Metal Gear Tiger

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This is the, although poorly written with tons of grammar errors, first chapter of my fan-fic about a second entering to Shadow Moses. I think I got most info straight, but I am not too sure about that, so feel free to correct me if that is the case and I will correct it if it doesn't change the story all too much. Also, try to keep the *****ing about grammar errors down. Constructive criticism is okay, but not *****ing. I know this is fairly uncommon here on SP, but I would like to be sure.

Chapter 1, Briefing
2012-02-29
03:00
Groom Lake, Nevada

A short, muscular man looked up from his seat in a small, dark, room.
"Why am I here this time?"

A man in grey hair and a military cap stepped out from the darkness and replied:
"We need you once again."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, we have another, what should we call it, "incident," to take care of"

"What is it this time, Cambell?"

"Shalakaska."

"Revolver Ocelot? What about him?"

"Ever since the Big Shell action he has been gathering troops for a new attack, and now he has done it. We have no agents inside this time, so it's up to you to get the info for Red Fox to enter the facility."

"Any ideas of who is in the squad other than Ocelot?"

"Yes. The three terrorists and wanted criminals Solid Snake, Jack Raiden, and Hal Emmerich a.k.a. Ocaton are also known to be in this attack. We know this from our first Recon squad who reported it and then mysteriously lost connection to the base. They have not been heard of since."

"So, that's why you've chosen me for the mission?"

"Yes and no. You are going in as a second Recon squad to check out the enemy numbers and equipment. The only info we have on the terrorists are the leaders and that the soldiers are hired international mercenaries. There is also one more thing."

Cambell looked into the ground and turned his back to the man.
"They have another of those darned Metal Gears. This is the old but trusty model REX that DARPA and Armstech were developing in the Shadow Moses facility until the incident 7 years ago. However, the facility was left alone and only a group of 20 guards were ordered to prevent the facility to be overtaken. They even left the Metal Gear REX alone in it's "corpse" for the looting, and that is what Shalakaska, I mean, Ocelot, have done now. They entered the facility, killed all the guards, and repaired the Metal Gear and attached nukes to the rail gun, having the world as hostage. The government decided to send in a ten-man recon squad. But, as I told you, they were eliminated before they could give us any more info than the one I have already told you. Therefore, you have the mission to enter Shadow Moses and get information on their numbers, their equipment and abilities, and first and foremost, find out if Snake, Raiden, and Ocaton are in the group."

"Wait, why are you so sure that Ocelot are in the group, but not the rest?"

Cambell turned to the sitting man.
"Because, they have demanded 15 billion dollars and Solidus Snake's, Liquid Snake's and Big Boss' remains in 48 hours, with 36 left, and 30 when you'll arrive, in a videotape sent to us and the spokesman was Ocelot. He showed video recordings from security cameras showing Snake and Otacon and he also mentioned Raiden in the speech, but we have no proof that they are authentic. Unfortunately, we don't have the tape here, so you'll have to make it on your own."

"Well, how long should I wait there before Red Fox arrived?"

"Oh, that'll be about two hours after you have sent us the info we need to know."

"How come you have selected me then? I have only worked in small-time operations so far."

Colonel Cambell shined up.
"I cannot believe that you actually asked that? I mean, you were trained by Psycho Mantis and Decoy Octopus themselves to learn the arts of disguising yourself as an enemy soldier and infiltrate enemy strongholds. The only reason you weren't used for the Big Shell, Shadow Moses, Zanzibar, or the Outer Haven jobs were because we had inside men for those. But remember, all the five missions you have been the Recon squad in have succeeded because of your information, you are simply the best for this line of work, and you still haven't killed a single person. Not even when you were in the SÄPO* you killed anyone, even when it was the best and easiest way out. For God's sake, you are Recon Tiger ."

"Thanks for the encouragements, but I haven't been in action for three months."

"That won't be a problem. Now, how about getting into the equipment briefing? You are being equipped with the standard (http://www.world.guns.ru/handguns/hg109-e.htm) Browning BDM. I still cannot understand why you insist on using such an old handgun as that, but this time I won’t nag and nag about it, we don't have the time. We also gave you your personal knife, as it will help you in this mission."

"What else will I be equipped with?"

"Well, you know the operation we gave you two month ago that was going to help your muscles build stronger?"

"Yeah, the one that didn't work, what about it?"

"Well, it only made you strong enough to not notice the new implants that we gave you."

"Implants?! What ****ing implants??"

