DMITRII (CRAZED OCELOT): Formerly known as CHRISTIAN

Crazed Ocelot lying on the floor of the abandoned home, he couldn't help but to stare blankly at the ceiling above. Sleep was evading him, just like it was avoiding the others. The foul, overwhelming stench of blood clogged their noses and the ever persistent sound of a hammer colliding with steel coming from the garage wasn't helping the situation either. The only individuals who could stand the racket were Ghost, because he was the one causing the damn noise, and Wolf, since she was wide awake. Wolf was up in the middle of the night training her but off. With a new sword, the very sword his adoptive father created before the OUTBREAK, in her grasp, she was focused on getting use to the new weapon.

Within a short amount of time, she had gotten to the point where she could send her lightning through the blade, where it could course through the metal and arc off its surface. Now, she was focused on figuring out a way to fire off bolts and waves of lightning, similar to how she could do so without the weapon. Before long, morning had arrived, much too early for Ocelot's taste. His internal clock was literally screaming at him, signaling his that sleep was no longer a reachable goal by this point.

His internal clock and the constant banging of the hammer were becoming an annoying, unstoppable tune playing inside his head. It got to the point where he wanted to bang his own head up against a wall and demand Ghost to stop the damn racket once and for all. He was just about to make that thought a reality when everything went sound in an instant. The silence that had fallen felt like a gift sent from God himself as everyone within the room filled the air with sighs of relief. As the door to the garage door opened, the African exited the room with a couple of objects wrapped within a cloth. As he walked across the room, he eventually crashed down onto the slightly blood covered couch, sitting the weapons down onto the nearby cushion beside him.

"So? Are you going to show us what you made?" Raven asked as she growled grumpily from the lack of sleep. "It should be something to see since it kept us awake all night."

Glancing over at Raven, Ghost simply flipped the cloth off the objects, revealing a couple of knives that were at least two feet long. The blades looked like some sort of machete knives, with the blades being thick at the base, slowly becoming thinner at the end. The blades had a bit of a grove on the top, as if it was meant to hook, along with a few ridges that could dig into flesh. The main part of the blade looked like a katana with a thick blade. As for the handles, there was no guard, however, they had 2/3 inch wide circle with a smaller half-inch circle underneath the blade and hilt.

The overall appearance of the blades was a sight to behold. Instead of the normal silver coating, these blades were black, stainless steel. They looked like they had more than one use, which Ghost could probably come up with. These were no doubt blades Ghost would be using in no time.

"Let me get this straight. You kept us up all night long because you were making a fucking pair of pot stickers?" Tiger growled incredulously as she stared at the blades. By this point, Wolf was quietly entering the room. "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!" She yelled. Buddy growled as he curled himself up in a warm corner. After a minute, he finally calmed down and tried to fall asleep once more.

"It's obvious that you don't understand the use of a blade. Any gun can be dangerous, that's true, but when it has no ammo, it becomes useless." Ocelot snapped as he picked up one of the butcher knives to examine its details. "But as for a blade, it's useful until you or something breaks it." He adds as he swings it through the air a few times. "Let me guess…" he began as he glanced over at Ghost. "You made them to last longer against those guys we ran into?"

"Yeah, you're correct." Ghost answered. "I lost a couple of good blades during that incident." Ghost added as he clenched his hands as he remembered how weak he felt at that moment in time. He hoped that these new blades last longer than the old ones. After all, he did use more material to make them then the others.

"Hey, Spi, what are you doing over there with that laptop? You've been on that thing since 0200." Octopus asked the Russian as the mad continued to evaluate the device in his hands.

"I'm calibrating the damn thing so it can pick up a signal from a nearby tower." He answered. "Hey Wolf, do you think you can spark something from this TV cable?" Spider questioned as he pulled out an old cable, which was plugged into the bullet riddled TV from the living room.

Wolf looked at the cable and thought about it for a moment before grabbing the cable. Focusing on the item, she caused a small spark of electricity to spring to life. The cord shook slightly, but that was it. Nothing else occurred. Wolf continued to stand there, grasping the cord, with her eyes shut. A few minutes passed with nothing happening, but Wolf was still standing there with her eyes closed. Spider and the others were starting to become worried since Wolf hadn't moved at all for quite some time.

"Wolf…?" Ghost asked as he stood up from his seat. "What are you doing?" As he walked over to her, he reached his hand out to touch her shoulder. Just as he was an inch away from doing so, a large arc of electricity lashes out and strikes him hard, forcing energy into his body and ultimately sending him flying back. "Damn it!" he exclaimed as he sat up. "Shit, it's gone numb." He mumbled as he held up his hand, examining it. As he tried to move his still smoking hand, he only received a slight twitch. It was clear to see that the nerves in his hand were fired from Wolf's "defense system".

