Chapter 8 "Midnight mirage"
Picking up his crutch, he walks quickly to the opened front door. When he arrives, he notices the vehicle beam has disappeared. "Quiet" he whispers in worry, what could be happening here. He picks up a gun that was in the drawer on the right side of the bed and a flashlight.
"Boss, what are you doing?"
"Hmm?" As Snake turns to the source of the voice he sees Ocelot standing on the exit door.
He stares at him, Ocelot begins to walk towards him.
"What are you going to do Boss?"
"Boss! Go out and kill her!" yells Miller supporting his hand from the table.
"Don't listen to him, Boss!"
Snake decides to sit on the bed, as he wants to listen to what the two men have to say. He lights up a cigar and points his finger towards Ocelot.
"Boss, why don't you wait for her to come? Maybe she's just out…" as Snake notices Ocelot is beginning to sound unreasonable he points his finger to Miller
"Snake… you got to find out what the woman is up to, she hasn't told you why you are here, she's hiding something…" he then points to Ocelot
"I know, she still hasn't told you why you are here, but who cares? You have what you wanted…"
"Remember Cipher Boss!"
The two men voices begin to overlap and a strong headache strikes the legendary soldier, pressing his hand against his head. The two voices go silent over the pain and they stop. As Snake comes to his senses he sees the two men have disappeared, he has made up his mind, he is going to investigate.
Determined with the decision, he puts on his shirt and boots he had taken off earlier. As he steps outside, he looks to the floor, searching for tracks. Even though it was night, the flashlight helped him look down for clues. After careful examination, he notices the tracks go to the right side of the road from the viewpoint of the house.
He decides to check the back if Quiet's vehicle is still there. When he arrives, he wonders when he finds the vehicle intact "maybe a passerby, but no…" He keeps staring at the vehicle wondering about the situation, Quiet is not around the house, front door open, "maybe the ruins?" but somehow it sounds unlikely to him, there must be something else. Then he remembers waking up slightly and hearing a tired old voice. "Where she could have gone off to…" He decides to step back into the house and wait for her to come back, maybe she is smoking around and he cannot see her because of the night. If anything, should she not come back, he would still wait by daytime so he can get a better view of the tracks.
Snake falls asleep on the couch; he then wakes up because of a noise. It's still night, he fell asleep for a few hours. He picks up the gun and looks for the source of the noise, he hears footsteps and slight knocks to the wall on the left side of the house. He quickly picks up the crutch and the flashlight, he goes outside to the front door, but doesn't hear anything anymore. Then he feels the whole house has gone too quiet, with a slight chill on his back, he gets into reflex mode. A shadowy figure is on his back; he turns around in 180 degrees fashion and hits the shadowy figure with his gun, the figure falling to the floor face down. "Who are you!?" when he looks closer pointing with the gun and flashlight cqc fashion, supporting with his armpit the crutch with much effort. He notices it is a person but he cannot make out its features because of the dim flashlight.
The person stumbles to get up and starts to make gasping noises, this specific noise, takes Snake aback by surprise. He quickly points the gun to the body as it struggles to get up. When it gets up, Snake notices its emitting something from its mouth "How?..." He gets a closer glimpse and as the body charges towards him, Snake fires his gun two times at the head. When it falls, he steps back and tries to assess the situation. "Could, could he have been sent to kill me?" Then he hears a very loud explosion-like sound, even the house shook. Not wanting to wait any longer, he decides to step outside and examine the source of the explosion, "Hmm it sounded just behind this." In front of him was a mountain sled wall, he would get on the vehicle turn around it to see what was that explosion.
As he passes through the house and makes the left turn, he notices a cave entrance beneath the mountain. It's still dark, but only a few hours more until dawn. As he gets closer to the cave, he leaves the vehicle with the lights on so it could guide him to the cave. Entering, supporting himself with the crutch and the gun with his other hand, a particular smell crosses his nose. "Ripe…. Smells sweet fruit." When he keeps walking deeper into the cave, it gets darker. He takes out the flashlight. "Still nothing here…"
He keeps going deeper to the cave and suddenly the sweet smell hit him again, but stronger. "Sweet fruit… what is this?" he suddenly starts to get dizzy "Frui…." he loses his grips on the crutch and falls, then a splitting headache strikes him out of nowhere "Gah!". He passes out from the excruciating pain. As he begins to open his eye, everything is blurry "It is not ready yet, E… I need a stronger sample!" he hears the tired old voice again, "He's awake..." a familiar female voice, "Quick, give him another dosage, he cannot remember this!" "Yes, master…" Something is injected into Snake's neck and he passes out again.