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Who: icequeen_aran, things_go_boom, pedaltothemetal, pkmachomega, noheroesinwar
What: TIME TO FIND METAL GEAR REX but what else will be found?
Where: ALASKA
When: DATE FLEXIBLE; let's say December 21st for now.
Warnings: Lash, Bounty Hunters, Alaskan Wolf Dogs and so forth.


Samus had had it. She was frustrated. She was aggravated. After months of searching, she still couldn't find Metal Gear REX. Granted, several of those months were riddled with interruptions like tiki island curses and the usual teaching job grind, but I digress.

REX was easily not the biggest threat out there, but at this point it had become a war of attrition on her patience and perhaps her pride too. What kind of bounty hunter could she call herself if she couldn't hunt down walking tank armed with nuclear weapons? Even the slippery local murder had somehow still eluded everyone's sights, including hers. REX was easily four stories tall--something like that shouldn't be too hard to miss. It was once somewhere very close to the Smash Academy, so where could it of possibly gone?

Otacon knew. Or... the old Otacon knew. Samus had been stubbornly resisting going to Otacon for help but was running out of options and clues.

Her recent spat with Falcon, (while currently resolved... for the most...) had her favoring less friendly and lawful methods of information retrieval. Falcon wanted her to stay away from Otacon? Fine. Sure. She wouldn't go directly to Otacon, even if the scientist was her best and only lead.

Samus hunkered down at her computer, fingers swiftly typing away. She was going to hack into Otacon's computer and take what she needed instead.

With any luck, he'd never know about it either.

Comments

[thewunderkind]

"Got it." Lash could sometimes be pretty serious for...2 minutes when the situation called for it. "With your weapons and my bombs, if anyone tried anything funny they'd only find a pair of smoking shoes, tee hee hee!"

Yes, beautiful mental image.

As they got beyond the helicopter pad, as that music picked up, she turned over to where the big entrance doors were.

"It's almost too easy. I guess this is what happens when you abandon an entire building." Sigh. Those things kinda made her sad. All those weapons and nothing to use it for!

[icequeen_aran]

The music picked up as They approached the helicopter pad, finding the front doors slightly ajar. Samus noted old security cameras, miserable and frozen where they were mounted.

And indeed, there were a lot of other things left behind. Inside were tanks, crates, tanks and a lot of ravens and mice taking shelter from the biting cold. Aside from them, there seemed to be no other presence of life.

Not even the hum of electricity.

This became even more apparent when the back elevator was approached. Not exactly having an inkling of where to go to find REX, Samus figured the best place to start would be underground. A giant nuclear-equipped walking tank wasn't exactly something you wanted to leave out in the open.

"The power's out." She grunted, suspicion confirmed when she tried the elevator buttons. Surely there was another way, right?

[thewunderkind]

Uh sorry, Lash wasn't listening too busy humping standing all over that tank in the corner with the biggest stars in her eyes.

"Oh wow, that model such a classic!" She tapped and touched it the way a car collector would be looking at an old model. "It's not very useful in this modern age of warfare, but I could totally spruce this up and make it my second driving tank!"

Lash. Lash what. She finally looked up and scratched the back of her head.

"Oh yeah. There's probably a power generator nearby. You know big buildings like this have at the very least one if not two or three backup electrical powers. Especially if they are working with hardcore electronics."

Watch out world. HARDCORE electronics.

[powersuit_aran]

Lash. What. Focus, Samus nearly hissed, but soon enough the important matter of HARDCORE electronics was brought to her attention.

"I don't want to waste anymore time. Can you get it started?"

And if Samus could be any assistance to that, she would. She started by ramming her hand between the elevator doors, and prying them open manually with loud, piercing screeching sounds. The power might not of been on, but that didn't mean an elevator shaft was unusable.

[thewunderkind]

Ha ha ha focus what is that when you are the amazing Wunderkind and never knew what the future might bring? Especially HARDCORE electronics.

"Sure sure, just gimme a minute," she mumbled, taking out a large black crystal and placing it close to the wall before taking a pair of pliers and just...place it on the large thing. Checking her watch ever ten seconds as it began to glow, removing them a minute in. "There!"

There what? She walked over holding it like it was the holy grail or something.

"Tada! How do you like my portable Neo Miniture Black Obelisk? I modeled them after the large ones we used to make in Black Hole. It's like a super-super-super--" she went on for a while, "--super super super super Battery!"

In a move that seemed to defy logic, she tapped it and a small wave of energy floating from her right into the elevator, lighting it up...although there were some sparks from being pried open like that. "Tee hee! Now that's what I call a sparkling entrance!"

Lash you were impossible.

[powersuit_aran]

Lash you were completely impossible. Though, it would be a lie to say Samus wasn't impressed by the super super super... super... super... the Obelisk. This was, of course, not easily seen behind the opaque visor, and probably wouldn't of been easily seen even without it.

"It's convenient." Was all the bounty hunter commented with. It was convenient and certainly got the job done as the elevator hummed, or rather, sparked and kind of screeched to life, thanks to Samus's manhandling of the outer doors. Oh well. Either way, they were an formidable and effective (if odd) duo.

"Let's see how deep this rabbit hole goes."

[[Hop Hop]]