Chapter 2: The Mission
Jack had healed himself the bullet wounds were fairly easily fixed with some of his old gear he put on his skull suit in anticipation of combat. He put on street clothes on over the suit he grabbed the phone the only working piece of technology even his guns would no longer work the URS (user recognition system) was fried so he went for the old school approach he brought out his HF Blade a sword given to him by Olga he stared at the sword and remembered that day, "Your nanomachines are transmitting to the patriots if you die they will take that as a sign of mission failure and execute the child." He remembered even as Solidus his father was ready to kill her and the P90 swung around and she was being choked by his hideous mechanical arms she spoke her last words, "The child! You must live!" Those were the last words before he shot and killed her mercilessly. "Ill protects your child Olga I promise." He said to no one as the house was empty he sheathed his sword and went into the living room to assess his remaining gear Nothing worked NVG IRG Scope nothing he threw it down in disgust whatever the hell had happened was big because he started to see people gather outside in fear it was apparent on everyone's face terror, "did snake do this?"
His answer came in the ring of a phone he grabbed it up and answered it, "A black van will be arriving soon you will enter it and follow every instruction of the men in the van, or your wife and children will die." The phone clicked off as he saw a police car go through the road they were announcing something over the loudspeaker, "Everybody return to your homes! Martial law has been declared! Military personnel will be arriving in 2 hours to this area until then there will be a complete lockdown of the citizenry this is happening worldwide! You must return to your homes." The people banged on the windows screaming what happened what happened? The cop must have finally give in as his voice again came over the speaker and the car stopped, "Ok people I know your scared and I know you don't know what's happening I cant tell you I wish I could you will be safer at your homes those of you that have weapons I am of officially deputizing you as community guard until the military arrive you with weapons here are your orders. Give all non needed weapons to the other people to defend their homes this is the best I can do for you all now go home and be ready for anything if you have a basement or shelter I suggest you retreat your children too it. I'm sorry this is all I can do." The police car rolled out from the neighborhood and the crowd parted for them. Soon a black van arrived, "Damn." Jack walked downstairs to the entrance and then outside. He walked up to the van hoping they wouldn't see his sword but no luck, "The sword you will turn it over. Then put on this blindfold." He did as he was told flipping the sword over a couple times first. He stepped into the van and the door slammed behind him they speed off and after an hour they finally stopped
One of the men undid his blindfold, "Were here get out." Jack hopped out and walked into a building the building looked horrible like a condemned structure papers and junk littered everywhere. He turned a corner to find an elevator as clean and well maintained as if it was new they went inside and rode down in uncomfortable silence then when they arrived over 20 levels down as near as jack could figure they put him in a room it was very dark but soon a voice called out to him, "jack? Jack are you there?" Jacks eyes lit up, "ROSE is everyone here?" He walked over and found rose and hugged her, "oh I'm so glad that you're alright I'm so glad I was so worried. I'm sorry I couldn't save you." Rose began to cry, "Yes everyone is here David and Triska are here too. Its ok, don't blame yourself it's not your fault I'm just glad to see you again." They sat together for a while before the door opened again and one woman entered, "Riden will you follow me?" Jack scowled, "I haven't used the code name Riden in years, I go by? Now" the woman laughed, "Alright? Let's go." Jack stood and followed the woman out down a corridor and into another identical room except this one had a table in it and on top there was lots of equipment. "Ill gives you 5 minuets to change." Then she left the room he looked to the suit hanging on the wall it looked almost identical to his but It had a grey chest area and blue elbow and knee areas it also looked slightly different in ways he couldn't quite identify. He quickly took off his suit and put on the one on the wall when he had it on it hung limply from his shoulders, "yeah real great suit idiots." The woman came in and laughed, "oh you silly man. Push the buttons on the wristbands simultaneously." Jack did so and the suit tightened up around him.
The woman walked around him, "now that's much better. Now on to your weapons and items, now you know that previously when you've been sent on TEA's (Tactical Espionage Actions) you've had an OSP as standing rule but we don't believe in it providing you with weapons to better protect yourself and hide yourself from the enemy is essential this is our philosophy. Your gear consists of all the items you had before, including some new ones, the new item is this thing." She walked over and picked up a device that looked like a gun until it got to the chamber and barrel there were what looked like two blades that started pointed at the end and extended as it went back towards the trigger until it reached a point. Then it came back and it attached to a device on the gun. The woman spoke again, "This, is a EMP Gun it emits a electromagnetic pulse that will fry any equipment at the press of the trigger." She then hefted a rifle, "The new and improved rail gun. This fires a titanium composite bullet at over 900 jewels of power it has the equivalent power to that of a stinger missile launcher and this model unlike the one used by Fortune on the Big shell has been perfected. It doesn't have the misfire issues that the earlier model and its half the size and weight." She set the weapon down on the table again.
"Alright now on to your suit, this thing is amazing I designed it so I should know." At this point she was smiling. Jack was starting to get confused and looked oddly at her, "Your not one of them are you?" The women looked oddly at him, "One of them? No I'm not oh where are my manners? My name is Tai robentaru I'm sorry I'm so focused on all this gear that I lost myself there. No I'm not a patriot well I mean I don't hate America but I'm not well umm one of them. Yeah I was a weapons designer for the armscore design company I'm partially responsible for the tech upgrades on the Armscore 50 caliber sniper/assault rifle but I got too good for my own good and the patriots approached me one day, well not the patriots but a connection to them came and asked me I said no I was happy where I was but you know the patriots they find a way or make one. Needless to say they have something on me but I still try to help people whenever I can I'm not meant to be an evil person I worked on nonleathal weapons solutions like the berretta m9 tranq gun I'm sure you've seen it."
