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
I would like you to allow me to address a few discrepancies before you go on to the story. Johann, you expressed confusion over Big Boss being unable to subdue Grey Fox...Of course you are entitled to your opinion, and I don't expect you to accept it but allow me to try some persuasion. I didn't intend for Big Boss to try and beat up Fox. After all Fox is like a son, and it was a very emotional moment (Very emotional compared to normally for Big Boss anyway). He was trying to stop Fox from making the stupid mistake of fighting Solid, but Fox was too quick. Yes, Big Boss is stronger, certainly more powerful, but in his age I think he'd have difficulty keeping up with Grey Fox.
Devil Boss, You said "Ocelot has decided to get away and even Big Boss thinks of things as a near failure by now." I only wish to caution you of reading out of context… Never once did Big Boss admit to actually losing, he just respected Ocelot's decision to leave. On the matter of Ocelot leaving, I must admit I feel conflicted. It doesn't feel to me as if it is Ocelot's character to quit half-way. My only justification is this; Snake can't see ocelot's involvement in Zanzibar Land, At least until later in the Metal Gear Universe. (which by the way is partially the subject of my next story, Philanthropy) I hope this clears things up a little…
If you feel the urge to banter with me, please do so… my only request is that you continue the debate by private message, not by review post please.
Here it is.. The chapter I hope you've all been waiting for…
Chapter 26 Clash with the Iron Titan
1346 Hours, December 24, 1999
Once again Snake found himself in Zanzibar Land building one, slipping in between the doors and entering into the first floor, passing row after row of Goliath tanks, it was right about now that Snake missed his Soliton radar. Foot-steps resounded to Snake's left, and he leaned against the cold metal of the tank treads as the soldier strolled passed. He exited his hiding place, passing the guard untouched as he headed toward the elevator doors in the center of the room.
As he came closer to the elevator shaft, Snake saw a guard making his rounds around the elevator shaft, ritualistically circling the elevator and often out of sight of the doors. Using a row of crates nearby, he hid out of sight until the guard disappeared. Quickly he vaulted over the crates and to the platform, urgently pressing the button on the side panel. Eventually the doors slid open, and Snake hid inside.
Moments later Snake exited the elevator into the barrack level, floor four of Zanzibar Land Building one. He had entered into a short hallway taking a right turn into a four way intersection of halls. The walls were tan, with potted plants every ten feet or so decorating the walls.
As Snake made his way to the middle of the intersection, he had the feeling as if something were missing. There were no voices echoing through the corridor, no thumping of feet as they sauntered through the halls to various areas of the establishment. Snake cautiously made his way into the right hallway. Now he was in sight of the soldiers' barracks and beyond that the locker room, where the sauna was as well.
Snake scrutinized every bunk before proceeding through the narrow passage. Seeing no sign of a threat, the agent made his way to the locker room, which was also devoid of enemy personnel.
Despite his uneasy feeling, Snake continued, passing rows of lockers and coming into view of a metal door, steam seeping through the corners and dissipating into the air. The sauna! The window showing the inside of the room was heavily fogged over, but through the blurred glass Snake could see the outline of a person in the wooden room.
He rapped on the door, a voice answering from the inside, "What, are your wrists broken?"
Once more, Snake hit the door, eliciting a more aggressive response from his unsuspecting victim. The man rose to his feet, approaching to and throwing open the door, "Can't a guy get some peace in here?!"
"Guess not," Snake answered, raising his Berreta to the soldier's forehead.
Water dripping from his hair, the soldier cursed, "You'll get nothin' outta me!"
"I don't intend to." Snake slammed the butt of his gun into the soldier's neck, knocking the man out cold. He dragged the half naked soldier to a vacant locker, where he locked him inside standing up.
Snake opened the sauna door, slipping inside the humid and warm air, water clinging to his body within seconds. In the heat he pulled out the brooch, holding it directly above the oven. For a few seconds nothing notable seemed to be happening. Snake began to wonder of Dr. Madnar was wrong about the transforming alloy. Then quite suddenly, the brooch softened, shifting in weight and size. It began to take a different shape. Slowly but surely it became a shaft with several teeth on one end and a ring on the other, The key.
