Metal Slug 6
Mission 4, Fight to the finish (NOT!).
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Background Theme Song: Bridge 256
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Leaving the wreak Chinatown and flying towards US with the copter with the remaining Morden Forces which held Marco and the gang 'hostage', they continue to cross American boarder and towards Alcatraz Island where General Morden is been held inside the high security prison. The grunt provides some information about the situation, even if Marco doesn't want to hear it.
"... so the defenses surrounding the Prison is unexpectedly tighter than we anticipated. We need Morden to lead the attack straight using our latest warship, but the ship can't go anywhere with that Unknown walking about and terrorizing the troops."
"What about those Martians?" Ralf ask.
"They are too afraid to launch an attack, their breathen already been held somewhere in Russia, and Rootmark isn't going to turn his beings into lunch."
"Wait a minute... Rootmark lives?" Marco, Tarma, Eri and Fio said in unison.
"That is what Morden said, Rootmark appears to have a powerful healing capability, not even a direct hit of a ballistic missile can harm it." the grunt said. "That might be the reason why my Flame Shot wouldn't roast its brain, and still kicking." Tarma said when they somehow approach the golden gate bridge, with half of the bridge is missing added with several series of explosion.
"Let's just get to the point. You want us to finish off the Unknown, contact the ship and ran away with Morden?" Marco ask.
"Yes, and don't worry about no weapon thingy, you can have your guns back. You'll need it for attacking those Unknown."
"Yeah, we don't wanna fight them with knifes, bare hands and harsh word against those things," Tarma said before the others turn to Ralf. Ralf shows a few excited joys though, "except for him. His crazy when it comes to melee weapons."
Marco and his gang immediately parachute out from the copter to the cripple bridge. As they descent slowly down, the US armies attack the Unknown immediately flee after having little effect on the beings, as the creature bounds around like a pinball game and roll over vehicles is enough chill to the remaining soldier. As Marco and Tarma touchdown to the ground, they held in a defensive position while waiting for the others to land. Marco take a sneak peek at the Unknown with his binocular, puzzled the fact that this Unknown is attacking the bridge.
"What do you see Marco?" Tarma ask.
Marco scouts around the area. Several damage sectors on the bridge is dangerous, and have high possibility to crash to the ocean. Several Unknown seemed to be patrolling the bridge around; some even brought a new alien like being with four legs and one eye. The flying alien is also visible in Marco's view. He saw some activity just a head, zooms in the binocular and went completely speechless.
"Captain?" Tarma ask.
"Take a good look Tarma, due north-east a bit." Marco said as Fio and the others land safely.
Tarma took the binocular, look at the direction where Marco addressed and he too went speechless, as he speculate the Unknown doing what appears to be a Can Can dance, dancing on the Slug Flyer. He was furious after that. "How dare those things dance the Can Can on top of the Slug Flyer!" Tarma said aloud.
"Fio, remember about the Super Grenade you pack in?" Marco said.
"Yes, why?"
"Get yourself equipped then, we're going to be fighting on this bridge and retrieve that Slug Flyer."
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In the Alcatraz Island, Morden is relaxing inside the prison bed, confident that his remaining troops will aid him when a few series of explosion blow up the prison wall. To Morden, this isn't a good or bad news, and he knew that his troops won't do such reckless effort to just blow the wall up. He got up from his bed and peeked outside. Several guards open fire at something in front of them, but Morden can't make it out since he can't see what it is; the side wall is blocking his view. Several more prison guards arm themselves with weapon range from pistol to rifle ran across the Morden's cell. He quickly ask around.
"What in Earth is going on out there?" he shout at the young guard.
"There is this huge freaking monster outside killing everyone. We need every man available to stop it!"
"Monster? What monster?" Morden said in surprise.
"I have no idea; all we know is that... it ain't the Martian."
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Tarma and Fio open fire wildly and panicking with their Enemy Chaser and Laser Gun at the flying creature, as Ralf and Clark keep on using their special attack to turn the tide, throwing them in mild air or simple punch the crap out of them.. Marco and Eri team up by concentrate fire at the other side, but the wave keep on coming in swarm. The one eye alien took to the battle as well, oozing out blue liquid, which float towards Clark's back unexpectedly. Sensing that his partner in danger, Ralf immediately push Clark aside, forcing Ralf to take the hit. Seeing his partner is down, he use the Super Argentina Backbreaker at the one eye alien in rage, causing the alien to be flung to the sky and never return to Earth. The Unknown assault on the Peregrine Falcon, Sparrows and the Ikari Warriors finally put to the end, As Ralf slowly wake up feeling unwell.
