"The tides of war have changed, we are no longer subject to become the governments puppets through politics and petty power struggles. Now everything is planned like chess games. We are the pieces to the game, and the players? The players are the PMCs or Private Military Companies that control there groups of soldiers and machines. War is no longer a thing of chance but a carefully planned out strategy of those who run the companies. Warriors such as my self are all programmed. Everything about us is run by nanomachines, the way we shoot, the way we operate, the way we think, we can't even shoot a bullet if our nanomachines won't let us. But that is only the downside. The upside is that our abilities are increased ten fold by the nanomachines. I fled America ten years ago when the Big Shell incident happened. As far as the Patriots know Solid Snake no longer exists. It's good to have it that way, but I haven't seen my old friend Otacon in a long time. Here in the middle east I'm part of one of the five major PMCs. We are the Red Ribbon company. Our weapons come from some unknown supplier I don't bother to learn too much. All I know is that I'm in heaven, this feels great the strongest survive or at least that's what you believe, just like my Father Big Boss wanted." Solid Snake

All is quite as a convoy moves through a deserted city. The wind is kicking up the sand making it hard to see, and the sound or the trucks and tanks engines are all you hear. As the convoy get to a clearing a explosion is heard and a truck blows up. Then from the other side of the clearing a mass of soldiers rush in a surprise attack. The men in the convoy quicky get out and get under cover. The rushing force has a row of men in te middle with RPG-7 they destroy most of the trucks and two of the tanks. The other army begins to fire back taking cover as they move forward to engage. The attacking army does the same. The sound of shell fire and dieing men can be heard anywhere. Behind one of the burning trucks is three men a man in a black sneaking suit, and two soldiers. The man in the Sneaking suit ran into a building behind the truck and the two followed. He went up to the top and found a window from there he started to snipe the other force, his two companions stayed at the bottom covering the door. Shot after shot he hit and kill with out missing. A trail of bodies leading up to the building is all you could see. He kept firing until the other force started to back off. But as they backed off you could feel vibrations in the ground like some hue tank was coming. Seconds later a truck comes flying through the air from the back of the convoy and lands on several soldiers. The man in the sneaking suit looks on in horror as he sees a strange machine walking down the street. The other men tried to shoot it but to no avail. Those who didn't get away were killed. As the man was looking on in horror anther one of the machine noticed the gun fire coming form the bottom of the building. It was the man's two friends.

He tried to run downstairs and tell them not to shoot but it was too late. The machine crashed through the wall and stepped on one and then threw he dead corpse at the next one. He quickly ran back up the steps hoping that it didn't see him. He then saw a fire escape on the other side of the room upstairs. He jumped down sliding on the ladder and ran to another building. Unluckily, several enemy soldiers saw him and followed him into the building. He put a claymore by the door and set it. Then he ran down the hallway and up a flight of stairs. Just as he hit the steps, he hears an explosion and the screams of three men. He turned back to see if anymore where coming. It didn't look like it but soon another one of the machines came busting through the wall. The man ran up the steps and quick he could. When he got to the top he saw a enemy soldier sniping at what was left of his comrades. The man pull out his knife and put the man is a choke hold. Before the man could get a good grip, the soldier yelled out calling another soldier from another room. The other soldier quickly ran in. The man pulled out his SOCOM pistol and held the first soldier as a shield. He then shot the other one in the head and then began to interrogate the first one. "What are those things?" The man said angrily. The Soldier shaking from fear of being killed responded, "T-There called Metal Gear Gekko." The man knocked out the soldier and took all his weapons. He then Decided the best thing to do would be to go to the rendezvous point on the other side of the city. He begins to walk down the steps until he starts to feel strong vibrations. He pulls out a stick of C4 and sets it at the bottom he then runs upstairs and wait for something to pass. As he waited the sound of the steps go louder and louder, and the vibrations header and harder. The machine walks by and stops at the steps looking up. The man detonated the C4 taking the legs away from the machine. It paused as if it was completely destroyed. The man threw another C4 charge and detonated to make sure it was done for. He walked over the destroyed machine and mad his ay down the hallway a door. He opened the door and found himself surrounded by enemy soldiers all holding him at gun point. "Freeze!" one of the soldiers yelled.