Chapter 4: A Cold Day He wandered the street, his vision blurred, watching all the people go past, looking at him with disgust. He clutched the brown cloak. It was cold and windy. So Cold. So Windy. Where was he? He struggled to remember what happened, even where he got the cloak. He couldn't. All he remembered was 2 words. Solid Snake. He wasn't sure what the two words meant, but he knew that they where important. Maybe this Solid Snake would tell him who he was. He had to find him. He wondered along the street, looking for solid snake. He glanced at a building in the distance. It was fairly big, with the words "Fox Hound" written on its side in Gold Letters. That word sounded familiar. He decided that They Might know Solid Snake there. He walked to the building, clutching his cloak for warmth. He remembered where he got it. A person came out of a small place which looked like a restaurant of some sort, put the cloak on him, and brought him inside. They gave him soup. He liked them. But he had to find Solid Snake. Underneath his cloak, he was wearing some sort of a blue suit. He did not know what it was. He reached the building, and went through the door. He went up to the receptionist and said, "Solid...Snake.. Do you know Solid Snake?". The receptionist looked at him balnkly for a few seconds, before pressing a button on the desk and saying "Colonel, theres a man here looking for Solid Snake". A Grumbling voice responded. "Snake? Haven't seen him for years. I think he died a few years back, hang on, I'll be right down". The receptionist turned to him, and said "The Colonel shall be down in one moment, please sit down" and gestured to the row of seats along the wall. After about five minutes. a man of about 50 came through the door. "Snake....Solid Snake". The man looked at him. "Snake? Is that you? yes.." the man said, eyeing him. "Who is Solid Snake...?" he said. "You're Snake...its me, the Colonel".. He blacked out, more confused than ever. *** Seargant Dimitri Kuraski had two thoughts: What they hell are they?, and How do i get rid of them?. He did not know what they where, but they appeared to be controled by a person inside each of them. They where like some sort of Walking Tank. They had many types of weapons: Bombs, Missiles, Guided Missiles, Machine Guns.... And they where just as destructive without weapons, being able to crush things by walking onto them. There was a line of squad cars outside the Kremlin, mostly used as shield when the things turned to them and shot a quick blast of their machine guns. There was some tanks in behind the cars, firing shots. The ones that did hit, had little or no impact on them. Fighter Jets, the new F-30x jumpjets, kind of like a supercharged harrier, were being sent to combat the beasts, or so he had heard from the station. He shot another useless bullet at the machine, aiming for the cockpit, before waiting inside his vehicle, hoping the jets would come. *** The jets came after around 5 minutes. They where the newest and best additions to the RAF. Britain had sent them as a sign that they did not order the attack, although that was obvious, as the Prime Minister was inside the Convention Center, which was being held by terrorists. The 12 craft soared across the sky, in a V formation. Captain John Peters of the Royal Air Force, was leading the attack, the front jet. Pedestrians looked in awe as the 12 fighters swooped down, shaking the ground and air, and fired their machine guns at the machines. One of the Machines turned around and fired a blue missile. It had locked onto its nearest target, Peters fighter. He banked out of the missiles way, but the missile turned around, heading straight for him again. Peters hovered for a moment, before accelerating upwards, trying to evade the missile. "Gamma Leader, this is Gamma 7, I got you covered" said on of the pilots, who was chasing the missile, shooting at it before it hit Peters. But the metal gears had launched more missiles, and where shooting at random now. The Flying V formation soon disbanded, each fighter going their own way. Gamma 7 finally managed to destroy the guided missile chasing Peters, but now had one on his tail. "Hang On, Seven" said Peters, lowered his fighter vertically down, one of the best new features on the F-30 series, and decelerated, so he was now behind both Gamma 7 and the missile. he fired one of his Grade One sidewinders when he got a target lock on the missile. It exploded, and both fighters pulled upwards to evade the blast. He