Intrusion (Part 1)
"The new platform looks dandy and nice." a motherbase patrol guard was scanning the horizon as usual.
"I have to say, this ain't another SSDD kind of day, the new platform looks brilliant and the sun setting down just look very different than usual. I guess this is a special night as the silent starry sun descended to illuminate us a hopefulnight." replied the other patrol guard who accompanied him.
"What are you man? A poetry boy? We're in the tough league now and I wanted to see you to use those "poetry" stuff to talk your way out if we got captured by somebody." sarcasm taken over the first patrolman.
"Oh come on, a little literature art won't hurt the base. In fact, I think it's something the people in the base need because stress and fatigued have made its way to everyone's inner peace and I don't like it when I wanted to say hello from the guys in the field and they just replied, "Shut the fuck up!". So yeah, I think I'm gonna open a new art workshop." The second patrolman replied the sarcasm with his hopeful ideas.
"Wow there cowboy! How do you gonna do that?" The first patrolman challenged the second patrolman for the sake of curiosity.
"Easy, I'm just gonna put ahead my proposal to Master Miller and see how things work out. I hope he'll say yes to the plan and I would like the base be prepared with my ART!" answered the second patrolman in excitement.
"What ?" The first patrolman was a bit shocked and confused by the sudden mood change.
"This ain't my final form you illiterate peasant!" Shouted the second patrolman.
"Yup! You're crazy." replied the first patrolman calmly and back staring at the horizon.
Both men kept staring the sunset until the sun left its tip for the glaring end and a warm opening for the moonless night. However, such ending for the long day was not for them to witness as the main alarm in the main platform rang, prompting both men to check the commotion in the main platform. They ran all the way from the fourth platform, just in time for a helicopter landed hardly in the helipad. The tires in the copter were flat and the rotor was blowing out black exhaust which choke some of the people in the helipad with its dense Carbon Monoxide concentration. The helicopter was disabled eventually with the rotor stop spinning and the dripping avgas stopped.
The first person that went out from the heli was Pequod whom body was badly wounded with a few gunshots even though most are only flesh wounds. That being said however, his left arm received a critical hit on the wrist and a penetrated round from the floor hit his right kneecap, putting him in a profuse bleeding from the moment he got shot. The man fell on the helipad right in front of his comrade with blood gushing out and flooding the helipad. A doctor and a few men with a moveable bed came for the rescue. The rest of the patrolman moved closer to the heli while the doctors brought Pequod away to the surgery room. As the doctors ringing Pequod drove away, the frail sliding door fell to the ground and the men raised their weapons to the door. Everyone was on high alert and ready to kill anything coming outside the heli.
"Wait! Put your guns down! Don't shoot!" a womanly voiced shouted from the inside. The men could easily identify the identity behind the womanly voice. The men quickly lowered their weapon moving back to have some space for the elite soldier.
Slowly, the women slid down from the heli, all tight and shined the remnants of the sunlight through her white sneaking suit even though a few parts of the outfit were tainted by sands and dirts. The zipper for her outfit on her chest was broken which made her bra and all the way down to her lower stomach visible for the eyes can see. Her glistening stare to the men strike fear to the newcomers and some of the old veterans who never received promotion from guarding the brig. All the men saluted at her, shouted, "Welcome home boss!".
She replied with a sigh and taking a few breaths before continued to say, "Okay boys. Okay. Now help me out with this bitch!" replied the women and pulled out her extracted target with force and some pulling. Her target however made her stand and plunged in for an attack. The women tackled her before she could even touch her and dropped her to the ground where she proceeded to broke her left arm and tried to incapacitate the target to submission. But, she kept resisting and tried to grab the knife in the women's right cheek pocket in which she abled to grab and stab the women on her right thigh. The women however replied with a hiss and a stronger push on her chest with the help from some of the men which took away the knife. To disarmed the target completely, she broke her right wrist to keep her away from any of their gear. A loud painful writhed was heard throughout the platform and drawed an unwanted attention from their boss.
"Sir!" shouted the rest of the patrolmen who only standing still when the commotion happened when their boss arrived at the scene.
"What is this!" shouted Ocelot when he found the source of the commotion. The women who responsible for such noticed the arrival of her boss. She put one of the men to hold the target in her place as she stand on her feet and proceeded to stand before him.
"Sir! Flaming Buffalo reporting!" replied the women.
"Right….. Proceed." Ocelot wanted an answer.
"I got her sir. I brought you the women who's been hacking into our R&D system to steal our technology, blueprints, and research. Her name is Shadow Hat. I don't know for sure to whom she's working to but considering the size of the men guarding her and the facilities she resided in Christmas Island, I believe we have other competitors or countries that wanted to steal from us." Flaming Buffalo replied with pride and success on her tone, disregarding her badly injured right thigh and bruises all her her body.
