Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Chaos
Prologue-Liquid Sin
Author's Note: This is a non-canon sequel to my first story, Ratchet and Clank: Path of Chaos, because this takes place a year after Ratchet and Clank landed on earth. Plus it also takes place during Maria Kintobor's fan-made Sonic X season 4, right before Shrouded in Shadow. This story is set during MGS2: Sons of Liberty, with special alternatives, and yes Raiden is part of this story, so don't say I didn't warn you, plus Maria is alive in this story and is living with Sonic and his friends at Chris's mansion. Go read Maria's Kintobor's stories to understand, as she gave me special permission to use her stuff. Enough of my talk enjoy.
Summary: A gigantic crossover between MGS2, Ratchet and Clank, and Maria Kintobor's fan made Sonic X season 4. A retelling of Metal Gear Solid 2, Ocelot enlists Dr. Eggman's help on capturing a prototype Metal Gear from a G.U.N. battleship. But both Ocelot, and Dr. Eggman have other plans for Metal Gear. Meanwhile Solid Snake infiltrates the ship, his mission, destroy Metal Gear at all costs. Things start to shake up, as Ocelot steals Metal Gear, and plunges the world to the brink of war. Snake must team up with unlikely help, and stop Liquid Ocelot from plunging the world into Chaos.
Dr. Eggman was thinking of his latest plot to defeat his rival Sonic, and his friends. Things have gotten a bit out of control for the poor Doctor recently, two new comers, named Ratchet and Clank, have help Sonic and his friends stop the evil doctor from realizing his dreams of an Eggman empire. Dr. Eggman was going to call it quits until…
Bokkun came flying on his jet pack holding his TV, he flew right next to Dr. Eggman, grinning like a clown. "Hey boss I got a message for you," Said Bokkun excitedly.
Dr. Eggman glared at Bokkun, "Not now Bokkun, don't you see I'm trying to come up with the perfect plan to crush Sonic?" The Doctor yelled at his lackey.
"But Doctor that's what you always say about your other evil plans," added Decoe.
"In which Sonic always stop," Said Bocoe.
Dr. Eggman angrily looked at his pathetic robotic henchmen, "If I wanted your opinion I would've asked for it, you numbskulls!" he yelled.
"But Doctor…someone is hiring you for a special job!" Bokkun stated.
"A job you say? Why didn't you say so! Show me!" Dr. Eggman ordered.
"Aye Aye sir!" Bokkun cheerily said. Bokkun turned on his TV monitor, static fizzled the screen.
Eggman watched the screen curiously, wondering who on Earth would want him for a job. The static started to clear showing the evil Doctor a faint image of his so called employer, he seemed old, much older than Eggman himself. The figure also sported sun glasses, and he wear a dark leather vest, and he had a small, but white mustache.
"Are you Dr. Eggman? Grandson of Gerald Robotnik, the creator of project Shadow, and builder of Space colony Ark, I assume?" Said the mysterious figure.
Dr. Eggman wasn't moved by the figure's apparent knowledge of his past, "Um Why yes, but who are you, and how did you know who I am?"
"For the time being, you will address me as Revolver Ocelot!" Ocelot said firmly.
"Ocelot?" Said Eggman flabbergasted by Ocelot's name.
"It's an old code name I go around with since the days of Foxhound!" Said Ocelot, while crossing his arms.
"Foxhound? Doctor what's Foxhound?" Decoe asked his boss.
"Foxhound was an elite unit founded by the legendary soldier Big Boss. It was supposed to be the best group of trained soldiers, probably better than those G.U.N. idiots I always deal with!" Eggman lectured his goon.
Ocelot gave a light chuckle to the mad scientist.
"Not just better, but the best, Foxhound was the government's lap dog to handle any situation that they don't want their grubby hands involved. Unfortunately, my old unit rebelled and one man was called to handle the situation!" Said Ocelot.
Dr. Eggman frowned, although he doesn't have much knowledge of the world's military in terms of history, but he knew what Ocelot spoke of.
"That man was Solid Snake is I right?" Eggman said.
"You catch on pretty quick Eggman, but I didn't call you for a history lesson, no! I need your help in acquiring a weapon of mass destruction that even you haven't heard of, a weapon that not even you or your grandfather has ever built!" Said Ocelot.
Eggman raised an eyebrow, the Doctor was even more curious. Surely there was no such weapon on Earth that could rival his robots. The Doctor immediately laughed at Ocelot for such a claim.
"You got me good kitty cat! There no such thing that could beat my powerful robots! HO-HO!"
Ocelot frowned; if his plan was going to work he needed someone smart and serious for his task. To Ocelot this was no joke, but apparently striking the doctor's pride was to him.
"I can assure you that this was no joke! This weapon was the reason Foxhound rebelled, it's a weapon so secret even the government refuses to acknowledge it!" Ocelot pointed it out, while holding on to his own revolver. He began to twirl his gun around his left hand, and then to his right.
Eggman saw Ocelot twirling his gun wide eyed, but he stayed focus on the topic at hand. Eggman pulled back on his lab chair.
"And you actually expect me to believe that this weapon is dangerous as you say?" Eggman said with less enthusiasm in his voice.
"Fine you want proof, I got proof!" Said Ocelot firmly.
Ocelot begins transmitting several pictures of the weapon he has been speaking about to Eggman all this time. They all resembled tanks, but were as huge as Eggman's mightiest robots.
"What are they?" Eggman asks curiously at the strange pictures, "They look nothing like the weapons I saw when I hacked into the G.U.N. mainframe back on Prison Island!"
Ocelot couldn't help but chuckle at Eggman's ignorance. Although G.U.N. itself is the world's well known military aside from Foxhound, they never knew of the dreadnoughts that have existed since Project Shadow.
"There called Metal Gears!" Said Ocelot.
"Metal Gears?" Dr. Eggman said stunned by the look of these weapons.
