Airtight's Creation
A/N: A new Dreadnok is introduced here in this chapter.
Chapter 4: Craziness and Cobra's Control!
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Paul tried to separate the steamed Tabitha and Zanya, but the X-Girl and the Dreadnok were too hell-bent on tearing each other apart. Starchild finally managed to separate them.
"LET ME AT HER!!!" Tabby screamed.
"DON'T STOP ME NOW!!!" Zanya yelled.
"PAUL IS MINE, YOU GREEN-HAIRED WITCH!!!" Tabby spat.
"HE'S MINE, BLONDIE!! GET OVER IT!!!" Zanya snapped. They both threw a punch, accidentally hitting Starchild. The LA mutant hit the floor, to the shock of the two girls. Zany and Tabby glared at each other.
"Look what you made me do!!" They started catfighting again.
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The X-Men, Joes, Misfits, and the Cobra forces all watched the Silver Samurai and Airtight's Samurai-Tron battle.
"Wow." Scott blabbed. "Wow."
"MAH GAWD, KING!!" Lance screamed in his cowboy hat. "Thrust, parry, parry, block, thrust! King, this is gonna be a bloodbath!"
"JR, these guys just don't quit! Hopefully, there'll be some puppies around soon!" Todd squealed in his golden crown.
"You two are morons!" Jean snapped at the two.
"Hey, it's how we have fun when fights roll around. You should've seen us commentate the fight between Pietro and Wanda a while back." Lance shrugged.
"I had no idea Wanda could twist Pietro's arms in a knot before that fight." Todd snickered. Pietro shot Todd a dark look.
"Razzum frazzum..." Quicksilver pouted.
"I demonstrated my knowledge of knot-tying that day." Wanda grinned.
"You should have seen the knots she tied with his legs." Althea smirked.
"Ouch." Kurt winced.
"Where's Tabby?" Rogue looked around.
"I must admit." Harada panted as he tried to attack his cybernetic counterpart. "Your robotic samurai is impressive.
"It's not just the robot. It's the controller." Airtight smirked as he continued operating his controller.
"Humph." Silver Samurai grumbled.
"Enough of this!" Destro snapped, grabbing a walkie-talkie. "Now, Wild Weasel!" A Rattler streaked by, a pair of metal cords falling from its underside. The cords wrapped around the Samurai-Tron and the controller.
"SUCKAS!!!! WHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Wild Weasel cackled.
"Hey!!" Airtight yelled as the controller left his hands.
"Rrrr. I was hoping to destroy that machine with my blade." Silver Samurai growled and he turned to the X-Men and the Misfits. "Too many opponents. Wise man say, those who fight and run away, live to fight another day." Silver Samurai and Cobra got away under heavy Joe and mutant fire.
"Nuts!" Flint threw down his beret.
"My poor Samurai-Tron." Airtight whined.
"Where's Paul?" Craig looked around. He then picked up an object. "Hey, one of the Dreadnoks lost their jeans." The other Misfits burst out laughing. Zarana rolled up.
"Sorry. Forgot Zanya. Just have to pick her up. Thanks!" Zarana kept going. Several seconds later, Zarana left, towing her niece.
"LET ME AT HER!!! LET ME AT HER!!!" Zanya screamed as she was carted away. Tabitha was running after her. She stopped at the entrance to the Pit, several energy bombs in hand.
"AND STAY AWAY FROM MY PAUL, YOU TRAMP!!!!" Tabitha threw the bombs at Zarana's ATV, missing completely.
"That bloody Meiji reject!" Bulldog growled. "When I get my hands on him, I'm going to break every bone in his body!"
"Cobra's gonna pay!" Airtight growled.
"How are we gonna get the Samurai-Tron back?" Logan asked.
"It makes no sense." Beast shrugged.
"Yeah." Althea agreed. "Cobra already has BATS."
"Why would they need a cybernetic samurai if they already have robotic soldiers?" Storm asked.
"BATS are near-indestructible as it is." Lady Jaye remarked.
"Did you make any improvements that Cobra would be interested in?" Flint asked Airtight.
