A/N: Yikes, I can't believe it tookme this long to get the next chapter up. Anyway, to answer a question I got in my reviews (How did Don know about Otacon and Snake? How did Otacon know about Don and Raph?) Donnie knew fromthe bookpublished by the Weapon's Tech from the first game (in Son's a Liberty there is a section where you can read her book) and the rumors Otacon has output out on the web. As for Otacon know about theturtles...well you're justgoing to have to wait for that explaination now, won't you?
Traps R Us
"Otacon! Donnie! Do sumpthin'!" Raphael ordered as he felt the one Sai still in the wall start to pull out.
"Half a moment." Donatello replied.
In an attempt to buy more time, Raphael sticks his other Sai back into the wall. But just as he did so, the other one incomes out. "We don't got dat long." He retorted.
"Alright, we got it." Otacon said. "Look below you."
Snake looks below him to see the elevator doors in front of his feet open. Though he is a bit confused, he grabs Raph's ankles. "Isn't the twentieth floor the one above us?" Snake asked before he pulled the young turtle's legs apart so he could drop down to a dangle and swing in through the open doors.
"We had you jump a floor above the one you wanted, because it would be easier to get down rather than trying to climb up." Donatello explained.
Raphael uses his Sais to climb down to the elevator doors. "Good thinkin'." He said after he jumped onto the floor and gave his weapons a twirl before putting them into his belt.
"How far are we from the computer room?" Snake asked.
"No very." Otacon replied. "Just take the hall you're in down and make a right. The door to the room should be there."
Transmission was cut and the two beings follow the directions they were given, but when they get to the location they see no door along either wall. From the middle of the hall, Snake presses the side of his head. "Otacon?"
"Hmm…" The anime junkie scratched his chin. "According to the map, there should be one."
"There's probably some kind of identification system." Donatello said.
"Well ain't dat just great." Raphael snorted while he leaned on the wall with one hand.
"Alert! Alert!" A computer voice echoed. "Unrecognizable hand reading. Personal unauthorized to enter. Security code initiated."
The floor beneath Raph and Snake's feet begin to rumble. When they look down, they see the panel of floor break in half and fall down a pit. Luckily for them, they had time to jump away from each other to keep from falling with it. But just as they land on the floor, another piece breaks away.
"Da floor is booby trapped!" Raphael exclaimed while he and Snake back-flipped to keep from falling.
Once he landed, Snake turns on his heels to flee. "Run for it." He ordered.
"Don't have ta tell me twice." Raphael replied as he also turned to run.
It was like slow motion as the two beings run through the hallway in opposite directions. Just as a human or turtle foot touch the floor, it would begin to tremble. Then when that foot left the panel of flooring, it would drop away. Eventually the floor stops collapsing once Raph and Snake each reached their end of the hallway.
"Looks like we'll have ta find another way inta the room." Raphael yelled from up the hallway.
"No thanks to you." Snake yelled back.
"How was I supposed ta know dat dat's where da security panel was?" The red clad turtle bellowed.
"Never mind." Snake pointed to the two walls. "Either room could be the computer room. I'll check out the right one while you check out the left one."
"My left or yer right?" Raphael asked. The mercenary never answered, he just went up the hallway. "Goin' up means he went ta my left, his right." The young turtle muttered to himself as he went in the opposite direction. "So goin' dis way would mean goin' my right, his left." Luckily for him, he rounded a corner in time to see a Foot tech-flunky press his hand on a panel in the wall.
"Authorization confirmed." The computer said while a hidden door slid open. "You may enter."
A grin grows across Raphael's face. "Finally my turtle luck has come around." He smirked as he pressed his communicator button. "Yo, Snake."
A voice behind him answers, "What?"
Frighten, Raphael does a jump-twist. "Yikes!" He glared at the dark man behind him. "Whatchya doin' sneakin' up on me like dat!"
"For a ninja, you're not very perceptive." Snake commented. The young turtle stuck out his tongue at the man. "Very mature."