"Alright. We'll take over from here. You should check in to the medbay and get yourself patch up. We're also gonna brought her there before we lock her up in the cell." said Ocelet with a pallamano to proceed.
"Roger sir!" Flaming Buffalo replied and walked away from the scene.
"Alright boys! Let's get her to the medical platform! And I need a doctor!" Shouted Ocelot to the rest of the patrolman who's been holding the target.
The men stood up and held her on her legs and arms and lift her up to the bed which was brought by another doctor who came. She was tied up tightly to the bed with ropes and belts around the bed to prevent her escape and handcuffed her left hand as a precautionary step.
Meanwhile, the new command platform was empty after a day of its construction. However, a few laughs and a strong tobacco scent filled the void in the platform. Two men were wasting and filling their time with a friendly chat with cuban cigars as their companion. Both were standing on the edge, watching the setting sun on the horizon. The harsh ocean breeze set the ambiance in a calm comfy state which was something considered impossible for both to get in their time to fulfill their purpose. They talked and joked for a long two hours and just as the sun leaving only it's head for the world to see im its exit from the horizon, both were silent,
"I got to tell you. This is the best thing that happened after MSF. Miller has done a great job building back the dream we had together." said Big Boss after a long sighed of relief after smoking the cigar. He wanted to break silence between them.
"Yeah… I know….. Too bad you don't involve him in our plan. By the way, why?" asked Venom.
"What do you mean why?" Big Boss asked to straighten the question
"Why did you shove Miller away? All the things both of you had done and that's all huh?"
"Ahab, you won't understand."
"Alright Ishmael… I'm not gonna push you further…."
Both men went in an utter long silence. The sun descended from the horizon while the moon took over its post. Both men were silent and staring down at the night sky, all flooded with stars.
"I push….. I push him out because I know that in the end, I'll be the one that pull the trigger to kill him. Our view about this, the outer heaven, are different and I owed the man more than I can chew even though I feel he's only using me for his own sake and dream. He used me as a leverage against the whole world and I used him as my personal leap to show the world what we soldiers can do without any politics. To let the world be… I have to make sure people like us, soldiers, to have a continuous need throughout time and I will never let those patriots to take me out, not when I'm still breathing."
"I see…. I understand but that raised my concern."
"What concern?"
"What do you see in me Ishmael? Am I just a leverage to cover you up or your actual friend that help you out, saving you from people that want you dead? Will I be a liability when your not plan succeed" Venom concerned with such.
"No, you'll be my second in my command. You've always been the best men I've ever have and you never let me down no matter what happened. I'm sorry that you need to be the one that carry on my revenge to Skull Face and you deserved more than his." Big Boss reassured.
"Don't worry about it, the bastard had it coming anyway."
"Huh….. right….." Big Boss sighed.
"And so to speak, I have to go." Big Boss continued.
"Really? You're leaving so soon?" Venom Snake asked.
"Yeah, got something else to do. It concerns the planning of our future."
"I see. Has it something to do with that rumor?"
"What rumor?"
"A new bipedal weapon somewhere in the Kamchatka Peninsula. Damn Russian is creating a plan to invade USA before their economy rotting them out."
"Yeah. Just the usual infiltration mission, going in and out without anyone noticing."
"Well then, the best of luck for you then Ishmael, may the intrusion gave us more leverage against the world."
"Right…. I'll see you around."
Big Boss left the scene to the dark hallway where he vanished with the shadows. Venom gazed upon his disappearance while smoking what's left of his Cuban cigar. He watched as the moon rose above the horizon, reflecting the bright white ray to the night sky. A steady and calm night awaits the motherbase like any other night…. Or is it?
Venom decided to took a stroll on the platform for a personal check to the security team and stretching his legs before going to a hot shower and bed. Along the way, he met a few of the security forces whose hands can't stop saluting towards him due to the utter respect for his legendary act and due to the base's hierarchy which glorified Venom as a hero. Venom, as usual, ignored them and continued strolling the upper platform.
As he walked passing the loading bay, he saw a few wooden crates which interested him. Curiosity led him to a crowbar lend on the crates and using it to barged open one of the crates. A panel broke down and showed him stacks of Cuban cigars, waiting to be smoked by the soldiers in the motherbase, mostly him. He took one of the cigar and wandered his eyes upon it.
"Huh… Mexican made…." said Venom to himself after reading the import stamp on the cigar.
After a while, he remembered the moment where he stood and took a cuban cigar. It was his birthday three years ago, which the whole motherbase celebrated in a raving party throughout the day. Fireworks, cake, and happy birthday song filled the whole base on that day. Venom was delighted when he received his first ravishing vanilla cake from the men and it tasted sweet which he adored. He expressed the gratitude of the cake with a friendly smile to the chief and a word "thanks" while awarding him a Cuban cigar. The day was filled with fireworks and the men relaxing throughout the day, not doing any mission nor being deployed as mercenaries.
