"This is a short chapter but will serve as a prologue to the Indonesia Mission which will expand over multiple chapters, we will see what Ocelot is doing in the white house and of course Wolf's state of mind. Please enjoy!"

Chapter 120: Hidden In Sight

In the White House sitting in a room set up for him Ocelot was going over the destruction of the US Base which was believed to be at the hands of Diamond Dogs, the reports all said the same. Soldiers wearing the emblem of Diamond Dogs and among the soldiers stood a massive machine which was responsible for the death of many US soldiers. Ocelot spent hours and hours reviewing the information given to him and soon he can a call from his pager, looking at his closed door he knew he had time to read it so he quickly pulled his pager out and read what was on it.

"Wolf and Quiet heading to mountain base in Indonesia, possible location of those responsible. Find information on Indonesia - Big Boss".

Ocelot checked the message again and he finally saw his orders, placing his pager away he turned his attention to his computer and began to search for anything related to Indonesia. Hitting enter the system began searching for results and soon a match came up.

The results showed a location of a massive base built into a mountain but what really caught Ocelot's attention was that the base was destroyed five years ago after military funding was cut, frowning at this Ocelot requested information on what the base was used for and soon a 3D image of the base appeared on the screen but a message appeared asking for security clearance.

Looking at the door once more Ocelot quickly pulled out his idroid and connected it to the computer tower placed under his desk and began decrypting the codes needed to access the file, the seconds felt like minutes and soon the results came back and all of a sudden the computer screen went back to the home page showing the White House logo and all Ocelot could do was frown at a text that appeared flashing the words "Access Denied".

Sitting back in his chair wondering why it didn't work but he didn't stop there and decided to search for something else. Typing away at his keyboard he used the words Project Cerberus and Indonesia together and soon more information came up.

The results revealed that the Indonesia Base was abandoned and was gonna be used for project Cerberus but with the threat of a Volcano erupting in the area the project was moved to a different location, Ocelot then proceeded to check for Indonesia fundings and one appeared from an unknown party. Clicking the funding it brought him to a huge lists of purchases made, the fundings were used to restore and repair the Indonesia and with that money military grade hardware ranging from weapons and all types of vehicles.

Ocelot found this very strange and decided to back check any personal within the White House who spent that exact amount of money, Ocelot knew there was a chance of corruption due to past experience in politics so he wasnt gonna leave anything out. Searching through dozens of personnel starting from low ranking officers all the way up to the President himself.

Despite the high security Ocelot's idroid sent out Trojin Horses preventing detection into his searches which were restricted, however there were still systems and files he couldnt get into. Checking all the low ranking personnel all seemed to be normal with them but as he got higher up the list he noticed the one that was missing from the list was Vice President William Heartman.

Stopping his searches he went to access William heartman's funding and spending but as soon as he entered the Vice President's name the computer screen went black and a message popped up stated that only the Vice President himself could access his files and a Platinum clearance code was needed to access his files, Ocelot could only wonder why the Vice President had Platinum clearance as only the President had that kind of clearance.

All it did was make Ocelot wonder what this Vice President was hiding with Platinum Security. Ocelot knew his idroid wouldn't be able to hack that kind of security unless he wanted to get caught but all of a sudden his mind clicked, quickly typing away he checked for call logs picked up from the White House and hundreds came up and among them was a few phone calls just labelled. "Encrypted Call".

"Is this you Mr Vice President?" Ocelot whispered and then picked up his idroid off the computer tower under his desk and selecting the encrypted calls he downloaded them and transfered them straight back to Mother Base for the intel team to decrypted.

Ocelot then sat back in his seat with a sigh and then looked at his door leading out into the halls. "I think its time I go speak to the Vice President".

-Over The Indiain Ocean-

Inside Tango's chopper Wolf was on his idroid checking on this mission logs and in her usual spot Quiet was just leaning back in her seat with arms and her legs crossed just watching Tango working away at the pilot controls, the journey was mostly silent and every now and then Quiet would look out the side door just seeing the beautiful ocean.

Quiet sighed as she pulled back from the side door of the chopper and took her seat again, the minutes felt like hours to Quiet as she just became restless so to past the time she layed across the two seats on her side and decided to sleep the rest of the journey.

With Quiet now sleeping Wolf was on his own as he continued to check over the mission and thats when a new mission objective appeared requesting to find any information on William Heartman in the Indonesia, Wolf frowned at this and then contacted Mother Base.

"Boss, confirm new mission objective?" Wolf question.