As Snake made his way back to the elevator, a beeping in his eared alerted him to a call. Bennet's voice, nervous with fear, answered him on the other side. *140.23* "Snake! Don't come to the first floor! The soldiers have an ambush waiting for you!"
"So that's why there are no soldiers up here… I expected as much… Do you have any C4 in the supply truck?"
*140.23* "Yeah, I- I probably do… Why exactly?"
"I've got a plan, and I'm gonna need your help again."
*140.23* "Oh great! This is going to be fun." Sarcasm evident in Bennet's voice, "I can tell already…"
Sergeant Macoy stood with twelve other soldiers at the first floor elevator lobby. They stood there waiting for the intruder for perhaps ten minutes, unsure if he was even going to show. Macoy's trigger-finger was getting itchy, and he urged to scratch it on the bastard who had destroyed the base's third floor and killed at least twelve of his comrades, and that was just the ones they've found. Seven or eight more, probably more by now, had never reported back in after their shift was up.
The intruder was bound to be coming at any moment. Macoy was only just out of patience when the platform beeped, and the meter above the door indicated that the elevator was headed in his direction. Finally! "Okay." He spoke to his soldiers, "Shoot on sight! But if any one of you shoot the stupid bastard before I get the chance, your ass is mine!"
Ding…Ding… Ding… The elevator doors glided open, and rifles raised, four of the soldiers entered the platform. When they saw no sign of the intruder, they hand signaled for Macoy to come and scope out the situation.
He entered the elevator, and after a thorough look, he saw on sign that the intruder was ever even in the elevator, that was until he looked at the ceiling. The elevator hatch was left slightly ajar, indicating that the foreign agent had escaped through the ventilation shafts. Macoy hand-signaled for one of the soldiers to open the hatch.
The bravest of the four approached, and using his muzzle he pushed open the escape-way. A small green object fell to the floor with a thud, and by the time the soldier's looked down they were already dead. "KABOOOM!" The grenade erupted in a ball of molten shrapnel shards, killing all the men in the elevator and several outside.
Snake was already outside the compound when the first explosion thundered through the building. Bennet's C4 had served it's purpose well, not to mention that the soldier's placement of the explosives was superb. As they drove away in the getaway truck, Snake watched as sentries scrambled out of the building, several of them attempting to start up the combat Humvees and trucks which surrounded the burning, collapsing building. The Humvees exploded into glorious shrapnel when the keys were turned in the ignition, preventing any unwanted pursuers from following the two as they made their way back to the hangar.
Solid Snake stood in the torture room, Dr. Marv's limp body still strapped into the revolving bed which was placed beside his locker. Snake pulled out the brooch key, "Here goes nothing." He inserted it into the keyhole, and the key turned without meeting any resistance. The locker made a satisfying *Click* and Snake pulled open the locker to find the card inside, suspended in a case over a small case of acid. Snake removed the case from the mechanism, ripping it open and pulling out the PlayStation disc, "SNATCHER" written in bold across the cover. He pocketed the disc, and dialed Holly's codec number *140.76* "Snake! Did you find it?"
"I found it Holly. It's completely intact…"
*140.76* "Let's get out of here Snake."
"No… I can't. I've still got a job to do…"
*140.76* "No! Snake, you can't go!"
"I have to Holly! It's my job… My duty… and… and for once I'm not just doing it for myself…"
*140.76* "Snake? What are you saying?"
"I'm doing this for you, Holly… No one else can take Big Boss down, you know that. I need to know where the hangar is… Give the communicator to Madnar…"
The microphone crackled as Holly passed it to Madnar, who spoke into the microphone, *140.76* "Snake… I can't express the regret I feel right now… Twice now, you've had to destroy my creations… I can only hope you can destroy it before it causes anymore harm…Metal Gear's weakest point is just as before; it's legs… if you can take out it's legs then you can prevent nuclear fallout…"
"Where's the entrance to Metal Gear's hangar?"
*140.76* "There's a false wall concealing an elevator at the end of the hallway where the torture room is located… Good luck… Solid Snake."
