Hi people. Thanks for the great reviews, I appreciate it. Well, sorry it took a long time to get this up, but my time schedule doesn't like me very much. Between hanging with my friends, playing MGS (One, as I just beet Sons of Liberty) and going places, sleeping and eating, I had to type this up at midnight, and I was loosing my mind. Ahaha. After the whole MGS2 plot, the rating will be upped a bit, cause Snake and Talenaheh. BTW, I don't hate Raiden anymore! Yay.

Talena groaned miserably as the Colonel gave out her orders over cell phone. "You're insane, old man. Nuts. Loco. Coocoo."

"I'm sorry, Talena, but you were sent here to work, and you will have to go with Jack."

"But he's giiiiiirlyyyyyyyy." She whined. "Snake wasn't girly."

"Jack is not girly. True he has some feminine features, but he's just as masculine as anyone." The Colonel persisted.

"QUACK!" Talena screamed. "You're an insane old fogey fart, termite turd in need of a life!!"

But the Colonel ignored her and disconnected.

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"Otacon? Where're you going?" "Oh! Hi, Meryl. Uh, you know where I'm going." He said, smiling and adjusting his glasses bashfully. "I'm going with you." "Oh, no you aren't. I can't let you get hurt." "I won't. And besides, you're the one who'll get hurt, shrimp." "H-hey" Meryl smiled and kissed his cheek. "Besides. If something happens to you"

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BIG SHELL

"Sir," Talena said through her Codec. "Jack cannot go by Snake. He can't. I won't allow him to. I'll kill us both." She said in a rather serious voice.

Jack thought she was kidding at first. "?"

"You're right, Talena. Solid Snake is either deador insane." The Colonel said almost emotionlessly, as if he didn't care.

"What?!" Talena said at the second part.

"Yes. The head of this operation is calling himself Solid Snake."

"No!"

"Yes."

"Sick" Raiden frowned. "Some sick freak. Snake wouldn'the'd never"

"What's wrong with you two?!" The Colonel scolded. "You don't know what happened to Snake."

Talena was itching to tell him otherwise. But instead she decided on something else. "That's not what I meant anyway."

"What did you mean?" Jack asked.

"I don't, first of all, believe him to be dead or insane. Secondly, I don't think he would appreciate it too much if someone like Jack were using his name." Talena growled, rather irritated with everyone. She was itching to get to the site to get out of the damned wetsuit.

"What does that mean?" Jack asked, mock-offended.

"Well, then, let's call you Raiden. Talena, you'll go by T, as usual." The Colonel spat, irritated.

"Hello, there, Raiden." Came a silky female voice that made Talena cock an eyebrow.

"Rosemary?!" Raiden shrieked. "What in the blue hell are you doing here?!"

"I wanted to help!" Rosemary sounded generally pleased with herself, and Talena decided to sit back and see how this would all turn out.

"No! Go home! It's too dangerous." Jack argued.

"You can't boss me around! Besides, I'm a data analyst." She growled back.

They only stopped when they heard Talena snort in laughter. "What's so funny?!" Rosemary asked her.

Talena grinned. "The telephone conversation in my ear. Ooh! Raiden, we're here."

They shut out their Codecs and climbed out. Talena took off her helmet and checked out her wetsuit. "I feel so sexy." She groaned, rolling her eyes. She unzipped the water pack that she had brought with her. Raiden stared. She had brought along her trenchcoat, her bandanna, and her Rayban sunglasses.

She shrugged at the staring Raiden. "I felt naked."

They sat down for a breather. Raiden pulled out a water bottle and sipped it, offering it to Talena who shook her head. "So," Raiden began. "Why did you finally agree to come?"

"Someonesomeone important to me once said to me that they'd see me again. And I can't miss that chance. I can't." She said, smiling.

"You think you'll see them again here?"

"Maybe."

"Okaylet's move."

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"Helena?!"

"T?!"

"N-no!! Youyou're trying to"

"I've changed, T, I"

"You're with Dead Cell! Youyou sick"

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Talena gasped. Another daydream gone bad. Like she had been having for the last two years. Raiden looked up at her, concerned. "Hey, what's the matter?"

"I thinkno, it's nothing.

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Blood streaked the steel floor in front of them. "This is, um, unusual, how do you say." Talena said, poking it with a covered hand, then sniffing it. "Either there's an elephant on her period in here, or there was a massacre."

"The latter seems more likely." Raiden said, holding his hand up to his forehead in a "please shut up" manner.
The Colonel buzzed them. "T, Raiden, do NOT go in there."

"Why?" Talena asked.

"Too dangerous. Move on."

"Tch. Whatever." Talena took the door hatch and looked to Raiden. "Wanna check it out?"

He nodded, but before she had a chance to enter, they heard something. They both stopped dead, scarcely breathing.

"Where is he?!"

"I can't hit him!"

"Damn!"

"Argh!"

Talena and Raiden looked at each other, nodded, and pushed open the door. Inside, they looked around. Talena gave a small whimper, and Raiden pressed a hand over his mouth, to keep him from either screaming or vomiting, or even perhaps both.

A man was feeding on the blood of a dead soldier.

Talena turned around a bit and her hand hit the railing.

The man heard, and turned. He hissed, but then grinned, taking out a knife and cutting a thin line across his chest.

"Five today. Perhaps six? Maybe even seven, but I don't enjoy killing the frail."

"Hey, which one you callin' FRAIL, bat boy?!" Talena fumed.

"Get down!" Someone called. Raiden grabbed Talena's arm and they dropped.

A few minutes of crying in pure terror as bullets whizzed by. Finally she looked up and yelped. The Vampire had a knife pressed to Raiden's face, but WHAM! Her foot connected with his groin area.

He groaned in pain, but a few bullets flew in his direction, and he jumped. Talena jumped, turned and the vampire man had the new guy pressed against a wall, commenting on a strange smell.

"What are you waiting for?!" The camo-clad man yelled to Raiden, and Talena's heart gave a leap at his voice. "Shoot!"

The Vampire spun to attack,

"Vamp." Came a voice from somewhere around his butt. (A/N: "What the fuck?" "Otacon, watch your mouth! I couldn't think of anything else." "Whatever..")

"Yeah, Queen?"

But Talena was too tear stricken gazing at the camo-clad man to catch any more. "Snakeit's Snake" She mouthed. "He's alive, he's here, he's alive"

Raiden had shot wildly at Vamp, but he had disappeared. Talena wasn't paying attention, though. She was locked eyes with the man who had just taken his mask off, and smiled weakly at her.