Metal kh-vids Solid: The Twin Cynics Pt. 7

Very dramatic chapter this one. Two deaths and a character comes under suspicion for betraying the cause.

.~+~.​

SJ soon makes it up to the roof of the Communications Tower where he soon confronts Laurence_Fox in the Hind once again.

LF: So...the shadow finally casts its reflection. Are you ready now ...my brother?

SJ: WHY DO YOU KEEP CALLING ME BROTHER? I mean...we're not even related.

LF: I'm you. I'm your shadow.

SJ: What?!

LF: Ask the father that you killed! I'll send you to hell to meet him.

A lone man on foot against a Hind-D? How will our hero manage? Why with a conveinient stinger missle launcher. After a few well aimed shots, Laurence_Fox counters with a well placed missle of his own and a barrage of gunfire from the Hind's machine guns. It takes a while, but eventually the helicopter is downed with Fox inside it.

SJ: See you in hell, Fox.*Turns his back on the tower of flame behind him.* Cremation's already done.

Soush: SJ, the elevator's working.

Soush: No...it sort of moved on it's own. It's coming your way now. That explosion...what was it?

SJ: Oh...I had to take out that helicopter.

Soush: Helicopter? That's...wow. The entrance to Metal Gear's maintence area should be at the back of the snowfield ahead.

SJ: Alright...whole yourself up somewhere. I'm going in.

Soush: Alright, call if you need to.

SJ rides the elevator down.

Soush: There's something I forgot to tell you. There were 5 stealth camo prototypes in my lab.

SJ: So?

Soush: If you take out the one I'm wearing...that leaves 4.

SJ: Are you calling me an idiot?

Soush: I thought I'd get one for you, so I went back to the lab and...

SJ: And?

Soush: They were missing.

SJ soon gets that feeling he isn't alone. The 4 guys that had taken the stealth camo were in the elevator with him. After much frustration, SJ manages to take them out using his thermal goggles. He rides the elevator to the bottom. Upon exiting, the distinctive call of a wolf greets him. Something odd catches his attention though.

SJ: What the...? A parachute? RVR, I found a parachute near the wreckage of the Hind.

RVR: A parachute? You don't think Laurence survived?

SJ: Not likely. As soon as he jumped out the pilot's seat, he'd be sliced up like an onion on an infomercial (*Actual game line. I kid you not*)

Mish: So what's it doing there?

SJ: No clue. It's either a trap or a message to me.

RVR: Meaning "I'm still here.",I suppose...

Sj: I'd like to see it as 'I'll string you up'.

Mish: .......

RVR: In any case, stay on your toes.

SJ goes on his way when he's suddenly shot by an unseen bullet.

Soush: SJ, you okay?

SJ: Are there anymore stealth prototypes?

Soush: No only 5.

SJ: So it's not steal camo then...

Soush: What are you talking about?

SJ: Someone's aiming at me....in a blizzard no less.

Soush: ....it's her!!

SJ: Aquarius? StupidAquarius?

Soush: ....Yes.

SJ: You sound happy about this. She ****ing shot me!

Soush: No...

SJ: Then what?

Soush: ...please don't kill her!

SJ: Have you lost it?

Soush: Please. She's a good person! You'd know that if you'd talked to her.

SJ: Listen, kid, she's a merciless killer.

SA: I can see you perfectly from her. *Chuckles* I told you. I'd never quit the hunt. Now you're mine.

Soush: Aquarius...no you can't!

SA: Don't get between me and my prey.

SJ: You're pretty good if you can hit me in this storm.

SA: You see? Women naturally make better soldiers.

Soush: Aquarius, don't do this!

SA: shadowjak, I'm near. Can't you sense me near you?

SJ: It's a mistake for a sniper to reveal her location.

SA: Is that right? Well I'm going to send you a love letter, my dear. Do you know what is? It's a bullet straight from my gun to your heart.

Soush: Guys...please...no. T-T

SJ: Did you just voice an emoticon?

Soush: Maybe.

SA: Don't get in our way!

SJ: Now I'm gonna pay you back for CtR.

SA: You men are so weak. You can never finish what you start.

Unable to actually see SA from his present location, he uses the sniper rifle in his inventory to find her. He waits until she readies for a shot before he shoots her. Once he does, she relocates to a new position. Soon enough the great sniper is beaten by our hero.

SJ goes to the woman sniper's side as she lies bleeding on the ground.

SA: I've...waited for this moment. I am a sniper. Waiting is what I do. Never moving a muscle...concentrating.She coughs blood. I am lung-shot. Y-you can't save me. Please...just finish me quick. I am French. I have always dreamed of a place like this.

As she speaks, the wolves howl their grief over the loss of one of their own.

SA: As a sniper, I finally didn't have to be inside war. I could see it through a rifle's scope. I watched the fighting and the bloodshed...the stupidity of mankind through the scope. But I have shamed myself...I am no longer the wolf I was born to be..now I am nothing more than a dog.

SJ: Wolves are noble creatures. Not like dogs. Soldiers like us are dogs. But you're different...untamed...solitary. You're no dog. You're a wolf.

SA: Who are you? ...Are you my Saladin?

SJ: Aquarius, you spared CtR's life.

SA: She was never me target. I don't kill for sport.

SJ: Rest well. You'll die as the proud, noble wolf you are.

SA: I understand now. I wasn't waiting to kill people. I was waiting for someone to kill me. A man like you. Please...set me free.

Soushirei appears from where he had been watching.

Soush: Why? I loved you...

SJ: What is it? *Noticing SA reaching for something.*

SA: My gun...give it me.

Soushirei picks the rifle and brings it to SA's side.

SA: She's part of me. Everyone's here now...

The wolf chorus grows louder.

SA: Okay hero...set me free.

