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Damage Report
Roadblock, Shipwreck & Stalker discover the dead Vance Wingfield in Oregon, the satellite dropping menace has been solved and finished, but Destro played a part in the destruction of Chicago & Silicon Valley, so the Joes' work isn't done. Now a little regrouping is in order.
After returning from Oregon, Stalker & General Colton talk about Flint. Lady Jaye's death has really hit Flint hard, his grief increased since he passed up the chance to kill Lady Jaye's killer, Dela Eden. Stalker points this out to Colton and promises to keep a closer eye on Flint. Visiting Lady Jaye's grave in Arlington National Cemetery, Flint is confessing about how he has lost his way without her and misses her desperately. He pours out his flask and says "one thing I've learned from you; from the messed up world you left me in; when you've got the enemy in your sights always take the shot."
Gen. Colton then confronts Storm Shadow. Colton demands honesty from him and asks for more information on the captured Baroness.
In a dream, the pregnant Baroness is in the Night Raven on Cobra Island. Cobra Commander appears on a screen antagonizing her and by remote control starts the take off of the plane she is in. As it takes off, the Baroness is able to scramble into the small recon jet attached to the Raven, and get away from the plane just before it explodes. Neither Destro nor Cobra Commander realized the Baroness escaped. The Baroness wakes up in her bed, imprisoned in the bottom of G.I. Joe base, The Rock.
Stalker, Roadblock, & Gen. Colton talk about the missing Duke. Duke has gone on a highly classified mission, so classified that neither Colton nor Stalker can access it. Duke's secret mission really has Colton bothered because he is not able to keep control of what the entire team is doing. Next, they move onto Scarlett who has been missing in action, after going to investigate Cesspool. As they are accessing the data on Scarlett, Snake-Eyes arrives. Shipwreck makes a date for his planned leave.
In his submarine in the Pacific, Destro and his son Alexander talk about how they have covered there tracks in regards to their involvement with Vance Wingfield. They also talk about an order for weapons coming in from the Middle East, and a planned trip to Beijing. Destro leads his son to a chamber that holds the captured Scarlett, who is alive, chained up and angry.
Stalker and Roadblock visit the paralyzed Hawk in Maryland. They ask him about where Duke is and Hawk's very bitter response is that he is doing "his duty".
Duke is fighting some where in South America where he is speaking Portuguese as his small hired band of soldiers assaults a small village. One of his men, Guadalupe, is killed in the assault.
In The Rock, Colton and Stalker give Snake-Eyes access to their tracking systems so he can find Scarlett. Scarlett and Snake-Eyes each had a micro-homing device implanted so they can find each other. The search shows that Scarlett is in the middle of the Pacific north of Hawaii.
The Past Comes Back
A deceased undercover agent in the Dreadnoks organization has shot some video footage of Zarana, Roadpig & Thrasher talking about Zartan returning to his old base in the Florida Everglades. Gen. Colton, Stalker & Storm Shadow are watching this footage. Homeland Security has just finished its investigation and is abandoning the Dreadnok base they have been searching in the Everglades. Colton sends them on a covert mission to discover why Zartan is returning.
Before leaving Stalker talks to his son Jamal, and Storm Shadow, looking at a picture of his uncle the Hard Master, talks about how he was framed by Zartan for the Hard Master's murder. Storm Shadow feels that the many years under the brainwashing of Cobra has confused him on whether he is seeking revenge or has forgiven Zartan, either way they are about to confront each other.
As Zartan, Zarana, & Zanya arrive in the Everglades, they leave Buzzer, Ripper & Torch at a drinking hole as their back up.
At the abandoned Dreadnok camp Storm Shadow and Stalker sneak in to investigate. Storm Shadow senses someone and they separate to find them. Zandar shoots Stalker with an arrow that has a slow acting poison, which begins a fight between them ranging from thrown fists to thrown grenades. Just as Zandar is about to get the upper hand, Storm Shadow comes in to save the day. Zandar ends up opening a hole in the ground that both Stalker and Storm Shadow fall into apparently trapped.
Flashback:
Location: Lady of Valour Orphanage
Zandar as a child is trapped in a box that his sister Zarana has just let him out of. He complains about how his older brother Zartan is such a jerk because Zartan was the one who locked him in the box. Jimmy Blanch had been picking on Zandar by locking him in this box on previous occasions. Zartan said he was going to protect him, and instead locked him in the box. Zartan, a teenager, has just left the orphanage where he and his younger brother and sister have been staying. Zartan hitches a ride with a friendly trucker. Zartan has a family photo, which contains a mom, dad, older brother (Zartan), younger sister (Zarana) and then a younger brother (Zandar). At one point the trucker catches Zartan in a lie about his name; he says °If you're going go around assuming a fake ID, you better lie better than that." A news report comes over the radio about a boy who died in a fight at the orphanage (Jimmy Blanch) and the child that fled (Zartan). As Zartan exits the truck, the trucker leaves him with this advice "You're free to be whoever you want to be now. You can't be the old you anymore, so make a new you, hell make three, just be careful sometimes it's easy to forget who the real you is."
Back in the Everglades, Zartan and his daughter Zanya, along with Zarana are preparing to go to the abandoned base. Zandar arrives with the news about the captured Storm Shadow and Stalker. When the rest of the family arrives to see the captured Joes, Zandar opens the hole to discover they have escaped. Zarana calls the Dreadnoks to come back them up.
Summaries by: Josh Eggebeen
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