Metal Gear Babel: Shades of Our Past
This is a sequel, more or less, to Metal Gear Solid. It's my first ever Metal Gear fic, so cut me some slack in those scathing reviews you fans are already planning. I urge anyone who reads this, and maybe a few who don't, to post reviews, commentary, criticism, and other forms of devout worship that I can use to shamelessly boost my self-esteem. No flaming please, as that would make me angry, and you wouldn't like me when I'm angry (insert ominous music here).
Author's Note
Usually I say at the beginnings of these author's ramblings that it's mostly a bunch of blather that isn't all that important to the story. However, this is a very definite must to read if you have not played a certain game, which I will detail below. You can skip this of course, but you might get confused when the story starts. You have been warned. This is a sequel to the game Metal Gear Solid. However, there are a few things you need to know, one of which you may find hard to accept. Namely that a certain small-release, low budget game called Metal Gear Solid: Tactical Espionage Action for the Sony Playstation NEVER HAPPENED. Likewise, neither did its modest sequel, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. To explain, roughly two years after MGS was released on the PSX, Hideo Kojima and his buds at Konami went on something of a nostalgia trip, the results of which was the extraordinarily engaging and genuinely addictive Metal Gear Solid for the Game Boy Color, also known as Metal Gear: Ghost Babel. It was sort of an alternate universe from the MGS many know and love, beginning seven years after Outer Heaven with a completely new story, cast, etc. For a run-down on the story and twists of the game, check out the "What has gone before" section immediately following the Author's Note. If not, skip to the Prologue.
In short, in the story you are (hopefully) about to read, there is no Meryl, no Revolver Ocelot, no Vamp, and best of all, no Patriots. The jury's still out on Raiden and Otacon. However, even if they do appear, I'll be taking a few creative liberties with their characters.
Now, for the two or three of you reading this who have played the GBC game, onto other, newer stuff. Solid Snake has had nothing to do with Foxhound, the CIA, or any other branch of the government for the past three years. After destroying Outer Heaven's second Metal Gear and preventing a global nuclear holocaust (again), he and Chris Jenner have disappeared, taking the horrible truth about Foxhound, Black Chamber, and Project Babel with them. Now, with the help of a few megs of data, Snake has vowed to expose the shadow governments, and their leaders, those who manipulated the CIA and Foxhound, for the betrayal and assassination of Black Chamber and the murder of James Harks.
Anyway, that's more or less where the story picks up. As usual, I own no part or parcel of the Metal Gear or Metal Gear Solid franchise; they are the property of Hideo Kajima and Konami. And no one, not no one, owns Solid Snake. This is a work of complete fiction. Any relation to persons or events, living or dead, past or present, is a pure coincidence owing to the sheer number of monkeys who are typing for me.
*What Has Gone Before*
Back in 2000, Konami released Metal Gear Solid in the US for the Game Boy Color, the same game that was known in Japan as Metal Gear: Ghost Babel. In this game, Snake was pulled out of retirement seven years after Outer Heaven, and sent to Galuade, a country in revolt, to investigate the theft of a new Metal Gear. He encountered the members of Black Chamber, the terrorist group behind the theft, and this game's answer to Foxhound from the original MGS. Turned out that Galuade is Outer Heaven, just with a new government, and Snake had to take it down. On the mission, he met Chris Jenner, a member of Delta Force, whose unit was massacred, and James Harks, a scientist, and lead developer of the new Metal Gear. Jimmy was killed to keep him silent and Chris and Snake worked together to take out the installation, and the mech. After a climactic battle with Metal Gear, General Augustine Eugabon, leader of the Galuade Liberation Front (GLF), decided to reveal a few things. This is what happened at the end of Metal Gear Solid. This is where Snake learned the truth about the renegade group Black Chamber, the secrets behind Foxhound, and a revelation about the first operation in Outer Heaven. Snake discovered that Foxhound was not exactly telling him the truth. Left out the fact that the Black Chamber was once a Foxhound unit who were mercilessly cut down by the American Secret Service upon returning to America from a covert CIA mission. The reason: the US Government had to make sure their dirty secret would stay a secret, so everybody involved was ordered to be eliminated immediately.
Snake also shockingly discovered from the General of the GLF that Metal Gear, Outer Heaven, Foxhound, in fact the whole operation -- including his own legendary success -- had been staged by the CIA. At the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon launched The New World Order. That order is a global domination master plan that declares the USA the supreme World ruler. All other trading blocks, such as Europe, Africa, Russia, Asia, etc., are to be destabilized by war and high profile terrorist insurgency. This plan was to be called Operation Babel.
Operation Babel was set into motion by the CIA, who covertly continued the development of Metal Gear after Snake had destroyed it. Snake discovered that the whole saga of Metal Gear has been set up to further US interests in achieving the New World Order. Metal Gear had been covertly given to the GLF by the CIA to create chaos in Africa and hold the world for ransom. Snake's heroic mission was purely to lend credible cover for the government. The USA played innocent, claiming of no prior knowledge to what was going on. Official statements showed that African terrorists were holding the Free World to ransom. Snake also found out, to top it all off, that CIA main man McBride was the secret 5th member of Black Chamber.
After learning this, Snake had to take out Viper, leader of Black Chamber, before Metal Gear reached the surface. If Metal Gear reached the surface it would have given commands to launch nuclear missiles at the USA from high orbiting weapons platforms in space... Or so he was led to believe. One thing is for sure; Snake was just a pawn in a very high-risk game of global chess being conducted by the American intelligence community.
And it was all just beginning...
