Author's note:
I have no idea why or how I became inspired to do this chapter, but, I've gone ahead and done it. There will be another chapter on Metal Gear Solid 3, a longer and more serious one, in the future.
In the next few chapters, I plan to do any of the following; Endless Space 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, RWBY Chibi, Team Fortress 2, For Honor, Destiny, and Warhammer. Any, not all of them.
I also got a chapter from another fanfiction, and one of my Original Ideas planned to be done as well. I haven't decided which of the previously mentioned ideas I'll do, but I'll figure it out.
List of future chapter ideas that I'm most interested in at the bottom. If you don't see the ones you requested, I've written it down somewhere.
I'll do the lists less frequently from now on. Like every ten or fifteen chapters.
Enjoy this short one.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - The Ladder
"Alright everyone. You all ready for the next universe?" Alaric asked his guests as they got back to their seats.
"Yeah. I think we're good to go." Nora replied enthusiastically. That last universe had given her ideas about how to deal with people who messed with Ren and her friends. But mainly Ren. No one messed with Ren while she around.
"Right, this universe-" Alaric was interrupted when a bloody fire-tornado suddenly burst to life in the middle of the room. Everyone swiftly got onto their feet and retreated away from it.
The fire tornado continued to rage for a few seconds, until it started to weaken and eventually died down. The room was surprisingly undamaged. Standing where the fire-tornado had been was another Keeper, they wore dark-red robes, with a golden bird mask over their face. The Keeper looked around the room frantically, but when he saw Alaric, he ran up to him and desperately begged.
"Alaric! Thank the Heavens you're here! You gotta help me!"
"Phoenix? What happened?" Alaric sighed as he ran a hand over his mask. Obviously not thrilled to see his fellow Keeper.
"I got Godzilla, Mecha-Godzilla, King Ghidorah, Mothra, a Megazord, King Kong, Indominus Rex, Saitama, two Super Saiyans, a clan of Yautja, a hundred Honey Badgers, and Chuck Norris rampaging through my Repository!"
"Oh. Oh my." Alaric said after a pause. "I think I see why you came to me for help."
Phoenix grabbed the front of Alaric's robes and started to shake him back and forth. "Please help me!"
"Let go!" Alaric grunted as he pushed Phoenix off of him. "I'll help you. First, let's go get Keepers Nyx, Titania, Saint, Charlemagne, Ptolemy, and Fafnir. That might be enough for us to contain this. Wait, just to be safe. Let's add Sedna, Caesarion, Miguel, and Leviathan into the mix. That should be enough, right?"
The black-clad Keeper turned to his guests and said. "Before I go, I'll set the TV on auto-play. Just so you won't get bored, and so a repeat of that incident from before won't happen again. Oh, and have an unlimited buffet table. Just think of what you want and it'll be there in an instant. Don't want to come back and find you've all starved to death."
Just as he had said, a long table replete with all kinds of foods from all kinds of places and cultures materialized near the audience.
"Can't you just send all of us back home?" Ozpin asked of Alaric. The Keeper did not bother to answer him and disappeared in a tornado of dark purple smoke, Phoenix following after him in a fire-tornado.
The moment the two Keepers were gone, the audience were left to themselves in silence. They looked around and each other, when they heard the TV began to start up, they decided to sit back down on their seats and watch what was going to happen audience decided that they had nothing better to do, and knowing they didn't really have a choice in the matter, got food and drinks from the buffet tables
"Hope Alaric will be alright. That sounded like it must be something serious." Pyrrha said aloud. A few agreed with her, while others did not really share her sentiment. Understandable really, since he had abducted them and were forcibly making them partake in this thing.
"I'm sure he'll be fine. I want to know what's gonna happen here." Yang added. She didn't trust Alaric, but he knew he was powerful, so she wasn't worried for him. Besides, some of the universes he'd shown them were rather entertaining, as well as thought provoking.
They stopped talking and turned their heads to the TV and began to watch.
The TV screen came to life, and they found themselves in a forest. The camera followed after a man wearing a jacket and pants that bore a camouflage pattern that allowed him to blend in with the forest vegetation around him. He also wore a dark bluish-grey body glove underneath his clothes. Around his head, he wore a bandana. In his hands was a pistol with a suppressor attachment and a combat knife.
He had blonde hair and a short well-kept beard. The audience recognised him to be Jaune, leader of team JNPR.
"Hey, Jaune. Look! It's you again!" Pyrrha said, beaming at the sight of her team leader.
"Heh, yeah." Jaune replied, remembering what happened the last time he took centre stage on the TV screen. "I look kinda cool. But, I hope this doesn't get weird super fast."
"Hmm, he's wearing camouflage on his clothes. I haven't seen anyone wear that in... uh. I don't think I've seen anyone wearing camouflage in my entire life." Ironwood admitted. When the others in the audience from Remnant thought about it, the general was right. Practically no one wore camouflage anymore.
Camouflage patterns on military uniforms and vehicles had been used in the past, especially when the Kingdoms went to war with each other. But now, after the implementation of the whole colour thing in the aftermath of the Great War, the use of camouflage like the one demonstrated to them here had disappeared almost completely from the face of Remnant.
