Chapter 12
"Would you like to dance?" A man asked behind Halle asked, and she turned around and smiled. But she was slightly shocked- he looked like some prince. Most likely, he was one, or one with a decent. He looked Spanish, but spoke flawless English. He had black short hair, that wasn't styled, but sexy anyway, a slight stubble, and charming blue green eyes. He wore a black tux, but unlike others, popped his collar out, which showed his collarbones and slight chest.
Halle was hooked.
"Yes," She said with a smile, and he smiled too.
In her ear, she heard Baroness go, "Jesus Christ he's hot!"
"So what is your name?" He asked as he twirled Halle.
"Well what's yours?"
"Antonio," He smiled charmingly, and Halle shared his smile.
"Halle-," Halle stopped short. Why did she say that? Stupid eyes...
"Halle? So you are American."
"With a hint of German," Halle answered with a flirtasious smile, and he brought her in close. Halle froze, why was she doing this? She loved Snake Eyes, not some incredibly hot guy she didn't know. Well she knew his name, which is quite the opiset for Snake Eyes.
"You're eyes have me under a spell, bonito."
Halle smiled, and glanced down. He called her beautiful, Snake Eyes may have meant it, but he could never say it- nor did he sign it. And it just felt nice to have someone tell the truth, the straight truth for once.
"Thanks, I could say the same for you," Halle said with a laugh, and he smiled slightly. The slow dance was starting to end, and he leaned down to place his lips on Halle. Halle was going to kiss him, but then got loud, painful static in her ear.
That jolted her out of her strange daze, and she had to think quickly. The slow dance ended, and she put a finger on his lips. "Wait- I have a boyfriend," She said quickly, and the man's face fell. Antonio frowned and sighed, but brushed his hand against Halle's cheek.
"I should have known someone so beautiful could not have been single. Though if you are in Spain, look me up."
"What's your last name?"
"Prince Antonio, Halle," He answered, and then kissed her on the cheek, before walking away.
She just slow danced with a prince. She sighed, and walked toward the bar. She was stopped a few feet from it, by a tap on the shoulder.
"Why hello beautiful," A shorter man said and she turned around, and smiled charmingly. He had brown hair with blond highlights, he was wearing a black tux, glasses, and was shorter than Haywire. Which meant he was five foot four or smaller, and Halle had to stiffle a laugh and batted her eye lashes seductively.
"Bonjure." She said, and her earpiece started to scream at her,"That's Mindbender! That's Mindbender!" She tried not to cringe, and and Mindbender took her by her hand and kissed it. She shyly rubbed the back of her neck, and turned the volume down on her earpiece.
"So what's your name babe?"
"Jacqueline Leroy," Halle answered, fiening a heavy French accent, and Mindbender
So Jackie. I'm Brian, uh, Bender. Brian Bender. I'm a genius, and quite single. So what about you? Are you single?"
Halle shook her head, and pointed toward a man who was kissing another woman. She caught Antonio's gaze, and shyly avoided it.
"He has found another woman." She said saddly, and Brian smiled.
"That's too bad, you know, where I live in America, nobody would let a hottie like you slip away." Halle could see what flashed, the sentence was unfinished, and what he obviously bit off was- not after one night.
"Merci," Halle said and made a blush.
"Do you want to dance?" Halle asked shyly, and Mindbender nodded with anticipation.
"Of course," He said, and led Halle out to the dancefloor.
A slow dance came on, and Halle put her hands on his shoulders, and he put his hands on her butt. She tried not to be so alarmed, and he twirled her. Halle didn't let the gun show, and then leaned very far down to whisper.
"Can- can we find someplace private?"
"I know just the place babe. But we only have fifteen minutes," He responded, and took Halle by the hand and Halle glanced at a woman with black hair in a black dress with glasses, who was standing by the stairwell.
Halle was dragged up multiple stairwells, and she was able to whisper into her comunicator, "I've iccolated the target." Halle whispered, and continued to let herself be led into a room. This was a bit too easy, and as soon as the door closed, Halle glanced up and around to see cameras.
"Did you really think you could fool Cobra- Halle?" Mindbender boasted, and Halle glared at him. In a whirl, she had him at gun point, and he seemd relaxed as he put his hands up.
"Actually yeah," Halle said, and Mindbend smirked. "It's funny, how much people will do for one another when they love each other."
Halle didn't respond, and looked at Mindbender warrily.
"Where the hell is Snake Eyes?"
"Oh you'll be with him shortly Lass," A Scottish voice came out from the bathroom, and suddenly, Halle was surrounded by blue sort of blobs. What the heck were these things? Destro walked into the room, and Halle bared her teeth.
She wasn't stupid, but she needed to get to the street.
