The Warden

*"I thought I was reborn like I had been given a new body and a new purpose all thanks to Sparrow but it was a lie, I had been living a lie like my father before me believing that leaving an old life behind means that you get to start a new one but instead you live both lives and they both stick with you."* - Warren upon meeting Milton when being interrogated about the group called Sparrow

The Warden better known as Warren Russo is a Japanese human male that eventually became a cybernetically enhanced assassin going under the pseudonym of The Warden serving the organisation known as Sparrow and then later the Enigmas, being born in Japan he was eventually moved to China alongside his parents due to his father's connections to the yakuza syndicate that lurked in their country that his father had betrayed and had now owed a lot of money to. Eventually the yakuza would catch up to Warren's father and would execute him and his mother then adopting Warren into the yakuza where he became a trainer killer and hitman for the crime syndicate, during his time in the yakuza the young Warren would grow close to the chairman of the yakuza whom had adopted Warren as his own child and had revealed to him the katana named Lightbane that had been connected to Japan's history for centuries. The chairman would reveal that the katana had been used by many warlords and samurai but its true power had only been unlocked a few times in its history and to do so the individual would need to lift the burden of pain and emotion from themselves allowing the power of the katana to flow through them, during a failed hit Warren would be severely wounded due to an explosion in which he was presumed dead however his body was transferred to the organisation called Sparrow who with the help of cybernetics completely reconstructed Warren's body with his face being the only untouched part. Once he was saved and the majority of his body was made cybernetic Warren wanted to die believing that he couldn't live with his new body until he was given tasks and assignments by Sparrow which would give him purpose, during his time serving as an assassin for the organisation Warren would train himself with his new cybernetic body giving him advanced agility and durability to taking damage allowing himself to extend and push his limits. At some point Warren would be given a target that was none other than the chairman of the former yakuza that he used to serve in what was unknown to him a test to see if he would go through with it, after some contemplation Warren would clear his own head to simply perform the kill which he did and killed the man inside the same room as Lightbane which would call to him after the kill.

Once acquiring the katana Warren immediately felt a rush of electricity coarse through his body stemming from the weapon in what he believed was the sword's power that had been locked away for centuries, now with the katana Warren donned his new name as The Warden and served as Sparrow's favoured assassin travelling across the globe performing whatever task was required of him without hesitation. Within the years that he had served the organisation he would gain more and more information about Sparrow which included the things that they knew about such as the UN conspiracy and that Milton Nichols was a target of the group that they were planning to kill, despite having a purpose Warren would spend much of his downtime still reflecting on his cybernetics and his body which once again made him disillusioned with his purpose and began to question Sparrow's motives and objectives. This would eventually culminate in Warren going rogue from his assignments and immediately reached out to Milton anonymously informing him of a the group's existence which afforded him the opportunity to meet him in person as he was captured by The Sentinel, inside interrogation Warren would not reveal anything else until he spoke to Milton. Warren would proceed to reveal to Milton that Sparrow had him on the top of their list of targets believing Milton to be a threat to their operations after revealing that they were behind the UN conspiracy, Milton would offer Warren a position within the Enigmas to which he would initially decline the offer so that he may pursue the Sparrow organisation on his own as revenge for being used. Eventually Warren would join the Enigmas after having failed to complete his mission of destroying Sparrow on his own which made him the fourth and official member of the group ready to defend the world.

