Disclaimer: I own nothing of GI Joe Sigma 6, which is owned by Hasbro. Only the plot is mine and I make no money from this.
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Destro carefully considered the object on the table before him.
Standing at about four inches tall and just a little under five inches long, the Pig of Midas was an...interesting item to say the least. It had also been a very expensive one.
As the name insinuated, the object was in the shape of a round pig, seemingly made out of clay. It had been painted once, but time had worn most of it away, except for a few patches of soft pink where the legs met the body. If he looked carefully, Destro could even make out where the mouth and eyes had once been on the pig's face.
In short, it was a piggy-bank and a very old one at that, shown with its chipped snout and missing tail.
Pulling on a pair of gloves, he carefully reached out and gently picked it up. Its weight was almost negligible, showing that it was empty. Turing it over in his hands, he studied it, noting the aligned holes on the pig's back and stomach, where items could be put in and taken out.
Frowning to himself, Destro put the Pig of Midas back onto the table and then picked up the notes containing its information to read through them yet again. No one could put a date to the pig and its origin story was just as foggy. The claims with the most weight had it that the pig came from a ransacked manor in Greece, along with other magical items like the Midas Ring already in Cobra's possession. Flipping through the pages, Destro came to his own notes and frowned again.
He'd chipped off a small piece of the pig for analysis and the results had come back inconclusive. From what he'd researched, that was normal, though he had hoped that his equipment could finally pin down just what the pig was actually made of or at least some of the supposed clay's components.
Putting the notes down, he moved on. Reaching to the left, he picked up a wooden coin from a box of them. Holding it up, he examined it carefully. It was about an inch in diameter and made of regular wood, oak actually.
Making sure his equipment was set up to capture this moment, Destro finally performed his experiment. Holding the wooden coin over the slot in the Pig of Midas' back, he dropped it in and waited. Within seconds, there was a heavy 'thunk' as the coin fell out of the pig through the unblocked hole on its stomach.
Destro smirked at the glimmer of gold that he saw beneath the piggy-bank. Getting a pair of tweezers, he picked up the now golden coin and held it up to the light. It flashed in the light, for all appearances solid gold.
Putting it in a different box to further study later, Destro picked up another wooden coin to repeat his experiment. It worked again and continued to work the next three times. When he put in the sixth coin though, it came out as wooden as it'd gone in.
But Destro had anticipated that and simply recorded it in his notes. From his earlier research, he knew that the Pig of Midas would only turn coins into gold five times a day. They absolutely had to be coins as well and could only be put in one at a time.
Finishing his notes, Destro turned to one machine and set a timer to remind him when the pig could be used again. An experiment such as this was time consuming but the possibilities for a new source of wealth were too big to ignore.