"This is mainly just a humorous chapter and to just show off Quiet a little bit, there are a few plot points but mostly pretty simple lol please enjoy"

Chapter 128: Two Steps Ahead

As Wolf and Fury were going to cause chaos in another area deep inside the large mountain Quiet along with Fury's comrades called Shepard and Lawson were making their way to the upper levels of the caves, their objective was to deactivate a power source with controlled combat drones which guarded the lower levels of the mountain.

They didnt know what they were gonna find once they get to the source but the one thing they knew was once the power source was down and if Wolf and Fury are successful it will be a quick and easy climb up the mountain and to the base built into the mountain.

Getting close to their objective Shepard and Lawson were climbing up a wall to the upper levels while Quiet stayed at the bottom making sure nobody was following them, wall was at least twenty foot but both Shepard and Lawson were excellent climbers and this was child's play to them, planted their feet and hands in gaps in the stone wall they would jump up catching a rock in the wall doing all they could to get to the top as quick as they could.

After a short while Shepard was the first to reach the top and as soon as he climbed over the edge he quickly turned around and reached down helping Lawson up.

"I swear your gaining weight" Shepard grunted as he pulled Lawson up who gave a little chuckle and once the two mercenaries stood up they looked down to Quiet all the way down the bottom.

"We're up Quiet, your turn hurry up" Shepard shouted down and Quiet looked right up to the mercenaries with a frown, her markings appeared and in one single bounce she shot right up the twenty foot wall and flipped right over Shepard and Lawson landing perfectly on her feet and just walked towards the next path while the two mercenaries just looked on wide eyed.

"Lawson, I think she just made us look bad" Shepard whispered to Lawson but little did they know Quiet smirked knowing she put them in their place and not judge her and with that both Shepard and Lawson rushed to catch up with her.

As Quiet leaded the way through the dark tunnel leading god knows where Shepard placed his finger on his earpiece and contacted Roberto.

"Roberto this is Shepard, we are en route to disable a power source deep in the mountain. Once we take it out the drones gaurding the lower areas of the mountain will shut down, should make it easier for you and the rest to get up the here.

"Roger, we are on horseback and we will wait for confirmation. We got at least thirty people ready to fight, just let us know ASAP and we can make our way up. Over and out" Roberto ended the call.

The three mercenaries continued through the dark cave and all of a sudden Quiet held her hand up signalling Shepard and Lawson to stop and they readied their weapons expecting something.

As they looked down the long path they could hear a slight buzzing sound in the distance and thats when Quiet's enhanced vision could see a red light, Quiet's eyes widened knowing it was trouble and she signalled Shepard and Lawson to rush down the path with her and as they rushed towards the buzzing sound thats when they saw a small gap in the wall.

Quiet quickly checked it out and saw it was big enough for them to squeeze through, pulled Shepard close she pulled him towards the gap and he quickly went into the gap and Lawson followed him in, Quiet then looked back down the path and saw a drone coming around the corner and saw it had a submachine gun attached underneath it and was scanning the area so she quickly rushed into the gap as it turned to her direction and began flying down the path.

The air grew tense as the sound of the drone grew louder as it drew closer to Quiet, Shepard and Lawson who remained silent as the drone came closer. The seconds felt like minutes but soon the drone slowly came into view and Quiet frowned as she spotted something on the side of the flying drone.

On the side of the drone it said "Property of US Army" which confused the hell out of Quiet but she couldnt just allow this drone to fly off. This needed to be reported so she waited for it to fly by and soon she rushed out of the gap and stood right behind the droid and then with lightning fast speed she punched right through the body of the drone and after malfunctioning and sparking a few times it crashed to the ground.

As she knelt down examining the drone both Lawson and Shepard rushed out of the gap and looked at Quiet pulling out her idroid.

"What the hell are you doing? They may know that drone is down" Shepard whispered a little frustrated.

Ignoring him Quiet then began to scan the drone and after the scan was complete she sent the scan to Mother Base to inform Big Boss of her findings, she then slowly stood up and turned to Shepard and Lawson and motioned them forward as she walked past them with her rifle in hand.

