Early that morning, after everyone had arrived within the large conference room, Mr. Gentry had brought the emergency meeting of Alpha Flight to order. The subject: to decide whether or not Kamikaze should be inducted into the Flight. There were a lot of arguments against him. The main reason was that he was once a criminal who wanted nothing less than the death of the Flight. Mr. Gentry admitted himself that he had his doubts if Kamikaze could be a productive member of the team.

At the head of the table, with his hands firmly planted on it Gentry stood. "Okay, it is no surprise why I have summoned you here today, at this godawful hour. Diamond Lil came to me early yesterday to petition me for Kamikaze--which I might remind her was recently a former enemy of the Flight, incapacitating most of the team for AIM's ends, no less--could be a member of our team. So, I guess she has the floor for now. Diamond Lil, it's all yours."

"Thank you, Mr. Gentry." Diamond Lil stood up from her place at the table and walked to the front to plead her case. "From the moment that Kamikaze first attacked Madison and I within our humble abode, I had the feeling that his heart just wasn't in this whole AIM business. As you are all aware, Kamikaze was a former paid assassin. He has been on this career path for most of his life and hadn't known any other kind of life. I believe he can be reformed."

There were hushed whispers amongst her fellow Alphans. Diamond Lil sighed and continued with her speech.

"Now, before any of you jump to conclusions, I have to remind you that I was once a member of Omega Flight, along with Wild Child. If we can be reformed, then I believe so can he. Now, I would like to turn the floor over to our, possibly, new member, Kamikaze. Kamikaze?"

The ninja didn't bother to stand up. He merely slouched in his comfortable chair and spoke his mind. "As you know, I had a chance to speak with Lillian. She convinced me that we could battle from now to the end of time with no quarter given. It would be pointless for us to fight. I believe I can help you be a better and improved Alpha Flight."

"Excuse me?" Madison asked.

"Simply put, I defeated you, Mr. Jeffries, Lillian, Sasquatch, Aurora, and Puck with comparative ease. You people need to be on your toes should another villain attack you who has similar fighting skills as mine. You would fall by the wayside. I think I can train you to be the best fighting force in the world."

Madison stood up, his face red with rage. "How dare you--? Who do you think you are, telling us who we are and how to fight? You just had beginner's luck, accordin' to m'book. If you weren't equipped with those gas grenades, we could have taken you in time."

"Time is a commodity you do not have."

"And what's that supposed to mean, mon ami?" Aurora posed this question.

"We all know that AIM is probably gathering their forces and planning their next move. You have to be prepared. If I could defeat you, you don't know who else can."

"I think we should put this to a vote," Gentry said.

Everyone except Madison nodded in agreement. Madison was too angry to do anything but rant.

Kamikaze's induction was brought to a vote and after a significant amount of hands were raised in his favor, Mr. Gentry turned to the ninja, smiling. "Congratulations, Kamikaze. Welcome to Alpha Flight but be assured that you will have to go through a training session with Madison Jeffries at the helm. He helps train us all. However I don't see any reason why you can't offer insights into how this team could be better. I-"

Suddenly, a klaxon was heard within the conference room and a telecommunication display sparked to life. Gentry turned on the monitor. A police officer's voice could be heard in the entire room, " Mr. Gentry, we need Alpha Flight immediately in downtown Toronto. Several of our citizens have gone on rampages, pillaging, looting, and burning the city. We need your help. Please--"

"We're right on it. Gentry out." The Director of Department H turned the display off and faced his team. "Okay, you heard the man, team."

"Shaman, Kamikaze, and Diamond Lil," Guardian said. "You'll cover this crisis. The rest of the team will be backup. You wanted a chance to prove yourself, Kamikaze. Well, this is it."

"I would be honored." Kamikaze pulled his mask over his face and joined the two other members of the Toronto team.

After the meeting was over, Gentry announced that the rest of the team deserved and would receive a well-earned vacation. To some, it meant some R & R, and to others, it meant that they would continue work as usual, noting that they didn't trust any form of vacation.

Guardian walked through the main conference room to Alphanex, where Vindicator was typing in the latest reports from their affair with AIM and the files on their newest member, Kamikaze.

"How are things holding up on this end?" he asked of his former wife.