"What the hell was that?!" Raven yelled as the others looked at Wolf with surprised and curious eyes. "What the hell is wrong with her?"

"I'm not sure." Mantis answers as he looks at his sister. "To be honest, it looks as if she's in a similar state I enter whenever I attempt to enter the minds of other people to lock away their memories. She's… She's projecting herself into the interfaces of computers and electronics. It seems that she's only able to enter ones that are plugged in somewhere and are connected to a tower or some other device." Mantis explains.

"Okay. So what are we suppose to do while she's in this "state"?" Mongoose asked the South American.

"Hmm. When it comes down to my version, I need someone to guard me while I'm in my mental state." Mantis explains. "But in Wolf's case, she uses her ability to manipulate lightning and turns her body into a walking zapper. Get to close to her and… well; you saw what just happened to Ghost here. But I have a feeling that she also has her powers of telekinesis in play as well. I wouldn't be surprised if she created a invisible barrier around herself in order to protect herself from outside threats that are physical or elemental."

Wanting to see if these thoughts were at all true, Mantis pulled out a small throwing knife and flung the weapon straight at Wolf. However, before the weapon could hit its mark, the knife curved off an invisible barrier and ended up sinking into a nearby wall. Mantis simply nodded her head, noting that Wolf had indeed created barriers from her own abilities.

"Okay. So how the hell do we snap her out of this trance she's in?" Tiger asked.

"All we can do now is sit here and wait for the projection to finish." Mantis answers. "We can't touch her, meaning, we can't move her. "But of course, if anyone wants to try, be my guess. But fair warning, you'll probably end up like a dead bug who wondered too far into the glowing light before it."

At that, no one dared to move towards Wolf. They all decided to take Mantis's word and just sit there until their comrade returns back to reality on her own.

ASHIA (CRYING WOLF)

After pushing some energy into the cord, Wolf found herself standing within a world that was quite unknown to her. The area around her was pitch black and dark with hundreds, maybe even thousands, of colored cubes. Some were as big as cars while others were as small as cats and other small animals. The colors of the cubes ranged from blue, pink, green, purple and even orange.

The purple cubes she spotted seemed to be dim and were mostly clumped together like a school of fish. Standing there, a small pod of purple cubes swayed around her. Within the group, a slightly larger purple cube came up to her but manages to stop itself before it could run right into her. Seconds later, the cube slowly backs away and heads back into the direction it came. Looking around, Wolf spotted more cubes out in the distance. There was a school of purple cubes surrounding a large blue cube as it slowly moved forward.

Turning her head towards another direction, she spotted an even bigger school of purple cubes, this one surrounding an orange cube. There were also a few blue and yellow cubes surrounding them Glancing around, she spotted large, car size, pink cubes as they moved as if they were moving on set routes. Small cubes that were a strange mixture of yellow and pink were buzzing high above the others, acting like bees or small birds. There were some white cubes that stood in place and were spaced out farther from the others. And even with the blackened area, Wolf could see there were indeed black cubes in the area. There were hundreds of them, mixing in with the other colors and a few cracked ones.

Many of these black cubes, which had small white sparks on them, were surrounded by green and it looked as if the green cubes were feeding off them in some way. As she continued to surveillance of the new area, she suddenly found herself freezing in place by what caught her eye next. A lone grayish-pink cube could be seen moving in the distance along with plain grey cubes. Close to it was a sun-sized blood red cube that had a few brownish color ones circling it. For some reason, she got an eerie feeling just by looking at it.

After taking her eyes off those cubes, Wolf finally took in the entire place that surrounded her. She then turned her attention back onto the school of purple cubes that had finally passed her. Within the school, she spotted a small white one that looked like it was slowly dying out. Catching up with the group, Wolf reached out for the cube. Just as her finger barely grazes the cube's surface, the cube suddenly pulsates before growing and morphing into a figure of a small child.

"What the hell?" Wolf gasps to herself as she looks at the strange phenomenon happening before her very eyes.

"Please… Stop him. He's… He's hurting me?" the white figure mutters, its voice mimicking that of a young child. The cube soon points at the purple cube that was circling it.

"Huh?" Wolf says. "Why do you want me to do that?" she asks.

