"Where are we?" The troubled voice of Steven Universe asked.

"This." A voice started. A tall white woman named Pearl began. "Was were a great battle took place." Her eyes trailing over the broken and collapsed structure of an abandoned oil-rig.

"But why would the portal bring us here? There has to be a reason for this." Garnet. The fusion of Ruby and Sapphire said. Confusion present in her normal stoic voice. The tallest of the group with a red and black coloured skin altered her tinted glasses as the ocean reflected off them.

A purple short gem known as Amethyst snorted with laughter as she ran up to some of the wreckage, "I don't know about you guys but I like this place. Hey check this out!" She said with joy as she pulled out a flag that was coated in burns and rips in the fabric. The diamond logo caused her to drop it in a panic. The others noticed and pulled their weapons out.

Steven, the young human hid behind Garnet's legs, pointing at the flag. "Do you think this is a Homeworld Gem base?" Eventually, Pearl lowered her weapon, "I don't think so, this place is familiar. Amethyst, show me the flag again."

The gem in question picked up the flag, the white gem gasped in shock. As she studied it in great detail. "Pearl! What is it?" The human asked.

The gem in question stammered in her speech. "It... it's. The Diamond Dogs. Our allies." Coughing slightly, Pearl sat down in a crossed legged position. "Steven, would you like to know about humanity's greatest warrior?" The human suddenly had stars in his eyes as he nodded. "Ahem. It's a long story, so I'll begin now while Garnet and Amethyst search around."

She gave a quick stretch as she prepared to tell the story. "It began in the human year: 1980's, sorry the year has escaped. Anyway, me and Rose, your mother. We were travelling the Earth to locate hidden Homeworld gems still on Earth. Our search led us to a place called Afghanistan where we witnessed a human rescuing another human from a enemy outpost. This man, we would eventually discover his name to be."

Pearl stopped in her speech as stars appeared in her eyes as she sighed. "Snake." Her voice confused Steven at the way she spoke the name and was concerned about the name. "Snake? Why would he be called Snake?" Pearl snapped out of her trance with a nervous laugh.

"You know, I never asked about that. Anyway, we decided to follow him but he seemed to somehow knew we were here..."

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The winds picked up with the sand trailing along. A verminous snake slithered along the ground, it was silent. But that was broken as the sounds of a helicopter rotator sounded, the sounds echoed around as a voice came from the aircrafts speaker. "This is Pequod! Approaching the LZ!" The pilots voice sent relief to the man who stood by the where the helicopter will land.

The man looked to be in his thirties, his face scarred heavily by the conflicts he faced. A reminder of a previous battle is forever scarred in the form of a large piece of shrapnel that protruded out of his forehead. Like a devils horn. The man had let age affect him as his beard was grown out more and roughed. His hair had lengthened greatly forcing him to leave tied in a ponytail. Apart from the horn, the most recognising feature was the eyepatch over his right eye but another disturbing feature was his bionic arm that replaced his former left arm.

This variety of the arm was capable of being launched as a rocket and with its fisted shaped appearance. It was capable of knocking out even the most armoured of foes. The grey arm itself was still attached to the man.

The man was wearing what many would call a black skin-tight suit. But unknown to people who wasn't a Diamond Dog member know that the suit was padded to prevent injury from heights and bullet resistant enough to protect the wearer but the main importance of the suit was its ability to hide his heat signature from thermal devices. The man wearing the suit was non other than Snake. Or Punished 'Venom' Snake. The leader of the Diamond Dogs, his sole mission was to defeat Skull-Face and XOF.

Snake lowered the prisoner on his back to the floor. The prisoner breathed heavily as he got to a sitting position, dehydrated, the prisoner accepted the water flask from Snake when he offered it. Wiping away sweat from the heat of the Afghanistan sun, "Well done Boss. Another mission completed." Miller, Mother Base's XO said through his radio. Grunting slightly as he pulled out a knife stuck in the suit's padding from when he had to fight a Russian soldier in hand-to-hand combat. Well, hand to knife combat.

Taking back the flask from the prisoner, he then proceeded to take the man by his arms and host him onto his shoulders, carrying the prisoner. Snake waited as Prequod landed. Throwing the man inside, Snake went to climb on, only to stop. The hairs on his neck tingled and stood up, an instinct of survival flashed his brain to respond.

Turning so suddenly, his pistol was in his hands with such speed as he aimed with precision, his left eye rested on two forms in the desert sand. Both in shock as the man they were watching saw them. They were women but yet, one was coloured pink and looked magnificent. Like a beauty never seen before. The other was tall and white and held what looked like a spear in her hand.

