So, this chapter enters the life of Snake and his, umm... "enchanted" friends. Oh Noes, I just gave some plot away! Lolz. Ok, so they aren't enchanted in this story, but they are all there and stuff... Sorry it's a Saturday and my brain is a little slow cuz I just got back from fencing. Anyways, so, I've never actually played the metal gear games, so if you are a fan don't get disappointed. Instead I researched like crazy and watched a few clips on youtube for personalities and did a lot of research, as I've said. So, hopefully I don't disappoint anyone. Now, one of the things I noticed in the games were that characters who could be enemies in one game could be your friend in another, so I picked out characters who's personality best fit the character I was looking for and any characters that are friends of Snape in any of the games. So, for instance, Johnny Sasaki was originally a comic relief character who was an enemy but all he ever did was make you laugh because you never challenged him in combat, you just watched clips about him. I'm not sure if he dropped his comic... reliefiness... in MGS4 when he was your ally, but he's Snape's ally in my story and he still is pretty funny and slack offish, as he is portrayed originally. Anyways, that's the kind of thing I'm doing with these characters, and I don't care what game they are from I'm sort of going to combine the games together. Well, that's all I have to say, so if you don't think I did something correctly there's my explanation.
Oh, and for general knowledge, the ROSE epidemic is the corresponding parallel to the rose in Beauty and the Beast, obviously, and the multi-dimensions portal is the corresponding parallel to the magic mirror.
Enjoy!
Oh ya, and I also have to add this in. It's sort of important for you die hard metal gear fans. Well, I was stuck because one website said that Johnny was in love with Meryl and he married her in some epilogue, but another says that Snake and Meryl love each other or something and they supposedly live happily ever after, and I don't know which one is true, and quite frankly I don't care because Meryl is dead to me, lol, she screws up the story. I mean, think about it, we have to choices: A) Meryl loves Snake and the entire story is screwed up royally because Snake is supposed to never have been in love before, or B) We have Meryl love Johnny, which messes up the story AGAIN because, quite frankly, Meryl doesn't seem to be the flirtatious type of character that the feather duster Babette has (oh, right, if I didn't mention it yet Johnny is supposed to be Lumier), whereas Mei Ling does. So, with that said, enjoy my slightly twisted story!
Oh, and one final note, I hope. Rosemary, who plays the part of Mrs. Potts, had a child named John (I.E. Chip). This story shows John as toddler, so everyone is aged by a few years. Ok, that's said, hurray.
Oh, and, reading back on this story (this is the future note again) I realize that this chapter, by far, is my favorite chapter so far.
She felt like a dove gliding just above the water. She was weightless and free. Then, gradually, she felt her molecules begin to combine together once more. She opened her eyes and looked down. Peach was whole once more, and no longer in the tunnel.
Blinking herself out of her stupor caused by the shock of being transported, Peach took a shaky step forward. She gently placed her hand onto her head and focused on driving the dizziness from her mind. As she did so she noticed that the air was thinner and dryer than before, with a slightly stale taste.
Finally, after clearing her mind, Peach looked around at where she had landed. Her stomach dropped. The first thing that she noticed was the dark. She could tell she was in a room of some sort, but it was much too dark and dusty for someone to frequently have occupied it. It wasn't the turn-off-the-lights kind of dark, it was the kind where moonlight crept in through cracks in the ceiling that have never bothered to been repaired, the kind where a deep foreboding feeling touches each person inside the walls. As her eyes began to adjust to the dark, Peach noticed that many items in the room were ripped and torn, not as if they had been abandoned but as if someone had used them as serious anger management stress relievers. She could see busted wardrobes and a large broken mirror. Then she noticed the bed.
Perhaps it was a slight stretch to call it a bed. It was more of a barrack, something that she would imagine a soldier would sleep in, only slightly larger and a little bit grander. It was a cross between a bed and a barrack, a hybrid. Dark curtains served as a canopy around it. She shivered and made a point of ignoring it.
As her eyes traced the forlorn room she spotted clusters of weapons lining the walls. They, along with the bed, did not seem to be dusty, as if they had been moved recently. She realized that someone might be living here in this area, and she ought to be careful.
Maybe it would have been smarter for Peach to turn around and leave, but now that she had discovered this place she couldn't just abandon it. Some investigating had to be done. It would be fun! She decided to examine the... wherever she was, keeping an eye out for anything that could move.
