Act 3: Reality
Wayward Son (Part V - Finale)
Thick black clouds started covering the heavens over Iturup Island as Venom Snake and Sayori faced each other on horseback. The phantom of the legendary soldier aimed his M2000-NL rifle at the young girl who pointed her own Grizzly Mk.V handgun right back at him.
There was a silent stalemate that persisted between the two as they sized each other up. Only the crashing of waves against the seaside cliff and the ominous rumbling of thunder broke that silence - until Snake's earpiece started to buzz.
{(140.85) - "Boss? Boss! C̨a̕͘͝n ̶̢͢yo̶u̢͢҉ h͘eàr̵̛ me?"}
Kazuhira Miller's voice was choppy, but Snake still managed to piece his words together.
"Barely, Kaz… but I'm a little busy right now…"
{(140.85) - "I know - but i҉t͠'s̷̨ cle͘a͡r ̢t̛h҉at̀ ̨t͝his̢ gi̸rl's ̸͠p̧r҉ȩ͡s҉́e̛nce ͝i͟s̢ a҉f̵̨͘̕͜f͏e̡̨͞ç̸͝͠ţ͡i̛͟͢͏n̛͏̷g̴͘͟͏ ̵̵͜͢͡o̧͏̷̧u̷͡͏̸r̶͞ ̴̡̢̕͏c̴̢̡̨ò̧̢m̶̧̡̀͞m̷̧͘͡͏s҉. Whatever you do - always keep the m҉͖͎̟͓͕í̵̱̥̺̖̕s͡͏̲͍̪͖̣̹͙͇̞͓̝͖s̸̨̘̤̟̺̗̱͡ì̸̻̰̪̣̲̫͎̟̘̼͉̕͞͞ǫ̷̧̼̞̼͈̥̪̥̗͝ͅn͇̙̪̼͇͘͢͜ in mind.
"What was that…?"
While Snake was trying to figure out the rest of his XO's words, Sayori wore a smug smile and chuckled,
"You must have noticed it by now, Big Boss. The girls and I are affecting your electronic devices, just by being close. Strange - isn't it?"
Snake furrowed his brow and pointed his rifle at Sayori's smiling face,
"There's nothing strange about electronic jamming. That's what Chaff Grenades are for."
Sayori tilted her head, amused by Snake's reply,
"That's true, I guess. But I was talking more about something more fundamental, you know."
"And what would that be?"
Sayori's blue eyes then looked straight into Snake's and calmly spoke,
"Human interaction."
"... human… interaction?"
The rider girl nodded and gestured with her free hand,
"As soon as you saw me, you got on edge - right? The moment we encountered each other, your mind started to see things differently. It was telling you something like 'the situation's changed' or something like that."
She then formed a fist and playfully knocked on the side of her head as she continued,
"Your brain works kinda like a sma- I mean, like an electronic device. Just by meeting me, I disrupted the signals in your head and planted that new reality in your mind. Likewise - meeting you disrupted mine. I'm now a part of your reality - and you're part of mine. Isn't that nice?"
Venom Snake grumbled and demanded,
"What are you getting at?"
Sayori heaved a sigh and then explained,
"The girls of the Literature Club - this 'Writers of the Apocalypse' group that you've been told about… we're not from this world - but we have become a part of it."
"... not from this world?"
"That's right. We're here to bring Amy - the Spider Lady - back to our world."
"So - you're saying you want me to surrender the Spider Lady back to you. Is that it?"
"Yup~!"
"And what about Chico?"
Sayori glanced over at the binded Chico lying unconscious on the forest dirt and added,
"We're taking him too."
"Why would you need him? He's a child!"
Sayori shook her head and faced Snake with a determined expression,
"I can't tell you that."
She then looked at the earpiece Snake was wearing and explained,
"Amy's listening to all this, after all."
{(140.96) - "Huh? She knows I'm on the radio?"}
Sayori sighed again and then laid her free hand over her heart,
"Big Boss. If you cooperate with us and give in to our demands, we won't even have to fight. This 'crossover' can end right here and it will be the end of it…"
Venom Snake blinked, then grimly coaxed,
"And if we don't comply…"
When Sayori heard this, the chipper smile on Sayori's lips became menacing.
