Metal Gear Solid: Elements of Destruction

Title: Metal Gear Solid: Elements of Destruction- Chapter 16: Double Reunion

Author: The Ice
Goddess (FrozenBlueIce)

Fandom: Metal Gear Solid

Feedback: All feedback is welcome, whether it be
negative or positive. I’m trying to improve
on my writing so, please be honest: frozenblueice@yahoo.com

Pairing: The main pairing of this story is
Snake/Otacon, which is obvious to anyone who knows of my fondness for Hal
Emmerich, so therefore alright to disclose.
There are others, but if I told you what they were, it’d ruin the story.

Series: No.
There may be sequels in the future, but right now that is looking
unlikely due to time constraints.

Rating: PG. (this chapter only)

Disclaimer: All characters appearing in previous Metal
Gear Solid video games are the property of Konami Computer Entertainment of
Japan, and of their creator, Mr. Hideo Kojima.
All new characters are the property of The Ice Goddess. This is a work of fanfiction, and in no way,
shape, or form will I receive any monetary compensation for it. It is for entertainment purposes only.

Type: Action/Shounen-ai

Summary: This story takes place one year after the
events of “The Big Shell.” New
information found by Otacon sends Snake back into action. (That’s all I’m revealing!)

 

Chapter 16: Double Reunion

 

“Wake up.”

“Was someone speaking to me?” Snake
wondered through a clouded, aching head.
He drifted along the edge of consciousness, trying desperately to open
his eyes. Managing to do so for a brief
moment, he could see nothing but the ceiling and a fluorescent light panel
blaring down on him. Snake re-closed
his eyes, the light too bright to bear.
The mercenary moved on to test his motor skills. His fingers twitched a bit, but they were
numb and tingly.

“Damn it, Knight. Get him up!” the same voice said.

Yes, this time Snake was sure he had
heard someone speak.

“I’ve given him another dose of the
adrenal stimulators. He should be
coming to anytime soon.”

There were now two voices in the
room with him.

Snake felt his heart begin to beat
faster, and with the new surge of blood-carried oxygen to his brain, things
seemed to come into focus. He found
himself able to flex the muscles in his limbs, but he noticed for the first
time that he was held down by four-point restraints. Solid Snake tested their integrity with a few unsuccessful
attempts to pull himself free.

“Oh, you’re not going anywhere, I’m
afraid,” the first voice tauntem.
m.

He gritted his teeth. From the feel of the cool smoothness of on
his wrists and ankles, Snake realized that it was metal that imprisoned
him.

The air around him was cool, causing him to shiver a
bit. Finding the strength to open his
eyes once more, the captured man lifted his head off of the metal bed and
looked down at himself. His body was
naked, displayed to whoever was in the room with him. Losing control of his neck muscles, Snake’s head fell back down,
and he closed his eyes again.

The table shifted, raising itself into a vertical position. The prisoner could now take in his
surroundings. They were all too
familiar to him. Solid Snake was in a
torture room.

“Leave us. Go
and see if you can assist Dr. Chetnik with anything.”

“I was on my way there now. Call if you need my assistance,” the second voice said. His footsteps were heard heading further
away from the torture rack, then a door opened and shut.

For a moment, the room was silent, with only the
sound of the heating system whirring in Snake’s ears. He didn’t know what to expect, but it couldn’t be good.

***

Otacon
beat his fists on the floor repeatedly.
“Damn it, Snake. Why’d you have
to go and leave me too?”

His glasses fogged up as he
cried. His heart wrenched as his mind played
out one gruesome scenario of Dave’s death after another.

Mei Ling tried her best to keep him
together. “Please, Otacon. You’ve got to keep your head straight. If Snake and Raiden are dead, then it’s all
up to you. I know you can do it.”

“I can’t,” he sobbed. “I can’t do this anymore.”

“If you don’t, more people will
surely die. Could you live with that?”
she argued.

“Maybe I won’t live at all,” Hal
suggested.

Mei gasped, “Don’t talk like
that. Besides, you don’t know that
they’re dead. They may have been
captured for questioning. You could
still save them.”

Hal took off his glasses and wiped
his eyes. “Me?” he scoffed, “What could
I do? I don’t even know what I’m doing
here.”

“Sure you do,” Mei Ling told
him. “Remember: ‘It does not take much strength to do things, but it
requires great strength to decide what to do.’ You had very strong reasons for
going. Even Snake could see that. You need to remind yourself of that reason,
and decide to push onward.”

“I came…to…” he hesitated, memories
of Snake assaulting his mind. “I came
to protect him. I know it sounds crazy,
but I did.”

“Otacon.”

“Yeah?” he sniffled.

“Then go protect him.”

***

Light
footsteps approached the table.

“Welcome to Antarctica, Solid
Snake. I thought you’d never get here.”

“Who the Hell are you?”

The person walked around the rack,
then stood in front of him so he could see her face. Something about her was fam familiar, but Snake couldn’t place
it anywhere.

“Your eyes shine with recognition as
I knew they would,” the woman said, “As they should.” She leaned in to get a closer look at her prisoner. “It’s even more amazing to look into your
eyes than Liquid’s or Solidus’.”

Snake narrowed his eyes. “What the Hell are you babbling about?”

“Alas, we’re a dying breed. Despite the powerful genetic make-up of Big
Boss’ children, onethemthem is gone, and the other only survives as an essence
in his arm, attached to another man.
You’re the only one I have left to count on.”

The woman stared into Snake’s eyes. Hers were the same vibrant green, piercing
and beautiful. Her hair was chestnut
brown, just below shoulder length in the back and slowly layering shorter to
the top. The woman’s body was perfect;
chiseled like a soldier’s. She had her
shirt tied up underneath her full chest, revealing her streamlined
abdomen. Her black pants rested on her
hips, clinging tightly to her legs. A
trace of cigarette smoke danced on her breath, reawakening a deep craving for
nicotine.

