I am an absolutely terrible writer, not updating for so long. Please I beg your forgiveness, I have no excuse except to say my head wants to writeothr things, but Ihave old myself to finih mytwo current projects before moving on.

I hope this one chapter is ok.

As is my credo: I dedicate this story to blackrosewitch1996 and darkdancer1234 for their reviews. I also dedicate this story to those who added it to their alerts.


The military vans that crashed through the gates of the prison came to a stop in the prisons courtyard. The doors opened as Heavy Duty and Breaker were taking cover to begin the fight. In their coms they could hear Scarlett and Ripcord shouting warnings to each other as they too came under attack.

From the Cobra Commander's prison level, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were targeting the Cobra Vipers with the guns that Snake had brought. Storm Shadows shuriken would not do much damage from their height, so he used his SIG-Sauer P226 Sport II whilst Snake Eyes used his FN FiveseveN. Both were excellent shots and managed to hit a number of the Vipers, however they were aware that there were more above.

Scarlett and Ripcord were outgunned and outmatched. There were 20 Vipers on the roof, and very limited cover. Adding to this were the Cobra weapons which were highly destructive, meaning that the cover the pair took only took 3 hits before disintegrating.

"We have to move for the door. If we can get them to bottleneck it might make it easier for use. Up here there is too much space for them to move around and get us." Scarlett shouted to Ripcord as she jumped from her cover as it was blasted apart.

Aiming her crossbow, she fired straight at the eye piece of the Viper's mask. The Viper's head exploded with a miniature blast.

Ripcord agreed as he fired his assault rifle at 2 of the approaching vipers.

They both met up as close to the door as they could, whilst still avoiding the pulse blasts from the Vipers weapons. Ripcord then threw a flash bang grenade in the middle of their opponent's arrow like formation.

"1…2…3…Now!" They both darted to the door as the flash bang exploded; causing the Vipers to cover the eyes of their masks.

As they ran they fired several rounds, taking down several of the Vipers. If the Vipers were dead or simply wounded, they did not know.

"Can you make a miniature bomb?" The question sounded in their coms.

"What?" Scarlett asked pressing the com closer to her ear.

Storm Shadow's voice came through again: "Do you have some frag grenades and string? The Vipers masks restrict some of their vision making it harder for them to see something like wire across stairs."

Scarlett quickly located some wire that she and most soldiers kept in case of emergencies. "I've got it."

"Good, now tie the wire to the pin of the grenade. You then need to tape or find somewhere to wedge the grenade so that it won't be pulled; we only need the pin to come out. Then find a place to attach the wire across from the grenade, so it forms a tripwire." Storm Shadow advised, startling Scarlett with the simplicity of the plan.

Ripcord tied the string and wedge the grenade into a tight corner of the stairs, giving a small experimental tug on the wire to make sure the grenade would not roll out. He then dragged the wire directly across from the grenade and located a small nail, which he promptly tied the wire around; making sure that the wire was taut enough to trigger the trap.

"Ok, it's set." Ripcord spoke quietly.

Get to cover. If there are still too many, come and join us. We need help to back up the others, they have managed to reach this level. Snake Eyes tapped Morse code on his own com device.

"Ok, moving to cover now, and then we'll join you in 5 minutes once we have determined how many are left." Scarlett stated calmly as she and Ripcord made their way down the rest of the stairs and out of the door, taking cover either side.

The trap had been set in the middle of the staircase to allow as many Vipers into the stairway as possible.

After waiting for at least another 30 seconds, while the Vipers recovered from the after effects of the flash bang, they heard boot steps marching down the stairs.

Pulling their heads back slightly as the lead Viper made it to the grenade; they tensed themselves waiting for the inevitable explosion.

BOOM!

The grenade blasted bits of concrete down the stairs.

Quickly checking their weapons, Ripcord and Scarlett peaked out from their cover and saw the stair way was completely obliterated. They could make out some of the remains of the Vipers, while others had been crushed by cement falling from above.

Looking at the doorway at the top of the stairs they saw 6 Vipers staggering to their feet and collecting their weapons.

The rest were dead.

"We should be able to take them. There are only 6 left." Scarlett whispered to Ripcord who nodded.

