Another re-edit but this whole story will be going through one, well the chapters I have at least. I'm sorry for how long its been since my last update and that this story is taking so long to move forwards, BUT, hopefully I can get a move on with this. I'm currently in college right now and things have been really slow on my end and very crowded.

I don't own any part of G.I. Joe or any of its characters...but if I did, Snake Eyes would be helping me write this. I do own any Oc's or random people or things in the story.

Thoughts will be in Italic and underlined...and Sign Language and things written on paper will be in Bold and Italic.

Please enjoy the new version, cheers.

Two weeks had passed since Scarlet and my little time together in the security room and General Hawk had my results from my training and tests. General Hawk had chosen me because of my ability to adapt to my surroundings and how quick of a learner I was. He had read from previous reports that I had been to several places in the world such as Japan and Chine and that I had decent skills in martial arts.

Mean while, I was in the middle of training with Snake Eyes while Beach Head and some of the regular Joes watched us as if it were a show. Ever since I started my training with Snake Eyes, I had learned a great deal from what he knew. He taught me things ranging from martial art offensive and defensive forms to combat weapons such as swords and nun-chucks as well as my favorite, shurikens.

Now, Snake eyes was training me with what looked like Bo staff but they were military based with shock pads on the ends. We both spun the staffs in our hands to get a feel for it before we would start, then without warning, I somewhat lunged and strike at Snake Eyes but he expertly blocked my attack

.~:*:~.

Snake Eyes bobbed and weaved around my attacks, studying my pattern so that after, he could point out my weaknesses in my form. Caught up in the moment of studying me, he had to dodge a hit to his chest that almost hit him then quickly roll away to avoid getting hit in the legs. He put his sword up in a defensive position as he kept a watchful eye on me. He focused how I moved my feet and the way I moved, you could always tell some ones next move by the way they move, then that all reminded him of something, back in his training days with Storm Shadow, he had moved almost the same way as me.

I saw that Snake Eyes was distracted by something and took that as an advantage. I started to strike at him again but he was a little too late to defend himself so he tried to back up but I spun around and kicked him in the chest, Snake Eyes fell back onto the ground with a small 'oof'.

He looked up at me as he panted a little, extending my hand out to help him and he gratefully took my hand and stood. "Good fight," I said with a small smile, he gave a slight nodded and bowed to me and I bowed back.

Heavy Duty laughed a little at how Snake Eyes got beat by a girl; he looked down at the computer pad he had in his hand and typed in a few things. "She's a Joe," Beach Head told him then got everyone to go back to what they were doing, all Heavy Duty could do was laugh a little.

"Same time tomorrow for another beating, Snake Eyes?" I asked him with humor in my voice, laughing a little as I put away the Kendo sword. He nodded and gave me a small pat on the shoulder.

"You did very well, top of class,"he signed to me then bowed, I bowed as well to show respect. "Next time you won't be so lucky,"he told me and then nudged my playfully as we walked out of the training room and down the hall.

I laughed a little, nudging him back. "See you later,"I said and walked down another hallway to go to my room and rest. As I headed back to my room I sighed happily at how well Snake Eyes and I were getting along. When I got to my room, I smiled a little at the sight of my bed but sleeping would have to wait until after I had a shower which I welcomed gratefully. After my much needed shower, I dressed into a t-shirt and sweat pants then laid down and curled up on my bed and under the covers. Once my head hit the pillow, I was out like a light.

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When my alarm clock went off and I shot up thinking it was the alarm going off around the base. Looking down, I saw I had a tight grip on my hand gun that I kept beneath my pillow. "I need to lay off the caffeine," I muttered and forced myself to calm down and let go of the gun. I looked over at the clock, seeing that I had slept for five hours. Sighing, I hit the button to turn the alarm off and slowly and tiredly dragged myself out of bed and started to get dressed for my night shift.

When I was done, I headed to the control room and sat down at my post and started to check everything to make sure it was up and running. Even I was fairly good with working with computers, I hated them to a point, especially when they glitched out or stopped working completely. Pushing those thoughts aside, I focused on my job at hand and typed a few things into the computer to give a few Joes clearance into one of the Sectors, then I sat back and boringly watched the screens. "This is going to one hell of a long night..."I sighed, thinking to myself.

A few hours passed until Breaker came in and sat next to me. "Hey…how's it going?" the technician said as he pulled out his laptop. "Good," I responded, Breaker nodded. "So anything happened?, or have you been sitting there contemplating on the next thing you'll do to me when I'm not looking?"he asked.

"Come now Breaker…I'm not that heartless, and besides you were asking for it when you fell asleep," I told him as I laughed a little, my hand over my heart in a meaningful manner.

"Hey...you had no right taking a permanent marker and drawing a mustache on me and eyes on my eyelids," he told me sternly, all I could do was laugh harder.

