G.I.Joe fanfic book 1: all is fair in love and spies

Chapter 8: Face Off!

AN/Ok. I'm trying to start giving you the sum of the next couple chapters after the AN, tell me what you think. enjoy! No flames!
This Chapter, Dominatrix challenges Katherine's and the General's command. Katherine won't let a Queen B drag her reputation in the dirt. That's not the kind of woman she is. Snakeeyes notices it and tries to cool the angered woman off. When the two finally blow and only Scarlett's there to stop them, will she want to after she hears of Katherine's secrecy?

Chapter 8: Face Off!

Katherine stalked down the corridors, soldiers flattening out against the wall to attempt avoid the angered woman but to no success when they were on the receiving end of the worst of her scalding death glares. Jones and Haze followed in a run-walk to catch up with their crossed Director, Jackie walked causally behind them with not a care in the world. She watched them with an amused glint in her glittering green eyes. Katherine burst into the furious hellish Covert OPs command room with enough force to break down the doors if it were an ordinary door but luckily for it, it wasn't. "Somebody tell me what the hell is going on or so help me god!" Katherine barked at her team, golden-yellow eyes glittering in aggravation and annoyance. Dominatrix has continued to undermined her command since day one, she had an unusual dislike for mutants and that included Katherine. Katherine could feel the rage building, threatening to spill over her well built dam to hold back the darkness. This time she wasn't so sure if she wanted to try and hold it back. To become Bastet the Champion once more and to destroy Dominatrix with a cruelty that could match the infamous Redskull of Hydra. Katherine closed her eyes briefly and decided not today, not to give Dominatrix the satisfaction of breaking her reslove when she was calm enough to not go off, she opened them.
"We have a bird in the air on it's way to the target's casino that he is currently residing in," Jones said, breathlessly from the screen," About fifteen minutes out."
Katherine glowered and then growled out," Get me a connection to the rouge bird and have SHIELD on the line and ready to take that bird outta the sky." She ordered and snatched a headset off of the desk to 'talk' to Dominatrix, ignoring the shocked looks of her operatives. The Target was highly valuable and could give vital information for G.I.Joe and SHIELD, if Katherine had to chose between Dominatrix or the Target, she would chose the target. Not simply because she would chose the target over her but that this target is very important, it had taken about three years to take out his second, Carlos in Budapest. Any mistake on their part could mean that he would disappear for good.
Jones nodded and grabbed his phone to speak with Phil Coulson.
"Get your good-for-nothing-arse back to the Pit or you will be on desk duty for the rest of your career and that's me being nice." Katherine spoke in a dangerously calm voice, everyone in the room could feel the rage and pint up fury flowing off of their director in waves.
"Not a chance in hell, freak. you think you can come into our Pit and order us around, think again." She sneered through the line.
"Then I will end you." Katherine growled, bitting her lower lip to keep her mind off of the situation, so hard she could taste her blood. Haze spun around and raced out of the room, off to retrieve Hawk. Jones handed her his phone, and before she could get a word in edge wise, Coulson spoke with his usual authoritative voice," I am assuming that bird is yours, Director Ramses."
"Oh, you give me tingles when you call me 'Director' like that." Katherine smirked, sardonically and continued,"'Fraid so, Phil. The ship's pilot and me aren't the best of friends." Katherine answered, temporarily all anger fled at the sound of his familiar, almost fatherly voice."Director Fury's tempted to shoot it out of the sky, Katherine."
"If I weren't a Joe, I would tell you go ahead blast it outta the sky and I'll even pull up a chair and some buttered popcorn to watch it burn but I am a Joe, now. That means I'm responsible for the spineless rodent. I need her safely returned to me, relatively unharmed. a few scrapes and broken bones, I'm fine with that." Katherine said, silently hoping that Phil understood her hidden meaning, a code they created years ago. "Put that under my tab of the list of debts I owe SHEILD." Katherine said and she heard multiple footsteps behind her, the general and company. She was going to have a mess to clean up and a ton of paperwork because of Dominatrix's little stunt. She picked up the headset again and spoke into it,
"Last chance, turn around." Katherine typed into a computer, overriding Dominatrix's control (A trick she learned form Tony Stark.), put the phone on speaker and then waited for Dominatrix's response. If she didn't turn around, then she was going to learn a lesson.
"Shove it, freak!" She snarled back, this was going to be fun, Katherine thought, sarcastically.
"Shoot to thrill me, Coulson." Katherine said to the phone, pressing a button on the tablet in her hands.
"Will and always do, Katherine Ramses." He replied with a smile in his voice, all that could be heard was a high pitched static noise filled the headset as she assumed that SHEILD shot the missile. Katherine yanked the offensive device off with relief at dodging a bullet," How was Budapest?" He asked over the panicking Joes, they just witnessed one of their jets exploded.
