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Title: The Shining Serpent
Author: Slytherin Studios
Beta: (Position Available)
Story Summary: After killing the Dursleys for betraying their master, the Baroness and Storm Shadow find a half-dead Amaryllis Potter in the cupboard under the stairs, they decide to take her with them back to France. The Baroness (or Ana Lewis or Anastasia DeCobray) decides to adopt her, and her husband agrees since it made her happy, Baroness also gets Storm Shadow to train Amaryllis when she was healed enough to train. What happens when Dumbledore finds out his favorite weapon is missing and the Dursleys are dead? What happen when an Order member locates the missing Girl-Who-Lived accidentally?
Chapter Summary: Lys goes to the MARS facility where one of the people she despises is at.
Ships: Storm Shadow/Amaryllis, Snake Eyes/Scarlett, Duke/Baroness, Baroness/McCullen (Minor) Hermione/Charlie, Bill/Fleur.
Chapter Cast: Amaryllis DeCobray, Scarlett, Snake Eyes, General Hawk, Storm Shadow, Duke, Andy, Amien Alatas (mentioned), Baroness, Breaker, Heavy Duty, Ripcord, Rex Lewis, McCullen, and Mindbender.
Other Note: Kmom13 is writing a revised version of this story which should be posted soon so keep an eye out.
Languages used so far: Japanese, French, ASL, Indonesian.
Thoughts
Indonesian
*Sign Language*
AN: Amaryllis outfit is like Girls' Generation Jessica's white leather outfit in 'Run Devil Run' also what's in this chapter is taken from the movie though some parts have been edited.
+The Next Morning, Jakarta, 5:00 a.m.+
Lys woke up with a feeling that something was going to happen soon. Feeling something shift beside her, she looked over her left shoulder and sees Andy there, sleeping peacefully. She quietly removes Andy's arm from around her waist and then slowly and quietly got out of bed.
Lys slowly gets dressed then puts on her mask and her weapons while keeping an eye on Andy, staying as quiet as possible so he doesn't wake up. She then leaves the room, not running into anyone as she went floor by floor, bypassing the oblivious guards at the front entrance and makes her way to an abandoned and empty area of the city.
Stopping in the center, Lys unhooks and unshrinks her Vera Bradley Hipster (in Safari Sunset which is spelled against all kinds of damage - fire, water and age) from a ring attached to her pants through a small hole over her left hip. She looks through the front pocket and takes out her Black Razor V3 (that had a rune carved onto the back so the phone can work with magic) and called Storm Shadow.
Placing the phone next to her ear, Lys listened to the phone ringing before her teacher (her body did weird things when she heard or was around him) picked up and she speaks as soon as he answered, "Yes, the job's done, I'll be waiting."
Lys then hung up her phone, then put the phone back in the Hipster's front pocket and shouldered her bag over her right shoulder making the bag bump against her left hip.
She doesn't have to wait long (just a couple hours) and in the distance, Lys heard the engine of a Typhoon airship coming in her direction. When the Typhoon was close enough, it landed and the side door opened up and Storm Shadow appeared in the doorway.
Lys barely manages to stop her heartbeat from beating erratically. She frowns slightly, not understanding why her heart acted the way it did whenever he was around. Shaking those thoughts away, she smiles and walks up the steps into the Typhoon and once she's in the Typhoon's door close she noticed a blonde man and asks, "Who's he?"
"He's one of the Joes," Lys's mother says and Lys looks from the blonde Joe to where her mother's voice came from.
When Lys looks at her mother, the first think she says is, "What's with the S&M get up [1]?"
Storm Shadow smirks and chuckles in amusement and the Joe snorts making the Baroness glare at the two of them.
The Baroness then ignores them and turns to Lys and gives her a hug as she says, "Congratulations on completing your assignment, though I wish it hadn't been you."
The Baroness then lets Lys go and says to the pilots, "Call McCullen, tell him we have the warheads."
The pilot nods and says, "Right away."
The Baroness then returns to her seat across from the Joe while Lys, confused at what her mother said, sits in a seat across from Storm Shadow.
Seeing Lys's confused face, Storm Shadow says, "Koburakomandā wa kobura e no chūsei kokoro o tesuto suru tame ni anata o oku~tsu [The Cobra Commander sent you to test your loyalty to Cobra]."
Lys, still confused, furrows her brows and says, "Shikashi, watashi wa kobura ni chūjitsude wanaikedo, watashi wa haha ni dake chūjitsuda to anata [But I'm not loyal to Cobra, I'm only loyal to my mother and you]."
A proud look flickers over Storm Shadow's face and in his eyes. The Joe glanced at then confused look on his face due to the sudden language change and the Baroness looked slightly annoyed at not knowing what her daughter and the ninja were saying.