"A walking bipedal tank with enough nuclear power to send the world into destruction, before your grandfather started his project shadow, there was Metal Gears! When Foxhound rebelled they took over a top secret facility which housed a Metal Gear called Metal Gear Rex, if it weren't for Snake disabling it, our world could've seen the dear end of everything we hold dear!" Ocelot informed.
"Amazing, how did you pea brained mortals manage to construct such weaponry!" Eggman said in awe at Rex's design.
"Now doctor, not everyone is as dumb as you may think of them he he!"
Both Decoe and Bocoe saw Rex on the monitor; the two idiotic robots were terrified of Rex's fearsome design. The two hold on to each other in fear.
"That's a scary looking robot!" Decoe started to shake in absolute fear.
"I think I sprang an oil leak!" Said Bocoe.
Eggman turned his head to the cowardly robots "That's enough of you!" He yelled.
"So Eggman do we have a deal?" said Ocelot bitterly while patiently waiting for the evil doctor to respond.
Eggman turned his head, and gave Ocelot a cat like grin. If Ocelot was so foolish in giving Dr. Eggman a task of getting a weapon of pure destruction, that Eggman could take for himself and use it to finally defeat his arch rival Sonic, then Ocelot must be dumb to give it to him.
"Ho-Ho, of course my pretty kitty, of course we have a deal! Wait what do I get in return when I steal Metal Gear? And where do I start? I can't just go off doing a job, when I don't know when to start!" Eggman demanded to Ocelot.
"Don't worry your mustache Eggman, you'll get your "just rewards!" And regarding your destination, I downloaded the coordinates of your destination in a private email I sent to you!"
Eggman frowned at Ocelot's last words in his sentence. How could Ocelot hack into the doctor's own defense network. The only person to hack into his own network was the small robot side kick of the alien known as Ratchet that came to earth a year ago, his name is Clank, although small, Clank could hack into any super computer with no problems.
"Hey how did you hack into my own computer network? No one dares to hack my own network without me noticing!" Eggman was infuriated at such actions committed by the former Foxhound member.
"Trust me Eggman, hacking your system wasn't easy, but working with the right people could get you anywhere, especially your secret network!" Ocelot smirked.
"Well don't do it again!" Eggman growled, a bit pissed at Ocelot.
"If it's only necessary, keeping in touch with the world's most wanted and fearsome mastermind is, say…how should I put it, difficult!" Ocelot tossed his gun up into the air, his hand got it in the blink of an eye.
"Well one must keep a low profile from those meddlesome agents!" Eggman pointed out.
"This will conclude our meeting! Good day Doctor, try not to die before I arrive!" Ocelot grinned evily before the Bokkun's TV exploded on Face.
"Bokkun!" Eggman shouted at his comedy relief henchmen.
"Sorry sir!"
Eggman rubbed the soot from his body, and coughed out the smoke from his lungs. There was only one thing on Eggman's mind, the capture of Metal Gear. He'll use Metal Gear for one thing, set up his Eggman Empire of course. Not even his new employer will stop him.
"You just made the biggest mistake in spilling out this little secret pussy cat, now I'll use this nifty toy for my own schemes HO-HO!" Eggman laughed excitedly. He turns to his minions.
"Now begin packing boys we're having a date with destiny!" Eggman pressed a small button on his console, and in a second he was on his egg-walker.
Ocelot maliciously looks at his computer monitor he used to communicate with Eggman. The Doctor had accepted his plan, and now waited for the perfect time to strike. Then a figure, masked by the room's complete darkness, approached Ocelot quietly from, behind. He seemed to have a katana like sword on his right hand. His face was covered by a white mask with a red dot in the middle.
Ocelot turned his head to the figure, and quietly whispered "He has made his move!"
The figure nodded, "There is no doubt he'll betray you, Eggman can't be trusted, never!"
"I know, that's why you're being sent in as plan B!" Ocelot smirked.
The figure resented that remark, and with blind speed, held his sword to Ocelot's flesh. Ocelot didn't budge, instead he only closed his eyes. Fear didn't rule Ocelot's life and it will never will.
"Remember your place, Don't forget I was the one who brought you back from hell!" Ocelot said.
"…" The figure hesitated, but it he knew killing Ocelot was not the answer, at least not now. "Fine!"
"Good boy, trained to follow orders, just as you were told to do in Foxhound!" Said Ocelot.
The figure stepped away from Ocelot, and sadly looked down at the floor, "Please don't make me remember those days!" The figure pleaded. His memories haunted him to this day.
Ocelot turn towards the figure, he placed his hand on his shoulder, trying to comfort him.
"Now, don't get all sad now my boy! I can make you forget your past, as long as you follow my orders!" Ocelot assured him.
The figure slapped off Ocelot's hand, and turned his body the other way. "I shall bring you Eggman's head!"
"Excellent, I'll be with you there shortly! No go!" Ocelot demanded as the figure left.
"Station Square harbor... We had classified intelligence that a new type of Metal Gear was being transported. The whole thing stank...but our noses had been out in the cold too long."
Rain pours down over the Station Square. Cars hurry through the rain on the nearby road. The only person outside is an unknown man in a long, black raincoat. He has his hands dug deep into his pockets as he puffs on a cigarette dangling from his lip. In a moment he finishes his cigarette and casually tosses it into the traffic with a brief puff of smoke.
Suddenly he breaks out into a jog and then a full sprint. His raincoat flies away in the wind but the man is no longer visible except for a faint, transparent outline of his body. Without warning he leaps across a security fence surrounding the harbor. This man has no intentions of committing suicide however. The man see's a well patrolled area with armed G.U.N. agents. The man eyes the tanker, his target. The man eyes a nearby cardboard box, with a sly grin; he snatches quietly and covers his body. Walking on his two legs while carrying the box, the man quietly passed a few G.U.N. agents. The man got spotted a few times, which aroused suspicion; the agents however had to be alert. One of them approached the man's box, and tapped it. However he gave up, and return to his duty. The man sighed and continued passing several more guards patrolling the surrounding area. The man manage to sneak pass them with only one minor accident avoided. The man eyed the G.U.N. Tanker from his box hole. Quietly he takes out a grappling hook attached to a rope, and the man throws it to the ship's bow. He tied the rope around his body tight as he could. He leaped from his spot; his feet collided with the cold hard steel. He pulled on the rope gently, and began walking up the side of the ship.
