G.I. Joe: Resolute

Activation code echo niner on all G.I. Joe remote storage sites.

- Prep for action. - Communication is reacquired.

All games end today.

Yeah, you were right to call me in for an lD.

Major Sebastian Bludd himself.

Senior staff to Cobra. Or was.

- Everything in the armory? - Every vehicle, device and gun, Duke.

Shaped charges designed to do maximum damage.

lf the Flagg hadn´t been built to G.l. Joe specs,

we´d be on the bottom of the Pacific now.

That´s not a big comfort to me right now, Stalker.

Who was running security detail this shift?

- Bazooka. - l want him here now.

l want to know how someone kicked out our teeth without him noticing.

We found him.

Not a mark on him. Killed and hidden before the charges were planted.

We have a new situation. Satellite communications are down. All of them.

Anything involving a satellite isn´t working... anywhere.

And something´s happening in New York.

Good morning.

I use the name Cobra Commander,

and I am the founder of Cobra,

an organization you great and glorious people

tend to dismiss as criminals.

I have always believed that money brings power.

This was an error that has cost me a lot of pain.

It recently occurred to me, however,

that if I had all the power,

then everyone would bring me all the money.

I therefore make the following proposition.

You have 2 4 hours to turn control of your nations over to me,

or I begin killing nations until such time as you hand over the keys.

Now, obviously, no one´s going to believe me,

and all of you will attempt to mobilize against me.

And so I illustrate my point.

What is that?

You have 2 4 hours.

- Scarlett? - That symbol.

lt´s the mark of the Arashikage, isn´t it?

- The ninja clan that trained you. - And Storm Shadow.

Storm Shadow killed Bazooka, sabotaged the armory

and now he´s calling you out.

l know what happens next, and l´m not arguing.

l´ll signal for a hypersonic transport.

But you be ready when we need you. Clear?

Good. Now, go.

You can go with him or stay with me.

- Your call. Make it now. - You mean stay with the unit.

- You heard what l said. - Just like that?

- Just like that. - Then l stay.

Get him down.

Wait. Where´s his grenade belt?

Satellite communications are down worldwide.

We have enough intel to know Cobra has done something...

...unimaginable. This is UAV footage from over Moscow.

We´re looking at a fatality count of around ten million.

Cobra did that? How, a nuke?

Not a nuke. But we don´t know what it was. Yet.

What we do know is that this is the greatest threat

Cobra has yet perpetrated. This was planned extensively:

Knocking out satellite comms, decapitating a superpower

and attempting to cripple the only team

that could possibly mobilize against them.

- Killing Bazooka. - Yeah, killing Bazooka.

Giving the world less than 24 hours to hand over all control to Cobra.

But we´re more than one good soldier.

And we´re more than a bunch of guns and vehicles on the armory deck.

They´ve underestimated us, the way they always do.

We´ve got less than a day to make that work for us.

Go down there, work with the support staff.

l want some answers.

This here´s Wild Bill calling Brussels Hub, do you copy?

I´m issuing activation code echo niner on all G.I. Joe remote storage sites.

I want all those lovely vehicles dusted off and prepped for action.

First, we look at how satellite communications can be killed,

but regular radio can work.

The interesting thing is regular radio was also clearly interrupted

- for a brief period. - OK. What does that indicate?

We need to run through the possibilities right now.

Boys and girls, talk to me about weapons.

How do you incinerate a city without using a nuke?

ln theory, l can think of five ways to do that.

- How much time do you have? - You are my new favorite Joe.

Talk fast.

- What do we know? - The ionosphere´s been superheated.

That means radio signals bounce off it.

Satellites can´t send down to us, we can´t send up to them.

At the peak of the superheating, nothing worked.

When it settled, long-range radio began behaving properly,

skipping off the ionosphere. That bit´s real important,

because that´s how Moscow was destroyed.

Those kids down there have collected enough data

to confirm Cobra used a particle cannon.

They fire it skyward, where particles are dispersed by the ionosphere.

The particles are then recollected over a target of Cobra´s choice

anywhere in the world. And boom, death from above.

- Like a laser beam? - Supercharged particles.

This is a whole new thing, but the kids have worked out where the cannon is.

One of the abandoned Russian missile silos, would you believe?