"Ahehehe~ well… are you a fan of psychological horror games, Venom Snake?
"... psychological… horror?"
Sayori grinned and then reached under the raincoat she was wearing then brought out what appeared to be a miniature plush toy of a milk cow with horns. She then looked Snake in the eye and tossed the cow plushie at him, crying,
"You're about to become the protagonist in an entirely new game!"
Snake's razor-sharp reflexes slowed down time as he watched the toy sailing through the air towards him. A bolt of lightning snaking over the horizon illuminated the darkening scene in that prolonged moment.
Then, as the toy bathed in the flash of light, it started morbidly transforming into a living, breathing bull that was charging towards Snake and D-Horse at full stride!
The cow's eyes were glowing in an off-putting shade of sky blue - just like the eyes of the Parasite Unit operatives - and were fixated on Venom Snake. Scalding hot steam shot out of the bull's nostrils while its horns were jagged and crooked like long, decaying teeth.
Snake instinctively pointed his rifle away from Sayori then towards the charging bull. He quickly found a bead on the bull's forehead and then pulled the trigger.
The shot landed, just as he expected it would. However, there was no effect.
The bull was still charging towards him.
So, Snake spurred D-Horse to gallop out of the charging bull's warpath. The two of them got out just in the nick of time and time started to flow naturally for Snake again.
Sayori started open firing at Snake with her pistol, forcing Snake to ride D-Horse and take cover deeper in the forest. As he did, the bull snorted hellish hot steam and stood guard by Sayori's side. The creature shook its head wildly in odd, unnatural angles and forced out the tranquilizer dart from his head as if it were a mere mosquito.
The coral-pink haired girl then laughed with amusement as she taunted,
"Why are you running away? Mr. Cow is adorable and harmless!"
Venom Snake watched the whole ordeal from behind cover as beads of sweat started forming on his brow. This was not a battle that he was prepared for.
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Overwhelmed by his disbelief, Snake grumbled to his iDroid,
"Spider Lady! What the hell is going on!?"
{(140.96) - "Now you know why I ran the hell out of my second hideout, Big Boss. If I told you that a plush toy chased me out of there, you wouldn't have believed me."}
"Ergh…"
The Spider Lady was right. Something like that would have made Snake bring Amy to the medical bay for psychoanalysis.
{(140.96) - "Tranquilizer darts aren't going to work on that 'Mr. Cow' thing. You're gonna need to use your assault rifle or anything that packs a bigger punch to hurt it."}
Snake set aside his sniper rifle and then brought out his trusty AM MRS-4 assault rifle instead. Once he did, he heard the rumble of the charging bull growing louder again.
{(140.96) - "Watch out, Big Boss! Get out of the way!"}
At the Spider Lady's call, Snake spurred D-Horse again and urged him away from the tree he was hiding behind. Then, just as the Spider Lady predicted, Mr. Cow smashed into the tree and violently felled it like a bowling pin.
The canopy of the fallen tree barely missed Snake and D-Horse by a hair, but smashing into the tree didn't seem to hurt the bull at all! Mr. Cow kept chasing after the mercenary commander, albeit at a slightly slower pace.
Thus, Snake continued riding D-Horse deeper into the forest while taking aim at Mr. Cow with his assault rifle. He fired in three-shot bursts and focused on the front legs of the charging bull.
The assault rifle rounds grotesquely tore bloody flesh off of the charging bull and eventually started to slow the creature down. Whenever Snake got close to tearing off one of the bull's legs, however, Sayori would come rushing by and shoot at Snake.
As soon as Sayori emptied her magazine, she would retreat to reload. Those interceptions, however gave Mr. Cow's mangled legs enough time to fully heal on their own and Snake was back to square one.
It was at that time that Ocelot gave a suggestion,
{(141.73) - "Seems like that bull's gonna keep healing itself, Boss. It might be a case of symbiotic parasites that accelerate that animal's healing properties - at least that's what I understood from what Code Talker was telling me just now."}
Snake watched the bull's bleeding yet reformed legs in the corner of his eye and grumbled,
"Parasites, huh…?"