"Pretty much as can be expected," she answered sweetly. "As you mentioned in London, we are not that much closer to solving this AIM mystery. What we need to know is what their experiments were and how they incorporated it into their own evil machinations."

"And what about Kamikaze?"

"He is almost as much a mystery as Wolverine was when we first recruited him. A man possessed of a killer instinct and a berserker fury that few can contain, besides Lillian. We will have to keep an eye on him at all times. It's a good thing that you sent her with him on that mission to Toronto. Along with Shaman."

"I knew you'd agree with my judgement."

Then, Gentry burst into the conference room, with urgency on his face. "Quick, assemble the team. We've got trouble."

Guardian was ready for action and also disappointed that the start of their vacation had been abruptly interrupted. He said, "Okay, Gentry, what's the big idea? I don't know about the rest of us but for the briefest of times, I was beginning to enjoy myself."

The rest of Alpha Flight was seated at the large circular table with a look of despair on their faces. Without another word spoken, Guardian took his place at the table and listened to what the director had to say.

"That's enough, Hudson. I just got a message from our superhuman police band again. It looks like a group of super beings, with the notion that they are the true Alpha Flight, has made their first appearance. I want you to check it out and prove them wrong."

"Gotcha, Gentry. I'll take Sasquatch and Vindicator with me. That should be enough to deal with this menace. Where are they located?"

"An abandoned warehouse in Ontario. "

"We're on it."

The Omnijet landed in downtown Ontario and immediately, the Alpha Flight team burst out of its hatch. Guardian left it in a hovering position, so that when they finished this fight, they could fly right out of there.

"What's our plan of attack?" Langkowski asked, changing into his Sasquatch form. "Walk right in?"

"No," Guardian answered confidently, "We crash in."

"Sounds effective to me," Vindicator offered.

"Then, let's do it!"

Guardian used electro-magnetic pulses to smash the entranceway of the abandoned warehouse, shattering the metal and wood timber that lined it, providing them a clear path. He flew in first, accompanied by the other two members of the Core team. To him, Langkowski looked like he was ready to crack some heads. This was the Alpha Flight that he was quite used to, minus Puck and Shaman, and he was glad it was up and running. Even though he accepted Vindicator's role in Alpha during his long absence, he never quite got used to it.

"What the?!" Guardian stopped completely in his stride when he saw himself in his early Alpha Flight costume in his identity as Weapon Alpha. In those days, most of his activity was directed toward putting Wolverine in his place. His current costume was a dark counterpart to that early attire. Next to him was Aurora, attired in her first costume. And finally, there was Puck, Eugene Milton Judd, also in his original costume.

"Hudson, tell me I'm seeing things," Sasquatch said, stunned at this recent turn of events.

"No, Walter, it seems that someone has concocted a version of ourselves from our very past. I fear for the outcome," Vindicator explained to her teammates and especially, Langkowski.

"What should we do now, boss-man?" Sasquatch asked.

"Attack them, of course!"

As Guardian soared into the air, preparing himself for battle, Sasquatch whispered to his one female companion, "Oh, he makes it sound so easy."

"Don't lag behind," Vindicator said, also taking to flight in her inimitable way.

Sasquatch vs. Puck. "A variation on what I told Flashback back in the days of Omega Flight still holds true for you, Sas," Puck related to him as he cartwheeled into action, "Except for being very hirsute, you don't have a whole lot going for you!"

Boy, are you in for a big surprise, Puckie, thought Sasquatch, as he steeled himself against the dwarfish Faux Alphan's attack. But before he connected with the 'hirsute' Canadian, Puck ducked underneath the taller of the two, lifting him in the air, hurling him against some crates marked 'Fragile'.

Or not, he mused.

"Since when did you become so strong, Puck?" Sasquatch answered in retaliation, as he got himself up and charged again into battle, this time he hoped less foolhardily. "Or your double. Whichever applies to you, my friend."

As he tossed the many crates aside, Sasquatch saw that the faux Puck was quick to respond to his threats. This time, he wouldn't let Puck take advantage of his size and throw it back at him. "Now, let's try that li'l number again," Sas said to his foe.

