chapter 13

Snake instantly dove. The MiGs would not let him go, not after killing some of their own.

The MiGs followed, pulling a high-G pull on their body. Snake thought his eyes would pop out of his head. Snake had to pull out. For his sake.

The MiGs hadn't missed a beat. They were right on his tail every second of the way.

And to make things worse, MiGs came from his 12 o' clock. Knowing he would die, Snake lashed out. He fired every missile he had, locked on or not, at the MiGs. Some made contact, some missed. Even though he hit some, some lived.

He looked in the rear view mirror and saw a missile fly at him.

Horrified, he scrambled for the eject button and jammed it. Instantly he screamed out of the cockpit right as the missile made contact. Debris flew at him, luckily missing. But now he had a new threat. The MiGs shooting him while he was falling.

But instead they pulled away. Snake's pulse returned, and he sighed in relief. Snake looked down. With an incredible stroke of luck, he had reached the drop zone. It was similar to the base from before, but a little more elaborate and at least twice the size. Snake scanned the area for his supplies that were in the other seat, and found them lightly falling about 20 feet away. Looking down, he realized he was about to drop right in front of a gaurd. He scrambled for a pistol or a knife that he could subdue the gaurd with, and reached in a pocket and pulled out a... directional microphone. Snake groaned with displeasure, but was also laughing because only here would this happen.

Snake looked down and noticed the gaurd was asleep. He sighed a heavy sigh. He landed about 5 feet away from the sleeping man, and as quietly as possible, unlatched the gear and creeped by. Then the man seemed to hear and woke up, embarrassed that he had fallen asleep. Snake panicked, and looking at the microphone in his hand, he ran up and bashed him in the head. He instantly fell, like a led baloon.

"That was better than a gun" Snake laughed. He walked in the direction of his gear and found it still connected to the parachute. He unlatched it, opened the bag, and looked through his gear. He was equipped with his usual M14, M1911, quite a bit of ammo for both, and thermal goggles. Then he looked again and noticed a magazine. It was a - a porno magazine! Snake grabbed it up, about to look inside, but taped to it was a note saying, "do not read" He scowled, and either way, he needed to move. And he still had that stupid directional microphone.

He loaded all his guns and headed for the first door. And then something in his pocket...rang! He dug inside it and pulled out a square shaped box with a headphone and an "on" switch. He put the phone in his ear and turned on the "on" switch, and a voice came out.

"Snake! You figured out the codec quicker than I thought!"

"Sigint!?"

"Yeah! The Boss let me and Para-Medic in on everything. But down to business. Behind that door you are about to enter are 3 guards armed with Ak-47's and grenades" So storming through might not be the best way to go."

"Then what do I do?"

You could draw one out. Go up to the door and knock by pressing the action button"

What? What are you talking about?"

"Nevermind. Just knock on the door."

"Fine."

He turned offcodec off.

Snake thought of his next move.

He knocked on the door. A few seconds later a gaurd came out, looing around wildly. Snake smashed him in the head with the mike again, because he thought it was pretty funny, but as the man fell, rounds started going off out the door, barely missing Snake. He dove to the ground and thought of what to do. Luckily, this was part of his plan. He dragged the unconcious man away from the door and took his grenades. He pulled the pin on one and lobbed it in. The firing stopped and the grenade ignited. Snake stepped in, using his pistol, not wanting to waste his m14's ammo.

He scanned the small hallway and looked at the bodies. One got up and pinted his rifle at Snake. Without missing a beat, Snake pulled the trigger and finished him. He took their grenades and a knife, and walked on. The hallway wasn't very long, but at the end was just another one going horizontally, and led to more hallways. He headed north, because that's always the right way in video games, and was lead to a door. With a grenade in hand, he opened that door silently, and found Ocelot just silently reading a comic book.

Ocelot looked up, uninterested.

'Oh, Snake, I have been expecting you" he said, completely emotionless.

"Um, aren't you supposed to shoot at me?" Snake asked

"Huh? Oh, no, that's ok. Just go that way" he said, pointing down another hall.

"Ok"

"You're welcome" Ocelot said, getting back to his comic book.

Snake just shook that off and got back to his mission. He opened a door and found a big base with barracks and buildings and soldiers with searchlights. Snake sighed, and creaped down the stairs. It was still around 5:00 in the morning, but no one seemed tired. That means that they have shifts, which means there are more guards.

"Alright, let's go."