*Courtesy of ign.com*
This is a sequel, more or less, to Metal Gear Solid. It's my first ever Metal Gear fic, so cut me some slack in those scathing reviews you fans are already planning. I urge anyone who reads this, and maybe a few who don't, to post reviews, commentary, criticism, and other forms of devout worship that I can use to shamelessly boost my self-esteem. No flaming please, as that would make me angry, and you wouldn't like me when I'm angry (insert ominous music here).
Author's Note
Usually I say at the beginnings of these author's ramblings that it's mostly a bunch of blather that isn't all that important to the story. However, this is a very definite must to read if you have not played a certain game, which I will detail below. You can skip this of course, but you might get confused when the story starts. You have been warned. This is a sequel to the game Metal Gear Solid. However, there are a few things you need to know, one of which you may find hard to accept. Namely that a certain small-release, low budget game called Metal Gear Solid: Tactical Espionage Action for the Sony Playstation NEVER HAPPENED. Likewise, neither did its modest sequel, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. To explain, roughly two years after MGS was released on the PSX, Hideo Kojima and his buds at Konami went on something of a nostalgia trip, the results of which was the extraordinarily engaging and genuinely addictive Metal Gear Solid for the Game Boy Color, also known as Metal Gear: Ghost Babel. It was sort of an alternate universe from the MGS many know and love, beginning seven years after Outer Heaven with a completely new story, cast, etc. For a run-down on the story and twists of the game, check out the "What has gone before" section immediately following the Author's Note. If not, skip to the Prologue.
In short, in the story you are (hopefully) about to read, there is no Meryl, no Revolver Ocelot, no Vamp, and best of all, no Patriots. The jury's still out on Raiden and Otacon. However, even if they do appear, I'll be taking a few creative liberties with their characters.
Now, for the two or three of you reading this who have played the GBC game, onto other, newer stuff. Solid Snake has had nothing to do with Foxhound, the CIA, or any other branch of the government for the past three years. After destroying Outer Heaven's second Metal Gear and preventing a global nuclear holocaust (again), he and Chris Jenner have disappeared, taking the horrible truth about Foxhound, Black Chamber, and Project Babel with them. Now, with the help of a few megs of data, Snake has vowed to expose the shadow governments, and their leaders, those who manipulated the CIA and Foxhound, for the betrayal and assassination of Black Chamber and the murder of James Harks.
Anyway, that's more or less where the story picks up. As usual, I own no part or parcel of the Metal Gear or Metal Gear Solid franchise; they are the property of Hideo Kajima and Konami. And no one, not no one, owns Solid Snake. This is a work of complete fiction. Any relation to persons or events, living or dead, past or present, is a pure coincidence owing to the sheer number of monkeys who are typing for me.
*What Has Gone Before*
Back in 2000, Konami released Metal Gear Solid in the US for the Game Boy Color, the same game that was known in Japan as Metal Gear: Ghost Babel. In this game, Snake was pulled out of retirement seven years after Outer Heaven, and sent to Galuade, a country in revolt, to investigate the theft of a new Metal Gear. He encountered the members of Black Chamber, the terrorist group behind the theft, and this game's answer to Foxhound from the original MGS. Turned out that Galuade is Outer Heaven, just with a new government, and Snake had to take it down. On the mission, he met Chris Jenner, a member of Delta Force, whose unit was massacred, and James Harks, a scientist, and lead developer of the new Metal Gear. Jimmy was killed to keep him silent and Chris and Snake worked together to take out the installation, and the mech. After a climactic battle with Metal Gear, General Augustine Eugabon, leader of the Galuade Liberation Front (GLF), decided to reveal a few things. This is what happened at the end of Metal Gear Solid. This is where Snake learned the truth about the renegade group Black Chamber, the secrets behind Foxhound, and a revelation about the first operation in Outer Heaven. Snake discovered that Foxhound was not exactly telling him the truth. Left out the fact that the Black Chamber was once a Foxhound unit who were mercilessly cut down by the American Secret Service upon returning to America from a covert CIA mission. The reason: the US Government had to make sure their dirty secret would stay a secret, so everybody involved was ordered to be eliminated immediately.
Snake also shockingly discovered from the General of the GLF that Metal Gear, Outer Heaven, Foxhound, in fact the whole operation -- including his own legendary success -- had been staged by the CIA. At the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon launched The New World Order. That order is a global domination master plan that declares the USA the supreme World ruler. All other trading blocks, such as Europe, Africa, Russia, Asia, etc., are to be destabilized by war and high profile terrorist insurgency. This plan was to be called Operation Babel.
Operation Babel was set into motion by the CIA, who covertly continued the development of Metal Gear after Snake had destroyed it. Snake discovered that the whole saga of Metal Gear has been set up to further US interests in achieving the New World Order. Metal Gear had been covertly given to the GLF by the CIA to create chaos in Africa and hold the world for ransom. Snake's heroic mission was purely to lend credible cover for the government. The USA played innocent, claiming of no prior knowledge to what was going on. Official statements showed that African terrorists were holding the Free World to ransom. Snake also found out, to top it all off, that CIA main man McBride was the secret 5th member of Black Chamber.
After learning this, Snake had to take out Viper, leader of Black Chamber, before Metal Gear reached the surface. If Metal Gear reached the surface it would have given commands to launch nuclear missiles at the USA from high orbiting weapons platforms in space... Or so he was led to believe. One thing is for sure; Snake was just a pawn in a very high-risk game of global chess being conducted by the American intelligence community.
And it was all just beginning...
*Courtesy of ign.com*