BIOGRAPHY - Page 5
Following the Goddess’ defeat, anti-mutant / super-hero hysteria was on the rise in Canada, which is why Department H decided to temporarily shut down the Flight programs and lay low for a while, until the crisis had passed. Not even Guardian’s surprising return from the dead changed that. [Alpha Flight (1st series) #130] It was just the team’s official status as a group that was affected, though, and several of the Alphans remained at Department H and continued to serve as individual operatives.
Alpha Flight’s disbanding sure took it’s toll on “Aurora,” who couldn’t imagine a life outside due to her dissociative identity disorder. She sought comfort in the arms of her teammate, Kyle Gibney, aka Wildheart, starting a romantic relationship with him. However, only a few weeks later, he suddenly left without a word or any sort of good-bye. Aurora blamed herself for his departure, thinking he couldn’t handle her personality disorder, and her state of mind deteriorated. 
Eventually, she reached the point where she swore that, if she could not have him, then nobody else should. Going over the edge, Aurora hunted Kyle down, who by then had joined the American-based X-Factor, and was eager to kill him. Turned out that he had mutated back into his feral, ugly "Wild Child" incarnation (he was handsome during the time with Aurora), and abandoned her fearing the effects it would have on her fragile psyche. However, Aurora was beyond reason, and kept lashing out with her powers until she was subdued. Having followed her, Northstar and Puck took Aurora back to Canada, where they arranged some psychological treatment for her. [X-Factor (1st series) #116]
A few months later, Department H was reopened and the people in charge had quite different ideas in mind on how to handle their operatives. They wouldn’t take no for an answer, as they kept drugging or brainwashing their operatives, limiting their knowledge to the amount of what was absolutely necessary for them to know. They also wanted to make use of Aurora and arranged for her to be released from the psychiatric hospital, but she never reached Department H. The train transporting the sedated Aurora was hijacked by X-Man and the Brotherhood, 
whose main goal was to get their hands on cannisters carrying a lethal gas, but they liberated Aurora as well. In fact, the Dark Beast was quite happy to have Aurora around, as it kept X-Man Nate Grey distracted trying to help the unstable woman. Eventually, when he learned of the Dark Beast’s schemes, Nate left. At first he wanted to take Aurora along, but he thought that the Brotherhood was better equipped to suit her needs. [X-Man #27-28]
Her condition didn’t change that much, though, Aurora slipping between personalities and having mood swings. Before long, Havok took apart the Brotherhood from within. Right before he destroyed their hide-out, he released Aurora and told her to return to Canada and seek out someone capable of helping her. [X-Factor (1st series) #143]
Jeanne-Marie did as told and went straight to the new Department H, unaware of the changes there. Before she met one of her former teammates, chief scientist Dr. Horatio Huxley had her knocked out and taken to his labs, where she was subjected to a barrage of tests and experiments. To study its effects on human physiology, Aurora was infected with a high dose of Thetagen-24, an aggressive strand of bacteria, designed for the creation of a new Weapon X. Most other test subjects had died from the bacteria’s effects; the only other survivors being Diamond Lil, whose mutant power kept the bacteria from penetrating her diamond-hard skin, and an unfortunate fellow from New Zealand, whom became sort of like a host for the bacteria’s collective mind. In Aurora’s case, the bacteria began “eating away” the layers of her many personalities. It was only a matter of time before it would reach the core of her mind, though, at which point she would have died. [Alpha Flight (2nd series) #19]
Somehow, Jeanne-Marie managed to escape and her mind switched randomly and rapidly between her many former identities. Somehow Northstar sensed his sister’s distress and went searching for her all over the globe, until he found her at the school where she had been raised. Although the building was in ruins after being destroyed by a fire, Aurora sitting inside, more lunatic than ever, teaching a class of non-existing children. Unsure how to aid her, Jean-Paul fell asleep and, when he finally came around, Aurora was gone again, though she left a message on the board: “Help Me.“ Next, he tracked her down to the North Pole, where she again eluded him. [Alpha Flight (2nd series) #12-13, 15]
Finally, he found some help in Sasquatch, Shaman and the original Guardian. Not only were they able to temporarily stabilize Jeanne-Marie’s mind, but also they knew the reason for her odd behavior. Together, they confronted the replacement Alpha Flight and the new Weapon X, who somehow managed to extract the bacteria from Aurora’s system. With Department H’s secret experiments exposed, the original team were given back official status. [Alpha Flight (2nd series) #18-20, Wolverine (2nd series) #142]
