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Elsewhere, in Canada's [[Department H]], Machine Man's fight with the Hulk came under scrutiny after parliament received a dossier alleging that the robot had deliberately sent the Hulk to cause destruction in Canada under the orders of the U.S. government. To this end, a minister dispatched [[Agent K]] and members of [[Alpha Flight]] to investigate.

 

The following day, at Delmar, Aaron rebuffed attempts by Eddie to conspire to bet on high school girls' badminton matches, refusing to lend Eddie the cash. He also bumped into Pamela, whom he'd been trying to avoid due to the strange, unrobotlike emotions she stirred in him. The next morning, he and Peter discovered a message for him by Madam Menace in the classified section of the ''Daily Bugle''. Despite it obviously being a trap, it was Machine Man's only lead. The clue in the ad led him back to the waterfront warehouse, where he discovered a maser-controlled homing device intended to allow him to locate Menace's next hideout.

 

Furiously asking if his aggressors were satisfied, Machine Man fearsomely attacked the henchmen. Aurora and Northstar attempted to blind him with their dazzling light power, but his finger sensors provided a workaround. When grabbed by Sasquatch, Machine Man lashed out and pummelled him senseless, stopping only on hearing Aurora call him an inhuman monster. The words caused Aaron to realise he had been acting every inch the menace that people like Brickman believed him to be. Horrified by his behaviour, he drilled his way out of the sewer, asking not to be followed.

 

In the meantime, Alpha Flight spy Agent K had managed to uncover evidence linking the incriminating dossier to Brickman's campaign office. Alpha Flight's Machine Man mission was abandoned; when the news media caught wind that Brickman was attempting to rig an election, his anti-Machine Man campaign platform completely deflated. Separately, both Brickman and Madam Menace swore revenge on the living robot.