Author's Note:

Hey folks, Highwayman Myth here. Ever since my girlfriend AngelEyes87 started this fic (which was before our relationship) I wanted to kill off Rothion in a way that no one else could think of. Well… I did it in a way that no one would even dare think of, by having Solid Snake do the honors. I'm a Metal Gear fan as well as a Soul Calibur fan. So I was bound to cross the boundaries and kill off Rothion in this way. The Metal Gear that I threw Rothion in is no particular model. But the radome feature does seem to make it more towards Metal Gear Rex. Anywho, enjoy and review.

Disclaimer: I ain't the owner of Metal Gear or Soul Calibur. Metal Gear is owned by Kojima Productions, which is a division of Konami. Soul Calibur is owned by Project Soul, which is a division of NamcoBandai Games.

Death by Solid Snake

By Highwayman Myth

One day Rothion was praying to the gods to help him either forge or acquire the ultimate weapon. But he was hoping for something that wasn't Soul Edge. He was hoping with this ultimate weapon he could defeat the Azure Knight once and for all so his beautiful wife Sophitia didn't have to be away. But she left for the sake of their children this time.

It pained him to have his wife away. She was one of the most beautiful women in Athens. But that damned sword is what's driving her away from him. He didn't marry her so he could have an empty spot next to him in the bed for crying out loud. No, he married her so his bed wouldn't be the loneliest place in the world. He loved her, cherished her, and even had two beautiful children with her. They dreamed after her second quest that they'd live a normal life and raise their children.

But it was that sword's fault. As long as it existed, she'd have to fight it. And as long as she had to fight against the sword, he'd have to watch the kids and not get laid after they went to sleep. A guy could only masturbate for so long. He needed her, or else he'd have the hairiest palm in all of Greece. Therefore he'd need a weapon to defeat both Soul Edge and Nightmare.

After the gods have been silent for so long, he heard footsteps. He turned around to see a man who diffidently wasn't Greek. His attire consisted of a duster, spurs, two gun belts (one hanging from his right shoulder diagonal to his left side), the traditional garb of gunslingers in spaghetti westerns, as well as a black armband on his left arm. In the visible holster was a Colt Single Action Army revolver. Of course, Rothion didn't know what a spaghetti western or what a revolver was. Or even why this man was here.

"Who are you?" Rothion asked.

"Just a comrade," the man answered.

"What's your name, comrade?" the blacksmith now asked.

"They call me Shalashaska, but I'm also known as Revolver Ocelot."

"What do you want with me?"

"To give you the ultimate weapon," Ocelot, answered.

"Did the gods send you?" he asked.

"No"

"Then who?" Rothion now questioned.

"The Patriots," Ocelot replied.

Whoever these 'Patriots' were, they were convincing. The words "ultimate" and "weapon" had caught Rothion hook, line, and sinker. With whatever this weapon is; he could have his wife back and give his hand a rest. This made him smile evilly. He followed Ocelot outside to see a contraption as big as the Colossus. As he was gazing at it with awe, Ocelot injected him with a needle.

"What was that?" Rothion asked.

"I've just injected you with nanomachines. They will give you the ability to operate this Metal Gear by instinct. This way you won't have to learn how to use it."

Rothion didn't know what nanomachines were, but he did know that Ocelot wouldn't double-cross him… yet. He climbed in the machine and started to operate it. Even though he never used something like this ever in his life, he operated like he had been doing it for years.

"Whatever that stuff from that needle is, it must be magic," he thought.

Right as he got it moving, the Colossus appeared in the shrine. Rothion knew what to do without even thinking about it. He fired an anti-tank missile from the Metal Gear to the Colossus' chest. At impact the Colossus exploded and pieces of it where everywhere. This was proof that the Metal Gear was indeed the ultimate weapon. Rothion's next target was Nightmare and Soul Edge. But there was one problem; he didn't know where to look.

"Ocelot, this Metal Gear thingy is cool and all, but how do I locate Nightmare?"

"This particular Metal Gear has a Soul Edge energy sensor. It should help you find the Azure Knight!" Ocelot replied.

"Thanks!" Rothion said as he went searching for Nightmare.

When Rothion found the Azure Knight, he just finished off an army. Swords and firearms of the current age were futile against Nightmare. But Rothion had a weapon from the future. And this weapon brought down the mighty Colossus. Therefore, one knight with the cursed sword would be no problem. When Rothion got the Metal gear in range, he fired the Vulcan Machine Guns.

"What the fuck!" Nightmare yelled as he was caught in a hail of gunfire.

When Rothion stopped, Nightmare was still stunned by the shock of the bullets. Such a weapon had never attacked the Azure Knight. Nor did he have to fight something as big as a Metal Gear before. For once in the embodiment of Soul Edge's life, he wasn't sure. Even back when it used Siegfried as a host did it ever fight such a true monstrosity. But here it was, the cursed sword's ultimate opponent. The thing that would take away Soul Edge's title of the ultimate weapon in the future, Metal Gear.

Rothion didn't even give Nightmare half a chance. He fired a missile at the Azure Knight. The next thing you knew, pieces of scorched and heavily damaged armor were everywhere. All that was left was the sword itself. Rothion then used the massive bipedal tank and stomped on Soul Edge until it was no more. He had done it, the one thing his wife had been trying for years. He destroyed the blade that Hephaestus hated because he wasn't the one to forge it. Rothion had destroyed Soul Edge.

His victory was short lived however. A man with a mullet wearing a navy blue bandana was walking his way with a RPG-7. Rothion didn't know who the man was or what was the thing he had. But he did get a call on the Metal Gear's radio. The caller was Ocelot.

"Have you destroyed Soul Edge?" the Russian gunslinger asked.

"Yeah, but there is some man with a mullet wearing a navy blue bandana heading my way," the Greek blacksmith replied.

"Figures, that man is Solid Snake. He's been known for destroying Metal Gears."

"WHAT! You mean to tell me that there is a guy who can destroy this thing is heading my way?" Rothion panicked.

"Yes, but if you kill him now… you won't have anything to worry about," were Ocelot's last words to him.

Before Rothion could get a decent aim, a young handsome man with long blond hair destroyed the radome with his sword. Sorry fan girls, the man wasn't Siegfried. This blond was Raiden, the protagonist from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

Since the radome was damaged, Rothion had to open the cockpit to see his two opponents. But as soon as he opened the cockpit, Snake fired the RPG-7. Without the armored protection of the closed cockpit, this was bad. The rocket hit and the Metal Gear exploded, killing Rothion in the process. Rothion achieved his goal of destroying Soul Edge so he could have his wife back, but didn't even get to have sex with her in celebration. Talk about an ironic death.

"Hey Snake, why did Ocelot do all this just to kill Rothion?" Raiden asked.

"I have no idea Raiden, but I do know what this means," Snake said with a grin.

"What Snake?" Raiden now asked.

Snake looked at him and said, "This means Sophitia's single."

Before Snake knew it, Raiden was running to get to Sophitia first. So he grabbed his Socom pistol and said, "Oh no you don't pretty boy."

AE87: Hehe, that was awesome! It sounds like Rothion is suffering from sexual frustration then, poor thing...Ah well, I loved it when he managed to destroy Nightmare along with the sword xD Oh, and I'll be doing the next chapter and it involves Talim and her tonfas :)