Home Episode Summaries Season 1 The Germ
"Yeah, that germ’s doing the squirms."
- Roadblock (before the germ undergoes mitosis)
The two Joes take off and Airtight enters the germ and is so awestruck
by the wreckage and makeup of the germ that he doesn’t answer Ace until
he begins radioing back to Joe headquarters that the germ is interferring
with his transmission to Airtight. Suddenly, explosions errupt inside the
germ.
As bombs from the Cobra base detonate inside the germ, Ace tells Airtight
that the mission has been cancelled and he is ordered to get out, but Airitight
explains that he could fly out if wanted since steering inside the germ
is like driving a truck in jello across a minefield. Airtight turns off
his radio and steers through the mine field successfully, avoids corresive
enzymes and discovers the nucleus.
On a hilltop, Flint explains to Scarlett that there is no way for the
Joes to know what has happened to Airtight since he cut off his radio while
inside the germ. Behind Scarlett, Flint and Roadblock, Dusty holds back
the scientist from the lab which was robbed by Agent X-99 and yells at
Dusty that he must speak to his commanding officer since he knows all about
the germ’s origins. Flint learns from the doctor, who first explains that
he does not work for Cobra, that the germ was created due to the misuse
of anti-biotics, that nothing known to man can stop the germ and the Joes’
plan of trying to kill the germ with anto-biotics might make the germ stronger.
With the explosives attached to canisters of anti-biotics, Airtight
swims toward the nucleus with the explosives chained to his waist and sets
the bombs. Behind him, a Cobra Eel turns to another, draws his finger
across his own throat, and pulls out his gun and swims toward Airtight after
seeing his friend nodding in agreement that they should kill Airtight. The Eel shoots
Airtight’s backpack and the Joe turns around and lies still. Not understanding
what happened, the two Cobra Eels swim toward Airtight, who ducks as they
approach and watches the two Cobras crash into the explosives. The Eels
pull the chain toward them and Airtight tries to escape using a key, but
he loses his grip on the key as he is pulled forward. Therefore, Airtight
uses the chain to swing the Cobra Eels into the nucleus, but the explosives
are stuck as well.
Before Airtight is sucked into the nucleus with the Eels and the explosives,
the Joe grabs a gun floating in the germ and destroys a link in the chain
so that he can return to his ship. However, he is locked out. Looking through
a window, Airtight sees a Crimson Guard inside, blows away the button on
the outside of his ship and enters the cabin. After explaining to the Crimson
Guard that they can stay inside the germ and be killed with the explosives
or have Airtight fly them out, the Cobra Elite agent allows Airtight to
pilot the ship out of the germ.
The explosives detonate and Airtight and the Crimson Guard are propelled
forward by the shockwaves. They land safely outside of the germ and Airtight
catches sight of his teammates, who congratulate him and welcome him back.
Flint turns to the doctor and tells him that it looks like the doctor was
wrong.
“Yeah,” Roadblock adds, ”that germ’s doing the squirms.”
Flint: “I couldn’t have said it any better.”
Roadblock: “Nobody could.”
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