Omega Red
Steve Rogers was born sometime between 1917 and 1925 to Irish-Immigrant parents, and grew up a frail youth in a poor family during the Great Depression. His father died when he was a child, and his mother died later when he was in his late teens. Horrified by newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to try to enlist in the Army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected. Overhearing the boy's earnest plea to be accepted, General Chester Phillips of the U.S. Army offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a top secret experiment called Operation: Rebirth and injected with the Super-Soldier Serum.
Three months later, he was given his first assignment, to stop the Nazi agent called the Red Skull. To help him become a symbolic counterpart to the Red Skull, Rogers was given the red, white, and blue costume of Captain America. Steve was originally issued with a traditionally-shaped "kite" shield made of mundane steel, as well as a sidearm. His mask was also a seperate piece from the rest of his costume, and in one early outing was nearly knocked from his face, revealing his identity. Adding the neck-covering part of his costume also afforded Rogers the opportunity for protection in this previously exposed area. President Roosevelt presented him with his now-legendary disc-shaped shield. Discovering that its excellent aerodynamic properties made it an effective offensive weapon, Rogers abandoned his sidearm.
His final battle took place in Red Skull's fortress, high in the German Alps. Every American and German soldier died in the fight, and the battle came down to Captain America and Red Skull, and the prototype Captain America Isaiah Bradley desperately trying to stop the freeze ray. Bradley was able to detonate the freeze ray with a bandoleer of grenades. However, the resulting explosion killed both the Red Skull and Steve Rogers, the then Captain America. Isaiah was blasted free of the mountain fortress where the battle took place, and was frozen solid into an icecave on the side of the mountain.
At least that is what everyone thought. In reality a Swedish fishing vessel discovered the badly injured Rogers floating in the Baltic Sea. The Soviets and Germans had spies in the area and both raced to get their hands on the Allied super-soldier. The Soviets's got a hold of Rogers first and sent him to Moscow.
By the time Steve Rogers was healthy again, it was 1946. The world thought he was dead, and the Soviets held Captian America in a cell designed to hold the Red Skull. Beyond the daily tests, and attempts to get samples to create a Soviet supersoldier, Steve had to under go every attempt at brianwashing by the Soviets. By 1953 it was decided to put Steve Rogers in to suspended animation in a secret laboratory within the city of Moscow.
In 1968 Rogers was awaked by Professor Pieter Phobos to deal with Arkady Gregorivich a Russian serial killer conscripted to be apart of the Omega Red Project. Following actions by the The Sentinels the carbonadium synthesizer perhaps the one thing to keep Gregorivich alive, he went mad and attacked every scientist he encountered searching for a cure.
Rogers in a pitched battle, was able to defeat the Russian. Freedom seemed to be with in his grasp when he was given a massive shock to his brian, a chip was installed to keep Rogers in check and went off when ever he went outside his mission.
Following the "Arkady Incident" Soviet research went into making Rogers the prototype for all future supersoldiers giving him the code name Omega Red. His body was operated on in numerous ways. The first was in 1971 when a mixture of alien, robotic, and mutant organs where put his place of his normal ones, this gave him nearly unlimitless use of his superhuman abilities. A cybernetic device replaced Roger's left eye, giving him the peak of 1977 technology to assist in targeting and battlefield analysis. In 1987 the Soviet government coat carbonadium over all of Rogers bones.
Carbonadium-V was the Soviets' attempt to recreate the artificial alloy known as adamantium, with the stress absorbing qauilties of Vibranium added in. It is a more malleable form of adamantium, but extremely posionous over long periods of time, however Steve had the healing factor to handle it for decades, and thanks to periods of suspended animation Rogers could live for as long as the Soviets wanted.
Such plans failed in 1992 when the staff keeping Roger's frozen simply got up and left. When Rogers got out in 1999 he did what he always did and tried to escape. Nothing attacked him, no shock went through his brian, he simply walk out into the Moscow subway.
Now Omega Red has returned, to a world utterly different from what he remembers. Not only is he a long lost relic of World War II, and the Cold War, but he is slowly dying due to the metal making him virtually indestructible.
In order to stabilize his condition, Omega Red requires the "carbonadium synthesizer," a device that was stolen by The Sentinels during the 1960s. It is because of his need for the carbonadium synthesizer that Omega Red has continuously sought out these individuals over the years, believing they may know of its whereabouts. Having fought the Hulk, to Captain America, Omega Red has saved just as many people a she has attacked in his never ending quest to save himself.
