An Officer and a Viperman

At the Joe base, a group of Joes are complaining to Sergeant Slaughter about a recent mission gone sour. Apparently, the Cobras knew every move the Joes were going to make, even before they made them. Pathfinder, Ambush and Topside suspect that there’s a traitor in the Joes’ midst. Which is problematic, since the only two people who knew any details about the mission were General Hawk and Sarge and they didn’t even tell the folks involved the plans until right before the mission was supposed to go off.
The three Joes come up with a plan to try and infiltrate Cobra to find out how they know what’s going on and see if they can ferret out who the traitor is. Sarge tells them to be careful and hurry back since the General is bringing back a new secret weapon called the Battle Axe in three days.
The Joes go to a seedy part of town and find a Cobra recruiting poster. Then they find a nearby Cobra recruiting office. Inside, they get recruited and sent off with a bunch of other reprobates to the Cobra Viper Training Center. Before they leave, however, one last recruit jumps on the truck. HE’s a naïve young Southern-sounding man with the first name Hubert who says he’s going to be the best Cobra Viper ever!
At the training center, we get to see Destro in a Smokey The Bear hat, of the sort popular with DI instructors. He welcomes the recruits to the center and gives them the obligatory insult the men speech before sending them off to be trained.
Another Cobra takes over, also wearing a DI hat. He tells the recruits that they’ll have to make it to the top of the waterfall and that the first person to make it to the top gets a bonus of the salaries of everyone who falls in! The recruits then proceed to try and climb the side of the waterfall with several, including a couple Joes, falling in. Ambush makes it to the top, where the DI tells him godo job but that next time he should make it easier to climb to the top by pushing the others in. Ambush then proceeds to push the DI in. The DI is pleased by this, ‘cause y’know, that’s how Cobra’s are.
Switch to another training exercise, this one in the middle of a lake. The recruits are in the water and Undertow says for someone to release the electric eels. This time, instead of fighting his fellow recruits as instructed, Top Side flips Undertow’s boat and sits on top of it. Bwah! Once again, this behavior is encouraged since Cobras are supposed to be sneaky underhanded bastards!
The third test involves a group of recruits running alongside Destro as he drives along in some improbable looking Cobra vehicle. Pathfinder and Hubert are out in front of the pack and doing quite well. Destro (still wearing the DI hat) stops the run and says that clearly the reason Pathfinder and Hubert are doing so well is because they’re cheating! He commends them for their efforts and says they’re exactly the sort that Cobra’s looking for.
Graduation! The recruits are gathered and Hubert is eagerly awaiting the speech that Cobra Commander is going to give. HE talks about what a great hero the Commander is. HE knows the Commadner is a hero because he read about his exploits in his book where he outlines his heroism in chapters one two and three.
Pathfinder and Hubert have a brief discussion on heroism. Pathfinder puts forth the idea that a real hero wouldn’t write a book and TELL you he’s a hero. Hubert, for now, remains unconvinced.
Cobra Commander speaks to the graduates and singles out three for special recognition for their exemplifying of the three Rs of Cobra: Routing, (w)Recking and Ruination! The three Cobras so recognized are Lieutenants Green, Brown and Black who are none other than our own Pathfinder, Ambush and Top Side (in no particular order, since I still am not sure which alias goes with which Joe).
The three Jobras are recognized by being sent to steal the Battle Axe. They still haven’t learned who is the leak though we, the audience, learn that the Joe base is currently in Tokyo Bay. Which makes me wonder why all the recruits are gaijin rather than Japanese. Maybe they’re ex-pats who got sick of teaching English and watching anime.
The Joes proceed to plan the attack on their own base and the plan goes off pretty dang well. Probably because for once the good guys are leading the fight. They manage to help Destro and CC steal the Battle Axe as well as capture Sarge and General Hawk.
Back at the Cobra base the Jobras receive the Award of the Distinguished Two-Headed Serpent and we learn that once again Cobra is strapped for cash as Cobra Commander rather sheepishly admits he can’t pay them the bonuses he promised them. Ambush says something to the effect that serving Cobra is reward enough. CC buys this and heads off leaving the Jobras alone for the moment. Top Side mocks Ambush’s answer and briefly mutters about maybe Ambush is the spy. But the accusations are derailed when Hubert runs up to them and congratulates them on their award. Ambush tells Huber that medals don’t make the man.
Cobra Commander decides to take his three star pupils and show them Cobra’s advantage.
The advantage turns out to be a collection of electronic cockroaches (‘bugs’) that are set to home in on Mrs. Meadows Chocolate Chip Cookies and transmit anything said within 100 yards of them. They can even track the crumbs.
Mrs. Meadows Chocolate Chip Cookies are Hawk’s favorite kind of cookie. Hawk, it seems, isn’t the traitor, but his sweet tooth is.
One of the Jobras nearly blows their cover by saying, out loud, “So General Hawk wasn’t the traitor!” Cobra Commander snorts at this and takes the Jobras to Hawk’s interrogation where they get to see, first hand, Sarge and Hawk refuse to answer any of CC’s questions.
Cobra Commander leaves the room with Destro to try and get the Battle Axe working. While they’re gone, the Joes plot how to bust Cobra’s chops this time around. The Jobras also reveal the secret of the bugs. Hakw has the decency to look sheepish and says he should probably go on that diet now…
The Battle Axe, luckily, was booby-trapped and the General has a plan….
We come back from commercial break to find out that the Jobras were supposedly ‘jumped’ by Sarge and Hawk. Cobra Commander demotes them on the spot and bitches out Destro since these three were his recruits so it’s his fault (this becomes a recurring theme in the latter half of this episode).
We learn that Cobra has fifteen other Joes prisoner when Hawk and Sarge loudly and blatantly discuss plans to move in a new super weapon in front of the bugs. The plans are fake, meant only to draw CC and Cobra into a trap and give the Joes time to escape.
Back at the Cobra base, the three Jobras are put in charge of the stockade. Once the Commander and Destro are gone, they manage to free their fellow Joes and start shooting up the place. The Joes escape and take Hubert, whose since had a change of heart, with them.
What’s weird? Pathfinder says he had a talk with Hubert that helped the guy to change his mind about Cobra. But we never SEE the talk. More in a minute on this.
CC and Destro arrive where the new super weapon is supposed to be being transported through. At first no one is there. “HE stood me up!” Cobra Commander whines. Destro gives a long suffering sigh and says something along the lines of don’t’ tell me, I know, it’s all my fault.
Then, the Joes do show up in force and quickly route Cobra (maybe that’s why it’s one of the Rs of Cobra, they’re always being routed…). Cobra Commander looks up to see Pathfinder, Ambush and Top Side looking down from him from above. He realizes then that his three best recruits were really Joes.
“Kinda destroys your faith in humanity, eh snakeface?” says Ambush. Yes, yes it does. What sort of world is it where the good guys pretending to be bad guys are better at it than the actual bad guys!?
Destro takes the blame again and the Joes are all happy.
Back in Hawk’s office, Hubert asks Hawk “Why would Cobra Commander write all those things in his book if they weren’t true?”
To which Hawk replies: “Because son, he needs trusting people like you to believe in him or Cobra wouldn’t exist.”
Hubert gets irritatingly huffy about how this isn’t fair and how if Hawk’ll let him he’d like to join the Joes. Pathfinder says something about how he bets Hubert’ll be the best recruit the Joes ever had. And then someone brings in the electronic bugs they found and everybody starts stomping on them.
Which is somehow Destro’s fault in Cobra Commander’s eyes.