Both Shepard and Lawson looked at each other, sighing they turned and caught up with Quiet as they went deeper into the tunnels.

-MotherBase, Main R&D Platform-

Big Boss stood on the top of the main tower of the R&D Platform and was looking down into the large pit where the massive machine they recovered from the depths of the heartless and he saw it making great progress in repairs, memories of the Peace Walker incident filled his mind and it was mostly painful.

He recalled everything from meeting Paz and Zadornov, meeting Chico and Amada and finally seeing MSF become a proper mercenary group. Those days were now gone and he only had a few things from that past left and this massive machine was now one of them.

As he looked down over the railings a technician came up to him with a clipboard. "Boss, we have the reports".

Turning to the soldier Big Boss took the clipboard and checked the results, they looked promising. "So D-Walker's AI will be able to adapt to it no problem?".

"Correct Boss, also the repairs are coming along very quickly and in the next hour I say it will be at least ninty percent finished" The Technician stated.

"And Huey believed Sahlanthropus was the one we should use..." Big Boss continued to look at the reports.

"I took this report to him and between you and me Boss, his attitude towards the decision is disgusting. Never seen anyone act like a big kid before" The Technician revealed.

"Its his ego, he has an obsession of showing his greatness. That is not how we do things here. Even if wanted to use Sahlanthropus, which I dont. We wont be able to repair it in time, that thing in the pit is the only option" Big Boss then handed the clipboard back to the technician.

"Get Huey to prepare the upload, once the project is at ninty percent we will upload D-Walker's memory, if Huey gives you more lip just ignore it and refer him to me" Big Boss ordered.

"You got it Boss" The Technician then turned and left and all of a sudden Big Boss's idroid vibrated on his belt, he looked down to it and grabbed it wondering what was sent to him.

Clicking a switch the idroid came on and it was a message from Quiet and suddenly the idroid showed a 3D hologram of a destroyed drone and thats when Big Boss quickly saw something interesting, on the side of the damaged drone it had "Property Of US Army" written on the side of it.

"What the hell?" Big Boss frowned and then sent the data to Ocelot followed by a message. "Adam I'm sending you a 3D scan of a drone Quiet destroyed in Indonesia, see if there have been any deployment from anyone in the White House.

-White House, Vice President's Office-

"I'm in the Vice President's Office bypassing his computer, he has alot of Classified files. If he is responsible for sending those drones then we may have solved the mystery" Ocelot responded.

"Only half of it, we need to know who Phantom is and what his true goals are, see if you can find anything related to him" Big Boss ended the call and Ocelot finally managed to break through the firewalls of the Vice President's computer.

"So lets see what you have Mr Vice President" Ocelot whispered to himself and began typing away going through classified files.

The files were highly classified but Ocelot was able to break through the security without being detected and soon he came across a history of transactions, millions of pounds were sent to an unknown source and a large shipment of weapons were sent to a set of coordinates. Frowning at these coordinates Ocelot decided to pull up the world map and typed in the coordinates.

Hitting enter the computer then scanned the world map and after a few moments the location was discovered, the computed then zoomed in to the location and Ocelot saw the coordinates were at an island. It was the very island Wolf and Quiet were on.

"Son of a bitch..." Ocelot then pulled out his idroid. "Boss, I've hacked the Vice President's computer. There is a history of funds and equipment sent to a set of coordinates".

"Let me guess, the coordinates lead to Indonesia?" Big Boss questioned.

"Yeah, spot on" Ocelot confirmed as he leaned in the chair.

"So at least we know the Vice President has some involvement but the question is if he is the Master Mind behind this whole mess, I want you to check anything on Project Cerberus. He must have something on that computer of his" Big Boss ordered.

Ocelot leaned forward and started typing Project Cerberus into the search bar of the Vice President's files and he then hit enter and after a few seconds a result showed up, no file was found.

