Well, here it is chapter four. I had a break this weekend to write at least half of it and finished it last night. I tried to upload it last night but was acting stupid on me. To those wanting action, I'm sorry but things have to start slow for me to really introduce the characters. I promise that when the actions starts, it will be more than enough for you. I already have alot of ideas and plans in motion with the actions. Now here is the next question, and I want to take a poll on this. Which villians do you want to see over the next few chapters from the Metal Gear Universe? Post it in the review or anywhere else. I have a few ideas but I need to try and stay consistent with alot of things in the story. Well, enough of this, I don't own Metal Gear or Full Metal Panic but I do own Michael. Enjoy.
Kaname and Sousuke followed Michael to his apartment. What was going to be discussed was something not for the faint of heart. The details were something that the two men have tried to forget for a long time.
Kaname looked at Sousuke and saw the same worried, guilt and hurt look in his eyes. She was a little happy with the fact that he wanted to tell her everything but not happy that Michael was telling him not too, 'Does Michael have a higher rank than Michael?' It was a question that she always wondered. Sousuke was a Srgt. so it made her wonder.
Kaname asked, "Michael, I never asked your rank. What is it?"
Michael turned to her with a small smirk, "Master Chief."
Sousuke straighten, stopped and saluted Michael, "Sir!"
He didn't notice than Kaname bumped into his back. She rubbed her noise and smacked him on the back of his head, "Not here, please." She said in a very small but precise tone. Things were already stressful enough without him going all military nut on her.
Michael shook his head as they headed towards his apartment. After a few minutes he unlocked his door.
The inside was a lot better considering the last time he had boxes all. This time the living room was a little more spacious with a desk and computer on the table.
Kaname looked around unconvinced. He was hiding stuff like Soususke. She turned to him, "So where do you keep your guns?"
Sousuke looked around and started to get to work.
After a few minutes he found ten grenades of various sorts ranging from stun to frag grenades. At least two submachine guns which were a Uzi and a Heckler and Koch MP5 rifle that Navy SEALs have been known to use. He also found a M4 assault rifle with a 40mm grenade attachment and finally a simple shotgun.
He looked at Michael, "Is there something else?"
Michael shook his head in disbelief. Sosusuke had indeed not lost his edge. He walked out to the balcony and pulled out a rifle case from the balcony closet. It held a PSG90 assault rifle as Michael explained, "Armor piercing shells that can punch a hole through light to medium armor vehicles. I have other weapons like a stinger and sorts as well."
Sousuke and Kaname looked at him in disbelief.
Kaname put her hand on Michael's shoulder, "And pray tell where is that missile launcher?" She had look in her eye that spoke of death.
"Near the school." He answered.
Michael received a smack from Kaname's fan, "Do not bring that anywhere near the school. Understood?" She had a tone that pointed out no argument would be heard. Michael just nodded nervously. All three of them went inside.
Michael rubbed his head as he closed the balcony door. Sousuke sat down at the table, "What do you carry?"
Kaname sat down playing with her thumbs expecting a whole arsenal to come out just like Sousuke. Nervous enough that he had a missile launcher near the school. She paled wondering what he carried with him.
He took his jacket off and it showed a full body holster with a small combat knife. He pulled out the gun, "A SOCOM KOCH MARK 9 with flashlight and laser attachment. It holds 12 rounds with standard bullets. I always carry at least three clips with me at all times." He sat down at the table as well.
"That's it?" Kaname said a little in disbelief and a little in happiness.
Michael shrugged his shoulders, "Yes why?"
She went on to explain how many weapons Sousuke had with him when she first met him. There was a complete armor in the principles closet.
Michael shook his in wonder, "Wow. I'm impressed."
Sousuke turned to him, "Why thank you sir."
Michael looked at him strangely, "Don't give me that sir crap. I'm still Michael and we are equals. You know that rank means nothing on the battlefield."
Sousuke agreed with him, "I do."
Kaname looked at him with a little concern.
"Besides that how did you fit all those weapons?" Michael asked. There had to be a logical explanation to it.
"Well, first I had to fit the small ones up my-"
Kaname grabbed there heads and rammed them into each other, "Anymore than that you too will be up somewhere very soon. Understand?" She gave a little evil smirk and narrowed her eyes.
