Remnant Only Needs One Snake

by Project Ray

After living an existence of endless battles, Big Boss, A.K.A. Naked Snake, awakens in the strange world of Remnant, where he will have to face new enemies and have new allies while trying to understand Remnant. But for what reason Snake will continue to fight in a world without war? Will he ever find something to believe in this hostile world? The story of Snake in Remnant begins.

13. Chapter 13

(A/N)

Kept you waiting, huh?

Damn, the last episode was from October 25, almost four months.

But do not worry, I have not abandoned this Story, I still want to continue writing about the Snake and his Adventures in Remnant.

And if you wonder why it took me much go until the end of the episode.

(Q&A)

SilentXD7

Don't worry, it's obvious that they will know soon.

Wombag1786

Sound cute actually xD And actually I was planning to add that thing, but not exactly because of Roman.

ImperialWolves12

You were right in the drama.

DT3

I think it goes well since I wanted Yang to see the kind of relationship that Snake had with The Boss - her mother figure, I felt that since she did not have a mother she would be the most affected when she saw how ... well, you read the episode. But do not worry, I feel that for Blake, Weiss and Ruby there are moments of Big Boss that are perfect for them.

And to be honest those omakes are interesting.

Smashgunner

Well, so far only Yang, Blake and Velvet like Snake, I always tought that Snake had the charisma that any women likes but thanks anyway xD

kpmh2001

I see it this way:

The weapons of the Huntsman are to kill Grimm, the weapons of Snake (and from Earth) are to kill Grimm AND both human and faunus.

In addition to the assumption that the Dust reacts to the Aura, then the powder would be prohibited in schools and tournaments, in addition to that Dust is abundant and is used as a source of energy and ammunition, in addition to having several types of ammunition, people never try to look for another type of alternative ammunition.

I had already explained it in a comment before, besides mentioning it directly in the Fanfic when Ocelot investigated about that.

In Remnant there are those who have quite powerful Semblance, as in the Metal Gear world where there are tanks with legs, powerful weapons and characters with special abilities, at the end of the day they are defeated by a subject that hides in a box. It sounds absurd, and as you said, Snake does not need cheap tricks, but he will not always would use bullets.

But in the end it's just my point of view.

HaloEmblem

Sorry, but I already said that Quiet will not appear :(

WarWithoutEnd

Sorry :(

(A/N Ends here)

Do not forget that if you have any questions I will try to answer it, I say I will try because I do not want to give many Spoilers. Without further ado, let's continue with the expected chapter.

Get ready because this episode is a "Yang reacts to Snake Eater".

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Chapter 13

Tselinoyarsk, USSR.

1964.

"Snake...?"

Yang inspected with her eyes the man dressed in green, which turned out to be Snake... or was he really Snake? Yang observed him from top to bottom and although it looked like him, there were several differences. The man in front of her looked older, between 25 and 30 years old, he had both eyes and he didn't have a long bandana. Besides the man in front of her was wearing some kind of paint on his face. Even so, he was like an adult version of Snake, quite handsome.

Then, the man in green proceeded to move behind a tree, hiding, while looking at the path that was in behind Yang.

"What? Why are you hiding?" Yang asked as she approached the man in green, while he proceeded to lean and put his index finger in his ear.

And the man did not answer. Yang took advantage and with one of her fingers began to touch the cheek of the man in green, despite being touching him, he did not react. Even so, Yang decided not to make any rude or violent movements, or she would fly away once more.

"Ugh, this must be the first time I worry 'cause a man doesn't pay me attention." The blonde complained to no one in particular.

"Do you copy? You're already in enemy territory and somebody might be listening in." The voice of an adult man spoke for what seemed to be a radio.

Yang heard that, so she crouched over and placed herself on the left side of the man in green, to bring her ear closer so that she could hear better. She was curious and since the man in green ignored her, she wanted to know what he was going to talk about.

"From here on out, we'll be using code names to refer to each other. on out, we'll be using code names to refer to each other."

"Why'd you need a code name? It's not like a Huntsman needs it, though." Said Yang to the man in green. But he did not answer, obviously.

"Your code name for this mission will be Naked Snake. I'll be referring to you as Snake from now on."

"Wait, what!?" Yang yelled loudly.

"You are not to mention your real name." Said the man in the radio.

" 'Snake'? " The man in green - now Naked Snake - asked with confusion.

"Yeah dude, he apparently gave you a stripper name." Yang said with a lot of confusion. He was the Snake of her team? Yang shook her head, thinking it was just a dream, one that did not make sense... but why?

"You don't like snakes?"

"What'd you mean?" Snake asked.

"You've eaten one before, haven't you?"

"Eww! That's gross! Now that I think about it, Snake once said that part of his trainin' was eating animals from the forest or the jungle." Yang thought loudly.

"In survival training." Snake answered.

The man let out a small chuckle "I'm glad to hear that."

"I don't know if I'd ever order one in a restaurant, but..."

Yang giggled at the thought of someone asking for a snake for dinner. She would not mind having Snake for dinner, though...

"Be careful. You might not have a choice."

"What about you Major? What should I call you?"

"Hmm, let's see... I'll be...I'll be Tom. Call me Major Tom." The Major answered.

Since they would use code names, Yang thought that Tom was not his real name.

"This will be a sneaking mission. You must not be seen by the enemy. You must leave no trace of your presence. Is that clear? This kind of infiltration is the FOX unit's speciality."

"FOX...?" Yang muttered to herself as she listened about this 'FOX Unit'. For a moment that word echoed in her head, until she remembered that in Snake's right shoulder, he wore a patch that said 'FOX' with the figure of that animal.

"In other words, weapons and equipment are procure on-site... that goes for food as well. You're completely naked, just as your name implies." Major Tom explained.

"Great. Now I see why you asked me if I like snakes. I suppose calling me 'Snake' was your idea of a joke, too." Naked Snake said.

"Yeah, well, your name is basically a bad joke." Said Yang with a small laugh.

"No, there's a good reason for that. I'll tell you later, when the time is right. "

Yang spent the next few minutes listening to Naked Snake and Major Tom talking and she began to get impatient a little. Shortly after what Snake did was to retrieve the backpack that was hanging on a tree, then Major Tom explained to Snake the use of the backpack, about weapons in the field, in addition to how Snake should get his own food and heal himself, as well as the use of a 'fake death 'pill.

Yang just thought that this pill sounded great and a bit disturbing, something out of a spy movie.

However, Yang heard certain words that she did not recognize and that seemed strange to her, as the fact that "if there were American soldiers in Russia would cause an international problem". Yang did not understand exactly what was Russia or an American, so for now she just ignored that, after all, for her it was just a weird dream.

After that, Major Tom introduced Snake - and for Yang to hear - to the rest of the team, it first started with a woman named Para-Medic for some weird reason. According to herself, the name was something like a medic who comes in by parachute. Although soon Snake asked for the name of Para-Medic, but she asked for Snake's, to which Yang raised an eyebrow hoping to hear the real name of Naked Snake, at least this version of Naked Snake. And for some reason she expected it to be pretty cool.

"My name huh... it's John Doe."

"Woah... seriously? What a simple name..." Yang told herself.

"And they call you Jack for short?" The woman known as Para-Medic said. Yang got confused a bit since she had not heard Major Tom call him Jack.

"A name means nothing on the battlefield. After a week, no one has a name. " Snake/John answered. Yang listened carefully to what he said, and she thought it was something Snake - Her teammate - would only say.

After that, Para-Medic responded by saying that her name was Jane Doe, it seemed like some kind of joke, and maybe John Doe's name was fake. Anyway, Yang did not think twice about that and ignored it. For now Para-Medic would act as a doctor and she would record Snake's mission data.

"There's one more person I want to introduce you to, Snake." Said Major Tom over the radio. "Speaking of snakes, you remember The Boss, don't you? A legendary soldier and your mentor."

"Woah woah... Mentor?" Yang asked herself when she heard what Major Tom said.

Major Tom gave a brief explanation about her to Snake and her story with her, clearly implying that The Boss was a 'she', but Yang wondered what kind of name was 'The Boss' and what did he mean by 'legendary soldier'? The blonde's thoughts were interrupted when a woman's voice spoke on the radio.

"Jack, is that you? How many years has it been?" The woman named only as The Boss asked to Jack/Snake.

"Boss...!?"

Yang could see the expression of surprise on Snake's face, although it was not very noticeable on his face, it showed more in his tone of voice.

"That's right, it's me."

However, Snake said nothing, remained silent, to which Yang looked a little confused.

"Talk to me. Let me hear your voice." The Boss said.

"...It's been 5 years, 72 days, and 18 hours." Snake answered.

Yang eye's eyes widened when she heard that. It sounded a bit creepy that Jack or Snake would count tall the time he had bee nwithout that woman- his Mentor, but Yang thought that maybe that means The Boss was very important to Snake, right?

"You've lost weight." Was the only thing The Boss answered.

For the next few minutes, Yang heard the conversation that Snake and The Boss had, it was interesting, but at the same time confusing. Yang could tell by Snake's tone of voice that he felt depressed because The Boss left him, but she replied that she had a top-secret mission, that meant they, the FOX unit, was some kind of spy organization? Yang did not get it, since they also referred to themselves as soldiers.

Yang paid attention to what The Boss said about how someone needs to be strong in spirit, body and technique, the blonde brawler was interested and in a way, she thought it was quite deep, but The Boss did not talk about Huntsmens and Huntresses, she talked about soldiers. Yang did not know what to say about it, she did not understand well the concept of a soldier, only as someone who was in the army, but The Boss made it sound like something quite complicated. Yang was speechless.

After several minutes, the talk ended, and once again Major Tom spoke again, he said that the Unit that The Boss put together was a snake, the Cobra Unit. But Yang did not understand when he said it was a group of heroes that ended World War ll. What kind of war did he speak? Remnant only had The Great War. Everything was just confusing her. In the end, Major Tom reminded Snake that his mission was to rescue someone named Dr. Sokolov. Weird name, Yang thought.

Snake started to stand up, and Yang also, it seems that finally they were going to move from that place.

"Finally! You spend it talking for about twenty minutes." Yang complained, but no one was going to listen to her. But in a way she was a little excited to see what would happen, thinking it was like some kind of movie. She still believed that it was a very strange dream.

"Snake, try to remember some of the basics of CQC..."Said The Boss over the radio. Snake took his knife and his pistol with suppressor. Yang noticed that the weapons were the same as Snake used, only that the suppressor was bigger than she remembered.

"Commencing Virtuous Mission... now." Snake stated. And soon began to move.

"Here we go!" Yang said with a big smile. It sounded like this would be a fun adventure in a dream, and nothing bad would go wrong.

...right?

Snake and Yang advanced through the area, through the trees and plants. They also passed through what looked like a small swamp, and while Snake was passing through the mud, Yang chose to surround it, because he did not want to dirty his clothes. Although in fact she could not even if she tried.

After moving forward, Snake stopped near a tree, and Yang behind him. They both saw what appeared to be soldiers, Yang noticed that they wore uniforms, and their weapons were rare, it did not look like anything she had seen before, for example, some parts looked like wood. Yang heard that Snake called those rifles AK-47.

And once again, Major Tom explained that it would be a big problem if Snake is discovered. Even so, both continued advancing, and Snake using the Mk 22 put the guards to sleep. For Yang, it was a bit boring to go hiding, she preferred to go around making noise, but even so it was interesting to watch Jack/Snake use stealth in his mission.

After advancing, Snake and Yang reach where they found a wooden bridge. Snake took his binoculars and observed the area, but for some reason, Snake smiled and Yang noticed this.

"Why are you smiling?" Yang asked Snake, but she had already gotten used to not receiving an answer even if she spoke directly to him. Snake took his gun and prepared to shoot, but Yang noticed that he was not pointing at the guard, which confused her a bit. Snake shot the hornet's nest that was hanging from the tree in front of them, the nest fell, and the hornets seemed angry, so, when they saw the guard, what they did was follow him qnd try to attack him, to which the guard was frightened and run away, crossing the wooden bridge.

"Hahaha! That was awesome!" Yang exclaimed and laugh at seeing the frightened guard flee.

After getting rid of the guard, Snake and Yang advanced through the wooden bridge, crossing the river below them, and kept moving until they reached what looked like the ruins of a small building, probably a factory. What Snake did was hide behind a tree, while Yang only approached him, because it seemed that he was going to speak on the radio.

"Major, I've reached the abandoned factory where Sokolov is supposedly being held. This place is dump..." Snake took his binoculars and looked around the abandoned factory.