"Somethings not right, I searched for Project Cerberus in my temporary office and the Vice President had clearance to see the Project, now its saying it doesnt exist on his computer" Ocelot sighed tapping his fingers on the desk.

"Son of a bitch must have erased it, at least we know he has been sending money and equipment to Indonsia" Big Boss stated.

"What should I do next Boss?" Ocelot asked as he looked at the computer and after a few moments Big Boss spoke. "Transfer all the Vice President's files, we can do our own investigation. Once thats done keeping playing nice with the President until we learn more".

"You got it Boss" Ocelot ended the call and began to transfer the files to Mother Base, they were finally getting closer.

-Indonesia Mountain, The Caves-

After continuing down the endless path for a good while, Quiet, Shepard and Lawson finally came to a large area and they quickly took cover by a few bolders as they rushed into the area. Quiet peeked around the corner and saw the area ahead was full of high tech. There was a large super computer in the centre of the area and a few charging stations for the drones and they saw a few fly off and others resting on panels to charge.

The area had alot of guards in the area and most of them kept to the central area keeping the super computer secure, with her improved vision Quiet was able to see every soldier in the area and thank fully there was only a few in heavy armor as the drones made up the rest of security.

Shepard and Lawson who were behind another bolder checked their ammo ready to attack and Shepard looked over to Quiet still scanning the area ahead.

"Quiet, me and Lawson will take on the soldiers. Wolf said you have a good aim so you take on the drones, if we can take out that supercomputer our people can make their move" Shepard whispered and Quiet looked to him and gave a single nod.

All of a sudden an alarm echoed around the area and Quiet, Shepard and Lawson planted their back against the cover they were behind.

"All fire teams! We have two hostiles causing chaos nearby all units head to the location ASAP!" The enemies radio ordered and Quiet peeked around the corner of her cover and the heavy soldiers rush off towards a different path to respond to the choas.

Quiet was confused by this, she wondered why would they leave the super computer to the drones but either way she wasn't complaining this only made things easier.

Shepard then peeked out of his cover looking at the super computer "Best for us is for you to take on the drones, these things are fast and will do everything they can to stop us. While you distract them we will head for it and manually disable them. You good with that Quiet?".

There was no response and Shepard looked to Quiet and she was just gone, frowning in confusion he looked to Lawson who was just as confused. "Where the fuck is she?".

All of a sudden they heard a massive explosion and the blast knocked both Shepard and Lawson off their feet, quickly getting up the two readied their weapons. "Lets go buddy!" Shepard ordered and the two rushed from cover to attack but then they suddenly stopped at the sight before them.

The drones fell to the ground and standing there with a rocket launcher was Quiet still aiming at the super computer she just destroyed, in just two seconds she just solved the problem.

"You fucking kidding me?" Shepard lowered his weapon along with Lawson and they just looked awestruck.

Quiet then just dropped the rocket launcher and took out a pack of cigarettes and still just standing there she placed one in her mouth and lit it up, Shepard and Lawson now knew how serious this woman was and soon she inhaled and let out an exhale as she looked at the destroyed super computer.

"Guess she was two steps ahead this whole time" Shepard looked to Lawson who just grunted in response, soon Quiet turned around to them and motioned her head telling them to hurry up. She then turned taking her sniper rifle off her back and she continued on her journey.

"Women love to make us guys look bad" Shepard sighed and Lawson chuckled as they rushed to catch up with Quiet.

"Roberto this is Shepard the Drones are down, start making your way up the mountain and to the base. We will find an entry point" Shepard radioed.

"Well done, we will see you on the field of battle. Roberto out" Shepard ended the call and the three rushed off to the meet up point ready to finally head to the base, it was a clear path to it now.

However Quiet couldnt help but suspect taking down the drones was too easy, she couldn't place her finger on it but she didnt like it one bit.

"Yep Quiet pretty much showed up Shepard and Lawson showing how simple she can do things against standard enemies and I enjoyed writing this lol, next chapter will show the team reunite as they come to the massive base. Once they reach the base, the countdown to the end of CHAPTER 2 begins! GET READY!