Chapter 1
Reminiscing
The sound of the swords clashing against each other was intense enough to be heard from a block away. But still they fought. Two epic warriors locked in battle. Raiden wondered briefly how he had gotten to this point.
Almost 24 hours ago, an offshore cleanup facility called Big Shell was seized by terrorists. As fate would have it, they took it over the same day a government inspection tour went through it. Among the hostages was the President of the United States. SEAL Team 10 was brought in to stop the terrorists and recover the President. Little did they know that had a friendly operative. His name was Jack. Codename Raiden.
Raiden infiltrated the Big Shell by swimming underneath it, through the fence surrounding it. He was surprised, however, when he found a brand-new hole cut through the oil fence. He swam through it, and when he surfaced, there was no one around. He went through the door across from him. As he turned the valve, he heard the sounds of a struggle behind the door. When the door was opened, an unconscious guard lay on the ground in front of Raiden. He ducked out of sight until the guard was gone. Raiden went into the next room, the elevator room, and found it rising. A man in a gray suit was on it.
Later, SEAL Team 10 was completely obliterated by a group of people known as Dead Cell. Two members had completely killed them all. The first was a living nightmare. A true vampire named Vamp. The second was a dark-skinned woman named Fortune. Amazingly, any bullet shot at her missed completely. She used her massive rail gun to wipe out the remainders of the SEALS as Vamp took the President inside the Shell 1 Core.
Raiden went about his mission. He met up with the last remainder of the SEALS, who called himself Iroquois Pliskin. But Raiden suspected something about him was different than what he told. Many events happened over the next few hours. The bomb disposal expert the SEALS had brought in had died in an explosion when a bomb trap went off. Raiden met up with a ninja who called himself Mr. X and Deepthroat. This ninja gave Raiden an enemy B.D.U, which Raiden used to sneak into the Shell 1 Core. There, by talking to a Secret Service Agent named Richard Ames, Raiden found the President had been moved to Shell 2. But a man named Revolver Ocelot had stopped Raiden's inquiries. Richard Ames mysteriously passed away immediately after that, leaving Raiden to try to escape.
Luckily for him, the ninja showed up at that point, and helped him. Raiden ran. As he came to Shell 2, he found himself on the connecting bridge, where a man dressed in a black cloak awaited him. Pliskin and his friend, Otacon, were flying in a Kasatka helicopter above. The man in the cloak revealed himself Plisken's brother. The man was called Solidus Snake. Pliskin was Solid Snake, the legendary hero of Shadow Moses.
Solidus got inside a Harrier Jet Plane, piloted by Vamp. Snake threw down a Stinger Missile Launcher for Raiden, and Raiden combated the Harrier. Soon, the Harrier went down. As it went down, a massive shape arose from the water. Metal Gear RAY. The current ultimate weapon in the world. And it was already active. Vamp escaped, but Solidus was led to a fate unknown.
Later, Raiden found the President, who told him that the RAY wasn't the Metal Gear Ames had told him to watch out for. They were standing in the Metal Gear. This new Gear was called Arsenal Gear, armed with purified hydrogen bombs and protected by mass-produced RAYs. The President was shot and killed by Revolver Ocelot. His last orders to Raiden were to stop Arsenal. Raiden soon found himself trying to find the last surviving computer programmer of Arsenal. The only one who could stop it. She was Emma Emmerich, Otacon's step sister. But she was guarded by Vamp. Raiden fought Vamp in a powerful duel. But Vamp found himself unworthy of Raiden's skill, and Vamp died in a special pool of water, contained with a substance that would never allow him to rise again.
Raiden found Emma. He led her to the Shell 1 Core so that she could stop Arsenal. Unfortunately, the only way across was on top of the oil fence. Raiden and Snake covered Emma as she walked across with their sniper rifles. She was almost across when Vamp jumped up from the water behind her. He took a knife to Emma, and started cutting her. Raiden quickly aimed his sniper rifle, and shot Vamp in the head repeatedly. He fell back to the water. This time, for good.
But Emma was mortally wounded. Snake grabbed her and rushed her to the Shell 1 Core, Raiden in pursuit. When Raiden got there, she was lying on the floor, close to death. Snake put in the disk that Emma made that would stop Arsenal. But the virus upload stopped at 90%. Emma then died.