"Get bent." Raphael spat. "Anyway, I found another way inta da room. We just need someone ta use ta gain entry."
"Well security is pretty light around here. In fact, there isn't any around at all." Snake said while he crossed his arms and leaned back against one of the walls. "They probably did that cause they're thinking what we're thinking."
"So what do we…"
"Fifteenth floor and eight doors down from the stairs is a break room." Donatello interrupted.
"How did…."
"I'm like, five steps ahead of you bro." Donatello replied somewhat smugly. "You really should take up chess."
Raphael gives an annoyed grunt. "Alright genius, if yer so smart, how do we get dere?" He asked coldly. "If ya hadn't fergotten, da elevator is out."
"But the stairs aren't." Donatello shot back.
"Aw spit." Raphael groaned.
"Come on, let's go." Snake said while he ushered the young turtle back the way they came; back to the stairwell.
While they go down the stairs, Raphael realizes something. "If we gotta go down five flights of stairs ta get someone ta get us inta dat room, what was da use of riskin' our necks in da elevator shaft like we did?" He asked.
"I dunno." Snake shrugged. "Seemed like a good idea at the time"
"Well thanks to yer 'good idea' we don't gotta elevator ta make dis trip easier." Raphael groused. "Now we'll have ta carry whoever we nab back up."
"How was I supposed to know?" Snake snapped. "I'm not psyche or anything, so I couldn't know that we would have to backtrack."
"Um…Snake can I point something out?" Otacon asked.
"Even if I say 'no' you're probably going to do it any way." Snake replied.
"Yeah, your right." Otacon chuckled. "Anyway, do you remember when you had to rescue Meryl from Sniper Wolf at Shadow Mosses?"
"Oh yeah." Snake heaved a deep sigh. "I had to practically go all the way back to the beginning to get that stupid sniper rifle."
"And there was all that running around you had to do on Big Shell to disable all those C-4 bombs." Otacon reminded. "And then there was…"
Snake put his hands up in defeat. "Alright, alright. I got the idea."
When the two beings opened the door to the fifteenth floor, they noticed something wasn't quite right about the hallway. The wall on the left was like what a regular wall was supposed to be, but the one on right was made out of metal.
"Do ya think der hidin' sumpthin' in dere?" Raphael asked as he ran a hand along a metal wall. "Nah, I guess not. It's too thin."
"So if it's not to hide something, what is doing here?" Snake pondered out loud. The mercenary put an ear to the wall and hears air howling within it. "It's a shaft." He said with surprised. "But what would they need with one this big?
"Judgin' from da looks of things, I think it's part of dat trapdoor up stairs." Raphael surmised. "I was wonderin' how dat pit thing worked. But how far down do ya think it goes?
"Maybe all the way to the ground floor." Snake replied.
Raphael knocks lightly on the wall to hear it echo off the walls. "Yeah, sounds about right." He said with a nod of agreement. "Dere's probably spikes at da bottom too." The young turtle couldn't help but give a small chuckle.
"I fail to see the humor in falling many floors down and then getting skewered at the bottom." Snake said flatly.
"I was laughin' about how stereotypical da whole trapdoor thing was." Raphael explained before shaking his head in disbelief at the seemly humorless man.
"Whatever." Snake grunted. "Let's just get moving."
After walking down the hall a way, they eventually hit a point where the metal wall on the right became a regular plaster wall and both walls had doors on them. They count the doors as they continue to go down the hall, but they really didn't have to because pasted the eighth door was one marked 'Lounge'.
Snake grabs the knob to open the door, but finds that it was locked. "Guess nobody there."
"Now dat I think about it, why would anyone be in der?" Raphael asked. "Dey know dat we're here and da whole building is on high alert, so who would be able ta go on break."
"Because henchmen have unions." Snake answered.
Raphael slaps the man on the back while he gave a laugh. "Ha! Good one." He congratulated. "I didn't think ya had it in ya ta be funny."