Sunbow season 1and2
Cobra's Creatures Written by Kimmer Ringwald Mutt, Junkyard, & Ripcord are kidnapped by Cobra, so that the evil scientist, Dr. Lucifer, can test his new invention, High Freq, a device which controls the minds of animals and insects, on Junkyard. Cobra use it to gain control of an army of animals to take over the world, and send Junkyard hunting after Mutt. In exchange for High Freq, Cobra agrees to break Dr. Lucifer's love, Dr. Attilla, out of jail. GI Joe learns of this, and has Scarlett pose as Attilla, but it's obvious to Lucifer she is not Attilla, and Scarlett is captured. Snake-Eyes and Spirit come to the rescue, using Timber and Freedom to sneak into Cobra's jungle castle and rescue Ripcord and Scarlet, and stop High Freq. Countdown For Zartan Written by Christy Marx Cobra kidnaps a French scientist, and Zartan replaces him before he arrives at World Wide Defense Center to complete their database on terrorism. Spirit is suspicious of the doctor, and when he investigates, he is confronted, then captured by Storm Shadow. Freedom escapes, and leads the Joes back to the Defense Center, only to discover that Zartan has replaced the doctor and has set a bomb. While, Joes search for the bomb, Gung-Ho locks Zartan in a prison cell in plain view of Zartan's countdown watch, which unbeknownst to Zartan, Gung-Ho has set ahead. Zartan is fooled, and reveals the location in time for the bomb to be disarmed. That tricky Zartan escapes and Spirit and the real Dr. Metier are saved from death by laughing gas by Storm Shadow. Cobra launches one more futile attack, and all's right with the world.
Cobra Stops the World Written by Steve Gerber Cobra has taken control of the world's energy resources and is demanding that the governments of the world surrender, and for every hour they delay Cobra will destroy one oil tanker. The Joes surmise that Cobra a clocking device are destroying the tankers by remote control, Sparks works on a tracking devise while the Joes travel all over creation trying to find when Cobra is hiding their base. Duke and Ace are captured after being shot down over the jungle and discover a Cobra mining operation. Sparks is able to track the remote detonation and the Joes converge on Cobra's island hideout. The clocking devise is destroyed, but Cobra Commander and Destro escape. Jungle Trap Written by Paul Dini Cobra kidnaps a scientist, Dr. Shakur, and forces him to build the Vulcan Machine, a device that unleashes molten lava from the earth's core on cities. After being shot down, the Joes must travel though the jungle to get to Cobra's temple, freeing the doctor and stopping the Vulcan machine.1/2 Haul Down the Heavens Written by Buzz Dixon Flint, Lady Jaye, and Snow Job accompany a team of scientists to the North Pole, to investigate a disturbance in the aurora borealis, that could melt the polar ice caps. Only after they leave, is that Cobra has replaced one of the scientists with the Baroness. The Joes are chased by a polar bear to the Cobra base, causing the disturbance. Flint and LJ are captured, but Snow Job escapes and calls the Joes. Cobra sabotages the Joes Sky Strykers to keep the Joes from stopping their Ion Attractor to flood the world. Flint and Lady Jaye distract the Cobra soldiers with an off-key rendition of the Marines Hymn and escape. Ripcord is able to fly up to the Arctic Circle and rescue SnowJob, while the Joes use Hovercrafts to sink the Cobra base with their own weapon. Battle for the Train of Gold Written by David CarrenThe Joes are undercover guarding the Bureau of Engraving waiting for Cobra to attack. Cobra forces sneak in disguised as tourist and steal the A-4 cassette, which contains the plans and information about Fort Knox, where the US government has it's gold depository. A huge Joe force is sent to guard Fort Knox, despite it's commanding general's disapproval. Zartan and the Dreadnoks kidnap the general and Zartan impersonates the general, ordering all the soldiers guarding the gold out, then trapping Duke, Scarlett and Snake Eyes inside. Cobra forces load the gold and the three Joes onto a super-train and pull away before the Joes can find the secret tunnel under the depository. Since the Cobra battle most of their air and ground transportation destroyed, they borrow some horses to follow the train. The three captured Joes become expendable and are thrown off the train, but they manage to escape. The other Joes catch up with the train and block the tracks. The train crashes and stops, allowing the Joes to raid the train. Buzzer's chainsaw goes wild during the ensuing fight and cuts the pressure regulator. The Train topples over and exploded. All make it out safely and the gold is returned. 1/2
Operation Mind Menace Written by Martin Pasko Airborne and Flash's helicopter is shot down on an island and are captured. Meanwhile, Airborne's brother, Tommy, is being tested for ESP. Storm Shadow and an old guy with fire coming out of his head kidnap Tommy. Cobra forms an army of civilians with psionic powers. Flash and Airborne manage to escape the island after fighting giant statues. The Joes attack Cobra's base, which is guarded by the psi-army. In the end, Tommy is able to help the Joes and stop Cobra. Storm Shadow has the wrong voice in this episode .Lights! Camera! Cobra! Written by Buzz Dixon In an attempt to make their new GI Joe Movie less 'phony', the movie producer hires on some of the more 'problem some" GI Joes as technical advisors, along with real GI Joe and Cobra equipment, including Cobra's new Firebat. The Dreadnoks are sent to retrieve the Firebat, and one by one take out the GI Joes, including Shipwreck, who tricks the producers into letting him go to Hollywood, only to be arrested, along with Cover Girl. The Joes regroup at the movie set, and when the Dreadnoks attack again, Shipwreck is captured after being knocked unconscious in the Firebat, now on auto pilot and returning to the Cobra base. Using Hollywood Special Effects, the Joes trick Cobra into releasing Shipwreck, and the movie producers get their battle footage when Cobra attacks the movie set. 1/2Cobra's Candidate Written by Gordon Kent A group of Joes are sent to stop a gang from disrupting a political campaign. To enhance the popularity of Cobra's candidate, Robert Harper, Cobra is paying the gang to harass Harper and to support his opponent, Whitter Greenway. Lady Jaye and Scarlett try to tell the gang about Cobra's plot, and meet up with the gang leader's little brother. At a political rally that evening, Cobra blows up several buildings, intending to blame the gang. However, the gang leader's little brother is in one of the buildings and Scarlett has to rescue him. The gang members finally see that Cobra is using them and Harper is exposed as a crook.1/2Red Rocket's Glare Written by Mary Skrenes Destro barely escapes Cobra's jungle temple with the photon disintegrator, a missile warhead of mass destruction. Afterward, Recondo and Roadblock go on vacation, traveling to Roadblock's aunt and uncle's new restaurant, a Red Rocket Drive Thru. The restaurant is being constantly harassed by bikers with ray guns and a guy wanting them to sell the restaurant. The Joes find out that Extensive Enterprises owns the chain of restaurants and investigates. When Cobra Commander goes on t.v. demanding all governments surrender or they will launch their new missiles, the Joes realize the map of missiles match the locations of the Red Rocket Restaurants and scramble all forces. Once all the missiles are disarmed, the Joes gather at Roadblock's aunt and uncle's restaurant, now named The Joes Place. 1/2 stars
Satellite DownWritten By Ted PedersonThe Joes' new intelligence satellite crashes in a remote area of Africa and both Joes and Cobra go after it. However, the satellite has been recovered by the Primords, a group of ape-like primitive people, who think the satellite is a god. The Primords also have captured a group of Joe and Cobra agents. But in the end, the Primords help the Joes stop Cobra from stealing the satellite and in the process the satellite is destroyed. The Joes replace the Primord's satellite "god" with a t.v., which the Primords destroy.Money to Burn Written by Roger SliferCobra invents a device that vaporizes all of the world's money. Cobra then issues their own new currency, in trade for people's valuables, at the Extensive Enterprise Building. Flint and the gang burst into the EE Building, where the Crimson twins are meeting with Gloria Vanderhoss, a rich lady meeting with them to have Cobra protect her valuables. The Joes leave when they get an idea how to deal with Cobra: they kidnap the real Mrs. Vanderhoss, and replace her with LJ. The Joes are able to follow Lady Jaye to Cobra's jet through a holographic mountain, to Cobra's base were Cobra's vaulting valuables and minting Cobra Currency. The Twins discover LJ posing as Mrs. Vanderhoss, and LJ escapes. The reinforcements arrive, and the ensuing battle destroys the Terminal Ignition Transmitter, and it rains Cobra Currency. 1/2
The Phantom Brigade Written by Sharman Di Vono An old gypsy lady gives Cobra Commander three objects which she uses to lure three ghosts, a Roman warrior, a Mongolian warrior woman, and an American WWI pilot, into the service of Cobra. The ghosts are an unstoppable army, but the Joes talk to the WWI pilot and convince him that Cobra is using them. The Joes raid Cobra's castle and with the help of the ghosts, recover the three objects. Once the objects are buried, the ghosts' spirits are finally at peace and leave this Earthly realm.Synthoid Conspiracy Pt 1Written by Christy MarxDuring war games for the military brass on the USS Flagg, the Joes are attacked my Cobra and, unknown to the Joes, the top military officers are replace by Synthoids, exact replicas that are loyal only to Cobra. The Synthoids slash the Joes funding and supplies so the Joes are unable to defend themselves from Cobra then disband G.I. Joe completely. Duke is also captured and replace by a Synthoid.Synthoid Conspiracy Pt 2 Written by Christy Marx The real Duke escapes the Cobra base into a swamp and meets up with Mutt and Junkyard. The Joes secretly get back together. They attack an army base to get the supplies they need to retake headquarters. However, the Synthoids already know their plans because of the Evil Duke. Destro helps them since he's mad at Cobra Comm. He helps them escape when Joe HQ is surrounded, lets them use his aircraft carrier and gives them supplies for their assault on the Cobra fortress. Meanwhile, Mutt and Duke sneak into the Cobra fortress and rescue and The Brass. The fortress is heavily fortified, and most of the Sky Strikers are shot down. Scarlett fakes that her controls are locked and co-pilot Duke ejects. Scarlett now realizes he's a synthoid and follows him into a secret entrance. The evil Duke goes to Cobra Commander. To test if he is the real Duke or not, Cobra Comm. uses the neutralizer. However, it is on its highest setting and melts all the Synthoids. The Joes take out the fortress and then G.I. Joe is restored.
Spell of the Siren Written by Gerry & Carla ConwayThe Baroness barely escapes a Cobra underwater dome with the Conch of the Sirens, who's sound hypnotizes men. However, the Joes capture Destro. The Baroness tests the conch on the Joes in Alaska, but when Cobra Commander wants the conch, she uses it on him and Tomax. Baroness, now in charge of Cobra, attacks Joe headquarters and hypnotizes all of the male Joes and takes them to a Cobra base. The female Joes, and a few guys who were off base, have to rescue them and use an anti-siren to unhypnotize the Joes. In the end, the conch shell is destroyed, making the world safe for men. 1/2 starsTwenty Questions Written by Buzz DixonG.I. Joe's war games are interrupted by Hector Remirez from the tv show Twenty Questions, along with Arnold, a peace activist, who claim G.I. Joe is a fraud, swindling money from the tax payers. Since Duke is off base, Shipwreck is gives them a tour and then takes them to a Cobra base to prove that the Joe/Cobra battle is for real. They are shot down. Cover Girl, Gung Ho, Spirit and Alpine go rescue him from Cobra before Duke finds out. Shipwreck, Hector, Arnold and the cameraman are captured by Cobra and Arnold turns out to be the Baroness. Meanwhile, Zartan steals some explosive and other types of gases and takes it back to the Cobra base. The group of Joes sneak inside and Shipwreck releases laughing gas so that they can escape.The Game's Master Written by Flint DilleLady Jaye, Flint, the Baroness and Cobra Commander are kidnapped by the a wacko named the Gamesmaster. The group must journey through his fairy-like and booby trapped island to escape. Meanwhile, Cobra and G.I. Joe must join forces to find their missing agents and to defeat the Gamesmaster.The Greenhouse Effect Written by Gordon KentCobra steals an experimental non-polluting nitrogen based rocket fuel. The Joes pursue the Crimson Guard with the rocket fuel into a residential neighborhood, where the CG Hides the leaking fuel canister in a greenhouse, before being arrested. Before Cobra can find the fuel, it turns into a super growth formula for a local gardener, Harvey Laffruff. Harvey lugs his gigantic vegetables to the county fair, thinking his plant food is responsible. Both the Joes and Cobra's attention turns to the fair, and during a battle, Harvey's vegetables go haywire, turning the battle into a gigantic food fight. Destro looses the fuel, but retreats with a giant pea. Cobra Commander thinks Destro's nuts, but Destro seeds the world with giant vegetables that start to take over the world. Airtight invents a Super Weed Killer to stop the plants, and Harvey is the hero of the county fair. 1/2The Viper Is ComingWritten By David CarrenBarbeque bought an old firehouse. He receives a series of mysterious phone calls from the "Viper" that turn out to inform G.I. Joe of upcoming Cobra plans or where Cobra bases are. First the "Viper" says: "The Viper is coming 5.75", which turns out to the latitude/longitude of a Cobra Rec Facility. Second, the "Viper" says, "I come on Friday, west corner first." And the Joes stop a Cobra assault at West Point (USMA). Next, the "Viper" says, "Top floor first." So the Joes go to the Extensive Ent. Tower, the tallest building, and find Cobra. And finally, the "Viper" says, "I be there noon today". So the Joes assemble a huge force outside Barbeques' firehouse only to find out the "Viper" was an old window washer with a german accent not a Cobra spy.
The Funhouse Written by Steve Mitchell and Barbara PettyZartan breaks into Lab Central, and kidnaps Dr. Hibentrop, bringing the total to 5 kidnapped scientists. When Cobra interrupts tv to announce their demands, Breaker tracks the signal and the Joes head to South America, even though they think it's a trap. Flint, L.J., Bazooka, Alpine, Tripwire, & Dusty blast they're way into the Cobra fortress before a metal door stops the others. Inside, they face Cobra's Funhouse, a maze of traps, with CC & the bomb that will destroy the island at the end. While the Joes out side try to blast they're way in, the Joes face, Cobra balloons filled with hallucinating gas, a roller coaster though a Cobra shooting gallery, Giant Cobra Comm. jack-in-the boxes, & Cobra tin soldiers. Flint is the last one left, confronting Cobra Commander, who detonates the island. The Joes escape, though they cut to commercial before revealing Flint to be okay, and follow Cobra to the island were they're holding the hostages. They fight Cobra and free the hostages.
Where The Reptiles Roam Written by Gerry & Carla Conway Some Joes infiltrate a Cobra base and find out that Cobra bought a dude ranch in Texas. Wild Bill, Lady Jaye, Bazooka and Alpine go undercover to find out what is going on there. It turns out that at the ranch is next to a solar energy farm, which is what Cobra is really after. LJ is very suspicious. She goes into the barn and finds a secret Cobra base, but is captured, as are Bazooka and Alpine. Cobra Comm. goes on tv and demands a ransom or a city will be burnt. The Joes head for the dude ranch, but are attacked solar cannon. They split up so that the canyon can't pin point them. Then Wild Bill leads a cattle stampede and Cobra Comm., Destro and the Baroness all flee. 1/2Lazers In the NightWritten by Marv WolfmanQuick Kick meets a college student, Amber, during a GI Joe Martial Arts Demonstration at her college campus. Meanwhile, Gung-Ho is captured with Cobra's new laser lash weapon and Lady Jaye is ambushed when Cobra attacks a GI Joe electronics lab. When GI Joe's security codes are transmitted to Cobra, and LJ's Sky Stryker is sabotaged and their new guidance system is stolen, they know they have a Cobra spy in their midst. Unfortunately, Amber to break into the Joe base trying to join GI Joe, and they figure that she is the spy. Amber goes to the Cobra's Snake Island to prove herself. QK follows her, they stop Cobra's Command of carving his face into the moon with his new laser, and both rescue Gung-Ho and the real Lady Jaye. 1/2The GermWritten by Roger SliferPsyudomondo U Bacteria, better known as Bacteria X, is stolen by the Crimson Guard, when they double cross Destro. In usual Cobra form, the Crimson Guard drops the Germ and a growth formula that Destro was working on, and it forms a giant blob that's eating everything in it's path. The Joes throw everything at it from missiles to insecticide, and even send Airtight into the blob with explosive antibiotics. The blob separates in two after the Joes' attack, and one blob is weakened after going through an apple orchard. The Joes figure it's the poison in the apple seeds, so they bombard with blob with apples, which destroys the Germ. 1/2Worlds Without End Part 1 Written by Martin PaskoThe Dreadnoks steal the matter transmuter and its plans. Nearby some Joes are waiting for them. Steeler is beginning to think that the entire Joe/Cobra battle is futile and then he has a close call when the Joes pursue Zartan. Flint and Lady Jaye go to the transmuter research lab but it has been commandeered by Cobra. They are throw off the train, then as the Joes on the hovercraft try to rescue them, the transmuter goes off. The Joes wake up in a similar place, but it looks different. First they think that just a lot of time has past. They find some old Joe equipment. Steeler is stung by some weird bug and becomes ill. In a store the Joes realize that Cobra has taken over the world. They go to Joe HQ, which is all boarded up. They find out they are the only Joes left. They break into groups and try to find out what's going on. Flint, Airtight, and Barbeque are captured by the Dreadnoks, who are police and Lady Jaye, Clutch and Footloose are captured in Cobra's energy net in Washington