after providing rescue efforts for victims of the disaster, guardian ejects nerkodd from the country by dumping him off the coast of cape race. once nerkodd is defeated and repelled, alpha flight returns to their headquarters and are betrayed by gary cody and his newly elected unity party. to make things worse, vindicator has sided with him. it is shown that six weeks ago, guardian and vindicator were unable to regain custody of their child claire. in the present, marrina is dehydrated, sasquatch's gamma energy is drained enough for him to revert to his human form of walter langkowski, and aurora and snowbird are taken down as well. while bringing guardian to the box units for imprisonment, vindicator is ambushed by puck. after knocking out vindicator, puck tells guardian that he had just returned to life after his fight with ba'al.