Metal Gear: The New Menace

By: SolidSnake

Chapter 4: Shock

Snake cautiously crept towards the door, SOCOM pistol drawn and ready. He walked slowly down the corridor, being careful to step over the dead bodies. Suddenly, a hand grabbed Snake's leg. "Help me....please...help..." A guard choked to Snake. He shook off the dying terrorist's arms and went through the door.

"But you died in Shadow Moses! How could you be alive?!?" Otacon backed into a corner and collapsed. Snake could see a figure edging closer to Otacon. When he got closer, he gasped. It was a cyborg ninja that looked exactly like Grey Fox from Shadow Moses.

"Who are you?" Snake yelled.

The ninja replied, "I'm like you. I have no name." Snake was getting pissed.

"I said, 'Who are you?'. Answer me!"

"Neither enemy nor friend. Not someone you've met before, I can assure you. You knew my mother."

"What?" Snake was confused. He tried to put it all together in his mind.

The ninja laughed. "So you don't remember what happened in the Big Shell?"

"You couldn't be..." Snake paused. "Are you..are you Olga's child?"

"Correct you are." The ninja put away his sword. "Olga's son, Sergei!"

"How is that possible? Raiden was killed, so I thought that the Patriots were to kill you if he died!"

Sergei smiled. "You don't think that I could let that happen, do you? You see, after you told Raiden to go start his life over, he didn't listen to you. He set off to find me. And when he did, he told me everything, and how that if he were to die, I would. So I drugged him and gave him a blood transfusion. The nanomachines that relayed information to the Patriots were reprogrammed to always emit a signal that would tell them that he was alive and well."

"Clever. So what's your cause? Why are you here?"

"I am here to kill the man who killed my mother!"

Snake nearly dropped his pistol. "Solidus?!? But Raiden killed him!"

"Yes," Sergei replied. "But the United States government revived him to try to make a perfect clone of Big Boss. To fix the mistakes made in the "Les enfants terribles" project. To kill you off." He stepped towards the door. "Your friend is in that locker, hiding from my presence. You need to get him a psychiatrist. He's too jumpy, even with his Stealth Camouflage. If you need any assistance, contact me by codec. My freqency is 141.32. Here, take these." Sergei handed Snake a card. "This is a security card. It will get you past doors with security level 3 access." Snake pocketed the card. "Take this assault rifle. It is far better than that pathetic AK you have now." Snake took the gun from Sergei's hand. Nice, a FA-MAS rifle. I like this gun. Snake holstered the FA-MAS.

"How did you know that I-" Snake looked up and Sergei was gone.

Snake walked over to the locker Otacon was hiding in. "How long are you going to stay in there?" He laughed. "Just like Shadow Moses". Otacon got out.

"That was scary. I thought maybe they revived Grey Fox." Otacon brushed the dust off of his coat.

"Go outside," Snake told Otacon. "There should be an Icehouse somewhere nearby. It'll have rations and things inside. You'll be safe there. If I need anything, I'll be sure to call you on the codec. Go!" Otacon started out the door, then hesitated.

Otacon sighed. "I don't know why I didn't fire my handgun," he said. "I just couldn't do it. I had it for protection, but I didn't use it." Snake walked over to him.

"People are different. Some people can shoot others without blinking an eye. You are not that type. You are a hacker, not a mercenary. You'll be safe in there. Go, before guards come."

"OK, Snake. Seeya later!" Otacon turned on his Stealth Camouflage and ran out the door. Snake drew his FA-MAS rifle from it's holster and slowly walked forward through another small corridor. After walking a ways and taking care of a few sentries, he came across a security access door. The door said Security Access Lv. 3 required. Snake took out his clearance card and the door opened just a little then stopped.

"What the hell is going on?" Snake was furious. He started to look back toward the door he came in from and noticed an air duct opening on the ceiling. Snake tried to reach it, but couldn't. He was just too short to reach it. He had an idea. Stepping back, he set the AKS-74u on the ground. Stepping on it, he was able to grab ahold of the duct's opening, and he went into it.

Upon entry, Snake immediately noticed that the air duct's size was abnormally large. This worried him. Why would they make an air duct larger? It's as if they intentionally made it for personnel transport rather than ventilation... He crawled for a while and came upon a closed duct vent. There were two guards conversing below. Snake stopped and listened into their conversation.

"Raiden is dead. Couldn't have happened to a better person. He was a demanding son of a bitch."

The other guard chuckled. "Yes he was. But who killed him? It wasn't the intruder was it?"

"No. It was that sniper woman. The best sniper on the face of the planet. Her mother was killed in Shadow Moses." A sniper woman whose mother was killed in Shadow Moses, Snake thought. Could it be...

"Sniper Wolf's daughter, Sniper Vixen."

The second guard smiled. "I know why they call her Vixen. She sure is easy on the eyes." Both guards laughed.

"That's for sure. Lets get back to the heliport. Silverburgh is waiting." They both ran off. Snake crawled out of the duct, brushed himself off, and drew his FA-MAS once again. He noticed something that one of the guards must have dropped on the floor. He picked it up. It was a note. It said, "Silverburgh frequency: 140.15" Meryl's freqency...just like in Shadow Moses... He thought for a moment. After a few minutes of deep thought, he decided to try to contact Silverburgh through the Codec. It rang, and then someone on the other side picked up.

"This is Silverburgh." Snake hesitated from shock. He could see her face...it was Meryl.