They exited their cover and just as they started to take aim at the Vipers, one of them turned with a cylindrical device in his hand.

He pushed a button that was on top of the device and threw it down at the pair.

Realising it was a grenade of some sort, Ripcord and Scarlett jumped to their left, just as the grenade hit the floor they were on.

They quickly ran as far as they could when the grenade let out a psionic boom. It caused the floor beneath them to quake and in some areas to fall to the level below.

The shockwave of the grenade, even though they were some meters away forced the pair forward, smashing them against the bars of one of the cells.

"We need to get to Snake and Duke." Ripcord said as they raised up their bruised and battered bodies.

Scarlett nodded and together they limped in the direction of Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Duke and the Baroness.

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Meanwhile the Duke and the Baroness were also sniping the Vipers that were in the courtyard. They could hear the sounds of the two ninja engaging in hand to hand with the Vipers that had made it to the Commander's prison cell level.

"Oh my…It sounds like quite the battle out there, doesn't it?" The Cobra Commander hissed sibilantly, amusement ringing through his words. "Are you ready for defeat yet?"

"They can't help you Rex. We won't let you get away from here." Duke stated, confident in their ability to keep the crazed genius behind bars.

"If you think I won't get out of here, then you are a fool. I've been planning this ever since you caught me." Cobra Commander hissed victoriously, absolutely certain that his plan was fool proof.

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Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes were using all of their skills as ninja to avoid the gun fire from the Vipers. They were ducking, weaving and even flipping through the air as they took down as many of the Vipers, using swords, guns and shuriken. But somehow a force of 12 Vipers, 5 of which were the nanomites enhanced Neo-Vipers, had made it to the Commander's level. So far only 2 of the Vipers and 1 Neo-Viper had been dispatched.

"I don't think we can hold on for much longer here. We need back up." Storm Shadow shouted to his brother as he thrust his sword through one of the Vipers armoured chests.

The Viper fell to the ground dead, only to be replaced by another who was already firing his pulse rifle.

General Hawk says backup will be here in 1 minute and 30 seconds. Snake quickly tapped on Storm Shadows back as the two briefly took cover behind a corner, using the wall as a shield.

"We may not be here in a minute. Where are Ripcord and Scarlett? I thought they were joining us. It has been longer than 5 minutes." Storm Shadow whispered, concern slipping into his voice.

Literally a second after he asked, Scarlett and Ripcord made their appearance, right behind the Vipers who were making their way towards the 2 ninja.

The 4 stared at each other before swiftly moving into action. They attacked the remaining Vipers from the front and back, taking the remaining Vipers by surprise, giving them very little time to attack.

Storm and Snake fought back to back making sure to cover each other at all times, just like they had been trained too when they were younger.

Within minutes the surprised enemies had fallen to the 2 experience ninja, ninja in training (Scarlett) and Ripcord.

"Heavy, Breaker, how are things down in the courtyard?" Scarlett spoke into her com as Snake Eyes made gestures for them to join Duke and the Baroness.

"It's all good; we have wiped out most of their forces. There are only 4 more down here, but there sure as hell is a lot of damage done to this place. It's good that the other prisoners and staff were evacuated." Heavy Duty's slightly weary voice came through the coms.

"Duke, how about you and the baroness, you ok?" Ripcord asked worried about his friend.

"We're fine here too, they never got near here." Duke's voice was calm through the com.

"We're coming to you. The backup should be here in under a minute." Scarlett stated.

Storm Shadow, Snake Eyes, Scarlett and Ripcord made their way to Duke, the Baroness and the Cobra Commander, unaware that the attack had not yet finished.

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"Looks like your plan failed, Rex." Duke said to the masked man as he moved to stand in front of the cell.

"Is that what you think? That was just the first phase. Now it's going to get much harder." The Cobra Commander laughed darkly, his mask distorting the sound, making it much deeper and raising Goosebumps on Duke's and the Baroness' skin.

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"DOWN!" Storm Shadow yelled as he jumped, pushing Snake Eyes to the round while Scarlett and Ripcord just reacted to the order and dropped onto the stomachs.