Soushirei turns from the scene as SJ prepares to honor SA's wishes.

Soush: Goodbye...

The gunshot resounds to be drowned out by the wolf howls

Soush: Sj, you said that love could bloom on a battlefield. But I couldn't save her.

SJ: I'm going to the underground base. We're out of time.

Soush: I want to keep helping.

SJ: You can leave any time you know.

Soush: Sj, what was she fighting for? What am I fighting for? What are you fighting for?

SJ: If we make it out alive, I'll tell you.

Continuing inside, SJ goes down several flights of stairs and makes his way through the building coming to a lift where is ambushed by goons with machine guns. He quickly removes them from the lift.

Xaldin: SJ, I have something to tell you about Mish.

SJ: What about her?

Xaldin: Is the conversation secure?

SJ: This ain't MSN here. Don't worry. The monitor's off.

Xaldin: Okay...I was in the FBI too. The story of her background about her grandfather being an assistant secretary to Hoover in the FBI and then investigating the mafia in New York. It's all a big lie.

SJ: What?

Xaldin: It's really bothering me. Why would she lie about it?

SJ: Lied?

Xaldin: She might be a spy. Even a high school student could see past it. The head of the FBI at that time was a well known racist. Didn't Naomi say her father was Japanese?

SJ: Yeah..

Xaldin: Well back then there wasn't a single Asian investigator. And in the 1950s, the mafia sting operation hadn't even started yet.

SJ: But..

Xaldin: Both Sec Mods mysteriously dying, that ninja...too many strange things are happening.

SJ: Are you saying Mish might be behind this?

Xaldin: I'm not sure. Either that or she's working with the spammers. If I find out anything, I'll call. In the meantime, be careful.

The lift comes to a half with many ravens circling overhead.

Forsaken: Welcome. This is the end for you. Right my friends?The ravens and crows caw in agreement. Listen, they agree.

SJ: You were in the M1 tank?

Forsaken: That was no true battle. It was a test to see what kind of man you were.

using a perhaps compensating gun, Forsaken opens fire on our hero. Initiating a battle personifying win and epic justice. SJ would eventually come out the winner.

Forsaken: Just as the Boss said...SJ, I will be watching you. Understand? Take the security card..it will open the door.

Sj: Why?

Forsaken: You and the Boss are from a world I do not wish to know. Go and do battle with him. But first I will give you a hint. The man who you saw die before your eyes...That was not the Sec Mod Arc. It was SplitOverload. A member of Fox-hound. A master of disguise. He copied his subjects down to the blood. But he wasn't able to deceive the angel of death.

SJ: But why impersonate the Sec Mod?

Forsaken: No more hints for you.

And with those words, Forsaken is no more.

Xaldin: SJ, it's me...

SJ: Xaldin

Xaldin: It's about Mish. Turn your monitor off.

RVR: What about Mish?

Xaldin: Damn.

SJ: RVR, is Mish there?

RVR: No...she's away. She's taking a siesta. So what's this about Mish?

Xaldin: Maybe we better let RVR hear this too. Well basically, Dr. Mish ir not Dr. Mish at all. I thought her story sounded kind of fishy so I checked it out. There is an actual Dr. Mish...or should I say there was one. The real Mish disappeared somewhere in the Middle East.

RVR: Then who is she?

Xaldin: Must be some kind of...spy. maybe she was sent to sabotage the operation.

RVR: Are you saying she's with the spammers?

SJ: I don't want to believe it either. But she is working for Fox-hound.

Xaldin: She could be working for a different group altogether. Place her under arrest. She's betrayed us. She needs to be arrested and interrogated to find out which side she's on.

RVR: If she's one of their spies...then we're in deep ****.

Xaldin: You didn't let her in on some sort of secret or anything?

RVR: .......

Xaldin: Does this have anything to do with the mysterious deaths of the Sec mods?

RVR: I have no idea.

Xaldin: Anyway, we cannot allow her to participate any further in this mission.

RVR: Without her, we can't complete this mission.

SJ: I knew you were hiding something.

Xaldin: We've got to figure out who she is and what she's doing here.

RVR: I understand. SJ, give me some time.

SJ: I don't have time left for you.

Going down a short hall, SJ finally comes across Metal Gear. It's big, capable of attatching itself to hundreds of computers at a time.

Soush: Sj...it's me.

SJ: What's wrong? Did you find a place to hide?

Soush: Where are you now?

SJ: Right in front of Metal Gear. But...it's strange. There's no one here.

Soush: Well you do have the card key Mustang gave you. I'm accessing his files right now.

SJ: Don't you need a password?

Soush: Yes...but there are ways.

SJ: Are you a hacker?

Soush: pretty much.

As Soushirei tries to access Mustang's files to riddle through the files of porn to find something useful. SJ gawks at Metal Gear.

 

Betraying the cause, am I? P: neato.

oh and Soush/SA's corpse forever! heh.

 

Mish you is evil D:


Aww SA's death was sweetly sad. Even if she did bloody shoot me :P​

 

lol it gets better later on. :3

Just wait and see.

I left it largely the same as Sniper Wolf's death. Which made me cry at some points. vv;

 

my death scene is soon =D

 

Shhhhh spoilers for the MGS noobs.

 

lol, I died D:
And I only got about 12 lines through the whole story xD Ah well.

lmao
I want to see how Fox is gonna end the story ;D

 

well the game has two endings that depend on if you do something or not, and LF has chosen the good ending so far.

 

Yeah, since SJ survived Ocelot's--...err, DA's torture.

 

Great job, seemed pretty close to the original. Honestly forgot Mish was going to screw me over, lol. :P

The most badass scene in MGS history.

 

**** yes, i feel honoured to die as him in this story, Gray was a legend and my favourite person from MGS ever, all other ninja's will fail