Chapter 2: Knowledge is Sadness
The corridor slowly changed into a tunnel, and Raiden
realised that this was not some petty gang. Every few metres,
lights where hanging from the side of the tunnel, but no sort of
mining or any other passageways. The tunnel seemed to go
on for ever. Raiden had reached some makeshift steps made out of concrete
blocks, when he felt the slight messaging sensation in his ear.
"Mason?" he asked, but if there had been anyone there, they wouldn't of
heard it. One of the great advantages of the Codec during stealth missions.
"No, its McAndrew" Albert replied. Raiden wondered why McAlbert would
contact him? "Whats up?" he said. "Raiden, there has been a Nuclear
Explosion in Washington". Raiden was speechless. As with anyone, he was
shocked. but he had a sadness as he realised who was in Washington
at the time, Rose.
"Where abouts?" he asked, his voice sounding different. He
had a pain in his stomach, and he sat on one of the concrete blocks.
"We don't know, exactly but the White House was hit, Langley
wasn't. Ground Zero was a fair bit from the White House though,
and anyone inside at the time, would not of died instantly from the blast.
"And..", he said quietly, " Survivors?" . "We don't know. Rescue Workers
have just arrived on the scene. It only happened like Five minutes ago.
Luckily, the President is in London, but we only just heard that the
Convention was taken over by unknown terrorists, and that the Kremlin
was attacked by, what we think where, Metal Gears, although the
batch rom Big Shell was allegedly destroyed...apart from MG01,
which we don't know much about, except that it was originally
a Marines project".
Raiden knew that McAndrew didn't not know that the
president held no power over the country, either did congress.
The Patriots where the leaders. McAndrew didn't know that MG01,
the Marines Metal Gear Ray, had been used by Revolver Ocelot,
and had been missing for 3 years, since the Big Shell incident.
The official report said that one Soldier from Big Shell, had
try to comandeer the Bipedal Tank to safety when Big Shell
went under, but had limited knowledge of the vehicle, and sunk,
but there was no evidence to back this up, and Raiden knew other
wise anyway.
Only a handful of people in the world knew about the
Metal Gears and the Arms Race, which had ended a year back.
But the fact that both Russia and America was attacked. The
Patriots would never order an attack on their own country..
or would they?
"McAndrew, I'm off the radar, I've stumbled on some
sort of a tun-" Raiden was cut off at the sound of a voice,
A deep Russian voice, which said "Who The Hell?" and hit Raiden
on the head with the butt of his AK-47. Raiden fell backwards,
ignoring the pain in his head, and drew his Socom lightning fast.
It was too late.
The man, rather than kill Raiden, punched him in the
face. Then all Raiden could see, was darkness.
***
"Raiden?" said Albert McAndrew back at the Fox Hound headquarters.
He too, had no codec, and relied on a computer to comunicate with raiden.
"Raiden?" he said more loudly. He checked the computer screen. His
vital signs where all fine, his heart beat was a little slower. Another
dot was on the Radar screen now, with Raidens dot following closely behind.
Albert knew that he was being dragged. He watched for a minute, and
6 more dots suddenly appeared.
He was glad for one of the codecs new features now, which he
turned on. It allowed him to hear what was going on, through Raidens Codec,
and his computer. He heared Deep Russian voices, speaking in English.
"What the-?" said one voice. "Who is that" said another. Another person
said something in Russian. "He was sitting near the entrance to JH-99,
Gurmavovic" said a different voice, which albert presumed was the one
who had been dragging Raiden. "What should I do?"
"We'll put him in the cells, no point killing him...yet, he may tell us
what he was doing here. If he was sent by an agency, someone may
know about us" said the first voice, Gurmavocic.
"Alan, Wheres Mr. Mason?" asked Albert to the only
other person in the large room, and probably the entire floor.
"Gone to the Communications room, I think, to contact Langley" replied
Alan Henson, Mason's secretry. Albert got up from his chair, and walked
out of the office with a quickness in his pace. He went through the
next office, which was empty, and into the Hall on the right side of
the building. FH - HQ was 40 stories tall, but wasn't very wide.
Covert and Special missions took up floors 20 - 33, housing multiple
groups of highly trained soldiers, directors, and organisers of each
mission. VR Training was on Levels 34 - 36, Satellite rooms where on
37- 40, the first 12 floors had many offices, where normal office workers
worked, who where not involved much with the missions, Levels 13 and 14
had an infirmary. Level 15 was the armoury, housing all of the weapons
used on missions, Levels 16 to 19 where the communications, used for
communicating, slicing, hacking, and various other things.
Albert went into the elevator, and selected Level 18, which was where
communications to other Security Agencies usually took place.
The whole floor was a complete contrast to Covert and Special Missions,
and the main corridor alone was packed. He went through the Third
Door on the Right, which was the main communications room on the
floor.
Again, the room was packed. He could see Mason at the main
Computer at the end of the room, with Hakuchi at the other end.
Hakuchi was the main Technology Expert in Fox Hound. He invented
the Codec add-on which allowed Mason to find out what happened to
Raiden. He was supposed to be working on a video imaging implant, which
apread from the main Codec to the eye, in the Fox Hound labs in L.A.
