CAPTIVES OF COBRA, PART II

EXT. MOUNTAINS - DAY
DUKE
What is it? Scarlett, what's wrong?
SCARLETT
It's our families! Cobra sent out our own families against us!
DUKE
Can you get us past them?
SCARLETT
I think so. In spite of what Cobra has done to them, they certainly won't hurt us.
INT. COBRA HELICARRIER
BARONESS
That's what you think, dearie.
TOMAX AND XAMOT
(X) Indeed. The Joes are in for (T) a bit of a surprise.
BARONESS (COMM.)
Captives, raise your weapons. Fire! Destroy the G. I. Joes! Let nothing stand in your way!
EXT. MOUNTAINS - DAY
SCARLETT
Father, stop. Shawn, Brian, Frank, put down your weapons.
SHIPWRECK
Jesse, it's Uncle Hector. Put your gun down, son!
THUNDER
Mom, Dad, Sis, let me take you home.
INT. COBRA HELICARRIER
TOMAX AND XAMOT
(X) Baroness, (T) the captives (T and X) are resisting.
BARONESS
Yes, but not for long. Dr. Marks, increase the power.
DR. MARKS
No, it could destroy their minds.
BARONESS
Do not argue with me, Doctor. Do it now.
DR. MARKS
Very well.
EXT. MOUNTAINS - DAY
BARONESS (COMM.)
Your weapons! Use them now!
QUICK KICK
Look out!
DUKE
Gung-Ho, take over the rear controls!
GUNG-HO
Gotcha!
DUKE
Take Route B!
LADY JAYE
But that's a dirt road! Any bad bump could set off the crystals!
DUKE
We've got to try it. We need to buy Scarlett and the others some time to stop their families.
INT. COBRA HELICARRIER
BARONESS
Captives, after them!
EXT. MOUNTAINS - DAY
SPIRIT
The captives are trying to resist Cobra's commands, but a greater power controls their minds. To save them, we must find its source.
DUKE
Right, but first we've gotta get 'em off our tail.
SCARLETT
We...we understand, Duke.
DUKE
Good luck to both of us.
EXT. MOUNTAINS - ROUTE B
LADY JAYE
Hey, Gung-Ho, easy with those crystals!
GUNG-HO
You tell that to the bumps in the road.
EXT. MOUNTAINS - ROUTE A
SCARLETT
Scarlett to Wild Bill.
WILD BILL
I read you, Red!
SCARLETT
We're going to try knockout gas. But stand by. We may need you.
WILD BILL
Ready when you are, darlin'.
INT. COBRA HELICARRIER
BARONESS
Faster! Catch up to them!
EXT. MOUNTAINS - ROUTE A
EXT. MOUNTAINS - ROCKY AREA
GUNG-HO
More rocks dead ahead!
DUKE
Easy does it, Gung-Ho.
LADY JAYE
Another jolt like that could be our last.
TRIPWIRE
Lady Jaye sure has a flair for the obvious.
DUKE
I can hear those crystals vibrating.
GUNG-HO
Fasten your seatbelts. It looks like I'm gonna have to blast our way through.
TRIPWIRE
No! It could set off the crystals!
GUNG-HO
Aw, you're right. But if we can't go through it, it's over we go.
DUKE
Uh-oh. The crystals' vibration is increasing!
TRIPWIRE
Hey, let's keep this thing on the road. I left my wings at home.
GUNG-HO
I'll do my best, but no guarantees.
EXT. MOUNTAINS - ROUTE A
SCARLETT
Wait until they're all in sight.
SCARLETT
Hit it!
QUICK KICK
It didn't work!
BARBECUE
Those suits are gas proof!
SCARLETT
I was afraid of that. Lead them this way!
INT. COBRA HELICARRIER
BARONESS
Forget the Joes, you fools! Go after the truck!
EXT. MOUNTAINS - ROCKY AREA
TRIPWIRE
It's almost in the red zone. Needle, don't move another inch!
