I liked the way this played out. I would certainly think the Phoenix Guard members would now have a few more skills from training for this assignment, especially Zarana who's never really displayed evidence of any kind of formal military training.

I was trying to work out who the members of the Guard really were - I'd got Mech pegged as Scrap-Iron pretty much from the get-go, that bit of dialogue bubble cover-up let you see the "Sc." Part of me was hoping they'd do more with the "Phoenix" aspect of the name, the whole rising from the ashes of death thing, and the Phoenix Guard could have been Cobras from the freighter under the volcano brought back through Mindbender's cloning technology. That idea was mainly from reading High-Tide's dossier and thinking it sounded like he could be Croc-Master...