Peach attempted to creep her way to the other side of the room, but somehow she managed to run into a large and empty bookcase. (Why in the world is a bookcase lying in the middle of the room anyway, along with a bunch of other untouched things?) A thump resounded as a frighteningly large amount of dust showered fiercely onto Peach's head. She coughed a few times, then waved her hand around and tried to clear the air of the invisible particles left. When all was clear, she stood and traveled to the other side of the room, making as little noise as possible. She found the large wooden door easily and reached out her hand to open it. With a start she realized that she was still holding the shoes she had taken off in the hallway, and that one of them was missing. In her haste, she must have dropped it. Ah well, no use worrying about it now. Giggling at the turn of events, Peach placed the lone shoe on the ground, planning to pick it up on her way out. That done, she reached for the door, turned the knob, and eased it open.
She peeked her head through the door and shifted her eyes back and forth, looking for any signs of life. She decided it would probably be best to let herself known to what little life there may be in the building rather than try and sneak around, so she called out.
"Hello?" her slightly hushed voice echoed down the long hallways ahead. Gaining a little more courage she called out, slightly louder, "Hellooooo?" Upon hearing no answer back Peach decided that it would be safe to enter the hallway. The door creaked shut, giving her the impression of a haunted manor. A shiver flew down through her body. She attempted to smile the fear away as she took her first few steps into undiscovered grounds, unable to shake the strong feeling that somebody was watching her.
Meanwhile, hidden in a musty corner, two still figures whispered fiercely back and forth between each other with the corner of their lips.
"Do you recognize him? How did he manage to make his way here?"
"How could I possibly know the answer to that?"
"Maybe he lost his way and ended up in this proximity."
"And if we keep quiet, maybe he'll go away. How do we know we can trust him?"
The mysterious stranger called out, "Is someone there?" The two figures froze, wondering if they had been heard.
"Not a word, Johnny Sasaki, not one word."
The stranger once again called out, this time in a pleading tone, "I-I don't mean to intrude, I was looking for my friend. She always peeks her head into odd places, she means no harm. I'd just like to find her and then I'll leave, if that is what you wish."
A tinge of pity traveled through the second figure, named Johnny. "Oh Colonel, have a heart."
Colonel Campbell glared angrily at Johnny. "Shhhh!"
Johnny ignored him and cried out, "No need to fear my co-patriot, you are welcome here!" Colonel slapped his hand on Johnny's mouth and shoved him as flat as possible onto the wall as the stranger, curious and slightly alarmed, yelled out.
"Who said that?"
As Johnny struggled against the Colonel's grip the stranger continued to cry out. "Who's there? Come out where I can see."
Johnny then bit the Colonel's hand, but he merely flinched. Annoyed, Johnny gathered as much saliva as he could and licked it. The Colonel reared back in disgust and Johnny took the opportunity to jump out and yell, "Wassup?"
The stranger spun around to face him, but before he could get a good look something whizzed past his body. Johnny whipped his head to see the Colonel reloading a tranquilizer dart into his shooter, having just barely missed the stranger as he whirled around. Outraged, Johnny grabbed the shooter and pulled it out of the Colonel's grasp before he could knock out this mysterious new guest.
"Oh, I hope you're happy! Now we could all be discovered and killed!" he retorted.
"Wait a minute! I wouldn't kill any of you!" the stranger cried, "I'm sure you guys are good civilians!"
"Why of course we are!" Johnny said.
"Well then what in the Mushroom Kingdom were you trying to hit me with?"
"Oh nothing, just a tranquilizer dart," Johnny answered, "You know, one shot and you are fast asleep. Any more than that and you have a slight risk of dying, though. It wouldn't be nearly as fun to kill someone with that as it would be with my AK-47 assault rifle," he said, taking out a curious looking hand held weapon, and speaking in monotone, as if he was describing a sunny day.
"Really?" the stranger took a step back, "You mean I might have just been... have just been..."
"Astonishing isn't it?" the Colonel interrupted, "and quite lethal! Good bye!"
"Wait! What kind of an item is an 'okay 47 salt rifle?' Does it destroy mushrooms?" the stranger asked, and before Johnny knew what had happened the AK-47 was in the stranger's hands and he was examining it intently.
