Metal Gear Solid 3: Enter the Patriots

Chapter 17

Now...

How the heck would he get out of here alive...

Ocelot had taken the elevator back down, and it appeared to be a control switch to make it come back. Snake looked around frantically as Arsenal rumbled under him.

There...!

A ladder was hidden next to the elevator. Wasting no time, he climbed down the elevator shaft. Within minutes he was down to in the lower level.

"Now what!?" Snake asked himself

Otacon was ringing on the other end.

Otacon: "Snake, what's going on?"

Snake: "It's all coming down!"

Otacon: "What?"

Snake: "Arsenal, Ocelot has rigged it with explosives."

Otacon: "Oh no, this is bad."

Snake: "To state the obvious, those nanos keying in on any escape routes?"

Otacon: "Hold on..."

It only takes a few seconds for Otacon to come up with something.

Otacon: "Snake, the hold up ahead has a one man SUB escape pod."

Snake: "Hmm, I know those. But it's propellant last only for so long...."

Meryl cut in.

Meryl: "Snake."

Snake: "Yes?" He responded to the familiar female voice.

Meryl: "I don't want to sound weak, but promise you'll make it out. I really want to see you again."

There is a brief pause.

Snake: "Meryl, it isn't gonna end here. Lets think about that other stuff later."

Meryl: "Snake, you're right."

Snake: "By the way Otacon, Ocelot dropped a disc."

Snake started to move to the next hold while keeping in conversation with Otacon.


Otacon: "Really!?"

Snake: "Yes, maybe it has some important info on it."

Otacon: "Lets get you out of their first."

Snake: "Right, I'll get back to you once I'm away from Arsenal."

He entered the hold and could see what Otacon was talking about. Apparently, most of the one man SUBs were used already. Possibly by the escaping terrorist guards.

Snake boarded a vacant one. It was a new model, but it had similar controls to the latter one he used in Shadow Moses. In no time, it was up in running.

The SUB shot out of a large launching tube into the deep blue.

Its over...

Snake guided it through the dark ocean.

Just where the hell was he...?

It only took a matter of minutes for Snake to surface. The SUB was only good to stay afloat on now.

As promised he called Otacon on the other end.

Snake: "Otacon, Arsenal is scrapped."

That was true, Arsenal was nothing more than a flaming wreckage now.

Otacon: "Thank God you made it out."

Snake: "After the many escapes I made. I believe I owe Him more than thanks."

Otacon: "Snake about that disc..."

Snake: "Yeah I wonder what is on it."

Otacon: "First things first, we gotta find out where you are."

Snake: "That is-----what the heck!?"

Surfacing from Arsenal was....No it couldn't be...

Metal Gear Ray, the one Ocelot hijack so many years ago. There was no mistake, he would recognise that beast anywhere.

So it was....

Otacon: "Snake what's going on!?"

Snake: "It's Ray!"

Otacon: "What the!? Snake get out of there!"

Ocelot smirked in the cockpit of the Metal Gear model.

"Too late Snake! Did you think I'd let you escape?" Ocelot barked over the intercom.

Time to end this he thought. Ocelot started up the boosters and dived the large mechanical best into the ocean. The impact with the ocean caused a erratic wave that swarmed to Snake's location.

"Damn!"

The huge wave took Snake under. Breaking the Codec link with the impact.

Otacon on the other end could only hear static.

"Snake? Answer me, Snake!????"

He slammed his hands angrily on the desk where he was sitting at. No....

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Snake always said, "Don't come looking for me." If anything happened to him. If he didn't show up after three days, he was probably dead.

Three days had passed...

Meryl had flown in from where she was staying to where Otacon was staying at in Florida. Where was he.…?

Otacon got up and went on his PC checking the logs of the mission. Snake saying "Damn" was the last log. Otacon put his head on the desk and began to bang it soundly. Meryl came over and rubbed his shoulder.

"Otacon...." She said softly.

Otacon just kept his head down.

"You did what you could Otacon."

Otacon and Meryl spun around....Snake!

