PAIN HAS HAD ENOUGH OF THIS 'EVIL COBRA' THING

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

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[Everyone who Pain knows is not an Evil Cobra or one of their allies is getting a call on their radio or codec. Resistance, Soviet, dead peple (through Nexus magic!), other hall patrols, civilians, everyone who is not allied with or is an evil Cobra. ]

Hello, this is Pain from the hall patrols. There has been an invasion by the evil Cobra Unit that has resulted in death, destruction and chaos. I need your help to fight and destroy them. Please call me back or meet me in the theater on the seventh floor if you want to help. I'm not asking that you work with any of your enemies, just that you fight the evil Cobras. Avoid them and don't tell them anything if they catch you.

[He's been saying for a while that someone needs to stop them. That someone might as well be him.]

I'm counting on you. Please help me. Help us all!

 

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[nanoless.livejournal.com]

[There's a grim ghost leaning back against the wall.]

The Boss is mine.

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

[He looks Johnny over.]

You're going to need a lot of help if you are. She's beyond human levels of experience, and as strong as you are, you're still human.

[nanoless.livejournal.com]

[He shakes his head.]

Not right now I'm not.

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

She's partnered with a spirit medium that can control and trap the dead. If you try to fight her now, he'll do it to you.

Why are you so upset with her?

[nanoless.livejournal.com]

She killed my friend.

And now her toadies have killed a lot more of them.

[Johnny, strangely enough, isn't much for words right now.]

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

Alek, you mean.

[He nods.]

I understand your feelings, but you can't attack them without a plan. They've had over twenty years of working and killing together; one ghost isn't going to be much against them. What evil Sorrow did to Alek...

[He shakes his head.]

If you can bring all the ghosts here, though, we may be able to think of a better plan. Espianage and sabotage could be very useful. Have you spoken to the Sorrow yet?

[nanoless.livejournal.com]

There's not enough time for planning!

[Johnny tries to slam a fist against the wall- without much concentration, it goes straight through.]

She's just one woman. It's not like she's got optic camo and one of those bullet shields, is it? Even if she did, she's not immortal! You people are putting her on too much of a goddamn pedestal. She's as easy to kill as anybody else.

[He taps a finger on his breastbone.]

One bullet here, she's as gone as the rest of us.

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

Just one woman?

[Pain barks a short laugh.]

She may not look formidable, but she's strong and fast and smart. Certainly, a sniper would be able to kill her, but he'd have to get past her unit first. Hornets to guard, another sniper to kill, a fast scout, a bomber and a medium--you'd need to split them up first.

Do you have any suggestions how to rid her of her protectors so that you can give her that "one bullet?"

[nanoless.livejournal.com]

[Johnny shrugs a little.]

Look. I'm no strategist. I leave that to other people. But for God's sake- the woman is from the 1960s. Sure, so are you, but you can't tell me there's not technology to beat all that crap now.

[Suddenly, Johnny stops. A light is dawning in his eyes.]

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

You'd have to tell me; I'm still not familiar with all the new--

[He sees that expression of epiphany and stops.]

You have an idea?

[nanoless.livejournal.com]

We have optic camo and bullet-deflecting electromagnetic fields! And telepathy-suppressing nanomachines!

All we need is Revolver Ocelot and Dr. Emmerich!

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

...I actually think I can get you both of them. I was talking to Dr. Emmerich earlier about stopping all this and could radio him, and Ocelot is my nephew and helped me with a mission this afternoon.

What are you thinking of?

[nanoless.livejournal.com]

Uh... get someone with superior combat skills, then give them optic camo, the electromagnetic shield, telepathy-suppressing nanomachines, and a gun?

Oh. And some smoke bombs.

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

...That could work. The only people I know on their level are the other versions of us and the Naked Snakes, so we and they to do it. We'd need lots of those camoes, I suspect--if we want to prevent them from ganging up on us in revenge, we'd need to split them up and put them all into comas all at once.

Can Dr. Emmerich make enough of all those for it to work?

[nanoless.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah. Sure he can.

But it's not like you're that limited, y'know. [He looks a little irritated.] Don't underestimate Foxhound. We're just as good as any of you people.

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

I'll need to go find him again, then.

[He scratches his head, sheepish.]

Sorry, it's just...I'm not used to working with other units on the same level as my own. We were the most feared group in the world for a reason. And the quality of your Snakes is not reassuring, but I'm sure there's one out there who's as skilled as his father.

Can I meet the rest of Foxhound?

[nanoless.livejournal.com]

Well, the Foxhound members that're here... well, from before there's Liquid, the tank guy, the sniper chick, uh...

[He pushes that aside, obviously distracted.]

Look, Solid Snake is the baddest motherfucker on the planet, all right? He took down a tank on foot with a few hand grenades, and that was after he took out a Metal Gear on foot with a rocket launcher. He fucked up your Naked Snake with a can of hairspray and a lighter. I don't know what Snakes you've been talking to, but give him the right equipment and radio backup and he'll have your Boss over his knee whistlin' Dixie before the sun is down.

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

Clearly I've been talking to the wrong ones; if he's as gifted as you say, we could use him. Can you introduce me to the ones you trust as competant so that I can have them help us? I have Para-Medic, Otacon, Ocelot, and Alek as possible radio backups so far, and I'm sure I can find others if you tell me who they are.

[He puts the information about Foxhound into a folder in his mind for later.]

...And can I ask you not to extend your vendetta to the other Bosses? Only one of them is a psychotic homicidal maniac; the others would be pleased to help us with this.

[nanoless.livejournal.com]

[Johnny waves a hand.]

Yeah, yeah. No problem.

Thing is... there's lots of Snakes here. Really should be a matter of putting the bait out and seeing who bites.

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

I sent out the call to everyone I know. No Snakes of any kind have shown up yet. Could you call some of them and see if that will--could you give me their radios so that I can recruit them personally? That might make things easier.

[nanoless.livejournal.com]

I'll do my best, man. You keep planning on your end.

[actuallyhornets.livejournal.com]

I'll have the Sorrow or another ghost contact you when I need you, or call you if you come back to life.

Be safe.