"Hey! Give that back!" Johnny protested. The stranger handed it back with an apologetic look.
"I'm sorry, it's just that I've never seen a... a... achoo!" the mysterious person sneezed from the thick dust particles. Johnny leaped over to help.
"My gosh, you are filthy! When was the last time you showered? We've got to get you cleaned up!"
"Thank you," was the answer. Johnny began to lead the stranger away. The Colonel chased after them.
"No, no, no, no! What if you-know-who found out? It would be on our heads!"
"So, what is your name?" Johnny asked the stranger, ignoring Colonel.
"It's...Peach. Prince-,"
"Peach? That's a weird code name, all though I guess it's not the worst I've heard, like Naked Snake. Wait a minute, did you just say Prince? Now, that is a strange code name! Prince Peach, how odd! Do you get much respect where you come from?" Before Peach could respond the Colonel cut in front of them.
"Stop. Right. There. Have you any idea what you are suggesting we do? I am not going to be the one to blame if he finds out, and I will hold you full responsibility for this irrational decision!"
"Excuse me," Peach cut in, "but who is this person you keep talking about?"
The Colonel ignored her as Johnny did the same to him, once again guiding Peach along until they reached a large room complete with a fireplace and a large sitting chair right in front of it. Johnny motioned for Peach to sit down in the chair, much to the Colonel's distress.
"No no no! We have gone far enough! I am in charge here and-" but he was cut short as someone came striding in with a high sing-song voice.
"Ooh-la-la! What have we here? I don't believe we've met before! My name is Mei Ling!" A hyper and very cute looking girl in her twenties held out a hand to shake with Peach, her back straight and her other hand behind her back. Peach shook it with a smile.
"Mei Ling! Mei Ling! You won't believe what I found!" Johnny cried with enthusiasm.
"So, where is it you come from, may I ask?" Mei Ling asked, ignoring the other man. Peach opened her mouth, but before she got a chance to answer Johnny cut in.
"Mei Ling, you are always trying to make me jealous! Well, it's not going to work, not this time."
Mei Ling pouted her lip and turned around. "Me?! What about you, and Eva?"
"Otacon?"
"Rose?"
"McDonnal Miller?"
Mei Ling then crossed her arms and, swaying her hips in fury, asked with a voice full of spite, "Meryl?"
Johnny leaned forward in protest, but then stopped, thought about it, and agreed with a playful grin, saying, "Meryl."
"Excuse me, coming through," a new person pardoned in a quiet, youthful voice and holding a pot full of what smelled like tea. Placing herself in front of Peach she asked, "Why, hello there. Would you like some tea? You sound worn out and weary. This will help cheer you up."
"No tea! NO TEA!"
"Thank you very much," responded Peach as she eagerly took the offered cup. As she raised it to her lips, she noticed something in her peripheral vision. She stopped dead in her tracks and turned to confirm her suspicions.
"I think I scared the stranger momma," said a little toddler, clinging to the young woman's leg. She reached down and patted his head.
"Oh my, a child, in this place?" Peach asked, then she realized that perhaps in this dimension places like this are common, and that her remark might be taken as rude. "I-," she stopped and decided to let the subject drop. Putting on a smile and adding a hint of childhood into her voice, she asked, "Now, what might your name be?"
"Jack," responded the boy, placing a finger in his mouth. He reflected her smile faintly, then buried his head into the woman's leg.
Any compassion was driven out of the room and replaced by fear as the loud bang of a door slamming shut shoved its way uninvited into everyone's ears. Deathly silence screamed at Peach as all of her new found friends grew stiff and rigid. At once frantic movement surrounded her as they hurried in a frenzy to find their way out. Desperately Peach whipped her head in every which way direction in order to locate the source of the deafening noise from before, but it was much too dark to see anything.
A growl of frustration silenced all of the fearful muttering. "Stranger..." growled a deep and menacing voice that echoed ten times louder than any other sound. The woman clamped her hands over little John's ears and hid him behind her. Mei Ling had disappeared.
"Uh-h-h-h...Snake, if you'll just allow me to explain, t-t-this poor boy was lost and filthy and so we decided to help and-" Johnny was cut short at the resounding noise of two clicks. Peach, having no experience or education towards weaponry, did not recognize the sound of a gun being cocked and wondered why Johnny was silenced. She strained her eyes in the direction he was looking, wondering how he could be certain who anyone was in this darkness.
