A CENTURY AFTER WWIII... The Soviets were determined to conquer what was left of the world. In the years after the big blast they had created the ultimate weapon: a mammoth laser with more power than an H-bomb. The superweapon was based in Soviet-occupied Cincinnati and stored in Lenin's Needle, an impenetrable silver spire guarded by the ruthless Red Army.

CINCINNATI RUN: The Soviets had targeted every Freedom Federation base in the country for total destruction, and unless the laser could be stopped, the entire Federation would be wiped out in a matter of days. Their only hope was Blade and the Warriors. They had to invade Cincinnati and obliterate the Soviet death machine - or the power-mad Russians would destroy the world a second time.