GUNG-HO
That a baby! That's it, that's it.
DUKE
Gung-Ho, can you get us across?
GUNG-HO
Well, if I don't, you can kiss that ten bucks I owe you good-bye.
DUKE
Keep the ten bucks, pal. You just earned them.
EXT. MOUNTAINS - ROUTE B
WILD BILL
They're in my sights.
WILD BILL
Got 'em!
THUNDER
Sorry, dad.
SHIPWRECK
Don't hurt 'em!
SCARLETT
Hurry. Get the net ready for the pick-up.
SHIPWRECK
Be careful, Wild Bill!
WILD BILL
Not to worry, good buddy. I'll just rock 'em to sleep like babies in a cradle.
INT. COBRA HELICARRIER
BARONESS
Don't congratulate yourselves too soon, Joes. Activate the battle suits.
TOMAX AND XAMOT
Yes, Baroness.
EXT. MOUNTAINS - ROUTE B
BARBECUE
Quick!
SPIRIT
What's wrong?
QUICK KICK
Look!
WILD BILL
Some kinda energy destroyin' the net!
SHIPWRECK
Jesse!
SCARLETT
No!
SPIRIT
They are unharmed.
SCARLETT
The suits protected them.
INT. COBRA HELICARRIER
BARONESS
Dr. Marks, the captives aren't moving. What's wrong with them?
INT. COBRA HIDEOUT - LABDR. MARKS
I warned you! The increased power of the transmission stops all creative thought! You will have to think for them.
INT. COBRA HELICARRIER
BARONESS
Signal our agents to pick up the captives.
TOMAX AND XAMOT
As you wish, Baroness.
EXT. DOCK - DAY
EXT. MOUNTAINS - SHORE
SHIPWRECK
Come on, let's get down there and haul 'em out!
SPIRIT
Don't! Stop!
SHIPWRECK
Get outta my way, Spirit!
SPIRIT
No! You must free their minds before you can free their bodies.
THUNDER
It's a Cobra Moray!
SCARLETT
Wild Bill, keep an eye on them and report their location to Duke.
WILD BILL
Will do, Scarlett.
SCARLETT
Cobra's probably controlling their minds from a nearby base. We've gotta find that base and destroy it. And if anyone can track it down, Spirit, it's you.
EXT. MOUNTAINS - ROUTE B
DUKE
Duke to Dusty.
EXT. MOJAVE DESERT - DAY
DUSTY
Dusty here.
DUKE (COMM.)
You and Footloose meet me at the rendezvous point, on the double.
DUSTY
We're rollin'.
EXT. WOODS - DAY
SPIRIT
This way.
SCARLETT
Cobra could have the entire mountain filled with hidden bases, so keep alert.
DUKE (COMM.)
Duke to Scarlett.
SCARLETT
Yes, Duke.
DUKE (COMM.)
According to Wild Bill, you've got less than five minutes to find the Cobra base before the captives get to us.
INT. COBRA HELICARRIER
TOMAX AND XAMOT
(T) We have visual contact (X) with the Joe vehicle.
BARONESS
Excellent.
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS POINT
BARONESS (COMM.)
Faster, captives! Cut them of!
GUNG-HO
Uh-oh. Do you see what I see.
TRIPWIRE
Yeah. And they're marchin' right at us.
GUNG-HO
Duke, I'm gonna hang a left and put some distance between them and us.
DUSTY
No can do, good buddy! There's a town in that direction. If the crystals explode, everyone could be blown to bits!
GUNG-HO
Aw, great! Now what?
EXT. WOODS - COBRA HIDEOUT
SPIRIT
It's here.
BARBECUE
Look, an antenna!
INT. COBRA HIDEOUT - LAB
DR. MARKS
Baroness, G. I. Joe is here! They've found me!
INT. COBRA HELICARRIER
BARONESS
You have soldiers. Use them!