Colonel looked furiously at both Johnny and the silhouetted figure. "Now Snake, there's no need to get violent, I'm taking care of this dimwit myself. I'm sure that a few loads of dishes might serve to fix his absur-"
"Has ANYONE even bothered to empty this unknown figure of his belongings?"
Colonel shut his mouth, realizing that the very thought had never occurred to him.
"Idiots," the man Peach presumed to be Snake muttered. The sound of footsteps and the sudden appearance of a tall and imposing silhouette took its effect on Peach, and she felt every tiny pinprick sized hair on her body raise itself. She looked up and gasped at what she saw. There, in front of her, was a well built man, but his body was absolutely mutating before her very eyes! At first glance, he appeared to be in his early fifties, but as she watched she could see deep age lines gradually form across his skin, and she could have sworn that his hair was getting grayer and grayer at a rapid pace. The longer she stared the more horrifying he got. He seemed to have noticed her shocked expression for he asked in a rough voice, "Got a problem?"
Peach, barely managing to speak, answered, "N-no... no."
Colonel spoke up, "Snake, stop harassing him. You need to take your dosage. I'm sure we can take care of him."
Snake, who's eyes had widened slightly when Peach had spoken up, ignored him. She distinctively heard a gasp, followed by, "A girl."
Colonel and Johnny both simultaneously gasped themselves after hearing Snake, and they looked at each other in shock. "She's a girl?"
Snake whipped around and shoved his face into theirs. "Of course she's a girl! Why else would she sound like that?" The young woman holding Jack held a look that read you didn't know that? Clearly the look was for the Colonel and Johnny.
Peach sniffed. Of course her voice should have given the fact that she was a girl away, but shouldn't they have known that anyway by the way she looked? Peach glanced down and suddenly remembered bumping into the empty bookcase and being covered in dust. There must have been a thicker coat there than she had originally imagined.
Johnny shrugged, trying to hide his fear, "I thought he was going through puberty..." At that Snake breathed angrily into Johnny's face, then turned to face Peach. His mutating figure caused Peach to once again recoil.
"Empty your pockets," demanded the man. Peach, in fear, did nothing. "EMPTY YOUR POCKETS!" he yelled, pointing one of those dangerous weapons at her. Frantically, in realization that the weapon must be dangerous indeed, she reached into every hidden pocket that her dress concealed, pulling out her pink wallet with a mushroom symbol on front, a letter, and a locket. All the rest of her pockets were empty, as she demonstrated by turning them all inside out. Snake snatched the three items to examine them. As he opened her wallet a ton of pictures cascaded their way downward. Snake's eyed them for a moment and Peach felt herself blushing as she faintly examined all of the photos with her and her beloved being displayed. Snake froze, then sculpted his face into a mask as he jabbed in every corner of the wallet, as if searching for any secret weaponry. He violently shoved it aside, then grabbed the letter and read the first few lines. Peach blushed. It was a letter that she had written to Mario once inviting him to her castle so that they could bake a cake together, and she had written a copy and kept it with her wherever she went. The memory of that day almost made her laugh, but then she remembered where she was. Finally, Snake grabbed the locket. She heard him grunt once, then open it to see her on one side and Mario on the other. A few moments of silence followed. Suddenly he threw the objects at Peach. He stood and said in a softer voice, "Lock her up." A few protests followed, to which Snake responded by snarling, "LOCK HER UP!"
Peach gulped as her new found friends unwillingly prepared to lead her to the jail cells. She sighed as she was captured once again by people who have apparently never heard of her.
Soooo... like this chapter? I'm hoping that you Metal Gear fans won't be disappointed or anything by it. I tried the best I could, and I can only go forward from here, so if you don't like it you can review on it. I take criticism well, I think, and I'd like some feedback.
Of course, I'm sure that my active readers are just excited that I managed to write two chapters in one day. Well, we've finally gotten a little bit into Snake's life and his part of the story, so now we return to Daisy. Oh, and if you are a serious Beauty and the Beast fan and you are wondering why Mei Ling, playing the role of the feather duster, appears in this scene, it's because she appears in the Broadway version. So, pretty much anytime after this she appears it's most likely because this is where she appears in the Broadway version. She's not that active of a character in the movie.
w00t w00t two chapters!