Hello everyone and welcome to the second chapter of A New Beginning! So, I've noticed I had quite the few spelling mistakes in my last chapter (and even in the story title) even though I proof read the thing like four times. However I don't mind it at all, you learn by making mistakes so now I know to keep my eyes open for more mistakes.

I wanted to write this yesterday (Sunday) to upload it today, however I went to a farm with my family to spend the day together. I began drinking scotch at 1pm and we stayed there until 9pm so I was fairly drunk by then and I couldn't deal with the hangover yesterday so my bad.

Anyway that's enough rambling for now so let's get on with the story and please don't forget to RR so you can help me improve!


Chapter 2.- A New Life.

Washington XX/XX/2014. Snake's Room.

It's been a week since Otacon injected Snake with the new nanomachines that Naomi and Sunny created to help save his life. Snake has been unconsious ever since, when Sunny asked Otacon why Snake didn't wake up after the nanomachines mended his body he theorized that it was because they just repaired the damage to his skin, muscles and bones and now they were working on mending his internal organs. However, it was unclear how many time it will take the nanomachines to finish working and let Snake regain his consiousness.

Hal and Sunny entered the room for their daily visit and check how Snake's progress has been. Otacon's dressed in an dark aquamarine T-shirt with a little Philanthropy logo on the right breast, black cargo pants and some simple white sneakers. Meanwhile Sunny's dressed in a simple but pretty Blue and White stripped summer dress with long white socks that go up to her calf and her favorite black boots.

As Otacon goes to the side of the bed to check the machines Sunny decides to go sit on a chair in one of the corners of the room.

"How is he Uncle Hal?" asked Sunny as she watched Otacon check all the different medical equipment.

"Still the same honey. His vitals seem stable and his brain activity hasn't changed at all" Said Otacon. In the beginning they only had a machine to check his heartbeat since they didn't want Snake to feel asphyxiated by having a bunch of wires coming out of his body, kinda ironic since he didn't want an oxigen mask to help him breathe but Otacon wasn't about to argue with the stubborn old man. After the nanomachines began working on him Otacon decided that it would be necessary to keep tabs on his brain activity so they can have an idea for when he's about to wake up. So far there haven't been any important changes in the last week, but Otacon knows that it is very important to keep a close eye on the readings incase something happens, be it good or bad.

"Do you think he'll wake up soon?" Asked the little girl.

"I don't really know sweetie, but... There's something a little strange about him. Could you come here for a second?" asked Otacon as he signals Sunny to come closer to him.

As Sunny began walking towards Otacon she asked him "What's w-wrong Uncle Hal. D-Did something b-b-bad happen?".

"I...I don't really know. Tell me, does he looks like a 42 years old man to you?".

Now at his side Sunny closely watches Snake and began taking his changes. For what she could see his skin looked perfectly healthy, not a single scar or blemish wich was surprising since his face was badly scarred after being burned in Europe. It also appears that he doesn't have a single white hair in his head or his beard, that was really strange since her Uncle Snake was supposed to be older than Uncle Hal.

"H-He looks younger t-than you, Uncle Hal".

"Yeah that's what I feared. It seems that the nanomachines reverted his physical age more than they should've. He looks like he is barely over 20 years old, I think we should speak to Colonel Campbell after Snake wakes up to see if he can arrange an extraofficial medical checkup in some facility so we can have an idea of how old is he n-" Suddenly a loud beeping interruped Otacon as he was talking. He quickly walked over to the machine checking is brain signals as Sunny took a step back.

'I r-really hope that Uncle Snake d-doesn't begin covulsing again. It was v-very scary the first time!' Tough Sunny as Otacon began reading the charts.

"Good news Sunny! He is awakening!" Otacon said with a big smile. He was pretty excited to talk to Snake after a week of him being in coma and tell him about all the work the nanomachines had done to his body.

It was finally time. Solid Snake has come to.


Darkness.

That was all he could see. Just miles and miles of pure Darkness.

He didn't know where he was, but he didn't care about that at all. There was just one thing that mattered to him right now and that was that he felt absoloutly at peace. He never felt anything like this in his whole life! He didn't feel any weight, any pain, no hunger, no anger, no anything!

Just Peace.

However, there was something that was bothering him. Sometimes he could hear some strange sounds that seemed oddly...Familiar.

He could something that sounded like a man talking to him, telling him about how glad the process went ok, how his work was going and all the things he was exited to tell him. Other times he could hear something else, it was like a little girl humming some tune he didn't recognize, telling him about her day and all the new things she was learning, about how excited she was for him to wake up and all the things they would do together.

He doesn't know where those sounds came from, just that they seem to come and go as they please. Honestly, he likes those sounds. Every time he hears them he feels happy. It feels like he is listening to someone very dear to him and everytime the sounds go he misses them. So he came to a solution, every time he heard the sounds he would try to go to them.

So far he haven't had any success in even moving towards the sounds, but today it felt different! He felt a little heavier, like somthing was holding him down but also allowing him to face and move anywhere he wanted so this time he was ready!

Now he just needed to wait.

And wait.

And wait.

And wait...

...THERE!

THERE'S THE SOUND! He turned to face the sound and began trying to move towards it as quickly as he could. As he was heading towards the sound he began feeling more and more things at the same time.

He felt something soft yet firm on his back and something light covering his front, he began smelling something that reminded him of a place he didn't like, everytime he was in that place something hurted. As he continued moving he began hearing the sound louder and louder and seeing a brigth light coming towards him.

