The greatest success of the peacekeepers.
The official reports say there are one hundred frankensteins. This isn't quite the whole truth. The very first Frankenstein; a General Pierre Roche, was the first to be placed in the program before the second world war. Pierre was a decorated veteran of the first world war and was all too eager to bring the fight to the Boche once again. Born some distance from the city of nice, his early life was unremarkable, save for his patriotism and interest in war, which prompted him to enroll in a military university and fight in the great war as a lieutenant, by the time the war ended; he was a Colonel with countless medals to his name.
After being screened for the testing procedure; he was shipped off to the research planet with Franco-British superscience. The process to make him into a manmade god worked, perhaps too well, to give him an extra jump start, the French and British Governments slaughtered his entire extended family, his friends, his former soldiers, and used their biomass and genetic material to make him thousands of Frankensteins in one. The allied scientists told him his mind would remain intact and he would attain godlike perfection.
The creation of the Death Harbinger.They lied; As Pierre grew to monstrous proportions, was inlaid with fantastic cybernetics, his grip on sanity became increasingly tenuous as he felt the shrieking minds of his betrayed family and friends. The bio-grafting process to his armorsuit; which used the nervous tissue of his immediate family utterly destroyed his mind as he felt the combined feelings of outrage, betrayal, pain, hate, and anger of tens of thousands of slaughtered innocents who were all connected to him in some way, followed by being possessed by all the indignant French and British dead of World War one and all of their deceased family members and friends. Millions of screaming voices, filled with a torrent of burning hot emotion swarmed in his mind, just as the Allies planned.
He had a body that gods would envy for it's power, but his mind was something far more abhorrent now, consumed by a rage no mere mortal could begin to describe. He became a behemoth of pure rage and hate towards all things, consumed by constant mind wracking pain. Once a man with a bright career ahead of him, he became a murderous beast who only used it's former intelligence to get around obstacles it's might couldn't. Completed in secret on a base in a distant solar system in 1938, Pierre was dubbed "Death Harbinger" after his initial rampage.
Lost in a state of absolute pain and fury, Pierre went out and destroyed the solar system it was built in, he could have destroyed it in one fell swoop, but his anger towards those that caused him pain made him draw out the process. Worlds shattered before his unyielding spite, the system's sun was snuffed out like a candle, asteroids were rent asunder, comets vaporized before fury unimaginable. Millions died, but the western allies were convinced they had struck gold. Using a psychic backdoor into his mind, having foreseen his descent into madness, they brought him into stasis to be deployed against Axis Space and Supernatural assets.
Pierre Roche; Death Harbinger.Perhaps the most infamous account of his destructive power comes from his destruction of a hell lord's entire domain. Believing that the Japanese were about to strike a deal with an Oni known as Harakata, Death Harbinger was deployed, alone, and the moment he was released from stasis, a howling cry of rage issued forth from his burning maw. Demons used to dismissing mortals as impotent had trauma and horror beaten into them. The foulest magics and curses did nothing to stop the monster that was once a man.
Their mightiest warriors were cast down like so much matchsticks before a Tornado; and Death Harbinger only became stronger as it's assault went on. The guards of Harakata who fled reported that power that could shake a galaxy was unleashed upon the monster that came upon them, but the Death Harbinger simply kept on coming, pushing through this incredible power until it's maw opened to release a gust of power that sheared off the Oni's arms before it grabbed Harakata by the throat and tore him in half showering his ebony halls in gore.
Not content with killing the Hell Lord, the raging Frankenstein went so far as to start smashing the entire dimension. It attacked the horrified demons, masters of fear now utterly consumed with it as that which was once pierre murdered them in droves. Allies, vassals, and enemies of Harakata tried to muscle in on the now dead Demon Lord's territory, but they too felt the unending whirlwind of fury that was the Harbinger. Skyfathers, Archangels, Hell Lords, Archomentals, Demon Princes, Lovecraftian Abominations and their armies of fiends, celestials, gods, elementals and aberrations and all tried to take Harakata's now open for grabs realm.
