that is okay, while wondering what she should do next, as she is all alone with Goblyn, and while her power is to control minds, Goblyn doesn’t seem to have one. Kara remembers the last time she tried, she bamfed Laura Dean away into some kind of psychedelic never land and brought Goblyn out in her place. She doesn’t know what will happen this time, if anything, but she has to try - what choice does she have? ‘Goblyn! I want Laura back, now!’ Kara screams, when something very unusual happens. Whereas other minds, the Purple Girl controls, these minds, the minds of Laura Dean and Goblyn, she shares!
(Flashback)
A man and a woman loved each other - and married. Soon though, the woman fell pregnant, and the sonogram revealed twins. But the doctor is concerned, and in private has a few words with the husband. The doctor informs Darby Dean that the prenatal screenings reveals one of his daughters to be a mutant. Darby asks the doctor if he understands what he is saying and who he is - what would happen should his organization discover that one of its foremost anti-mutant advocates is father to…’a monster?’ asks Susan Dean, asking her husband if one of her babies is going to be a monster. Darby tries to calm her by reinforcing that it is just one baby, as they will still have one perfectly normal child…’after the operation,’ the doctor informs the couple.
Susan is annoyed, as the operation is one that the doctor has never attempted in utero, but Darby asks her what choice they have. ‘What choice do I have you mean. It is my body,’ Susan tells her husband as she is prepared for the operation. When Darby tells his wife that he will be right outside, Susan replies that it is not very comforting, as she will be inside. The experiment is underway, the idea was to bombard the mutated twin with radiation, destroying it in utero, while sparing the “healthy” fetus.
However, there is a gap between theory and practice. ‘Stop, you’re killing both my babies!’ screams Susan Dean from within the chamber, but the doctor assures her that they are concentrating the radiation on the nonhuman twin. However, a nurse points out that the computer indicates movement in the womb - the normal fetus is somehow moving to intercept the rays aimed at her sister.
The doctor orders the operation stopped, and six months later, one child is born to the Deans - autistic, withdrawn from the world. There was no indication of what happened to the other twin, until first Scramble and then Bedlam succeeded in bringing her here.
(Present)
Kara is shocked at the barrage of information she received, that Laura sensed the attack on her sister in the womb, sensed that Goblyn was sacrificing herself to save Laura when the operation went awry - and somehow Goblyn was hid away inside her. Kara thinks it is no wonder that Laura withdrew completely from a world that had dealt both sisters intolerable pain before they were even born, and it is no wonder that Goblyn responds hostilely when she is brought out. Kara runs when Goblyn tries to strike her again. Getting behind the tables with the bodies of the Derangers on them, Kara tells herself to stop daydreaming or she will end up as dead as the Derangers.
Goblyn leaps over the tables, ’Maybe deader!’ thinks Kara as she runs from Goblyn, tears streaming down her face, she knows it was her desire to save Goblyn that may have doomed Alpha, and also send her to a teenage grave. ’I’m too young to die! And too cute too!’ she thinks to herself as Goblyn chases her still. But then Kara remembers that the Dean twins were even cuter, and look at what their “loving” parents did to them. Kara turns to face Goblyn, knowing she can empathize, as she had a screwed up life, maybe not as screwed up ’but who’s keeping score?’ Kara tells herself that the question for today’s quiz is: can one freak reach out to another…and live?
She tells herself that she has to try, and tells Goblyn that she is not running anymore, and that if she wants her then to come and get her. Goblyn is confused, for in all its short existence, it has never seen another creature cry. She goes up to Kara and wipes her tears away, when suddenly, Alpha Flight burst through a wall, and tells Kara to back away while the deal with the creature. ’No!’ cries Kara as Goblyn growls at them.
Sasquatch announces that she can see again, and what she has seen makes her made, but Goblyn dodges the fist that Sasquatch tries to bring down on her. Kara asks Wanda to listen, but Box tells her that the time for talk is past, as the creature almost slaughtered Alpha Flight single handedly. ‘It’s like a mad dog!’ Box shoots Goblyn with his armory, but she dodges it, as Vindicator declares that mad dogs must be destroyed. Kara pleads with her seniors, but knows that they will not listen, as Goblyn hurt them, and reinforced Vindicator’s fears. But Kara has been inside Goblyn‘s mind, and seen the pain she and her sister suffered, and can understand their fears.
But is Kara understanding enough to stand by and do nothing while Goblyn slices away at friends? ‘No!’ Kara scream, as Goblyn prepares to attack Manikin, and the creature suddenly feels the paralysis of the Purple Girl’s powers again, realizing that paralysis at this juncture could be fatal - and she flees, into the climate control systems that Box and Sasquatch devised. Sasquatch points out that if Goblyn destroys the systems then they will freeze - and Goblyn does rip through part of the system.
Sasquatch and Manikin approach Goblyn, Wanda muttering that the beast will be the death of them all, but Manikin suggests they neutralize her first. Kara interprets this as “Not if we kill her”, and tells them not to be polite about murder. Vindicator tells Purple Girl that is enough, as it was her bleeding heart that caused them to spare the creature in the first place, and Goblyn had her chance. Crying, Kara declares she needs another one, and tells Heather that Goblyn may not be willing to trust a race that tried to waste her before she was even born. Kara tells Heather to take some risks and try again, but as Kara leaps at Goblyn, Heather tells her to get out of the line of fire.
The Purple Girl shouts ‘No!’ and as Heather releases her electromagnetic pulse meant for Goblyn, Kara tells her that if she wants to kill Goblyn then she is going to have to kill her first. Kara is struck by the plasma burst, even though Heather drew most of it back. Holding onto Goblyn, Kara tells her she will be okay and vows to protect her no matter what happens. She asks Goblyn if she understands, and seeing her cry, Kara realizes that she does. Alpha Flight gather around as the Purple Girl hugs Goblyn.


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Have You Ever Heard A Spaceship Scream? Warped!
