Seeing Red (Open to SHIELD)

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Arkady blinked his ruby red eyes as he slowly emerged from the dreamless cryogenic sleep that he had been forced under by SHIELD. Honestly, the hulking Russian had lost count now of how many times he had been put to sleep only to be reawakened by some blindingly stupid new flavor of SHIELD agent with another inane battery of questions. Hesitatingly, Arkady raised his hands as the cryopod's door swung open and he attempted to extend his carbonadium tendrils in the direction of the technician. Given that he was still wearing a power cancelling collar, courtesy of his SHIELD jailers, nothing happened.

But, one of the Agents in the room still saw a need to hit Arkady with the taser.

The Russian dropped to the ground with a thud and convulsed until the thousands of volts of electricity stopped coursing through his body. Silently he glared red daggers at the offending agent as he pushed himself to his feet with shackled hands. Remaining steadfastly silent, the colossal mountain of human and mutant flesh held up his bound hands and made a universal one-fingered gesture with each hand that conveyed a simple message to the offending agent of SHIELD. Reaching up to his broad and bare snowy white chest, the former Soviet agent grasp the leads from the taser and gave a sharp jerk, freeing the prongs from his skin and loosing a very tiny stream of blood which quickly healed over.

The sign language, combined with the glare, and gestures presented a rich tableau of non-verbal communication that also more than successfully conveyed another message. A message that stated, quite clearly, when Omega Red got loose, and he would, that the offending Agent would be the first to die. Not the last, but definitely the first.

The Russian's pale lip curled back dangerously, and his shackled fists opened and closed as he imagined personally wringing the life from the agent. But, he remained quite silent. Being cooperative hadn't helped him in the past. It was time to try a new strategy, silence. The worst that would happen is that SHIELD would shove him back into cryosleep, but they were going to do that no matter what. So, Arkady could see no reason at all to be helpful since there was absolutely nothing in it for him.

It wasn't, after all, as if SHIELD had the stones to actually kill someone at the snap of a finger or the drop of a hat. That kind of act required the sort of intestinal fortitude that SHIELD simply did not have when it came to the way they treated prisoners. It was a true no-win scenario. Cooperate and take a frozen solitary dirt nap. Be uncooperative and take a frozen, solitary dirt nap.

Regardless, he wasn't going to be allowed to feed or to kill. He definitely was not going to be released. So, he was done cooperating.

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Aleksei, even without his Rhino suit, was still quite the large man, mostly due to his former workout routine and the enhanced powers he gained after his gamma experiment very early on in his criminal career. Still, those muscles were just for show as the collar around his neck prevented him from ever using his powers to his fullest capacity.

He was back to simply being Aleksei Sytsevich, not the Rhino. He couldn't smash through walls for the heck of it, or rampage around the prison for his safety. He was just a prisoner, simply living his life in a cell.

A padded cell, with closed doors and one tiny window made of some very sturdy glass. The doors and walls were even made of reinforced titanium, just as a precaution in case his collar wore off.

Which, surprisingly, seemed to happen more often with him than with any of the other prisoners in the cell. The guards never knew why either, especially since Aleksei was far, far, far from the brightest mind in this prison. He couldn't have come up with a way to short out the collar.

But Aleksei was in the employ of someone who could, a man named Samuel Sterns, but preferably likes to be called the Leader. It seemed whenever Sterns required Aleksei's employ, he'd simply find a way to hack into his cell and cause a short range EMP blast to turn off the collar. He even had a boat outside ready and waiting for Aleksei every time he needed the Rhino broken out. It was a ridiculous plan, but the guards themselves were never prepared for the Rhino's strength, even without the suit, as he'd break out to reach the boat, guided by a mysterious voice (mainly due to Stern's voice changer).

It was ridiculous that this seemed to work several times, no matter the precautions the guards took. Every break out was different, where they had Aleksei in a different cell, or had the guards far more equipped than before, the Leader made sure to plan out how to keep the guards unconscious with ventilated gas, or with drugs inputted into their drinks. And he'd always find a way to get Aleksei's cell open.

Well, today, that was the end of that. SHIELD decided to finally get to the bottom of this break out spree, before Aleksei's employer (who they don't know about as of yet), breaks out the Rhino once again.

Hence, Aleksei being dragged by some chains by several guards, heading through hallways and doorways until they reach an interrogation room with the SHIELD agents.

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"Move along Red, or you'll get another zap," the led guard rumbled as several lackeys flanked the large Russian, bustling and hustling Arkady through the corridors of the prison. Several of the other cell cages held wild animals of their own, evidence of past SHIELD triumphs, though Omega Red was not given enough time to stand and gawk in order to figure out all the various people that might be incarcerated with him. No doubt the albino would have been familiar with at least a few of them. After all, it was tough to reach Omega Red's age without knowing a fair number of people.

