Disclaimer: Still not ours. We honestly think we would have made less mess out of them, then.
A/N: This is mostly Fata speaking (with lots of support from aurora). I have been a fan of Alpha Flight for a few years now, almost as long as I have read the X-Men. One thing strikes me when I read the Flight stories, or summaries of them: This is a real soap opera. Alpha Flight could have been really, really good, except that mostly, the stories suck, and often, so do the drawings. The only thing that kept that series going is good, interesting characters. Aurora/Jeanne-Marie alone could have kept that series interesting. Same goes for her twin, Northstar, if people would look past the "yeah, he's an arrogant asshole" to why he's an arrogant asshole. The rest of them are very, very interesting characters, too. I would have read a series going on Puck's past history - before and after that accursed sword, et cetera.
*Ahem*. Since the problem of Mac Hudson has already been tackled in Fata Morgana's story Sorry, Mr. Hudson, honest!, we'll now tackle the second most problematic thing in AF. You see, we did not have to make something up. Nothing can make Alpha Flight more difficult than it is. Voila.
Snowbird: Walter, I just found out! It's horrible!
Sasquatch: What is, Narya?
Snowbird: We're the same person!
Sasquatch: I know that! Remember, I didn't really turn into a metamorph when I did that experiment on myself, I opened a gate to the ancient beast Tanarac, so you had to kill me. Then you got taken over by Pestilence, and Heather had to kill you. Then I took over your body, and turned to Wanda for a while, and my ex-wife wouldn't give me my money, damn that bitch, and then your spirit turned me male again as a reward for not falling for temptation. The problem is, how come you're alive now? Aren't you supposed to be here in spirit only?
Snowbird: Somebody at Marvel hasn't done their homework.
Sasquatch: Who can blame them, eh?
A/N: And that's it. It cannot, we repeat, cannot, get more complicated. Except if Shaman was Narya's body's father or something.
Er. RIGHT. Now:::
We'll turn the story over to you. You can have it. We're empty of ideas - that is, we think you lot can come up with just as much insanity. You can have the idea and write on it. Just one request: That you mention us in the Author's Note, and tell us if you write anything on this idea. Two requests. And nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
We hope you've had as much fun as we have with this story.
See you later,
Auf Wiedersehen,
Au revoir,
Arrivederci,
På gjensyn.
Zhai'helleva and Shade and Sweet Water,
Kjersti and Ingvild (aurora borealis and Fata Morgana)
Bergen, Norway, 9th of March 2003
