Taisuke opens the shaft and drops his shotgun on the ground before landing on the floor. The walks look the same except for the NERV symbol that looks like a maple leaf a little. He looks upfront then back and checks his radar on his Idroid to see no enemy activity so he goes to the back to see anything he can find cause of his survival instincts. The place is eerily clean for some reason which creeps him out.
"Jeez, the janitors here must be professionals." Taisuke muttered sarcastically while walking through the halls. His footsteps echo through the hall, as if its sound proof. He finds the armory nearby which is covered by a fence causing him to put a suppressor on his shotgun then shoots off the lock causing it to open the place. There's a riot shield and a wrist ammo bandolier in it with extra shotgun rounds and also a semtex grenade. Taisuke rolls down his sleeve and attaches the shotgun bandolier for it to tightly attach thus extending his clip to fifty four rounds and picks up the riot shield. His codec goes off and he picks it up to reveal Catherine again.
"I see you've picked up a riot shield. Those things can be useful when you encounter heavy fire, also it fits you're up close and personal tactic too." Catherine observed as Taisuke nodded. He hears singing in the distance causing him to turn it off then aim his shotgun at the sound then walks towards it. The voice is male, soft and almost hypnotizing. After walking for about a few seconds, he finds the source: Its an albino boy wearing a standard school boy shirt. He doesn't seem to notice him.
"Whispers in the air, tell the tale of the brothers gone..." He sang causing Taisuke to slowly walk towards him while aiming his shotgun at him. Taisuke pulls out his knife also.
"Desolation, devastation-"
"Drop it!" Taisuke yelled as he turns around to him. This guy, he feels weird to him and its almost as if he isn't human at all but something else. Also that smile makes Taisuke want to unload a cap on his face. This guy is weird, period.
"Another lilin?" He replied. Taisuke squints his eyes in suspicion but he doesn't care, this guy is a weirdo and possibly aligned with NERV and can get him in trouble. Taisuke gulps his throat.
"Spit it out." Taisuke ordered as the boy smiled.
"You're here for Shinji?" The boy asks him causing Taisuke aim his gun tightly. The very thought of Shinji palling with thus guy disgusted him, he sounds like a rapist for some reason.
"Yes, where is he!?" The young Shiknami roared.
"I do not know but its my destiny to meet him."
"Destiny? You sound like a creep saying that." Taisuke replied knowing that this is getting uncomfortable right now and also creepy too causing him to tightly grip the weapon on his hand. He chuckles softly.
"Typical Lilin, ignorant to the end. I can also see that you're not NERV." He noticed causing Taisuke to fire his shotgun quickly but an AT field blocks the shot and pushes Taisuke into the wall. The boy walks towards Taisuke but he whips out a handgun and aims it at him.
"What...what are you?" Taisuke asks while gripping the trigger.
"I am an angel, the first one of course. They call me Tabris but my Lilin name is Kaworu." He fires at him again.
"I'm used to getting shot at...you have Shikinami's eyes." Kaworu observed while Taisuke continues shooting at him but reloads again and aims the gun point blank at his face.
"I'm her younger brother, equally as deadly as her! And skilled!" Taisuke taunted knowing anyone related to would strike fear into the hearts of many. Kaworu chuckles softly.
"I must be off then, Shikinami-kun. We'll meet again." Kaworu leaves as Taisuke knows he doesn't look like to be the type to backstab him. Taisuke then leaves knowing to head to the rendezvous point.
Asuka opens the door to reveal a balcony overlooking NERV's vehicles and other knick knacks of NERV, they don't seem to be well equipped anymore from what she can tell. She heads downstairs There are two soldiers near an APC nearby causing her to switch to her WU pistol and hears a soldier humming Komm Tusser Todd. The second soldier leaves while the first does the same thing causing her to enter the elevator nearby and press the button thus causing the elevator to go down. She activates her codec next.
"Taisuke, Boss, did you make it out?" Asuka asks them while leaning against the wall.
Big Boss opens the door to reveal the pretty much ruined geo-front in the distance. Looks like she's in the forest part right now as she can tell, this place looks like it got hit with a nuke or something. Her codec goes off causing her to holster her assault rifle.
"Yes, I'm in the forest part of the geo-front. Looks like what I expected it to be." Big Boss looks around and walks in the woods...little does she know someone is following her.
