No sign of Cobra. How does it look from ground level, Scarlett?
SCARLETT
Clear here, Duke, but I don't believe it'll stay that way.
DUKE
Me neither. The laser core for our cannon is just the kind of hardware to make our friendly neighborhood reptiles hiss with envy.
DUKE (CONT.)
What's the situation on your side, Flint?
FLINT
So far, so good. But things could still get hairy between here and Headquarters. Remember, a cobra's a snake, and snake is sneak spelled sideways.
COBRA COMMANDER
We shall see how G. I. Joe likes the bite of a sneak's fangs. Cobra!
COBRAS
Cobra!
GUNG-HO
It's Cobra! Yo Joe!
MAJ. BLUDD
Cobra!
COBRAS
Cobra!
SCARLETT
They're trying to block the road! Let's take 'em out!
DUKE
A little air support for the lady, boys!
STALKER
Keep the convoy rollin'!
COBRA COMMANDER
Scrap-Iron, now!
COBRA COMMANDER
Firefly, strike!
ROADBLOCK
They cut us off!
LADY JAYE
Circle around to protect the cannon! Go!
FLINT
We're too late! They're after the laser core!
DUKE
Request back-up, on the double! Yo Joe!
DUKE
I don't enjoy your company, but you sure get a kick outta me!
DUKE
Way to go, Snake-Eyes!
COBRA COMMANDER
Get that laser core away from those fools! You're supposed to be fighting men, so fight on without fear! What?
GUNG-HO
You were sayin' somethin' about fighting fearlessly, rust breath?
COBRA COMMANDER
You may have caught me temporarily, but I also have you.
GUNG-HO
They nailed Duke and Snake-Eyes!
FLINT
Looks like I'm in charge now. Gung-Ho, Short-Fuze, Breaker, form a guard detail and take the Cobra Commander to Blackwater Prison for safe keeping.
GUNG-HO
That's one place nobody cracks out of, buffer face.
FLINT
As for the rest of us, let's bring back our buddies and that laser core. Do you read me?
JOES
Yo Joe!
ROADBLOCK
Duke and Snake-Eyes, just you wait. We're gonna chop Cobra up for bait!
EXT. SWAMP - DAY
COL. SHARP
They're bringing Cobra Commander in for questioning. Modify course at once!
COL. SHARP
Come about! They're gonna ram us!
COL. SHARP
Take evasive action!
TORCH
Aw, look at the lovely monkeys we bagged.
BUZZER
Don't look like monkeys to me, Torch. They look like trout...just before you pop 'em in the fryin' pan and eat 'em.
RIPPER
Trout, that's a good one that is, Buzzer. Let's put these poor fish outta their misery.
ZARTAN
Get back, you rowdy lot of vagabonds. You will do as I say if you want gold.
TORCH
Oh, we'll obey, Zartan.
RIPPER
You have our complete attention.
BUZZER
Gold! Lovely.
ZARTAN
Welcome to my domain, Colonel Sharp. While G. I. Joe and Cobra battle for the land, I, Zartan, rule the swamps. Let me look at you, my dear colonel. My, what a memorable face you have.
COL. SHARP
I'm sure you're a big hit on Halloween, Zartan. But it'll take more than a false face to fool my people.
ZARTAN
Thank you, Colonel Sharp.
ZARTAN (CONT., in Sharp's voice)
Your voice was the only thing missing. Now, let's pay a visit to Blackwater Prison. I'm sure Cobra Commander will be delighted to see us.
EXT. SKY - DAY
LADY JAYE
Hang on, Duke. We're on our way.
FLINT
Yo Joe!
INT. COBRA TEMPLE - COMMAND CENTER
DESTRO
Everything is proceeding according to plan. Storm Shadow, raise the Temple.
EXT. COBRA TEMPLE - DAY
INT. COBRA TEMPLE - COMMAND CENTER
DESTRO
Soon, Flint and the other Joes will pass directly over the Pit of Chaos, and there they will learn the folly of pursuit. With my new invention, the Weather Dominator, I shall destroy G. I. Joe with the irresistible power of nature itself!
EXT. COBRA TEMPLE - WEATHER DOMINATOR
DESTRO
Let them come. Let them come!
INT. BLACKWATER PRISON - CORRIDOR
WARDEN
Fine work, fine work, Gung-Ho. You and your men may leave the prisoner with me and Dr. Cassals.
DR. CASSALS
Yes, I can't wait to begin his psychological evaluation for the parole board.
GUNG-HO
Man, we just brought this creep in! What do you mean parole?
DR. CASSALS
No purpose would be served by keeping him in jail when and if he reforms, young man.
COBRA COMMANDER
You wouldn't want to deprive me of my constitutional rights, would you, muscle head?
GUNG-HO
How would you like me to bench press your face?
"COL. SHARP"
At ease, men. Your mission is finished, Gung-Ho. Return to base. I'll take it from here.
GUNG-HO
Yeah, but sir!
"COL. SHARP"
Dismissed!
"COL. SHARP"
You may complete your processing of the prisoner, Dr. Cassals. I'll begin the interrogation afterward.
DR. CASSALS
Thank you, colonel. Vocational training will be a big part of the prisoner's rehabilitation. I think he'll adore basket weaving.
WARDEN
Good grief.
DR. CASSALS
Look closer, Warden. I know this will interest you.
ZARTAN
Now, let's give the guards a chance to sleep on the job.
GUARD
Gas!
EXT. SWAMP - DAY
GUNG-HO
Parole the Cobra Commander my mess kit! That turkey ought to be locked up for... There's somethin' in the water up ahead.