"I wonder who is dumb enough to put a factory in the middle of the forest with all the Grimm around here... now that I think about it, I have't seen any Grimm, I haven't even heard the word 'Grimm'..." Said Yang to herself, while thinking about that. It was true, she has not seen any Grimm nor heard of them. It was weird.

"I can't see Sokolov from here..."

Snake one more time spoke with Major Tom, explaining his current situation, to which the Major only ordered him to infiltrate and save Sokolov, and to tell him that he says 'sorry for being so late'. After that, Snake began to approach.

Snake move cautiously and stealthily, while Yang walked as if nothing, in fact for a moment she stopped in front of one of the guards to inspect his clothes and weapons, they looked strange but at the same time pretty cool. Minutes later, Snake would have put the guards to sleep, and he would advance until he reached a part of the abandoned factory, where he would begin to open the door. While Yang was behind him.

Upon entering, Snake and Yang saw an adult man, who was near a fireplace burning papers.

"You must be Sokolov." Said Snake to the man.

The man - Sokolov - turned to see Snake and Yang, although he did not notice the existence of the blonde. "Are you one of Volgin's men!?" He commented, while he seemed scared, and what he did was start burning the rest of the papers he had. "You'll never get it from me!"

"No." Snake raised his hands, trying to show that he was not the enemy. "I'm a CIA agent. I've come escort you to the other side of the Iron Curtain."

"You're CIA?" Suddenly Sokolov was calmer.

"Yeah, I was sent by Major Zero, the man who got you out two years ago."

"Zero..." Said Sokolov.

"Zero?" Said Yang. "I thought his name was Tom." Or maybe it was a code name like Naked Snake?

"I have a message from him." Said Snake.

"What is it?"

"He said to tell you 'sorry for being so late'."

Sokolov stayed silence for a brief moment. "Did he now..."

"What does it mean?" Asked the CIA agent.

"It means he is a man of his word." The doctor answered. "But we've got no time for this. You have to get me out of here before they arrive!" Suddenly Doctor Sokolov was impatient, he was even scared.

"Who's 'they'? " snake asked.

Yang was making herself the same question.

"Colonel Volgin of GRU."

"GRU?" Yang asked.

"You in the West know him as Thunderbolt." The doctor explained.

"Thunderbolt...? Never heard of him." Snake answered.

"Oh well... time for an explanation I guess." Yang said to herself, since she supposed that by Snake's response, Sokolov would explain who he was.

And once again, Yang heard an explanation of something she did not understand at all. Sokolov said things that she did not understand at all, things like 'Cuban Missile Crisis', 'The West', 'Granin Design Bureau', about a man named Khrushchev, but overall, it seemed that this 'Colonel Volgin' was planing something big.

After the explanation, a short talk and talk on the radio with Major Tom, it seemed that Snake and Sokolov would finally get out of there. Yang was following them from behind. Snake moved cautiously, using his gun to aim at his surroundings, and Sokolov... well, he did strange movements, Yang did not know whether to laugh or cry, so they just kept going.

It was going well until...

"Freeze!" A Soviet soldier shouted.

after him, one by one, several appeared, pointing their weapons towards Snake, having him and Sokolov completely surrounded.

"Well... that's it, end of the line." Said Yang, maybe after that she would woke up from this weird dream.

"So this is the legendary Boss...? " A young voice said. Yang and Snake turned to see who it was. The voice belonged to a young man, barely in his 20s, in a military uniform, a red beret and a red scarf, while spinning a pistol in his right hand. "We meet at last."

"Who is this guy?" Said the blonde to herself.

"You... you're from the Ocelot unit of Spetsnaz. What's a GRU soldier doing here?" The Soviet soldier demanded to the GRU soldier.

"Soldier...?" He answered dryly, while with both hands he was adjusting his beret. Yang did not understand with what motive he did that.

"He's the Ocelot Commander!" The Soviet soldier noticed.

"Ha! That's Major Ocelot to you. And don't you forget it."

"Wait... Ocelot!? Like... Professor Ocelot!?" Yang yelled. She doesn't know another person who had the same name. But he did not look like Professor Ocelot that she knew. This Ocelot was young, blond, and maybe big headed.

"Sokolov is ours. Now get out of here." The soldier replied dryly, but it could be seen that in a way it sounded like a threat.

"An Ocelot never lets his prey escape." Ocelot answered, much to the confusion of the soldier.

"What!?"

Meanwhile, Snake could see the movements of the soldier who had just appeared. And noticing what he was going to do, he, along with Sokolov, threw himself to the ground.

In a quick movement, which neither the soldiers nor Yang could notice in time, Ocelot shot the soldier in front of him, shooting him in the neck. Ocelot continued killing, until killing two, then three, four and five. The sixth one hid, since it was in the ceiling, but Ocelot when firing, obtained that the bullet bounced, killing the sixth soldier.

Yang watched in amazement and horror as Ocelot managed to do all that quickly and effectively. The ironic thing is that she did not reacted too much when she saw the dea bodys,, because she still thought it was a kind of weird dream.

A single Soviet soldier had survived Ocelot's attack, only to be finally topped with a shot to the head, without mercy. After the massacre, he picked up his beret that was on the ground.

"I can't say it feels good to kill a comrade, even if it is for the GRU." He stated, without looking at Snake.

"Sokolov, take cover!" Snake ordered the still scared scientist. Without saying anything, he did what the CIA Agent said, and ran away to hide.

Now at this moment it was just Snake and Ocelot, with Yang as a spectator of that scene. However, Ocelot instead of attacking, he was observing Snake carefully.

"Mhh... you're not The Boss, are you?" Ocelot said calmly.

Snake did not answered to that.

Ocelot just turned around, and the only thing he 'said' was slgo that left Yang confused.

"MEOW!" Ocelot let out a sound that seemed to be a kind of meowing.

Yang was confused by the sound that came from the young soldier. "What the fu-"

Before Yang could say anything, several soldiers dressed in the same way as Ocelot, but with balaclavas covering their faces, suddenly appeared, pointing their weapons at Snake, surrounding him.

Ocelot approached Snake, slowly began to walk around him.

"What is tha stance? That gun?" Ocelot told Snake, then he laugh and told with his hand to his team to laugh at him. But Snake showed no reaction, just kept calm. Meanwhile, Yang just thought those guys were idiots.

"If you're not The Boss..." Ocelot began to speak, while throwing his Makarov to the air while spinning, and then catching it easily. "...then die!"

Yang blinked the moment she heard a 'Click' coming from Ocelot's gun, she did not know what happened but it seemed that the gun had jammed.

Snake let show a small smirk and took that opportunity to take Ocelot, and then throw him to the ground, then he disarmed him. At that moment, everyone could hear Sokolov screaming in fear, while escaping from the place.

"Major!"

"Leave him! Shoot the other one!"

Even though Ocelot ordered to shoot, the soldier tried to hit Snake with his weapon, but he easily avoided that attack. Then he, using the Mk 22, shot another soldier, hitting him right in the arm. Snake continued fighting, using CQC to fight against the Ocelot Unit. Snake's movements were quick and precise, it seemed that without much effort, and in less than a minute, he managed to defeat everyone.

But Ocelot did not seem to give up so easily.

Ocelot rose from the ground, and tried to hit Snake, but Snake easily stopped the attack, and hit Ocelot with his gun. And with force Snake throw him to the ground. After that, Snake took a few steps back, pointing to Ocelot with his pistol.

"Impossible..." Ocelot muttered, after being defeated and humiliated him and his team by one man.

"Damn..." Yang muttered after seeing the soldiers of the Ocelot Unit fallen, it had been quite incredible how Snake had managed to beat them without problems, they did not even have time to use their Semblances or Auras to defend themselves, and she was amazed.

"You ejected the first bullet by hand, didn't you? I see what you were tryin' to do. But testing a technique you've only heard about in the middle of battle wasn't very smart. You were asking to have your gun jam on you. Besides, I don't think you're cut out for an automatic in the first place, you tend to twist your elbow to absorb the recoil. Tha's more of a revolver technique."

"You filthy American dog...!" Ocelot shouted, he took his knife, and once again, without success, he tried to attack Snake. Snake returned the attack, hitting Ocelot in the stomach, and then in the neck, only to once again throw him to the ground.

Snake, with the hand that held the knife, approached Ocelot. "But that was some fancy shooting... you're pretty good. "

"Pretty... good..." Ocelot muttered for the last time, only to fall unconscious at the end.

Snake, after winning the battle, put his gun and knife in their respective cases. After that, began to give an explanation to Major Zero of the current situation by radio. Snake explained that there seemed to be an internal fight for control of the Soviet Union, between the GRU and the KGB.

"It sounds like there are going to be more problems." Yang said, with a big smile. Thinking that this dream became more and more interesting, but she only thought that, that it was a dream.

Soon after, Snake and Yang left the abandoned factory, leaving the unconscious GRU soldiers behind. They followed the path that led to that wooden bridge that they crossed earlier. There they both found Sokolov.

"You OK?" Snake asked.

"Those men were from the Ocelot Unit."

"Spetsnaz?"

"Yes. The best GRU has to offer."

"Ha! That was the best of the GRU?" Yang laughed at what Sokolov said.

"They're coming for me. I'm finished!"

"Calm down, I'll get you out lf here, I promise. And besides, we' have some of the best backup we could ask for." Snake explained, trying to calm down Sokolov.

But then that's when the three heard a great roar, which seemed to come from between the mountains.

"Look." He said while pointing far away, where there seemed to be an object in the form of a tank.

Snake took his binoculars to see that thing. While Yang could not see it in detail but she could deduce that it was something very big.

"That's what they were making you build? Snake asked.

"Yes... The Shagohod. 'The Treading Behemoth'. A tank capable of launching nuclear IRBMs." Sokolov answered.

"Shagohod...?" Yang muttered.

"it can launch nuclear missiles from that kind of terrain?" Snake asked.

"Oh yes, and without support from friendly units."

"A nuclear-equipped tank capable of operating solo..." Even Snake was surprised to hear that, but it was not a pleasant surprise at all. "Is that thing finished?"

"No, this is only the end of Phase 1, it won't be truly finished until we complete Phase 2."

"Phase 2?" Snake asked. Yang was also wondering what was this Phase 2.

"The weapon's true form. If it is completed and the Colonel gets his hands on it, it will mean the end of the Cold War."

"The end of the cold war?" Both Snak and Yang said, but no one heard the blonde brawler.

"Yes..." Sokolov answered. "And then the age of fear will truly begin..."

"A World War."

"World war...?" Yang did not fully understand the term, but it sounded like it was a war fought by all the world.

"I had no choice but to cooperate!" Sokolov explained. "I didn't want to die... I wanted to see my wife and my child again in America... Please, take me to Amrica, quickly!" The scientist begged Snake. "They cannot complete it without my help!"

"Got it... Let's go!" Snake answered and soon he took his gun and his knife. Soon the two and Yang began to move towards the wooden bridge.

Yang was thinking about what she was understanding until now. Snake was an Agent of something called 'CIA' for a Kingdom called 'America', which was an enemy of the kingdom of the 'Soviet Union' and that at any moment could be a war between the two. While walking, it seems that for a brief moment a dense fog appeared, causing them to have trouble seeing beyond the bridge for a moment.

But it seemed that someone was coming from the other side.

Snake pointed his gun in front, while the other person's steps were closer. The figure was getting closer and closer, and it seemed that he was carrying something in his hands, something very big. Soon the figure revealed itself.

It was a woman. A woman with blond hair, blue eyes, and by her age seemed to be close to 40. But the interesting thing was that she wore the same uniform as Snake.

"Who is she...?" Yang muttered, while she was close to Sokolov.

"Boss...?" Snake said, surprised to see that woman.

"Wait, she is The Boss?" Yang's eyes widened. Was she Snake's mentor?

The woman said nothing, but suddenly she released one of the boxes she was carrying, and the bridge began to wobble. Yang suddenly held onto the handrail, to avoid falling down that river below. Shortly after that blonde woman released the second box she was carrying. Meanwhile Sokolov only fell to the ground, to the wood of the bridge.

"Good work, Jack." It was the first words that Yang heard from that woman. She definitely sounded like the woman on the radio, but hearing her in person made Yang feel a shiver go through her body.

"What are you doing here?" Snake asked, without lowering his gun.

"Sokolov comes with me." The Boss answered dryly.