EXT. WOODS - COBRA HIDEOUT
SCARLETT
Ambush! Take cover!
DUKE (COMM.)
Scarlett, we have thirty seconds to contact.
SCARLETT
Roger, Duke.
INT. COBRA HELICARRIER
BARONESS
Faster, captives, faster! Faster!
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS POINT
DUKE
Dusty, run interference for us.
DUSTY
You got it, Duke. Operation Dust Cloud comin' up!
FOOTLOOSE
Hey, man, it's not stoppin' 'em!
BARONESS (COMM.)
Captives, shoot out their tires!
FOOTLOOSE
How come those civilians can shoot better than you can drive?
DUSTY
Funny, very funny, Footloose!
EXT. WOODS - COBRA HIDEOUT
DUKE (COMM.)
Scarlett, our situation is desperate. The crystals are going to explode.
SCARLETT
Hang on, Duke! We're at the base! We're goin' in!
JOES
Yo Joe!
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS POINT
BARONESS (COMM.)
Concentrate your fire! Break open the ATV!
INT. COBRA HIDEOUT - LAB
SCARLETT
This must be it.
QUICK KICK
Look what I caught. A little snake.
SCARLETT
Is this the machine controlling our families?
DR. MARKS
Uh, yes.
SCARLETT
Then turn it off.
DR. MARKS
I can't. Any attempt to tamper with the machine will destroy their minds!
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS POINT
TRIPWIRE
Duke, those laser blasts are gonna blow those crystals sky high!
BARONESS (COMM.)
Jesse Delgado, drop your weapon and pick up a rock.
INT. COBRA HIDEOUT - LAB
SCARLETT
Duke, what's happening?
QUICK KICK
Hey, our snake is slithering away!
QUICK KICK
He's gone.
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS POINT
BARONESS (COMM.)
Jesse, run to the crystals.
DUKE
It's the boy. I've got to stop him!
BARONESS (COMM.)
Don't move, Duke! Surrender the crystals to Cobra, or suffer the consequences!
BARONESS (COMM.)
Surrender the crystals now, or I'll order the boy to destroy all of you!
DUKE
You won't get the crystals then!
INT. HELICARRIER
BARONESS
It's worth losing the crystals to destroy you.
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS POINT
BARONESS (COMM.)
Make up your mind!
LADY JAYE
Scarlett, the Baroness has given us an ultimatum.
INT. COBRA HIDEOUT - LAB
LADY JAYE (COMM.)
Unless you can free the boy from her commands, we're all gonna be blown sky high.
THUNDER
But that snake said if we mess with the machine, we destroy their minds.
BARBECUE
Ah, he was bluffin'.
QUICK KICK
But if he wasn't?
SHIPWRECK
There's no time to argue.
SCARLETT
Fire!
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS POINT
BARONESS (COMM.)
Your time is up! Prepare to die!
DUKE
Jesse, no! All right, Baroness, you wi... Huh?
LADY JAYE
Our guys destroyed the machine.
INT. HELICARRIER
BARONESS
No, it can't be! Smash the crystals!
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS POINT
DUKE
Jesse....
BARONESS (COMM.)
Smash the crystals! Smash them!
DUKE
Don't listen, Jesse!
BARONESS (COMM.)
Smash them, you little brat!
JESSE
I am not a brat!
DUKE
You most certainly aren't. Come on down from there. Let's get these things off.
DUKE
When I get my hands on you, Baroness....
INT. COBRA HIDEOUT - LAB
SCARLETT
Lady Jaye, Duke, can anybody here me?
DUKE (COMM.)
Duke here. Everything is A-okay.
INT. HELICARRIER
BARONESS
They think that's the end of it? Send out the Rattlers! I'll have those crystals yet.
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS POINT
PATRICK
Feels good to slip out of those snakeskins.
DUKE
We'll have you airlifted out as soon as....
