One More Loose End to Tie Up

Colonel Eddington walked into his apartment and found General Bragg inside. "Eddington you have to help me!" Bragg said. "I've been set up!"

"Really?" Eddington raised an eyebrow.

"Somehow someone sent me to this Cobra base!" Bragg told him. "They made it look like I was in league with Cobra!"

"But you were in league with Cobra," Eddington pointed out. "The documents I sent the Joes proved that."

"WHAT?" Bragg gasped. "You stupid fool! Why did you do that?"

"I thought it was obvious even to you Bragg," Eddington sighed as he pointed his pistol at him. "I'm the one who set you up. Apparently I was wrong to overestimate you."

"You? Why?" Bragg cried in disbelief.

"To take over your operation of course," Eddington explained.

"YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! I PROMOTED YOU! I GOT YOU WHERE YOU ARE!"

"You are without a doubt the most selfish idiot I have ever met," Eddington said calmly. "You have all this information and power and you waste it with fools like Cobra. The problem with you is that you just got too greedy. Well that and you are a complete moron. The Inner Circle however is another story. I'll just put that up to dumb luck."

"But they're stinking mutants!" Bragg shouted.

"You didn't seem to mind that when they offered you some profit. True mutants can be a great danger," Eddington said. "Or they can be very powerful allies. It's just a trick of finding and controlling the right mutants."

"You'll never get away with this you backstabbing twerp!" Bragg shouted.

"And who will believe you? A traitor who's willing to sell out his country? To mutants no less?" Eddington smiled. "Presuming that you are still alive by that time, which I seriously doubt."

"You're going to kill me?" Bragg gasped.

"You broke into my apartment in order to get revenge on me," Eddington told him. "You tried to surprise me, but I got the drop on you. You will be forgotten as an embarrassment as quickly as possible. I of course will get a promotion for all my hard work and saving the country from a traitor." Eddington readied his weapon. "Of course a few bribes will help as well. Thank you very much for allowing me to have access to your personal files. It was child's play to transfer your bank account funds into my own."

"Colonel Eddington you lousy stinking…" Bragg sputtered.

"That's General Eddington to you," Eddington said calmly as he shot him.