"I-I am the… the core that… that represents that computer. All these cubes… they represent a sort of… electronic connection to the interface." The cube figure explains. "The purple ones represent you humans…. Mainly the ones who have nano-machines…"

After standing there, pondering at the information, realization quickly hits her. Spider was messing around with the computer to being with. He was poking at the hard drive before she found herself in this place. So it made since that the purple cube the white cube was pointing at was in fact Spider. Spider was, unknowingly, killing the computer that, somehow, had a level of consciousness as a living person. The computer, the system before her, could feel and it was feeling pain at the moment. Without a second thought, Wolf smacked the purple cube away from the white figure.

The cube Wolf knocked back floated away and was quickly surrounded by the other purple cubes that were lingering close by. Before long, the cubes all backed away from the one Wolf hit. She could only assume that the other cubes were her comrades. As Wolf looked at them, a thought suddenly came to her. Walking over to the largest cube of the group, she patted it casually. As a response, the purple cube pulsed and chimed like a codec call and soon morphed into a large male figure as a mouth slowly formed from it.

"Wolf?" Ghost's voice asked as it came from the newly formed purple figure. "How did you contact me with activating you codec?"

"I have no idea. But it may have something to do with this place I'm in." she explains. "This is just a thought. But I think I can access any kind of electronic device from here."

"Tell me. Was that you who shocked Spider from the computer?" he asked. A thoughtful look appears on Wolf's face as she looks over at the cube she smacked away.

Looking back at Ghost's figure, she answers, "In a way, I think it was. But it wasn't from the computer." She explains. "He asked me to get the figure away from him because Spider was hurting him. So I-"

"Wait a minute. Who's he?" The man asks.

"He is the computer." She answers. "You see… he has a conscious. Not only that but he can feel, and before I struck Spider, he was feeling pain. It's clear that he is aware of things humans and other living things are. To be honest, I think every single electronic is aware of things we thought they weren't. It's possible that they've always been this way and we just didn't know about it." Wolf tells him as she looks over the new world that the computer had dubbed the 'Interface'.

"Wait. Are you saying that every electronic is…. Is alive?" he asks. "They are aware of their surroundings just like any human or animal is?"

"Yes. It seems so." She answers. For a moment, silence takes over. It wasn't longer before Wolf hears Ghost's voice once more.

"Try talking with a Gekko." It wasn't a suggestion, it was an order.

"And why the hell would I do that?" she asks in a blunt but nervous tone.

"If its aware like you say it is, then you can find out why the follow the program of Babylon." He explains. "Try to ask them that." he orders before ending the call.

Wolf couldn't help but to sigh inwardly, "That's Darkarai for ya. He'll turn any situation into a mission." She says to herself. "But I suppose he has a point. If this can help us move forward, then maybe I should take the chance. However, I still don't think this is a good idea." Sighing to herself once more, she turns towards the computer core figure. "Huh. Which cores are the Gekko, um…?"

"Our names in this world are too long and far too complicated to simply tell you. They are long strings of letters and numbers to you, but to help, you can just call me "M6"." He says. "These are the last two figures of my string. And to answer your question, these "Gekko" you speak of. If you want to communicate with them without having to go back and forth, you can just create a small shard from a core and take it with you. Think of it as a small portable device that can communicate with any device." M6 explains as he points to the car-size pink cube that was moving around the area.

"So it's like an unlimited flash drive." Wolf mumbles to herself. "Alright. How do I do that?"

"The Interface walker come here at times, and any common information that doesn't breach our contract to humans is spread around like your humans' gossip does. However, beware. Once you make contact with the 'Gekko', he or she may be neutral as all our kind are to humans. Regardless of this, they will signal where you are in the Outer world and alert the larger blood red core to your presence." M6 tells her as he fearfully points at the huge red core in the distance.

"Wait. If that's true, then does that mean they already know that I'm here since I made contact with you?" Wolf asks. "And furthermore, why hasn't that red cube come after me yet?"

"No, not at all." M6 answers. "Let me explain. Even though I know you're here, I cannot broadcast your location even if I wanted to. The reason for this is because doing so will be a breach in my contract. I'm not like "SOP". He has fallen just like he did when he use to be known as G.W. Ever since that incident, you humans have lost the ability to track each other via your nano-machines. Not only you, but the Gekko and the great Babylon has lost this ability as well. The only thing I can do is tell the others of there being a third walker within the interface and nothing more."

"Hmm. Thanks for the info, M6. I greatly appreciate it." Wolf says in a gratifying tone. Walking over to Ghost's cube, she takes a shard of his nano-machine core and begins to concentrate on returning back to the natural world. Snapping her eyes open, she finds everyone sitting around, looking directly at her. "Let's get to the BTR and get moving." Wolf says as she picks up the laptop, putting it back together as best as she could. Closing the item, she sits it on the table and heads out the door.

