Alpha Flight
Alpha Flight is Canada's very own superhero team. Answering only to the top-secret section of the ministry of defence codenamed Department H, Alpha Flight operates in utmost secrecy, obscured even from other members of the organisation. Some would call them Canada's answer to the Avengers.
Members of Alpha Flight include:
Fiction
Project: Alpha Flight's base of operations was in the hidden heart of Department H, accessible only by authorised personnel.
When the Hulk entered into Canadian territory and started wrecking up the place, Department H dispatched Sasquatch to deal with him. The encounter destroyed vast tracks of Canadian timberland. Some months later, parliament received a dossier from an anonymous source alleging that the living robot Machine Man had intentionally sent the Hulk to Canada on orders of the U.S. government. While half of Alpha Flight were on assignment in Northern Quebec, the other half – Sasquatch, Aurora, and Northstar – were sent to New York City to locate and arrest Machine Man, while top covert operative Agent K did the legwork of tracing the dossier's origins.
The next morning, the agents travelled by limousine to New York City. While K followed his leads, Langkowski and the Beaubier twins were at a loose end in a luxury hotel suite. While Langkowski plotted their next move, the twins left to party the night away in the city that never sleeps.
The following morning, Sasquatch tracked Machine Man down and engaged him in combat. He was overwhelmed, but not, as he noted, left for dead, as Machine Man had made the effort to pull him from the Hudson River to make sure he wouldn't drown.
Sasquatch was found by Aurora and Northstar, who had searched the city for him at superspeed. Together, the Alpha Flight members traced Machine Man to a large sewer chamber, where they discovered Machine Man writhing under the effects of a sonic disruptor, beset by masked mercenaries. Alpha Flight took the henchmen on, as Sasquatch refused to believe that Machine Man was their enemy as he could have left him for dead.
Machine Man freed himself by detaching his head and negating gravity to repeatedly ram the disruptor. Though he regained his body, the assault had disfigured his humanised face, and he was driven into a blind rage, lashing out at the mercenaries and Alpha Flight alike. He only stopped when he heard Aurora call him an inhuman monster. Horrified by his behaviour, Machine Man drilled his way out of the sewer, asking not to be followed. As Sasquatch nursed his headache, Aurora wondered if Agent K had fared any better than they had.
K had in fact traced the anonymous dossier back to the desk of Senator Miles Brickman, whose campaign for president centred solely on anti-Machine Man rhetoric. The news media caught wind of the story and span it into a plot to rig the election by making Canada stand with him against Machine Man. As Langkowski drove the team home, each of them fumed at the way their government had been played. Alone Against Alpha Flight!
Notes
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- While these guys were tussling with Machine Man, the other half of Alpha Flight were with the X-Men in The Uncanny X-Men issue 139
and 140 (or Marvel UK's Marvel Super-Heroes issue 396 and 397 ).
