9

Heliport 1 on the west side was still under tight security. Armed guards still lined the walls, and snipers were positioned on the rooftop. Crates of cargo were being loaded onto UH-60 transport choppers.

"Finish this up, and then move down to the oversized docks. We have to be ready to transport it ASAP! It's no longer safe here!" Heavy footsteps clunked on the ground. "Satora, I want you to go down there now. The area needs to be secure, and I don'tfeel like cleaning anything up." He whistled to the snipers. "Keep the area secure until those choppers are out of sight!"

Satora nodded, but froze in the elevator doorway. "Scyth, what about the traitorous brothers? And the woman... What are we gonna do about her?" She turned around. "What about REX and RAY? Are we just going to leave them here, along with three quarters of our men?"

"Yes!" He was shouting, loading a crate onto one of the five remaining choppers. "This is our duty! NOW GO!"

"Yes sir." The elevator doors closed and it began to descend to the lower levels.

Scyth had loaded another two crates onto a chopper, signaling it to take off and head for SIN's new destination. Calling over another soldier, he signaled the next transport to land. "Leiutenant, what's the situation on Heliports 2 and 3?"

"Sir." The soldeir saluted. "Heliport 3 just finished loaded the second transport, and reports state that Heliport has one more to go. Sir, permission to speak freely?"

"Granted." Scyth raised an eyebrow, curious about what the former Marine would ask. If it was an impudent question, he would shoot the soldier between the eyes.

"Sir, I know it isn't my placce, but where is all of this being taken?" His weapon was lowered completely. "Why are we transporting all of this cargo off of Shadow Moses?"

Scyth's Glock 35 was aimed at the soldier's forehead. "Pity. Some questions truly are better left unanswered, better yet, unasked. Learn to watch what you ask." He lowered his handgun. "Be thankful that you're just valuable enough that I don't have to kill you. That information is classified. But don't worry, you won't have to travel into Canada." He spun around and looked into the sky. Three helicopters were in the sky, meaning that there was only one left. "Soldier, I want you and a few men you think I can trust to get down to the docks. Meet with Satora and follow her orders from there on. Understood?"

"Sir!" He ran off taking three men with him into the elevator and down to the docks.

The hallways on the B3 floor were dim, the lights giving off a soft light and making it so that both Rayne and Soren could only see ten feet infront of themselves. Walking down the corridor, they passed by two doors, both on the left. At the end of the hall, they entered into the cargo bay. Large steel crates, labled 'CG-279' filled the room, lining the north and east wall.

"Guess this is the cargo bay, huh? Well, which way do we go from here?" Soren looked around, noticing one small indent in one of the walls. "Rayne... Look at this."

She ran next to him, staring at the indent. Running her fingers over it, Rayne noticed something glimmering on the floor right next to one of the crates. Crouching down to pick it up, something else caught her eye. "9mm parabelum... blood splatter...hm."

There was a metallic echo filling the room. Soren had kicked one of the crates. "What do you think is in these things?"

Standing, she clenched the bullet casing in her hand. "I don't know, and I don't think we want to find out. Let's get going. Snake and Raiden are waiting for us, and I'm starting to get strange vibes from those crates." Exiting throught the only other visible door, they came across seven armed soldiers. "I take out four, you take out three." She whispered, drawing her pistol. Soren did the same. They dropped dead, one after the other. Rayne holstered her pistol, continuing down the hall with Soren following.

"I thought that they cleared the area?" Soren reloaded his pistol. "I'm starting to run low on ammo. What about you?"

Rayne pressed forward, taking a quick look down the hall. "Yeah..." She checked over the dead bodies, looking for ammon that she could use. Turning back to Soren, she tossed him three clips. "G-18, right?"

He nodded. "Thanks."

Continuing on their way to the B3 Control Room, they turned left, hearing more and more footsteps as they go closer. Within seven seconds, five shells were fired from a shotgun. Wether they were aimed at the two philanthropists, they didn't know. Up ahead, after making a right turn down the hall, a door slid open and three shots were fire by Snake. "GET DOWN!!!" He fired five more rounds, killing three men and a woman. "It's about time both of you showed up!" He lowered his gun, and both Soren and Rayne turned around to see the dead soldiers.

"So they were following us..." She turned back to Snake. "At least the two of you didn't leave..." Walking inside the Control Room, she looked at each of the six monitors. "There was nobody here when you guys entered? Hm..."

"No, why?" Raiden was becoming suspicious of Rayne... He felt that there was something she was hiding from them. "Well, what now?"

Rayne sat at one of the keyboards. She pressed a few keys on the keyboard and started an application. "I'm in... From here, I can see everything that's going on in the basement levels." She scoffed. "Too easy." Swivling around in her chair, she looked at each of the three men. "I guess it's just us now, isn't it? Well, I guess we better get started on this... Raiden, Snake, Soren, the three of you need to clear this level of any enemy personel, as well as find an A-level security card. We'll need it if we want to get to the B4 level..." She turned around again, not wasting a second of her time to get the cameras online. "There."

"Are you sure? Shouldn't one of us stay here?" Raiden was concerned about her safety, and it seemed that he was the only one.

"You don't think that I can look after myself?" She was typing in some kind of code. "Just go. I'll be fine." Snake and Soren exited the room without any hesitation whatsoever, while Raiden lagged. "I said go!" Once she yelled at him, he left, worried and suspicious at the same time. He was beginning to think that she was a former member of their enemies.