"Thank you for your help, Doctor…"
Several ounces of C4 later, Snake stood in the platform which will take him twenty floors below… To face an old enemy. Would he succeed? Would he die?.. No. There was only one option… Destroying Metal Gear and killing Big Boss. Whether he died in the struggle was irrelevant…
The doors slid open, revealing three soldiers whose rifles were all trained on Snake. His mind whirring like a machine, Snake rolled as they pulled their triggers, missing the bullets and pulling out his Desert Eagle… He kicked the central soldier to the ground as he got to his feet, flipping backward to avoid another volley of lead rounds. Snake fired, a bullet piercing the prone soldier's head.
The other two soldiers assaulted, attempting to use their guns as bludgeons. Snake gripped the gun of the closer sentry, using his thumb to pull the trigger and empty the barrel into his comrade's abdomen, who promptly fell over dead. Snake pulled the gun down, head-butting his skull into his adversary's own. The man fell over, and Snake shot him in the head for good measure. Two steel doors resided at the end of the corridor.
Snake passed through the armored doors, entering into a gaping room, the hangar where Snake's most formidable enemy stood, motionless, yet no less malevolent. "Metal Gear?!"
The hulking mechanical monster stood twelve meters tall, with a missile pod mounted on each side, the left larger than the right. A radome was set below the left missile module, and the body was sleek and angular to avoid air-drag, like a sports-car's chassis. The 'head' of the monster which contained it's visual sensors was placed beside the open cockpit. A Vulcan cannon was mounted between the hydraulic legs which supported the full weight of the bipedal tank. A single hundred megawatt laser was emplaced at the nose of Metal Gear D.'s hull, glowing blue in the dimly light hangar. A figure stood on the shoulder of the robot, and yelled in a familiar voice, "BOSS GET OUT OF HERE!"
"Big Boss?" Snake turned in time to see another man bolting through a door on the opposite side of the hangar, and Snake made chase. Snake wasn't fast enough to beat the projectile which issued from Metal Gear's missile pods. It erupted in the exit's doorway, a pile of stone and rubble obscuring Snake's entry and preventing his pursuit.
"Snake!" Grey Fox's voice resonated from the Metal Gear, "You should have listened to me when I told you to clear out back at the bridge!"
"Fox! Why are you still protecting Big Boss?!"
"Reasons you don't need to know old friend…It's been a while since I've seen you face to face Snake. You'll find that I'm not the same as I used to be… and neither is Metal Gear!"
"I don't want to fight you, Fox."
"Well then… Unless you have a death wish it looks as if you have no choice in the matter! I am Frank Jaeger, The Frank Hunter! I don't lose in a fight!"
"There's a first for everything."
"That sounds like a challenge. I'll show you what fear is, Solid Snake! Prepare to taste defeat at the hands of this most historic weapon! Consider it an honor… A gift from an old comrade."
The eyes of the iron giant lit up red through the sensors' lenses. Steam spouted from an exhaust pipe behind the vehicle, and the machine began to rumble.
"Now, you shall bear witness to the demon weapon that will drag the world into the twenty-first century!"
The concrete beneath Metal Gear's feet cracked as the bipedal tank shifted it's weight as it began to move. Screeching as it's parts scraped together, the robot lumbered to where Snake stood. It's body was nearly above Snake when Fox brought the machine's foot over. Snake rolled, the Titanium leg pulverizing the concrete below where Snake had stood only moments before.
Snake ripped a grenade from his backpack, bringing the top to his mouth and removing the pin with his teeth. Keeping a firm grip on the clip, He sprinted behind the beast tossing the explosive to the vehicle's right leg. "KABOOOM!"
The scratching and creaking of the Metal Gear became shriller, as if it cried out in the pain which following the explosion. The scream was long and loud, an almost enraged sound. The Hangar rumbled with each step, the Gear turning to once again face Snake and reap retribution for his damage. The Vulcan cannon hummed to life, announcing it's arrival with muzzle-flash and a hail of bullets.
Lead peppering the surrounding cement, Snake bolted for the wall. His feet followed as he ran up the face of the wall, the bullets swiping past the agent, leaving him unharmed. "GggraaaAAWW! STAND STILL!"
