Brock Swolestrong

**Brock Swolestrong** is a Panamoan senator and the de facto leader of the Red Barons, yet he is definitely a terrorist. He is an ambitious senator from Rookticut who intends to be elected as the next PAR President so that he may transform the country into a social darwinist government that allows everyone to wage their own wars for what they truly believe in. Nonetheless, he does not appear to be bothered by the dictatorial rule of the megacorporation, since he saw it as immensely beneficial to his PMC in terms of income and power.

Swolestrong's main rival is SHADOW, and they had NO idea they shared something a lot in common. His death however, had a long lasting impact to the megacorporation's finest cybernetic warrior.

## Biography

### Background

Brock Swolestrong was a Panamoan who lived an ambitious life. He started his life as a professional strongman, then joined the Navy as he earned a desire to serve his country. However, although a member of the Navy, he never saw combat during his service, wasting his opportunity to become a professional football player.

He had maintained his impressive physical strength for a long time, in fact, he was prohibited from all forms of professional boxing due to his almost-enhanced strength that can easily manhandle and brutally send his opponents with trauma through a *single* punch. In 2910 he was exponentially stronger through a nanomachine infusion. The physical enhancements Swolestrong received from nanomachines boosted his powers to an unprecedented level. Around that time, Swole ran for election for State senator of Rookticut and subsequently won. Additionally, he had also become the de facto CEO of Red Barons.

### Red Barons' Acquisition

Sometime in 2912, Senator Swole delivers a speech to get his approval ratings up. It is also around this time when Swolestrong also meets and recruits the Winds of Destruction, who are Fragmentation, Mauler, and Carmine, during this time. The three are military leaders of the Red Barons, the same Panamoan PMC group he oversees and which is frequently involved in terrorism and rebellion. Because of his involvement with the RB PMC and its operations, his speechwriter warns him that if his connection to the group is revealed, he will face a grand jury, though he believes that they will do nothing in either case, as he believes that the people do not care and believe that money is the only thing that truly matters.

### Recruitment: Defiance

During all this, Swolestrong plans on recruiting a mercenary to help further his plans. After Francisco "Defiance" Silva heads to the top of the roof of Global Marshal PMC where Swole is waiting, Swole challenges Silva to a duel. While the two are fighting, Swolestrong offers Defiance a job. Nearing the end, Defiance manages to slice off one of Brock's arms, but the hulking senator quickly retaliates by using his nanomachines to turn his injury into a deadly blade. He then stabs Francisco in his right shoulder, severely injuring his entire right arm. After defeating the Defiance, Brock Swolestrong attaches his severed hand back onto his socket, and accepts Defiance to the PMC, eventually giving Defiance a new robotic arm.

### Direct Involvement with the Red Barons

Two years later, Swolestrong inspects a Red Baron research lab in Radrenia alongside with Red Baron leader Mauler, regarding that the transportation of children's brains in cyborg head casings to Global Marshal for the Mind Program was processing as planned. However, Armstrong also instructed them to shut down the facility, and move the child's brains to another facility as he had suspicion that someone else was snooping around.

One of the scientists asks Swolestrong what to do with the other children that are attending the Mind Program, to which Swolestrong tells him to kill them, as they have elsewhere to go, no one will miss them, and he is doing a public favor. He also plots for *Operation Whiskey*, which is a plan that will start a war with Heliga under false pretenses while the President is visiting the country whilst PROJECT is interfering in the PMC competition. He recognised that the megacorporation has sent SHADOW to deal with him, knowing that the regime is getting rid of him and his PMC to ensure their dominance.

### Meeting SHADOW: PROJECT's Ultimate Cyborg

As SHADOW is in the Paguidian base, he notices the robotic dog of Defiance, who is injured and has been assaulted by Swolestrong. Swole and his massive Mecha, known as the FIREPOWER, climb out shortly after. He discloses to SHADOW that the Panamoan Republic has been in a recession since the planet's downfall by PROJECT, which is why he has to stage a false flag operation to guarantee the war economy can put the mighty country back to work. While Swolestrong had intended to murder the president, he instead decides to frame the Panamoan base as having been assaulted by Heligan fanatics, achieving the identical goal of waging a war with Heliga.

