Forewords
Hey, guys!
Some of you might recognize me from the Fanfiction archives for Touhou Project, as the guy who writes the Fantasy Blitzkrieg series.
If not, well...
Let me introduce myself then. The name's Lieutenant Colonel Summers, but you can call me LT. I'm a geek when it comes to military stuffs, and the Metal Slug Series created by SNK Playmore has been one of my favorite games. SNK submitted their last entry of the games in the form of Metal Slug XX, and stopped after that. I've thought they have abandoned the franchise until they released Metal Slug Defense for mobile devices in the year 2014. Glad to know that they haven't forgotten the series...
For those of you new to Metal Slug, its a series of side-scrolling platformer plus shoot'em up made by the same team who made the King Of Fighters series. The games are about a government-controlled military force known as the Regular Army, fighting a band of rogue Nazi-like militants known as the Rebelllion - or Rebel Army. The game is named after the Super Vehicle-001, also known as the Metal Slug, a tank capable of feats not seen in real-life army vehicles.
According to informations given by SNK, the Rebels started life when their leader, Donald Morden blames the Regular Army for a botched anti-terrorist operation that took the life of his son. The former Regular general defects from them and is never heard of again. A year later, Morden resurfaced, running an entire regime known as the Rebel Army, and plans to cleanse world governments of political corruption by taking over the world.
The Regular Army spent the entire series fighting the Rebels, with an exception for several games where the plot is hijacked by the Martians in Metal Slug 2/X and 3, the Amadeus Syndicate in 4, the Venusians in 6 (whom managed to hijack the Martians as well) and Oguma Industries in the Japan-only Metal Slug 3D. The only game where the Rebels does not have any appearance at all is Metal Slug 5, where the plot revolves around the much more dangerous Ptolemaic Army.
As for the actual plotlines of each game, you should check out the Metal Slug Wiki or look up the series on Wikipedia.
This is my first Metal Slug fanfic. Metal Slug and all related characters and entities belong to SNK Playmore. That's it then, hope you enjoy!
Prologue
Time: Year 2040 AD. Exact time unknown.
Location: Undisclosed.
A man in his late fifties stood in the middle of a pitch-black hallway, with only the cigar in his mouth as a source of light.
The man took a puff of the cigar, and just stood there, as though waiting for someone.
Just then, he sensed a presence approaching him in the pitch-black hallway.
"How is everything going, Mr President?" The presence asked the man with a stern voice.
The man took the cigar off his mouth, and breathed out a puff of smoke. The presence is not fazed one bit by this act. "Exactly as planned by you." The man, identified as a President of some sort, answered, not so sternly. "Just one more year, and you will have what you wanted..."
"Do you remember what I wanted, Mr President?" The presence asked, hidden by the shadows well enough that he might as well be one with the darkness.
"Of course, it's the perfect template that you wanted." The President answered. He decided he had enough of his cigar, and extinguished it before putting it back in his pocket.
"Then I will see you again in an unspecified future." The presence said. The sound of footsteps growing softer and softer indicates that he is leaving the pitch-black hallway. "Remember: do whatever it takes to perfect the perfect templates..."
...
Time: 29th of December, 2040.
Location: Somewhere above the Pacific.
The peaceful sunny skies of the Pacific Ocean was disturbed by a massive object falling from the stratosphere at a velocity matching a spacecraft in orbital reentry. The object is, however, not suffering any effects at all despite its surface scraping the Earth's atmosphere fast enough to light it ablaze.
Closer inspection reveals that the object is in fact, a creature of gargantuan size, with a pair of slender, three-fingered arms attached to an alien head that has an exposed brain. Held between its slender fingers are two Metal Slugs.
There were also a group of people fighting the huge creature. Some standing on its demonic face, some taking potshots at its exposed brain in Mini-UFOs.
"It's about time we sent these goddamned Martians to extinction!" Cursed a blond-haired man in the red vest, unloading his Heavy Machine Gun into the huge creatures brain.
The other humans were too busy attacking the creature to respond. While most of them were shooting at it with their guns, one man was literally punching its exposed brain with impossibly fast punches.
The huge creature had the disadvantage of too few variety of attacks, one of which is a mind blast takes a while to charge up. The disadvantage prove to be its demise when its brain exploded into a mess of grey matter after being attacked continuously. The creature roared in pain and stopped all movements, as the humans standing on its face quickly boarded the tanks it held before it released them.
The Metal Slugs and Mini-UFOs entered a state of free fall while their occupants watched the abomination of a Martian plunge to its watery grave under the Pacific Ocean into the Challenger's Deep undersea ravine. Seconds later, the Metal Slugs landed on the ocean surface alongside the human-occupied Mini-UFOs. Both Metal Slugs deployed their floaters and slowly floated toward the surface, while the Mini-UFOs were abandoned by their human occupants as they swam towards the surface.
The Metal Slugs broke the surface with a loud splash. The rest of the team regrouped on the floating tanks, tired of all the actions and adventures of the past few days.
"Well, looks like Rootmars is sleeping with the fishes, again."
"Sure hoped this is the last alien race that mankind has ever fought..."
"Yeah, if there are other alien races out there, they better leave us to our own business!"
"So much for aliens, but we still have General Morden and the Rebel Army to deal with..."
"Not to mention the possibility of the Amadeus Syndicate and the Ptolemaic Army resurfacing."
As the human commandos chatted with each other, they suddenly find themselves being disturbed by the arrival of a blue Chinook transport helicopter.
"Perengine Falcons, SPARROWS, and Ikari Mercenaries, good job on this mission! You have once again saved the Earth from destruction!" The pilot of the helicopter greeted the commandos.
"Nah, that's every year of our lives. This one's nothing..." Said the blond-haired commando with the red vest.
"Let's do a head count to make sure everyone's here." The helicopter pilot said. "First off: Marco Rossi."
"Here."
"Tarma Roving."
"Present."
"Eri Kasamoto."
"Also present..."
"Fiolina Germi."
"Over here~!"
"Nadia Cassel."
"Here!"
"Trevor Spacey."
Getting no response, the pilot looked at the commandos through the helicopter windshield. Trevor Spacey seems to be busy... laughing himself off in a boastful manner.
"I'll take that as a yes. Next one: Clark Still."
"Right here."
"Ralf Jones."
Ralf Jones announced his presence by punching the Metal Slug hard enough to dislodge one of its Vulcan guns.
"Okay, that's coming out of your wallet..." The pilot deadpanned. "Last one: Leona."
"..." Leona, the blue-haired Ikari Mercenary made no response.
"Ah, forget it..." The pilot told himself. "Ready to go home?"
FINAL MISSION COMPLETE!
Afterwords
That's it for the prologue, then. Ending with the permanent defeat of the Martians and Rootmars. That battle is basically a recreation from Metal Slug 3, except that Trevor and Nadia from 4, Clark and Ralf from 6, and Leona from XX are also in it. I might just include Walter and Tyra from Advance, and Gimlet and Red Eye from 2nd Mission.
That's it then. Look forward to the next chapter of this fanfic!
If you recognize me from that other Fanfiction archive, you will know that I'm prone to making references to other medias.
That is all. "Dismissed!"