Chapter 8

Turning around Duke saw James coming towards him. It didn't take much to knockout the butler. Just a simple haymaker directed to his face. Bam, the guy was out. Turning he saw that Snake-Eyes, Storm Shadow and Hawk had the fake Flint cornered. Hawk was trying to get some answers the man, but he was shaking from fright.

"Who do you work for?"

"You don't understand he's a powerful man. He'll know if I talk."

"We can protect you if you let us." Hawk said.

"No, he'll kill me. Don't you understand? I'm already dead." This was surreal to Duke, this man that looked like Flint with this voice that got shriller and shriller like a boys. Someone had this man terrified. It wasn't cobra that's for sure, members of Cobra had self preservation first, therefore, most were willing to blab the minute they were captured... But all of a sudden he pulled out a gun and what happened next was such a blur that duke couldn't stop it he just felt the sticky hot blood that splattered on him as the operative killed himself.

They ran up the stairs following dreadnock Flint as he tried to escape. As Lady Jaye raced past Scarlett's room she saw Scarlett coming out with her crossbow. "What do you think your doing?" Lady Jaye asked as Scarlett matched stride with her.

"Helping."

"No you need to be in bed."

"No I'm fine." Scarlett stated and to prove her point she got a wave of dizziness. About collapsing on her knee.

"Yeah you're fine." Jaye told her Sarcasticly.

"I can still shoot straight. Just point me in the direction on the target."

They followed Stalker and Beachhead/Flint to one of the widows walk on top of the house. Matt Burke/Dreadnock Flint was standing in front of them.

"To bad you figured it all out Lady Jaye. We could have had some fun."

"Why Matt? I thought you worked for us. You were one of the good guys."

"Aww, Jaye. The money, even you know that being a good guy spy at times doesn't pay the bills; besides one million dollar to give Cobra information on the Joes isn't bad. Then there is the added bonus of killing you though I'll let you live a little while longer though because I want to see you faces at the end of this game." He said as he took his mask off reveling his true face. Then a helicopter flew in beside the House and Matt Burke jumped in.

Scarlett took aim with her crossbow and shoot getting a direct hit at the side of the Helicopter.

Looking around she noticed Stalker cussing a blue mile. Ticked off that Matt had gotten away. "Hey Jaye if that wasn't flint then Where is Flint?"

"Does this mean that I can take this scratchy Green thing off?"

Lady Jaye just shook her head at that comment. Come on guys. Lets hope they had better Luck down stairs.

"Please Jaye can I take the mask off?"

"Flint stop pushing it. I'll order sushi for dinner."

"If that's Flint, where's Beachhead." Stalker asked.

"Mandatory fishing trip with Alpine and Bazooka." Scarlett interjected

"You were in on it to." Stalker asked "what about you LJ?"

"Unfortunatly, no." Then turning to Flint, "So the whole scrubbing of the mission."

He cut her off Scarlett and Stalker feeling they needed sometime alone walked ahead. "No Jaye. I would never do that to you. You know last week when you were setting out for this mission, I was coming back, and we just missed each other? Well Matt as me came in ten seconds before me. He thought I had been captured by Cobra. When I got there Hawk realized that Matt was a fake and figured that he would send Beachhead off for some R and R whether he like it or not. I step in as Beachhead; nobody noticed a difference because I had this stupid mask on. But, the problem was that he somehow got the files on your mission. What doesn't add up is who did he sell them to?

"I don't know but I know that those people that attacked us was not Cobra. Question number two: Why didn't you come and get me then?"

"We sent Matt but me, hawk and Duke were right behind him. It had to be the top Brass because the only way we could explain our leaving so soon afterward was we were going to meetings in Washington. We didn't want to raise susposion. Now a question for you how did you know it wasn't Cobra that didn't attack you."

Looking at his impishly, she asked him "how do I know it's really you Flint?"

He gave the oh you just know what buttons to push look. "You kill me, Lady." He stated as he leaned down and brushed his lips across hers. It was just for a second but lighting shot through her body and his. He lifted his head up but didn't move back.

"Because I got the disk." She said triumphantly.