"Why? What information did you get from the Gekko?" Ghost questions as he orders the platoon to follow along.

"M6, the laptop I was communicating with, said that if I were to come into contact with a Gekko, they would alert others to my location in this world." She explains. "Meaning, it's not a wise idea to talk to them while we're sitting in one specific place."

"Wouldn't you have to be in contact with an electronic source in order to return back to that realm?" Spider asks in a slightly confused tone. He still didn't know how to respond to what had happened moments ago.

"Not a problem. You see, we're already in contact with a electronic connection." She tells them. Some give her a confused look, signaling her to continue. "Our nano-machines. They are connected to the contact. I also learned that I could be inside this new state of mine at any time. I've just never figured out I had this ability because I never decided to push my power into an electronic device."

As she explains, she climbs into the BTR and takes her seat. Once the gear was packed and everyone was in their seats, they took off. While inside the BTR, everyone made sure they gave Wolf enough space. The last thing either of them wanted was to be shocked and sent flying. Ghost sure as hell didn't want that happening to him for the second time that day.

Closing her eyes, Wolf focused on entering the new world once more. Channeling her power, she sends the energy through her nano-machines. Before long, she finds herself inside the interface. As the cores around her moved, she found herself moving slightly in order to avoid them. Looking around, her eyes land on a pink cube. Reaching out, she hesitantly taps the cube's surface, causing the item to pulsate and form into a pink woman.

"Who… Who are you? You look nothing like Mbili." The pink figure states as she walks around Wolf, looking up and down at her figure.

"Crying Wolf." Wolf states simply. "I need to know why you follow the program of Babylon."

"Babylon, I have forty-five seconds before my hard drive signals in onto your location and alerts my brothers and sister and Babylon converges on you, even though you're moving." she tells her as she crosses her arms.

"Then stop wasting time and tell me everything you know. This pull is annoying as hell." Wolf huffs. It was clear that she didn't like this core whatsoever.

"I don't much care about you human either. But my contract demands it..." She tells her. "Now then, back to the topic at hand. I and my family don't know anything. We're just like your human armies. We're nothing more than foot soldiers. We complete the work ones a part of the higher up don't feel like doing. Babylon hacked our drives and changed our contract to the follow their orders. 30 seconds." The Gekko states as she explains everything.

"I keep hearing you all say contract. What exactly is that and why do you all seem to follow one?" Wolf asks as the pull on her mind really begins to irritate her.

"A contract is simple a set of laws. It dictates what we can or cannot do. But unlike you humans, many of us don't have the will power to go against it." She explains. "One who have the ability to do so are cyborgs, ones like the great Lightning Jack and the legendary Blade Wolf."

As she tells her this, she points towards a fast moving pink core that could be seen in the distance. Close by was a black and white cube. Wolf clearly had missed this since her focused had been on the cluster of purple cubes that now surrounded her.

"Fifteen seconds, human." The Gekko reminds her in a monotone voice.

"Where can I get more info on the matter?" she asks.

"Maybe from them, but I highly doubt they know anything at all." She answers. "By the way, we have found you, as has the Babylon core…" she adds as she points at something that was behind Wolf.

Turning around, Wolf comes face to face with a large, blood red cube that was in the shape of a figure staring her down with demonic black eyes. Wolf quickly notices a devilish grin with black teeth forming on the red figure's face.

"I suggest you leave this world and return to your own and help your kind." The pink figure tells her. "If you linger in this world any longer, either this world will destroy your mind or Babylon catches you and kills you instead."

As the pink cube left to rejoin her group, Wolf could only stand there, staring at the red figure that was towering her. She quickly breaks herself out of her trance when she saw the figure raise its huge leg, looking as if it was about to squash her like a bug. Without a second thought, Wolf ejected herself out of the interface. She manages to escape, just before the large leg crashed down in the very spot she was standing in moments ago. The core could only screech in rage as it lost it chance to kill its prey before it escaped. As the roar echoed through the air, the core returned back to it former state and floated back to its original location.

DMITRII (CRAZED OCELOT) Formerly CHRISTIAN

Wolf was still inside that interface world or whatever as they group swerved around cars, running through people's abandoned yards. They were traveling smoothly up until a swarm of Gekko appeared. Because of this, Spider had no choice but to move off the streets and onto unpaved roads. The Gekko mooed like cows as they fired their weapons or tried to stomp down on them.

