"LIQUIDDDDDDD!" The old solider yelled.

"BROTHA!" The, also old and supposed to be dead solider yelled.

"What are you doing here, I KILLED YOU!"

"Actually, Snake, I'm a figment of your imagination. Oh, and I saw you teaching. You're pretty good."

Liquid Ocelot then vanished.

That god dammed medication keeps fucking with me. First I see Otacon's anime characters fucking each other when I went on his computer, now this. Wait, no that actually happened. Fuck.


Snake then heard the sound of his codec ringing in his ear.

"This is Snake. Otacon, what do you want?"

"Snake, how the hell is Liquid still alive?"

"So... he wasn't a figment of my imagination?"

"If so, he was a figment of mine as well. It would make more sense if he was a figment of our imagination, because I'm wondering how he vanished. How did he do it? It couldn't be stealth camo, he didn't give off any heat. And, it couldn't be some form of OctoCamo, because judging by his appearance and the fact that we were staring right at his last known location and there was no outline. It just doesn't add up!"

Snake then heard the sound of the bell.

"I'm not sure, but I'll find out how he did it, and kill him again. Snake out"


"Listen up. You kids need to have combat training, and the principal said we can't use real guns, so I brought in paintball guns and a friend of mine. We will conduct a plan to assault the kids 'studying' in the library and then carry it out. Class, meet Raiden."

Raiden walked in, and the class was wondering why he looked like a fucking robot.

"THIS IS JUST LIKE ONE OF MY JAPANESE ANIMES!" said the socially awkward kid at the back of the class who had eating problems and a speech impediment.

"Here's the plan." Snake briefed the children, alongside a drawing on the chalk board depicting the plan. "I climb through the ceiling, make a hole in the roof, and throw 3 smoke grenades into the library. As soon as the first smoke grenade explodes, half of you goes through the main door, the other half through the door at the side, and Raiden, you break the window at the back and get in through there. This shouldn't raise the insurances prices TOO much, but if it does then Raiden, you cover the costs."

"What?" the cyborg ninja said. "No way I'm paying for this, Snake."

"Remember that agreement you signed? About the phone line?" Snake said, a grin sprouting on his face.

"Yeah?"

"Guess what else was on that agreement?"

"God dammit Snake."


Snake crawled through the ceiling shaft and made a hole in the ceiling, big enough for him to jump down from. He threw the smoke grenades, and then when the first one exploded jumped down in perfect coordination with the students and Raiden.

He tranquilized the librarian as alongside him the kids and Raiden eliminated all of the students.

After all of the students were down, Snake took out a cigarette, and said

"War has changed. It's no longer about nations, ideologies or ethnicity. It's an endless series of paintball battles, fought by kids and students. War. War has changed."