WTF!
So you really plan to slap everyone in the face day after day, huh?
Lake returned to the Operations Center and stared silently at the large screen. A somewhat muscular black panther had appeared in Gideon Malick's estate and was currently overwhelming the G.I. Joe forces in battle.
Well, damn.
I hadn't even gone to dig out your paradise and dismantle you all yet, and you'd already come running out yourselves?
You've got guts.
What, did you sense that the number of your people on Federation soil—those quietly colonizing the entire world—had decreased by just a tiny bit, so you decided to reveal yourselves ahead of schedule?
Wakanda, just you wait.
"How much longer?"
"Ten seconds!"
"Fire Phoenix is in position."
"Charging!"
"Locating the warp-transmission site."
"Location confirmed!"
"Three-second countdown!"
"Three!"
"Two!"
"One!"
"Activate the warp-transmission device."
"Boom!"
Steve Rogers, who had also come to Gardiners Island as an honored guest, had just scanned his retina and entered the Operations Center when he happened to see Natasha Romanov disappear into starlight on the transmission platform in the warp-transmission room displayed on the large screen.
"Wow."
Steve Rogers walked over to Lake's side and handed him another ten-dollar bill.
Lake smiled and took the money, then turned his attention back to the large screen, where the G.I. Joe forces were being surrounded by a black panther.
"Shit!"
"Damn it, where did this damn panther come from?"
"Ah!"
"Fuck, Rockslide is hurt."
"It's too fast."
"I need to reload."
"Where's the support?"
Duke and the others had advanced on Malick Estate extremely quickly. At the beginning, they had basically encountered no Overlords at all. They had even spotted the Cobra Commander who had fled here—the beloved yet damnable brother-in-law of Duke himself.
The Cobra Commander had never expected the G.I. Joe