DC. 1/2Worlds Without End Part 2 Written by Martin PaskoFlint, et al. escape and find out that it is the same day as the accident. They come to the conclusion that they are in a parallel dimension where Cobra conquered the world years ago. Grunt finds Steeler, who had run off, and they discover the skeletons of some Joes, who turn out to be them. The Baroness, who in that dimension is a Joe agent and in love with Steeler helps Grunt and Steeler, and then starts a Cobra civil war between Destro and Cobra Comm allowing the Joes to escape. Steeler, Clutch and Grunt stay behind to help fight Cobra there, and the others go home through the gate.Captives of Cobra Part 1 Written by Christy MarxA chemical reaction goes out of control at a Cobra research lab causing an explosion and the formation of explosive crystals. The Joes go to investigate the lab and find the crystals. Cobra wants the crystals back, but they can't launch a direct assault. So they steal the personal background files of the Joes who are on leave and kidnap their families. They kidnap Quick Kick's mom and dad, Thunder's mom, dad and younger sister, Scarlett's father and three brothers, Shipwreck's nephew, Spirit's grandfather and cousin, and Barbeque's father. They use hypnotic receivers to control their army of civilians and send them to retrieve the crystals. The Joes are recalled from leave because of the emergency. The crystals are carefully loaded onto a ATV and taken down the mountain. There the Joes are ambushed and they realize it is their family members.Captives of Cobra Part 2 Written by Christy Marx Cobra's civilian army can't think for themselves so they are ineffective in stopping the Joes and end up in the river. Cobra recovers them and the Baroness decides to control them herself. The Joes who's family members were kidnapped go off and find the Cobra base where the captives are being controlled from while the other Joes continue transporting the crystals. Scarlett's group finds the Cobra base just as their family members attack the ATV again. The Joes fight their way into the base and find the scientist who created the mind control machine. He tells them there is no way to turn the machine off and if they destroy it it will in turn destroy the minds of their families. Meanwhile, the family members break through the side of the ATV and Shipwreck's nephew, Jesse, is instructed by the Baroness to pick up a rock and approach the ATV. Scarlett and the other have no choice but to destroy the machine. The scientist was bluffing and their families are fine. The Baroness then has a huge Cobra airship try to pick up the ATV with gigantic hooks. However, a Rattler rashes into the hooks sending the ATV plummeting. There is a huge explosion, but everyone is save. Seeking revenge, the Baroness ventures through the swamps of Louisiana to kidnap the family of the eighth Joe on the list, Gung-Ho. But his clam is able to take care of themselves.
Bazooka Saw A Sea Serpent Written by Mary Skrenes While fixing the engine on the hovercraft on a deserted island, Bazooka sees a sea serpent. On board the Flagg they learn that other boats have been attacked. Lady Jaye, Quick Kick and Shipwreck go investigating and sneak aboard Cobra's yacht and find out that Cobra has a mechanical sea serpent holding the shipping lanes for ransom. The controls for the serpent are destroyed and it goes crazy, swallowing the Joes and Cobra Commander, and heads for NYC. LJ and the serpent's creator and try to stop it as the Joes defend the city. Finally the serpent kills itself and all get out safely.
The Traitor Part 1 Written by Buzz Dixon The Joes have a new armor treatment that make their tanks nearly bullet proof. In an effort to attain the formula, Cobra bribes Dusty, who's mother is ill and needs money for medical treatments. Dusty tells Cobra of several Joe secrets and as a result, Duke is put in a coma. Dusty is convicted of treason and sent to jail, but broken out by Cobra.
The Traitor Part 2 Written by Buzz Dixon Dusty joins Cobra and gives them the armor treatment and helps them in obtaining the chemicals needed for mind control gas. A group of Joes are captured and Cobra Commander has Dusty test the gas on the Joes. Dusty turns out to be a triple agent, using the gas on the Cobra troops instead, which neutralized the armor treatment. In the end, Dusty turns out not really to be a traitor, but was just setting up Cobra and Duke was the only one that knew this.Cobra Quake Written by Ted PetersenThe Joes are guarding the delegates at the Third World Council conference in Japan and of course, Cobra wants to stop the conference. First they attack a plane, which they think is carrying the delegates. However, it is a decoy and is actually filled with Joes. Then Cobra plots to stop the conference by causing earthquakes with explosions. Lady Jaye is captured when trying to met with a leading sizemoligist. The Joes rescue her and learn that Cobra has placed bombs three locations and they race off in teams to disarm the bombs. The episode ends with a classic discussion on eating octopus. 1/2
Excalibur Written by Dan Di StefanoCobra Rattlers attack the Flagg as the Joes are heading to England to set up their Anti-Cobra radar system. Storm Shadow's jet is shot down. He crashes into a lake where he discovers Excalibur, King Arthur's legendary sword. By taking the sword, he causes relentless storms. The Joes manage to set up the radar system in a small town. Storm Shadow is spotted lurking around by Footloose, Quick Kick and Spirit and they chase after him. Storm Shadow captures Footloose and QK and Spirit are sent to find him. Meanwhile, Cobra attacks the town and blasts a dam, flooding the town and the radar system. QK and Spirit rescue Footloose and signal the other Joes. Freedom grabs Excalibur while Storm Shadow and QK are fighting and returns it to the Lady In The Lake. The rains finally stop and the Joes rebuild the town.
Cobra Claws Are Coming To TownWritten by Roy and Dann ThomasScript By Carla and Gerry Conway On Christmas, with only a skeleton crew, the Joes find some unwanted stowaways in the toys they collected for needy children- the whole Cobra army shrunken down to the size of bugs. They disable the Joes' defense grid and return to normal size, easily taking G.I. Joe headquarters. Zartan posses as Duke and goes on tv saying the Joes want to take over the world. Then Cobra pose as Joes and attack Keystone City. The Joes escape and have to stop Cobra using Cobra equipment, getting some help from a super-sized Polly.Eua De CobraWritten by Flint DilleAfter a series of robberies (stealing a Egyptian tablet from a British museum and a rare plant from Antarctica), Cobra is able to creates Eu Du Cobra, a perfume that can control the minds of men. The Baroness is sent, wearing the perfume, to a party on the yacht of the multimillionaire bachelor, Socrates Arties (voice- Michael Bell). However, Flint and Lady Jaye crash the party and Destro ruins Cobra's plan with his jealousy.An Eye For An Eye Written by Steve Mitchell & Barbara PettyA Joe convoy carrying an experimental jet is ambushed by Cobra. In the ensuing firefight, a Rattler crashes into a house. The family inside escapes safely, however the father, Charlie Fairmont (voice- Johnny Haymer), blames GI Joe and wants to get revenge with Cobra. He breaks into the Joe base. LJ agrees to help him since she blames herself for the crash. She takes Charlie to a supposedly abandoned Cobra base. However, it isn't and they are shot down and LJ is captured. Charlie helps rescue her and then they take out the Cobra base. 1/2
The Primoral Plot Written by Donald GlutAfter stealing dinosaur bones, and kidnapping Dr. Massey, Cobra is able to clone dinosaurs and creates a dinosaur army which is controlled by Cobra Commander. When Flint, Gung Ho and Scarlett go to investigate an island, they are shot down and then chased by dinosaurs. After disabling Cobra's control over the dinosaurs, the Joes are able to get inside the Cobra base then, and with the control device have the dinos attack the base. The Joes escape with Dr. Massey, but Cobra Commander gets away.Flint's Vacation Written by Beth BornsteinFlint goes on vacation and visits his cousin's family in an experimental housing community, Pleasant Cove. But he discovers that Cobra is secretly hypnotizing the inhabitants and forcing them into slave labor in their underwater terrarium. Before he can warn the Joes, he winds up captured by the Dreaknoks "police" and hypnotized (note: by his own voice). On tv, Cobra is threatening to destroy all vegetation on the earth with a missile if the world doesn't surrender. The Joes see Flint, and immediately know where the base is. Breaker and Bazooka stop the subliminal suggestion at the tv station while the other Joes rescue Flint and the towns people and Tripwire rewires the missile to harmless explode in space. 1/2Hearts & Cannons Written by Alfred Pegal & Larry Houston While looking for a new Cobra weapons range, the Joes cargo jet has engine trouble and Dusty, Footloose & a Mauler all have to bail out over the desert to save the jet. They stumble upon the weapons range, and Cobra's new Plasma Cannon tank. They rescue Dr. Nancy Winters, the tank's developer, who was being held prisoner by Cobra, and loose the Cobra guards in a mind field. Pinned between a sand storm and a squadron of Rattlers, Dusty takes on the Rattlers and finds the Plasma tank, while Footloose and Dr. Wintersteam up with Jabal, a ticked of local with a very big sword, camel, and, better yet, the Mauler. The Mauler goes head to head with the Plasma cannon, and with Dr. Winter's expertise, the badly damaged Mauler destroys the Plasma cannon. Low and behold, Jabal is a King, and Dusty and Footloose are given metals, even though they were more upset Jabal gets the 'chick', as they put it.The Gods Below Written by Gordon Kent The lost tomb of Osiris, an Egyptian god is discovered by an archeologist, Dr. Marsh. Cobra kidnaps him and forces him to lead them to the treasure inside. However, when the archeologist turns up missing, the Joes are sent in. Cobra tricks them into going into the tomb first and setting off all the traps. The Joes are able to escape the tomb, disguised as Cobra soldiers, but that plans ends up backfiring when Cobra Commander forces them to lead him to the treasure the Joes supposedly found. Cobra finds the "treasure" and meets up with the evil Egyptian god Set while the Joes are transported to the Realm of the Dead where they face a trial to weigh their hearts. The Joes are judged worthy to enter when they sacrifice themselves to save their friends when attacked by the other Egyptian gods. Meanwhile CC convinces Set to give him the treasure of Osiris. However, when he brings it to the surface a huge storm is unleashed and Set will take over the world. While being transported to the Realm of the Dead, the Joes convince the Anubis to take them back to the Realm of the Living to stop Cobra. He does and the Joes stop CC and Set.Memories of Mara Written by Sharman Di Vono The Joes are on board the USS Trogan searching for a missing sub, the USS Nerka. Shipwreck rescues a woman named Mara who was took part in a Cobra experiment that turned her into part fish thus she needs to be in water to survive. Cobra has captured the USS Nerka and her crew , and is trying to coerce them to reveal the plans for the ship's weapons system. Cobra is also trying to get Mara back so she doesn't reveal the location of their underwater lab. During all of this , Mara falls in love with Shipwreck and then finally tells the Joes the location of the lab. The Joes divers attack the lab. LJ is captured and nearly turned into a mermaid too, but Mara saves her. They rescue the Nerka and her crew and the Cobra lab is destroyed. Mara decides she has to stay on the tropical island. 1/2
The Wrong StuffStory by Flint Dille and Stanley Ralph RossScript by Stanley Ralph RossCobra uses a shuttle to steal all communication satellites. That means the only television is from Cobra Network Television which provides programs promoting their social messages such as Father's No Beast and new endings to classic movies. The Joes first send three Joes up in Sky Strikers powered by rocket boosters to take out Cobra's satellite. They discover that it is really a space station and are blasted back down to earth. Next they have a space training program to select a group of Joes to go back up. Their Sky Strikers are destroyed again by the Space Station, but the group sneaks inside. Being better trained, they defeat the Dreadnoks and destroy the Space Station, escaping in a Cobra Shuttle, thus saving television.Pit of Vipers Written By Flint DilleScript By James M. WardG.I. Joe's new commander is the supercomputer called Watchdog that sends the Joes all over the planet after Cobra. But Watchdog turn out to have been built by Cobra. So, while the Joes are distracted, Cobra attacks Joe Headquarters with the Pit Viper, a large drilling tank. But the Joes are able stop the Pit Viper and use it to destroy Watchdog. 1/2 The Invaders Written By Dennis O'Neil The Joes are joined by the Soviet Oktober Guard in chasing the Crimson Guard Twins when they encounter two flying saucers that nab the twins as examples of humanity. The saucers then start reeking havoc across the US and the USSR. The Joes and the Oktober Guard join forces to fight the aliens. Snake Eyes and Wong are captured by the aliens and learn that it is really just Cobra. They alert the Joes and OG that instead of the alien's stated target cities, Cobra intends to attack Washington DC and Moscow. Snake Eyes and Wong take control of one of the saucers and destroy the other while the Joes and OG defeat the two cities. 1/2
Cobra's SoundwavesWritten By Ted PetersenUsing their new anti-aircraft soundwave generating gun, Cobra shoots down some Joes' Sky Strikers and captures the Joes. The Joes escape then return to destroy the anti-aircraft gun and to stop Cobra from trying to control the Middle East oil fields. 1/2 The Great Alaskan Land RushWritten by David Carren The Joes are in Washington, transporting federal documents to a new archive. Cobras, disguised as tourists, attack, and the Baroness steals a truck. But not the truck holding the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, but instead one carrying the Seward file. It is the document that states the terms of sales of Alaska from Russia to the United States, and it says the whom ever has the Seal of Alaska owns Alaska. The Seal was transported to Alaska from Russia, but the ship carrying it, the Romanov, sunk and the Seal was never recovered. The Crimson Twins and a con artists named Gorgy Potemkin claim they have the Seal and take over Alaska. The Joes and the Soviet Oktober Guard both figure out that Potemkin's Seal must be a fake an set out to find the real Seal, but both end up being captured by some Cossacks and taken to a hidden Cossack city in Alaska where the Romanov sank. They find the Seal, but are locked in jail and the Cossacks refuse to give them the Seal. Then Cobra attacks and steals the Seal. The Joes and Oktober Guard team up and recapture the Seal. When bad weather keeps any reinforcements from getting them, the Joes and Oktober Guard sail to Juneau on the Romanov. After the Oktober Guard hijacks the ship, and Cobra attacks once more, the Joes finally get the Seal to Juneau and kick Potemkin out of office.Skeleton In The ClosetWritten by Flint Dille It begins with the Baroness getting very jealous and angry at Destro. Then, while trying to sell arms to terrorist is nearly captured by the Joes, but is saved by a mysterious woman. Next, Lady Jaye receives a letter that she has inherited a manor in Scotland. Once there, she knows something is wrong. She stumbled upon Destro's family reunion, and is rescued by a strange man, who turns out to be Flint. The rest of the Joes come in and destroy the house. In the end it turns out just to be a plot of the Baroness to get revenge on Destro, but LJ and Destro really are related. 1/2There Is No Place Like Springfield Part 1Written by Steve Gerber Shipwreck and Lady Jaye rescue Dr. Melany. He tells Shipwreck the secret formula for turning water into an explosive, but gives Lady Jaye the code word for Shipwreck to tell the formula. Shipwreck then wakes up in a hospital. It is years later and he has a wife (Mara who's no longer a mermaid) and daughter. Cobra has been defeated. But Shipwreck thinks he's either crazy or that something is very wrong. He goes to a car wash and is attacked by the Sythoid Joes. The Sythoids then melt, forming a blob that carries Shipwreck off.There Is No Place Like Springfield Part 2 Written by Steve GerberThe blob leaves Shipwreck by his house and he goes to the hospital again. Shipwreck is interrogated, and Cobra find out they need the code word. While he is forced to listen to the entire dictionary, he realizes that his hair really isn't grey and then the real Polly comes in and "kills" the fake Polly. They head for the Cobra base. Polly overhead the secret word and Shipwreck is able to complete the secret formula and the explosion that follows alerts the Joes. Shipwreck realizes that the whole scenario was just a plot to get the formula, even his family. Cold SlitherWritten by Michael Charles HillThe Joes raid the Cobra's secret vault with all their stolen valuables, leaving Cobra broke. While the Joes think that Cobra is washed up and are all goofing off Cobra barrows money and pays Zartan and the Dreadnoks to lip sink to a rock song. Subliminal messages are then added to the song and it becomes an instant success, brainwashing people into going to a Sports Arena for a convert. Even three Joes are hypnotized and go to the concert. The Joes free the crowd and the Joes and then put on a concert of their own, singing the them song.
Season 2
The Rotten EggWritten By Steve Mitchell and Barbara PettyIt begins with the Joes destroying a Cobra weapons lab. Leatherneck receives a letter asking him to attend a military academy's graduation. He goes and discovers that it is the Cobra Elite Corps Academy and it is run by a former promising Marine, McCann, who turned bad. Meanwhile the Joes and Leatherneck are expected at Parris Island (the USMC boot camp) for graduation ceremonies. The CEC Cadets hunt down Leatherneck as a training exercises then head to Parris Island with McCann to destroy Parris Island. Leatherneck escapes (wearing a hospital gown) and manages to get to Parris Island right as the CEC Cadets launch their surprise attack and capture the commandant. Leatherneck wrestles McCann to the ground and the Joes stop the CEC Cadets and Parris Island is saved.CobrathonWritten By Martin Pasko & Rebecca ParrA group of Joes sneak into a Cobra base doing reconnaissance and find some computer print outs and decoder boxes. Sci-FI and Lifeline are captured. At HQ, the Joes discover that Cobra is having a Telethon to raise money for a computer virus that would wipe out the computer systems of the FBI, Scotland Yard, ect. Sci-Fi and Lifeline are tortured as entertainment and the Joes figure out they must be in a casino. Flint and his group are sent to find the studio while Mainframe and Duke head to the location of Cobra's host computer. Flint, et al. are attacked by the Dreadnoks in Vegas and find the studio. They rescue Sci-Fi and Lifeline and Mainframe destroys the host computer just as the virus would have been activated.
