B.R.A.D

Solid Snake felt like he was falling for hours despite it being a minute. Snake yelled and landed into a canal, Snake quickly swam up and got himself onto the platform, heavily breathing and trying to catch his breath.

" Dumbass, David. Fucking dumbass, you were doing so well but you let yourself get captured and fell for a trap. " cursed Snake. Solid Snake sighed and got himself up,

" Alright kicking yourself in the head isn't going to solve anything. Take it step by step, analyze the situation and see if you can get yourself out. Just like the colonel. " Snake thought to himself, he glanced around the dark tunnel and lit a match, he quickly lit his cigarette and put it in his mouth to slightly illuminate the tunnel.

" This is probably where the sewage system of the base is. Maybe there can be a route to the basement. " Snake walked carefully forward, hearing only the water drip from the pipes. He then dialed Gray Fox on the codec but only heard static,

" Damn, the connection is shit here. " Snake sighed and continued walking in the tunnels. As he walked, he then began hearing distant stomping and chains rattling echoing in the sewers. Snake was weirded out by the noises, he wondered what these guys were hiding in the sewers. Suddenly, Snake stopped once he saw a large man in a blue jacket, camo cargo pants with black combat boots and large sunglasses staring coldly at him. He was almost creeped out by him but he figured that this was no friendly face, he took out his gun and aimed it at the man,

"Who are you?!" shouted Solid Snake. The man ignored him and began walking towards him, the stomping of his footsteps thundering throughout the sewers.

" What is that thing? " thought Snake, the man then punched Snake in the ribs with the force of ten men; the impact made Snake cough out blood as the man's cold steel fist collided into his chest. Solid rolled backwards and grabbed onto his ribs, the rookie quickly drew out his handgun and began firing rounds into the man but the bullets simply pierced through him to no effect.

"What the hell are you?!" Snake shouted at him as he shot his glasses, he gasped as he saw what was behind it. The ripped skin exposing a silver exoskeleton that had a glowing red eye,

" A robot?! They have a robot?! " Snake thought to himself. The robot charged at Snake and swung his fist towards him but Snake ducked, rolled and shot the robot in the knee. The robot then swung his arm at Snake and backhanded him towards a wall,

" Son of a bitch packs a punch, but he took a knee when I shot a round into his knee. He has weak points and that means I can kill it, just gotta learn them. " Snake got himself up and shot the robot in his shoulder, the robot ignored the bullet and then suddenly, a chainsaw came out of his forearm. The robot swung the chainsaw towards Snake but the rookie ducked and kicked the robot's arm up. That did nothing as the robot proceeded to attempt to slam the chainsaw toward Snake's face but Solid rolled aside and placed a C4 onto his hand. Quickly, Snake pushed himself using the robot's trapped arm to slide under his legs and away from the robot as he pressed his thumb onto the detonator, blowing up the robot. Solid Snake got himself up and looked at the smoke cloud only to see the robot still standing but with a quarter of its artificial skin destroyed. The robot noticed its chainsaw was damaged, the robot decided to rip off the chainsaw and shifted his hand to a machine gun. The robot aimed and was about to fire but Solid Snake ran and dove behind a corner. The robot began shooting its gun at Snake, he used his peripheral vision to look at the approaching robot,

" Split second between the gatling gun. " Snake slid the magazine out and put a fresh one in. He closed his eyes and began to focus on the whirring sound of the machine gun, hearing the impact of the bullets on the stone.

" Alright…showtime! " Solid Snake leapt out of cover, the robot took aim and was going to shoot but Snake quickly fired his M1911 handgun, timing and shooting the bullets to perfectly go inside the barrel, causing the robot's hand to blow up. Snake landed and noticed the robot lunging towards him with a knife coming out of his wrist, he stabbed Snake in his shoulder. He grunted in pain as the robot pushed more and slammed him onto the wall, Solid Snake then shot the robot in the eyes, forcing it to let go of him. Solid then quickly took his last frag grenades and shoved them into the robot's mouth and began running. The robot began running but then the grenade went off and caused the entire robot's head to blow up, destroying it fully. The rest of the robot fell into the canal, getting washed away into the sewers. Solid sighed then took a knee as he grabbed the matches and cigarettes to cauterize his stab wound,

" That was…a tough bastard...please don't tell me there's more of him in these sewers? " He thought to himself, Snake then stood up and continued walking in the sewers. A few minutes passed and Snake eventually found a door, quickly he thought to kick it open but it didn't budge the first time. Snake gritted his teeth and put all his force and weight into this kick as he pushed the door open to reveal a flight of stairs. Solid eagerly ran up the stairs with no time to waste and eventually found himself in a room that had two doors, one on Snake's left that had the number 3 on it, and the other right across from him. He sighed in relief as he found an exit but his relief was interrupted by someone banging on the level 3 door.

