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We begin this story with hundreds of screens showing various Heroes. Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, Wasp, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Spiderman, Wolverine and the X-Men, Captain Marvel, S.H.I.E.L.D,The Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, etc. fighting rouges and villains alike. The Red Skull, Hydra, The Green Goblin, Venom, Abomination, The Leader, A.I.M, MODOK, Doctor Octopus, Scorpion, Doctor Doom, Loki, Mister Sinister, Sabertooth, Magneto and so on. Even old films of Captain America.
The camera slowly starts zooms out, showing that we weren't looking at the screens themselves, but a reflection of them. It was revealed to be a figure sitting down in front of the many screens.
It was a man wearing a black military attire that had a long coat that was closed but shown a black muscle shirt underneath. He also had black pants as well with high knee black boots, knee pads, and also a hip holster that carries his personal customized pistol that lets him fire multiple types of rounds, including pulse rounds. The most striking feature was his black helmet with a silver faceplate, concealing the man beneath the mask from anyone, only to find themselves staring back at them from the reflection. The helmet itself was designed with fangs that almost looked like it was biting around the face plate, with a red Cobra insignia on the top of the helmet.
This individual is called Cobra Commander. The Mysterious Leader of a Cobra, a shadow organization hidden from the world, awaiting their leader's commands when the time comes to rise up and reveal themselves.
As the Commander continues to watch the screens, a door behind him slid open and shows a new figure.
A beautiful yet deadly woman with a figure than can rival a certain Widow and make mens' heads turn and turn women jealous at the sight of her nice figure as well as her good sized breast. She has long straight black hair that goes down to her midback close to her rear, with grey-almost black eyes and kissable lips. She wore a tight black body suit with matching heel boots, chest armor with a red cobra insignia in the middle, similar to the one of the Commander's helmet. Brown belts around her hips that carried her weapons, and lastly, a pair of glasses over her stunning eyes.
This is the Baroness, right hand of Cobra Commander and Second-in-Command of Cobra.
Cobra Commander: "Ah, Baroness. Wonderful to see you as always." He pleasantly greeted. Baroness wordlessly nodded and watched as his commander continued to watch the heroes and villains clash against one another. She then gave a sigh and winced when she realized she did it a little too loud.
Cobra Commander: "You may speak."
Baroness: "I simply don't understand commander. Why do you watch these clips endlessly? Is it not time to finally show ourselves to the world?" She frowns as she can't help but express her doubts. But then suddenly became worried, maybe a bit scared, that her commander might snap at her for questioning him. But gained a look of surprise when Cobra Commander chuckled in amusement.
Cobra Commander: "My dear Baroness, a snake can learn so much about the Apex predators from simply hiding in the shadows and watches, bidding it's time for the perfect moment. Once the opportunity arrives, they strike, unseen from the shadows and simply wait for its Venom to finish its opponent. To become the top of the food chain. You see Anatashia, to destroy your enemies, you first need to know them. I will ensure that they won't become problems in the future by simply learning about them. Their past, their skills, their powers, and much more. Idiotic Politicians who serve their own self interest rather than the people's, S.H.I.E.L.D., Hydra, and anyone else who think they stand in my way will be proven wrong. VERY wrong." He finished sharing his wisdom to his second-in-command, letting the words sink in.
Cobra Commander: "Heh, I find it amusing really." He suddenly said.
Baroness: "What is, Commander?"
Cobra Commander: "Despite what S.H.I.E.L.D says about serving the greater good, they and Hydra are more alike than they realize. Two sides of the same coin." He remarks as he remembers learning about S.H.I.E.L.D's more dirty secrets.
Cobra Commander: "But I believe there is something else you wish to tell me, is it?" He asked, getting back on the subject.
Baroness: "Yes commander, there is." She confirmed as she hand him a data pad. CC (Cobra Commander) took a look though and saw a news article saying "SUPER VILLAINS ON THE LOOSE!" Interest already caught, he reading through it.
Cobra Commander: "A super villain breakout."
Baroness: "Yes, all four of S.H.I.E.L.D's prisons went offline and all prisoners have escaped."
Cobra Commander: "All of them? Heh, S.H.I.E.L.D is certainly getting sloppy..." He remarked in humor.
Baroness: "Indeed they are, commander. But I believe this could help Cobra begin operations more into the public, perhaps a new prison complex to recruit super villains?"
Cobra Commander: "Hmm, an interesting idea. Thank you for bringing this news to me, Anatashia." He thanked, the Baroness happily beamed.
Cobra Commander: "Now then, if you would be so kind to get Killmonger on the holocall, I have a mission for him."
Baroness: "As you command, sir." Just then another individual came into the leader of Cobra's Chambers.
This one was a tall young man wearing high-tech battle armor with a green yet grey color to that armor that covered him from head to toe. His mask was that of a jackal design and had orange-colored eyes with a hood up, a robed cloth on his to his waist. Lastly, he had a hip holster on his right hip while his left had a special combat knife.
