“Attack Alpha Flight!!” the Master of the World screams at the top of his lungs, being the leader of his special brand of team mates, Omega Flight. He was once a caveman who came across the ship of the Plodex, an ancient race of aliens who wanted nothing more than to conquer the planet Earth in its infancy. But the certain tendrils of the ship’s opening hatch caught him in its snare and bathed him in the light and the glory that is the Plodex.

It mutated him. Tore him apart. And made him a better man, a forever man, who would outlast most of humankind. He was well on his way. He was encased in metal and machinery, years before such devices were dreamt up of. He was all computer, he was perfect. Except for one simple flaw. His humanity. He was humane. He was still human, a man, not a machine. He could think, but not as fast as the computer technology that bore him. He was borne again.

And this was his last stand. In the world that he was banished to by the chosen one, the Talisman. Elizabeth Twoyoungman, the indian girl who wore the mystical tiara around her brow. She is a bitch, and a member of the famed and infamous Alpha Flight. Barring her father, the magickal Shaman, she is probably the most powerful member of the team.

And before he and Omega Flight dies here in Live World, he wants his revenge. Against the team that has thwarted all of his efforts to reclaim world domination to the Plodex Race.

Live World. He nearly spat its name out. He hated this place, its barrenness, its desoluteness, its deadness. That is all what the Dream Queen, who by the way, is still on Earth, in Canada, wreaking her havoc. How appropriate. Only the ruler of a dead world would want to be as far from it as possible.

“YAAAHHHH!!!” Strong arm screamed, the Master’s right-hand man, who was also as strong and muscle bound as his namesake denoted. “I’ll see you in hell, Flight!”

Strong Arm launched himself into battle, nearly pouncing on the much stronger Sasquatch. In a fight scene as poetic as this, Walter Langkowski dare not let himself be seen in his human form, relenting to his bestial one. They traded punches, blow for blow, right and left jabs to the head of each. They really took a beating and didn’t want to give up until the other one, the loser of course, was down and beaten.

Guardian blasted Strong Arm in the stomach with an EM pulse, knocking against a petrified tree. The tree fell down, broken in half, by the impact. “Listen, people, we are not going to fight you. The only way we can get out of here is if we work together.”

“And I think I may have the answer,” the Master of the World said. “In my Plodex ship…” 

Madison Jeffries has been a member of Alpha Flight for a lot of long years, more than he cares to remember. He would love to be fighting alongside his team-mates but his wife Lillian Crawley denied him that right. She wanted a family, the birth of their child. She has had enough of that life and wants to just be together with her husband.

But when Maddie walked into the Alpha Complex, with Alpha Flight already there, he knew something was wrong. They didn’t seem to be acting like the way they usually were.

Guardian was the first one to react. He seemed to be actually afraid of Mr. Jeffries. That is not surprising because Guardian was wearing a suit of armour and Madison could control anything metal. He was a transmutator of metal, while his brother Lionel, the mutant called Scramble, was a transmutator of flesh. Nasty business.

Madison tried something that he tried on a Faux Guardian a long time ago. The first time that he came across the Flight after he quit it to go solo. He was a member of Gamma Flight, that secondary Flight. Now, his brother was a founding member of that team.

He turned Guardian inside out. He took his innards and made him throw it up through his mouth. Guardian was nothing but metal. He was a robot, or in other words, he was a member of the Faux Alpha Flight. That meant that all of these Flighters were faux.

‘What have you done with the real Alpha Flight ??” Madison yelled at the top of his lungs. “Where are they ?!” he screamed, as he ripped through the Faux AF, tearing through their innards and left them for dead ( repair?).

“I guess that answers that,” Lillian said. She was holding her stomach as all pregnant women do. “Sorry I couldn’t help you, Maddie. But I’m preggers.”

“That’s alright, Lil. I think I know who caused this. White Light and Llan and his army. We just have to find them.”

“Maybe we should contact Talisman.”

“Nah. White Light will come when he feels like attacking us. But we will be ready for him.”