Michael and Sousuke stood at once, "Yes ma'am!"
Kaname sighed, 'Two morons in my life. How lucky can a girl get?'
Michael sat down, "So where do we start?" They were not hear to discuss hiding weapons. This was about Ocelot and what kind of person they would be up against.
Sousuke leaned back into his chair, "You go first."
Michael sighed and started to collect his thoughts. The past was something that he tried hard to forget. The people he served with in various forces and agencies had always urged him to try and move on.
Create a new future.
His answer was always, 'How can you create a future if the past and future are still the same.'
He put his hands on the table and started, "I never knew where I was born. It must have been somewhere in Russia before the Afghanistan Invasion. Before I knew it, I was running through courses, fighting kids my age and learning about how to be a Russian solider. 'Duty and Sacrifice to the Motherland' that is what they told us in the school where I was raised. However, I excelled in the classes especially in weapons handling. The school masters considered me a genius in combat. When I was eight years old if I recall, I was sent to continue my studies under GRU."
Kaname looked confused, "GRU?"
Sousuke answered, "GRU was a very effective and brutal intelligence organization that operated outside the normal boundaries of the KGB, the regular Russian Intelligence Organization. They were given free reign from the government in Russia and never interfered with there work. They were loyal and at times brutal in there mission. It consisted of Communist Fanatics and military Hawks. They were crazy in a way but good."
"And Ocelot was part of them?" Kaname asked.
Michael nodded, "Yeah, he was the head of the Ocelot unit of the Spetsnaz. You could say that he was the first person I ever considered to be a father."
Kaname looked surprised but Sousuke remained silent. He obviously knew all this. She snapped back to attention
"I never met a man like him. He was unusual, he wore cowboy clothes and twirled a revolver like it was nothing. He was a big show off with it. The first time I met him he smiled and said, 'Let me show you something.' I didn't know what to expect but he juggled his revolver like it was a ball all through the air. I knew that I would respect this man." He continued, "He was so good in battle with that thing. It was like watching professional at a sport and he was my hero. He never had fear or hesitation in his eyes, if he charged into battle, I would go with him. Wherever he went, I followed him and he respected me for it. He even called me his little brother for sticking with him no matter the combat situation. The unit I was with was proud of me and warmed up to me. I quickly made a family with that unit for my devotion."
The way that he talked was like he was remembering a found memory. It was as if he at a park with his family. He sounded happy.
He sighed and closed his eyes, "That changed when I saw him torture the prisoners." He looked at Kaname, "It was before the war was over and whenever he said that he wanted me to stay I would stay. It was always at night and he said he would have work to do that I was not ready." He tightened his fists, "Then one night he said I was ready. Earlier that day, I saved him and few men from the rebels and I even killed a man at point blank range. He came in and said, 'Now you are truly ready for your final test.' I was so happy, if I complete this test, I would be a full member of the unit and truly be part of this family. It was my dream come true. Until I saw what he did and learned the truth. He was an expert in torture and loved that job."
Kaname's eyes widened and she covered her mouth. Sousuke didn't saw a thing he just kept listening. Kaname didn't know what to say but she still listened.
"He was a sadist. He loved causing pain to people and enjoyed there screams. To him, torture was like sex. He looked at me and handed me a bat. He wanted me to break the arms of a man that they were trying to get information out of him. I couldn't do it and so I ran."
Kaname heard the betrayal and hurt in his voice, "It must have been hard to see that." She could barely understand or feel the emotional damage and trauma that must have happened to him.
"I ran from the unit and was pursued by them. I ran for days dodging and running from them. Trying to live but I had no idea where else to go. Russia would have already banded me as a traitor and the Rebels would kill me on site. The only thing I could do was just wait for death. However, things changed for me. I met up with the rebels and they were going to kill me if it had not been for Kailin." Michael stopped and leaned back into his chair.
Sousuke continued for him, "We were on patrol in the north were we found him. I was not with them but Kailin wanted to go and see where any of the GRU units where. They found him and they recognized the uniform of GRU. The rebels wanted to kill him and if it had not been for Kailin he would have died. They took him in and he didn't know what to think at that time. He didn't talk or anything. It was as if something took his voice."