The Harbinger fought against their armies, only growing angrier and more powerful. As more and more of these extradimensional minions came to fight the Harbinger, he drenched the jade fields in blood and gore and bathed it in fire. These mighty extradimensional beings then came to try and fight Pierre themselves in a battlefield wreathed in fire and raining blood. There were dozens of these mighty beings, their power capable of rending galaxies apart and undoing vast civilizations. The Harbinger was just one being created by men. They didn't stand a chance.
In the flames of Harakata's realmThe Harbinger slaughtered them in turn, for by now it had grown powerful beyond belief. Echoes of this clash resounded across the universe and all it's connected planes. And each time the roar went out across the cosmos, it would be punctuated by the scream of a dying Godhead. As it slew the last of them; a creature with an unpronounceable name and indescripable form from the Far Realm, it struck the ground of the plane with such fury that it exploded in a fashion so mighty that it destroyed dozens of other extraplanar realms.
The allies returned to pick up the creature; once again using the psychic backdoor to make it return to sleep, it's power diminishing back to base levels. And this cycle would repeat itself; problems beyond typical allied and later N.A.T.O ability to deal with, even that of the peacekeepers, would be dealt with by unleashing the Death Harbinger. Those who know of it speak of it in hushed terror, for it razes civilizations and realms. It's hate towards a universe that gave it such pain is all consuming, and it is this omnicidal rage that NATO continues to use as the final word in warfare.
It hasn't been deployed on Earth yet, but if America pulls the right strings, then Pierre will make it's fury known on the Earth, and if so; pray to whatever deity you worship that someone on the other side knows about his psychic backdoor, as Roche is anything but a precision weapon, it is nothing less than a living apocalypse. It is a walking holocaust, the ultimate embodiment of the sins of dark science and black magic. It is a cyclone of rage and a tempest of genocide.
It is living proof that in the end; the Western Allies were no better than Stalin's Soviet Union, Tojo's Japan, Hitler's Germany, or Mussolini's Italy. The fact that it is still used today is a reminder that N.A.T.O at it's core is an evil organization that cares for nothing more than power, no better than the Warsaw Pact and the Axis Powers before it. Were the psychic backdoor ever removed, it would likely destroy all things. And above all else; it is a monument to all our sins, a rampaging abomination forged by the so called "Good-guys", the ultimate mistake of humanity, and the one that will destroy it.
Powers, Equipment, And weaknesses
Strength and durability: The Death Harbinger's base strength and durability when one factors in it's armor and cybernetics is somewhere in the billions of tons, but it quickly escalates the longer a confrontation goes on, through a combination of both increasing strength and toughness as time passes and it's building anger and spite.
Healing factor: The Death Harbinger's healing factor starts out at baseline Hulk levels, but like it's other powers, rapidly increases as a fight goes on. It is immune to all disease and poison, even ones such as the Zombie Virus, Vamprism, Lycanthropy, Pit Fiend venom, and Sinmaker's surprise. They cannot survive in small part because of it's immune system, but mostly due to it's sheer hatred causing any and all foreign elements in it's body to burst into flame.
Power from hatred: The force of Pierre's hate and rage towards all things is so intense that it has become a physical force and power. It can replicate any effect a red lantern can; and while it starts out at baseline red lantern levels, this only grows as time and thus it's hate and rage grow. This unimaginable loathing for all things means that any attempted telepathic contact automatically results in a massive psychic backlash. It need not subsist on anything but this hate. His hate is so extreme that he can actually defy death itself, clinging onto the mortal coil out of sheer spite and regenerating from total obliteration. It can even use it's hatred and anger to literally punch holes into and out of other dimensions. It simply gets so furious at reality that time and space tear apart to let it through.
Psionic, reality warping, matter warping, temporal manipulation, spatial manipulation, energy warping, and magic resistance: Pierre already starts off as nearly immune to mystic, divine, cosmic, and mental forces, and this resistance only builds at a geometric rate with the passing of time and the building of hate and anger. Only some of this is due to it's frankenstein conditioning, the majority of it is because it is so consumed by rage that it bends reality to be resistant to these things. It's hatred is so vast that it can and has willed itself into time stopped areas to continue it's destructive rampage.