Suddenly it seemed that the sky clouded. At that moment, anyone would have thought it would rain, but instead of that, little by little, hornets began to arrive. The hornets surrounded Snake and Sokolov, and as Yang was nearby, she felt like they were flying close to her head, and using her hands she waved them to cover herself and scare away the hornets. Even though the hornets ignored Yang, she could feel how her hands hit those insects and nothing happened, but if she managed to move them away. Unlike when she hit Snake and a force took launched her away from him, the same thing did not happen with those insects.

Suddenly Sokolov had started screaming, and by the time Snake and Yang realized, someone, using the hornets to get up, had taken him away. Seeing that the hornets were moving away, Snake and Yang looked at the sky, and soon they heard the sound of what appeared to be an engine, and they saw that there was a helicopter on top of them. Although Yang did not know what that was, it did not look like a Bullhead. The design of the vehicle was very different, the color in the same way.

"My friends." The Boss began to talk. "let us fight together again!"

Yang looked up at the Soviet Hind, where at least she could see two people near the door of the helicopter. Both responded to The Boss, their voices sounded scary, in the sense that it caused fear.

"Now that all five of us are together again, it's time that we go to the depths of hell itself..." The Boss proclaimed.

And so suddenly, the sky began to turn gray, and soon it started to rain. Yang looked up at the sky, not understanding what was happening. While The Boss was still talking, Yang only extended her arms and opened her hands while looking at the sky, she was feeling how the water was falling in the palms of her hands and in her hair. She felt the water, but at the same time it did not feel wet. It was when she was in that river together with...

Yang's eyes widened, she turned to see where The Boss was. The Boss was looking around, it looked like she was looking for something. But near her, Yang saw something like blue smoke pass by her and then go to the sky, vanishing. Yang was confused to see that. But at the same time she felt that it was a presence that she had known before.

Yang came back to reality, when she noticed that the rain was stopping, and when someone else was approaching where they were.

"Kuwabara, kuwabara..." The man said. Yang could tell that the man had a large scar on his face, and it seemed that his body attracted or caused some kind of electricity. Yang thought that maybe it was his Semblance. After walking, he stopped behind The Boss. "Ah, what a joyful scene."

"Colonel Volgin..." That came from The Boss.

Yang's eyes slightly widened as she heard that name, he was the man Sokolov was talking about?

"Welcome to my country..." Colonel Volgin said, while extending his arm and clenching his fist. "...and to my Unit!"

"Boss, what is this?" Snake asked to his Mentor.

"I'm defecting to the Soviet Union, Sokolov is a little gif for my new hosts" The female soldier answered.

Yang watched as Snake just looked down, as if he could not believe what The Boss was saying.

"Recoilless nuclear warheads..." Colonel Volgin said as he took the items that The Boss had brought. "...these will make a fine gift for me..."

"This can't be happening!" Snake yelled.

"Who is he? Another one of your disciples?" Volgin asked, as he looked at Snake, up and down. "Are we taking him with us?"

"No, this one is just a child. Too pure for us Cobras." The Boss answered dryly. "He has not yet found an emotion to carry into battle. "

"What are you talking about!?" Snake asked loudly while pointing his gun at her. It's probably the only time that Yang has seen Snake shouting or showing desperation. At least in this 'dream'.

"Think you can pull the trigger?" The Boss asked as she walked slowly to where Snake was.

In a quick movement, The Boss took Snake and threw him to the ground quite easily. Snake one more time pointed her with his gun, but by the time he realized, the top part of the gun had been snatched by The Boss. The Boss showed the piece, only to throw it to Naked Snake. Snake got up and he, like The Boss, got into a fight position. Snake tried to hit The Boss but she took him by the wrist, she hit him in the face, only to then use her elbow to hit Snake on his elbow, breaking Snake's left elbow in a vertical arm chop.

Snake let out a great cry of pain, while Yang watched in horror as Snake had broken his elbow because of The Boss.

"He's seen my face... we can't let him live." Colonel Volgin said while for a brief moment he produced small electric beams around him. Then he started walking to where Snake was. "If khrushchev finds out about this we're finished... He must die."

Yang's eyes turned red for a moment, not caring that she could not do anything, she wanted to hit that guy so bad.

"Wait." Soon The Boss intervened. And for a moment, Yang's eyes returned a little to their lilac color. "He's my apprentice I'll take care of him."

Volgin did not say anything, but obeyed without resisting what The Boss said.

"Jack... you can't come with us." The Boss said, while she offered her hand to Snake.

Yang was surprised to see that, did not understand why she offered her hand. Meanwhile, she watched as Snake seemed doubtful, even with fear. But slowly he moved his hand to hers, taking her firmly. However, The Boss attracted him to her, to strike him in the stomach with her arm.

Snake let out a scream of pain, only to then hold on to The Boss's bandana. The Boss put her hand on her apprentice's neck, and the only thing she did was throw him off the bridge, into the river. Snake screamed, as he fell into the water, while in his hand he had The Boss's bandana.

"AHHHHHH!" It was the only thing everyone heard from Snake as he fell.

"SNAAAAKE!" Yang practically shouted while she looked at him falling to the river, while her eyes turn red, and without controlling herself, she ran to where The Boss was and hit her in the face.

But it was useless, just like when it happened with Snake, Yang managed to hit The Boss, but some kind of invisible force pushed her away, and that made her fall into the river while screaming in pain for that response of the invisible force.

Just like Snake, Yang fell into the river, being dragged by the current of the river.

— l — l — l —

Several minutes passed, until Yang finally reached a bank of that river. Coughing water, but without any harm, Yang crawled out of the water, while breathing heavily. In the end she was fine.

The same could not be said of Snake.

Yang noticed that Snake was lying there, bleeding, and it seemed that it was difficult for him to move.

"Snake..." Yang muttered, as she began to approach him. She wanted to help him, but unfortunately she could not do anything but watch the soldier suffer in pain. Soon after Snake received a call on the radio.

The call was to help Snake, since at that moment what he needed was medical attention, and thanks to the help of Para-Medic Snake began to treat his wounds. The process was slow, since he could barely move, while Yang just watched, feeling sorry for him. But after several minutes, Snake treated the wounds, including his arm, where he managed to rearrange it, while wearing the Boss's bandana to keep the arm at rest.

"There we go..." Said Yang with a small smile.

"Good job Snake." Said Para-Medic over the radio.

"We're coming to get you now, just stay where you are, we'll droop a recovery balloon... csn you set it up?"

By now it seemed that everything was fine, Snake was safe, but there was still a problem. The Boss had defected and took Sokolov away. Yang wondered what would happen now. While waiting with Snake, Yang noticed that Snake turned to look to his left, and it seemed that he was surprised of something, Yang out of curiosity went to see what it was, and her eyes widened.

It was someone's corpse, but it was not recent, the only thing there were bones. It seemed that the body had a lot of time there.

Yang soon forgot the corpse when she, like Snake, began to hear several helicopters, Yang looked at the sky, where he saw that those helicopters were taking the Shagohod. Yang supposed that in the end Colonel Volgin achieved what he wanted.

Yang watched Snake, while he stretched out his hand to the sky, it seemed that he wanted to reach something. She had a feeling that she was reaching out, because The Boss was on one of those helicopters. Yang only felt worse, thinking that Snake was betrayed and abandoned by his mother figure, something that in a way she saw in herself, since she was abandoned by her mother.

But in the end, Snake painfully dropped his arm to the ground.

"Snake!" Yang approached and put a hand on Snake's shoulder, careful not to be thrown again by that invisible force.

After a few minutes, Yang and Snake saw something falling from the sky, surely it was the recovery balloon.

But then a big light blinded Snake and Yang briefly, both covered their eyes as the wind blew harder against them, and they heard the sound of an explosion, a pretty big one.

Yang looked at where that light came from, only to end up scared to see in the blind a large ball of fire, while little by little he was taking a mushroom shape.

"What the helll...?" Yang muttered, while little by little he felt that he was running out of strength. Soon after, she fell coldly to the floor, fainting.

— l — l — l —

One week later.

August 30. 1964.

Yang began to open her eyes once more, slowly began to react. She noticed that at that moment she was looking at the sky, it was dark and it was night. Yang gradually began to react while looking at his surroundings. She was no longer in the river.

"Where I am...?" Yang told herself while looking around. The place seemed calm.

Seemed, because she soon heard a sound similar of a bullhead, not far away she saw a flying object nearby, but she turned to look behind her, listening to something in the branches.

Soon she saw how a person had fallen from the sky to the ground and began to spin around on the ground until he stopped. And Yang recognized who he was.

"Snake!"

Yang said with a smile when she saw who it was. And she was surprised to see that this time it looked like the Snake she knew. He had the bandana on his head and his tiger strip camouflage, although it was slightly different, besides that this Snake had more beard and looked more adult, and did not have the eyepatch.

After landing and observing the area, Snake contacted Major Tom over the radio, who gave him a review of his objectives, while Yang got close so she could hear the call. The objectives are: Rescue Sokolov, destroy the Shagohod, eliminate Colonel Volgin.

And finally eliminate The Boss.

This Operation was going to be called 'Operation Snake Eater', because Snake would take down the Cobra Unit. But Yang was surprised to hear that Snake had to kill The Boss. Even she noticed that Snake seemed to be doubtful. This was to avoid a nuclear war, although Yang did not understand what that was.

In addition to that, Major Tom decided to change his code name to Major Zero again. Snake managed to speak for a moment with Para-Medic, who said that a week had passed since the Virtuous Mission, in addition to talking to a new member of the team: Sigint, an expert in weapons and equipment. Although it was a dream (For her) she felt that Ruby would get along with Sigint.

After that, Snake started moving between the trees and the grass, while Yang followed him.

After walking for a few minutes, they got to where the object was that Snake used to get there, but what was curious is that there was a horse there, one that anyone would say was nice, Snake kept his weapons as he approached the horse, but then...

"Looks like death wasn't ready for you yet."

Yang quickly turned back, while Snake did the same, but taking his knife and gun. Both turned to see who it was.

It was The Boss.

"Boss?" Snake asked.

"That arm still hurt?" The Boss asked, although she did not sound worried.

"What are you doing here?" Snake asked, but while he was asking that, he was under guard.

The Boss did not respond to that, instead she took off the black cloak she was wearing, letting show a white suit under it. The Boss moved quickly, and that made Snake not react in time. In a second, The Boss took the weapon from Snake and took the soldier to the ground.

The Boss began to disarm the gun, while throwing away the pieces. "Go home."

Snake tried to counterattack but The Boss easily countered the attack by hitting Snake in the stomach and throwing him to the ground.

Yang could only see how Snake was easily defeated, unable to do anything.

"Go home! GRU and my sons are weating up ahead. You don't have a prayer of finishing your mission, you're not even armed."

Snake, with a little difficulty, got up, while breathing heavily. "Boss!" Snake shouted. While he began to approach to attack The Boss, but she once again took him, giving him a knee in the stomach, then make him flip in mid-air and throw him to the ground one more time.

"I'm not your Boss anymore!" She said coldly. "There's nothing for you here. Go home." She told him as she began to take a small, compact weapon: The Patriot. "Go back to your Boss. There's no need to prove that you are virtuous here... This isn't America."

She declared and started to shoot at the object that Snake had used to arrive a few minutes ago. The Boss shot The Patriot for several seconds, without having problems with the recoil although she used only one hand. The flying object began to fill with bullet holes until it started to catch fire and then explode.

"That should stir things up a bit. You'd better hurry." The Boss told Snake after she ended with shooting at the small plane.

And soon it started to rain. Yang looked up at the sky noticing the sudden rain, but then looked at Snake, it seemed that he saw The Boss, but it seemed that his eyes were looking at something beside her. But Yang did not worry about it.

"The border is 60 miles south of here. You ought to be able to run that far." The Boss said as he began to walk away from Snake. Ignoring him.

Snake stayed on the floor, and the only thing he did was to get on his knees with his hands on the floor. "Why'd you defect." Snake asked, his tone was weak, as if he wanted to surrender at that moment.

" I didn't. I'm loyal to the 'end'. To my purpose." She answered without turning to see him, but soon turned her head. "What about you Jack? What's it going to be? Loyalty to your country or loyalty to me? Your country, or your old mentor? The mission or your beliefs? Your duty to your unit, or your personal feelings?"

Snake could not say anything, the only thing he could do is be silent and look at the ground.

"It should not be like that..." Yang muttered silently, while clenching her fist, but she did not stay angry, but she did feel sad about Snake.

