G.I. Joe #142 (November 1993) – “Final Transformations” – Larry Hama/Jesse Orozco, William Rosado/Tim Tuohy, Chip Wallace, Ariane Lenshoek, Steve Alexandrov
This one continues from last issue, with Scarlett confronting Megatron and demanding he let Sidney Biggles-Jones go. Before Megatron can squash Scarlett, he’s attacked by Autobots but he does pretty well against them thanks to Sidney’s new tech that’s been integrated into his systems. He shoves Sidney inside his chest cavity (since he needs her brain and spinal cord intact) and Scarlett prepares to rescue the scientist. The Autobots retreat when human civilians are threatened. Snake Eyes escapes from Cobra at the hospital with the help of his ninja skills (and
some grenades). Megatron figures the Autobots have an intergalactic transporter nearby and goes looking for it. Scarlett runs into Cobra Commander and Zarana and starts kicking the shit out of them, but some Alley-Vipers are ready to waste her (and Zarana, who they’re not too worried about killing since she’s not the one signing their paychecks). Megatron finds the warehouse where the transporter is and gets jumped by Brawn, who’s guarding it. Snake Eyes shows up to waste the Alley Vipers threatening Scarlett, so Cobra Commander and Zarana take off. Megatron grabs the transporter after blowing Brawn to hell with a low-yield neutron explosion and heads 
back to the Ark with Sidney. The Autobots figure they’ll have to capture the Ark to get home and Storm Shadow and Spirit show up to offer their help. Spike Witwicky (who looks nothing like Shia Labeouf) is sneaking around too, hoping to help the Autobots. He manages to get aboard the Ark with the transformed Autobots who are snuck aboard during a big Megatron/Override fight. Megatron rips Override apart but his sacrifice inspires Sidney and she surrenders to Megatron, who takes off with her in the Ark. She put a computer virus into the tech she used to upgrade Megatron, but he deactivated it and used it in the Decepticon tech he gave to Cobra. Megatron is fascinated by Sidney’s
mind and thinks he might keep her intact for a while. I think this is it for the Transformers crossover and I’m glad. I was never a big Transformers fan and I don’t think they fit well with the Joes. Some Autobots (Override, Brawn, Steeljaw and Chase) were destroyed here, but I’ve never heard of any of them, so I’m not too broken up about it.
G.I. Joe #143 (December 1993) – “Dark Island” – Eric Fein, Vic Sutherland/Jesse Orozco, Tom Mandrake/Tim Tuohy
This is obviously a filler issue which takes place between issues 134 and 135, before Scarlett went undercover inside Cobra. The framing story is her training and feeling pissed off at getting no respect from the other ninjas. Hawk reminds her of an early mission, where she had to go undercover as a Russian (along with Breaker and Rock n’Roll) to infiltrate a Caribbean island run by Madame Umbra, who gets paid to broker hostage exchanges between super-powers. The trio made it onto the island but were immediately grabbed and disarmed before being taken to meet Madame Umbra (who seems to be patterned on Rosa Klebb). Breaker and Rock n’Roll
quickly escaped from their “hospitality suite”, while Scarlett pulled a polymer gun during the prisoner exchange. Turned out the Russian agent sent to pick her up was on a similar mission to shut down Umbra’s operation, so they decided to cooperate. But they were soon captured and the Russian was executed. Madame Umbra had heard of Scarlett and wanted to fight her one-on-one. Scarlett does pretty well and the fight distracts the guards long enough for Breaker to check out the computers and find a link to Cobra. Rock n’Roll arms himself and starts shooting, giving Scarlett the chance to do the same. They take off, leaving Breaker to sabotage the main base. Umbra lets Scarlett and Rock n’Roll stumble around the jungle (almost getting killed in 
quicksand) until she confronts them on the beach. Breaker’s bombs go off, blowing up the citadel and dropping the communications jamming, which brings the sub full of soldiers to the beach. Realizing she’s lost everything, Madame Umbra kills herself with Scarlett’s gun. Back in the present, Hawk reminds Scarlett that she’s grown a lot since that early mission and that she just has to keep trying to do her best no matter what. As I said, this is obviously filler material and the moral at the end seems rather trite. It was interesting to see Scarlett on an early mission, but there’s really nothing spectacular about this issue.