"Well, I have noticed that the BATS tend to be a bit stiff in their movements." Airtight remembered. "I modified the joints on my Samurai-Tron to be more fluid and more flexible."
"Maybe Airtight's Samurai-Tron's modifications are what they want. They could use those to improve their robots." Wanda reasoned.
"No, duh." Pietro groaned. Wanda glared at her brother.
"If Cobra modifies their BATS with Airtight's machine, they could truly become unstoppable!" Spirit realized.
"We've got to get it back." Flint said.
"Don't worry." Airtight said. "I put some security features in the Samurai- Tron. Cobra won't be able to hack it for a while."
"Good. We can find out where Cobra's taken it, then." Flint said.
"AAAAAAGHHHH!!!!" Pietro screamed. Everyone turned and saw Pietro being attacked by Toothy, the muffin creature, attack Pietro's face. "NOT THE FACE!!! NOT THE FACE!!!"
"How did Toothy get out?" Beast wondered. Airtight shrugged.
"HELP MEEEEE!!!!"
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"Heh heh heh." Destro snickered as he looked over the Samurai-Tron in his lab. Baroness and Major Bludd were with him. "An amazing piece of work. That Joe outdid himself."
"Bloody great, now can we open it up?" Bludd grumbled.
"Patience, Major. I wish to admire the craftsmanship of the device first." Destro took in every detail of the device.
"There has got to be a way to open up this device." Baroness pulled at the chestplate. BZZZZZZZAP!!!!!! "YAAHHHH!!!!!" An electrocuted Baroness was sent flying across the lab.
"Ha!" Major Bludd laughed. "Bloody woman! Charges in, guns ablaze!" He pulled out a gun and aimed it at the Samurai-Tron's head. "You need a tool to crack this nut." He fired the laser pistol. The Samurai-Tron reacted by putting up a forcefield. The beam bounced off the forcefield like light off a mirror, nearly singing Destro's rear.
"Watch it, you fool!" Destro snapped at the mercenary, smacking Bludd upside the head. He examined the robot. "Looks like the Joe had implemented some security features. We should be able to use the controller to shut them off." Destro picked up the controller, only to get shocked. "OWWW!!!!"
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"The Joes can worry about their robot. We have more pressing things to deal with." Scott told the other X-Boys. "See?" He saw Tabitha tend to a woozy Starchild. Kurt and Rogue found him sprawled out and brought him down. Kurt had to do a lot of pleading to get the southerner to let him go.
"Sorry about that punch, honey. I was aiming for Zanya." Tabby cooed.
"My aching cheeks. Ow." Starchild moaned.
"I'm sick of it! Paul Stanley Starr is gonna get what he deserves this time!" Scott raised his fist. "He's made everyone question us as men!"
"Yeah!" The others agreed.
"Gambit gonna tear Paul up now!!"
"You idiot!!" Ray held the Cajun back. "If you lay one finger on him now, Tabitha will blow your organs all over this base! And that's if she decides to be merciful!"
"So what do we do?" Peter asked.
"Let's get a tank." Scott ran to get a tank. The others followed. They jumped into a tank and started driving.
"Do you know how to drive a tank, Peter?" Scott asked the big Russian.
"My uncle drove a tank." Colossus shrugged.
"Okay. Right here." Ray said. Colossus stopped the tank. Scott aimed the turret at Paul.
"Okay...Fire!" Scott ordered. Colossus pressed the fire button. Nothing happened.
"What?" Remy scratched his head. "Was de turret loaded?"
"Da." Colossus checked the instruments. "The turret must have jammed." The X-Boys looked at each other for a second. Their eyes widened, then they fumbled with the hatch.
"OH SHOOT!!!" An explosion could be heard from within the tank. "OWWWWWWWWWCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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"I got you now, Bulldog. I got you now!" Shipwreck grinned as he aimed a bazooka at Bulldog. The sailor was kneeling on a roof. The Brit was showing Storm some pictures of his family.
"And that's me cousins Jennifer and Jack. They're twins." Bulldog pointed at a picture of a brown-haired boy and black-haired girl, around 5.
