The fake Guardian and Omega Flight gloat over the defeated Alpha Flight members in the West Edmondton Mall. Courtney has a plan to lure the remainder of the team into a trap by torturing Talisman until she involuntarily sends them a psychic summons. While this is happening, Shaman is finishing patching up Aurora's ribs from the injury she sustained in the combat exercise earlier that day and Bochs is using a dimensional scanner to seek out a replacement body for Walter, finding a suitably large and non-sapient specimen in a certain dimensional Crossroads. Before they can take a closer look, Shaman picks up his daughter's distress and teleports himself, Box, and Aurora to the source. At Doug Thompson's home in Yellowknife, Narya also detects the call and despite having hidden her continued presence on Earth from the team, cannot resist the compulsion to fly south to help them.

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