PREVIOUSLY IN ALPHA FLIGHT: Sasquatch and Aurora finally got married after the conclusion of the Evil Mystic Affair. All of Alpha Flight came to the wedding, including Wolverine and Northstar, the latter to tell his sister that he finally approved of the wedding and they both had his blessings. But it was not without danger, while on their honeymoon in the mountains of Canada, Walter Langkowski lost control of the beast within him and Sasquatch went on a rampage, killing several civilains. Also, the Prime Minister of Canada has ordered the thinning of the ranks of Alpha Flight's mainstay members, cutting the team in half, and Alpha's newest members are now reluctant members of the newly imposed Beta Flight. All in all, the adventure continues...

"I knew it! I knew it! I abso-fucking-lutely knew it!!"

The War Room.

The Alpha Complex.

Dawn.

"Jean-Paul, calm down, I am alive, I am fine, I am all right."

The first words came from Northstar, who was furious at Walter losing control of the Sasquatch within him. The second words came from Aurora, Walter's new wife. Walter and Jeanne-Marie were feeling horrible about the situation themselves without Jean-Paul making them feel worse.

"This is getting us nowhere," Gentry said, standing between Jean-Paul and Walter, trying his best to break up the fight that would soon ensue. "Fighting amongst ourselves will not solve things."

Walter didn't avert his gaze from Jean-Paul's narrowing eyes. "Gentry's right. We have had this argument time after time and I was a fool to think that you had changed. A leopard doesn't change its spots."

"You're right, 'Waltair'. " Jean-Paul said bitterly. He took his sister's hand and started to drag her out of the room and the Complex forever. "First thing this morning, you and Aurora are going to get an annulment from your ridiculous marriage and this little Frenchwoman is going to come live with me. She is going to say good-bye to you and Alpha Flight forever."

"No, brothair. I am the only one who can truly save ma Waltair. I have the powair to soothe his savage breast. If you want to leave Alpha, that is entirely up to you. But do not drag moi into your life of misery."

Closing his eyes, Jean-Paul changed into his Northstar costume and flew out the window.

"I'd call that one pissed off Frenchman," Kane said.

"What are you two going to do now?" Gentry asked the two lovebirds.

"Well, for starters, me and the missus is going to go on a little Canadian retreat to see if she can indeed calm me down, so to speak."

"Oui."

The ranks of Alpha Flight were dwindling and dwindling more.

After Northstar had taken his leave, Walter Langkowski had felt a little under the weather and decided to sleep it off. Aurora gave him a good nap's kiss and let him sleep in his quarters at the Alpha Complex. As soon as his head rested on the double pillows, Walter went off into dreamland.

In the dream, he had changed into Sasquatch and seemed all right, the worse for wear. He seemed to be cured of his ailment, whatever it was, that caused him to go beserk before. It was like in his previous glory days when he had been first recruited by the Hudsons. He walked, as Sas, through the halls of the Alpha Complex, apparently looking for Aurora. They were to go on a date tonight. Maybe catch a movie or just dinner at a local pub. Molson's sounded fine by him.

Alphans passed him in the hall. He waved to them and engaged in casual conversation. Mac passed him. It was as if he had never been atomized in the basement of the Twin Towers back in 1984. His wife Heather was wearing her Vindicator costume. It was as if the P.M. had never decommissioned it and her. Puck was the same dwarf that he ever was.

At the end of the hall was Aurora.

No, it wasn't Aurora.

It was prim and proper Jeanne-Marie.

She wore thick reading glasses and her long silvery hair was tied back in a tight bun. This wasn't the woman that he had married. He thought that that incarnation of Miss Beaubier was forever gone. He thought that she had melded all two of her personalities to form a third one.

"Monsieur Langkowski," she purred. "I am yer new wife. Say hullo to the new and improved Jeanne-Marie Beaubier."

"NOOOOOO!!!!!"

With a single swipe of his claws, Walter, no now he was Sasquatch, cut his wife to ribbons.

Sweating, Walter woke up.

"What is eet, Waltair?" Jeanne-Marie asked as she entered his room.

"I had a horrid dream. It was about Sasquatch. I think we better talk to Mac about this."

"Oui. I believe that you are right."

In recent years, there has been a need for organizations like SHIELD, where normal powered individuals could handle the super human threats to society that the super heroes couldn't handle all by their lonesome. One such organization is called SAFE, which is an acronym for Strategic Action For Emergencies. They are equipped with the most high tech weaponry and are clothed in tight leather and spandex like SHIELD.

Its director was Colonel Sean Morgan and its two prominent members were Major Nefertiti Jones and the double agent Joshua Ballard. Right now, Morgan assembled his team of SAFE agents in his office in New York City. A new crisis has presented itself. A super powered paranormal one, at that.

"I called you two here today," Sean Morgan said, biting on his lip. As always, he had a serious expression on his face. "because there is a new threat to the United States. Lights, please."

Ballard dimmed the lights and Morgan started the slide projector. First there was an image of a man in a ninja's costume. His face was covered with a ninja's mask, revealing his eyes and the bridge of his nose. His eyes were slanted so all concerned recognized as someone who was of Japanese descent.

"This is Kamikaze. Of recent years he has become a member of Alpha Flight, the Canadian parahuman force team."

Next slie. This was a group shot of the classic line up of Alpha Flight. They all looked primed for battle. Kamikaze, Guardian, Vindicator, Puck, Madison Jeffries, Diamond Lil, Northstar, Aurora, Sasquatch, Shaman, Talisman, and Snowbird.