The proud look is still there as Storm Shadow, not moving from his meditating position, and says, "Watashi wa kono yōna takai hyōka de watashi o hoji suru koto o kōei [I'm honored that you hold me in such high esteem]."
Lys's cheeks heat up and she now has to fight off a blush that wanted to appear on her face and from the heat on her cheeks she was failing.
Storm Shadow then closed his eyes and started to meditate and Lys took her bag off her shoulder and dug through it (which Lys altered with a secret compartment to separate the Muggle and Magical sides) for a book she'd been reading recently called 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien. Which was lost about a millennia ago but the pages and record of what happened was almost lost until it was discovered by the Tolkien family in 1937.
Turning to Ch 1 (Lys has been too busy to read lately so she decided to start over at the beginning), Lys pauses and looks in her mother's direction.
Her mother was looking at the Joe like she knew him from somewhere but something was holding the memory or memories back, she also looked like she was in pain.
The Joe looks up from staring at the floor and says to the Baroness, "Why didn't you kill me?"
The Baroness looks at him and says, "McCullen has something special in mind for you."
The Joe looks down and mutters, "McCullen" before speaking louder, "What happened to you?"
Baroness scoffed lightly and says, "Now you care?"
The Joe fell silent, looking down for a moment before looking back up and saying, "Okay. I am sorry. I'm sorry about Rex."
Lys is confused at the name, who's Rex? Why is he important to mom?
Shrugging, Lys goes back to her book (or at least tries but it's impossible with such an interesting conversation happening not 3-4 feet away) as the Joe continues speaking, "I'm sorry that I couldn't bring Rex home… and I'm so sorry that I couldn't face you afterwards."
Glancing at her mother's face, Lys can see her mother looked touched almost tearing up but manages to stop herself before saying, "Well, everybody's sorry about something."
At the last part, Baroness looks over to Storm Shadow, who was staring straight at the Typhoon's floor, lost in an almost long forgotten memory. Lys wanted to know what he was remembering but didn't like reading people's minds as it's an invasion of privacy.
Seeing her mother in any amount of pain worries Lys because she didn't know why her mother was in pain and the feeling she had earlier was back, making her seat nervously.
Storm Shadow after a minute snapped out of his memories and glanced at his second favorite student and says, "Naze anata wa keiren shite iru? [Why are you twitching?]"
Lys looked up from her book and says, "Nani mo jissai ni, watashi wa chōdo sono bukimina isha no otoko wa kyokuchi no hyōbō bēsu ni ikitakunai [Nothing really, I just don't want to go to the polar ice cap base where that creepy doctor guy is.]"
Storm Shadow closes his eyes and goes back to meditating but not before saying, "Isha wa tada hanarete taizai shi, kare o mushi suru tame no yō ni zan'nen'nakotoni, wareware wa, sentaku no yochi wanai [Unfortunately, we have no choice, as for the doctor just stay away and ignore him.]"
Lys nods and says, "Ōkē [Okay]" before returning back to her book for the rest of the flight. As the Typhoon airship got closer to the Polar Icecap Base the more unsettled she became and several hours later they arrived at the base.
Lys puts her bookmark at the place she stopped at and puts the book away in her Hipster bag and puts it back over her right shoulder as the Typhoon jerks as it lands and everyone is ready to leave though the Joe was forced to get off the airship.
Once out of the airship, the group sees a large ice mountain about 25 feet in front of them. The group then walks to a hole in the side of the mountain. Storm Shadow lead the way followed by Lys, the Baroness went next with the Joe and the two armed pilots bring up the end.
Once the group passed through the entrance which had two armed guards at the entrance they say a large area that had a Night Raven, several Humvees, two dozen Raba H14 trucks, several military 5 ton trucks, several M-151A2 Jeeps and many stacks of ammo and weapon supplies.
Storm Shadow stops at an ice wall and places the weapons case on the ground then takes something out of his pocket. To be honest it looked like a clicker for when you set your car alarm in Lys's opinion.
Storm Shadow presses it and the wall melts, revealing a metal door with a large metal wheel that looked a bit like a ship's wheel just without the nods on the outside.
Suddenly the Joe grabs the weapons case, smacks one of the guards and runs to the entrance. The two guards at the entrance go to shoot him but the Baroness shouts, "No! McCullen has plans for him!"
The two guards lower their weapons just as a throwing star whirls past the Baroness and Lys before embedding itself into Joe's back, knocking him into the ground and the weapons case went sliding to the entrance. When the Joe hit the ground he's only down for a moment before trying to get up but is stopped when one of the guards at the entrance kicks him in the face.
The two guards then start beating Joe with their feet and guns. Lys, Baroness and Storm Shadow appear with their guards, once close enough, Baroness shouts, "Enough!"
Storm Shadow calmly approaches the Joe but doesn't say anything to him and walks past him to grab the warhead case. He then kneels down by the Joe's head and says, "And what was your plan? Run 3,000 miles across the ice?"
