Chapter Two: Eyes of the Hawk
Snake stood up and started looking at his compass.
"North, eh? Guess that's where I'm gonna go then." Snake thought out loud.
"Who's there!" Someone else yelled out.
Shit! Way to go! Snake thought to himself. Why did I say that out loud! Snake heard the noise of footsteps very close by. He had no way out of it this time. It was either surrender, start a firefight, or shoot before he does.
"Radio, Patrol here. I just heard a suspicious man. Requesting reinforcements."
"Roger that, reinforcements are on their way."
I'm really screwed now, Snake thought, how am I going to get out of this one? Just then, he heard someone running. Most likely the reinforcements.
"Who the hell are—AAHHH!" Some sort of stab silenced the soldier
"You guys are no fun. All you do is call for reinforcements and get killed by me. Guess I'll wait for the rest of you to get here…."
Snake crouched and looked over his shoulder to see a middle-aged man, about 5' tall wearing tiger strip cameo, with an American flag patch. Was he another spy for the CIA? No, it can't be, he's revealing himself with the flag. Snake had enough courage to pull out his .45 and jump out, pointing the Colt at the person's head.
"Freeze!" Snake shouted.
The man looked over at Snake with a cigar in his mouth, dropped his knife, and slowly raised his arms over his head.
"Guess you caught me this time…" The man said.
"Who are you!"
"Why would a soldier care about identity? We're just tools of the government just to—"
"Cut me some slack, I already heard that speech. Answer my question!"
"You really want to know? Fine, my name's Hawk."
"Your real name, not you're code name. What's your real name!"
"That I won't reveal."
Just then, shouts came from ahead, about 200 yards.
"That is probably the reinforcements, on their way to help their comrade. If you let me help you fight, then we can talk later. But if not, then we can just both die right on this spot." Hawk said, grinning.
Snake had a look of angst on his face. He looked at Hawk, then at the direction where the shouts came.
"Fine! But if I see any weapon pointed at me, there will be no hesitating on how fast I will pull this trigger!"
Hawk smiled again, and then ran behind a tree for cover. Snake did the same. Snake kept close watch on Hawk, and noticed he pulled out an unfamiliar pistol. Was it a prototype of some sort?
"Over there! Look!" The reinforcements said, as they walked over to the body.
Then Hawk opened fire. The first shot was a head shot on the first soldier, the soldier behind him ran for cover.
"Radio, we are under at—" The soldier was cut off by a gunshot.
Snake realized this was no ordinary soldier. He had amazing skill in marksmanship. But for now, the enemy was only a few yards away. He opened fire with his .45.
"Haha! Another headshot! What's that now, 4?" Hawk bragged.
Snake noticed a soldier was sneaking up on Hawk from behind. He quickly aimed his gun at him and pulled the trigger. The soldier stood there. Had he missed?
Soon, the body collapsed to the ground. Hawk looked behind him, and nodded his head at Snake.
Snake, at this point, had to reload. He reached down for another magazine, replacing it with the old one. When he looked back up, Hawk was walking out to where the attack started. Was it over?
"N-no! Don't kill me! I'll help you get wherever you're going! Just tell me where!" Someone said. He obviously was a soldier who was wounded.
"You can provide me with information?" Hawk replied.
"Yes! Where are you heading! I can tell you where to go!"
"Tell me how to get to the prison to the north." Hawk snapped. Snake was surprised at this. Was he to rescue the General too?
"Ok. Just head north. There will be a base there. We heavily protect it…but there's a weakness. One guard usually always falls asleep on his job guarding the radio building. If you can sneak past him and set off the Alarm to the east, all of the soldiers guarding the area will immediately abandon their position and head east. They will be gone for about 2 hours, take advantage of this. After the base, there will be a marsh. There are 2 gun emplacements at the end of it. Inside the marsh is a hidden tunnel that can lead you around the emplacements. We use this so the gun emplacements don't shoot us. Anyways, after this, just head north and you'll come upon the prison."
"Lemme get this straight: Base (Infiltrate radio building), Marsh (find hidden tunnel leading around emplacements), and then north to prison?"
"Correct."
"Thanks." With that, Hawk holstered his gun and pulled out another gun. A Mk22. It was like the one in the mission last year.
"W-what! I told you everything I know!" The soldier said, scared to death.
"Yeah, I know." He pulled the trigger, and a dart flew out and hit the soldier's head. Did he put him to sleep?
"I hope that's a gun that puts people to sleep."
"The Mk22? Yeah, it's modified by the Navy to—"
"Alright, I got the point, I already get enough lecturing from someone else. Holster your gun."
Hawk looked at his Mk22 and then holstered it.
"Why are you going to the prison?" Snake asked.
"That's classified." Hawk replied.
"Then de-classify it."
"Goto hell!" With that, Hawk ran north. Snake pulled out his .45 and shot at him, missing every shot, until he ran out bullets for that magazine.
"Damn it!" Snake reloaded, but before he could shoot again, Hawk was out of sight.