GUNG-HO
Oh, no! We've been had! Take care of the Colonel! I'm goin' back to the prison!
INT. BLACKWATER PRISON - CORRIDOR
ZARTAN
My friends ought to be waiting for us at the main gate. Quickly!
EXT. BLACKWATER PRISON
INT. BLACKWATER PRISON - CORRIDOR
ZARTAN
Our liberation is now at hand.
EXT. SWAMP - DAY
ZARTAN
Sunlight! I hate sunlight. It robs me of my camouflage ability. Let's get back to the swamp!
GUNG-HO
Yo Joe!
ZARTAN
Ah, home sweet home.
COBRA COMMANDER
Be careful, Zartan! I am too valuable to end up splattered all over some cypress tree!
ZARTAN
Great escapes require great risks, Cobra Commander. Hang on!
GUNG-HO
Keep 'em bottled up in the bayou!
SHORT-FUZE
Okay, but you better tell me what a bayou is first.
COBRA COMMANDER
Faster, Zartan! They are almost upon us!
ZARTAN
Be calm, Commander. Remember, this is my domain.
GUNG-HO
They...they're gone. Just like they was swallowed up by the swamp.
EXT. PIT OF CHAOS -DAY
MAJ. BLUDD
We've reached the Pit of Chaos, Destro.
EXT. COBRA TEMPLE - WEATHER DOMINATOR
DESTRO
Then the time has come to rain on their parade.
EXT. PIT OF CHAOS - DAY
FLINT
Something's happening. Scarlett, pull back with your squadron and keep us in sight. If anything goes wrong, I don't want us all to buy the farm.
SCARLETT
Flint, be careful.
FLINT
Scarlett, get out of here! Run! Aaahh!
ROADBLOCK
May day, Lady. This is may day.
MUTT
It's too strong! We're goin' down!
SCARLETT
Flint! Roadblock! Mutt! Does anybody read me?
SCARLETT
We have our orders! Fall back!
EXT. COBRA TEMPLE - DAY
INT. COBRA TEMPLE - HANGAR
DESTRO
This is a glorious day for Cobra.
MAJ. BLUDD
Made even more glorious by the quality of our prisoners, I should say.
DESTRO
Excellent. Such fighting spirit shall provide us with rare sport later. But first, I must harness the laser core to my Weather Dominator. To the water vapor controlling mechanisms of the hydromaster and the electromagnetic energizing capabilities of the ion correlator, I now add the unlimited power of the laser core. Its strength will allow me to dominate the weather any place on earth.
MAJ. BLUDD
Shouldn't we start planning a mission to free our beloved leader from Blackwater Prison?
DESTRO
Certainly, Major. I miss the Cobra Commander as deeply as you do, but we can attend to that in good time.
COBRA COMMANDER
In good time, you say? No time in prison is good time!
DESTRO
How did you escape so quickly?
DESTRO
Zartan and the Dreadnoks. They have no commitment to our cause! They are nothing more than money-grubbing mercenaries!
COBRA COMMANDER
I have standing arrangements with Zartan for just such emergencies. And he is well worth his price.
COBRA COMMANDER
Superb! We have the laser core, we control the forces of nature, and we have humbled G. I. Joe! We now stand ready to rule the world!
EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - DAY
INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - COMMAND CENTER
SCARLETT
Keep trying. We can't give up.
SPARKS
I'll never stop trying, Scarlett, but Cobra's crazy weather patterns just swallow up my signals.
COBRA COMMANDER
Citizens of the world, on behalf of the great Cobra Empire, I address you now.
GUNG-HO
I address you, too, sweetheart.
LADY JAYE
See if you can put a tracer on the speech.
CLUTCH
Yeah. All you'd need is a garbage detector.
COBRA COMMANDER
You have no hope of resisting our might. We control a new power, the raw strength of nature itself, against which there is no defense. Watch, watch as I unleash the sea and sky to do my bidding!
CLUTCH
He's not foolin' around.
COBRA COMMANDER
I shall continue to unleash the terror of weather gone mad, until you surrender to me and acknowledge the rule of...Cobra!
SCARLETT
We've got to do something.
SPARKS
Right, Scarlett. The only question is, what?
SCARLETT
I don't know, yet. But I do know Duke and Flint would want us to keep punching, no matter what.
EXT. PIT OF CHAOS - NIGHT
FLINT
Hello! Can anybody here me? Roadblock! Mutt! Junkyard! Where are you?
INT. COBRA TEMPLE - STORAGE ROOM
DESTRO
Now it is time for Flint and any others who survived the crash into the Pit of Chaos to serve as guinea pigs. I shall use them to test another natural wonder which I have developed.
COBRA COMMANDER
Brilliant as usual, Destro. I'm sure Flint and the world will quake with terror at the sight of a dried-up sprig of creeper vine.
ZARTAN
It looks a bit like poison ivy.
COBRA COMMANDER
Poison ivy?
DESTRO
No, not poison ivy, my dear Cobra Commander. Something much, much worse. It needs but a single drop of water.
COBRA COMMANDER
It...it has the grip of steel!
ZARTAN
It's trying to strangle me!
COBRA COMMANDER
Save me, Destro, quickly! I order you to stop this!
DESTRO
There is nothing to fear, I assure you.
ZARTAN
Don't tell him; tell the vines!
DESTRO
The vines will soon be out of water. Then they will die.
DESTRO (CONT.)
Before our G. I. Joe friends fell into the Pit of Chaos, I seeded the entire area with vines like these. I can't wait until the rainfall awakens them.
EXT. PIT OF CHAOS - NIGHT
FLINT
Roadblock! Mutt! Junkyard! Do you read me? Roadblock, is that you?
