Code Name: Firefly
File Name, Unknown
Primary Military Specialty: Sabotage
Secondary Military Specialty: Demolitions
Birthplace: Unknown
After the election, Rexford Lewis cut ties with nearly any Cobra operatives who could be in any way tied back to illegal activities. By all accounts, Firefly was one of those agents, though in his case, he was never a full-fledged member of the organization - his fees were always paid in advance to a numbered Swiss bank account and was in the truest form a freelance operative. His work simply aligned with Cobra's and the relationship was mutually and financially beneficial. Unofficially, Lewis still makes use of Firefly's extensive skillset - Lewis believes that a frightened populace is a more easily controlled one, and Firefly's precise and impeccable work is used surgically to create discomfort and anxiety on American soil, and Disavowed GI Joe members make for easy scapegoats for Firefly's work.
"Cobra Commander has many flaws, and one of them is the belief that enough money will maintain loyalty. His plan to use Firefly to raise false flags upon which he can blame the Joes is, on paper, a brilliant strategy. It offers a chance to turn the public against any GI Joe operatives who dare to make a move against him, turning heroes into bogeymen in the night. What 'Lewis' fails to understand, however, is that the GI Joe team was too successful for too long. This isn't professional wrestling. In a good Hollywood script, if someone is going to commit a heel turn, it has to be logical, believable, and sincerely felt so the audience feels betrayed. Painting men who served their country so bravely for so long into cowardly mad bombers and arsonists is a weak plot device from a third-rate hack of a screenwriter. Now, if Lewis can capture one of the Joes and make a public spectacle out of a confession, he might get somewhere, but until then, Firefly remains fireworks to distract the rubes, and Firefly himself remains not a loyalist but a mercenary available to the highest bidder."
