Orange hair didn't stand out much against the sand in the desert. It was more the girls skin and clothes that did. The girl had green cargo pants, a black tank top, and a black trench coat on with heavy combat boots and black fingerless gloves. Her pale complexion deeply contrasted with everything around her. In this climate and under the Egyptian sun she should have started to become darker by now. A sigh left her and she looked to the cloudless sky. There was nothing but the sun up there. No birds, clouds or even those random jets. Sitting down she removed her shoes gloves and trench coat. Then after taking her wallet out of her back pocket she laid down and spread her arms out to the side and stared at the blue sky. A lullaby she once heard entered her mind. It was about a serpent and a child. "Lost and alone I wander. Fear and pain I come upon. Save me, anyone. Save me. I see my savior. Long and thing. He slithers up. As he disappears I cry 'why?' as he goes I fall. My eyes close. I can feel as his body covers mine. When his teeth sink into my skin. The burning leaves. The pain leaves. AS I die I thank him. As I die..."34 her eyes snapped open as she heard engines approach. Jumping up she grabbed her stuff and quickly ran away from where the sound came from.
Twenty feet away she knew it was useless and did the only thing she could. She started to turn to sand. When she stumbled her concentration was lost and then she fled without her fallen stuff. Her shoes, gloves, wallet, and coat fell to the ground in a pile but it wasn't there for long. The sand around the clothes began to burry the pile. Jeeps pulled up to the spot and a man in all black jumped out and grabbed what he could. The gloves and shoes were lost to the sand, along with the coat. Unfortunately the wallet held no evidence of who the girl is, or was. There was a fifty dollar bill, several singles, and change. Putting it all back in the wallet the man in black jumped back into the jeep and him team and himself headed back to their base, the Pit.
This presented a big problem. The girl had been wandering this desert for days, always disappearing before any of the Joes had a chance to help her get back to civilization. She had to be hungry and dehydrated by now, if not near dead. And she could have seen something important about the base. They needed to get her before she died or worse, Cobra catches her. When they got back to the base they informed Hawk of not being able to get her but that they had gotten her wallet. He found it funny that all they could get was the girls' wallet which had no type of id in it but then he became serious. After dismissing his Alpha Team Hawk put the missing girl's wallet into a drawer of his desk so that once they do catcher her they may return it to her. Although he did wonder how she ran off without noticing her wallet was gone. Or better yet why she ran off without her without it if she had noticed.
Hawk locked his desk then headed out locking his office door behind himself. When he turned too fast his nearly fell, there was a pile of sand under him. He walked off to find someone to clean that mess up. Although he did wonder how it got there he didn't really give it too much thought. Figured that it was just a prank by either Duke or Ripcord. He sure as hell didn't think that it was the girl, he didn't think that she had entered the base to get her missing wallet in the form of sand. And as he walked away he never looked back. Because if he had he would have seen that pile of sand slowly move and go under his door.
The unknown girl had gotten into the base when the hatch had opened and a jet had started to land. She had been right at the edge and then she fell forward in the process of falling forward her body and clothes had become sand and when the people that had been in the air craft looked around they saw no girl. Quickly they all pushed it off as a shared hallucination and went on their way. As soon as all of her sand was about to touch the floor the girl had taken her normal form again. Staying in the shadows it was easy to get around, and anytime someone thought they had seen her they would go over and only find a pile of sand. Quickly she found a vent on the ground. She turned into her sand and moved quickly through it. Soon she found where her wallet was, she needed it so badly because, being the idiot she was, it held all of her money. Not much in all but for her it was enough. In a pile of sand she waited outside of the door until the man left.
As soon as she was inside of the office she immediately tried the desk. Locked. Reaching into a pocket of hers she pulled out a hand full of sand. Controlling it she made it go into the lock and when she heard it click she returned the sand to the pocket. She could have easily used her own hand and made a finger into a key, but she had never liked to do that. She opened drawer after drawer until there was only one left. She had been just about to open it when the doors lock came undone. A soft curse left her lips and by the time the door was opened all of her sand had made it into the locked safe. "I know Snake Eyes. But we have checked it over and over, there is nothing about the wallet that we don't know." She easily heard the man, or possibly men, go over to the desk. Then the cocking of a gun was oh so loud in her ears. "I had locked this desk. I'm positive of it."
