METAL GEAR SOLID: RESURRECTION
by Rookie's Eyes (based off of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake)
Disclaimer: the Metal Gear series and their characters are property of Kojima Productions and Konami
Chapter 15 Thirty Floors of Hell
Snake came out into the spiral floor of Building two, this time from the western door, and Snake was pleased to see that his radar was once again operational, and that there were no longer any guards present on the floor.
A quick reference to the radar, and Snake could see that he had only one option to get to the roof of the elevator, a door Snake had seen earlier on the northern wall. Snake walked over, and entered the door. Inside was a fairly large room with no visible ceiling. An elevator was placed in the center of the room, and a long staircase wound up around the elevator shaft.
Snake walked over to the elevator, pressing a button on a control panel to the left of the door, and the door beeped, sliding open.
Snake entered the door, and pressed the console on the wall for the thirty-first floor, beginning his ascent.
In the dark room, Big Boss sat, watching a glowing monitor displaying Snake as the elevator rose. He had had a camera placed on the elevator for just such an occasion as this.
He sat with his legs crossed and placed upon his desk. In his hands he held a small electronic device. It would be an understatement to say that Big Boss was pleased with himself.
He had already seen that blasted bird that Snake was going to search for, and upon sighting it he had sent his men to go retrieve the bird, and to have a little surprise set up for Snake should he rear his ugly head.
The device was the trigger to a bomb, set directly onto the winch of the elevator Snake was now taking to the thirtieth floor.
As Snake's elevator gradually rose to the top, Big Boss' trigger finger was getting itchy. He pulled out a radio, contacting a group of guards he had placed at the third floor. "Sergeant?"
*--.--* "Yes sir, Commander." The soldier on the other end answered.
"I want you to be ready down there as soon as the elevator returns. We need to ensure that this pest is taken care of before he gets too far."
*--.--* "I've placed a backup unit atop the staircase just in case, Commander sir."
"Be ready, it's about to get messy in there." Big Boss warned, tossing the radio.
"They better not screw this up." He muttered to himself, pressing the trigger.
As the elevator beeped, signaling it had passed the twenty-seventh floor, BOOM! the platform shuddered. The elevator began to fall, with Snake inside. Bars of light flashed inside the elevator as it dropped.
Snake searched frantically for anything that could help. Spotting a lever on the wall, he pulled the brake, and a screeching came from the brakes as they tried to grip the elevator's shaft, hindering it's descent only lightly.
Fifteen floors left…
Snake looked up, seeing an escape hatch marked with yellow and black striped tape. He turned the handle, releasing the lock, but it wouldn't budge. "C'mon! Open!"
Eight floors to go…
He pushed harder, yet it still refused to unlatch. "Damn!"
The sergeant watched as the elevator screamed past him and his two men. A wall of air hitting the group as the elevator passed. "Let's get this over with quickly," The sergeant suggested.
He lead his comrades down the staircase, eventually reaching what was left of the platform. Using hand signals, the sergeant motioned for the soldier to his left to enter the wrecked elevator and search for their fallen adversary.
Rifle raised, he entered the doorway, looking to the left, then to the right, and said, "Clear… Not a single sign of the bastard."
The sergeant noticed a figure standing atop the elevator, and he watched as the man jumped down, into the middle of the trio of guards.
They leveled their guns, but Snake was prepared. A guard rushed him, Snake pulled him hard enough to lose his balance, tripping to Snake's left. He gripped the muzzle of the gun to his right, raised his leg to clamp around the sergeant's gun, immobilizing both. When the fallen guard tried to rush Snake again, Snake pulled out his Berretta, aiming it straight at the guard's head and stopping him in his tracks.
"Go on, I dare you." Snake mocked, the guards were frozen. Terrified even to move.
Snake felt the gun he held with his right hand shift as the guard holding it ventured to pull the trigger. Snake moved the gun so that it went off straight to the head of a comrade. Snake pulled the trigger of his Berretta, eliminating another assailant. The sole attacker left dropped his gun and ran for it, but Snake raised his Berretta, letting off a killshot before the guard had even made it to the door.
With the final guard out of the way, Snake saw only one option left to reach his destination, The stairs. As Snake made his way up the stairway.
He passed several floors with no sign of the enemy, but as he made his way to the eighteenth floor, Snake heard the floors above him rattle as guards descended. With little time to waist, Snake climbed over the railing, hanging on the final bar in the hopes that the guards would pass him, oblivious to his presence.
As the guards came down, it quickly became clear, however, that his hopes were baseless, because as three did pass where he hung, another two chose to survey the stairways directly above Snake's position. They both faced inward, looking at the elevator shaft and the other guards as they slowly progressed down the coiled stairs. Snake had to do something quick, otherwise the soldiers would spot him in his current predicament.
Along the stairway walls, there was a small gap big enough for a man to squeeze through between the walkway and the concrete, and Snake utelized this advantage. He slipped behind the two surveying guards, wrapping his arm around the closer of the two, constriction his airways and preventing him from warning his partner. Snake dropped him slowly to the ground, careful to avoid any unnecessary noise. Before he could reach him, the guard turned, looking straight at Snake, he blinked.
"Aaauw shit!" Snake punched the guard twice in the chest, following it with a kick in the face. The guard fell over the railing, screaming as his body fell eighteen stories to the elevator floor.
The other soldiers, three in total, came to the source quickly. Upon sighting Snake, a guard yelled, "Kill the intruder!" and they opened fire. Snake ran, bullets peppering the steel supports and concrete wall behind him. The guards pursued, but Snake was faster.
As Snake ascended to the next floor, one of the guards threw an object in Snake's path. He leapt over, reaching the other end of the stairs as the grenade tore a rift ten feet wide in the pathway. Snake still ran, but he heard the guards curse, followed by a grunt and a subsequent thud from one of the guards who tried to jump.
After several minutes Snake finally made it to the door of the thirty-first floor. Presenting his card to a scanner, the door admitted Snake outside.
Author's Note: This event does happen in the original story. I know many of you feel this may be too short, but I didn't want to have three pages of a chase up thirty flights of stairs. I would have based it off of the scene in MGS but that would have gotten old pretty fast. Even though I enjoy the game in itself, that particular scene is annoying to me, especially since in the PSX version you can't use 1st person aiming.
So what'd you guys think of the chapter? How was my description of the action? As always, please review. I hope to have atleast another chapter in before the weekend's over.