FIELD TRIP

                         Written By:
                   Terry "Lady Jaye" White 
                       (tgwhite@usa.net) 

(Loosely) based on the story, "The Attack I"  written in 1986

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NORMAL DISCLAIMER JUNK:  This is based on characters I don't
own, don't have permission to use, ect, ect.  This is not
based on actual events (though I wish it was).  Names of the
innocent have been changed to protect the guilty.  No animals
were killed or injured in the writing of this story.  


NOTE: This happens prior to Arise, Serpentor, Arise, somewhere
towards the end of the first season

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Part 1


      "So how much longer are we gonna wait, Flint?"  Dusty
grumbled, looking over at Flint.  Both were laying in six inches
of mud underneath fallen tree branches and brush  at the edge of
a forest surrounding a top secret government research center
along with a group of Joes.   They had been there  for  hours, so
long that Dusty had stopped counting.   There was a brisk
November wind that was freezing him to the bone and with night
falling the conditions were going to only get worse.  Enough was
enough, Dusty thought. It seemed to him that they were wasting
their time and that Cobra wasn't going to try to steal anything
there.   
      "As long as it takes," Flint grumbled back.  He, too, was
beginning to get bored, but he didn't want to show it.   He knew
everything was a waiting game with Cobra. Sooner or later Cobra
was going to try something, he just knew it.
      Clutching his rifle, Footloose agreed,  "I hope Cobra shows
up sometime soon."
      "Get comfy, gentlemen," Lady Jaye told them.  "It may be a
while."  She was alittle ways back from the others, sitting next
to the Sky Hawk and AWE Strikers which were hidden with tarps and
brush waiting for the impending action. 
      Flint radioed to Alpine, who had another group of Joes
positioned on a hill overlooking the research center.  "How's it
look on your side?"
      "Nuthin' here.  You sure they're gonna  show?"
      "Intel says they'll be here."  Flint told him, looking over
to Lady Jaye.  "So they'll be here."
     So the Joes just waited, not so patiently. They watched the
usual traffic in and out  of the center,  but saw nothing
suspicious.  And they thought nothing of a maroon van when it
approached then  passed through the security gate without
incident.  However, they knew something was not right as the van
drove around to the side of the complex and running right into
the building, smashing through a concrete wall.  The driver, a
man in a Cobra Viper's uniform,  jumped out with a pistol drawn.
He quickly grabbed  a vile of a chemical and put some computer
disks and print outs into a leather bag with a large red snake
emblem on the side. 
      Flint and the Joes immediately sprang into action, running
into the complex just as the Viper exited the building. 
     "Hold it right there!" Flint growled.  The Viper turned to
see he was surrounded, with Flint and his group in front of him,
and Alpine's group behind him, cutting off his escape route.  
      "Don't shoot!  This is the new super germ- it's deadlier
then anthrax!" the Viper shouted, holding up the vile of
chemical.
      The Joes backed up, giving the Viper enough room to run to
his van.   Before the Joes could react, the top of the van blew
off and the Viper escaped on a Trouble Bubble.
      "After him!"  Flint shouted.  The Joes rushed back to their
previous position.  Dusty and Footloose pushed off the tree
branches and brush that had been covering the Awestriker and
Flint and Lady Jaye pulled off the tarp from the Sky Hawk. 
     Flint was using this mission to test the newest Sky Hawk
model.  He didn't care that it was two times as fast, carried
nearly three times the weapons and two pilots, but that is was
easier to handle and maneuvered ten times better than the older
version. 
     In no time Flint and Lady Jaye in the new Sky Hawk caught up
with the Trouble Bubble which was heading towards a residential
area.  Below, the others followed on Awe Strikers.
    "I can't shoot him down!  If he does have what he claims he
has, we can't risk it exploding in  a highly populated area,"
Flint said, pounding his fist against the controls.
     Lady Jaye replied, "Just force him to land.  We can't risk
loosing him either.  If Cobra gets a hold of that stuff, the
whole world isn't safe!"
     Flint fired several rounds from the Sky Hawk's machine gun
over the top of the Trouble Bubble, forcing it to fly at tree top
level.  Looking back at the pursuing chopper, the Viper dipped
lower and before he could pull up, crashed into an electric pole,
sending the pole crashing to the ground and taking out the left
engine.   The Trouble Bubble sputtered out of control hovering up
and down.

