The year 2076. Thirty years ago, robots known as Omnics took over the world, leading to the formation of an international taskforce called Overwatch, which ended the war in mankind's favor. Overwatch was disbanded thirty years after its formation, and in the five years since, the world has become a darker place.
One of Overwatch's former members, a super-intelligent gorilla named Winston reactivated Overwatch, in light of the crises around the world, because the world needs heroes more than ever.
But to tell that story's continuation, we must tell another story, on another world… A world where cyborgs and nanomachines are a reality… where a war economy continues… and PMC's (Private Military Companies/Corporations) flourish.
(Note: I do not own Metal Gear or Overwatch's characters, settings, etc. They belong to Konami and Blizzard Entertainment, respectively.)
SOME TIME AFTER THE FAILED "OPERATION TECUMSEH"
It was a cold night in the city of London. Citizens walked around, looking through shops and enjoying themselves. None were concerned about what was happening outside the city, in an abandoned laboratory inside a warehouse. All except one, that is.
The man walked through the city, heading towards the laboratory. He was wearing an outfit that was primarily a sombrero. His body seemed to be cybernetic in nature, but luckily, no one looked at him suspiciously; he primarily used dark alleyways to get to his destination.
The man put two fingers to his "ear", opening a "Codec" connection. "Thanks, Doktor," he said, "for letting me use this body one last time."
"Anything for an old friend…" the German voice on the other side said. "You want me to put you back in your standard body after this mission, ja?"
"Yeah. And thanks, Boris, for telling me about this."
"Of course, tovarich," the Russian voice on the other line replied. "Can you believe this PMC, this 'R.E.A.P.E.R', is carrying on World Marshal's tradition of taking brains? Sickening."
"Let's just get this over with." The man replied. He walked to the front of the lab, which was guarded by two men. They looked human, but they had cybernetic arms and presumably, legs. They carried submachine guns. They also had stun batons at their hips.
The guards looked at the strange man in front of them, with his sombrero. "Who are you?" one of them asked. "You're not supposed to be here, sir."
The strange man chuckled and threw off his hat, revealing himself to be a cyborg. His "body" was all grey and black, with some gold highlights. His shoulder pads had spikes on them. His entire armor looked humanoid and masculine, save for the claw-like fingers on his hands and his feet, which looked high-heels. However, their purpose was not for aesthetics, but had a much different purpose, which the men in the lab would find out. His lower jaw was entirely mechanical as well. He had strange armor plates over the sides of his face as well. His long blonde hair covered the bar tattoo on his forehead. He also had a large sword sheath on his back, which looked like a railgun. This was the cyborg ninja known as… Raiden.
He reached into his sheath and pulled out the powerful sword from within: the High-Frequency blade. A sword that resembled a katana, it was a powerful weapon in the right hands, capable of slicing things on an atomic level.
The guards grimaced and readied their submachine guns. Raiden saw this and lunged for the one on the right, bringing down his sword, slicing the soldier in half. The other soldier panicked and pulled the trigger of his gun, firing dozens of rounds at Raiden.
Raiden rushed towards the other guard, and as he did, the armor plates on the side of his head extended into a visor. He then entered "Blade Mode", where time slowed down considerably.
He focused, and then began the process of slicing and cutting the guard into little tiny pieces. He then pulled out the fuel cell of the guard and absorbed the electrolytes.
Raiden walked up to the front of the laboratory, which was in a warehouse, and opened the door using his increased strength. As the doors screeched opened, the soldiers inside all pulled out High-Frequency machetes.
The ninja looked at them all. "Hm. Fifteen soldiers. This will be easy."
The soldiers rushed at him brandishing their weapons. Raiden smiled and lunged forward to meet them.
Thus began the fight, with Raiden immediately slicing two of the soldiers. The others jumped back, trying to surround him.
"I'm gonna kick your ass!" One yelled, suddenly running towards Raiden. He lifted his machete, bringing it down. Raiden simply blocked it, and the two both began trying to push the opponent's weapon out of their hand.
Three of the troops saw the opportunity and began running towards the unprotected back of their enemy. Raiden saw this out of the corner of his eye and chuckled. He used his left leg and knocked his current opponent of his feet. Then, he attached the sword to his foot and began "kicking" at the incoming enemies, who were quickly stabbed and sliced. He grabbed the sword again and stabbed the man on the ground.
