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Breaker enters the monitor room to switch shifts with Sparks, only to hear him cursing. "What's wrong?" He asks as he heads over.

"Just lost contact with Gung-Ho, said he heard something to his right, then i hear him yelling in surprise, then this strange sound." Sparks tells him as he looks over his shoulder.

"How many times you run it through the audio records?" Breaker asked.

"Twice; no match. I know the sound, but i just can't name it." Sparks replied. "I already called it in, so-" He starts to add when Duke shows up.

While Cobra Commander and the Baroness are walking away, the Tele-Viper he just spoke with signals the one with the captive. "Tele-Viper 57 to Tele-Viper 21, progress reported to Cobra Commander. Orders are to keep him alive for now." while his visor reads: No holes in the baldy, guys.

After the Dragonfly's land, Nurse Simmons helps Duke get "Lady-Jaye" out and onto a gurney, then gets on her walkie talkie. "Simmons to infirmary, we're on our way."

A while later, the Baroness wakes up to see Simmons facing away from her. She knows how easy it would be to execute her, how many make-shift weapons, but also that she has her orders, find the guidance system component. Since it wasn't at the electronics lab, she ordered Firefly to set his charges after they killed the staff, and to take Lady-Jaye to the base. After hearing Scarlett and that other enemy with the exact opposite of a fashion sense say something about girlfriends and enlistment, she is cleared to leave. She heads down the hall with that damnable classless redhead, but they hear Breaker alert them to an intruder.

"I vas not informed of any backup." She thinks, as she follows Duke to some room, where for a second she thinks it's a drill involving Storm Shadow's rival; one of them anyway, until she sees Duke unmask a young girl she is unfamiliar with, then hears Quick-Kick say what must be her name. "The airvent?...Children these days, no imagination." She thinks as she joins the Joes to a holding area.

Back at the Cobra base, Lady-Jaye is blindfolded, but knows there are three guards behind her, thanks to sensory training Scarlett invited her to do with Snake-Eyes, she also hears Gung-Ho, he is being interrogated. "I said where's the guidance system being kept?!" She hears from some fang face, followed by her fellow Joe's response.

"Up yer ass, next to da stick." Then she hears him grunting in pain. She then hears keys, and a door opening, and has the blindfold removed. "Lady-Jaye? Yoo do enyting to 'er, and ah'll twist all yoo scaly shits in 'alf!" Gung-Ho shouts, then gets kicked in the ribs before she is shackled next to him. "When'd they get yoo?" He asks after they hear the guards leave.

"Not sure how long; i was at the electronics lab when i hear my name, then i wake up at an airfield outside." She tells him. "Be glad you weren't there, all the techie's bodies were charred; it smelled so...ugh, lets just say it'll be a long while before i have any meat products."

At Joe headquarters.

The Baroness was going around the base for potential future reference after avoiding an M.P. who was speaking on a phone in Spanish, when she finds a door with three signs, the lower one made of cardboard with names in a different marker color: Shipwreck, Alpine, Footloose, Dusty, and Thunder. "Joe-ette?" She asks herself, then enters their quarters. "This is...not that bad looking." She thinks, as she looks around.

She sees the photo of the three posing with the formerly blond Joe's missile tank which she forgets the name of, and another of several Joes infront of the base from the Weather Dominator scheme, making her remember being tackled, took her days to get that sand out of her mouth and nostrils.

She notices some more, Lady-Jaye and Flint in front of a Skystriker.

The three women sitting on a giant carrot with 9 others, some Joes, and some of those minor soldiers of theirs, in a parody of the old girder photo.

A few sports trophies.

Another photo of them in random costumes at Hollywood, the one called Cover-Girl, in a startrek* one, raising a fist at the one called Shipwreck dressed as a trucker, while Dusty was in a Lawrence of Arabia one, Recondo was in a lab coat, Blowtorch was a ghostbuster and Mutt was in a toga.

She then is startled by a man in green overalls in the hall. "Hey there, reminiscing?" The person asks.

"Who?..." The Baroness asks before she can stop herself.

The mystery person blinks, "It's me, Josh**." He says, then seems to realize something. "You must have been hit harder then you thought back there."

"Yes, that must be it. Sorry Josh, can't stay." The Baroness says, then leaves. She makes it a dozen yards before she runs into the biggest complication.

"Finally, been looking all over for you." Flint says to her after Stalker points her out to him.

"Of all these people, it has to be this muscle bound bastard." The Baroness thinks, still remembering the island ordeal, how he was holding her down...in her swimsuit...how she felt all..."Focus, Anastasia!" She thinks again, mentally kicking herself.

"Evening there, Flint. What're you two talking about?" She asks him as she nods to Stalker. "How many of these fools go around with berets?" She thought.

"Just about the game tomorrow...Your throat okay?" He asks her while Stalker walked off.