Far in the distance a solitary helicopter hovers. Inside is Ocelot. Ocelot is holding a Colt Single-Action Pistol and he is looking though a pair of binoculars.
"Our boy is right on schedule, now occupy him and kill Eggman!" Said Ocelot through a walkie talkie he is holding in his hand.
The figure that was with Ocelot before could be seen crouching, hiding from patrolling G.U.N. agents. He held tightly to his katana. He places his left hand to his ear piece. He spoke in a raspy gray throat, like if he had a sore throat.
"Are you sure it's him?" The figure said.
"Definitely, do what you want with him, but make sure he doesn't get to Metal Gear." Ocelot demanded.
"I will not kill just because of your orders Ocelot!" The figure said in anger.
Ocelot could not help but chuckle at his minion's conscious, "I did not say kill him, you got to learn to listen carefully my old friend. All I said is take care of him in your own way, just enough so I could get Metal Gear, but Eggman is a different story."
The figure grinned his teeth in anger, he didn't not like what Ocelot was up to. He wishes he was never rescued by him, nor brought back to life. He knew whatever the old cat had planned, he could bet many lives would pay the ultimate price. Still what was there for him?
"As you wish…sir!" The figure said with mere hesitation.
Meanwhile the man slowly straightens himself upright. He has gotten up to the ship, on the bow. His figure was now exposed to the hard light. It was Solid Snake, the hero of Shadow Moses.
Snake hears something and rushes to cover. He kneels down, places his hand by his ear and calls someone on his Codec. It is Hal Emmerich aka Otacon whom he knows from the Shadow Moses Incident two years ago. It was Otacon who helped Snake defeat Metal Gear Rex, and his twin brother Liquid Snake, the sole instigator of the Shadow Moses Incident.
"This is Snake. Do you read me, Otacon?" Said Snake.
"Loud and clear, Snake." Said Otacon, happy to hear from his friend.
"Kept you waiting, huh? I'm at the "sneak point"
"Everything going okay?"
"The stealth camo's busted, landing impact."
"We must have overused it. Sorry, but you're going to have to deal with it. You're not in the military anymore."
"Right, I didn't plan on relying on this gadget anyway."
"The private sector's not so bad, is it? Privacy guaranteed..."
"I'm happy as long as no one gives me any more unwanted gifts."
"You mean that thing with Naomi?"
"And I can't say I miss the chattering nanny."
"Mei Ling's not so bad. That reminds me, I have to get in touch with her again about that new Natik flashware."
"Diverting toys from the SSCEN (U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center again? Give her a message from me: someone will find out sooner or later. She's better off assuming its sooner and quit while she's safe."
"Too true, okay, Snake, let's get to work. You know the technical specs of Metal Gear were sold on the black market after Shadow Moses?"
"All Ocelots's doing..."
"Exactly, and now every state, group, and dotcom has its own version of Metal Gear.
"Not exactly a classified weapon for today's nuclear powers."
"This new one seems to have been designed to wipe the floor with all the other models. The only consistent description is that it's an amphibious, anti-Metal Gear vehicle...
"That explains why this one is under G.U.N. jurisdiction"
Snake looks outside; decks of the tanker are he seen with his sharp eyes
"The mission objective is to make visual confirmation of the new Metal Gear being transported by that tanker, and bring back photographic evidence. But I want you to first go up to the top level of the infrastructure, to the bridge. We need to find out where the tanker is headed."
"A little reconnaissance, huh?"
"There's too much we don't know about this new prototype. Capabilities, deployment method -- we don't even know how close it is to completion. If we know where the testing arena is, I can start to draw some reasonable conclusions."
"All right, I'll head to the bridge ASAP."
"Try to avoid confrontations. Our goal is to collect evidence on Metal Gear development and expose it to the world. It would be best if you could get out of there without alerting anyone.
"Don't worry. I know the drill, we're not people like that guy Dr. Eggman who comes whenever he wants unannounced, and blows stuff up to get those gems the government calls Chaos Emeralds." Snake frown at saying Eggman's name.
"Very good, don't you forget that you're a part of "Philanthropy" now, an anti-Metal Gear organization and officially recognized by the U.N."
"Recognized, but still fringe, Otacon."
Snake sorts through his gear carefully, he carefully takes out a small tranquilizer pistol from his pack.
"All right, let's look at your gear. Your weapon is a tranquilizer gun converted from a Beretta M92F." Otacon informed Snake on his weaponry.
Snake looks at his pistol with a slight annoyance, "M9?"
"It's a little hard to work with because you have to reload after each shot since the slide locks."
Snake look at his pistol again, this time he gave a proud smile, "It's better than scavenging on mission site. Good suppressor to."
"The chemical stun will take effect in a few seconds and last for hours. You can take down an elephant with that thing. Check out the laser sighting too."
Snake takes a practice shot and breaks a light nearby.
"The affects of the anesthetic rounds will vary depending on what target the body hits. We're talking about a difference of tens of seconds between hitting the enemy's chest or head." Said Otacon.
Snake pauses and looks at his cigarettes he took out with his left hand.
"As for the equipment... Hey Snake, cigarettes? What's wrong with you?" Otacon still couldn't believe Snake would bring a smoke to an important mission. Otacon wondered if Snake actually thinks he's on a mission or smoke break.
Snake huffed, "It's kind of a lucky charm."
Otacon sighed, "You haven't read the surgeon general's warning, have you?"
"Nope!" Said Snake simply. He takes out another object from his bag. It's a digital camera Snake will use to confirm Metal Gears identity.
"Thats the digital camera, works almost the same as your old one."
Snake uses the zoom on the camera to scan the deck. He spots a G.U.N. agent patrolling the deck.