"I wasn't joking, I was stating a fact." Snake replied coldly. "They really do have unions. I ought to know, I've search plenty of them and found their membership cards."
"Oh." A little be embarrassed, Raphael takes his hand back. "So now what?"
"Well, why don't you take one of those pointy things of yours and pick the lock on the door?" Snake suggested. "Then we can go inside and ambush whoever comes in to go on break."
"Dere called 'Sais' ya moron." Raphael replied with a snort. "But I guess ya have a good idea dere." He took out on of his Sais and puts the point into the key hold of the door. After a little tweaking, there was a click. "Ok, let's go." Raph said as he pushed the door open.
"Wait, that might not be a good idea!" Otacon suddenly yelled.
"Whatdoya mean?" Raphael asked, only to have his question answered once the door was fully opened reveal that the room was not empty at all. In fact it was full of Foot Solider on break. There were some playing cards, some playing pinball, and some reading magazines. "Aw shell, not again." The young turtle groaned when he saweach and everyone of them jump up with their weapons drawn. "Is dere a time when we can just open a door and have nobody inside, waitin' ta jump on us?" He asked rhetorically.
"Have you been asleep throughout this whole mission?" Donatello asked rudely. "Finding a room full have Foot Soldiers shouldn't be such a surprise to you."
"Ah shuddup Donnie." Raphael snapped.
"You guys can fight among yourselves later." Snake ordered as ushered the mutant turtle to run down the rest of the hallway. "Cause now would be a good time to run."
"Dere's no need ta shove." Raphael complained as he was being pushed. "I can run just find on my own."
When both beings get to the end of the hall, Snake points to his left. "You go down that way." Then he pointed to his right. "I'll go up this way."
"What good would splittin' up do?" Raphael asked to nobody in particular; Snake was already running up the hall. "Ya fricken bastard!" The young turtle bellowed as he ran the other way.
Luckily for Raph, the hall he happen to be running though was full of doors and soon the chase becomes something out of a nutty cartoon. He would go in through one door and the Foot Soldiers would go in through another. Then the mutant turtle would come out of different door, just to run into another one; the same with the Foot Soldiers. (At one point, Raph could have sworn that a large pair of glasses with blue eyes blinking in them and a pink elephant traded doors with each other.)
Within a few minutes the whole chase gag tires out, ending with Raph come out of one door and a bunch of Foot Soldiers coming out of the door opposite him. After facing off with each other, the two enemies run away from each other; Raph goes back down the hallway from which he came from and the Foot Soldiers split up into different doors.
A moment later, all the Foot Soldiers come flooding back out into the hallway. "What are we running for? There are more of us than him." The lead guy pointed out. "Quickly, we must split up and find him."
Not knowing that for a brief moment he wasn't being chased, Raph continues to run down the hall. He turns left at the end of the hall and takes a right at the end of that hallway. While running down this hall, he doesn't notice that it was full of lockers or that one opens as he was passing by it. A pair of hands reaches out of the open locker and yanks him into the awfully small space.
"I don't want to hear it." Snake warned now that he and Raph were now facing each other with barely an inch between them.
"Hi sailor, new in town?" Raphael joshed.
"I mean it." Snake hissed. "One more bad joke like that and I'm kicking you out of here."
"Ok, ok." Raphael said calmly. "Just do me dis one favor, kindly move yer gun off of my leg."
Snake gives the young turtle a confused look. "My gun is nowhere near your leg."
"I don't mean dat gun." Raphael answered. "I mean yer 'other' gun." His left eyebrow bounced in a hinting signal.
"That it, get out. Get out!" Snake growled as he threw open the door. "Get out of my locker." He gave Raph a swift shove.
"Wait a minute." Raphael cried as he stumbled out of the locker. "Ya can't just throw me out inta da open like this. What if da Foot see me?"
"Well ain't that your problem." Snake snapped before slamming the locker door shut in the young turtle's face.
"Hey, open up in dere." Raphael ordered as he started to bang on the door.