Into Your Tent I Will Silently CreepWritten By Buzz Dixon and Michael Charles HillThe Joes are highly annoyed by Cross Country's country music are glad when his tape deck is destroyed during a Cobra battle. When his new tape deck is stolen back at HQ, he intends to find out what's going on and sets a trap. He spots a robotic rat stealing the tape deck and he follows it to a Cobra meeting of the Coil, a group against Serpentor lead by Cobra Commander. All over base the next morning things are turning up missing, including a computer disk. Cross Country manages to escape the Coil and send a message to the Joes. A huge force of Joes is sent in and they destroy the underground base, rescue the slaves and retrieve the missing disk, only to find out that the disk contains a computer game. 1/2Computer ComplicationsWritten By David SchwartzA space probe containing anti-matter crashes into the ocean and both Joes and Cobra try to retrieve it. The Joes are using robot subs, which are reprogrammed to fend off a Cobra sub. Zarana goes to the Joe base pretending to be Sgt. Carol Weebler, a computer specialist and tries to reprogram the robot subs to work for Cobra. She is suppose to kill Mainframe, but ends up falling in love with him. She does eventually end up electrocuting him when the Dreadnok's break in, but rescues him from a bomb. Cobra sends in a huge flying aircraft carrier to get the probe, which the Joes have recovered. Cobra steals the probe and uses the anti-matter to power their aircraft, which then crashes into the USS Flagg. Both sink with the anti-matter aboard.Last Hour To DoomsdayWritten By Tom DagenaisCobra has put a machine called the vortex cone underwater near the Panama Canal. The Joes know about Cobra's plan and intercept Baroness' hydrofoil, but the Baroness escapes. Lady Jaye (disguised as the Baroness) and Flint go to the Cobra base. Lady Jaye access their computer and steals some information before the real Baroness arrives. She and Flint barely escape and return to Joe HQ with the badly damaged computer disk. Meanwhile, Cobra Comm has demanded that the US surrender to Cobra or he will use the giant vortex (which causes huge title waves) to destroy the East Coast. The Joes send a fake fleet out into the Atlantic. Cobra falls for the bait and they know where the underwater base and the giant vortex cone are. The Joes are first pushed back by the BATs guarding the base and must hide in the robots they have with them. LJ and Flint are captured, but escape. They radio Joe HQ. Mainframe has figured out a way to read the disk which contains the plans for the vortex cone and tells Wet Suit which panel to take out. The Joes come out of the robots and attack the underwater base. The base exploded, everything makes it out safely and Shipwreck has a BAT arm stuck on his leg. 1/2Sink The MontanaWritten by David CarrenThe Joes are at the decommissioning ceremony for a battle ship, the USS Montana. However, the Montana's captain, Admiral George Lattimer, has different plans. Cobra seizes the Montana and Lattimer joins Cobra. Gen. Hawk, a friend of Lattimer's, tries to reason with the admiral, but can't. Destro uses the pulse modulator to defend the ship, which causes anything in the surrounding 2 mile radius to loose powers. The Montana heads to destroy the Atlantic Fleet. After the Joes' aircraft and hovercraft are destroyed by the pulse modulator, they launch an unauthorized strike against the Montana using the old wind-driven USS Constitution. The Joes board the Montana just as the Atlantic fleet intercepts the it. Destro sets the automatic gun control and escapes. The fleet fires at the Montana. Lattimer helps the Joes stop the guns, but the fleet continues to fire and sinks the Montana. Lattimer wants to go down with his ship, but Hawk drags him overboard. (Note: Neil Ross does 2 of Hawk's lines)Let's Play SoldierWritten by Sharman Di VonoThe Joes raid a village in SE Asia. The villagers there are collecting tree sap for Cobra. The sap hypnotizes people and Cobra plans to put it in everything from gum to toothpaste. In Bangkok, Leatherneck and Gung-Ho befriend some "dust children" (kids fathered by American GI's who live on the street). One of the kids had stolen a Cobra knife at an inn. The kids lead the Joes back there, where they met up with the Dreadnoks. The Dreadnoks speed away on the a Swampfire and the Joes follow them and are captured. At the airbase, a woman tells the other Joes that Cobra is at her village. But the woman is really Zarana and she leads the Joes into a trap. The kids follow Zarana to Cobra's base and free Leatherneck and the others. Leatherneck stops Dr. Mindbender and a plane carrying the mind control sap. The Joes want the kids to come to the US, but they decide to stay in Thailand. (Note: Neil Ross does all of Beach Head's lines) 1/2Million Dollar MedicWritten by Gerry and Carla ConwayIn the Joe/Cobra battle in the Caribbean, a civilian yacht is sunk. Lifeline rescues the family on board and Bree Van Mark (voice- Sue Blu) falls in love with him. She sends him a series of gifts that only cause more trouble. Cobra is after her father, a wealthy industrialist whose holding include a defense company. But the Joes think that Bree is working for Cobra since some of her gifts, including a gold plated helicopter, have backfires. She flies off in a Tomahawk taking Lifeline with her. They head to a cabin in the Rockies and are followed by Cobra. Lifeline, who is a pacifist, must fend off Cobra until the Joes arrive.Once Upon A Joe...Written by Buzz DixonCobra Stratovipers attempt to steal the McGuffin Device, which no one knows what it really does. However, GI Joe stops them. In the process, the McGuffin device falls from the firebat into the woods and another Firebat crashes into an orphanage. The Joes save the kids then rebuild the orphanage. Zartan goes alone (since the Dreadnoks are engaged in a deep philosophical debate about mints) to recover the McGuffin Device. After wreaking havoc on the construction site, Shipwreck ends up telling the orphans a ridiculous fairy tale about The Duke and his three sons (Leatherhead, Frog Face and Ship Shape) and their quest to get some hamburgers. Beach Head has Shipwreck go check for unexploded missiles in the forest. Shipwreck finds the McGuffin Device and Zartan finds him. However, Zartan's Swampfire is located by the Joes, so she disguises himself as Shipwreck and ends up telling the rest of Shipwreck's story. One of the orphans, Jenny, knows something is wrong and goes off and finds the real Shipwreck. Zartan uses one of the orphans, Bobby (voice David Mendenhall), as a hostage to escape, but Shipwreck stops him and activates the McGuffin Device. The characters from his story come to life and the Cobra jets fall apart. Shipwreck finishes his story. 1/2Glamour GirlsWritten By Beth Bornstein Madame Vail (voice- Mary McDonald Lewis) agrees to sell her youth transference machine, which makes people young (and beautiful), in return for kidnapping some of the world's top models, who's youth and beauty will be transferred to the machine's user. One of these models is Low Light's sister, Una. Low Light and Dial Tone help Una and her friend, Satin, move when the girls receive an invitation for a modeling secession. Upon hearing that Una has disappeared and that the modeling studio is owned by Extensive Enterprises, the Joes get involved and sent Lady Jaye and Cover Girl in undercover as models. They are hypnotized by the camera, as the other models were, and are taken to a dungeon on Madame Vail's island, along with Zarana, who the Dreadnok's hypnotized because she was bossing them around. A group of Joes following LJ and CG are captured, but Zartan releases them so that they will rescue the models and Zarana. Meanwhile, the models bust out of the dungeon and Una is taken to the transference machine. The Joes arrive and Low Light is able to blast the machine and save Una, but Madame Vail is left without a face.Iceberg Goes SouthWritten by Mary SkrenesThe Joes are in an arctic region training and testing new equipment. Iceberg meets up with his girl friend, Mahea, who's collecting tissue samples of animals for her uncle's research at the Tropadome- a large dome that's tropical inside (think Biodome). Iceberg goes there to visit her and is captured by mutant creatures. Inside the Tropadome, Dr. Mindbender is mutating people into animals and creating a mutant army for Cobra. The Joes notice that Iceberg is missing and send Wet Suit and Snow Job after him. Snow Job is then captured. Wet Suit radios Beach Head for reinforcements. The Joes attack the Tropadome only to find out that Iceberg has been mutated into a huge killer whale. Iceberg then escapes and the Joes have to track him down. They reverse the process by feeding him raw meat that turns him human again.The Spy That Rooked MeWritten by Susan K. WilliamsA James Bond type secret agent, Matthew Burke, stops Dr. Mindbender from obtaining some nerve gas. He takes it to a remote base where the Joes are training. Four top Joes are sent to escort the gas to a weapons arsenal. They are ambushed by Cobra, but Burke saves them. But then Burke takes the nerve gas. Eventually, after evading Cobra, the Joes end up captured and Dr. Mindbender gets the gas. With Burke's help they try to get it back, only to have Mindbender throws it at them. When Flint goes to smother it, he learns that it's only cream soda and that they were only a decoy since Zarana had infiltrated the base.Grey Hairs And Growing PainsWritten by Dave Marconi and Rick MerwinCobra steals Madame Versalles youth treatment. The Joes try to figure out why and that leads them to the Ageless Care Spa and it spokespeople, an actress and a pro football player. After being roughed up by the spokespeople, they go to the spa undercover. While in the sun room, Flint, Sci-Fi and Gung Ho age about 50 years and in the steam room Lady Jaye, Mainframe and Dial Tone turn into 7 years old. With the help of the actress, the group goes to a secret Cobra base and manage, with the help of Zarana who's still in love with Mainframe, return to their normal ages and get the formula back. (Note: Takes Place after Computer Complications)
My Brother's KeeperWritten by Buzz DixonIn an effort to fix the Voltronic Galaxider, Cobra recruits a brilliant young quantum physicist named Jeremy Penser (voice- Neil Ross), who's in a wheel chair, at a Science Fiction convention and promise to make him walk in return for his help. Sgt. Slaughter, Sci-Fi and Penser's brother, Timothy, go to rescue him. At first Jeremy refuses to leave and fixes the machine. But then, when forces to use the device on his brother, sets it to overload. While Sarge takes on the Dreadnoks, Tim and Sci-Fi rescue Jeremy.
My Favorite ThingsWritten by Doug BoothSerpentor is stealing personal mementos and things of the historical figures who's DNA was used to create him (and storing them in Cobra Comm's chambers). The next item on Serpentor's list is Ulrik The Batterer's battle ax, Skull Spliter, which is in a weapons museum in The Netherlands. That happens to be the location of GI Joe/NATO war games. Some Joes on their way to lunch are near the museum when Cobra crashes through the dikes. Leatherneck fights with Serpentor and gets the ax. From the Serpentor's face (which takes on the appearance of that part of his DNA), the Joes know that his next target is Dracula. Wet Suit goes in alone to Dracula's castle and is nearly impaled, but saved by Leatherneck. Seeking revenge for ruining his ax, Serpentor throws a dart tips with his venomous blood that ends up stabbing Leatherneck in the back. Lifeline and Wet Suit go to Serpentor's next target in India to get some of Serpentor's blood to create an anti-venom to cure Leatherneck. Serpentor finds King Tashaka's pet giant Cobra, who's venom is the pure form of the venom in Serpentor's blood. Wet Suit has to resort to letting the snake bite him to recover some of the venom. Wet Suit blows up the Cobra mothership, they return home and soon Wet Suit and Leatherneck are up to their usual antics. (Note: Hawk has the wrong voice for one line in this episode)Raise The FlaggWritten by David Carren The Joes stumble upon an oil platform being used by Cobra to try to salvage the anti-matter pod that went down with the USS Flagg and the Cobra helicarrier. (which were sunk in the episode Computer Complications) It's learned that they are resting on a ledge, in range for divers to reach. So a team of Joes are sent to explore the wreckage, with Zartan and his siblings are on their tails. Both groups are captured by an insane Cobra cook named LaCar, and who's maintaining an underwater city in the wreckage. Cobra attacks the oil platform. Depth charges rock the wrecks from the ledge and knock some sense into LaCar. The Joes & Cobra trapped inside team up to use the anti-matter pod to raise the Flagg and the helicarrier. 1/2G.I.Joe and the Golden FleeceStore by Flint Dille Teleplay by Rick Merwin There is a Joe/Cobra battle over the Suez Canal when a spacecraft flies overhead and drops a glowing coil. When Joe and Cobra teams are dispatched to investigate, they are sent back to Ancient Greece. Lady Jaye retrieves the coil, and the Joes and Cobra try to find her. Meanwhile, all are believed to be gods by the locals. Once all the Joes and Cobras are together, LJ zaps the coil again and the group returns home. The spacecraft then takes the coil back and flies off. 1/2The Most Dangerous Thing In The WorldWritten by Buzz DixonCobra takes advantage of Gen. Hawk going to a NATO meeting in Europe and infiltrates the Dept of Defense's computers and promotes Lifeline, Dial Tone and Shipwreck (who's not even in the army) to colonel. The three can't cooperate and are not quite officer material. Cobra capitalizes on the situation and attacks a research lab near the Joes' base. The Joes are defeated easily and fall back to Joe HQ. Hawk arrives in the nick of time and organizes a counter offensive, pushing Cobra back. 1/2Ninja HolidayWritten by Michael Charles Hill Sci-Fi, Wet Suit, Beach Head and Slaughter attack a Cobra base in SE Asia. Back at the hotel Wet Suit gets an invitation to a martial arts competitions hosted by an international criminal. Sarge gets mad and takes a phone call for him, only to be ambushed by ninjas. Sarge finds himself in a bloodsport with the prize being to assassinate Serpentor. While the rest of the Joes look for Sarge, he fights his way through a boxing French chief, a barely dressed native and finally Wet Suit. The Joes arrive and free the captive and Cobra. Comm discovers his assassin is Sarge.Nightmare AssaultWritten by Marv Wolfman All of the Joes are having nightmare involving a huge snake attacking them. At first they feel that it is due to the stress of the situation. As the nightmares continue, it begins to affect the Joes performance fighting Cobra. In fact, Cobra is controlling the Joes' dreams in an effort to disable them. Once the Joes figure out they are all having similar dreams they funnel all their dreams through Low Light, who has long suffered nightmares. Low Light fights Dr. Mindbender, the Somulator is destroyed and all the Joes, especially Low Light, can get a good nights rest. 1/2Joes' Night OutWritten by David SchwartzWet Suit, Leatherneck Dial Tone and their dates attend the grand opening of a trendy new night club. The club turns out to be on a Cobra rocket and is sent into orbit around earth. Cobra demands that Dr. Melany surrender himself and his nitrogen fuel engine over to Cobra or they will detonate the club. Wet Suit goes outside the club and, with Leatherneck's help, disables the bombs. Meanwhile, Dr. Melany surrenders to Cobra. The Joes use the Nitrogen engine to bring the Club back to Earth and Dr. Melany escapes, when all of the Cobra jets with the new engines crash. 1/2Second Hand EmotionsWritten by Gerry & Carla ConwayA group of Joes are attending Lifeline's sister's wedding while other Joes are at a nearby weapons depot testing new armor. The Dreadnoks are able to attach small receivers to the back of the Joes' necks and capture Roadblock. Dr. Mindbender uses an organ to send signals to the receivers that controls the Joes emotions. Lifeline makes a scene at the wedding and the Joes go joyriding on a trolley nearly killing the other Joes. Cobra think they have the Joes completely incapacitated by their overwhelming emotions until the Joes are able to overcome their fears. Serpentor destroys the organ and the receivers are also destroyed.Not A Ghost Of A ChanceWritten by Sharman Di VonoLady Jaye and Hawk are on the tv show Twenty Questions (hosted by Hector Remerez(voice- Neil Ross)) debating with Cobra Comm, Serpentor and Dr. Mindbender whether or not Cobra shot down a prototype jet, the Ghost. Meanwhile, both Joe and Cobra forces search for the two pilots who ejected. Flint think that LJ is cheating on him with one of those pilots, but finds out he's wrong that the end. It all turns out to be a ruse. Hector is actually in a cargo jet accompanying the second prototype Ghost. Serpentor isn't watching the tv and sends Night Ravens after the second Ghost and the battle is broadcast live on national tv. The Joes Conquests and the Ghost shoot down the Night Ravens and the pilots are rescued. 1/2Sins Of Our FathersStory by Steve GerberTeleplay by Buzz DixonCobra Comm tries to communicate with the creature in the pit at Destro's ancestral home in Scotland and fails. Meanwhile, Dial Tone is discharged from the Joes and is hired to work on a communications project that turns out to be communicating with the creature. Flint is sent to spy on Dial Tone in disguise. Dial Tone gets the machine to work and Cobra Comm tells it to destroy Serpentor. Dial Tone learns he was only kicked out of the Joes so he would be recruited by Cobra. The Joes must team up with Cobra to stop the monster. Destro uses his ancestors' chant to lure the creature out to sea where it is buried on the bottom. In the end, Cobra claims victory since the Joes retreated because they were running low on fuel and ammo and Dial Tone was a Joe again. 1/2