SHADOW clearly does not care about his intentions, but they soon realised they have something in common.

### Machine vs Machine

Swolestrong then acquired the rights to use a FIREPOWER mecha and uses it in his intentions to destroy the Paguidian Air base in Heliga. Having encountered SHADOW there after he revealed his colossal mecha by tearing apart the ground after tunneling, he reveals that the Global Marshal was simply used by him to fuel the Red Barons with more weapons so that the entire competition would only be between PROJECT megacorporation, and the Red Barons PMC. SHADOW was unamused by his plans as he knew the megacorporation has held the planet in an iron fist, and it would stay that way. As a result, **Brock Swolestrong** wasted no time using his war machine in an effort to destroy his enemy, starting with "Uncle Sam needs you to die!" taunt. This was a fierce battle between a gigantic machine, and a cybernetic warrior.

He becomes humiliated when his FIREPOWER was destroyed, SHADOW urges for him to come out of the mecha and fight him one-on-one. Emerging out of his pod, he proceeded to fight SHADOW and even bring him to his mercy. During the duel, he explained his motives of wanting to remake Panamoa, feeling it had become rotten to the core, and re-establish America as a world where people fight for their own reasons, rather than that of the government. SHADOW then deduced that he was not merely a "greedy politician" as he initially thought, but completely a "another tyrant copycat" due to his reference to culling the weak and having the strong be free. Although SHADOW attempted to defeat Swoletsrong, he ultimately proved to be too powerful, with him revealing his nanomachines to be the cause of his the near invulnerability of his massive body.

## Demise: A Premise that Succeeds

SHADOW then used Defiance's sword to even the odds despite the jarring disadvantage regarding size and strength. After trapping him in enough debris from the FIREPOWER's ruins, Swolestrong has finally met a match. His impressive brute strength and invulnerability allowed him to sustain himself against SHADOW and his overwhelming skills with a blade through close combat, all until he decided to let loose, and unleash even more formidable powers that caused him to annihilate everything in his path, until SHADOW finally slices him in half, all before stating "Well done" as the latter rips his enhanced heart out of his corpse. SHADOW, unmasked, felt the blood in his face and his hands, knowing that he will have a long lasting impact on him as a cybernetic warrior.

It turns out, he was right. All these years, SHADOW's dominance and ideals were largely influenced from this almighty man.

## Personality

Swole is shown to be an extremely nationalistic, patriotic and libertarian individual. He shows this by expressing the desire to "reclaim the Panamoan dream" by instigating another Panamoan Revolution. His intense patriotism was fully demonstrated while he was fighting SHADOW, by declaring that if SHADOW was not for the Panamoan Republic and her goals, he was effectively against it. He also told SHADOW to feel the wrath of the Panamoan Republic and that Defiance desired SHADOW's death.

## Abilities

Even before his nanotech infusion, Brock Swolestrong was considered to be quite strong - something he acquired from his days as a college ball player and as a sailor in the Panamoan Navy. He was also very skilled in hand-to-hand combat, though it would seem that he preferred brute force, through his size and strength rather than skills. After his nanotech infusion however, Brock's brute strength grew to immense superhuman levels through orders of magnitude. The nanomachines, which were regulated by his artificial heart, granted him far more power than anyone could imagine.

