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METAL GEAR GUMBALL
THE TWIN CATS
Written and edited by LifePaint.
Chapter 4: The Tank
[Recommended track: MGS OST / 07 - Intruder 2]
After his chit chat with his new partner, Feline waited at the spot he found cover in for a few minutes before hearing his codec ringing again. He wasted no time and he immediately answered.
[ENTER CALL]
Penny: "Hey Feline, I unlocked the Cargo door."
Feline: "All right, where are you at?"
Penny: "Where-I-ca-see-ya."
Feline: "Huh? But I'm hiding in a dead end- Wait, don't move around too much! You might get hurt!"
Penny: "And how is that going to happen? I'm disguised you know?"
Feline: "Oh-yeah, right, but still! Be careful!
Penny: "If anyone has to be careful here than that one is you, the cargo door gets locked when it spots an intruder and it realises gas!"
Feline: "Of course, classic clichés."
Penny: "Anyway, I'll meet you at the warhead building, good luck!"
[EXIT CALL]
Feline decided to loot the place and search for anything useful before leaving the building for good, he managed to scavage some ammo, ration and he also found a mine detector in a closet. He snatched it and dashed through all the rooms leading up to the cargo door, a few guards were giving the open door some questionable looks but shifted their focus back at their posts. Feline took the advantage and sprinted at the cargo door and was about to-
[´´CALL´´]
"Huh?" Feline had managed to stop exactly Infront of the door and answered the call. It was Penny again.
[ENTER CALL]
Feline: "Penny? What's up?"
Penny: "I forgot to tell you something! The censors that trigger the gas are most likely lasers, you won't be able to see them with your naked eyes. I suggest you use some kind of spotting device."
Feline: "Hmm… OH THAT'S IT! These Thermal goggles I have will do the trick!"
Penny: "Ok good! All right, time for me to heads out, good luck Feline! Be careful!"
[EXIT CALL]
Feline took the goggles and placed them on his head to see what he was supposed to see. Lasers, lasers everywhere in the hall. What made it more interesting was that some lasers were moving in different directions. Feline gulped knowing that he had to be about 10 times more careful if he wanted to get through.
He carefully started tip toing his way, avoiding some of the lasers, but was then forced to a snake like position and had to crawl. Half way through he jumped at the last second and successfully avoided a moving laser, and finally, he parkoured the rest of the way without touching the lasers.
Once he was through, he took of the goggles from his head and fixed his bandana which was a bit out of position due to the parkour he did.
"Still got it…" Feline said smugly and continued his way out. Now he was outside again, he was in an area that was mostly sounded by rocks and mountains but there was a clear open way to a building, and judging by his info that had to be the warhead storage building.
"Wow, the way is open? Great!" He said out loud and started sprinting his way to the door but-
[´´CALL´´]
Feline stopped and sighed heavily. "Ugh, seriously? She may be smart and pretty but she's starting to anoy-" He looked at the frequency expecting to see Penny's, but instead he saw a different one. This Frequency read 140.48, however fearing for the worst Feline answered it non the less.
[ENTER CALL]
Feline: "Hello?"
?: "Feline, you need to be careful. There are claymores around this area, you'll have to use a mine detector or else you'll be blown to oblivion!"
Feline: "Oh umm, thanks I guess…. Wait, who are you?"
?: "You can call me…. Deepcoat."
Feline: "Deepcoat? You are using burst transmissions, are you on the island?"
Deepcoat: "That's not important. Listen, there's a tank at the area you're in right now ready to ambush you."
Feline: "Wha…. who are you!?"
Deepcoat: "Your biggest fan."
Feline: "..."
[EXIT CALL]
Once the mysterious caller abruptly left the conversation, it only meant one thing.
"I suppose that wasn't Sarah nor Penny. Is there someone else I have to worry about? Wasn't liquid, the rogue members, the Cyborg ninja guy and Metal gear already enough!?" Feline said frustrated and bewildered at what was happening this night. An hour into this island and almost everything changed ever since he first arrived. The targets he had to save died suddenly, and he found out that he has to take care of a new metal gear. God knows what this new one was capable of….
Despite the odd behaviour, not to mention the possibility of lies, Feline used the Mine detector he had found earlier, and Deepcoats warning proved to be true. The mind detector was beeping loudly and it showed in Feline's radar where the claymores and were. Feline carefully crawled among the Bombs and deactivated them, to make sure that IF he was to return, he wouldn't be blown to Uganda.
