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Alpha Flight are on their way to a place of power in the Arctic Circle where Snowbird is to give birth, when after Aurora hints at some feelings for Roger Bochs, they are joined by a near-insane Talisman, who has planned to see her father, Shaman, humbled for all the past wrong-doings to her. As Alpha Flight surround the place of power to protect Snowbird and the baby Talisman reveals that she is forbidding any of the spirits to aid her father, but she commands some to comfort Snowbird, showing Shaman how cruelly she uses them. Snowbird’s Arctic God family appear before her and Thompson, her husband and offer Narya one last chance to join them in Paradise, which Narya rejects for fear of losing those who love her. The birth takes place when Talisman’s plan comes into place as giant leaches surround the birthplace, causing those Alphans who can to try and stop them, however Vindicator, Northstar, Aurora, Box and Puck are overcome by the forces of death and decay which are commanded by the being that has been stuck between life and death under the ice where Snowbird gives birth. This being, Captain F.R Crozier who takes the name Pestilence succeeds in overwhelming Alpha Flight, leaving only a weakened Snowbird, the human Thompson and the feeble Shaman remaining. Talisman steps forward and declares that she will now save the day after seeing her father humbled, only to learn from Pestilence after he withers her father that he is corrupting the purity of the baby. Pestilence then does the remarkable and rips the tiara from Elizabeth’s brow and tosses it aside, where it lands near Shaman who sees his daughter being strangled by Pestilence and thinks that there may only be one way to save her. Meanwhile, Namor the Sub-Mariner arrives in Atlantis to reclaim both his throne and lover, Marrina.