Hearing the noise, a Foot Soldier appears at one end of the hall. "There you are you freak!" He yelled as he came charging toward Raph.
"Ya know what ya are? A spittin' jerk, dat's what ya are." The red clad turtle bellowed as he got ready to run.
"What did you call me?" Snake snapped as he threw open the door, hitting the approaching ninja in the face with it and knocking him out cold. "Oops, did I do that?" He said after looking around the door at the fallen Foot Soldier.
"I knew it." Raphael laughed when he saw a slight smile come onto the mercenary's face. "I knew ya had a sense of humor somewhere under da stone exterior of yours."
"Well don't let it get around." Snake replied as he picked up theunconscious ninja's left leg; his face returning to being blank once more.
Raphael rolls his eyes. "Whatever ya say der Snake." He picked up the ninja's right leg and the two started dragging him down the hall. "Don't ya think the echoing of his head knocking off da stairs will alert anyone?" Raph asked after hitting the third flight of stairs (18th level).
"I don't know about you, but I'm not in the mood to break my back carrying him." Snake answered. "For a Foot Soldier, he's kind of heavy."
Upon going through the door on the 20th level (where the control room was) a loud ripping sound was made followed by many snaps. Both beings look down at the ninja to see his gi front ripped open, bits of what looked to be a griddle, and a huge gut popping out.
"Now dat's just sick." Raphael commented before making a disgusting face.
"Some people just can't lay off the sweets." Snake added.
They go down the hall, passed the collapsed one, and over to where the panel was to enter the control room. "Now let's be smart about dis." Raphael said as he and Snake struggled to lift the Foot Soldier off the floor. "Before we get ready ta go in dere, we should find out how many bad guys are already dere."
Snake gives a nod of approval. "Sounds wise." He let go of the ninja to press two fingers to the side of his head. "Otacon, come in." There was no reply. "Otacon?" Still there was no reply. "That's strange. Hey kid…"
"Don't call me kid." Raphael groaned while he struggled to keep hold of the Foot Soldier.
"You make the guy look like he's heavy." Snake joshed.
"Well ya said so yerself datda guy was heavy." Raphael grunted. "Now hows about lendin' me a hand so I can call Donnie."
"Ask him if he can find out what happen to Otacon while you're at it?" Snake asked while he took hold of the ninja once more. "For some reason, the guy isn't answering and that's not like him."
"Ok." Raphael hit the button on the communicator. "Yo, Donnie." He got no response. "Hey! Stop playing Warcraft and answer me." The young turtle ordered, but he still go no response. "Guess we're without techies." He took the Foot Soldier's hand and pressed onto the panel.
"Authorization confirmed." The computer said and hidden door slides open. "You may enter."
"That's not good." Snake said gravely as he and Raph threw the ninja to one side. "How are we going to hack in to room and get the plans without them?"
"You really don't have time to worry about them." A cool voice said when Snake and Raph entered the room. "Because you'll be to busy worrying about yourselves." There was the sound of a spindle from a six-shooter heard spinning before being snapped back into place and then the cocking of a gun.
"Ocelot." Snake hissed when he saw the man with long white hair. "I should have know you'd be here." He whipped out his Socom and Raph brought out his Sais.
"Do you really think that a little pea-shooter and a couple of toothpicks scare me?" Ocelot mocked as he crossed his arms.
"Ya won't be callin' my Sais toothpicks once ya get a feel of dem." Raphael snarled.
"Please." Ocelot waved a hand at them. "Toys in the hands of unconscious people don't even make me tremble?"
Before Snake or Raph could say anything, two massive hands reach out and slam their heads together. "That's for the elevator incident." Hun laughed. To his surprise both beingsturned around to face him unfazed, like knocking noggins did nothing to them, with smirks on their faces. But after a few seconds they fell to the ground.
A/N: Uh-oh, looks like our boys got themselves in trouble now. What tortures wait them I wonder. And lets not forget that something has happen to their techies, but I wonder what? Guess we'll have to wait until next exciting chapter.
Hope you're having fun.