"Well, we have enhanced your body with some power-enchantments. They'll give more pack to your punch and still contain your famous agility. Also, remember the power arms that Solidius Snake used in the Big Shell VR trainings?"

Tiger nods.

"Well, you see the little chip under your left forearm that you were told was a piece of your nanomachines? It isn’t. It is an under slung EMP-launcher used to launch directed Chaff Grenades, excellent to use against Cyphers if you would happen to encounter them. You also activate your 10 second turbo booster with it."

"Turbo booster?"

"Well, it is a mechanism that gives your brain a boost. It will seem like all others in the vicinity will move in slow motion while you are boosted to the extreme. An excellent thing to use if you'll have to escape or take out several enemies at once. However, it has some drawbacks. After you have used it or the EMP gun, you won't be able to use either for about 15 minutes, it will need to charge up during that time. Also, a chaff grenade will stop it from functioning and if you are subjected to one during the turbo phase, your brain will overheat and it will be like drug abstinence. Not a good thing to be subject to, ask anyone in Harlem."
Cambell smiles.

"Now, to the entering point. They have reinforced the area Snake entered in 7 years ago but we had a second plan. We are giving in to one of their demands, giving them Liquid Snake's body, but in the chopper that will land on the helipad, you will parachute yourself out and land in the valley where Snake defeated the M1 tank. You will also be equipped with a lighter to burn the parachute to remove any proof of your entering into the base."

"How about the people I will work with? Who are they?"

"You will be informed on that when you have landed. Now, let's get to your ride and get back to business."
Cambell threw the classical Sneaking suit together with a small package containing the equipment explained above together with one clip for the handgun.

"Good luck, Recon Tiger, you'll need it."


*SÄPO= SÄkerhetsPOlisen, Swedish FBI, kinda.

 

That was nice.
I look forward to browsing the sequel -> there will be (a) sequel(s) right?

Keep it up!

 

Of course, this was just the first chapter.

EDIT: Here is the second chapter:

Chapter 2, Appearances
2012-02-29
09:00
Shadow Moses Island, Alaska

Tiger looked down from the helicopter, only five minutes to ETA. It was something about this mission, something that disturbed him, but he wasn’t sure of what. He opened the old coffin and lifted the lid, inside was Liquid Snake’s body, missing the left arm but otherwise preserved due to the carbon seals that the coffin were equipped with if the need for the body would ever be needed. Now, it was needed, but for what? What in the world would the terrorists need the body for? Big Boss’ body were requested the last time, and Solidius Snake was a pure killing machine, excellent to use to purify the clones that they probably needed Big Boss’ body for, but why Liquid’s? He was the unusable brother; he was the one with the lousy genes. Snake got all the good ones, and Solidius was one of a kind, so why on earth do they want Liquid’s corpse for? It was probably the same thinking the government thought of and therefore decided to give into the easiest demand of them all. Tiger guessed that the old “The USA never negotiates with terrorists” ideals and I guess that if they keep it, this was a good time to bend the rules a bit.

“Time to jump, son,” the chopper’s driver yelled back to the cargo and Tiger quickly came to his senses and jumped out and quickly landed in the snow behind an old rock. He took of his parachute and folded it and looked around, no place to burn it without being seen. This old valley have been rebuilt to a graveyard containing all the victim’s and attacker’s corpses from the last attack, with the graves of Sniper Wolf, DARPA chief Donald Anderson, ARMSTECH President Kenneth Baker, Psycho Mantis and a memorial stone of Vulcan Raven, all high figures during the last incident. The reason Mantis, Raven, and Wolf are honoured are because they are all old top-dogs from FOXHOUND and the government decided to not ruin their reputation by this incident. Quite honourable actually.

The only other strange thing about this area is that they decided not to remove the M1 tank that the terrorist Solid Snake destroyed. Tiger didn’t know, but in some strange way, the area just seemed odder. However, this also gave him an opportunity to burn the evidence of his arrival. He could simply throw the parachute into the tank burn it in there. After he had done this he heard the southern gate open and right after he jumped behind the tank two guards came from the Tank hangar.

“Have you heard, those government officials actually gave in to one of our demands,” one began.
“Good, that must mean that we should be winning this thing. How far was it until we are launching the first nuke?”
“Two hours, after that, it’s blow-the-hell-out-of-enemies-time.”
As the two guards walked through the northern gate Tiger quickly came to his senses.
“Wait a minute, two hours? That means that they aren’t following their own rules. There is no chance that I will have the time to infiltrate the base and to give Red Fox enough time to arrive and take out the terrorists.” Tiger turned on his com-sat and tuned into Cambell.