      Meanwhile, three kids, two boys and a girl, exited a
suburban elementary school.  They were all six graders, best
friends and constantly in trouble of some sort.  The boys, Mike
and Bobby,  were twins and it was difficult if not impossible to
tell them apart, with blond curly hair and bright blue eyes.  The
girl, Laurie, was taller than the boys with long dark hair and
dark eyes.  
     "Man, we've still got two more weeks of detention!  This
sucks!" Laurie grumbled.
     "Yeah, I know," Mike sighed.  "Hey, you guys wanna go over
to the park or somethin'?"
     "Can't.  We're still grounded, remember?  We're suppose to
go straight home," Bobby told his brother.
     "Who cares-  hey, look at that!"  Mike pointed to the
horizon, where the Trouble Bubble could just barely be seen
bobbing up and down between the houses in the distance. 
      "Whoa, what is that?"  Laurie exclaimed.   The three ran
towards it and watched as it crashed into a driveway.   The
Viper, clutching the bag, jumped clear as the Trouble Bubble went
up in flames.  

      "Good lord, I hope that chemical wasn't in there," Lady
Jaye exclaimed.
      "There's the Viper," Flint shouted, turning the helicopter
and lowering it to the ground.
      Lady Jaye popped the canopy as the chopper approached the
ground and jumped out.  She spotted the Viper running through a
backyard of a house, heading north.
     The kids didn't know what to when they saw the Viper running
right towards them. 
     "C'mon, hide!" Bobby shouted, pulling the other two behind
some bushes.  
     Mike protested, "I'm not afraid of him."
     "He's got a gun!"
     Mike turned.  "So?"  Just as the Viper ran past the kids'
hiding spot, Mike jumped out, tackling him to the ground.  The
Viper pushed Mike off of him and punched the him in the face.
But as the Viper got up, Mike grabbed the bag.   The Viper,
hearing Lady Jaye approaching, just got up and ran. 
     "Whoa, look what I've got." Mike said, looking into the
bad.  "I wonder what all of this stuff is for."
     "Get rid of that thing, Mike.  You're gonna get us into
trouble again!"  Terry warned.
     "Nah, this is cool."
      "Someone's coming, duck!"   
      The three hid as Lady Jaye ran past.   She looked over at
the bushes where they were hiding, but didn't stop.  The kids
didn't realize she was with GI Joe, only that she had a gun.  But
as the boys wondering if she was going to spot them, Laurie was
thinking something else.  Lady Jaye didn't stop, only continued
after the Viper.
     The kids heard the police sirens and ventured out once Lady
Jaye had passed and was well out of sight.
      "We need to give that thing to the police,"  Bobby told his
friends.  "C'mon."
      "Damn, Mike, that eye looks bad!"  Laurie said with a whistle. 
      "It's nuthin'," he grumbled back.  "I bet I get an award or
something."
      The kids approached the crash site, but were stopped by a
police officer.
      "This area is being evacuated," he told them.
      "But we-"
      The police officer wouldn't listen.  The kids were pushed
back by another officer cordoning the area off with yellow tape.
       Right then the rest of the Joe team arrived in an Awe
Striker at top speed.   They screeched to a stop next to where
Flint and Lady Jaye were standing. 
      "Just head back to base," Flint told them.  "Lady Jaye and
I will wrap up here."  He then walked over to the police.
      "Look it's G.I. Joe!"  Bobby exclaimed. 
      "Let's give the bag to them!"
       The kids raced over to the AWE Striker, but it started up
and turned around, not noticing the kids in all the commotion.
       "Stop!  Wait!  Stop!"  they shouted.
       Still chasing after it, Mike said to his friends, "Jump!"
       "What?!?"
       "Jump!"
       And without really thinking, Mike jumped onto the trailer
