BACKSTORY
"I was killed at least three times already."▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔As many monsters begin, Abel began as a relatively normal person... He was born in a village in far Western Russia and when he was born he felt the embrace of his mother kissing him on the forehead and giving him the name Alexei. Life was simple in the village, he was trained by both of his parents for everything he would need to do in life. How to hunt, how to prepare food, how to fight - however, there was something unique about Alexei. He was incredibly strong at a young age, able to fight off a bear off alone, just not kill the bear. Maybe it was something unique about the boy, and his parents paid little mind to it, but Alexei was growing up to one of the strongest and bravest men in all of Russia... and he would need it. Life was easy for Alexei, and he enjoyed exploring the woods armed with nothing but a bow and arrow and an ax and nothing bothered him. He respected the forest and in return, the great forest gave him zero hindrance.
One winter everything changed... the Germans pushed into the Russian Empire and the village was caught in the crossfire. Alexei's family fled along with all the others, but unfortunately, they couldn't outrun the German forces... in a last-ditch effort, both of his parents gave their lives distracting the soldiers. Alexei was lost in the woods, desperately trying to find somewhere safe, and soon he became almost feral; living off the land by hunting with his ax and his bow and arrow. Repeating the mantra of "Whatever you need, the forest provides" as he cut down deer and rabbit alike. The boy, Alexei, avoided the German soldiers to the best of his ability but he was spotted by a patrol group and he put an arrow in the eye of one of them.
He ran through the woods with the German soldiers in hot pursuit, and as he ran he felt something odd overcome him. Something otherworldly that connected him to the woods... and disconnected him from his humanity. However, he tripped and fell off a hill and when Alexei hit the bottom he was barely conscious but picked himself up and limped forward. He heard them approach but he didn't have the strength to keep running and they pushed him to the ground and beat him. That inhuman side of him kept picking at him like a rabid animal before it came out when Alexei used his strength to throw one of the men off of him. While they were surprised, he grabbed his ax and cleaved through two of them...
... and was promptly shot.
Before he passed out, he heard a distant gunshot and one of the soldiers fell. Alexei woke up a few hours later all patched up, and next to a campfire, and a bunch of armed men and women all around it. They told him not to panic and said that they were simply the Red army and explained that they were there to push the Germans back. They asked why a boy was out here by himself, and Alexei told him what happened. They were sympathetic but explained that they weren't there to save him, and if he wanted to get revenge against the Wehrmacht to simply survive... and they left in the dead of the night with some supplies for Alexei and a destination. A destination that Alexei went to and found shelter in the big cities for villagers. That was when Alexei went to the Red Army leaders and said that he wanted to join to fight the Wehrmacht.
Seeing an orphan they let him help out, not officially join and he instead joined the Sons of the Regiment. He helped load equipment and even did a reconnaissance mission, but somebody saw some type of potential in the boy. His violent fervor, his dedication to the Soviet Union, and his lust for revenge... he was trained and when he was of age he officially joined the Red Army and... didn't even fight the Germans. However, he has pulled aside for elite training given his dedication to the Soviet Union.
Wurdulac was an elite unit within the Spetnaz comprised of incredibly talented soldiers... the very people that saved Alexei all those years ago. Within Wurdulac, Alexei conducted several secret missions into the heart of Germany to extract and assassinate several high-ranking German officers, sabotage key areas, and pushing the Germans out of Russia. Bringing a decisive victory for the Soviet Union, Wurdulac remained active throughout the Cold War. Conducting several secret missions against the West and other things that had to remain top secret or else another World War would break out.
These missions range from assassinations, kidnappings, sabotage, and whatever the Kremlin ordered, Wurdalac followed. Alexei himself eventually became the second in command due to his talents and cunning and was loyal to the Soviet Union to its very end. For better or worse, he was a tool of Communism and wanted nothing different. He was pushing into his sixties at some point but hardly lost a step, making up for his age with experience and training. However, things changed during the Space Race, and as everyone knows the Soviets made it to space first... but it's about what they found while they were out there. They found some type of device that was definitely otherworldly, and they brought it back for study. They never figured out just what it was, because it was stolen by double agents implanted by the CIA to bring back to the states. Wurdulac was ordered to find it but that was not the entire story.
They tracked it to a camp in South America as the intention was to sneak it back into the states via a plane. It was heavily guarded by mercenaries but they were no match for Wurdulac who cleaved through them. However, nobody knew what exactly the device did and they found out the hard way when it was damaged: a massive alien mothership appeared overhead and began opening fire on the encampment. An alien invasion began right before their eyes and they feared for the Soviet Union's safety so they launched a suicide mission into the mothership. Many members of Wurdulac were cut down as Alexei was the last person alive and he placed the bomb. He tried to escape but he couldn't quite escape the blast radius.
Officially none of this happened and when the Soviet Union fell; all traces of Wurdulac was completely wiped. They were ghosts in almost every sense of the word and many of them died without even the average Soviet citizen even knowing what they did.