"It looks like I'm going down to what's left of the old holding pens." Asuka replied on the codec. Taisuke explained that he's somewhere in the halls which are eerily clean. She can't tell what this place is at all, large rectangular texts with red colors on them? A tree that looks like a heart? A piano? Did Gendo turn into a hipster artist? This place is unsettling but regardless, Asuka has to move on. Two NERV soldiers get out of a door nearby causing Asuka to make a dash to cover nearby. They talk about how they want to see there loved ones again in instrumentality. The only reason why they work for NERV, they have nothing left to go back to at all.
Asuka waits for them to pass and they do causing Asuka to get out of cover and heads her way to the rendezvous point of the area. NERV pretty much is in disarray with the king of the Lilin leading the charge. The next area appears to be an old looking room from what used to be the command center. In front of Asuka is the head of Lilith with failures of infinity reaching out to her.
Its smile stares into her soul as Asuka aims her assault rifle at it as if its going to move and attack her in the process. Blood seeping from its eyes, greyish white and resembles Rei. It sends chills down Asuka's spine just by looking at it. She turns away from the sight and heads downstairs to keep looking for whatever is in this Lovecraftian mess of a base. How do soldiers even get used to this? She hears laughter in the distance causing her to tighten the grip of her gun.
Big Boss hides amongst the bushes of the woods outside of the geo-front while moving slowly, patrols having been passing by lately for some reason. Probably cause of her and the fact she almost decimated most of the outposts in the area. Too bad they're incompetent as hell. The patrols pass by her causing her to rise from her cover and look around right before moving forward.
The trees above her rustle causing her to look up to see something moving amongst them causing her to squint her eyes and teleport up there to overlook the geo-front. She feels a little weak after that teleportation, her powers aren't that strong anymore and each time she teleports-it'll only be for a short distant and if she cloaks, it wouldn't last as long as before. She's a relic from the past now and she can't keep up for this long or else. There's a reason why she no longer calls herself Quiet or Silent Snake.
"You..." A voice muttered causing her to leap tree top to tree top to spot the voice saying that and aims her assault rifle while landing on another tree branch then lands on the ground. She readies her assault rifle again.
Taisuke stops at an elevator which goes down somewhere, that somewhere doesn't feel right but it does lead to the rendezvous point of the geo-front and the place where Shinji is held. That and the area near the elevator is filled with laser trap devices. The elevator goes down...to reveal a massive space with what appears to be cells among them. He activates his codec.
"Asuka, I've entered in what appears to be a prison." Taisuke said through the device. The elevator goes down as the door opens causing him to aim his shotgun at anything that'll come for him. He walks towards the third level cells via stairs and looks at them to see teenagers...no, pilots like him. His eyes widen at the sight. Taisuke hears a voice via radio tower and spots a cell with a pilot wearing a metal mask over her face connected to something on the wall. Taisuke attaches a silencer on his shotgun and shoots the lock off thus opening the door. He walks over to the chain connected to the wall and shoots it off thus causing her to rise up and forcibly rip open the mask. Sound is coming from the mask, its a soothing voice telling her to imagine a snowy forest. The girl in front of Taisuke has black hair with red highlights also wearing a blue plugsuit. She leans on him as Taisuke catches her then looks up...
"Emily?" He gasped. Emily grins then starts to laugh and gets off of him.
"Here I was ready for my eternal sleep and then this...this crazy NERV jammy killing bastard comes out of nowhere and saves me. Taisuke Langley Shikinami, what have you been up to Taisuke?" Emily happily observed as Taisuke smiled then shakes his head.
"Shooting, stabbing, anything that's NERV." Taisuke replied before handing her his shorty 12 gauge and she takes it right before taking cover behind a wall and checks her surroundings.
"So WILLE send ya?" Emily asks.
"I don't think there IS a WILLE anymore." She turns to him in fear with her eyes widen.
"What do you mean by there's no-" A ray of bullets fire through the opening of the cell causing the two to take cover.
Asuka walks downstairs towards the bridge connecting to the other parts of the geo-front from the command center. She hears something walking towards her from the door nearby causing her to aim her gun. Coming out of it...is Shinji. He's wounded but he's still walking. She gasps at the sight and runs towards him while activating her codec but hears nothing. Asuka hugs Shinji tightly...he's laughing.
