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", Sarah "Listener" Rose Abernathy, or Sakura Rose.

Synapse: Sarah, Jane's little sister of 25 years of age, has sought out safety with the Joe's at the Pit. But there's one small four year old problem, she's the only family her daughter has left alive except Abernathy and Jane. And she's expected to work in Intelligence, what's a girl to do? Snake EyesxOc.

The Logical Listener

G. I. Joe: Renegades

Chapter 5

Days, Sarah had spent pouring over the audio and editing it. And slowly, the audio was unfolding. It was computer data, not audio, streaming over radio waves. At first she thought it was using Morse code, but that proved different. It was a series of data spun together so quickly that one had to slow the data stream down to even start cracking the codes. As she did so the computer started to upload the data. Breaker had been in bed at this hour, but she knew he would want a chance to hack the data and get to understanding it before anyone else did. Slowly Sarah got to her feet and went to find Breaker.

Snake Eyes had noticed Sarah wasn't in her quarters and Sakura was missing as well. He walked towards the area where all of the tech people were gathered. It was their office and he knew he stuck out like a sore thumb. But he didn't care. He wanted to know if Sarah was still on base or was out and about. She was under his protection, and the protection of his team. He saw Sarah jump to her feet and start running out of her cubical.

Sarah hurried past people to get to Breaker's quarters. Surely he wanted to know what she found out. Her excitement caused her to be blind to her surroundings and the people she passed by. Suddenly she ran into something and she staggered back. About to yell at the person Sarah noticed it was Snake Eyes and he had grabbed her shoulder to steady her. "Snake Eyes, its good to see you…but I'm in a hurry. I need to find Breaker."

He had seen her excited, yes, but it Snake Eyes had never seen her this excited. 'All right, let me help you find his quarters.' He signed.

"Actually, Sakura is curled up asleep under my desk could you…uh…look after her?" Sarah had forgotten about her daughter for that split moment. How could she have forgotten about her daughter? It was wrong; it was a horrible thing for Sarah to do.

Gladly Snake Eyes walked back to Sarah's cubical and found a small foot sticking out from under the desk. He walked around and sat down in Sarah's chair. Knowingly the silent ninja knelt down, picked Sakura up, and held the girl in his lap. Instinctively he knew it was going to be a while until he could wake the girl up and take her back to her quarters.

Sarah rushed to Breaker's quarters and banged on the door several times until the young man opened the door and stared at her with tired eyes. "I've figured something out Breaker!" She said while trying to contain her excitement. "Come on get dressed, I've just got to show you!"

Breaker's eyes glazed over as he looked at the woman in front of him. While rubbing his eyes he asked: "What are you talking about?"

Finally regaining her composure Sarah smiled slightly and spoke slowly. "I've figured out what the audio was."

Surely enough Breaker woke up all the way and closed his quarter's door. He changed really fast and was out the door following Sarah back to her cubical. Sure he was sleepy but it wasn't half as bad as waiting until it was actually 0530 hours in the morning. 0500 wasn't that bad and it also wasn't that great. Once to her cubical he saw Snake Eyes getting to his feet holding the little girl. Sakura was fast asleep in his arms, much like the day that Sarah and Sakura had arrived at the Pit.

Snake Eyes tilted his head to one side and noticed how sloppily Breaker had gotten dressed. Apparently Sarah didn't care that she had woken the tech expert up at 0500 hours in the morning. He started to leave then watched Sarah pull one of the other chairs over to her cubical and sit Breaker down. She sat in her own and started typing. He listened to the strange noise that the speakers were putting out. At first he thought it was Morse code, but slowly it wasn't. He set the girl down on a small chair that had already been there and walked over to stand behind Sarah.

Sarah clicked a few more keystrokes and pressed F5. The audio turned off and instead a red Cobra symbol was on her screen. "I thought you would want to see this Breaker."

"You're right," he answered while leaning in to look at the screen closer. "Did we just hack into Cobra?"

"No, but we did receive one of their transmissions, remember?" Sarah turned to look at Breaker and remembered that she had woken him up early.

"Right, sorry, that's what the transmission was? How odd."

Snake Eyes felt like laughing, but he knew no sound would come out.

"It's a lot of data that belonged to Cobra; they sent it all via radio frequencies. I slowed and stretched the data stream until I got this information. However I need a computer hacker to get into the data. Apparently they have firewalls, security codes, and passwords that I don't know."

Strange, thought Snake Eyes, she can normally hack anything if she wanted. Unless…

"All right, let's see what I can do." Breaker said while cracking his knuckles. It was going to be a long time before either of them was finished with what they were doing.

A/N:Unless what you might ask...i don't know myself! muahahahahaha. Ok sleep deprived little brain get to the point. Please r&r, criticism is welcomed. Also i think i made it easy to know who Sakura's dad is so oopsy?