Helpless

Johnny slowly began to regain conciseness and quickly discovered his eyer were swollen shut. The smell of decaying raw meat and the moans of young women were all around him. Johnny tugged on the hemp ropes that secured him to what felt like a balance beam. The walk with Hawk through the jungle felt like it took place years ago. Johnny felt cold and covered in something sticky, his own blood perhaps. The shrieks of a creature almost not human echoed throughout his holding area and sounded as if they were getting closer. An overwhelming feeling came over LJ. The same feeling he felt when trapped under 3 feet of ice. This was not the feeling of death! Johnny welcomed death, but it had to be on his terms. Tied down in a unknown location was not his way to go! Not a man who had fought in over 800 engagements and had killed thousands with his bear hands. Many things were running through LJ's head now... had he lost his touch? Was it time to retire? What would he do with his life if he didn't have this? Without the chase he felt he would not care to go on. Living a normal life, to Johnny, felt like dying. The smell of rotten flesh became stronger... The screeching louder... now the sound of footprints. "My god this is it" Johnny uttered to himself...DT

Aunty Pearle

Through the trees Johnny heard the second most blood curdling scream he had ever heard.

(Flashing back to his childhood LJ recalled the first time he heard a scream this terrifying)

He seemed to remember it was a big day for Aunty Pearle, she was in charge of the ladies auxiliary bake sale for the city of Sarasota. As She left young Johnny in the care of his twin sixteen year old cousins Tina and Jina, He could still feel her kissing him on the forehead and saying "Now you take your bath like a big boy & put on those new jammies I picked up for you, I'll be home later and we'll watch a little tv before bedtime". He could hear the sound of running water in the bathroom over the chatty, and giggling squeals of the girls preparing his bath. He remembered feeling his eye start to twitch, to this day the sound of females squawking still makes his left eye shutter. "Time for your bath John", yelled Tina or Jina, it didn't matter which one now, LJ hated being called John, his eye now began to twitch uncontrollably. Placing the "sold out" sign on the muffin table Aunty Pearle leaves St. Augustine's church. Do to the 6 o'clock muffin rush Aunty would be able to be home in time for her favorite show, Mama's Family, she was excited to say the least. She quickened her pace a little as she thought about LJ and the girls waiting for her at home. She would still have time to make sure the girls had finished their homework. She was hard on the girls, but ever since their parents OD'd on Smack when they were 10 she had been committed to their well being. This commitment to education was paying off as the girls had just been the youngest twins ever accepted into Harvard law. Not to mention the only twins to share Olympic gold medals in gymnastics from the 84' and 88' summer games.
Aunty got a strange feeling as she rounded the corner and started towards the house. A feeling she couldn't quite put her finger on but one she had felt before. As she walked into the house she heard the pitter patter of Johnnies feet across the hardwood floor upstairs. "Where is everybody", she hollered out. She again heard the shuffling of feet as she made her way up the stair well. As she reached the top stair, she saw Johnny standing at the end of the hall in his new Transformer jammies. Aunty Pearle asked Johnny, "Where are the Girls"? To which he responded. "They made me do it" and he pointed towards the den. Pearle made her way to the den and asked "made you do what Johnny"? "Cousin Huggin" responded Johnny. "Cousin Huggin?...What on earth is Cousin Huggin"? She mumbled as she rounded the corner, she looked into the den and that’s when it happened.
After the scream Johnny didn't remember much, just the sound of sirens and the face of the pastor as he told him "everything will be fine little man". Then the sound of the car door slamming shut.

Side note: To this day it's still illegal to hug your cousin or say cousin huggin in Sarasota Florida.

At that moment LJ snapped out of his trans like state, and just in time. As he looked skyward he focused in on the female on a vine streaking towards him. As he stared in amazement, the naked woman released herself from the vine, flipping and twisting through the air all while screaming obscenities at him. Before he knew it she had wrapped her legs around his throat taking him to the ground and was quickly choking him out. Gasping for air all Johnny could do was say, "For hells sakes Tina, we're only cousins through marriage, how's Jina"?...He then blacked out. EP

The Nest

LJ followed warily as Hawk picked their way toward the nesting area. "Where have you been all this time?, Johnny quarried as he kept a keen eye on his old friend, "I haven't seen you since Burma." "I remember, said Hawk, but I've come a long way since our GI Joe days, I've got my own gig now." -After the elite special forces group 'GI Joe' was disbanded by congress in 2005, dissident aggression mounted among its ranks. With no task at hand, no obstacle to overcome, and ridiculed by special forces around the globe, many Joes found themselves lost in a world that didn't need them anymore. The allure of defecting to Cobra, or other sinister organizations was tantalizing, even to the most dedicated personnel on the squads roster.- "What do you mean?" said Johnny, he noticed they were close to the nesting grounds from all the bird shit. "I'm part of something now, said Hawk, my bird-men and I are connected to something bigger. We've just made a deal which assures our refuge and security on this island for decades to come." "What deal, Johnny asked, and with who?" Johnny could see Hawks giant nest now, tucked into an outcropping in a small cliff-face. "Does the colonel know you're here?" Johnny said. Pissed off now, LJ was on the verge of whipping out a Remington Wing-Master, pump action 12 gage when....... JC

Ivana Sukyoff

LJ rolled a smoke while he watched the bird men pick at the corn. Johnny felt as though this was a trap, but played along for the purposes of gathering information. Hawk put his feathery arm around Johnny and lead him away from the others. "look here Johnny, there is not much I can tell you at this point, but what I can tell you could be hard to believe!" Johnny waited for the BS he was about to receive while Hawk eyed a worm on the ground. Hawk told Johnny about a woman he had tied up in his huge nest. The woman would not tell her name! All the woman would tell them is Ivanna Sukyoff. Hawk had her beaten with a whip, but it only made her aroused. All she would say is Ivanna Sukyoff! Johnny gave Hawk a few handfuls of corn and asked him to lead him to this mysterious woman. DT