Michael got up and got a drink from the fridge, "That event traumatized me and I didn't know who to trust. It was Sousuke that helped me. He was around my age and at first I didn't talk but after a while we started to talk a little. I guess we both felt relief that we met someone our age." He smiled a little so did Sousuke and continued, "I spent nearly eight months with them and they soon became my new family. I taught them all of GRU's secrets along with giving detail information about there movements in the area. By that time the Russians were pulling out and victory seemed near."
Kaname saw Michael's face tense. Sousuke looked at Kaname with a intense and fearful look and started, "However, we were captured by Ocelot's unit."
Michael gripped the ends of the island table, "We got lost from our patrol and we were quickly captured by them. When I saw him, I-I- trembled in fear when he said, 'Welcome back little brother'. We heard the stories about him after I left. Things to only show his sadistic nature. To the both of us, it was as if the devil got his hands on us." Michael's arm started to shake.
Sousuke raised hands in hands in fist and rest his chin on it, "We were so scared. We were ten what were we suppose to do? He tortured us without restraint or guilt even though we were children."
Kaname covered her mouth. She felt sick and started to cry a little.
"He would sometimes force us to stick revolvers to our heads and pull the trigger three times and see if the gun would go off. His favorite game was breaking our toes. He would say, 'This little piggy went to the market, this little piggy went home, and this little piggy got broken in halt' and he would shatter our toes." Michael managed to say. The events were overwhelming. These were things that were supposed to be forgotten. The box was to be thrown away in box in the deepest, darkest parts of his mind. But still it was there.
Sousuke tried to regain his composure but remembering those events was enough for him, "We were saved by Kailin when the Russians were force to retreat. We were tortured for four days. But it seemed like months."
Kaname shook her head in disbelief. How could a man this twisted be alive!? How could he torture children and still be alive!? God was not a fair judge on the wicked. And this person was after her! She almost wished that she never knew who this person was.
Michael rested his forehead on the island counter as Sousuke continued, "After that we were never the same. Our innocence was lost after that. We changed to try and survive and avoid that exact thing from happening again. For a long while we had night terrors and would scream at night with those events imprinted into our mind."
Michael took a deep breath and looked at them, "After the invasion was over. Ocelot left Russia we never saw him again until two years ago when I was on a mission with the SAS. I saw him and I still trembled with fear after seeing him. We fought in a gunfight and I barely survived and he let me live for some twisted reason. Still that kind of fear will never leave a person." He said still trying to hide the fear and anger in his voice.
Kaname whipped the tears from her voice and tried to say something. Anything to try and give them comfort to them.
But what could she say?
What could she say right now to them after what she heard? She understood a little better why Sousuke was a little paranoid at some times. If she was tortured by a person like Ocelot she would be a little crazy as well.
"I'm sorry for that to happen to you," She managed to say, "But please you are still alive, be grateful that you got away with your lives."
"Ocelot wanted us to live." Michael stated, "He wanted use to remember everything that happened to us. It would follow us no matter what we do and will haunt us to our graves. Such a thing makes a person unable to truly believe they have a future."
Sousuke looked at Kaname with his eyes pleading for something, but what was it?
Kaname smiled, "So you two are just going to give up on a future? Isn't this just another battlefield for you two?"
Michael raised his eyebrows and Sousuke looked at her.
"You're here, right now trying to do something isn't that not enough. Whatever happened to you must have been horrible but that should not stop you two from living you lives. Live for a better day that is all you can really do."
Sousuke looked away from her unable to say anything.
Michael remained silent in his thoughts.
Kaname sighed, "C'mon Sousuke. We should go since its getting late and we still have school tomorrow.
Michael walked them out and opened the door for them, "Ocelot is good. He always has everything planned out and is not someone to underestimate. He is dangerous. That is what I wanted you to understand."
Kaname looked at him and smiled a little, "I'm scared of him but I know that nothing will happen to me. I trust you too to do the right thing."
Sousuke looked at her in surprise as well as Michael.
"Just fight for what you believe is right and that is enough. Isn't that why you two have been fighting?"
The two couldn't answer that question.
Michael nodded to Sousuke and closed the door.
Michael looked the door and leaned back against it. He ran his hands through his hair as the memories came back to him as fresh as vivid as if they just happened. The screams and crying of a ten year old are something that no one should hear.