The Joe doesn't say anything and Storm Shadow then grabs his throwing star and gets up. As Storm Shadow starts to move away he mutters, "Stupid soldier."
Storm Shadow walks past everyone and the Baroness gives the Joe an unrecognizable look on her face while the Joe had a determined one.
The two guards haul the Joe up and demand, "Move it."
+Joe Submarine, Under the Ice pack somewhere+
An Arabic man wearing a monocle mutters with a French accent, "How strange?"
A redhead to his left turns to him and says, "What's wrong Breaker?"
A large African man with an earring in his ear turned around and started paying attention as Breaker continued, "Well, Scarlett, when they stole the weapons case, I set my scanner to look out for the tracking beacon in case it came back on."
Everyone else started paying attention as Breaker finished what he was saying, "And it just did."
Another African male (though this one was skinner and lighter) said, "That's my boy!"
Everyone looked at Mr. Skinny like he was crazy; Scarlett shakes her head and mutters, "Oh Ripcord."
Ripcord smiles obliviously, not hearing what his girlfriend had just said.
+Polar Icecap Base+
The group of 6 takes the elevator down to the gigantic underwater base which took about two minutes. Once at the bottom they had to wait at least 10/15 seconds before the door opened up to show another guard and McCullen (who was standing at the bottom of 2 steps).
As soon as the door opened, Storm Shadow stepped out first and as he walked down the two steps said, "3 left."
Lys steps out next with her mother following her as they moved to Storm Shadows' left. McCullen nods and says, "Take the warheads to the missiles. I want them ready to launch in one hour."
Storm Shadow nods slightly and says, "It will be done."
Storm Shadow moves off and the group moves closer with the Joe being forced out behind them. Lys, the Baroness, the Joe and the two guards moved down the steps. Lys tries not to wince when McCullen steps close to her mother and says as he looks the Baroness in the eyes, "My beautiful lady of the lake."
The Baroness and McCullen then kiss each other making the Joe and Lys stare unhappily at the two of them. To be honest, Lys thought her mother deserved someone much better.
The two finally stop kissing and McCullen turns to the Joe and mockingly says, "Does this bother you?"
Yes, yes it does McAsshole.
The Joe turns slightly away and Lys glares at McCullen as said man continued, "It's funny, isn't it? The entire balance of power in the world about to shift, two guys can still have a stare-down over who gets the girl."
Lys narrows her eyes; my mother is not some prize for you to win, McCullen!
Lys wants to break McCullen's face for that but doesn't as she's outnumbered, she might be crazy but she's not suicidal.
The Joe looks back at McCullen and smirks before suddenly smacking his face against McCullen's, knocking the man down. Lys snorts in amusement; she kind of liked this Joe.
The two guards accompanying the Joe start beating him again and Lys notices her mother looked like she was going to burst into tears, what on earth was going on with her mother recently?
Baroness's head hurt as memories that had long since been buried came up quickly to the surface causing her head to feel like a drum. After a moment she shakes her head and looks away as McCullen gets up. A pressure on Baroness's right made her turn in that direction, she smiles at her daughter who tried to comfort her.
McCullen stares at the Joe angrily and spat, "I'm gonna make you very unhappy."
The Joe snips back, "I'm already unhappy."
McCullen turns to walk away and one of the guards yanks up Joe and demands "Get up!"
Outside out in the freezing ice water, a mechanical fish spies for the Joes.
+Joe's Submarine+
Breaker looks towards a large computer screen and says, "Video feed from the Aqua Cam is coming online now."
Everyone of the Alpha Team gathered by a large computer screen and the African with the earring mutters in a British accent, "Bloody hell," before speaking more loudly, "They've built a military base under the polar icecap."
Scarlett speaks, kind of in an approval tone, "It's the perfect location. Nearly undetectable, easily defensible."
Ripcord speaks up worriedly, "Duke's got to be in there somewhere."
The big African with the earring says, "And the warheads."
Breaker nods and says, "Heavy Duty is right, we have to find a quiet way to get inside."
The men in all black taps the screen, making it zoom in to show them elevator cables."
Scarlett speaks up,"Elevator cables. They've got a surface entrance."
Breaker suddenly says, "Guys, there's something else. Going to sonar view. They've got tunnels running through the ice pack."
Scarlett points something out, "Hey, look, they've got their own attack subs."
Ripcord, too, spots something, "Okay, what's that?"
The man in black points out what Ripcord noticed.
Breaker tells everyone what it was, "Missile tubes."
Heavy Duty speaks, "Must be for the nanomite warheads."
Heavy Duty starts to walk away with the rest of the team following as he continues speaking, "Take us up, I'll create a distraction from outside and keep them busy while you lot infiltrate the facility from above. We'll find Duke-"
Ripcord then says, "Grab the warheads."
