Lovely Night Out Into Town

It was late, another day of hard boring work. Snake hadn't seen action in days, Raiden was either slouching around or with Rosemary, and Otacon was always blabbing off his computer knowledge with Mei Ling. To Snake the whole thing reaked of a public bathroom and Otacon just couldn't get enough of his free time with his beloved computer.

"Eahh! I'm going out!" Snakes deep gruff voice spat as he stomped out the exit door of Philanthropy.

Philanthropy hadn't seen hardly any action since Metal Gear Arsenal crashed into Manhatten. How could they even try to stick their noses after what had happened? Snake and Otacon decided for Philanthropy to stay low on their actions until everything cooled off.

Snake finally reached his lonely apartment after a short walk. He had already called Meryl for the night out into the finest restraunt they could afford, and she of course was very excited considering they haven't been together more than a week. Dave opened his closet to grab his precious tuxedo he was so famous for wearing around his close friends. he took a quick cold shower and slipped on his black tuxedo, straigtened himself out in the mirror patting down any small wrinkle and dusting off all the little white specks. A few minutes later the doorbell rang.

"Snake? You ready?" A sweet voice called from the other side of the door.

"Come right on in!" Snake yelled from the other room.

Snake walked casually into the main room until he hit a dead stop. His jaw might as well dragged to the floor.

"Wow" was the only thing he could think of to say at the time.

Meryl wore a sleek black dress that flowed to the floor. She had never looked so stunning before to Snake.

"Snake, your not saying anything." Meryl laughed catching Snake slightly embarrased.

Meryl and Snake visited together for the night. It seemed like it could go on forever after their dining and walking together. They shared memories and scar's, compared thoughts and theories, and Snake even joked around a little after Meryl loosened him up from his normally uptight stern attitude. The night had finally come to an end when Snake escorted Meryl to her apartment door.

"So... I'll call you tomorrow?" Meryl politely asked

"Tomorrow! Damnit I got to help with Philanthropy tomorrow" Snake sternly said catching the quiet peaceful mood.

"Oh yeah! That's right I've godda help on it also. Too bad my scedule doesn't match your's Snake. We could really spend alot of time together."

"Hmmm we can always change that up" Snake said quietly to Meryl "I'll see what I can do"

Snake kissed Meryl goodbye for the night. He walked home for the first time in ages with happy thoughts.

The doors of Philanthropy opened the next day for review on their next mission. The operatives would be Snake and Raiden and the Rest would be for support and backup. The mission plan was simple: To Infiltrate a harbor called the big blue banana and retrieve documents important on information on the holdings of Metal Gears.

"phsssssssh, This is stupid! Can I go home?" Raiden annoyingly yawned.

"Shove it kid! You already agreed to work with us and you havent done anything but break stuff and complain.." Snake snapped back

Otacon, Meryl and Mei Ling glared at Raiden with disgust.

He hadn't done anything for weeks.. All he has done was show up late, get jobs half done, and he even wrecked Otacon's VR training machine not to mention Mei Ling's computer. Without those Philanthropy would have a slow income for a long time.

"I'm not ready for this yet. I'm still ummm preping myself up for it... yeah that's it.."

"Listen Kid! I'm tired of your crap damnit! Now put on your gear and lets go.."

Snake and Otacon were already preped to go in the Kasatka while Raiden was going back and forth continually forgeting things.

"Okay I'm ready! Wait! no hold on!"

"DAMNIT JUST GET ON THIS THING AND LETS GO"

"but..."

" I SAID LETS GO!" Snake yelled over the rotors of the Kasatka.

"fine.. fine" Raiden sighed and flopped down in the helecopter.

They took off. Snake was at edge of the helicoptor listening to the radio chatter between Otacon, Mei Ling and Meryl. Raiden ,on the other hand, was complaining about his hair getting in his eyes and how long it would be until they got there.. It was constant nagging the whole way down..

"Okay.. Raiden you ready to go?"

" Yeah.. Whatever..."

Snake and Raiden jumped out of the helicoptor at the harbor's edge. Snake would have chosen an Insertion point somewhere else but they didn't spot any guards. Snake and Raiden snuck their way to some crates and went over the quick mission plan.

"Raiden.. You take that warehouse over there and I'll take this one on this end... Don't get spotted and remember to only use your M9 when necessary."

"Sure... Whatever man." Raiden spat as he ran off clumsily towards the warehouse.

"Eghhh.. I swear that Kid's gonna be the end of me."

Snake snuck his way into his first warehouse.. Nothing.. Nothing was there except for some empty crates.. He decided to search some more there.

It wasn't 30 minutes until Raiden came screaming on the Radio.

"Snake hurry I'm under fire! Quick.............." his end of the radio cut out.

"Otacon bring the chopper over at my end and bring me to point 2A. Raiden is in trouble!"

"On my way Snake"

Snake had equipped himself with his old m4/m203 assualt rifle he had stowed away on the chopper and finds Raiden.

He spots the kid crouched down huddled together behind an old crate holding a captured AKs-74u assault rifle spaying rounds into the midday air. The guards bullets were taking chunks out of the crate it wouldn't last to much longer.

"Raiden, There's only one guard.... take him out.."

"I.. I can't Snake.. My gun's out of ammo.. I've already shot out all my m9 ammo at seagulls and I tried to scare the guard off by shooting in the air. I don't know what to do I'm so scared!"cried out Raiden in fear.

A single guard continued to press fire on Raiden.. still huddled together.

"Eghh.. fine" Snake decided to do precision sniping so he turned the gun's laser on..

You could see Raiden getting anxious to get out of there.. Watching the laser meet the guard's chest.

The tiny red dot bounced around steadily on the guard until it suddenly disappeared. Raiden looked up quickly at Snake who was now pointing the gun at him.

"Snake this is no time for fooling around!" Raiden cried "Come on! Shoot the guard you bastard idiot!"

Two shots rang out in the cold still air..

Raiden looked down to see two bullet holes through his chest.

He was gushing blood badly and the exit wounds busted out chunks of meat that splattered across the ground. He could taste the blood running out his mouth

Two more shots rang out from the M-4 both hitting Raiden's left knee.

The bullet impact was hard and blown the bone completely out of the skin. the wound shot chunks of meat across the crate and the ground.

Raiden stretched out his bloody hand to Snake before falling over.. A pool of blood sooned formed a puddle around his body.

Solid Snake waved at the guard to signal confirmation.

"Mission Complete" Otacon said happily.

The mysterious guard took it's hot ski mask of to reveal Meryl.

The Kasatka touched down softly to retreive her.

"Got the explosives set?" Snake asked knowing it was already done.

"Definately!" Meryl pulled the switch out.

The chopper flown away from the big blue banana harbor back to Philanthropy. The harbor was about nearly out of site when a magnificant burst of flames shot over 5 stories high.

"That's the last time that idiot breaks my VR machine!"

"It's the last time that idiot is in the way of my scedule.. eh Snake? I mean... Dave..."Meryl scratching Daves chin.

"Yeah it's the last time that idiot wreckes my computer with his stupid games" Mei Ling laughed.

They all returned to their homes.. Meryl now living with Snake after she got her scedule changed to match his own. Otacon now happy that Philanthropy can now gain money for the repair of his VR machine instead of it being wasted on junk food that Raiden WAS in charge of..

Mei Ling is also happy knowing she doesn't have some long haired geek flirting with her or breaking her computer's anymore now she's flirting with a short haired geek that goes by the name Otacon

END

A little credit to Big Boss my friend who helped me come up with a base idea for this.. but the story in itself is mine alone..

This Fanfic is Copywrited to Gray Fox and cannot be used without first asking permission.