Orders for Zartan

Log Title: Orders for Zartan

Characters: Cobra Commander, Zartan

Location: Rancho Corba Acres - Luck, CA

Date: March 03, 2016

Summary: Cobra Commander orders Zartan to retrieve the Baroness.

As logged by Cobra Commander - Thursday, March 03, 2016, 6:17 PM

Rancho Corba Acres - Luck, CA

 * Unlike the rest of Luck, California, the gated Rancho Corba Acres community seems to be thriving. The local buildings have been newly renovated. The lawns are trim and green, even with the ongoing drought. Kids can be seen playing outside during the day, looking free and happy, and at night the streets seem to be free of crime. It's a happy oasis in a desert of decline.


 * Cobra Commander waits in his control center in beautiful, gated Rancho Corba Acres. He's wearing his dark blue cowl, and his headquarters is protected by tall, immobile Imperial Guards. Soft music plays in the office, and outside the window out-of-uniform Cobra Youth play soccer and tennis on the immaculately-tended lawns and courts. Unfortunately for Zartan, sunlight streams in from outside, casting the room in a warm glow.

Zartan enters the room, grimaces at the beams of sunlight, and tries to avoid it while walking towards where the Commander is. As long as it's not direct bright sunlight, though, he's fine, as in not turning smurf blue, but it does do him some discomfort. "Commander. You wanted to see me?" he wonders when he arrives.


 * Cobra Commander looks up at Zartan and nods. "Welcome to Rancho Corba, Zartan. I will make this brief. Since you rescued the Baroness, she has yet to join us at any of our bases. Our intelligence suggests that she is still in the company of that Scottish git Destro. I find this unacceptable. The Baroness's loyalties have been divided too long. I want you to travel to Transcarpathia and bring back the Baroness. Should Destro give you any trouble, take him out. I tire of his interference. I am understood?" Cobra Commander leans forward and fixes his eye blue eyes on Zartan's.

Zartan nods. "Of course, Commander," he says. He has no love for Destro, so breaking up that pair and hauling the Baroness back to Cobra Commander is right up his alley. "She probably had something in her eye," he notes sarcastically.

"I'd like to see Destro with something in his eye," Cobra Commander replies, "if you catch my meaning."

Zartan nods and chuckles. "Indeed, Commander."

"Very well," the Commander says. "Carry on. You'll get your usual bonus if you bring back the Baroness, and something extra if you bring back Destro's head as well."

Cobra Commander dismisses Zartan, and leans back in his chair, enjoying the mental image of Zartan giving Destro the Serpentor arrow-in-the-eye treatment. Life is good.