After the incident where he almost killed Steel Hawk, Eduardo decided to destroy his Strong-Arms once and for all, lest he accidentally lose control. Meanwhile, the victim of his rage languished in a Scandinavian hospital, apparently with dozens of broken bones and brain damage, though his fellow freedom fighter, Varna, refused to believe this...

As those events unfolded, Edmund Roth was pulling out all the stops in his attempt to recruit Jenny Swensen for the government. This effort included the use of a computer generated video recording of her late father, a recording that urged her to help the government use M.A.X. technology for the good of America (despite the fact that he'd hated military intelligence in general).

Thinking about it, Jenny boarded a plane for home, riding with the enigmatic Jake Travest for the duration. Exchanging small talk for a time, the two were waylaid by the plane, which was headed for Afghanistan, not Boston. Angered at this, Jenny and Jake were told by Roth (via videotape) that they were being dropped to perform a mission vital to national security.

While in progress, Jake played along (actually being fully aware of the scope of Roth's plans), revealing to Jenny that the man had some hold over him, and that his memories weren't what you could call coherent. After Jenny began to sympathize with 'poor' Jake, the man jumped out of the plane at Roth's direction, and Jenny followed him to ensure that he didn't get himself killed in his mental state.

On the way down, Jenny decided to someday get even with Roth and his dirty agency, if she could manage to survive her trip to Asia. Upon landing, the two Americans were greeted by an Afghanistani rebel, an official contact that was to lead them to his fellow Mujahedin freedom fighters. Of course, things didn't go smoothly at all, as the trio were attacked!

The problem was, they weren't under attack by regular soldiers, they were assaulted by a man in a M.A.X. suit! WIth that, Jake revealed why the two of them were in Afghanistan: to verify that the Soviets had purchased the M.A.X. technology (if only the Mark 1 variety) from Fritz Krotze, in order to develop their army in new and terrifying ways!

After escaping one such pursuer, however, Jenny and Jake were assaulted by another M.A.X. suit...

After recovering from their initial shock, Jenny Swensen and Jake Travest managed to rally their senses, and defeated the second M.A.X. suit thrown against them in the Afghanistani wilds. Tripping the thing up with a rope, the two watched it plummet down a hill and explode quite violently (much to Jake's satisfaction, of course).

Weeks later, the duo had totally settled in with the Mujahedin rebels, having realized that they had to stop the proliferation of M.A.X. technology in the area, as the Soviets were using it to totally wipe out their opponents here. Their first breakthrough in this mission came about thanks to Jake Travest, who had managed to liberate one of the suits from it's former owner.

While he couldn't remember what had occurred, Edmund Roth had witnessed the whole thing, having been monitoring the situation with Miss Pollicino, another techie under his thumb. Apparently, Jake had switched into one of his other personalities (he had at least two) and broke up a Soviet M.A.X. pilot once he tricked him into getting out of the suit.

After recovering the soldier and the suit, Jenny and Jake managed to discover where the Soviets were launching their experimental M.A.X. suits from, and came up with a plan. Jenny built a sonic disruptor in the suit, which she would use to stop the other Soviet armors in their tracks, and posing as the missing soldier, they would slip the armor into the Soviet base where it would do the most damage.

The plan worked admirably, but the rebels had one-upped Jennifer; they also slipped a bomb into the armor, and once it was within the heart of the Soviet facility, the M.A.X. suit detonated with enough force to flatten the secret compound. Jenny didn't like this, as she didn't want to kill anybody, but she didn't argue the point, as the problem was finally solved, after all.

Upon their return to America, Jenny and Jake were met by Edmund Roth once again, and though both of them hated the man, they nonetheless hooked up with him in order to join Project: Spitfire, a special C.I.A. mission to control the proliferation of M.A.X. technology, as Krotze's profiteering and the Club's arms sales had spread the weaponry worldwide.

And besides, somebody had to stop it from getting too prevalent, too quickly...

After formally joining Project: Spitfire, the team was sent down to Nicaragua, as there were increasing reports of M.A.X. technology appearing in the area. Landing in the small Central American nation, Jake Travest and Jenny Swensen (the latter in the new, Mark 3 M.A.X. suit) made for a local rebel base camp, a camp supposedly holding somebody they needed to liberate (who also had info they needed).

Finding the camp, Jenny neutralized the electric fence with her electrical absorbers, and Jake started taking out sentries. Once discovered, Jenny pulled out all the stops, and began totalling the still-grounded helicopters. Jake continued to gun down the local troops, until he got shot down by a vastly superior number of enemies.

Jenny, on the other hand, fell victim to some sort of electronic scrambler, a device that threw off her control of the M.A.X. suit until several soldiers could nail her with a rocket launcher. Starting on fire, she made for the ocean as soon as possible, in order to put the fire out before she wsa burned alive. Of course, she had to leave Jake behind in order to do so.

After the Project recovered her and the armor, they proceeded to repair both, Jenny requiring surgery and the Mark 3 needing severe repairs. Both were made within a day or so, though Jake was being tortured for information all the while. Knowing this, Jenny made back for the enemy camp as soon as she physically could, despite her being ordered not to by Roth.

Barreling into the camp, this time with desperate purpose, Jenny blasted the place to pieces until she found poor, wounded Jake. Collecting his broken body, she then flew out of there, leaving the apparently M.A.X.-less revolutionaries to their own devices, having saved the one life she really cared about of late (that being Jake).

Even if she wasn't completely sure of his sanity...