Dayspire said:
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazines/wizard/WZ20050831-ult.cfm
Interesting.
And they have him going after Spidey for some odd reason, considering he's an X-Men foe for the most part.
Well, here is my take. It needs a good edit but I like it so far. I think it manages to base the homicidal maniac on something. Let me know what you folks think, please.
Arkady Rossovich's Ultimate History:
The war had been won. The history books would tell the same tale they had told for centuries. A land war in Russia is bound to fail, especially in winter. Russia has land and people and they are willing to give both to the enemy. Arkady Rossovich was one body that just wouldn’t be given to the Nazi soldiers.
Arkady was only fourteen when the Germany launched their attack, Operation Barbarossa on the USSR. His was one of the first towns to be razed, raped, and mutilated.
Arkady’s father had been in the army, he had died in the attack. His sister and mother were raped multiple times and killed right before his eyes. Arkady was held down by four S.S. soldiers; after they had finished with his family they started to torture him. When they were down cutting and taunting they left the adolescent outside in the muddy, debris filled street to die in the night. Arkady clung to life; his rage sustained him.
Arkady soon found himself part of the guerilla resistance. He was vicious, fast, and cunning the perfect saboteur. In time the brutality of the Nazis bred more and more rebels eventually creating the famed Partisans. Arkady was 16 when the Central Staff was created and he already was leading a band of nearly 100 men, women, and children from the Belrussia forests.
Two more years of brutal warfare from both sides raged onward, Arkady gaining more respect as each one of his operations succeeded. Mess Halls, Communication Stations, Railways were all destroyed. Arkady gained attention from the highest echelons of the Russian command when he led a group of 10 other warriors on what was thought to be a suicide mission. They slaughtered some 50 german officers and guests during a planning retreat. Arkady was the only member of his group who made it back alive. He had been shot 5 times.
When the war finally ended the world rejoiced at America’s greatness. The world had a hero that all the nations could look to: Captain America had arrived.
Stalin was furious, over the next year soviet scientists worked tirelessly to create their own super-soldier serum. Arkady was chosen as the reciepient as he had shown amazing toughness and skill in combat. He was also unshakably loyal to his country. Arkady trained night and day, everyday from the end of the war until the day he took the serum fueled by red hot rage.
The soviet’s, in their attempt to surpass America, had given their serum some extra properties. Their serum would allow the release of ‘Death Spores’, a chemical that sucked away the life of whomever it touched and imbued the energy on the wielder.
Their serum was better but they wanted something to defeat Captain America’s shield, they had carbonadium, which they shaped as tentacles and embedded into their subject.
Arkady Rossovich had become Omega Red.
Omega Red prowled the world on the whim of Stalin and his advisors. Arkady assassinated leaders of revolutions, of other countries, of anyone he was told to kill. He was a killer and an instrument of terror. He was the perfect assassin except for one thing. He would relentlessly hunt and slaughter Germans. A tool is only useful if it can be controlled and on the night of October 24 the soviets lost control.
Arkady walked into a church full of German families and drew the life out of every warm body. Children were left grotesquely pale and lifeless, the brides dress was red with blood and the priest had been killed with the cross.
The next day Omega Red reported in to his supervisor for a mission briefing. As he was leaving he heard a hiss as a needle plunged into his neck. The last thing he heard was
“Goodbye, Comrade.”
After 50 some odd years the layers of ice were removed by a Georgian woman who found Arkady’s cell. Arkady’s was nursed back to health by the woman, Elsa Spalko. Over the better part of a year Arkady recovered. The second year he helped take care of Elsa’s small farm. Arkady had fallen in love, he didn’t feel rage. As the months rolled on he changed from a murderer to a man. A man with a soul filled with guilt.
On the night of October 24 he stole away from the cabin Elsa and he had shared for 3 years. The note he left was short and simple
“I must pay for my sins, I love you.”
Arkady had set out to pay for each and every death he had dealt.