Scarlett finishes, "And kill all the bad guys."
Elsewhere in the command center of the sub, the commander speaks to the men and women who were there, "As you all know, Team Alpha is under direct orders to return to their respective national base. But I have something I need to do which goes against all orders. So, if any of you decide that you have to leave now, I will certainly not hold it against you."
Everyone, instead of leaving, snapped at attention all rearing to go.
The commander nods and says, "Okay, then."
+Polar Icecap Base+
McCullen was leading the group to the creepy doctor and Joe asks, "What are you going to do with the warheads?"
McCullen seems almost impressed as he says, "You take to your training well. That's good. Still trying to develop Intel."
The Baroness was at McCullen's left as they continued walking. Lys was at the Joes' left as the guards brought up the rear.
"So you won't mind telling me."
Lys raises an eyebrow, he's fishing.
McCullen smirks and says, "Isn't it obvious? I'm a business man. I'm going to use them."
The Joe looks shocked and says indescretionally, "Millions of people are going to die if you launch those warheads, so what is it that you want?"
Lys looks wide-eyed, she couldn't let that happen but she doesn't want to leave her mother or betray the woman who took her in.
McCullen shrugs and says, "To strike fear into the hearts of every man, woman and child on the planet. Then they'll turn to the person with the most power."
The Joe eyes McCullen and says, "You?"
McCullen suddenly stops, making everyone stop as well and turns around and says, "No, not me. You're not seeing the whole picture."
The Joe raises an eyebrow and says, "Then tell me."
McCullen almost smirks and says, "I don't wanna spoil the surprise."
The group finally makes it to the creepy doctor's lair, McCullen speaks as they enter, "Meet the genius behind all my nanotechnology."
Lys has to agree, even though she hates that creepy doctor with a passion.
The doctor turns around and speaks through his mask (that covers his nose, mouth and neck) making him sound like Darth Vader, "Genius? You are too kind."
The doctors' then gestured to a TV screen (that showed the missiles that were being loaded up with the nanomite warheads) and continued, "As you can see, we are loading my nanomite warheads into the high-V missiles. Once at maximum velocity, Mach 5-"
The Joe and the Baroness stare at each other again; Lys thought the two were being way too obvious with their glances.
The doctor, not noticing the two's stare down, continued, "Not even the Joes have the technology to catch them."
The doctor finally turns to the group and notices the Joe and says, "So, who's this? Another recruit?"
Lys thought and could see that the doctor seemed a little too pleased at that thought.
McCullen looks at the Joe and says, "Albeit a rather unwilling one."
The doctor rubs his hands happily and says, "I'll prepare him for the procedure."
The doctor leads the way and the Joe follows only after being prodded along by his armed guards.
The Baroness looked horrified, as if knowing what was going to happen.
McCullen noticed the look as the Baroness watched as the Joe and the doctor left but doesn't say anything as Lys was glaring at him so hard he was somewhat surprised he didn't spontaneously combust.
McCullen notices white out of the corner of his eye and turns to the right to see Storm Shadow there. McCullen, Storm Shadow, Lys (whose bag is still strapped over her right shoulder) and the Baroness left the doctors lab to the command center.
Lys decided she was going to help the Joe escape so they could stop the warheads from destroying major cities, causing mass destruction and death. So she pretends to fiddle around with her bag and with everyone out of sight, she sneaks off to the doctor's operation chamber.
+Joe's Submarine+
The commander walked around a round table with a sonar map on it and says loudly, "All teams, listen up, this is General Hawk. The mission is a go; I say again, the mission is a go. Good luck, Joes."
+Above the Ice+
A large polar bear is sniffing around then suddenly runs away and seconds later, a large submarine breaks through the surface. Then the front of the sub opened and two vehicles (that looked like a Snowmobile with wings) fly out and land on the ice, disappearing into the icy fog.
+Joe's Submarine+
An unknown woman says, "The teams have been deployed, sir."
General Hawk nods and says, "Get me a satellite uplink. I wanna see everything that's going on down there."
+Above the Ice+
The two snowmobiles make their way to the hole in the ice mountain invisibly (thanks to the ice fog) and almost silently. The two guards at the entrance are drown out at the sound of an approaching vehicle then two arrows come out of the fog and land in their hearts, killing them.
The two snowmobiles come out of the thick icy fog the wind kicked up from the ice. The two vehicles come to a stop 5 feet past the entrance. The four Joes get out of their snowmobiles and take off their hoods to reveal Scarlett, Ripcord, Breaker and the man in black.
Ripcord turns to Scarlett and says in a proud tone, "Nice shooting."
Scarlett smiles and says, "Thank you."
Ripcord then looks around and says, "We're a long way from Miami."
The four Joes then notice a large black jet, Scarlett mutters in awe, "Whoa. That's a Night Raven. They actually built one."