"Shinji...?" Something grabs Asuka but she gets loose to reveal Shinji's face vanishing to reveal a gray suit and what appears to be tentacles on its head controlled by a headgear. Its a woman. The woman chuckles with a demonic echo following it and rises in front of her, her chuckles become laughter.
"Laugh with me!" She roared causing Asuka to aim her assault rifle at her while firing but her tentacles block the shoots and lunges towards her causing Asuka to quickly step back.
"What are you!?" Asuka yelled while she fired her assault rifle as Laughing Octopus cloaks herself with Asuka looking around before readying her gun. A gust of air appears on the ground and whoosh sound is heard.
"Dammit, she's cloaked..." The German muttered.
Big Boss makes her way into an opening part of the forest and rests against a tree...only for a knife to try and hit her in the arm but she catches it then looks straight into the knife and notices another one coming for her causing her to fire her pistol at it. She looks around the trees before dodging more knives getting thrown at her and rolls to dodge another one. She pulls out her Mk22 hush puppy pistol and aims it at whoever threw it at her.
"You are immortal?" A voice said causing Big Boss to turn around to see a vampire-looking man in front of her. She knows who he is: Vamp. Big Boss looked at Vamp's files, nanomachine treatment and is known to suck the blood of his enemies. The reason why he's called Vamp is because not of his blood sucking abilities, its cause he's bisexual. Not only that, she's met him before.
"No, I don't fear death. Also didn't I kill you back at Sokrovenno?" Big Boss asks him.
"You only left me with what's left of an arm and legs." Vamp replied as Big Boss tightens the grip on her gun knowing an assault rifle would slow her down. She grits her teeth as NERV managed to recover Vamp.
"Then how did you get them back?"
"LCL manipulation, they grew my arm and legs...now, Big Boss. It is the hour of our rematch! Come Boss, let us fight in the shadows!" Vamp jumps back and disappears into the trees. Big Boss slowly walks towards the rendezvous point and listens carefully to the trees around her...she hears a quick whizz sound heading towards her causing her to catch the knife but another one is thrown at her and hits her in the shoulder. She looks around her then closes her eyes while humming her typical song, she's trying to sense him now. Ever since her parasite mutated and extended her life span while defecting her old powers, she gained new ones like eco-location which means any noise a hidden enemy can make, she can catch them. The sound wave spreads across the location...she spots Vamp about to close in on her.
Big Boss grabs the knife from her shoulder and throws it at the incoming Vamp which damages him in the arm. Vamp dashes towards Big Boss with his knife ready and raises it in a stabbing position but she blocks the strike with her wrist then uppercuts him and throws him on the ground. Big Boss fires her pistol at him multiple times before he throws a flashbang on the ground thus blinding her. She continues walking slowly knowing that in order to fight Vamp, she needs to have patience right now. Her powers will come at a cost if she uses them while echo location will take too much time even though its a second but when it comes fighting Vamp, a second will be the equivalent to an hour. Something is heard behind her but she continues walking to let his guard down, she hears another whizzing sound causing her to turn to see a knife heading towards her but she shoots it down while Vamp comes from behind her as he throws a row of knives at her but she shoots all four of them before Vamp pulls out his knives at her but Big Boss blocks both of them with her knife and pistol. She breaks the lock between them thus causing Vamp to gently fall back but she shoots him numerous times in the chest and damages him even more causing him to throw a flash bang on the ground then vanish.
She notices Vamp is more of an ambush fighter now, not like the reports say from before nor he fought like he did too. Big Boss sees an advantage-the trees. She switches to her assault rifle and fires at them thus destroying any chance of cover. Big Boss switches back to her hush puppy then continues to slowly move to the-
Vamp slashes her in the back causing her to yell in pain but she regains her concentration and throws a swipe at him but he backs away to dodge the knife as Big Boss then switches to a kick from her left leg then her right then catches the knife she was holding in midair to throw another swing at him but Vamp blocks it then slides back. He licks his knife in excitement as Big Boss is disgusted. Big Boss dashes towards him and swings her knife straight into his face as Vamp grins and grabs her hand with the knife pointing at him. Vamp licks his tongue at Big Boss but she headbutts him straight into the face causing him to throw his knife in anger at her but she teleports behind him and throws him on the ground. He gets up and pulls out his knife again and runs towards her while drawing his knife but she catches his hand where the knife is and slams him again.