"-ke-".

'What was that?'.

"-ake-...-n-...-ou-...-ear me!?".

'Wait... that voice'.

"Can you hear me Snake!?".

'Hal!?'.

"Uncle Snake! Can you hear us?".

'Sunny! Yes! I can hear you!' As he finally recognized the voices that were calling out to him, Snake began running faster and faster towards the light.

'I'm coming both of you just wait a moment because here. I. GO-' .

*GASP*


Snake's POV

"Woah! Woah! easy there Snake!" I heard a voice to my left.

"H-Hal?" I said with a lot of difficulty as I turned my head to see my best friend giving me a soft smile with tears in his eyes. Even though my throat and my mouth felt drier than a desert I was pretty happy to see my best friend for all these years.

"UNCLE SNAKE!" A loud voice yelled by my right side as I suddenly felt a smaller body that launched itself to my side. I turned my head to see a small platinum haired girl hugging me and crying while hiding her head in my shoulder.

"H-hey t-t-there Pipsqueak *cough* *cough* I'm g-glad yo-u miss-ed me" I told her while hugging her as best I could.

"Here, drink this. you gave us quite the scare man" said Otacon as he handed me a glass of water. As I began drinking Otacon moved to the side of the bed Sunny was sitting in while hugging me and gently pried her off of me.

"C'mon honey, you'll have plenty of time to hug your Uncle Snake later. Let him breathe and move around a little, he must be pretty sore after laying down and not moving after all these months".

"Otacon, what the hel-heck happened? I can't remember anything." I said as soon as I finished drinking the water he gave me.

"You were in coma for a week after you decided to try the new nanomachines that Naomi and Sunny made for you".

"Really!? And how did the process go!? I mean, I feel so much better and full of energy but she said something about possible side effects that worries me".

"Well, why don't you see it for yourself" Otacon said as he handed me a mirror that he pulled from one of the drawers by the side of my bed. Huh, he must've put that there while I was sleeping because I don't remember having a mirror there.

As I looked into the mirror I was surprised by what I was seeing. I looked so young! Even younger that I should be so that kinda worries me.

"I-I think that M-Miss Naomi and I m-miscalculated a f-few percentages a-a-and since we didn't h-have enough time f-for testing the nanomachines m-made you y-y-younger that they should've" Said Sunny while nervously looking to the side and drying tears from her eyes.

"Geez Pipsqueak sometimes I forget you're a pretty big genius for your age! I feel fantastic!" I said as I began to get out from the covers and get up from the bed. Both Otacon and Sunny moved to the side to let me get up and watched as I slowly got up from the bed. Thankfully I have some dark blue sweatpants on even though I am topless.

"I haven't felt this good in years! I feel like I can run a marathon and still have enough energy in me to practice some drills!" I said while making a few light jumps and walking around the bedroom.

"I'm really glad you're all better now Snake and I really hate bring the mood down but we need to have a serious talk. Sunny sweetie, could you please go and make some tea for all of us?".

"Ok Uncle Hal" said Sunny. Seriously, that girl is so obedient sometimes that she scares me, if we switched places I would've stood there whinning that I was a grown up and I wanted to hear.

As soon as Sunny closed the door Hal took a seat in one of the chairs at the side of the bed a frowned deeply, he suddenly like all those years of running away and handling my operations fell upon him.

"Snake...David, man, we have to speak to Colonel about this. I know that there's a possibility that he or someone higher than him uses this information to try and drag you back into active service, but we need to talk to him! he might be the only one that helps us get a medical team to check you up and ensure us that there are no more side effects from the nanomachines aside from making you phisically younger that you are". As he was telling me this I lost the smile on my face. I knew that I would have to speak to the colonel sooner or later, but I didn't think that it would have to be this soon.

"*sigh* Listen, I know Hal. I was hoping that we wouldn't have to do it so soon but you're right, we need to talk to him ASAP. How about you call him after we finish the tea and tell him that 'it's time' and that 'I want to speak to him'" I said while making air quotes with my fingers.

"You want to surprise him, right?" Said Otacon looking not amused at all.

"You bet your ass that I do." Just as I finished saying that Sunny came through the door with a tray with three teacups in it and a kettle with some tea.

"L-language Uncle S-Snake!" Great, a seven year old is scolding me.

"Ok, Ok, I'm sorry. Do you want me to help you serve the Tea?" I asked as I got up from the bed.

"Yes please! Here, you serve while I hand them over" it just took a few second and later everyone sat and had their tea. Before we could drink Hal interrupted us.

"Wait! I know it's a little bit unorthodox with the teacups but I wanted to make a little roast. To you Snake, to Sunny and Naomi for making the nanomachines that made this possible, and to a new life! Cheers!"

"Cheers!" both Sunny and I said as we clank our teacups together.

Yes, to a New Life.


So, tell me. do you like it? do you hate it? Remember guys and gals, your input an opinion is very important to me and I would love to hear it! As a little side note, I miiiight got down with the 'Rona since I haven't been feeling well for the last couple of days so I don't know when the next chapter might come, but I'll try to upload it by Friday or Saturday so keep your heads up!

Anyway, thanks a lot for reading and stay safe everyone. Tito out.

EDIT: It seems that the FF app screw up the paragraph spacing and I didn't realize until I decided to check something here for the plot. Anyway I've already corrected the issue and I'll be more careful about in the future.