"You had to admit that it was pretty funny," I told him truthfully, trying to calm down from my laughing fit. He couldn't help but to smile a little but it was in a mocking manner. "And back to your first question…no, nothing has happened yet," Breaker gave a small nodded and turned back to his computer.

"So how's your training coming along? I hear General Hawk almost has all of the results in," he told me and I gave a small shrug, "it's ok." Breaker nodded then looked over at me. "Hey…you look beat, why don't you take tonight off and get some sleep, I'll cover for you," he said and clasped my shoulder gently.

I gave it some thought then finally nodded. "Thanks Breaker…I owe you one," I stood then nearly jumped 6 feet in the air when I turned around to see Snake Eyes and the others. General Hawk was here as well and I stood at attention, as did Breaker.

"At ease you two…" he told us with a small smile on his face, then he turned his attention to me. "I was very pleased to see your results, there outstanding….scored in the top ten, just below Duke," he said as he looked at my files. "Attitude could be worked on as well as a codename for you, but everything else seems to be in order…welcome to the team Jade," I smiled and shook his hand, the others patted me on the back and gave a proper welcome. I he couldn't believe that I actually passed and made it onto Team Alpha.

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After everyone congratulated me and threw a small party with just drinks, I headed back to my room until Breaker called me on the intercom in my room. "Yeah breaker?" I asked as I rubbed the back of my neck tiredly, leaning against the wall near the intercom.

"Hey Jade, I know I said you could take the rest of the night off, but could you go check something out for me in Sector 8?" he asked as he typed a few things into the computer and he looked up at the screen at me.

I groaned and went over to my small weapons cabinet to get a hand gun. "Alright..." I said then grabbed an ear-com on my way out of the room, this way we could still talk to each other. About half way there, I looked up at one of the cameras. "Are you sure there's something there? It could just be a glitch," I told him tiredly through the com-link in my ear, looking up at a camera.

He looked at me through the screen. "I'm not a hundred percent sure but I'm pretty sure the G.I. Joe main frame doesn't have any computer glitches…since I am the one who designed and built it," he said proudly and did another system scan. I sighed and continued to the Sector.

When I got there, I looked around but didn't see anyone or anything. Little to my knowledge, a shadow stood perfectly still as I entered the room.

It wasn't his job to kill anyone on this mission, though there was a certain someone he'd like to take a shot at, and he didn't kill a woman even if she was holding a weapon. He waited and hoped that she would pass.

"Breaker, I don't see anyone down here, the computer must have a glitch in it…" I told him as I looked up at the camera, tired and bored. "Maybe your just getting paranoid or something,"I rubbed my eyes then yawned as I headed out of the Sector, back the way I came.

The man in the shadows gave a small sigh of relief, but he still stayed still as he watched the woman in front of him and hoped that she would soon be leaving. He took a step forwards and bumped into a few barrels the one fell over, he quickly backed up.

Hearing the noise behind me, I stopped and turned half way, looking over in the direction of which the noise came from. "Hold on a minute Breaker…I think there is someone down here," I told him as I slowly moved towards the barrels, hand gun at the ready. A blur of white rushed forwards and caught me off guard but I was quick on my toes and moved out of the way, quickly giving chase too the intruder. "Breaker, sound the alarms we have a breach," I yelled into the intercom as I ran after the man.

Breaker typed a few things into the computers and got on the intercom as all the lights and alarms went off. "Intruder alert, this is not a drill…I repeat this is not a drill!...Intruder alert in Sector 8," he said quickly. The Alpha team quickly got there things and ran to go find out what was going on. "Scarlet…you guys….Jade's in pursuit of the intruder near Sector 8 but is now heading for Sectors 11 and 12,"he told his comrades as he saw them racing to my location.

The man had to rid himself of me or he would never be able to escape. "STOP!" I yelled after him, getting my my gun ready but the man suddenly turned a corner and pulled his sword out. I rounded the corner after him and didn't suspect the next thing. The man ran his sword into my chest, near the right shoulder, just nicking a lung and my esophagus. I looked down at the blade and dropped my hand gun. He quickly pulled the blade out, starring at me for a few moments, sorry look in his eyes then kept running as I fell to my knees.

I put my hand near the wound and pulled away, just looking at the blood on my hand and fingers. "Stop…." I said weakly, choking and coughing up blood. It was getting hard to breath as I just looked at my hand, falling against the wall. The last thing I heard was several sets of boots and saw was the light from the hallway as well as Snake and Scarlet leaning over me, the others giving chase to the intruder.

Can you guys guess who the intruder is?...I guess you probably could, somewhat made it a bit obvious. Oh, well. I hope you all like this re-edit and again, I'm really sorry that this took so long. Hopefully I will have a 3 chapter coming up somewhere if I don't have a lot of college work to do. Anyway, stay tuned for the next chapter, and please, review. If I get enough new ones, I may update sooner =^.^=