After landing back on his feet Snake pulled out his Uzi, wielding the submachine gun and his Desert Eagle simultaneously, firing on the Gear's radome. The bullets sparked a rain of fire with each impact, but none could penetrate the radome's thick armor. *Click* *Click* his Deagle had run out of ammo.
The Gear let loose with another wave of bullets, forcing Snake to strafe to avoid the fire as he pulled out another two grenades. He removed the pins and threw the grenades across the floor, rolling them to Metal Gear's feet. The grenade's tumbled and rolled to it's legs, exploding in a ball of fire and smoke. The Behemoth shrieked, trembling as it absorbed the full brunt of the explosion.
Metal Gear Demyan shuddered, struggling, to support itself with it's hydraulic legs. It's legs crumpled beneath the hull, and the clicking and scratching of the Gear's moving parts ceased.
"Did that do it?"
Several moments passed before Fox's voice rang from the robot. "Nice try Snake! You don't have what takes after all!"
Steam shot out from the exhaust in full force, and the 'eyes' of the beast seemed to shine with renewed malice as the monster lurched to life. It lumbered to it's feet, turning to face it's adversary. Fire glowed from inside the shaft of it's missile pods, and four rockets sped toward where Snake stood. Snake pulled the trigger of his Uzi, firing on the approaching projectiles. The first two erupted into a ball of flame, but the remaining two came too close to be dismantled. They exploded, the pressure of the detonation knocking Snake twelve meters backward.
Snake's head throbbed from the impact, and his ears rang from his proximity to the discharge. The agent scrambled to his feet, rifling through his backpack to find another grenade. His hand could not find another grenade within the rucksack, but instead his hand enclosed around a block of C4. In true kamikaze style, Snake ran straight at his adversary, holding the clay-like explosive to his chest to protect it from machine gun fire.
With bullets impacting the floor behind him, Snake dropped to his knees, sliding in between the Gear's legs. He pressed the plastic explosive against the monster's foot, praying that it would stick long enough for him to get far enough away and shoot it from a distance.
The robot turned as Snake came around, wielding his Uzi and firing on the C4, yet none of his bullets seemed to be able to find their target. Once more the missile pod's shaft glowed hot with flame as rockets exited the shaft, three rockets in total sped toward where Snake stood.
Snake rolled to the side, too far for the missiles to meet their target. "You missed!" he mocked.
"Check again, Snake! HAhahahaha!"
Snake turned to see the rockets as they circled around, once more headed in his direction. He flipped backward, vaulting over the missiles now passing safely below him. The missiles now sped toward the mech, "NOOOOOO!!", Metal Gear Demyan was struck three times; in the radome, in the hull, and finally in the leg where the C4 resided. A shrill scream echoed in the hangar, emanating from the Gear as explosion after explosion racked the mechanical frame.
The radome fell to pieces, and the hull was ripped in two. It's legs turned to nothing but scrap, the robot stumbled, slamming into the wall and sinking to the floor. "FOOOOX!"
Through the fire and the flames, Snake climbed onto the iron heap, trying to find the cockpit with his former ally inside. As he pried open the cockpit, another blast erupted to his left, tossing his body fourteen meters back, tumbling onto the cracked concrete floor. Snake's vision began to black-out, and before he lost consciousness, he could barely see a figure crawl out from the mech's wreckage.
Author's Note: Soooo… How was it? I feel like I did pretty decent for my first real man vs. robot fight. Sorry I couldn't put Fox vs. Snake in this update, but I was getting impatient to update. And so Metal Gear D has fallen... Big Boss' plans have gone up in smoke with the burning fumes of his Gear. Will Snake be able to stop Grey Fox? Will Grey Fox stop Snake once and for all and escape? Will I stop asking annoying questions and get to the point already? Find out next time on Dragon Bal- (wrong show!) on Metal Gear Solid: Resurrection!
I am compelled to beg on hand and knee, please review my chapter. If you find any major issues in the story I ask that you report them to me ASAP. It will make your reading better and my story will have improved as well. A double whammy of awesomeness.