Just as the audience began to speculate on the man's identity. The screen paused, and a short list of facts about the Jaune on screen appeared.
Name: Jaune
Other names: Jack
Codename: Naked Snake
Age: 29
Occupation: Force Operation X (FOX) covert agent
Current mission objectives: Assassinate The Boss and eliminate the Shagohod
Jaune's face fell when he saw the codename of this version of himself. Others chuckled, and some tried to suppress their laughter at it. Some didn't bother, and laughed openly at the other Jaune's codename.
"Pfft, 'Naked Snake'? What kind of a codename is that?!" Roman guffawed at the codename. He'd heard all kinds of codenames, nicknames, and pseudonyms throughout the length of his criminal career. But this was a new one. Neo silently laughing with him.
Nora ignored Jaune's odd nickname and stood onto her feet and proudly shouted. "Huzzah! Our fearless leader is off to stop whatever nefarious plans this 'Boss' has, and save the world!"
"'The Boss'... 'Shagohod'. I wonder, who and what they are." Ozpin mumbled to himself. If 'The Boss' was known by such a nickname, what position of importance, or things had they done to earn such a title? And what was 'Shagohod'? An odd feeling made people believe it to be a weapon, but, what kind of weapon?
A weapon to surpass any on Remnant?
The camera, and the audience by extension, followed after Jaune as he made his way through the forest and entered a tunnel. The entrance of which was between to large rocks and built into a tall cliff.
Entering it, Snake, as I shall refer to him as, found the tunnel to be dirty and wet in places. Along its walls were electric lights that illuminated parts of the tunnel. If the audience would focus, they could see a couple insects of rodents scurry or crawling about here and there.
"Ugh, thank goodness we can't smell the places or things onscreen. That place must be terrible." Weiss stated, wrinkling her nose at the condition of the tunnel.
Snake jogged over to the other side of the tunnel and saw that it ended with a very very tall ladder.
"Whoa." Sun exclaimed. "That's the tallest ladder I've ever seen. And he's gotta climb it?"
"Yeesh. I'd hate to be the people who had to build that." Neptune decided to add.
Meanwhile, Neo deciding she wanted a say in the matter, took out a sign. Written on it was, "If he falls while climbing it. Do you think it the fall be enough to kill him?"
Most of the audience looked at Neo in a mixture of disgust and some fear. I mean, who the hell would ask that kind of thing?
"That's a very morbid question to ask." Jeanne said to the short, ice-cream themed criminal.
"Well, I said it out of morbid curiosity. What of it?" Neo answered back, pulling another sign from out of nowhere again.
"Where's she getting those signs from?" Yatsuhashi questioned.
"I dunno. Alaric's probably behind it, somehow." Fox guessed with a shrug of his shoulders.
Jaune gave the ladder one look and thumbed his chin, his thoughts being projected to the audience through the speaker. 'Hm, better grab a bite to eat before I start climbing.'
That was when he, from seemingly nowhere, pulled out a snake that was nearly as long as he was tall and started to eat it raw. Right there and then. And with an enthusiasm that perturbed the audience.
"Holy shit!" Taiyang swore at the sight of the snake. He'd been to plenty of places and done plenty of things, but he'd never eaten a snake before. And he'd never thought he'd see someone do so with such relish.
"S-s-s-s-s-snake." Velvet stuttered as she clung tightly onto Yatsuhashi's arm. As you can see, she wasn't exactly a fan of snakes.
"Ew!" Ruby cried out in disgust.
"Where did he get the snake?" Penny asked, almost nonchalantly. Some found her question to be weird, but were more focused on the screen than asking why a teenage girl was not disgusted by the sight of a snake being devoured before their eyes.
"Ugh, I don't know whether to be disgusted or impressed with myself." Jaune stated, holding his gut and trying to hold down anything that wanted to escape his stomach. Pyrrha going ahead and sitting between him and Jeanne, rubbing a hand on his back in comfort.
"Eh, I've eaten worse." Raven shrugged. She herself had eaten snakes before, and even drunk wine made from snakes. She and Qrow, when the drunk had been a part of the tribe, had also been forced to eat things that were less than savoury to the others in the audience who lived in cities. The tribe had times when their pickings were poor, or when their stores of food had to be rationed or ran out. So, Raven, and Qrow, didn't really mind the sight of Snake eating a snake raw.
Snake quickly ate his fill. He wiped his mouth and said to himself. "Huh. Not bad."
The soldier got back onto his feet and prepared to climb the ladder. Snake took a deep sigh, and started to begin his ascent.
Seconds past in silence, the only sound being made being the sound of Snake's climbing up the ladder, one rung at a time. Then a woman's voice began to sing.
What a thrill
"Music?" Winter questioned, raising a brow in curiosity. There didn't seem to be any obvious source onscreen, and didn't understand why a song was being played then and there.
The others shared in her curious confusion, Oscar being the one to ask. "Uh, where's it coming from?"
"I don't think we should worry about it. Alaric probably just edited it in when he recorded this." Glynda reasoned, turning the audience's attention back to the screen with her words. However, some believed otherwise for some reason, but decided to drop the issue.
