Prologue: Winter and Phoenix

In 1991, Adelaide Ruby Lehnsherr-Xavier died.
What came out of Siberia's HYDRA base in 2008 was something else... someone else.
What came out was a monster.
A merciless killer, who knew nothing else but bullets, snow, ice, fire and blood.
A victim of HYDRA's cruelty.
A murderer.
Cold.
Callous.
Unfeeling.
A Soldier.
An Asset.

In 2008, the kind, caring woman that was Adelaide Lehnsherr was dead to the world. She was dead to Charles Xavier, to the history books, to the young, new students of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
But in the shadows, she was very much alive. From the cryofreeze chambers and experiment rooms of Siberia, Russia's HYDRA base, a survivor was born.

The Winter Phoenix was born.