"Your little friends darlin', have been taken prisoner. But don't worry- you'll be with your boyfriend and them soon enough."
Mindbender laughed, and said, "I never thought I'd be able to lead a ninja into a trap."
"Well, you caught me," Halle put her hands up, and Destro and Mindbender both flinched. Halle slammed a gas bomb down, and then lept for the window, only to be yanked down by the strange lava lamp.
Halle curled her lip in suprise and anger, and then shot it in the head. It didn't do anything, and the lava lamp kept on dragging her toward it.
She grabbed her only grenade, took the pin out with her teeth, and chucked it inside the lava lamp's jello-y skull. It explode, flinging bits of the strange substance everywhere. Halle took that as her leave, and snuck out through the window. She landed on the fire escape, and swinging down each level, Halle landed on her feet, and then removed her heels. She started to run from the building, and then a mopehead stopped near her. Halle glanced over, before knocking the driver off, and then taking the bike.
"Roadblock, Tunnel Rat, Lady Jaye, Baroness, Barbeque, Bazoka- come in!" Halle shouted, but all she got was static. She grit her teeth together, but then a faint transmition came in.
"Flint and Lady Jaye reporting. Where's your position Jackabae?"
"I'm getting as far as I can from the building," Halle said, and Lady Jaye spoke next.
"Halle- we're in the catacombs. We are the only two left, Roadblock wouldn't leave Baroness to Cobra, and forced us out of the building. Somehow they knew exactly where everyone was, and what they looked like." Suspision crept up in Halle's mind, and she sped the mophead up.
"Can we get a lock on their position?" Halle asked, and Lady Jaye responded.
"Gotta cut it short, Cobra's trying to hack our signal."
Halle nodded, and switched of the comlink, and then sped toward the refuge station built by the Joes, in the catacombs. She ditched the mopehead, and then went into an alley with a sewer entrance. Or what looked like one. Halle took out her contacts, and scanned her eye.
The defences went down for fifteen seconds, and Halle dropped down. Her feet splashed in water, and she ran to the bunker.
She opened it, and stepped inside. She took off her gloves and closed the door.
"So what's the situation," She asked, and Lady Jaye was sitting at a computer. Flint was trying to reach the Joes, and Halle started to unload her weapons.
"How do you think?" Flint asked, and Halle considered the situation.
"Hawk will kick us out of the Joes."
She then went into the bathroom, and started to change into the change of clothes that were in the bunker. Stepping out in the clothes she had on in the jet, Halle looked at Lady Jaye.
"Can you track the two? I know you all placed trackers in this outfit-,"
"I tried, but they jammed the signal. My guess is, they were ready for us."
"Or GI Joe isn't as secure as everyone thinks it is," Halle said, while looking at the computer screen over Lady Jaye's shoulder. She sounded Hispanic, and Halle then remembered Antonio, no, Prince Antonio.
Halle glanced at Flint.
"What- no critisism from the square?" She asked, and he let out a huff.
"Please, ninjas don't need help. They're the best liars, deadly, can't be fooled, and can fool others with ease. It seems today's a bad day for you isn't it?"
"You're such a baby," Lady Jaye said scornfully.
"It's the time for action, which we need to work together, so stop pouting and share your opinion." Halle told him, and Flint rolled his eyes.
"Is the ninja asking for a soldier's help?" He asked, and Halle threw her hands up in the air.
"Yeah I am! So stop being a brat, and help already!" She shouted, and Flint smirked.
"Okay, so obviously, Cobra may not have the numbers to take over the world, but if people keep on making stupid mistakes- especially the people leading, that are supossed to be the smartest people on the earth, then Cobra has pretty much won. I think we should send the ninja in, putting up a fight, then bust everyone out."
"What is this, some type of jailbreak movie? Besides, ninjas are good at killing people in their sleep, not taking a beating, and going in easy."
"Well it seems we don't have a lot of options," Flint said, and Halle took a step toward him.
"I always have a spare option."
"Then use it."
"Guys- will you all shut up? I have a lead, there is an aircraft, only dectecable by Joe sonar, it's hovering over the world leaders building."
"Oh my god..." Halle slowly, and slowly, Cobra's real plan started to make sense in her mind. She cursed, and grabbed her hook swords. Attaching them to her hips, Halle sprinted out of the bunker, and grabbed a motorcycle, that was designed with multiple types of missles, on the different way, up the armory. She got on the motorcycle and switched it on.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"To save the world leaders," Halle answered, and Flint snorted in contempt and disbelif. Then slowly, he got it as well, but Halle was already exiting when he was following her up on another bike, with Lady Jaye.
"Jackabae, wait!"
"No time, this might be our one shot to bring Cobra down," Halle shouted in the com, and then pulled to a stop at the world leaders building. She raised some alarm, carrying a gun and swords, but Halle ran past them as fast as she could, and then yells of suprise came from the doors of the world leaders meeting.
