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Real Name
Cabbot Stone
Current Alias
Aliases
The Slingstone
Alignment
Affiliation
Bloodstrike, formerly Young Americans, Operation: Knightstrike
Relatives
Michael Stone (father), John Stone (brother), Marc Barros (Seahawk, nephew), Alexander Barros (Coldsnap, nephew), Kaitlin McManus (half-sister, deceased)
Universe

Characteristics
Gender
Height
Hair
Status
Citizenship
Marital Status
Occupation
Mercenary; former Assassin, Government Agent, Soldier
Origin
Origin
Nu-Gene Mutant, further mutated by Project: Born Again
Creators
First appearance

Quote1 Six guards or six hundred -- it don't make a damn bit of difference when you're shooting at a dead man. Quote2
-- Cabbot Stone[1]

HistoryEdit

Backstory

Cabbot Stone was the brother of John Stone. At some point, Cabbot died, but John brought him back to life through a government resurrection process called Project: Born Again. Cabbot was resurrected with a fractured psyche, having turned into a monster and blaming his brother for it.[2]

On February 1986, Cabbot piloted a U.S. helicopter carrying a microfilm listing the names of Soviets working undercover for America headed to Afghanistan rebels when he was forced out of the sky by the Russian airforce. The Soviets, led by General Grozny, killed everyone on board but spared Cabbot when they discovered he was a Nu-Gene positive. After this, they began experimenting on Cabbot to find the secrets of his genes and create Soviet super soldiers. Meanwhile, the C.I.A. created a task force to rescue Cabbot, Operation: Knightstrike, formed by Chapel, Cabbot's brother John, Albert Simmons, Duke, Dutch and Peter Frehley.[3] In April, Knighstrike faced Grozny and reached Cabbot's location, but the secrets of his DNA code had already been cracked.[4] The rest of the details of this mission are unknown, but Cabbot was freed and Operation: Knightstrike continued operating. Eventually, Cabbot joined them.[5]

When Cabbot, John, Chapel and Simmons gunned down a Guatemalan drug cartel and footage of the mission was leaked, Alexander Graves fabricated the superhero team Youngblood to divert attention away from the fiasco.[5]

Later, Cabbot became the leader of Bloodstrike, a top-secret government strike force composed of individuals who had died and been brought back to life by Project: Born Again. In February 1988, Bloodstrike, led by Cabbot and composed of Fourplay and Shogun, took out a hive of the Brotherhood of Man in Detroit, but Fourplay and Shogun ended up dead, causing Cabbot to swear off group missions.[6]

By November 1989, Fourplay and Shogun had been brought back to life, and the Roam artificial intelligence was part of the team. Them, alongside Cabbot and new members Deadlock and Tag attempted to capture three Katellans suspected to be galactic spies. After they captured two of them, Deadlock murdered the third, and Shogun was forced to put him down. By July, 1990, Deadlock was revived through Project: Born Again and was a stable member of Bloodstrike again, taking meds regularly.[6]

1993

In 1993, Cabbot led his team to raid a G.A.T.E. International facility called Jericho in the Arizona desert. While Fourplay and Deadlock engaged G.A.T.E. security, Cabbot, Shogun and Tag penetrated deeper into the complex until they encountered the base commander Corben. They shot his guards, but discovered Corben was appearing via an hologram. Cabbot, Tag, and Shogun regrouped with Fourplay and Deadlock outside. Sensing something was off, Stone aborted the mission right when Corben appeared in person and revealed he had arranged Bloodstrike’s mission. G.A.T.E. was about to fire him, so, by repelling an attack by Bloodstrike, he sought to impress his employers and save his job. Corben attacked Cabbot mortally, but, as he was already dead thanks to Project: Born Again, he got back up. Tag used her powers to freeze Corben in place, and Shogun opened fire on him, killing him. After Bloodstrike returned to their headquarters, their artificially intelligent assistant Roam printed out Washington's next order: to take down the superhero team Brigade, led by Cabbot's brother John.[1]

Bloodstrike hit Brigade right as they were landing their ship in their headquarters, and Cabbot initiated the encounter by shooting Brigade member Stasis in the head and killing her. In the course of the ensuing battle, Shogun blasted Brigade member Coldsnap, damaging the apparatus that regulated his powers, which then raged out of control. Deadlock shot Seahawk multiple times, and Fourplay broke Kayo's jaw. Battlestone was about to be defeated by Cabbot and Tag when his ally Martin Grant crashed Brigade's alien ship into the building, granting Battlestone a distraction and allowing him to escape with Thermal, Coldsnap, and Stasis’s corpse. Bloodstrike proceeded to grab Seahawk and Kayo's unconscious bodies.[7]

Afterwards, Roam tracked the surviving members of Brigade to the Los Angeles branch of G.A.T.E. International, so Cabbot sent Fourplay and Shogun there while the rest of the team secured Seahawk and Kayo as their prisoners. They boarded Bloodstrike’s jet, where Roam revealed Seahawk was healing rapidly from his gunshots due to a healing factor. When Cabbot entered the room holding the two Brigade members, he found a woman named Lethal, an old ally of Brigade, trying to free the prisoners, with an unconscious Deadlock at her feet. Cabbot seemed to subdue her, but she kicked him and shot at Seahawk's containment tube, freeing him.[8]

Seahawk tackled Cabbot. Wanting to see how Cabbot did, Deadlock refused to intervene or to let Tag help. After trading punches, Cabbot shot Seahawk in the chest. Seahawk retaliated by impaling Cabbot with the spires on his helmet. With Cabbot temporarily down, Lethal grabbed Seahawk and jumped out of the plane. After recuperating, Cabbot and the rest of Bloodstrike who was in the jet teleported into the Los Angeles branch of G.A.T.E. International, where they reconvened with Fourplay and Shogun and faced off against Brigade and their newest member, Boone. However, the fight was interrupted by the appearance of Coldsnap, who, no longer injured, had mutated into an enormous ice monster due to his powers having gone haywire.[9]

Coldsnap took on Bloodstrike, giving Battlestone, Boone, and Thermal time to regroup. The two teams battled until Shogun blasted Coldsnap through a wall, revealing Stasis’s body in a resurrection chamber in the next room. Cabbot was enraged and vowed to stop Stasis's resurrection. Just then, Lethal and Seahawk teleported in.[2] Amidst the fighting, Shogun shot at Stasis’s rejuvenation chamber under Cabbot's orders, preventing her resurrection. Infuriated, Battlestone lashed out at Cabbot. They argued and beat the crap out of each other until Battlestone told Cabbot to leave Brigade alone or else he would expose Project: Born Again to the public. Finally, Cabbot told Battlestone to kill him, but Battlestone refused, saying letting him live was even worse, and left with Brigade. Bloodstrike left in their craft, and Cabbot said Battlestone was an even bigger threat to the U.S. government than he previously thought.[10]

Character Powers and Equipment


Powers and AbilitiesEdit

Powers

  • Superhuman Strength: Cabbot has strength beyond the human limits, he is able to match his brother blow for blow and punch a hole through Deadlock's chest.
  • Superhuman Stamina: Like all people brought back to life through Project: Born Again Cabbot can keep fighting even after suffering mortal wounds.
  • Superhuman Durability: Although he is not as resistant as his brother Cabbot remains much tougher than any human.
  • Superhuman Speed
  • Decelerated Aging: Despite being born in 1930 Cabbot still looks like a man in his forties.

Abilities


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