Snake Tales
By: Malph
Rated M for Bad language and violence
This story is based off of the common belief that "Snake Tales" would've been better if it was what Snake did while Raiden was doing his thing.
Prologue: The USS Discovery
The Hudson River, August 28, 2007.
It was a dark and stormy night. Nevertheless, the George Washington Bridge was full of cars heading to various places. But their destination is irrelevent to us, because the main character of this story wasn't in any of those cars.
As the cars sped off to their business a lone pedestrian strolled along the walkway. The pedestrian was a man, about 5'8" and 175 lbs. He was wearing a long poncho with the hood shrouding much of his face. The part you could see was his mouth, with a cigerette in it, and his stubbled chin. The rest of his clothes were pretty odd looking. His pants were tactical looking and he was wearing military style boots.
Suddenly the man dropped his cigerette and took off dashing. He threw off his poncho and vanished into thin air. He continued running and vaulted over the railing. He fell down towards the deck of a tanker that was passing below. Before he could splat onto the deck he was pulled up by a bungee cord. He dropped again and disconnected the cord a few feet above the deck.
As he hit the deck he became visible again. He stood up and put his fingers to his ear. It was his hidden communication system, CODEC. The man on the other end was his commander for this mission, Hal Emmerich, AKA Otacon. He addressed the man as "Snake".
Otacon told Snake his objectives and explained his equipment. They suddenly heard a noise. Snake watched as a helicopter flew in and unloaded a team of Russian soldiers who proptly took over the ship. This changed the original plan of sneaking past Marine soldiers.
After this Snake snuck toward the bridge to find out where ship was headed.
Snake entered the bridge, gun drawn. As he searched the data he found that the ship was headed for the middle of the Atlantic, roughly 500 miles off the Bermuda coast. After relaying this to Otacon he saw someone on the deck. Snake went out to investigate.
The person was a Russian women, Olga Gurlukovich the daughter of the terrorist leader, Sergi Gurlukovich. She attacked Snake, but he was able to take her out with his tranquilizer gun. When she was down he took her USP.
He snuck down into the depths of the tanker until her got to the holds, where Scott Dolph, the Marine Commandant, was giving a speech. Snake had to sneak into the 3rd hold and take pictures of the new Metal Gear.
He used his years of experiance to get past the crowd of soldiers and got to the 3rd hold in a short time. He was surprised to see the new Metal Gear, Ray. He took the pictures and headed to a small terminal to upload the photos.
As he finished he heard the speech wrap up. Then something unexpected happened, there was a clapping from behind Ray. Out stepped a Russian soldier with a Cowboy mustache and a long ponytail, Revolver Ocelot. He called out his soldiers and threatened the crew with the massive amount of Semtex Plactic expolsive on the ship.
His friend and commrade, Sergi, restrained Dolph. Sergi explained their intention to steal Ray for Russia, but Ocelot showed his true colors. He was taking Ray back for the Patriots, a mysterious organization.
Ocelot killed Dolph and Sergi, then started blowing up the semtex. He headed up the walkway to Ray's cockpit, Marine bullets whizing past him, but oddly not hitting him.
Snake charged foreward with his gun drawn to confront Ocelot. He ran up onto the Commandant's platform and called out Ocelot's name. Ocelot turned to react, but started writhing in pain and grabbing his right arm. He calmed down and spoke, but his voice was different. Before it was gruff, but now it was a smooth with a British accent.
This shocked and horrified Snake, it was the voice of his brother, Liquid Snake, who 2 years prior had been at the head of a terrorist attack in an Alaskan Military Base. But Liquid was killed by the Foxdie virus at the end of the incedent. It was also odd that Ocelot had a right arm since during that same incedent his arm was cut off by Gray Fox.
Ocelot begged Liquid to get out of his arm. The arm must've been Liquid's, stolen and attached to Ocelot. Before Snake could shoot the ship rocked with more expolsions, and Liquid/Ocelot escaped into Ray. Ray took out many of the marines, then ripped through the ship.
The ship sank into the Hudson Bay, dragging everything and everyone aboard into the dark depths.
To Be Continued...
Will Snake survive this, and if so, how? Find out in the next chapter.
Small note from author: This was just a brief summery of the Tanker level. If one day I write the full version of story I'll add stuff like dialogue and more detail. Also, don't complain that the chapter went downhill after the beginning, I wasn't really trying to make this the best chapter in the story.