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Chapter Two: Business
Snake kept advancing silently though the enormous office complex. Now, where the hell could that evidence be? He wondered. This wasn't a photographic recompilation of a Metal Gear; this was something way more subtle.
He remembered a Murphy law which said "In war, simple things are the hardest", but in Special Operations, al those things were turned upside down. Subtle things were hard, complicated, and require time and concentration, both things hard to get in a battlefield.
He snapped out of his thoughts, when he saw a guard. He was wearing a typical blue uniform, and carrying a gun. Sig Sauer P226. He recognized the handgun immediately. Behind him, two figures walked slowly, while talking.
One of them was a sort of obese man, with a tux. Both had one, actually. His blue eyes were looking at the other one. He turned. Snake's eyes went wide open when he saw that man's face. The face of all of Snake's nightmares, that face was the sum of all the memories he had achieved in Shadow Moses, the USS Discovery, and the Big Shell.
He had a white mustache, psychopath eyes and a long white hair. He was used to see him in a Cowboy disguise, but he recognized him anyways.
It was Revolver Ocelot.
Damn.
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The door of the elevator opened. Both Special Forces agents entered the floor carefully, looking sideways, with their M9-T Dart guns in resting position. Their Dark Blue Urban Sneaking suits were equipped with Backpack, Anti-Personnel Sensors, Tactical Boots, weapon bandoleers, etc.
"Raiden" raised his gun and trained it on a door; the M9's laser sight could be seen right in the middle of the wooden door ahead.
"Clear" Harker whispered, seeing no hostiles were in the area.
"Go check that door" Raiden ordered.
Harker nodded and proceeded. Walking slowly, balancing his steps, he reached the door. He grabbed the handle with his gloved hand. He turned it and started opening slowly. The room was a computer room. The sneak point.
"Hey! Raiden! Come here." He called, waving to the rookie, who ran close no him. Both entered.
The room was empty of people. At this time of the night, it wasn't exactly a surprise.
"Should we call Snake?" Raiden asked, pulling his blond hair backwards.
"Not yet. He'll call us once his first mission objective is achieved. Don't worry." Harker explained.
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Razor scanned the landing zone with his binoculars. The enormous "H" written on the Helipad worked as a beacon for the chopper pilot.
"Landing zone Clear" Razor shouted, lowering his binoculars. Then, he felt a cold, eerie voice.
"Very well, unit, let's go!" A woman in her 40's commanded. She had a very deep French accent, and extremely cold blue eyes, which were staked in her subordinates.
The five people who were in that Helicopter started descending though a rope. One by one, they landed and started hiding. One of them, dressing in a black Night Warfare Sneaking Suit hid behind a ventilation shaft. Then, the hard voice of his commander sounded in his ears. Codec.
"Eclipse Team, this is Colonel Roy Campbell, From FOX-HOUND. Your orders are to detect and arrest all four members of PHILANTROPY in the tower, as well as capturing the Metal Gear stolen blue prints. Understood?" The Colonel had a rough voice.
"Yes sir!" All five voices said. All five were different, different accents, different nationalities.
"OK, everyone knows their COA (Course of Action), so move out!" The Colonel ordered.
A young man inserted a magazine into his Beretta Handgun. He stood up, and entered the tower. All five took different routes.
A man saw all the movement from his helicopter. He couldn't see who were they, but he had a bad feeling when he saw the insignia in their helicopter's side. FOX-HOUND.
Hal Emmerich knew FOX-HOUND. They captured him, forced him to design a mass destruction weapon, held him hostage, he even fell in love with one of them. But they were dead. So, who are these people? He wondered while he pushed his Glasses up. He decided not to wait, he called Snake.
"Snake." he called in a desperate tone. "You won't believe me what just happened."
"Yeah? You want believe what I found either." Snake's gruff voice answered.
"You tell me first."
"Ocelot is here." Snake answered, trying to keep the calm.
"What?" Otacon was shocked.
"He's here, I saw him speaking to the director of Wassen, I don't know what he's doing, but knowing him, it must be something evil. What did you want to say? "
"Snake, I saw a commando sneaking here. Their helicopter has the FOX-HOUND insignia."
"Oh, Damn." Snake's voice reflected a mix of surprise and fear.
"There's another sign in there. It says "Eclipse". Do you know about that?"
"No, but I sense the Patriots are involved in this." Snake said, with his eyes Half-Closed.
"OK, I'll look into it. Try to hack a computer or something" Otacon suggested.
"You are the computer wiz, Otacon."
