AN: Kept you waiting huh? Sorry it took so long for this chapter to arrive, but I was planning out another story, but here is the good news I've planned out the rest of
Legendary so you can expect the story to end in a couple of weeks, so while I'm still writing this, enjoy.
Outside the Castle
Snake, Samus and their new comrade ROB had just exited the Robotics Center, but were surprised to see not another military complex but the outside world in its place. Snake and Samus took point aiming their guns around corners for enemies. ROB, wanting to be like his new friends, had his gyro out and aimed it around like Snake and Samus. Upon realizing there were no enemies around Snake let out a relieved sigh.
"Finally, fresh air," Snake said as he breathed in the night air and reached into his pocket for a cigarette and a lighter.
Samus looked around the castle amazed at what the outside looked like. Though she had seen though castle's outside from her ship when she arrived but she didn't get to see the whole thing, she saw several towers on the other side of the castle, a garden, and a fountain, which Snake and ROB were sitting by.
"This place is amazing, the indoors look like a military complex, but the outside looks like a regular castle" the bounty hunter said amazed.
Snake grunted in reply, as he got up and walked over to the edge of the castle. He looked out to the horizon at the lush forest inland, and then he looked down at the ocean below. Samus walked over to the mercenary, and said, "Beautiful, isn't it?"
Samus expected some kind of blunt reply, but instead Snake turned to her, stared her straight in the eye and replied, "Yeah, everything always looks better at night".
They stared at each other for a bit longer, as if they were in some kind of trance, until ROB came over and waved his arm between them, breaking the trance. Samus shook her head then shyed away, feeling her face flush.
"Uh, c-can we take a s-short break?" Samus asked shyly, without looking at Snake.
Snake smirked at Samus's embarrassment, ""I have no problem with that". He then turned to ROB and asked him, "Well, what do you think?"
ROB nodded happily and started bouncing his head up and down; Snake chuckled at the robot's childishness, before heading over to join Samus by the fountain.
Liquid was working on a computer when he came into contact with Sylux.
"Sylux are you in position yet?"
I'm not too far from the designated location just a bit longer," came the marksman's reply.
"Well hurry time is of the essence," Liquid said before switching the channel.
Liquid was trying to come into contact with Revolver Ocelot when the computer suddenly shut down. Liquid rebooted the computer, but when the screen returned, it was that of what appeared to be a light blue, holographic man with his arms crossed.
"Who are you?" the clone said surprised.
"I am who you people know as Tabuu," the man replied.
"I've heard of you, you were the one who enslaved Master Hand, and almost pulled the world into Subspace," Liquid said in awe, "Weren't you destroyed at the end of the Subspace Incident?"
"That's what you people thought, I was merely scattered, but my minions gathered my remains and pieced me back together," Tabuu said, "But now I'm back and more powerful than ever, and I'm here to enlist your help, Liquid Snake".
"What use could I be to you, cretain?" Liquid spat.
"You have Master Hand's trust, and you are capable of gathering new allies to my cause such as that Revolver Ocelot, or Wolf O'Donnell".
"What's in it for me and your eventual allies then?" Liquid questioned.
"I'll give you what ever Master Hand is offering and more, such as banishing your enemies, their friends, and allies to the deepest, darkest depths Subspace has to offer," Tabuu offered to Liquid,
"So, what do you say?"
Liquid thought the offer over for a second then said, "Alright, Count me in".
"Excellent, now go gather some allies, I'm counting on you Liquid, don't fail me this early in our partnership," Tabuu said before the screen turned black.
Snake, Samus, and ROB were sitting by the fountain when it began to rain, the boom of thunder was heard off in the distance. Snake and the others were about to head inside when a loud sound was heard. Snake ran over to the edge with his binoculars out to see a pair of large hangar doors begin to open. As soon as the hangar opened, a Koopa clown car, three Wolfens, and several smash skiffs flew out of the hangar. The three large SPC vessels that Samus was following to the base also followed slowly behind the fleet of aircraft. As soon as the last aircraft flew out of the hangar Snake contacted Campbell.
