Alpha Flight #1

Guardian, Vindicator and Puck all wake from strange nightmares which have an impact on their past. Judd’s causes him to return home from where he was living on the streets, and awaiting him is a strange message on his answer phone, one that informs him his former teammate Guardian went missing. Judd departs to tell Heather, who is now working at a florist after Alpha Flight’s disbanding. Heather, who is now separated from Mac, at first doesn’t want to get involved with anything to do with Alpha Flight or Department H but after reminiscing, the duo has no choice, when they are kidnapped by Epsilons, agents of the new and improved Department H. Much to Heather’s disgust, upon waking up at Department H, they learn that General Clarke is their direct contact and co-ordinator. He reveals to them why they were abducted, due to terrorist action, but informs them also that a super team known as the Zodiac are also involved. Heather is surprised to learn that Madison Jeffries, her former lover and teammate is among the new Alpha Flight line-up, and is horrified when she sees the state of long time Alphan and friend Sasquatch, whose metal capacity has severely diminished. The biggest shock of all comes when Mac is revealed as the new team leader, and that he has been de-aged to nineteen years old. Heather and Judd are introduced to the new Alpha Flight members - Radius, Manbot, Murmur and Flex, and begin their training, Heather gets used to the new super suit designed for her, one that controls geothermics. Arriving at the location of the Zodiac and the terrorists, who are threatening Canada with chemical attacks, Guardian, Heather and Judd argue about tactics, and the team fights badly against the Zodiac. In the process, Jeffries is kidnapped by the Zodiac, but not before Flex maims Taurus, and Virgo is sent to Paris by Murmur. After the Zodiac teleport away, the chemical weapons are disabled by Manbot, who had been recording the entire mission. At Department H, Heather and Judd quit, but are stunned before they manage to leave, while Scorpio and his new Zodiac are revealed to have been working for Department H on that mission. Meanwhile, Japanese super hero Sunfire is denied entry into Canada, and when he tries to fly across into it from the United States, he is shot down by Department H Epsilons.