Shadow Moses Island was still and quiet, as Solid Snake finally regained consciousness, while a now bare chested Liquid Snake stood over him, watching with determination.

The two clones of Big Boss stood on-top of Liquid's destroyed Metal Gear. The room they stood inside was dark, with only a tint of red illuminating the environment. As Snake began to recognize his surroundings, he noticed an unconscious Meryl next to Liquid Snake.

"Meryl!" exclaimed Solid Snake.

"You like her, don't you brother?" said Liquid Snake.

Liquid patted the unconscious woman on the back and said "if you survive this, you may even have a chance of escaping with her, alive."

Solid Snake clenched his fist as he asked "why are you doing this? What's your end goal?"

Liquid Snake smirked as he said "so brother, you want to know my endgame? It's very simple really, have you ever heard of the medium of entertainment known as, fanfiction?"

Solid Snake just stood there quizzically and asked "fanfiction?"

Liquid Snake said "I thought not" before pulling out a random ass Iphone from his pocket and tossing it over to Solid Snake.

The first reviewer to ask why Liquid Snake has a smartphone in the year 1998, gets a bomb shipped to their house.

Solid Snake began scrolling through the phone and there were numerous tabs filled with fanfictions of various franchises such as Mario, Ninja Turtles, and Escape from New York, with that last one feeling suspiciously familiar to him.

Solid Snake tossed the phone aside and said "that's fanfiction? So what?"

Liquid Snake frowned and said "so what? Poor naïve Snake, Fanfiction means everything."

Liquid Snake picked the phone back up and said "some think that fanfiction is a braindead medium, only good for watching your favorite characters have sex, but you and I know better than that."

Liquid Snake then put the phone back in his pocket and said "are you familiar with the story of the legendary knight, King Arthur?"

Solid Snake grunted and said "yeah, everyone knows that."

Liquid continued "King Arthur was a knight known for leading the round table. A novel story, but what you may not realize is that the most well known elements of the story do not appear within the work."

Liquid then pulled out a random ass textbook and said "are you aware that one of the work's most iconic characters, Sir Lancelot, was not present in the original fable whatsoever?"

Snake said "really? Huh."

Liquid laughed and said "oh it gets better brother, one of the most well known elements of the story, that being the Holy Grail, was inserted by another author, centuries later, and everyone accepted it. Very few even know that the original story featured no Holy Grail whatsoever. The stories taught in schools are nothing more than fanfictions."

Solid Snake spoke into the codec and said "Colonel, did you know about this?"

The Colonel sadly nodded his head and said "unfortunately yes, everything Liquid says is the absolute truth."

Liquid began pulling more books out of his ass while saying "and that goes for many more stories across human history. From Dante's Divine Comedy, to various works by William Shakespeare, it all comes back to fanfiction."

Liquid then pulled out a history book and said "and when you truly begin to think about it, every single word you've read about war and conflict in a history book is just fanfiction written by the winners of the feud, and yet us humans willingly digest it all without a second thought."

Finally, Liquid tore the history book in half and said "the world runs on fanfiction, and that brings me back to why we're here. By harnessing its power for myself, I will use this medium to make myself the dominant master of planet earth, and nothing will stop me, not even my inferior genes."

Liquid Snake then kicked all of the books off the side of the Metal Gear and said "so how about it Snake? Will I write my name in the books of history, or will your efforts to stop me cause me to become non-canon?"

Solid Snake finally got up, took on a fighting stance, and said "bring it Liquid."

Solid and Liquid then fought each other in a battle of epic proportions. Punches were thrown, kicks were blocked, and philosophies were exchanged. It was so badass that randomly in the middle of the fight, the song from Sonic the Hedgehog, His World, began to play in the background.

Eventually, Solid Snake socked Liquid Snake in the face so hard that Liquid spat out blood.

Solid Snake then said "your story's been discontinued" before raising Liquid Snake over his shoulder and tossing the clone off of the Metal Gear, ending Liquid's life once and for all.

Snake looked over at the unconscious Meryl and said "you ok?"

Meryl woke up and said "I'm fine."

Snake smiled and said "that's great to hear.

Before either of them could do anything, Liquid Snake suddenly sprang back up and socked Solid Snake in the face.

Liquid Snake laughed and said "you see brother? Fanfiction is an unstoppable force of nature that cannot be beat. I have returned from the dead just like Cinderella's mother in Cinderella III: A Twist in Time. One may refer to it as an ambitious sequel, but I would refer to it by its true nature, a Peggy Sue fic."

Liquid Snake pulled out a machine gun and prepared to open fire on Solid Snake while saying "the power of fanfiction is an unbeatable force, and even you, dear brother, cannot hope to grasp its absolute brilliance."

Suddenly, Solid got a call on his codec and the Colonel began speaking.

"Snake, he's using the power of fanfiction against you."

"Well, how do I beat that?"

The Colonel thought for a second and then replied "you have to turn off the reader's electronic device. It's the only way to defeat him."

Solid Snake then looked around before spying a secret button. He then pushed the off button on whatever device that the person reading this is using and shut it down before the fic could fini-