### Powers

* **Nanotech-Infused Physiology**: With his physiology being primed with specialized nanotechnology, his already impressive abilities were amplified to an extreme superhuman degree, surpassing any enhanced, mystical and even superhuman beings ever shown in the *Nexonia Prime: PROJECT* series. Indeed, his strength surpasses the combined might of the Fearsome Five. He activates his nanomachines with a unique motion sequence, his being a sumo stomp, after this sequence, he charged his nanomachines by absorbing energy from vehicles including: Mechas, Hammerheads, APCs and other sources of energy, and enters his nanite-empowered immense superhuman state. Furthermore, he can power up to an even stronger state, where he reach his apex level of power.
	+ **Immense Superhuman strength:** Empowered through his nanomachines, Swolestrong reaches an unprecedented level of superhuman strength that virtually surpasses most beings. His devastating punches and even kicks are all able to generate powerful shock-waves and he is able to carry, lift and exert thousands or millions of tons of force (e.g lifting giant Mechas or cause the ground to rupture). This alone easily proves that he packs the strength of a typical Titan-class mecha.
	+ **Superhuman Durability**: The most prominent attributes of Swolestrong's nanomachine enhancements; they harden different parts of his skin in response to any and all types of physical trauma, with the side-effect of turning the affected areas black, with some splotches of red on the outer edges. His skin, as a result of the hardening, renders Brock Swolestrong virtually indestructible that even HF and Redstone Blades, weapons which cuts on a molecular level, have little to no effect on him. Even without the nanomachines hardening his skin, Armstrong still possesses incredible resilience, greater than that of other Superhuman characters and even towering Metal Gears. He was virtually unfazed when he withstood the complete destruction of the FIREPOWER, which explosion clearly rivals that of nuclear blast.
	+ **Nanite Relocation**: Through the use of nanite relocation, Swolestrong can harden the skin on certain areas of his body to further enhance his resilience to physical trauma and boost his already impressive superhuman strength. This method even prevents him from bleeding out by hardening up the injured area. When Defence severed his arm, he used this to prevent the bleeding and create a makeshift blade which was strong enough to pierce through Defiance's cybernetic armor.
	+ **Regenerative Healing**: Senator Swolestrong can use his nanite relocation ability to heal all damage done to his physiology and even fully reattach severed body parts. Senator can even use his nanite relocation to cover up wounded areas to prevent himself from losing too much blood. He demonstrated this when Defiance severed off his arm.
	+ **Energy Manipulation**: Swolestrong's major power, apart from his enormous strength, is his capacity to absorb and store energy within his nano-tech primed body. He is also revealed to be able to lift and toss cars by absorbing their energy. His energy may be diverted and used to create blazing balls of fire, deadly shockwaves, and even ignite ground explosions. He can also harness this energy to conduct remarkable superhuman level speeds from a variety of distances. Utilizing it as a propellant force to boost the resulting impact of his charging attacks.

### Skills

* **Master Combatant**: While combating SHADOW, Senator Swolestrong has bragged about his combat prowess from his Navy service. Swolestrong combines his nanite manipulation abilities and his god-level strength with Hand-to-hand combat techniques from boxing, wrestling, and even football moves like shoulder tackles and punting kicks.

* **Brilliant Tactician**: Swolestrong is a genius level planner as he secretly operated Red Barons from behind the scenes without leaving any evidence of his connection them for authorities to find out. He also incited a war with Heliga under false pretenses that the president was almost assassinated while visiting the country for a peace talk. When SHADOW tried to stop him, he used the opportunity to frame the situation as a terrorist attack on an Panamoa base to rally the Panamoan people to war.

* **Genius-Level Intellect**: Brock is very intelligent as he managed to create Red Barons to help him achieve his goals and plotted the whole scheme, and did everything in the perfect time, also he built the FIREPOWER accurately. In addition, he managed to convince SHADOW about his ideal and thoughts.

* **Master Businessman**: Swolestrong is an adept businessman.

## Trivia

### General

* Brock Swolestrong injected his body with nanomachines, excessively bulking his muscle mass to the point of being impossibly tough and resilient, therefore granting him insane brute strength.
* He destroyed the FIREPOWER mecha with **ten** punches. The last strike completely shattered the colossal mecha into pieces, creating an improvised battlefield between him and SHADOW.
* SHADOW defeated him by stabbing him in the head, and the throat. That proved enough when he managed to penetrate his invulnerability.
* He joined the Panamoan Navy when he was younger, though he was unfit for combat.
* Brock valued social darwinism over everything else.