The remaining nine decided to split up, with three of them opening a trapdoor and heading for the laboratory underneath, and the other three remaining to stop Raiden.
They looked at him with grimaces, but underneath their emotion suppressing nanomachines, they feared for their lives. Nevertheless, two pulled out their machetes and charged towards Raiden, with one pulling an assault rifle out of one of the crates next to him.
Raiden began fighting with the two soldiers, slicing one across the chest in half and kicking the other so hard he smashed into the warehouse wall.
"DIE YOU SON OF A BITCH!" the soldier cried, firing the assault rifle. The rounds bounced off of Raiden's armor as he walked towards the shooter. The soldier kept firing for what seemed like forever.
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The soldier looked at his weapon in dismay as Raiden approached him, and tried to grab the ammunition in the crate. Raiden simply sliced his head off.
The ground floor secured, he opened the trapdoor and began walking down the stairs leading to the laboratory.
Raiden walked towards the laboratory doors, feeling a sense of déjà vu as he looked around. There were large pillars that looked like the ones in the World Marshal HQ, when he had fought the mercenary Sundowner. He pushed the thoughts of the fight out of his head and continued walking.
"YAHHH!" the last remaining three soldiers jumped at him, machetes ready. Almost unconsciously, Raiden simply swung his sword in a 360 degree arc, slicing all of them in half.
"Well, well ,well… if it isn't Mr. Lighting Bolt himself."
Raiden turned to the voice. He saw a middle-aged scientist in a lab coat in front of a giant computer. The screen had the R.E.A.P.E.R logo, which was like a skull and crossbones, except the crossobones were assault rifles instead.
"So you're the leader of this operation? Where are the brains?" Raiden asked, pointing his sword.
"Brains-? Ah! So that's what they used to lure you here."
"What?" Raiden asked.
"Did you really think we were doing what World Marshal did? We may be bad, but even we won't go to that extreme." The scientist explained. "No, no, we're doing something a lot more different… Tell me, Jack… have you heard of the Multiverse theory?"
Raiden stayed silent, and the scientist chuckled. "I guess you haven't. The theory is that there are multiple universes with multiple versions of Earth…like one where you didn't become a killer."
"We plan on opening a sort of gateway to a technologically advanced Earth, take some technology… and profit off of reproducing and selling said technology."
"Wha-why? I thought you guys would profit off of the war economy." Jack replied.
"We can boost the economy with production, Jack! Giving people jobs, that sort of thing."
Raiden really felt like he was getting a sense of déjà vu; he had heard the same sort of speech from Sundowner and Armstrong.
"And how do you plan on accessing this… other Earth?"
"Well Jack, it's rather simple. You need to…" he began saying various words that made no sense.
Raiden simply shook his head. "Enough of this bullshit. I'm taking you down." He began walking towards the scientist.
CHOOM! CHOOM!
"What the-" Suddenly, something smashed out of the ground and smacked Raiden back to the entrance of the laboratory. It was a man in a mechanical suit. The suit had huge arms that looked like claws, with machine guns attached to the sides. The legs looked like they could crush a man with one step. It had a dome-shaped helmet as well. It had the word "COLLOSUS" written on its leg.
The man in the suit began to jog towards Raiden, who gritted his teeth and got into a fighting stance.
The COLLOSUS swung its right arm, trying to punch Raiden, who simply put his sword out in front of him. The arm collided with the sword, and it was sliced right down the middle.
"Gah-!" the man in the suit cried. Raiden saw the opportunity and once again entered Blade Mode. He then began slicing the suit up, cutting off arms, legs, and finally, the helmet.
He pulled out the man. He was a cowardly figure, balding and chubby. He didn't have any cybernetic parts, however.
"Please… please spare me!" the man stuttered. Raiden snorted in disgust and threw him away. "If I see you doing this kind of stuff again…" he began.
The man nodded and ran off, leaving Raiden to turn his full attention to the scientist. He began to walk towards him. "Is that it? That's all your protection?" he snarled. "For a PMC like R.E.A.P.E.R, I thought you would have more soldiers."
