OPERATION: MIND MENACE

EXT. EASTER ISLAND - SUNRISE
FLASH
Talk about close!
AIRBORNE
Hey, Flash, any way we can reach the kidnap victim?
FLASH
Negative, Airborne. She's lashed down tight.
AIRBORNE
Then we gotta take it down however we can without harming the hostage.
FLASH AND AIRBORNE
Yo Joe!
FLASH
Airborne, another FANG, twelve o'clock low!
AIRBORNE
This clinches it! Cobra's gotta have a base around here!
FLASH
Yeah, guess that's why they've been tryin' to shake us ever since we got on their tails in Honolulu.
AIRBORNE
And all this time I thought it was your breath!
EXT. AIRPORT - NIGHT
INT. AIRPORT - OBSERVATION ROOM
PARAPSYCHOLOGIST #1 (COMM.) [Frank Welker]
No need to be nervous, Tommy. This isn't a test like the ones at school. It's more like, um, like an expieriment.
INT. AIRPORT - LAB
TOMMY [Michael Horton]
I know, to see if I've got psychic powers.
PARAPSYCHOLOGIST #1
Not psychic. Psionic.
PARAPSYCHOLOGIST #2 [Arthur Burghardt]
Abnormal abilities that you may be able to control.
INT. AIRPORT - OBSERVATION ROOM
LADY JAYE
Airborne never told me his brother might have psi powers.
DUKE
He wouldn't, Lady Jaye. Says it spooks people.
OBSERVER [Frank Welker]
Duke, Tommy tells us that years ago, each brother felt that he could sense the other's thoughts. So let's see how much hidden talent he's got.
INT. AIRPORT - LAB
PARAPSYCHOLOGIST #2
Okay, Tommy, just try to get a mental image of which card I flip over.
TOMMY
And find the card that matches, right? No sweat.
PARAPSYCHOLOGIST #2
No, that's not it.
PARAPSYCHOLOGIST #2
No... No.
INT. AIRPORT - OBSERVATION ROOM
DUKE
Doesn't look like the kid's got the goods.
LADY JAYE
Well, I don't care if Cobra is trying to use psi powers as weapons, Duke. I still don't like the idea of recruiting civilians.
INT. AIRPORT - LAB
TOMMY
I'll...I'll get it this time. I'll concentrate.
TOMMY
I just can't get a picture. I guess I blew it, huh?
PARAPSYCHOLOGIST #2
Are you kidding? Look at the way you spread these cards around the room!
PARAPSYCHOLOGIST #1
Tommy, it looks like you're a telekinetic. You may have the power of mind over matter.
EXT. EASTER ISLAND - VOLCANO
FLASH
These guys don't know when to quit.
AIRBORNE
Guess we'll have to teach 'em, then!
AIRBORNE
There she is, dead ahead!
FLASH
Just be careful of these weird statues.
AIRBORNE
Tell it to the snakes, ol' buddy!
FLASH
We're hit!
INT. AIRPORT - LAB
TOMMY
No!!! Frank...my brother....
INT. AIRPORT - OBSERVATION ROOM
DUKE
What's wrong with him?
OBSERVER
I think it's the psionic link with his brother. Tommy said it's happened before when one of them was in extreme danger.
INT. AIRPORT - LAB
PARAPSYCHOLOGIST #1
Who are you? What is the meaning of this?
STORM SHADOW [Michael Bell?]
There he is! The kid! He's the last one on the list! Grab him!
TOMMY
Hey! Let go of me! Stop it! What do you think you're....
INT. AIRPORT - OBSERVATION ROOM
DUKE
Cobra agents, here?
INT. AIRPORT - CORRIDOR
DUKE
Let him go, or you're fried snakes!
TOMMY
Duke! Don't worry about me! Go help Airborne; he's in trouble! I know he's....
INT. AIRPORT - LAB
INT. AIRPORT - CORRIDOR
COBRA [Chris Latta]
Now, Carmandy, use your power!
CARMANDY [Michael Bell]
No....
LADY JAYE
Everyone, stay down!
OBSERVER
That thing on his head, it's some kind of flamethrower!
LADY JAYE
No, the old man caused it somehow, with his brain!
DUKE
In that case, we've got big trouble, even if we do get out of here...alive!
EXT. EASTER ISLAND BASE - NIGHT
AIRBORNE
Tom! Tommy!
FLASH
Ah, swell. I guess we should've expected this.
AIRBORNE
It's Tommy! Tommy, my brother! There's something...something the matter!
COBRA OFFICER [Michael Bell]
If I were you, I wouldn't play hero.
FLASH
Yeah? Then let's try twenty questions. The girl you kidnapped: who is she? What do you want with her? And why are you....
COBRA OFFICER
Quiet! If you flyboys are so bright, you can figure it out for yourselves...if Cobra Commander lets you live long enough. Take them inside!
EXT. AIRPORT
DUKE
There they are. C'mon.
