Chapter 1
Snake Eyes the Dressing Room Ninja.
Sighing, I placed my sketch book down on my bed and stood up groggily. The warm late-night air blew through the open window to my right and warmed my skin as I bent down and picked up my cat Shylo.
"Hey kitty kitty." I smiled. He mewed happily and jumped onto the window sill. I giggled and looked out the window with him.
"What? What is it?" I kissed his head. That's when I saw the headlights pulling into my drive way. The black Hummer's engine cut and a man stepped out. I looked a little closer, and I knew immediately who it was.
"DAD!" I screamed and raced out of my room, Shylo in tow. I ran down the hall, giggling.
"Mum! It's DAD!" I raced down the stairs quickly and brushed my dark brown hair out of my face.
"What?" My Mom stood up off the couch with a shocked expression on her face, knocking our German Shepard, Daisy, out of her beauty nap.
"DAD!" I smiled wide raced to the door with Shylo. I yanked the dark red door open, and ran outside.
"DADDY!" I giggled.
"Alice!" I jumped into his arms only to here a grunt, "Alice, you're not five any more."
"Oops... Sorry.." I hopped down out of his arms that were quickly taken by my Mom who had tears in her eyes.
"I missed you so much." She choked out.
"I missed you too." My Dad hugged her tighter. Shylo mewed.
"Shhhh! You're ruining the moment!" I picked him up and kissed him.
All of a sudden one of the doors to the Hummer opened to reveal an African American in a gray hoodie.
"Uhhh... Sorry to ruin the whole family reunion thing, but, ah, if we aren't outta here in like 3 minutes... We're toast, You're toast, HELL! The Toaster's toast!" He threw his hands into the air and sighed.
"Wait.... WHAT!?!?" Me and my Mom asked at the same exact time.
"I'll explain later get Daisy and anything you might need." My Dad hurried us into the house to grab our stuff. Quickly I ran into the house and grabbed the sweatshirt my Dad had given me before he left for the Army. I quickly put it on and zipped it up and hopped down the stairs.
"C'mon! We gotta go!" My Dad hurried us outside and into the Hummer. Inside 6 others were sitting casually waiting for us. Pushing me my Dad caused me to smack my head on the roof of the car.
"Ow..." I grumbled and sat down next to the Man who had called out to us before.
"Hi." I smiled still holding my head.
"Smooth move out there." He laughed.
"Yeah, I'm too cool huh?" I giggled. My parents hurried Shylo and Daisy and after many Scratches later Daisy was sitting on my feet and Shylo was curled up in my lap. After my parents had gotten into the front of the Hummer, I giggled.
"On the road agaiiiiin!" I started to sing quietly.
"NO!" My parents both screamed back to me. I started to laugh hysterically as I had a flashback to a Family road trip where I wouldn't stop singing that song.
"Ahhhh. The memories." I sighed. My Mom shook her head and sighed.
"Hawk?" The man asked next to me.
"Yes Rip?"
"I like your daughter." Everyone in the van laughed.
"Rip, you like anyone who has a sense of humor." A man in the back stated.
"Or if they're a woman." Another man with a french accent added.
"Or if they're a woman who has a sense a humor." An African man laughed.
"You guys better stop before my Dad goes all 'No dating men in my Military unit' on you." I imitated his voice in the last part.
"I do NOT say that." My Dad laughed as he pulled out of the drive way.
My Mom laughed.
"Are we going to have an argument or are you going to tell us why we're here?" Shylo mewed.
"What?" I asked softly. He mewed again then dug his head into my red plaid skinny jeans. I frowned and looked out the window to see the yellow glow of street lights pass by quite quickly.
"The reason I came and got you guys was because of Cobra."
"Cobra? Like a snake?" My Mom asked. Yeah... She hated snakes....
"No. Its a secret organization. Their Commander goes by the name Cobra. I was afraid that he would come after you, seeing that he now knows the name of our soldiers and Generals."
"How does he know that?" I asked.
"One of his operatives, Zartan, broke into our base last night, then hacked one of the main computers that contained a hell of a lot of information." My Dad sighed, "Everyone in this car, is part of MY team. They're formally known as the GI Joes." A proud smile broke across his face.
"Wallace Weems, but you can call me Ripcord." I giggled as he gave a sloppy salute. I turned around to see a red head smiling.
"I'm Shana O'hara, but you can call me Scarlett." I smiled and shook her hand.
"This is Snake Eyes. He doesn't talk." Ripcord pointed to a man dressed in black with a scarf covering most of his face.
"Ummm... Why?" I raised an eyebrow.
"Doesn't say." Ripcord shrugged. And I laughed.
"If he doesn't talk then how would he tell you why?" I giggled as Ripcord sighed.
"Great another Scarlett." he mumbled
"You're going to have to ignore him, he didn't have his afternoon nap." A man in the back added.
"I'm Conrad Hauser, Duke." I nodded and smiled.
"Hi. Breaker." A man waved. I waved back.
"And this hunk of Man-meat is Heavy Duty." Ripcord pointed to a Strong African man next to him.
"Hi!" I smiled. He nodded and elbowed Ripcord.
"OW!"
"Now, now, children. No fighting in front of our guests." Scarlett giggled. I laughed and looked out the window. We were stopped at a red light. I looked back out the window to see another black Hummer, only this one wasn't stopping.
"Dad...."
"What?"
"FLOOR IT!" I screamed. My Dad looked into the rear view mirror only to see a Hummer with the license plat 'C0BR4' and Stepped on the gas. My dad zoomed through the intersection, nearly avoiding other cars.
"AAAAAAAH!" Me and Ripcord screamed as we were all thrown about in the car.
"WE'RE GONNA DIE!" Ripcord yelled.
"No! WE! ARENT!" My Dad grunted as we made a quick turn into a Walmart parking lot.
