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- Metal Gear Solid: Capital Punishment
- Chapter Three: Bullets
- By: NeoNecron
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He froze there, shocked by the recent mention of GW. He hadn't known of what the man said previously because he was busy thinking about Will's anger toward the name of Solid Snake… Otacon turned around, starting to make his way to where Will had gone.
From a room in the back where Will entered, two men came out, walking toward Otacon. They wore the same outfit as the man he met earlier. Black trench coat, black shirt, black pants, black boots… They then stopped in their tracks, facing Otacon.
Otacon just stood there, staring back at the two men. The men then began again, walking toward Otacon after the brief moment. Otacon turned away, and walked back to the door. He turned around to face the men in the trench coats; the men had stopped again, still facing Otacon. Otacon shook his head and walked out of the door.
As he came upon exiting the underground headquarters, a hard rush of wind blew past, Otacon's glasses falling off as it did before. He blinked a moment then bent down to pick up his glasses. As he bent down he had seen a hand, falling backwards.
"Ah!" Otacon cried out as he fell. He backed up slowly.
"Otacon. Calm down." A deep, scratchy voice came. Otacon looked up. The man was in a dark gray uniform, not like those of the army. The face seemed familiar, yet the image hadn't entered his head. "Who… Who are you…?" Otacon asked, backing away.
The man stuck out his arm, gesturing for Otacon to get up. "Hm… You to? Well either way, there's no time to tell you. Not here… Not now…"
The door that led down to the headquarters suddenly burst open; many men as Otacon had seen before came out, holding an M16 in hand, aiming toward the unknown man. "Stand down and back away!!" one of the men shouted.
The man stepped sideways, moving slowly. A silence grew as the wind grew. All that was heard was the steps of the man. "Otacon… We have to get out of here." The man informed, reaching behind him.
"DON'T MOVE!" another man said, moving closer to the man. "Mr. Emmerich, move away from him, it's not safe!"
Otacon had still been sitting there on the ground, in the middle of the situation. He looked at the group of men, then at the single man. He didn't know which side to take, which person to follow. Otacon backed up slowly, away from them both.
The man stood there, with his arms behind his back, frozen, as if waiting for something to happen. "Otacon… Listen to me… They are the bad guys… Not me! You have to believe me!"
"Don't believe him Hal! He's not your friend! He's your enemy!"
"Otacon! You've known me for years, you've known those men for less than a day! You're willing to put your life in there hands?!"
"Please Hal! It's for your own safety!"
"Otacon. Trust me! You know me better than that!"
"Hal!"
"Otacon!!"
A brief pause came, the wind blowing more softly, yet the tension was high. A word had then come out of Otacon's mouth, "Sn… Sna---"
Before he could finish, the men went into attack mode. The men looked toward the man, ready to fire the M16, their fingers slowly adding pressure to the trigger, but before the men could pull their triggers, the man took out a SOCOM and began firing hastily at the men. One by one, each fell, a bullet hole through the hearts of all the men. Blood fell everywhere, spilling onto the ground. A scream of pain was let out before the last one fell. And once again… Silence.
"Otacon, you OK?" the man asked, Otacon nodding. Snake placed his SOCOM away into a holster located on his back. "Come on… They'll be sending more I'm assuming…"
Otacon looked briefly at the men lying on the ground, blood spreading on the ground. "So you are Solid Snake… What happened to you?! Why didn't you make contact with me if you still were alive?!" Otacon began questioning Snake.
Snake stood there looking at Otacon, a serious expression spreading across on his face. "Follow me… I'll explain when we get to somewhere safe."
Otacon stood up, brushing the dirt off him. They began walking away from the facility, the dead bodies still lying on the ground. Otacon had no clue where they were headed. He also had no clue what was happening at the moment. The entire walk toward their destination was silence, no one saying a word.
After awhile of walking, they came upon a US helicopter. "Get in." Snake ordered, boarding the chopper. Otacon followed the orders and climbed aboard the helicopter after Snake. Snake took the controls and in a few seconds, the helicopter began ascending off the ground. Snake steered the chopper off into the thick clouds.
***
"Sir. They got away," a man spoke directly to Will. Will's face filled with rage, taking a knife out from his pocket.
"You idiots…" Will said, glaring at the knife. The blade had been stained with blood, the crimson color all along the edges. Will took his knife and placed it at the man's neck. "Go get them… You don't find them, then this knife will slit your throat open."
The man backed away slowly and nodded. "Yes sir…" He backed up out of the room.
Will looked at a monitor, a face appearing on the screen. "There isn't much time… We need more help…" He said, walking toward the phone and began dialing… "It's me, we need a copy of AO ASAP."
***
The helicopter began descending downward onto a helipad. The helicopter touched the ground, the blades decreasing in speed. As the blades came to a full stop, Otacon and Snake stepped out. "Where are we?" Otacon questioned.
"New Manhattan." Snake said, loading a new magazine into his SOCOM, tossing the old one off the building.
