Second wave.
In the lower levels of Spacestation Delta, Scarlett and the others are in the storeroom eating what was left.
"How long's it been again?" Clutch asks as he opened a can of New Coke.
"About four hours, 18 minutes." Breaker replied. "And how can you drink that crap?"
"This stuff is fine, you'd figure a tech guy would be all for the latest craze." Clutch said to him.
"Not when it's the kind that goes in my mouth, you grease monkey!" Breaker said back.
"Grease monkey? Go munch on some computer chips, you fat-ass spazz!" Clutch says back, before Scarlett got in between them.
"You two can butt heads later, first we got to find a way out of here."
The two looked from her to each other, and called a truce just before Mutt sics Junkyard on Torch.
At The Mountain of Glass.
"Huh...Major, skyward!" One Snow-serpent shouts.
"What the bloody hell? Take cover, you blighters!" He shouted as the black pillar turned color.
"Snow-Job, up there!" Green-shirt Rodriguez says as she, Barbecue, and Tollbooth see the sight.
"It's a damn miracle, Cover-Girl, take a P.B.B. back to the landing area and get back to HQ." Snow-Job ordered. "The rest of you, get ready for round two. Yo Joe!"
In the galley of the USS Flagg.
"What was...the intercom?!" A random sailor says after everyone hears a buzzing.
"Well, don't just stand there, son...put it on speaker!" Admiral Ledger barked.
"Admiral, this is the engine room; don't know why, but the reactor just came back online." A crewman reports.
"Then get us underway! Fire up the screws; all ahead full before we lose this chance! Everyone, back to the bridge!" Ledger shouts.
Flint turned to his teammates. "Duke must have retaken Delta somehow. Roadblock, take a Skystriker back to HQ." He ordered.
"Yo Joe!" He says, and runs off.
After Cover-Girl and Roadblock return before the energy drain returned, the Joes hear a lound noise behind them.
"What the shit!?" Cover-Girl says.
"Watch out for dat there glass!" Wild Bill yells.
"Doc, got some in my arm!" Roadblock says.
"A Cobra Copter?!"
All the Joes minus Doc and Roadblock then see Alpine and Bazooka jump down with a third person. "Introducing star of stage, screen, and a regular on the gun show, MacArthur "Quick-Kick" Ito, stuntman extraordinaire."
At the Mountain of Glass.
"Hold them off so i can...The Cube?! Clear the area! Every dingo for 'imself!" Major Bludd ordered.
"I don't like the look of that; take cover Joes!" Snow-Job ordered at the same time.
"The powers back, let's get back to H.Q. on the double!" Tollbooth said as he restarted and retracted the portable bridge.
On the Flagg's bridge.
"Sir, aft gun crews report explosion back where the Cube was." A crewman says as he came in.
"Radar count: bandit 5 miles and closing at 10 o'clock!" Another says.
"Cobra transport plane. Scramble all jets for intercept!" Ledger ordered.
"Coming, Lady-Jaye?" Flint asked.
"Race you there, Flint." Lady-Jaye replied.
"Yo Joe!" Both say.
When the pair are over Enterprise City, Flint is leading pursuit of Cobra Commander and The Twins plane when a disguised hanger door opens and closes.
"Flint, pull up...Flint!" Lady-Jaye shouts as she and a third Skystriker break off.
Flint pulled the throttle back and to the left as hard as he could. "Whew...Think i might have scratched the paint job a little." He says as he looked back to the tower.
"Dat explains da disappearin' act ya'll mentioned before, don't it?" Green-shirt Blais asks from the third Skystriker.
"Sure does...Wait, the windows...Shipwreck, do you see that!" Flint asks as the jets circle the area.
"Yeah, but i don't believe it." Shipwreck replied.
"We can't let that thing take off! Ship', Snakes, move back so we can-where the hell are you going?!" Flint asks as he watches the sailor and ninja run toward the gantry.
Inside the elevator.
"Satin, what are you doing here?" Shipwreck asks the singer.
"Like i said, sailor man, getting back for what they did to my father." She replied.
"What was it they did, anyway?" Shipwreck asks.
"Dad worked at Sudan. Had the place insured by Extensive Enterprises, then some freak weather happened, but they accused him of faking it." She explained.
"Uh, your dad wouldn't be named Mitchell Sikorsky*, with a son named Vic, would he?" He asked nervously.
"Yes to both, why?" She asked.
"Oh; no reason." He replied.
At Spacestation Delta.
"Duke, a garbage module and an escape pod just took off!" Dusty says.
"Forget about that, the battle bird is almost in range of our proton beam." Duke says back.
"Show 'em not to make me some waitress, Duke." Scarlett said next.
In the Enterprise City subway, an off-duty swat team member and his sister watch two men in blue suits, an old homeless lady, a construction worker with a metal mask, and a nurse enter a car and start arguing.
"What do you think their problem is, bro?" The girl asks out of the corner of her mouth.
"No idea, Una. Sure being loud about it, though." The curly blond haired man replied as he turned the page of his newspaper.
When the Joes return to H.Q., Duke, Flint, and the rest meet Alpine and Bazooka's companion in the commissary.
"Mac' Ito? Didn't expect to see you again." Lady-Jaye says to him.
"You know him, L.J.?" Alpine asks her.
"Yeah, how?" Flint asks Quick-Kick, who scratches his head.
"Not sure i do, Mister." He replied.
"Oh, i was just an extra at table four in the restaurant scene on "Night of the Were-Gerbil II." She explained.
"I think i remember a blond with purple highlights back then, but i have a better memory of this one poster with her on it six scenes later." Quick-Kick says, pointing to Cover-Girl.
"That's because i was in disguise, I was an actress, in commercials, for a few months before joining the army; remember that rumor of you being a Yakuza member?" Lady-Jaye tells them before asking.
"Yakuza?" Steeler and Footloose ask as they turn to each other.
"Yeah, that was just from an agent i fired. Only time I've even been to Japan was when i was four." Quick-Kick explained.
"When's the part where this poster is seen, exactly?" Clutch asks with a big grin, which Shipwreck, Stalker, Airborne, four green-shirts, Snow-Job, Tollbooth, and Sparks also have.
"Put a cap on it, Clutch." Cover-Girl says to him after smacking him upside the head.
"Does everyone here know about her?" Quick-Kick asks, and all male hands rose.
"...Flint." Lady-Jaye says in a scolding tone.
"Well, uh, not me, myself...my sister in law's little brother has some old magazines, you see." Flint says as he backs up.
"And how do know about them, then?" She asks as she folds her arms.
Chapter ten. Read and review. End of TPOD arc.
*Made up name and backstory.