LADY JAYE
Right behind you!
DUKE
We've got a plane to catch!
INT. COBRA VTOL PLANE - COCKPIT
DESTRO
Quickly! I grow impatient!
EXT. AIRPORT
DUKE AND LADY JAYE
Yo Joe!
INT. COBRA VTOL PLANE - CARGO HOLD
COBRA COMMANDER
What? Your latest captive is the brother of a G. I. Joe?
DESTRO
Only a minor drawback, Commander, and far outweighed by recent developments. The psi amplifier works perfectly. You recall Carmandy, the one who starts fires with his mind?
COBRA COMMANDER
Yes.
DESTRO
The amplifier increased his pyrotechnic power a hundredfold, allowing us to escape with the boy, Thomas Talltree. Young Thomas is a telekinetic, and more powerful than we dared to hope.
COBRA COMMANDER
And you are certain he won't turn this power against us?
DESTRO
Quite certain. The neural disruptor will prevent that, as it has with all the others.
COBRA COMMANDER
And what of G. I. Joe? Will they not come after him?
DESTRO
Eventually.
COBRA COMMANDER
We must evacuate the training camp on Easter Island and destroy it. Cobra!
INT. COBRA VTOL PLANE - COCKPIT
DESTRO
Sky Hawks! Your friends have come after you sooner than I'd expected, but they shall be easily dispensed with. And your powers, Thomas, shall do the dipsensing.
EXT. WASHINGTON, D.C. - COBRA VTOL PLANE
LADY JAYE
Lady Jaye to Duke. They've got Tommy, all right.
LADY JAYE
What the devil was that?
DUKE
Whatever it was, we're goin' down! We've got to ride 'em out. There might be people down there.
DUKE
Lady Jaye, bail out now!
LADY JAYE
Roger!
DUKE
You okay, Lady Jaye?
LADY JAYE
Put it this way: If I die in the next few minutes, it'll be of embarrassment. Will you look at that? They'll be sand blasting that monument for weeks!
INT. EASTER ISLAND BASE
DESTRO
G. I. Joe will be pursuing the boy and their two comrades as well.
COBRA COMMANDER
Then let us make examples of these two.
AIRBORNE
You don't scare us.
FLASH
Yeah, do your worst, snake breath!
AIRBORNE
What are you gonna do with my brother?
DESTRO
How can it matter to you? You are about to die.
AIRBORNE
You'd deny a dying man his last request?
COBRA COMMANDER
A point well taken. This is one of our several top-secret training camps for psionically gifted individuals.
AIRBORNE
You mean Cobra's kidnap victims, like that Hawaiian girl and Tommy!
COBRA COMMANDER
The out-of-body traveler and the telekinetic? Exactly.
EXT. EASTER ISLAND BASE - NIGHT
COBRA COMMANDER
When these psionics have been taught total mastery of their powers, Cobra will control an arsenal of living weapons deadlier than anything the world has ever known.
AIRBORNE
What if your trainees won't cooperate?
DESTRO
They become cooperative very quickly. The neural disruptor sees to that.
AIRBORNE
Tommy!
TOMMY
I don't wanna hurt anybody, especially not my own brother.
AIRBORNE
Tommy.
FLASH
I see it, but I don't believe it.
TOMMY
Please don't make me hurt my brohter.
COBRA COMMANDER
Bring their weapons here. Excellent. Lower the cages!
COBRA COMMANDER
The time locks will open in forty-five seconds, which will leave you a few minutes to play with the Muai before the whole island explodes.
COBRA COMMANDER
I regret we cannot stay, but our base atop K-12 awaits us.
DESTRO
Quickly, Commander.
COBRA COMMANDER
I should enjoy watching these two be destroyed.
FLASH
Looks like the rats have fled the nest.
FLASH
Hey, Airborne, I hope you've made out your will!
AIRBORNE
Oh, that's great, Flash. I like your positive attitude.
AIRBORNE
I don't know how much longer we can keep up with this tapdance.
FLASH
What difference does it make? With Cobra's underground base blowin' up all around us, if these stone bozos don't get us, the blasts will.
AIRBORNE
Terrific!
EXT. PACIFIC OCEAN - EASTER ISLAND
LADY JAYE
But Duke, how can we be sure Tommy was taken to Easter Island?
DUKE
We can't. But that was Airborne and Flash's last known location.
LADY JAYE
Duke! What's that?
DUKE
Follow me and ask questions later.
EXT. EASTER ISLAND COAST - NIGHT
FLASH
Maybe our luck's just changed!
DUKE
Looks like we lost Cobra!
AIRBORNE
Yeah, but they couldn't resist boasting about their base atop K-12.
DUKE
That's in the Himalayas.
AIRBORNE
Duke, I need to stop off at Headquarters. If we're going after Tommy, there's something I need to pick up first.
EXT. K-12 BASE (V.O.)