Space…where Canada’s estranged super hero team, Alpha Flight, are inside the now giant sized Box armor, careening into the unknown, screaming as it goes. Team leader Heather McNeil Hudson a.k.a. Vindicator asks Sasquatch ‘what on Earth is happening?’ ‘Nothing on Earth!’ Wanda Langkowski replies, before reminding Heather that they blasted off Earth when Box consumed the metal mass of Bedlam’s complex and converted part of himself into energy to destroy Tundra, and since they were all inside Box, at the time, they blasted off into space with him. Wanda points out that the shock of being transformed into a giant spaceship seems to have driven Box mad, and suggests that they have to bring him back to his senses, or else gain control of the ship some other way, or they may end up lost in space.
Vindicator points out that Box is their friend and teammate, not to mention her lover, and asks Sasquatch what “other way” she has in mind. Suddenly Goblyn, the recent recruit into Beta Flight howls and starts to run around inside the ship. ‘Just what we need at a time like this!’ Wanda mutters as the young mutant runs around. ‘Heel!’ Heather calls to Goblyn, before joking that the next time she lets an animal join Beta Flight she will insist on obedience training first. Sasquatch follows Goblyn as she starts to run from this part of the ship, declaring that they cannot let her get away, as there is no telling what havoc she could wreck amongst the Boxship’s circuitry should she decide to cut loose with those claws of hers.
As Vindicator flies after Goblyn she declares that she hates to be an “I-told-you-so” about Goblyn being too bestial to be allowed to join them, but… ‘I told you so!’ Sasquatch dives to catch Goblyn, but just misses, and reminds Heather that Goblyn is more than a mindless beast, for she is somehow linked to her autistic alter-ego, Laura Dean, who has disappeared along with the Purple Girl, just seconds before Tundra was about to crush them both.
Heather asks if this means they have to put up with any erratic behavior that the creature cares to inflict upon them until they can learn the fate of the missing Purple Girl? ‘No way!’ she exclaims as Goblyn shreds her way through part of the Boxship. Suddenly, a loud scream is heard, and as Whitman “Manikin” Knapp wakes from his near-death experience at the hands of Somon the Artificer, he asks what the sound was. Heather realizes it is the Boxship screaming as Goblyn ripped into him. Manikin points out that just as Box was a living robot, he is now a living star ship. As Vindicator and Sasquatch follow Goblyn, Heather points out that Jeffries is also the first man she has been able to love since her husband died, and boasts that she does not intend on allowing him to get hurt.
Sasquatch points out that Goblyn has located corridors running inside the hull, which appear to be leading toward the Boxship’s brain. Amidst the coiling, pulsing of veins and circuitry, she stalks, every sense alert. Goblyn is hunting - but what? Soon though, Sasquatch and Heather find that they have lost Goblyn. Wanda tells Heather that they may lose themselves in her boyfriend, as this place is ‘like some huge metallo-organic maze’. Heather points out that Box is a living robot, and reminds Sasquatch of how after Jeffries studied the layout of the complex, then absorbed it into his Box armor. Heather supposes that perhaps absorbing so much mass added to the shock of warping into space that unbalanced Jeffries mind. ‘Small wonder - or should I say big wonder!’ mutters Wanda. Vindicator tells Sasquatch that they should say as little as possible and concentrate on tracking down Goblyn.
Meanwhile, Manikin holds himself up with the help of part of the Boxship while thinking that he didn’t want to avert Vindicator’s attention by reminding her that he was wounded in battle with the Great Beasts, as Somon spared him like a fish! Whit recalls how his icy metaphysical fingers seemed to freeze dry his soul, or rather souls, as his three other-selves are aching from the attack also. Whit supposes that the reunification of all shattered souls can combine to make one whole soul, and despite his pain he absorbs his past and future selves back from whence they came. Whit is free from any pain, but he knows that the Boxship is still in pain. He reminds himself that he is a doctor, supposed to be trained to alleviate pain, yet there is so much he doesn’t know about his skills…’how do you operate on a machine?’
Elsewhere in the Boxship, Goblyn skulks through a long corridor, lined with tanks, each filled with small red fish-like creatures. Goblyn looks in one of them, and when one of the creatures bares its jaws at Goblyn, the young mutant returns in kind, before slashing the tank with her claws, setting the fish-like creatures loose upon her.
Goblyn’s attack on the tank of course was felt by the Boxship who screams. Heather and Sasquatch suppose Goblyn has attacked him again, when suddenly, the red fish-like creatures attack them, as do several larger robot-like creatures. ‘We ain’t the only passengers on this flight!’ shouts Sasquatch as the creatures bite into her.
Elsewhere still, ‘Laura, where are we?’ asks the Purple Girl as she holds the younger mutant’s hand walking through strange surroundings. Laura Dean informs Kara that this is the place Goblyn sends her to when danger threatens out in Deadworld. Kara asks what Deadworld is, and Laura explains that it is what they call her world, because all it has ever shown them is pain and death. Kara asks if they have a name for this world, and Laura reveals it is called Liveworld. Kara exclaims that is sort of a psychedelic Disneyland. She tells Laura that it is no wonder she curls herself up in her reality, as compared to this place, Earth must seem very dangerous. Laura exclaims that that is why she likes it here, for nothing ever tries to hurt her. Little does she know, a mysterious pale-skinned green-haired woman is watching the two mutant girls through a looking-sphere.
Back on the Boxship, Heather unleashes a plasma blast on the creatures, and keeping the Alpha Flight tradition of cracking jokes while in the middle of battle, she declares ‘All right contestants, I’ll award a 1988 Pontiac Fiero to the first person who can tell me what these scuzzuglies are and where they came from!’ ‘Is the contest open to members of the team?’ Wanda asks. ‘No restrictions!’ Heather replies. Ripping up the floor to shield herself from the creatures, Sasquatch declares that as to what they are, shall call them “Bedlamites”, after their creator, Bedlam. Sasquatch wraps the creatures up in the floor, before following Vindicator as she flies around a corner.