Otacon seemed to freeze, lost in confusion. "New Manhattan? What are you talking about?!"
Snake looked up into the clouds. "This city your in is New Manhattan, an exact duplicate of the original. This is one of the many projects the Patriots plan on finishing."
"Project? What do you mean? Who were those men back there? What's going?!" Otacon began rambling on questions he had no answer to.
Snake grinned. "I'm surprised… You usually have all the answers. Heh… I don't know everything right now Otacon. I'll start from the beginning… You remember Eva Island don't you?"
Otacon nodded. "Yeah. What about it?"
"It was a ploy to get me there. They had no intention of giving us Olga's child… But they knew we'd try anything to get him. They wanted me there to put in affect their project. They figure with the public thinking I'm dead; a new GW could go into affect and delete my existence entirely. But they didn't want to target the entire public just yet. They were still in there planning stages." Snake began.
Adjusting his glasses, Otacon interrupted, "Wait, hold on… GW… I heard something about that… And something called AIS2, they seemed threatened by it."
"The Antagonists, an organization within the Patriots. Highest ranking in the Patriot's book, aside from the Wise-Men Committee. The ones hosting this whole project…"
"They work for the Patriots?! But I thought… I should've known…"
"You couldn't have. You were just learning about them."
"They mentioned something called AIS2. What is that?"
Snake stared hard at Otacon, nothing coming out of his mouth for quite some time. "AIS2… I don't have the slightest clue."
Otacon looked at Snake with a detection of lying. Snake turned away… "Ahem… Anyway… We need to get back to the main subject here. On Eva Island someone contacted me before the explosion. Told me where a trap door was located. I found it, entered it and got away before the explosion. It was strange though. There was a helicopter abandoned there. There was no one in it at all. That had been my ticket out of there.
"I followed Ocelot after he betrayed his own men. It led me here… I talked to the man that contacted me through Codec once more. He explained to me some things, like what this place is and everything… Told me I should go looking for you. He said after I found you is when I'd meet the person… And here we are, waiting for the man to contact us."
"But why didn't you contact me once you got free?"
"Afraid someone might intercept the call, I had to be careful. If they knew I was alive they wou----"
Snake stopped abruptly… The air was still stale, even at this distance. His ear then twitched. He paused, not moving a muscle.
"What is it?" Otacon questioned. "Did he make contact with you?"
"No… The Antagonists… They're looking for us…" Snake replied, looking around in the skies. "A Kasatka…? It can't be…"
A chopper then flew over the heads of Snake and Otacon, both being blown backwards.
"Ocelot!" Snake exclaimed, catching a glimpse of his face. Ocelot kept going until the chopper could not be seen, as it entered fog.
"Otacon. Get in the chopper and start it up. We need to get out of here." Snake ordered, while taking his SOCOM out, making sure he had a full magazine.
Ocelot flew by once more; a rush of wind blew by. "A Ka-50… Snake I'm on it." Otacon informed, running quickly into the helicopter. Snake fired a bullet at the Kasatka, hitting the side of it, before it disappeared once more into the fog.
Otacon had started up the engine on the helicopter. "Hop in Snake."
Snake had his aim up toward the sky while running toward the helicopter. Snake entered, as the helicopter lifted off the ground. As it rose, the Kasatka came toward the helicopter and paused.
There he was, Ocelot, sitting on the passenger seat of the chopper. "Snake… We meet again…"
Snake shoved the SOCOM toward Ocelot, the Kasatka rose higher than the helicopter. It then rushed past the helicopter, causing Snake to drop his SOCOM out of the chopper. The SOCOM fell onto the helipad, breaking into pieces. "Damn it." Snake remarked. "Otacon. Steer us away from here. I'll take control of the side-guns."
Ocelot came charging back at Snake, firing their guns toward Snake. Two bullets pierced the left side-gun, disabling it, and flew past them again, the helicopter shaking as the Kasatka flew past by. "Screw it… Land Otacon. We'll go by foot. He'll have a harder time getting us."
And so Otacon did, landed the chopper. As they exited Snake had found his SOCOM on the ground, shattered into 3 pieces. Snake looked in the chopper for any other weapons.
"Snake! He's coming back!" Otacon cried out, Snake getting an M16 out of the helicopter.
At that moment a missile was fired, locked on target to the helicopter. Otacon's heart skipped a beat as both of them ran for cover; the impact of the explosion blew both of them about 20 feet away.
Snake hit a wall, knocking him unconscious, as Otacon flew over the edge of the helipad, grabbing the edges of the roof. "SNAKE! HELP!" he cried out, receiving no reply from Snake. Otacon's hand began to slip.
The helicopter came up into Otacon's position. "Otacon. We still have use for you… As for Snake… Goodbye!" The side guns locked onto Snake, bullets being fired, inching closer to the unconscious Snake… When the bullets headed toward Snake, it was as if time has stopped, for the bullet were slowly making their way to Snake… A scream was heard coming from Snake's mouth then dead silence…