The walls of the cells were disintegrated as the 4 Cobra helicopter blasted the walls with their pulse cannons.

"What are they doing, they could kill the Commander?" Ripcord shouted over the noise of the cannons destroying another cell's walls.

"No, they won't. We have to move. Now!" Storm Shadow shouted as he jumped to his feet and quickly helped the others to theirs.

"What's going on?" Ripcord demanded as they ran towards the Cobra Commander's cell.

"If I know the Commander well enough, and I do, then the only reason he would do something like this is if he has a way of not being in his cell. He wouldn't take risk like this if he wasn't certain he couldn't get out. DUKE!" Storm Shadow shouted into his com.

However there was no response.

Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes quickened their run.

The four arrived outside the Cobra Commander's cell to find the door had been blasted off of its hinges from the inside.

The Cell was empty and so was Destro's.

"Where's Duke…and the Baroness?" Scarlett asked as she looked around the rubble in front of the cells.

"Over here." They heard Duke's voice come from over the railing looking over into the courtyard.

Looking over it, Snake and Storm found Duke holding on with one had while his other held the Baroness' hand.

They both looked fine other than a few scratches, scrapes and bruises.

Storm and Snake reached over and grabbed hold of Duke's hand, and along with Ripcord and Scarlett, they managed to pull the 2 up.

"What happened?" Heavy Duty's voice asked as he and Breaker arrived on the same level.

"Rex escaped; somehow he had one of those pulse pistols. Or something like it. I'm not sure." Duke groaned as he and Baroness were pulled to safety.

"He got us to come closer to his cell and then pulled the gun and pulled the trigger. It was powerful enough to blast the cell door and push us over the rails." Baroness gasped.

At that moment the backup GI Joe troops drove in through the busted gates.

Did you see in which direction he went? Snake signed to Duke.

"To one of the cells that helicopter's had blasted a hole through." Duke pointed to one of the closest cells that had no wall.

"It was all a setup, sending those soldiers in made us think they were going to rescue him when he had planned this all along. This battle was nothing more than a diversion to split us up while he made his true escape, and if he killed us all in the process then all the better." Storm Shadow explained as it dawned on him what the Cobra Commander's plan had been all along.

"He is definitely one hell of a strategist." Heavy Duty spoke, a small amount of admiration for the daring plan in his voice.

One of the GI Joe soldiers reached them. "We have searched but have located nothing to indicate how the Commander was able to get a weapon or to indicate where he is going. We lost track of the helicopters when the jammed our scanners."

"Alpha team, you are to report back at the Pit, at once. There's nothing more we can do now. You did good, but even I never saw this coming." General Hawk's calm voice came through the coms.

"Yes sir, and we're sorry for losing him sir." Duke replied, shame in his voice for losing the genius terrorist.

"Don't worry about it, we caught him once and we will again. Come back in guys." Hawk then cut off communication.

The team made their way to their transport and started to take care of the wounds they had received.

Hours later they arrived at the Pit, all thinking about what had happened and what would happen next.

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"Hello Zartan." The Cobra Commander's deep hissing voice echoed around the office of the President of the United States.

Zartan looked at the President's desk where the Commander sat, straight backed, with Destro on his right like some sort of bodyguard.

"Commander." He whispered bowing his head in respect to the genius.

"Now, it is time to make the Joes and the world mine." And with that the Commander through his head back laughing psychotically.

Everything was now under his control.


I hope that was good enough. I have never written many battle scenes so that might not have been great. I hope you enjoyed it and will continue to read it if you did.

Guest Reviewer: I will admit that I didn't look up the Corporal thing at first. I liked the Sound of 'lady lieutenant', however please forgive my error. About the Baroness, my working is that they got the nanomites out of her and determined that her actions were because she was being controlled by them which is why I made it ok for her to join the team. Also I could hardly use that reasn for Storm Shadow and not her, so it made sense to use it for both, as I like Storm and wanted him to fight alongside his sword brother. About adding more characters, I will think about it as i don't know many, as I have only seen the films and done as much research into the characters I know. However I have learnt of a few. I will see how the story goes and think about adding them if necessay. Thankyou for your review. It was very informative.

Thankyou for reading.

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