SUGAR COOKIE ACID TEST—Hawk continues to fight against charges of treason, and an apparent lull in COBRA's shadow war against the USA allows the Joes to begin to train together as a team... in the lush Hawaiian Islands. The training exercises that Beach Head has cooked up for the Joes promise to make their days and nights anything but heavenly. But Scarlett finds a shocking touch of paradise in the hellish grind — in the arms of another Joe! And when the Joes have trained and strained to the limits of their endurance.