Chapter 6: Third sun

"Kiryu, a national state of emergency has been declared in an effort to root out local resistance. The hunt is being carried out by US based PMC Raven Sword...one of the company under World's Haven's control." Hayato begun. "Which means MechaG 2 is lurking somewhere behind the scenes." As quickly as he has always been, Kiryu guess out the possibility. "And at the top of the list is the Paradise Lost Army led by Big Mama. Kiryu, you'll be conducting a solo infiltration in the region where they are believed to house their base of operations. It looks as if the PMC moved swiftly, cutting off Big Mama and company's escape routes. They should still be hiding somewhere in that area. Mamba Boss's corpse is bound to be with them. You and Snake have been added to the PMC's blacklist. So you're going to have to lie about your identity to get in there. I've provided you a way to get in to the checkpoint. Make contact with the resistance and find Big Mama. This is our final chance. We must find Mamba Boss's corpse before they do." It was then that Kiryu put on his rather complex disguise, altering his appearance to look like a human. He now has a middle age man's face with brown hair, blue eyes and a scarred cheek.

Uses a standard monorail train, Kiryu arrived at the train station close to the area where the Paradise Lost Army are believed to be hiding. Step out of the train, blended into the crowd, he walks to the checkpoint naturally. He lines up with the pedestraints who are being search by mercenaries at the checkpoint for any suspicious sighs of terrorists. "If they check me then i'll be compromised. I need the back up of Hayato to arrive quick." Kiryu thought.

He comes up to the checkpoint and waits for the mercenaries's officer to instruct him to move into the metal detector. "All right, next." said the officer. But Kiryu didn't move, he just stood there like a staue. "Hey, I said next!" the officer reminded but Kiryu continue to play his trick with the officer. "Hey are you deaf! I said next!" the officer shouted but Kiryu continue to stand still. "All right, you're coming with me pal!" the mercenaries then surrounded Kiryu, "Stand back, he's my." said in a female voice, it's Akane Yashiro, Kiryu's ex pilot and secret admire. "Uhm, very well ma'Am." the officer replied in a calm tone.

Kiryu then walk with Akane Yashiro to a café at the other end of the station. "Now you look a lot younger, what's your secret old man?" Akane asked jokingly. "Facecamo." Kiryu secretly reveal his true face to Akane in a brief moment. "Oh my god!" Akane was awe struct with the face she just saw, she then give Kiryu a hug for she have miss him for a very long time. Kiryu started to blush at this sudden act, it was clear that she has grow to attach with her Mecha.

"Kiryu, you and Snake are actually aftering MechaGodzilla 2? You two are going all the way to get that renegade metal lizard at all cost right when we're about to grab it with all of our boys." Akane said to Kiryu in a cool tone, much to Kiryu's dismay that she doesn't know what MechaGodzilla 2 is aftering and they're risking their lives. "You're planning to take Mecha-G 2 by force, that's crazy. Things aren't that simple at all." Kiryu replied with a terrified voice, he knows just what will happen when Akane and all of her forces try to capture and shut down MechaGodzilla 2.

"You tell Snake that his cause is our cause now. He'll don't have to do this." Akane begged Kiryu to tell Snake that he doesn't have to takedown MechaGodzilla 2 when he is way too old. "He is not a hero Akane, never was, never will, he's just an old killer, he's just an old grunt hired to do some wetwork." replied Kiryu, "Please Kiryu just let me do this. Let me have your and Snake's exception!" she pleaded to him, "Akane! It's no longer about having our exceptance, it's about doing the right things, i'm sorry Akane. But this is one thing that i have to do alone!" he shouted at her. She could sees the seriousness in his face, then he walk away, Akane watches on as she saw just how much Kiryu have changed over 12 years.

When Kiryu got out of the station, he recieves a message from Snake, "Kiryu, I just found out that a group of the so called 'Resistant' is working underground in this city, maybe if you manage to tail one of them then you could get to their hideout. Good luck." readed the message, then Kiryu proceed to find himself a resistant while the curfew order is still on.

Kiryu spotted a man walking alone at night, "Looks like my guide has just shows up." Kiryu thought to himself, behind a black van Kiryu take off his human disguise and reveals his true form, he also now sports a new color for his armor. Black, the perfect color to camouflage the mecha dragon at night, especially in city and urban areas. He then tails the man all the way to a church in the city where Kiryu walks in and takes the man as a human shield; he then uses the human shield and walk to a shrine of the church where he is surrounded by multiple gun men.