Heather points out that Bedlam is dead, she blew his head off, Sasquatch knows this, but reminds Heather that Alpha Flight inherited Bedlam’s complex, and had little time to explore it before Box absorbed it, and contained all of it. Therefore, Wanda assumes the Bedlamites to be organic experimentations Bedlam whipped up in quest of his master race. Heather asks why they would be attacking them, to which Wanda supposes they are an integral part of Boxship, and they must invade Alpha as invaders, vying for control of the Boxship’s brain.
Meanwhile, Manikin suddenly finds some tunnel open up before him, and jokes that he should have administered a general anaesthetic before he started operating. Whit is pulled up through the tunnel and carried over the vast distance of the Boxship, only to be spat out at the end  - the and gazes up at the huge brain of the Boxship. ‘Far out!’ However, as the trained medical eyes of Whitman Knapp gaze over the large brain, he soon discovers that it is under attack by a massive and very malignant tumor. He supposes that it more than anything must be causing Jeffries’s madness. But he wonders next how he is supposed to operate on it when he is stuck behind a lattice-wall and not able to get to it.
Suddenly, Goblyn comes careening into the room the brain is held in, fending herself off from the Bedlamites she unleashed. Whit gets her attention and calls her over, asking her if she remembers him, her teammate. Goblyn lets out a low growling sound, to which Whit tells her that if she doesn’t remember then it is okay too, but she breaks down the lattice-wall and frees him. As Manikin runs towards the brain, he remarks that perhaps Goblyn understands more than any of them actually thinks she does. Whit asks Goblyn if she sees the big black mass on Box’s brain and tells her that it is a malignancy that has to be delicately removed.
Goblyn leaps onto the brain, and howls as she begins shredding the mass apart. ‘I’m sure the head of surgery at Ontario General would admire your subtlety’ Whit jokes, before witnessing some creatures leaping out of the shattered tumor - ‘nasty little cancer cells!’
Jeffries screams again, causing Heather to wonder how much more he, and she for that matter, can take. Heather flies towards the sounds of the scream and boasts that if Goblyn is responsible for his pain then she is going to regret the day she was born!
However, as Heather flies into the room with the Boxship’s brain, she sees organo-creatures attacking both Manikin and Goblyn. Whit calls to Heather, revealing that they are cancer cells trying to destroy Box’s brain. Heather calls them Bedlamites and tells Whit that they want to make the ship their own. Manikin informs Heather that Goblyn made the creatures show themselves, but that now she is indiscriminately hacking away at both the cancer cells and Box’s healthy grey matter. ‘Then she’s got to be stopped!’ declares Heather, raising a plasma-blast charged hand to the direction of the young mutant.
Without hesitation, Whit pulls Heather’s arm away, declaring that although he may be a ‘junior partner in this firm’, he asks Heather if she has lost it, pointing out that for all they know, the Purple Girl may be inside Goblyn. Heather realizes that she cannot blast Goblyn therefore scrapping an uncontrollable wild-child whom they are going to ever regret welcoming into Alpha Flight, so instead she must get Goblyn caged! Heather accomplishes that task by creating a plasma-funnel formed from energy channelled from her battle suit, leaving Alpha Flight’s leader to face the infected brain of her lover.
Manikin tells Heather that she has to destroy the cancer before it spreads, but without harming the healthy brain-mass. ‘I’m no surgeon!’ Heather snaps back, but nevertheless, she unleashes her plasma-bursts against the cancerous cells with surgical precision. When Heather accomplishes her task, Whit points out that there is still the tumor itself to destroy, to which Heather asks what would happen if she cut too deep. Whit’s reply is that there may be major brain damage.
Heather does not hesitate in unleashing more electromagnetic energy, pouring it on at the tumor, when it is over, she asks Whit if she has turned the man she loves into a vegetable. Whit informs Heather that he cannot tell without getting closer, so Heather flies him right onto the brain. Holding some part of the brain in his hand, Whit reveals that it is no good, for while Heather destroyed the surface tumor, the cancer has spread inside the brain. ‘Then get ready to operate, doctor!’ exclaims Heather as she picks Whit up and flies down inside the brain with him.
Manikin helps Heather by pointing out everywhere that she needs to attack with her plasma-blasts, and when Heather has finally destroyed all the cancer, Whit tells her that no surgeon could have done better. Heather asks if they are done, to which Whit points at a large mass in front of Heather and informs her that from what he can tell, that is all that is left. However, as Whit notes, it appears to be attached to the area of the brain most associated with the personality. Yet, if it is destroyed, then Jeffries is cured.
Heather realizes that if she fails, then the Bedlamites will takes over Jeffries’ mind and the ship, dooming them all. ‘Do I have any choice?’ she asks, when suddenly, Jeffries calls to her. ‘Help me, Heather!’ Jeffries screams. Heather tells him that she is trying to help him, but that she doesn’t want to destroy him. Jeffries tells Heather that the things are destroying his mind, and if she continues to hesitate there will be nothing left of him worth saving. That is enough answer for Heather and she unleashes the full force of her plasma power, and Jeffries screams.
Still battling the Bedlamites, Wanda is relieved when she receives aid in the form of the Boxship as it uses its own defences to blast the Bedlamites. Wanda thanks Jeffries, who tells her that she is welcome. Manikin smiles and tells Vindicator that it is okay, that she saved Box - saved them all. Crying, Heather realizes she did.
Moments later, Heather, Sasquatch, Manikin and Goblyn who is still in her plasma-cage, enter the bridge of the Boxship. Sasquatch motions to the seat in the middle of the room and tells Heather it is her patient and that it looks like he has made a full recovery. Jeffries, who has transformed his regular-sized box armor into a seat asks Heather if she cares for a seat, as it looks like she could use a rest. ‘Now, maybe we can discuss your bedside manner, doc!’ Jeffries declares as Heather jumps into his seat. ‘Discussion is not what I had in mind!’ Heather replies.
