Though it was the afternoon sun shining down on Moscow, the Russian city was still damn cold. For one particular man on the outskirts of the river city however, this was not an issue. Of course, the native Russians took to the climate with relative indifference as was expected, but one look at the man gave away that he was not accustomed to life here. He was, in a word, tall. Such was natural of the Russian people, but this man was titanic. In addition, the yellow-blond mess of hair hanging from his massive head further implied that his height was not a result of any muscovite descent. Were that not enough, the ominous air that seemed to follow him suggested, almost declared that he was something alien to this land.
Of course, all of that could have been ignored if one simply noticed the Typhon insignia emblazoned upon the breast of his coat.
Gabriel Jensen did not at all mind being left to himself on the Russian frontier. After they’d shipped him out to the Hydra Complex he’d been allowed to roam wherever he pleased. He knew that someone, somewhere was keeping an eye on him. It didn’t matter. Gabriel was not the wisest of men, but he knew why he was here. He knew that Typhon had set him loose simply because it was better to have him doing damage in the vast Eurasian realm than in their own facilities. They had predicted, and accurately enough, that a man of Gabriel’s inclinations would stay far enough from civilization so as not to damage Typhon’s reputation by say, tearing down a city.
He knew he was in exile, and he didn’t care. If anything, it was entertaining. He was free to patrol as he pleased. Occasionally he’d be given a name of someone whose skull they wanted cracked, and if he felt like it maybe he’d just get the job done for them. Best of all, none of those damned scientists with their needles, their electrodes, their various “stimuli” to incite a response from him. The very thought made him well up with outrage. He stopped in his tracks, his two mammoth hands running up to his hairline and gripping his skull in some hopeless attempt to tear out the demons stirring in his mind. Gabriel felt his knees buckle, releasing an involuntary growl that he only half managed to swallow up.
The cold wind brushed by his face, seeming almost to whisper some calming words in his ear. Gabriel relaxed slightly, slumping down into an exhausted posture and looking out at the sun. That was another thing he liked about the cold. It was soothing somehow. In the cold, his body functions slowed as they would for most life forms. It was of course a barely noticeable change, but it could be the difference that prevented an… incident. That was especially important this close to a major city like Moscow. He figured Typhon’d try putting him back in the cell if he broke any skyscrapers. He didn’t, really really did not want to go back in the cell.
They’d said they’d be calling on him personally if his skills were ever needed. He’d actually laughed when they said it, because even he knew the ability to crush a human head wasn’t really much of a skill. In any case, nobody had contacted him with anything big yet, which was fine with him. He figured they’d only be shipping out a gun as big as he was in cases where firepower was more important than tact, and that just didn’t seem like Typhon’s style. So he waited, anticipating the day that the end of the world would rear its ugly head and his masters, in all their desperation, would finally call on him.
It so happened that the end of the world began today.
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