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Philanthropy Chapter 2: A letter of possibilities.
Somewhere in Manhattan, as the rain fell sadly on to tall buildings and skyscrapers, was a man sitting in a small hotel room working on a small coffee table. His eyes were tired and his head was hurting from reading small text off the screen of his laptop whilst trying to stay awake.
It had only been a few days ago when he, Dr. Hal Emmerich, was in the middle of an island called Shadow Moses and was helping a mercenary called Solid Snake to destroy a nuclear walking battle tank, that he had designed. The name of this machine was Metal Gear Rex.
After a while of surfing then net and sorting out some financial papers, Hal sat back in his chair and sighed, whilst pushing his glasses back up he nose. Slowly, he began to close his eyes, as his thoughts seemed to wonder.
"Snake please, don't hurt her! She's a good person you'd know that if you met her!" Called his voice inside his head.
"Otacon! She's a merciless killer!" Shouted Snakes voice back at him then faded into the darkness of his mind.
Otacon was Hal's code or nick name that he had given him self during the Shadow Moses incident, which also stood for Otaku Convention, since he was a big anime fan.
A bleak expression fell upon Hal face as he remembered the moment when Sniper Wolf, the woman he fell in love with, died. She was wounded by Snake during their gunfight and was bleeding internally from her lungs.
Wolf was a Sniper and one of the terrorists that took over the island. She was the only one, out of the rest of the terrorist, who showed kindness to him.
"Wolf!" His voice called out again in his head, " Please don't go, don't do this!" He begged after calling her on his codec after his conversation with Snake.
"I said stay out of my way!" Her voice called back shrilly.
"Please, you don't have to do this."
I all ready told you! Don't get in between a Wolf and it's prey!"
"Wolf please …I-I love you!" His voice now pleads, however in vain, as the codec goes silent then shortly cuts off.
A tear falls down his cheek as he remembers that moment and silence fills the gloomy hotel room.
Just then, "Beep, beep!" sounded an alarm on his watch that went every hour, indicating that it was nine o'clock in the morning and that he had been up all night. Rays of sunlight was poking through gaps in the curtain which made dust become visible in it's light.
After rubbing his eyes, Hal looked longingly at his empty cup, that was placed next to his laptop, as if waiting for it to fill back up with warm hot coffee in an attempt to not get up and get it him self. Gradually he pulled him self off his chair and turned on the kettle then opened the jar of instant coffee, that he had bought him self.
Hal didn't like hotel coffee, or the sachets of it left as the complimentary item, he preferred his own brand that he bought form the shops.
After making a cup of hot coffee, black with two sugars, he reseat back in his chair and noticed a letter that he had written earlier that was a letter of resignation to Arms Tec. Hal knew that as soon as he'd send it he would be officially job less and would have to go looking for a new one.
However, with all his works, qualifications and achievements, Hal was able to do just about anything.
"But what do I want to do?" He thought to him self while taking a sip from his cup of coffee. Hal didn't want to take part in making things for the military any more or big software companies and working for FBI or any government organization was out of the question. Hal's interest now, was in people and he wanted to understand them better. The only reason he had turned to technology in the first place was because he was no good with them.
"I could make Medical technology to help people? Or things for every day uses?" he continued in his head, while readjusting his specs. "The possibility's are infinite."
TO BE CONTINUED…
Author: Hay thanks for telling me Campbell's brothers name, I completely forgot about it being in Snake tales and couldn't remember with story it was on. Sorry if i'vetook so long i've been busy at collage and at work.
Chapter three soon!
If any one's confused about what's going on, it's just that both things are happening at the same time so bear with me, it will make sense later on.
Also, there is a guidebook, which is called the Official Metal Gear Solid strategy guide, which was a co-production of Cyber press publishing S.A and Piggyback Interactive Limited. I don't know if they sale them any more but have a look around. It's very useful for info on characters.
I hope you like this chap. Please review and tell me whether or not you liked it.
Thanks.
Fox.