Jeffries asks Heather what it is she would prescribe for a fully cured spaceship, and Heather lifts his faceplate up and exclaims ‘This!’ before they kiss. ‘Yuck, you taste like motor oil!’ Heather then declares. Manikin interrupts Heather and Jeffries and asks if since the danger is past, they might be able to get his heartthrob out of Goblyn. Heather informs Whit that if she knew how, then she would, and promises to work on it once they are back home on Earth. She asks the Alphans if they are ready, they reply they do, and Heather declares ‘On my command…Warp!’


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Life
The Boxship explodes through the skyline, as Madison Jeffries a.k.a. Box tells his teammates to get set for a touchdown. Wanda “Sasquatch“ Langkowski examines the computer equipment on Alpha Flight’s makeshift home and announces that the Boxship’s instruments indicate there is world submerged somewhere inside the gas ball they have entered. In his current state as team leader Heather “Vindicator“ McNeil Hudson’s chair, Box confirms what Wanda announced. Young Whitman Knapp, codenamed “Manikin“ of Beta Flight asks what kind of world it is. Heather declares it is no doubt a lifeless one, one that cannot support Alpha Flight, and orders Jeffries to revert thrust on the Boxship.
Box informs his lover that he is unable to, and reminds her that he absorbed the mass complex of Bedlam’s base, and since destroying Tundra and blasting off into space, he has since shed most of that mass. He tells Heather that he either has to land and suck up some of the planets mineral resources for fuel, or the living quarters inside him are going to get rather cramped. Suddenly everyone is thrown about in the Boxship, and Sasquatch reveals that hull lionization has occurred, as they are hitting turbulence as they penetrate the chemical cloud surrounding the planet.
Sasquatch warns in everyone to hang on as she points out parts of the Boxship are coming lose. ‘Now she tells us,’ mutters Whit as he and fellow Betan Goblyn are knocked back in the ship. Sasquatch grips onto a beam above her head, only for it to collapse on her as she and the others discover that „hanging on“ in a living spaceship diving down through a rolling chemical cloud is a lot like going over the Niagara Falls in a barrel. This forces Alpha to call on their unique powers and abilities, thus Manikin summons his past and future selves - Highbrow, Proto and Apeman. Apeman protects Whit from the falling debris, while Proto uses his plasma body to destroy debris and highbrow teleports falling pieces of the Boxship away.
Whit tells Apeman that he is glad to see him, and that he is more secure with him than in a bucket seat and harness. Highbrow tells the “Prime Unit“ that he wishes he could say the feeling was mutual, and asks him if he couldn’t for once just summon his past and future selves for something less apocalyptic - like a picnic? Highbrow exclaims that teleporting the pieces of shrapnel away is not as bad as what Proto has to do - eat and digest it.
Still in the form of a chair, Jeffries puts a harness around Heather and tells her that it should keep her safe, to which Heather fires a plasma blast at some debris while telling her lover that it is a cheap way of sneaking in a hug. Sasquatch asks Box if he cannot control himself as he is coming apart at the seems. Whit jokingly tells Jeffries to take a cue from him as he hangs on for dear life and pulls his other selves together. Jeffries announces that he is trying, but that it is taking all of his concentration just to bring them in for a landing.
The team settle as they are finally on safe, albeit unfamiliar ground, and looking out the window, Whit declares that the planet is as dead as Winnipeg on a Wednesday night. Sasquatch reminds him that so was their own Earth before something sent a shock through the primordial soup of creation and spawned life. Whit points out that it took billions of years and declares that he cannot wait that long for a good time. Jeffries transmutates his body from the chair into the Box armor’s default form and declares that they are not here for good, just to refuel.
Sasquatch stares at Jeffries as he transmutates and asks about the Boxship, pointing out that she thought he could not transmutate metals while he was merged with the robot. Madison tells Wanda that she is right, but that the Boxship is already transmutated. Jeffries begins to emerge from the Box armor as he reveals that the Boxship will not disappear just because he is separated from it, anymore than the Box robot does, but that it simply cannot undertake new functions unless he is joined to it, but right now he would rather be joined to something else.
The handsome Alphan is completely out of the armor and takes Heather in his arms, they kiss, Heather exclaiming that it is not easy being in love with a robot, or a spaceship. ‘Hey! What do you call this?’ asks Whit as Sasquatch asks them if they are having a situation break. Whit scowls and complains that they are lost in space, while Heather and Jeffries are lost in each others arms, and his own girlfriend is lost…where? The angry Betan looks at Goblyn and calling her a freak he declares that she knows where Kara is, because she appeared when Kara and Laura Dean disappeared.
Whit begins to ask where the missing girls are when Goblyn lashes out at him, causing Whit to set his other selves on her, and tell her that although they may both be Betans, it is time somebody taught her some basic rules of interspecies etiquette. As the Betans squabble, Heather unleashes a plasma blast on Goblyn, declaring that there has been enough internecine warfare among Alphans, to which Jeffries agrees, and jumping back into the Box armor exclaims that he agrees and steps between Heather and Goblyn, declaring that it stops right now. Heather tells Box not to interfere, to which Jeffries tells her he has to, as she is not acting impartial.
This annoys Heather, who scowls as Jeffries tells her that she doesn’t want Alphans fighting among themselves, but that the only one she aimed her plasma burst at was Goblyn. He adds that it has been clear from the start that she does not like having Goblyn here. ‘She’s an animal!’ exclaims Heather. Jeffries tells Heather Goblyn may be uncontrollable and savage, but reminds her that the young mutant has saved their lives at least twice. He tells Heather that since they did induct her into Beta Flight, they have a duty to make her understand how to behave, and to try and understand her in return. Heather tells Jeffries he made his point and looks down at Goblyn, reminding her Manikin asked her a question - ‘Where are Kara and Laura?’
