Eat or Be Eaten
Chapter 9 of MGS fanfic
written by Gray Fox
Hidden up in the green bushy treelimbs Snake watched over one of the smaller enemy bases. It consisted of a nice clean cut area with several well built cabin's and enemy defence posts laid out on the outskirts. There was little no no activity from what it seemed like inside but there could be several dozen sentries for all Dave knew. He couldn't go on a one man assault with his little used makarov of course.
"That makarov did get me through those guards a bit back. Hmmm."
He needed a new gun it was as simple as that. The makarov did help him but it just wasn't all of what Snake needed which was a better gun. David spotted an armory on the other side of the distant base so he would just make his way through there.
The legend slipped down the tree and slowly but quietly crawled to one of the defense posts. The sandbags rounded completly around the guard which had a mounted 30. cal machine gun slowly scanning the area. The pistol took aim and fired a nice clean headshot. Snake quickly moved over and propped the guard up so it wouldn't raise suspicion. He saw nothing except for a couple of distant patrolling guards but he hadn't gotten there yet.
Snake pressed his back to the wall and came underneath one of the dirty windows. He leaned up and peered the bottom of it seeing bunkers and little closets to put any belongings in. One of the sentries was taking a nap covered up in a raddy brown bedsheet and nestled his head on a small feather deprived pillow. Dave saw nothing of interest in there so he moved on to the corner and peeked around.
A guard was casually walking in his direction. Snake quickly withdrew to the side and tried to think up of possible cover. There was none! He noticed looking around. Now the footsteps of the guard could be heard creeping towards him. Dave would just have to do things the old fashion way so he readied his knife. The guard walked past him then looked over when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye and was quickly caught in a headlock. Snake squeezed the knife deep into his throat before the he even had a chance to plead or say anything. Blood ran gushing down the guards chest and over Dave's hands. The knife was withdrawn and the guard was put by the house side still rushing some blood.
Snake whiped the blood off the knife and his hands on the guards sleeve and ran off to the next building. He saw by the sign's on the building that it must be the cafeteria which had a few guards sitting at a table quietly eating their food and thick steam rolling out of the kitchen from the cooking. David's stomach growled for the hot meal but he would have to suffer it and leave it behind. So once again he moved on.
Solid was finally at the armory. The base only consisted of five small cabin's each with a sign showing what it was for and it was obvious that this was the armory. David found no windows where he was at so he moved to the back of the cabin which faced another defence post opposite of the one Snake took out earlier.
He crept along the backend of the cabin keeping an eye on the defense post. Just by his luck the guard decided to look back square at him.
Guard, "What the Hell!"
He instantly grabbed his gun and swung it around pointing dead at Snake. Dave's reflex's were just way to fast for the guard and he popped three rounds into the sentry's chest bringing him slumping to the ground in pain. Snake had to get a move on so he jumped up and saw one keeper in the armory with guns lining the walls and wooden crates littering the floors.
Jackpot! Dave had to get the hell out of there before anyone notice's any of the three guards taken out which had problably been to late. He shot through the window killing off the manager and quietly raised the frame up so he could squeeze inside.
He had to take his choice. Snake grabbed what he knew best a Colt 1911 .45 handgun and a nice M-16 assault rifle. Both weapons came right brand spanking new out of the box. His web gear was deprived of any pockets for this so he had taken some of them out of some crates and crammed them with pistol clips and rifle magazines. Dave lined his pockets because he had no idea when he would be able to refill again.
Solid Snake now stood tall decked out. A rifle, a pistol, and loads of ammo at his disposal. David needed somewhere other than his belt to put his knife so the sheath was set on the webgear harness over on his left shoulder. Snake felt like his was missing something. A silencer! He rummaged through the crates and found none so a quick search behind the wooden desk might prove successful. It was! Just by luck the manager kept a colt and several other handguns in the desk with silencers on them. Snake felt picky so he took the silencer off of the used colt in the drawer and attatched it to his new one.
David brought out his map and drew a line from his starting drop point to the enemy base. A siren went off and he peered out of one of the front windows. Guards came busting out of the buidings running all over the place. Snake noticed a handful running right to the armory to do a check.