Katherine ignored the soldiers and answered as she sat in a chair," Clint told you about that, eh?"
"Yes, and Natasha-."
"What the Hell, Katherine Eliza Ramses!" Hawk's angry voice cut off Phil's voice, she could hear a hint of fear in his voice. She immediately knew the origin of the fear, Bastet. He feared that she just mercilessly killed one of her own operatives, it wasn't entirely unjustified because she would've if she had no choice in the matter.
Katherine sighed and looked at the General, calmly and said," She's alive, check the comms and scans if you don't believe me. I'm not completely heartless." And so they checked, it still hurt that they didn't trust her."Thanks, Phil. Owe you another one."
"We will call those in soon." phil agreed.
"Understood, fanboy, tell Nick I said hello."....
Few days after....
Katherine stood in the center of the training hall, panting. She hasn't slept in about three days, but she couldn't feel the weariness, her body was on overdrive. She went through all of the simulations and more. Jackie sparred with her and went to bed four hours ago. Katherine remained and trained. She had a speech tomorrow to all of the representatives of the countries apart of the G.I.Joe program. She had to explain why she did what she did, she thought that the whole think was complete bull. The countries wanted to see if she deserved to be Director, to make up their minds. Ha, she knew they already made up their minds. She knew what was occurring, it has happened before when she first joined. They wanted an excuse to lock her up and see what made her tick. If she wasn't in her position in all of this, she would've understand. They could create an army of super soliders with her DNA. She snarled, a struck the punching bag closest to her with enough force to knock it off it's hook and it fell to the ground. thunk.
Katherine knew all of this before hand and so she created a fail safe with SHIELD. Fury and Phil would step in if need be and if push came to shove, she had Ironman on speed dial. Gosh, she hated politics.
Katherine snapped out of her daydream and drew her dual Kopeshes, twirling them. Planning to go through a couple exercises to cool off, when Katherine moved her blades through the air another blade flashed and clashed with hers. Instincts kicked in as well as bubbling adrenaline and Katherine swiped at the other blade, that strike was deflected. She looked up and realized her opponent was Snakeeyes. Katherine straightened and narrowed her golden-yellow eyes at the silent, clad in black ninja. This wasn't her moving per say, her body was on autopilot when she sent two more powerful strikes and followed with a swift kick. Snakeeyes wasn't expecting that much force, he has never dueled with Katherine with her kopeshes but he held his own against the upset woman.
He moved to return with a strike and Katherine flipped back with the agility and grace of an acrobat and landed on her feet. She moved against Snakeeyes as soon as she landed, kopeshes flashing like lightning. He stopped moving against her, and only deflected her blades when he saw his opening, he moved in a swatted the blades out of her hands. His hands gripped her shoulders to prevent her from retrieving her blades. Katherine stopped her struggle and her eyes widened when she spotted a deep cut on Snakeeyes' arm,"$hit." she whispered and she tried to escape and to go hide in a hole forever. Snakeeyes grip tightened around her arms, keeping her in place. "Crap, I am so so sorry."
He shook his head as if saying 'it's fine.' and Katherine shrugged out of his grip moved to sit on the bench. She didn't speak when she motioned Snakeeyes to sit down while she fix the wound. She her hand over the wound and she said," Stay still." Katherine closed her eyes and concentrated on projecting her mutation to heal Snakeeyes. Snakeeyes felt a rush of incredible warmth and a rush of scattered memories and watched in amazement as his skin began to stitch back together until it was like it hadn't even happened.
An couple minutes later Katherine finished and she stood up to leave but almost fell over due to light headedness. Snakeeyes was quick to catch her, pulling her close to him. Her heart pounded in emotions and she tried to pull away but Snakeeyes wouldn't allow it. He held her with one arm and his other hand signed," I am sorry about everything that has happened to you."
Katherine stiffened and this time she successfully stood away. She
Turned to find a hole to die in. She moved to collect the awaiting blades when Snakeeyes grabbed her upper arm and spun her to face him. He signed,' What has been wrong with you?'
Katherine looked into the glass of his black visor that was so close to her face. She could feel his body heat as he towered over her and then she said, softly." Everything." And moved away from him to retrieve her Kopeshes and place them in their sheathes." Everything is wrong with me and has been for quiet sometime, now." she turned and left the training hall, leaving Snakeeyes to stand, alone with his thoughts.....
End of part one of two.
AN/ Man! Sorry! This chapter was tough to write with Dominatrix in this chapter! And Katherine's and Snakeeyes' fight. Next chapter will have Tony and a few others as a 'I'm sorry for not having updated this.' gift. the good thing is I have already written the second book. the next chapter will be the speech and Dom's and Kat's fight. Good bye!