Liveworld is where the two missing girls are, and sprawled out on the yellow grass, Kara Kilgrave a.k.a. the Purple Girl tells Laura Dean ‘This place is just too neat!’ Laura much younger than Kara tells her that it is where her twin sister Goblyn fled when their mother and father tried to destroy her. Kara remembers that Darby and Susan Dean did this while Laura and Goblyn were still in the womb, because they thought Goblyn was a mutant. Kara remembers also that the story became more complicated, when Laura, still inside the womb, and the supposed non-mutant twin, tried to save Goblyn.
Laura supposes that she did save Goblyn, long enough for her to make her escape here to Liveworld. The Purple Girl understands Liveworld as another dimension, where nothing can hurt her, but Laura informs the purple-skinned mutant that there are scary things in Liveworld, and while she has never exactly seen them, she can feel them, sometimes all around her. Kara glances nervously out of the corner of her eye and asks Laura if there are scary things here now. Laura reveals that they are real near, but that they do not seem to bother Goblyn, as she always changes places with her before they get to close.
The Purple Girl is about to ask Laura how Goblyn knows when she is, but Laura is already ahead of her, and simply tells Kara that Goblyn always knows. A purple glow forms around them and Laura tells Kara that it is already starting. ‘Huh?’ asks Kara, when suddenly they vanish, the purple glow fades, as Goblyn stands in their place. Goblyn growls but as a mysterious woman approaches her and calling her her pet asks her if she has come back to her. Goblyn begins to purr as the white-skinned woman asks her where it is that she goes when the other takes her place, and asks if she can take her with her one day, ‘I do so desire new worlds to conquer!’
Back inside the Boxship, Whit calls to his girlfriend as she and Laura emerge through a purple glow. Kara announces their return as Laura greets everyone. Box thinks to himself that Goblyn is gone once more as Whit picks Kara up in his arms and asks her where she has been. Kara smiles and tells Whit that she is not sure he would believe her if she told him. Glancing over at Laura, who is by Heather, Kara thinks that the young mutant would not want her to tell anyone. Heather welcomes Laura back and tells her she is glad to see her all right, while wondering to herself if Laura really is all right, and when she gets no response, she realizes the young girl has withdrawn into herself again.
Motioning out the window of the Boxship, Wanda tells Jeffries that it looks like a storm is brewing. Jeffries agrees, and adds that it seems like a big one. With that, he exit’s the Box armor and begins transmutating the Boxship so that it drills into the ground and begins to tap the planets resources, regenerating itself. Jeffries tells everyone to relax while the minerals are being sucked up, however, for some reason, be it the lightening, the chemical rain, the Boxship’s borer, or perhaps all three, below the surface of the planet, the very clay of this lifeless planet begins to reform, refuse and…live?
Shortly, Heather asks Madison if it is time to go home, but Jeffries tells her whenever she gives the word they are ready, but asks where “home“ is. Heather understands what Madison is talking about and reminds everyone how Canada betrayed them, Gary Cody set Bedlam free to control them, and as a result their headquarters was destroyed. Heather declares that it is only natural for them to resent humanity’s fear of them simply because they are super-humans, and admits that she has been thinking - ‘Is that fear so irrational?’
Heather tells her teammates to look at it from Ottawa’s side of things, Alpha may have saved mankind from Tundra, but in the process, Box risked destroying the planet to do it. Heather reminds everyone that the horror of Bedlam was conceived by her late husband as Canada’s champion, and the Great Beasts could never have returned to threaten the Earth if Sasquatch hadn’t provided a portal for them. Heather looks at Laura Dean as she thinks to herself that Canada may have created Alpha Flight, but that Alpha has in turn given them reason to fear the super heroes - just as Alpha may have good reason to fear a creature they have decided to nurture.
Jeffries returns to the Box armor as he tells Heather he doesn’t agree, but nevertheless knows they have to go back and face the music. He turns himself into a seat again for Heather as well as creating seats for the others. He tells everyone to prepare for blast off and begins the countdown. Sitting in the seats, Highbrow and Apeman seem amused by the contraptions that are foreign to them, while Laura Dean hugs Proto, Sasquatch ponders the teams return to Canada, Manikin smiles as Kara blows him a kiss, and Heather remains stern-faced as usual.
‘Away we go!’ shouts Box as the Boxship makes a loud roar as it begins to take off, but it doesn’t make it off the ground. ‘Uh, what went wrong?’ asks Box, to which Sasquatch points out the window at the now crystallized surroundings that the Boxship has become stuck to and declares ‘That!’ ‘That?’ asks Heather, before Wanda tells everyone to bear with her as she tries to explain, reminding them she is a biophysicist and is trained in the study of carbon-based organic life-forms. She tells everyone that humans are carbon-based, but that there are other forms of life. ‘Based on what?’ asks Heather, and Wanda points out the obvious - crystal.
Sasquatch informs everyone that the planet seems primarily composed of crystal and asks them all if they remember the “rock gardens“ they would have no doubt grown in science class. Still not convinced, Heather reminds Wanda that the world was dead, to which Wanda points out that that was before their arrival, and asks everyone if they remember the hull ionization that occurred when they penetrated the atmosphere. Wanda continues, explaining that the Boxship shed energy in the form of lightening into the primordial soup surrounding the planet, setting off a chemical reaction similar to the “spark“ that some scientists believe gave rise to life on Earth.
Whit asks if they provided the spark on this planet, to which Kara exclaims that there could be no way that the stuff outside is alive, when suddenly everyone’s seats disappear, causing them to fall all over the place. Sasquatch tells everyone that it may not be life as they know it, but it is capable of growth. Jeffries yells for help as the crystal grows all over him - the Boxship, as Heather thinks to herself that again Alpha Flight has created the very danger that threatens to destroy them, but thinks that the “things“ attacking cannot be intelligent life and supposes that some chemical reaction to Box’s landing must have sparked the growth, but she knows that either way, Alpha caused it so they have to stop it, so she orders them to battle stations.