They had been brought into panic. As soon as one of the guards had finished eating he went to walk around the base when he noticed another one of his comrads dead. He yelled up to the sentry on the defensive post and got no response. The sentry ran up there only to find another one of his comrads fallen so he ran to hit the alarm. All of the guards came running out with weapons ready and recieved the news about the killings. A search had to be done to secure the area and dogs were let loose. Six of the guards went to run check on the armory and busted through the front door finding busted glass, the crates undone and a dead manager.
Snake dove through the window and rolled across the ground. He looks up to find several guards checking the fallen defensive post and looking up to see him. Gunfire rang out. Snake sprayed the three guards down and took off running to the jungle. He thought he was home free until he heard dogs barking and the gunshots of their owners. The bullets ran carelessly at Snake bouncing off trees and kicking up dirt. Smaller bushes got shot down and most of all of the greens had been covered in dirt and filled with bullet holes. Tracers flew past Snakes head as he ran out deeper into the jungle. Sentries and Dogs were right on his tail and still shot around him.
Dave noted to himself if he stopped it would give them a clearer target and the dogs would just maul on him. Every so five seconds he turned around to exchange fire with the terrorist. Snake took out some of the braver dogs and the guards before they got a chance to duck for cover. But no matter how many went down they kept coming and seemed to have one replace the fallen. Snake's adrenaline might be pumped but he still had all that gear bogging him down.
"Damnit!"Snake yelled out in his rage.
He recieved a call and took it when he hid behind a tree which got shot up within seconds.
(gunfire)"WHAT" Dave yelled out into the speaker while returning fire.
"SNAKE! WE HAVE FOUND GOOD COVER FOR YOU" Otacon screamed over the background noise.
Snake couldn't sit there for long. He had a cliff face now to his left when facing the guards and a cliff drop off to his right. The dogs had been taken care of as far as Snake could see but about six or so guards still spread out shooting up the area. Grenades were now crudely thrown past Snake which had him duck down. The blast was rough, dirt and debris came raining down over David.
"SNAKE! IF YOU GO BACK A BIT FURTHER YOU CAN HAVE BETTER COVER!"
Snake waited for a moment for a few of the gunners to reload. Once the gunfire had died a bit then he ran off finding a nice setup of fallen rocks from the cliffs with a blanket of moss over them. Snake swung himself over the rocks which were about five feet high or so. They made a nice U which was perfect. Snake dropped his webgear and laid out a couple of magazines on the rocks for a faster reload. He was lighter now without the gear on and had everything set out in front of him about the time the guards came too.
The attack party found themselves with little to no cover considering the gunshots and grenade blasts. Snake leveled the guards to the ground and shot up any of the survivors. It was over for now but other parties would surely come searching in the direction of the gunfire. He had to find out his position before he ever went any further but he had no idea where he blindly ran too.
"Otacon..This is Snake. What is my position? Where am I?"
"Yeah you're in sector G,12. You've got about another three or so more miles to the main base but I would recommend you find some place warm to stay for the night before you decide to go any further. Look on your map for a good area to lay down in. I godda situation I godda handle here Snake so I'll let Meryl take my spot for a bit, okay?"
"That's fine with me. Put her on."
"Snake are you okay?" That voice came that just soothed Snake's nerves.
"Yeah I'm fine. Just moving to a place where I can lay down for a couple of hours. It's already dark here."
"Well I want you to be extremely careful Snake and I know you will. I just want you to know I love you when your out there alone on the field."
"Same to you."
"Otacon has a situation he's having problems with. We've kept a close watch on the main base with the satellite and it seems there is some major activity"
"Need to Know Basis? You know I don't like that.. Tell me about this activity."
"Well image's show a huge mechanical object being moved down beneath the base. I imagine it's an underground level. So we have no idea what is going on underneath there. As far as Liquid we have not seen any activity of the ray but the last reading did come very close to that area. According to Mei Ling somehow the tracking device has shut off, maybe from a battery or whatever."
"Liquid, I wonder what he's up to and I wonder what is happening in that base."
"Well Dave that's your job to find that out for us. Well I'd better go I've got another call coming in. Love you."
Snake let off the radio knowing that even so far away Meryl was right there with him in his heart. He moved to an area with deep brush and tall grass. He prepared the area for any visitors and laid down for a couple of hours.
What route does Snake take to the main base? Next in Chapter 10 Eat or Die!