In the flesh, Snake was a bit tattered from his ordeal. But still his eyes were without fatigue, like he had just went through something routine.

Meryl ran up and hugged him, much to his discomfort because of the fracture rib he had suffered. Yet he didn't show the pain. Otacon was relieved and was about to converse before Snake cut him off.

"First things first, the disc." Snake said seriously.

It was just like him, to act like everything was ok, and to get on with things. Snake pulled out the disc Ocelot had dropped and handed it to Otacon. Otacon immediately booted it up and got to cracking it.

"This might take some time...Snake, its pretty tight."

"That's something we got plenty of" Snake responded.

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I got it! Otacon yelled out.

Snake and Meryl paid more attention to what he was doing.

"So what is it about Otacon?" Snake wanted to know.

"This...its about the Patriots." Otacon said slowly.

They are quiet for a bit.

"That "SEAL" that killed himself was a direct member of the "Patriots." In fact he knew their location."

Otacon continue to look over his dossier.

"Damn! That's why he killed himself!" Snake shouted

"Wait there is something else.....It says the Patriots are both genetic and digital."

"Maybe that is why Ocelot said they want to control the "Information." I don't understand the genetic part though...." Snake said confused by that part.

"I don't either...we knew that the members of the Wiseman Committee died.

"It doesn't make any sense, could this whole thing be ran by a whole new group?" Snake questioned.

"That's a good one, maybe the last one was to throw us off. But what human could mastermind this plot?" Otacon countered.

"And where are they located? Ocelot said that my battle with that "SEAL" in the Bermuda was all they need to complete the S3. What are they planning....?" Snake sat down

They both begin to ponder, suddenly Snake's Codec ringed. He looked at Otacon, and Otacon had the same look as him. The "Better answer it…" look. So Snake did...

"....yeah?" Snake answered it..

"So you made it out, I knew you would."

It was the voice from Arsenal.

"You again, just who the hell are you!?" Snake once again demanded.

"Snake, I figure you know by now that the Patriots are planning something with the S3."

Snake: "...."

"In fact, I know exactly what they are planning."

Snake had to listen to this, even if it was from a unknown source.

"The "S3 Wave", that is their ultimate plan."

"The "S3 Wave"!?" Snake shouted out.

Drawing more attention to himself from Otacon and Meryl.

"Using the completed S3 through subliminal hearing and vision means. Anyone with television, radio or internet would be affected. In those who don't possess that will be affected by the soundless wavelength they will send for insurance."

"Controlling Information...." Snake said to himself.

"That's right."


Snake remained silent...

"What? No, how do I know if you aren't lying?"

What was he to believe these days....

"Who are you!?" Something he still didn't tell him.

"Lets just say....I got tired of being attached to a whole by a limb."

The Transmission ended...

Snake got up in disbelief and turned around in looked out the window. The sun was reaching its Zenith point now. Meryl went over to him.

"Snake, what's wrong?"

Snake stood there for a moment before turning around facing her. The look of disbelief had faded. Time to tell them…

"Well, what is that "S3 Wave" you blurted out?" Otacon asked.

"It's the Patriots way of controlling information, I'll tell you the details later." Snake answered.

"Who was that Snake?" Otacon asked next.

"He said "Lets just say I got tired of being attached to a whole by a limb."

Otacon contemplated for a minute...and his eyes widen. Meryl didn't understand.

"Liquid...." Snake said looking directly in Meryl's eyes.

She put her hands over her mouth.

"But I thought he was..." She said shocked.

They all stood silent for a moment. Snake broke the silence.

"Let's put a end to the Patriots."

The story goes on.....

Somewhere near an unknown Island.

I'm alive?...

Target lay afloat in water. Ocelot's bullet didn't penetrate his heart. Target felt around the area in shock.

Despite his lack of strength Target made it to the shore. That Devil Ocelot had betrayed him, and killed his love. But that was the least of his problems. If what Ocelot said was true. The Patriots were the real enemy...

They would pay.....

THE END