In dystopian London, a young woman named Sonnie with teammates Wes and Ivrina participate in underground “Beastie” fights: Remotely controlled bio-engineered gladiator beast battles. Ringmaster Dicko attempts to bribe Sonnie to throw the match, but she declines. Her team explains that Sonnie was sexually assaulted in the past, and her desire for revenge becomes her “edge”. Sonnie enters the arena, piloting her beast, Khanivore, to fight the opponent, Turboraptor. After a brutal match, Khanivore wins. Dicko’s mistress visits Sonnie to seduce her, before severely injuring Sonnie. Dicko appears, stating he isn’t happy with Sonnie’s rejection.
Laughing, Sonnie reveals that her body is only a bioware processor spliced to a spine, revealing that her consciousness was always inside Khanivore, and that the fear of death in combat is her real edge. She kills the mistress, then grabs Dicko as the screen goes dark.
A platoon of Red Army soldiers hunt demons in the Siberian forests. Sgt. Sergei Pavlovich and his Lieutenant raise concerns the men are too dispersed, but the Major dismisses their worries. As the Germans lay siege to Stalingrad, the Red Army Platoon continue without support into the forest. Following a bloody victory, Scout Okchen finds the corpse of a fallen Secret Police agent, Boris Grishin.
At camp reviewing Grishin’s notebook, Sergei finds intel on “Operation: Hades” which was to research myths across Russia. In 1919, after the White Army retreated, Grishin summoned monsters to fight in the Red Army, but apparently failed to control them and died. Sergei wishes to use this information to rid the demons, but others fear it would expose the government’s past errors.
As they locate a barrow, Okchen and Pogodin ready munitions to destroy the monsters’ nest and cave, but the two die from the collapse before they can escape. The horde is larger than expected, and Sergei orders a stand. He deploys explosives and turrets, but orders the fastest horse for his son to relay a message to the Major to bombard their current location to kill the horde.
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