"Excellent CQC, Kiryu." said in another feminine voice, but this one Kiryu knows too well, "Mothra, what brings you to lead the resistant group?" asked Kiryu. He saw Mothra in her graceful human appearance, in her formal Kimono that resembling her wings she is already beyond any supermodel, "I'll tell you, why, what, when, where, who, how. But first…" Kiryu then let go of the man and return his rifle. "Everything begins with one tiny fork between two men and then it turns into a great rift." She begins to explain, Kiryu was preparing to hear a very long story from his ally. "The man who wants me dead is MechaGodzilla. Your predecessor. You think you know him, but i know him better. He was once a regular machine, but Dr Who has taken control of his soul. Now he's locked in a bitter struggle with Godzilla and Col. Zirkon." Mothra starts to explain the ordeal that is taking place. "Zirkon?" Kiryu asked, the name to him was new, unknown, he wanted to know who is this "Zirkon". "The founder of the Patriots." Mothra said, this has made Kiryu surprise of the man, the identity of the person. "When did this happen?" Kiryu asked her, wanting to know more about the struggle that he is involving. "40 years ago."

"During the Cold War when the US and the USSR were still at odds." She continues. "It was in that chaotic era that the Patriots were born. And like a puppet i played my part. I...was one of the founding members. Zirkon created the Patriots to manage and control the American state. That control endured long after the Cold War ended. The organization continues to exist in an empty shell, functioning through AIs. Those AIs were responsible for the creation of the War Economy...And they gave rise to the Sons of the Patriots system. But i am partly to blame, i bear some of the guilts of creating this organization. It was right after i met his father, Mamba Boss. Back in 1964, i was to take part in an CIA op called Operation Prometheus which concerns a new weapon the Soviets were developing at the time. My mission was to support a certain agent. That agent later became Mamba Boss, but i know him as Snake." Kiryu now realized that there wasn't one but four "Snakes" in existence, his friend was name Snake, and now the legendary Mamba Boss was also named Snake, he was starting to saw how complicated his world is.

"Yes, Snake Eyes. That was his codename at the time. A name that he would give to his son. The commander of this operation was a man called Zirkon, head of Special Forces unit FOX. Back then i was working alone wanting to secretly destroy the weapon that the Soviets were building, but the most precious prize was to secure the Philosopher's Legacy a massive cache of hidden wealth amassed by the Allied power in World War II. But unfortunately, i failed to secure the microfilm that recorded the Legacy and was unable to find it again anywhere. 2 years later, i ended up in Saigon, where i met him again. It was around then that Zirkon used the massive funds contained by the Philosopher's Legacy to start a new organization- the Patriots...to carry out the will of a certain legendary hero. The initial membership was consisted of Zirkon, Mamba Boss, Sigint, Para Medic. Oh and there was one more who we mustn't forget, he stay behind in the Soviet Union to support the group as an informant, Panther... after i was rescued by Mamba Boss from a Viet Cong fanatic cell in Saigon, i fled to America and joined the oranization. Zirkon's goal was to achieve a unity of thoughts and awareness, he believed that was Pit Boss's will."

"Pit Boss?" Kiryu asked again. "Pit Boss was a legendary hero back in the Second World War known as the Mother of Special Forces. She had an almost overwhelming charisma about her. The CIA feared this and they had her eliminated. If she had survived, the world of the 21st century might have been a very different place. We were all influence by Pit Boss's will, it was what drove us to create this organization, to be closer to that spirit. Zirkon realized that in order to lead the people, we need a special kind of icon. So he turned to Mamba Boss, the last son of Pit Boss, he shared more of her life than anyone else. It was Mamba Boss is the true heir to Pit Boss's legacy to play this role. Zirkon elevated Mamba Boss-the hero who saved the world-to the status of an idol. But the truth behind my love was riddle with exaggerations, misrepresentations and outright lies. Zirkon dismissed these lies among the masses and gather the rich and powerful to his banner. Every era needs its symbol to control the people, whether the hammer and sickle or the stars and stripes. As the time and current of politics change so too did Zirkon, eventually he became a prisoner to his own lust for power. Sparkling frictions between my love and Zirkon, who resents for playing the puppet."