With darkness and silence through the night
What a thrill
I'm searching and I'll melt into you
What a fear in my heart
But you're so supreme!
"This is a good song. In my opinion at least." Weiss stated, voicing her thoughts on the song.
"Sure. But, how long has he been climbing that ladder for? I wanna see some action." Yang said, her words resonating with a few others in the audience who were getting a bit bored of watching Snake climb up the ladder.
"Hm, about a minute I believe." Oobleck estimated as he looked down at the wristwatch he wore. This caused a few annoyed groans to rise from the audience.
The singer, who started the song in a low voice, heightened the pitch at which she sang.
I give my life
Not for honour, but for you.
In my time there'll be no one else
Crime, it's the way I fly to you.
I'm still in a dream, Snake Eater.
"'Snake Eater'? Heh-" Mercury started to speak, but was stopped when he received a mild slap to the back of his head from Cinder. He turned to his superior, who possessed a knowing look on her face as she calmly, but sternly, said to him.
"You will not finish that sentence."
"I wasn't about to say anything!" Mercury denied, but Cinder was not convinced by his words. "Ugh, whatever."
I'm still in a dream, Snake Eater.
Snake Eater
Snake finally reached the top of the ladder, and went through a door that led outside.
The screen faded to black.
The audience sat in silence for a moment, expecting the event onscreen to cut to another scene. Nothing happened though, and the audience, realizing that it was finished were not exactly pleased by it.
"Is... that it?" Kali queried, unsure of herself when she said her question.
Equally confused, Ren asked his own question. "Did Alaric just make us watch a man, uh, Jaune, climb up a ladder for the last... two minutes?"
"Sure seems like it." Qrow grunted. He, and plenty others, were not entirely amused by this. They honestly expected more.
Looking for a positive in all this, Chibi Ruby said to the others in her small voice. "The music was nice at least."
"I certainly agree with you, little one." Salem added. Chibi Ruby pouted and started to complain about the others in the audience calling her little. She looked far too adorable to take serious, and Salem could only smile at the sight of the miniature Ruby angrily waving her arms and shouting at her.
"Yeah. I think there was a message in the song." Pyrrha jumped in.
Roman rolled his eyes and voiced his own thoughts on the matter. "Message or not, that bastard just made us watch that kid eat a snake and climb a ladder of two minutes."
The audience decided, after a bit of debate, to agree to disagree on their opinions of this viewing. They did hope that they'd see more of this universe however, something more substantial than this.
As they finished speaking their minds and concluded their short debate, the TV screen began to brighten with colour. Ironwood, drawing attention back to the screen as he said. "The TV's coming back on. Let's hope he doesn't pull anything like this again."
Alaric wasn't back yet, so they had little choice but to continue watching. Despite the Keeper's absence. Sitting back down, the audience prepared to watch whatever was going to happen in the next universe.
Personal Ideas:
- Aliens vs Predator
- Crysis 2/3
- D-Frag
- Diablo 3 Cinematics
- Endless Space 2 - Faction Trailers
- Final Fantasy XV Kingsglaive
- For Honor
- Gate: Thus the JSDF Fought There
- Gilded Guy vs Jade
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Kingdom Hearts 3 - Either a trailer or the 'Don't think twice' song
- Lord of the Rings
- RWBY: V6 C3, The Lost Fable
- Stand By Me
- Templin Institute
- Total War Warhammer - Any of the faction trailers from 1 and 2
- Warhammer 40,000 - Either an episode of Text-To-Speech, the trailer for Death of Hope, the first segment of Space Marine, or the Lord Inquisitor Prologue
Original Ideas:
- Damsel Not In Distress
- Demi-Human Students of Beacon
- The Jade Rabbit
- RWBY: MMORPG
Requested Ideas:
- Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better
- Asura's Wrath
- Attack on Titan
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Bioshock
- Bloodborne
- Castlevania Lords of Shadows 2 Trailer
- Code Geass
- College Humour skits
- Deadpool
- Destiny 2
- Devil May Cry 5
- Dragonball Z
- Far Cry 4
- Fate/stay Night Unlimited Blade Works
- Fate Apocrypha
- Gundam 00
- Halo
- Highschool DXD
- Hunchback of Notre Dame - Hellfire
- Jojo's Bizzare Adventures
- JT Machinima
- Jurassic World or Jurassic Park
- Kamen Rider
- Killzone
- League of Legends - Either a cinematic or that POP/STARS song they released not too long ago
- Madness Combat
- Mass Effect
- Miracle of Sound
- Metal Gear Solid
- My Hero Academia
- One Piece
- One Punch Man
- Overwatch
- Pacific Rim
- Persona 5
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Prince of Egypt
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- RWBY Chibi
- Seven Deadly Sins
- Shadow of Mordor
- Super Smash Bros World of Light Trailer
- Soul Eater
- Star Wars
- Star Craft Cinematic
- Team Fortress 2
- Transformers Prime
- Warframe
- Wilford 'Motherloving' Warfstache
- Witcher 3 - Killing Monsters
- World of Warcraft Cinematics
- Venture Bros