Stalked
By Red Blaze 16
Disclaimer: I don't own GI Joe or Cobra...so don't sue.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is my first GI Joe story, so please...be kind!
Chapter 1
Summoned by Cobra Commander, Zartan, leader of the Dreadnoks, strides confidently into the audience chamber to see what the head of Cobra has in mind for him this time. Dressed in his normal black chest armor and brown pants, Zartan studies the seemingly empty room. Finally coming to the steps that would lead to Cobra Commander's throne, Zartan waits for the other man to acknowledge him. Unlike the leader's lackeys, he doesn't bow or call the man before him Master or any other asinine title. Zartan is a mercenary. If Cobra Commander wants him to do something, he pays him and pays him well.
"Zartan, I have a mission for you," says Cobra Commander, staring down at the killer for hire. "A mission that I think you're going to enjoy."
"Do tell," replies Zartan.
"I need the Joes distracted," explains the other man. "Cobra is going to be working on something very important and I don't want to be stopped."
Nodding his head, Zartan waits for the other man to continue. When Cobra Commander says nothing more, the red haired mercenary raises a brow.
"Distracted how?"
"Make it...personal." replies Cobra Commander. "I want them focused on whatever you're doing, not on Cobra."
"Personal, huh?" replies Zartan.
"I've heard of your...extracurricular hobbies," says the leader of Cobra.
Saying nothing, the mercenary just smiles and thinks about his most recent "hobby", a little blonde, barely eighteen year old, that he'd just finished with. Her dead body would be found eventually by someone.
"I know you enjoy female victims, so target the female Joes," continues the Commander. "Don't go overboard to start. I want the Joes distracted, not pissed off and gunning for Cobra."
"How far can I go?" asks Zartan, already thinking of who to target first. First target should have Joe connections, but not an active soldier.
"As I said, you're going to enjoy this," replies the other man. Leaning forward, Cobra Commander stares down at Zartan. "Take it as far as you can handle it."
"I can handle a lot," replies the mercenary with a smile.
Nodding his head, Cobra Commander waves his hand at Zartan, dismissing the mercenary to his task set before him.
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Returning to his base of operations in the swamp, Zartan begins to research his assignment. Wanting to go over any and all information he has collected over the years of working with Cobra concerning the female GI Joes, he starts by pulling out the still photographs he has taken. Spreading the pictures out on a table, he exams the photos and begins to place them in one of three piles: target, maybe target, and not a target.
Scarlett and Lady Jaye are on the list, thinks Zartan, as he rubs a hand over first one picture than the next, placing them in the target pile. But I need to start with someone who isn't as involved as those two.
Finding a photo of a reddish-brown haired woman, Zartan lifts it and looks her over. Cover girl? Yes. He then places her photo with the first two. Passing over many of the Green-shirts, Zartan finds a photo of a dark haired woman, he flips the photo over and reads the back.
Dr. Blackstone. Researcher.
Flipping the photo back over, Zartan stares at the picture of the dark haired woman.
She has Joe connections, but she's not a solider. She rarely works at Joe Headquarters, so it would be easy to get to her.
Putting her photo down on top of the other three, Zartan realizes that he had found the first victim.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: For those who don't remember her, Dr. Blackstone was only in one episode of GI Joe: A Real American Hero. Season 1: Spell of the Siren. She was never seen again in the TV series and there isn't a lot of information on her.