"So, Quiet has returned-" Big Boss teleports behind him and slashes his left arm then to his front where she stabs him twenty five times to the chest before teleporting once again but this time on top of him and stabs him in the head. Vamp falls on his knees and laughs.
"I see now...I guess I should've known when to give up..." Vamp laughed and shakes his head.
"Time has...caught up to us all, we just kept moving and denying that we should've died years ago but we had the will to come back from horrors beyond our imagination...its ironic isn't it? They always say the old generation is better than the new one but that's just a belief of nostalgia, we should've moved on and not squandered our years...and act like its the same thing." He coughs as Big Boss looks at him. He's right, she should've moved on but she doesn't know when to stop at the same time nor doesn't know when its her time. Big Boss simply removes the knife from his head and he falls on the ground, dead.
Asuka backs away slowly and looks around the command center for Laughing Octopus, maybe the sound of laughing can help her locate the psycho somewhere. She hears something reaching out for her...and fires to reveal a tentacle which fires at her in return causing her to take cover and fires at it while it slithers back to where it was causing her to crouch and follow it. Its on the command deck...
There's nothing-wait, she spots a lump underneath the computers causing her to fire her weapon at Octopus causing her to rise up and pull out a P90 submachine gun then fires at her but Asuka avoids the shot and hits the woman.
"What a fucking riot!" Laughing Octopus drops a smoke grenade and vanishes in the smoke as Asuka looks around while walking towards the spot where Octopus was at and looks around. Four tentacles appear from the ledge and fire at her but Asuka ducks and takes down the two tentacles but the last two fallback with Asuka going downstairs to find Laughing Octopus. She manages to reach downs to see nothing...little does she know, the woman has blended herself on top of the MAGI. Octopus launches a tentacle at Asuka but she turns around and gets out of the way before firing at her which hits the headgear on the woman thus causing her tentacles to malfunction.
"People dying...people screaming...why won't you laugh with me!?" Octopus fires her machine gun at Asuka but she rolls forward and fires her WU pistol at the woman thus dazing her but she throws another smoke grenade and vanishes again. Another tentacle swings towards Asuka and hits her thus almost throwing her off the edge but she grabs it to the tentacle reaching towards her but Asuka shoots the tentacle with her handgun.
"I've seen this skill before...and its so fucking funny!" Asuka lifts herself up and pulls out her assault rifle while looking for her even more. She walks slowly...only for someone to come out of the command desk. Its Big Boss.
"Boss! Be careful, there's an octopus lady cloaked around here!" She warned. Big Boss nods and walks towards Asuka causing her to raise her eyebrows in curiosity at the fact she isn't taking any caution.
"She retreated the moment you destroyed all of her tentacles, Shinji isn't here also. I'm calling extraction." Big Boss assured before placing her hand on Asuka's face causing Asuka to raise her eyebrow.
"You're just like your mother." She is about to kiss Asuka...only for her to realize that Big Boss's eyes are a different color causing Asuka to pull out her stun knife and stab the fake Big Boss in the stomach then turns on the switch. She roars in pain to reveal Laughing Octopus.
"You bitch!" Octopus roared as Asuka fires her assault rifle at her headgear thus damaging it further. The woman falls on the ground with her tentacles damaged beyond repairs as her suit begins to turn somewhat wet. She gets up with her headgear falling off to reveal her face, she hasn't aged at all. Asuka aims her gun at the crazed woman.
"I...I should've stopped laughing...years ago..." She muttered before making a few short laughs and walks toward Asuka who is aiming her gun at her. The wires from her gear get off of Laughing Octopus.
"I...I had a chance to go back to a normal life...they all moved on when they came back from being LCL...I couldn't stop..." Laughing Octopus whimpered. She continues walking to Asuka.
"This time...this time I'll stop laughing for once." The woman seductively tries to grab Asuka...only for her to hear a beeping sound and looks down to see a fulton vortex device her. A portal opens up thus sucking her in screaming and it closes.
"She's coming too? Okay." Catherine said over the radio.
