The Voice Beneath the Silence

A/N: This is a small drabble of the game from Quiet's perspective. Forgive me as this is my first, and may possibly my only Metal Gear fanfic. I never played the game myself but watched walkthroughs and read from its page on Metal Gear Wiki. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain belongs to Konami, its plot belongs to Kojima, no copyright violations intended. Much of this based on compilation of her scenes and on the tapes. Not exactly a masterpiece, more like a cross between terse diary entries and poetry. Forgive me if this is very long. I just couldn't help it. As I never played the game, I turned to YouTube videos to learn as much as I can. Thanks for reading and don't forget to leave review. Merry Christmas 2015 to all and a Happy New Year 2016.

Disclaimer: This is a fanwork, no copyright infrignement intended. Whatever the disputes, Konami may hold ownership of the franchise but characters, concept, and story belong to Hideo Kojima and his team. Sayanora, Kojima-san. You were an inspiration to me. You were a major influence to the industry, shining light of you ideals. We will miss you and Snake.


Chapter 1: REVENGE

The order had came

The scarred man has come to see me

A loose end, he called him

The mark is simply called V

...

I met the scarred man

He briefed me

I could not believe it

A hospital in Cyprus,

Of the British military

Makes my job harder

Why not just put the target on a bus?

...

He told me who he was

I cannot believe it

The legendary soldier himself

Big Boss...

I thought he slipped under the sea

Drowned in his castle of steel

...

V, he must be

Tapped phone and radio we listened

Indicated he has come to

I'm put on stand by

Planning continues

He's just another target...

...

It wasn't easy

The doctor and nurse had to go

It was not pleasant either

To kill someone defenseless

Would prefer shooting from afar

Yet, those are my orders...

...

The patient next to him

Attack me with all his might

Never expected a bandaged man

To put up such a fight

...

FIRE! Fire! He burned me!

My skin was roasting

It smells of meat...

Lamb

I screamed and screamed

Crash through the window I go

Shattering glass heralding my fall

...

I woke up... They saved me...

But he exacts his price

My body he claimed

And my soul

...

It takes some time getting used to

My choice of wear is hard on my modesty

But was the only way I can survive

For the parasites to thrive

How could this be?

But after the scarred man showed me

How my fate could be worse

The Skull, a soulless super soldier

Whose body must molder

So I must accept my curse

...

The parasites breathed new life

To vanish quietly

And to phase behind a person's back

I can slow down time to shoot

I can leap higher than a pole vaulter

And kick a man twenty feet across the floor

Sunlight and rain sustains me

Sleep I need little, food none

Yet, I was not made to live long

I speak my mother tongue

Slow death awaits

...

They trained me hard

To master my new body

Already a weapon

Trigger at ready

...

He came to me again

I never saw or felt him like this

So cold and brooding

Yet so menacing... and worse

He seemed to look down on me

Then he gave me my mission

...

I remember how at first

I was repulsed

At how they brought me back to life

I am no longer human

It's common ground, he claimed.

That we are set afire

Pain broke us and forged us

Why should we feel so?

And free our enemies remain

They should feel our pain

Each word took me back

To that night I had lain

That I seem to roast on a rack

...

He explained to me his story

From that village in Hungary

Trapped in that factory

Burning rapeseed oil cascading

Leaving his skin scalding

They all died

He did not

Hell claimed his skin

But not his soul

Left to expire

To fade away

They took him away

Russians, Germans first?

Neither matter

Tortured

Forced to speak their tongue

Held on to hope

To hang the world on his rope

...

I'll make my life matter, he said

I've less to live now

Big Boss should be dead!

And taught me how

...

In Afghanistan I go

Playing hide and seek

Putting fear in their sleep

The Russian soldiers whisper

Beware of the sniper

Who walks naked on the sands

Hmmm... men

...

Big Boss is here!

No doubt he has heard of me

Picked up my trail of bread crumbs

Of dead men who spoke too much

Of the scarred man's iron beast

Now I have him in my sight

To Aabe Shifap I lead him

Where a king's realm reached twilight

Ruins, a grave from another time

It will be his too

Big Boss, to hell I send you!

...

Bastard!

He really lives up to his name

He's too quick and cunning!

He's putting the hurt in me!

Supply dropped on my position

Out of my scope, he saves his head

But he can't get a bead on me

That makes it a draw

Only one of us must yield

It won't take long

...

Dusk approaches... Neither of us a victor

He is persistent! Truly a demon

A part of me wants to leave

To fight another day

But another wants him dead

To assuage the pain

Of the flesh I lost

Burnt away into ash and meat

I want him to burn!

Ugh, why does it sting?

Darts!?

...

I feel... tired...

Who's that behind me-

AARRGGHH!

...

I can't believe it...

He defeated me

I am beyond human

Yet he took me down

I lie on my back a second time

To face my fate again

He's here to finish the job

Though I resent, I must accept

I tried to kill him

I expect no mercy

I lost, he won

I await my death...

...

I looked at him

He looked at me

That cold eye of his

Looking down at me

No surprise

This is the end

No use fighting it

I glanced back

I spot a change in his eye

Savoring the moment, I see

Just get on with it

...

He saved me...

Why!?

He took me in his arms

And aboard a chopper

I almost spoke but held myself

We'd both be dead

Fool? You're mine!

...

I simply pretend to sleep

A surprised him and disappeared

Make him think I got away

How wrong you are

They talk of this "mother base"

Something to my advantage

Beware of quiet gifts

...

They sent a Harrier?

He's my kill!

His time I decide still

But that jet won't go away

I must be something!

This chopper is no match for it!

Big Boss, legend or not, is still a man

I took the gun, killed the missile

I took my rifle, killed the pilot

I surrendered and we stay silent

...