"You don't know the truth yet." The Boss said after she put on her black cloak. "But sooner or later you'll have to choose... I don't expect you to forgive me." She said, then she started riding her horse. "But you can't defeat me either, you know me too well." Then she began to get close to Snake. "Just look at that bandanna, if you can't put the past behind you, you won't survive long."

Snake, again, just stay in silence, while looking at the ground.

The Boss's horse began to whinny and to get on two legs, and soon after under the legs on the ground, but one of them stepped Snake's hand. Snake let out a scream of pain, while with his other hand he rubbed his injured hand.

"If we meet again, I'll kill you." The Boss said coldly. "Now... go home."

After saying that, The Boss left on her horse. While, breathing heavily, Snake tried to recover, and soon after decided to contact Major Zero. There he decided to explain that he was ambushed by The Boss and that she destroyed his weapon. Major Zero tried to calm Snake, but he just kept thinking in a negative way, feeling that he would never defeat his mentor. Zero told him to stop, saying that if he kept thinking like that, he would never win, he told Snake to continue with the mission, which at that moment was to meet someone called 'Adam'.

For now, Snake did what Major Zero told him and continued his mission, but since he was armed only with a knife, Snake was using the environment to camouflage himself and hide from the enemies, otherwise he would not win in a direct fight.

Snake, followed by Yang, advanced all the way that was the same as the previous one, where they went to where Sokolov was a week ago. After several minutes, Snake and Yang arrived at the place but found no one, the place was abandoned.

Or at least that's what they thought.

Suddenly a light illuminated Snake, and the engine of a vehicle began to be heard.

"Sorry I'm late." Said a female voice in the motorcycle.

"Cut the engine, they'll hear us." Snake said while he used his hand to cover himself from the light.

"Are you the agent they sent?" The woman asked.

"Are you ADAM? I tought you were supposed to be a man."

"ADAM couldn't make it." The woman said.

But Snake did not believe her. "All right, say the password. Who are The Patriots?"

But that girl did not said anything.

"Who are The Patriots!?"

"She's with the GRU!" Yang said, thinking that it was the logical answer.

"Answer me!" Snake yelled at her as he got into a fighting position.

But again there was no response. On the contrary, soon several soldiers appeared and aimed at Snake.

"Trapped?" Snake said to himself. He and Yang looked everywhere, Snake was surrounded.

"Get down!" The woman in the bike shouted. Snake threw himself to the ground, while Yang only observed that woman, noticing that soon she pulled out a pistol, and in the same way the blonde threw herself to the ground.

The woman on the motorcycle started firing at the soldiers, while Yang watched everything that happened, there was an exchange of shots, but as if everything had been in slow motion, she watched as the Soviet soldiers fell dead to the ground.

Everything finished in seconds, shortly after Yang and Snake got up from the floor and both turned to see the woman.

"There..." She said as she put ammo to her gun. "... is your answer." And soon she got off her motorcycle, and then started to remove her helmet. Letting see the face of that woman: A beautiful blonde girl in her mid-20s. While walking to where Snake was, she unzipped her suit, revealing her black bra.

Yang was surprised to see her, could not deny that she was very beautiful, but then thought something at that time.

"Motorcycle, blonde hair, a good pair of breasts... I understand now! That's me!" Yang said with a smile. "Now I understand, this is a dream where Snake and I are secret agents." Although Yang did not understand why her hair was different, since hers is more golden while the 'other Yang' looked the opposite. But like her, Snake looked like an adult, and had two eyes. "Although mines are a little bigger..."

The other blond woman continued walking until she was close to Snake, and smiled at him.

"Now is when you say 'The name is Xiao Long. Yang Xiao Long.' " Yang said with a small grin.

"The name's EVA."

"Wait... EVA?" Yang told herself, thinking that this EVA woman would say her name was Yang. "Now that I think about it, she doesn't sound like me..." Then she realized that EVA was not a personification of herself in this 'dream'. And just when Yang realized that Snake was looking down, she noticed that Snake was looking at EVA's chest.

"Hey! Don't look at this bi-!" Yang tried to hit EVA on the head but for the third time, a force sent her flying against the nearest wall.

"Auch..."

— l — l — l —

After the first meeting, Snake, Yang and EVA entered the abandoned factory. Not even 5 minutes passed and Yang already disliked EVA completely.

But leaving that aside, EVA gave Snake an explanation of why she was there and not ADAM. Snake seemed to show a distancing from EVA, and soon after she gave Snake a new gun, Yang recognized it, it was the M1911 that Snake carried at every moment. And what was funny to Yang is that Snake showed more interest in the gun than in EVA. And thinking about it, she could not help thinking about Ruby. She also gave him a tranquilizer gun and a scientist's uniform.

After that, EVA informed Snake that Sokolov was still alive, but that he was being forced to continue working in the Shagohod. To find Sokolov, he would have to go through the swamp, the jungle, a cave and a warehouse to get to where Sokolov was. Snake was ready to leave but he still looked tired, and EVA said he should rest, that she would keep guard until Dawn. Snake, by order of Para-Medic, accepted the idea of sleeping for a while.

The funny thing is that Yang also began to be sleepy when Snake began to fall asleep, and finally ended up sleeping, next to Snake, using Snake's shoulder as a pillow.

One hour later...

Yang began to open her eyes, she noticed that it was already day, while she noticed that EVA in front of them was dreesing herself. Snake likewise started to wake up, and a little later they heard that there were sounds outside. EVA and Yang peeked out the window, only to realize it was the Ocelot Unit.

Snake and EVA moved the bed, to open a trapdoor, so EVA could get out first while on the other hand, Snake was facing them. But before leaving, EVA kissed Snake on the cheek, which was Yang's displeasure.

For the next minutes, Snake was hunting one by one the members of the Ocelot Unit, while Yang only observed his abilities to take them down. Snake did not kill them, he used his tranquilizer gun to put them to sleep easily. But that' doesn't mean his problems were over. Just when Snake thought he had finished, he heard gunshots.

Snake went to investigate, only to realize that EVA was now an Ocelot hostage. Ocelot showed his new weapon - a revolver to Snake, but he was not impressed, even Snake challenged Ocelot, saying that he was not able to kill him, and as he said, Ocelot tried to shoot Snake but nothing happened. EVA took this opportunity and kicked Ocelot, just to take her bike and having Ocelot in front, EVA used her motorcycle to attack him, even making a spin in the air until she landed.

Yang was surprised to see EVA's ability with her motorcycle. Ocelot had been defeated once more, Snake spoke again to Ocelot, explaining the mistakes he had made. Ocelot only cursed the fact that he had lost and fled. EVA tried to kill him, which surprised Yang, but Snake stopped her, saying that he was young.

Soon after, EVA, saying that 'she had to arrive before him', fled from the place, leaving Snake and Yang alone.

After that, Snake and Yang advanced towards the swamp. Unfortunately the only way forward was to swim, so unfortunately Yang would have to wet his hair, but it was not the first time.

Yang followed Snake through the swamp, as he moved stealthily, put the guards to sleep and even stopped to eat snakes, which Yang somewhat disgusting, but she also thought it was a little cool.

1 Hour later...

Snake arrived at the rift, but in that place he found Ocelot one more time, while the rest of his unit was behind them. Ocelot this time had obtained two black revolvers, which she noticed were similar to those that Professor Ocelot was wearing, she was beginning to wonder if they were the same person, but Ocelot adult had white-gray hair.

"Ocelots are proud creatures. They prefer hunt alone. " Ocelot told him, and soon began to spin his weapons. Ocelot seemed to be coxky as to how spin the revolvers, but he really seemed to have it dominated.

"Damn that's cool..." She said while watching her act of 'juggling'.

Ocelot remarked that this time he had 12 shots. And soon, the fight between Snake and Oceot began.

Yang observed how the fight between them was. Snake, despite saying that Ocelot was still young to die, decided to fight and shoot as much as he could, although Yang noticed that his shots seemed to go rather to the legs or arms.

Ocelot on the other hand hid behind a tree and rocks to cover himself. The blonde brawler did not understand how, but the bullets that Ocelot fired bounced, so there came a time when Snake was almost hurt by Ocelot's bullets. But he managed the situation like a pro.

The fight, which was quite short, of at least 5 minutes but intense, came to a point, where Snake and Ocelot were about to shoot each other.

But suddenly began to arrive hundreds or even thousands of hornets to the zone. It was a big army of hornets.

Both Yang and Snake, who covered themselves with hornets, listened as Ocelot said that this was not over yet. Snake had no choice but to throw himself into the crack, and Yang had no choice but to follow him down there.

— l — l — l —

"That was close..."

Yang muttered as she looked around, and noticed that it was completely dark. She could do nothing, and apparently she did not have any light. That was no problem for Snake since he, using his cigar and the little light that he had, began to guide himself. Yang was surprised to see that Snake apparently smoked, but she did not give much importance.

Soon after, Snake managed to find a torch, which he used to guide himself, as he walked and crawled through the cave. Yang on the other hand hated crawling and she felt miserable, and she complained about it occasionally, but she still followed Snake.

Both came to an area of the cave where there was light, there was water and a large rock in the middle. But then several hornets arrived in the area. Snake jumped into the water and Yang almost did the same, but she stopped to notice that this time they did not approach her.

"I've caught you at last."

Yang heard a voice coming from that rock in the middle, and from among the hornets it seemed that a human figure was forming.

"We are the sons of The Boss!" Suddenly a human figure appeared. Yang's eyes widened at the sight of that person, who wore a camouflage uniform while his face was covered.

"He was controlling the hornets!? Is that his Semblance?" Yang said as she saw that person.

"... I am The Pain..."

The man introduced himself as The Pain, one of the members of the Cobra Unit, and one of the legendary heroes that ended the World War ll. At least that's what Yang remembered, because that was how Major Zero described them.

The Pain began to make flipa in the air and to make some... peculiar movements. Both Yang and Snake were confused for that.

"He moves like those characters of the Super Rangers that Ruby and I saw as children on the TV..." Said Yang.

"I will guide you to a world of anguish beyond you imagination..." The Pain said, while Snake took out his M1911 and combat knife.

"Let's get started..." Said The Pain while preparing his hornets.

And that's how the fight started. The Pain had its hornets in its favor. But Snake had the advantage that he could hide in the water. When Snake could, he shot The Pain, but his hornets stopped the bullets, serving The Pain as a type of armor. In addition to that The Pain also used the hornets to make a copy of himself to confuse Snake, in addition to using grenades and what he called 'Tommy Gun'.

The battle continued for a couple of minutes. They reached a point where The Pain took off his balaclava, showing his face. He was bald, but his face was disfigured, as if the same hornets had caused him stings, but it seemed that he had it for a long time. Yang saw him with slight horror, she thought he looked like the villain of some horror movie. And as if that were not enough, he started spitting hornets out of his mouth. Literally had hornets living inside, those red hornets tried to attack Snake, or rather, arrive as if they were bullets and attack Snake inside his body.

Snake, using the water to hide, in addition to using the rocks, continued firing, and using grenades to remove the armor of hornets. And then, there came a time when Snake managed to weaken The Pain.

Snake from the water watched as The Pain tried to stand up.

"The pain..." He murmured. "...the pain... the pain!" He shouted.

Soon The Pain began to fall. It seemed that Snake had defeated him. But just as he touched the ground, a big explosion happened where he was. Yang knew that it was not Snake's act so she did not understand what happened.

"Pain...!"

The Pain's voice was heard for the last time right after he died. Yang did not understand how that was possible, but his voice echoed in that cave.

"These guys ended World War ll...?" Yang asked herself, and didn't knew if Snake asked the same thing.

But for now, the victory belonged to Snake.

— l — l — l —

After the victory of Snake against The Pain, Snake, followed by Yang, continued advancing by the cave, while it was already getting dark. As they walked they noticed something in the sky, it looked like some kind of flying platforms that the Soviets were using to patrol the place.

Even so, when both left the cave to go by the river, they had no problem with those flying platforms that flew over the place, Snake hid, swimming by the river while Yang walked as if nothing.

After advancing, Snake and Yang were in what seemed to be the entrance to some kind of warehouse, there they saw Sokolov, but not only him, but also Ocelot, The Boss, Volgin and a blonde woman. Sokolov refused to be taken elsewhere, but then Volgin began to torture that blond woman, it seemed to be important for Sokolov. Yang could only watch with disgust and hate what Volgin was doing.

Ocelot then began to do his 'juggling act' where he intended to shoot Sokolov using a bullet in one of three revolvers, but was stopped by The Boss, who took the revolver with the bullet and shot to the the guard took Sokolov away.

