(Hawkman IV #1-4) - Kristopher Renard Roderic hired Tigress, Copperhead and Shadow Thief to go to India and steal the Third Eye of Shiva from archaeologist Danny Evans. They'd worked for him before to steal artifacts from the Vatican, but that job had gone south. When Danny uncovered the underground temple they made their move, and Copperhead was ready to eat the archaeologist, but his friends Hawkman and Hawkgirl arrived on the scene. They clashed, and the battle went in the Hawks favor. Roderic had the local military in his pocket, and they phoned him to tell him the Hawks had almost reached the Eye, so he ordered a missile strike, caring little for the survival of his hired muscle. The Hawks and their foes survived, but the temple was blasted open, and the Eye opened up a dimensional portal to the Battlelands, home of Shiva's children, taking Hawkman, Shadow Thief and Copperhead into the other dimension. On Earth Tigress pried the Eye loose from the statue of Shiva it was attached to and fled. In the Battlelands Hawkman and company were attacked by the elephantine Komeriah, sons of Ganesha, who mistook them for their mortal enemy the humanoid Makhnir, the other sons of their god. Hawkman forced them to flee, and they were taken in by the Makhnir. Copperhead was starving, so he cornered one of the Makhnir, crushed him to death, and ate him. Shadow Thief and hawkman came upon him sleeping off his meal, and Hawkman was disgusted, but Shadow Thief admitted he'd gotten used to Copperhead's bestial nature, and pointed out that he was a good partner. Hawkman learned that they kept captive Komeriah in their diamond mines as slaves, and wanted to free them. Shadow Thief told him it wasn't his fight, but Hawkman replied that he'd fight inustie wherever he found it. He was knocked unconscious and chained by Fahir, leader of the Makhir. The only reason his people took Hawkman in was because they hoped he'd share his secret of flight to help them against the Komeriah, but since he'd proved he was not an ally they put him to work as a slave. Hawkman helped the Koeriah rebel, and Hawkgirl recovered the Eye and reopened the portal. Once Shadow Thief and Copperhead were back on Earth they fled the Hawks, and reported back to Roderic.