"They don't look armed..." Said Snake
"Hey, Earth to Snake. These are nice, upstanding G.U.N. agents, not homicidal egotistical maniacs like Eggman. Don't get caught; you're in stealth mode here!" Otacon warns Snake.
"Sure, if it comes to that, a little beauty sleep never hurt anyone. By the way, Otacon, are you sure of this intelligence?" Snake asked Otacon suspiciously.
"Absolutely, hacked it out of Pentagon's classified files myself." Said Otacon.
"No traces?" Snake ask again.
"Oh please, I'm too good for that." Said Otacon with overconfidence.
"We can't rule out the possibility that this is a trap. There's a high price on our heads, you know."
"You're just paranoid."
"I hope so, for both our sakes." Said Snake with a slight grim look.
Snake spots another G.U.N. agent moving toward his direction. Snake immediately took to cover, and hid among the shadows, hiding from the guard.
"They don't seem anything but civilians from here," Said Snake, still looking at the guard.
"With all these ships passing on the river and in the harbor, putting uniformed G.U.N. agents on the deck would be a bad idea. People can get a clear view of the water from riverside too."
"The waterline is too high...According to the navigational plans, this ship should have discharged its cargo upriver."
"It's in there, no doubt about it.
"A Metal Gear in the holds will weigh down a ship a bit, I'd say. The military trains you to watch for threats from the stern on a boat. That's SOP for Counter-terror ops too. Security should be tighter. G.U.N. has grown lazy over the last 50 years!" Said Snake.
"You mean project Shadow?" Otacon ask.
"Of course, a fine example of military corruption, a lot of people died on the Ark by our own soldiers, just to get rid of something the government deemed too dangerous to let out! Even Foxhound wouldn't have sunk so low to kill everyone on sight," Snake informed
"Well project shadow is agent history, I'm sure G.U.N. realized its mistake, and will never do such despicable crimes again!"
"Yeah I'm sure they did!" Said Snake with sarcasm.
"You worry too much." Said Otacon.
Snake took a moment to get out of the shadows, he jerked his head across the deck to get a better view. "Where's the target?
"Satellite surveillance is a major international pastime these days. I'd say the cargo holds, safely below the deck. Do you see the entrance to the holds?"
"Looks like there are a few entry ways into the crew quarters." Said Otacon.
Snake hears a strange humming noise to the left side of the tanker. Snake pans his body, and sees a clear view, of several "egg" shape robots hovering on their jet packs. Some landed on the ship. One G.U.N. agent got knocked out by one of them. A second one was kicked by one of the robots legs.
Snake saw these little machines and turn back to his codec, "What the robots?"
"Did I just hear a humming sound Snake?" Otacon curiously ask him.
"It looks like we're not alone Otacon, someone is definitely after Metal Gear, and judging from these robots Dr. Eggman is behind this."
"Eggman? Are you sure Snake?" Otacon ask him nervously.
"Well unless some else decides to send in egg shaped robots to take over this tanker."
"This is bad Snake, Dr. Eggman is really dangerous, you have to be careful on this mission."
" I guess our friend Eggman has made things complicated, huh?"
"It's a whole new ball game Snake, be careful!" Said Otacon.
"Question is, why would Eggman want with Metal Gear? Doesn't build his own robots or something? Why all the trouble to steal a Metal Gear?" Snake said suspiciously.
"That's a good question Snake, I think Eggman might be after its nuclear power core, since all Metal Gears have them. He could built an even stronger Metal Gear!"
"Huh, and make things go boom for his enjoyment." He laughs, "It looks like, I need to stomp on his plan. Looks like that guy Sonic won't be here to enjoy the party huh?"
"Even if Sonic is the only one that could beat him, you have to make it to Metal Gear before he does!" Said Otacon.
"Of course wish me luck!"
"Good luck Snake! I'll be hear monitoring your progress, sorry but no Mei Ling this time!"
"All right I'll keep in touch!" Said Snake as he turn off his codec.
Snake grabs his pistol, he puts his fingers on the edge of his gun. Snake gets on the floor and starts to crawl. He avoids Eggman's egg pawns , who were busy fighting knocking out G.U.N. agents, and gets to the upper level of the tanker. Snake spots a camera rotating the far left side of the wall. Snake places himself against the wall, and slowly takes baby steps crossing the side the wall to the next. Snake again gets on his stomach, and crawls pass more G.U.N. agents patrolling. One saw Snake on the ground; he raised his gun and fired at his. Snake aims his gun at the guard; Snake carefully aims it at his chest. Snake pulls the trigger releasing a dart. The dart pierced the guard's chest, and he crumpled to the ground. Snake smiled at his handy work, and crawled into the crew's quarters.
Several G.U.N. agents were sleeping, however two are awake. One was a woman in standard black G.U.N. uniform, and the other caught was a strange creature. It seemed shorter than the woman, but it had bat like wings on her back, and had pointy ears. Snake tried his best to focus on his mission instead of the two ladies, but he couldn't help but watch them talk.
"Topaz are you sure Eggman is here?" The bat like woman asks her partner.
"I'm positive Rouge, we spotted Eggman attacking several of our guys on deck. He's after something!" Topaz informed.
"But why would he attack a G.U.N. transport ship? We have no Chaos emeralds on board!" Rouge stated.
"He must be-" Topaz was interrupted by a fellow G.U.N. soldier who ran towards her from the outer deck.
"Ms. Topaz, Eggman has been spotted! Commander wants you two to handle him!" Said the G.U.N. soldier.
"Damn it! Well we can't just stand here! Come on Rouge!" Said Topaz while running to the door.
"Well this is gonna be fun!" Said Rouge before going out the door with Topaz.
Snake saw them ran, supposedly to Eggman's location. Snake saw several G.U.N. soldiers getting up, and running out the same door.
"Eggman what are you up to?" Snake whispered quietly.
Snake got out of the crews quarters and made it outside. He was close to the bridge which house Metal Gear. He tranquilized several guards guarding a set up stairs. Snake sprinted to the stair case. He was close. But was he too close?
