Dark winter

Dark winter chapter 4

Zarana shook her head in frustration and went in the house. Angel decided to follow her since the Dreadnoks were giving her a headache. Zartan watched them both pass by him. Least his sister would have another female to talk to. Wonder what the girl was running from. Must be pretty bad for her to feel safe with us. He sat there for a moment thinking about how to unravel this little mystery. She seems to trust us, he mused either she’s stupid or very naive. The others obviously liked her, of course it might be cause she was a hottie.
He stopped mid thought, his own thoughts momentarily stunning him. She was a kid for Chris sakes, yeah she was attractive and obviously available .He shook his head usually women didn’t effect him this way. Then he followed the girls inside, leaving the Dreadnoks to their argument.
The Cobra Commander paced in his small cell. Stupid, stupid, so stupid he thought. Damn Destro of all the stupid plans he’d ever come up with this one took the cake. Not only had it failed miserably but ended up getting them captured. Yes it had sounded good at first. Go in with the local drug cartels, buy raw product and lace it with Mind Benders formula. It was going well, turning the users into mindless zombies. Of course they were already zombies from using the drugs in the first place.
Except the cops the cartel had on its payroll didn’t like being cut out so to speak. Which in turn made the cartel leaders uneasy. They were losing too much business to Cobra and they didn’t like it. So they made sure that G.I. Joe got wind of what was going on. The Commander sat down on the small bench and watched the other two occupants. Destro was leaning on the cage door. The Baroness was occupying the other bench. Hopefully the dunder-brained twins were coming up with a rescue plan. He swore under his breath.
In fact they were trying to come up a plan at that very moment. They decided after much debate to enlist Zartan’s aid. After all the commander’s pet would do anything, so long as his price was met of course. So they donned their Cobra armor and went to Zartan's base. God they hated swamps, nasty filthy bug infested, useless pieces of land. How does he stand this place, they thought as they walked up to the door of the large cabin.
They could hear the Dreadnoks arguing again. Sounded like they were arguing about Snow? Ok how strange thought Xamot looking at his brother and he shrugged. They found Zartan sitting on his porch; funny they could have sworn the porch was empty a moment ago. “Well fancy seeing you two here, what do you want?” said Zartan. They said simultaneously “Cobra Commander, Destro and the Baroness have been captured by G.I. Joe” Zartan laughed so this was Destros’ infallible plan. Out loud he said, “It’ll cost you” “you know” “that once the commander is free” “that he’ll met your price,” stated the Twins. Zartan nodded now very annoyed remembering why these two bothered him so much.
“All right where are they being held?” asked Zartan “the Joe base pit V” Said one of them “which is where?” Zartan prompted “at Fort McGuire” the twins answered again simultaneously. “All right I’ll get them back, again” said Zartan Destro would never live this fiasco down, just have to remind him once in awhile that I saved his behind.
For all he cared Destro and his bitch the Baroness could rot in that cell. Unfortunately the Commander was there too, and he really didn’t want to seek a new employer. Ones that appreciated his skills were too hard to come by. “I’ll have him back by the end of the week, Now leave” he said He made no attempt to hide his annoyance with the twins.