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Arriving back on Tamarind Island, Alpha Flight soon leave again when the astral forms of Snowbird and Twoyoungmen appear, revealing that they have located their enemy, Pestilence, who possesses Snowbird’s son. Alpha make their way to the mining town, where they discover everyone is dead, for a plague has ravaged the town. They come across Narya’s estranged husband, and he informs them that Pestilence is in the mines, and that Snowbird and Shaman are in there with him. Thompson dies, and Alpha progress into the mines, where they are separated from each other. Jean-Paul and Aurora cancel each others powers out by accident, and reverting to her Jeanne-Marie persona, Aurora flees her ailing brother, where she winds up helping Jeffries battle some coal-creatures, before making a pass at him, only to be turned down. Vindicator is faced with illusions of all the men that mean something to her – Mac, Wolverine, Judd and Jeffries – but knowing it is just a diversion created by Pestilence she strikes them down, where she finds an injured Puck, who was buried in a rockslide. Northstar comes across Twoyoungmen commanding Snowbird in her Albino Sasquatch form to slay Pestilence, and believing the baby should be saved he attempts to stop Shaman, but Pestilence kisses him, and regains energy by speeding up a mysterious disease that is killing Northstar. Heather and the others arrive, and after Shaman is proved wrong, he stands down to let Alpha deal with Pestilence how they see fit, for Heather wants to save the baby, but he thinks its life is not worth the risk of the destruction of the world by the hands of Pestilence. Pestilence takes out everyone except Heather before manipulating Snowbird. He knows that the purity of the baby is overtaking him, and that if he stays in its body for much longer he will die, so he commands Snowbird back into her Sasquatch form and orders her to slay him. Heather is alone, and realizes what the demon’s plan is. She slays Snowbird, but she hesitated, and Narya already killed the baby, thus releasing Pestilence’s soul. Alpha Flight bring the bodies of Snowbird, Thompson and the baby back to Tamarind Island, where no one sees Heather cry for having to kill her friend except a man that once tried to kill her – Smart Alec, who had earlier crawled out of Shaman’s abandoned medicine pouch. At the New Life Clinic, Dr. Jeffries frees Bochs from the Box armor before revealing he can give him a new pair of legs.