{(141.73) - "Yeah - anyways - if there was a way for you to purge or disable those parasites, it might give you the upper hand. Maybe a few grenades will do the trick. Cleanse them with flame, if you will."}
"Sounds like a plan."
{(141.73) - "And do something about this 'Sunshine' girl who's intercepting you. Her plush toy is powerful, but something tells me that she herself isn't that strong."}
{(140.96) - "I agree with Mr. Ocelot, Big Boss. Use your assault rifle to overwhelm her. That pistol she's wielding is high-powered, but low capacity. A few bursts from the AM MRS-4 should do - make sure she dies this time!"}
When Amy said this, Snake cut her off,
"I'm not trying to kill her, Spider Lady. I'm going to knock her out - just like Chico. And what did you mean 'this time'?"
Before Amy could respond, Mr. Cow picked up the pace and closed the gap with Big Boss and D-Horse. This was their chance!
Snake brought out a hand grenade from his pack, pulled off the pin and then dropped it beside him as D-Horse ran.
Mr. Cow, in its haste, dashed over the live grenade and was caught in the blast of flame and shrapnel. The creature shrieked in pain and fell down to the forest dirt with a thud as its hind legs were incinerated and maimed by the blast.
Then, a second grenade settled right beside the beast's hellish head.
The bull disappeared behind the second blast and Snake unloaded a full magazine of assault rifle rounds at it.
Once the smoke cleared, Mr. Cow laid butchered on the ground in a gruesome mess of flesh, blood and bone. Snake, however, didn't have time to celebrate for long.
An audible, frustrated grunt reached Snake's ear from a distance. Moments later, the sounds of multiple ropes scraping against tree bark echoed in the forest as if a mechanism was set in motion.
Then, in the blink of an eye, a series of ropes whipped from out of nowhere and snagged Venom Snake off of D-Horse. The assault rifle he was holding slipped off of his hands and the ropes tightened around Snake's neck!
By the time the ropes were stretched to their limits, Snake was hanging from a tree on a rope noose two feet off the ground. D-Horse panicked and whinnied in fear, frightened by the sight of his master flailing helplessly about above him.
Snake managed to get his mechanical hand in between the rope and his neck in the nick of time, but the noose was tightening with every second.
As he struggled with the tightening noose, Sayori rode her horse to the spot below the tree that Snake was hanging from. She observed the noose - her handiwork - and chuckled,
"You're gonna need to free yourself from that noose, Big Boss - unless you want to gently open the door to heaven."
Snake grunted and tried to retort, but the tight noose kept him from speaking anything coherently. Thus, Sayori continued,
"You already know why we're here and what we want. Bring the Spider Lady to us and leave Iturup Island for good. Leave the boy with us too. This is not a war that you want to be involved in. I won't be so merciful next time."
She then glanced at the grotesque bull's smoldering remains and added,
"Mr. Cow was my favorite plushie, after all, you big meanie. The next time I see you - I'm going to make you pay. But first..."
Sayori reached into her raincoat again and brought out a cassette tape in a plastic case. She tossed it at the shadow that Venom Snake cast from the tree and said,
"A gift from me - and a message for the Spider Lady. Make sure that traitor hears this, okay?"
Lightning flashed again as Sayori said this and rain started to fall from the dark skies. Sayori put on the hood of her raincoat and then rode her horse away from the scene, leaving Snake to his own devices.
[GAMEPLAY MECHANICS] Torture Scenes
During the Iturup Island deployment, Venom Snake can be either the tortured or the torturer. If Snake is being subject to torture, it is important to respond to the prompts in a timely manner - otherwise, Snake will die.
As the torturer, the objective of torture isn't to kill the target - but to get information from them. Use the ACTION button to select your desired method and then respond to the prompts to execute them. Not every torture will yield useful information and the torture will fail if the subject dies.
Venom Snake hung from the three as he tried to free himself from Sayori's tightening noose. He managed to get his mechanical hand in between his neck and the rope, but it was starting to get hard to breathe.