"This is my nephew Evan. He was one of the X-Men until his powers went out of control." Storm sighed, showing Bulldog a picture of Spyke. "He had the ability to create bone spikes. He could no longer control the spikes. He went to live with the Morlocks."
"I have heard of the Morlocks." Bulldog said. "There's something like that back in London. There are rumors of mutants living in London's sewers. Call themselves the Scalliwags or somethin' like that. I met one of 'em. Had an extreme mutation. Made him look like a spider, it did. He spun webs all over a basement. I met him back when I was a teenager. He saved my life. I learned then to never judge appearances. He helped me when my own powers were emerging." Bulldog remembered. "I wonder what happened to the old arachnid. He was a good guy."
"How do you know when you were a mutant?" Storm asked.
"I suddenly heard the thoughts of my neighbor's terrier one day. He was bored, and he wanted to take a walk." Bulldog laughed. "Lionheart said that she suddenly heard the thoughts of her cat Muffin. She told me the reason why the cat scratched everything but her scratching post. It was because she hated the color of her scratching post."
"My goodness." Storm laughed.
"Yeah." Bulldog agreed.
"Steady..." Shipwreck took careful aim as sweat dripped down his forehead. "Steady..." He made sure Bulldog was in the crosshairs. Suddenly, Toothy came out of nowhere and bit Shipwreck's leg. "YEOWCH!!!!" He knocked himself out by hitting his head on the bazooka, and it fired, sending the rocket into the air. Neither Storm nor Bulldog noticed. The rocket headed towards the tank where the X-Boys tried to blow up Paul.
"Not again." The X-Boys saw the rocket come towards them. The rocket hit with a KABOOMMMM!!!!!!!!! "OWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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"Airtight, does your Samurai-Tron have anything that'll help us find it?" Dial Tone asked the Joe. He, Airtight, and Duke were in the Pit Communication room.
"Good thing I prepared for this. I put a homing beacon in it so it could be tracked down in situations like this." Airtight smiled.
"You were prepared for anything, huh?" Duke asked. Airtight shrugged.
"I was a Boy Scout at one time." Airtight shrugged. "That's their motto: Be prepared."
"I just need the frequency." Dial Tone turned to his console. Airtight gave the frequency and Dial Tone did some scanning. "Let's see...Ah! Here we are! I found the Samurai-Tron!" Dial Tone punched up a map of the world on a screen with a blinking dot. Dial Tone pointed to the dot. "That's where it is. Cobra Island." Dial Tone pointed to an island a few hundred miles off the coast of Madagascar.
"Should we bring the kids?" Airtight asked Duke. The blond-haired man thought it over.
"The kids do love to travel." He shrugged.
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"Rrrr!" Destro pounded the wall in frustration. He had tried to peek inside the Samurai-Tron, but its security features made it a nightmare. In his attempts, the metal-masked man got shocked, punched, and even been on the receiving end of a few pre-recorded verbal jabs. "This is ridiculous! How can I get control of the Samurai-Tron if I cannot bypass the security controls?"
"Relax, Destro." The Baroness walked in, accompanied by a strange-looking kid. He was a teenager with wild brown hair in a long ponytail. He wore a black punk rock t-shirt, torn-up blue jeans, and white sneakers. He also had a sleeveless black leather jacket with shoulder pads on it. The pads were covered in spikes, and the jacket was studded. His hands were covered by black fingerless biker gloves, and his right wrist had a studded forearm band. His left wrist had a yellow wristband, and he had on a purple headband. Baroness gestured to the kid. "Virus here can hack into anything."
"Just hook a computer up to the bloody thing and let me work my magic." The kid ordered in a thick British accent, crossing his arms.
"Fine." Destro growled, not used to being ordered around by a kid. He hooked up a laptop to the Samurai-Tron. Virus sat down in front of it and started typing.
"Alright, I'm going to enter its systems." Virus said, like a surgeon about to open up a patient. "There's a couple firewalls blocking access to its programming. They can only be shut down with a triple-encrypted code. Probably set up by that bloody old man Mainframe." The teen hacker Dreadnok started trying to punch his way through the firewalls. Destro could not believe it.