"Ralf, you okay buddy?" Clark asks.
"Like a million bucks, those blue bubbles really stings." Ralf answered.
"You guys really work so hard, I think you better rest for a while." Marco address to Ralf and Clark.
Both Warriors nodded with agreement while Marco and Tarma try to make their plan. "The Alcatraz Island is a few clicks east of our position, we need the jet pack, but only three of us can use it, plus you can provide extra cover for us with the Slug Flyer, of course that wouldn't be a problem to you." Marco said.
"At least those alien stop the Can Can dance, but they are now doing some horrible tap dancing!" the angered Tarma addresses, pointing out the Unknown tap dancing on the Slug, teasing them as well.
"I don't like it... something is up," Eri said, "only a complete moron would actually dance on the Slug or they are confident on killing us." she added.
"Either way, dancing on the Slug is not in the list, I've paid thousands of dollars on these babies for improvement, and dancing on the Slug is not an improvement!" Tarma shout as he blindly ran towards the alien, shocking the rest of the team. "Tarma!"
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On the Island, the prison security system goes haywire and some cell doors open wide, freeing the prisoners, which include Morden. The guards are now shattered the prison area and some cell doors are still remain close as the prisoner yelling to free them. Morden slowly goes into the dark room when a groaning sound echoes the hallway. The Devil Rebirth looked around and came across a wrench pipe and use it as his melee weapon. The moaning and groaning sound grows, revealing the multiple blue guardsmen where possessed by the red small alien known as parasite which attach on the head of the poor guardsman. Morden came in contact on one of these creatures and swing this melee weapon like a bat, and smash the alien aside. He continue to wreak havoc on the rest of the alien, swinging and waving on the alien, not paying any attention on the poor guards with head injuries resulted by Morden's weapon.
"Good thing this wrench pipe is available, I feel like playing Half-life again." Morden said proudly when a loud roar echoed the room, piercing Morden's ears. Morden drop his wrench pipe to close both his ears painfully. Suddenly a long, serpent-like monster smash it's way into the prison, flinging several prisoner helplessly as the monster penetrate the wall. The monster spot Morden who is stun at the sight of the beast, the monster roared aloud and fire what appears to be blue plasma goo at the General. Morden flee with his life which somehow outrun the monsters attack. When he thought the area is secure, the serpent emerges in front of him, frighten the General and pick him up with his mouth.
"Let me go, you overgrown worm, what are you doing!? Don't you know who I am?! I'm Morden! The Devil Rebirth himself!!" He yelled. The serpent careless who is he as the brown serpent takes him for a joy ride.
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Marco, Tarma, Eri and Fio battle their way to the Slug Flyer when a couple more flying alien and parasite swarm around them. Fio pull out her Super Grenade and let loose the titan size cannon at the flying alien without mercy and Eri help her with some grenade at the parasite. Marco and Tarma eventually reach the Slug, which they encounter the red Unknown. Five red alien laugh silly at Marco and Tarma and does a bounding attack which the Peregrine Falcon retaliate with Laser Gun and pistol attack. The attack eventually kill three red alien, but one almost hit Tarma in mere inches when Ralf appear out of nowhere and does his favorite attack, his Vulcan Punch thus killing the alien while the other were send to the sky by Clark, doing his posing with a silly grin on his face.
"That was close, nice one Ralf, I owe ya!" Tarma said, sweating.
"Don't mention it." Ralf respond.
"Aren't you guys suppose to rest?" Marco addressed to Ralf and Clark.
"We know, but we can't have you guys to take the fun away, right?" Clark answered, with Ralf nodded with an agreement.
"But... we kinda short of jet packs and the Slug Flyer is enough for one person, which makes four people." Eri said in disappointment.
"Then ride on my hand..." an alien-like voice echoes all six Elite Regular Armies head. Marco and the gang scan the area; the voice is very familiar to Marco, Tarma, Eri and Fio. Marco looks up, pointing above their head and cried, "Rootmark!"
Without a doubt, Rootmark is indeed alive and well, hovering above the Marco and the gang on the bridge. Marco readies his weapon, just as Tarma, Eri and Fio. Clark and Ralf however terrified by the size of the Martian, at least 30 times larger that the one they kill. Ralf Jones when speechless and Clark Steel could only wonder the marvelous story he could write when this mission is over.
"That is one big hovering, scary looking Martian..." Clark said.
"I don't think we could ever be able to convince the authorities about this." Ralf added.
