3 weeks later.
"Otacon why did I take on this mission?" Snake whispered into his radio.
"Well let me see...I asked you too and you said you need the exercise." Otacon sincerely replied.
"Well next time I refuse to do a mission for at least a year." Snake said although he wasn't sure if he would even survive this. "Snake just think you haven't actually had to engage the enemy yet." Otacon said and he sincerely hoped Snake wouldn't have to engage because that meant paperwork something Otacon despised. "OK Otacon I'm going to survey the base one more time then I'm out, got it?" Snake said and he meant it if nothing happened tonight he was pulling out for good. "OK Snake good luck."
Like Snake needed luck, he'd been in the sneaking business for a long time and it was in his genes from the old man. As he walked up on his camp area snake heard guards talking and he automatically went into a CQC sneaking stance as he had recently relearned CQC which he found to be very useful in sneaking up on someone and knocking them out.
As Snake approached his stealth tent (another of Otacon's inventions, it used a stealth camo to camouflage it but you could still see it with thermal goggles. As he neared the edge of a bush Snake saw the lower torso of the guards and they were pretty well armed with suppressed G36's, M67s, and it what it looked like with modified GLOCK 18Ls and he thought that they were they were three-round burst capable.
"There's nothing here except this tent and rations thats it." "No there has to be somebody here, why would somebody abandon a stealth tent those things are really expensive you know like five or six thousand for a single person version." "Damn thats a lot of money, this guy must be loaded this is a four person one."
Snake sneaked up behind one and grabbed his neck then his GLOCK and said "Stop if you fire I'll kill your buddy here then you." The guard hesitated and Snake knew instantly that these people weren't professionals and he none too gently shoved his hostage onto the other guard and knocked the two out. He then threw the GLOCK down knowing that it wouldn't fire because it was DNA coded to its owner so he took the M67s from both and stowed them in his grenade pouches. Snake gathered his equipment from the tent and among them a M9 tranquilizer version and shot both guards with it. Well thats two down Snake thought to himself and that leaves me 58 shots. Before exiting the tent he hit the "Incinerate" button so that it 60 seconds all that would be left is a pile of ashes.
Snake then made his way out to the road and saw that a huge convoy of troops and APCs were being fallowed by a gigantic truck that was twice the size of the space shuttle mover. He decided to follow the convoy.
3 hours later
Snake was in aw. He saw in front of him a base even bigger than the one he'd been seeing the last two weeks. Then he saw a bunch of towers around a good portion and figured that the towers were generating a stealth field around the hanger in which he stood in front of . Then he saw what was had been on the gigantic truck...a Metal Gear and this one was in the shape of what appeared to be a tiger with huge array of dishes and guns and missiles on it.