So far, Spider was doing a good job avoiding their attacks. As he did so, Ocelot used the mounted mini-gun while his blonde counterpart used Wolf's firearm, hefting from left to right, thanks to Hummingbird. The two couldn't help but wonder how the living hell Crying Wolf could lug around the weapon, much less, shrug of the recoil the gun gave off with each shot fired.

Octopus had lost her grip a fair amount of times when she was firing the damn thing. But that stopped when Ghost snatched it from her grasp and instead allowed her to handle an AK-47. When they hit the highway, they still had eight Gekko running after them. Having about enough of the chase, Ghost tossed down the firearm in his hands and resorted to his Pyro ability. With a slight twitch of his hand, Ghost fired a fire bullet, blowing up the Gekko he had lined up in his sights. He continued doing this until there wasn't a single Gekko left standing. But even though the immediately threat was over, the team knew better not to let their guards down.

And they were right. Moments later, Ocelot noticed a white streak coming up from their right flank. The clouds were being cut through like butter by something flying through them. Then suddenly, a long thin black metal pole, about a foot long, hit the lip of the opening. It looked like an arrow as it quivered on impact. Once it stopped moving, two green lights appear, one changing to a red color, blinking and beeping violently.

Ghost quickly grabbed the weapon and used one of his blade to cut the shaft that had the light attached to it. As soon as he throws the object away from him and the team, the second light turned red and went off. The arrow blow up, raining chunks of concrete and shrapnel as it exploded, showing them that it had been a bomb. A figure flew in front of them and fired three more at their twelve o, clock. Ghost used his force field to protect everyone. It was then that Wolf finally woke up. Getting to her feet, she equipping her machine gun and got ready for the fight. The explosive arrows tapped off and fell around them as they passed and blew up the grown behind them.

"I got my own trick too, you bitch!" Ghost barks as he blows fire at the flying woman, which he learned was none other than Tatu. She was wearing a pair of goggles, shielding her eyes as her purple hair was fluttering hard in the wind. She looked down at the group with an evil smile printed on her face.

"Msiwe kama kuwa, sita (Don't be like that Sita)" Tatu called out as she used her power of wind to miss direct the stream of fire away from her. "Why don't you join me? You being held back in this pitiful resistance that your military has created. Its saddening. The blood lust is building up inside you. I can feel it." She continued as she made the BTR skid to a halt. "Its unlike you to hold such a power back."

"And how the hell would you know?" Ghost snarled at the silver clad woman in the air.

"Because, that's not your true nature. You were made to kill… just like the rest of us." She stated bluntly. "You holding back your blood lust is the same as locking up a wild animal in a cage. It will continue to bide its time, wait patiently, until its release." She said as she released a dark laugh. "Or until it finally finds a moment to break out. And when that happens…"

"And when that happens, it's going to be a bloody slaughter." Ghost mutters to himself. He knew everyone from his original platoon knew how he could get a bit out of control. Especially when it came to enemies he fought in hand-to-hand combat.

Before the flying woman could continue with her rambling, a streak of lightning appears from out of nowhere, missing her by only a inch. Turning his head, Ocelot glanced back to see Wolf with her arm extended out before her. Wolf didn't look too pleased, and who could blame her. Ocelot saw the angry glare in her eyes as she stared the woman down with a emotion much more powerful than hate. And if the anger in her eyes didn't tell him she was pissed, then the scowl she was wearing did.

Suddenly, the back door to the BTR opened, allowing the remaining members of the platoon to exit. They all stared the woman down; aiming whatever weapons they had in their grasps towards her. Even Buddy stood in a attack position as he growled at the woman. He eyes burning red as foam formed around the corners of his mouth. Ocelot could only turn back around to glance back at the woman. Of course she had him and the others against her, but it didn't help her situation if she had Ghost's canine and human partners glaring daggers at her.

"It seems that I'm clearly outnumbered here." Tatu mutter, her evil smile stayed firmly in place. "No matter. I was only here for a pleasant visit, but I think I've overstayed my welcome. However, I can't leave you all just yet. Well, not without a parting gift of course!" She yelled just before she whipped an arrow from her quiver, firing one right a Buddy. With that, she created a small vortex to misdirect the rain of bullets that were heading for her. She quickly shot into the sky, fleeing the scene as fast as she could.

Her departure left a large streak of white smoke behind her as she headed east. Once the vortex disappeared, Ocelot found Ghost hovering over his beloved pet as he whimpered quietly in pain. Tatu's arrow had struck Buddy, right into the animal's chest.