## Biography

### Early Life

Warren Russo although not believed to be his real name was born in Japan during the early 90's which was a rather high point for the yakuza at the time who practically controlled the country through bribery and extortion on businesses including the government, at the time his father was a prominent and high ranking member within the yakuza running his own subsidiary family within the yakuza making him influential to the chairman of the criminal syndicate. Warren remembered little of his childhood up until the point that his father and mother with him would leave the country fleeing to China which unknown to him at the time was because his father had abandoned the yakuza leaving them in serious debt, having now spent his early teenage years in China he was very secluded and isolated from a lot of society mainly attending school and speaking to nobody obeying his father's orders in fear of attracting any attention. This would however be pointless for the boy as his father was eventually tracked down by his former yakuza associates and upon finding him they would proceed to execute him whilst the chairman who was present at his death would take Warren away so that he did not have to witness his father's and mother's death, being taken back to Japan the chairman would take personal responsibility over Warren providing him with training in fighting styles and later in his life how to use guns as he slowly moulded him into a killer. Spending a lot of time around the chairman Warren would grow close to him seeing him as a surrogate father figure following his every command and order, during his time in training the chairman would eventually reveal the katana Lightbane to Warren telling him the many stories of the blade with its origins claiming it to be the blade of Susano the Japanese god having electrical or storm-like powers however it was much more of a myth for it to contain these powers but it had been used over the centuries by many warlords and samurai. Whilst he maintained his training in hand to hand combat and weapon combat Warren was also trained in the underworld understanding how Japan's criminal network worked and this allowed him to keep tabs on many up and coming yakuza members who he deemed a threat to the chairman, this training would only harden his view on the world seeing how the criminal organisation that he served treated the citizens of Japan.

### The Warden

#### The Accident

Having now served numerous years garnering his reputation among his fellow yakuza he would continue to serve the chairman as his bodyguard and personal hitman for rival gangs and yakuzas which would eventually lead to a war with a rival yakuza in which Warren was ordered to take out one of their high ranking members in what would be a car bomb however the bomb itself was faulty and so Warren continued to chase the car on a motorcycle getting too close when the bomb would accidentally go off, being near the car Warren would be caught in the blast where during his time in a coma state his body was taken by the chairman of his yakuza to be sent to an undisclosed lab owned by Sparrow who acted as a front for being a mercenary contracting company but was a secret organisation that had bad intentions for the world unknown to Warren. His body would be transformed and modified by cybernetics turning him into more of a machine than a human however his head and face was left relatively untouched as it was not harmed during the explosion, once he awoke again he was told that he was saved by Sparrow who knew of the ongoing feuds in Japan and had sought to prevent a criminal war but to prevent it one of people who had to die was Warren's surrogate father the chairman who the organisation painted a story to him that he was cast out of the yakuza by the chairman who intentionally made the bomb faulty which unknown to Warren was on the orders of Sparrow. This would make him hunger for revenge against his former friend and teacher believing that he was set up to be killed so much so that he would become blinded by this rage in which he would then be tasked with killing the chairman, with his previous training combined with his cybernetic enhancements Warren became quicker and more efficient at defeating his enemies which allowed him to destroy the chairman's HQ. Before killing the chairman he would accuse Sparrow being the ones who had ordered him to rig the bomb as they wanted to start a war in Japan with bodies on both sides but then changed their plans in saving Warren only to turn him then proceeding to warn him about the organisation to be careful around them, taking Lightbane from the wall mount it was on Warren would tell the chairman that he no longer trusted anyone before unsheathing the katana and slicing the chairman's throat with it.

#### Sparrow's Assassin

Warren would become one of Sparrow's secret operatives and top assassin utilising Lightbane as a sword as he had not yet unlocked the power that was held within but became proficient in sword combat and adding new gadgets to his cybernetic suit such as wrist blades to shoot out towards his enemies, one of his early missions would see him sent to Paris to kill a scientist that had backed out of a deal with Sparrow who sought to sell them a prototype gliding suit. He would be sent on his own believing that the organisation shouldn't bring too much attention to the mission at hand however once Warren had arrived the scientist was dead and the suit was gone to which this led Warren to chase the suit where he discovered it was being held by some American operatives one of them who he caught her face being Blitzfire, he was recalled from the mission as Sparrow had not anticipated that the American government was also after this suit and so left it to those operatives. Whilst going out on missions Warren spent most of his downtime on his second objective that was given to him in training another assassin called Caliber who worked for Sparrow however not having the cybernetic enhancements that he had, the two gradually gained a brother-like relationship with each other however Warren still kept his distance on account of not trusting anyone. Eventually after some time he was sent on another mission to London to uncover and retrieve an AI robot named Shriek that was supposed to be gifted to Sparrow by Jerrard Warren who worked on Shriek as a secret project using his company's money and resources before he was defeated by Orothos, whilst at the illegal auction Warren would accidentally meet Blitzfire who was there for her own mission unknown to him however from her face he knew that she was the operative that he had seen in France. With a brief interaction Warren would give Blitzfire some suspicion from their meet which would affect them in the future but at this time he remained focused on his task, he would manage to uncover the AI chip that was needed to power the robot taking out the many guards who gave him resistance however he would defeat them with relative ease stealing the chip and making his exit but not before noticing once again Blitzfire crossing the roofs of London in her gliding suit that he was ordered to steal before.