Since Yang could not be heard or seen, she went a little closer to where The Boss and Volgin were while Ocelot retreated. The Boss informed Volgin that The Pain was dead. Volgin angry began to hit the conreto wall.

"You must eliminate him before the final test." Volgin said to The Boss.

"Don't worry. They'll be able to handle it." The Boss answered. Then they began to hear a creak of wheels.

Yang was surprised to see that when The Boss said "They" she was referring to an old man sleeping in a wheelchair.

"Him...?" Yang could not believe it.

"I'm leaving him to you, The Fear."

Yang almost scared to see that out of nowhere a man appeared behind the old man's wheelchair.

Yang watched as suddenly, he began to run in the water and began to jump, leaving the place, but not before screaming what seemed to be his name.

"FEAR!"

Yang heard while The Fear left.

"The oldman is always sleeping. Is he allright?" Volgin asked.

"The End is saving what life he has left in him for battle. Normally he's dead." The Boss explained. "But he'll wake up when the time is right. And when he does... it would be The End for the boy."

"Haha! Nice one Boss." Yang said with a smile but then she shook her head. "Ugh! Remember that these guys want to kill Snake!" She said a little angry.

— l — l — l —

After that meeting between Volgin and the unit Cobras - And to leave area, Snake moved forward, knocking down the guards and entering the warehouse, there he continued moving forward, up some stairs to go out to a small wooded area with trees. Snake evaded the plots while Yang walked following Snake in the dark, while walking, Yang noticed horroizada that in some traps there were two dead scientists, it could be because they wanted to escape.

Snake and Yang soon arrived at what appeared to be a building guarded by several guards and surrounded by an electric fence. But that was not a problem for Snake. Snake simply put the guards to sleep.

To infiltrate inside the building, Snake put on the scientist's uniform. Yang thought that Snake looked funny and ridiculous, as he still wore his bandana and put on some glasses. The most ridiculous thing was that Snake managed to avoid suspicion. Without problems Snake continued advancing until finishing in an office, where there was an adult man in a blue suit, and it seemed that he was drinking.

This man presented himself as Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin, creator of several weapons for the Soviet Union and head of the Granin Design Bureau. Even though he was literally the owner of the place, he seemed not to bother with Snake's presence. Yang could only think that the people in her 'dream' had strange names that she had never known.

Granin gave an explanation to Snake - and Yang - about who he was, because it made him sound like he was a man of great prestige. Although he also spoke that because of Sokolov now he was having a couple of problems and his investigation became practically useless.

"Look!" Said Granin while he would take a sheet of paper and put it on his desk. "It is a revolutionary mobile nuclear missile system... a bipedal tank." Snake and Yang were curious about what Granin was saying and they approached to see the sheet of paper.

"A bipeal tank?" Snake asked.

"It looks like something made by Atlas." Said Yang.

"Yes, a walking tank. A robot!" Said Granin. "Are you familiar with the theory of the missing link between apes and the humans?"

"Link between apes and humans? No one has ever said that." Said Yang. For that maybe Granin was referring to Faunus? And another thing that she notice is that she has not seen a faunus so far.

"Well, this technology will be the missing link between infantry and artillary. A kind of Metal Gear if you will. And this magnificent Metal Gear will mark a revolutionary step forwards in weapons development.

"Metal Gear..." Said Snake a little surprise for what he heard.

"Metal Gear...?" Yang mumbled those words. She thought it was an interesting term but at the same time strange. But it was a giant robot so she thought it was cool.

Granin continued speaking, saying that he intended to send the documents to his friend in the United States. Yang noticed that he seemed to do it with motives of revenge, or maybe because he was drunk?

Then Granin mentioned something called 'The Philosophers' Legacy.' Snake asked what was that, and Granin explained but it was not much, he only explained that it was a large amount of money that Colonel Volgin inherited illegally after his father got it during the war. But Granin do not explain who these 'Philosophers' were. Then he explained that Sokolov was in the fortress of Groznyj Grad.

Snake was thinking of leaving, but Granin was trying to stop him, saying it was a suicide, but Snake accepted the risks. Finally Granin gave him a key and told Snake where to go. He did it saying that it was in gratitude for the compliment on his shoes, which were given to him by a woman named Tatyana, but it was also because he wanted Sokolov to go to the Kingdom of the United States, at least Yang understood it that way.

After hearing Granin say that he wanted to stay in the Soviet Union and be remembered as a hero, unlike Sokolov, Yang and Snake left.

— l — l — l —

Snake and Yang left the place without problems, it was day and now they were going to the warehouse. Now they were in Graniny Gorki South, through the trees, but as they walked, Yang noticed that Snake seemed to be aware of his surroundings, more than usual.

By the time they both heard a sound of something being shot, even though it was not a firegun, Yang watched as an arrow fell on Snake's leg.

"Snake!" Yang shouted.

Snake almost fell to the ground, and when he noticed that two other arrows were going against him, he rolled on the ground, managing to evade them, while the arrows ended up hitting the ground. Meanwhile, Snake used a tree to cover himself.

Yang looked around to see where these shots came from, but could not see anything. Yang only heard sounds among the trees, as well as laughter that could be described as manic.

Snake barely managed to stand, while pointing forward, and that was when the enemy finally appeared.

It was The Fear.

He appeared in front of Snake, while showing his tongue, which was quite long. Yang could only think that it was disgusting and even scary.

"I am The Fear..." Then he pointed to Snake with his crossbow. "That bolt is coated in the venom of the Brazilian Wandering Spider. Soon a most exquisite pain will engulf your entire body. Your limbs would be paralyzed, your lungs cease to draw death. Eventually your heart will stop beating."

Yang noticed how Snake seemed to have trouble breathing, he could not believe that such a poison could exist. From a spider of something called 'Brazilian'.

"Ah, but what fun would that be? Not a fitting death at all."

Snake tried to stay focused, and prepared to fight, but that arrow did not help at all.

"The Boss' apprentice... i will give you fear such as you've never experienced before." Said The Fear to then turn down, his hands were on the floor and his legs in the air.

"Come to my web."

Then The Fear stood up again, but soon the same began to dislocate his own arms with a simple movement, even coming to listen.

Yang, more than being afraid, she was somewhat disgusted.

"It is time... for you to feel the fear!"

Then he jumped back and started climbing the tree in reverse, as if he were a spider.

"Fuck he is creepy!" Yang shouted.

And so the battle started.

But the first thing Snake did was remove the arrow and attend to his wound and poisoning.

Yang watched the battle, while Snake and The Fear exchanged shots, luckily Snake did not get hurt by any arrow, while, using his M1911, he shot The Fear, who was jumping from tree to tree. After several minutes of combat, the fight reached a point where The Fear seemed that soon he was going to be defeated.

Yang noticed that The Fear was connected to several cables the moment he stayed up.

"The fear!" He said. "The fair! I see it! The fear!"

"Fear...!"

The moment Yang heard The Fear shouted for the last time, and at the moment of the explosion, several arrows flew everywhere, Yang quickly hid behind a tree, just like Snake. There was no trace of The Fear. He was dead.

Even so, Snake called Major Zero to ask why 'do they keep exploding'. Sigint was the one who gave him the explanation, saying it was a microbomb they were carrying, although he did not understand why they were not in enemy territory, to which Snake mentioned that perhaps the only place where they could die was the battlefield, and he asked himself if The Boss would feel the same.

Yang could only think that it was somewhat sad.

Even so, the battle ended, Snake won. Now both had to continue.

— l — l — l —

After defeating The Fear, Snake, followed by Yang, continued advancing towards the path that would take him to the mountains. And as usual he only used stealth to go unnoticed or knock out enemy soldiers.

Although at some point EVA contact Snake to mention that later in the jungle The End was waiting for Snake. To which Yang listened, it seemed that this old man was a legendary sniper, according to EVA.

The call ended with a bad pun from Snake, saying that it would hate to be The End for him. Yang only smiled when she heard that.

— l — l — l —

Minutes later, Snake and Yang arrived to the south of Sokrovenno. Snake moved slowly and cautiously, while Yang just walked like nothing. It was not if not to a certain extent that Snake was completely still, looking around. Yang did the same but did not see anything. She thought that if only she had Ember Celica she would use it to jump to heaven and see around.

"Do you hear me, Snake?" They both heard a voice, slow and quite old, which echoes in the place. "I am The End. I am here to send you to your ultimate fate. You'll make a fine quarry for my final hunt!"

"The old man wants to fight." Yang said. She really was surprised that someone with that age could still fight. And it looked like it would be a sniper fight. Yang just thought it would be something that Ruby would love to see.

Snake quickly hid behind a tree and contacted EVA. EVA mentioned that The End's Semblance (That's how Yang understood it) was that his body was photosynthetic, and that he could 'speak to the forest'. Snake just asked if he was some kind of monster.

Even so, after the call, it was the moment when the fight began. Snake, using the SVD he had captured before, began to move slowly.

Too slowly. In fact, the minutes passed and Yang could swear that almost 40 minutes had passed since the battle had begun. It had been the longest battle to a comparison of the others, which ended in 5 minutes or less. There were times when Snake and The End exchanged shots but the battle remained in camouflage rather than strength.

At the end of the battle, Yang notice that The End each time looked more tired, besides being hurt, to the point where he could not fight anymore and fell to the ground. Snake, this time with his M1911 kept some distance.

"Spirits... of the forest... I thank you...The Boss... would be proud of you... The time has come... for a younger generation to rise... I've been wandering for more than a century... and now my journey comes to a close... what a splendid way... to end it all..."

Yang listened attentively to what The End said, kept a neutral look, even though she noticed how The End's clothes changed color, to a tone similar to that of autumn leaves.

"I have no regrets..." He said as he let his parrot fly. "I can return to the forest at last..."

It was the last thing he said. Yang watched as in a moment, as if it were a slow camera, she saw how his denture went flying, only to then explode completely shortly after, due to the Microbomb.

"End...!"

It was heard for one last time. After the explosion, Yang listened to the sound of the wind, while carrying the leaves of what was once the camouflage of The End. Or even everything, since there were no remains of his body.

Once again Snake defeated one of the cobras. She did not know if there were more left but Yang was sure that Snake could beat them.

Then both continued their way.

— l — l — l —

Snake and Yang advanced until they reached a tunnel, entered and at the back they found a ladder. A long really long ladder Snake was the first to start climbing the ladder but Yang maybe was enoying it.

"I'm still in a dream! Snake Eater!" She said singing. "Just joking." She said with a chuckle.

After climbing the ladder and reaching the top, Snake and Yang advanced, where eventually they reached the mountains.

There Snake kept moving forward, as he put the guards to sleep one by one. Yang followed Snake until they both reached the top, where EVA was supposed to be, they entered and there they saw her.

Althought from the top she only wore her bra. Snake made a sound with his mouth to get her attention. Snake looked at the scars of EVA, which were caused by Volgin, which Yang thought he was looking too much, EVA asked if it was weird but Snake said that he had many scars too, EVA asked if she could see them, to which Snake quickly said no.

EVA gave Snake a key to open the door to the underground tunnel that would take him to Groznyj Grad. She also gave what appeared to be instant noodles, which EVA called the 'food of the future for the space age' Yang did not understand since the instant noodles exist for years. Maybe those are newer.

EVA explained to Snake where Sokolov was, but that to infiltrate he had to steal the clothes of a Major named Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov, but he will need to figure something about the face. And for the escape, EVA said he had WiG ready, Yang did not know what it was but it sounded like it was some kind of airship.

Before Snake left, EVA stopped him, he wanted to know more about the relationship between Snake and The Boss, Yang caught this and wanted to know more about both. Snake said he was like his mother, and his Master. EVA asked if it was his lover, what Yang thought was dumb, now she thought it was silly what she said when Snake moved in with her, Blake, Ruby and Weiss, since it was practically the same thing. Snake said it was deeper than that, that part of him belonged to The Boss, but it wasn't love. Snake said that EVA would not understand. Even Yang did not understand it, and he wondered if it was the same with the real Snake. Even so, EVA asked him if he could kill The Boss, because that's his mission, Snake did not answer anything, but he seemed a little irritated by that question, Yang could only say that EVA was a bitch. Snake said that he was never interested in someone else's life, that The Boss was different, and once again, it seemed that EVA was trying to seduce Snake, but he did not react at all to that. But the moment was interrupted when they heard noises, it sounded like shots but a little more metal.