In The Presence Of Mine EnemiesWritten by Chris Weber and Karen WillsonSlipstream in his Conquest intercepts a Cobra message, which contains an important command code. A squadron of Night Raven are sent after him. He and one of the Night Ravens crash land on an remote island Cobra base. The Stratoviper, a lady named Raven, is injured and not very friendly towards Slipstream. But when BATs land on the island and start firing on both of them, the are forced to team up and enter the abandoned Cobra base. The BATs chase them through a sub level where they encounter monster which was the result of one of Dr. Mindbender's experiments gone wrong. Slip Stream radios the Joes for help. But when Raven radios Cobra for help, she learns that Dr. Mindbender has been monitoring them all along and she is going to be left there as monster-bait. She and Slip Stream use the intercepted command code to activate the base's self-destruct system. They are rescued by GI Joe and Raven quits Cobra.

Comics#34

The Iron Master, swordsmith of the Arashikage Clan, looks deep into mystical jewels and sees what transpires.
At a Ninja Dojo in the Sierra Mountains, a ninja apprentice named Tiger Claw is kidnapped while Jinx and Snake Eyes are distracted. At the same time in a Red Ninja Temple in Tibet, Storm Shadow, Slice, and Slash discover that Storm Shadow's apprentice, Shadow Strike, has also been kidnapped. Both Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow receive a mysterious message stating "Arashikage Dojo, Midnight" and the ninjas head to Japan.
The Iron Master then delves into the history of the Arashikage Clan, mentioning the four trials, and that Storm Shadow's father, the Hard Master was killed by an assassin. Storm Shadow believes that Snake Eyes caused his father's death, and now serves Cobra Commander.
The Iron Master says that long before Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes began their training, a similar rift was formed between himself and his sword brother, the Black Dragon. The Black Dragon began to rely on guns and failed his ninja training, forming his own army. Black Dragon now looks to gain power from the medallions held by the two apprentices, Shadow Strike and Tiger Claw.
Duke and Scarlett make an appearance discussing the whereabouts of their ninja friend, as do Baroness and Destro (Destro mistakenly calls Storm Shadow's apprentice Quick Strike).
In Japan, Iron Master informs Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow that they must work together to rescue their apprentices. The Iron Master had sent the mysterious messages.
In the Black Dragon's volcano fortress in Peru, Black Dragon reveals his plan. Unite the two medallion halves under the light of the fire moon and gain control over the very heart of the Arashikage. Hearing this, Tiger Claw and Shadow Strike agree to work together to escape.
Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes arrive in Peru with Jinx, Kamakura, Slice, and Slash. Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes stop Black Dragon from harnessing the power of the medallions.
Inside the fortress, Tiger Claw and Shadow Strike escape and battle Black Dragon Troopers with the help of Jinx, Kamakura, Slice, and Slash.
Snake Eyes saves Storm Shadow from being knocked into hot lava, and then the two work together to knock Black Dragon in.
All the ninjas reunite, and state that the next time they meet it will be as enemies, and the last panel shows Black Dragon's hand emerging from the lava.
Notes- Throughout the issue, Shadow Strike appears in a different design than the one shown for the action figure. Shadow Strike's comic attire looks more like Tiger Claw's or Kamakura's, and Slash's comic attire looks like Shadow Strike's action figure. Also, Slice appears in an older uniform, not the one used for the most recent action figures.



