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Metal Gear Solid:Snakebite
Prologue

Snake groaned as he woke up, the pounding in his brain signaling either a fantastic night out with the men, or a kidnapping, whichever one this was needed to be determined.

Shaking his head, he focus, forcing himself to his feet as he glanced around the warehouse he seemed to have waken up in.

The floor was littered with several bodies, many of them still breathing, and more than a few bore faces that he recognized.

Grunting, he knelt down next to one person in particular, shifting a piece of hair out of her face and smiling gently as she shifted.

But then, the sound of a weapon clearing a holster echoed, and Snake turned around, his pistol pointed at another person.

"I thought you were dead," A gruff voice said as Revolver Ocelot pointed revolvers at both of the men.

"See, I thought all of you were dead," the other man kept his pistol pointed at Snake as a portal opened up and another body was dropped off. "See, this is just bullshit," he muttered. "I already killed most of you. I really don't want to have to do it again."

Snake just looked at the other man as he protectively crouched over the half-naked woman at his feet.

"I don't know how we ended up here," Snake bit out. "But we should probably focus on that before we start shooting at each other."

The other two men nodded before another groan was heard, and a blond haired man in a trenchcoat stood up, a shot ringing out as his head snapped back.

"The hell was that for?" Snake asked.

"You can be reasoned with," the other man nudged Liquid's body with his booted feet. "He's a goddamned psychopath."

"Don't do that again," Ocelot stated, one hand on a revolver, with the other on the hammer, just waiting for Solid to make another move. "Now, you two sure you want to talk this out?" Revolver asked, the man's spurs making a distinct sound as he sat on a nearby crate and pulled out a cigarette.

"Yeah," Solid Snake nodded. "I figure he has some words he's going to want to say."

"Not really," Venom bit out. "I was dead, now I'm not. It's not the first time it's happened. At least this time I didn't wake up in a hospital about to be executed."

Solid Snake leaned against a crate of his own. "You and Big Boss did a lot of shady shit over the last few years," he pulled out a cigarette of his own and lit it, taking a long drag before blowing a long cloud of smoke out. "So why shouldn't I do the job again?"

Venom simply shrugged in response as he slowly pieced together who the blond was.

"Eli grew up to be that?" He raised an eyebrow at Ocelot.

"Yeah," Ocelot sighed. "Fat lot of good us taking him in did."

"Shit," Venom sighed and turned to Solid Snake, meeting his eyes and just waiting for the younger man to respond. "Well?"

A grunt took the trio's attention as Otacon, Quiet, Sniper Wolf, and a man who looked nigh identical to both Venom and Solid stood up.

Quiet blinked, glanced around, and then vanished before reappearing at Venom's side, a handgun in her hand as she shifted to watch all of the newcomers slowly awaken.

"Hold," Venom muttered just loud enough for Quiet to hear.

"Well, isn't this interesting," Big Boss said as he looked around. "I never thought I'd live to see the day where all of us were together."

Venom stood quietly, looking at the man who had held his loyalty for most of his military career, even at the cost of his own life and ambitions.

"I thought I was dead," Sniper Wolf muttered just loud enough for everyone to hear. "How am I alive."

"How are any of us alive?" Ocelot asked. "I mean, Miller's right there," he pointed out a man rubbing at limbs that had been missing for over a decade that had been returned. "So's Venom, and I know that the last thing I remember was the dead jackass over there doing something fishy to my head."

"It was the portals," Venom finally spoke up. "Some sort of portal appeared and dropped each of us off for some reason."

"And I'd like to find out why," Big Boss stated. "We also need to figure out where we are. So, how about a truce until we've figured that out."

Venom Snake exchanged glances with Quiet before nodding in assent, Solid and Otacon doing the same before the rest of the small group of elite soldiers and mercenaries agreed.

Then the ground began to shake, the warehouse door falling in as the group took cover and hid while the smoke fell, revealing a giant bipedal robot at the entrance.

The 'Mech paused at the entrance for a moment before firing a brace of missiles into the warehouse at random before vanishing again.

"Alright, that, at least. Is familiar," Solid muttered. "Looks like we get to fight a giant robot again."

"You're telling me," Venom muttered before giving Quiet a hand signal, causing her to vanish from sight. "Let's check these crates, we've got a Metal Gear to destroy."
 

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