#### Sparrow's Secrets

Having proved himself to the organisation by retrieving the AI chip named Shriek he would be introduced to the secret council that supposedly ran Sparrow that oversaw the operations and goings on around the world where they would finally reveal to Warren part of their plan to utilise the chip he recovered to make a robotic humanoid that was able to become the deadliest assassin and soldier for the organisation and that both Warren and Caliber were being trained to test the humanoid robot to its full potential, having only known this part of the plan Warren letting go of his rage and anger that he had held onto for so long knew that it was world domination or so he suspected that Sparrow wanted in which he chose to snoop around uncovering that they had also planned to replicate the data and codes that programmed Shriek to make many more just like it so that they could be transported across the world. He would take his own moment to reflect on this and chose to no longer help the organisation that had saved his life for he did not seek to conquer the world as at some moments he never thought he belonged in it and so he would go into exile removing his tracking chip that he found out he had when he snooped around Sparrow's data so that he could truly go off the grid, now having gone AWOL he ended up in Egypt spending a lot of his time in the desert on his own trying to forget everything managing to live in harsh conditions and clearing his body, soul and mind which Warren would forget would be the three things that would need to be clear in order for the true power of the sword to be activated. The power of the sword would activate whilst he meditated in the desert giving it electrical properties which due to Warren's shock of seeing this would spiral out of control causing a large desert storm before once again deactivating, the following day he would come to understand that the being holding the katana must always be clear within their body, soul and mind in order to use its power precisely. Having understood and begun practising his newfound power with his katana Warren would devise a plan to steal the AI chip and deliver it to Milton Nichols who he knew was one of Sparrow's top targets in hopes of stopping them from going through with their plan, he would eventually return to the Sparrow base that housed the chip he was looking for utilising his katana's power to deal with the many guards effectively and then finding the AI next to a constructed humanoid robotic form which Warren would destroy before leaving.

After his skirmish as the Sparrow compound Warren began tracking down Milton by heading to America however when he arrived he would be picked up immediately unknown to him they were government agents under Milton's orders and placed inside an interrogation room, once being sat down he would be met by Milton who knew who and what Warren was after looking through the president of Switzerland's secret files uncovering the existence of a secret group that runs the mercenary group Sparrow where the president had noted that he was in fear of his life from someone that Sparrow had named The Warden. Having revealed his intentions and after some time of convincing Milton that he no longer served the organisation Warren would ensure that Milton kept the AI chip safe and out of their hands until they could stop the group and destroy the council that ran it, the chip would be handed to the UN security council who kept it locked away and closely guarded whilst in the meantime Warren was offered a chance of redemption to join the Enigmas and serve the world in a better way to which he was reluctant at first having wanted to be out of the fight completely but he knew that to find true peace he would have to stop his former employer and 'saviours' leading him to accept the offer and become the next member of the group.