She smiled. “You, the last of ‘The Sons of Big Boss’,
and his only ‘daughter’, Genesis Snake:
Me.”

“What?!” Solid shouted, “That’s
impossible!”

“It’s not impossible,” Genesis
returned. “It’s quite simple,
really. Just replace a ‘Y’ chromosome
with another ‘X’ and male becomes female.”

“Great,” Snake snorted, “Another
family reunion.”

Genesis crossed her arms. “I never got a chance to meet Liquid. Fox Die killed him before I even had the
chance. And Solidus? Well, that was a bit more complicated. The meeting didn’t go exactly as
planned. So, you can see why I was so
looking forward to our meeting.”

“So why not just kill me? What’re you keeping me around for?”

The lady Snake smiled, “I thought
you’d never ask.”

***

Raiden found
himself locked inside a narrow cell, its walls made up of reinforced
glass. Jack looked around. He was at the end of the row. In the cell next to him, a man in a tube
floated in some sort of strange blue liquid, his face and body equipped with
cybernetic implants; one on his cheek, one around his arm, and one around his
neck. Looking down the line, Raiden saw
three other cells with such tubes, but they were unoccupied.

“Good Morning, Jack. Sleep well?” a voice said to him.

Raiden turned around to see a woman
who had the same kind of implants that he had seen on the man next to him. Her skin was medium brown, but it had an
almost bluish tint to it. Her eyes were
blue-violet, sparkling like the sky at twilight.

As she breathed, clouds of condensation billowed
out. Jack was naked underneath the
blanket that he had draped around him.
Despite that, he didn’t think it was one bit cold in the room. He breathed out hard, but his breath was
transparent.

“You haven’t forgotten me, have you?” saidsaid to
him.

Jack looked at the woman more closely. Then, the familiar blue-black shine in her
hair sparked his memory. But, how was
that possible?

“Diane?” he ventured.

She shook her head.
“Diane died years ago in Africa.
I am Frost: merely a shadow of
who she once was.”

Jack was confused.
“I don’t understand. Diane, what
have they done to you?”

“Oh these?” Frost asked, pointing to the blinking
lights on the metal plate that was attached to her cheek. “Genesis has given me everything Solidus
took away from us: our friends, our
dignity, our lives…”

Jack’s eyebrows knitted, “What do you mean?”

“Look next to you.
Do you recognize him?” she asked, pointing to the man in the next cell.

Raiden looked him over again, another memory
returning. “Wait. Is that…?”

“Robert?
Yes,” Frost confirmed.

Jack was thoroughly clueless. “What’s going on?”

“All of us fought in the same wars, endured the same
abuse, day in and day out. But now,
we’re the ones who’ll put the fear in others.
We don’t have to be afraid anymore.
Genesis has made us powerful.”
Frost leaned in closer, her breath fogging up the glass.

“You’re wrong,” Raiden told her. “This Genesis, or whoever, just made you
into another puppet, another instrument of war.”

“What would you know?” she snapped. “You disappeared and forgot about us. You’ve forgotten the pain.”

Raiden crossed his arms over his chest. “I remember it. I remember it all too well.
There isn’t a night that goes by when I don’t dream about the screaming,
the hunger, and the blood. But I use
that pain to make a difference in this world.
You’re just going to help someone else cause more suffering.” No. No. You’re
wrong. Once ‘they’ put the world in
order, there will be no more need for war.
Genesis promised me. Of course
there will be some sacrifices, but the children will finally be free.” Frost’s eyes became intense.

“What do you want with me?”

“You’re a part of our squadron, Jack. You were a child soldier, forced to put your
life down for the greedy ambitions of man.
Now you have a chance to fight for something good. Join us.”
She placed her hand on the glass, and a ring of condensation formed
around it. “I missed you. The day I was captured, I thought I’d never
see you again.”

“You’ve changed.
What happened to your spirit? You
used to be a person I could look up to,” Raiden said. He turned his back to her, his eyes fogged over with the
precursor of tears. “I guess you’re
right. Diane did die in Africa. I guess I’ll never see her again.”

“Just wait.
You’ll see everything as I do.
Then we can fight alongside each other, just like we did in the old
days. And this time, I promise it’ll be
different,” Frost told him.

“I won’t fight.
So whatever it is you have planned for me, forget about it. You might as well just kill me,” he snarled.

Frost walked towards the door. Before she parted, she sighed. “Welcome home, Jack.” Then she left, and Raiden was alone again
with his thoughts.

***

Otacon
traveled back to Snake’s last known location to begin his search. Despite his unusual pessimism about the
situation, he pushed on. He came to the
room that had held Dr. Raznov. The door
was unlocked, and he went inside. Just
as he had suspected, it was empty. Hal
let out a trattrated sigh. “Where could
he be?”

Footsteps echoed in the
corridor. Somebody was coming.

Cloaked in his stealth camo, he
exited the room into the hall again.
Two soldiers were making their way in his direction, chatting amongst
themselves. Otacon took the opportunity
to listen in.

“What?! The ‘Legendary Solid Snake’, here?!”

“Yeah. That’s what I heard.
Genesis has him locked up in the torture room.”

“I’m so glad I didn’t have a run-in
with him.”

“You can say that again. Two of us have already turned up dead, and
who knows how many others are unaccounted for.”

“Gives me the shivers…”

“The torture room,” Hal thought to
himself. “Why didn’t I think about that
before?” He swallowed hard, thinking
about all of the things that they were potentially doing to him.

“I’m coming for you, Snake. Just hang on.”

 

Author’s
Notes:

Secrets
are revealed. That’s about all I can
say about this chapter.