In the capital city of East Timbale, Gristle leads an attack of the town with his Headhunters. Sure Fire observes him from a distance, while reconning with his informants. His informants spot a Cobra van enter a warehouse, and he instructs the Joe S.W.A.T. team to raid the building.
Bullhorn rams the entrance with the R.T.V., drawing fire as the rest of the team enters through the skylight. Low Light, Shockwave, and Long Arm quickly enter and meet with Bullhorn, and drive through to a rear room.
Once inside, the S.W.A.T. team finds B.A.T.S assembling weapons mudules. Surmising that the only other man in the room, Hotwire, is controlling the B.A.T.S, they move in to strike. Unfortunately, Hotwire barricades himself and orders the B.A.T.S to attack the Joes. Low Light and Shockwave attempt to break into Hotwire's room while Bullhorn and Long Arm dispatch the B.A.T.S in the R.T.V.
Back on the street, Sure Fire alerts his informants that Gristle and the Headhunters are apporaching their position.
Back in the warehouse, Low Light and Shockwave finally break into Hotwire's room just as he activates more B.A.T.S. The Joes pursuade Hotwire to deactivate the B.A.T.S.
Sure Fire alerts the other Joes to evacuate the warehouse. As Gristle arrives in the Rage tank, Sure Fire's informants convince Gristle to open fire on the factory, demolishing it. AS the smoke clears, the Joes drive past a confused Gristle. Hotwire emerges from the rubble in his Mech, quite annoyed.

Comics#33

A C-130 piloted by Wild Bill tracks Storm Shadow and the kidnapped Scarlett on their CLAW. Wild Bill's passenger, Snake Eye's prepares to bail out.
At the Slient Castle, Destro watches Storm Shadow chain Scarlett in the dungeon over the security cameras. An alert warns Destro of radar masking. As a Cobra soldier watches the C-130 fly overhead from the castle parapet, Snake Eyes makes his descent.
Storm Shadow enters the security room where Destro sits. They see on one of the cameras that Scarlett has already escaped her chains. Storm Shadow grabs a katana and leaves.
Snake Eyes lands and fights the guard on the parapet.
Scarlett makes her way through the castle, hiding from Cobras and Storm Shadow, stumbling upon two Cobras handling a CLAW. At the same time, Snake Eyes makes his way through the castle, Destro confers with Cobra Commander over a viewscreen, and the Red Ninjas emerge from their place of hiding. Scarlett secures the CLAW and pilots it through the halls of the castle, causing chaos among the Cobra troops before escaping through an open window.
As Snake Eyes battles the Red Ninjas and Storm Shadow, the fight brings them out onto the castle parapet once more. The Cobras and Destro make their way up. On the parapet, an unarmed Snake Eyes faces down Storm Shadow and his katana when Scarlett flies by with the CLAW. She grabs onto Snake Eyes and flies away just as Storm Shadow throws his katana at them. Destro and the others arrive a moment too late.
As Snake Eyes and Scarlett make their way back to the C-130, the wrappings on Storm Shadow's forearm come loose, revealing his Arishikage tattoo.

A boy named Adam takes a bike from his house across the seemingly peaceful town of Springfield. Daydreaming, he nearly runs into a limo driven by a Cobra Officer, Scarface. Two Springfield police officers nearly chew out scarface until they realize he is chauffering an incognito Cobra Commander. The limo drives off and the policemen send Adam on his way.
Adam arrives at the Video World Arcade, late for his work. He walks into the basement to find Professor Appel trying to fix the brainwave scanner. The scanner's software has crashed and Adam sits down in front of a laptop to reboot the device.
Scarface and Cobra Commander arrive at the Springfield Museum of Antiquities. The Commander complains about Scarface's chauffering and threatens him when scarface replies sarcastically. The Commander makes his way to the museum's basement and dons his normal attire.
Realizing he's late for his dentist appointment, Adam leaves Professor Appel to fix the scanner alone. Adam is grateful Dr. Bender is such a mellow person or else his tardiness would place him in real trouble. Inside, Dr. Bender explains to Adam that he spends his time thinking of way to alleviate the pain dental procedures cause, showing Adam a new device which he hopes will stop pain in the nervous system. Dr. Bender intends to test the device on himself.
Cobra Commander meets with Destro and the Baroness and begins his morning target practice. He whispers to a nearby Scarface to summon Zartan.
Deep under Springfield, Cora Commander orders Zartan to find out what Destro and the Baroness are planning.
Back in the arcade, Professor Appel checks on Adam through the dental office's security cameras. Seeing the explosions there, Appel assumes it must be a G.I. Joe attack and sounds the alarm.
Seemingly the entire town of Springfild mobilizes, elevating hidden weapons and sending a convoy os HISS tanks and armored trucks to the Broca Medical Complex. Rattlers are even mobilized. Adam calms everyone down, thinking only that Dr. Binder is having a medical emergency. An angry Cobra Commander asks who sounded the alarm while a nervous Appel looks on.
Professor Appel and his daughter Candy are transferred in disgrace to Staten Island, Dr. Binder has a change of personality and calls himself Dr. Mindbender, Adam has his teeth fixed the old fashioned way, and mistrust still remains among the upper echelons of Cobra.

At Cobra Headquarters in Springfield, Cobra Commander concludes a formal meeting, making Tomax and Xamot commanders of the Crimson Guard. Leaving the ceremony, Tomax and Xamot are confronted by other members of the upper Cobra echelons, with each expressing their concerns about the newcomers.
The twins drive to the Arbco Plastic Surgery clinic, where they meet with Dr. "H" and ask about the progress of the Fred Series creations. Walking through the clinic halls, they observe Crimson Guardsmen in various stages of training. Dr. H promises the twins that many Freds will rendezvous with their circus caravan.
ATransporting an Armadillo along route 3 in New Jersey, Flint asks Duke about his new secret unit. Duke evades the question when a speeding van zooms by them. The van is followed by a speeding Arbco garbage truck. When a ladder on the van comes loose and tumbles to the road, the Crimson Twins fly out in front on a Ferret ATV and catch it.
Seeing the stunt, Duke and Flint are reminded of an op they underwent in Trucial Abysmia with Roadblock. In a flashback, Flint recalls the three of them driving in a humvee, chasing down an armored car with two passengers they believe to be Benzheenis. Unbeknownst to them, the passengers of the armored car are actually Tomax and Xamot. To avoid fire, they drive into an oil refinery. Flint drives up to them when Roadblock attempts to hit the twins with his ma-deuce. The twins avoid the blows with some fancy driving, a trick Flint will not soon forget.
Back in the present, Gung Ho and Blowtorch stand guard outside the Fort Wadsworth motor pool when several Joes leave with captured HISS tanks. They have orders from Duke to meet at a testing site. As they drive down the road, Fred I sees them and wonders if some big Cobra operation is occuring. His wife cuts him off before he can contact Cobra headquarters. At that moment, a busload of Freds drive by, prompting more surprise from Fred I. Immediately after, Bongo and Ripcord drive by on their way to Candy's father, causing Fred I to duck down in his seat so as not to be recognized.
Candy and Ripcord arrive at her house. Candy calls for her father, explaining to Ripcord that the back room is off-limits as he has some dumb uniforms from a sacred lodge back there. Professor Appel calls back that he is finishing some lodge business, when in reality he actually has a sketch of the Terror Drome.
The next night, Tomax and Xamot perform stunts on their Ferret ATV in the circus. Cutter and doc are thoroughly impressed with the act, remarking that more Joes should see the performance.

In the London subways, Storm Shadow confronts and bests Slice and Dice, intending to find the location of Firefly. Dice tels Storm Shadow that Firefly is just down the street from their location.
Storm Shadow sneaks into Firefly's building, dodging traps and fighting B.A.T.s. Sorm Shadow discovers he's inside a B.A.T. factory when Firefly appears. The two exchange words as they fight.
Firefly reveals he paid a visit to Storm Shadow's aunt, leaving explosives behind set to detonate if he dies. Storm Shadow then informs Firefly that he kept tabs on him, sending Tripwire and Tunnel Rat to his aunt's house to remove the bombs.
Storm Shadow defeats Firefly, but instead of killing him, he says he found Firefly's sister. Firefly thought her dead, but she was instead taken prisoner. Storm Shadow rescued her and gave her a home in the south of France. He gives Firefly her address, telling him the circle of revenge can end if he wants it.
Storm Shadow leaves Firefly alone in the factory. After a moment, Firefly pulls out charges and sets the place ablaze.

On the USS Flagg, Roadblock hoists down a Pirahna boat as Shipwreck watches. In the command deck, Admiral Keel-Haul expresses his concern to Torpedo about having Shipwreck patrol for the Flagg. Torpedo vouches for Shipwreck.
On Cobra Island, Cobra Commander informs Copperhead of the importance of his mission, as Copperhead takes off in a Moray.
Shipwreck reports an all-clear back to the Flagg when Dial-Tone reports Rattlers attacking. Ace takes on the Rattlers with the Skystriker, but Shipwreck remains the sole support for the Flagg on the water. At that moment, two torpedoes race by, headed for the Flagg. Shipwreck takes out one with the machine gun, but misses the second. He steers into the path of the torpedo, intending to take it out himself. Fortunately, the torpedo had not yet activated the explosive charge, and only collided with the Pirahna.
Copperhead arrives in the Moray and rams the Pirahna, destroying it. Shipwreck bails out, and as Copperhead makes another pass, grapples on and boards the Moray. Shipwreck and Copperhead fight, with Copperhead momentarily gaining the edge.
Copperhead again turns his attention to attacking the Flagg, but Shipwreck isn't quite out of the fight. Shipwreck eventually defeats Copperhead, driving the Moray back to the Flagg.

In Eastern Borovia, Duke, Roadblock, and Scarlett approach a train intending to take its cargo. On the other side of the tracks, Red Star, Horro-Show, and Daina plan the same thing. Both their vehicles accelerate to get in front of the train, collide, and crash. Everyone is fine, but Duke and Red Star remain on the train battling each other! Soon, the two learn they are there for the same purpose - to prevent Borovian terrorists from hijacking a WMD the train is carrying. Unfortunately, their compatriots do not yet know this, and they attack each other as they try to catch up to the train.
Declaring a truce, Red Star and Duke try to stop the train, only to find the throttle has been welded open at full speed. This could lead to a catastrophic crash within a crowded city.
An armored car at the rear of the train opens fire on the pursuing Joes and Oktober Guard. The two factions stop fighting each other and concentrate on the terrorists still on the train. Duke and Red Star decide to take on the terrorist in the passenger cars, as Roadblock and Horror-Show get more agressive in their tactics against the armored car.
Duke and Red Star discover the terrorists are actually Night Creepers in disguise. They meet up with Roadblock and Horror-Show shortly after they make the same discovery. Finished with the Night Creepers, The Joes and Oktober Guard finds their objective - the laser modulator. Red Star declares the temporary truce over as a Cobra helicopter with the Baroness arrives.
As the train rolls closer to the rail yard, a curve in the track allows Red Star to open fire on the train engine with the armored car's turret. This derails the train and both Joes and Oktober Guard jump to their vehicles for safety. The Baroness manages to capture the laser modulator before the train crashes.
Red Star smiles, knowing that once the laser modulator is activated, it will transmit all the data on the Cobra computers back to Moscow. Duke is happy too, for he knows there is installed a virus that will destroy the Russian computers once the data is transmitted there. The Joes' part in the mission was merely a ruse.