"Come on, my cameo is just temporally, so make it quick, I'm still wanna get out from this crazy planet, and my breathen is still trap within the Unknown nest." Rootmark addressed.
"You're helping us?" Fio ask
"Of course, we don't want to be extinct yet by you Earthlings and been turn to lunch by the Unknown, so make it quick; I'm missing my Opera Show Telecast already."
"Understood, Ralf, Clark. Can you ride on Rootmark's hand and provide some covering fire for us?" Marco said.
"I don't know, we never ride an alien's hand before..." Ralf said.
"Try battling on his head, beat his brain and blow his god-who-knows-what-might-happen-to-you brain blast." Eri whispers.
"I heard that, insolent Earthlings."
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Background Theme Song: Aim High Chase Fast
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In a few minutes, the Elite Regular Army goes up to the sky, lead by Tarma in the Slug, while the others follow behind with their jet pack strap on their back. Rootmark however carries the two Ikari Warriors and both aren't comfortable with it, but made up after some interesting conversation. "...so we Martians plant those trees known as Happy Nalita, a special tree that make every Martian laugh to death" (Okay, not quite interesting than I expected).
"Wow, that's kinda hard, laugh till one dies," Clark said.
"Not really, it's come in with some amusement later after we alter it and develop our first Martians Pistol."
"You mean those yellow/blue orbs? No wonder I can't stop laughing during the director's cut" Ralf said, remembers the horror during the directors cut scene when Ralf accidentally been hit by the floating orb and were send to the hospital for treatment.
"Yes, and we also develop those Nalita on our flying saucer using that laughing energy."
"I always thought the UFO would sound like a cow-like moan, not a giggling-like sound." Fio said.
Just then, Tarma picked up a massive number on his radar, indicate an enemy in front of them. He radio in to his companion. "Guys, lock and load, missile and pistol ready, here they come!" Immediately, flying alien attack the Elite Regular Army unexpectedly with such force, range from parasite to an unknown spinning machine. Marco ready his pistol and open fire, accompany by Tarma's Vulcan which tears the flying Unknown to shreds. Eri and Fio team up using the newly pick up weapon, BIG Heavy Machine Gun and BIG Laser Gun as it start blazing and zapping, effectively reaping through hordes of UFO like creature. Ralf and Clark, using their telekinetic taught by Rootmark uses it's Vulcan on the gigantic Martian and blaze through horde of parasite moving on the kill. Rootmark support both Ikari Warrior from being harm, lifting and avoid any physical contact on the Unknown. As the Unknown swarm them, Rootmark unleash it's brain blast, effectively killing the Unknown.
"Rootmark, don't do that! I still want my brain!" Ralf said, being too near when the blast accord.
"My apologize, Earthling." Rootmark said when another brain blast erupted yet again, piercing into Clark this time.
"Arrgghh! My brain!" Clark cried. "Dirty and nude images kept popping out from my brain! Make it stop!!" he added.
"Thousand apologize"
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Just a meter away before Alcatraz Island, the Rebellion Army battleship arrive in it's destination as it reload it's cannon and ready for Marco and the gang to arrive. The few grunt on the ship isn't too pleased having the Regular Elite who slaughtered almost the entire Rebellion army on their side, but to save Morden, it will have to do.
"Man, I can't believe we're doing this, why don't we just simple shell the prison, rescue the general and then blast the alien home to kingdom come?" a grunt said.
"Well, there is two things you need to know soldier. One, only the General knows the location and two, shelling the crap on that prison without knowing will most likely kill Morden in the process." another grunt said.
"We're so tired of waiting, I just hope we're still alive after all this is over."
"Speaking of which, does anyone remember seeing that soldier with a shovel in hand?"
"Nope, he was sent to the Counter-Strike world during the last chapter, he should be dead by now."
"We can't have that can we?"
"Why not? He's stupid, imbecile and of all gods he is annoying, no matter how many times we kill him, he still wakes up and said 'chill dude, I'm your friend!'," said the grunt, mimicking the grunt with the shovel (God I miss that guy already)
"I don't have any comment about that" another grunt join in.
"We could use him as a meat shield you know," the previous grunt said, "An internal meat shield, taking bullets for us so that we can live longer." He added.
"Ouch, now we're short of one cool man."
"One thing I don't understand is that... we all looked very identical." one of the grunt said.
"SNK place some high budget on us to animate just to get involve in this famous game and your complaining?" the grunt next to him said.
"No... but I wish we had a name. You know, I hate being called 'Grunt' all the time."