While he struggled with the rope, Snake's earpiece buzzed,
{(141.73) - "Boss! I know it's hard, but I'm gonna need you to calm down. The more nervous you are, the harder this noose is going to bear down on your neck. Use the ACTION button and hold it to steady your heartbeat. Right now, you're undergoing rope torture - and I'm going to help you get out of there in one piece. Tortures are my specialty, after all."}
{(140.85) - "Just get on with it, Ocelot. Boss is hanging by a thread here!"
Snake did as he was told and focused himself, steadying his heartbeat. Once Snake's pulse settled down, Ocelot continued his instruction.
{(141.73) - "I know. Have you calmed down, Boss? Good. Now, hold down the ACTION button to use your mechanical hand to loosen the noose. While you're doing that, hit the 'X' button to draw your knife and cut the rope above you."}
The hanging phantom followed the instructions again and soon managed to cut the rope. He fell down and landed on his back with a dull thud.
For the first time in what felt like an eternity, Venom Snake finally managed to breathe easily again. As he was lying on the ground, he cut off the rest of the rope that bound his neck and broke free from the noose.
Strong rain was already starting to fall down from the dark sky and washed the sweat and soot off of Venom Snake's face. After a few moments, his earpiece buzzed again,
{(140.85) - "Boss - Chico's out of the Intel Team's tracking range. The 'Sunshine' girl is gone too. You're going to have to mark them again next time."}
"... I know…"
{(140.85) - "Come back to the FOB for now, Boss. Get your equipment sorted out and take a short break. These things happen to the best of us."}
"... it's back… to the drawing board… huh?"
{(141.73) - "That's right. We're going to have to ask the Spider Lady a few more questions too. You don't mind, do you, Ms. Amy?"}
{(140.96) - "Y-yeah… I guess I do have a few things to explain when you get back. But here's my promise to you, Big Boss. I am real - those girls are not. They are the ones who shouldn't be in this world - and I will do everything I can to help you defeat them."}
Snake had a number of thoughts in his mind, but he kept them to himself for the time being. He just lied there on the ground and spoke to his iDroid,
"Amy - save my data, would you? And Kaz - get Pequod to come pick me up."
{(140.85/140.96) - "Roger that."}
Once Snake chose the nearest landing zone for Pequod, he set aside his iDroid and heaved a sigh of relief. He let the pitter patter of rain flood out the rest of the sounds of the remote Russian island.
Under that veil of water, his mind wandered to Quiet. It made him wonder where his would-be-assassin turned ally was and what she was doing now.
Then, after a short while, he picked himself up from the ground and turned to the cassette tape that the Sunshine girl left behind.
{Cassette Tape Acquired: "Walking On Sunshine" - Katrina and the Waves (1983)[Side A]}
{Cassette Tape Acquired: "A Message To The Spider Lady" [Side B]}
To Be Continued
SCORE
Episode 53: Wayward Son
PLAY RATING
Total Play Time : Twelve Hours (156 hours left for campaign)
Time : Seven Hours
Enemy Combat Alerts : 0
Hits Taken : 3
Tactical Takedowns : 0
Headshots : 13
Accuracy : 86.3% (76/88)
Neutralizations : 13
Effective Interrogations : 0
Prisoners Rescued : 0
[PERFECT STEALTH, NO KILLS]
Rank: A
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{(140.85) - " It's not quite the result we were looking for, but we still managed to get most of the intel. Good job, Boss! "}
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Bond Level:
D-Horse: 100%
Spider Lady: 40%
Codename: SUNSHINE
Author's Notes: Ahhh~! My dear Sayori really gave you a lot of trouble, huh. It's not a real Metal Gear game if it doesn't have a torture scene after all~! Good job on keeping your neck, hehe. Don't brag about it to Natsuki, though ahahaha~
Also, I see you defeated Mr. Cow. That must have been why Sayori came home crying to me after her sortie. That was her favorite plushie, you know. It was kind of cute that she didn't want me to worry about Mr. Cow - but she could have at least told me about it, you know?
But yes, we got the boy back to our base. We didn't hurt him, don't worry… though he already was under a lot of pain. Not just physically…
Hmm… never mind. I won't bore you with our 'secrets'. You still have to tell me what happens next after all~