9 Years Ago through the Present
9 Years ago:
Summer-
James arranges for Alpha Flight to come together, as a full team, for some battle practice; During a break in the practice, Shaman helps James realize that maybe he doesn’t need to “vindicate” himself any longer and should instead embrace the spirit behind the flag he wears as his costume; Reflecting on Michael’s words, James MacDonald Hudson changes his codename to Guardian, finally fully embracing his role as leader and as a symbol of the ideals of Canada; Minutes later, Marrina (19) is suddenly “summoned” away by the mysterious villain The Master, disemboweling Puck in a fit of rage before leaving; Alpha Flight races further North to save Marrina from The Master; While captive, Marrina learns of her Plodex alien origins from The Master; Alpha Flight arrives and battles The Master’s ship’s traps, destroying operating systems and causing the ship to begin to self-destruct; Before the ship explodes, Marrina is rescued by Snowbird and The Master escapes; After being rescued, Marrina quits Alpha Flight to learn more about herself and her species from The Submariner;
Early Fall-
James receives a job offer from Roxxon Oil, unaware that it is part of a revenge plan initiated by Jerry Jaxon; The Great Beast Kolomaq is accidentally freed and Snowbird is summoned by the Inuit gods to confront him; Barely surviving the battle, Snowbird is able to defeat him;
Gary Cody allows James Hudson’s original “Groundhog” Exploration Suit technology to be replicated into dozens of battlesuits to try to provide funding for a new Dept H; The proposed funding plan is a ruse and the battlesuits are secretly used to create an army for the Hydra leader, Baron Strucker; When the battlesuit army attacks New York City and kidnaps the X-men, James gathers Alpha Flight to rescue them; After freeing the X-men, the two teams defeat and destroy the battlesuits and Baron Strucker;
Delphine Courtney, secretly a synthezoid working for her “father”, Jerry Jaxon, begins recruiting the disgruntled former members of Beta and Gamma Flight to form a team to enact revenge on James Hudson; Jaxon names his team, “Omega Flight”
James - 44, Heather 29, Michael 48, Walter 35, Marrina 19, Twins 22
8 years ago:
February-
James Hudson, having accepted Roxxon’s job offer, begins relocating to New York City, spending time there looking for a suitable apartment for himself and Heather and meeting with Roxxon executives;
February 29th-
Delphine Courtney visits Roger Bochs to recruit him into Jerry Jaxon’s Omega Flight; Roger tries to contact James Hudson to warn him but is unable to reach him; Roger decides to join Courtney’s team in New York to try and sabotage it from within, but is captured instead; With Roger Bochs captured, Jerry Jaxon is able to take control of Bochs’ “Box Armor”;
March 2nd-
Heather Hudson leaves Canada to join James in New York; When she arrives at the airport, Heather is met by Delphine Courtney who brings Heather to the World Trade Center, confining her to an office room as, via video, Jerry Jaxon reveals his plan to destroy James; James learns that Heather has been kidnapped and alerts Alpha Flight while racing to her rescue; James battles Omega Flight as Alpha Flight makes their way to the battle; James is separated from the battle by an attack by Box; Revealing himself to be the one controlling the Box robot, and not Roger Bochs, Jerry Jaxon savagely beats James, shorting out James’ battlesuit’s force field and causing critical damage to the control circuits; Already suffering head trauma and internal bleeding from Box’s attack to his body, James desperately creates a feedback explosion, using his battlesuit’s components, that kills Jerry Jaxon through his neural link with Box; The damage to his battlesuit begins to overload its power pack and James realizes that he has only a few seconds before the overloading power pack explodes; Heather, who has escaped Courtney, makes her way into the room where James is; When Heather enters, James realizes that the power pack’s explosion will kill her as well and quickly reroutes circuits to use the power pack to create a temporal rift, sending James hurtling unguided through time and space to arrive on Ganymede, largest moon of Jupiter, 10,000 years in the past; In front of Heather, the air around James’ location is carbonized and James Hudson appears to have been vaporized by the explosion; Heather collapses in grief; Alpha Flight defeats Omega Flight and turns them over to the authorities
Days later, the members of Alpha Flight gather for James MacDonald Hudson’s funeral; Heather begins to have nightmares based on her feelings of guilt and grief over James’ death, believing that she caused James to pause for the brief second that stopped him from disabling his overloading power pack, thus causing his death;