Jeffries quickly tells everyone that they cannot set foot outside of the Boxship without protection and from the walls of the ship he creates what Highbrow calls “atmosphere suits“. Whit asks Highbrow why he didn’t think of those as Kara declares hers is too tight and asks Jeffries if he does alterations. Jeffries tells everyone it is time to go as he re-enters the Box armor everyone exit’s the trapped Boxship and begins attacking the crystal. Laura Dean remains in the ship and calls to everyone, asking them what if the planet is alive and points out that if they have created life here, then they have some sort of responsibility to try and understand it, rather than destroy it. However, either no one hears the young mutant, or no one cares.
Heather blasts the crystal with plasma energy and reminds everyone that it is their ticket home. Box adds that it happens to be very near and dear to him as Highbrow uses his teleportation abilities and tells Jeffries that they will have all the crystal cleared off him in no time. Sasquatch and Apeman tear at the crystal using their physical strength as the Purple Girl asks everyone if they hear something. Vindicator declares that she hears - or rather feels - something, like and inner vibration when the crystal is destroyed.
Sasquatch tells Heather that all matter vibrates when it is struck, but that this is the first time she has seen a “chemical reaction“ bleed. Everyone stops and looks at the blood around them, as Highbrow declares that crystals don’t bleed. ‘Unless they really are…alive’ say Whit and the Purple Girl. The Purple Girl thinks that this is impossible, but has an idea, and runs towards a large mass of the crystal, and asserts that whatever lives possesses a mind, however rudimentary it might be. Kara jokes that the only advantage she has of being purple is that she can control minds, and uses her mutant power on the crystal.
However, another aspect of the Purple Girl’s power was recently revealed - the ability to merge her mind with those she seeks to control, and as Kara’s mind merges with the crystal, the experience of partaking in the thought process of such a totally alien life form can be overwhelming, and Kara passes out. Whit rushes over to his girlfriend, as Laura watches from the ship, and cries out that her friend has been hurt. With that, Laura disappears, and Goblyn rushes towards Kara, attacking the crystals around her.
Manikin holds onto Kara as she sees Goblyn attacking the crystals with the intention of saving her, but declares that she cant let her, and shouts ‘Goblyn, stop!’, however the crystal „thoughts“ are still in the dazed Purple Girl’s mind, and imparted with the command to Goblyn. The two mind merges in such a short time frame prove to be too much for the Purple Girl, and she passes out. Manikin tells Goblyn to get her furry paws off Kara as she picks her up, when suddenly Goblyn leaps away with Kara in her arms.
Vindicator swoops down and picks Manikin up and points out that Goblyn leapt away only minutes before that crystal column she saved him from would have come crashing down on all three of them. Whit asks if Goblyn saved Kara, to which Heather tells Whit that she did, adding that Kara seems to be the only Alphan that Goblyn cares about, while she may just be the death of the rest of them. Heather flies towards Goblyn, plasma charged and ready to strike the young mutant, as Kara calls out and tells Heather that she doesn’t understand, as Goblyn is trying to save them.
Sasquatch asks how it is that Goblyn is trying to save them, and as Kara tells everyone to watch, they do, and are astonished to see Goblyn rub up against the oncoming crystal like a cat, her purring matches the crystal’s vibrations. Someone announces that the crystal is withdrawing, when Kara corrects them, and reveals that the crystal is not an “it“, but a “they“, and explains that once Goblyn understood the crystal was alive, she interceded to prevent both Alpha Flight’s destruction and the destruction of the crystals.
Heather bluntly remarks that Goblyn is nothing but an unthinking animal, and Kara asks ‘just like the crystals were nothing by unthinking rocks?’ As everyone, including Goblyn, makes their way back into the Boxship Jeffries asks Kara if Goblyn would have known how to communicate with the crystals without her mind merge, to which Kara asks if it matters, pointing out that none of them could communicate with the crystals. As the Boxship takes off back into space, the Purple Girl reminds everyone of what Sasquatch said - that there are different kinds of life forms, and we cannot expect them to be like us or act like us. Kara continues, adding that especially when they were responsible for creating something, they have a responsibility to try and understand it.
Heather looks down at Goblyn, and touches the young mutant on the shoulder, telling Goblyn that she will try. Everyone looks at Heather and the surprised Goblyn, causing Heather to ask them what they are all looking at. Sasquatch points out that they are all looking at Goblyn- Box declares that if the danger that called her back from wherever she disappears to is over… ‘Why hasn’t she switched places with Laura Dean?’ shouts Kara.
Liveworld…where a pale-skinned green-haired woman wearing a red and green outfit grins, and looking into her looking globe, where Laura Dean is playing with a butterfly, declares that she shall not let anyone leave Liveworld unless she can also.


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Well, you can bet your bones it’s not on Liveworld
Space, the Final Frontier’ exclaims Madison “Box” Jeffries, who has transformed himself into a chair for his leader and lover, Heather “Vindicator” McNeil Hudson, as they streak through space in the Boxship that Jeffries designed for the team. Heather, the leader of Alpha Flight, formerly Canada’s premiere super hero team, tells her lover that he is very funny, but that she would more likely to laugh if they were safely home. Wanda “Sasquatch” Langkowski asks Heather where home exactly is, reminding them that it is not as if Alpha Flight gets shot out into space everyday, explaining that it took the full force of the metal mass of Bedlam’s complex to make Box large enough to battle Tundra, then converting most of that mass into energy to destroy Tundra that blasted Box, with Alpha inside him, spaceward in the Boxship.
‘That’s what I call a snappy synopsis!’ jokes Jeffries as Heather remarks Sasquatch may have been a trifle long-winded, but that she did point out the teams peril. Heather adds that Box has to continually convert his mass into energy if they are to get anywhere, but that his mass is finite, so when it runs out, they will be stranded in space. Heather mutters ‘Some leader I am - I can lead them into battle, but I can’t lead them home!’ Sasquatch jokes that they should break out the violins and asks Heather when it is that she is going to ease up on herself. Wanda tells Heather that she is doing fine and that she knows she will get them home.