"Sir?", he began, as Mason began typing keys on the keyboard, and
watching the results on the large plasma screen. In one window was
the Image of Washington, this time from further away, but the result
of the explosion still clearly visible. The thich brown cloud was about
a square inch on the map, with a yellow dot representing the white house
at the end, and Langley another bit away. More dots represented
the other security agencies Headquarters including the NSA and the FBI.
Another window had an image of the leader of MI6, whose codename,
contrary to the James Bond films , was "C", Alex Timothy, director
of the FBI, Joseph Mehinan, who ran the NSA, and Paul Smith of the
CIA.
It was a video conference between the 5, each one could
see the other and hear the other, except if one was talking to another
in private.
"I'm busy, McAndrew." said Mason. "But sir.." began
Albert. Mason ingnored him, and turned back to the computer.
"C, Have you managed to infiltrate the Convention Centre?"
asked Mason, talking to the leader of MI6. Albert decided to wait.
"It is too dangerous.. we have negotiators, snipers and all of
the London Police force outside that building, Our men are trying
to contact the Terrorists".
Mason nodded. "Paul, what is the situation in Washinton?"
Paul Smith, Director of the C.I.A., spoke up, " Men in anti- radiation
suits, Firemen, Medics.. they're all at the scene. Many people
on the outskirts of the blast are Still Alive, but injured and suffering
from the Radiation. Its a horrible sight. The Anti Radiation
guys are bringing out bodies all the time, But the medics are a few miles
from the radius, as they are not suitably equiped to go any nearer,
so the survivors are being brought in Trucks."
"Do any of you have any word of the incident in Russia?" asked
Alex Timothy, director of the FBI. "They haven't stopped the
mechanical monsters, but Smivski has been evacuated, and sent
word that it was not a Russian Attack on America, and that we
had his deepest condolences" said Joseph Mehinan, of the NSA.
"Sir, this is important!" said Albert. "Go Away, McAndrew" said
Mason. Albert left the room.
***
Kilovic was watching the news, which was now showing the
attacks on the Kremlin. The reporter was back, and the camera
man had got a new camera from somewhere. Kilovic hadn't
planned the attack, but it was a great addition. He did not know
where the two Rays had come from, but he guessed that they
where salvaged from Big Shell, and stored in one of the Patriots
warehouses. he did know the rogue patriot who ordered them
to attack.
He did not know much about the Metal Gear Projects,
and the Arms race of a year back, but he made a mental note
to find out about them, a personal Metal Gear would prove
handy.
The corridor slowly changed into a tunnel, and Raiden
realised that this was not some petty gang. Every few metres,
lights where hanging from the side of the tunnel, but no sort of
mining or any other passageways. The tunnel seemed to go
on for ever. Raiden had reached some makeshift steps made out of concrete
blocks, when he felt the slight messaging sensation in his ear.
"Mason?" he asked, but if there had been anyone there, they wouldn't of
heard it. One of the great advantages of the Codec during stealth missions.
"No, its McAndrew" Albert replied. Raiden wondered why McAlbert would
contact him? "Whats up?" he said. "Raiden, there has been a Nuclear
Explosion in Washington". Raiden was speechless. As with anyone, he was
shocked. but he had a sadness as he realised who was in Washington
at the time, Rose.
"Where abouts?" he asked, his voice sounding different. He
had a pain in his stomach, and he sat on one of the concrete blocks.
"We don't know, exactly but the White House was hit, Langley
wasn't. Ground Zero was a fair bit from the White House though,
and anyone inside at the time, would not of died instantly from the blast.
"And..", he said quietly, " Survivors?" . "We don't know. Rescue Workers
have just arrived on the scene. It only happened like Five minutes ago.
Luckily, the President is in London, but we only just heard that the
Convention was taken over by unknown terrorists, and that the Kremlin
was attacked by, what we think where, Metal Gears, although the
batch rom Big Shell was allegedly destroyed...apart from MG01,
which we don't know much about, except that it was originally
a Marines project".
Raiden knew that McAndrew didn't not know that the
president held no power over the country, either did congress.
The Patriots where the leaders. McAndrew didn't know that MG01,
the Marines Metal Gear Ray, had been used by Revolver Ocelot,
and had been missing for 3 years, since the Big Shell incident.
The official report said that one Soldier from Big Shell, had
try to comandeer the Bipedal Tank to safety when Big Shell
went under, but had limited knowledge of the vehicle, and sunk,
but there was no evidence to back this up, and Raiden knew other
wise anyway.
Only a handful of people in the world knew about the
Metal Gears and the Arms Race, which had ended a year back.
But the fact that both Russia and America was attacked. The
Patriots would never order an attack on their own country..
or would they?
"McAndrew, I'm off the radar, I've stumbled on some
sort of a tun-" Raiden was cut off at the sound of a voice,
A deep Russian voice, which said "Who The Hell?" and hit Raiden
on the head with the butt of his AK-47. Raiden fell backwards,
ignoring the pain in his head, and drew his Socom lightning fast.