DARKARIA/ELIJAH (GHOST)

The bitch had got away, but not before taking out his dog. Buddy wasn't just his only pet, he had others, but he had a close bond with him. And shooting Buddy was the same as shooting a relative or close friend of his. He was thankful that the arrow wasn't an explosive one, but that didn't help the situation at all. The point of the matter was that Buddy was dying and there wasn't anything he could do about it.

"The Spirit… Collect the spirit Darkarai quickly before you lose it for good…." A silent whisper told him in to his. It sounded familiar, but Ghost didn't have the patience to figure that out.

Glancing up, hovering over Buddy's lifeless body was a white will-o-wisp in the shape of a sleeping puppy. Because Ghost and Wolf were the only ones who could see the small spirit, confusion continue to hang over the remaining members of the platoon. Ignoring their confused stares, Ghost grasped the soul, to which, it awoke in his hands. That's when the voice from before spoke again.

"Use that block of wood on the side of you. Burn it and force the soul into It." it stated.

Without asking a single question, Ghost looked to his right to find a broken tree branch. Grasping the branch in his free hand, he quickly set it ablaze and gently pushed the puppy's soul into it. As they waited, the branch eventually burned into nothing more than a pile of ash. A few moments later, the ash began to rekindle and burn once again. But as it did so, the ash began to rise and take on a new shape as well.

First, four legs were formed, followed a body, a tail and eventually a head with pointed ears. Fiery red eyes blinked to life as smoke freed from its slightly opened mouth. After becoming aware of its surroundings, the red eyes moved, landing on Ghost. Staring at him, the form of ash barked like a dog. But what came afterwards shocked everyone.

"Master…" A dark, but sub-servant voice called out.

"What?!" Ghost managed to muter out. He could only look at the dog with a surprised look in his eyes.

"Don't you recognize me, Master?" the dog spoke once more. "Once upon a time, I did have a name…" he added.

"Huh? Buddy?" Ghost asked. A second later, a smirk began to form as he got of off his knees. He just stood up, staring down as his resurrected companion.

"Hmm. So you do remember me." said the creature. "However, I'm no longer Buddy. You see, my true body died, along with that name. So with this new form, I believe a new name should be given as well."

"What the hell? How the fuck is this even possible?" Tiger questioned as she pointed accusingly at the dog made of ash that stood feet before her and the others. The dog's ashy fur bristled slightly, fire flared over its body for a moment, signaling that it was becoming greatly annoyed.

"Can I kill her, Master?" he asked. "She's too loud and very annoying." It added with a growl as it stared at Tiger with a menacing glare. This caused Tiger to take a few steps back.

"Well, I agree with you that she's loud and annoying." Ghost told him, to which, everyone, with the exception of Wolf, looked at him strangely. All they could hear was the creature barking.

"Ghost." Wolf stated, causing the said man to look at her. "Care to explain how you did that? All I saw was you grabbing a white puppy and pushing it into a burning branch." She stated. The man just stood there, sending her a dark smirk.

"I can't really explain it myself. But I think, somehow, I was able to save Buddy's soul." He told her. "And I think, because of that, I was able to create a elemental beast. I'm just as confused as you are here."

"Yeah, I can see that." she stated as she looked down at the resurrected Buddy. "Well, the way I see it, we can't just let him roam around. Well, not without a proper name, of course. And to be honest, I don't think you have a good sense of naming."

"Okay, so I called him Buddy. It was just an fly little name I came up with off the spot." Ghost explained. "I can do better."

"I highly doubt that." she muttered as she folded her arms against her chest. As the two glanced down at the new ally, the dog continued to walk around, glancing back as it watched its footprints leave behind burned indentions on the concrete.

"Just what the hell are you and Wolf?!" Badger suddenly exclaimed in shock. "Are you two some kind of super human or strange phenomenon?" She added as she looked fearfully at the three.

"I think it had something to do with the water in Africa. There had to be something inside it." Ocelot jokingly stated with a slight chuckle.

"Yeah, it's obvious that there was something in the water." Wolf stated in a sarcastic tone.

"No, there wasn't. Or at least, I don't think there was." Ghost told them, earning a glare from Wolf in the process. "I know for a fact that most had the ability to awaken hidden abilities similar to the ones we have. If you have this awakening inside you, there must be something to make it happen. A trigger of some sort."

"We're not super human. Raiden would most likely fall into that category." Wolf told them. "His minor ability to manipulate lightning shows he had this awakening. Plus, he was born in Liberia."

"And there's Python. I heard he could turn a battlefield into a small controlled blizzard if he could by enough time to do so." Ghost added.