To the side of the Alphans stand three members of Beta Flight - Whitman “Manikin” Knapp, Kara “the Purple Girl” Kilgrave and Goblyn. Holding Kara, his girlfriend, Whit points out that with Mansion Alpha destroyed, its not like they have a home to go to anyway. Kara declares that she doesn’t want to die here and turns around to face Whit. They hug as Whit tells Kara that it will be okay, because they will be together. ‘Knowing you’re going to die in good company isn’t exactly comforting, Whit,’ Kara remarks.
Sasquatch declares that no one is going to die and announces that she has a plan. She points out that the Boxship is just a variation on the Box robot, and that the Box robot is run by an intricate central processing unit. ‘That’s my brain you’re talking about!’ exclaims Jeffries, to which Wanda agrees, but points out that it is linked to a sophisticated computer, and as she adjusts the equipment aboard the Boxship, exclaims that all computers can be programmed.
Wanda asks everyone if they understand, but no one seems to, so she begins to explain, that when Jeffries phased Box into the Boxship and blasted them all off Earth, the “memory” of that flight must have been imprinted in his computer-brain programming. Heather asks why then can he just not fly them home, to which Manikin declares that he forgot the course, but that if Sasquatch is right, then the computer-brain didn’t, and shows Heather where to use her electromagnetic powers to open up the memory banks of the Boxship.
Working with some equipment, Wanda declares that with a little “brain salad surgery” they may be able to unlock the memories, to which Kara asks what will happen if they screw up. Wanda just says that she would rather have a bottle in front of her than a frontal lobotomy. ‘Intense!’ remarks the Purple Girl. When Goblyn growls, Kara asks her what has gotten into her, but Goblyn begins to skulk off somewhere in the Boxship, with Kara following her. The Purple Girl should however, be familiar enough with the newest member of Beta Flight by now to know that Goblyn’s growling usually mean danger - to her twin sister, Laura Dean.
Elsewhere, is this danger? No, it is Liveworld. Laura Dean smells a flower and smiles in this other-dimensional refuge to which Goblyn transports her sister when danger threatens on Earth, a.k.a. Deadworld. Liveworld has always been sanctuary, a safe haven - until now. The flower shoots something out of itself, knocking Laura Dean back into a river. She begins to stand up as leech-like creatures emerge from the water, so she runs, but the follow her, try to tangle her up as even the butterflies attack her.
Laura escapes the attack, rushes away from the water and looking behind herself she calls to Goblyn - only to run into a white-skinned woman’s outstretched hand. The fear on Laura’s face doubles, as the green-haired woman tells Laura it is funny she should mention her savage sister, for she is interested in her whereabouts also! The woman lifts the scared child up by the collar of her shirt and introduces herself as the Dreamqueen…Mistress of Liveworld!
The Dreamqueen informs Laura Dean that she and her sister have shared her hospitality for some time now, and all that she asks is that Laura arrange a return visit. ‘Show me how you walk between worlds…or else!’ The Dreamqueen threatens. Laura drops to the ground as she begins to declare that it is all Goblyn, when she finds a collar placed on her neck, and the Dreamqueen tugging the leash as she orders Laura Dean to summon her sister. Crying, Laura informs the Dreamqueen that it doesn’t work that way, for Goblyn only trades places with her when she is in danger. The Dreamqueen walks away, dragging Laura behind her as she points out the obvious - ‘You are, my dear, you are!’
Back aboard the Boxship, everyone turns to Goblyn as the young mutant begins foaming at the mouth and grabbing at her throat. Vindicator asks the Purple Girl why she cannot control ‘That creature’ as Manikin tells her to keep ‘It’ away from the warp-relay circuit. Kara declares that Goblyn is not an “It” and that she is not her pet, before pointing out the obvious - that something is bothering her - she is choking!
Manikin declares that perhaps her flea collar is too tight and unleashes his past and future selves. When Kara asks him what he is doing, he explains that he is unleashing them to keep their were-Betan under control. The Purple Girl tells everyone to back off as she can keep Goblyn calm, reminding everyone that Goblyn is now one of them, and asks them all why they cannot try to understand her instead of always flying off the handle. Whit declares that he is willing to understand Goblyn, but he is a little short on trusting her. Kara tells her boyfriend that that is because he has never been in her mind like she has, and never seen what she sees.
The Purple Girl uses her mind control powers on Goblyn, and merges her mind with that of Goblyn’s where she sees the Dreamqueen attacking Laura Dean. Goblyn begins to run around the room, dragging Kara around with her. ‘Pain! Danger! Laura! Dreamqueen!’ exclaims Kara, while her boyfriend is more concerned about her. Goblyn leaps right for the warp-relay circuitry, sparks begin to fly around arm-chair Alphan Box as Sasquatch asks everyone to keep her away, as the course back to Earth is being fed through now, and if Goblyn interrupts it, they could end up lost.
Sasquatch then finds herself electrocuted, as Box feels the pulse as well. Vindicator asks if they are warping home, but Whit declares that he doesn’t think so, but that something seems to be wrong. Kara’s mind merge causes Goblyn’s mind to be involuntarily merged with Box’s bionetic brain, and the course back to Earth is lost - erased, but replaced with new programming from Goblyn’s memory - a new course, elsewhere - to Liveworld.
Vindicator exclaims that this is insane and orders someone to get everyone off the warp-relay wires, but when Manikin attempts to, he too finds himself caught up in the electrocution. Heather tells Manikin that she meant one of his other selves, before Manikin passes out. The Boxship flies around Liveworld, crashing into the small floating islands. Heather flies to the large window at the front of the Boxship, seeing that they are flying directly towards the middle of a large land mass and tries to tell Box to change course. ‘Liveworld! Brrrp! Danger! Brrrp! Dreamqueen! Brrrp!’ replies the near-incapacitated Box.