Ocelot's minion had been stalking Snake, his prey. A couple of guards had noticed him, but with swift speed and strong fists, he manages to put them down without mercy. He tried not to kill them, but he knock them out. He knew these were men with families, wives and kids. He already took one family away from a person he loves. He won't make the same mistake again, even Ocelot wouldn't scowl at him for not killing the cannon fodder. He had to find Snake, and for good reason, he saw Snake going up the stairwell leading up to the bridge. He had to beat him there. He saw Snake walking by two guards who didn't notice him. The guards were busy fighting Eggman's robots.
"Oh man these things are tougher then I thought!" Said the guard nervously.
"Yeah let's get off this ship! I ain't going to die today!" Said the second guard in fear.
The G.U.N. agents ran for the hills. Snake stood there trying to figure out how to pass armed robots. Snake wasn't trained to handle robots, unlike the typical Metal Gear, during his Foxhound days. Snake couldn't help, but shake at the G.U.N. soldier's incompetence. He knew soldiers swear an oath to defend their country at all costs, not runaway like cowards. Snake began to wonder how America even exists with these kinds of soldiers. Boy he had miss Foxhound.
"And were the superior nation? Please!" Said Snake, bothered by such incompetence. "Where's Campbell when you need him!"
Snake ran towards the last set of stairs guarded by the Egg pawns. He grabbed his rifle, and fired. The Egg pawns were caught by surprise, as they were no match for Snake's ferocity. They quickly jumbled into pieces, and lay on the ground. Snake could help but smile.
"Well that's takes care of one problem!" Said the old Foxhound agent. Snake ran up the last set of stairs, and eyed the Metal Gear in front of him. The Metal Gear was gigantic, taller than Rex, and it seemed more agile then Rex as well. Snake grabbed his digital camera and took a picture of it. Snake got to his codec.
"Otacon I done it!" Said Snake.
"You finally got to Metal Gear Snake?" Otacon asked excitedly.
"Yeah big and it's a big one! Bigger then Rex I'll put it!" Said Snake.
"Huh, I see! We need to alert the UN of this! They'll handle it from here Snake!" Said Otacon.
"Ok then, I send in the copy of the picture right now!" Said Snake.
"It'll be much appreciated Sn-" Before Otacon could continue, Snake's transmission was cut. All he got was static.
Snake was left flabbergasted, "Otacon? Otacon! Otacon answer me! OTACON!" Snake shouted trying to get in touch. This was not good for him. Snake needed to keep in touch with Otacon so he could complete this mission. He had to escape the tanker now, while keeping the evidence in one piece.
"Damn it!" Said Snake, frustrated at these turn of events.
As Snake turn, he felt an invisible force holding him back, "What the hell?"
The figure revealed himself, and threw Snake to the wall. Snake saw him, and he couldn't believe his own eyes. Snake thought he was seeing a phantom, a ghost from his past thought dead. His eyes lay upon on his old friend.
"I can't believe it! Fox is that you!" Said Snake surprised to see his old Foxhound member standing in front of him.
"In the flesh Snake, my you haven't changed since our encounters from Shadow Moses have you?" Said Fox.
"Fox you can't be…" Snake was a loss for words, he would never expect Fox to be alive after all this time.
"Alive Snake? Things have change over the 2 years, ever since I took down Rex's radome at the cost of my life for you!" Said Fox in anger. He didn't blame Snake for his death, only his heroic sacrifice to help defeat a monster.
"How could you still be alive after what Liquid did to you! You were crushed by Rex, and after that Shadow Moses blew up! There was no way you would've survived!" Snake explained.
"Well you'll have to thank Ocelot for me being here, Snake!" Said Fox.
"Ocelot? What does he have to do with this?" Snake said in shock.
"It was Ocelot who found me by Rex's foot. Somehow he manage to get me from under it. Even though I was surely dead, I wasn't, although I was on the borderline between death, and living. Ocelot took me somewhere… he place me in a stasis tank. For two years, Ocelot got me back to full health. He even repaired my arm with a cyber prosthetic one!" Said Fox to his old Foxhound friend.
"But why serve Ocelot? Why would he do this?" Snake demanded.
"Humph, you ask a lot of questions Snake, but very well. I serve Ocelot because he gave me my life back. I serve him because there's no where for me to go! No one will accept a freak like me Snake! I will be shunned from society forever…I'll never show my face to public again while I'm forever stuck in this armor! I envy you Snake, you get to live a normal life, and for that I hate you! I HATE you! Understand?" Gray Fox shouted to his former best friend. His voice sounding a bit normal. Fox felt like crying, but what would crying do to ease the pain.
"But what about Naomi? What about her Fox!? She still loves you, she wants you back!" Snake informed the cyborg ninja.
Fox looked at Snake, he then sadly put his head down in shame, "Na…o…mi? My sister?"
"Yes Fox, Naomi still wants you!" Said Snake.
"After all this time, even when I killed her parents…"
Snake felt the irony of it. He assumed Fox had known that he told Naomi the truth, but in reality Snake never told her that Fox killed her parents. Snake couldn't bring himself to tell her, and if he told Fox, things would go the wrong way for him. Snake knew Fox didn't need that.
"So what are you gonna do Fox?" Snake asks his friend.
"I…I…don't know what to do any more Snake!" Said Fox.
"Are you going to kill me?" Snake ask, although he didn't want it.
"I should, but I won't, I don't care about Ocelot anymore, even for what he has done for me!"
Before Snake could speak, he heard tremendous noise. He and Fox looked back down below. A massive explosion tore through the tanker. The bottom deck was now in flames.
"Damn it we gotta get out of here!" Said Snake.
"But where will we go? Where will I go Snake? Tell me!" Said Fox.
"Fox shut up about that, and focus on living at least! Now come on!"
"Alright then! I don't want to go to hell a second time!" Fox agreed.