After he had deactivated and collected all the explosives, he continued his way through the thick snow but due to a loud sound which was only getting louder by the second, he was reminded by Deepcoats second warning.
DRDRDRDRDRDRRDRDRD
A gigantic Tank with a Black camo was coming right towards Feline.
"Oh oh…" Was the only thing that could escape Feline's mouth. The Tank had stopped a few meters away from the cat.
"This is Jamie's territory winnie." A deep yet feminine voice spoke, with an accent that Feline couldn't exactly identify. From the tank's door emerged a figure that appeared to be anthropic but had 2 horns sticking out of her head; orange hair covered both of her eyes and had shaman like markings all over her body. She looked menacingly at the cat which was basically a Mindjet when compared to her. Her presents made Feline feel very uneasy, not just because she was in a tank, but because she herself was at least 3 times bigger than he was.
From what he was seeing and had heard, Feline quickly realised that she was Vulcan Jamie, the muscle and the physically strongest out of the Jr High force team.
"What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?" She interrupted Feline's thoughts and gave him a devilish glare. "This isn't a place for losers' punk. Beat it." Apparently, Jamie wanted to get rid of Feline without resorting to violence, however he had a mission to accomplish so even tho he was scared beyond believe, he had to take a step forward. That however only triggered Jamie's valent side and ordered the soldiers that were operating the tank to fire a missile at him.
PEW
Feline barely managed to dodge the missile and the force of the explosion blew him right in a conveniently laid garbage can.
"HAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHA" Jamie laughed in her amusement of Felines current placement.
"That's right, losers belong in the trash." Jamie shouted as Feline was getting out of the garbage. Not appreciating the treatment, he was receiving, he stood his own ground and was ready to fight.
"You should just stay in the garbage like the pathetic loser hero wannabe you are."
Felines eyes fuelled with anger after all the insults she had thrown him. "Look who's talking," Feline spoke as a grin cracked on his face, "I'm not the one who's hiding inside a tank like a big baby."
Jamie's eyes popped out of the hair that was covering them. "YOU WILL RGRET WHAT YOU SAID!" She shouted and got back inside the tank; she then ordered the others to start the engine.
[Recommended track: MGS OST/06-Encounter]
Feline was ready to battle, he would not run away from the battlefield and would defeat Jamie….
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH" …. that didn't mean however that he would not run while fighting. Feline ran for his life the tank was definitely faster but was also bulky so when Feline took a turn the tank would barely catch up, and it could easily crash at the rocks that surrounded the snow filled field.
Eventually they had last sight of him, and Feline took the opportunity to hide behind some rocks. He was breathing heavily cause of all the sprinting and running and of course from shouting.
"How the heck am I supposed to get past this…. minotaur…human…. Whatever it is!" Feline talked to himself and started to look on his back for anything useful. He took out all the claymores and grenades he had and came out with a plan. "Oh, that's it!" He said rather excitedly.
Feline came out in the open and when the tank had noticed him, he threw a jamming grenade at it. The tank had briefly lost all control and remained still. Feline took the opportunity and placed the claymores he had collected around the tank, so that when it moved to any direction the claymore would explode. Once the jamming faded and the Tank was functional again, it tried to turn left but-BOOM
Feline's strategy proved successful as the tank was damaged by the explosion, however it was still functional. He threw a grenade inside the tank, hoping to get rid of at least one of them, and when it exploded one of the soldiers was blown out of the tank and gave out a girly scream on the meanwhile. That silliness made Feline chuckle. Once the tank recovered from all the damage the other guard came out and used a MG to shoot at Feline. However, Feline proved faster than a bullet and lured the tank to some more claymores he had laid on the snow. Jamie was fooled yet again and the tank was damaged even more. And just like before, Feline threw another grenade inside the tank and it was enough to completely destroy the tank. The war machine was suffering from various explosions and then finally, its time had come.
BOOM
Both the guard and Jamie were blown off, the guard landed near Feline's position and Jamie rather ironically landed in the trash that Feline was just a few moments before. Once he had noticed that he couldn't help but laugh at the irony of the situation, and of course he had to make a joke out of it.
"Hey tiny! Why did the bully get blown off in the air?" Feline shouted at her. She didn't answer what soever but that didn't stop Feline from making his punchline.
"TO LAND IN THE TRASH!" He had laughed his butt off out of his lame joke, Jamie meanwhile groaned at both the irony and the joke.