Vindicator realizes that it is no use, as Box is plugged into Goblyn, meaning they are on a collision course to wherever she wants to go. She flies through the corridors of the Boxship, deciding against trying to separate them, as it could cause a deadly psychic shock. Heather knows she has to try and prevent impact, and as she tries to open an airlock, she discovers that Box is so out of it, the airlocks will not even open. Heather calls to her lover, telling him that she knows what she is about to do will hurt him, but she doesn’t have any choice - and uses her electromagnetic powers to blast a hole in the Boxship’s side.
Jeffries unleashes a mighty scream: have you ever heard a spaceship scream? Heather hovers at the hole she created while using her plasma blasts as thrusters to change the Boxship’s course. The Boxship changes course just barely, so that only a wing scrapes against the side of the large floating island. Heather flies completely out of the Boxship, pleased that she cleared the island, and ready with what she has to do next - until it is too late.
 Surgeon’s general warning: Where there’s one floating landmass, there’s most likely to be…two. The Boxship crashes hard into another landmass, splitting in two as Alphans and Betans are thrown in every direction. Goblyn growls as she emerges from some shrubbery and howls as she rushes away from her teammates. Kara manages to climb out of the river, calling to Goblyn, but when Goblyn doesn’t heed her calls, says to her ‘Good riddance’, before wondering where everyone else is.
‘Oh, just hanging around’ remarks Highbrow as he, Manikin, Apeman and Proto all cling to a tree. Sasquatch joins the Betans and asks if everyone is present and accounted for. Manikin points out that there is no sign of Vindicator and that the Boxship is now in pieces. Highbrow declares that a brief eulogy would be appropriate, but when he sees the Boxship begin to transform, he exclaims that it would be a bit premature.
‘That was the worst trip I have ever been on!’ exclaims Jeffries as he reforms his Box armor. Sasquatch catches the weakened Jeffries as he phases out of the armor, informing everyone as the rush over to him that most of the metal was vaporized in the crash, when he suddenly, spies Heather lying on the ground and informs everyone that she was underneath him when they crashed. Highbrow asks if she is alive, but as Jeffries holds onto the unmoving Heather, Sasquatch declares that they cannot tell, because they cannot turn off her battle suit’s force fields.
Not too far away, Goblyn prowls, her every sense intent on her sisters spoor. The trail is distinct, for fear hangs on the breeze like a palpable object - and the trail leads…to a particular floating island, with a large citadel upon it, and a winding staircase leading up to it.
Inside the citadel, Laura Dean is strapped to some device, telling the Dreamqueen that she doesn’t understand, as this place was her and Goblyn’s refuge. She asks the Dreamqueen what she has done to it, and the wicked woman grins, telling Laura Dean ‘whatever I wish’, and boasting that Liveworld is hers to dream and to shape. The Dreamqueen informs Laura that when Goblyn first arrived here, she dreamt her realm into a pleasant paradise where she would not feel threatened. Laura asks the Dreamqueen why she did this, to which the Dreamqueen reveals that Goblyn was the only creature, beside herself, that she did not dream into creation - she came from outside the reality.
The Dreamqueen continues her story, informing Laura that she wanted Goblyn to feel content so she would remain and therefore be able to study her at leisure, then determine who she was and where she came from - and follow her back to whatever world she came from! Stern faced, the Dreamqueen informs Laura that she is tired of dreams and that she desires new realms, real realms to experience and rule. Laura defiantly tells the Dreamqueen that she will not get Goblyn to show her the way out, but the Dreamqueen tells Laura that she will if Goblyn realizes that it is the only way to save her.
‘Save me? From what?’ asks Laura. ‘From a very, very bad dream!’ laughs the Dreamqueen as two monster-like creatures walk over to Laura. The Dreamqueen takes the creature’s masks off and reveals two human faces. She asks Laura if she recognizes her executioners - ‘Mommy! Daddy!’ exclaims Laura before her “father” Darby asks her where her mutant freak of a sister is. Laura tells her “parents” that she will not say where Goblyn is, before reminding them that she didn’t let them destroy her in the womb, and wont now. “Darby” tells his daughter that she needs to be punished and flicks a switch on the contraption she is attached to, giving her an electric shock.
Suddenly, Goblyn suddenly drops through a stained-glass window in the citadel, seeing that the creatures wear the faces of her hated parents, who tried to kill her before she was even born because she was a mutant - now she returns the favour to the creatures wearing her parents faces, by slitting their throats. Goblyn leers at the Dreamqueen, who is astonished to see both her and Laura Dean together. ‘Unprecedented!’ she exclaims, before realizing that there is more than one way to bridge barriers between worlds, and in a vision sees the members of Alpha Flight and Beta Flight, she then understands that they did not arrive in her realm unaccompanied.
The Dreamqueen looms over Goblyn and bellows that she must know how it is done, and that Goblyn must educate her. Goblyn growls, causing the Dreamqueen to ask her why she does so, and reminding her that she created a paradise for she and her sister to share. The Dreamqueen realizes that it may be less than pleasant at the moment, but that it could be a paradise again - if Goblyn is good. The Dreamqueen tells Goblyn to show her the way, asking her what allegiance she could owe to a world that tried to destroy her. Suddenly, Goblyn clamps down hard on the Dreamqueen’s hand, causing the sorceress to scream, and from the citadel causes the weather to turn foul.
The change in weather is seen by Alpha Flight, as the Purple Girl informs everyone that she senses Laura and Goblyn are very near and in extreme danger. ‘That’s all we need!’ mutters Jeffries as he phases into Box and tells Kara to lead the way.
Back in the citadel, the Dreamqueen asks Goblyn if she would dare bite the hand that sheltered and sustained her during her adversity, before telling Goblyn that while she may not serve her willingly, she can rest assured that in the end, ‘serve me you shall!’ she screams before dozens and dozens of warriors charge toward Goblyn and Laura Dean.