The Abominable Snowman
The man brought the binoculars up to his eyes. His breathing slow and through his nose. He had put snow into his mouth to stop his breath being visible. Even though the temperature was sub zero, the man laid still as if he couldn't feel it. The wind blew his long white hair onto his back. A smile spread as somebody sat down on the porch visible through the lenses of his binoculars.
"Snake... So you're still alive, my brother…"
He stood up and tied his hair back into a ponytail. He turned and made a hand signal, with that a unit of six people unburied themselves from the brilliant white snow. They got into a two by two standard cover formation and began to swiftly navigate the mile to the small wooden cabin.
"So Otacon, what do you have for me?"
"Well, as I told you before, all of the patriots on this disk are dead and have been for quite some time. After a lot of research and digging, I've discovered something very strange. He looked at the contorted face of Snake.
"…"
"Don't look at me like that Snake, you…"
"Quiet," Snake said it quietly but assertively, assuring Otacon that danger was indeed present. "Shut down the computer, remove the hard drives and hide in that cupboard." Snake reached over to the computer, removed the original disk and slipped it into his combat pants pocket. Silently withdrawing his sidearm, loading and then cocking it. "Click."
'Click' the sound of boots on the front porch moving ever closer. 'Click.' They had a metallic ring to them 'click.' Snake moved himself into a position in front of the door and knelt on one knee taking aim.
'Boom!' The door flew from its alcove, hurtling towards Snake. He dived sideways and landed in a roll, narrowly escaping the sharp splinters of wood. The remainder of the door crashed against Otacon's hiding place, causing him to shout in fear. Solid Snake swivelled around 180 degrees to face the attacker, his eyes starting from the bottom, finally coming to rest upon the eyes of ",Ocelot!"
"Almost… my brother. I may look like this old withering man, but inside, rest assured, that I live on."
"Liquid! But… how?"
"Remember Gray Fox?" he noticed the flash of pain on the face on Snake ", of course you do… You've killed him twice haven't you? Well the technology used to bri…"
"Arghhhhh! Liquid get out of my head you bastard! I'm on a mission, if you don't let me get on with it, I'm going to cut you off. I don't care whether the patriots put you there or not," slowly Liquid's menacing grin disappeared and was replaced by that of Revolver Ocelot's. "Finally we can be alone. That fool is driving me crazy." Ocelot talked as if they were old friends.
Snake took aim ", I should have killed you a long time ago."
"Would it have made a difference? Everyone you kill comes back to life," the grin widened ", maybe you're not very good at it. Whereas me, when I kill somebody they stay dead."
"…Meryl…" snake whispered and lowered his aim for a split second. In that split second glass exploded into the cabin followed by the bodies of 6 troopers clad in white cammo. He brought up his hands to shield his eyes from the raining glass, with that they surged forward and brought him down, handcuffing and disarming him with relative ease.
"Lift him to his knees," as they did Snake head butted one of the troopers in the crotch winding him and making lean down. As he did, Snake rose up and smashed the troopers face, causing it to explode with blood. The trooper crashed to the floor. "Come on Snake, if you fight I won't hesitate to put a bullet in your head. Don't you think that if I wanted to kill you you'd already be dead?"
