Author's Note: Hello Fanfiction! This is the Ninja-Reaper here…you know…the guy that mysteriously dropped off the face of the Earth? Anyway Chapter 2 now commencing!

Disclaimer: I don't own any game company and if I did they would be crap. Thank You.

Last Chapter

"Ellis how could you kill your best friend?" Rochelle asked incredulously.

"Cause he ain't human!" Ellis cried through tears.

"C'mon Ellis, tell us what happened," Nick said supportively.

"If y'all let me finish a story for once, I'll tell ya just why Keith had to die." Ellis said gravely.

3 Years Earlier

"Hey Ellis, C'mere!" Keith shouted.

"Sup' Keith?" Ellis asked.

"Ellis, I hate to tell ya this, but I lied to you," Keith said with a strange expression.

"Ya mean like the time when you said you wrestled a grizzly bear in WWE?" Ellis said with a smirk.

"Ellis, this is serious!" Keith shouted. Ellis was taken aback by this. This was the first time Keith ever raised his voice, let alone act serious.

"Keith, what the hell is wrong with you, today?" Ellis asked out of anger.

"Listen, my name isn't Keith," He said. "It's Rico, Rico Rodriguez."

"Keith, I know you are Hispanic, but do you really need to make up such an unoriginal name?" Ellis asked not believing what he just heard.

"Listen Ellis, I work for The Agency," Rico said. "Didn't you ever wonder how I was able to get us all these weapons?" He gestured at their "clubhouse" which was full of all kinds of weapons that could only be described by a former Texas President as "weapons of mass destruction."

"I thought you said you knew a guy in The Agency," Ellis said. "You even told me you never worked there!" Ellis wondered what else his buddy lied about. He felt betrayed, used, and manipulated.

"Ellis, our friendship was real," Rico explained. "But, after I left to Panau to kill my mentor, I realized I put you in danger."

"I wondered why you went to Panau while it was chaos down there," Ellis pondered. "But that don't explain how you put me in danger."

"Someone found out who my friends are," Rico said. "They told me so long as I breathed, they'll try and kill them."

"Keith…I mean Rico…man that is a stupid name." Ellis said without thinking. Instantly, Rico pulled out his "special" and put it on Ellis' forehead.

"Ellis, you know better than to disrespect a friend," Rico said with venom. "Besides, what kinda name is "Ellis" anyway?" Rico then holstered his weapon. While Ellis was struggling to to restrain himself from grabbing the AK47 next to him.

"If you weren't my friend, I'd have put holes in you, man" Ellis said through gritted teeth. "Besides, you literally can't die!"

"I can be killed, Ellis," Rico said. "You know how this Infection happened?"

"Hell if I know," Ellis said. "Why does it matter?"

"Cause the Agency is an alliance of evil corporations," Rico explained.

"What Corporations?" Ellis asked inching his hand towards the AK.

"The Patriots, Blackwatch, Black Mesa, Aperture Science, The Templars, and all kinds of other shit," Rico explained. Ellis then pulled the AK47 out and had a bead on Rico's head.

"I oughtta blast you for working for those scumbags!" Ellis said.

"Then do it." Rico said. "I've done terrible things and don't regret them either." And so it was that friendship was broken. Ellis put the whole clip into his ex-friend and ran.

Present Time

"And that is why I killed the bastard!" Ellis said.

"That's still no reason to kill a comrade," Snake said shaking his head.

"I find it to be a horrible thing to kill someone close to you," Altair said. "Though I've done similar for the Creed."

"I just can't believe that Blackwatch actually was allied with those lunatics!" Alex said incredulously.

"I guess I shouldn't have come here after all," Eddie said as he washed his face. Everyone in the room suddenly drew weapons. There before them, wasn't a hunter, but a man in disguise! A man who was thought dead. A man named Rico Rodriguez.

Author's Comments: I wanted to pull an Inception for a long time! I also wanted to tie all these organizations together. Could this mean that other characters show up? To avoid cliffhangers: Hell Yes!