"Right. I'll go down as soon as I'm finished with the Eclipse mystery." Otacon explained.
"Otacon, I don't remember you being the kind of guy who goes voluntarily to the Hot-Zone" Snake said surprised.
"Some one has the do the job" Otacon said whispered. "I'll start looking into this Eclipse thing. Go and meet up with Raiden and Harker."
"OK" Snake cut off annoyed. He didn't like Raiden's style, maybe because he reminded himself back in Outer Heaven. This is your Zanzibar, kid. He thought, as he changed the frequency of his codec.
Raiden's perfect combat concentration was violently interrupted by a crazy making beep in his ear.
"Raiden, this is Snake." A gruff voice in the other side called.
"Snake? What's going on?"
"Listen kid, Ocelot and FOX-HOUND are here! We need to make a new plan!"
"What do you want me to do?"
"We'll rendezvous in the 40th floor." Snake said.
"OK, we are going." Raiden said, disconnecting.
Snake observed the couple as they entered a room. He wanted to go there and find out, but he had an appointment. FOX-HOUND? But it was disbanded four years ago, right? It was disbanded 4 years ago, but they are also here, in this tower. A word rang out in Snake's head. Replacement.
The Shadow Moses Terrorist's replacement. Other six FOX-HOUND members. Other six terrorists? Only god knows. He thought as he ran downstairs, heading towards his meeting with Raiden and the mysterious Nathan Harker.
Razor's codec kept calling orders and advertisement from his fellow FOX- HOUND members.
"Cougar here" A very powerful voice called "In position"
"Spear here" The Russian woman called. "Everything goes as planned."
"This is Shadow" The mysterious, enigmatic voice called, "Target acquired. Standing by for orders."
All his partners were following the mission's plan. He just stood, waiting for a chance.
A guard passed by, holding a Sig Sauer P226 in his hand. He wasn't a terrorist, he shouldn't kill him. .But knocking him out was another story. He walked slowly behind the unsuspecting guard, who putted his P226 in his holster and took out his radio.
"Guard, this is Alpha Six. No news." He reported calmly, and sounding tired.
Just then, Razor attacked him from behind, and quickly putted a cloth in the guard's mouth and nose.
"Chloro." The guard realized, and then went asleep.
".Form" Razor finished smirking, and dragged him to the Men's Restroom. Finally a disguise he thought as he closed the toilet's door and started undressing the unconscious guard.
Raiden walked slowly through the office building, the former CIA agent Harker was right behind him. Suddenly, he felt the cold steel of a weapon in the back of his neck.
"If I would be the enemy, you would be dead, rookie" Snake's tough voice said behind Raiden. He turned slowly.
"Snake!" Raiden gasped, lowering his M9.
"So, this is the Legendary Solid Snake" Harker got closer.
"Let me guess" Snake looked at the CIA agent. "Nathan Harker, CIA."
"That's right. Listen, FOX-HOUND is already here, we have to spread out."
"But I thought FOX-HOUND were good guys" Raiden said.
"Counter-Terrorist" Harker went deeper into the subject. "PHILANTROPY'S fame won't help" He added.
"Yeah, but I thought they were disbanded four years ago"
Before anyone could answer, everyone felt a beep in their ears. Otacon got a break.
"News break" The computer genius called. "I broke into FOX-HOUND'S computers. I couldn't find more, but it seems FOX-HOUND has being rearmed."
"Virtually?" Raiden asked. He had a not very pretty experience with VR simulations.
"No, they created a new unit, that would replace FOX-HOUND after Shadow Moses. They got their hands on five Special Forces agents. They codenamed this team "Eclipse". "
"The Eclipse Team" Harker said.
"Yeah. I'll look into them."
"But, why are they here?" Snake wondered.
"Snake, they must be here to get those Metal Gear Blueprints." Otacon explained with his "Know-It-All" voice.
"And Ocelot" Raiden added.
"OK, get on it. Find out more about these Eclipses. "
"I'm on it, Snake" Otacon closed his signal.
"O; we'll spread out. Harker..."
"Call me Nathan" Harker answered calmly.
"Whatever" Snake said, rolling his eyes up "Cover this area. Raiden, you come with me."
Harker made a nodding movement and he went further into the cubicle area. Raiden and Snake started walking towards the elevator.
They entered, and Snake pressed the "Rooftop" bottom.
"So, what are we going to do?" Raiden asked impatiently.
"We are going to investigate Eclipse's drop-zone, the rooftop." Snake explained.