GUNG-HO
Cobra Rattlers, twelve o'clock!
DUKE
Get these people under cover!
DUSTY
There isn't any cover!
DUKE
Then spread them out! Get them away from here!
DUSTY
Okay, Duke.
PATRICK
Me and my boys are stayin'.
GRANDFATHER
We will fight!
COBRA
Cobra!
EXT. WOODS - COBRA HIDEOUT
SCARLETT
Hey, taxi!
WILD BILL
Where to, ma'am?
SCARLETT
The desert, and don't spare the horses!
WILD BILL
Check!
LADY JAYE (COMM.)
Joes, we're under attack. Need air support. Hurry!
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS POINT
LADY JAYE
I repeat, we're under attack! Uh-oh.
MR. BRECKINRIDGE
Get behind these rocks!
MR. KELLY
Come on, Footloose. Let's get outta here!
INT. HELICARRIER
BARONESS
Prepare the grappler.
TOMAX AND XAMOT
Yes, Baroness.
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS
SCARLETT
Ready missile one.
JESSE
I...I wanna help!
VENA
Jesse, come back!
SCARLETT
Missile two!
TRIPWIRE
Wow, look at that monster!
LADY JAYE
We can't stop that thing.
DUKE
We've got to.
INT. HELICARRIER
BARONESS
Engage the grapplers, and be careful.
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS
DUKE
Look! Get as far from it as you can!
SCARLETT
Wild Bill, there's a Rattler on our tail!
GRANDFATHER
Here, take the boy!
VENA
But, grandfather!
GRANDFATHER
Go! Do as I say!
DUKE
Move it!
INT. HELICARRIER
TOMAX AND XAMOT
The crystals are going to explode.
BARONESS
Cut us loose and get us out of here!
EXT. DESERT RENDEZVOUS
BARBECUE
Dad!
QUICK KICK
See anything?
SHIPWRECK
There's Jesse!
SCARLETT
I see them. They're safe.
GUNG-HO
Where's Duke?
LADY JAYE
He was right behind us.
TRIPWIRE
Over there!
DUKE
Is...is everyone okay?
LADY JAYE
We all made it, Duke.
TRIPWIRE
And it's back to square one for Cobra.
JOES
Yo Joe!
EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - EVENING
INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - COMMAND CENTER
COL. SHARP
Citizens, you have our deepest apologies for this incident. We've taken strict measures to make sure this can never happen again.
LADY JAYE
Hey, guys, I hate to spoil the party, but that stolen file contained data on seven Joes. Look.
COMPUTER
Code name: Gung-Ho. Real name: Etienne R. LaFitte. Surviving relatives: one hundred and thirty-seven members of LaFitte clan. Current place of residence: Fer-de-Lance, Louisiana.
GUNG-HO
You don't think the Baroness would mess with my family, do you?
DUKE
Revenge is just her style. Let's go.
EXT. FER-DE-LANCE - WOODS
COBRA
Baroness, we've been walking for hours.
BARONESS
Quiet, you fools! I've found them. Forward.
BARONESS
Now. In the name of Cobra, I make you my prisoners!
BARONESS
Seize them!
LAFITTE CLAN MEMBER #1
But of course, ma'am'selle.
BARONESS
Where are my men?
LAFITTE CLAN MEMBER #2
You mean them?
LAFITTE CLAN MEMBER #2
Have some gumbo, lady.
LAFITTE CLAN MEMBER #1
Ma'am'selle, don't step on little Shoo-Shoo!
GUNG-HO
Thank goodness they're safe.
SCARLETT
I'd say they're more than safe, Gung-Ho.
GUNG-HO
Maybe so, but where's the Baroness?
LAFITTE CLAN MEMBER #1
She say she ran off. I think she do not like gumbo.
MRS. LAFITTE
Etienne, we've expecting you for days! Where have you been?
DUKE
Well, I don't think Cobra will mess with this family again.