Ripcord practically drools and says, "Looks fast. That McCullen got some gadgets."
+Polar Icecap Base, Operation Chamber+
A machine with four large rectangular nods with large needles on the ends whirls to life. The doctor was fiddling with his tablet as he says, "MARS Industries manufactures 70% of all arms on the planet. 70%-"
The Joe was strapped all over to a chair which looked like a chair that dentists used. The doctor continued using his tablet and glances over his shoulder and says, "Did you know that, Duke?"
Joe or Duke looked at the doctor, wondering why he knew his nickname.
The doctor stopped fiddling with his tablet and moves towards Duke saying, "There are two sides to McCullen's operation, the Sword and the Shield."
The doctor then bypasses Duke and walks around him until he reaches a console behind him (which was on a raised platform) and presses some buttons as he continues, "The Sword creates and sells weaponry. The Shield creates defensive technology, like high tech bunkers."
The doctor then picks up his tablet and walks around to another computer consol as he speaks, "Which are supposed to protect one from anything from a nuclear blast to a nanomite warhead. Unfortunately, the bunker in which I took shelter was just a prototype."
Duke finally speaks, "Who are you?"
The doctor pauses then turns around and approaches Duke, once he's close enough he takes off his hair and then his mask which revealed a heavily scarred but familiar face to Duke.
Duke is shocked and horrified, mutters, "Rex?"
Then Duke gets angry and shouts, "You son of a bitch! Ana buried you!"
Lys had been eavesdropping and invisible was stunned, isn't that mom's dead brother's name? How can he be alive?
The doctor or Rex puts his mask back on and mockingly says, "Moving ceremony, I'm sure. The three-volley salute. Boots on the ground. A folded flag in her arms."
Lys clenches her jaw and hands, working hard to keep control of her magic so that it doesn't lash out, who knows what Rex would do if he found out what she can do. She also had to control her body so that she doesn't dash in there and rip out that bastards' throat.
Lys is brought back to reality when Duke spoke, "Why? Why didn't you just come in?"
Rex leaned close to Duke's face before saying excitedly, "Because I discovered something."
+Rex's Flashback, Afghanistan+
A less disfigured Rex opens the bunkers door, making dust fly everywhere as he enters. A mechanical voice said, "… subject number 23."
Once the dust cleared, Rex could see a couple of metal tables (that you'd see in an ME's office) and 3 dozen computer screens, one of them had two men in it.
One was strapped to a chair and the other had a needle pressed to the in the chair's neck, the Needleman says, "This will only hurt a little. What comes next, more so."
The man in the chair says stubbornly, "Listen, Mindbender, do whatever it takes."
Mindbender injects whatever was in the needle and a man in a pop-up window says in a Scottish accent, "So will I. Remember, science requires sacrifice."
The man in the chair starts screaming as his face looked like it was boiling red. A voice suddenly speaks up from the upper left corner, "It's beautiful, isn't it?"
Startled, Rex whirls around, gun cocked and commands, "Stay where you are!"
The voice turns out to be the doctor, Mindbender, who injected the other guy. Mindbender slowly gets up saying, "Are you going to shoot me?"
Rex glances at the video before looking back at Mindbender and says, "These aren't chemicals or nuclear, are they?"
Rex turned back and forth from Mindbender to the computer screen as Mindbender says, "No. They're something much, much better."
Rex mutters as he looked at the screen, "It is beautiful."
Rex's watch beeps and then he starts to unhook his equipment so he can start downloading then says excitedly, "Nanomites, it's beyond… It's light years ahead of what anyone else is doing in the field."
An alarm sounds dangerously as a mechanical voice says, "Proximity alert."
Rex plugs into the computer and types on a keyboard and started to download as the mechanical voice continues, "Ariel attack imminent. All personnel to the bunker."
Rex watches the download with frustration, "Come on. Come on!"
Rex then notices Mindbender as he closes the bunker door and frantically says, "What are you doing? Don't close that. Don't-"
Rex clenches his jaw as Mindbender speaks, "If we live, I'll show you everything."
The computer beeps, alerting Rex that the download was done. He unplugs his equipment and puts it in his bag. Then as Rex starts to run for the door, the bunker is bombed and his world went black.
+End Rex's Flashback+
Back in the Icecap Base's operation chamber Rex says, "We survived that blast, somewhat."
Rex touches the back of his head as he walks behind Duke and continues, "And Dr. Mindbender and I escaped with his research, which I perfected."
Rex goes to the consol behind Duke, sits in a chair, grabs two controls and finishes, "And which you will now experience first-hand."
Duke tries not to sound worried as he says, "Does Ana know about this? About you?"
The two machines with really large needles move closer to Duke as Rex says, "No, and she never will."
But I'd tell her, Lys thinks angrily.
