Metal Gear Solid 3: Enter the Patriots

Chapter 9

The lift came to an abrupt halt. Snake exited and viewed his surroundings. He was now back outside, the sky pitch black, with no sign of the moon from his current position. From where he was standing, he could see multiple catwalks, all leading to different destinations.

"The heck is this?" Snake said confused.

His Codec seem to coincidentally rang.

Snake: "This is Snake..."

There was a long pause...but then the person on the other end begin to speak.

"Hello, Snake, remember me?" A disguised voice said questionably.

"!?" Was Snake's immediate expression.

"Heh."

Snake: "Who the hell is this!?"

"I can't tell you that, as of yet...."

Snake: "Why the hell not!? How did you get my frequency!?"

"Aren't these ignorant questions Snake!?"

Snake: "..."

"Listen, there is an ambush waiting for you on this junction..."

Snake: "!!"

Snake could see numerous armed soldiers coming from the destinations along the junction.

"Go through the middle catwalk, its the safest way."

Snake: "Wait...!!!!!!"

The codec went dead on the other side.

Snake drew his Socom and held it in the weaver stance position and begin fire rounds at the guards, which he was only met by streams of automatic return fire from his enemies. Snake jumped down, and was grateful that the catwalk he was on was higher than their's, and that it had a 2 foot protective grate, in which he could crawl under the cover of into he reached the next area.

Snake crawled at a normal pace, he could hear the bullets ricocheting off the grate metal surface. His senses were calm, and his mind was concentrated on the next area.

Finally, he reached the door in which would lead him into the next area. His caution rate was up, since obviously they knew he was here now. Otherwise that trap wouldn't have been set up.

Somewhere in another region of the base....

Ocelot still dressed in his custom cowboy suit, is seen talking to Target. The man whom Snake had a confrontation with earlier.

"So did the trap work?" Target questioned Ocelot.

"No...did you really expect for it to work?"

"Why, no...if you say he is as good as he is...."

"That's right, it would take the Kings Army and them some.." Ocelot said with a half smirk.

"Overstatement?"

"Perhaps an understatement, if you don't watch him, you will wind up dead like all the rest...." Ocelot said coldly.

"I doubt it..."

"Didn't you only survive that fight because she saved you?"

"Such a...statement...."

"If she had distorted everything, you'd be dead."

Target made a move towards Ocelot, but was met with the cold steel of his revolver resting on his head.

"Think twice before doing that again...." Ocelot warned.

Target backed off smiling.

"You haven't slow down with age have you Ocelot?"

"All who think that, are in Mother Earth." Ocelot said arrogantly.

"Right...anyway about her, will deploy here." Target pointed at a location filled with catwalks on a map.

"Splendid....." Was Ocelot's response.

Snake entered the next area not the least bit tense from the gunfire that just ringed around him. He stood up and looked around the new area. This room was not as wide as the others. It shared the same sullen, cold feelings as the others did however. As routine as ever, he decided to give Otacon a ring.

Snake: "Otacon....seems like they know I'm here."

Otacon: "Well, that isn't news is it?"

Snake: "Heh, yeah gotten use to it, as long as they don't know my exact position."

Otacon: "Yes, don't want that to happen....."

Snake: "Looks like, there are some storage rooms in here."

Snake notices a guard coming and ducks into one of them.

Otacon: "What do you think there storing in them?"

Snake searched through some of the stuff and took some clips that were ammo for his Socom.

Snake: "Ammo mostly, the others probably got some other kind of weapons, this is a military base....."

Otacon: "That's true.....you see anything ahead?"

Snake took a quick peek out, and notices another door at the far end of the current area in which he was in.

Snake: "Yeah another exit...."

Otacon: "Ok, remember your main focus is finding out where is Arsenal is, and about the nuclear capabilities."

Snake: "Right...Snake out"