Chapter 2. Web of Deceit

"Otoconą½€" Snake yelled into his codec. "W.E.B.'s been stolen."

"Already tracking it Snake. It seems to be heading due east."

"Good, let me know when you find out exactly were it's going."

"Snake, who was it?"

"Ocelot." Snake replied with hatred in his voice. "And some other green clown."

"The Green Goblin." Spidey said as he rang out his costume. "Someone really needs to do something about the filth in this river."

"Who are you?" Snake demanded as he pointed his SOCOM at the wall crawler.

"Hey buddy." Spidey said putting his hands in the air. "I'm on your side."

"How do I know that." Snake replied, ignoring Otocon's voice in his ear.

"Did I not just keep you from drowning."

"You were probably just saving your own ass." Snake fired a bullet at the hero that he easily dodged thanks to his spider sense.

"You don't play well with other's, do you?" Spidey stood back upright when a large searchlight blinded both of them. "Friends of your's?" They shielded the light from their eyes as a helicopter touched down.

"Snake!" A blonde man wearing glasses yelled as he exited the chopper. "What are you doing? Don't you know who that is?"

"No. Should I?" Snake replied with sarcasm in his voice.

"That's Spider-Man. He's a superhero."

"I don't read comic books."

"Comic books?" Spidey replied. "I'm insulted. I am not some fictional, spandex wearing, saving-the-day fool. I a real life spandex wearing, saving-the-day fool." Otocon approached the hero and began shaking his hand.

"It's an honor to meet you. I've been a big fan for years." Snake shook his head.

"Give me a break."

"Hey Snake," Otocon said, still shaking Spidey's hand. "Do you think he can help. He's beaten the Green Goblin countless times."

"It hasn't been countless." Spider-Man said as he pulled his hand back. "It's more like two hundred and thirteen times, but who's counting."

"No." Snake replied bluntly. "I don't need a costumed crime fighter's help. I can handle this on my own." Snake began to make his way to the helicopter. Otocon followed, obviously disappointed. "Otocon. Were is W.E.B. heading?" The two entered the chopper and it started to take off.

"If it maintains it's present course...it looks like progressing toward Russia."

"Great. How long before we can follow."

"Well, with all the red tape involved in trespassing in another country...as soon as we drop you off. They won't even know you're there."

"Correction, they won't even know we're there." Spider-Man said as he crawled his way into the helicopter. "When the Goblin's involved, Spider-Man's involved. Besides, you shot at me. This will make us even." Snake gave it a moment of thought before he replied.

"Alright, only because you seem to know this Goblin character."

"I've always wanted to go to Russia."

Snake smiled.

"Maybe it was Hawaii that I always wanted to visit." Spider-Man and Solid Snake were standing in front of an open cargo bay door on an airplane 3000 feet above the ground. They were both clad in white to camouflage them in the snow covered landscape. Without a word, Snake jumped and deployed his parachute.

"I hate cold." Spidey followed behind. As they drifted down to the ground, the sound of the plane grew distant before fading all together. The sun had set only half an hour ago, and the unlikely duo was slowly descending into a frozen Mother Russia. When they landed, they shed their parachutes.

"Follow me, and keep quite." Snake pulled out his SOCOM and made his way through some snow covered trees. After a few moments, Snake turned around. Spider-Man was nowhere to be seen. "You gotta be kidding. He already got lost." Snake turned back in his original direction and came face-to-face to the webslinger's upside down face.

"Quite enough?" Snake's expression never changed and he simply side-stepped around and stayed his course. Spidey dropped down to the ground and kept close behind.

"I definitely prefer swinging." Spider-Man thought to himself after following close behind Snake for nearly an hour.

"We're almost there." Snake said as a handful of floodlights cam into view. "That must be their base." Just then, a certain white clad hero's spider sense went off. He grabbed Snake by the back of his white camouflage and tugged him behind a nearby tree just as a bullet whizzed by them, harmlessly striking the frozen ground. The two stood silently when a spotlight shone on the area.

"Motion sensor must've picked up another rabbit." A voice with a Russian accent said.

"Da," Another one replied. "Maybe you should go get it. I'm hungry."

"Motion sensors." Snake said silently. "That makes this a touch more difficult."

"Not for your friendly frozen Spider-Man." He shot a webline that clung to a nearby bush and tugged it slightly. The motion sensor was distracted and shot another round that missed. Spidey then peeked around the trunk of the tree and fired another webline with his free hand, covering the sensor in a think layer of webbing.

"Not bad Spider. My turn." Snake tucked his SOCOM into his belt and pulled out another gun that was strapped to his thigh. He took aim and fired a tranquilizer dart into the neck of one of the guards. He quickly dropped while the other, panic-stricken, raised his gun.

"Who...who's out there?" His hands were shaking and his heart was beating fast.

"I think we have a newbie here." The guard looked up to see Spider-Man looking down at him from his perch on the wall. Snake ran up to him, knocked his gun to the ground and put his knife to the young guards throat.

"How do we get in?" The guard seemed to frightened to speak.

"I'd listen to him." Spidey said. "He's crazy." The young man's knees buckled. He had passed out.

"It looks like we've gotta find our own way in."

"We might be able to get in there." Spider-Man pointed at a vent high up on the steel wall. The two dropped their white clothing and made their way up the wall. Spidey ripped the vent away and the two entered. Snake took the lead as the two combat crawled their way along the aluminum duct. After a while, their path widened and there was enough room to proceed side by side. They finally came across another vent that would provide them entrance into the building. Spidey pulled it up and the two dropped to the floor.

"Looks like we found the latrine." Snake made his way to the bathroom door.

"Someone's coming." The two of them entered one of the two stalls, shut the door and stood on top of the toilet. They heard footsteps that stopped right in front of them. The door opened and the Russian soldier's eyes widened as he stared down the barrel of a gun.

"Sorry pal, occupado." The soldier was hit in the chest with a tranquilizer dart and webbed to the wall.