He's known as The Jackal, once a failed clone of Spider-Man made by S.H.I.E.L.D. as a contingency plan in case Spider-Man ever does go rogue. But now, he's a member of Cobra. Once he walks up to them, he gets on one knee and bows down to the pair.
Jackal: "Cobra Commander. Lady Baroness. I've successfully retrieved the data from S.H.I.E.L.D., as you requested sir."
Cobra Commander: "Excellent work, Jackal. You have outdone yourself."
Jackal: "Thank you, sir."
Baroness: "We are quite fortunate to have you with us. Had it not been for Mindbender and Lady Octopus, I honestly shuddered at the thought on what would become you, losing yourself to the madness." She commented as she walks up to the kneeling man and absentmindedly patted his head like a dog. Not that he minded of course.
Cobar Commander: "Indeed, though honestly, a simple threat to their fundings seems the only way to get them to actually working together." He dryly commented on how easy it was to get the two most smartest scientists in their organization to get along with some much as a threat to cut their fundings in half.
Cobra Commander: (Stands up) "Now. Jackal, Baroness, Walk with me." He commands, leaving his room with Jackal and Baroness in tow.
Baroness: "Commander, I have Killmonger on call." She said as she hands CC a holo-communicator.
The call opens and shows a young man with brown skin, his black hair was in short dreadlocks style, dark brown eyes and some facial hair forming. He had a good build of a solider for his age and years of training from a harsh life to where he is now. He also has battle scars on his upper body for every kill he has taken, worthy ones. He wore a black combat shirt, black military pants with a black belt holding it up, military boots, this silver yet yellow battle chest armor that seems to be an interesting take from an anime character in DB. And lastly, there was a name tag on the chest that says 'Killmonger' in all caps. He also carried a battle rifle on his back and a number of knives and pistols in his hip holsters & belt.
This is Erik Killmonger, a former Black Ops before becoming a freelancer and soon joined Cobra. Secretly, only a few know, that Erik is actually the cousin of T'Challa - The Black Panther, and is also known as the Golden Jaguar.
Right now, he seems to be quite busy, as gunshots were heard in the background.
Killmonger: (Hologram) "Boss! Now's not the time to be making calls man!"
Cobra Commander: "Apologies, Killmonger. I simply wanted to see how you are progressing with the Arms Dealers." He replies calmly.
Killmonger: (Hologram) "Fine, well as fine as you can be while you're getting shot at!" He exclaimed as an explosion went off.
Killmonger: (Hologram) "Listen, I'll call you back when things get settled. Cool?"
Cobra Commander: "Of course, but be sure to contact me once they are dealt with, understand?"
Killmonger: "Roger Bossman." He said as a man in the background was running up to Killmonger with a knife in an attempt to stab him. The African American dropped the Holo-Call and grab the man's arm, throwing him over his shoulder and onto the ground.
Killmonger: "Really?! You were going to stab me mother-?!" The call was then cut off.
Baroness: (Chuckles a bit) "It seems Killmonger has his hands quite full at the moment." She said humorously.
Cobra Commander: (Dryly) "Clearly..." He deadpanned.
Jackal: "Remind me again why Killmonger needs to go and steal weapons from Arms Dealers only to be sold off to someone else?"
Cobra Commander: "Because Jackal, we need S.H.I.E.L.D. to be occupied with another group rather than look for their missing data."
Jackal: "I see. Distract them with someone else and make sure they won't start looking into Cobra." He started seeing the reason why.
Cobra Commander: "Correct."
Eventually, they came into a science lab occupied by two unique individuals.
One was a college young man with short barren hair and dark brown eyes. He won a white lab coat over his purple collar shirt like a doctor/scientist would wear, and grey pants with hazmat boots.
The other person is a beautiful yet mature woman with stunning short red hair and green yet blue-colored eyes. Her attire was a tight dark green suit that hugged her figure while having yellow body armor on her shoulders, arms, legs, and had a golden crown around her head. Lastly that stands out, where four long metal arms with gold painting on them with red eyes in the center in between their three claws and seem to have different features.
The young man is named Brian Bender, also known as Dr. Mindbender and the woman is Carolyn Trainer but referred as Lady Octopus, named after Doctor Octopus.
And Right now, they look like they're about to tear each other's throats out.
Lady Ock: "For the last time, Mindbender, we are not going to use our own men!"
Mindbender: "And tell me again why, Ock?" He asked annoyed.
Lady Ock: "Because they are Cobra Commander's men, not our guinea pigs!"
Mindbender: "All I'm saying is we test the Bio-Vipers against human combatants. And if some "dire consequences" does happen, we'll just heal them back up, no one get's hurt!" He explained.
Lady Ock: "Except the one who would be tested on!" She retorted.
Mindbender: "Hey, we managed to stop Jackal boy from going full psychopath, who's to say we can't heal up any other shumck? Huh, Squidy?" Next thing he knew, he was picked up by one of Lady Octopus' arms, her face looking furious.
Lady Ock: "Call me that again and I'll-" She was cut off as she hears someone clearing their throat.
