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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.

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[[Hop Hop]]

Samus and Lash ventured down the elevator and left a similarly relatively-easy-to-follow trail of destruction in their exploration of the facility: doors were pried open, kicked in or simply exploded. Metal scraps, debris and decaying, overturned furniture was treated with the same disregard. It was simply in the way.

Samus might of been slightly (and only slightly) more cautious about making the mess (and noise) they did if she didn't feel this place was completely deserted. But she was wrong. They weren't alone.

Deep down in the belly of Shadow Moses, in a mammoth hangar there was the one thing--the one thing she had been spending literally months hunting down with the same, single-minded determination...

"...Metal Gear..." She breathed. Her personal mission was near completion, but she couldn't reveal in any satisfaction; not yet.

Before them was the mighty beast itself, Metal Gear REX, looking as inglorious and banged up as Snake last left it. A thin coat of dust covered nearly everything in here. This was, admittedly, not exactly how she remembered it...

"It looks completely ruined..." Samus walked up to the machine, running her hand across one of it's thick legs. She recalled them at least before she blew them off that first time and it, being more... lively looking.

"What, you serious? THAT IT?!" Lash remembered REX from when Otacon had asked to stash it in the factories during the war. Before Samus could protest, she was already climbing up it like a monkey and ignoring gravity thanks to her Commanding Officer powers until she got to the cockpit.

There was a loud clang as she hit parts of it to test out if the thing still held together.

"What kind of decomposition goes on around here?! What happened to the nukes?" Lash loved the nukes on it, okay. Nukes went boom. "THIS THING'S LAAAAAME!"

This thing was really lame - Lash, December 2011

"Anyway, controls are intact, for all god that will do. It can still probably fight off a few things but without the nuke it's kinda pointless. I mean, rockets are cool and all that, but NUKES, that's an entire explosive science altogether!"

"No nukes...?" Samus echoed. Nukes were her main concern. Without them, REX looked no more intimidating than a rusty old robot collecting dust in a corner. Just to confirm, Samus brought a hand up to her visor and gave REX a good scan. Indeed, no nukes, but something looked amiss where they might have been. The anti-tank missiles were still plentiful but... Something isn't right here...

Samus followed Lash's footsteps, proceeding a little awkwardly since she ~~wasn't in spider ball form~~ still wasn't quite used to Lash's CO powers at work--a literal vertical incline up REX's leg must have looked ridiculous to anyone.

"Look at this." Samus pointed out, "Wasn't this where the railgun and nukes were kept? It looks like it was ripped clean out..."

And lo, she did, before her face turned into a sour pout. She gave the old machine an angry kick.

"We've been beaten to the punch!" she said somewhat angrily. And by somewhat I mean she was pretty pissed off that they now had this lame robot and not an awesome nuke-filled one. "Someone else came here before us. No way a nuke just magically whisked itself away!"

No, no way that could happen. Samus gave a snarl from behind the visor, tempted to kick the old machine herself.

"I will hunt them down." She announced with a clenched palm. Anyone with a nuke could be dangerous... anyone with a nuke who might have a connection to the Academy doubly so. She'd have to start her search all over again.

All was not lost, however. They did find REX...

"What a waste."