Part 3

Inside Tomax and Xomat's office, Snake Eyes and Scarlet prepared for a heavy reception when they were discovered, and if the double agent found them this quickly, then the Crimson Twins and their Immortal troopers weren't far behind. So, the duo had to get ready for their arrival.

"You're injured?" Scarlet said shocked, finally noticing Snake Eyes' shoulder. Blood drenched his white shirt and dripped to the floor. Snake Eyes waved her off, but Scarlet wouldn't have it. Scarlet found some scissors in one of the desks in the office and cut the right arm of his shirt off and tied it around the wound. "If I wasn't around you'd bleed to death, wouldn't you? Men! You have to be so macho. You'd lose five pints of blood and still you'd keep fighting to the end."

When Scarlet went into Nurse Mode Snake Eyes didn't stop her. She got vicious and angry when he fought her--and when she got angry, she really got angry! It was like a cat hissing at you. And no man enjoyed a woman scorn. So Snake let her do her thing.

She tightened the bandage around his shoulder and he grunted a little. "You big baby!" she said. He looked at her and smiled.

Suddenly Snake Eyes cocked his head and directed his attention towards the door. He pointed. "What is it, are they coming?" Scarlet asked. Snake Eyes nodded. "Behind the desks, hurry!" They did exactly that and once there Scarlet threw him the control box for the sensor net and he activated it.

It didn't take long for the twins and their troops to find them.

As the Immortal troops came storming into the office, the invisible lasers beams came to life. "No…" "Wait!" the twins said, ordering their troops to stop remembering the sensor net. But it was too late, and the Immortal troops broke the sensor net.

Holes in the walls opened up and gun torrents open-fired on the Immortal troops, killing them instantly by reading their heat source. They then returned back into the wall when the job was done.

The twins stood just outside their office and they were angry. Scarlet and Snake Eyes looked up from behind the desks. "Nice defense system you have there," Scarlet said. "You did our work for us."

Tomax and Xomat unholstered their pistols and began to fire on them.

"The sensor net may be up…"

"But we can still kill you from out here."

As the laser bolts shot through the sensor net, the gun torrents came out from the wall and started firing at the laser bolts, detecting their heat source, eliminating the threat. Then suddenly they located another heat source and started firing on Snake Eyes and Scarlet. The duo ducked behind the desks as the laser blasts hit the tops of the desks.

The twins laughed.

"Who's in trouble now?" one twin said.

"Now we'll have the last laugh," the other said.

A laser blast came within a inch from Snake Eyes ear, but he didn't jerk away. He wasn't afraid of them, but Scarlet was concerned. "We've got to do something about those gun torrents, Snake Eyes," she said. "They've homed in on us and they won't stop firing until they kill something."

Another blast ricocheted off the top of the desk Snake Eyes was hiding behind.

Snake Eyes put a finger up indicating he had an idea. He pointed at the gun Scarlet took from the double agent.

She smiled, nodded, and knew exactly what he wanted her to do.

She pulled it from the gun and programmed the power cell to overload.

She then threw it over the desk and Snake Eyes jumped behind the desk she was and smothered her.

The gun torrents followed the movement of the power cell and fired on it. The power cell erupted in a huge explosion, overloading the sensor net, and caused all the gun torrents to explode in a series of blasts, causing massive damage to the walls and to the office.

When it was over, Snake Eyes lifted his head and peaked over the desk to see if the coast was clear, and all the gun torrents were destroyed. Scarlet also took a peak. "They better have a good insurance agent," she said.

Tomax and Xomat were out in the reception area when the explosion occurred and were thrown back a few meters from the blast. But when they got up and took a look at their office from where they were they were shocked beyond belief.

"You Joes…"

"Are so destructive!"

"We just had this office…"

"Refurbished."

"It needed a woman's touch," Scarlet said back.

Snake Eyes gave her a thumbs up. Then feeling Snake Eyes body pressed against hers, Scarlet said, "I wish we could stay like this all day, I like it when you're this close to me."