"A Dreadnok with brains. Now I have seen everything." Destro shook his head.
"I found it hard to believe myself that a Dreadnok could be skilled at anything more complex than sitting on a couch before Virus came along." Baroness quipped. Virus overheard and crossed his arms. "What?"
"You want me to crack this code or not?" Virus snapped.
"Fine." Baroness sighed. Virus grumbled and went back to work.
"Everybody thinks I'm bloody stupid because I am a bloody Dreadnok." The teen hacker grumbled.
"Hurry up!" Destro snapped.
"I'm trying, you wanker!" Virus snapped back. "This isn't a simple password here! This is complex computer security! I may be fast, but even I need time!"
"Let us give him some time. He'll get in." Baroness put a hand on Destro's shoulder.
"I'll alert you when I get the security features are shut off." Virus assured. Baroness and Destro left the room, allowing Virus to work in peace.
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GI Joe was racing towards Cobra Island in an attempt to get back the Samurai-Tron. The X-Men were flying with them in the X-Jet. The Misfits were on board an aircraft carrier.
"We're on an actual aircraft carrier!" Lance looked around with fascination. "This is the best!
"Arrr, smell that sea air, me hearties!" Paul imitated a pirate captain. "We're going for a good haul tonight!"
"Real good, Purplebeard." Wanda laughed. "Real good."
"Awk! Paul the Pirate! Awk! Gets the girls and finds the treasure every time!" Polly squawked. "The British Armada hates him and girls all over the world dream of him!"
"How do you do it, Paul?" Lance asked Starchild.
"Do what?"
"You know, make the girls scream and squeal?"
"I dunno." Paul shrugged. "I really don't. Girls do strange things around me. Jean and Tabby tried to kiss me in front of a club. Yesterday, I got that infamous letter from Tabby."
"Okay, I get it." Lance shook his head. "No clue."
"Craig, leave Pietro alone!" Althea snapped at Craig. Darkstar was trying to force Quicksilver overboard.
"HELP ME!!!" Pietro screamed.
"What?" Craig wondered.
"The ocean is very interesting." Xi said.
"It sure is." Freddy grinned. "Imagine all the fish sandwiches that come from here. All the shrimp platters, all the caviar, all the...the...the...all the..." Blob started drooling. Xi smiled.
"Only you, Frederick. Only you would look at the ocean and think about how much food it produces."
"HELP ME!!!" Pietro screamed.
"Knock it off!" Althea snapped. This time, Lance, Wanda, and Craig were trying to force Pietro overboard.
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"I got it!" Virus yelled happily. He jumped up and punched the air. "Whoo!! I got it!"
"What is going on here?" Destro snapped, entering his lab. Virus smirked at him.
"I got it! You can now use the Samurai-Tron. You can now also tear it up and see how it works. I shut down the security systems. The core program could be used by anyone." Virus gleefully grabbed the remote controller. "Dance for me, Samurai!" The Samurai-Tron got up and did so. "It is better than your BATS in some aspects. You could use the modifications on them. The Samurai-Tron as better, more flexible joints, for example."
"Perhaps." Destro said approvingly, scratching his chin. Zarana walked into the lab.
"The Joes are on their way to get the robot." The mercenary reported.
"They'll get it alright." Virus cackled, making the Samurai-Tron dance. Zarana smiled.
"Way to go, Virus." Zarana laughed, messing up his wild hair. "You see Destro? If it's a computer, Virus can hack it. Once he's in, he can do whatever he wants. He was the one responsible for that infamous Pentagon web page screw-up."
"The one that made it so that if a person typed in the Pentagon's web address on their computer, they ended up going to a website about cheese?" Destro remembered.
"The United States government could never figure out who did it." Virus grinned.
"The Joes will indeed not know what hit them." Destro laughed evilly.
Uh oh! Can the Misfits, X-Men, and GI Joe defeat Cobra and rescue Airtight's Samurai-Tron? What about the Silver Samurai? Where was he? Find out in the next chapter!