Unless there Ocelot.
He heard a beeping sound and it was his CODEC.
He looked at the controller. He paled when he saw the frequency.
141.80.
Michael laughed nervously and answered.
Kaname walked with Sousuke into his apartment. She insisted that she would stay a while and help him study.
She noticed that he was still pale and tense from the conversation. That must have been trauma in his life. Such an event would traumatize any person to the point of being in an institute.
Sousuke put his stuff down and looked at Kaname. He blushed when she saw him looking at her, "Kaname would you like to get started on this?"
Kaname smiled and sat next to him and he started to study with her.
After awhile things started to get back to normal and Sousuke appeared to be normal again.
Well as normal as he could get was what Kaname concluded.
After awhile Sousuke put his pencil down and looked at Kaname, "I'm sorry about keeping this from you. I just didn't want you to worry about Ocelot."
Kaname smiled slyly, "I think you should have been more worried about me finding out that Ocelot don't you think?" She had a hint of a mischievous tone in it. She was trying to relieve the tension in the air.
Sousuke only nodded, "Yea, that event it just never leaves you."
Kaname looked at him as he continued.
"I should just move on without it affecting me but right now it is and I don't know why?" He answered a little frustrated at himself.
"Its because you never really had to deal with it until now." Kaname answered trying to calm him down.
"The sounds of a laughter are still there. Crunching and clicking sounds are always around you. You never know what that man is going to do." He said trying to control himself. His body started to tremble a little as he recalled the memory.
Kaname put her hand on his shoulder, "Let's not talk about it right now okay. We have more important things like you passing. If you fail, you will have me to deal with right."
Sousuke for some reason stopped when Kaname put her hand on his shoulder. The warmth from her hand and the soothing voice helped but his troubles to rest.
For now.
Sousuke without thinking gently touched her hand with his.
The two looked at each other for a moment than they pulled there hands away. They weren't sure how to handle it at that moment. A moment passed with silence and the two got back to work on there studying.
The solider reported everything to Ocelot.
"So, they are going to tell her about me. It makes no difference." He said twirling his 45 colt revolver.
"But sir what if-"
Ocelot silenced him, "You have nothing to worry about. Even if they tell her its only going to create tension. That tension is going to create paranoia which will lead to them making mistakes. By the time they realized the plan, we will have won."
Solider nodded.
"I think its time I paid a visit to them. Just to remind them of old times which should be good." He smirked twirling the revolver at a fast pace than holstering it.
"Sir, our orders were to just watch and report. Direct contact was forbidden." The solider pleaded.
"Those were your orders. Not mine. That silver hair brat tends to think the world revolves around him. Well, if he thinks I will than he has another thing coming." He said dangerously.
"Sir, if you do that we will-"
In an instant Ocelot pulled out his gun and had it against the man's head. The hammer cocked back. The action was so fast and fluid no one could really catch it, "Will do what?"
The solider sweated and did not answer.
Ocelot pulled the revolver back and holstered it, "Remember who you are talking to and remember it well. If you do, I'm sure we will have no further problems in the future."
The solider nodded in agreement.
Ocelot smirked and turned around. He stopped, "Oh and one more thing."
The soldier looked at him.
Ocelot turned and fired. The bullet went right though his head and the solider collapsed in a pool of his own blood.
"I hope that this lesson serves you all well. I think we are in agreement?" Ocelot twirled and holstered it. His message was pointed to the other soldiers.
Now no one would cross him or threaten him at all.
He walked away, "Dispose of the body and continue the observations." The metal spikes on his shows clanked away into the shadows.
Well, here it is the 4th chapter. I have to say that I really enjoyed writing this chapter. The thing I wanted to accomplish in this was to show more about Ocelot's character. From those that have played the games know how much of a sadist he can be. Those that have played, well its pretty sick. One finaly thing I need to say, I'll be leaving this sunday for orlando to spend spring break with my friends. I will get to you the 5th chapter before I leave. That I can promise. I only have one more test this week and I am done with this week so keep you eyes open. Again, review the story and tell me what you think. It really motivates me when people do that. And to those that have reivewed and you know who you are, I thank you again. Till than see you soon.