However, as the night came to welcomed his birthday, Venom was stunned by Quiet's gratitude to his forgiveness. It happened as he walked in the same spot, minding his own in the middle of the night while most of the men were exhausted after the daylight rave. He passed a stack of wooden crates when suddenly he noticed a sniper from above the watching tower. The sniper shot and he ducked while the repeating shot was appeared to be blind shots in random pointed to the wooden crates. After the sniper finished, Venom got up and looked upon his attacker. A closer look showed it was Quiet who nodded at him before leaving the premises, jumping away from the tower and made her way back to her cell. Venom then turned his back to look what she had done for him. He saw the crates was filled with Cuban cigars in which he took one through the hole. He then stood back and saw that her shot wasn't random, it was a birthday card in her own version which Venom deeply remembered. The man finished eminiscing his past and somewhat urged to looked at the same spot where she gave her gratitude to him. As he gazed upon the watch tower, he remembered her spot and somehow feeling empty with the knowledge of her disappearance on her exit from Diamond Dogs. He then gazed towards the cloudless night where he noticed glimpses of well synchronized strobes above. The strobes went closer towards the motherbase and appeared to descending down straight to the motherbase. Suddenly the strobes disappeared when it was about to pass the motherbase. However, Snake could clearly here a dimmed rotating engine noise above him. Quickly, his alert went high and he ran towards the control room, knowing an imminent attack was about to happened.
Meanwhile in the control room, Ocelot was watching the platforms as the control room has a 360 degrees field of view. The clock on the wall showed it was 19.43. He scanned the horizon for any intrusion in the airspace or the base's border with the help of the few security forces which scanning the radars to keep the airspace clean and any unusual movement which could trigger the buoys installed on the sea border. It was going as usual like any other night.
"How was it people?" Ocelot checking in his men.
"Airspace secured sir. All aircrafts in the area are going above thirty thousand feet and nothing seemed about to pass us close in an attack maneuver." replied the soldier which watching the radar.
"Nothing in the sea sir. No one passing out border today sir." replied the soldier stationed on the buoys.
"Alright. Keep your eyes peeled, shift change at 2400 hours." said Ocelot to the men.
"Yes sir!" they replied firmly.
Everything was quiet and silent as usual afterwards.
Suddenly, the door slid open in which the Venom entered the room. The soldiers noticed his arrival, went up from their seats, and welcomed him to room.
"Easy soldiers, return to your post." said Ocelot.
"What are you doing here Snake? You should go and get some rest." Ocelot continued with question concerning Venom's sudden arrival.
"Wait….." said Venom under his breathe as he gasped for air after running for ten minutes to the control room.
"Take your time Snake." said Ocelot.
Venom took a few sighed and stand up to his feet and said, "We're under attack…. from the air….." and the men stationed there heard him with Ocelot.
"Whoa there Snake, are you sure we're under attack? Radar showed nothing." Ocelot continued.
"Yes boss, nothing comes up in the radar boss!" replied the men stasioned the radar to backed Ocelot's facts.
"I told you, a plane is flying close above us and it's about to attack us!" Venom stand with his believe of an attack to the motherbase.
"Alright. If what you said is true, the radar should have detected an airplane flying close the motherbase and so far, there's nothing." Ocelot replied.
"Really? The radar detected nothing?" Venom wanted reassurance.
"So far, yes." Ocelot replied shortly.
"Look, maybe it's just in your head. You've been through a lot this week and it's getting in to you. Beside, you're getting to old for this shit." Ocelot wanted to calm Snake.
"Huh… Maybe you're right….." Venom took a deep breathe and rested his mind.
"Nice. Anyway, you should go back to your room and let us handle this. Get yourself an ice hot shower and a good night sleep okay?" said Ocelot.
"That's what I'm up to before the attack." Venom appeared to stand firmly on his idea of an attack in the base.
"Look….. so far, the radar is clean and no one is attacking us right now." Ocelot tried his best to stand with the facts he had.
And just after he said it, Venom saw the medical platform had a power loss to all of its platform and decks. It didn't take long for the rest of the men noticed it along with Ocelot.
Venom gazed towards Ocelot and said, "We're under attack…" firmly.
Quickly, Ocelot reached for the mic for the PA for the whole platform where he shouted, "All fireteam, this is CP! We're under attack! Divert all available assets to the medical platform! Over and out!".
"Ocelot, I need you to stay here and inform me anything about the attack. I'm gonna go in there and get that bastard." said Venom as he reloaded his rifle and handgun.
The men set out to the medical platform to stop the attack before the intruder did any more damage.
That's the end for the first part of the intrusion. I'm open to suggestion about the story and you can put it down in the review on how should I proceed to make the story and it's contents better than before. Thank you for reading this far.