Chapter 9 of MGS fanfic
written by Gray Fox
Hidden up in the green bushy treelimbs Snake watched over one of the smaller enemy bases. It consisted of a nice clean cut area with several well built cabin's and enemy defence posts laid out on the outskirts. There was little no no activity from what it seemed like inside but there could be several dozen sentries for all Dave knew. He couldn't go on a one man assault with his little used makarov of course.
"That makarov did get me through those guards a bit back. Hmmm."
He needed a new gun it was as simple as that. The makarov did help him but it just wasn't all of what Snake needed which was a better gun. David spotted an armory on the other side of the distant base so he would just make his way through there.
The legend slipped down the tree and slowly but quietly crawled to one of the defense posts. The sandbags rounded completly around the guard which had a mounted 30. cal machine gun slowly scanning the area. The pistol took aim and fired a nice clean headshot. Snake quickly moved over and propped the guard up so it wouldn't raise suspicion. He saw nothing except for a couple of distant patrolling guards but he hadn't gotten there yet.
Snake pressed his back to the wall and came underneath one of the dirty windows. He leaned up and peered the bottom of it seeing bunkers and little closets to put any belongings in. One of the sentries was taking a nap covered up in a raddy brown bedsheet and nestled his head on a small feather deprived pillow. Dave saw nothing of interest in there so he moved on to the corner and peeked around.
A guard was casually walking in his direction. Snake quickly withdrew to the side and tried to think up of possible cover. There was none! He noticed looking around. Now the footsteps of the guard could be heard creeping towards him. Dave would just have to do things the old fashion way so he readied his knife. The guard walked past him then looked over when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye and was quickly caught in a headlock. Snake squeezed the knife deep into his throat before the he even had a chance to plead or say anything. Blood ran gushing down the guards chest and over Dave's hands. The knife was withdrawn and the guard was put by the house side still rushing some blood.
Snake whiped the blood off the knife and his hands on the guards sleeve and ran off to the next building. He saw by the sign's on the building that it must be the cafeteria which had a few guards sitting at a table quietly eating their food and thick steam rolling out of the kitchen from the cooking. David's stomach growled for the hot meal but he would have to suffer it and leave it behind. So once again he moved on.
Solid was finally at the armory. The base only consisted of five small cabin's each with a sign showing what it was for and it was obvious that this was the armory. David found no windows where he was at so he moved to the back of the cabin which faced another defence post opposite of the one Snake took out earlier.
He crept along the backend of the cabin keeping an eye on the defense post. Just by his luck the guard decided to look back square at him.
Guard, "What the Hell!"
He instantly grabbed his gun and swung it around pointing dead at Snake. Dave's reflex's were just way to fast for the guard and he popped three rounds into the sentry's chest bringing him slumping to the ground in pain. Snake had to get a move on so he jumped up and saw one keeper in the armory with guns lining the walls and wooden crates littering the floors.
Jackpot! Dave had to get the hell out of there before anyone notice's any of the three guards taken out which had problably been to late. He shot through the window killing off the manager and quietly raised the frame up so he could squeeze inside.
He had to take his choice. Snake grabbed what he knew best a Colt 1911 .45 handgun and a nice M-16 assault rifle. Both weapons came right brand spanking new out of the box. His web gear was deprived of any pockets for this so he had taken some of them out of some crates and crammed them with pistol clips and rifle magazines. Dave lined his pockets because he had no idea when he would be able to refill again.
Solid Snake now stood tall decked out. A rifle, a pistol, and loads of ammo at his disposal. David needed somewhere other than his belt to put his knife so the sheath was set on the webgear harness over on his left shoulder. Snake felt like his was missing something. A silencer! He rummaged through the crates and found none so a quick search behind the wooden desk might prove successful. It was! Just by luck the manager kept a colt and several other handguns in the desk with silencers on them. Snake felt picky so he took the silencer off of the used colt in the drawer and attatched it to his new one.
David brought out his map and drew a line from his starting drop point to the enemy base. A siren went off and he peered out of one of the front windows. Guards came busting out of the buidings running all over the place. Snake noticed a handful running right to the armory to do a check.