A/N: A new Dreadnok is introduced here in this chapter.
Chapter 4: Craziness and Cobra's Control!
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Paul tried to separate the steamed Tabitha and Zanya, but the X-Girl and the Dreadnok were too hell-bent on tearing each other apart. Starchild finally managed to separate them.
"LET ME AT HER!!!" Tabby screamed.
"DON'T STOP ME NOW!!!" Zanya yelled.
"PAUL IS MINE, YOU GREEN-HAIRED WITCH!!!" Tabby spat.
"HE'S MINE, BLONDIE!! GET OVER IT!!!" Zanya snapped. They both threw a punch, accidentally hitting Starchild. The LA mutant hit the floor, to the shock of the two girls. Zany and Tabby glared at each other.
"Look what you made me do!!" They started catfighting again.
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The X-Men, Joes, Misfits, and the Cobra forces all watched the Silver Samurai and Airtight's Samurai-Tron battle.
"Wow." Scott blabbed. "Wow."
"MAH GAWD, KING!!" Lance screamed in his cowboy hat. "Thrust, parry, parry, block, thrust! King, this is gonna be a bloodbath!"
"JR, these guys just don't quit! Hopefully, there'll be some puppies around soon!" Todd squealed in his golden crown.
"You two are morons!" Jean snapped at the two.
"Hey, it's how we have fun when fights roll around. You should've seen us commentate the fight between Pietro and Wanda a while back." Lance shrugged.
"I had no idea Wanda could twist Pietro's arms in a knot before that fight." Todd snickered. Pietro shot Todd a dark look.
"Razzum frazzum..." Quicksilver pouted.
"I demonstrated my knowledge of knot-tying that day." Wanda grinned.
"You should have seen the knots she tied with his legs." Althea smirked.
"Ouch." Kurt winced.
"Where's Tabby?" Rogue looked around.
"I must admit." Harada panted as he tried to attack his cybernetic counterpart. "Your robotic samurai is impressive.
"It's not just the robot. It's the controller." Airtight smirked as he continued operating his controller.
"Humph." Silver Samurai grumbled.
"Enough of this!" Destro snapped, grabbing a walkie-talkie. "Now, Wild Weasel!" A Rattler streaked by, a pair of metal cords falling from its underside. The cords wrapped around the Samurai-Tron and the controller.
"SUCKAS!!!! WHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Wild Weasel cackled.
"Hey!!" Airtight yelled as the controller left his hands.
"Rrrr. I was hoping to destroy that machine with my blade." Silver Samurai growled and he turned to the X-Men and the Misfits. "Too many opponents. Wise man say, those who fight and run away, live to fight another day." Silver Samurai and Cobra got away under heavy Joe and mutant fire.
"Nuts!" Flint threw down his beret.
"My poor Samurai-Tron." Airtight whined.
"Where's Paul?" Craig looked around. He then picked up an object. "Hey, one of the Dreadnoks lost their jeans." The other Misfits burst out laughing. Zarana rolled up.
"Sorry. Forgot Zanya. Just have to pick her up. Thanks!" Zarana kept going. Several seconds later, Zarana left, towing her niece.
"LET ME AT HER!!! LET ME AT HER!!!" Zanya screamed as she was carted away. Tabitha was running after her. She stopped at the entrance to the Pit, several energy bombs in hand.
"AND STAY AWAY FROM MY PAUL, YOU TRAMP!!!!" Tabitha threw the bombs at Zarana's ATV, missing completely.
"That bloody Meiji reject!" Bulldog growled. "When I get my hands on him, I'm going to break every bone in his body!"
"Cobra's gonna pay!" Airtight growled.
"How are we gonna get the Samurai-Tron back?" Logan asked.
"It makes no sense." Beast shrugged.
"Yeah." Althea agreed. "Cobra already has BATS."
"Why would they need a cybernetic samurai if they already have robotic soldiers?" Storm asked.
"BATS are near-indestructible as it is." Lady Jaye remarked.
"Did you make any improvements that Cobra would be interested in?" Flint asked Airtight.