"Colonel, the invasion has begun we're too late!" Snake informed the Colonel.
"No your not too late, you can still defeat Master Hand, without him the whole thing will fall apart, there's still hope, Snake," Campbell said encouragingly.
"Your right Colonel, there's still a chance," Snake said emboldened, "Heading to take out Master Hand now, Snake out".
While Snake was talking to Campbell, Samus crept away, and began to fiddle with a wristband communicator. When Snake finished his conversation with the Colonel, he turned around to see Samus, pressing some buttons on a communicator.
"What do you think your doing?" Snake demanded.
Samus replied to Snake without looking, "My ship is still in orbit around the castle; I'm going to go pursue them and end this before it begins, or at least inflict significant damage to their fleet".
"Are you serious?" Snake almost yelled, Samus didn't answer, "What about the joint operation our superiors agreed on? I'll still need your help in taking down Master Hand".
"You have the robot," the bounty hunter said without turning to Snake, "You don't need me, you're a good soldier; all I can do now is wish you luck". Lightning flashed illuminating the skies.
Snake felt deeply betrayed that Samus would abandon him just for a desperate attempt to stop the invasion, he dropped his head in disappointment.
Samus's gunship arrived soon arrived, and dropped a latter for Samus, Samus grasped the latter and turned to Snake, "Good luck Snake, besides Ridley is among that fleet, now's the perfect chance for payback".
Snake then lifted his head to Samus, realizing her true intentions, "I see what it is now, your being an idiot," Snake growled at the bounty hunter.
"Excuse me?"
"You're going after them because you see it as a chance to get revenge for your parents' deaths, it's pointless, you'll get killed, and that guy'll just get revived again, making your effort in vain".
"Shut up Snake, you don't know anything, I need to do this!" Samus snapped at the mercenary.
"NO, YOU DON'T!" Snake yelled back at her, "There'll be other chances, but right now me, and ROB need your help in taking down Master Hand, and ending this".
They continued to argue through the rain, not knowing they were currently in the crosshairs.
Sylux watched Snake and Samus argue through the crosshairs of his weapon of choice, the Shock Coil.
"Fools, just keep on arguing, you're just making my job a whole hell of a lot easier," Sylux thought as he changed his target.
He then fired the first shot, straight into the armor of Samus's ship, striking one of the rear engines.
Samus, Snake and ROB turned their heads in the direction that the sound of a blaster firing was heard. The blast penetrated one of the rear engines of Samus's ship, sending the ship spiraling out of control. Samus, who was holding on to the ladder, jumped and landed in the fountain, ROB headed over to the fountain and helped Samus out of the frigid water, and over to where Snake was taking cover.
"You all right?" Snake asked the drenched bounty hunter, Samus nodded.
"That shot was very precise, he hit straight through the ship's armor, penetrating the engine," Snake said praising the marksman's skill.
"Only one person I know has that good of a shot," Samus said to Snake, "Sylux".
"Sylux, who's that?"
"He's a bounty hunter like myself, for some unknown reason he hates the Galactic Federation and me in particular".
Snake rotated his head away from cover to look for a position Sylux might be hiding at, but couldn't for long because Sylux fired in his direction. The shot hit the ground harmlessly, leaving a mark.
Snake looked at the mark, and then tried to trace where the shot had been fired from to the sniper. He then turned to Samus and said,
"He's on the platform directly northeast of our position".
Samus nodded and replied with "Great, the bastard's mine". Samus rolled out of cover and ran at full speed towards Sylux's position, once within adequate range Samus used her plasma whip to grab onto the edge of the platform, Snake and ROB followed behind, but they couldn't keep up with the bounty hunter.
When Samus landed on the platform she caught Sylux completely off guard. Sylux aimed his Shock Coil at her but she was too quick, and she slashed him with her whip, knocking her down.