At the end of the security corridor that they were in, which led to various interrogation chambers, the metallic doors slid open and another team of guards dragged in another prisoner. The man looked to be nearly equal to Omega Red in terms of sheer physical size. It was also clear, from the reaction of Arkady's escorts that these people were not supposed to be here at this particular moment. Narrowing his ruby eyes, Arkady chose to use the distraction to best benefit.

He wasn't going to be able to get out of here, not at the moment, but he could make life miserable for a few guards for several weeks, at least. Lowering his center of gravity, the towering Russian drove sideways into the guard on his left, throwing a powerful and nasty elbow strike into the guard's ribs. Omega Red was greeted by the sound of cracking and crunching as, from the sound of things, several of the guard's ribs broke. As the guard collapsed to the ground Arkady took the opportunity to get the kill. With a short hop, the Russian was in the air, and then he slammed down both feet on the downed guard's neck with a sickening crunch.

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As Aleksei was being dragged towards an interrogation room next to the one that another Russian was being sent into, he could see the mutant being dragged by chains to his left start to struggle against his captors. He even successfully killed one of them by stomping right on top of a knocked over guard's neck.

The act was impressive, being able to fight off the guards without his powers. Especially with the collar around their necks. See, the instant the prisoners start to act aggressive, the collars would immediately activate, delivering a powerful electric shock and some injected dentroxin for some good measure to knock out the prisoner. It was something Aleksei knew quite well from his numerous attempts at escape after being locked into the Raft several times over.

Still, Aleksei admired his spunk, as he was being dragged towards his own interrogation room, as Arklady was most likely spasming on the ground from pain before falling into unconsciousness. He'd keep him in mind if the Leader ever broke him out again. Once forced into his chair, with several constraints put onto his arms when he started sitting, the guards would instruct him, "Someone is coming for you later. We got to take care of your neighbor first."

The guards would exit the room, most likely to take care of the unconscious prisoner in the hallway outside. As he sat down in his chair, waiting for some interrogator, a voice on his collar would be audibly heard. Typically, this was for the warden to talk to his prisoners, or to talk to one of the prisoners privately, since any word the prisoner said could be heard right back to wherever the Warden was located.

However, Aleksei's collars always seemingly got hacked. Most likely due to the fact that the communications features of these collars were wireless, which the Leader took full advantage of.

"Placed into another cage once again Aleksei? I'm starting to feel like I'm wasting brain power breaking you out all the time. Well, you have proven to be loyal, hence all my attempts. Are you ready to leave?"

"Yes..." Aleksei said with a bored sigh. This had felt like the hundredth escape he had undertaken from the Raft. He knew the procedure by now. Start causing a ruckus, head towards the boat set up on the waters outside, and make his getaway as the Leader automates the boat towards the desired location.

It was always so simple, and so boring. He honestly just couldn't wait to get this over with so he could outside again to see Emilia.

Anyways, the collar around his produced an audible beep noise, as it opened up and fell to the ground. Aleksei regained his strength, and busted through the constraints around his arms on the chair as he sat up. He'd then bust through the door of the interrogation chamber, leading all the guards trying to carry the unconscious Arklady to look straight towards Aleksei.

The Rhino, without the Rhino suit of course, still had his immense strength and durability, and easily bulldozed through the lot, knocking several of them out. He'd even throw several away like trash, tossing them away for several meters down the hallways.

One guard though, made his escape, and attempted to radio in for backup. Aleksei didn't really notice him, as he'd saw the unconscious Omega Red on the ground below him. "Hmmm..."

Aleksei would reach down towards the collar and attempt to rip it off the neck of Arklady. However, he'd feel an intense shock, as if to warn him to back off. A security measure of the collar that was meant to prevent the illegal removal of these collars. Still, Aleksei was tough, and fought through the pain to rip the collar off.

He'd then slap the unconscious prisoners' face in an attempt to wake him up, speaking Russian in the process, not realizing the man below him was from the same country. <"Wake up you drowsy monkey. This is no time to dream of sleep.>

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If it hadn't been for the voice speaking in Russian to him as he came around, Arkady would have been likely to attack. The combination of the Russian language, which was enough to let Omega Red know that he was not being roused by agents of SHIELD, and the blows to his face roused the big man to consciousness. More importantly, Arkady was accutely aware of something else. He could feel his powers and abilities once again. The Russian curled his lip back in a nasty way as he sat up.

"English, Comrade," the blonde albino rumbled, pushing to his feet and tilting his head to each side to pop his neck. "English, so they understand what is about to happen to them..." Snarling, Omega Red extended the carbonadium coils from each of his wrists. The silvery tendrils shot out and secured two of the guards in quick succession, one around the chest and the other around the neck.