"Well, I have noticed that the BATS tend to be a bit stiff in their movements." Airtight remembered. "I modified the joints on my Samurai-Tron to be more fluid and more flexible."
"Maybe Airtight's Samurai-Tron's modifications are what they want. They could use those to improve their robots." Wanda reasoned.
"No, duh." Pietro groaned. Wanda glared at her brother.
"If Cobra modifies their BATS with Airtight's machine, they could truly become unstoppable!" Spirit realized.
"We've got to get it back." Flint said.
"Don't worry." Airtight said. "I put some security features in the Samurai- Tron. Cobra won't be able to hack it for a while."
"Good. We can find out where Cobra's taken it, then." Flint said.
"AAAAAAGHHHH!!!!" Pietro screamed. Everyone turned and saw Pietro being attacked by Toothy, the muffin creature, attack Pietro's face. "NOT THE FACE!!! NOT THE FACE!!!"
"How did Toothy get out?" Beast wondered. Airtight shrugged.
"HELP MEEEEE!!!!"
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"Heh heh heh." Destro snickered as he looked over the Samurai-Tron in his lab. Baroness and Major Bludd were with him. "An amazing piece of work. That Joe outdid himself."
"Bloody great, now can we open it up?" Bludd grumbled.
"Patience, Major. I wish to admire the craftsmanship of the device first." Destro took in every detail of the device.
"There has got to be a way to open up this device." Baroness pulled at the chestplate. BZZZZZZZAP!!!!!! "YAAHHHH!!!!!" An electrocuted Baroness was sent flying across the lab.
"Ha!" Major Bludd laughed. "Bloody woman! Charges in, guns ablaze!" He pulled out a gun and aimed it at the Samurai-Tron's head. "You need a tool to crack this nut." He fired the laser pistol. The Samurai-Tron reacted by putting up a forcefield. The beam bounced off the forcefield like light off a mirror, nearly singing Destro's rear.
"Watch it, you fool!" Destro snapped at the mercenary, smacking Bludd upside the head. He examined the robot. "Looks like the Joe had implemented some security features. We should be able to use the controller to shut them off." Destro picked up the controller, only to get shocked. "OWWW!!!!"
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"The Joes can worry about their robot. We have more pressing things to deal with." Scott told the other X-Boys. "See?" He saw Tabitha tend to a woozy Starchild. Kurt and Rogue found him sprawled out and brought him down. Kurt had to do a lot of pleading to get the southerner to let him go.
"Sorry about that punch, honey. I was aiming for Zanya." Tabby cooed.
"My aching cheeks. Ow." Starchild moaned.
"I'm sick of it! Paul Stanley Starr is gonna get what he deserves this time!" Scott raised his fist. "He's made everyone question us as men!"
"Yeah!" The others agreed.
"Gambit gonna tear Paul up now!!"
"You idiot!!" Ray held the Cajun back. "If you lay one finger on him now, Tabitha will blow your organs all over this base! And that's if she decides to be merciful!"
"So what do we do?" Peter asked.
"Let's get a tank." Scott ran to get a tank. The others followed. They jumped into a tank and started driving.
"Do you know how to drive a tank, Peter?" Scott asked the big Russian.
"My uncle drove a tank." Colossus shrugged.
"Okay. Right here." Ray said. Colossus stopped the tank. Scott aimed the turret at Paul.
"Okay...Fire!" Scott ordered. Colossus pressed the fire button. Nothing happened.
"What?" Remy scratched his head. "Was de turret loaded?"
"Da." Colossus checked the instruments. "The turret must have jammed." The X-Boys looked at each other for a second. Their eyes widened, then they fumbled with the hatch.
"OH SHOOT!!!" An explosion could be heard from within the tank. "OWWWWWWWWWCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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"I got you now, Bulldog. I got you now!" Shipwreck grinned as he aimed a bazooka at Bulldog. The sailor was kneeling on a roof. The Brit was showing Storm some pictures of his family.
"And that's me cousins Jennifer and Jack. They're twins." Bulldog pointed at a picture of a brown-haired boy and black-haired girl, around 5.