However, Alexei was revived by someone... a Japanese girl by the name of Makoto Koda. He woke up in her lab feeling strange, he looked down and saw that he was mostly machine. She explained to him that he was rebuilt, and explained why she rebuilt him... she needed a right-hand man for her campaign against the alien threat that destroyed him and his team. She told him that what he fought was just the beginning and that there were many more alien threats on the horizon, and that nobody took them seriously nor were they prepared for them. She had MAVERICK's secret Extraterrestial threat department, MIRAGE, under her thumb and to a lesser extent MAVERICK themselves. She knew what needed to be done to protect humanity: recover the Power Stones. The only issue was that they were so spaced out and somebody always had one. She needed help organizing her army to capture them.
She needed Alexei.
It was something he was reluctant to do, and Alexei was all for protecting not just the Russian people but the whole world. The first Power Stone was tracked to a wealthy businessman in Cairo, and all he had to go was go take it from him. And Alexei did it, he got the Power Stone... however while he wanted to do it bloodlessly, he accidentally killed his servant. It happened in the crossfire of fighting the man's security, shot her right through the head. He wished to have given her a proper burial but that wasn't possible.
Afterward, Alexei set his eyes on all the Power Stones of the world but he needed a team... he needed a new Wurdulac. With the connections Pariah and MIRAGE had, Alexei, expanded his horizons and sought out not warriors but soldiers. Nomads that knew discipline and knew what was required of them... and he fought his team, he was just patient and they basically came to them. Seven men and women were the top soldiers that he could lead through tough and hard times, and most importantly of all; control.
Alexei wanted to hold onto his conscience and his pride as a soldier above all else, and he didn't want to kill any civilians. With his team, they fought to intimidate the world, facing off against MAVERICK, Justice Riders, and whoever the hell else came their way. However, getting the Power Stones was easier said than done as they weren't the only ones after the legendary stones. They managed to recover three Power Stones and the Pariah immediately went to work. The Pariah had a plan, she was building some kind of device that would protect Earth from all sort of threats... Alexei knew that it would work. His team was set to protect this device while it was being constructed.
It was hidden far in the Sahara desert, deep underground far away from the MIRAGE HQ if its construction was discovered or interrupted. Pariah used her genius to create a legion of robotic workers to finish the device. That was the plan, however, the MIRAGE stronghold was raided by a team of MAVERICK, Justice Riders, and anyone else who had a bone to pick with MIRAGE. Alexei was surprised that they were even discovered... then his team was taken out one at a time by the combined forces and Alexei was desperate not to lose another team.
Despite his best efforts, everyone in his special unit was killed except for him and one other... Edgar Irizarry. However, when they were pushed against the wall, Edgar turned against him and revealed that he betrayed MIRAGE. The two traded blows and Alexi had Edgar against the wall, but when the others jumped in Alexei was defeated and left for dead. The conglomerate took the Power Stones and the facility self-destructed, but Alexei's body was once again dragged out of it by Pariah's drones. He was barely alive but, once again, The Pariah had to rebuild him. She was not worried about this setback as she could simply get the Power Stones back later.
However, after this betrayal, something snapped inside of Alexei... He lost two teams despite his best intentions and not just that he was betrayed by a close ally. Someone whom he trained and treated as a son... and the first thing that Alexei did was go out and murder Edgar. Alexi went and snapped his neck in front of his son, before hunting for the Power Stones. Becoming far more ruthless and detached as he committed atrocity after atrocity... and then his conscious kicked in and he began to self-reflect as to why he was doing this. He was protecting humanity from a threat that he saw first hand by being that threat to humanity...
He realized why Edgar betrayed MIRAGE, maybe he just saw the writing on the wall and knew that they would go too far. Alexei saw it with his own two eyes but realizes that, at this point, there's just no going back for him. He crossed the threshold by senselessly killing so many and many crimes under his belt... he earned the ire of the world and yet he keeps pushes on, telling himself that he's just doing it for the good of humanity. Eventually, he stopped calling himself Alexei and became... Abel. He built MIRAGE full of fellow monsters and made them stronger than ever before, as he prepared to recover the Power Stones.
Fortunately, people did stupid things like make it a prize for winning a stupid tournament. Which Abel was going to acquire either by winning the tournament or taking it from the winner... and it was looking like the latter was gonna happen but unfortunately Oh-One launched an attack on a tournament. Abel inquired as to what the hell Oh-One was and the Pariah informed him that he was a man named Gerard's first creation. MIRAGE ultimately stayed out of the chase as there were so many after him, they anticipated his defeat. They intended to stealthily take the Power Stone in the chaos but that didn't work out.
Instead, Abel decided to track down every Power Stone in existence for the Pariah's new weapon against alien threats... and in doing so, arranged so that there won't be another force capable of stopping them.
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