Before anyone could make down to the lifeboat, Dr. Eggman in his Eggwalker jumped from out of nowhere. Dr. Eggman was laughing insanely. He then eyed the two members of the deceased Foxhound unit. He recognized the man in the black uniform as Solid Snake, but the other one was a mystery. Nonetheless, Eggman wanted the Metal Gear in front of him.
"So I finally arrived, now I can use this baby to destroy Sonic, and built my empire." Said the doctor, acting if Snake or Fox was there.
Snake look up to see Eggman's face, Snake thought Eggman was mad to kidnap Metal Gear. Snake hoped this wouldn't into a battle, but if he had to stop him, he will.
"Eggman! I knew you were behind this!" Snake pointed to the doctor in anger.
"So you're Dr. Eggman! The guy Ocelot wanted me to kill!" Said Fox.
When Eggman heard what Fox said, his jaw dropped. Dr. Eggman couldn't believe the double cross from Ocelot. The irony ate Eggman away.
"I can't believe this, Ocelot you dirty pussy cay! I can't believe you'll send in someone to kill me!" Eggman shouted angrily.
"You're not the type to trust Doctor! Don't you know how well Ocelot planned this from the beginning?" Said Fox.
"What?" Snake said, shocked.
"I'm sorry Snake, but it was Ocelot who gave you information on Metal Gear. He wanted to kill you, tonight! As you can see Ocelot is not himself, he's somwhat different now!"
"What do you mean?" Said Snake, curious of Fox's words.
"He has changed Snake; he calls himself Liquid Ocelot now!" Fox informed him.
The word "Liquid" shock Snake, Liquid was his brother's name, and the one who organized Foxhound's rebellion. Snake wondered why have Ocelot gone so far to be called Liquid? Liquid died of FOXDIE, a virus created by Naomi to kill off the Twin Snakes because Naomi believed Fox was killed from them, but Naomi spared Snake for some reason, and Liquid kicked the bucket. But somehow, Ocelot is calling himself Liquid, has Ocelot gone mad?
"Liquid? Is Liquid still trying to get to me? Even after he died?" Snake said.
"It seems so!" Fox agreed.
Eggman had enough of their talk. He now focused on Fox, the assassin sent by Liquid Ocelot to kill him. Eggman launched several missiles from his Eggwalker. Snake dodged out of harm's way, while Fox sliced each missile with his katana. He aimed his sword at Eggman's cockpit.
"No one dares to double cross me and live!" Eggman shouted infuriated.
"Hurry get away Snake!" Fox shouted to his friend.
"No! I'm not leaving you behind Fox!" Snake replied.
"How nice, a heroes sacrifice, I shall destroy both you!" Said Eggman while firing more missiles.
Fox destroyed more the missiles without hesitation, he sliced several of missile's aimed at Snake. Fox took aim his arm built beam rifle at Eggman. He quickly fired a few shots, which damage Eggman's egg walker. Eggman fired several bullets from his machine gun built inside the cockpit. Fox deflected the bullets, with ease, Fox then threw his katana at Eggman's cockpit. Fox's sword pierced it, as Eggman's machine started to spark. Eggman had no choice to…
"Eject!" Said Eggman pressing a small red button, Eggman manage to escape the cockpit, before his Eggwalker exploded to bits. Eggman was now at mercy of the former Foxhound members.
"I give, I give! Just don't kill me!" Eggman pleaded for his life.
Fox picked up his sword, and put it back on his sheath. Snake held his pistol at Eggman's head. Snake wanted Eggman to know what's danger is truly is.
"Start talking, or else Eggman!" Said Snake.
"Enough Snake! Let the police handle him! He's not worth it. He's no match for us without his robots to back him up!" Said Fox.
"Please, I'm no threat to you!" Eggman pleaded.
Snake looked at Fox, and then back to Eggman. Killing unarmed civilians, was something he never do, only terrorists, and Snake was none of that. Even though Eggman deserved it, Solid Snake wouldn't go that far. Snake lowered his, only to hear the sound of familiar voice.
"Well Snake I'm so disappointed in you! The Snake I knew loved to kill!" Said that voice. Snake, Fox, and Eggman turned there heads to see Ocelot. Ocelot smiled evilly at his puppets .
"OCELOT!" Snake shouted, pointing his gun to another Foxhound member, and another survivor of Shadow Moses.
"You dirty little cat, how you dare use me like that!" Said Eggman infuriated.
"Now Eggman we all knew in the end, you'll betray me, and take Metal Gear for yourself! So I had Fox here take care of you while I'd make my move."
"…" Fox flinched.
"Ocelot, after all this time, you still play the little double agent!" Said Snake while still aiming his gun at Ocelot.
"Ah, brother how are you! I almost forgot about you! Heheheheh!" Ocelot said but in a different voice, the voice sounded different then Ocelot's raspy voice, it sounded younger with a British accent. This voice shock both Snake, and Fox.
"Liquid? It can't be!" Said Snake shocked, memories of Shadow Moses began to blur on his head. Memories of a painful past Snake wanted gone.
"Yes it is me, brother! With Ocelot's body I have returned!" Said Liquid.
"How are you controlling Ocelot, Liquid?" Said Fox.
Liquid saw Fox, even began to laugh, how he remembered how he killed him, and then brought him back to life, his entire plan to kill his brother. "Ah yes, Gray Fox, Foxhound's best soldier, aside from Big Boss! Since you kindly ask, when you tore off Ocelot's arm, I had it made that his replacement was mine!"
"He's controlling Ocelot through his arm!" Eggman realized.
"Is that even possible?" Said Snake.
"Ocelot here is the son of the cobra unit soldier, the Sorrow, who died, and now exists as a ghost. Because of this, Ocelot was easy to take control through possession! You see brother even in death I'll always be there to prove that I'm better!" Said Liquid with a smirk.
"I can't believe Ocelot was so weak to submit himself to Liquid's control!" Said Fox.
"It seems so!" Said Eggman.
Liquid then shouted, he screamed in pain. Liquids voice disappeared, and it seemed Ocelot was now in brief control. "Aaarrrr! Get out of my mind Liquid!" Said Ocelot in his own voice.
