1 Chapter Six: Voices…

Otacon looked out over the planes where he had been dumped. He may as well have been a snowman fighting his way out of hell, yet, since he arrived, he seemed to have improved in the physical aspects of the mission. Something that Solidus had said was nagging at the back of his mind, but he couldn't quite get it right.

After his close call with Victoria only moments ago, he felt a strange sense of relaxation as he looked for a likely place to find ammo. He found it in mere seconds. A small, square shack with the same white bullet symbol on the front. He sped up to it, placing his ear against the door with his gun at the ready.

No sounds came from within the building, so Otacon grabbed the doorknob. Slowly he turned it and looked inside the building. Two shelves were racked with boxes of ammunition and various types of weaponry. One in particular caught his eye. It was a Desert Eagle Magnum. "Wasn't that the gun that Meryl used on Shadow Moses?" He thought to himself." He grabbed the Magnum and a small box of ammo for it, and turned to the next box. It was SOCOM ammo.

Otacon breathed a sigh of relief and pocketed several clips of said ammo. Before he turned to the door, he also grabbed a silencer. He tried to fit it on the SOCOM, but it wouldn't fit. He pocketed it, thinking that it may come in handy later. As he placed his hand on the doorknob, he heard a shuffle of feet outside the door. He readied his Magnum, and kicked open the door.

There were two guards that had been outside at the time, one on either side of the door. The one on the left was knocked senseless as the door struck him suddenly. Otacon swung to the right side, and aimed at the remaining guard. "Freeze!" He shouted, pointing the gun directly at the guard's head. The guard shot his hands into the air, still holding his assault rifle. "Drop the gun." Otacon said threateningly. The guard hesitated a moment, then, in a flash, dropped to the ground and pulled out a knife. As he slashed at Otacon's poorly bandaged leg, Otacon fired.

He was horrified by the result of his shot. The guard had a gaping hole straight through his head, to the point where, if Otacon had the strength of mind to look at him closely, he could see through to the other side. A rapidly growing pool of blood covered Otacon's sneakers. Otacon felt his head begin to swim at the gory sight below him. Quickly, he snatched the guard's backpack, and then moved away to examine its contents. Inside he found a pair of camo fatigues, boots, and a Kevlar vest, also camouflaged. He went back into the armory room and changed. After properly dressing the wound on his leg, he holstered both of his guns into the side holsters of his pants. Then he remembered the silencer.

After the sound of the shot that he took, he decided that it would be best if he tried the silencer on his Magnum. Sure enough, it fit. He re- holstered his gun and turned around. He was suddenly blinded by a bright floodlight. A strangely dressed man was sitting in the back of a flatbed truck, much like the one Victoria was driving.

"So you're the one with the nice loud gun." The man said, leaping out of the truck.

"And you're here to make sure I don't leave, right?" Otacon snapped back, pulling out his magnum again.

"No need for that now, you seem to have silenced yourself quite nicely. I'm only here to…" He trailed of in mid sentence, grabbed his left ear and screamed out. "NO! I don't want to! I want to kill him my own way!!"

Otacon was taken aback by this sudden action. He quickly regained his senses and fired a quick shot at the truck's tires. The man in the truck ducked down and pulled out a small, metallic object shaped much like a toaster. He aimed and pushed a button. Abruptly, Otacon's weapons were yanked from his grasp, now stuck in the device's slots.

"You give me no choice, I'll have to do you in like a coward." The man said as he pulled the magnum out of the device. He aimed it directly at Otacon's head, and pulled the trigger.

**Stay tuned for the conclusion of this fight. What is that man's problem? What happened to Otacon? Will Otacon ever find Metal Gear? Find out next chapter.**