Once Sunny is asleep, Otacon is working, and Storm is watching a movie for the first time on a laptop, Naomi slips out of the Nomad. "Snake, it's Naomi. She's gone!" Storm hears Otacon inform Snake through the Codec. Without a moment's hesitation, she grabs her gear and slips out after her.
She blinks a few times until her night vision turns on. She looks around for a while until she finds a faint cloud of Naomi's perfume, and wastes no time following it.
As she goes through the city the cloud trail gradually gets thicker and thicker, signaling that she's getting closer. Not far off she can hear a deep, metallic voice yelling "Rage!" followed by multiple explosions. "Snake." she mutters before she continues to follow the trail.
She ends up by the river, across from a boat docked next to a door underneath a small bridge. Looking carefully, she can see Naomi holding onto that disgusting 'thing' as Liquid waits by the door.
She knits her eyebrows together angrily as she recalls the way Otacon looks at Naomi. Her mind hums as she tries to think of why Naomi would go back to them as Snake shows up with an old woman.
She watches carefully as the brothers fight and argue. When Liquid stabs Snake in the shoulder she bites her bottom lip and clenches her fists in anger. Liquid's boat then starts floating down the river.
Suddenly the area is flooded with PMC troops lead by Rat Patrol 01. The redheaded woman shouts through a megaphone "Stop right there, Liquid!" she rolls her eyes as she hides from their view.
Liquid just raises two of his fingers up and points to them. Seeing this action, the troops try to fire but nothing comes out of their guns. Confusion sets in as even the lights of the helicopters and the boats are shut off.
"The System is mine! Your guns and your weapons are no longer your own! Behold! The Guns of the Patriots!" Liquid shouts, pointing his fingers to resemble a gun "BANG! BANG! BANG!" he shouts, aiming at different spots around the river. His frogs start spraying everyone with bullets.
Storm quickly runs to the bridge as Liquid points his 'gun' at his own head and shouts "BANG!" once more. Suddenly everyone except her and Akiba are going crazy again.
"Do you see this, Zero? We are victorious! Behold! The Guns of the Patriots!" Liquid shouts, triumphantly. Storm takes this chance and shoots the frogs down. Liquid Ocelot turns to her and his expression turns from anger, to surprise, and finally brief panic as she rips her mask off, revealing her identity.
Storm tilts her head up and to the side, unveiling a long, thick scar that stretches from her left collarbone, up her neck, along her jaw, and ends just under her left eye. This is the unmistakable mark given to her when she was only an infant.
Liquid Ocelot turns to the disgusting man and after exchanging a few words they both look at her, causing Naomi to cry out and grab on to the disgusting man as if begging him not to do something. He just pushes her away and jumps off the boat. Storm knows what's about to happen, so she calmly walks to one side of the bridge and waits for him to appear at the other.
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While Snake is confronting Liquid, Rat Patrol 01 is trying to make it to shore. As he's pulling the redheaded woman away from the wreckage, Akiba glances in the direction of the bridge and sees Storm at one end and Vamp at the other. "Oh no!" he exclaims and swims faster.
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Vamp jumps up and lands at the end of the bridge opposite Storm. Getting a better look at her, he chuckles "You are just a girl. A mere child. This will be no fun at all." Her hair falls in front of her face as her hand rests on the handle of her sheathed sword. She let's out a low, rasping chuckle "Sure, I'm a kid, I'm half bled out, and I'm in over my head. But who the hell cares? You hurt someone very important to me, and for that. You will die." she growls.