While fencing with his Iron Grenadiers at Castle Destro, Nullifiers interrupt Destro to announce their readiness. Destro knows Cobra Commander is spying on him, a revelation that annoys the Commander to no end. He demands to know where the Toxo-Vipers infiltrating the castle are.
Near the castle, Outback returns from a reconnaisance run to his camp where he meets with Sneak-Peek. Nearby Outback finds an antenna and smashes it. The antenna smacks into the head of a Tele-Viper in an underground tunnel. He, a Techno-Viper, and a Toxo-Viper start complaining about their jobs.
Baroness drives up to the castle, informing Destro that his neighbor, Lord Malaprop, is building a structure that abuts his estate. Destro leaves to have words with the Lord, leaving Baroness to resume the training with the Iron Grenadiers.
Back on Cobra Island, Cobra Commander prepares to let his forces attack when a Tele-Viper mentions he cannot reach his counterpart in Scotland.
Outback rips out the antenna, but the Iron Grenadier fencing Baroness overhears it. He tries to get the Baroness to listen to him, but she thinks it is just a feint to let down her guard.
Destro and Lord Malaprop exchange barbs about the construction going on in the property. Lord Malaprop contends it is only a drainage issue.
Under the castle, the Toxo-Viper sets up a poisonous gas to flood the castle.
Destro returns to the castle to find the Iron Grenadier and Baroness still sparring. He grabs the sword, throws it into the ground, and drags off the Iron Grenadier. The sword punctures through the pipe the Toxo-Viper has connected to the gas tank. Inside the castle, Destro has given the Iron Grenadier a civilian disguise.
Sneak-Peek sees the gas escaping the ground and knock out a rabbit. He asks Outback if they brought gas masks when the disguised Iron Grenadier drives out of the castle. Neither Joe recognizes him.
The Iron Grenadier drives the countryside, wondering if Destro is correct in assuming Cobra is setting up an assualt. He drives by several disguised Cobra units.
Destro and Baroness inspect their vehicles, deciding to cover them with hay to hide them from satellites.
Back on Cobra Island, Cobra Commander listens to a report from the Toxo-Viper and decides he has togo over there in person.
Flint and Shockwave arrive at the Joes' camp and hear Sneak-Peeks report as Baroness and Destro eat dinner with some Iron Grenadiers. He decides that they'll inspect Lord Malaprop's construction site the next day.

At a remote Southwestern testing site, Tripwire finds a Cobra rocket trapped in an experimental stasis field. Duke calmly explains that the missile cannot move as he, Tripwire, and Heavy Duty head inside a pueblo.
A frustrated Cobra Commander spies on the site from his Cobra RV and wants to know what happened to their rocket as Dr. Mindbender and Destro surmise the truth. Destro warns Cobra Commander that he should not be sticking his head outside unprotected when the Commander reminds Destro he is wearing his new battle helmet beneath the cowl.
Inside the pueblo, Spirit and Mainframa analyze the Cobra missile and determine they have a few minutes to defuse it. Duke sends Tripwire back out to disarm the warhead as Mainframe spots the spying Cobras.
Destro and Cobra Commander hope Mindbender didn't install the self-destruct mechanism into the new battle helmet, even though Mindbender did.
Hoping to easily disarm the trigger on the warhead, Mainframe lets out a low end EM pulse. This does nothing to the rocket but does initiate the countdown on Cobra Commander's battle helmet!
Baroness takes off in her HISS towards the pueblo, hoping to knock the Cobra missile through the stasis field. She fires on the field, doing nothing except scaring Tripwire. Duke decides they need to counterattack, but in order to do so, they must lift the stasis field off the ground.
Destro determines that the only man capable of defusing Cobra Commander's battle helmet is Tripwire.
The Joes succeed in lifting a portion of the stasis field, which actually makes Tripwire's job a bit harder. Before he can finish, however, Destro flies by in a FANG and abducts him. Spirit rushes to finish the work on the rocket, but isn't sure which wire to cut.
Back at the Cobra RV, Tripwire is handcuffed to Cobra Commander. Tripwire and the Cobras find they have precious little time left before the battle helmet detonates. The RV drives up to the pueblo when Tripwire runs out, dragging Cobra Commander behind him. He tells Mainframe to help him and Spirit to cut the red wire. Spirit disarms the warhead and Mainframe resets the stasis field to lie just above Cobra Commander's skull.
The battle helmet detonates, but thanks to the stasis field, Cobra Commander is spared. The Cobras run off after Destro shoots apart the handcuffs connecting Tripwire and Cobra Commander. Unfortunately, the stasis field generator is destroyed. Mainframe says the hardware isn't quite ready yet.
In the escaping Cobra RV, Dr. Mindbender says he can develop a counter technology to the stasis field.

Comics#32

The Joes are fighting a Destro-led squad of vipers at a port. The tide is turned against the Joes as Cobra unleashes a group flight pods, a new type of technology, on the Joes. These new flight pods not only defeat the Joes and allow Destro to escape (with the help of Scrap Iron) but demolished an operation the Joes that had planned for weeks. These events are told in an after action report by Flint to Duke, who is in his sixties.
In Oregon near Mt. St. Hilary, a large space ship crashes in the forest. This ship has malfunctioned because it was ill-suited for interstellar travel. The ship's energy signature has been spotted and matched to a previous one by Cobra. Cobra Commander has dispatched a squad to retrieve the ship immediately.
A Decepticon, Starscream, in his updated F-16 airplane form, has been monitoring the Cobra forces on Cobra Island. He talks about how he is in an energon deprived state. Starscream has just recently reformatted himself to the current F-16 form that he is in. He also detected the incoming ship.
A Joe team is then sent to the crash site in Oregon. This team includes Snake-Eyes, Airtight, Bazooka, Blowtorch, and Doc and is lead by Flint. They meet up with Spirit, who was near the site of crash and was training some new Joe recruits. Those recruits are Cover Girl, Alpine, and Barbecue.
As the Joes arrive at the crash site they discover that Cobra has beaten them there. A fight begins between the two teams. Snake-Eyes takes out several of the vipers, just as a FANG helicopter is lifting a large tarp covered box out of the forest. Alpine and Bazooka work together to force the FANG to drop its cargo and then Blowtorch destroys it. The cargo is revealed to be a Transformer named Blaster. It is something that none of the Joes have ever seen before.
After returning to The Pit, Spirit and Flint are being de-briefed by Duke. He then introduces them to Scarlett and Stalker, who are also in their sixties. They show Flint and Spirit some archival footage of two Transformers fighting. Those Transformers are Megatron and Optimus Prime. This footage is the beginning of the arms race with Cobra. The Joes job is now to keep World War III from happening.

The secrets of G.I. Joe and Cobra's pasts are revealed as the greatest arms race in history intensifies, blazing a path across the world. Desperate for an equalizer, the Joes raid a top-secret Cobra bunker located in the Everglades. But when Cobra's newly hired Dreadnok biker gang intervenes, will the Joes be too late to gain the advantage and, more importantly, save their Autobot allies?!

FAN-FAVE FIREFLY DEBUTS! Snake Eyes is a hard ninja to kill...which is why COBRA Commander has called in one of his biggest guns to do the job: the assassin Firefly! What is the history behind this COBRA'S rivalry with Snake Eyes? And can the Joes' ninja overcome this deadly saboteur in time to help his teammates retrieve the stolen Transformer technology from COBRA'S secret Arctic base? It's chaos on the ice as the Autobots face off against Destro's deadly COBRA/Decepticon hybrid warriors, with Starscream waiting to pick up the pieces!

AUTOBOT vs. AUTOBOT! It's a robot riot as the new Cold War over the Transformers really starts to heat up! The G.I. Joes and their Autobot allies try to reconcile their opposing views and unite against COBRA... but can they? They're not the only ones whose tempers are flaring, as members of COBRA prepare to foil their increasingly deranged leader's top-secret project...if the mutineers can make it past Firefly and the elite Crimson Guard, that is!

What is the terrible secret buried beneath Cobra Island? Whatever it is, Starscream and Soundwave want it bad... bad enough to destroy Cobra Commander if he doesn't give it to them! Flint and the Autobots must prepare an all-out assault of the island themselves to prevent the villains' evil plans, but can the G.I. Joes count on Snake Eyes to help them...or will his vendetta against Firefly doom them all?

COBRA's plans for domination are in full effect and, thanks to Destro, the Autobots and the Joes are now public enemy #1! Even so, will our heroes be able to thwart Destro's plans? Maybe... but you won't believe who going to help them out. The ultimate retro crossover is about to go out with a bang!

Comics#31

In the Fera Islands in winter, 1938, Major Sebastian Bludd leads an assault squad against a defenseless town. They smash their way into a place of worship, where Bludd finds what Cobra Commander believes is an ultimate weapon - a strange glowing object inside a statue. Bludd is unimpressed, but when he touches it, the building starts to collapse! He thinks it's started an earthquake, but it is in fact the awakening of a giant robot! Megatron tells Bludd that he has found the ultimate power - he has awakened the Decepticons!
In summer of 1939, in Arlington, VA, Sergeant Lorenzo Wilkinson reports for duty. A man named Flint welcomes Wilkinson to something called the Pit, telling him there's a general waiting down the hall to address him and the rest of the best - G.I. Joe.
Wilkinson is followed by a mysterious man who tosses Flint a pair of dice, with snake eyes showing, revealing his identity. Flint chews him out for tossing dice at him and begins to tell him to go meet the general - but Snake-Eyes is already gone.
Soon, in the briefing, the general tells his new team that for the past two years, the United States has been concerned about developments in Europe and in the Pacific Rim. Things have taken a turn for the worse - a team of 12 intelligence operatives went into Western Europe and only two came back.
The two returning operatives - Jaye and Scarlett - take over the briefing. They show images of France's famed Maginot Line, devastated; of Paris, overrun; of Rome, conquered. The emblem on the flags of the conquerors appears to be a Cobra.
The general tells the room that the nation is not prepared for a second world war. The task of G.I. Joe is to break the Cobra's fangs before it comes to that.
Snake-Eyes suddenly notices something up near the ceiling. It has wings, and a vulture's head, and as Duke takes aim with his pistol, it retaliates with a laser that slices the gun in two and pierces Duke's hand. The creature flies away....
24 hours later Laserbeak arrives in the Fera Islands, at Cobra's TerrorDrome headquarters, and reports to Soundwave, revealing the Americans' assault plans. Destro believes they must withdraw forces from Europe to defend the Fera Island and the TerrorDrome. Cobra Commander reminds him that no one knows the fortress even exists outside of Cobra, and if the heroes do find them, they will crush them all. Starscream agrees, saying heroes are born to die - heroes and fools.
At Sumburgh RAF base in Scotland's Shetland Islands, the Joes prepare for a night drop. Grunt complains that they have no intel, no backup, no transports, no artillery and no armor - they're going to get eaten alive. Scarlett shows them a chunk of a battleship hull with a map apparently gouged into the side of it - a map of the Fera islands, along with two symbols - the Cobra, and another they don't recognize. They don't know who made it where it came from, but that's where they're going.
Soon the Joes are on board their plane heading for the drop zone. Along the way they're buzzed by three flying objects - Megatron, Starscream and Soundwave, heading towards Britain. The three Decepticons make quick work of the RAF planes they meet, and prepare to conquer London.
Six hours later the Joes drop into the Fera Islands. Duke is worried that the team hasn't had enough time together to actually function as a team, when they're attacked by a sniper. Two Joes go down, but Snake-Eyes recognizes the sniper - Stormshadow. Stormshadow easily bests his "brother," as he calls Snake-Eyes, in combat, and takes his sword to Snake-Eyes' face...
The Joes retreat into the ruins, and Duke laments about losing so many men. Before they get too far, though, Duke sees something he doesn't expect - a giant metal monster head in the ruins...