“Colonel, we don’t have the time you told me.”

“What the hell do you mean?”

“They will launch the first nuke in two hours only, not 30 like you told me.”

“Damn, not this too. I’ve had enough problems today.”

“What do you mean?”

A young, muscular, black, man in his late 20’s with short, blonde hair tuned in and immediately replied.
“Serious problems. Red Fox is gone.”

“He’s gone? Who the hell are you,” Tiger replied.

“I am Jhonny the Dread, as they call me, and that is who you’ll know me as. I work as the effective weapon advisor in this mission.”

“Cambell, is he one of our operatives of the field?”

“Yes, and you will follow his orders whenever you are asked to. I have to leave, I’ll let you two introduce casually and get on with the mission, and I will see you later.”
Cambell tuned out and left the two men alone to talk.

“Okay, Jhonny, who the hell are you?

“I am, as I told you, the effective weapon advisor in this mission and actually, in the entire FOXHOUND group. We haven’t met as you usually don’t take on the missions yourself.”

“What do you mean? I have to do the mission myself now?”

“Well, in a way, yes. Red Fox was shot down by the helipad guards. He had to arrive before we told you he would if you would fail on this mission. No offence, but since you haven’t killed anyone at all in your life and this is the first serious mission you are issued to so we had to take into account that you may fail, so we sent Red Fox here in advance to ensure that if you failed he could attack the base before they had the chance to retaliate the attack. However, he was spotted and we lost the connection so he is MIA, presumed KIA, and that means that the shoulders of this mission are up to you now.”

“Well, as you said, I am too inexperienced to do anything like this. Can’t you send in someone else to do it?”

“Hell no, we have no time for that. The ETA for the bombs to be delivered anywhere on the American or eastern Asian continents are two-and-a-half to three hours and up to four-and-a-half hours to reach the rest of the world. We have no time to send in another operative, and you are one we can trust on since all our top operatives have gone AWOL. Jack Raiden, Solid Snake, Revolver Ocelot, Liquid Snake, Sniper Wolf, Vulcan Raven, Psycho Mantis, and Decoy Octopus are all former FOXHOUND operatives so we are running out of good quality and we are sure that you won’t fail us.”

“Well, it’s nice that I don’t need to feel any pressure or so. Hell, why not just go to Ocelot and ask for Metal Gear Rex with a nice “pretty-please” and then ask them to turn them in. Hell, it sure is more possible.”

“I don’t have to discuss this with you, Tiger. Now, go on with your mission. Find out why they need Liquid’s body, we’ll contact you ASAP when you need to know more info.”

“Who decides when I need to know more?”

There was no answer on the other line, apparently, Jhonny the Dread had hang up and Tiger were on his own. Just before he had the time to think over what just happened to him a truck entered the valley carrying Liquid’s coffin. He quickly jumped into the open window on the passenger’s seat and knocked out the driver with a quick punch. He took the body and hide it in the M1 tank and took his clothes and in a minute, the truck was riding again, this time with Recon Tiger as “Cargo Personnel al-Haifa.”

“Now, it is my turn to show that the peacefull way isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”

[ June 06, 2004, 01:08: Message edited by: Caleb: The Chosen ]

 

This is really enjoyable, but I noticed that you have a character called Red Fox. Frank Jaeger is supposed to have been the only member of foxhound to ever have gained the codename fox, it just doesn't feel right to me.

Also, wasn't Liquids body lost in the the Tanker? I have a feeling it was recovered, but I'm not sure.

One last thing, you do know that Liquid was in fact the one with the good genes?

[ June 16, 2004, 12:06: Message edited by: The Kilted Crusader ]

 

Liquid's body wasn't disposed in the tanker, it wasn't even there. It was buried, but they recovered it.

And I know about the genes, but Tiger don't, do he?

And Fox is the highest codename achiveable so why wouldn't a new, better, agent be able to get it?

Chapter III is on the way, but I ain't ready with it yet.

 

Liquids body was stolen by Snake and Otacon and dumped into the water where the tanker sank. It tells you this sometime in MgS 2, that's how they claim to have found snakes body, as their DNA is Identical.

 

Ah, I always wondered how that happened. However, that doesn't prevent the fact that they can demand it now.

 

Anyway, it's a really good story, so keep up the good work and bring on Chapter 3!