The Road to Outer Heaven

by Frank Hunter

This story explores Solid Snake's effort to join FOXHOUND, his relationships to Big Boss and Gray Fox, and his final field exam in South Africa. It all leads up to his first solo mission: the infiltration of Outer Heaven. Reviews are greatly appreciated.

15. Conclusions

The Road to Outer Heaven
Conclusions
By, Frank Hunter

And that brings The Road to Outer Heaven to its conclusion. We all know what happens next. Gray Fox gets sent to Outer Heaven to investigate, gets captured, and sends back his famous 2 word message. Big Boss sends Solid Snake in to follow up, not expecting him to actually be able to interfere (and probably expecting to take him out of the way as he did Fox) when Snake exceeds all expectations and brings Outer Heaven down. For more details, go play the original Metal Gear.

Now that I've reached the end, there are just a few things I would like to say before I consider the story closed. Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who has reviewed this story, or taken the time to comment me in some other way. This has been going on for over a year and a half now, so The Road to Outer Heaven has a lot of meaning for me. It is my first lengthy, completed work, and I truly respect and appreciate all the critique, advice and opinions I've received since starting out in 2007. Comparing the look of chapter 1 with the look of later chapters like 10 and 13, I feel like my writing has improved some as a result of it. In a way it is very sad that it is finally over. But I digress. Thank you all for getting me to the end.

Secondly, it is true that there was an epilogue planned for The Road to Outer Heaven. It was about 12 pages long, but was lost when I got a new computer, got over-excited and wiped the memory of my old machine. Needless to say, more than a few fragile items got smashed when I realized what I did. I am not particularly inclined to redo the epilogue, but my numbers tell me a lot of people have followed this fic, and if enough of you want it and clamor for it, I'll probably put it out there. I'm a sucker for peer pressure.

Thirdly, with the last chapter of Legend of the White Devil aside, I have no current Metal Gear projects in the works. That's only because I can't come up with a new topic I feel interested in exploring. For those of you that enjoy reading my work, if there is a particular aspect of the Metal Gear timeline that you feel deserves some attention, by all means send it out to me. Just for the record, if I do accept a suggestion, I will give credit to whomever suggested the idea, but anything I publish I will consider my own work.

Lastly, you can follow my other projects from my profile page, accessible from the top of the screen somewhere I'm sure. I keep a short journal in there with information about works in progress. Currently, I'm working on something from the Fallout 3 universe, and if you're interested you can follow me over to that section. I can always use constructive criticism and motivation, and my readers here have shown that they have an abundance of both.

Thanks again to everyone, and I hope you've enjoyed the story. To all writers, keep up the good work. To all readers, I look forward to hearing from you again soon! Peace.

-Frank Hunter