As the doors opened, they revealed an image that could be easily pictured in a horror movie. All over the Heli -Pad, were dead bodies. Security Guards, all shot, with a high caliber weapon. Both agents came closer. The rain stopped, releasing the light of the stars over the nine dead bodies.
Snake didn't understand; they were maimed. Only high caliber weapons could do such damage.
"This is the end of the road for you" A loud, powerful, voice came from behind them. Snake remembered Vulcan Raven saying the same thing. Both agents turned.
Strapped in a black sneaking suit, a huge man was standing, bold, carrying an FN M249 Light Machinegun. Snake was again sort of reminded of Vulcan Raven.
"Who are you?" Snake asked, training his M9 on the easy target.
"My name is Cougar, and you may die now!" He shouted out, pointing the Machinegun towards both Snake and Raiden. His enormous firepower superiority didn't seem to decrease their determination at all.
Both agents trained their M9's on him, but shooting wasn't exactly the most intelligent thing they could do. However, Cougar fell unconscious instantly. Both agents looked down.
A PSG-1 T dart stacked to the back of Cougar's head. The sniper was no where to be seen. Both looked up. Otacon's chopper was right above them.
Nathan Harker walked slowly, all senses working at maximum. He wasn't an infiltrator, he was a spy, but he handled the situation quite well. The place was luxurious, a New York Office building after all. But something was going on. Wellar Inc. was a robotics company, but Metal Gear? It was a bit extreme.
He wondered about that FOX-HOUND unit. In his time in the CIA, he had met most of them, with the single exception of Liquid Snake. He met most of them in missions. Amazing those people became terrorists he thought.
Suddenly, his so-called peace was interrupted by a clicking sound and a low voice.
"Freeze." The voice commanded, he sounded young, but full of determination. "Turn around" He ordered calmly.
Nathan turned calmly; he was trained to do such thing, to act calmly in extreme situations. A young man was holding him up. He had blond hair, sort of greenish. Harker noticed two piercing green eyes trained on him, the kind of piercing eyes it was easy to find behind a Sniper Rifle, as well as a Beretta M92F Handgun.
Author's note: Wazzup? I hope you enjoyed the first and second chapters. I'll try posting as often as possible. Please, Review, and I hope you enjoy reading it as much I enjoy writing it. (Sorry, Blackraven, WE)
Chapter Two: Business
Snake kept advancing silently though the enormous office complex. Now, where the hell could that evidence be? He wondered. This wasn't a photographic recompilation of a Metal Gear; this was something way more subtle.
He remembered a Murphy law which said "In war, simple things are the hardest", but in Special Operations, al those things were turned upside down. Subtle things were hard, complicated, and require time and concentration, both things hard to get in a battlefield.
He snapped out of his thoughts, when he saw a guard. He was wearing a typical blue uniform, and carrying a gun. Sig Sauer P226. He recognized the handgun immediately. Behind him, two figures walked slowly, while talking.
One of them was a sort of obese man, with a tux. Both had one, actually. His blue eyes were looking at the other one. He turned. Snake's eyes went wide open when he saw that man's face. The face of all of Snake's nightmares, that face was the sum of all the memories he had achieved in Shadow Moses, the USS Discovery, and the Big Shell.
He had a white mustache, psychopath eyes and a long white hair. He was used to see him in a Cowboy disguise, but he recognized him anyways.
It was Revolver Ocelot.
Damn.
-----------
The door of the elevator opened. Both Special Forces agents entered the floor carefully, looking sideways, with their M9-T Dart guns in resting position. Their Dark Blue Urban Sneaking suits were equipped with Backpack, Anti-Personnel Sensors, Tactical Boots, weapon bandoleers, etc.
"Raiden" raised his gun and trained it on a door; the M9's laser sight could be seen right in the middle of the wooden door ahead.
"Clear" Harker whispered, seeing no hostiles were in the area.
"Go check that door" Raiden ordered.
Harker nodded and proceeded. Walking slowly, balancing his steps, he reached the door. He grabbed the handle with his gloved hand. He turned it and started opening slowly. The room was a computer room. The sneak point.
"Hey! Raiden! Come here." He called, waving to the rookie, who ran close no him. Both entered.
The room was empty of people. At this time of the night, it wasn't exactly a surprise.
"Should we call Snake?" Raiden asked, pulling his blond hair backwards.
"Not yet. He'll call us once his first mission objective is achieved. Don't worry." Harker explained.
-------
Razor scanned the landing zone with his binoculars. The enormous "H" written on the Helipad worked as a beacon for the chopper pilot.
