Jessie wasn't sure what to say as her father paced back and forth in the small room that was the submarine they were in. They had just gotten word that Baroness had failed at getting the case with the nanomite warheads. Suffice to say James was less than happy about the entire thing luckily he was able to get the Joe's to reactivate it unknowingly. Jessie was sure that if it had been anyone else they would have had to deal with more than some harsh words, Baroness was lucky that James McCullen had a soft spot for her; McCullen had been waiting ten years to set the plan in motion and it had cost him a lot of money, anyone who screwed up now was as good as dead. He accused her of being distracted by her former love but she was quick to shoot down the idea. They walked over to the screen currently displaying a map; there was a dot in the middle of the Sahara Dessert marking where the Joe's hideout was located. Jessie cringed as he ran his fingers over the Baronesses virtual cheek; she thought it was weird that he constantly flirted with the younger woman. He was her father and Baroness was practically her older sister, making their romantic flirtations extremely awkward for Jessie. She refocused on the conversation in front of her just in time to see Baronesses holograph disappear and Storm Shadows appear in its place.

"If you had sent me in the first place it would already be done."

"I'm sending you now Storm Shadow and Viper too. No more mistakes, the schedule must not be compromised any further." Jessie jumped slightly when she heard her father use her code name. It was rare that he would send her on missions and she was always taken by surprise. Storm Shadow nodded before his holographic form turned and disappeared.

"Keep your eye one her for me." Jessie wasn't sure if he was referring to watching out for her while they were on the mission, or if he wanted Storm Shadow to keep an eye on Anna while she was with her husband. Before she could up anymore thought into the statement Zartan decided to speak up.

"American politics, governors, senators, congressmen; no wonder nothing ever gets done."

"That's what we're going to fix, Mr. Zartan." Jessie smiled at the manner in which her father replied, he always seemed so classy to her and she would often try and emulate him when she was taking to anyone outside her immediate family. James's reply seemed to satisfy Zartan's need for conversation and he kicked back resting his feet on the table while whistling For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Jessie used to Zartan's habits found the whistling comforting and soon fell asleep, her head resting against one of the large windows of the sub.

Unfortunately she was unable to sleep for long, all too soon the submarine came to a stop and she was roused from her sleep by her father.

"Wake up Jessie, we've arrived at the base and The Doctor has something he wants to show us." She smiled groggily before getting up, her father knew her so well. He had purposefully mentioned seeing The Doctor because he knew that she missed him, she hadn't been able to visit the base in a while and she had missed her friend.

They exited the sub and almost immediately turned right, entering a room inhabited by a few dozen men in what looked to be standard black training uniforms; their emotionless faces unnerved Jessie and she made sure to stay close to her father. The door across the room opened as they three of them filed in and Rex walked through holding what appeared to be a data pad. They four of them met in the middle, standing around a clear cage with holes in it; inside a king cobra slithered around contentedly.

"The king cobra, magnificent creature, nature's Grim Reaper and symbol of lethal purpose; unseen until it strikes. Its venom can kill a full-grown elephant with a single bite." Jessie smiled; she had heard all of this before. Rex was fascinated by the deadly snake and often raddled off random facts when he was working. He had been the one to give her the code name Viper. He had said that she wasn't deadly enough to be called a cobra but she was as graceful and silent as a snake thus she was a viper. McCullen was apparently impressed by both the how lethal the king Cobra could be and the full extent of Rex's knowledge when it came to the snake.

"Very nice."

"So far we've created 20 Neo-Vipers, nineteen stand before you." Jessie couldn't help but think that Rex had named the faction of super soldiers after her.

"Is it working?"

"We injected 1,000 cc of the nanomite solution into each subject. When they finally stopped screaming, brain scans showed a complete inactivity of the self-preservation region of the cortex. "

"English, Doctor?" Rex didn't respond right away, instead he started tapping on the data pad her brought with him making Jessie extremely curious about what was going to happen next. One of the men stepped out of line and started to move towards the king cobra's cage as Rex gave his explanation.

"They feel no fear," the man unlatched the cover of one of the holes and stuck his arm into the cage with the venomous snake, "Cortical nerve clusters show complete inactivity." The snake bit the man's arm and he didn't even flinch.

"They feel no pain. Concepts of morality are disengaged; they feel no regrets, no remorse." The man removed his arm from the cage before falling to his knees. Jessie was sure that he was going to die so instead of focusing on him she kept all of her attention on Rex's explanation.

"The nanomites join together as a fighting mechanism first blocking, then expelling the cobra's venom." Jessie shocked looked back at the man on his knees and was stunned to see that the cobra's venom was being expelled from the two puncture holes in his arm. He sat back up as if nothing had happened completely silent.

"And they're completely obedient?" Rex hit two more buttons on his pad and the man stepped back into formation with the other Neo-Vipers .

"Of course. The real world applications are endless, so you tell me, is it working?" McCullen smiled, he was obviously pleased with the results of Rex's experiment.

"Send a team to rendezvous with Storm Shadow and the Baroness, and make sure to assign some to keep an eye on Jessie during the raid." She blushed, her father wasn't always the most subtle person.

"Consider it done, the Joes will never know what hit them." They started to walk out but Jessie lingered just long enough to catch a glimpse of the Neo-Vipers uniform, she thought the iron mask was a bit overkill but she knew why her father had chosen for it to be that way. Having seen what she wanted to see she ran to catch up to the other two.

"The 20th Neo-Viper is already set up in Washington, DC and awaiting your signal."

"You've done well. You've thrown the caber clear out of the yard."

"Construction of the presidential bunker has also been completed. Now, if we sold one warhead on the black market I could continue my research." Jessie sighed, she hated when Rex brought up the topic of selling a warhead on the black-market. They both knew how her father felt about the idea and she couldn't understand why Rex kept bringing it up.

"I appreciate your thirst for knowledge, Doctor but this world is messy enough; no. What it needs is unification, leadership. It has to be taken out of chaos by someone with complete control," Jessie had to admit that is scared her to hear her father talk like that. It reminded her of something Hitler would say and she loathed the thought that her father and such an evil man could have anything in common. "Beijing, Moscow, Washington… When these missiles detonate the world will turn to the most powerful man on the planet," McCullen turned to the Doctor, "when I'm finished, the money will take care of itself. You'll be able to do all the research you want."

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