Snake vs. Big Boss! We know who wins here.
I'm sorry this took so long. I was trying different ideas but I couldn't settle with any of them. I hope you guys enjoy this!
Blood of a Father
He ran down the dark hallway with voices from the past events tormented him.
"Gu-Gustava!"
"Couldn't keep my feet on the ice…Frank!"
"I wanted to see my daughter's wedding."
"I'm sorry, Snake. Forgive me!"
Someone had to pay for all this death and destruction. That was…him!
The double doors opened and revealed a huge room. Nothing caught his attention except for a tall man smoking a cigar holding some kind of assault pistol that resembled a Colt XM-16E1 on his shoulders but more modified.
This is it. My old commander versus me. My whole body was ready but my mind developed negative thoughts. He was the one who taught me CQC.
CQC...close quarters combat...he was the only one in the special operations community that knew the technique.
When I first started Foxhound...when I met him for the first time...he gave me my codename...Solid Snake.
He never did tell me why he gave me the codename but I honored him...respected him. When he sent me to Outer Heaven, I thought he believed in me...who would send a rookie into a dangerous mission without experience...I was giddy...I was happy...but reality hit me in the face.
He is nothing but a madman...a criminal...he chose me to fail...but I didn't...and now here we are.
Time to pay for betraying your unit, Big Boss!
No remorse. No mercy.
"I knew you would come back to me, Snake! The battlefield is so addicting, isn't it?"
"I'm here to get rid of the nightmares that have plagued me!"
Yes…you caused my nightmares. I would have never known betrayal if you haven't shown up!
"They will never go away, Snake. Those horrors will remain in your mind for eternity."
Nooo!
"Once you awaken the warrior in you, it will never sleep again. You crave more assignments…more thrills than ever before! You become a demon. All you crave is war. Nothing can satisfy your cravings…not money…not even sex."
"I love life!"
"Can you really say that? Look at you! You killed your best friend…your old comrades… Life has abandoned you just like it did with me."
Gray Fox...my fingers twitched as I lifted my hands up. These hands...blood on them...my friend's blood. Noo!
"No! You are wrong!"
He laughed at me. That bastard!
"You saw all these children, didn't you?"
The kids…
Flashes of small children that I ran into in Zanzibar Land entered my mind…
"I hate guns. Can you put your gun away?"
"I love my one-eyed uncle. He hates grown-ups."
"I want my mommy! Do you know where my mommy is?"
They all seemed no older than 3 or 4. Innocent children.
"They are war orphans just like Fox. I saved them from war. Good soldiers always rise from the depths of past wars."
"You're using children as soldiers?"
"Yes! Start a war…fan its flames… take victims and use them in the next war!"
"You're insane!"
"I'm giving them a purpose! A cause to fight for. As war continues, so is our raison d'etre."
"No…you are using them!"
"What! I gave them what they wanted. People like us can't survive in the normal world. We are dead weight. If we are lucky, we may get attention from some sleazy journalist."
"You're no better!"
"Foolish boy! You still don't understand what's going on."
"The only thing I know is I will defeat you!"
"It doesn't matter who wins here. The loser is free from the battlefield but the winner will forever be trapped in an endless cycle of war. Trapped to see your friends…family die beside you or by your own hand."
Big Boss threw his cigar down. I stepped back as he pointed his weapon towards me.
"Well come on Snake! Let's fight and see who will get to see their maker!"
A barrel full of bullets came towards me. I dived in front of steel boxes as I hear the bullets plummet the metal.
"What's wrong, Snake?!"
His voice was like an echo to me…I can't wait to shut it up!
But I have nothing…
No guns…no knife…nothing.
"What are you going to do with no weapons? Face it, Snake. You're already dead."
"I remember one person telling me that no matter how bad a situation looks never give up and trust your instincts!"
He growled at me. At his own words.
"That person died a long time ago. A man with a broken heart…"
His voice carried a sad tone. Was he sad?
"But that person was weak…pathetic…just like you!"
I saw a room to my right. Taking a chance, I ran inside the room.
It was a small room. I saw a can of aerosol rolling on the ground.
I smiled and picked the can up. I had a strategy swarming in my wicked smile.
Silence scared me. I would have sworn Big Boss would have followed me.
As I exited the room, he was nowhere to be found. I thought he ran away…
A war cry on my right destroyed that idea as a hard, cold metal slapped my face.
"You shouldn't have lost sight of your enemy. I thought I taught you better than that!"
I screamed in rage, "Shut up!"
"What are you planning with that can? Spray me to death..ha ha ha!"
I ran again straight behind myself. I felt a hot sensation zip past my shoulders. Adrenaline shot through my veins as I dodged the bullets.
On my left, I jumped inside the door.
I saw a lighter lying on the table…excellent!
My weapon was completed!
I ran back into Big Boss line of sight and cocked a smile at him.
"What are you smiling about?"
I rolled and slided closer to my former commander.
I made a mistake as I grew closer...stupid... He punched his weapon into my stomach and elbowed my chin.
Facing the ground, he laughed at me.
"I guess death is not ready for me yet again!"
I had my can of aerosol in my left hand and the lighter in my right.
I heard him gaining ground ready for the kill. One more step…
"You failed your mission. What do you say?"
"Burn!"
This is for Fox...Gustava...Kyle...wait...
Revenge..I fought for that too...
I spray his eyes but before he could retaliate, I pushed down on the can and lighted the lighter.
A spray of liquid… A spray of flames…
He screamed as his whole body was in a flaming ring. He tried to pat the flames but they were too monstrous.
His screams…his cries were so relieving to me.
He was standing with a shocked face looking at me, "You beat me."
Yes! Burn in hell!
"You may have won but there is no victory in this."
What did he mean? I killed him.
He was staring at the ceiling, "I see her! I see her!"
See who? Is he hallunicating?
"Boss, we get to see each other again"
A chill shivered down my spine as I watched Big Boss's face turn from content to despair.
"Boss! Where are you going? Stay with me! Don't leave me again!"
His hands rose in the air. His fingers tried to grab for someone invisible, "No! No! Mommy! Come back!"
Seeing Big Boss...so vulnerable...so weak...I almost felt for him. Almost.
As the flames were burning his Foxhound coat, his hands were turning black as he tried to reach someone who was not there. His fists were getting thinner as the flesh burned
His face was disfigured. His hair was scotched...half of his grayish, white hair disappeared in flames. His whole body was nothing but a withering bone devoid of skin.
"I was wrong! I didn't unite the world."
He looked at me with such clear yet scarred eyes, "Snake…"
He reached for my hand but his flames caused me to step back. A sickening smell of burnt skin strung my nose. Horrible.
"I'm…I'm…"
He was on his knees…crawling.
The flames rose higher suffocating him. Why won't he die?
"I'm your…father!"
What? Noo! You're lying.
"I'm your father!"
"Shut up!"
"I'm your father!"
My eyes were wide as my heart pumped. I stepped back from Big Boss. His body was face down but his face...his disgusting, scarred eyes staring at me.
He was silent…nothing but a pile of flesh and ash.
I have to get out of this room!
As I stumbled out, that revelation kept repeating in my head.
"I'm your father!"
How could…? Could it be?"
So much confusion…
I couldn't believe it.
I'm trying to forget...
I'm trying to...
Snake is in denial!
Next chp. "Untitled" I don't know what I'm going to title it yet.