Not Your Kind Of People (Raiden x Reader - Metal Gear)

Return

Warnings: Unbetated work. OoC. Lazy writing. English is not my first language. Angst.

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Chapter VI: "Return"

Infiltrate The Patriots and help Raiden retrieve the body of Big Boss– that was your objective. EVA's contacts had been helpful in your mission, but it had taken effort and time to get where she wanted you to be. Despite the odds, you succeeded and made acquaintance with a colonel of the US Army during a private celebration. The man seemed to enjoy the company of women much younger than him so it wasn't difficult to get his attention. Plus, he was interested in monitoring the activity of certain PMCs that weren't inside the SOP system, as well as the clients that hired them.

Not being a part of the system was one of the factors that devalued the PLA. Many clients from first world countries preferred to hire soldiers enhanced with nanomachines, since they guaranteed effectiveness. The jobs the PLA got were mainly from third world countries, or other employees that couldn't quite afford to pay for more expensive and sophisticated PMCs. This wasn't to say that you were cheap but you were more affordable than most companies in the market.

The man had shown great interest in recruiting you, once you gave him intel concerning EVA and her intentions to destroy The Patriots system. One of the founding members, she had betrayed the organization and sought to terminate it. For so many years she had escaped from them but then you arrived, delivering her head on a silver plate as she requested. Your handler was more than pleased and, as soon as you made your move, you knew there was no turning back. You didn't know if you would ever return to her, if you would ever see Raiden again, but whatever the outcome was you couldn't die without finishing your mission.

You left the next day after your argument with Raiden, knowing it was futile to try and reason with him and that your time was up. There were no goodbyes, nothing, and while you regretted the fact you couldn't fix things between you and him you knew it was easier this way. You hadn't even reconciled your differences with Tifa, but it was alright. If she had know the true reason why you were leaving she would have insisted in following, otherwise, and you couldn't have that.

It wouldn't be long before the PLA connected your disappearance with the blow of their cover, however. They would have to leave the Carpathian Mountains and you made sure that they would find the truth in time, even if that meant looking like a traitor in their eyes. That was your purpose, was it not? Once your loyalty to your new masters was accepted, you were no longer a member of the PLA but a pawn of The Patriots– or so they liked to believe.

It had been some time since you left, and the first part of the plan was a success. For the second part, you were faced with the challenge of gathering intel concerning the installations where the body of Big Boss was kept. You were inside the organization, but your job wasn't supposed to be any easier because of that. On the contrary, you had to be more careful than ever and remain unseen– a specter in the scheme of things. You also needed to assess the situation and plan a course of action that would help the PLA infiltrate. It had to be foolproof because you only had one shot at this. If you or your comrades failed, it was all over.

You had to commit everything to memory, even to the last detail, since you couldn't risk leaving traces of your reconnaissance behind. There was also the problem of time, a luxury you didn't have, because sooner or later they would learn of your true intentions– that you were actually acting on behalf of EVA, the very woman they wanted dead. They would also start suspecting when they never found her, and you were running out of excuses as time passed. It was a relief to know she was still alive, at least, but it shouldn't have been much of a surprise when you had intentionally omitted the part that she was hiding in a church in Prague. Every once in a while, you thought about the reaction of your comrades at your apparent betrayal and how much they must have insisted for EVA to leave that place, only for her to flat out refuse.