Early April-
Heather Hudson meets with Gary Cody to try to get some sort of compensation for her husband’s death from the government, but is unable to
Late April-
Elizabeth Twoyoungmen (21) becomes Talisman;
After 28 months in space, James Hudson (45)’s ship arrives from Ganymede and crash lands in the waters off of British Columbia; A passing Roxxon Corporation research vessel finds the ship and the hibernating James Hudson and brings them to the corporate office in Denver in the US; Hudson is kept in special Science wing of the building and his brain is connected to the Roxxon computer network in hopes to gain Hudson’s vast knowledge base;
May-
Heather McNeil Hudson, after questioning her role, becomes leader of Alpha Flight; Delphine Courtney, still in hiding, is obsessed with gaining revenge on Heather Hudson for her part in the destruction of her “father”, Jerry Jaxon; Randomly tapping into the Roxxon Oil computer system network, Courtney learns about James Hudson’s recovery and, through his neural link to Roxxon, learns of his time on Ganymede; Delphine Courtney develops a plan to impersonate the comatose James and take revenge on Heather and Alpha Flight; Courtney frees the imprisoned members of Omega Flight and alters her form to create a double of James Hudson; Impersonating James, Courtney infiltrates Alpha Flight and incapacitates them, finally revealing herself to Heather; After Alpha Flight fights back, Delphine Courtney, while trying to escape, is confronted and killed by Madison Jeffries (30); Madison Jeffries joins Alpha Flight;
Heather is given a re-creation of James’ battle suit and takes the name “Vindicator”;
July 2nd-
Department H is reinstated as a branch of the Ministry of Defense
September-
Heather Hudson turns 30 years old
James - 45, Heather 30, Michael 49, Walter 36, Marrina 20, Twins 23
7 years ago:
(events of Alpha Flight circa # 35- #86)
James - 46, Heather 31, Michael 50, Walter 37, Marrina 21, Twins 24
6 years ago:
James Hudson is discovered to be alive at Roxxon’s Denver offices and is freed from his imprisonment there; James Hudson, now a cyborg with a “colder” personality as a result of the mechanical components of his brain, reunites with Heather and takes on the name “Vindicator” once again; James reverses the colors on his costume to represent his new, darker outlook and changes his costume’s helmet to a more form-fitting style, no longer needing the rounded “control helmet” of his original battlesuit; Heather changes her name to “Guardian”
Weeks later, Vindicator sacrifices his life to save Alpha Flight and James’ body is lost in an inter-space void; The members of Alpha Flight once again gather for the funeral for James MacDonald Hudson
(events of Alpha Flight #101 - #128 )
The Master finds James Hudson’s body and revives and brainwashes him; James is renamed “The Anti-guard” and is sent against Alpha Flight; James breaks free of The Master’s control and defeats him; Alpha Flight is disbanded by the government; Finally reunited, James and Heather work as scientists for Dept. H
James - 47, Heather 32, Michael 51, Walter 38, Marrina 22, Twins 25
5 years ago:
Despite having been finally reunited, James and Heather Hudson realize that they have grown apart and decide to separate; Living alone, James discovers that Dept H is still active and returns to the Dept H building in Ottawa; James Hudson confronts the new directors over their questionable new vision and new tactics, threatening to stop them by any means necessary; Before he can do anything, James is knocked unconscious, is subjected to a “mind-erase” machine and has the controls of his battlesuit overridden to carry his unconscious body into space to be destroyed; James, subconsciously, is able to gain control of his suit and crashes back down to earth in Antarctica, coincidentally near a research base where Walter Langkowski (39) is working; Walter and his assistant are able to help James recover, but decide to keep his survival a secret; Dept H forms a new Alpha Flight team to combat a growing terrorist threat by “recruiting” new members; Dept H captures and “recruits” an actual Sasquatch, deciding that Walter Langkowski would prove to be too uncontrollable; Dept H scientists create a synthoid 19 year old version of James Hudson to lead the team, implanting false memories into the new “James” to convince him, and everyone, that he has been accidentally de-aged while trying to rid himself of the alien cyborg components he acquired from the Quwrlln; Dept H completes the new Alpha Flight by contacting available original members, Madison Jeffries (32), Heather Hudson and Eugene Judd; Heather and Judd agree to return to keep an eye on the new Dept H and to learn more about the new, younger James Hudson, unaware that this James is a synthoid; Eventually the “real” James Hudson recruits the original members of Alpha Flight to battle the new team; Both James and his 19 year old Synthoid double are captured by AIM; Wolverine joins Alpha Flight to rescue them; On the rescue mission, the 19 year old Synthoid James Hudson is killed saving the rest of the group from AIM; James and Heather reunite, becoming a couple once again, and soon conceive a child