The guards were busting in, but the sounds of plasma being fired made the guards fall.
Halle cursed, and then looked for another way. If she followed them from behind, seal off their exit.
She sprinted onto the roof, to where the vipers were guarding the jet, and she cursed, before throwing two exploding shrukins at them, and then crept down the same route Cobra used. She killed three Cobra vipers silently, before sprinting toward the meeting hall.
As soon as she could see the situation, Halle cursed under her breath. The entire world leaders were at the mercy of the Cobra comander, except... except the US president.
Halle threw down the smoke bombs, and soon the screaming started up again. Halle jumped into the smoke, killing three vipers with ease. She twirled around, and kicked the President in the head, and then whirled around as a gun cocked. Halle came face to face with a pistole held by the Cobra Comander.
"My, my Dragon Tongue- you have been working hard," He said in his rasping voice.
"That isn't my name," Halle hissed, and the Cobra Comander laughed. It sent shudders down Halle's spine, and he said, "It's Hikari. I forgot. Cobra is taking you back," He said, and Halle glared at him through the clearing smoke. Suddenly, a gun shot made the Cobra Comander distracted, and he glanced over toward Flint, Roadblock, Baroness, and Lady Jaye.
Halle kicked the gun out of his hand, and was about to kill him, when she heard someone unsheath a sword.
Halle twisted around, so she punched the Comander, and then blocked with her sword. The Comander's fishbowl around his head cracked as he fell to the floor, and Halle made out a figure through the mist. It was a rival clan, the Red Ninja Clan.
"You shame your clan," A man's voice hissed, and that hit a nerve with Halle. She snapped, "So I've heard," Before attacking the masked, red clad ninja. She didn't realize how much emotion, how much rage and despair she had let herself carry, and in seven blows, the Red Ninja was dead. There wasn't even blood, just seven simple, mindless moves, and he was dead. His neck snapped, and Halle stood tall, waiting for another aponent, when her eyes landed on Mindbender.
He let out a slight squeak of fear, and started to run up the stairs, when he was thrown backward by another body. Storm Shadow and Jinx came down the steps, and Storm Shadow picked the man up that he had thrown, and glared at him.
"This, is for my Uncle," He hissed, and then killed the man quickly. He dropped 'Firefly', who struggled to hold onto life for a few more seconds.
"Your clan- is gone, I have fufilled my purpose," He managed, before blood bubbled out of his throat, and died. Storm Shadow looked at him with distasted, and Mindbender tried to push Firefly off of him.
Halle picked him up, and slammed him against the wall.
"Where is Snake Eyes?" She hissed, and Mindbender tried to smile.
"Can we work something out?"
"I'm not playing games," Halle hissed, and Mindbender laughed.
"Well you Joes have always been played by Cobra!"
Halle glared at him, and put her sword against his throat.
"Tell me now."
"Hikari," A voice said from behind Halle. Halle whipped her head around to look at her father, who was standing tall and proud.
"Father, I will speak with you later," She hissed, before turning back to Mindbender.
"So," She said with a smirk, "You won't tell me?"
Mindbender shrank back in fear, and Halle dragged him to the edge of the building, where a gaping hole was in the window.
Halle hung Mindbender out the window, the scrawny scientist didn't weigh more than 80 pounds.
"Talk, my arm's getting tired," Halle said, and Mindbender started to squirm.
"Please! Don't let me die- the location is here- on this device!" Halle took the device from Mindbender, then threw him inside, and killed him quicy. She didn't relish the death, but she felt a bit relieved that he wasn't going to get in the way again.
Her father observed quietly, and said,"You are not yourself. You would have spared his life."
"I can't make a mistake like that," Halle told him, and then walked toward the doorway.
"Jinx, Storm Shadow, you coming?"
"Wouldn't miss it," Jinx said with a smile, but Storm Shadow considered it, before following silently.
Halle looked at Black Dragon, and he sighed.
"There isn't much time Hikari."
Flint just looked speechless at all of the ninjas arriving, and following Halle into the Cobra jet, before following with Lady Jaye and the rest of the Joes.
Cobra, was already captured, but that was the easy part. The next part though, not so much.
so Halle's becoming more deadly, and Cobra was just captured. I was going to have Britain be blown up, but I figured, wait. Also, if you all are excited for GI Joe Retaliation, (like I am) we are all going to have to wait another nine months for it to come out on March 23, 2013 in 3D. Apparently, as was decided almost four days ago, that the movie wouldn't come out on June 29, 2012. As much as I love a 3D movie, I really, really hate having to wait another 9 months for it. grrrrrrr well, anyway, R&R and vale!
