G.I. Joe: Detachment.
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Date: May 4th. 1988
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA. Residence of Clayton Abernathy, Commanding Officer of (G)lobal (I)nitiative (J)oint (O)peration (E)xecutive.
After the disaster involving the USS Flagg, General Hawk was put on unpaid leave. At his home in Denver, Colorado, he received a phone call while watching the news about the PEPCON disaster. "Hello...Canceled?...The what now?...Understood, Mr. President, thank you sir."
Later at Joe headquarters, Duke is woken up at the barracks by Flint. "Wha-huh; Flint? What is it, i was just-" Duke started saying.
"General's back, got something important in debriefing." Flint told him.
"But it's 3:22 in...Alright, let me get dressed." Duke replied in an annoyed tone.
On the way inside, Flint turns to him and asks. "Were you having some dream, what kind?"
"A good one, we were all at the statue of liberty fighting Cobra in a final showdown." Duke replied while smirking as the two passed a random mechanic.
"That so?" Flint asked next.
Duke smiled and continued. "You should have seen it, first, i shoot down Bludd infront of the big torch; you blow up a Trouble Bubble, and Snake Eyes stole another one...in mid-air, no less!" Duke said, smirking at the memory.
"Seriously?" Flint asked, picturing Snake Eyes doing so by spinning it backwards for some reason.
"That's right, after Alpine knocked a Firebat into a Moray with one fist, I punch Cobra Commander off the Lady's left shoulder. The statue, i mean, not Jaye's. Roadblock knocks two Viper's empty heads together. Then i take this bomb chrome dome planted to blow up his big ass flying-carrier with only 8 second's remaining, finally we all land on the statue's tiara." Duke continued while acting some of the actions out.
"...I think you need to lay off the drink's for a while, Duke." Flint told him as he rolled his eyes, only for Duke to stare at him.
"How is that any different from yours about tossing him into that globe, or Jaye's about using "Ned" on Serpentor and his air-chariot?" Duke asked as he folded his arms. "That's what i thought." He said again after getting no answer.
In the briefing room, Duke and Flint see General Hawk, Beachhead, Sgt. Slaughter, Dial Tone, and Mainframe.
"Got him, sir. Now what's this about?" Flint asked Hawk.
"After your both seated...Ok; Dial Tone, Mainframe, begin please." Hawk asked after he took his own seat. Dial Tone pulls down a back-screen and turns off the lights, while Mainframe turns on a projector. All seven see a big silvery block with a circular antennae and a rectangular one just above it in an indoor construction lab.
"This footage was taken by me, Sci Fi, and Lady Jaye during an undercover mission a few days ago at Area 51." Mainframe said.
Duke gives the other five commanders a knowing glance. "You mean the place with the "ali-"?" He asked.
"Nope." Mainframe said quickly, eyes darting to random locations in the room.
"...Awrrait, but watt is dat thing?" Beachhead asked after a few seconds.
"Glad you asked. This, gentlemen; and Sgt., is the B.E.T." Dial Tone replied.
"What's that stand for, exactly?" Sgt. Slaughter asked, after saying an ancient Greek curseword at Dial Tone's remark.
"It's full name is the broadcast energy transmitter, a mobile electrical absorber/condenser/emitter based on Tesla's old experiment's. Wonder what he would have thought of it...Anyway, we have been asked to climate test it in an operation dubbed Summer Star." Mainframe explained.
"So we just have to babysit some egg-heads while they play with an overgrown battery?" Sgt. Slaughter asked.
"Until Cobra, the Soviets, or the Chinese decide they want it." Duke said aloud.
"I doubt the reds will risk it, given the current state of their Afghan invasion...China; hard to say...so only Cobra is a concern, even if they have been lying low since we almost lost during their desert campaign." Hawk told him and the others.
"True, but no, we have been granted full permission to test it ourselves." Dial Tone said.
"Any questions?" Mainframe asked.
Flint raised his hand. "This is related to the anti-matter we lost earlier, right?"
"It is, and just as well, anti-matter is too dangerous anyway. Even an amount equal to the Hiroshima bomb would reduce earth to a giant shallow bowl of rock." Mainframe told him.
After gulping, Duke raised his hand next. "How soon will this Summer Star begin?" He asked.
"In about 8 month's, first, It's drive section has to be designed and tested, then we both have to decide which desert to test it in." Dial Tone explained.
"Any more questions?" He asked, but none of them did.
"Very well, dismissed." Hawk said, signalling for the lights to be turned on.
After the General, Dial Tone, and Mainframe left, the four sub-commanders discussed the news. "So, what do you guys think?" Duke asked.
"Ah thenk id's anotheh money pit, ain't we alreddy gat elegtrissity?" Beachhead asked.
"Right, but this B.E.T. thingy apparently means no more tangled cord's, sure could use that." Sgt. Slaughter told him.
Beachhead thought about it for a few seconds and shrugged. "Ah guess, mean's less swear'n each desemba." He said.
Duke and Flint agreed, then discussed the machine's cost, it's threat potential, and other details before getting up and leaving the room.
Eight months later, around 17 people are brought to Joe H.Q., some of which are familiar. One of them is the girl from the earthquake machine incident, after she steps out of an army bus along with Snake Eyes and some Green-shirts, she notices Vince Falcone and Chris Lavigne in the crowd and heads for them, Vince grins and opens his arms, only for her to pass him and greet the latter man.