"Yeah, just breathed some in when i was unconscious, I'll get it checked later." She tells him, hoping he'll accept and leave; no such luck.

"One more reason not to take up smoking." He said, with a shrug. "Sorry i couldn't give you those flowers in person, had too much paperwork. Anyway i can make it up to you?" He asks with pleading eyes.

She hesitates, to her dismay, before replying. "I-uh, I'll think of something, i have some stuff to do, Flint. See you later." When she gets around a corner, she stops. "I need only noble Destro's attention, why does that ruffian..." She thinks, then shakes her head.

At the Cobra base.

"Answer me woman, where did you move the laser guidance system!" A Crimson guardsman yells at Lady-Jaye while Gung-Ho is unconscious from a blow to the head.

"I don't know, but i think i saw one at Radioshack the othe-" She tells him, but he gets out this wand thing, out of which a bluish "rope" appears, and hits her with it, and she screams from the hit. Sure, she's been tortured once or twice before, but this is a new experience.

"That was only setting two, you stupid bitch. Tell us where the damn thing is, or I'll raise it to six!" The guard tells her.

At Joe HQ, the Baroness had left the commissary. "Note to self, never ask for gumbo again." she thinks to herself, before she sees one of the Joes support troops, who's records are much easier to access, so she recognizes this one as Mari-something Jordan. A 31 year old from Michigan, with six years of FBI experience.

"How's the chow, Alison?" She asks.

"So, Lady-Jaye's first name is Alison...I'll file that later." The Baroness thinks. "Still a little hoarse from earlier, but fine, thanks." She says, then sees her join a Joe in a green hat and white camo.

She then heads to the hanger, where she sees the blond simpleton and the former actor run past her as she heads to the jet with the name Lady-Jaye stenciled on it, Alice, who's name was on the back of the carrot photo, is sitting in it. "How you feeling, Lady-Jaye? Heard you had an accident."

"Ah, I'm fine. How's my Skystriker coming?"

"Should be ready in an hour."

"Perfect, Alice, just perfect."

At the college library.

A black haired girl walks over to Sandy. "Have you seen Amber? She's not in her room, and was suppose to return that magnifying glass she borrowed."

"Sorry, Megan. She said she was at the store." Sandy says as she looks back from her geography book, and looks at the clock. "Huh, she's a little over due."

At Snake island's chopper pad.

Destro lands his F.A.N.G. and sees a Tele-Viper. "You, tell me what the Commander is up to." He asks.

"Sorry, sir, his orders are to say nothing." The T.V. says, and is shoved when his visor reads: Boss's got a secret.

At another room at Joe HQ.

The Baroness is listening to Duke brag about the device she's been waiting for when "those two" show up once again, so she decides to do something about how annoying they are. "I don't trust that girl." After hearing that, Duke asks "Lady-Jaye" about her throat, he knows how much smoke was in the lab and tells her to have Doc check her out.

In a lookout post on the right side of the base, Green-shirt Indiana is stargazing. "There's Lacerta, and Octans, and Ratt-uh-oh." He thinks. "Breaker, Rattlers coming in fast!, How the hell did they get by our early warning system?" He says into his mic. While watching the AA batteries open fire, he sees a jet take off after them. "Skystriker in pursuit, but where's the rest?" He asks.

Back in the monitor room. "Breaker here, all the rest are out of action, it's just Lady-Jaye up there."

At the last known location, Deep-Six is looking around. "I've reached the coordinates, but no sign of-wait, there it is; what's left of it."

"Is her canopy open, Deep-Six? Over." Breaker asks.

"Affirmative, but no sign of a raft on dorsal sonar, I'll check topside and make a sweep. Over." Deep-Six tells him.

"Roger. Over and out." Breaker replies, then turns. "Just have to wait and see, Flint. Sorry."

"No need to worry about me. Not the first time this has happened." He tells him, despite the look in his eyes.

But then, Flash ran in. "Duke, Flint, the guards for the guidance system; ones dead, the other's out cold, and it's gone!" The trio head over to see Green-shirt Rodriguez on the floor with a knife in her chest, while Blais is lying against the wall, unconscious, but alive.

"If i hadn't lived it, i wouldn't believe someone that young could do this." Flint says, thinking back to a decade ago.

"...I know what you mean, Flint." Duke tells him.

Back at Snake island.

Lady-Jaye and Gung-Ho see a Blue-shirt enter, and she gets an idea. "You there." She says.

"What is it, ya grass stained skank?" He asks with a sneer under his mask.

She takes a breath, which Gung-Ho raises an eyebrow to. "This shackles are chaffing, think you can let me out and switch them."

"Huh, why would i want to do something like that?" He asks her cautiously.

"I might have a way to thank you for it." She says suggestively as she lowered her jacket's zipper a little, just barely showing her bra, and glances up at him. "Or two."

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