Slowly, Arkady reeled them back in and raised the one with the coil wrapped around his neck to eye level. Ruby red eyes narrowed, hatefully, as the guard's hands clawed at the coil that was slowly choking him. "You first, Agent Williamson," Red snarled, reading the man's name tape. Slowly, Arkady drained the life force from the man before dropping the nearly emptied husk to the ground at his feet.

"You can never unsee, never unhear," In a flash, Arkady drained the second guard and dropped the body before the first where he could see it. In quick succession, the towering Russian snared the other few guards in the now locked down corridor, and drained each of them in turn.

So much better.

So much more alive.

Revenge was sweet and a dish best served cold, like ice cream.

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Aleksei would examine Arklady, as his tentacles that protrude from his body came to life, and started to drain the life of the guards around him. He could hear their screams slowly lower in intensity as the life faded from their eyes. Aleksei couldn't bother with their deaths though. They had an escape to commit.

Hence, the man known as the Rhino responded with "Da." An ironic response to say that he would indeed speak english the rest of the way. Aleksei was still somewhat slow on the uptake at times. But English or Russian, it did not matter to Aleksei. He needed freedom, no matter what language it spoke.

"Through here." Aleksei responded.

He'd bust through the nearest locked doors, quite easily, despite the several locks placed upon them. However, he'd find himself invited by the sight of several armed guards, with a row of riot shields in the front lines.

"FIRE!"

Several gun-men would fire, along with cans of tear gas to cover up Aleksei's vision. He'd keep his guard up, as bullets rained down upon him.

"BEHIND ME COMRADE!" Aleksei yelled, aiming to try and block as many bullets as he could. The swarm of projectiles actually seemed somewhat overwhelming without his suit. But once Arklady would prepare to attack, Aleksei would have no problem bulldozing through.

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Arkady turned his hateful ruby gaze in the direction which Aleksei had indicated. So far, the other enormous man was proving to be quite useful, so Arkady was disinclined to cause harm to Rhino. But, everything could and would change if the other man gave the blonde albino any reason at all to doubt his usefulness. This was especially true now that Omega Red had devoured a proper snack consisting of the life forces of multiple agents of SHIELD. The Russian villain was feeling energized, properly alive and his various abilities were building into something that SHIELD's agents were going to be wildly incapable of stopping.

"Now, Agent Williamson," Arkady growled in a low tone, turning his gaze down to the SHIELD Agent who was nearly dead and whom Arkady had just made watch as his comrades died. "This is where we say... da svidanya." Calmly, with no more of a feeling of remorse than he would have had if he had crushed an ant beneath his heel, the towering albino mutant lowered his foot slowly on Williamson's neck until there was an audible cracking sound and the other man went still.

Just in time for Aleksei to tear through the door at one end of the corridor, kicking over the proverbial anthill. The odd round, here and there, made its way past the bulk of Aleksei as he stood in the doorway. Arkady tilted his head to one side, cracking his neck. Omega Red was impressed, very impressed, by Aleksei's staying power and impressing the albino man was a feat that was not easy to pull off, for few had ever accomplished it. As multiple canisters of tear gas landed near Rhino's feet and began to belch their gaseous contents Omega Red stepped up behind Rhino and tapped the other man on the shoulder.

"Allow me," Arkady grunted, neatly brushing into the corridor. Obscured my the smoke from the tear gas, which his healing factor was dealing with as quickly as it filled his lungs, the blonde mutant stepped into the path of the oncoming bullets without a care in the world. Yes, a few of them ripped into his body, and the effects were dealt with in very short order. Curling his lip back from his teeth, Arkady extended his arms and sent twin coils of carbonadium lancing out from the cover of the smoke, aiming to literally scythe the legs from beneath the guards.

After all, he didn't want them to die right away, revenge was still in progress and Omega Red was eager to drain a few more of the SHIELD agents along the way.

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As the two were dealing with several gunmen on the second "floor" of the penitentiary. A guard rail was behind the firing squad, trailing around towards the stairs that lead to the lower floor. Rhino of course, planned on taking the express way down. Especially as he'd see his current ally Omega Red, simply walk through the shower of bullets, with blood simply flowing from his body left and right.

"Good to know you can handle yourself." Aleksei would reply, wanting to slightly grimace at all the blood his ally was losing.

Sure, Aleksei wasn't a strange to blood, he has killed before. But such a sight was slightly strange to him, despite all the amazing and bizarre occurrences and happenings he has been around. For now, as Arkady walked through the smoke, slicing through the calves of all the SWAT men firing upon the two, Aleksei would take a deep breath, and start charging in, to the right of Arkady.

He topple over the shooters like they were bowling pins, as he simply broke through the guard rail behind them to fall onto the floor below. He'd smash down, as if he was some weighty gorilla, creating a dent on the floor beneath him. He'd then easily smash, and knock away several armed guards around.

"When you are ready, I have escape prepared! Come down when you are done having fun!"