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Chapter 10: Omega

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"Gently, you fools! Gently!" The voice commanded. The owner of it stood on a platform overlooking a large loading area. He was yelling at two figures that were holding a long capsule-shaped object that was covered by a brown tarp. The man wore a well-tailored suit, black in color. He had neatly-combed hair and a well-groomed mustache. The man looked like he could have been James Bond in another life. "I have no desire to get the machine that is in that capsule damaged in any form if I can help it! It's the last of its kind!"

One of the figures carrying the tarp-covered object looked like a sumo wrestler, his jaws covered with metal. He wore a black figure-hugging sleeveless shirt, and matching leggings. Around his belt was a red metallic-looking mawashi (Author's Note: A mawashi is the garment worn by sumo wrestlers during training or matches. They can come in a variety of colors, and sumo wrestlers tend to have superstitions about them, mainly if they lose matches wearing one of a particular color, they'll change the color). The mawashi had several sagari hanging from them. Unlike the traditional silk, these were chains.

The second was, like the sumo wrestler, heavyset. Although his gut wasn't as extreme. He looked like an anthropomorphic warthog, wearing what looked like military fatigues with gray armored pieces over it. He had a pair of bandoliers across his chest, and a pair of gattling gun barrels on his shoulders. The armored pieces had yellow-and-black striped highlights.

"Don't you worry, boss!" The sumo wrestler reassured. "Warpig and I got this handled."

"Just so as he says, Steeltrap!" Warpig grunted. The two placed the object on a platform. The suited man went down a service elevator and walked towards the tarp-covered capsule-shaped object. "So, what is this thing, boss?"

"Something that I never thought we'd get to see." The "Boss" answered matter-of-factly, looking at the object. "I cannot believe that that foolish woman wanted to just let this get destroyed. And she considered herself a brilliant mind. Hmmph."

"I don't see what the big deal is." Steeltrap shrugged. He pulled out a candy bar from a pocket in his mawashi and chowed down. "It's not like robots are anything new. Hell, everyone from Spider-Man to friggin' Nightcat has fought them! Don't the X-Men fight robots a lot?"

"This is no Sentinel, Steeltrap." The Boss pointed out. "We have no idea who...or what created this thing. For all we know, the robot itself may not know." He sighed. "A shame, really. I would love to learn more about the people that created this wondrous machine."

"It clearly ain't that tough, considered how easily it got...deactivated." Warpig snorted derisively.

"Funny, as I heard he fought the Hulk once." Steeltrap snorted.

"Punches ain't bullets, fatso." Warpig sneered.

"Oh, you calling me fat?! That's hilarious!" Steeltrap snapped. "You're not exactly svelte yourself!"

"Svelte? The hell does that mean?! You sayin' I'm a wimp?!" Warpig snarled angrily.

"No, you're not a wimp, you're an idiot!" Steeltrap retorted, then burst out laughing at his own joke.

"GRRRRR!" Warpig's shoulder guns switched to a firing position with a clicking noise.

Fweeeeeeeeee!

"RRGH!" Warpig clutched his head. The "Boss" had pressed a button on his golden watch, triggering a special pain-inducing system he had built into Warpig.

"I would appreciate you not throwing one of your tantrums in the building, Warpig." The "Boss" said. Reminder: re-examine Warpig's mental enhancements. I fear they may be malfunctioning or some unexpected flaw has popped up. Certainly would explain the anger issues...

"Ha ha, you suck!" Steeltrap taunted his fellow Bio-Borg. Warpig growled, but then wisely decided to shut up.

"As...utterly amusing..." The Boss rolled his eyes. "As this is, I would like it if you two moved this robot to Lab 3, please."

"You got it, Boss." Steeltrap said as he and Warpig picked up the covered capsule and walked it over to another room, the Boss following them. He observed the two Bio-Borgs very carefully. Steeltrap and Warpig were the physically strongest of his creations, but he didn't want that power to lead into clumsiness. He did not want his new possession to be damaged in any way. "How did this thing get here, anyway?"

"It arrived on Earth in a crashed spacecraft." The Boss explained. "Alpha Flight had come by to claim it, but I managed to...intercept it."

"You should have brought me to deal with Alpha Flight, boss." Warpig smirked. "I was made for combat, you know. I would have dealt with them real good."

"You would have attracted Danvers' attention." The Boss replied. "She's one of the most powerful of the current costumed crowd. As a result, she is the most dangerous. I really do not want her coming after me right now."

"Hhmph." Warpig snorted. "I could have taken her. She's just some loudmouthed broad with light powers."

"Ain't that Dazzler?" Steeltrap asked.

"Carol Danvers is not just some 'loudmouthed broad with light powers'." The Boss corrected. "She is a walking WMD. As such, she would be very dangerous to cross." The three arrived in the lab. "Place it on the slab. Carefully." He ordered. The two Bio-Borgs obeyed. The Boss walked over to the slab and pulled off the tarp.

An unimpressed Warpig blinked. "...this? This is it?"

"Hmmm..." The Boss smiled as he ran a hand over the transparent capsule. Inside it was a man dressed in a dark blue costume. The costume had red boots and red shining bands around his upper arms. The costume also had a red cap that attached to a red lining around the neck area. The neck formed an upside down Omega symbol. Around the man's head was a red headband that formed the Omega symbol. The headband helped keep the dead man's black hair out of his face.

"So, Boss..." Steeltrap asked. "What's the deal with this dead guy?"

The Boss smirked. "This man is not a man. He is actually a powerful android."

"He can't be that powerful if a bunch of bullets was able to do him in." Warpig snorted.

"That indeed is odd." The Boss noted. "Perhaps I'll find the answer when I examine it."

"What're you hoping to learn with this thing, boss?" Steeltrap asked.

"Something about the race that created it, hopefully." The Boss said. "I always was eager to learn. Knowledge is my passion. Also, maybe I can use the technology contained in this...Omega to improve you and the rest of my Bio-Borg forces."

"Wasn't he destroyed or something?" Warpig recalled.

"If you're recalling that incident that greatly wrecked Las Vegas some years ago, that was not him." The Boss clarified. [Author's Note: In Defenders #77 (November 1979)] "That happened after he was shot to death." He smiled at Omega. "I cannot wait to see what makes you tick. Who knows?" He looked up at Steeltrap and Warpig. "Omega here may be your next compatriot..."

1976 – Omega the Unknown debuts in his own short-lived self-titled series.