"DAD NOWS NOT THE TIME TO GO SHOPPING!" I screamed as we jumped out of the car.
"Everyone run to the store and hide. Don't come out until my signal." With that we all bolted into the Walmart store. I was behind Duke and Ripcord with Snake Eyes behind me, my Mom was in front of all of us with Scarlett and Heavy Duty. We ran into the back of the store into the toy section.
As we ran past a Nerf Gun Long-Shot toy, I quickly grabbed 9 and gave it to each member of the team.
"Like this is going to help!" My Mom screamed in a hushed tone.
"Mom?"
"What!?"
"Have you ever been shot with one of these in the eye?" I mused.
"No." She sighed, "Why?"
"Because it hurts like hell." I giggled as I tore open the packaging and loaded it up with suction cup bullets.
I saw Snake Eyes' eyes widen as Heavy Duty shot a stuffed bunny across the aisle.
"What? I love Nerf guns..." he frowned.
"Don't we all?" Duke asked laughing. All of a sudden the front doors to the store burst open to reveal a young woman dressed in all black.
"Oh, great. Baroness." Scarlett muttered.
"She looks like a goth Barbie doll." I laughed as I cocked the Nerf gun.
"Now that you mention it... She does." Breaker said amused. Behind Baroness were four soldiers, each with their own guns.
"COME OUT COME OUT WHERE EVER YOU ARE!" Baroness screamed once she entered the store. Many of the people in the store saw the men with guns and immediately took off through the doors. That pretty much left us, in the toy section, all alone.
"We only want The Abernathys!" She said walking closer to where we were.
"On the count of three, Snake Eyes you take Alice and Heavy Duty will take Mrs. A. Got it?." Duke whispered. Everyone nodded.
"One."
"Two."
"Three." Snake Eyes grabbed my arm and pulled me away from the Nerf war. Still holding onto my Nerf gun we ran through the back aisles passing all of the toys and food. Quickly running down the Escalator, we bumped into a bunch of people who started to curse at us.
"Sorry!" I apologized as we rounded the corner into clothing section. Sprinting as fast as I could to keep up with him, Snake Eyes ran into the womans dressing rooms and quickly shoved us both in and locked the door. He grabbed my hand and pulled me onto the bench in the room. Then made a 'Shhhh' motion by putting his fingers on his lips. I pulled my feet up and listened.
"No dude. I'm not going in there! It's a ladies dressing room!"
"The Ninja and the girl went in there!"
"So you go in!"
"Grrrrrrr. Fine." I heard heavy boots trudging through the dressing room then stopping at our door. Snake eyes quietly pulled out a sword from his backpack and through his scarf I could tell he was smiling. I smiled back and nodded. He stepped down carefully and kicked open the door, hitting the soldier.
"OW!" He screamed. Snake Eyes quickly cut him down while his partner fired at him.
"Give us the girl Ninja!" Snake Eyes shook his head and smirked.
"Fine I'll get her myself!" The man charged at Snake Eyes which was probably the wrong thing to do seeing that he quickly killed him too.
"Nice." I smiled running out of the dressing room with him. He nodded as we took off into the dresses department. As we rounded the corner I felt someone grab my waist and pull me backwards behind a rack of woman's underwear.
"Ello Darlin'." A man with a thick Australian accent smiled covering my mouth with his hand, "And Dun't Chyou Dare try to bite me." he whispered. My eyes widened as I was spun around to come face to face with a strong tan man with VERY interesting eyes. I struggled to break free of his grasp.
"Ah, ah, ah." he giggled, "Dun't give us away." I smirked and kneed him in the crouch. He let go of me just enough so that I wriggled free and run away. Snake Eyes was looking for me.
"CRAZY AUSTRALIAN! 12:00!" I screamed and pointed to the clothes rack. Snake Eyes quickly grabbed my hand and pulled me away, up the escalator and back to where the other Joes were.
The other two soldiers were down and covered in suction cup Nerf bullets. I giggled and pulled out my Long shot and handed it to Breaker.
"Here. Have fun!" I giggled as he started to shoot the baroness. All of a sudden the Crazy Australian bursted out of no where with woman underwear draped over him.
"Wow.... Nice look Zartan." Everyone stopped firing at each other and laughed at the embarrassed Zartan. He grabbed the bra off his head and threw it on to the floor. In the midst of our laughing no one noticed the headlights flashing in the parking lot. So probably fed up with the waiting, my Dad backed the Hummer into Walmart, knocking down a wall on top of Baroness and Zartan.
"GO!" Duke screamed. All of us took off into the Hummer, where my Mom and Heavy Duty had already met up.
I was the last one into the car to see Baroness and Zartan recovering from the blow. Quickly I stuck my tongue out at them and yelled, "SEE YOU LATER CRAZY AUSTRALIAN!" and with that my father sped out of the Walmart, and onto the road.
"Well that was fun." I giggled. Everyone laughed with me. Thats when I looked around. I was between Snake Eyes and Breaker.
"Hey Dad?" I leaned forward so I was closer to him.
"Wheres Daisy and Shylo?" I asked quietly.
"In the back." I peered back to see Daisy pop her head up over the seat. On top of her head Shylo sat and mewed. He jumped off Daisy's head and leapt onto Snake Eyes lap. There he smiled and pet him.
"Awwwwwwwww...." Scarlett giggled, "He likes you." She leaned over the seat and pat Shylo. He purred and laid down in Snake Eyes lap. Snakes grunted, perhaps a laugh maybe.
Smiling my Dad told us all we should get some rest for the night. After all it was around 12:00 at night and we just had an epic battle in a Walmart store. Most of us agreed and I slowly dosed off listening to Ripcord and Duke argue about what Zartan was doing in the womens department.