Lady Ock: "Cobra Commander! So nice you came by!" She greeted as she roughly drops Mindbender to the ground.
Cobra Commander: "As much as I find rivalry amusing at times, it does get rather annoying. I hope the new fundings I gave to you both hasn't gone to waste."
Mindbender: "Course! No funds wasted, lot's of progress made Bossman!" He stands up and assured his commander.
Cobra Commander: "Well then, would you both be so kind in show our Neo-Vipers?"
Lady Octopus grabs a datapad and pushes a button, door open and shows 20 men standing at attention.
Lady Ock: "Allow us to show you, commander." She ushered as she walks to the open room, with the rest following behind her. She then presses another button, and a large glass case containing a snake.
Cobra Commander: "Ah, the King Cobra, nature's very own Grim Reaper. Its venom can kill a fully grown elephant with one bite. A truly magnificent creature." He muses, he the looks and see everyone had different looks on their faces. Surprised, impressed, and even amused.
Cobra Commander: "What?" He asked confused.
Jackal: "Sir, did you happen to eat an encyclopedia book about snakes?" The clone of Spider-Man asked in a serious tone. Baroness tried to cover up her laughs with fake coughs.
Cobra Commander: "I simply find them fascinating creatures." He bluntly retorts.
Mindbender: "Hey, yeah, sorry. I know that the commander's knowledge on snakes is pretty amazing and all, but think we could get back on the main event?"
Cobra Commander: (Nods) "Of course. Lady Octopus, if you would?" He ask and the doctor in question nods, gesturing one of the Neo-Vipers to step forward.
Lady Ock: "We've introduced each soldier with one thousand CC's of the nanomites, at first they experienced nausea and headaches, nothing too serious, before eventually the symptoms would pass." She explains as she shows the incision scar behind the solider's right to the audience.
Cobra Commander: "Could you perhaps continue explaining in simpler words? I don't want to have Baroness and Jackal ending up confused."
Mindbender: (Smirks) "Why tell when we can show?" The young doctor asked, gesturing the soldier to the glass case, the Neo-Viper then walks up to it and opens the portal door on the glass box.
Jackal: "Um, I was under the impression that the Cobra could kill an elephant with one bit." He commented in concern.
Mindbender: "The nanomites help an individual control certain emotions, as requested by the Bossman. They don't feel fear, and pain as well." He continues to explain as the Neo-Viper stuck his arm into the case. Cobra then strikes, biting the arm which was then pulled out. The Neo-Viper had a look of surprise when he realized he barely felt the bite.
Mindbender: "The nanomites would then target the venom, pushing them right back out where they came from." He explained more as the venom was then seeped out from the holes the cobra left. Everyone (except Cobra Commander due to the mask) had looks of surprise at what they're seeing before them. Dr. Trainer was beaming in pride of the work, as much as she hates to say it, they both created together. She still hates Dr.Mindbender though.
Mindbender: (Smiles) "Now, would everyone give a round of applause." He asked, and everyone clapped in awe at the demonstration. Then suddenly, the commander approached the glass box holding the cobra within, he then stuck his right arm through the hole.
Jackal: "Uh, boss? What are you doing?" He asked, now concerned for his commander. Cobra Commander said nothing, he waits for the cobra as it flickers it's tongue near the Commander's arm. Instead of biting, it coiled around the cool leather cladded arm, nesting in the texture. He then pulled his arm out with the snake as everyone has, yet again, looks of complete surprise at seeing their Commander tamed the cobra with such ease.
Cobar Commander: "Dr. Mindbender, Lady Octopus." He suddenly called.
Cobra Commander: "You both have done a fair share of creating such inventions in Cobra's service. And now, you both have created something to ensure my mens' survival in battles. I shall be forever glad to have you both part of the family." He continues as he pets the Cobra's head. The good doctors well honestly stunned at the heartfelt thanks.
Mindbender: (recovers) "Come on CC. No need to get all chummy about it." He plays it off, though deep down he is quite glad Cobra Commander appreciates his genius...and then he got his foot stomped on by Lady Octopus' foot. She looked agitated at the rather disrespectful response by her fellow doctor, who was bouncing on one foot while holding the other on in pain.
Lady Octopus: (Blushes and smiles happily) "Thank you commander, you honor us greatly." She said as she gave a bow in appreciation. Cobra Commander nods in response and then turns his attention to the Neo-Vipers.
Cobra Commander: (Approaches them) "Men." He uttered, and they stood and attention.
Cobra Commander: "What you all witnessed here today shows our strength growing with each passing day, waiting patiently for the time to come and reveal ourselves to the world. Preparing our fangs to sink into our enemies bodies and destroy them with our venom. And soon after that, we restore this country to what it was once meant to be, the land of freedom and tolerance. OoRah, men." He declared as the Cobra's head was positioned next to the Commander's.
Neo-Vipers: "OORAH!!!" They passionately responded. Cobra has been waiting long for the chance to consume all the corruption that has infected America, a once great nation. That wish would come true. When? Only time will tell us that.