Team 7 finish their final mission and then go AWOL, but Marc makes a deal with their boss, brokering his services (and those of John Lynch and Michael Cray) in return for the rest of the squad and their families being left alone.
He works as the group's field leader and instructor until he loses several members of the first team (later dubbed Stormwatch Prime) during a mission in Kuwait.
When a Daemonite called S'ryn puts Marc's girlfriend Major Diane LaSalle into a coma, he deserts StormWatch to track her down, breaking Cabal agent Taboo out of prison to help him on his quest.
Subsequent to this, Marc discovers he had fathered twin children—a girl named Jodi Morinaka and a boy known only as Aries—by an old girlfriend from Japan.
Backlash and Taboo arrange a pardon for their crimes in return for working for the United States' Department of Paranormal Science Investigations (PSI).
Taboo's initial approach by the government results in a multi-super-powers fight throughout the house as several of the FBI agents lose their cool and employ violence.
He works with Wildcore until most of this team are killed trying to stop a breakout at the Purgatory Max facility, as seen in the Gen-Active series.
At the conclusion of the arc, Marc laments not having his costume and plans to seek out some of his former Team 7 cohorts, indicating a possible return to his more active role in the Wildstorm universe.
and Team 7 get assistance from Max Faraday, who downloaded God-like abilities from the internet and has saved scores of people in pocket universes that he's kept hidden from super heroes and villains alike.
After Lynch escaped, Slayton began to hunt him down, along with other Gen:Active subjects created by I/O rival Skywatch's Dr. Helspont after the deterioration of Thunderbook.
Along the way, Slayton murdered one other Skywatch implanted agent, and attempted to attack Midnighter and Apollo, but fled as soon as it was clear he could not take them.
Exposure to the Gen-Factor released several latent powers, including the ability to generate psychic energy whips out the backs of his hands.
It is possible that his telekinetic powers contributed to the strengthening of his psionic whips, which are in actuality just a visible mental projection that allow Marc to manipulate matter with his mind.
Although he had not been seen using his abilities since the loss of his leg during the Wildcore tragedy, succeeding stories imply that Marc Slayton retains his powers in some form.
The whips maintained their previous "high energy" appearance, unlike the more "flaming tendril" look that they had prior to the Gen-Factor leaving his body.
The whips are not represented as coming from the backs of his hands as has been traditionally depicted, but rather, from anywhere in the erratic sphere of energy surrounding Slayton's fists.