+Polar Icecap Base, Command Center+
McCullen, Storm Shadow, and the Baroness entered the command center, though the Baroness was wondering where her daughter disappeared too.
The Baroness is brought back to reality when McCullen commands, "Commence the launch sequence."
A male mechanical voice speaks, "Commencing launch sequence. T-minus four, three, two, one. Ignite primary engines. We have ignition."
McCullen is pleased as he watches the missiles as they launch.
+Above the Ice, Base Entrance+
Ripcord, Scarlett, Breaker and the man in black (though at the moment was wearing all white) get knocked around a bit as the ice shook. Managing to make it outside they see a missile break through the ice and shoot into the air.
Ripcord yells over the noise as he tries not to fall over, "They're launching the missiles."
White mask runs back to the snowmobiles, gets into one and drives it out of the entrance. He then launches one of the small missiles attached to the front. The missile hits its mark and one of the missiles carrying a nanomite warhead is blown up.
+Polar Icecap Base, Command Center+
"We just lost the Beijing missile. Warhead three is down, sir."
McCullen is not happy and commands, "Alert all defenses."
"Yes, sir."
Storm Shadow suddenly says almost excitedly, "He's here."
Storm then runs off to confront his rival.
Standing near the command center's entrance, the Baroness's locked away memories start playing themselves again. Suddenly she remembers everything and dashes off unseen in the flurry of activity; I hope I can save Duke before it's too late.
+Above the Ice+
Breaker removes his goggles and says, "What about the other two?"
Ripcord takes off his mask (which blocked his nose and mouth from the cold) and says, "We gotta find the kill switches."
Scarlett shakes her head and becomes the bearer of bad news, "They're already way too far out of range."
Breaker then says, "Somebody has to get up there and shoot those things down."
Ripcord takes off his goggles and says, "Well, I guess that's me."
Ripcord and Scarlett left quickly to get to the Night Raven and Ripcord takes off his white jacket and pants, revealing his black body armor underneath.
Ripcord then climbs into the Raven and says, "Now, this is very cool."
Scarlett appears as Ripcord sits down in the Raven's seat and says, "Yeah, but can you fly it?"
Ripcord says as he looks at the controls and says, "I can fly anything. You just find a way to guide me to those warheads."
Scarlett debates internally on kissing him and says, "Right, Ripcord…"
Ripcord as he fiddles with the Raven's controls and says, "Yeah?"
As soon as Ripcord turned his head toward Scarlett, she suddenly kissed him and says, "Good luck."
Ripcord smiles and says, "Thanks."
As Scarlett goes to climb down, Ripcord says, "Hey, do me a favor?"
Scarlett looks at him and says, "Yeah?"
Ripcord, completely serious, says, "Save Duke."
Scarlett nods and says, "You got it."
Once Scarlett was gone, Ripcord starts the Raven and takes off. Scarlett joins the other two and all together the three of them descend into the hole in the ice that the missile left behind. The three reached the bottom to see a pressure plated walkway.
Breaker says what everyone is thinking, "The floor is pressure-plated and laser-protected."
Scarlett finishes what Breaker was saying, "Anything larger than a quarter that touches the floor gets fried."
+Icecap Base, Operation Chamber+
As the machines get closer to Duke's face, Rex says, "You left me for dead, Duke, and look at me."
The machines laser burns at Duke's neck, just behind his ear as Rex continues; "Now you'll know what it's like to be a monster."
All of a sudden the Baroness appears and smacks Rex over the head, knocking him temporarily out and then press some buttons to make the machines stop and move away from Duke.
The Baroness then rushes to Duke's side and starts to unhook him as she says, "We don't have much time."
Lys is surprised her mom's there, last she checked, her mom hated Duke's guts.
Duke's surprised too as he says, "Ana?"
Ana finishes unhooking Duke from the chair. Once free, Duke sits up and faces Ana, then the two kiss each other. They part and as he runs his fingers through her hair on the left side of her neck, he notices a burn hole just behind her ear.
Duke's about to ask her what happened to her when she seizes up and falls to the floor, not moving, not breathing.
Duke crouches next to her and worriedly tries to shake her conscious as he calls her name, "Ana!"
Rex had woken up and pressed a button, "Security, to the operation chamber!"
Duke whips around angrily and yells, "Rex!"
Rex holds is tablet up and says, "I press this, she dies."
Lys would've disillusioned herself and moved but she saw McCullen and two guards coming this way quickly on the monitors which meant he was very close.
Lys returns to the conversation when Duke yells, "You did this to your own sister!"
Rex narrows his eyes slightly and says, "I loved my sister. Do you have any idea the state she was in with me dead, you gone?"
+Rex's Flashback, Ana's Apartment+
Ana was lying in bed.
[Have you ever felt truly alone? – Rex]
Rex puts a chloroformed cloth over Ana's mouth and nose. He then injects her with the nanomites.