### The Enigmas

#### SHRIEK Crisis

Since his meeting with Milton he would be told that it would take some time for Milton to gather the full team and so he gave Warren some spare time to himself which he chose to use by staying close around the headquarters for his own safety of not being hunted by Sparrow, during his time within the Enigmas headquarters he would train and learn about the two operatives that worked for Milton who were The Sentinel and Blitzfire whom the latter he would recognise from his mission in London in recovering the AI chip. After some several days passed Warren would eventually be brought into a meeting which contained three people being The Sentinel, Blitzfire and Orothos all who were associates of Milton and who he had in mind to form the Enigmas, as he introduced Warren he would continue to go on about his investigation into the group known as Sparrow with Warren confirming their connection to the UN conspiracy but this would not sit well with both Jade and Holly who felt betrayed by Milton having not told them anything about this. The two would leave the room one out of anger and the other from distrust which left both Warren and Orothos to go and pick up the pieces, Warren would go and follow Blitzfire in which he would manage to track her to a retirement home from which he would wait outside for her. As she left the home she would immediately be met by Warren who told her that he was tracking her in order to simply make sure she was ok which she was but she sat down next to him and both began conversating for a while, Blitzfire would reveal to Warren that she was visiting her father inside who used to work for Milton and wanted to know why she should still trust him but like how she felt towards Warren she realised it would take time. Warren understood where she was coming from revealing that he never truly knew if it was the right thing to leave Sparrow as they had saved his life but only to make him into a cybernetic killing machine making him very conflicted with his actions, as they continued their conversation the two began to notice a growing romantic interest with each other but this was cut short by Warren receiving a call from Milton who gave Warren a location on one of the locations believed to be Gruber's lab in Rome.

The two would immediately make their way to Italy where they proceeded to track the location they were given to a building within Rome that was heavily guarded by Sparrow forces which Warren knew that for the level of protection the building had either way it must of been very important for them, Warren would ask for Blitzfire to stay behind and continue recon on the building as he maneuvered his way through the building utilising his stealth. As he made his way through narrowly avoiding several guards and patrols he would make his way into the centre room which he had identified as a large data centre room from where he began investigating but only for a short time as he was quickly ambushed by his former Sparrow brother named Caliber who was also protecting the building, whilst he fought the skilled assassin Blitzfire would make her way through the building taking out any guard that Warren was able to avoid as she made her way up to him. Once she had made it to the two fighting she would help Warren by using her winged suit to propel herself into Caliber who had managed to easily dodge or block her attacks in such a way that gave Warren concern believing that he had been trained to fight Holly, eventually Warren was able to get the best of him and upon having him at his mercy would begin questioning him about the Shriek project. Caliber would let out a laugh telling Warren that he thought by stealing the AI chip that he would stop any progress that they had already made which confused both Warren and Holly who would begin looking into the data as Warren continued questioning him, reading through the data Holly was able to uncover that the programming that was on the AI chip for Shriek had been copied thousands of times over which Caliber would tell Warren that he once thought of him as a brother and that when the time comes he will enjoy killing him but would proceed to offer the opportunity for Warren to kill him now so that he wouldn't have to worry about him and to show Holly who he truly was. Warren having gone through his own trauma of losing most of his body to cybernetics and having been a killer for Sparrow would dismiss this offer claiming that Caliber's actions would be the cause of his own destruction before his former brother and friend made his escape, on their way back Blitzfire would question Warren on why he did not kill Caliber or at least capture him as he now could warn Gruber of what they were up to. Warren would simply respond to her claiming that Caliber was on a similar path that he used to be on working for Sparrow as nothing more than a hired killer that did as they bid going on to say that it should not be up to him to end his path as he once thought of them still being brothers, upon their return the two would meet with Milton providing him with a report of what had happened in Rome with only an hour passing before The Sentinel and Orothos returned from Egypt informing the group of their findings from Gruber's lab and their confrontation with the Iron Fighter who was guarding it. The group would piece together what Electrode's plan was which included duplicating the data of Shriek and using Gruber's secret lab to construct blueprints for both his own electrical suit and the Shriek robot designs, the plan would be to unleash an army of Shriek programmed robots however the where and when were still unknown to the group to which Orothos would offer a solution by attempting to crack the remainder of Gruber's files which might contain the time and place of the attack. Whilst the group sifted through the files Warren would take time to himself to meditate where after a couple of minutes he would be met by Holly who came to check up on him, the two spoke for a little while with Holly asking Warren if it was possible that Sparrow could rule the world which Warren claimed was possible as the group had a large influence within the world which is now why he sought to stop them alongside believing there was more to his life than just being their pawn and a killer. The two would share a romantical moment with both of them kissing each other revealing their feelings towards another, Warren would stop Holly stating that they would need to put their feelings aside for the time being and needed to focus on stopping Gruber and his plans first.