The scientist smiled. "You shouldn't have said that."
One of the doors of the laboratory opened and a tall man entered. He was around 6 2', wearing a cloak/trench coat with a hood. He had a black mask on with a white skull on it. His entire outfit consisted of military grade armor, which was mostly in black or dark grey. He had two pistols in his shoulder holsters, but his most terrifying weapon was a giant scythe strapped to his back. Raiden swore he could hear whispers coming from the weapon.
Surrounding the mysterious man were more cyborg soldiers (about 8), carrying light machine guns and the like.
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me…" he muttered.
"Meet Schinitter, Jack." The scientist said. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta continue working on the gateway."
Raiden readied his blade once again, ready to slice the soldiers into little pieces.
"Take him down." Schinitter said, his voice like the hiss of a snake.
Four of the troops rushed Raiden, trying to beat him with their stun batons. He smirked and slashed the first one, cutting him in half. The other three gasped and tried to put up their batons and block. Jack smirked and sliced the batons in half.
The remaining soldiers decided to surround Jack, some of them pulling out machetes, others deciding to use their fists.
Raiden simply attached his sword to his foot and broke into a break dance move. The sword slashed through the soldiers as if they were paper. Raiden stood up and grabbed the fuel cells of each soldier, crushing them and absorbing their electrolytes.
"Who's next?" he said, beckoning with his free hand.
Schinitter took out two pistols from his holsters and began unloading round after round into Raiden, the bullets bouncing off of Raiden's chest.
"What's the point of using pistols on me anyways?" Raiden asked.
Schinitter simply replied by taking out his giant weapon.
"A High-Frequency scythe, huh? Never seen one of those before…"
"Yes," Schinitter said, nodding his head. "It is quite an amazing weapon." He rushed towards Jack, swinging the giant weapon. Raiden cursed and swung his sword just in time, but the curved blade smacked his sword out of his hand.
Damn! He thought. How is it that he's so fast?! Raiden gritted his teeth and unleashed a barrage of superfast punches to Schinitter's chest. The grim reaper look-alike simply grunted and swung his scythe yet again. Jack rolled out of the way and ran towards his sword, lightning appearing from his feet. He grabbed the sword and turned, just as Schinitter swung his weapon at Raiden's back.
"C'mon, now," the scientist said. "We don't have all day, Schinitter. I've opened the gateway!"
Schinitter nodded, and then suddenly swung his scythe upwards, cutting a gash in Raiden's armor, sending him back.
"Hurgh-!"
Schinitter jogged to the scientist, then turned and saluted Raiden. "Maybe we'll see each other again… I doubt it, however."
The two of them walked towards, the portal, but before they could get there, they all heard a big WHOOMPH.
"What the-"
The portal suddenly began to act like a vacuum, sucking everything in the lab into it. Desks, chairs, and more went flying into the portal.
The scientist let out a scream as he was sucked into the portal. Schinitter pressed something on his left forearm, and spikes shot out of his feet, anchoring him to the ground. He reached into his trench coat, pulling out one of his pistols. He cocked the hammer, but before he could fire, a desk and a chair flew and hit him, sending him right into the portal.
Is he dead? Raiden thought. He shook his head and tried to focus on the task at hand.
"Boris!" Raiden yelled into the Codec. "Is there anything I can do to-" He was cut off as a desk smacked into him, knocking him off of his feet.
"Raiden! Are you there?!"the Russian man yelled into Raiden's ear. It was no use, the cyborg was slowly losing consciousness. Schinitter's scythe had done something to him, but he didn't know what.
"Boris… If this is the end…"
"Hang on, my friend! I have some of our best soldiers being sent to your location right now!"
Raiden's eyes began to close as he saw a ton of debris fall from the ceiling. Immediately, they were attracted by the portal and zoomed toward it, with Jack in their path.
Heh. Raiden chuckled. Smacked by debris and killed while being thrown into a portal. He allowed his exhaustion to take over, as the chunks of the laboratory smashed into him, sending him straight into the portal.
"Raiden! Raiden? RAIDEN!"
A/N: That's the end of the first chapter. Criticism and suggestions are welcome.