“I came over because I was worried about you, Rog,” Maddie said. “I as talking to Aurora and she aid that you were quite mean to her. That you literally told her off. What's the deal, Bochsie?”

As he did with Aurora before, Roger turned his back to Jeffries and wheeled over to his closet. He opened it. And they both saw his new and improved Box armour. “Phase in,” he shouted, and did just that. Now he was armed with deadly weapons and ready to attack.

“I thought that Liz freed you of the Dream Queen’s influence. What the devil d’ya think yer doing?”

“Killing you of course. You’re a man while I am only half a man. I lost my limbs. I can never have a real woman like Aurora ever again. While you have Lillian, I have nothing.” He aimed his machine gun at Madison and fired. The range of bullets and lasers missed Jeffries completely, blasting the front door off its hinges.

“Whoa. You mean business. Let me help you with that.” Madison used his tramsnutating powers over anything metal to redirect the bullets back at Box.

Bochs reeled back from the onslaught. He fell into the closet, losing his balance. “You’re tough, Jeffries. I almost forgot about your powers. You’re the only one who could really destroy me.” He finally stood up.

Then, a woman with a costume on and a trenchcoat over it entered the room and punched Box in the torso, denting him.

“Lil, you could have hurt yerself. Yer preggers, ‘member?” Madison said in broken English.

“Yer right. But no two-bit tinkerer in metal is gonna waste ma hubbie.” Diamond Lil rubbed her hand where she had punched the new villain. “I know I’m invulnerable to harm, but that kinda hurt.”

“I think I know how to solve this mess,” Madison said. “Phase out.” Madison touched his hands to the Box armour and phased out Roger Bochs. He carried him to his wheel chair and place him in it.

“What’s wrong wit’ ya, Bochsie?” Madison asked. “Yer crazy, man. Yer just as crazy as the one that died.”

Suddenly, there was a crowd of people in the doorway that was wondering what exactly was going on. Some of them were members of Alpha Flight and Scramble was there, also.

“What’s going on?” Lionel said. He ran over to where Bochs was in his wheelchair and festering over his next plan of attack. “I’m a doctor. I can help him.”

“I’m afraid he’s beyond help,” Maddie replied.

Talisman stepped forward. “This has gone on far enough. I am going to transport you and the rest of Gamma Flight to your normal dimension.”

Flashback, Smart Alec, Scramble, and Roger Bochs were gathered all together. Talisman waved her hands in the air, performed some kind of Indian incantation and after a blast of white light, they vanished.

“They are all from the past, our past, where Bedlam diverged it. When they return, they will eventually die in the near future, especially Scramble and Box. There is nothing that we can do to prevent, we can only mourn them as friends do when someone dies close to us,” Talisman said, morbidly.

“Uh, Liz?” Dei Guan said, raising his hand. “I was wondering if you could transport me back to China. I was thinking of rejoining China Force. They may be tough cookies but they only tried to kill us when they were under the control of Dream Queen.”

‘Wait,” Marrina said, approaching Dei Guan and putting her arms around him for a slight hug. “I know that we could never be together since I am married to Namor. But I had fun and a great time being on the same team as you for a shirt while. I will miss you, Jade Dragon.”

Marrina kissed him on the cheek, squeezed him, and then let go.

“Good-bye, Marrina, Alpha Flight,” Dei Guan said, as Talisman made him disappear and he was back in China at the HQ of China Force in no time.

“Well?” Guardian asked. “Is there anyone else that wants to leave Alpha Flight?”
“I feel that is my cue,” Kamikaze said, stepping forward.

“Et tu, Harada?” Lil asked. “I thought that you would be one of the ones to stay on the team.”

“I am not leaving on a permament level, Lillian. I will remnain as a reserve member for the time being, but there is business for me to conduct in Japan. With my confrontation with Captain America recently, I realized that there is a lot of I have to know and learn about my father, the first ‘Kamikaze’. I will like to learn all I can about him before I continue on the team.”

Lil extended her hand for Harada to shake it. “I would hug you like Marrina did to the Jade Dragon, but Madison is right next to me, and I don’t think he would approve.”

“I understand, Lillian.” Harada shook her hand and then approached Talisman.

“Where in Japan, Mr. Harada?” Liz asked. “I have to know specific coordinates, please.”

“How about Tokyo? The place of my birth and my father’s birth.”

“Then, Tokyo it is.” Talisman gestured wildly and Kamikaze vanished.

“My work here is done,” Elizabeth Twoyoungman said, seriously.

“Daughter, you don’t have to leave,” Shaman said. “You could join the team again.”

“No, Guardian has enough problems with enough members on the team. I would only get in the way. When Llan makes his move, then you may call on me, and I will aid you. Until that time, it is best if I remain in hiding.”

“Where will you be, chosen one?” Snowbird asked.

Talisman paused. “Somewhere, elsewhere. I don’t know. I think I will meditate on the coming of the end of the world as we know it.”

Talisman gestured and then she vanished.

“Well, who’s up for a brewskie, eh?” Puck said. “I’m buyin’.”

Clothed in his street civvies, Jan-Paul Beaubier flew over the Canadian skyline toward his sister’s apartment that she shared with her newly married husband Walter Langkowski. They were very much in love, but Northstar had disapproved of that marriage, nay the relationship entire, since its inception. Jean-Paul is gay and he disapproves of each and every man that Aurora brings home.

Sad but true.

But Northstar didn’t have matters of the heart onhis mind at the very moment, but instead a mission that included some of the Alpha Flight’s parts to fight for a common enemy. He has been under cover for a time now investigating the terrorist group that he was once a part of. The Separatiste Terrorists in French Canada.

He arrived at the apartment. He saw them through an open window, snuggling and cuddling and nuzzling on each other’s ears and neck. How they could romance and woo each other with their amorous ways while the world waits at bay he did not know.

He slowly climbed through the window and entered the apartment, scaring them half to death.

“Jesus H. Christ Northstar!!” Walter yelled at the top of his lungs in surprise. “What the devil are you doing here?”

“Oui, brothair,” Aurora replied. “What do you want? I thought you hated both Alpha Flight and us?”

“It is time for us to put our differences aside,” he said firmly. “And defeat a common enemy.”

“And what enemy is that, Northstar?” Walter said, changing into the feral monstrosity known as Sasquatch. “And tell me why I shouldn’t beat you to a pulp for breaking and entering here?”

“I come in peace, Walter. It seems that my former terrorist allies, the Separatiste, are trying to cause a rebellion and revolt in greater Canada. I need you and my sister’s help to put them behind bars where they belong.”

“You seem to have a noble cause, and so far you haven’t insulted me or my wife. And since Alpha Flight is pretty much calm since that White Light/ Faux Alpha Flight Affair there is no reason why we shouldn’t accompany you on your little mission of diplomacy. What do you say, Jeanne-Marie?”

Mrs. Langkowski smiled, already changed into her Aurora costume and ready for action. ‘I say, oui. Let’s go.”

“I have to warn you, tho, that their new leader is Caliber.”