COBRA COMMANDER
G. I. Joe will never trace us here, Destro.
INT. K-12 BASE - COMMAND CENTER
DESTRO
No, but only if those Joes on Easter Island perished. Because of your indiscretion, we must take extra precautions. I suggest we execute defense plan B.
COBRA COMMANDER
Very well. You may change the guards.
CARMANDY
You are releasing me. Why?
COBRA OFFICER #1 [Chris Latta]
Cobra Commander has a job for you.
COBRA OFFICER #2
You'll all be helpin' defend our fortress.
CARMANDY
What happened to that new kid?
COBRA OFFICER #1
Cobra Commander has special plans for him.
EXT. K-12 BASE - NIGHT
SNOW JOB
This has to be it, Duke. There's nothin' else around for miles.
DUKE
Roger, Snow Job. Then move out!
JOES
Yo Joe!
FLASH
It's that girl they kidnapped in Hawaii.
STALKER
What's she doin'?
FLASH
Just sittin' there, basically. Can't be guardin' the joint. She's got no weapons. No...she's another psionic!
STALKER
What was that?
FLASH
What?
STALKER
You didn't feel it? Somethin'...weird. Inside you for a mo....
FLASH
System malfunction! The laser cannon's on overload!
STALKER
It's gonna blow! Jump!
FLASH
They call her an out-of-body traveler.
STALKER
Say again?
FLASH
Her mind can leave her body and fly around on its own. Come on. If we can make like we're gonna touch her, she'll re-integrate. 'Cause if we move her, she might never find her way back inside her body again. Right?
STALKER
Whatever you say, pal.
HAWAIIAN GIRL [Mona Marshall]
What happened? Who are you?
FLASH
Well, uh, you see, we just chased you halfway around the world, and...
STALKER
Come on, man. We can talk later. Right now we've got a certain snake to deal with!
CARMANDY
I don't want to hurt anyone.
BLOWTORCH
Saints preserve us!
BLOWTORCH
You in there!
CARMANDY
Help! Please!
BLOWTORCH
That's right! You just be makin' them sounds, so I know where you be. 'Cause I be out to freein' ya, not fryin' ya.
BLOWTORCH
Now let's get you outta here.
DUKE
Airborne, you okay?
AIRBORNE
Tommy. This way.
INT. K-12 BASE - COMMAND CENTER
COBRA COMMANDER
They're here! They're inside! Your defense plan is worthless!
DESTRO
Just let the telekinetic do his work.
INT. K-12 BASE - MAIN HALL
SNOW JOB
Open sesame.
LADY JAYE
Clam up and move, says-a me.
BLOWTORCH
Lady Jaye, Snow Job! Here's one of the kidnap victims. I'm thinkin' he'll be needin' a medic.
SNOW JOB
Holy Toledo!
CARMANDY
It's happening just like they said!
BLOWTORCH
What, man, what?
CARMANDY
Traps set by one of us telekinetics, hooked up to a psi amplifier...in central chamber...traps that are in control of...fortress...now!
BLOWTORCH
Duke!
LADY JAYE
Tommy!
INT. K-12 BASE - CORRIDOR
BLOWTORCH (COMM.)
Did ya hear that?
DUKE
Headin' in that direction right now, Blowtorch.
AIRBORNE
Tommy! Tommy! Do you here me, kid? It's your brother, Franklin! Your brother, you know, Airborne!
DUKE
Airborne's got a fix on the kid.
INT. K-12 BASE - CENTRAL CHAMBER
TOMMY
Air...borne?
AIRBORNE
Don't you remember? You gave me that name, when I was made airman.
DUKE
Airborne, stay back! I'll blast an opening!
AIRBORNE
Don't you remember? You used to play with model plans. And you said you wanted to be like me, Airborne.
AIRBORNE
You said you wanted to serve your country, to make me proud of you. I want that, too, but, Tommy...I, aw, gee, I never wanted it like this.
AIRBORNE
Tommy, you made this! For me, remember? It's one of my favorite things! Come on, remember! Please say you remember!
TOMMY
Airborne? Air...borne.
INT. K-12 BASE - COMMAND CENTER
COBRA COMMANDER
The Joes have taken control! We must escape!
DESTRO
Surely, you would not concede failure so soon!
COBRA COMMANDER
I would concede your failure, you arrogant fool!
COBRA COMMANDER
Man your Flight Pods.
COBRA OFFICER [Peter Cullen]
Yes, Cobra Commander.
EXT. K-12 BASE - NIGHT
INT. WASHINGTON, D.C. - NATIONAL MALL
LADY JAYE
Too bad Cobra got away when they abandoned the fortress.
DUKE
What counts right now is that Tommy and all the people Cobra kidnapped are safe. Right, Tommy?
TOMMY
Right, Duke.
AIRBORNE
Yeah, and Tommy, next time someone asks you to participate in an ESP experiment....
TOMMY
Turn 'im down?
AIRBORNE
You know somethin', kid? You read my mind.