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Let's Cyber-Play... SNATCHER. (Finale)

dragonfk

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I'm dying here because of lack of an update. :(
 

ghostdog

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So, where were we ? We've just discovered that a Snatcher has probably infiltrated the agency and there's a good chance that it's either our beloved chief or our friendly engineer. The good thing is that we learned that there is a secret underground facility below the Queens hospital. So no worries.


- NO WORRIES ? WTF MAN ? WE DON'T HAVE ANY BRAKES !!!!!



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FUUUUUUUUUUU


Awesome Snatcher track you should be listening to right now.








CHAPTER 13 : SAY YOUR PRAYERS










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Metal ! check the brake system , PRONTO !

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Sorry Gillian, looks like sabotage. No doubt the Snatcher's handywork.

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Sabotage ? We must do something quickly !


They sabotaged our turbocycle ? How stereotypically villainous of them !

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Wow, these are some great choices. Thank god there is an emergency lever, these things are lifesavers.

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Metal, pull that lever over there !

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All right, here goes ...

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Typical. I guess we only have the suicide solution left. Jump out.

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Don't give up yet !

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You're right, there must be something we can do.


Kojima is pulling our leg again. This isn't Vanishing Point and we're not driving a Dodge Challenger through the desert. Where on earth will we find cliffs and sandpiles in the damn cyberpunk city ?

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Ok, maybe by cliff we mean those pyramid structures , let's try it !

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GYAAAAHHH !!

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Crap. Let's try the sandpile trick. And by sandpile we mean that pile of garbage over there.

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FUCK ! What now ? I know, let's press buttons !

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Code:
           D 
...I'm a poor lonesome cowboy 

          D
   I'm a long long way from home 

                          F#m 
   And this poor lonesome cowboy 

             Em   f#   g   g# A g f# e 
   Has got a long long way to roam...





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:facepalm: Ok I have a cunning plan. Let's try another button !

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WHOAAAAAHHHH !

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Well, at least it wasn't the self-destruct button (you know, the one that all nuclear submarines have as a standard accessory.)...


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We're finished !

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There must be something...


Yes there is something. It's that little thing called God. Let's all kneel, close our eyes and pray...

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Well Metal, I haven't known you for very long, but it's been fun.

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Gillian...

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Let's pray together.

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......

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...actually, I'm not that religious.

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I didn't think so.


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Gillian, the road makes a sharp right turn at 500 meters ahead... At this speed, we wont make it !


VOICE : Hey Gillian ! Over here !


HUH?

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Huh ?

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Gillian ! Over here !

RANDOM !

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Random !


aka Deus ex machina.

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You've got to jump over to my bike. Hurry !

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Metal, you go first !

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What ? Not again !

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Just do it, dammit ! That curve is up ahead !

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Understood. Here I go !

:swing:

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Alright Gillian, it's your turn. Keep her steady !

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200 meters until we reach the curve !

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Gillian, jump !

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I can't ! My timing is off !

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100 meters !

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Gillian, now !

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50 meters !

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Can't reach ....

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Gilliaaaaaaaan !!!!!!!

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Everything is white... You know what that means, right ? That I was lazy at taking screenshots.... Oh and that poor Gillian is probably dea-



NO WAIT !




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He made it ! That beautiful bastard made it.

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You made it !

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No thanks to the frustrating countdown, of that annoying tin-can !

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Hmph. Queens hospital isn't far from here. Let's head over there.



And at last we reach the royal hospital.

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So this is the place, huh ?

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They really thought it through, didn't they. Underground operations...

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This whole area is directly above a section of the abandoned "Tube Liner" subway system.

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The subway, huh ? It looks like there are a lot of underground structures here... Ok Metal, open the door.

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...Door unlocked.

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All right Random, are you ready ?

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I'm ready for anything.


Let's go in then.

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Hmmm. Nothing seems to have changed from our last visit.

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So that means that nobody's been in here except you two ?

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That would appear to be the case. I cannot detect any footprints besides ours.


Everything's exactly the same. Why don't we go to that Dark room again ? There were some rails on the floor, weren't they ?

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Ok let's look around. Hmmm. That vase looks a bit familiar...

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This obsession with vases must be a Freudian thing. Anyway, we lift the vase and ...

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This apparently leads to another level.

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It looks like Jamie was right. Queens hospital does have a secret basement !

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And that basement is full of Snatchers. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, as they say. Ready to descend , Junker-boy ?

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That's a good question. Are we ready to descend into the heart of darkness ? Maybe we should make a poll. Get your foam-spraying weapons ready. Next time we'll need them.

 

ghostdog

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Eazy-O said:
But, it's Harry, right? What with stopping smoking and all? I refuse to look for answers on internets.

Updates! Faster!

In the next chapter the Snatcher will be revealed ;)
 

Silellak

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Heh, for a second I thought they might actually kill Gillian off and have you take over as Random, since they made sure Metal Gear made the jump first. That would've been interesting.

Too much character development would've gone down the tubes, though. Alas.
 

ghostdog

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well, killing Gillian at this point would be a bit too brutal. But I can assure you that we'll have some losses till the end. I've been postponing a bit the next update since photobucket is getting near it's bandwidth limit.
 

ghostdog

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I've created an account at imageshack. If all goes well and imageshack isn't complete crap, I'll post the next chapter shortly.


:YEAAAAAH:
 

Krash

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ghostdog said:
I've created an account at imageshack. If all goes well and imageshack isn't complete crap, I'll post the next chapter shortly.

