Way To Fall

With little time left, Snake and Fox rode towards the APC. The main cannon turned and aimed at them but Fox quickly tossed his sword inside the cannon's barrel to jam it, causing the cannon to blow up. A group of the terrorists came out of the APC and Snake shot them all down. Snake sighed in relief and got off his bike,

"The president is probably in his bunker, we can go-" Snake couldn't finish the sentence as he heard a gunshot extremely close to him, he felt something puncture his back but it wasn't a bullet. He turned around and saw a needle in his back then saw Gray Fox holding the gun. Snake tried moving but felt his legs shake, wobbling and his vision blurred as his body collapsed. Gray Fox stood in front of him and pulled out the radio, Snake weakly tried reaching for him,

"F-F-Frank…why…." Snake weakly asked, Gray Fox took a knee in front of Snake then looked at him with an empty emotionless face.

"Son…you have a way to fall…" Fox replied, he then crushed Snake's hand and began dragging him to the street. As he was doing so, Fox turned the knob on the radio and began speaking,

"This is Gray Fox, prepare for the fireworks. Soldiers of Outer Heaven who have offered themselves as sacrifice, Big Boss thanks you and we will meet again in the place warriors rest. All teams prepare to evacuate their cities, I'll be the one to finish off the cabinet." Fox ordered on the radio,

"Acknowledged sir, glad to see you back on the battlefield." A terrorist replied. Fox then pulled open a sewer grate and held Snake's drugged body over the opening,

"Please…Frank…" pleaded Snake,

"If you think you have the courage to pull the trigger, then I'll see you again in Zanzibar Lands…Solid Snake…" Fox then tossed Solid Snake into the channel, seeing his body get washed away.

"That's one less loose end…" Gray Fox said to himself. Fox removed his coat and unbuttoned his shirt, he then dug into his pocket and pulled out a blood red headband then began wrapping around his head. The mad swordsman couldn't help but take a sniff in the air, smelling the air of his childhood, embracing it all. Fox then began sprinting towards the White House and leapt into the Oval Office, he spotted a group of secret service agents armed near the exit. They couldn't help but shake in fear as they recognized the red headband of the silver haired demon in battle, the Gray Fox. He gripped onto his sword with such ease and control,

"O say can you see…" Gray Fox began to softly angelically sing, he instantly dashed and sliced their heads cleanly off. The heads rolled off and began to spray fountains of blood, he kicked the door down and saw more secret service agents now moving members of the cabinet towards the bunker room.

"By the dawn's early light…What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming…" continued Gray Fox, the members of the cabinet were all screaming in horror as they saw the blood bathed warrior dash towards them while the agents were shooting.

"Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight…" Fox sang as he began slaughtering everyone in the hallway. Agents, cabinet members and even the innocent staff who were all horrified.

"O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?" Fox continued as he began to slowly and hollowly make his way down to the bunker. His hearing detected many agents holding M16s with high caliber rounds, he could also hear them loading up magazines. Gray Fox then kicked the door down, hearing one of them yelling, "OPEN FIRE!".

"AND THE ROCKET'S RED GLARE! THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIRRR!" Fox shouted as he sliced bullet after bullet, he then proceeded to slice agent after agent, spreading blood and all kinds of limbs in the small narrow hallway.

"GAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THEREE!!" Fox shouted as he sliced the door open, he found the remaining members of the President's cabinet. They all were pleading with him to not kill them, to spare them but their pleading was like prayers to a God who doesn't care.

"O SAY DOES THAT STAR-SPANGLED BANNER YET WAAAVVEEE…" Fox shouted as he killed the last few of them, he then entered the bunker's office and saw the President shouting for anyone to come but unfortunately no one will.

"O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREEEE!" Fox then sliced the President horizontally in half then cut his head off.

"And the home…of the…brave…" Fox finished, bathed in the blood of the innocent and of his enemies. He grabbed the President's head and began walking out towards the south exit of the White House. Outside, the army of Outer Heaven stood proudly in front of the White House, cheering for Gray Fox like a national hero. Fox simply raised the President's head which made the army roar louder for their champion as Fox then held his hand up to silence them.

"BROTHERS, SISTERS OF THE ZANZIBAR LANDS OUTER HEAVEN ARMY, WE HAVE ACHIEVED SOMETHING NO NATION HAS DONE! WE HAVE ASSAULTED ALL THE WORLD POWERS AT ONCE, WE INVADED THE FREE WORLD AND WE HAVE ACHIEVED OUR FIRST VICTORY!" Fox shouted. The army cheered louder for a few minutes until quieting down.

"PLEASE STAND AND SALUTE FOR OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM!" Fox ordered, the soldiers did so, standing proudly as DC burned.

"OUR PURPOSE IS DRAWN, OUTER HEAVEN COMES AT DAWN, WITH BIG BOSS LEADING THE WAY, ZANZIBAR LIVES ON!" They all sang in unison. After they cheered once more, they began making their way to their own aircrafts to take off. As for Solid Snake, he ended up being washed up onto the Mount Vernon Trail in front of Arlington. The drug began wearing off but he still felt weak but mainly shattered, his comrade, the one who understood him left him betrayed and broken, all because of his father's mad dream. Snake crawled towards a tree and rested against it, looking at the destroyed war torn Washington DC. In the back of his mind he could hear his father laughing about how he's won, how he wanted him to rule alongside him, how he broke him. Suddenly, Solid looked up as he saw a giant plane heading its way towards the direction of The Pentagon. He couldn't believe what he heard next as he heard a loud explosion coming from The Pentagon as the plane crashed right onto the building, another plane followed after and crashed into it as well. Snake saw in the sky multiple planes kamikaze right into the White House, into the Capitol Building, the Washington Monument, the Supreme Court and then the entire city of Washington DC. In the middle of destruction, Solid Snake fell aside, not dead but mainly defeated both physically and personally.