James - 48, Heather - 33, Michael 52, Walter 39, Marrina 23, Twins 26
4 years ago:
July 1st -
Claire McNeil Hudson is born to James and Heather Hudson;
Fall-
When Alpha Flight is captured by the Plodex, Sasquatch forms a new Alpha Flight team to rescue them; After being freed, the original Alpha Flight decides to use the Plodex spacecraft to return the remaining earthbound Plodex eggs back to their homeworld; James Hudson and Heather take their infant daughter with them on the long space journey; After many months and countless adventures in space, Alpha Flight is able to safely deliver the Plodex Eggs to their homeworld and soon begin their journey back home
James - 49, Heather - 34, Claire - 0, Michael 53, Walter 40, Marrina 24, Twins 27
3 years ago:
After returning from space, Alpha Flight is soon called to investigate a disturbance near the border of Alaska; The disturbance turns out to be an energy being named The Collective and it easily kills all the members of Alpha Flight; Michael Twoyoungmen (54), as Shaman, calls on the Great Spirit to hold the souls of Alpha Flight in an “inbetween” state, not allowing the souls to pass on to the After-Life; After the death of James and Heather Hudson, their daughter, Claire, is legally given to Heather’s cousin, David McNeil and his wife, Yvette, to raise
James - 50, Heather - 35, Claire - 1, Michael 54, Walter 41, Marrina 25, Twins 28
2 years ago:
The souls of Alpha Flight are finally able to return to the land of the living and the group tries to readjust to being alive once again. James and Heather try to reclaim their daughter, Claire, but Heather’s cousin refuses to give up the toddler. James and Heather go to court to get legally get their daughter back but, after being denied custody of Claire because of their “dangerous lifestyle”, Heather rebels and “steals” Claire, killing her cousin, David, and his wife, Yvette, in the process; After battling to save Canada and the world, once again, from The Master, Heather disappears with Claire
After almost losing him during the battle with The Master, Northstar, Jean-Paul Beaubier, proposes to his long-time boyfriend, Kyle Jinadu; The couple is married a short time later, with the wedding being attended by all their friends and family
James - 51, Heather - 36, Claire - 2, Michael 55, Walter 42, Marrina 26, Twins 29
1 year ago:
After a long search, James Hudson tracks down Heather and Claire; Without her knowledge or consent, Heather is subdued, drugged and imprisoned in a “VR Pod” by James, in an effort to help Heather come to terms with what she’s done and in hopes of living a life with her once again; Inside the pod, Heather experiences a life with Claire and James and begins to come to some self-healing; Eventually, Heather is “released” but is never told by James that her experiences have all been part of James’ virtual “script” while inside the Pod; Heather and James, having finally reconciled, begin to live as a family; With all of the stress, trauma and deception from the last two years, James and Heather continue to struggle with their relationship; James leaves the family’s cabin near Ottawa after a fight and takes a mission for the government to investigate an incident in a small Ontario town; Arriving in the town, James finds that the town’s population have been turned into Wendigos; James battles the Wendigos single handedly before being joined by Alpha Flight; Heather contacts Wolverine and the X-Men for help and soon both teams are battling the Wendigos and The Great Beast who controls them; Alpha Flight is successful in defeating the Wendigos and restoring the population of the town; Heather and James reconcile once again
James - 52, Heather - 37, Claire - 3, Michael 56, Walter 43, Marrina 27, Twins 30
Now:
Alpha Flight is restructured and some members are assigned to an orbiting space station under the supervision of Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel
James Hudson joins The Janus Group, an organization designed to help “control and manage” the world’s problems from the shadows
James - 53, Heather - 38, Claire - 4, Michael 57, Walter 44, Marrina 28, Twins 31
Updated Timeline for Alpha Flight
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