Your dedication to the cause has been duly noted comrade
 

ghostdog

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We're finally here. We've found the Snatcher lair and we're ready to descend into it's dark embrace. Are you ready to face it's terrible secrets ? I sure am. I hope the same applies to our favorite Junker, Gillian Seed, the cocky bounty hunter , Random Hajile and our robotic sidekick, Metal Gear MarkII.

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CHAPTER 14 : DISINTEGRATE









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Huh ? It's the same corridor !

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This entire floor seems to have been duplicated from the one upstairs.

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It feels like we've entered parallel worlds...Everything is exactly the same... yet it's not.

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It's like we've jumped through time or something.


Let's look around. The monitors are still warm, it seems that Snatchers aren't that far away. Everything else is the same as above, except...

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Hmmm. There isn't a switch for the third door. Let's check out the first room.

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Is that so ? Metal, do a scan with your motion detector.

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This is odd... The reading comes and goes, Probably a sensor malfunction on my part.


Comes and goes ? That's suspicious. Why don't we do more thorough search of the room ?

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WHOA !

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Correct. It's a model of a human skeleton. No doubt used for anatomical study.

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Look at it more carefully. It's a somewhat distorted skeleton. This isn't human... it's a Snatcher skeleton !

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You're right... When you look at them like this, there isn't much difference between them and humans. Is there ?


No there isn't dear Gillian. Except for the fact that they have a rocket launcher inside their mouth. Nothing more to find here, let's go into door number 2. Well, hello blade runner reference # 20 !

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What are they doing here ? What's with all these samples ? This looks like a lot more than a place to treat skin cancer.

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It seems that the Snatchers were working on artificial skin regeneration techniques as well as various cancer treatments.

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This is quite an impressive array of equipment.

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Nevertheless, their technology seems somewhat dated.

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Dated ? What do you mean by that ?

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The equipment and techniques they are using... most of these methods were abandoned years ago. What's more, judging from the imbalance of the research material here, it appears to be primarily the work of one individual.

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You're telling me that all this work on the Snatchers artificial skin is being carried out by only one person ?


One person huh ? I wonder who it is. Anyway, there isn't anything else to do here, let's see if we can enter the third door. There's a sign on it :

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But whatever we do, we can't open it...

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Let's go back to the first room. Maybe we missed something. Huh ?

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I read movement ! This room !

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What ?! Where ?

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Gillian ! Watch it !!


CRAP !

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:headshot:

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Finally. That was one lively specimen.

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Damn, that was close.

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There's no doubt now that this is their maintenance facility. This one was probably waiting to get his artificial skin installed.

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So this is what they really look like , eh ? That's the scariest thing about them, you can't tell them from real people , unless they got their skin off.

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Perhaps that's humanity's great weakness. We're always judging books by their cover.

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And it's just that weakness that they take advantage of...

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Gillian, look out !


Shit ! How many shots does it take to kill these things ?

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That should do it...

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I think it's definitely dead, er... terminated this time.

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That was quite a tough customer... I'm impressed !

He's impressed enough to stop calling Gillian Junker-boy. But let's focus on our objectives. It seems something important is behind the third door. We need to get it open. Let's check the controls once more...
There are only two switches. How about pushing them both at the same time ?

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...and open sesame !

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Now, let's see what's in that last room...



!!!



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Good God !

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I read four human skeletons in this room.

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It doesn't seem whoever put them in here was too worried about making sure they would rest in peace...

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No it doesn't. These have got to be their victims.

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That means that if we can figure out who these bodies belonged to, we've just nailed 4 Snatchers !


One of the bodies is still decomposing...

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In other words, you can figure out how long the victim's been dead from analyzing the worms and insects. So what is your estimation, Metal ?

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On this particular body it has been less than 30 days since death. As for the other three, at least 4 months have passed.

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What about the identity of the victims ?

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Hair, clothing , even teeth... anything that could be used to make an identification is either gone or destroyed.

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Damn Snatchers. Isn't there anything we can do ?

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There is a way. We can perform a simulated reconstruction. Fortunately, the skulls of the victims are still intact.


That's a great idea. Let's do this reconstruction thing on them !


"initiating reconstruction procedure on body #1"


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Ah, Freddy Nielsen. We've already wasted his ass.


"Now reconstructing body #2"


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Freddy's wife, Lisa Neilsen. Junked and buried.


"Commencing facial reconstruction of body #3"


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Who the hell is that ?

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That's Chin Shu Oh ! The director of Qweens hospital.

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Former director as it seems. We were right to assume he had been Snatched.

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That leaves us the body that's still decomposing. Learning it's identity is absolutely crucial ! Proceed Metal.




"Now analyzing facial structure of body #4"


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Tension is rising...



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dumdumdumdumdumdum



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!!!



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DAMN !



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It's the Chief ! Benson Cunningham is a Snatcher !

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What ? The chief of Junker HQ is a Snatcher ?!

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So it was the chief that sabotaged our turbocycle. And those matches on Harry's desk must have been planted there by him !

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Harry must have found that picture in the Chief's room. Hence the "face to face" note he made. Wait a minute... Didn't Mika say that harry was trying to find the Chief ?

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That's right ! We was probably trying to find some evidence on the Chief !

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Gillian, if that's the case , this Harry guy has put himself in a pretty dangerous spot.

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The Chief already knows we're on to him. He had been watching the whole course of the investigation from our reports !

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Damn ! Harry and Mika are in danger !!



VOICE : That's far enough, Junker. Your little investigation is over !



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It's them !

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Snatchers ?!


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Well, if I had to make a wild guess, I'd say... yes. It's them, filthy Snatchers.

 

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