"Ocelot!" Said Snake.
"He's fighting Liquid's control!" Said Fox.
Ocelot bites his arm, however Liquid is still in control. "The price of physical prodigy... Few more years and you'll be another dead clone of the old man. Our raw materials are vintage brother. Big Boss was in his late fifties when they created his copies. But I -- I live on, through this arm."
"..." Everyone flinched, without warning, Liquid leapt into the cockpit of Metal Gear Ray.
"Just like Shadow Moses brother, and Gray Fox! Eggman I like to thank you for your distraction! Now here is your reward!"
"LIQUID!" Snake shouted to his brother.
"I can't believe a genius like me for this trap!" Said Eggman sadly.
"Now all of you will go down with this tanker! As I will finally kill you Snake! Now it's time to for the end of the Patriots!" Said Liquid.
"The patriots?" Snake said confused.
"You won't live long to know brother!" Said Liquid.
The cockpit shut down, As Ray began to stomp its legs at Snake, Eggman, and Fox. The three dodge the best they could, but Ray was too fast for them. Snake was knocked unconscious by Ray's legs. Fox looked at the barely alive Solid Snake.
"SNAKE!" Fox shouted. Fox ran to cover his friend from the demonic machine. This was familiar to Fox, he saved Snake from a Metal Gear, being piloted by Liquid, and now the same scenario was happening again. This time, however, Fox hopes to live again. The infamous scene at Shadow Moses.
Flashback to Shadow Moses…
Snake stared up at the terror of Metal Gear Rex, the monster Metal Gear, piloted by his twin brother Liquid. Liquid had the home field advantage over Snake, Liquid prepared to stomp on Snake until. Snake closed his eyes, until a moment later he saw Gray Fox holding up Rex's foot.
"Hurry! Get away!" Fox told Snake.
"Gray Fox!!" Snake said in shock.
"A name from long ago. It sounds better than Deepthroat." Said Gray Fox on his past
"So it is you!?"
"You look terrible, Snake. You haven't aged well."
The "camera" zooms in on Liquid "I'll send you back to hell!
Fox leaps away and whips out his sword. In mid-air he manages to deflect a full volley of Rex's bullets. Landing on the ground he jumps back up and throws the sword at Rex's Radome; it buries itself in there. Now he lands on the ground and rolls quickly away from another burst of gunfire. He stops rolling and pushes himself into the air. He quickly fires off a few shots that all hit the Radome square-on. He calmly lands beside Snake who is hiding behind a storage crate.
"Fox, why!? What do you want from me!?" Snake asked him.
"I'm a prisoner of Death. Only you can free me..." Fox pleaded.
"Fox, stay out of this... What about Naomi? She's hell bent on taking revenge for you."
"Naomi..."
"You're the only one who can stop her."
"No...I can't."
"Why?"
"Because I'm the one who killed her parents, I was young then and couldn't bring myself to kill her too. I felt so bad that I to take her with me. I raised her like she was my own blood to soothe my guilty conscience. Even now she thinks of me as her brother..." Fox explained sadly.
"Fox..."
"From the outside, we might have seemed like a happy brother and sister. But every time I looked at her, I trembled with fear. Tell her for me. Tell her that I was the one who did it."
Liquid spots the two behind the box and tries to shoot them. Explosions ring out.
"There you are!" Liquid shouted at his enemies.
Fox pushes Snake out of the way. Fox stairs up at Metal Gear Rex, fear seem to evacuate Fox. With one goal in his mind, redemption, "We're just about out of time. Here's a final present from Deepthroat. I'll stop it from moving!"
"Fox!" Said Snake
Fox jumps up into the air and lands in front of Rex. Rex fires a burst of machine-gun fire at him. Fox deftly performs a quick series of back flips to avoid these. He runs into a wall and then runs parallel to it. He stops and does yet another flip to move in-between incoming bullets. Upon landing he faces Rex and is still facing gunfire. He twists his body around several times and then runs back to the wall and plants himself on it, spinning around. Fox now runs towards Rex at full throttle. Rex tracks him and fires a long burst of gunfire at him. The bullets shear off the faceplate of Fox's helmet but he seems unaffected. Fox goes into a slide, on his back, and aims his gun at the underside of Rex. When Fox is right beneath the head of Rex the head smashes down to try and crush him. Fox quickly pushes himself into the air. Recovering quickly Rex Powers up its laser and swings it upwards as Fox is going through the air. His left arm is sliced off at the shoulder. Fox lets out a blood-curdling cry as he lands on a ledge on the side of the room. Just as he recovers he sees Rex rushing towards him. He gets to his feet and lets out a loud scream of defiance. Before he can fire Rex slams him into the wall.
Liquid didn't feel pity for Fox's daring move against Rex, he found it amusing, "In the Middle East, we don't hunt foxes, we hunt jackals. Instead of foxhounds, we use royal harriers.
Snake saw Fox pinned to the wall; he couldn't believe the gruesome sight, "Fox!
"How strong is that exoskeleton of yours? Snake, are you just going to sit by and watch him die?" Liquid taunted Snake.
Fox's gun still has a little spark on it. It begins to glow as Fox solemnly
raises it to the radome. Fox fires off all of his remaining shots.
"A cornered fox is more dangerous than a jackal!" Said Fox viciously, Fox fired with all his might. The radome that protected Liquid was gone.
Snake looks up to see Fox's handiwork "He destroyed the radome..."
Liquid opens up the cockpit of Rex, Liquid found entertaining and actually enjoyed it, but enough was enough. Impressive! You are indeed worthy of the codename "Fox"! But now you're finished!"
Fox succumbed to his pain, he has done his part, with little bit of his energy he turns to Snake "Now! Fire the Stinger!
"Fox!" Snake shouted.
"Can you really shoot? You'll kill him too!" Said Liquid to Snake.
"Now in front of you. I can finally die. After Zanzibar, I was taken from the battle neither truly alive nor truly dead... an undying shadow in the world of lights. But soon... soon. It will finally...end."