[I gave her a way to deal with the pain. I gave her purpose.]
+End Rex's Flashback+
Duke is furious and furiously says, "You could've stopped all of this just by letting her know you were alive!"
Rex hides partially behind a machine and says, "Science requires sacrifice."
Duke glances down at Ana before looking back at Rex and says, "All she's done was because of you!"
Duke tries to lunge at Rex but Rex moves out of the way as he says, "And because of you, Duke. You abandoned her. Let's not forget that point."
Duke glares at Rex and says, "I'm gonna kill you, Rex!"
The doors to the operation chamber opened with a hiss and McCullen and his two guards walk through. McCullen looks between Duke, Ana and Rex in confusion and says, "Is she still alive?"
Rex nods and says, "For now."
McCullen looks back at Ana and says, "I thought we had complete control. You said this couldn't happen."
Lys clenches her jaw in anger, that bastard knew, I knew he was never good enough!
Rex moves a little closer to McCullen as he glances down at Ana and says, "I didn't think it could. I've never seen anyone override the programming, even momentarily."
McCullen looks at Ana and says in jealousy, "She did this for him."
Rex sounds almost giddy as he looks at Duke, "The pain must have been excruciating."
+Icecap Base, Pressure Corridor+
The man in black's fingertip walks to the door. As soon as MIB gets to the door, Breaker starts explaining, "What you'll have to do it to rewire the laser panel's brain by carefully-"
But the MIB just ignores Breaker and pulls out his knife and stabs the control
panel. Breaker sighs and says, "Or you can just stab it."
Scarlett touches the microphone in her ear and says, "This is Scarlett. We're in."
At the Joe sub, General Hawk demands, "Deploy the SHARC's!"
The SHARC's are then deployed and MARS fights back. Meanwhile in Rex's operation chamber, McCullen shouts into a computer, "Fire up the pulse cannon!"
A male voice on the other end says, "We're on it, sir!"
Duke ignores the shaking from his rescue party and grabs Ana's pulse weapon and fires at the two guards. He goes to shoot Rex and yells, "Put it down!"
Rex just holds up his tablet and holds a finger over a button threatingly as he says, "I'll do it. Your choice, Duke."
McCullen eyes a small flame thrower with interest.
+Icecap Base, Command Center+
A female mechanical voice says, "Missile two, all telemetry and propulsion systems normal."
A sharp whistle attracts a guards attention, as he got closer an arrow hits and kills him, thanks to Scarlett.
The MIB follows and kills another guy. Scarlett and the MIB start to kill everyone in the room. Breaker, also, got a couple of the enemy.
Once everyone is dead, Scarlett and Breaker go to the control tables and press some buttons, which shuts and locks the doors; it also brings up the location of the Night Raven and the two other missiles.
Breaker then attempts to contact Ripcord on the Night Raven, "Ripcord, can you hear me?"
Ripcord replies, "Loud and clear, buddy. Doing Mach 5 and loving it!"
Ripcord looks down at the Raven's controls and mutters, "Come on, girl. Time to show me what you got."
Breaker in the command center looks at the GPS coordinates and says, "Okay, Rip, I have the coordinates of the other two warheads. The closest target is Moscow. You'll have to hit that one first. Target two is Washington."
In the water a pulse cannon beam hits the side of one of the Joe's subs and General Hawk demands, "Somebody take out that damn cannon. There's 200 Joes on that sub."
+Icecap Base, Command Center+
Scarlett responds to General Hawk, "We're on it, sir."
Turning to the MIB, Scarlett says, "All right, Snake, the cannon control room should be right there, where all the laser conduits converge."
The MIB or Snake gives the 'OK' with his hand and runs off to the cannon room.
+Icecap Base, Operation Chamber+
McCullen decides now would be a perfect time to antagonize an angry man with a gun. Lys hopes Duke shoots him.
McCullen says to Duke, "Did you think she loved you? Did you imagine your life with her?"
As McCullen spoke, he stepped in front of the small flame thrower. Duke points Ana's plasma gun at both Rex and McCullen and says, "All I know is, neither one of you deserve her."
Lys smirks in amusement; she was thinking the same thing.
Rex angrily says as he holds up his tablet, "That's it she dies!"
Lys eyes widen in fear as Duke Points the gun at Rex and yells, "Don't do it, Rex!"
When Duke was distracted by Rex, McCullen grabs the small flame thrower and fires at Duke. Duke notices and fires back causing a small explosion, knocking McCullen back and badly burning his face. The explosion also knocked Rex back and knocking the tablet out of his hands.
Duke goes to lunge at the tablet but a pair of white boots stops him, he hopes it wasn't Storm Shadow.
Lys had disillusioned herself when the explosion happened and approached the fallen tablet. She stops just short of Duke and the tablet. Duke and Lys momentarily ignore Rex and McCullen who take the chance to escape.