After that, EVA left on his motorcycle to continue acting in his role as a spy, while Snake took his binoculars to see the place. Unfortunately Yang could not see anything, she thought she saw a silhouette in the distance, a big one, she supposed it was Volgin, hitting what looked like drums, and after Volgin hit a drum and it went flying up, it seemed that a body came out of there, a corpse, Yang was shocked but she could not see who it was exactly, then it seemed that someone else arrived, she supposed it was Ocelot and then The Boss, because of the horse, and then another person that she could not see well.

After spying on them, Snake left, and Yang followed him.

— l — l — l —

Snake and Yang went back the way they came, taking the door that would take them to the tunnel to enter Groznyj Grad. As it was getting dark every time he went down, Snake equipped his torch he had, using it with his left hand while carrying the M1911 in his right hand. Snake moved cautiously around the place, but it was not until he, like Yang, saw a lot of fire coming from across the way. Snake dropped the torch, and quickly took the combat knife and then pointed to the front.

They both heard the footsteps of someone walking, it was not until someone, armed with a flamethrower and equipping a helmet which in front had the letters 'БЕИ' in white. Yang noticed that the letter 'N' was reversed but did not give much importance.

"Another Cobra!" Yang said when she saw him.

That man used his flamethrower upwards, burning everything there was. Yang noticed that the flames seemed more intense, more dangerous, as she watched as several bats fell dead.

"I am The Fury!"

"The Fury..." Yang repeated.

"The flames of my rage will incinerate you! I came back from space."

"From space?" Yang asked a little stunned, she had never heard of someone going into space, it would be the news of the century, not even a rocket could leave Remnant, but then she remembered that it was only a dream.

"As I returned, I had one vision: the world set ablaze. And you know what I saw there?" Then he returned to fire his flamethrower towards the ceiling. "Fury!

The Fury then active what appeared to be some kind of jetpack, which made him possible to fly, or at least be a few meters above the ground.

"A great and terrible fury at being alive! Now, you're going to feel the scorching heat of that horrible blackness!" The Fury declared.

Then the fight started, The Fury flew and fired his flamethrower, what Snake could only do was hide, and shoot The Fury. His flamethrower reached a great distance so it was difficult to make any movement.

With some complications, minutes later, Snake seemed to have weakened The Fury. He could barely walk and he no longer had his flamethrower.

"Boss... this is the end of the Cobras... you've got to live on..."

"So he is the last one." Yang said. Besides The Boss, that means no more Cobras.

"...you're the only one left... I'm off... to join The Sorrow..."

"WHAT THE HELL HE SAID!?" Yand shouted and her eyes widened. From just hearing that name she felt her body tremble.

Her thoughts were interrupted when The Fury began to expel a large amount of fire, as if his own body was a flamethrower. He screamed in pain until he stopped and fell to his knees, then he took off his helmet. And when he did that, all the flames around came back in the direction of his head.

"Behold the flames of fury! The fires of Hell will purge me clean!"

The Fury stopped, and his body was covered in flames, but lightly. And apparently he completely ignored it.

"I can see it! Mission control, do you read me?"

The Fury, ignoring Snake, it seems that he raved, activated his jetpack.

"I'm coming home!"

Then it began to rise, to the point of flying off in the direction of the roof.

"I see the earth...!"

It was the last thing he said, then crashed on the roof. He exploded, and several fragments of the ceiling began to fall, Yang and Snake moved to evade them and prevent them from falling on them.

"He killed himself." Yang said.

Or so she thought, until she, like Snake, saw fire come out of the ceiling, which moved abnormally until she saw that it was coming towards where they were both. To the horror of Yang she observed how the flames formed a human face, even a very demonic cry was heard. Snake and Yang jumped to the sides, letting the flame crash into the wall behind them, exploding.

"The door!" Yang yelled at Snake, and although he did not heard her, luckily he turned around and realized it. Both managed to enter before the second flame managed to finish with Snake.

"Fury...!"

it was the last thing she heard. They both managed to save themselves, but there was something that worried Yang. The Fury said 'The Sorrow'? Or maybe she listened wrongly? Just thinking that made her stomach ache.

"No... I heard wrong... I heard wrong..." She told herself. She relaxed a bit to maintain her composure. Soon after, she felt calmer.

Snake still had a mission and she needed to follow him.

— l — l — l —

Snake and Yang started to climb the ladder. Yang felt tha it was getting cold, even she could see her breath when breathing through her mouth. Both left through a hatch where they saw the place. They were already inside Groznyj Grad.

This time Snake was more careful when moving, being more attentive to every movement and every sound he heard. Snake soon arrived at the Weapons Laboratory, and one more time he put on the scientist's uniform, there he looked for Raikov, who was a man with gray-silver hair, like Headmaster Ozpin's, there Snake took the opportunity to knock him out and take him to the lockers. He took his clothes off and left his unconscious body in one of those lockers.

The problem was the face but Yang was surprised to see that Snake fortunately already had a mask with the same face and hair as Raikov's. So Snake, after having the uniform on and the mask on, walked easily to where Sokolov would be.

When they arrived, they saw the same blond woman as before with Sokolov, but this time it seemed they were talking about something, in addition to Sokolov giving him something. Quickly Yang guessed that it was EVA in disguise. Unfortunately by the door both could not hear what they were talking about, it seemed that EVA wanted to know something but Sokolov resisted or thought he was going to die. Soon after, EVA left.

It was then that Snake and Yang entered, and Sokolov was surprised to see Snake. Unfortunately Sokolov said that Phase 2 was already complete, and explained to Snake what Phase 2 was about, saying that rockets boosters were incorporated into it, the same technology that 'sent Major Gagarin into space', which meant that the Shagohod could achieve a speed of 300 miles (482.803 Km) per hour. And the range of the missile increases from 2500 to 6000 miles, enough to strike anywhere in the United States. Sokolov also said that a prototype was complete, and that Volgin planned to begin a mass production. And deploy them in all the Soviet Union, ship them to Eastern Europe, Asia, countries of the eastern bloc, and use the Shagohod to foment armed uprisings across the third world. And then the world would be at war.

Yang once again did not understand those rare terms such as Cold War, third world or countries, nor places like Eastern Europe or Asia. Nor what Sokolov said that someone named Gagarin came into space. Everything became more and more strange.

Sokolov said that it was too late, but Snake thought that he could still destroy the Shagohod, Sokolov suggested using an explosive called C3 but everything had been stolen by EVA, although Sokolov said his name was Tatyana, besides that he said he gave him the info on the Shagohod. Snake asked if it was his lover, but Sokolov said itwas Volgin's, then showed him a black and white photo of his daughter and wife.

Snake said he should take Sokolov to a safe place, but he said he did not want to leave, that he was tired of creating weapons that in no way benefit humanity when he only wanted to create space rockets, which would always be used by America or Russia to create weapons. That the space race was the same as the arms race. Finally, Sokolov asked Snake to take care of his family.

Yang did not know what to say about it, the terms were confusing but he felt bad for Sokolov. However soon they heard the door open, and they noticed that someone was coming, Yang looked out and noticed that it was Volgin.

Volgin entered and by that time Snake already had the mask again. Volgin asked where he had been, because he was waiting for him in his room. Then he did something that left Yang quite confused and even more so Snake.

"What the fuck?" Yang said at loud.

He put his hand in the crotch of 'Raikov' and Snake took his hand off, but Volgin put it back, and just to touch him there again he noticed that something was wrong.

Volgin took a gun and pointed to Snake, but ended up shooting Sokolov's legs, and then he pointed Snake again, but he reacted quickly and threw him to the ground, snatching the gun, for his bad luck, The Boss arrived and a quick fight started where Snake was subdued and his mask was taken off. Volgin was about to shoot him but The Boss stopped him. Volgin asked what that was what CQC said, that she and Snake created it.

Volgin replied to The Boss, saying that he was going to kill Snake, but that first he would suffer. Unfortunately Yang, whose hair was starting to burn and her eyes were turning red, could only see with anger how Snake was beaten and bleed without him being able to react.

Snake could not take it anymore, and after a final blow to the face, he fell to the ground unconscious.

— l — l — l —

Unfortunately that still did not end, Snake, like Sokolov were taken elsewhere. Yang unfortunately had to follow them. They arrived at what appeared to be a small prison inside Groznyj Grad.

And in an empty room Volgin began to torture Sokolov. Yang could not stand it, and closed her eyes, as she listened as Volgin demanded answers to his questions, EVA - as Tatyana - tried to stop him, but Yang just continued to listen to the blows, Sokolov's cries of pain and Volgin's laugh. But after several blows, nothing was heard, Yang supposed the worst, and Volgin confirmed it. She heard the door open twice, and something being dragged, she guessed that Sokolov's corpse was taken out. It was not until now it seemed that Volgin was going to torture Snake.

Volgin began to ask about who helped him, in addition to 'The Legacy', but only Snake was heard trying to withstand the pain. Yang could not take it anymore and decided to look, although ironically she did not want to see that, nor did she want to have her eyes closed all that time.

Yang saw that Snake had a bag in his head, he did not understand why. Shortly after he saw Volgin throwing water and it seemed that Snake could not breathe. In addition, his body was completely wounded, with blows, bruises and cuts.

Then Volgin started using his body's electricity to shock Snake and hurt him. The torture was brutal, and Yang noticed that not even Ocelot wanted to see. Volgin demanded to know if Snake's goal was The Philosophers' Legacy. Yang, despite being full of anger, just kept her eyes red, because she also felt horrible to see what Snake was going through. She felt sad.

Soon the next person to enter was The Boss. She explained to Volgin that he would never speak, because he was trained for that.

But Volgin was not convinced, and he continued to torture Snake, while he seemed to give a little explanation of what the Legacy was and where it was hidden, it sounded like it was a lot of money. But that did not matter, Volgin continued torturing Snake without stopping.

Or at least that's when something fell to the ground. Volgin picked it up to realize it was a Transmitter. Volgin demanded to know who put it, although The Boss ended by saying that she put it on him. When and how? Yang did not know, maybe the first time they met, since she said it was so that the Cobras could ambush Snake.

Volgin demanded that The Boss show that he was not helping his apprentice. Unfortunately, Volgin had a pretty twisted idea.

"Let's see... cut out his eyes!"

Yang's eyes widened as she heard what Volgin said, as she listened as he said he did not like those blue eyes, calling it a 'touching display'.

Yang watched as The Boss took her knife, she walked to where Snake was and removed that bag from his head, revealing Snake's face, covering him with a lot of blood. Yang watched as Snake's lips and eyes trembled, she did not know if it was because of the torture, or because Snake was afraid. Yang just closed her eyes and clenched her fists, feeling helpless when she could not do anything. Even though she knew it was a dream, a very long one, it did not mean that she wanted to see that.

"Stop!"

Yang heard, and soon after watched what it was. It was Tatyana, or EVA, who stopped The Boss, but this was noticed by Volgin and especially by Ocelot, who began to notice the smell of her perfume, and if that was not enough, Ocelot dared to touch her a breast, just to later receive a slap. Ocelot said he wanted to put it to the test, and how? Using his revolvers.

Ocelot began to juggle the revolvers, while firing, but there was no bullet whatsoever. It was not until he was going to shoot the next Revolver, however, Snake, still tied, he swinged to prevent Ocelot from shooting Tatyana. However, this resulted in Ocelot shooting Snake in the right eye. Snake let out a great cry of pain, as the blood came out of his eye and fell to the ground.

Yang did not scream but she watched in horror as Snake lost his right eye.

Volgin seemed that, although it was not what he expected, he was satisfied, and later he left. Ocelot stayed, to stick something in Snake's back, then he left. The Boss shot Snake in the leg, but then she left him the revolver, to finally say 'Run'. And finally, Tatyana, who pretended to cry, approached Snake to tell him what she had planned to escape.

After that, Snake was taken by the guards to a cell.

Snake was left injured, but he still had his radio, so he contacted Major Zero. He had the SAA that The Boss gave him, without bullets. With a fork nearby, he extracted what Ocelot put him to his back, discovering that it was a Transmitter. Finally, the bullet was removed, but Snake discovered that inside was a fake death pill.

Yang watched everything from outside the cell, the way Snake swallowed that pill and suddenly fell to the floor, as if he were dying. Yang was a little surprised but she knew it was to fool the guard. And the guard when he returned and saw Snake on the floor opened the cell to see him, noticing that he was dead, shortly after the guard left, perhaps to inform that the prisoner had died. But shortly after Snake 'revived' and took that opportunity to escape.

Snake managed to escape and without alerting the guards, he reached the sewer but EVA informed him that Volgin found out that Snake escaped, and because of it the base was on maximum alert. That just means that Snake would have more problems.