Flight: Equipped with built in wings, Pierre is capable of superluminal flight outside of an atmosphere, and unknown but subluminal speeds in an atmosphere. It gets faster as it remains active longer and gets increasingly angrier and more spiteful. It is a highly expert flier and can pull tricky maneuvers with ease, though it usually just bull rushes at it's targets to crush them or chases after flying foes.
Superspeed: Pierre starts off as fast as Agent Carol and grows faster and more agile, with his own danger sense that only continues to increase as it's rampage continues, with increasing time and growing anger. This is part of why it is considered to be more powerful than anything else in project frankenstein put together, even including the reality warpers.
Melee weapons: Comprised of anti-reality sheathed metamaterials, these claws can cut through anything, even divine steel. He can also produce a thunder scourge; a mighty mace that amplifies the force of his hits that can extend for him to use with two hands and detach it's head to be used like a flail. He also carries a Sickle with the other hand, also sheathed with anti-reality. When angry enough, these weapons alight in fires that can burn worlds.
Ranged weapons: His fusion cannons induce nuclear fusion in their targets, as well as the air itself to grow increasingly powerful the more distance they travel through matter before they are willed to explode. He also has a massive array of guided missile launchers, rapid fire radiation pulse cannons, an electro-shockwave generator, cyrogenic wrist rays, shoulder mounted rail cannons, powerful eyebeams that can cut through adamantium, and a flaming breath weapon that burns hotter than any star.
Sensors: In addition to his godlike senses which can detect the heartbeat of a butterfly from miles away or see the smallest of bacteria in any spectra, feel the shifts in an electron cloud, and smell the tiniest concentrations of molecules in the widest of spaces; which contributes to his insanity, Pierre also has a highly advanced sensor suite that gives him additional forewarning of attackers, and it's never-ending barrage of data only serves to further anger and madden him.
Fundamentalist: Pierre can control the four fundamental forces of the universe, starting at Magneto's level as a baseline and only growing from there. But given his feral state of mind, he's very unimaginative with these powers and generally only uses them for very direct and predictable methods of destruction.
Multiple forms: Through the power of hatred, it can alter it's body to take the shape of a great dragon, a tank, a plane, or fold it's wings on itself to form another suit of armor around itself for an "Ultra-mode" where it's physical statistics are greatly boosted to almost the point of absurdity. It seems to have some understanding to frequently change form to confound enemies.
Feral: No longer capable of rational thought as humans would understand it, Pierre shows no real strategy or skill in combat, simply striking at the closest living thing or the last being to attack him with mindless savagery. While this can be terrifying to some, to others this is an exploitable weakness, as it telegraphs it's movements, can easily be kited around, and has no sense of strategic target priority.
Psychic Backdoor: Only known to members of the Peacekeepers (or those who extracted it from them), the Death Harbinger has a psychic backdoor that allows it to be shut down so that it can be reset and aimed at another target. Every member of the peacekeepers has a device that can shut Pierre down, and as many peacekeepers like to think they are on the side of sweetness and light, seeing Pierre in action would lead to many of them offering to help those trying to stop the engine of destruction. Sufficiently powerful or advanced psions could even use this Backdoor to mind control Pierre and turn him against NATO.
Mouth: The one part of it's body that isn't as armored as the rest of it, chucking attacks down it's mouth will deal far more damage than simply striking at it's body.
Physical stats
Height: 127 feet
Mass: 175,000 tons
Eye color: Brown before, burning yellow with sheer spite now
Hair color: Brown before, none now.
Blood type: Blood has combusted out of sheer rage
Ethnicity: French
Languages spoken: Capacity for coherent speech is lost. Last intelligible words spoken were "Récolte la tempête!" Upon activation.
Religion: Why don't you ask the omnicidal incarnation of rage about his religious beliefs?
Sexuality: Hates everything.
Likes: Derstruction
Dislikes: Everything else
Alignment: Chaotic Evil.
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