"Laughing Octopus...we got ourselves another asset. She can help us by giving tactical advice on how to deal with BB corps wannabes if we can get her back to us. Nice work Asuka." Natalia complemented before Asuka attached another device on the headgear and it enters the portal.
"What the fuck do you want from us!?" Emily yelled at Vulcan Raven who is firing his minigun from the other side while Taisuke suppresses fire. So far, they've been stuck here for hours and they couldn't get out...or can they? Emily looks at the shaft nearby then looks at Taisuke.
"I have an idea! Just talk to him! Also I need you're SPAS." Taisuke sighs and gives it to Emily. He ducks and walks outside to see him across the other side while he closes the door behind him. Taisuke raises his hands up as Vulcan Raven stands down and looks at him.
"I...I surrender! Just what do you want from us!?" He yelled before he lowers his minigun and gives a chuckle to him and smiles.
"The Raven's haven't touched you yet, you are marked for death...another unworthy Cossack. If a raven marks you then you shall die a soldier's death..." A raven lands on him and caws at the Inuit.
"I see, he is still a child and an amateur but...he has the spirit of a soldier and a madman. Therefore he shall receive his reward...a soldiers death." Little does he know, the shaft in the cell behind him opens to reveal Emily armed with her gun then shoots him from the back thus damaging him. Raven turns around and fires his minigun yet again while Taisuke switches to his assault rifle and fires it at his bullet tank behind him. The Inuit turns around and starts firing at Taisuke but Emily grabs him on the back causing Raven to aim his minigun upwards and shoot the ceiling with Emily getting off of him as rubble falls on him now but he gets out of the way and retreats.
"Nice work!" Taisuke complemented before going up into the shaft and landing into the cell where Emily is who nods at Taisuke. Raven appears across from them and fires from a distance causing them to duck.
"What's the plan?" He asks. Emily looks at the left and right of the halls then looks around then signals Taisuke as he nods before going prone to avoid being sighted by Raven while Emily does the same and goes for the cell on the left while Taisuke is on the right. Emily opens the door and gets into the vent inside to get the jump on Raven. She looks down to see a boy with the same hair color as Misato but chooses to ignore him for now.
She opens the vent in the cell behind Raven and opens the door again to do the same thing and walks up to Raven but he turns around and knocks her away before aiming his minigun...only to be hit by an explosion to the back. He turns around to see Taisuke armed with a rocket launcher now.
"Where the hell did you get that from!?" Emily yelled.
"Armory!" Taisuke fires another round at Raven again but he uses his minigun to shoot down the next rocket. The young Shikinami grins before Raven can unload a round at him...only for his weapon to run out of ammo.
"I destroyed you're ammo tank." He explained as Raven smiles before Taisuke shoots another rocket at him which explodes and sends him flying towards the hall thus defeating Raven. Raven laughs weakly.
"Once again...I am defeated..." Raven muttered.
"Taisuke...Emily...you're path shall be filled with the bodies of friends and enemies alike. You two will not find happiness, that I can assure for I am a prophet." The man gives his last dying breath but utters a word.
"Fox..." He gives out one last scream.
"Die..." Taisuke raises his eyebrows alongside Emily before she turns to him.
"So...what do you mean there's no WILLE anymore?"
Skull Face and Gendo look at the surveillance of Vulcan Raven dying by the hands of FOXDIE, an old virus that activates to a specific person. Gendo has a clam look of satification while Skull Face is silent irritation.
"Exactly why did you kill him?" Skull Face asks the commander while trying to keep his cool knowing that Raven had a lot of fight in him and Gendo basically prematurely killed him.
"I found out through my intel team that he was working to conspire against me, it was best to have him terminated." Gendo explained as Skull Face nodded knowing that Big Boss will take care of him and leaves.
Paz and The End watch from a treetop to see Big Boss walking away from Vamp's body. The girl was brought back after second impact after all and she's changed, took training lessons and now has wrist blades while the End was restored back to his youth and now has a gray five o'clock shadow on him and snow white hair.
"So that's the new Big Boss...she disgusts me." Paz spat before the End taps her by the shoulder.
"Now, now, Paz. She is worthy quarry after all and she deserves a fitting reward for it and..." The End falls asleep causing Paz to sigh and roll her eyes knowing in records even before he turned old, he has a habit of sleeping.