"What you got is right, Ocelot sent some information on Encrypted Calls from the US Vice President. Seems like he has been busy, the timing seems too perfect" Big Boss stated.

"You believe he had a hand in it?" Wolf questioned.

"Possibly unless he was brought in at the last minute, find out if he was involved when you infiltrate the base. Infiltrate the Indonesia Mountain Base and find out the truth, weapons and equipment OSP, you have a rifle and handgun but I advise you pick up any useful equipment on your mission". Big Boss explained.

"Roger that, we are still a few hours out will let you know when we are about to begin" Wolf ended the call and leaned back in his seat sighing as he closed his eyes suddenly drifting off into a deep sleep.

"Leon.." Wolf quickly jolted awake and saw he was laying on a beach of black sand, startled he pushed himself up and immediately his eyes were drawn to his front and he was looking someone's bare feet, slowly looking up he saw it was a woman in a white dress and he knew exactly who is was. His heart raced as he looked up further and soon he saw the face of Flaming Buffalo as beautiful as always with her hair loose and hanging on her shoulders.

Wolf slowly got to his knees unable to speak as he looked at her slowly kneel down to his eye level and he could see she had something important to tell him.

"Listen. You are Howling Wolf" Buffalo simply spoke reminding him who he was.

Wolf slowly looked down to the black sand around him "No, I'm not. Not anymore". He then turned his eyes back up to her "My name is Punished Wolf".

Buffalo slowly planted her knees on the sand with a little sigh as she continued to look at him. "That is a word you should never feel Leon, the entire time I knew you I always knew that the word 'Punished' never related to you. Punished is a word which belongs to the corrupt, those who wish to bring harm to others".

Soon Buffalo slowly stood up and slowly walked around the back of Wolf trailing her hand on one of his shoulders and soon rested both her hands on his shoulders and leaned down placing a kiss on his head. "You Punish yourself because I am gone, we may have been separated...but our bond still holds".

Buffalo then slowly walked back around to Wolf's front and knelt back down gently taking Wolf's hand. "I know the pain you feel Leon, but remember that I am at peace. I want the same for you, If there is one thing I want more then life and death is to see you at peace...not someone who tortures himself".

"You almost took your life Leon, that is something I dont want...no matter where you go we will still be connected. Dont give up on life Leon, you still have a second chance at life...I have seen it" Buffalo whispered gently and she gave Wolf a loving smile as he looked at her.

The two looked at each other and suddenly Buffalo leaned in and embraced him and he quickly returned it as their breathing accelerated holding each other once again.

"Come back Howling Wolf" Buffalo let a tear fall down her face as she held on to Wolf and after a few seconds she slowly pulled back and placed both her hands on his cheeks as his arms rested on her waist.

"Do not give up on life...I will always be by yourside, hidden in sight" Buffalo whispered and soon she slowly stood up and took a few steps back smiling at Wolf before turning away back to the ocean. Wolf closed his eyes lowering his head and deep down he knew he was kidding himself, he wasnt free. The pain inside him continue to grow despite everything he tried to do.

Looking up one more time he slowly stood up as his eyes watered seeing Buffalo walk towards the ocean in the white dress she was cremated in and all of a sudden everything went white.

"Wait!" Wolf jolted awake in ACC and Quiet quickly woke up from the outburst with her markings around her eyes appearing looking for danger and Wolf quickly looked around and realised what he witnessed was a dream, Wolf after a few moments calmed down then turned to see Quiet calm down also as she turned to Wolf and her markings vanished and she looked concerned.

"Bad dream Wolf?" Tango called back while keeping focused on flying the chopper.

Wolf sighed taking in one last breath as he leaned forward looking down at the floor while resting his arms on his legs. "Yeah...just a dream".

Quiet on the other hand wasn't convinced, she could see him shaking at what he experienced in that dream. She didnt know what it was but this scared him, she wanted to sit next to him and comfort him but she knew there was a chance he might reject it. Doing what she thought was best she slowly took her seat again while looking at Wolf.

Wolf didn't look up as he just looked at the floor of the ACC and it only worried Quiet more, she slowly crossed her legs and looked to her front but she looked back at Wolf again just full of worry.

"Ocelot has found a few interesting things but Wolf is still suffering and Buffalo doesn't want him to give up on life, she wants Howling Wolf back. Only question is will Howling Wolf return? I know this was a short chapter but the next chapters will be huge, like I said think of this chapter as the prologue to the upcoming mission. Get ready!