YO!!!!!!! WAKE UP FOLKS!!!!!!! HERE'S THE NEXT CHAPTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forte: . I'm going to kill you for waking me up.

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Chapter 8 - Another encounter with Drago.

Otacon, is there an armory in this place? Snake asked.

Let's see.. There's one beyond a level one door back down the hall.

. We don't have a level one card.

Raiden began searching Peter's body.

"Don't you have any respect for the dead?" Meryl asked, disgusted.

".When the lives of millions are on the line, I hardly think. BINGO!!!!!!"

Raiden held up a level one security card with Peter's I.D. on it. Then he knocked two more level one cards out of his pocket. They had yet to have an I.D. printed on them.

"Well, looks like our lucky day. He was going to write up a couple new cards for guards apparently."

Raiden handed his two partners a card. Since Meryl was bugging him about respecting the dead, she gave him Peter's.

"That's not funny."

They went back to the level one door, and walked in. They were in the mess hall Meryl had been captured in.

Otacon, exactly WHERE is the armory? Raiden asked.

. Whoops. I was reading the plans for B1. You're on 1F. Sorry.

They sighed. Without weapons, they'd have to play the stealth game, and they weren't sure where they'd find anything they could use to.

"Hold it!"

Raiden noticed something moving behind a counter. Then they saw a tail flip upward.

"Drago. not now. I only have one grenade." Raiden sighed.

Then Raiden got an idea.

"Snake. You take it."

".Oh. right."

Raiden remembered Snake's bandana. Snake took point, and they slowly walked around to where Drago was hiding. When they saw what he was doing, they were repulsed. He was devouring one of the guards that was still fairly intact after Firefly's fit over his garden. He even seemed to LIKE it. Meryl was so nauseated she gave them away.

"OH SICK!!!!!!!"

Drago looked up, and had a hungry look in his eyes. Then he jumped, and they scattered. Snake threw a grenade at Drago, who dodged it, and then lunged at Snake. He was rewarded with a grenade blast in his face, and was thrown into the wall.

". I thought he said he only had one grenade."

Snake couldn't resist. He pointed to his bandana.

"Infinite ammo."

Drago just stared at him, puzzled. Then he got up, and was going to attack until he smelled something. Whatever it was, it took precedence over the battle, because he completely ignored the mercenaries, and followed the smell outside the mess hall. The non-human creature then took one look down a hall, and jumped. He then ran back into the mess hall, ran past the mercenaries, and left by the way back to the prison cells.

". What got into him?"

The three hide before the door opened again. Then they heard a familiar voice.

"Hello? Hello?"

"Mei Ling? What the hell are you doing here?" Meryl asked.

Snake looked up. It was Mei Ling. The mercenaries got up, and walked up to her, wanting an answer.

"I have some business here. but I brought a couple things just in case."

She led them to an abandoned hanger, where she and her friend set up some equipment.

"Who're they, Mei Leeng?"

"Pedro, these are those three that are here to stop the terrorists."

"Oh. Good to see you, compadres."

"Pedro is helping me get the Soliton radar working here. The base is designed so that it can't be set up from outside it. Oh."

Mei Ling handed each of them some equipment she brought. Raiden got his H.F. blade, Meryl got her old Desert Eagle from Shadow Moses, and Snake got a Socom. Then Raiden dug around in his box.

"I know it's in here. A-HA!!!"

Raiden came out with a brown wig. That's when the others noticed his hair color.

"What happened? Did the smoke wreck that sissy white hair of yours?" Snake joked.

Raiden glared at him, and stored the wig.

"What IS with the wig anyway?" Mei Ling asked.

"Infinite ammo."

Snake frowned.

"Oh great. Now he'll be trigger happy."

"Mei Ling, I have a question." Raiden said.

"Okay."

"What's the deal with you and Drago? When I called during my fight with him, you asked me not to kill him, and later, Drago fled after he saw you."

Snake and Meryl then got interested.

". She asked you not to kill that. THING??" Meryl said.

"."

While that went on, Drago was on top of the hanger, listening in. He looked like he was remembering something.

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Forte: . Ow.. (Faints.)

Beelzemon: . Thanks for the assist Bowser.

Bowser: . don't ask me to help you fight him at this time of night again.

Beelzemon: Why?

(Bowser glares at Beelzemon, and wallops him over the head, knocking him out too.)

Blues: . Sheesh. Good thing I'm spending the night here. or else your update wouldn't be completed.