A Helping Hand
Ridley began to slowly advance towards the dying heap that was Samus. He was going to deliver the killing blow to Samus, when all of a sudden he heard a "cling" sound; he then felt something land near his foot, he looked down and saw it was a grenade. Ridley let out a screech when the device exploded, luckily the explosion did not hit Samus, Ridley looked around for the culprit for this attack; he turned around and saw Snake throwing a grenade up and down in his hand.
Ridley let out an angry screech at Snake who wasn't phased in the slightest. "Yeah keep screaming, I'll give you something to scream about" Snake thought to himself as he chucked another
grenade at Ridley, this time the grenade hit Ridley square in the chest, and the following explosion created a small hole in the pterodactyl's chest.
Ridley screamed in pain from the grenade's explosion. Now filled with the urge to destroy Snake, Ridley flew towards Snake at full speed. Snake saw Ridley flying towards him, so he ran into
the large door that Ridley came through earlier. As soon as he got to the other side of the door, Snake through one of his C4 explosive devices up into the air, which then stuck to the railing that held
the room together, Snake ran to the corner of the wall, closest to the door, and clung to the wall, and waited for Ridley.
Ridley burst through the door that he saw Snake run into and looked around frantically for Snake. When Snake saw Ridley enter the room, he jumped from the wall corner to the entrance of the
door. Ridley turned around just in time to see Snake roll through the door behind him, while taking out a switch and shouting "NOW!!" Ridley's eyes widened as the railing that held the ceiling together collapsed thanks to Snake's C4; Ridley screeched in terror as the ceiling collapsed, killing him in the process. Snake turned to back to the room where Ridley was killed, and muttered "Good riddance,"
before heading back to the room Samus was in.
When Snake got back to Samus, he saw her chest heaving, while making gagging noises, Snake's eyes widened, she wasn't getting any air. Snake bent down over Samus and began to remove her
helmet, when he removed her helmet he saw a gorgeous face, with blonde hair tied in a ponytail. Snake was awestruck at what Samus looked like under her helmet, but quickly snapped out of it and began removing the rest of her power suit. Snake was even more shocked at what Samus's body looked like, but he wasn't able to enjoy it for long before having to begin CPR on Samus.
Once Samus's breathing became more stable, Snake stopped performing CPR. Snake noticed several wounds on Samus's body, some of them were slowly becoming infected. Snake began to panic a bit, for he had little to no medical experience, so he contacted Otacon for medical help.
"Otacon, Samus has a few nasty wounds, and I have no idea on what to do," Snake said panicking a bit.
"Snake, check the map on your PDA for a supply closet, there's bound to be medical supplies there," Otacon replied back to Snake.
Snake checked the map on his PDA for a map, there was a supply closet not to far from his current position. Before heading to the supply closet, Snake set a couple of proximity mines in the hall to deter any guards from entering the room where Samus was being kept.
Several space pirate troops walked into the room where they heard a large explosion come from; when they entered they saw that the ceiling had collapsed along with the railing that held it up. At closer inspection they saw their leader Ridley buried under a pile of rubble from the ceiling.
"Retrieve a sample of his DNA we might still be able to revive him," the space pirate commander told his troops.
When Snake reached the supply room, he saw that there were so many items that he had no idea where to start. He looked from aisle to aisle searching for medical items until he reached an aisle labeled "heart containers," Snake picked one up in his hand. Snake looked at the item skeptically, before deciding to test it on one of the wounds he received during his confrontation with Samus. Snake tightened his grip on the item and it began to glow, and then when the glowing stopped his wound was gone much to Snake's amazement.
"I think I'll take a couple of these, they may come in handy later," Snake thought to himself as he gathered hands full of heart containers and added them to his equipment. After taking enough heart containers for his mission and Samus he headed back to the room where he left Samus.
When Snake returned to Samus, he was relieved that no enemies had found her. Snake went to work and used several heart containers on Samus's wounds and almost immediately the wounds where gone. One wound in particular the heart containers had no effect on was Samus's dislocated right arm. The arm itself was fine but her shoulder was dislocated at the joint, if the heart containers didn't fix the joint, then Snake would have to relocate her shoulder manually. Snake decided if he was going to relocate her shoulder he would have to do it while Samus was unconscious rather than when she was awake, or it would hurt like hell. Snake took a deep breath and then put his palm behind her shoulder and thrust his palm forward, relocating her shoulder completely.
Snake took a deep sigh, and sat down not to far from Samus, having fought Samus, Ridley, and relocating a shoulder all in less than an hour took a lot out of someone. Snake took out a cigarette and lit it knowing he should wait for the bounty huntress to wake up before doing anything else.
Samus began to wake up, she was surprised by the fact that she was still alive, physically undamaged, and missing her power suit. She noticed that the man she battled with before was also lying against the same wall as she was; he was also smoking a cigarette. "How is he still alive," she said in a barely audible tone.
"You recover pretty quickly," Snake said without even looking at her.
"What happened?" Samus asked fatigued.
"That pterodactyl thing, beat you up pretty bad; so I killed it by collapsing a whole room on top of it, and then I went on to patch up all your wounds all in less than an hour," Snake stated proudly.
Samus ignored this man's stupidity and asked "What's your name?"
Snake's facial expression hardened as he replied "A name means nothing on the battlefield, within a week you don't have a name, but my colleagues call me Solid Snake".
Samus nodded "My name is Samus Aran".
This was followed by silence; Samus broke the silence by asking "Why did you help me?"
Snake smirked "Couldn't let a face and body like yours go to waste".
Samus responded to his comment with anger "arrogant bastard".
Snake merely shrugged it off and replied "Relax, I was just making a friendly comment".
Samus decided she would not put up with this man any longer, so she got up to leave, she didn't even reach the door before collapsing to the floor. Snake walked over to her, bent down and put her arm over his shoulder for support.
"You won't get any farther in your condition," Snake said as he led her back to the wall that she was lying against earlier. "You'll need someone to watch your back in this base, considering your dinosaur pal's buddies seem to have it in for you".
She thought it over briefly, as much as she didn't want to admit it, Snake was right, with Ridley dead the space pirates were probably going to hunt her down more relentlessly than before.
"Your right, I'll need your help if I'm going to accomplish my mission without getting killed," Samus then reached her hand out to Snake and asked, "Partners?"
Snake nodded in acknowledgement and accepted her offer "Partners," he said as he shook her hand.
AN: It has finally happened Snake and Samus are now working together to find out the reason why these villains have gathered. This chapter took a long time to write so please read and review another chapter is on the way probably sometime tomorrow, so no need to worry. If any problems happen with the format of the story I apologize for any inconveniences.