His radio crackled to life. The voice of Ocelot came through. "Boss. Those people shouldn't be in Afghanistan. I don't think Skull-Face is apart of this but whoever they are, you should get out of there." Snake thinned his lips and nodded slowly, quickly pulling out his iDroid, he ordered Pequod to leave the area. Snake took a risk and began walking closer to the two people. Even turning off his radio to stop Miller complaining about that the two could be threats.

However his walking was interrupted by the white gem as she pointed her spear at him. "Stay back human!" Her eyes held a fire as she threatened him. He raised his hands in a non-threating manor, "I'm not your enemy." He spoke all too calmly. "Really? I hadn't noticed, so don't you come any closer." The gem's distrust got the pink gem to grab the spear and forcefully lowered it.

"I am sorry for this." Her voice sounded like a thousand angels singing, fortunately for him, he has his mind set and focused. "My name is Rose Quartz. And this is Pearl, "She said pointing to the white gem who scowled at him. "But I'm glad we've come across a human who hasn't wanted us as other 'things' or tried to attack us."

"Those people." Miller said quietly as Snake turned his radio on. "They must be the reason why those bases are destroyed, and.. those bodies." The XO trailed off in silence. But Snake asked the question to satisfy Miller.

"Were you responsible for the bases here getting destroyed?" Rose looked at him in utter confusion, glancing at her friend, Pearl was also confused. "What do you mean? We haven't encountered areas getting destroyed. Are the people okay!?" Rose questioned.

Dread filled her when Snake spoke next. "No. There were no survivors. Just bodies." Rose looked away, almost ashamed. Pearl glared at Snake before tending to her mistress, "Rose, we should leave, it would be better for your safety." Snake watched with patience as Pearl placed hand on Rose's shoulder in order to comfort her. Rose's hands clenched into fists before she tensely released them. Turning around to face the aging soldier, she spoke.

"What is your name?"

"Venom Snake, or just Snake is fine."

Rose smiled, "Snake. We wish to help you discover what is happening here." He nodded as Pearl's jaw dropped as she slowly started to seeth with anger, opening his iDroid, Snake planted a landing zone for Prequod. When the pliot arrived with his helicopter. Pearl was against this as the three walked to the aircraft. "Rose, you must understand that these humans are dangerous. They could harm you, or something."

"Pearl." Rose said suddenly as she turned to face Pearl who froze at her name as she remained in the desert sand while Rose was already on board the helicopter. Rasing her hand out to her friend, Rose asked carefully. "Do you trust me?" Pearl looked at her, then to Snake who was watching with interest, sighing softly. She took Rose's hand, "I do."

With that she boarded and chose to sit as far from Snake as possible. Slowly the aircraft took off from the ground. Snake got up from his seat and closed the hatch, sitting back down, he looked at Rose who was enjoying the sight of the landscape. Pearl was also in awe at the fast moving landscape but her smile turned into a frown when she saw Snake watching her from the corner of her eye. Huffing slightly as she looked ahead of her, a scowl present.

After some time, the desert became a ocean, Snake got up from his seat and looked out the window, his hand holding onto the railing above him. A platform came into view, another platform connected to that one via a bridge and so on. A similar set of platforms also rested further away from the first set of makeshift oil-rigs, eventually the pliot bright the helicopter to a platform in the center of all the connected platforms with this one being the main hub.

On a helipad was a row of soldiers, all saluting, two blond haired men. One with tinted sunglasses and a tan jacket, a military cap on his head held the Diamond Dog logo, the man also had a crane to support him with his prosthetic leg. Pearl who was still scowling softened her expression when she saw his missing right arm. The other man was wearing a simple red T-Shirt, a red scarf around his neck, his red gloved hands rested carefully on his two holsters that held his two trusty revolver. The two was both In fact Master Kazuhira Miller and Revolver Ocelot.

Exiting the landed helicopter. Snake waited for the two other passengers to exit, with him patting Pearl on the back as he said.

"Welcome to Outer Heaven."

Pearl hissed at him.

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A/N

I need to stop writing stories and focus on my current ones. I had this idea for a while ever since I started watching Steven Universe and I wanted to combine the Metal Gear franchise with Steven Universe. As for a time frame, this mission takes place before the Honey Bee mission so Snake doesn't know about Sahelanthropus yet.

As for Pearl, well I imagine her character to be distrustful of humans but she slowly warmed up to them through her interaction with Snake. And I kind of vision her actually falling in love with the legend of Big Boss like Quiet and Ocelot did. Sorry I missed some things, I already beat the game once and trying to 100% it.

Anyway, thanks for getting this far. Hope for the feedback