Liquid drags Fox off of his perch and lets him fall to the ground. He tries to crush him once more.
"Die!
Fox is now just barely clinging onto himself, his exoskeleton break in a matter of moments.
"Snake, we're not tools of the government or anyone else! Fighting was the only thing... the only thing I was good at, but... At least I always fought for what I believed in... Snake... farewell." Was Fox's last words, before Oblivion.
Liquid applies all the weight that he can on top of Fox. His exoskeleton
gives out and he is crushed.
"FOOOOX!!" Snake screamed in agony, sad of Fox's death.
End Flashback
Eggman was lucky however, he manage to evade Ray's legs, Eggman leapt down the bridge, into the deck. Eggman ran towards the nearest live boat. Eggman escaped Death's bow.
"Good riddance!" Said Eggman as he lowered his boat.
Back to Fox…
"Now this seems familiar huh Fox?" Said Liquid evilly.
Fox pointed his gun at Ray; he was ready for anything Liquid might have had for him. "Bring it on chump!"
"Don't worry Fox! I don't plan on killing you again with Metal Gear! No! Both you and Snake will die together on this boat!" Said Liquid.
"Damn you!" Said Fox angrily, still aiming his gun at Ray's cockpit.
"In the middle east we don't hunt Foxes, we hunt Jackals," Said Liquid to Fox, "Instead of Foxhounds we use royal harriers! You always had the honor of being codenamed Fox! But now taste hell GRAY FOX!"
Ray then turned left, and with a mighty leap, it jumped into the water. A huge wave engulfs the ship. Snake was still out cold, and Fox had no idea what to do. Fox grabbed on to Snake and headed for the nearest life boat. Ray however wouldn't leave its targets, as Fox saw the titanic monster rose up from the waters.
"Damn it we have a problem here Snake!" Said Fox to Snake.
"Now you're finished!" Liquid shouted.
Ray plunges its head into the water and begins to suck some water into its system. It then raises its head and fires a high-powered stream of water into the hull of the tanker. Water pours into it.
"SNAAKKEE!" Fox screamed as he, along with Snake sank into the bottom of the ship. Fox desperately swims to the surface gasping for air. The Cyborg Ninja tried to look for Snake, he dive down, but the only thing Fox could see was the deep blue. Certain Snake is gone, Fox tried to swim back up, but he had no energy to continue. Fox lost all conscious with the world he once lived. Now the world lost him, and Solid Snake.
Meanwhile Metal Gear Ray swims through the water and leaps above the water. It straddles a large crack that has appeared near the middle of the ship. Ocelot is talking to someone over the radio.
"Mission complete, I have stolen Ray! Get ready for my return!" Said Liquid.
"Of course sir, Dead Cell is always ready!" Said the voice in a Romanian accent.
"With Ray we can finally destroy our enemy… the patriots!" Said Liquid.
"Understood! The world shall better be prepared for the upcoming war!"
Liquid chuckled. "Yes the war to end all wars, to destroy the patriots, and I'll make everyone recognize that I am the better clone of Big Boss!"
The Next day…
Maria Robotnik, and Chris Thorndyke we're walking down the small road that was near Chris's home, it was also near a small river. Maria couldn't believe that Shadow has forgotten her, even though she have found new friends that love her so much, she still wants Shadow to remember her. Maria hoped talking to Chris could settle things a bit for her.
"I can't believe he doesn't remember me Chris!" Said Maria sadly.
"Now, Now Maria, Shadow only has amnesia! I bet he still cares for you!" Said Chris.
"I know I just…want him to be happy!" Said Maria.
"He is happy Maria! He is happy that your alive, and to him you're his greatest he ever had!"
Maria smiles at Chris, "Thank you Chris," For that Maria looks towards the river, "Shadow please where ever you are, be safe!"
Something then caught Maria's eyes, "Shadow?" Maria ran towards the river.
"Maria?" Chris said noticing her near the edge of the river, he saw put her arms on the flowing water. Chris soon went down to her. "Maria is something wrong?"
"Chris there's someone here, help me please!" Said Maria, while she began to pull on something from the water.
"What is it?" Said Chris before holding into the object into the water.
They pulled out in what it seems to be a person, a human. But this person was incased in armor, white armor surrounding his body. It was Gray Fox. Maria, and Chris couldn't believe their eyes.
"Oh my…Are you ok?" Maria said in concern to unconscious soldier. She got near him carefully, examining his exoskeleton. Fox's armor was broken, revealing flesh wounds all over his body. Even his helmet was broken, exposing his white hair. His new arm was also damage, but it still held Fox's sword tightly.
"How did this happen?" Chris asks Fox. But Fox didn't respond, the Foxhound soldier was out cold, possibly dead.
Maria lifted Gray Fox softly, his exoskeleton didn't seem to bother, nor its cold steel. Maria placed her hand near Fox's head. She felt his head warm, not cold like his armor. Maria began to have the same feeling she would get around Shadow.
"We need to save him, he's dying!" Said Maria.
"We'll take him back to our place! Let's see if we can save him!" Said Chris.
Maria turned her head back to Fox's body, Maria began to wonder what happen to this creature. Maria didn't want anyone die, even Fox. Maria hoped Fox is still alive, but it was an answer that was uncertain right now. Maria began to lift Fox's body from the river. Fox's armor now began to weigh on her, but Chris help out by holding Fox's legs. The two carefully, but quickly return to Chris's mansion.
"Please be alright! Don't worry we'll save you!" Said Maria sincerely to Fox.
A small faint word, echoed from Fox, as if Fox was fighting his way to live again. "Snake!" Then Fox lost all connections to the living for now.
How was it? Yes I'm using Gray Fox, because, well I love Gray Fox so much that I decided to use him, and that he's really a bad-ass with so many things going on for him. Remember this story is a collaberation project with another fellow author, who has allowed me to use her own version of Sonic X and allow me to adapt it with Metal Gear Solid. Till next time