Lys picks up the tablet as she stares at Duke and says, "Do you love her?"
Duke slowly nods and says, "Yes."
Lys nods and gives Duke the tablet and says, "Good. Take the tablet and head toward the docks, there are small boat-subs waiting. I suggest you hurry before the two escapes."
Lys goes to leave the operation chamber but stops and turns to Duke, "By the way, hurt her again and I'll make sure they'll never find you."
Duke then asks curiously, "Why would Storm Shadow's apprentice care?"
Lys tilts her head and says, "Why wouldn't I care what happens to my mother?"
Duke blinks and Lys leaves but not before grabbing the 5 USB drives filled with stuff about MARS and the nanomites she had downloaded while she was invisible. Lys puts the USB drives in a red silk drawstring bag and puts that bag in her Hipster.
Lys quickly makes her way through the base; she hopes she can find Storm Shadow. She knows she should feel bad for leaving her mother but she knew her mother was in good hands.
After two minutes she eventually spots Storm Shadow and follows him to the pulse cannon room where he was engaging in a fight with Snake Eyes. For some reason Lys's skin started to itch.
Lys approaches the room and sees two Cobra personnel trying to get the pulse cannon working. She quietly approaches them as Storm Shadow tackled a distracted Snake Eyes through the glass wall protecting the cannon operators from the cannon's electrical currents.
The glass flew everywhere, making a crunching sound as Lys steps on the. The two ninja masters landed dangerously close to the pulse cannon's electrical charge.
When Storm Shadow tackled Snake Eyes, Lys killed the two operators with her silenced Uzi. Once the two ninja masters landed they quickly got up and took out their weapons and Storm Shadow says to Snake, "Now you die."
Lys then puts the Uzi away and takes off her mask before turning to watch how two master ninja's fought. The two were evenly matched as their swords clashed making a loud clanging sound each time they did. After a couple minutes Storm Shadow managed to disarm Snake Eyes of his sword.
After a couple of near strikes, Snake Eyes gets away by back flipping over an electrical charge then takes out a pair of metal tonfa's. Two small knives slide of the handles of the tonfa.
Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow clashed again, this time Snake Eyes managed to land several hits, making Storm Shadow bleed.
The two men separate. Storm Shadow takes off his mask and jacket revealing his torso and stomach showing several deep lacerations.
Lys tried to ignore the itch but when she looks down at her hands and recognizes the glowing red runes on her skin. She then realized what was going on.
Lys gets the master ninja's attention when she jumps down and says, "I have a huge problem."
Snake Eyes watches Lys warily as Storm Shadow says, "What kind of problem?"
Snake Eyes honestly though Lys was a beautiful girl, he wondered why she was here with Storm Shadow.
Showing Storm Shadow her hands, Lys says, "Someone is summoning me, from where I can't tell."
Snake Eyes tilts his head, summoning?
Storm Shadow narrows his eyes and demands, "How much time do you have?"
Snake Eyes was confused as the three of them try to ignore the massive shaking from the facility.
Lys shrugs and says, "About a minute or two but it honestly depends on how far away I am from the summoning point. The farther you are the longer it takes whatever you are summoning to appear."
The red from the runes were getting brighter and closer to her fingers, there were several large explosions and the shake was now almost unbearable.
Lys then realizes why the facility was shaking, "Shit!"
Lys ignores Storm Shadow's look she continues, "That creepy doctor or McCullen must've detonated the ice pack."
Storm Shadow's gaze went from Lys's face to her hands where the glowing marks almost reached her finger tips, "Your fingers."
Looking down, Lys quickly says, "I don't have any more time. I'm leaving any second now."
Storm Shadow makes a quick decision, as much fun it is to fight his brother; he made an oath to her mother. He grabs Lys's hand and says, "I will go with you."
Lys goes to open her mouth but Storm Shadow continued, "I made a promise to your mother that I would protect you."
As the runes glowed brighter, Lys digs through her Hipster and grabs the red silk bag and throws it at Snake Eyes and says, "This might help you against Cobra."
Snake Eyes grabs the bag and watches as his brother and his brother's student disappear in a whirl of color. He blinked and tried to process what he'd seen but he couldn't as more Cobra agents appeared he killed them and met up with Scarlett and Breaker.
As they rode the elevator to the service he'd have to tell General Hawk what he'd seen. Snake had a feeling things were going to get interesting, how interesting was anyone's guess.
[1] – Resident Evil: Retribution line from Michelle Rodriguez.
[2]- The Raba H14 Military truck is service with the Hungarian army.
AN: Hey, I hope you all like this. Let me know what you think about it. I can't wait for G.I. Joe: Retaliation to come out on DVD! Also I have a question, which house should Amaryllis DeCobray be in?
A. Gryffindor
B. Hufflepuff
C. Ravenclaw
D. Slytherin