"Landing zone Clear" Razor shouted, lowering his binoculars. Then, he felt a cold, eerie voice.
"Very well, unit, let's go!" A woman in her 40's commanded. She had a very deep French accent, and extremely cold blue eyes, which were staked in her subordinates.
The five people who were in that Helicopter started descending though a rope. One by one, they landed and started hiding. One of them, dressing in a black Night Warfare Sneaking Suit hid behind a ventilation shaft. Then, the hard voice of his commander sounded in his ears. Codec.
"Eclipse Team, this is Colonel Roy Campbell, From FOX-HOUND. Your orders are to detect and arrest all four members of PHILANTROPY in the tower, as well as capturing the Metal Gear stolen blue prints. Understood?" The Colonel had a rough voice.
"Yes sir!" All five voices said. All five were different, different accents, different nationalities.
"OK, everyone knows their COA (Course of Action), so move out!" The Colonel ordered.
A young man inserted a magazine into his Beretta Handgun. He stood up, and entered the tower. All five took different routes.
A man saw all the movement from his helicopter. He couldn't see who were they, but he had a bad feeling when he saw the insignia in their helicopter's side. FOX-HOUND.
Hal Emmerich knew FOX-HOUND. They captured him, forced him to design a mass destruction weapon, held him hostage, he even fell in love with one of them. But they were dead. So, who are these people? He wondered while he pushed his Glasses up. He decided not to wait, he called Snake.
"Snake." he called in a desperate tone. "You won't believe me what just happened."
"Yeah? You want believe what I found either." Snake's gruff voice answered.
"You tell me first."
"Ocelot is here." Snake answered, trying to keep the calm.
"What?" Otacon was shocked.
"He's here, I saw him speaking to the director of Wassen, I don't know what he's doing, but knowing him, it must be something evil. What did you want to say? "
"Snake, I saw a commando sneaking here. Their helicopter has the FOX-HOUND insignia."
"Oh, Damn." Snake's voice reflected a mix of surprise and fear.
"There's another sign in there. It says "Eclipse". Do you know about that?"
"No, but I sense the Patriots are involved in this." Snake said, with his eyes Half-Closed.
"OK, I'll look into it. Try to hack a computer or something" Otacon suggested.
"You are the computer wiz, Otacon."
"Right. I'll go down as soon as I'm finished with the Eclipse mystery." Otacon explained.
"Otacon, I don't remember you being the kind of guy who goes voluntarily to the Hot-Zone" Snake said surprised.
"Some one has the do the job" Otacon said whispered. "I'll start looking into this Eclipse thing. Go and meet up with Raiden and Harker."
"OK" Snake cut off annoyed. He didn't like Raiden's style, maybe because he reminded himself back in Outer Heaven. This is your Zanzibar, kid. He thought, as he changed the frequency of his codec.
Raiden's perfect combat concentration was violently interrupted by a crazy making beep in his ear.
"Raiden, this is Snake." A gruff voice in the other side called.
"Snake? What's going on?"
"Listen kid, Ocelot and FOX-HOUND are here! We need to make a new plan!"
"What do you want me to do?"
"We'll rendezvous in the 40th floor." Snake said.
"OK, we are going." Raiden said, disconnecting.
Snake observed the couple as they entered a room. He wanted to go there and find out, but he had an appointment. FOX-HOUND? But it was disbanded four years ago, right? It was disbanded 4 years ago, but they are also here, in this tower. A word rang out in Snake's head. Replacement.
The Shadow Moses Terrorist's replacement. Other six FOX-HOUND members. Other six terrorists? Only god knows. He thought as he ran downstairs, heading towards his meeting with Raiden and the mysterious Nathan Harker.
Razor's codec kept calling orders and advertisement from his fellow FOX- HOUND members.
"Cougar here" A very powerful voice called "In position"
"Spear here" The Russian woman called. "Everything goes as planned."
"This is Shadow" The mysterious, enigmatic voice called, "Target acquired. Standing by for orders."
All his partners were following the mission's plan. He just stood, waiting for a chance.
A guard passed by, holding a Sig Sauer P226 in his hand. He wasn't a terrorist, he shouldn't kill him. .But knocking him out was another story. He walked slowly behind the unsuspecting guard, who putted his P226 in his holster and took out his radio.
"Guard, this is Alpha Six. No news." He reported calmly, and sounding tired.
Just then, Razor attacked him from behind, and quickly putted a cloth in the guard's mouth and nose.
"Chloro." The guard realized, and then went asleep.
