The Changed

General Hawk looked at the Joes from a return mission. "We are getting temporary lackeys for you guys until the rest of the government figures out what to do with them." Everyone looked at the general rather confused arching a brow. Snake just tilted his head silently. He gestured to the glass bay windows to the training grounds bellow. "Compliments of Cobra Command found and confiscated." He watched bellow as a small team of three worked through the runs. "One though was engineered as a gift to Storm Shadow," Snake-Eyes flinched almost looking to the three more closely but he didn't see anything to indicate which of the three it was.

Walking out of one of the buildings was someone in long black boots that ended just below the knees. Black pants, a mesh fiber under a kimono like Gii long sleeve shirt with some kind of gauntlets. They had fingerless gloves and had talon like nails. Clothing form fitted with fitting corset cincher around the waist with a red sash around the waist. Gold talisman glinting with the red Arashikage symbol, the face was hidden by a death mask that had plating over the face from the bridge of the nose down. Eyes hidden, Bangs streaked. Long auburn hair pulled up and back hiding their ears. Moving in a run as the terrorist opened fire sliding across the metal floor and behind metal glinted out as a sword chimed cutting the terrorist down. Throwing out her arm Shriuken stars caught two making them come off their feet.

Snake-Eyes leaned forward with hands on the rail. Watching the female not exactly a shinobi but very similar. Standing she flicked her wrist as she raised the sword up catching another having been two in one. Very slender chains slid from the compartments in the handles around her arm catching against the gauntlet bracers. She moved as they opened fire able to move the swords constantly flashes showed against the blades surface as bullets were cut in half and away still running for them. Sliding between two she cut them down and in that slide coiled her body coming off her feet in a rotated spin and impaled the other ridding the body as it fell. She rolled and still kept running. Throwing out a hidden knife the cables cut and just as she grabbed it yanked up and in a arc she ran against the walls letting go carried by her momentum and flipped landing throwing out her arms into the passing tank rovers, leaving angry lines as circuits sparked catching fire moving in a slide under one as the two went up in a small explosion.

Landing in shifting slide like a car drifted stopping swords braced along her forearms the handles glinted with glowing marks sword catching the light glinted and gained electric charge. Turning the blades softer silver with blue off tint of built up electric current and energy. Moving she gained speed and traction enough light only reflected off her cutting into metal and gear sword flying past others into the wall yanking her by the chain she curved around it grasping the handle, time seeming to just stop for that moment only before the sword was unsheathed and cutting down the repelling soldiers on the ropes against the wall. Impaling one ridding the body in the plummeting fall to unsheathe throwing out the swords yanking the chains cutting others, landing on the cable junction sparks went up from the metal plating on her boots as she surfed down the line avoiding gun fire. Hitting a turret it fired instead on the others.

One of the other men grabbed a metal post as she got closer bracing to move his body as he gripped it in a complete spin on his heels , the female came down on the posting bracing and with the momentum and his stride launched thrown. The female brought in her arms sword just one once more and dived in a controlled spin through the glass and drove the sword home into the panels ignoring the electric shock twisting and releasing her own from the sword the E.M.P. Pulse went out turning off and shutting down the simulation. Unsheathing it and standing to twirl the sword like a coin against her fingers sheathing it at her back. General Hawk gestured to the team to follow him down.

They did with Snake-Eyes already climbing down faster. The three were male but for the one marked by the clan symbol at her belt. "This is Eben Reins, Marcus Remmington, Jacob Coburn and Wolf Moon." Eben was average height of five nine, athletic, clean cut with short black hair and really green eyes. He seemed the quiet type. Marcus was blond and blue eyed with a tattoo brand of the number roman numeral eleven on his left cheek. Hair a little longer then Eben's but Jacob had spiked red hair and one blue eye and one green. His bangs streaked and he was by far the tallest out of all four standing at six three.

Last was Wolf Moon at five eight and the shortest. Yet she was very lithe and slender in tone. Ripcord eyed her, "She some kind of ninja too that she wears a mask to hide like Zen master over here?"

General Hawk gave him a rather pointed look, "no, she wears the mask because to the outside world she isn't normal anymore."

General Hawk looked to her and nodded the gloves came off and Rip and the team frowned at the death pale skin and seeing gray texturing against her palms and fingertips reaching up her fingers and taloned like nails traced the metal and fiberglass to unlatch it and take it off. Rip jumped and a few did flinch. Scarlet stared fascinated yet confused. She was death pale with black ash lips and shadowing to her very amber gold eyes! She had flowing tribal that started at her temples and went down either side of her...moving...ears... Scarlet slowly approached her about the same height and slowly reached out tracing her cheek and skin.

Moon Wolf watched her not used to being touched but not offended either. Scarlett touched her more slowly though she was death white like new fallen snow she wasn't cold to touch. She arched a delicate brow; her face was soft but not soft enough to be that of a child anymore. Cheek bones slightly raised with a soft but straight end pointed jaw you could sit your thumb against it, a straight nose, and slightly soft pout to the lips. She still looked young, even to Snake-Eyes. She blinked eyes barely closing just a little when scarlet touched her leaf shaped like ear that really did move with her expressions and emotions.

"What happened to her?" Duke asked watching Scarlett touch her and the calmness of the woman being touched.

"Cobra Commander happened, these three were next in line for experimentation but Wolf Moon here broke them out. He was crossing animal D.N.A traits to humans. Try to take the qualities of the animal to make unique soldiers for different buyers and parts of the worlds terrains. Wolf Moon here was meant for anything forest or Antarctic needed on the field. Either way it isn't reversible. Despite the mutation Cobra got what he wanted." He watched her with a softening as she still watched Scarlett and now Snake-Eyes having caught the clan marking.

"Wolf Moon has the stamina and endurance twice that of an average human. She's faster, stronger, and can withstand climate change of near complete freezing temperatures. Her body is more resistant, she's more flexible. Her hearing, sight, taste, touch are all amplified and far sharper than yours or mine. We came across them near the abandoned lab in the alps." He looked at them.

This is Duke, Ripcord, Scarlett, Heavy Duty, Breaker and Snake-Eyes. They are the team you will be reporting to and following orders from is that clear?" They said eyes general Hawk at the same time but Wolf Moon." Duke watched her to look at the General and he already could guess.

"Wolf doesn't like to speak, her teeth set people off." He nodded and she gave a toothy grin. Rip shivered as did Scarlett; if the others did they didn't show it. She had fangs top and bottom and her teeth though all there and straight were just a tad serrated. She walked in a tour of the rest of the facility with the team. Snake-Eyes watched her and when they turned the corner he reached out taking her hand feeling the pad like texture under her fingers and palm despite having gloved hands.

She stopped and blinked but saw him nod to the side and let go she looked back to the dwindling group and back to Snake-Eyes' back as he walked and turned following Snake-Eyes.