"This is my nephew Evan. He was one of the X-Men until his powers went out of control." Storm sighed, showing Bulldog a picture of Spyke. "He had the ability to create bone spikes. He could no longer control the spikes. He went to live with the Morlocks."
"I have heard of the Morlocks." Bulldog said. "There's something like that back in London. There are rumors of mutants living in London's sewers. Call themselves the Scalliwags or somethin' like that. I met one of 'em. Had an extreme mutation. Made him look like a spider, it did. He spun webs all over a basement. I met him back when I was a teenager. He saved my life. I learned then to never judge appearances. He helped me when my own powers were emerging." Bulldog remembered. "I wonder what happened to the old arachnid. He was a good guy."
"How do you know when you were a mutant?" Storm asked.
"I suddenly heard the thoughts of my neighbor's terrier one day. He was bored, and he wanted to take a walk." Bulldog laughed. "Lionheart said that she suddenly heard the thoughts of her cat Muffin. She told me the reason why the cat scratched everything but her scratching post. It was because she hated the color of her scratching post."
"My goodness." Storm laughed.
"Yeah." Bulldog agreed.
"Steady..." Shipwreck took careful aim as sweat dripped down his forehead. "Steady..." He made sure Bulldog was in the crosshairs. Suddenly, Toothy came out of nowhere and bit Shipwreck's leg. "YEOWCH!!!!" He knocked himself out by hitting his head on the bazooka, and it fired, sending the rocket into the air. Neither Storm nor Bulldog noticed. The rocket headed towards the tank where the X-Boys tried to blow up Paul.
"Not again." The X-Boys saw the rocket come towards them. The rocket hit with a KABOOMMMM!!!!!!!!! "OWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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"Airtight, does your Samurai-Tron have anything that'll help us find it?" Dial Tone asked the Joe. He, Airtight, and Duke were in the Pit Communication room.
"Good thing I prepared for this. I put a homing beacon in it so it could be tracked down in situations like this." Airtight smiled.
"You were prepared for anything, huh?" Duke asked. Airtight shrugged.
"I was a Boy Scout at one time." Airtight shrugged. "That's their motto: Be prepared."
"I just need the frequency." Dial Tone turned to his console. Airtight gave the frequency and Dial Tone did some scanning. "Let's see...Ah! Here we are! I found the Samurai-Tron!" Dial Tone punched up a map of the world on a screen with a blinking dot. Dial Tone pointed to the dot. "That's where it is. Cobra Island." Dial Tone pointed to an island a few hundred miles off the coast of Madagascar.
"Should we bring the kids?" Airtight asked Duke. The blond-haired man thought it over.
"The kids do love to travel." He shrugged.
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"Rrrr!" Destro pounded the wall in frustration. He had tried to peek inside the Samurai-Tron, but its security features made it a nightmare. In his attempts, the metal-masked man got shocked, punched, and even been on the receiving end of a few pre-recorded verbal jabs. "This is ridiculous! How can I get control of the Samurai-Tron if I cannot bypass the security controls?"
"Relax, Destro." The Baroness walked in, accompanied by a strange-looking kid. He was a teenager with wild brown hair in a long ponytail. He wore a black punk rock t-shirt, torn-up blue jeans, and white sneakers. He also had a sleeveless black leather jacket with shoulder pads on it. The pads were covered in spikes, and the jacket was studded. His hands were covered by black fingerless biker gloves, and his right wrist had a studded forearm band. His left wrist had a yellow wristband, and he had on a purple headband. Baroness gestured to the kid. "Virus here can hack into anything."
"Just hook a computer up to the bloody thing and let me work my magic." The kid ordered in a thick British accent, crossing his arms.
"Fine." Destro growled, not used to being ordered around by a kid. He hooked up a laptop to the Samurai-Tron. Virus sat down in front of it and started typing.
"Alright, I'm going to enter its systems." Virus said, like a surgeon about to open up a patient. "There's a couple firewalls blocking access to its programming. They can only be shut down with a triple-encrypted code. Probably set up by that bloody old man Mainframe." The teen hacker Dreadnok started trying to punch his way through the firewalls. Destro could not believe it.