"Help! Someone get me out of here!" A man yelled from the other side in a Russian accent, Snake ran towards the door and leaned against it,

"Who are you?" asked Snake,

"Your voice is different, you are not one of the mercenaries, perfect! I am Dr. Madnar, I need to get out of this cell immediately!" replied the Doctor, Snake felt a little optimistic hearing that this was the real Madnar but he still had to make sure this wasn't a trap,

"Your daughter, what's her name and what does she do for a living?" Asked Snake,

"Ellen, she's a ballet dancer."

"What kind of ballet?" pressed Snake,

"Boloshi in Moscow." Snake sighed one more time in relief,

"Nice to see you're alive Doctor, don't worry I'm going to get you out of there, I promise." Snake reassured,

"Thank you, who are you?"

"My name is Solid Snake, I managed to rescue Ellen." Snake reassured,

"I'm glad, I didn't want her to come here…I never wanted her to know about all of this…"

"You mean your monster, the Metal Gear?" asked Snake, he could hear Madnar sigh in disappointment through the door.

"I never wanted to do this…I didn't want this to be my legacy, I didn't want my daughter to know about this." Madnar explain,

"Why make something like that? Why did you agree?" pressed Snake,

"I had no choice, if it wasn't me it would've been someone else and I needed to protect my daughter." Snake raised an eyebrow,

"What do you mean?"

"Allow me to start from the beginning. In the early 60s, I was a student in The Prague Institute of Technology back when Czechia was a part of the Soviet Union. I was mentored by Dr Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, a genius in engineering. During the early 60s he participated in the Soviet's Vostok program."

"The project that sent the first man to space?" asked Snake,

"Yes, without his work, we would not have space travel." clarified Madnar,

"I see, continue." Snake said as he lit a cigarette,

"Because of his marvelous work, the Soviet Union viewed him as a valuable asset, one that they didn't want to throw away. At the time, all anybody cared about was to make the next nuclear weapon, the next stage in weapons to surpass Oppenheimer's atom bomb. That's where Sokolov came in, the Soviets made him chief designer of the Soviet's Secret Weapons, despite him wanting to still design rockets for space. Sokolov spent his time helping the Russians design a deadly weapon, one no man was prepared to face. A bipedal tank that can rapidly fire a nuclear missile in the matter of seconds, it was called the Shagohod." Snake thought back to what Fox said about America and Russia's secret feud for a bipedal tank.

"But I thought the Russians failed?" curiously asked Snake,

"Oh no, my boy. That's what the Americans and Russians would want you to think, but my mentor knows the truth, he was there after all. Let me ask you, do you know about the Cuban Missile Crisis?"

"Yeah, Russia stores their nukes in Cuba which paranoid the Americans."

"Yes, see around that time the Soviet Union was about to have another civil war. Colonel Yevgeny Volgin and his secret unit of GRU wanted to oppose then leader of the nation, Nikita Khrushchev. By doing so, they overtook the small location in the southern part of Russia known as Tselinoyarsk."

"Never heard of that place." Snake stated,

"For this reason, the Americans and the Russians don't want anyone finding out about what happened there. It was there where Sokolov was working on the final touches of the Shagohod but that's when Colonel Volgin struck. His plan was to overthrow Khrushchev and take control of Russia to start a nuclear war with America. The KGB found out about what Volgin had done and decided to strike a deal with the CIA, to rescue Sokolov and destroy the Shagohod once and for all, in return they'll remove their nukes in Cuba."

"Guessing how we don't live in an apocalypse, it worked out very well."

"Yes, but unfortunately, to clean up loose ends. After he helped the Americans put a man on the moon, The KGB killed Sokolov and his family in 1969, not wanting him to talk about the weapon he made. When I first heard of my mentor's death, I defected to the United States with my wife and a colleague of mine. It was there where I settled on teaching other future great minds and met other wonderful people, until I met him…" Madnar said regretfully,

"Who?"

"Ishmael…Ishmael was the man the CIA sent to get Sokolov out of Tselinoyarsk. He knew of me after finding out more about my mentor and wanted me to work alongside him, make him a weapon to help him pursue his dream."