Snake finally arrived on the back of ROB, who was using his Robo Burners to gain more distance. When they arrived they saw Samus had Sylux in a neck lock with her whip.
Snake walked over to Sylux and questioned, "Who hired you?" Sylux remained silent, so Samus tightened her chokehold, "Are you ready to answer now?"
Sylux broke his silence, "I don't know his name but he had blond hair, and a tan complexion, and he was also wearing a brown trench coat, that's all I know," Sylux answered in a rasp tone.
"Liquid," Snake growled.
Samus released Sylux from her grip, and kicked him to the ground, "Who is Liquid?"
"He's my brother," came his grim reply.
Samus looked at Snake wide eyed, "You mean that man at the meeting, that's your brother?"
"Twin to be correct".
Sylux had just regained his composure from his encounter with Snake and Samus, when he took out a bladed weapon, and lunged at Samus.
Snake saw this coming and yelled, "DUCK," Samus did as she was told and Snake kicked Sylux, knocking him back Snake then ran at Sylux who had gotten back up and threw a punch at Snake, Snake blocked his blow and punched Sylux hard enough that it sent him over the edge screaming to his death.
Samus regained her composure and said "Well I guess he's done for."
Snake instead of replying back changed the subject, "Yeah, just like your ship".
Samus immediately remembered her ship and began smacking her forehead with her palm saying, "Damn," over and over again.
Snake turned to ROB and nodded; ROB went over to Samus and grabbed her arm preventing her from hitting herself any more.
Snake walked over to Samus, and said in a slightly mocking tone, "Aw well, looks like you're stuck with us after all".
Samus said nothing and crossed her arms with a pissed off look on her face.
Snake put his hand on the bounty hunter's shoulder and said reassuringly, "Don't worry, there'll be other chances for revenge, I, I mean we'll be there to back you up," Snake said motioning to himself and ROB.
A small smile crept its way on to Samus's face and she said, "Thanks Snake".
"No problem," the mercenary replied, "Now, let's get this mission over and done with," he said before entering one of the nearby towers back to the castle.
Samus smirked and followed Snake with ROB not too far behind.
Liquid had come into with one of the other villains, it was Wolf'ODonnell.
"What the hell do you want!" the pilot growled, "Wanna hire me to do something else to ruin my image in front of the hand?"
"Quite the opposite this time my friend," Liquid said arrogantly, "I know you want revenge on Master Hand, and I'm going to help you".
This was followed by silence, "I see you're interested," Liquid said.
"Why do you want to betray your boss all of a sudden?" Wolf asked.
"I've been offered a better prize from my new employer," Liquid told the anthromorph
"What's the prize?"
"He would offer us everything Master Hand is offering us and more, are you interested?
"Hmm, alright I'm in" Wolf told the clone.
"Glad you're interested, keep all info I've told you secret from Master Hand for the time being," Liquid told Wolf, before breaking the connection to come into contact with Ocelot.
When the connection was made he was greeted with, "Yes, Boss?"
"Ocelot, we are no longer following Master hand's orders as of now," Liquid told his comrade.
"Than who's orders are we following then, yours?"
"No not mine," Liquid replied, "We are now following the orders of a being called Tabuu".
"Tabuu!" Ocelot said surprised, "You mean thy Tabuu, the one who almost engulfed the entire world into Subspace, that Tabuu?"
"Yes, I need you to gather allies for our cause, for you are on the front lines, and I'm trapped her playing cat and mouse with Snake and his friends".
"I'll gather many as many allies to our cause as possible", Ocelot said loyally, "How are you going to deal with Solid Snake any way, may I ask?"
"Do not worry, I'm going to reintroduce Snake to a blast from the past," Liquid said sadistically, "And this time he won't get out alive".
AN: Here it is the new chapter. If you find any errors of any kind feel free to contact me. One more thing, I'm leaving it up to you guys to decide whether Snake and Samus should become a pair in this story.
