Insurrection
"That's right, herd them up."
Liquid ordered smoothly as he stepped out onto the helipad. Hands on hips, he appraised the prisoners. Mantis was at his side, bulky in a coat, formal save for his breathing mask;
"We caught them trying to outflank us. Foolish."
Raven said shaking his head as he threw a straggler down roughly with one hand, his other grasping a leviathan canon.
"Didn't even give us much of a chase," Ocelot complained as Fox came up alongside him with a squad of Genomes.
"There are no more on the lower levels. All dead, we made sure to keep the cameras running."
"Good," Nodded Liquid absently, "We want them to know we're serious."
"Damn Americans never take blood seriously – unless it's their own."
Wolf's silky voice resonated throughout all their earpieces.
"Be that as it is, I want them to know we're not pulling punches...Octopus?"
"He's over at the labs, rounding up the scientists."
Liquid bobbed his head acknowledging it and returned his attention to the NGSF soldiers who were before him, all awaiting death or imprisonment. Blowing out a breath, Liquid's intense blue eyes slid over to Fox,
"You said you killed all that opposed down below?"
She nodded,
"Hm, well then we can go ahead and offer these boys some form of sanctuary," He said thoughtfully.
Kneeling before the soldiers, Liquid ignored the light snowfall that gently fell around them all and engaged the soldier directly in front of him,
"Would you like to be a part of history?"
They all remained silent. Fox's narrow eyes bored into the scene before she grew uninterested and sat down leaning up against one of Raven's hulking arms and ignored them all. Raven was looking over his canon, whilst Ocelot and Mantis watched as Liquid said to the soldiers,
"Are there any heroes amongst you men who would shrug off their shackles and join us?"
About a third of the men got up and went and stood behind Liquid. Ocelot watched almost gleefully as twenty or so soldiers remained; utterly defenceless in the cold. Vulnerable.
"And so, our cause grows." Liquid said to his team satisfied.
Turning on his heel, he waved for Mantis to follow him and they strode into the complex leaving the unwilling loyalists to face their fate. Ocelot twirled his Single Action Army with a grin,
"So, so," He growled to the soldiers, "None of you army boys want to join us."
He began to pace up and down the line, sardonically pointing his gun at them all with a callous smirk.
"What a pity," He said unsympathetically when he got to the end of the line.
Fox was jostled as Raven moved and stood up straight unveiling his true height. Towering, hulking and powerful, but not without remorse; the massive man said in a surprisingly soft voice that commanded respect,
"Ocelot, don't toy with them."
"Eh?"
"A good death comes from one who is honourable."
Fox could see Ocelot's raised eyebrow, he chortled and turned away from Raven seemingly giving no credit to the shaman's words. There was a pause as Raven hefted up his canon and took aim. With no warning, he open-fired on the squad; Ocelot moved away as the resulting blast blew the soldiers to atoms. Fox looked away as Ocelot said,
"Sure, go ahead and ruin all my fun why don't you."
"A shaman can't condone torture, Ocelot; your methods move me to such action."
"Oh, should you condone blowing up a squad of surrendered soldiers who were being kept in place by mind control?" He countered snidely, "There may be a rule about that among you witch doctors or whatever – I wouldn't know."
"You test me?" Raven growled darkly and Ocelot shook his head with a smirk,
"Nah, it was banter. Friendly...of course."
Running the chamber of his gun down his sleeve, they heard the clicks. Raven didn't back down from Ocelot's teasing, they were halted by Wolf's voice through the earpiece however,
"There's a call coming in from the Pentagon – the boss wants us inside. Octopus, where are you?"
"I'm where you least expect me,"
Raven sighed losing patients with him and placed a finger in his ear and grumbled,
"Don't be furtive, Octopus, just get over here."
They heard him sigh through the earpiece,
"Fine, I'm on my way now, Wolf. I shan't be more than sixteen minutes."
"We won't look for you." Ocelot offered mockingly.
"You won't find me."
Octopus replied curtly and his voice was gone from all of them. Getting to her feet, Fox vaulted the railing that ran around the helipad smoothly and nimbly. Stuffing her hands into the pockets of her body warmer, she was thankful of her skin-tight thermal suit at that moment. Without it she would have frozen to death for sure. Striding inside, she was halted by an arm, Raven's arm;
"You're thinking if all this is worth it aren't you, Fox?"
She looked up at him; he had his back to her slightly. Fox looked away when she felt him gaze at her,
"I don't want to be a part of this history..."
"Commendable, little Fox, but whether you want to or not you will be after this week. We all will."
He said almost reverently. Fox bit her lip and watched the Genomes enter the facility, Pineapples trained on the backs of the newly-turned-insurrectionists; she was only here to help them. The Genomes. Shaking her head, she was about to say something when Raven cut her off,
"Soon every school child will know who we are and what we've accomplished,"
"But history is not made by those who hear it,"
Said Liquid through the earpiece confidently and Fox felt her stomach turn,
"But by them who write it."