Jack couldn't believe all of this but he was willing to talk with her so long as she wasn't one of them, "yeah I actually used it on an op or 3 it's an ok weapon but the slide locked so I couldn't use it as an automatic weapon." Tai smiled, "yeah I actually got a better model here for you. They let me work on my nonleathal weapons so long as I work on the lethal ones first. It's not a perfect system but what you gona do. I don't have much choice, ill also be your weapons and gear analyzer there going to let your wife run mission ops for you and to save your mission data. I digress your suit is the latest and greatest in nanobiotechnology were learning to fuse machine and human and other organic things together to enhance everything from visual acuity hand eye coordination to strength and speed enhancements now push the button on your right wrist the left one, oh wait! Let me do something first sorry." She picked up a syringe off the table. Here this is a solution containing nanomachenes that will link up to your suit this will hurt a little." She walked over to his left shoulder and after taking the cap off of the syringe jammed it into his shoulder and injected it jack squirmed, "ow! You really jammed it in!" She rolled her eyes, "Awww big bad commando man can't take a little shot." Jack laughed, "Not from you at least."
"Alright here we go hit the button on your right wrist." Jack did so and pain ran up and down his body then stopped, "What the hell was that?" "Nanomachene linkup and distribution throughout your body it won't happen again sorry ok now hit the right button on your left wrist." He did so not knowing what to expect but a holographic display showed up on the underside of his arm it flashed several things before a picture of soliton radar came up identifying him and a gold dot. Below the soliton radar there was a menu system and he experimented with opening a few menus he just poked at the holographic display and it came to life. Tai clapped in excitement, "your soliton radar is also equipped with a GPS system you can set waypoints and many other things ill teach you how to use it later." Finally something dawned on Jack, "hey wait a minuet what happened to everything I couldn't turn on any devices or any electronics in my house not even the lights would work not to mention my guns. Yet we come down here and its tech central. How is this possible what happened?" Tai frowned, "I'm sorry all of that will be reveled to you in your mission briefing." Jack shook his head worried now. "Alright now hit the transfiguration button on your file system, and then drag your finger down to ninja. Then press twice!"
Jack did so and he suddenly couldn't see as something wrapped up and covered his head suddenly several things flashed in front of his face and a image of the room around him appeared in real-time he would swear it was real if not for a targeting recital over her face and on all the weapons on the table he tried focusing on the EMP gun and a small picture with a description of the weapon came up on his screen, "This is incredible!" "All your systems are functioning try moving and look down." He did so and heard an odd mechanic motion and then he looked down and saw a solid suit unlike the skull suit he had on only a second ago. Tai explained how to use the suit and the holographic display, "okay now focus on your file system like I taught you go to transfiguration and go to skull ninja" Jack again followed instructions and the suit turned back to the skull suit with holographic display, no helmet. Tai turned and picked up a 9 mill and turned back to him and shot him several times, "WOAH ARE YOU PSHYCO! What short circuit just snapped? I mean DAMN!" Tai laughed and said, "Look." Jack looked down and saw no holes nothing he touched his suit and the armor of the ninja appeared temporarily then disappeared. "see it's the combo of the ninja and the skull suit it has the flexibility of the skull suit with the protection of the ninja its not invulnerable by any means but it is the best however this drains the onboard battery heavily so use it sparingly. If you're low on battery power and find a 220 outlet you can recharge the battery on it but I doubt you'll have to worry about that."
Jack reformed the suit back to the skull suit and loaded his weapons and gear and ammo up he followed Tai out of the room to another with a solo chair and a large TV in it Tai tapped his shoulder and giving him a piece of paper she said, "good luck" and walked out of the room. Soon a man walked in and stood at a podium, "Good evening my name is Major Tom Symanski I will be briefing you on this mission. About 12 hours ago an EMP knocked out most of the world's technology. Everything not protected by a hardened EMP shield was destroyed utterly that's why your gear wouldn't work. The pulse was launched by this." A picture of the metal gear popped up, "We've coded this Metal Gear Arial.
This new Metal Gear is capable of orbital flight. It attained an orbital trajectory then fired a mass EMP generator disabling the planet in one devastating wave. Your mission will be to stop the people that perpetrated this act from launching a fusion bomb strike on every major city in the country. You will be deployed here." A picture of Manhattan appeared, "Manhattan Island has a large underground military base abandoned in the 60's. The man known as Solid Snake took over this facility 6 months ago and upgraded it to a state of the art facility its primary weapon is the metal gear. You will be inserted straight after this briefing. This is the end of the briefing." Jack stuck his hand out, "Just hold on one damn minute! Why did snake do this he is not like that!" "I cannot decipher that mad man's motives nor do I care." With that he walked out the door two men walked in, "come with us." Jack shook his head and said, "Well once more unto the breech." Jack got up and left with the men hoping he would be able to figure out snakes motives before he had to kill him.