Metal Gear: The New Menace

By: SolidSnake

Chapter 3: Unexpected Enemy

"Drop your weapons, I said!!" Snake dropped his SOCOM pistol to the floor. He noticed that the second guard was gone. When Snake put his hands up in surrender, the guard bent over to pick up the SOCOM. In an instant, Snake was behind him, had his neck snapped, and his SOCOM in holster.

Otacon had the headache from hell. He felt as if he had been asleep forever. Looking around, he found that he was in a makeshift prision cell. There were two guards asleep outside of his cell. The Stealth! I should use the stealth and steal the keys from the guard. With his stealth camouflage on, he stole the guard's key, unlocked his door, ran out of the room and tried to reach Snake by Codec. But, when he tried to use the Codec, it gave him a disabling headache. "I guess I'll have to find Snake without the help of the Codec." And he set off down the hallway to find Snake.

"That was a rush," Snake said, and picked up the guard's AKS-74u. "This could be useful." He pointed the gun in front of him and crept slowly down the hallway. Before too long he was at the end of the hallway corridor and into an open area. The area had pieces of machining material strewn about and the walls seemed charred. There must have been some sort of huge explosion, Snake thought to himself. He surveyed the area. Noone. Nothing but charred metal and bodies. The bodies looked as though they were a day old. Something happened here. Something big. Something-

There was a crash. Snake whirled around with his AK pointed in the direction of the noise. "Snake!!" A dark figure loomed in the distance. "Long time, no see. Well, short time anyway. This time I'm the bad guy. The son of Solidus. JACK THE RIPPER!!"

"Raiden?!" Snake edged toward him.

"Surely you don't think you can defeat me."

Snake laughed, "You're awfully cocky for a rookie. What makes you think you can take over the world?"

"My allies. Clones of some of the best. You defeated their originals BUT NOW THEY WILL KILL YOU!" Raiden chuckled. "There's no POSSIBLE way to escape from this facility."

"So you're the one handling the new Metal Gear project!"

"No, Snake. I'm in charge of Defense. She is in charge of Metal Gear."

"Who?"

"Silverburgh. She's the mastermind after the world now. Along with her new acquaintance! Psycho Mantis!!"

"What??? I KILLED HIM!!" Snake was growing more and more angry.

"No, Snake. You killed his brother. This is the REAL Psycho Mantis. And the real Silverburgh."

"Who is Silverburgh??"

Raiden laughed out loud. "You remember her. You met in Shadow Moses."

Snake was shocked. "Meryl?!?!"

"Yes. She is relaying messages from Mantis. He can't talk, you know. He's a telepathic one. A 'gifted mute' as he calls himself. Now, it's time for me to run. Save your friend, if you can. I have an important date with Ocelot."

"Ocelot....he's still after Metal Gear??"

"Yes, but it's Liquid who's after Metal Gear, and Ocelot's pretty much just along for the ride."

"You'll never leave this room alive."

"Sure I will. Noone can stop me now!" Snake noticed a red laster dot on Raiden's forehead. "I am Raiden!! Jack the Ripper!!! Not a single person can match my pow-" A gunshot rang out through the room, and Raiden fell to the floor, the back half of his head gone. Snake lowered his gun. Hundreds of things were racing through his mind. Metal Gear, Raiden, Meryl....If Meryl is still alive, then...then she still might remember me. But with Mantis...maybe he destroyed her memory...this makes no sense!

Snake picked up his gun and made his way to the elevator. He walked into it and pressed the highest number on the pad, "20". The elevator began to move. 1, 2, 3, 4.....Snake let out a sigh. "Who killed Raiden? How'd they get in?" Snake was talking to himself. 13, 14, 15....Suddenly, the elevator lurched to a stop. The doors opened, and Snake was in a room with blood covered walls.

Bodies and bloodpools were all over the floors. Some of the soldier's bodies were still twitching. As if they were killed only minutes ago. As if... "No, please no!!" A quivering voice was coming from the other end of the room. He brought up his weapon. A guard was in the corner of the room, shaking with fear. At once he was lifted by some invisible force into the air, and cut in half. Both of the Guard's writhing bloody halves hit the floor and created a large pool of blood, seeping into the doorway leading out of the room. The door opened, then shut. It was if someone invisible had killed the guard and opened the door.....