"Why did you agree to help a madman?" pressed Snake,

"I had no choice, it was 1974 and my wife was pregnant, I needed to give them protection. If not, the KGB would kill us so I agreed, I made Ishmael many weapons over the years to prepare him for his dream. I built B.R.A.D, the robot patrolling the sewers, I helped this man be able to start an army all to assure my daughter would be protected and now, I built him his greatest weapon of all, the TX-55 Metal Gear. Ishmael wanted me to add the final touch to the mech but I refused. I called the CIA to inform them what I was doing on their base and his mercenaries found out, that's why he took over this base and wants me to give that thing the power to destroy nation after nation! I can't do that, I've already made him many weapons that resulted in the death and destruction of so many lives…I don't want my little Ellen to know that I helped destroy the world all because of him!" shouted Madnar, Snake truly felt bad for the man, he was innocent and he could tell that the person to really blame was Ishmael. Madnar's tale put things in a new perspective for Solid Snake; he was more curious about who Ishmael really is and why he's doing all this.

"Don't worry, doc, I'm going to get you out of here and we're going to stop him together. I can't seem to contact my people in the states, something is jamming the signal, any ideas why?"

"It has to be due to the super computer." explained Madnar,

"A super computer?" asked Snake,

"Yes, the computer's main function is to test and program the TX-55 Metal Gear's weapon system along with being able to generate a field that jams outer signals. The computer is on the third floor in the server room, if you can destroy the computer then you'll be able to contact your people and also destroy the TX-55's outer range targeting system, preventing it from attacking anything in a 300 mile radius." Snake looked almost flabbergasted, he couldn't believe what he just heard this thing can do.

"Can it do that?"

"It can but there are ways to destroy it that even Ishmael does not know of. The armor on the TX-55 is almost impenetrable by standard military weapons but there are specific locations you can target to break it down slowly. First, to stop it from moving you must target the Walking Stabilizer located on the rear of the mech, you will see it as it's perfectly parallel from the Nuclear Mount Module."

"Nuclear?!" Snake exclaimed, Madnar chuckled at Snake's surprise,

"Do not worry, it is just called that. Besides, if it is even upgraded already to carry it, using it at the range you'll be in will destroy the Metal Gear itself, it should have standard rockets in the compartment. Now, the legs are all heavily armored so an attack attempt on the Hydraulic Pipes is useless so that's why you would attack the Walking Stabilizer to stop the pilot from having control of its legs. Next, target the sensors, the Sky Alert Radar is located on top of the Nuclear Mount Module. From there then target the Rear Alert Pulse Sensor located on top of the cockpit then the Antenna module, the large antennas located near the sensor. Finally, the Camera Eye to prevent the pilot from having a view of you, you'll know once you see it then target the Computer Cooler on top of the cockpit and finally, the Air Nozzle. The Metal Gear's self repair system will be overwhelmed which will result in the system being destroyed internally which will force the pilot out." explained Madnar,

"Wait, shouldn't I target the camera first?" asked Snake,

"No, the self repair system will get that fixed in a few seconds, you need to break other parts to keep the repair system occupied. The more things you break, the slower the recovery time and the pilot will be aware of the opening on the Camera Eye. Did you catch everything else to target first?"

"Yeah, I strangely have an eidetic and photographic memory. Now, let me get you out of there." Snake said as he inserted the Level 3 card to unlock and open the door. Madnar showed himself to be an old man with white hair, a receding hairline, a mustache, a lab uniform and round glasses.

"Glad to see it's actually you, Doc." Snake said to him, Madnar smiled back until suddenly, they both heard something coming their way. Snake heard it, it was the stomping and rattling of chains now coming closer. As the noise drew closer and closer, Solid and Madnar could hear static and electricity crackle. The combination of sounds became slowly louder, Snake ushered Madnar back into the room by shoving him lightly as he drew his handgun. Out from the staircase appeared a large creature standing at 6 feet 7 inches tall, the creature wore red pants and large boots but his skin color was a sickly pale green color, his blonde hair was thinning, his eyes glowed yellow, his entire body was covered in stitches and his hands and ankles bounded by broken chains. Solid was unsettled by this creature but the most unsettling thing was a large glowing blue thing attached to the creature's chest and what appeared to be spikes on his knuckles. Snake could hear it groan and moan like a zombie until it glared at him, the creature growled and appeared to be getting angrier as the sight of Solid Snake infuriated him. He began walking closer slowly only growling one thing which made his intentions clear,

"Snaaaakkeeee….."