Raiden left her alone, curious. Rayne, who was alone inside the Control Room, was trying to bring the security cameras on both the B3 and B4 levels back online. She was starting to think that a separate power source might be what supplied power to the lowest levels. That changed in a matter of minutes. "Well, that solves that problem... Maybe I can find something out about SIN while I'm here..." She typed in keywords that referred to the newest Metal Gear, getting no results. The next thing that she typed was nuclear. Seven results popped up. "SIN: DNA verification and structure? What could that be...?" Rayne clicked on it, and the file opened. "Oh my god..." She whispered, shocked by what had been documented. Behind her, on the east side of the room, a door opened and a man walked in. "I though I told you to go, Raiden. I can handle things here."

A gun, a small USP, was being held to her head. "Sorry, but I think you have the wrong guy."

Rayne growled. "Damon... What the hell are you doing...?"

"My job. You remember how Dr.Emmerich was the head of the REX project? Well, SIN is my creation. You and the rest of Philanthropy have been nosing around for too long." He pressed the gun against her head harder. "You and the Snakes are the key, the key to its unstoppable power." He looked at the monitors. "Oh, it looks like you've found out about the DNA interface verification. Do you like it? It was my creation."

"So did betray me... That's why you got me out here, wasn't it?" She was helpless. "After this... We were going to get married..." She sighed, and the gun was no longer being forced to her head. "Back in high school, we had crushes on each other... Once we graduated, we got engaged, but we went our separate ways..." She laughed, remembering when they had met with each other for the first time after their high school graduation. "I chose the military, you chose university... Then we met with each other again when you were my contact for a mission that I had in Cuba..." Rayne's eyes closed, and she inhaled and exhaled deeply. "Our relationship was nothing but a phase. I knew it would come to something like this... That's why I pawned the ring almost six months ago. Got a good amount for it, too."

Damon lowered the gun, and then raised it. "You filthy little whore... You don't matter anymore!" He coughed. "All I need is Snake's DNA, and then SIN will be fully functional. Nothing will be able to stop it then!"

"So you do need the Les Enfants Terrible... That was why you got close to me...Hm. I have no regrets. Go ahead, kill me, because as far as I'm concerned, I shouldn't even exist."

Just as he was about to pull the trigger, the other door slammed open, and a crossbow bolt was sticking out of Damon's neck, which was now on the floor with the rest of his body. "Are you still sure that you'll be okay?"

"Soren..." She thanked him, and then turned back to the monitor.

141.63 to 141.80 and 141.27

"You won't beleive what I found about Metal Gear SIN."

"Are you okay? Want me to come back there?"

"I'm here with her. She's fine." Soren butted in, but that was all he said. Both Snake and Raiden grunted.

"What did you find?"

"SIN... It's been completed. It's equipped with a railgun system, a vulcan, a death ray as it's called, a 50-plus targeting system, an electronic disruptor, a stealth camo, underwater capability, quad and bi-pedal capability, and what Damon declared as the coup d'etats, a DNA interface verification system... With Big Boss, Liquid and Solidus' genetic codes encrypted in it, along with mine. All they need is your DNA, and then it'll be fully functional... We're out of time..."

"What do you mean by DNA interface?" Snake's voice wasn't as calm as it usually was.

"I wasn't able to get that info out of him. However, I did manage to dig up some files."

"How?"

"I was digging around. After I restored power to the B4 level, I decided to do some snooping, and I found this. Moments after that, Damon walks in and puts a gun to my head, explaining a bit about it. Anyways, about the interface... SIN can't operate without it. It needs the genetic codes of Big Boss and his clones to be fully operational. Without them, its nothing more than a useless peice of junk."

"They still need my DNA?"

"I guess."

"Why?" He paused to think for a moment. "My DNA is basically the same as Liquid's and Big Boss'... Why would they still need mine...?"

"I don't know. Just be careful, both of you. Something tells me that things aren't going to go as planned. Rayne out."

- codec off -

Heliport one was now clear, and a chopper landed moments later. It was a small Blackhawk chopper, with only one passenger on board. Scyth was there, watching... waiting. A man with spiky black and red hair and gray eyes stepped off. He was wearing a silverish-white shirt, blue baggy jeans, and since it was cold in Alaska, he was also wearing a heavy black jacket.

"Hollis Park." The man was holding out his hand. He had either a British accent, or an Australian accent, and it was very noticable. On his back was an M-16 assault rife, and strapped to his left thigh was a knife. "I presume that you're Scyth?"

Scyth took the man's hand. "Pleasure to finally meet you. The leader of AXIS... hmph..." He looked into Hollis' eyes. "It's good to finally meet the one who's been supporting our...cause. "Mr.Park, SIN is nearing completion. As soon as Snake's DNA reached the chain, SIN will be mobile."

"Blaze... I go by Blaze within AXIS." He grabbed Scyth by the neck and held him above the ground. Scyth's men surrounded the mysterious man with their guns, aiming at him. "You'd do well to remember this." With his free arm, he revealed his flamethrower. "Now you know why. It's 12:14 am... I want SIN ready to move to its new location by 1:00 am... Today. Rock, Sprirt, Shadow, Zephyr, and Storm are tired of waiting. So am I. We want SIN asap. Get your ass in gear." He dropped the disoriented man and got back on the chopper.

"Yeah, yeah." Scyth got up and brushed off a bit of dirt. He cracked his neck, and picked up his radio. "Satora, this is Scyth. Do you read, over?"

"I hear ya. What's up?"

Scyth coughed. "The AXIS leader just showed up and then left. We have about 45 minutes to complete the interface system. What's the current status of the program?"He coughed again.

"Oh... SHIT!!!!!! We still don't have Snake's DNA." She thought about things for a moment. "How are we supposed to complete something like this in 45 minutes!?" She slammed her fist against the wall. Static consumed the radio, and then faded. "Damn this thing to Hell!!"

"Calm down. All you have to do is knock him out or shoot him to get his blood on a bullet." He sighed and coughed. "You're smart! Think of something!"