Don´t seem right, does it?

To set up something like that, they must have been there a long time.

There´s gonna be major counter-intrusion technology on site.

l know. They´ll spot a strike team from ten miles off.

Breaching that place is gonna be a one-man job.

Or a two-person unit. Have we got more hypersonic transports on the way?

Yes, ma´am. We got one 30 minutes away.

And then l guess l´m flying the pair of you to Siberia.

And this is how l win the world.

This juncture, of course, is usually where the wheels come off.

But not this time.

Cutting the traitor, Major Bludd´s, heart in half right in front of you,

right here, in this room, should have gotten the point across.

lt suited me, once, to appear weak and cowardly,

because it motivated you people to think.

But today is a new day.

There will be no moves to take over my command.

There will be no mistakes.

There will be none of your crap! None of it!

Work with me, and l will give you the world

in less than 24 hours.

Work against me,

and l will gut you like a fish,

right here.

Put me through to the New Mexico radar station.

Yeah, this is Dial Tone on the U.S.S Flagg.

l´m looking at the latest data you sent over,

and there´s a string of anomalies mid-stratosphere.

Duke and Scarlett are prepping for pickup. So what now?

So we have to start putting the rest of the pieces together.

This is gonna take the whole crew, Roadblock.

What l don´t get is how Cobra is holding the whole operation together.

- How do you mean? - They´ve been ahead of us

every step of the way so far.

We even have confirmation that there was a kill team waiting

for Snake Eyes in Japan. They´re squirting a lot of information around

- at very high speed without detection. - l know how.

These things are barely in prototype, we thought. They´re called stratellites.

The core is a helium balloon,

made out of incredibly tough stuff called thermoplastics.

l´m guessing Cobra has a constellation of them floating 20 miles up.

- Hundreds of them. - And these can still work

with the ionosphere thing that´s blocking our sats?

They´re way below the ionosphere. They´ve been working this whole time.

Tunnel Rat, l know it´s a little out of your field...

l do two things for this team: defuse things and blow things up.

- Twenty miles up, you say? No problem. - We put a UAV up there.

Something on the stratellite locked onto its engine and burned it out of the sky.

We have to assume it´s an anti-missile system.

This is different. Gimme an hour to put this together.

- But it doesn´t solve the real problem. - Which is?

lf we take out their stratellite net, we kill their communications system.

lt don´t give us satellite coverage back.

We just got that piece of the puzzle.

This is H.A.A.R.P., an installation up north

designed to superheat the local ionosphere for experimental science.

Their phone lines were cut a few hours ago.

They´ve been taken over.

There´s a research station a hundred miles away.

They say they can see the glow of those antennae for the first time.

Put together strike teams for H.A.A.R.P. and the stratellites.

lt´s gonna be one of those days, man. Everyone´s up on deck today.

Time to go to work.

Remember, the first one to speak

gets to see two of their friends killed right in front of them.

l want lots of peace while this machine we´ve supercharged does its work.

After all, it´s not that often

we get to spend this much time together.

Uncle, may we speak?

You should call me sensei in front of the other students, Storm Shadow.

You know that.

l do not speak to you now as a student.

Very well.

You´ve been tutoring my friend privately.

You have been training since you could walk.

Your friend came to us as an older child, an orphan.

He needs a little help to keep up with you.

He is your best friend.

Do you deny him aid?

No, no, it´s just you haven´t taught me the Seventh Step yet.

- l do not understand. - The Seven Steps to the Sun.

The martial arts form you created,

upon which the reputation of this school is founded.

l understand the Seven Steps very well.

l do not understand your question.

l am the greatest student in this school.

l am your own nephew.

Yet you have not taught me the Seventh Step to the Sun,

the final strike form. Why?

- You are not ready. - How much readier can l be?

Do you understand why l have not passed the Seventh Step on?

l mean, do you have any inkling?

None. lt makes no sense to me.

You should still be grappling with the implications of the Sixth Step.

This, you can already do, and it is a terrible thing.

The Seventh Step is death.

Passing that knowledge on to anyone, even my own blood,

is a huge and treacherous step.

You do not understand that to be able to deal utter destruction

with only seven blows is a responsibility like no other.

Uncle, you will not live forever.