Chapter 9
The alarm sounded and Shadow's face became puzzled. Another intruder. He picked up his radio and shouted. "What the hell is going on?"
"Sir, we seem to have an intruder in Floor 0, they're calling for backup…"
"Then send it, you fool." Shadow was definitely upset unlike Vamp who was almost smiling.
"Yes sir." The soldiers on the other side of the radio responded.
Shadow looked at Vamp and saw is grin. "It can't be him. That room has no way out." Shadow guessed that Vamp was thinking about the intruder they had just caught.
Vamp turned towards the direction of the white detention room as Shadow shouted at the radio again.
"Have they arrived yet?"
"No sir, they're almost there."
Vamp began to move, he was going to check if Raiden was still in the detention room. He wanted to fight with him again, that had been is crave the moment he saw Raiden. Vamp began walking faster.
Shadow let Vamp go as he was sure Raiden couldn't find a way out of that room. "Sir the backup is on Floor 0, I'll patch you through." Said the voice on the radio. "What's the situation there?"
"Sir my men and I are investigating as we speak."
"Very well, I want you to keep me posted."
"Yes sir, over and….what is tha…ahhhhhh"
Shadow heard a bang and several men screaming. "What the hell is happening there?" The radio remained silent for a second and then, with a very loud sound, static.
"Sir, we've lost contact with them." Said a new voice on the radio.
"Call the Enforcers." Shadow replied, sensing some kind of danger.
"What do you mean, another way out." Snake eyed Naomi and thought she could still be under the influence of drugs. The only visible way out was the elevator and even the Soliton radar showed that.
"I've been trying to open a vent shaft." Said Naomi, still looking a bit off.
"A vent shaft?" Said Snake peeking again over his shoulder to the elevator. It was almost there. "Where is this vent shaft?"
"In the showers, I've been trying to open it up with a fork, but those grenades might do a better job." She eyed the grenades in Snake's hand.
Snake didn't have time to think about it, it was the only chance they had.
The elevator stopped and Snake saw four soldiers and two guards coming out of it. They began speaking to the soldier hiding behind the bench.
Snake looked at the grenades, and then to Naomi, she looked back at him. "Alright, go on ahead I'll meet you there."
Naomi got up, and headed to the women's dormitories at a slow pace. The guards and soldiers were coming in Snake's direction in some kind of organized pattern. Snake reached for the grenades.
Vamp got to the white detention room, opened the door and discovered there was no one there. He grinned for a second and then he began inhaling through his nose as if trying to smell something. He picked up a scent ran out of the room and grinned again.
Meryl was following behind the soldiers and behind her stood the guards. Meryl overheard the soldier with the red square in the balaclava, who had his radio to his mouth.
"Sir my men and I are investigating as we speak."
The radio spat something back but Meryl couldn't hear it.
Then without any warning two round things began rolling trough the ground in front of the soldier's formation.
Meryl reacted fast as she jumped right out of formation. The soldier with the radio only had time to say
"Yes sir, over and….what is tha…" A very bright white light and a loud bang invaded Floor 0. "ahhhhhh"
Meryl went to the right as she had noticed there was second grenade. The guards began screaming because of their eyes and ears.
"My eyes…"
"I can't see…"
Then a big explosion occurred and the bodies of the soldiers were thrown backwards. Meryl couldn't see for a few seconds because of the smoke, but in the corner from were the grenades had come she caught a glimpse of something, a face of a man, a man with a bandana.
It can't be. The next second the man wasn't there and Meryl tried to get up. She wanted to find who that man was, but a hand grabbed her leg.
"Don't, you'll die, call in, say that he is armed." The balaclava with the red square was talking directly to Meryl and she had to obey. She picked up her own radio.
"We need more backup here, he's armed." Meryl said, faking a male voice.
"Tell them that he has explosives, we need at least a dozen men."
"He has explosives, we need a dozen men" As Meryl said this a deafening bang came from the dormitories area.
Snake had no choice. He pulled the pins of a stun grenade and a hand grenade and waited for the soldiers and the guards to come a little bit closer. Then he threw them, Snake closed his eyes and covered his ears, a loud bang and a big flash echoed around the Floor, but Snake knew it wasn't over, even with his hands on his ears he heard the loud hand grenade explosion. He then peeked into the lobby only to see that everyone was down only a soldier that had gone of the formation and was laying on the right seemed to be unharmed. Snake got up fast and went into the women's dormitories. There he saw that at the end of the row of bunk beds were showers. He looked left and saw Naomi looking up to a vent shaft about 40 inches by 25 inches, which was used to send steam out. A corner of the vent was bent probably due to Naomi's work with the fork.
"Is that it?" Snake wondered if he could fit in that place.
"Yes, don't worry its big enough." Naomi guessed his thoughts. She then stepped back.
"You just have to open it up." Naomi said handing Snake a piece of string.
Snake looked at the hand grenade, and got the idea. He attached it to the grenade pin and then put it on top of a faucet near the vent shaft.
"Get back and stay down." Snake waved Naomi back.
Naomi went behind a bunk bed and got down, Snake followed and covered her. This is it. Snake yanked the string.
The explosion blew the wall and revealed that the shaft was big enough. Snake pushed the bunk bed near the vent so that they could use it as leverage. First Snake then Naomi, and they were in. "Where do we go from here?" Snake asked wondering if this had been a good idea.
"I don't know." Naomi replied.
They crouched and moved forward.
Vamp got to the door of Ocelot's office, but he was interrupted before he could enter.
"What are you doing?" Ocelot was behind him.
"It seems we have an intruder." Vamp turned and spoke calmly.
"I believe the intruder is in Floor 0." Ocelot said with a serious tone, but he knew that the intruder wasn't Raiden.
"He escaped the detention room."
Ocelot's face changed. "What! How's that possible." He seemed more alarmed.
"I don't know, but he left a faint smell in this area."
Ocelot walked past Vamp into his office. The computer was on but apart from that there was nothing wrong.
"Maybe I was mistaken." Said Vamp turning and leaving the room.
Ocelot thought that maybe, he didn't have full control of the situation. No it's alright. He comforted himself.
After Meryl broke contact, Raiden got up the chair and left the office. He had to find an elevator. He had to help Meryl find Snake. He walked a bit and guessed that the place was like a maze. After a few minutes Raiden stopped short, in front of him a woman and a black man appeared being guided by a soldier. The man was gigantic. His muscles were big, very big. He was wearing a dark blue suit and it had some similarities to Raiden's skull suit. His face was rough and shaped like a square rock and his eyes were covered by some kind of specs. On the other hand the woman was very feminine, her face was kind. She was oriental and wore some kind of device on her forehead that Raiden couldn't make out. She was also wearing the same kind of suit as the man. As they turned left Raiden lost sight of them. He decided to follow them in the hope that they were going to an elevator. In that second he saw someone running the opposite direction in the corridor next to him. Raiden couldn't believe his eye. It can't be? Vamp?