Having escaped the ambush from the combined Decepticon and Cobra forces, the remaining G.I. Joe assault team members: Duke, Roadblock, Leatherneck and Scarlett: barricade themselves in the ancient ruins around them: ruins which include the deactivated bodies of more giant robots.
In digging through the ruins, though, they accidentally reactivate the robots' repair system. It launches a satellite to explore and assimilate data, data that it will use to repair the fallen Autobots.
Starscream observes the satellite and says ominously, "my star is rising."
The first Autobot repaired is Ironhide. The Joes quickly attack, but their bullets bounce off him. He manages to catch them before they hit anyone, and tells them to be careful: someone could get hurt.
Not far away, Snake-Eyes and Stormshadow duel on the battlements of the Cobra fortress. Stormshadow has the upper hand and cuts Snake-Eyes across the face, several times. Snake-Eyes holds him off long enough for Stalker to arrive, and Stormshadow is forced to run from Stalker's attack.
Stalker tells Snake-Eyes he's got to get back to Scarlett, their nurse, so she can take a look at his ravaged face. But Snake-Eyes ignores the pain, and takes off after Stormshadow. Stalker says he's seen the way Snake-Eyes and Scarlett look at each other, and he knows she wants to get to know the man behind the mask... but the man doesn't have a face to show her anymore.
Snake-Eyes follows Stormshadow through the forest, stealthily enough to see Stormshadow contact a group of Cobras in a foxhole to set up an ambush. Snake-Eyes sneaks around behind them, and takes them all out before they can make a sound. But he realizes he's lost too much blood. There's only two things that stoop the flow of blood: time, and fire. Since he's out of time, he throws some gunpowder on his face and stands in front of a flamethrower...
Stormshadow calls out to Snake-Eyes, asking him if he's too much of a coward to face him alone. Of course, he's hoping to draw Snake-Eyes into his ambush. Snake-Eyes tosses him the helmet of one of the Cobra troopers, letting Stormshadow know just what he thinks of his ambush. Stormshadow runs.
Back in the ruins, a now reactivated Optimus Prime explains to Duke how the war between the Autobots and Decepticons on Cybertron led them here. Grimlock, Jazz, Prowl, Bumblebee and Hound have also been reactivated. Prime says they have no idea what's going on now, which angers Leatherneck: he says nothing's changed, the Decepticons are just attacking defenseless earth cities. He reminds the Joes that they have a mission to attend to. Hound and Ironhide want to tag along, but Prowl reminds them they don't know what's going on. Grimlock agrees with Leatherneck: regardless of where they are or how they look now, the only good Decepticon is a smashed one.
Starscream continues to eavesdrop, but Megatron sneaks up on him, furious that he's allowed the Autobots to become reactivated. He tells Starscream that no matter what he's plotting, he will never posses the Matrix, or lead the Decepticons. He tells Starscream to transfer the energon cubes to a secure location, and then they'll destroy the Autobots once and for all.
Meanwhile, Destro informs Cobra Commander that they've lost contact with several outposts and with Stormshadow. To Destro's dismay, the Commander sends Wild Weasel and a squadron of Rattlers for recon. He then turns to a monitor bank and addresses a blurry face: "Zartan... come out and play."
Wild Weasel's squadron catches Duke's unit out in the open. Luckily for them, Grimlock's on the scene: in his new tank mode! He blasts a couple of Rattlers out of the sky, confusing Wild Weasel: "I thought the death machine men from the abyss were on our side!" Cobra Commander orders a retreat until the Decepticons can arrive.
Elsewhere, Snake-Eyes enters the Cobra castle in pursuit of Stormshadow. Donning a face mask and borrowing a sword from an ancient body of armour, he finally comes face to face with his blood brother. Stormshadow suggests that Snake-Eyes slay himself, and receive a clean death: because Stormshadow's new friend, Ravage, will offer no such mercy...

The second G.I. Joe strike team, consisting of Flint, Lady Jaye, Beach Head, Breaker, Grunt and Lifeline, waits patiently for the signal from the first team that Cobra's communications systems have been knocked out. When the Cobra/Decepticon seeker jets fly by overhead, Breaker suggests they call in the fleet now: but Flints reminds him of their orders. Once the comm systems are down, team two has to take out the enemy airfield: and then the fleet can be called in.
Elsewhere, Stalker, having been separated from team one, searches for his comrades. After taking out a wandering Cobra, he's almost stepped on by an Aerialbot! The Aerialbot leads him to his teammates, who he informs of his bad news: he lost Snake-Eyes. Duke won't believe it until he sees a body, but Scarlett is visibly upset. Bumblebee tries to help by reminding them that Stalker was lost as well, but he was found.
Before they can look for him, however, Cobra paratroopers begin to descend from the skies, and the Joes and Autobots begin to take heavy fire.
Meanwhile, at the Terror Drome several miles away, Megatron orders Cobra soldiers to move his energon cubes aboard a submarine. Cobra Commander reminds him that he is in charge, and when Megatron objects, the Baroness points her gun: filled with explosive, armor-piercing bullets: at the Decepticon leader's eye. Megatron laughs, but the Commander reveals that he has the Matrix: and he knows how to use it. With it he can inflict pain on, and therefore control, the Decepticons. Megatron relents... for now.
Not far away, Storm Shadow watches as his blood brother Snake-Eyes fights the Decepticon panther, Ravage. Snake-Eyes demonstrates just how capable a warrior he his by quickly dispatching of the beast with a grenade. He then fights his way through another trio of Cobra soldiers before once again facing off with Storm Shadow. They fight, and Snake-Eyes gains the upper hand: but will not kill Storm Shadow. Storm Shadow mistakes this for weakness, and leaps down to a gun emplacement. Before he can turn the weapon on Snake-Eyes however, he learns that Snake-Eyes is not necessarily so merciful: a grenade falls on the ground beside him. Storm Shadow is finished.
The explosions are the signal Flint is looking for. He decides it's time to make the call, and goes to find Breaker. Unfortunately, Zartan has emerged from the water nearby and killed Breaker, taking his place. Flint approaches, and having no idea that Breaker is Zartan in disguise, begins detailing the next steps of the plan...
Elsewhere, Roadblock and Grimlock continue to plow through Cobra gun emplacements, not realizing one of the soldiers is actually not a Cobra at all: it's Rumble in disguise. He transforms his arms to piledriver mode and opens a chasm right in front of the oncoming Autobot tank...

At the Fera Islands, Flint orders Breaker to call in the American invasion force. But he quickly realizes the radio Breaker's using is not theirs: nor is Breaker the same. Flint orders the rest of the team to proceed to the airfield while he takes care of "Breaker": who is now revealed as Zartan.
The two fight, but Zartan has backup: Soundwave. He snatches Flint up, and Zartan tells him to keep him intact, because he knows the Joes' battle plans. Soundwave takes Flint and Zartan back to the Terror Drome.
The rest of Flint's unit takes the airfield with ease: it appears to be unguarded. Beach Head goes on to the tower himself, to find a radio, and tells the rest of the team to get a plane running: if all else fails they can call the fleet from the air.
On an adjacent island, Rumble continues his assault on the Autobots and Joes. They're forced to fall back before the opening fissure, but Scarlett has other ideas. She hopes on top of Bumblebee in his motorcycle mode, and the pair makes a beeline for Rumble. Scarlett uses the "riptide" effect of his earth-shaking as a ramp, and as she and Bumblebee sail over Rumble's head, she deftly drops a grenade on him.
But it doesn't look like it's enough to save Grimlock. The crumbling ground is forcing him down the cliff into the sea, and he tries to hold on long enough for Roadblock to jump off of him, lest he fall in too. But Roadblock tells him "we don't try around here: and we don't quit!" Inspired, Grimlock hangs on long enough for the Aerialbots to merge into Superion and carry him away.
A mile to the north, Stormshadow: somehow having survived Snake-Eyes' grenade attack: attacks again. The pair fight, and Snake-Eyes flashes back to their younger days, recalling everything Stormshadow has since taken from him. As they fall into the water, Snake-Eyes thinks that he has nothing left to lose: nothing but the man who was once his friend and brother. A shark attacks and devours Stormshadow...
At the Terror Drome, Starscream and Destro meet secretly in hidden chambers. Destro reiterates their plan: for the Autobot/G.I. Joe forces and Decepticon/Cobra forces to wipe each other out, leaving the power for Destro and Starscream. And to help them in their goal, Destro reveals the ultimate fusion of Decepticon technology and Destro's own expertise in the art of Destruction: Bruticus!
At the airfield, Beach Head climbs into the tower in search of that radio. Before can make the call, though, he is attacked by Frenzy. On the tarmac, Lady Jaye sees the tower go up in flames. She doesn't know if Beach Head survived or not, or if he got the call out: so they have to take their plane up and try and make the call themselves. Up above, though, Wild Weasel sees their plane taking off...

After a bloody battle with Storm Shadow, Snake-Eyes carries the dying Storm Shadow to a safe place, Storm Shadow's last words are "tell me you understand". Ravage attacks Snake-Eyes from behind, but Snake-Eyes is faster and strikes a killing blow on Ravage.
Destro, Baroness and Dr. Mindbender are torturing the captured Flint asking him about the invasion force that is coming to attack the Cobra fortress.
Beach Head is being chased by Frenzy and his plan is to have Grunt fire his artillery piece when needed. Once Beach Head sets a small explosive on an airplane, he lures Frenzy to the plane, he gives Grunt the signal and Grunt fires, blowing up the plane and destroying Frenzy.
Lady Jaye, in a stolen plane on her way to send the invasion signal, is being chased by Wild Weasel. Doing a slow turn Lady Jaye is able to get into a position to destroy Wild Weasel. She is able to send the signal to Hawk and the invasion force is launched.
Cobra Commander orders all of his slaves brought in as a line of defense against the invasion force. And his back up is Shockwave, who transforms into a massive cannon.
Snake-Eyes, Beach Head, Scarlett, Roadblock and the rest of the Joe team join up with all of the Autobots to continue there attack on the Cobra fortress. The beginning of the attack is supposed to have Superion going in to cover the slaves as Snake-Eyes and Stalker clear them out. But before the plan can get started Superion is almost destroyed by Shockwave. Cobra Commander believes he is about to win.

Grimlock, Bumblebee, Stalker and Roadblock are trying to make an attack on Shockwave. Shockwave in cannon form has been destroying lots of the invasion force and preventing any advance. But he is running low on energy and can't continue his firing. Cobra Commander refuses to allow him to recharge.
Lady Jaye and Duke are surrounded by Major Bludd and the Dreadnoks, after a short fight Flint arrives to help out, but Lady Jaye realizes that it is actually Zartan in disguise and kills him. Duke helps defeat Major Bludd.
The Autobots and Joes have successfully made there way to outside of the fortress. Destro releases his new creation Bruticus, a Transformer that is human made and owes no allegiance to either faction of Transformer only to Destro. Grimlock and Snake-Eyes attack Bruticus, first he is shot by Grimlock and Snake-Eyes' throws a grenade into the damaged area, completely destroying Bruticus but during the ensuing fight with Bruticus part of the fortress collapses, trapping Cobra Commander in the rubble. The Commander demands Megatron to free him. Megatron refuses to help and leaves Cobra Commander to go a seek out the Matrix.
In another part of the Fortress, Destro and the Baroness reveal their love and allegiance then kill Starscream. The Baroness then goes to remove Cobra Commander and gain control of the Matrix.
Optimus Prime is concerned that Megatron has not shown up in the fight goes to confront him directly and win the control of the Matrix. In Cobra Commander's chamber, the Baroness has arrived to see the trapped Commander instead of helping him like he is demanding, she kills him. Scarlett, who has secretly made it into the Cobra's fortress, gets the drop on the Baroness. At the same time, Megatron gets control of the Matrix. As Megatron is growing in power, the only way to stop him is to destroy the Matrix. So Prime attacks Megatron and destroys the Matrix. The explosion of the Matrix kills both Megatron and Optimus Prime. Prime sacrifices himself to save the world and end the war.