"So do we.." the last grunt answered when the ship suddenly shake violently, a roaring sound erupt followed by a familiar comedy scream.
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Background Theme Song: BioToxic
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"Okay, I see the old, cranky ship dead ahead, this has got to be Morden's remaining battleship," Tarma said using the Slug radio.
"Roger Tarma, preparing to release our jet packs. Ralf, Clark. You can come down from Rootmark's hand now." Marco ordered.
Just as Marco, Eri, Fio, Ralf and Clark touch down on the ship, it suddenly rocks violently, and several frighten rebellion grunt flee with their lives like a chicken, jumping off the ship despite the water temperature is below zero Fahrenheit. Marco and the gang look down below the ship as the rebel soldiers turn to ice cube in matter of seconds.
"God, whoever frightens these grunts must have given them the fright." Tarma said when a long, brown serpent suddenly emerge from the sea and attack Tarma's Slug Flyer with it's blue goo. Tarma bail out from it's attack, releasing a missile and hit at the monsters face. The others were stun at first, but they quickly gain their senses and help Tarma out with Super Grenade, BIG Laser Gun and a few couple of grenade. The Serpent chuckle at the team as it dive down, dragging someone every familiar under it's scale.
"Hey, it's that… Morden?" Fio said
"What is he doing on the monsters scale?" Eri asked.
The serpent emerge again, with Morden pleading for help, "HELP ME!! I'M COLD, I'M HUNGRY, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, I'M COLD! HELP ME!!" Morden cried when the serpent dive into the sea again.
"That's Morden alright."
Immediately, the serpent once again emerge from the sea and zigzagging it's way on the ship and turn at the Regular Elite with it's sharp teeth. Ralf found a good opportunity and does a Vulcan Punch at the monster. Eri and Clark both throw all their grenade stock and which to their pistol, helping Marco. The serpent in time starts to puke out more blue goo at them, as the team try and take shelter from it's attack. The serpent then wrap around the ship tighter, forcing the team to jump on it's scale to avoid been squish. Tarma open up all his missile reserve and fire at the serpent. The alien sea serpent then begin to turn violently, creating a massive wave, effectively knocked Fio and Eri down, followed by Marco, and Clark while Ralf jumped before it hit him. The serpent, satisfied with it's work submerge back to the sea, leaving the wounded team on the ship. Tarma got out from his Slug to help Ralf move them away for a while. Fio suffer a broken ankle, so too Eri. Marco twisted his leg and Clark unconscious due to the bump on his head.
"This isn't good, at this rate, we'll never get to beat that thing," Ralf said.
"Are you saying you're given up?" Tarma answered back. "True soldier never gives up, no matter what kind of enemy you'll face. Isn't that what you military boys do?" he added.
"Then… what should we do?" Ralf said.
"Go melee." Tarma answered back, revealing a secret stash weapon, the Zangetsu Sword. The weapon instantaneous hypnotize Ralf, as Ralf chant on, wanted the weapon. "Look at the pretty weapon Ralf," Tarma said when the serpent emerges from the sea again. Tarma quickly toss the weapon at the serpent yelling "CATCH!"
The weapon present quickly possessed Ralf, he snag the weapon and perform a horrifying melee attack with his odd combo as well. Tarma quickly jump back to the Slug and fire his entire missile. The serpent roar in pain and begin to rotate them, firing blue orb-like attack. The Orb posed slight problem to the mad Ralf, but Tarma's Slug begin to take hit almost at all side. Tarma cursed and swearing words come out from his mouth. Ralf however kept on slicing the creature with the Zangetsu sword, each stroke hurt the serpent more than Tarma could. When the damage Slug Flyer eventually hovering at the same level as the serpents head, Tarma push the red button, which quickly eject him out from the Flyer. The Slug Flyer however goes in for the kill, smashing it's way at the serpent right at the monster's face so hard that the Slug pass through the monsters hard scale and explode a miles later. The Serpent roared in pain as it submerge top the sea with Tarma landed safely on the ship.
"Yeah, that's the way!" Tarma said.
"That's good and all, but what about Morden?" Marco said, seeing the serpent drag Morden into the sea as well.
"Okay… that might be a problem…"
"Make that two, cos here comes Ralf, with the Zangetsu sword in hand!" Marco cried
Tarma caught sight on Ralf, still waving the Zangetsu sword and chasing down Tarma around the ship. "Ralf, snap out of it, it's over!" Tarma begged.
"THERE IS NO RALF, ONLY ZANGETSU!" Ralf chant aloud.
Mission 4 Complete!