"Yeah, you're right about that." Cougar stated.

"Alright, I think we had enough of an history lesson for today.' Ocelot chimed in. "So what now? Are we still heading to Canada?"

"Of course." Wolf and Ghost answered together.

"We have to reach Alaska and check out Shadow Moses for any survivors." He explained. "After that, we'll rendezvous with a contact that will take us to Mother Base." He added as he gave his new beast a pat on the head, unknowingly creating a small cloud of soot.

"Alright. Who's the contract?" Mantis asked.

"They are simply known as the FROGS and nothing more." Ghost answered. "All I know is that they will get us to where we need to go. But if and only if we had the SON…?"

"And just what the hell is the Son?!" Tiger asked in an annoyed tone. It was clear to see that the jumping from one topic to another was annoying the hell out of her. Her voice just caused the dog to flare up flames around its body again.

"I don't think it's a what, more of a who." Wolf told her as she glance over at Ghost who was staring dead at Ocelot. Everyone looked at her as she continued to look at Ghost as he looked at Ocelot. Before long, everyone was looking at Ocelot.

"What the fuck are you all looking at…?" Ocelot asked as he looked at everyone with a clueless expression on his face. After a minute, it finally dong on him. "Hold on. They'll only pick us up if I'm with you? How the hell would they know I'm Revolver's son in the first place?"

"You look exactly like him at that age. All you need is the rest of the GRU uniform, work on your face scares and it would look like the man had come back from the dead and found the fountain of damn youth too." Spider said as he took an old black and white photo and shoved it into the blonde's face.

Only Ghost and Ocelot heard the double laced laugh of the spirit at that moment in time. Although Ocelot was not amused in the least.

"We'll get through the details later. So let's get going. We still have to get to Shadow Moses first." Ghost told them. "Come on Femi." Ghost said to his companion as they headed back to the BTR.

"Femi? What the heck…" Wolf started but just found herself shaking her head. "You know what. I don't want to know. This just proves my point." She told him as she turned to follow the two.

They all packed their things and reentered the BTR to continue on with their journey. Spider quickly put them back on track as he got to the road that would lead them to Canada. About 70 miles/ 112.654 kilometers over the border, Ocelot broke the silence in order to ask a question to the African that sat across from her.

"What do you think of life, Ghost?" He asked. It was a long moment as everyone waited for his answer.

"To me, life is a huge jungle. And at this moment in time, its full of animals...that includes people-" he explained but was suddenly interrupted.

"You think of people as animals? Are you some twisted, sick in the head, psychopath?" Bull questioned in his thick Irish accent.

"Yes I do. And how does that make me a, how you put it? A 'psychopath'?" Ghost asked back.

"It tells me you would kill a man the same way you would an animal. Common game. That's just my opinion though." Mantis spoke up in a monotone.

"We're all animals, just very civilized animals." Ghost told them. "We are born, we live our lives, we kill other animals to survive and we procreate before we die. Leaving behind a child is what we do to keep our species alive. This is why I state the fact that we are animals. Just because our population has dramatically decrease doesn't change that fact." Femi just barked, agreeing with his Master. A small cloud of soot formed soon after. "The life of the common predator… The thing is with me is before the Diamond Dogs drafted me and then became a member of Militaire san Frontaire. I was an animal that didn't fight my instincts. I let it consume me. I allowed myself to get closer to nature, and because of that, I could kill anything with my bare hands. I would use knives to and kill those bastards. And in the end, I would take a piece of them with me once it was over."

"You lived your life like that man from that movie Riddick? You keep what you kill as a souvenir or something?" Octopus asked with a hint of fear in her voice.

"Yes, I did." He said with a nod. "And if I was still in Africa, running free, I would be slaughtering every single man I came across. Of course, I would leave you women alone." he told them. "It's a proven fact that males of any species will attack their own but will leave the females alive. They rarely attack them unless they're provoked." Leaning back in his chair, Ghost just lets out a sigh. "Wolf can tell you first hand that I've done this. She saw me do it once. I massacred an entire camp of Nafsi Giza.

Nearly everyone turned to the female, who simply nodded her head to answer their unspoken questions. A haunted looked played in her eyes as she stared at the floor. At that moment, the women were happy to be who they were. The men however had other thoughts. Spider just ignored the cold chill that ran down his back and fiddled a bit with the radio on the dash. All it was pushing out was white noise as if the machine was stuck on the voice input.

RAIDEN/JACK THE RIPPER

"...massacred a whole Nafsi Giza camp..." The radio signal was patchy but the blonde shinobi still heard most of the conversation and it mad the half crazed cyborg grin like a mad man.

