Act II Part 1: Monster

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A/N: sorry, I accidentally made this chapter really long.

"Where to now?" she thinks as she watches the helicopter fly away.

Raiden's gaze follows the helicopter until it becomes a speck in the distance.

The next day they stow away on a military shipment plane to South America.

They arrive in about 13 hours or so. After being cramped up in a box for over half a day, she just spills out of it, not even bothering to check if anyone's around first. She groans quietly as she lays on the floor like a blob. Her mechanical joints whir under her clothes as she stretches her limbs.

After a few minutes she finally gets up and follows him out into the hot jungle. It's almost dawn the sun isn't even up yet, but she can already feel the pressing heat of the tropical environment. They dash silently through the trees and over grassy hills until, sure enough, they find Snake stealthing his way around another war zone.

She sees Raiden watching Snake from on top of a hill. She follows Snake's gaze with her eyes and sees a village bellow them. A few PMC soldiers are escorting rebel captives out of a barn when one of the rebels goes flying through the air. Laughing Octopus suddenly appears by a burning building and The most disgusting man she's ever laid eyes on emerges from it. "Vamp!" she hears Snake gasp in surprise.

"Snake.....isn't here." Laughing Octopus tells Vamp, who then gives her the command to start executing captives. The beast then starts mimicking Snake's face through the facecamo mask she has on. "Laugh! Laugh! Go ahead and laugh!" she shouts at the captives as she kills them. As she picks up the last one with her tentacles and prepares to kill him, Vamp speaks up "Beast! Leave one." he tells her.

The beast brings the soldier face to face with her "Don't forget this face." she says and then drops him. "This is the face of the bastard who killed your comrades." as the rebel flees, she pulls one of Vamp's knives out and flings it at the retreating figure, but Vamp quickly catches the knife and returns it to its sheathe.

A PMC tank appears in front of the burning building "More guerrillas will be coming to storm the safe house. He must be among their numbers. Sooner or later he will come. Don't let your guard down." he tells her before entering the vehicle and leaving.

I already don't like him.

Storm thinks as she sticks her tongue out in disgust.

She follows them farther through the large camp until she sees Snake and Raiden stop. "hm. I guess he's finally letting him know that he's there," she observes from seeing both of them crouching and not moving "Maybe it's time I let him know too." Then they're moving again, following Snake around the edge of the battlefield.

Another battle is being fought in the large, open area. A PMC sniper is positioned in a tower in the middle of it all, above an abandoned electric generating facility.

They help out the rebels until they hear their cheers of victory, and when Snake turns the corner of the brick fence around the facility, Drebin is there waiting for him. They talk for a while and she starts looking around. Out of the corner of her eye, she sees a flash of hot red on top of a hill.

She turns her attention in its direction and sees a short, slender figure with long, curly hair waving a hat over its head before retreating behind the hill. Suddenly a few of the rebels break off from the group and follow it.

A second party of rebels?

Once they're done she starts following Snake again but Drebin stops her. "Hang on, missy. Were you really just going to leave without stoping in?"

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