Snake Eyes smiled, and then mouthed, "Later." Then got off her.

They kept hidden due to the fact that Scarlet had thrown away their own weapon and Tomax and Xomat still had their laser pistols. But they knew their hiding spot would not last forever. "We have to find a way out of here, Snake Eyes," Scarlet said. "Have any suggestions?"

Snake Eyes shrugged his shoulders and shook his head in an I-don't know motion.

It was then that more Crimson Immortal troops arrived, and they stormed the office, climbing over their fallen comrades to secure the room. They aimed their guns at the desks, because that was the only place the Joes could be hiding, and that was precisely where they were.

Soon after, Immortal troops began to remove the dead as Tomax and Xomat entered their office. There was a lot more damage than what they saw from outside. The office was completely destroyed.

"Animals!" one of them said.

"Agreed, brother," the other one said.

"C'mon out, Joes!"

"There is no escape."

"We have the room…"

"Completely surrounded."

There was an uncomfortable silence as all attention focused on the desks where Snake Eyes and Scarlet were hiding. Tomax extended a hand and pointed a finger at the far desk and a laser blast craved a deep gash on the top. "You're only delaying the enviable, Joes…" he said.

"We have no qualms about turning those desks into dust," Xamot said.

A few more seconds past without a response. "Fine," Tomax said. "Took both our decks into woodchips."

"Destroy them!" Xomat said.

"Wait!" Scarlet said. And both came out of hiding. They stood with their hands in the air.

The Crimson Immortal troops surrounded them with their rifles at the ready. They then brought them before the twins.

"You've cost us a lot of money today," one said.

"But we'll soon get it back," the one said.

"Don't underestimate them," Tomax said.

"They are more assertive than they appear," Xomat said.

"You may have eluded us once, Joes…"

"But you'll regret staying behind."

"Take Snake Eyes…"

"To the doctors."

The Immortal troops separated them, and Snake Eyes was lead out of the office, while Scarlet was kept with the twns. She was again tied to a chair.

"So what's the plan now? We've already missed our check in, G.I.Joe knows we're here. You better let us go or before long they'll storm the building and there won't be anything left." Scarlet said.

"I'm afraid not, my dead Scarlet," Tomax said.

"If they do, they'll have our newest soldier to content with," Xomat said.

"It was an amusing little attempt to escape our clutches…"

"But we don't mind the damage you did to our office…"

"It'll be worth it when…"

"Snake Eyes becomes our…"

"Unrelenting…"

"And obedient…"

"Servant," the said in unison.

"What do you mean?"

As the twins spoke, in secret labs inside Extensive Enterprises, several levels below the offices, what they were saying, was happening.

"Right now, Snake Eyes is being strapped to the Brain Wave Scanner…"

Snake Eyes' wrists and ankles were bound with metal clamps to an upright device known as the Brain Wave Scanner. It was a machine that tapped into the recesses of the human brain and had the ability to read that person's thought and visualize it on a monitor. Neuro stimulators were stuck to his temples which would be used to condition his mind.

"And it will effectively brainwash…"

"For a lack of a better term…"

"And fashion his thoughts to whatever…"

"We desire. Thanks to the efforts of Dr. Mindbender."

"That sadistic monster should have been killed long ago!" Scarlet said.

"Come, come, dear…"

"Scarlet. Very harsh words…"

"From such a lovely flower…"

"As yourself."

She startled to chuckle.

"And what is…"

"So funny?"

"Your plan won't work," she said.

"And why…"

"Is that?"

"Because Snake Eyes' mind has been trained to prevent what you plan to do to him."

"I'm afraid this time you're gravely mistaken," one said.

"It's already being done!" the other one said.

"The Brain Wave Scanner has been enhanced…"

"And no one on earth can resist it now!"

The twins looked at each and smiled sadistically.

"And with Snakes Eyes with Cobra…"

"No one will be able to stop us…"

"From ruling…"

"The world!"

To be continued...