Disclaimer: I do not own G. I. Joe nor any of the characters except my own Oc's of Lt. Col. Jane Abernathy "Demon Rose" (or Emily Rose), Sgt. Jake Henderson "Pile-Driver", Corporal First Class Jana Ling "Amethyst", and Col. Roger Stevenson "Cap". Here's Amethyst's story,

Synapse: Amethyst had been captured by Cobra nearly one year ago and now she was finding herself imprisoned by another. This man is using her, keeping her hidden, and now he expects more from her. Now she wants out.

G. I. Joe

The Amethyst Stone

Chapter 13

Amethyst muttered a swift prayer before going back to the practice room. She knew Storm Shadow was following her. "We need to pull this off, tonight. I want Jane back alive!"

Storm Shadow put both hands on her shoulders and felt her relax a little. "Jana, you need to calm down. You're not thinking clearly."

Jana at first was going to force him to let her go but she realized he was trying to help her. "You're right, thank you Storm Shadow."

"Of course, anything to help my new master." The words had once again escaped before he could think about them. What is with me and calling her master?

Jana laughed a little. "You don't have to call me that, ever."

"Who's going to tell 'Jane'?"

"Don't know…give me a few to think."

Jana wasn't used to planning con's…that was always Jane's thing. She just went and followed orders like the rest of them. She had been a pick pocket for a few years of her life because there was a point when her father and mother had run out of money and they needed a way to live.

Picking pockets had become easy and then her father forced her to stop when their life had changed because he opened the kung-fu teaching studio. Things had changed, but Jana still had those skills, and her street name. It was the name she used for the military too. Jana wasn't her real name, neither was her team name of Amethyst.

There was a distant memory that Jana had it was when her father had been teaching her the second and third hidden blades. She knew she was going to speak of that when she scattered his ashes. But right now she was going to go find the false Jane.

Wandering around Jana finally found Jane and kindly approached her. "Jane, I wanted to say that tonight we have a performance. Seems like Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow wanted to get the band back together for crew moral. You up to it?"

Viper froze. "Sure, what are we doing?"

"Oh, that one song, Returner. I know it's been a while but I know you. You remember the song better than the rest of us." Jana said while giving a sly smile.

"Fine by me."

"All right, see you in the mess tonight!"

Jana made her way back to the practice room and nodded to Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow and Sarah. "Trap's set, the pieces are moving."

"All we need is for the last of the pieces to fall into place." Sarah responded while holding her daughter, who was currently clinging to her leg.

"And I get Ja-Ja back?"

"And we get Jane back."

"Yippy!" Sakura started to run around while dancing for joy.

…

Setting up the stage was more difficult than Jana remembered. It was worse with the mini ninja running around with her stuffed teddy bear. She was singing something round the lines of 'I'm getting my auntie back tonight, I'm getting my Ja-Ja back tonight'. Jana shook her head and glanced at Storm Shadow as he carried the last of the drum set in.

Their audience was going to be arriving soon enough. It was, after all, most of the base that was attending.

The audience pilled into the mess hall and sat in their places. Abernathy and Flint stayed in the back of the room as Viper carefully walked into the mess.

Sarah, Jane's little sister, stood on the stage with the other members of the band. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were in their places as well. Viper walked up to the microphone next to Sarah. Jana was behind them with the bass.

As soon as the music started Sarah began singing.

As the moon was being held closely by the sky,
I became frightened by loneliness,
So I called out, searching for you, but couldn't see through my tears.

Viper looked out into the crowd and locked eyes with Flint then Abernathy. They both were walking in and pointing at her. Finally something clicked in Viper's mind.

Anata no hitomi ni utsuru watashi wa waratteita
Mou nidoto aeru hohoemi no mae ni
Kurayami sakebitsudezukeru anata ga mieru
Dou sugite

Kowareru hodo watashi wo tsuyoku dakishimete
Mou ichido aenu nara yume no naka de ii
Towa no nemuri wo kudasai

Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow looked at each other. She was not singing the English version like Sarah and Jana thought about doing. She was singing the Japanese.

Sarah glanced at the false version of her sister and shook her head. This was not her sister. This was a fake, it had to be.

Because I will meet with you again,
Because I made a promise,
With love that would overflow,
Cover me gently -
Let me have eternal sleep.

I can't see you,
I can't see you.

Sarah watched as Viper bowed and the crowd cheered. This wasn't going well for any of them. They wanted to prove that thing wasn't Jane, and now she was singing a song that Jane had never gotten recorded. How on earth did she know the song?

"And now for our next piece!" Jana shouted while seeing that everyone was looking at her slightly alarmed. They had to use plan B, it was their only option.

A/n: almost done for a while. as i have said in previous uploads, not working on it tomorrow. or saturday...r&r please.