Right as Holly was going to respond to him they would be interrupted by Milton who informed both of them that Orothos had managed to crack open a file that contained the location of the attack being the president's speech in the city of Chicago, as the group reconvened Norah would ask Milton if he knew when the president's speech was planned which after some thinking he would realise that it was tomorrow which forced the group to quickly make their way to Chicago in preparation for the speech. Upon arrival the group would be stationed across the city with Blitzfire taking to the rooftops and Orothos scanned the city looking for Gruber or any sign of the Shriek robot however for a while during the speech everything was going as planned with Milton now taking over security for the president, in what would be a surprise attack a mass amount of Shriek robots began encircling the city causing chaos and destruction on the streets of Chicago. Being the new active commander for the Enigmas Jade would begin delegating orders to her colleagues having Blitzfire recon the city and help evacuate any civilian to a safe area that the military were setting up, Jade then proceeded to order Orothos to continue searching for the central computer that was controlling all of these robots which may also be Electrode's location leaving Warren and The Sentinel to destroy as many Shriek robots as they could. As both Jade and Warren continued destroying the many robots that were trying to eliminate the president Jade would receive a all from Orothos who had located where Gruber was and the central computer, Warren continued to defend the president as The Sentinel made her way to Norah's position to help her defeat Gruber who used his electrical suit to help him. As both Electrode and The Sentinel fought each other Gruber would eventually gain the upper hand on Jade but just as he was about to crush her Warren would come to her aid utilising his katana and combat kills to avoid large hits from Gruber and this would allow him to disable his electrical pack, by this point Norah had managed to shut down the robots and both Warren and Jade would incapacitate Gruber allowing him to be arrested. With both the robots destroyed and Gruber being transferred to a prison that was heavily guarded the group would be heralded by the president of the United States as heroes whilst casting out Sparrow as a now terrorist organisation, alongside their praise every member of the Enigmas would be given medals which solidified their position as not only protectors of the UN but protectors of the world. After this ceremony Warren would leave America for the time being and his duties to return to Japan where he knew that his home was still infested and being ravaged with crime from the yakuza whom he used to work for, before he returned to the Enigmas this would be the primary focus of Warren who used his identity of being The Warden to instil fear into the criminal underworld of Japan.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Cybernetics**: After his supposed death Warren's body was placed in a coma-like state to preserve his life whilst he had surgery performed on him by Sparrow's top scientists and engineers to implant cybernetic enhancements on his body which gave him increased mobility and enhanced reflex times allowing him to not only dodge an attack but to also counter at a quicker and efficient rate, not only did this affect Warren's physical movements but other forms of weaponry was attached to his cybernetics making it even easier for him to kill a target such as embedded knives that he was able to shoot from his wrists or a small grapple hook to get the advantage of elevation.
* **Lightbane**: Whilst it is not his original power the katana named Lightbane is deemed to be Warren's most powerful attribute slated to be the sword that has never been broken being used by many warlords and samurai across Japan's history with its origins believed to be the sword that belonged to the Japanese god Susano who was the god of storms, this katana whilst being used by many individuals only few people could activate the katana's actual power by clearing their mind, body and soul giving it its electrical powers to the user making them practically an electrical conduit to wipe out mass amounts of enemies. This weapon was also deemed to have been made of the toughest metals making it unbreakable alongside its mythical origins, the katana would be used by Warren mainly as a last resort to defeat his enemies as he knew its power was too much for him to control for large portions of time.

### Abilities

* **Martial Arts**: During his time growing up Warren was raised by the chairman of the yakuza who saw Warren as someone who had the potential to be one of his greatest assassins and so he saw to it to train him in many forms of combat one of them being physical in the form of martial arts, this training would consist of durability and mastering the arts of kung-fu and judo being two of the examples of what he would come to learn.
* **Gun Combat**: Alongside his martial arts training Warren was also taught and versed within learning how to fire guns including how to disarm and disable firearms with relative ease also allowing him to utilise the weapon in a physical manner as well, this gun training would come in handy with his start as the yakuza's favoured assassin and later in his life being another one of his preferred methods to kill people in his cybernetic form.