They had been brought into panic. As soon as one of the guards had finished eating he went to walk around the base when he noticed another one of his comrads dead. He yelled up to the sentry on the defensive post and got no response. The sentry ran up there only to find another one of his comrads fallen so he ran to hit the alarm. All of the guards came running out with weapons ready and recieved the news about the killings. A search had to be done to secure the area and dogs were let loose. Six of the guards went to run check on the armory and busted through the front door finding busted glass, the crates undone and a dead manager.
Snake dove through the window and rolled across the ground. He looks up to find several guards checking the fallen defensive post and looking up to see him. Gunfire rang out. Snake sprayed the three guards down and took off running to the jungle. He thought he was home free until he heard dogs barking and the gunshots of their owners. The bullets ran carelessly at Snake bouncing off trees and kicking up dirt. Smaller bushes got shot down and most of all of the greens had been covered in dirt and filled with bullet holes. Tracers flew past Snakes head as he ran out deeper into the jungle. Sentries and Dogs were right on his tail and still shot around him.
Dave noted to himself if he stopped it would give them a clearer target and the dogs would just maul on him. Every so five seconds he turned around to exchange fire with the terrorist. Snake took out some of the braver dogs and the guards before they got a chance to duck for cover. But no matter how many went down they kept coming and seemed to have one replace the fallen. Snake's adrenaline might be pumped but he still had all that gear bogging him down.
"Damnit!"Snake yelled out in his rage.
He recieved a call and took it when he hid behind a tree which got shot up within seconds.
(gunfire)"WHAT" Dave yelled out into the speaker while returning fire.
"SNAKE! WE HAVE FOUND GOOD COVER FOR YOU" Otacon screamed over the background noise.
Snake couldn't sit there for long. He had a cliff face now to his left when facing the guards and a cliff drop off to his right. The dogs had been taken care of as far as Snake could see but about six or so guards still spread out shooting up the area. Grenades were now crudely thrown past Snake which had him duck down. The blast was rough, dirt and debris came raining down over David.
"SNAKE! IF YOU GO BACK A BIT FURTHER YOU CAN HAVE BETTER COVER!"
Snake waited for a moment for a few of the gunners to reload. Once the gunfire had died a bit then he ran off finding a nice setup of fallen rocks from the cliffs with a blanket of moss over them. Snake swung himself over the rocks which were about five feet high or so. They made a nice U which was perfect. Snake dropped his webgear and laid out a couple of magazines on the rocks for a faster reload. He was lighter now without the gear on and had everything set out in front of him about the time the guards came too.
The attack party found themselves with little to no cover considering the gunshots and grenade blasts. Snake leveled the guards to the ground and shot up any of the survivors. It was over for now but other parties would surely come searching in the direction of the gunfire. He had to find out his position before he ever went any further but he had no idea where he blindly ran too.
"Otacon..This is Snake. What is my position? Where am I?"
"Yeah you're in sector G,12. You've got about another three or so more miles to the main base but I would recommend you find some place warm to stay for the night before you decide to go any further. Look on your map for a good area to lay down in. I godda situation I godda handle here Snake so I'll let Meryl take my spot for a bit, okay?"
"That's fine with me. Put her on."
"Snake are you okay?" That voice came that just soothed Snake's nerves.
"Yeah I'm fine. Just moving to a place where I can lay down for a couple of hours. It's already dark here."
"Well I want you to be extremely careful Snake and I know you will. I just want you to know I love you when your out there alone on the field."
"Same to you."
"Otacon has a situation he's having problems with. We've kept a close watch on the main base with the satellite and it seems there is some major activity"
"Need to Know Basis? You know I don't like that.. Tell me about this activity."
"Well image's show a huge mechanical object being moved down beneath the base. I imagine it's an underground level. So we have no idea what is going on underneath there. As far as Liquid we have not seen any activity of the ray but the last reading did come very close to that area. According to Mei Ling somehow the tracking device has shut off, maybe from a battery or whatever."
"Liquid, I wonder what he's up to and I wonder what is happening in that base."
"Well Dave that's your job to find that out for us. Well I'd better go I've got another call coming in. Love you."
Snake let off the radio knowing that even so far away Meryl was right there with him in his heart. He moved to an area with deep brush and tall grass. He prepared the area for any visitors and laid down for a couple of hours.
What route does Snake take to the main base? Next in Chapter 10 Eat or Die!