"With my love is drifting away, Zirkon realized that he would need...insurance. Something that would perpetuate the existence of Mamba Boss, the idol of our organization. And so he embarked on an ground breaking project that would change the medical landscape forever: Les Enfants Terribles. Its goal was to create a clone of Mamba Boss, the ultimate soldier. The project was led by Dr Clarkson-known at the time as Para-Medic. After many failures, they succeeded in producing a ferilized egg. The egg came from Dr Clarkson's assistance a healthy Japanese woman. (Vulcan Raven's dying words toward Snake Eater: Blood from the East flows within your veins). "Give birth to Mamba Boss". To realized this, i asked to serve as a surrogate mother. And was more then happy to carry him in my womb, i loved him. 9 months later, i gave birth to Snake Eater and his twin Liquid Snake. It didn't matter that my children were clones or that they had manipulated their DNA, they were borned the same way as any other normal child, from a mother's womb. But it proved to be the final straw for Zirkon and Big Boss. My love left the US and formed Outer Heaven mercenary army with his friends and Godzilla, drifting across the world."

"I was devastated. My sons were never wanted by their own father. After my love left, Zirkon really lost control. What he wanted was an orderly world, one governed by rules. His influence of decision making spread all the way to the Oval Office. As the world saw the rise of Digital Technology, IT, the internet, Genetics, the Patriots power grew immense. Their roots spread and took hold all across the globe, in time they began to dictate the fate of entire nations from the shadows. And before we knew it, the Patriots had bring an entire planet under their total control. Zirkon developed weapons, amassed armies. Used information for extortion - all in order to gain more wealth. He was obsessed with controling the mind of inside from the outside. But i cannot imagine that would have what Pit Boss had wanted. They both misinterpreted her will. And their absolute reverence for her drove them apart. And so it began the war between Mamba Boss and Zirkon. Each striving to realize her will. Everything you see today is stem from their cold war. This war they cause is no difference than any other human mistakes in history. It all started with one tiny fork between the two of them, in time it became a great rift. Mamba Boss returned to the US with a plan in mind. He reassume command of FOXHOUND, Outer Heaven and finally Zanzibar land. He plotted Coups D'etat against Zirkon."

"But his son, Snake Eater, foiled his effort twice. Both Mamba Boss and Gray Fox - Frank Jaeger - were left near death, Zirkon recovered their bodies. Frank's entire body was reconstructed through surgeries, and he was reborned as the Cyborg Ninja. My love is now a vegetable, a prisoner of Zirkon even in death. After the ordeals, Zirkon can't believe in nations, organization or even individuals. He refuses to leave his organization into the hand of the next generation. And so he commissioned the building of the SOP system. Outrage by what he did to my love. I and Panther enlisted Katsura Yumigami into our team and set our plan into motion. We used Frank Jaeger to kill Dr Clarkson and make it look like a lab accident. Panther tortured the DARPA chief- Sigint- to death also make it look like an accident on Shadow Moses island, 9 years ago. With them gone, only Zirkon was remaining. But we too paid a price, i lost Panther. When Panther grafted Liquid's right arm to his own, his thoughts were taken over by Liquid's soul, but once again Snake Eater has defeated them both in Manhattan, it was 5 years ago. While then, from underneath our noises, MechaGodzilla rises. He resent for playing the puppet of Zirkon and so he grafted his mind with Dr Who to take their revenge on both us and Zirkon."

Mothra led Kiryu out of the church to parking yard where the Paradies Lost Army's militias are patroling a series of black van with exact identical appearance, one of those van's doors were left open, inside was the corpse of Mamba Boss. Kiryu look at the corpse cover inside a plastic bag, with oxygen supplier and heartbeat monitor. At first he was surprised that why would Mothra provide oxygen and a heartbeat monitor to a dead man? But he look again at the heart rate of the corpse. It was still active, the corpse of Mamba Boss was simply in a deep coma, he was still infact alive. "I was the last one. Until someone came to me. He is your teammate today, Wolfhound. It was when i met him, that i discovered the location of Mamba Boss. It was in the data he obtained from GD. Together he and i retrieved Mamba Boss, but my love was still asleep as Zirkon had left him." But Kiryu found it rather curious, "Why would Zirkon keep him alive?" he asked. "People need heroes Kiryu. Zirkon wanted to create a messiah, a legend that will never die. We can't allow MechaGodzilla to inherit the same sin that corrupted Zirkon, manipulating people's mind for his own ego." Mothra plant a hand on Kiryu's chest, slowly he felt her power surging through his body, giving him the instincts he needs for the battles that will come.

Whoo that was some surprise for all of you. I'm expecting some reviews will flare up on this chapter and i am saying it literaly everybody.