Otacon left to evacuate the hostages. Snake and Raiden were wondering how to get into Arsenal, when the ninja popped up again. The ninja revealed herself to be Olga Gurlukovich, the leader of the army patrolling the Big Shell. When Raiden realized Snake betrayed him. He made a move for his gun, but Olga knocked him out.
When Raiden woke up, he found himself naked on a platform. In front of him were Revolver Ocelot and Solidus Snake. Raiden discovered that he was a child soldier of Solidus's army back in the civil war of the 80's. Solidus and Ocelot left him and Olga freed him from his containment, telling him Snake needed to betray him to get inside Arsenal. Snake had all of his equipment. Raiden ran through Arsenal to get to Snake. Tengu ninja soldiers, powerful acrobatic ninjas, patrolled the hallways. Raiden sneaked past them, and found Solid Snake. Raiden quickly dressed himself up in his Skull Suit, and Snake gave Raiden a blade, the same blade that Olga used.
Raiden and Snake were the only hope left to stop Arsenal Gear. They ran through the hallways, and were quickly enveloped in an intense gunfight with Tengu soldiers. Eventually, they found themselves in a room right beneath the roof of Arsenal. But that's when Fortune decided to make her appearance. Fortune believed Snake had called her father, which he claimed they didn't. Raiden started climbing up the ladder towards the roof as the sounds of bullets and electricity from the rail gun echoed beneath him.
When there, he was greeted by Solidus. Solidus gave him a 'worthy opponent'; the opponent being the 25 mass-produced Metal Gear RAYs. Raiden fought them with his Stinger Missile Launcher, and destroyed all but three. He was too exhausted to go on. Just as they were about to finish him, Olga came in and protected him. Realizing what she was Solidus jumped in the fray and killed Olga himself. Just before her death, Olga told Raiden that he must live,
Two years before, Olga gave birth to her child. But the secret organization known as the Patriots stole her child. Raiden's inner nanomachines were connected to the baby's life. If Raiden died, the baby died.
Solidus was about to let the RAYs continue when they started to act funny. The virus was kicking in. Solidus single-handedly destroyed them. Fortune came up, Snake in her custody. Solidus, however, revealed that the only reason Fortune was even here was so that she could steal Arsenal. It was revealed that Solidus had told Ocelot to give her that idea, so he could test her judgement. Ocelot revealed he worked for the Patriots. As Ocelot betrayed and was about to destroy them all, something happened to him. He was clutching his arm, and kept on uttering the word 'Liquid'. Amazingly, his arm seemed to grow muscles, and Ocelot's voice changed. It turned out that Snake's third brother, Liquid Snake, whom Snake had supposedly killed at Shadow Moses, lived on through Ocelot's arm. Liquid tried to destroy them all as he controlled the last operable RAY unit. Fortune deflected the missiles, but soon died from her own wounds. Snake broke free of his handcuffs and chased after Liquid, diving after the RAY, which flew into the water. This left Raiden and Solidus alone.
Arsenal Gear started to move into the heart of Manhattan, but finally crashed into Federal Hall. Raiden and Solidus were propelled onto its roof. Solidus revealed that he wanted the names of the leaders of the Patriots so that he could kill them. The only way he knew to get this was to kill Raiden. Stored in Raiden's nanomachines was the information. But Raiden needed to stay alive, to keep Olga's baby and Raiden's girlfriend, who was under the custody of the Patriots, alive. Just before the fight, Solidus revealed to Raiden that he killed Raiden's parents. Solidus threw Raiden his sword. Solidus drew his own double blades. In a matter of moments, these two warriors were locked in an epic swordfight.
Raiden ducked beneath a quick thrust of Solidus's sword, and slashed at Solidus's armored stomach, to no avail. Raiden blocked one slash, and was kicked down by Solidus's foot. Raiden rolled out of the way before Solidus killed him, and Raiden ran away from Solidus for a bit. The two warriors glared at each other ferociously. Raiden and Solidus both blocked each other's slashes, before Raiden jumped out of the way of one slash, letting Solidus fly by him. Raiden used this to slash Solidus's spine.
Solidus stumbled to the edge of Federal Hall, before turning and looking at Raiden one last time. He fell, crumbling at the foot of the George Washington statue at the base of Federal Hall. Solidus reached up for something that could help him, but there was nothing. Solidus Snake was dead.
That was three months ago.