Shortly after Northstar left Alpha Flight, turning his back on super-heroing to publish his memoirs, Sasquatch and Aurora restarted their relationship. However, during a battle with the evil Mauvais, her already fragile psyche was further strained by the villain, up to the point that she collapsed after the fight. It was decided that she needed to be taken to a medical facility and Walter wanted to accompanied the ambulance transporting Aurora there. Unfortunately, en route, Sasquatch was called away because of an emergency and, mere moments after Walt’s departure, the ambulance was attacked and Aurora was kidnapped by operatives of the revamped Weapon X program. [Wolverine (2nd series) #172-173]
She was brought to a mental asylum nonetheless, just another one than Department H had in mind, where the poor woman was further hospitalized up to the point of insanity. It was only then 
that the Weapon X Director, Malcolm Colcord, had her “rescued,” so that Aurora could be rebuilt in the project’s image. In Wild Child, he had the perfect operative for this task because of their previous history. Although he had further mutated and was now mute, Aurora, even in her deranged state, still recognized her former lover. In fact, Kyle hoped for another relationship with her, but once the Weapon X scientists had restored and improved her, she rejected him, calling him ugly and laughing at his affections. [Weapon X: The Draft - Wild Child]
Weapon X’s tampering marked a return of the shallow and cruel Aurora, who would try to use her beauty to her advantage at every turn. More than once did she try to seduce Malcolm Colcord, 
whose face was mutilated from a run in with Wolverine several years in the past. Thus disfigured, Colcord didn’t have many love interests and though he was interested in Aurora, he was well aware that Aurora wasn’t serious. To keep her off his back, Colcord assigned her and Wild Child on a mission to track down Sabretooth. Creed found them first and sadistically ambushed and disfigured Aurora, knowing what anguish it would cause Wild Child who had to watch the entire ordeal. [Weapon X (2nd series) #1-4]
Because of his own scarred face, Colcord could relate like no other, and arranged for her to undergo cosmetic surgery and rehabilitation. A few weeks later, Aurora’s face was as good as new. Previously, Aurora had only been interested in manipulating the Director to get a more secure position in the program. Now, however, thankful for everything the man had done for her, she was now genuinely affectionate towards Colcord. At first, the Director tried to keep a professional distance between himself and his beautiful agent. Still, the emotional turmoil of learning that his estranged wife was getting re-married caused Colcord to ultimately respond to Aurora’s affections. They quickly became a couple, and Aurora even encouraged the Director to have his own face restored by cosmetic surgery as well. Those scars had driven the Director to reform the Weapon X Program in the first place, but Malcolm finally relented and gave in to Jeanne-Marie's desires. [Weapon X (2nd series) #6-8]
The unexpected relationship provided Brent Jackson, the Director’s second-in-command, the chance to strengthen his own position. At first he was only plotting behind the Director’s back, luring more 
and more agents to his side, like for example Wild Child by making good use of the man’s jealousy towards the Director. Eventually though, Jackson confronted Colcord more openly, pointing out the irony of a mutant-hater like him dating a mutant. The words rang in Colcord’s ears and, when he was alone with Aurora, he snapped and nearly beat her to death. He apologized right afterwards, but naturally she was afraid of him, and shied away from his touch. [Weapon X (2nd series) #9-11]
Caught up in his personal problems, Colcord realized too late that an Underground movement led by Cable had tracked down the Weapon X compound. Amidst the confusion of the battle, the Director cut up his face again (it representing the loss of his focus on the cause) and he ordered Aurora to take him and the brainwashed Madison Jeffries, perhaps his most valuable operative, out of there. Jeanne-Marie did as told, but once they had crossed a certain distance, she dropped off Colcord and Jeffries in a desert, where she started to beat up her lover. Colcord was taken by 
surprise, as he didn’t think such a thing possible, because all Weapon X agents had implanted inhibitor chips that prevented them from attacking their superiors. Obviously, Aurora’s psyche had created a new personality to deal with her abusive trauma, one that was no longer loyal to the Director, and would not let herself be victimized again. At first, she intended to kill the man who had caused her so much pain but, seeing him beg to be put out of his misery, she decided that it would be much crueler to let him live and took off. [Weapon X (2nd series) #12-13, 22]