"A Dreadnok with brains. Now I have seen everything." Destro shook his head.
"I found it hard to believe myself that a Dreadnok could be skilled at anything more complex than sitting on a couch before Virus came along." Baroness quipped. Virus overheard and crossed his arms. "What?"
"You want me to crack this code or not?" Virus snapped.
"Fine." Baroness sighed. Virus grumbled and went back to work.
"Everybody thinks I'm bloody stupid because I am a bloody Dreadnok." The teen hacker grumbled.
"Hurry up!" Destro snapped.
"I'm trying, you wanker!" Virus snapped back. "This isn't a simple password here! This is complex computer security! I may be fast, but even I need time!"
"Let us give him some time. He'll get in." Baroness put a hand on Destro's shoulder.
"I'll alert you when I get the security features are shut off." Virus assured. Baroness and Destro left the room, allowing Virus to work in peace.
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GI Joe was racing towards Cobra Island in an attempt to get back the Samurai-Tron. The X-Men were flying with them in the X-Jet. The Misfits were on board an aircraft carrier.
"We're on an actual aircraft carrier!" Lance looked around with fascination. "This is the best!
"Arrr, smell that sea air, me hearties!" Paul imitated a pirate captain. "We're going for a good haul tonight!"
"Real good, Purplebeard." Wanda laughed. "Real good."
"Awk! Paul the Pirate! Awk! Gets the girls and finds the treasure every time!" Polly squawked. "The British Armada hates him and girls all over the world dream of him!"
"How do you do it, Paul?" Lance asked Starchild.
"Do what?"
"You know, make the girls scream and squeal?"
"I dunno." Paul shrugged. "I really don't. Girls do strange things around me. Jean and Tabby tried to kiss me in front of a club. Yesterday, I got that infamous letter from Tabby."
"Okay, I get it." Lance shook his head. "No clue."
"Craig, leave Pietro alone!" Althea snapped at Craig. Darkstar was trying to force Quicksilver overboard.
"HELP ME!!!" Pietro screamed.
"What?" Craig wondered.
"The ocean is very interesting." Xi said.
"It sure is." Freddy grinned. "Imagine all the fish sandwiches that come from here. All the shrimp platters, all the caviar, all the...the...the...all the..." Blob started drooling. Xi smiled.
"Only you, Frederick. Only you would look at the ocean and think about how much food it produces."
"HELP ME!!!" Pietro screamed.
"Knock it off!" Althea snapped. This time, Lance, Wanda, and Craig were trying to force Pietro overboard.
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"I got it!" Virus yelled happily. He jumped up and punched the air. "Whoo!! I got it!"
"What is going on here?" Destro snapped, entering his lab. Virus smirked at him.
"I got it! You can now use the Samurai-Tron. You can now also tear it up and see how it works. I shut down the security systems. The core program could be used by anyone." Virus gleefully grabbed the remote controller. "Dance for me, Samurai!" The Samurai-Tron got up and did so. "It is better than your BATS in some aspects. You could use the modifications on them. The Samurai-Tron as better, more flexible joints, for example."
"Perhaps." Destro said approvingly, scratching his chin. Zarana walked into the lab.
"The Joes are on their way to get the robot." The mercenary reported.
"They'll get it alright." Virus cackled, making the Samurai-Tron dance. Zarana smiled.
"Way to go, Virus." Zarana laughed, messing up his wild hair. "You see Destro? If it's a computer, Virus can hack it. Once he's in, he can do whatever he wants. He was the one responsible for that infamous Pentagon web page screw-up."
"The one that made it so that if a person typed in the Pentagon's web address on their computer, they ended up going to a website about cheese?" Destro remembered.
"The United States government could never figure out who did it." Virus grinned.
"The Joes will indeed not know what hit them." Destro laughed evilly.
Uh oh! Can the Misfits, X-Men, and GI Joe defeat Cobra and rescue Airtight's Samurai-Tron? What about the Silver Samurai? Where was he? Find out in the next chapter!