Controlling sand again the girl send some of it out of the safe. It went up to the ceiling and turning into a ball then its color changed. The girl held to fingers to her closed left eye and the ball outside became white with a jade iris and black pupal. From the makeshift eye, or her third eye as the technique was called, she watched as the men search the entire office. The man in black moved his hands in a way the girl didn't understand. "I know Snake Eyes. I believe she is still here also. Otherwise her wallet would be gone." The man, Snake Eyes, looked around the office once more then he paused looking right at the safe. Keeping the eye out in the open Avery used her sand in a way different than before. She used it and teleported to behind the open door where they wouldn't see her. "I'll open it be ready."
The man opened it and Snake Eyes had his gun at the ready. "What the?" Hawk reached in and pulled out a handful of sand. A little side effect of teleporting was that the excess sand that had twirled around her to make to portal stayed behind. "Now that I think about it, there had been a pile of sand in front of my office when I left." The men raced from the room and the girl groaned. She took ran from the office and followed at a safe distance, she used her third eye to watch her back just incase anyone was following them. When her third eye caught sight of someone she turned into sand again and spread it all out so it wasn't noticeable. Then she used the eye to follow the men. As soon as she was sure that no one was around she went into the vents and followed the men, always making the eye watch them. And soon she stopped following them and just let her third eye do that.
It was several hours before they gave up and she quickly went to where they were, staying in the vents the whole time. "You watch this." The man handed her wallet to Snake Eyes. "We will try to go out to the desert tomorrow to find her. If she really wants this back it will be the key." Then the two split up and she followed the ninja man, Snake Eyes. He went into a room and she made her eye become sand, enter, then become the eye once more. She quietly left the vent and in her sand form still entered the room and spread out to far to be noticeable. She made her eyes become sand and even though she was sand she watched him. Somethings about her ability's confused her but she didn't try to figure them out, she feared the loss of them. He entered the bathroom and discarded the wallet on the bed.
The fact that her goal was just so close made her forsake anything she had learned and became human again. Quietly she made her way over to the bed and as soon as she had the wallet in her hands she felt the cool bit of a steel bald against her neck. The man gabbed her hands and cuffed them behind her back. When he finished that he put his blade away and took her wallet from her hands. "No! Hey! I went through hell to get that back. Come on man." Snake Eyes ignored her and put it in his own pocket. He knew that she wouldn't leave unless she had the wallet and so he had no problem turning his back to her and going to the mini-fridge. The man took out a bottle of water and opened it. When he got to her he offered it to her. "I would love to but you locked me up." It didn't matter to him. He held the bottle to her lips and tilted it so that she could drink. When she was half way through the bottle he took it back.
He set the bottle down on the bedside table then walked to a book shelf and grabbed paper and a pen. When he turned around the girl was sitting on the bed with one hand free and finishing the water. She set the empty bottle down then put her hand back behind her back. As soon as he was at her side he looked behind her and both hands were in the cuffs. He put the note pad on her lap and returned to the fridge and got two more bottles of water out. Setting them on the bed he reached behind her and uncuffed her. It would be no use if she could easily escape them. Immediately she grabbed a bottle and opened it. Just as it was inches away she looked at him for permission, when he nodded she quickly started to drink. Within moments it was nearly empty. "Avery. Avery Godfrey." She pointed to his question on the paper asking her name. "When can I go?"
Snake Eyes shook his head and wrote another question. "Uh, I don't really know. It's not an easy thing to explain. I was up there then I was falling and then was in here, ya know?" He looked at her then asked how she got into the office and his safe. Also how she got out of the safe. "The office was the same as before. The safe entering it the same. Exiting it well I was there then I wasn't. Can I have my wallet?" She finished the water and set it next to the other one. When she opened the third one she took small sips.
When he wrote on the paper she groaned. He told her his name and that she couldn't leave until the General said so. "But why cant I have my wallet?" Because he was wearing a cloth mask Avery could see an eyebrow of his raise. And that he knew her plan was that as soon as she got the wallet to leave. She could have left before with the wallet but she never let others know what she could do. She had made that mistake once a long time ago. And now her mother was in the states where the two used to live, and Avery here in Egypt where she had been abandoned. "Fine." Avery grumbled. "Let's go meet this Hawk character."