on the back of the Awe Striker carrying a big machine gun. 
"C'mon guys!"
      As the Awe Strikers began to pull away, Laurie and Bobby
jumped on board.
      "God, I hope we don't regret this," Bobby groaned.
      "We'll be fine," Mike told him.  "This is gonna be awesome!"
       It was hours later and nearly dark when the Awe Strikers
finally approached  the GI Joe base in the middle of the Utah desert.
       Mike peaked around the side.  "Looks like we're where
we're going. Uh-oh, they're gonna spot us."
       "But we-" Bobby said, but before he could finish, both
Laurie and Mike had jumped off the trailer.  Bobby followed and
the group gathered behind some rocks. 
     "What are we going to do now?" Bobby questioned angrily.
      "Lets sneak in,"  Mike suggested.
      "Sneak in?!?   How do we do that?   Let's just walk up
there and give those guys the bag and ask them to take us home,
okay?  I've fine with having a little adventure, but this is
getting a little crazy."
       "Oh, c'mon, Bobby, don't ruin our fun.  If you wanna be a
little sissy, stay here."  Laurie told him.  "C'mon, Mike, I've
got an idea."
     Once the Awe Strikers had gone through the gate and the MPs
weren't looking Laurie lead them to the other side of the base.
There was an electrified barbed wire fence, at least ten feet
tall.  So there was no way they could climb it.  However, Laurie
was able to climb up a tree growing close to the fence, then
climb out onto a branch and jump over the fence.  Mike quickly
followed.
    "Let's go hot-wire a tank!"  Mike shouted, running off in one
direction towards a group of Maulers.
    "Nah, let's get a bazooka and blow something up!"  Laurie
said,  heading in another direction.  
    "I can't believe we're doing this," Bobby sighed, standing on
the branch.  "Geronimo!"  he shouted as he jumped to the other
side with a thud.
    Just then an alarm sounded and lights began flashing.
    "God!  They must have heard you!  Run!!!!"  They couldn't
make it back over the fence in a million years so they began
running towards the closed building.
     But the Joes had spotted them long before Bobby had jumped
over the fence.  In fact, Breaker was watching them on the
outside monitors since they had approached the fence and had
sounded the parameter alarm.
      As the trio raced across the complex towards a parked tank,
they were quickly surrounded by over twenty Joes, who aimed their
rifles right at them.
     "Uh, I think we're in trouble," Mike muttered, putting his
hands up.
      On the second floor inside the main headquarters building,
Flint, Lady Jaye and the others Joes who had just returned were
in a debriefing with Duke, discussing the mission. And, more
importantly, discussing what Cobra might have stolen from the
government research lab.
     "What's going on down there?" Duke wondered out loud,
looking out the window at all the commotion.  The group ran
downstairs and outside to see what was going on.  As they
approached, Duke angrily questioned, "Who are these kids?
And what the heck are they doing INSIDE the base?"
     "They won't tell us who they are and they sort of jumped
over the fence..." said Gung-Ho.
      Duke grumbled, "What kind of security do we have here?"
     As Duke, Flint, Lady Jaye and Flint made their way through
the group of Joes assembled around the kids they could finally
get a look at them.
    "Okay, what are you kids doing here?" Duke demanded.
    Just then, Lady Jaye got a good look at the kids and said,
"Ohmygod, Laurie!"  She pushed Gung-Ho and Roadblock aside and
approached the kids.
    "Uh, hi, Alie,..." the girl said tentatively then grinned
mischievously.
    Duke turned to Lady Jaye.  "You know that kid?"
    She nodded.  "This is my sister, Laurie."


TO BE CONTINUED....