Aurora
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Jeanne-Marie Beaubier is a Mutant employed by the Canadian government as part of the super-team Alpha Flight, operating under the name Aurora. Her mutation allows her to move with super speed and reflexes; when in physical contact with her twin brother Northstar, they are capable of firing off a blinding blast of dazzling light.
Being a superhero is an intoxicating thrill to Jeanne-Marie, and her bravery puts her teammates to shame. She seems to have a soft spot for Walter Langkowski, a.k.a. Sasquatch.
Fiction
Aurora was a member of Alpha Flight, a team of super-agents under the employ of the Canadian government, in particular the ministry of defence subsidiary codenamed Department H. She and Northstar had just set the simulator for combat manoeuvres when a minister introduced the team to Department H's top covert operative Agent K. After Aurora demonstrated her superspeed by negotiating a maze of lethal lasers, the minister explained that parliament had recently received a dossier from an anonymous source alleging that the living robot Machine Man had intentionally sent the Hulk to cause damage in Canada on orders of the U.S. government. The minister dispatched Aurora, Northstar, and Sasquatch to New York City to locate and arrest Machine Man, while 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, where Jeanne-Marie warned Jean-Paul not to pressure Langkowski or else Sasquatch might make nasties on him. Langkowski equipped each of them with a wrist monitor to track Machine Man's unique bio-radiation and suggested they simply go to the address in the phone book registered to Machine Man's alias of Aaron Stack. Jeanne-Marie gave Langkowski a kiss on the cheek, saying it was tough to tell when he was joking. Jean-Paul scoffed as Langkowski protested he was being serious, and the twins went off to celebrate their youth in the greatest city in the world.
The following morning, while the Beaubiers slept off their party, Langkowski travelled by taxi to Stack's address, from where he was able to track Machine Man to a waterfront warehouse. Despite misgivings that he should have signalled for backup from Aurora and Northstar, Sasquatch took Machine Man on in combat, but the living robot subdued him by dropping him into the river and jolting him into submission with borrowed electricity. Sasquatch was conscious enough to feel Machine Man pulling him from the water onto dry land, making sure he wouldn't drown, and he struggled to contact the others.
Aurora and Northstar found him by searching the city 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 immediately took the henchmen on.
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. Aurora and Northstar attempted to stop him from murdering any of the henchmen by hitting him with a blinding light beam, but Machine Man's finger sensors were impervious to glare and he clocked the twins. Sasquatch tried to grab him to stop him beating on his pals, but Machine Man lashed out and pummelled Sasquatch senseless. 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 and Northstar nursed their wounds, 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!
