METAL GEAR: INNER HEAVEN (PART III)
Written by James R. Homer
CHAPTER VI – JAEGAR
Ocelot remembered that name. He had heard it before, from Big Boss. When the two first met, Big Boss told him the story of Frank Hunter, who used the frankness of a small boy to kill with the ruthlessness of a killer.
Whoever he was, Ocelot knew he was a threat and instantly draws his second, fully-loaded revolver.
"You don't seriously expect to kill me with only six bullets?"
"I can do it with one." Ocelot retorted in his blunt fashion.
Jaegar takes a step toward Ocelot, which is met the moustachioed man pulling down the hammer on his Single Action Army. He was scared, but didn't let it show, he kept his grip steady and his eyes focused.
"I have a message from Big Boss," Frank started, "Kazuhira is coming."
"Yes, I expected that." Ocelot replied. He tightened his grip on his revolver, almost shattering the hilt.
"Okay… If we're going to go this way then you'll need a bigger gun than that."
Knowing the man in front of him was correct, and that he wasn't about to risk losing everything when he knows nothing about this "Jaegar" or the Boss' plan. Reluctantly, Ocelot lowered his revolver.
"Good choice." Frank spoke with a certain emptiness, every word was monotone and dull, yet nevertheless still intimidating. "I've been watching you, and the boy, on the orders of Big Boss. I suggest you two better get off this continent as soon as possible. There's a bad moon rising."
"What does THAT mean?" Eli interjected, emerging from behind Ocelot.
"Kazuhira has rallied Diamond Dogs. Has decried you, Ocelot, and your comrade Big Boss as traitors."
Ocelot scoffed. "The Diamond Dogs idolise Big Boss."
"No, they idolise his phantom. Kazuhira knows the tongue of a soldier very well, he can manipulate an army to believe anything."
For a split-second, Ocelot began thinking about the words being fed to him, his guard still up. He broke his train of thought and looked at Jaegar. "How do you know all this?"
"Mini-recording devices are hid pretty much everywhere in Mother Base. How do you think all of those cassette tapes the Boss likes to listen to so much get recorded?" Frank walked closer to Ocelot, until they were almost nose-to-nose.
His heart quickened, the beating reverbed around his head. Still, he wouldn't let it affect his rock-solid countenance.
"Kazuhira is coming with an army. And I doubt he has any intention to let the terrible child live. So I suggest you take your revolvers and get out of here, before something bad happens."
"No." Ocelot said, defiantly. Eli looked at him in confusion.
"What? I thought you were taki-" Eli began and was quickly cut off.
"You are going to Britain. Just, without me."
"Rather noble of you," Jaegar said, "but foolish."
"I have unfinished business with both Kazuhira and Big Boss." Ocelot said, with a sigh. "Take the boy".
Frank shook his head. "My allegiance is with Big Boss."
"That boy is going to lead us to a new age. He doesn't know it yet, but I do. He needs to learn to fight, or he shall die. I cannot babysit him, I have bigger things to attend to in the meantime." Ocelot said, taking off his rucksack.
"If you leave, I will follow suit and just let him rot out here."
Ocelot looks up from his rucksack at Jaegar. He loosens his grip on the rucksack and lets it fall.
"If Eli dies, I am going to first kill the Boss but then I am going to find you and place a bullet in your skull. All I need is one, and I have twelve. My plan is still in its infancy, I cannot let it be impeded now, not ever."
"You're just going to leave me? With HIM?" Eli shouted.
"Yes." Ocelot responded, sharply and bluntly.
"What is this plan you speak of?" Jaegar said as Ocelot rummaged through his backpack.
Ocelot ignores him.
The moustachioed man, since day one, had a carefully planned road layed out in front of him – by himself. He was snatched from birth, forced into a world of espionage and deceit. He always had a role to play, and he was always scheming. His plan was to take down the organisation that forced him into this life, and every step he took, every word he said and every person he met was in order to further this agenda. He knew Eli and the other two children of the Les Enfants Terribles would have very large roles to play in the future.
However, he couldn't let Big Boss or Kazuhira tear each other apart. They were crucial for his lifetime scheme to work, he needed Outer Heaven to be built, he needed Big Boss to fall at the hands of one of his children.
The only way to do this, in his eyes, was to get Eli to safety and stop whatever war was on the horizon. He had a knack for knowing when things were going south, and this was one of those times.
Eventually, Ocelot found what he was looking for. It was a cassette tape. He offered it to Eli.
Reluctantly, Eli took the cassette tape.
"When you get to England, listen to this."
With that, Ocelot closed his rucksack and disappeared into the blanket of night.
Eli did not like Ocelot, in fact, he despised him. Yet, he still felt a degree of loss as the moustachioed man vanished into the darkness, and he was left alone with the white-haired man whom he had no connection too.
CHAPTER VII – NOW DO YOU REMEMBER?
It was the early hours of the morning. Pequod awoke and for a short second was confused where he was, and was then hit with the pang of memory. He was tied to a tree in the middle of an African forest, with a transmitted in his shirt pocket.
"Great", he thought.
The rope was too thick and too far away to chew through. That was something he remembered Kazuhira telling the intel team in case they were ever captured. "Chew through it if it's rope!" This was something Pequod had only overheard, however, he never thought he would ACTUALLY need such advice. Yet, here he was. Alone and unable to move.
"It's okay," he thought to himself, "the cavalry will be here soon".
Thankfully, he was correct.
END OF PART THREE
NOTE FROM AUTHOR: Hello and thanks for sticking around this long! This is the third part in Inner Heaven, and there's a strong chance Part IV or V will be the last. This is the last of Frank Jaegar and Eli you'll be seeing in the story for a while, as we focus on the more neglected and important characters- such as Venom, Big Boss and Kazuhira Miller.