G.I. Joe: City under Siege!

A Story by Abishai100

Storm-Shadow/Stargirl are 'GI Joe' ninjas challenging a Manhattan siege created by supervillains set to destroy urban diagonals.

A fun patriotic GI Joe comics fanfiction about blood-diamonds, a Manhattan exorcism-siege, and modern anti-terrorism dreams. Enjoy!

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Manhattan (USA) was about to be a proverbial 'city-under-siege' because of rogue specters creating mad world troubles akin to terrorism, requiring the covert paramilitary patriot-agents known as 'GI Joes' to intervene to safeguard urban sanity in the new millennium.

The two protagonists in this tale are the GI Joe ninja-agents Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) and Stargirl (Elka Sommer) who happen to be the main marketing specialists in the distribution of modern patriotic comic books celebrating Americans' love of magical defense of democracy/capitalism.

Storm-Shadow is a brilliant Algerian-American blood-diamond infiltration agent in North America who undermines baron-spheres constructed for terrorism-financing stretching from Africa/Europe to North America. Stargirl is the brilliant Belgian partner of Storm-Shadow who works as a self-proclaimed 'evangelical legal expert' for major US cities, creating ideas for modern anti-terrorism defense and prevention of urban anarchy.

Storm-Shadow is a natural thief. Stargirl is a natural governance subversion expert. They sometimes had to work undercover to deconstruct the super-terrorist group Cobra, vying for dominions in the USA. Storm-Shadow and Stargirl were sometimes jaded from their violent work and got married to find romance amidst hell, and they sometimes consult with church officials in Manhattan to evaluate the ideal metrics for modern anti-terrorism rule.

Manhattan became under siege when two 'super-villains' Hammond and Sharp created an inter-continental blood-diamond terrorism-financing underworld conflagration that landed right on Manhattan. UN forces were ordered to secure areas like Egypt and Israel, while the GI Joes (like Storm-Shadow and Stargirl) were sent directly to Manhattan to determine how to thwart this new 'moral kidnap' global plan erected by the villainous Hammond/Sharp.

STORM-SHADOW: Hammond/Sharp have set off sewer explosives and smoke-bombs in Manhattan, love.

STARGIRL: We'll have to instruct pedestrians to stay clear while we serve as the primary riot exorcists now.

HAMMOND: Manhattan is ours!

SHARP: Don't lose focus on our intentionality --- we're after those two damsels of modern Troy.

The two 'damsels of Troy' Sharp referred to while gloating with his fellow-nemesis Hammond were Mediterranean Interpol officers, quite beautiful, Jonna and Alisha, who're sent to Manhattan to study blood-diamond bank silos and traffic into North America and were originally going to work alongside Stargirl (Elka Sommer). Now, Hammond/Sharp hold Manhattan captive/hostage while having kidnapped Jonna/Alisha from a Manhattan embassy and hold them prisoner in a Manhattan tower-hotel turned into a crime-spike.

STORM-SHADOW: This ain't a "Helen-of-Troy" fable, love.

STARGIRL: Let's enlist the aid of the Joes, Duke and Scarlett, for this damsel-rescue from that dark tower.

As Hammond/Sharp sent out their dark minions to carry out city-wide vandalism and bank-robberies to distract authorities/leaders from the damsel-kidnapping, Storm-Shadow and Stargirl kept focus on the infiltration of the two villains' dark Manhattan tower-hotel while the GI Joes, Duke and Scarlett, worked to undermine the crimes of these street-demons sent by Hammond/Sharp, hockey-mask wearing modern-day homegrown terrorists.

Duke/Scarlett are considered the 'elite' of urban control, so they're armed and roving the city in the GI Joe 'havoc-vehicles' ready to shoot spray-bullets at the crime-trucks and roadster-vehicles driven by these hockey-mask wearing urban hellraisers employed by Hammond/Sharp. This seems almost like a horror-film, were it not for the likes of Duke/Scarlett --- two fine suited patriot-ninjas.

Storm-Shadow and Stargirl get into ninja-gear and climb the dark Manhattan hotel-tower where Hammond/Sharp are holding the Interpol-damsels Jonna and Alisha in cages! Storm-Shadow and Stargirl are armed with swords and rifles filled with corrosive acid, capable of melting through erected metal bars and doors to get into the lair of Hammond/Sharp and hopefully to the rooftop of the tower. Meanwhile, GI Joes are sent as backup in the tower as laser-shooting 'bioexorcists' to deal with the energy-overload on the rooftop created by Hammond/Sharp who're waiting there in glee for the Joes to arrive, with their two Interpol-damsels in cages helpless. Storm-Shadow/Stargirl have to come up with a nifty ninja-scheme now.

STORM-SHADOW: This eerily feels like a cartoon-episode of Planet of the Apes, love.

STARGIRL: There's no telling what new era terrorism can do to evolutionary imagination.

Storm-Shadow/Stargirl get to the tower and unite with the laser-pack wielding Joe friends who're in awe as Hammond/Sharp are waiting on that foggy rooftop with a sinister siren-woman who's singing a dark song while the two Interpol-damsels (Jonna/Alisha) are forced to sit idly and hope for rescue. Storm-Shadow/Stargirl tell the Joes in laser-backpacks to deal with the siren-from-hell while they sneak up to Hammond/Sharp themselves for a legal exchange.

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: Those two Interpol-damsels are diplomats of peace, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: They belong to us...as intended by the darkness.

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: We're not going to stand for such insanity!
HAMMOND/SHARP: Really?

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: You can't take people out of their coves of diplomacy, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: Why on Earth not?

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: Jonna and Alisha are messengers of patience, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: You two don't sound patient at all.

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: We're partners in anti-terrorism, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: This all sounds like a movie...for idealists.

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: We're champions of the 'ideal' of hostage prevention, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: Are you suggesting we're in legal trouble?

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: You can't avoid the challenge of public scrutiny, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: Really?

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: If you take the women, we'll find new police, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: You're suggesting the police will be creative in return for destruction?

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: Do not challenge the inevitability of social forms, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: You do sound rather impressive with your passion about vigilance.

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: Retreat now, and we'll pursue more diplomatic course, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: Don't be saying in the media, "Hammond/Sharp are romantics."

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: This will be an exercise in sanity-maintenance, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: You have our ears, so you may take back Jonna and Alisha.

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: Don't darken Manhattan again, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: This was merely an 'exercise' in urban experimentation.

STORM-SHADOW/STARGIRL: We'll find the best course of action, b******s!
HAMMOND/SHARP: All's well that ends in love and war...you love-birds.

The city was saved. Jonna and Alisha were returned to Interpol. Storm-Shadow and Stargirl retreated to the Manhattan church where they prayed about restoration of sanity and health. Meanwhile, video-game developers designed a special series of home-games simulating this entire 'city-under-siege' experience and called it The Ghostbusters, which became a blockbuster.