The Reckoning
	Short Summary Gen. Colton, Stalker, Roadblock, Shipwreck, Flint & Storm Shadow are retrofitting radar antennas in New Mexico to detect where the next crashing satellite will come from. Firewall has rejoined the team for this mission. A group of Destro's flying robotic Iron Grenadiers attack the antennas. As the Joes defend the antennas, Vance Wingfield begins his process to crash another satellite. The Joes are able to prevent Wingfield from being successful and at the same time have been able to track him. Finally, Duke is on a boat somewhere in the Amazon following a mysterious lead.
	Notes of Interest Firewall Data Desk Profile
	Major Players The Joe Team: General Joe Colton, Duke, Flint, Roadblock, Shipwreck, Stalker, Storm Shadow Special Appearance: Firewall Cobra: Destro, Alexander Destro Additional Characters: Vance Wingfield
Creative Team Written by: Joe Casey, Pencils and Inks: Stefano Caselli, Colors: Kendrik Lim of Imaginary Friends Studio, Lettering: Steve Seeley, Editor: Mike O'Sullivan and Mark Powers
Long Summary The Joe team of Stalker, Roadblock, Shipwreck, Flint and Storm Shadow are in New Mexico retrofitting 27 radar antennas. They have figured out how the satellites that crashed in Chicago and Silicon Valley where controlled. These antennas are going to be able to detect when the next one is going to be crashed and hopefully stop it. Gen. Colton is back in The Rock monitoring the situation and guiding Stalker. They brought Firewall back to the team for this mission. She had been teaching at M.I.T. and working with the feds to fight credit card fraud. She is in charge of operating the antennas. The rest of the team is defense. In Oregon, Vance Wingfield has begun the process of crashing a satellite. He crashed the previous satellites using the same method those satellites caused hundreds of casualties, and millions of dollars in destruction. Destro, who has been supplying Wingfield with the technology, has sent his flying robotic Iron Grenadiers to attack the radar antennas that the Joes are defending. As Wingfield activates his system to contact the satellites which are still above Earth, Gen. Colton and his tech team immediately begin the process of countering Wingfield, as well as tracking the signal. Firewall, who is in control of the antennas which are sending the counteracting signal, activates all 27 antennas and she begins a tug of war with Wingfield over control of the satellites, with the fate of New York City and Washington, D.C. hanging in the balance. Out among the antennas, Flint & Storm Shadow have met the flying Iron Grenadiers in the air, with Shipwreck, Roadblock and Stalker defending from the ground. They are able to take out many of the Grenadiers, but the robots are successful in destroying a couple of the antennas. This effects Firewall's control signal and the satellites above the Earth begin their slid from orbit. Both sides raise their levels to maximum. Destro, still operating from his submarine, has been monitoring both Wingfield's technology, and watching the action of his Iron Grenadiers. The Grenadiers action is being recorded and he plans to use the footage for a sales presentation. Both Flint & Storm Shadow are shot out of the air, Firewall does a little reworking and gains some extra power boost which sends enough power to finally counteract Wingfield's technology. His system overloads and shuts down. Crisis averted. Destro then activates a self destruct of the Iron Grenadiers that blows them all into little pieces. Gen. Colton is able to get a trace on where Wingfield's feed was coming from, and before the Joe team settles in for a moment they are off to Oregon to confront Vance Wingfield. Somewhere in the Amazon, Duke is on a boat speaking Portuguese to the boat driver about their destination and his mercenaries. Summary by: Josh Eggebeen
Number 4, October 2005