When Sasquatch reached out with his hand to grab Puck, the dimunitive Alphan took hold of the furry Alphan's arm, swinging him this way and that and finally, crashing him against a metal pole. To an ordinary man, that blow would have sent him to unconsciousness but to Sasquatch, it just knocked the wind out of him.

"That was barely a tickle on the annoyance scale," Sasquatch said, as he swiftly recovered. "You're gonna have to do better than that, pal."

"I think not, eh?"

Before Sasquatch had a chance to react, Puck jumped on top of him, throwing punches in the general direction of his face. Repeatedly, he hurled punch after punch, as the orange-hued behemoth spit blood and drool all over his fur.

Eventually, the blows were too hard to take and Sasquatch slipped into unconsciousness and that forced his rapid change back into Walter Langkowski.

Score one for the Faux Alpha Flight.

Vindicator vs. Aurora. "I'm not surprised that you couldn't hack it as leader of the Flight," Aurora said, hovering over Vindicator. "Anyway, Mac makes a better leader than you could ever hope to be."

"You no-good-" Vindicator responded, launching herself into attack mode. "For your info, Aurora, I only became leader after Mac 'died' (for the first time) because there was no one else capable to take the job. Though I still think Puck could do just as a good a job as any of us. But you're one to talk, with your conflicting personalities, I'm surprised they haven't locked you up yet."

"Shut up, just you shut up! Aurora ees in control now! Not weak and timid, Jeanne-Marie!"

"We'll see about that, 'ma cherie'!" With that spoken, Vindicator flew circles around the hovering Aurora, throwing geo-thermal pulses around her, hoping against hope to bring her down. Her plan of attack was all in vain as Aurora soared out of the hurled pulses and regrouped to plan her own attack on the hardly defenseless Vindicator.

"I am not your cherie, that ees reserved for Waltair," Aurora said, as she stopped her flight mere feet from the former Alpha leader. Then, all in a matter of seconds, she released a flood of pure white light that blinded Vindicator for seconds at a minumum and minutes at a maximum.

In this time, Vindicator had time to take complete inventory of the faux Aurora that had seemed intent on attacking her for no reason besides existing on the same team. Even though she was clothed in her original costume, she exhibited powers that were comparable to when she wore her second, white and yellow attire that she provided for herself. Her personality was definitely the third that Langkowski detected during the first years of her leadership.

It took a couple seconds for the spots and colored lights to fade from view, until she could rightfully see again. During her disorientation, Aurora didn't move from her flying position, as if she were a computer gauging her strengths and weaknesses. That had to be it, she thought. This Aurora, in fact all members of this Faux Alpha Flight, were more than mere imposters, but robots of some sort. Highly developed robots, at that.

Then, Aurora released another light show to rival the previous one, knocking Vindicator down for the count.

Score two for the Faux Alpha Flight.

Guardian vs. Guardian? (Again?!?) "Heather! Walter!!"

"It seems that you, James Macdonald Hudson, are all that is left of your team. As we both told Wolverine in the early days of the Flight, 'Weapon Alpha always gets his man.' And that includes you, Mr. Hudson."

"Let's cut the charade, Weapon Alpha or Guardian or whatever fancy name you want to call yourself to impersonate me, shall we? You might as well get on with your villain's monologue, so we can end this fight once and for all." Guardian let go of his force field to show his imposter that he was of a mind to talk it out rather than fighting.

"We are a team of new warriors that, along with the Scientist Supreme and his faction, Advanced Idea Mechanics, will take over this paltry planet, this orb of life, this earth. Other plans than the simple destruction of Alpha Flight through their doppelgangers are afoot. I am not at liberty to divulge such information."

"That's no surprise," Guardian hissed between clenched teeth. "So, AIM is up to its old tricks again. Why do American criminals have it in for us?"

"That I am, also, not at liberty to divulge to you." The Faux Guardian paused. "But what I am at liberty to tell you is that we, as products of AIM, are going to keep you guessing as to our next move. Where we would attack and when, etc. Farewell, Guardian of Alpha Flight."

"Wait, don't-"

Before Guardian could stop him, all members of the Faux Alpha Flight vanished into thin air, probably using their Teleportals, leaving two wounded Alphans and one confused leader of the Flight.