Chapter 2

After a few minutes…

Mei Ling woke up, the pain on her left cheek was still there and she was brushing off the dizziness. Suddenly, she felt she couldn't move her arms or her feet. She also felt something on her mouth, like it was sticking on. When she was fully recovered she saw the man looking on her laptop for information with a cell phone to his ear. She then saw gray tape wrapped around her ankles and legs. She also felt it around her wrists, too.

The man talked through his cellphone,"I'm looking through her laptop, now…No, she isn't giving me trouble now…Well, I'm still looking for it…Give me some time, already. Finding information isn't my type of field…Okay, thank you."

Mei Ling knew that this man isn't your type of agency man. She assumes that this man is an agent sent by the Patriots, the same Patriots that Snake and Otacon warned her about. She looked around for a way out of her bonds. She then saw that the man was stupid enough to leave his knife by the role of tape on the floor. She slowly moved to the knife, not trying to make sure the man knows, what she's doing. The man looked back one second and then turned back to her laptop. She then grabbed the knife with her bound hands and began cutting through the tape on her wrists. The knife was doing the trick. Then, after a little more cutting the tape was off her wrists, she also cut the tape wrapped around her legs and her ankles. She then, took off the piece of tape that was on her mouth. She slowly took it off, she wanted to scream but it'll then attract the man to her position. After taking it off she stood up and began hitting the man on the back of his head with handle of the knife rapidly. The man felt the pain and try to retaliate but the pain he couldn't fight back. He turned to face her but the last thing he saw was her giving him a punch to his face. He was out cold. Mei Ling took a deep breath; she never knocked anyone out for defending herself. Then she was shocked to see that the man's cell phone was still with the person he was talking to.

"Hey, is everything all right there?...Hello?…Is everything okay? That's it, I'm going up there, now!"

She knew she had to hurry quickly. She got her cell phone and her laptop of the table and went out through the door. She looked left and right of the hallway, then she saw a man in the same black and white suit like his partner had, but has dark skin, came from the right, so she ran to her left, the man chased her. Mei Ling went through the stairs access and quickly went through the door. She barricaded the door with a box. The man tries to get through but the box prevented him from getting through. Mei Ling ran down the stairs. At the ground floor, she went through the door to the parking area. There she walked through area carefully until she saw the two men come out of an elevator and they saw her. She ran and goes into a storage closet. She hoped they didn't saw her go through the storage closet. She then got her cell phone out and pressed a series of buttons on her cell phone. She put it to her ear and listen to the series of beeps go through.

Sao Paulo, Brazil

A man, in plain blue jeans wearing a brown shirt, has a blue bandana wrapped around his forehead, smoking a cigarette, was sitting in a chair with his feet on top of the table. He then heard his black cell phone rang. He walks to it and looks on who's calling him. The number was familiar to him and answered the call.

"Hello?"

"Snake, it's me, Mei Ling. Just listen to me for a few seconds.

Tears began to form in her eyes as she was beginning to feel scared.

"I know I shouldn't have called you but the they…they…"

"They, who?"

"It's the Patriots. I think they found me."

"Mei Ling, calm down. Are you in a safe place?"

"For the moment. I think they're searching the place, now."

"Okay, did you call the police?"

"No, you're the first person I called. Snake, I'm…I'm scared."

"It's going to be alright. Where are you now?"

"I'm in Miami, Florida."

"Okay, call the police and call me back. Okay?"

"Okay."

She hanged up on Snake and pressed the numbers 9, 1, and 1 on her phone. She listened to the series of beeps until someone picked up.

A woman operator answered her,"911, what's the nature of your emergency?"

"My name is Mei Ling and I need the police down here. There's two men here that are after me. I think they're armed."

"Okay ma'am, where are you now? Are you in a safe location? Are the two men still there?"

"I think so. I'm hiding in a storage closet of a parking garage at a hotel called,…Miami Sunshine."

"Just remain calm, ma'am, a police cruiser is on the way now."

"Okay, thank you."

She hanged up and dialed Snake's number again. Snake sat at the table and waited for a reply from Mei Ling. He was tapping his forehead with his fingers and continued to look at the phone. The phone rang and Snake picked it up.

"Snake, I called the police. They're on their way."

"Good, just wait for them."

Then suddenly Mei Ling heard the door opened and the two men saw her. Snake was hearing of what's happening there.

"There she is, grab her!"

"NO! NO! Please, let me go."

"WHO YOU'RE CALLING, BITCH??!!"

"I don't know…"

Snake hears Mei Ling crying and then a slap is heard.

"DON'T LIE TO ME!!"

His partner yells to him, "Forget it, man. Let's go. We got what we came here. LET'S GO!!"

The man picked up the phone and put his mouth to the receiver.

"Who the hell is this?"

Snake gave an angry expression and was thinking of what to say to the son of a bitch who just insulted and kidnapped one of his friends.

"I'm the last person; you're going to be hearing from if anything happens to her."

Snake hanged up on the man angrily; the man looked at the phone number he was calling from. The insult he heard sent a chill up his spine. He knew that the man he was talking to was Solid Snake. He hurried to the black car where his partner had already tied up and gagged Mei Ling and threw her in the trunk of the car. He sat in the passenger seat and his partner started driving out of the garage.

Back in Brazil

Snake's partner, Otacon went in while holding groceries and set them on the table and saw Snake getting his weapons out from under his bed. Otacon saw the expression on Snake's face and it wasn't a happy one.

"Snake, what's wrong?"

Snake looked up at the otaku.

"Otacon, they found her."

"Found who?"

"Mei Ling."

Otacon showed a surprised look at Snake and knew what they need to do.

"You mean the Patriots found her?"

"It seems so."

"What are we going to do?"

"We're going back to the States."

"Back to the States? Are you nuts?! People are still looking for you! It's not going to be a walk in the park."

"That's why, I want you contact our forger here and tell him to get forge some passports ready for us to get to the States. Destination, Miami, Florida. Can you do that?"

"Okay, then. I'll try."

"Good. We need to take only what we need. The rest…dispose of it."

"Why?"

"I don't want to leave a trace behind for the Patriots or any intelligence agencies should they come here."

Snake then drops his cell phone on purpose and stomps on it. Otacon continues to look at his friend. Snake's face was full of determination to rescue Mei Ling no matter who gets in his way.

End of Chapter 2