Trinity Jinx

Ch7jinx
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She walked away from the commander and climbed the dais sitting on the throne. Ah! This felt right, funny how they chose her symbol for their own. Must be one of life’s ironies, they even managed to provide a willing host with a body so much like her own.

Cobra commander walked out of the throne room visibly shaken. He felt very much like he had just survived a brush with death. He quickly went about summoning the others, most of which were already there so that saved time. If this was a show of faith he dared not let her down, no telling what she could do.

The Dreadnoks were surprised to be summoned. They were also curious, to see what was going on. They followed the guard into the great hall, which was already filling up. Major bludd, Destro, the Twins and Zartan were all near the front. The Dreadnoks took places near their leader.

It looked like some sort of ceremony or announcement would be taking place. They were all talking to each other trying to figure out what was going on. The Commander came out on the small stage, stepping up to the podium. The room suddenly went quiet, where was Serpentor wondered Mindbender.
The Commander began his hastily written speech. “Gentlemen, ladies I have called you all here to announce my resignation” several peoples eyebrows rose. “In the past you have all wished for a better more successful leader, we thought we had that in Serpentor, we were wrong.” Said the commander Mindbender stiffened “Serpentor asked me to announce his succession, As of today Trinity will be our new leader, named so by Serpentor himself” said the Commander “what!” said Mindbender out loud. The whole room was in shock. What the hell is Serpentor thinking?

Cobra commander held out his hand to Trinity motioning for her to join him. “My lady” he said bowing to her. Everyone started talking at once, where was Serpentor? Everyone kept asking “ah Commander, where is Serpentor” asked Bludd ”he decided to take a Vacation” said Cobra commander “to where?” asked Mind bender “why?” “What for?” came the other questions. “People, people, I’m just following orders as I was told, I don’t know why they were given just that they were” answered Cobra commander.

“Besides its only temporary” said Cobra commander. They seemed to be momentarily pacified by this. “Well I suppose a girl leading couldn’t be worse than the commander's leadership,” said Bludd.


“Now that, that’s settled time to get down to business,” said Trinity. Time to find out their true motivations. “Since I’m basically new here can anyone tell me why all of our past plans have failed” she asked They all looked at each other was this kid serious. “Well?’ She prompted. One soldier way in the back decided to humor her, timidly raising his hand. She smiled “yes! Go ahead” she said “ah I would say lack of cooperation” he said “Bad leadership” said another “G.I. Joe” said another. “World opposition” she nodded sounded reasonable so far. “We can’t shoot’ said someone way in the back.
Trinity raised her eyebrow “bad fashion sense,” said another. Trinity tried not to laugh seeing their point. “Dumb plans” “no one talks normal” said another. “Is there anything else?" said Trinity trying to hide her amusement at the comments.
The collective leaders in the front turned to look for the person, who made the fashion sense comment. Mind bender looked very offended as the Dreadnoks burst into laughter. Bad fashion sense indeed, he snorted. “Ok seriously, those first ones were good ideas, I will work on a plan, a good plan to rid ourselves of G.I. Joe” said Trinity “this outta be good” said Destro sarcastically. “Give the girl a chance, she might be good at it” crooned the Baroness clinging to Destro’ arm.

Trinity dismissed them and retired to her throne room. The Cobra elite decided to follow Trinity. The Commander had already followed her. Mind bender was suspicious, had Cobra Commander and the girl killed Serpentor. He had to know, so he followed the others.

Trinity already had a plan; it was an absurdly simple one. Since the leaders were following her already, I can give them their orders. She walked into the throne room, the guard no longer even tried to stop her. She gave them orders to allow the elite inside then went in to wait. She climbed the stairs of the dais and sat down on the throne.


She just got settled when they entered the room, led by all people Destro. "What is this so called plan to deal with the Joes?” asked Destro. *He so detests being left out of the loop*, whispered the voice. She smiled like a cat with a canary in her mouth.
“You will know when I deign to tell you,” she said imperiously. Destro pressed his lips together in anger. “How dare you talk to me like that you upstart bitch” the voice halted mid whisper. A wall of rising anger replacing the soft voice.

If Destro had been smart he would have run at this point. Instead he leaned closer mistaking her quiet for fear. She smiled coldly, and then grabbed Destro around the throat and stood up. She lifted him off the floor by his neck holding him over the edge of the dais. He struggled in her grasp, un able to break her grip. Damn this bitch is strong. Destro was gasping for air because Trinity was squeezing. "You will never speak to me like that again," she ranted as she shook him.

The voice had given her strength enough to crush the metal around Destro’s throat. The Baroness watched in horror as Destro gasped for breath. “Stop it, let him go,” she finally said. Trinity’s anger was slowly diminishing, so she released Destro who fell off the side of the dais. He lay on the floor gasping for breath and holding his throat. Trinity stood on the edge of the dais, looking down at Destro The Baroness had gone to his side the others were crowded in the back of the room, watching. “The next time I will not be so merciful" she warned.

Then turned on her heel walking away from the two on the floor. “Baroness, I have work for you to do” the Baroness glared at her angrily. Trinity met her gaze unflinchingly.
“I want you to locate the families of all the G.I Joe members” “oh and add the world leaders to that list as well” she said, “We’ve tried that before,” said the Baroness. “No baroness we haven’t” answered Trinity fixing her with a gaze that would have made a dead man flinch. “The children and the wives more specifically” said Trinity more to herself than the Baroness.

The Baroness frowned. “Why the wives?” “And the children?” asked the twins finally speaking up. She smiled at them “because gentlemen, no one is going to move against us if they know they will lose all their loved ones” said Trinity “we tried that, and the Joes recovered them” said Cobra commander.
She smiled coldly “there will be no white knight to rescue these prisoners” she said “now carry out my orders” she said dismissing them.
Zartan had been uncharacteristically quiet through the whole episode. He frowned at the idea of kidnapping women, and children. That however wasn’t what bothered him. He knew he would be paid for the job. What was really bothering him however was the fact that she had lifted Destro like a rag doll.
Where did she get that kind of strength? She was only about 5’3’’ and barely 110lbs. Destro was well over twice that plus she had squeezed hard enough for Destro to choke. A fact that should have been prevented by his facemask.
Baroness was helping Destro to his feet. The Twins were already heading for the door. Zartan promised himself he would talk to Destro about it outside.