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No longer having an official headquarter Alpha Flight (without Snowbird) are using a top secret military testing grounds, for a training session. Having finished the exercise, Vindicator changes his code name to Guardian. Puck notices something wrong with Marrina, and suddenly she lashes out at him, ripping his gut open. The assembled team are shocked at the sight of their fallen teammate, while Marrina dives into a river, responding to a strange call she feels. Alpha Flight gets Puck into a hospital, and Shaman stays with him, as he is not only a superhero, but also a talented surgeon. The rest of the team proceeds to track down Marrina through the signal chip in her medallion. Aboard Alpha Flight’s Omni-Jet, Mac tells the others what little they know about their mysterious teammate. About 18 years ago, Tom Smallwood was knocked overboard his fishing vessel during a storm. At the bottom of the sea, he saw a strange glowing object – an egg. Taking hold of it, Smallwood buoyed to the surface, where his crewmate rescued him. Later that night, Smallwood‘s wife realized that something inside the egg was trying to hatch, so she broke it and helped the humanoid looking creature out. The Smallwoods named the yellow-skinned female Marrina and raised her together with their grandson Dan. Around her 16th birthday, it was discovered that Marrina could breath under water and that she could swim faster than anyone else, which brought her to the attention of Department H. She passed all of the Department’s psychological tests, and there never was any indication of any violent tendencies. While Alpha Flight is still following Marrina’s trail, the young woman has already reached her destination – a strange cavern, the walls being a mix of ice and metal. Marrina finds the place frightening and familiar at the same time. Venturing deeper inside the complex, Marrina is greeter by the Master, who welcomes her home. Meanwhile, Snowbird receives a psychic from message Shaman at the RCMP, where she works in her civilian identity. She immediately rushes to help her team. However her boss finds out that she again abandoned her post and is determined to find out what the secret of “Anne MacKenzie“ is.