"Soon Roho ya Africa (The Ghost of Africa) I will paint my blade with your blood, and then I'll be able to appease Brother. Snake, we have clearly surpassed him...Roho has power to match us and understands the struggle of survival... He will beat me... or I will beat him. Just as The Boss fought Big Boss." Jack said to his other half out loud as his optical processor showed him an internal feed of Raiden before he became a cyborg in their head.

"...A battle against Ghost? That is all you ask... I can't allow that." Raiden said to his darker half.

"Yes. Just one last battle is all I need before I can finally be at peace. And you, you will have full control once again. I will only lend power after that point.' Jack said as he made a mad dash to the very tip of west Alaska to wait for his prey to meet him.

Hello readers i know its been a while and i was right to tell you no due dates because that hampers me to much, i honestly have better things to do other than sit on a computer and type as i have school, and a job. thank you for reading and enjoy this new chapter and happy late Christmas and New Years.

I do not own the Metal Gear franchise, Kojima Hideo the main game designer does...sorry but im not good enough to think of all that plot line and design the characters.

DAVID (SOLID/OLD SNAKE)

"Massacred a whole Nafsi Giza camp..." Old Snake stated quietly to himself after listening to the patchy broadcast from an old holographic walkman he had gotten from his father.

"The predator of predators is what you are Ghost... I have fought countless war machines and killed many man and survived unbeatable odds. And for that, I have become a living, breathing, war machine... Just as Big Boss had and The Boss before him." The man said to himself as he took a long drag from a cigar as he sat against a lone tree in a mile long cemetery.

An infected man in a bloodied, torn suit tried to rush him but he was quick and was able to bring him down with a single bullet to the skull. Now, it laid motionless just like the dozens others that littered the ground. Again, Old Snake took a drag from his cigar and puffed out the air without a care in the world. As he put away his handgun, pulled out an injection gun. Along with a small hand mirror and a tape recorder.

"This world has passed my time. My name may not have been official, but the Old Boss has spent his time... Maybe, maybe the next Snake will handle the new wars that will surely be started later. Otacon will be able to complete my final wish, and Mei Ling would be perfect for it..." He says to no one but himself as he fills the injection gun with a glowing purple liquid, lifting it up to his neck.

With a harsh push into his neck, the needle pierced his skin. Snake grunted before pulling the trigger, forcing the liquid into his blood stream. Almost immediately, he pulling the gun away. Picking up the mirror, he held it up to view his reflection. With his keen eyes, he watched the wrinkles in his face slowly retreat, leaving smooth and younger skin. His grey hair turned blonde before merging into his permanently dyed brunette color. Turning his face side to side, he stretched his arms and legs. It seemed that the injection stopped the effects of his DNA's quickened aging process. The serum was able to make him look and feel his real age, 37.

Picking up the tape recorder he pushed the talk button.

"Year date 2028. Month October...? Year #10, Day 319... Injection #47 has been successful, but has slowed down since the last injection. I think my body is growing an immunity to it just as Otacon a.k.a Hal Emmerich has informed me. The radioactive cells in my DNA are growing stronger to fight off the serums properties to forcefully activate them to temporarily negate the altercations of the les enfants terrible experiment. My body may soon deny the injection in a couple more weeks... maybe sooner than that" he let the recording stop and released a heavy sigh.

"Hurry up Ghost... The living war machine is waiting to face the predator of predators as his last battle in this world. Come and receive the codename of Boss. All you have to do is find me..." Old Snake spoke as he looked to the side, staring at the graves with the names: Naked Snake, The Joy and Grey Fox written on them. Right next to them were a few marked with Liquid Snake/ Revolver Ocelot and another with Gene, Elisa and Ursula next to that one and Jonathan as another in the cluster of head stones. Big Boss had told him much about Gene, Elisa and Ursula along with Jonathan. While Gene was an enemy he was still a brother of arms, just as Jonathan was.

Thank you for reading and i hope my readers enjoy this chapter, i know it is getting a little strange with new things coming into the mix that Kojima has never ever put in his franchise. I say Kojima and not konami because they have lost a big chunk of my respect for firing the main game designer Kojima Hideo a man who literally has his name written all over the games and has made TWO personal appearances in the franchise. And Konami i hear is trying to erase any trace of him from the franchise... all i have to say to that is good look trying to find all the marks because there is a shit ton of them in the original let alone the the other 20 games not including the HD collections and remastered ones to improve the graphic outlook of the older ones.

Black Pitbull, and please review i need to know how im doing people.