watched as Gamma 4 exploded from one of the newly fired missiles. "Damn" he said, and flew back down towards the ground. "Seven, try and destroy as many of the missiles you can, I'm gonna try and stop tghem from launching more" he said/ "Copy That, Gamma Leader". He turned back towards the Kremlin. The Nearest Ray started firing at Peters with the Gattling Machine Gun on its right side. Knowing that the quickest way to disable a walking craft was its legs. He Targeted the top half of the right leg of the nearest ray, and fired a LOLA missile at it, followed by a sidewinder at the Gattling Gun. The Rays lower leg was destroyed, and it fell to one side. The Sidewinder also hit, and its Gattling Gun and Right Armour was weakened. It could still fire missiles, though. Peters flew right over the "Head" of the ray, and could see it was being manned, from the 2000 frames per second camera on the bottom of his Fighter. He swerved around, and fired one of his HEG missiles, Highly Explosive Guided Missiles at the Cockpit, and turned to the other Ray before he checked whether he had hit. The missile had hit, and the cockpit exploded in an array of flying glass and debris. The pilot of the Ray was dead. The next Ray was still attacking the Kremlin. He quickly checked on the rest of the group. No More fighters had been destroyed, and there was only one Guided missile left, and was running low on fuel. The Guided Missiles had a motion and heat sensor, colour coding the craft which it was trying to hit to distinguish it from the rest of the moving objects. It used fuel as it had to travel more than a normal missile. Two of the missiles had gone down this way, and exploded on the ground. Luckily, the cops had cleared all civilians from the area, but they could still be seen watching in awe. The Final Missile ran out of fuel, and plummeted to the ground. Peters looked at the downed fighter, and saw a chair with a parachute strapped to the back not far from it. He hoped Gamma 4 had got out. The eleven remaining craft came in christmas tree formation, Peters in front, two behind him, then three and four, and one right at the back, not part of the formation, covering the back four. "Gamma 11 and 8, aim for the legs. 3 and 7, aim for the main body, and the rest attack the the head" he said. Gamma 3 and 7 came in first. Gamma 11 shot two of the Grade 0.5 sidewinders at the right leg, and nearly got hit by the falling Ray as he flew threw the legs. Before the Ray had fully fallen over, Gamma 8 had fired another Sidewinder. The Ray was now firing strange red missiles. "Whoa.." said Gamma 3, as one of the Missiles just missed him, but exploded very close to him. "Rear Stablisers gone..",He said,"Some type of Heat Seekers which explode if they miss.. I got to land". "Damn" said Peters. Gamma 9 had been hit, but ejected. The F-30 series automatically eject if they find any sort of serious damage to the craft. Peters brought up a map on his Cockpit, projected from the main computer, as Gamma 7 was attacking the ray, firing almost all its missiles at various parts, particularly the guns and launchers. "Gamma 3, the nearest Landing Pad is 17 miles away, can you make it?" he asked. "Don't think so.." replied Gamma 3. "You'll have to Land on the ground below, requesting it with the policemen down there" he said, and pressed a button on the controls. "Hello?" he said, "I need to you to clear the area for one of the Fighters to land". he said. "This is Seargant Dimitri Kuraski, do as you please, The area has been cleared" replied Kuraski. Suddenly, the battered remaining ray fired some sort of a laser at Gamma 7. One of the fighters wings came off, and it fell to the ground. "What the?" said Peters. What the hell was that thing and how come Gamma 7 didn't auto eject. The seats had their own intercom, so he said "Gamma 7, you read? over" There was no reply. "Everyone, attack full force" he said, and accelerated as fast as the fighter would go, firing his Sidewinders, HEGs and LOLAs at the cockpit. The other fighters where doing the same. He had to pull up sharply and nearly crashed into the Kremlin. Gamma 2 had banged one of its wings on the Ray, but this ones Auto Eject wasn't faulty. Peters turned around and started firing from his machine gun. The Ray fired two more missiles before it was finally destroyed. The missiles didn't hit anyone. It was finally over. One man was lost. But it wasn't truly over. The world was still in Terror, but they could identify the pilots of the Rays.