"For over a year he has been a member of the team. He has fought by their side but what they know and what we have just found out is that before he joined the team, he was a criminal. He was part of AIM's paranormal strikeforce. He kidnapped all members of Alpha Flight and delivered them to the Scientist Supreme, in order to duplicate their powers."

"I don't see the problem, sir," Jones said. "His days of a terrorist are over, aren't they?"

"We don't know that for sure. In the President's fight against terrorists and bringing the terrorist regimes to justice in a court of law, he wants us to apprehend Kamikaze and put him on trial for his crimes against the world."

The Alpha Complex, Sasquatch's Lab

"Tell it to me from the top," James Macdonald Hudson said, present in the lab, wearing a doctor's lab coat over his casual clothing. The honeymoon of Sasquatch and Aurora was cut short because Walter was suffering from the beast within him getting out of control. He came back to Alpha Flight to rid himself of this problem. "And leave out no details."

"The thing is, Guardian, I don't have any recollection of what really went on there."

"Why don't you tell me what you do remember."

"Well, Jeanne-Marie and I went on our honeymoon in greater Canada. I was picking some firewood and then I was staring at the moon. It was beating down on me. I felt hot and sweating and I felt myself start to change. It was weird because I was out of control. The next thing I knew I was with Jeanne-Marie and she told me all the horrible things I had done."

Hudson turned to Walter's new bride, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier. She was quiet thus far, listening to every word her husband spoke to their mutual friend.

'Well, Jeanne-Marie, can you fill in the gaps?"

"Oui, I think so, Monsieur Guardeen. I found Waltair and more appropriately he found me. He was chasing me as if he was ready to hunt me. Then, I stumbled upon a group of friendly picnickers and Waltair, he-he-slaughtered them. Mauled them into tiny little pieces."

Hudson rubbed his chin in afterthought. "Well, it looks like to me that the radiation that you first subjected yourself to is playing havoc with your system and mind. I may have to give you some radiation treatment and draw some of the radiation from your body so that it won't affect your mind any more. But the problem is that it may mutate you more into something even more strange."

Walter put a hand on Hudson's shoulder. "At this point, I'm ready to try anything."

"Oui. I agree with Waltair. WE should go ahead and do it."

'Good. I knew you'd feel this way. We'll start on Monday at nine am. Right now, though, don't change into your bestial form because we don't know what the side effects will be. And after the treatment, if they are any side efefcts, please tell me."

'You got it. Thank you, James."

"Oui. We both thank you."

"Now, you kids start acting like a newly married couple."

The two newlyweds laughed and exited the lab.

The apartment was shabby, to say the least. It could be considered to be Spartan, indeed. Harada was not impressed but since he quit Alpha Flight, he needed a place to stay in greater Canada. He was an immigrant here from far off Japan but he thought that Canada was his home now.

"And what a home it is," Kamikaze said, smiling wryly to himself at his little joke. "I may not have had an easy time in Alpha flight, but this life has sure to be much better than working a fragmented team where bad jokes and insults are the better part of valor. I started off as a loner and I may as well end up as one.'

There was the clicking and clacking of guns being locked into the chambers. He expected to get a warm welcome when he returned to his apartment but not like this. He saw, as he turned around, several government agents surrounding him in the living room. He didn't recognize who they were and what organization they belonged. They could be SHIELD, for all he cared.

"Who the hell are you?" he asked the leader of the men.

Sean Morgan stepped forward. He had a dour expression across his face, as if he wasn't in the mood for jokes. 'We are SAFE. And we have been hired by the President of the United States to place you into the Vault. You are under arrest for the crimes you have committed while hired by AIM."

"You have got to be kidding. I was cleared of that. Guardian accepted me as one of their own.'

"Do you have that pardon in writing?"

"Well, no, but that-"

'Then, it's not valid. You will come with us either way. Is it going to be the easy way or the hard way?"

Kamikaze could easily kill all three of these people but what would be the point? He would much rather put this aspect of his life behind him.

"The easy way, I guess."

The Vault

Kamikaze sat in his prison cell awaiting his trial, which knowing the legal system in the states could be years from now. He would have liked to stay in Alpha Flight but that was a pipe dream away. He would also have liked to stay in love with Lillian but that was just not meant to be.

He pondered his fate and took inventory of his new situation. Maybe this was his fate. He didn't think that a Japanese ninja assassin who worked as a member of AIM could have stayed in hiding forever on the side of the heroes for long.

He was thrown out of Alpha because the P.M. didn't like Guardian adding new members without tossing out the old ones. He never would have thought that it would be American agents, non-powered ones, who would be his eventual undoing.

He laid down on his cot and prepared to go to sleep. Maybe sleeping would clear out the cobwebs in his pain-wracked brain.

Then, there was a big explosion and the wall opposite his cot broke open to reveal the Jade Dragon. Dei Guan was in his dragon form and the rest of the new Beta Flight was there too.

"What the devil do you think you're doing?" Kamikaze asked fervently.

"We are here to bring about your deliverance."

"You can do this!! You can't brake me out of jail just because you think I got a bum rap. What will Guardian and Mr. Gentry say about this?"

"Kamikaze, they ordered us to do this. There is no reason why the Americans should be interested in you. This is an international incident. Now, there is no time for discussion. We must be on our way."

Kamikaze nodded.

The police officers and the Guardsmen who guarded this place from invaders rushed to the origin of the sound and coming explosion. They started to fire their weapons at the Betans and at Kamikaze.

Kamikaze threw some gas grenades at them, and as they choked from the noxious fumes, Kamikaze and the Betans disappeared under the cover of night.