Snake moved forward, looking for an exit, while Yang followed him. But the further they went, dogs began to appear. When Snake saw a possible exit he ran, while he was being chased by soldiers and dogs. However, the exit was several meters up from the river, so jumping would be quite dangerous. Snake was surrounded by the soldiers of Volgin, and then Ocelot arrived, who took the bullet that was in the neck and introduced it in his revolver. Ocelot shot, but no bullet came out, Snake, without any other exit, jumped into the river, while Yang watched.

Snake fell into the water, Yang wanted to scream but before he could, in front of her there was a great white shine, which left her unconscious, in the same way she fell into the river.

— l — l — l —

Yang started to wake up, and she noticed that it was day, she seemed to be in the jungle again, she was not in Groznyj Grad anymore. She started to get up, noticing that she was a river sow.

"I'm getting tired of this... when will it end?" Yang complained.

Yang suddenly saw Snake in the river, who was struggling to breathe, as he approached the shore to get out of the river. Yang approached Snake, to see if he was okay. Snake soon contacted Major Zero to warn that he was fine. However, he asked something else.

"Major, was there a man in the Cobra unit called The Sorrow?" Snake asked.

Yang's blood froze and a nerve ran down her back. She heard it perfectly well.

"Yes, I've heard of him. He was an uncanny soldier who fought alongside The Boss." Said Major Zero over the radio.

"What kind of men was he?" Snake asked.

"The Sorrow was a man with, well... special powers. He had ESP, which was the subject of extensive research in the Soviet Union at the time. He was specially gifted as a medium."

"A medium?" Snake and Yang asked.

"Someone who can communicate with the spirit world, and evoke the spirits of the dead. In other words he could talk to ghosts. They say he could find out what was going on in the battle by talking to dead soldiers."

"Talk to... ghosts...?" Yang was surprised as scared.

"... what about him and The Boss... what was the story between them? " Snake asked.

"I don't know the details, why don't we ask Sigint?"

"Yo... I finished checking up on this Sorrow guy a while ago. Thought you guys already knew, though." Said Sigint.

"Knew what? Snake asked.

"That he's dead. He's been dead for two years now."

"He died two years ago...?" Snake asked.

"He's dead...?" Yang could not believe it.

"At Tselinoyarsk... you know those cliffs you were at. And The Boss is the one who did him in."

"The cliffs? That means..." Yang began to remember that when Snake was on the riverbank, she saw a corpse.

Sigint continued explaining how The Sorrow died at the hands of The Boss. In the end she only discovered that he was someone who could talk to the dead.

"So this... is not... a dream...?" Yang asked herself. It could be the reason why she did not recognize anything, the names were strange, there was no mention of the Grimm, she did not know which were the kingdoms of the Soviet Union or the United States of America. But then that just left a question in her head.

"... where am I...?"

— l — l — l —

Yang spent the next hour with Snake, although this time she was confused and even scared. She was concentrating on her thoughts only that, although she saw Snake and EVA together behind the waterfall, she did not pay much attention to them. The only thing she did was ask herself where she was, what kind of world she was, if she would ever return to her reality. And most importantly, where is The Sorrow? She wanted to believe that The Sorrow did not exist but, just thinking of him knew that he was real. Maybe it was someone with a Semblance to make dreams to other people? But Sigint said he could talk to the dead... did she die?

Although the more she thought about The Sorrow, her fear diminished, because in the end she never saw him again. But Yang wondered what The Sorrow wanted. Then she remembered something when she first saw him in that river.

"I'll show you his sorrow..."

"Sorrow..." Yang observed Snake and EVA. EVA began to kiss him at that moment but Snake began to end it, seemed not to feel comfortable. With everything that has happened to Snake, Yang began to understand those words.

"This is... Snake's sorrow...?"

Yang would have no choice but to follow Snake, even if everything ends bad.

— l — l — l —

Snake, now with the eye patch was more like the Snake that Yang knows, only more adult and bearded. Yang followed Snake through the tunnel that would take him back to Groznyj Grad, meanwhile, EVA would continue to act as a spy.

Snake and Yang advanced and came once more to Groznyj Grad, there Snake returned to take the same path to get to where the Shagohod was, however, where the lockers were, Snake found something interesting.

It was a Sneaking suit. A special black infiltration suit made of a special fiber. Yang noticed that it was very similar to the one that The Boss wore but in black, besides that on the shoulder said 'CCCP'.

Snake, now with his new sneaking suit, continued to advance to where the Shagohod was, there, using stealth he began to to place the C3 in the fuel tanks. It did not take long since he put the guards and engineers to sleep.

Unfortunately, Volgin and Ocelot were waiting for him, along with them was an unconscious EVA. In addition, The Boss took Snake by surprise and was able to ambush him. A quick fight started, but Snake once again was defeated by The Boss.

There, Volgin explained how he discovered EVA, and along with it the Philosophers' Legacy, or something like that, since Volgin said it was a Microfilm that contained all the information about the Legacy, but even so that little thing was the Legacy. EVA had tried to kill Volgin but could not, then she was electrocuted by him.

Snake then asked what exactly The Philosophers' Legcy was. Yang was also interested.

Yang listened while Volgin said that after the end of the last 'Great War', the most powerful men of the kingdoms of the United States, the Soviet Union and another kingdom called China - which Yang did not hear before but the name became familiar to her for some reason - had formed a secret pact to create a new world order and ensure victory in the war. But after the end of the war, the three countries, to which Yang did not understand the term 'Country', were going to divide the Legacy among themselves. The great revelation was that Volgin's father was the one in charge of that money, but in the confusion, he managed to divide the money by several banks around the world. Volgin finished his explanation, saying that both he and The Boss wanted a united world after what the Philosophers had caused.

But for Yang Volgin was just a madman who wanted power.

Volgin gave the Microfilm to The Boss, and before leaving she took EVA and took it away. Ocelot wanted to fight with Snake, he even protested against Volgin, but in the end it would be Volgin who would fight. Before starting the fight, Ocelot returned Snake his gun and knife.

Yang was worried because she knew what Volgin was capable of. But he was glad to see that Snake, for very little, was beating Volgin. The Colonel, realizing he was losing, ordered Ocelot to shoot Snake, but Ocelot refused, saying he made a promise to The Boss. Yang did not expect Ocelot to say that since at any moment he tried to kill Snake, and for that reason she thought that perhaps, Ocelot was a bit awesome.

The fight continued, but in the end Volgin was defeated despite having used his electricity Semblance. Snake took this opportunity to escape, only to end up finding EVA on her motorcycle. Unhappily Yang, knowing that she could not chase them running, took a seat behind her, hugging her to keep from falling. Yang looked at the scene, seeing how the hangar exploded and several soldiers tried to escape, others died burned, it was a horrible scene, Yang just looked away. EVA explained to Snake that The Boss was waiting for him in a lake, however, the three looked at the hangar, and saw that the Shagohod was intact, and in it was Volgin piloting it.

Yang, along with Snake and EVA, tried to escape from Volgin, but it did not help the fact that several Soviet soldiers shot at them, and especially Ocelot that also chased them, but in the end they managed to get rid of him, at least briefly. EVA continued to drive, while Snake fired, but this time he used his M1911 to shoot the enemies. To kill them. Although Yang was watching him, she only felt sorry for them, but she understood that Snake did it in self-defense. EVA managed to drive until they reached the airstrip, but they were still chased by several troops on motorcycles and Volgin in the Shagohod.

So they continued until they reached the bridge, where they managed to outwit Volgin, Snake took his SVD and shot the explosives on the bridge, so he eliminated the enemies that were on the bridge, and the Shagohod fell into the water. Or so they believed, because the front part jump through the air, and Volgin was still intact.

Snake and EVA continued to fight Volgin for several minutes, until it seemed they had him pinned down. Then it started to rain, Volgin tried to use the electricity of his body to give power to the monstrous Shagohod. But suddenly a lightning bolt fell on Volgin, setting it on fire, letting the Colonel die burned. Yang looked away a little, since that was a horrible way to die.

Volgin had died, and that monstrous weapon had been destroyed. Snake, EVA and Yang fled from the place into the forest, escaping the patrols of soldiers. However, after escaping from them for several minutes, Snake noticed that they shoot the gas tank, EVA got distracted and they ended up crashing. The motorcycle crashed and exploded, and EVA was severely wounded, a branch pierced her stomach. EVA insisted that Snake should leave her, but Snake would not allow it. Snake said he needed EVA but it was because she had to pilot the WiG. Yang only thought that if she woke up he should punch Snake for being a dense idiot.

Snake and EVA advanced, but Snake took care of EVA, leaving her behind while he fought against the soldiers that were looking for him, until they managed to lose them completely. They advanced until they reached the lake.

However, there was still one last objective for Snake.

— l — l — l —

Yang followed Snake to the field of flowers, but there was no one, it was not until a lot of wind hit them both, so both Yang and Snake covered themselves until there was no more wind, or whatever that was.

"Life's end..."

Yang and Snake listened, and both turned to see behind them. It was The Boss.

"...Isn't it beautiful? It's almost tragic... When life ends, it gives off a final, lingering aroma... Light is but a farewell gift from the darkness to those on their way to die."

Yang thought it sounded a bit poetic, at the same time it sounded sad.

"I've been waiting Snake... for a long time. Waiting for your birth, your growth... and the finality of today..."

"Boss... why are you doing this...?" Snake asked.

"Why? To make the world one again. The world used to be whole. But with the end of the Second World War the Philosphers began to fight amoung themselves, and the world was torn apart. The Cobras, my comrades, who trained and fought alongside me were torn apart as well. The foibles of politics and the march of time can turn friends intl enemies just as easily as the wind changes. Ridiculous, isn't it? Yesterday's ally becomes today's opposition. And this Cold War? Think back... whe I was leading the Cobras, America and Russia were fighting together. Now... consider whether America and Russia will still be enemies in the 21st century."

"21st century...?" Yang asked with a low tone of voice.

"Somehow I doubt it. Enemies change along with the times, the flow of the ages. And we soldiers are forced to play along...I didn't raise you and shape you into the man you are today just so we could face each other in battle. A soldier's skills aren't meant to be used to hurt friends. So then, what is an enemy? Is there such a thing as a absolute, timeless enemy? There is no such thing, and never has been... and the reason is that our enemies are human beings like us. They can only be our enemys in relative terms."

Yang was a little surprised by The Boss' way of thinking. It seemed that she had an appreciation for life, but even so, Yang still felt that the words were sad, she did not understand why.

"The world must be made whole again. The Philosophers must be reunited. I will devote my skills to that purpose. And with the Colonel's money I will achieve that end. Just as I once created the Cobras. They are my family... I may no longer be able to bear children. But I still have a family..."

Yang began to listen carefully to the story that The Boss began to tell, saying that she was in an atomic test in the desert called Nevada, which came from something called 'Spanish' and meant 'covered in snow - white as snow'. Boss mentioned that Snake was a test subject in a place called 'Bikini Atoll, and because of that, The Boss was drawn to Snake, because they were alike. The Boss continued, saying that she was chosen for a project in which a human being would be sent to space, so that surprised Yang. The Boss mentioned that he saw the planet above, but that she realized that the space race was no longer part of the competition between the US and the USSR. The Boss called the planet 'Earth' which she described as a place without east, west or Cold War. The Boss said that she wanted to see a world without capitalism or communism. Yang still did not understood those terms. The Boss continued saying that he participated in an invasion to a place called 'Bahia de Cochinos' in someplace called Cuba. But the exiles were betrayed by the US government and she could only watch.

The Boss continued, saying that two years ago she faced The Sorrow despite the fact that he was her friend, because it was a mission that was commissioned by The Philosophers. She said that The Philosophers, or what was left of them, did not distinguish between good and evil, and only wanted power. The great revelation was that The Boss said that his father was a Philosopher, but that he was later killed by the Philosophers. But perhaps the greatest revelation was that The Boss had a son. The Boss gave birth on the battlefield, and The Sorrow was the father.

This left Yang shocked.

After that, The Boss took off her black cloak and then she opened the top of her suit. Yang's eyes widened.

"Look at this scar... this is proof that I was once a mother. I gave up my body and my child for my country. There is nothing left inside me... nothing at all."

Those words hit Yang, and when she heard the tone of voice with which The Boss spoke, after hearing what she had to pass, she could not help but let out a couple of tears.