Feline went at the soldiers now lifeless corpse, hoping to find something useful and to his pleasure, there was a level 2 card in his pocket, which meant that he could now enter even more doors than before.
"Hee-hee," Feline chuckled mischievously and gave one last look at Jamie before continuing his way to the warhead storage building. „who's the loser now?" He mumbled and then made his way to the next stop.
While he was walking away with the card in the hand Jamie began to rose up from the garbage and noticed him walking away. She then activated a headset that was around her head.
"I hope your happy boss, I let myself get humiliated by this butt-face and I landed in the trash because of it! But anyway, he got the card like you wanted."
"Hehehe," A sinister laugh came from the other line. "we'll play with him a bit more than we'll get rid of him." The voice was childish, very similar to felines but it also had a very bizarre British accent. "Do tell me though, what did you think of him?"
"He's just like you, an annoying idiot who always throws some kind of insult at you and manages to get way. However, in battle he is as if he's possessed by a demon of some sorts." Jamie answered to her boss.
Another voice had interrupted in the call. "I told ya he was like this when we fought and you didn't believe me!"
"Huh? Who's that?" Jamie asked, not recognizing the voice.
"It's me Spinzellot you brain dead bison!" Spinzellot said insultingly at Jamie. "Look boss, do whatever you want with him but I'll be the one to kill him, I didn't lose my arm for nothing."
Because of the insult Spinzellot had just thrown at her, Jamie decided to mock him at his rather…armless state…. "Hey Spinzellot?"
"What?"
"You need a HAND?"
Both her and "The Boss" laughed at the joke despite it not being anything too special. „Wow, thanks a lot jerk. I work my butt of to get information out of others and almost kill the intruder only for you to make fun out of me?"
"About your way of "Getting information", need I remind you about the accident you caused with the Darpa chief?" The boss said in a stingy tone.
"Ugh, I told you that I won't repeat that mistake-"
"BE QUIET SPINZELLOT!" He cut his comrade off. A small moment of silence followed before Jamie spoke again.
"Dealing with a kitty will be easy boss." Jamie said, mocking the fact that Feline was basically a young cat that has to face 5 super soldiers. The boss took a small moment to responded.
"Need I remind you Jamie that Felines aren't only kittens." He began with a threating tone. "The species is extended through various animals that are feared in this world. A tiger is feared for its strength, sharp claws, deadly teeth, and its mighty roar." Both Jamie and Spinzellot were listening carefully at what their boss had to say, slowly realising with who exactly they were dealing with. "Feline might be a cat, but just like his roots, he's warrior to fear for. This is why he and I share the name. Not to mention, out of all the mercenaries in Jr High force, I was chosen to be your squad leader by the president herself." Another moment of silence followed until he spoke again. "Did I make myself clear comrades?" Both answered a "Yes", not really having a variety of options.
"Next time when I'll meet him, I'll take special care of him." Spinzellot spoke again.
"No no no, you won't kill him… I wanna amuse myself a bit and we need to know the government's plans." The Boss clarified.
Jamie interrupted the conversation. "Before you meet him again, I'll have one last battle with him."
"Same prediction as always?" Spinzellot asked.
"The bull tattoo in my head never proved false. It thirsts for its blood…."
Jamie saw as Feline found the entrance to the warhead storage building, the time to save the doctor had finally come. However, he needed to save his data, just in case.
[ENTER CALL]
Sarah: "Hi Feline! Great job back there! You showed that bully what happens when someone messes with You! Im so proud!"
Feline: "Ehe, yeah thanks….. "
Sarah: "Feline, in china they say "You must cross the river before you tell the crocodile he has bad breath." Do you know what it means?"
Feline: "Not to mess with crocodiles, but mess with them when they can't do anything about it? "
Sarah: "What? No! It means that wise people avoid danger! Use your brain to get across and avoid the guards!"
Feline: "Then why does the quote say that you should insult the crocodile after you get across?"
Sarah: "Emm…"
Feline: "Exactly."
[EXIT CALL]
A/N
So… I know that it's been a while since I last posted a chapter on any of my stories. To give a quick summery, I had writers block with "The Prank" (My other story) and I didn't have any time for this Story. Despite not giving you guys any update for about 2 to 3 months, I don't really have much to comment on, I'm trying my best to rewrite the story frame by frame without making it a bland adaptation.
I would really appreciate any criticism or your thoughts on the story, it helps me improve my writing and to make better story's. And of course, let me know if you enjoy what you're reading! ^^