Suddenly, there was a nimbus of energy in the center of the room. Sparks started to fly and figures started to appear. Madison and Lillian adjusted their eyes to the bright light and saw the full Alpha Flight team materialize in the room.

“You’re back!” He said. “You’re home!”

Guardian said, “But we didn’t come alone.”

As Alpha Flight separated, they all saw the Master and Omega Flight. “Thank you for a glorious fight with your team and mine,” the Master retorted. “But as you explained to us, it was not necessary as we had a common goal.”

“I would call this a truce,” Guardian said, shaking the Master’s hand. “Now, go. And I don’t want to see you guys for a long time.”

The Master pressed a stud on his belt buckle and he and his team disappeared.

Madison looked surprised. “What was that all about?”

“Never mind. It’s a long story. But the short of it is that we both were trapped on Live World. The Master used his Plodex ship to get us home.”

“What are we going to do about White Light?” Sasquatch asked kindly. “Last thing I remember is we were fighting him and beating him.”

“He’s just a glutton for punishment…” 

Madison Jeffries’ apartment 



“I have something to tell you that you may not want to hear, Lil,” Maddie said in the privacy of their bedroom. She was lounging on their bed, listening to every word that her husband had to say. She knew that it was hard for him to talk to her about certain matters of the heart so it was important for her to give a listening ear.

Lillian reached out her hand to touch her hubbie’s callused ones. “Whatever you have to say, it is all right. I am here for you. I am willing to listen to you. But then, it can’t be all that bad.”

“What I have to say is…” Maddie continued, after a long pause. “That I am going to find my old friend, Roger Bochs, the robotic champion called Box. I know what you are going to say, that he may not want to be found, but I feel that there is still some good in him, after he was brainwashed by both Bedlam and Jaxon.”

“Roger may not want to leave his compatriots and friends in the newly instated Gamma Flight,” Lil said, trying to appeal to his sense of rightness and goodness, even though he had plenty of that residing within his mind and body. “Remember that your revived brother is there, also, within those ranks. Lionel Jeffries is quite insane. But that if you had the ability to alter flesh at will, you might be too.”

“That is another reason why I am going there to find Roger, also. My brother needs to be in a comfortable environment because he is still unbalanced.” Madison turned his back to his wife, releasing her hand from his. He couldn’t face her. He knew that what he proposed to her was quite crazy itself but it was something that he felt he had to do. “I know I must sound like Mac fra second there. But I have to do this. They need to be shown the error of their ways.”

“What are going to do about Flashback and Smart Alec?” Lil posed a concerned question.

“That is why I am going, and not someone dangerous like Shaman. If Smart Alec doesn’t peer inside the pouch of Shaman, then we have no more problems.” This memory brought back reminescences of the past. Not happy ones, too. But then, he was on the run from his induction in the original Gamma Flight in the period after Department H lost its funding by Gary Cody. It wasn’t until Delphine Courtney, or the robotic form thereof, had nearly defeated Alpha flight in the form of the late, lamented Guardian and Madison had caught up with her and turned her inside out. (As he had done to the Faux Alpha Flight, recently.) “I will reform them, too. And I want you to come with me.”

“WHAT??!!” Lil was astounded. She was nearly speechless.

Maddie turned to face her again. He placed his hands on her shoulders. “Don’t overact, Lil. I know what you are thinking. You are preggers. You shouldn’t be moving in your condition but there is another reason why I want you to come with me...”

“What is it?’ she asked gently.

Madison folded his arms across his chest. “I don’t want to leave you alone with Kamikaze. I still don’t trust him.”

Lillian’s concerned look turned to a deeper frown. “No way. I applaud you for wanting to reform your brother and best friend and the others, but I don’t think that I am the right person to accompany you. I will help them to adjust to being on a team for good but I can’t go wit’ you.”

“I had a feeling you would say that. I’ll be takin’ one o’ the Omnijets. Wish me luck.” Madison grabbed some luggage that he had already spent time packing.

“I love ya,” she said, as they locked lips for a time.