"Hello Chris; and other guy." She says, ignoring Vince's dismay. "Haven't seen you...and other guy...since that phony concert."
"Haha, personal foul on the first yardline!" A tall recruit said while the young man who once aided Flint's group in New York joined in.
"Someone get him a coat; cause she left him in the cold!"
"Alright, that's enough, people!" They all hear next from General Hawk as he and the other three commanders walked forward to inspect them. "Men...and ladies-" Hawk says next, considering there was five other women aside from Miss Arashikagi. "-Before you think that just because you made it here, and that 94 others didn't, that you are officially part of G.I. Joe; this is merely where part two of the process is to be held...Flint here will lead you to your, mostly temporary, destination."
The group looks about to each other before the 3IC steps up and tells them. "Before we go, be warned that you should not bother memorizing the location's you are not instructed to approach, that is all."
On the way, Flint is met by Scarlett. "Sorry I'm late; had to replace a bulb in my quar...this must be all the new meat." She says, motioning to the group, and rolls her eyes at all the looks she's getting from most of the men, and one woman she hopes is from envy.
Flint notices and stamps a foot. "Eyes forward; you six will follow Scarlett, as for the rest..." He starts, but leans forward a bit and walks toward one of the men. "Have i seen you somewhere before?"
"Sure, you saved me and Ronald in the Aleutians about a year ago." The man, Frank Sullivan, replied.
While the two are chatting, some of the men start whispering. "You suppose those two have something going on?"/"Nah, didn't look like it to me."/"Who knows?" Only for Chris to look back. "Incorrecto, boys; you see that brown haired one in the green outfit over there?" He says, pointing over at Lady Jaye, who is walking towards a cargo jet with Lift Ticket and Heavy Metal.
Most of the group nod and motion to Flint. "Him and her?" A black haired man with an SWCC uniform asked.
"Yeah, head over heels and stuff; been that way since forever as long as I've been here."
"I'll say; i met the guy in my home state once." Lee tells the group.
"You too?, What about?" A blond man in a Delta Force uniform asks him.
Lee grins and explains. "He and some others were on a rescue mission or something for her. They were was all "Oh please Mr. Lee, could you use your super bitchin' gnarlyness to save my poor widdle...He's behind me isn't he." He said as he noticed the other recruits backing away.
"Your super what now?" Flint replied. Lee and Lavigne glance at each other before the former turns to run, only to have his collar grabbed. "Did i say you could leave?"
"No." Lee said, almost in a squeak.
"...15 push ups."
Once that was over, they are led to an empty area with some rolls of fabric and poles. "Uh, sir... is that what i think it is?" The blond person with a Delta Force uniform asked while pointing to the pile.
"This, gentlemen, is your place of residence until graduation; is there a problem?" Flint says to him and the rest, who all say no sir. "Good; now get to work."
While the men start to pitch their tents, Scarlett's group is doing the same when they're met by Cover Girl and Lady Jaye. "Well look who it is; haven't seen you since that time at Mt. Iwato." The latter says to Kimi.
"I'd prefer not recalling that; but yeah, and you must be Cover-Girl."
"That's me; hajamy musty, kid." The driver replied while giving a handshake.
"You said it wrong; it's spelled like this, peach." Scarlett says after seeing Kimi raise a brow.
"Ah...Anyway, pitch those tents, troops." Cover-Girl says after seeing everyone smirking at her. "That means now!"
Once both groups were done, they get an announcement from Breaker to head to the P.T. course where Leatherneck was waiting. "Alright, you useless little shits, it's time for basic training; you know it, you hate it, and your gonna go through it all over again. Do any of you crybaby slimeballs have a problem with that?!" He shouts.
"No we don't, sir!" They reply in unison.
"I can't hear you."
"We have no arguments, drill sergeant!"
"Then what are you standing there for, you damn worthless slugs; haul ass!"
They start running for the first segment: the tire steps, which one man with an Army artillery patch stumbles over, causing him to get his name crossed off a list Leatherneck is holding. They then move to the climbing wall. "It's Sanders in the lead; he takes a jump...and he makes it, whoo!" He says aloud, only to get yelled at.
"No talking unless spoken too, maggot!", after that, all except two men and one woman have made it over.
While that was going on, the jet that they saw earlier takes off carrying two Maulers, four A.W.E. Strikers, and four Armadillos. Three Tomahawks are also following with Beachhead, Heavy Metal, Cover Girl, Stalker, and Lifeline in the first; Breaker, Footloose, Iceberg (in a different uniform), and Rock 'n Roll in the second; and Deep Six, Sci Fi, Steeler, and Barbecue in the last. Five hours later, the Joes land at Los Alamos and are greeted by the director and two guards. "You must be here for the battery; this way please." The director says, and leads them to a hanger housing something none of them expect.
"Holy crap...I thought we had those things dismantled?!" Rock 'n Roll asks him, pointing angrily at a M.A.S.S. device.
"They were; but after learning of the antimatter pod's recovery, we requisitioned it for this...and other purposes." The director explained.
"An jes' wut'r yuh showin' it tuh us for?" Beachhead asked next. "Da battery ain't here, is it?"
"No it's not; it's at another site that we intend to send you using this "thing". The director replied as he points to a technician at the controls. "Commence transport!"
"Aw no yuh dun', yuh egg-headed sum'bi-" Beachhead tried to shout before he and his team all vanish.
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