What a hell of a reception

A 21-gun salute aimed at us

I'm not welcome on Mother Base

Their fortress, their home

This Miller knew I'm from Cypher

Had to save the Boss's breath in telling them

Had to make them see what I can do

Nothing they will can stop me

Useless is firepower and brute force

Against ability bordering on myth

Leaped off the chopper

Vanished in mid-air

And landed behind them with flourish

I took off the cuffs

Disappeared again

Should put the fear in them

But that cowboy had the right mind

Ordered thermals online

Spotted and cornered, the jig was up

No use impressing them

My fate Miller and Cowboy argued

Big Boss arbitrated

Sent me back to the brig

...

First day of my incarceration

Uneventful, except for a few aids

Tried to dress me

Immodest as I appeared

I'll die if I wear a shirt

Night was interview and exams

Intelligence conducted the former

Medical staff did the latter

I remain mute in spite of questioning

Quiet, they called me

I was subjected to machine exam

Terrifying, I feared the worse from radiation

They're also scared of me

Want me quarantined

Cowboy's name is Ocelot

Has taken an interest guarding me

Did the interviews

Nice to give me a cage with a shower

...

He and BB paid a visit

Talked about me

My abilities and my strangeness

Turns out someone like me had it before

Back in the Soviet Union, 1964

How much of this world I knew now?

And how much I didn't know?

...

Ocelot attending some matters

Left me someone to watch me instead

A wuss named Sasaki

Wearing a gas mask and all shivering

Got the short end of the stick, I see

Runs to the bathroom time to time

With a fresh set of clothes

And a tank full of disinfectant

A mere lock on my cage

How clever of the best mercenaries in the world

Yet, I can't help but the get the feeling

They are just watching

Ocelot, I believe, has a hand to it

...

Big Boss out on a mission I hear

Decide to tag along

To learn more about him and his Diamond Dogs

To see more of the legend in action

Better than breathing the air when Sasaki is around

I simply picked the lock

And went out of my way

He prepares to depart

Miller seems distracted

Then bangs his cane beside me

Lucky guess! I'll give him that

How, I'll never know

Surprise, surprise, the charade's over,

But I intend to go

Miller is skeptical

But Ocelot favors my adventure

Miller disagrees

Ocelot hand me his pistol

Tell me to shoot through the blades

Miller protests but Ocelot nods

I shoot through with nary a scratch

A "freak" just proves her worth

Big Boss accepts in spite of my silence

To wherever the winds takes us

...

It is different to see him fighting

When he's not the enemy

I had never seen anyone

Take on a battalion, much less a regiment

With such guile and cunning

Courage and resolve

The more I see him in action

The more I can see why he is legendary

I'm starting to think my plot

Is a terrible mistake

He treats me better than "Skull Face"

Who only gave me a number as a name

No better than those men

Who took my grandpa's brother

To an Indian boarding school

Scrubbing him clean of his identity

To make him their idea of a man

The ideal American

While scorning his lineage all the same

...

I see him guiding those poor boys

Out of that hellhole

Refused the contract to kill

He's protecting them

Nary a merc touch their hair

I play my part

Anyone too close dies

Aboard the bird of freedom we go

Big Boss, why do you fight?

Is it love or hate?

Honor? Justice?

Why do you risk your life for them?

My heart flutters

...

He's escaping!

He has it!

It's in his throat

My dirty little secret!

They tried to stop me

But I swept them away

I must rip it off!

This evil of Skull Face

The evil I willingly accepted...

Big Boss! Don't interfere!

But they stopped me in time

I'm taken back to my cell

I feel defeated

I want to scream but I'm afraid

My cries will take me back to that night

...

I'm put on mission again

After some time in the cooler

Miller still distrusts me though

I should learn more about him

... Why am I holding back?

...

Mother Base is locked down

Everyone blames me

Platforms cordoned off

By men in hazmat suits

Decon showers everywhere

Sasaki must be lucky

Here not to be

Probably in mess duty

...

The intel man we saved

Spoke of the key to our problem

The mission is Code Talker

The man behind the 'sites

It would be difficult

Then the Skulls appeared

Who I might be when the 'sites take over

Who I will be if I speak my voice

...

The Skulls again

At Nova Braga

This time brutes

Men lucky to be infected

And collected

They won't get back Code Talker

Even in death we won't yield!

Fight on, mindless brutes!

...

We taken him back to the base

Code Talker worked with Med staff

It took over two weeks

But we saved Mother Base

From his "children's" grip

I can hear the other guys hurting

I know how it feels

...

One of the boys lost his necklace

In the drink with disinfectant

From their leader Shabani

Their last keep sake from him

They deserve it

Just like my wrecked lungs

I jump in, heedless of the risk

To my being

Ah, it burns!

But I can't lose it, I can't

... The pain, the pain...

But they won't lose Shabani, even in death...

...

Every mission brings to light

How Skull Face wants to set the world afire

To create his twisted paradise

In the Congo and Afghanistan

In Nova Braga against the Skulls

With Big Boss's steed and dog

The Devil's House, the diamond mines

The man on fire

Bwala lya Masa with the White Mamba

And the strange redheaded boy floating with a gas mask

Truly madness

Conflict breeds misery

We saved this egghead Huey

And the plans of his steel monstrosity

Sahelanthropus...

Ozymandias's engine of hell

...

We won, we won

Skullface is dead

No longer to drown the world in flames

I am free!

We returned with our prize

The steel demon Sahelanthropus

Huey's Golem, his Frankenstein

Now Cipher will not threaten us

Lose the head, the body falls!

Miller gave a speech

The phantom pain in us

Our curse and blessing

Our shared bond

Will live in us forever

The battle is won

But war ever rages


A/N: Hope you liked this. Chapter 2 incoming.