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Background
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Pre History
A violent child since birth, Simon Gaines was destined for the military. No one realized exactly how good Gaines was at combat, however, until the military started training him in the arts of war. Quickly rising in skill and rank, it was not long until someone in the brass saw his potential for the covert operations department of the British Military, the SAS.
Gaines moved up quickly in the SAS, and eventually he became leader of the Iron Hawks, a quick attack unit that the SAS used in dire situations. Often sent on suicide missions, an Iron Hawk has a life expectancy of 1.7 missions. Gaines had survived 16 missions before he was sent on the mission codenamed "Jungle Death."
Sent to South America to retrieve a kidnapped British Minister from Carlos Bano, the second biggest drug lord in the world, Gaines lost all but one of his men fighting to enter the highest room in Bano's hacienda. There the drug lord, gun to the Minister's head, offered Gaines $5,000,000 and the position of Major of his commandos if Gaines would only spare his life. Gaines accepted Bano's offer by placing a bullet squarely between the eyes of the British Minister and the last member of his own troop. During his stint as head of Bano's bodyguards, Gaines received an experimental steroid injection implant from the drug lord's chief chemist. Activated on demand, the implant temporarily boosts Gaines' size and strength, although use of the steroids slowly wears at his body and makes him more susceptible to damage during boost periods.
Five years later, after accepting $10,000,000 from Bano's rival drug lords to assassinate him, Major Gaines is available to those who can afford him.
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