It was too late.
The man, rather than kill Raiden, punched him in the
face. Then all Raiden could see, was darkness.
***
"Raiden?" said Albert McAndrew back at the Fox Hound headquarters.
He too, had no codec, and relied on a computer to comunicate with raiden.
"Raiden?" he said more loudly. He checked the computer screen. His
vital signs where all fine, his heart beat was a little slower. Another
dot was on the Radar screen now, with Raidens dot following closely behind.
Albert knew that he was being dragged. He watched for a minute, and
6 more dots suddenly appeared.
He was glad for one of the codecs new features now, which he
turned on. It allowed him to hear what was going on, through Raidens Codec,
and his computer. He heared Deep Russian voices, speaking in English.
"What the-?" said one voice. "Who is that" said another. Another person
said something in Russian. "He was sitting near the entrance to JH-99,
Gurmavovic" said a different voice, which albert presumed was the one
who had been dragging Raiden. "What should I do?"
"We'll put him in the cells, no point killing him...yet, he may tell us
what he was doing here. If he was sent by an agency, someone may
know about us" said the first voice, Gurmavocic.
"Alan, Wheres Mr. Mason?" asked Albert to the only
other person in the large room, and probably the entire floor.
"Gone to the Communications room, I think, to contact Langley" replied
Alan Henson, Mason's secretry. Albert got up from his chair, and walked
out of the office with a quickness in his pace. He went through the
next office, which was empty, and into the Hall on the right side of
the building. FH - HQ was 40 stories tall, but wasn't very wide.
Covert and Special missions took up floors 20 - 33, housing multiple
groups of highly trained soldiers, directors, and organisers of each
mission. VR Training was on Levels 34 - 36, Satellite rooms where on
37- 40, the first 12 floors had many offices, where normal office workers
worked, who where not involved much with the missions, Levels 13 and 14
had an infirmary. Level 15 was the armoury, housing all of the weapons
used on missions, Levels 16 to 19 where the communications, used for
communicating, slicing, hacking, and various other things.
Albert went into the elevator, and selected Level 18, which was where
communications to other Security Agencies usually took place.
The whole floor was a complete contrast to Covert and Special Missions,
and the main corridor alone was packed. He went through the Third
Door on the Right, which was the main communications room on the
floor.
Again, the room was packed. He could see Mason at the main
Computer at the end of the room, with Hakuchi at the other end.
Hakuchi was the main Technology Expert in Fox Hound. He invented
the Codec add-on which allowed Mason to find out what happened to
Raiden. He was supposed to be working on a video imaging implant, which
apread from the main Codec to the eye, in the Fox Hound labs in L.A.
"Sir?", he began, as Mason began typing keys on the keyboard, and
watching the results on the large plasma screen. In one window was
the Image of Washington, this time from further away, but the result
of the explosion still clearly visible. The thich brown cloud was about
a square inch on the map, with a yellow dot representing the white house
at the end, and Langley another bit away. More dots represented
the other security agencies Headquarters including the NSA and the FBI.
Another window had an image of the leader of MI6, whose codename,
contrary to the James Bond films , was "C", Alex Timothy, director
of the FBI, Joseph Mehinan, who ran the NSA, and Paul Smith of the
CIA.
It was a video conference between the 5, each one could
see the other and hear the other, except if one was talking to another
in private.
"I'm busy, McAndrew." said Mason. "But sir.." began
Albert. Mason ingnored him, and turned back to the computer.
"C, Have you managed to infiltrate the Convention Centre?"
asked Mason, talking to the leader of MI6. Albert decided to wait.
"It is too dangerous.. we have negotiators, snipers and all of
the London Police force outside that building, Our men are trying
to contact the Terrorists".
Mason nodded. "Paul, what is the situation in Washinton?"
Paul Smith, Director of the C.I.A., spoke up, " Men in anti- radiation
suits, Firemen, Medics.. they're all at the scene. Many people
on the outskirts of the blast are Still Alive, but injured and suffering
from the Radiation. Its a horrible sight. The Anti Radiation
guys are bringing out bodies all the time, But the medics are a few miles
from the radius, as they are not suitably equiped to go any nearer,
so the survivors are being brought in Trucks."
"Do any of you have any word of the incident in Russia?" asked
Alex Timothy, director of the FBI. "They haven't stopped the
mechanical monsters, but Smivski has been evacuated, and sent
word that it was not a Russian Attack on America, and that we
had his deepest condolences" said Joseph Mehinan, of the NSA.
"Sir, this is important!" said Albert. "Go Away, McAndrew" said
Mason. Albert left the room.
***
Kilovic was watching the news, which was now showing the
attacks on the Kremlin. The reporter was back, and the camera
man had got a new camera from somewhere. Kilovic hadn't
planned the attack, but it was a great addition. He did not know
where the two Rays had come from, but he guessed that they
where salvaged from Big Shell, and stored in one of the Patriots
warehouses. he did know the rogue patriot who ordered them
to attack.
He did not know much about the Metal Gear Projects,
and the Arms race of a year back, but he made a mental note
to find out about them, a personal Metal Gear would prove
handy.