"No hatred, not even regret. And yet sometimes at night I can still feel the pain creeping up inside me... slithering throught my body... like a snake... I've never talked this much about myself before. Thanks... thanks for listening to me. "

Yang looked at Snake, who seemed to maintain a slightly sad expression, and there were moments when he kept his eyes closed for more than a second.

"I feel... content." The Boss said... while a couple of tears ran down her cheeks. "Snake..."

Yang saw that The Boss took something that seemed to be a radio, and said something about starting an operation, then she turned to see Snake.

"I raised you... I loved you. I've given you weapons, taught you techniques, endowed you with knowledge. There is nothing more for me to give you. All that's left for you to take is my life... by your own hand. One must die, and one must live. No victoty, no defeat. The survivor would carry on the fight. It is our destiny... The one who survives will inherit the title of Boss. And the one who inherits the title of Boss will face an existence of endless battle."

"Endless battle...?" Yang murmured.

The Boss took his gun, and introduced the magazine. "I'll give you 10 minutes... In 10 minutes MiGs will come and bombe the hell out of this place. If you can beat me in less than 10 minutes, you'll be able to escape in time. Let's make this the greatest 10 minutes of our lives, Jack..."

"Boss...!"

"You're a soldier! Finish your mission! Prove your loyalty!"

Snake then took his M1911 and his knthen

"Face me!" The Boss said.

And with that, Snake's final battle began.

Yang watched the battle, with slight sadness and concern. She watched as Snake and The Boss fought, while they exchanged shots and used CQC, Snake seemed to be losing, because every time he tried to attack The Boss he fell easily. However, Snake soon began to predict her attacks to be able to counterattack.

The battle continued for several minutes, at least 4 long minutes.

And then, the battle came to an end, and the winner was Naked Snake. The Boss had been defeated, she was on the ground. Both Snake and Yang began to approach where she was, The Boss no longer made any attempt to move or get up.

Then she took the Microfilm that she had kept, and in a weak way, she raised her hand to give it to Snake.

"Take this... keep it safe..." The Boss said weakly. Snake took the Microfilm and got close to The Boss. "It's our only hope..."

Then she also gave him something else: Her weapon.

"A Patriot...Why are you giving me this...?" Snake asked.

The Boss placed a hand on Snake's knee. "Jack." She said. "Or should I say... Snake... you're a wonderful man..."

"Kill me... Kill me now... Do it..."

Snake seemed doubtful, but slowly began to get up, while slowly taking The Patriot and began to point to The Boss.

Yang, who watched completely, could not help spilling a couple of tears, having heard her sad story, now she would have an end. A sad ending, and she could see how Snake was doubtful.

"There's only room for one Boss... and one Snake..."

The Boss said... for a last time.

Yang looked at Snake for one last time before she closed her eyes and clenched her fists, knowing that she could not do anything to stop what was going to happen.

Snake, showing a sad expression that he tried to keep calm, waited a few seconds, because he doubted if he should pull the trigger.

But in the end he did it.

*BAAAANG*

He pulled the trigger. Snake finally ended the life of The Boss. It was his mission. And he completed it.

Yang, after a couple of seconds opened her eyes, she saw The Boss briefly, lifeless, and then she looked at Snake, she could see that Snake was sad, and she could swear that she could notice what seemed to be the trace of a tear on his face.

Around them, the white flowers turned red as if they were roses. It was an effect that many would consider beautiful. But for that moment, it was tragic.

For a full minute, Yang watched Snake, he was clenching his fist, in which he held the petalo of one of those flowers. Snake was with his eye closed, and seemed to clench his eye a little. Yang started to wipe out her tears.

Shortly after a white light blinded Yang.

— l — l — l —

Yang opened her eyes, and she looked around. She was in a room. It looked like the living room of some house, the light of the sun came through the window, it seemed that it was morning. Yang took a step but her boot hit something. Yang looked down and saw Snake, he was shirtless on the floor. Yang was a bit surprised but could give an idea of what happened. Or almost, since he still wore pants.

She saw that Snake was waking up, and slowly began to get up. Snake went to a table, where there was a photo of him in black and white, on the back said 'Good Bye' written with lipstick and the mark of a kiss. Yang knew that was from EVA. Also, on the table, there was a round metal object, Yang did not know what it was but Snake took it and put it in some kind of device. Then they both heard EVA's voice.

Like Snake, Yang began to listen to what EVA was saying, and was both surprised and angry about her, after EVA revealed her motives, who she really was and who she worked for.

Unfortunately, that was not all.

— l — l — l —

Yang followed Snake, who was wearing a green military uniform and a beret. Yang maintained a neutral expression as she followed him. Yang began to her EVA's words in her mind, but she did not ask how or why she listened to her.

"Snake, listen to me. She didn't betray the United States. No... far from it. She was a hero who died for her country. She carried out her missiong knowing full well what was going to happen. Self-sacrifice... because that was her duty..."

The wooden doors opened, revealing a room with several people inside. Yang did not recognize anyone but she supposed that some of them, the three who were near the door were Major Zero, Sigint and Para-Medic. Seeing Snake, everyone began to applaud. The people let Snake pass, where he stood in front of a man, President Lyndon B. Johnson, but Yang did not know who he was, only she thought he was someone important.

President Johnson took a medal held by a woman, while Snake took a few steps forward.

"You are above even The Boss... I hereby award you the title of Big Boss." The President said, while placing the medal on Snake's chest.

"Big Boss..." Yang muttered, as she observed everything beside Snake.

Snake did not say anything, he just saluted.

"You are a true patriot." President Johnson offered his hand to Snake for a handshake. Yang noticed how Snake seemed not to want to do it, but in the end he ended up doing it.

The President with Snake posed so that they could take pictures, while the rest applauded. Yang kept watching Snake. She could not help thinking that he was completely devastated emotionally. Yang observed that another man tried to give Snake a handshake, but Snake completely ignored him, as well as Major Zero, who only looked at him for a brief moment.

"The Boss defection was a ruse set up by the US government. It was all a big drama staged by Washington so they could get their hands on The Philosophers' Legacy. And The Boss was the star of the show. They planned it so that they could get the Legacy that Colonel Volgin inherited... And destroy the Shagohod at the same time. Only a legendary hero like The Boss could have earned Volgin's trust. Finding out where the Philosophers Legacy was hidden was to ber her greatest mission. Everything was according to plan...

But then something happend that no one could have predicted. Colonel Volgin fired an American-made nuclear warhead at Sokolov's reasearch facility. Khrushchev demanded that the US government provide proof that it wasn't involved. They couldn't just abor the operation to steal the Legacy. So the operation itself was greatly expanded and revised. The authorities in Washington knew that in order to prove its innocence they'd had to get rid of The Boss... and that one of their own would have to do the job. The public couldn't be allowed to find out about it... not ever. This, they concluded, would be the best way to keep the whole thing under wraps. The Boss wouldn't be allowed to come back alive. And she wouldn't be allowed to kill herself. Her life would be ended by her most beloved disciple... That was the way the government wanted it. That was the mission she was given. And she had no choice but to carry it out... Her death at your hands... it was a duty she had to fulfill. Out of duty she turned her back on her own comrads. A lesser woman would have been by such a burden..."

— l — l — l —

A white light blinded Yang again, and she was in a different place. But she was next to Snake, so she followed him. She soon realized that she was in a cemetery.

"The taint of disgrace will follow her to her grave. Future generations will revile her... in America, as a despicable traitor with no sense of honor... and in Russia as a monster who unleashed a nuclear catastrophe... She will go down in official history as a war criminal. And no one will ever understand her..."

Yang, along with Snake, stopped in one of many gravestones.

"That... was her final mission... And like a true soldier she saw it throught to the end. But I think she wanted you, of all people, to know the truth. She wanted to live on... in your memory..."

Yang watched Snake, who was opening his briefcase, from it he took The Boss' Patriot and placed in front of the gravestone, along with a bouquet of white flowers.

"Not as a soldier... but as a woman. But... she was forbidden to tell you herself. And that's why she told me..."

The only thing Yang could do was listen to those words and look at Snake. Unable to avoid it, even though she was a strong girl, she started to tear a little.

"Snake... history will never know what she did. No one will ever learn the truth."

Then Snake began to stay on his feet.

"Her story... her debiefring... will endure only in your heart."

Yang approached a little, to read what the headstone said.

IN MEMORY OF

A PATRIOT

WHO SAVED

THE WORLD

192X - 1964

"Everything she did... she did for her country. She sacrificed her life and her honor for her native land...

She was a true patriot."

Snake stood on his feet, and saluted, to the grave of his mentor. Yang, who was on Snake's left side, watched how he let a tear out of his eye. And unable to contain herself anymore, Yang began to shed more tears. It was not a full cry, but her eyes were quite teary.

She could only feel sorrow, for both The Boss, who gave everything for the land she loved, and Snake, who was forced to kill the woman he loved, the mother figure she respected, for the selfish interests of politicians.

"Snake..." Yang said while wiping away her tears. She tried to approach, to put a hand on Snake's man. Yang felt that she wanted to tell him that everything would be fine.

But soon she began to feel weak, and Yang fell to the ground.

"You've seen enough... it's time for you to wake up Yang Xiao Long..."

Yang, who was on the ground, recognized that voice. It was The Sorrow's voice. At last that dream... no, that nightmare, was going to end. But she still had many questions. Yang just stretched out her hand, trying to reach Snake.

"Sna... ke..."

Yang muttered for the last time. Until she could not resist anymore. The last thing she saw...

Was darkness.

End of Chapter 13

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(A/N)

Damn, 20,711 words, longest chapter.

I hope you enjoyed it, even though it was just something like "Yang reacts to Metal Gear Solid 3", but I think it was worth the wait. Why? Because it is from this point where Yang and the rest of Team RWBY began to know the truth.

I hope you like it.

■ Why this episode was published 4 Months later? ■

Surely you will ask that. The truth is that I got a job shortly before starting to write the new chapter and for an episode as long as this did not have much time to write it, besides that in this episode almost everything was a "copy and paste" of MGS3, so that the same should not happen for the following ones. Even so, I'm really sorry.

■ Will the rest of Team RWBY see Snake's memories? ■

Yes, this will not be something that only see Yang, I think she was the one for this episode because I wanted to see her reaction to the mother and son relation of Snake and The Boss, since she never knew her mother, while Snake had to kill The Boss. I feel it was quite drama at least from the middle of the chapter to the end.

I will not say who the next character will be, but I think it's pretty obvious who would be. Since it will be about Peace Walker, understand the context in which Peace Walker is, and you'll know who is the next character to see the adventures of Snake.

■ What about the next episode? ■

Spoilers ahead.

To begin with, since the last two episodes totaled 19,000 and 20,000 words, the following ones will try to make short films, minimum between 8,000 and 10,000 words.

And what would it be about? The next one will focus on Weiss and her relationship with Snake, and if you ask, no, she will not began to feel romantic attraction towards Snake, at least not yet. But I feel that I have only made her act like a grumpy and well... so it will be, just a little more. Why? I feel it's fun to put her like that xD

■ Possible new Fanfic on the way? ■

I mentioned this idea before, but I still have the idea of making another Fanfic, although I have not finished this one, but my ideas have been reduced to only one:

Rainbow Six Siege x RWBY.

At first I thought to take another idea, since being honest I would not like to make a Fanfic that few people would read, since there are not many stories of R6 x RWBY. But the same happens with Metal Gear and with a few chapters this Fanfic got a lot of acceptance.

Also, I wanted to make this idea because it would not be the typical "The characters are teleported and / or become young" cliche. It would be a little more complicated, but at the same time simple.

My other Idea was a CoD Modern Warfare x RWBY with the same details.

My only problem is that R6S has MANY characters and the truth would be difficult to put them all, so I thought better to use another video game of military type with fewer characters.

But maybe I'll think about this in detail, and if it's a good idea, in the next few months I would do the first chapter, honestly I've already thought about the name of the Fanfic and how it would be the first episode xD.

But still, is an idea.

■ Looking for a new Cover Art ■

It sounds weird this but I want to change the cover of the Fanfic, the readers from the first chapter know that this is the third cover.

If someone knows an artist that kindly (I mean free xD) would be willing to make a Cover Art for this Fanfic you guys would let me know? Or even if you want to tell an Artist if he can make a Cover Art for a Fanfic I will be greatfull

I think that a story that every time gets more followers deserves a unique Cover Art. But as I say, it's an idea, even so, I read you :)

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Well, here everything ends, as I said, I'm sorry for taking so long.

It's late to say it but I hope that you guys had a happy Christmas and a happy new year.

Take care and I'll see you in the next chapter!