September 11, 2014. Prompt for Fish. Shark week happened not long ago. Some of this may or may not have come from that.
They were drifting, stuck in a lifeboat, bobbing up and down, surrounded by sharks, and bored. So very, very bored. Everything had gone according to plan, except for the one thing they couldn't plan for. Viper stupidity.
Both Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow had been assigned a mission to destroy Cobra's newest ship. The higher ups weren't authorizing a full scale attack with one of the Joe ships due to international complications, so Hawk had sent the next best thing. Dropped off and left on their own to procure the means to reach their target, they had hiked into the port town and then went about stealing a small boat once they found out the Cobras had set sail a couple hours before.
They were able to get close to the Cobras, acting like stupid tourists gawking at the large ship. By time the Vipers figured out they weren't, they were close enough for Storm Shadow to leap and attach himself to the side of the ship. He made his way up, grabbing one of the Vipers attempting to shoot him off and throwing him into the water. As soon as he was over the side, he tethered the two boats together and Snake Eyes cut the power to the smaller vessel and shimmied up the rope.
After that it was just a matter of mowing through enemies. What they didn't count on was one of the Vipers miscalculating his grenade toss. It went completely over the side and landed in their getaway boat, blowing it up and damaging the side of the Cobra's ship. At that point, Snake Eyes left it to Storm Shadow to distract their temporary shipmates while he went down and set up a special surprise for them. He was able to sneak his way down into the very bowels of the ship, Vipers too busy running to the deck to defend it and forgetting one of the cardinal rules of dealing with ninja. And really, the pipes running above them were ideal for sneaking around.
After he set things up and made his way back, it was a matter of grabbing a life raft, tossing it overboard, and tugging on the cord to inflate it and then grabbing a second one and repeating. He whistled loudly, grabbing Storm Shadow's attention and then jumped off the ship, diving into the water. He started swimming, using the cords to help pull the rafts away from the soon to be sinking ship. Storm Shadow joined him shortly, both of them trying to swim as far away as possible. There was a loud explosion while both of them were still in the water and the ship immediately tilted away from them, belly rolling up several feet. It groaned and continued tilting more and more, eventually capsizing and sinking.
That had been two days ago, and Storm Shadow had long since gotten over the novelty of beating sharks in the nose when they got too close. Jokes of sharks had been made and whenever Storm Shadow started thinking aloud of shark fin soup, Snake Eyes would toss a ration bar at him. It would be tossed back and Storm Shadow would fish out his own, and the conversation would be diverted to complaints about the food.
It was with welcome relief when the tomahawk passed over them and came back around, throwing down rope for them and hauling them out of the water. Wild Bill was quick to comment when they were both onboard, addressing Scarlett. "These are strange fish, Darlin'. I'm not sure we should keep them."
"Plenty of ocean between us and the base to throw back the white fish. I'll keep the black one. I kind of like him." Snake Eyes snorted, amused.
Storm Shadow's protest was lost under Wild Bill's laughter.