".Form" Razor finished smirking, and dragged him to the Men's Restroom. Finally a disguise he thought as he closed the toilet's door and started undressing the unconscious guard.
Raiden walked slowly through the office building, the former CIA agent Harker was right behind him. Suddenly, he felt the cold steel of a weapon in the back of his neck.
"If I would be the enemy, you would be dead, rookie" Snake's tough voice said behind Raiden. He turned slowly.
"Snake!" Raiden gasped, lowering his M9.
"So, this is the Legendary Solid Snake" Harker got closer.
"Let me guess" Snake looked at the CIA agent. "Nathan Harker, CIA."
"That's right. Listen, FOX-HOUND is already here, we have to spread out."
"But I thought FOX-HOUND were good guys" Raiden said.
"Counter-Terrorist" Harker went deeper into the subject. "PHILANTROPY'S fame won't help" He added.
"Yeah, but I thought they were disbanded four years ago"
Before anyone could answer, everyone felt a beep in their ears. Otacon got a break.
"News break" The computer genius called. "I broke into FOX-HOUND'S computers. I couldn't find more, but it seems FOX-HOUND has being rearmed."
"Virtually?" Raiden asked. He had a not very pretty experience with VR simulations.
"No, they created a new unit, that would replace FOX-HOUND after Shadow Moses. They got their hands on five Special Forces agents. They codenamed this team "Eclipse". "
"The Eclipse Team" Harker said.
"Yeah. I'll look into them."
"But, why are they here?" Snake wondered.
"Snake, they must be here to get those Metal Gear Blueprints." Otacon explained with his "Know-It-All" voice.
"And Ocelot" Raiden added.
"OK, get on it. Find out more about these Eclipses. "
"I'm on it, Snake" Otacon closed his signal.
"O; we'll spread out. Harker..."
"Call me Nathan" Harker answered calmly.
"Whatever" Snake said, rolling his eyes up "Cover this area. Raiden, you come with me."
Harker made a nodding movement and he went further into the cubicle area. Raiden and Snake started walking towards the elevator.
They entered, and Snake pressed the "Rooftop" bottom.
"So, what are we going to do?" Raiden asked impatiently.
"We are going to investigate Eclipse's drop-zone, the rooftop." Snake explained.
As the doors opened, they revealed an image that could be easily pictured in a horror movie. All over the Heli -Pad, were dead bodies. Security Guards, all shot, with a high caliber weapon. Both agents came closer. The rain stopped, releasing the light of the stars over the nine dead bodies.
Snake didn't understand; they were maimed. Only high caliber weapons could do such damage.
"This is the end of the road for you" A loud, powerful, voice came from behind them. Snake remembered Vulcan Raven saying the same thing. Both agents turned.
Strapped in a black sneaking suit, a huge man was standing, bold, carrying an FN M249 Light Machinegun. Snake was again sort of reminded of Vulcan Raven.
"Who are you?" Snake asked, training his M9 on the easy target.
"My name is Cougar, and you may die now!" He shouted out, pointing the Machinegun towards both Snake and Raiden. His enormous firepower superiority didn't seem to decrease their determination at all.
Both agents trained their M9's on him, but shooting wasn't exactly the most intelligent thing they could do. However, Cougar fell unconscious instantly. Both agents looked down.
A PSG-1 T dart stacked to the back of Cougar's head. The sniper was no where to be seen. Both looked up. Otacon's chopper was right above them.
Nathan Harker walked slowly, all senses working at maximum. He wasn't an infiltrator, he was a spy, but he handled the situation quite well. The place was luxurious, a New York Office building after all. But something was going on. Wellar Inc. was a robotics company, but Metal Gear? It was a bit extreme.
He wondered about that FOX-HOUND unit. In his time in the CIA, he had met most of them, with the single exception of Liquid Snake. He met most of them in missions. Amazing those people became terrorists he thought.
Suddenly, his so-called peace was interrupted by a clicking sound and a low voice.
"Freeze." The voice commanded, he sounded young, but full of determination. "Turn around" He ordered calmly.
Nathan turned calmly; he was trained to do such thing, to act calmly in extreme situations. A young man was holding him up. He had blond hair, sort of greenish. Harker noticed two piercing green eyes trained on him, the kind of piercing eyes it was easy to find behind a Sniper Rifle, as well as a Beretta M92F Handgun.
Author's note: Wazzup? I hope you enjoyed the first and second chapters. I'll try posting as often as possible. Please, Review, and I hope you enjoy reading it as much I enjoy writing it. (Sorry, Blackraven, WE)