Chapter 24

Metal Gear Moses

The cement of the warehouse floor exploded as the massive pile bunker on the arm of Metal Gear Moses slammed through it. Sunny somersaulted backwards out of the way and landed on her feet.

"Witness the ultimate war machine!" Rayne called out through Metal Gear's intercom. "Bipedal was the future when the first Metal Gear was born. Now the future is fully functioning legs and arms." Metal Gear leaped in the air and came crashing down towards Sunny with another sweeping blow.

Sunny rolled to the side, barely dodging the attack. As she stabilized herself, she ran across to a clear zone and opened fire with her handgun. It wouldn't do much, she knew, but it would serve as a distraction until she could figure something out.

"Otacon!" She yelled as the fired on Moses and tried to stay clear of its sweeping arm, "I need an idea quick!"

"I'm looking through the data!" Otacon replied in a panic, "I haven't been able to find anything yet. They did a good job with this one. Making it fully humanoid eliminated most common weaknesses of the original models.

"Damn it!" She exclaimed as another punch came her way. She evaded the attack and made her way towards the other side of the room. "We have to do something quick!"

Moses came for her once more, an eerie laughter from Rayne coming through the intercom. Sunny stayed on the move as the machine threw blow after blow her way. She flipped, jumped and dodged every attack as she struggled to stay clear of the assault.

She kept going, scanning every crate she could to try and find some sort of weapon to use against her massive foe. "Otacon! I need something!"

"I know, I'm trying here! I haven't been able to find a thing!"

Sunny looked to see the amused expressions on the faces of the Wisemen. Admiring their handiwork, she said to herself spitefully. She braced herself as Moses sped toward her, being able to move in just a split second as the machine rammed through the wall as she was in mid jump, a pile of debris from the wall slammed into her and knocked her to the floor.

The head of Moses turned instantly, locking on to the opportunity. "Give this up, Sunny!" Rayne yelled from the intercom, "You cannot win against me!"

Moses raised its pile-bunker for a coup de gras. Sunny looked up at the weapon as it raised. Then she noticed something. Under the shoulder was a small opening where the wires connected. All she needed was something long and slender to fit in and she could slash the wires. The daggers! She thought excitedly.

The pile-bunker came crashing down, but Sunny was already in motion. She made her way over to where the daggers lay on the ground and retrieved the weapons. Moses turned and remained in pursuit, just as she had hoped. The massive pile-bunker slammed down again. This time, Sunny waited for it to touch the ground. She timed it and leaped onto the arm of Moses. She ran up the arm and climbed her way to the underside before stabbing the dagger as hard as she could and ripped it back out, slashing through the wires and cables. Before Rayne could react, she side-ran across the back and did the same to the other arm. Sunny landed on her feet and ran into a flip over a pile of crates for cover.

The machine stumbled back, "What?!" Rayne called out, "What did you do?!" As hard as she tried, she could no longer get the arms to respond. Sunny grinned as she listened to the frustration in the woman's voice.

"Fine!" She yelled finally, "Escape this!" Sunny ducked and took cover as the machine guns on the shoulders began to fire.

"Otacon!" She yelled, "How am I supposed to get around that?"

"I'm looking, Maiden! Please be patient."

"Patient? I'm just trying to stay alive!"

"I know, I know. Just a little longer!"

Debris flew all around the room from the massive shots. The crates began to explode away as well and Sunny's cover was beginning to waste away. As desperation set it in, what seemed to be a gift from the heavens fell from above.

She instinctively reached to grab it, only to see it shot across the room away from her by Moses. Seeing her cover almost gone, she had no choice but to run the opposite direction. She made her way behind a massive column for a temporary reprieve.

Rayne continued to fire on her, a dark smile of satisfaction forcing itself across her face. The crosshair from the monitor moved all across the warehouse, the massive bullets shredding through the building.

Sunny stayed as far behind her cover as she could while trying to keep an eye on the location of the rocket launcher. Time seemed to slow as she closed her eyes and began to focus. Her eyes twitched rapidly as she began to calculate her course of action. The shots exploded around her, but she could hear only silence. Suddenly her head shot up and her eyes opened wide. Without hesitation, Sunny darted out from her cover and made her way to the weapon. As the shots sped toward her she leaped into a series of cartwheels.

Debris and other metal objects rang throughout the room and as Rayne tried desperately to hit her mark. As she neared her destination, Sunny jumped into one last roll. She completed the roll by grabbing the rocket launcher and pushing it forwards. With an instant adjustment with targeting, she fired. The rocket launched from the weapon and sped forward and Sunny had already thrown the launcher down and was again speeding forwards towards more cover. The rocket hit its mark and the gun on the left shoulder exploded.

"Aaagghh!" Rayne yelled as her frustration exploded as well. She turned to fire on Sunny with her last remaining gun, but then it exploded as well. She turned Moses to the left as two more rockets crashed into it.

"What's goin on?!" she called out.

Sunny, startled by the explosions, looked up as well. She could not believe her eyes, as she saw who dropped the rocket launcher down to her in the first on the catwalk above stood Hunter, John, and Sypher, each man wielding rocket launchers of their own.

"So it was them," she said, with a smile.

"Sunny!" John called out, "Let's finish this!"

Another round of rockets collided with Moses and Rayne screamed from the cockpit. "Hit the waste!" Sypher yelled, "Take the armor off of the waste!" The other two nodded and the three men shot simultaneous shots at Moses. The shots hit and the Metal Gear stumbled backwards.

"Sunny!" Sypher yelled out as he motioned to the torn armor, "We have little time! You have to hit the core! Take out the core and you take out the weapon!"

Sunny wasted no time as she charged out towards Moses. As she ran, she scooped up the titanium staff of Rayne's and began to spin it. She ran up the legs of a Moses and leaped from the thigh with full momentum.

"This can't be!" Rayne yelled as Sunny came crashing down with the staff going straight through the core of Moses. She landed on her feet firmly and the weapon began to howl and churn out of control.

"What is this, Sypher?!" Balthazar yelled over the intercom in a rage.

Sypher looked up with a smile and a thumbs up, "Sorry, Bal. I saw tonight ending differently."

The three men wore expressions of anger and rage. "Of all the possibilities, you betray us?! This Metal Gear was your design!"

"Eh, Looks like a failure" he said with a smile. He looked over at Hunter and John, "The rest is up to you. My role is finished." His smile suddenly faded into a serious look of formality. "It has been a pleasure." he said as he walked out of the door.

John looked down to Sunny and smiled. The young female operative smiled back and the two nodded at each other. Hunter merely crossed his arms and nodded to both of them. The reunion was interrupted by the sound of the cockpit pushing open from Metal Gear Moses. Rayne leaped from the cockpit and landed on the ground, retrieving her staff.

"Looks like Plan B." she said with a wry smile.

"Plan B?" Sunny asked.

Rayne laughed and slammed her staff against the floor, "The Simulation as finished. Sunny Gurlukovich has prevailed." She looked up at the three men. "It is time to declare war. Launch the warhead."

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