[005] - voice/action
[Anyone who knows Snake in passing might find this particular transmission to be a little strange. After all, he never did seem like a family man. It's something of a last resort to be contacting the network as a whole about this. He tends to play his personal life closer to the chest. But desperate times and all.I'm looking for a little girl
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Any ideas on where to start looking for her? [ Meaning: tell me how I can help. ]
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Sounds like she hasn't been home in a few days. I'm going to see what I can dig up around here, first.
[He has a few suspicions, but not enough information to make any guesses. She knows just as well as he does that she could just be gone. And she knows as well as he does that there's just as much of a likelihood that she'd turn up dead.]
Nothing else to go on, yet. I wouldn't say no to a second set of ears.
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[Liquid's voice is sharp.]
When did she disappear? Who saw her last?
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It's been a few days.
[A few too many, probably. She lived in a boarding house with some other kids, since she'd come back to the Port, but she kept in fairly regular contact with him ever since. It seemed like a better alternative at the time having her stay with him. Snake had been living alone, back then, and he isn't always around.]
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I will see if I can find her. Or any trace of her.
[The feed disconnects.]
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[Simple as that. Fox isn't going to pry-they never talked about their personal lives, anyway-and he'd never been too good at the whole "comforting" thing. If Snake wanted to offer any more information, that was his choice. For now, Fox almost sounds as though he's treating it as a mission. Just a job to do, not something he needed to get personally involved with.]
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There might not be anything to find. People vanish around here as often as they show up.
[Obviously, he's not taking his chances and assuming that's the case. Silent for a beat, then he continues.]
...she's a smart kid.
[Smart enough to build miniature Metal Gear and young enough not to see a problem with showing that fact off on a public network in a city full of questionable types. Apparently he never did teach her how to be a suspicious bastard in the future.]
She might have attracted the wrong kind of attention.
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Finally, as though in explanation:] I saw her last post on the network.
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[And that's all that really needs saying. Neither one of the companies really feels like the lesser of two evils. But SERO in particular makes him very wary for a multitude of reasons. They're a little more public than the Patriots. But military technology, human experimentation. ...cloning and genetic engineering. It all hits a little too close to home.]
She's- [It doesn't come as much of a surprise, in hindsight, that Fox took note of her. But he pauses. Hums a little. As if deciding what sort of explanation to offer in kind. They never did talk about their personal lives, back before everything really went to hell. Not until the very end. But then, Snake hadn't really had much of one outside of FOXHOUND, anyway.] ...It's a long story.
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[A pause. It's not entirely unfamiliar a voice, but he can't actually put a name to it.]
...thanks, kid.
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[Somehow it comes as a bit of a surprise. Pretty mundane name for a place like this one. A moment later he gives his codename in return.]
It's Snake. Let me know if you hear anything interesting.
[All his suspicions are, as of now, just suspicions. Couldn't hurt to cast a wider net.]
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[He'd never forget that voice, not in a thousand years. Or rather, a voice identical to it, but how would he know that?]
[Holding the NV, Ocelot's heart pounds in excitement. He distantly absorbs the words to sort through their significance later, but that voice... that voice...]
...SNAKE!!
[Oops. He meant to introduce himself in a much cooler way. Really.]
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[ALERT 99.9--wait.]
[The hand holding his cigarette dips a little in surprise and his pulse picks up. He knows that voice. Familiar and unfamiliar at the same time, but he knows it from his time here, for sure. Smug, cocky and decades too young. Hard to associate with the old bastard from back home. Sort of dumb and clueless enough that Snake had actually sort of regretted the way things had ended for him.]
[But he had died months ago.]
...
[...hadn't he?]
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...Ocelot?
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[He can't keep the excitement out of his voice; all attempts at cool and casual fail.]
What's the matter, Snake? Surprised? You should have known I wasn't done with you yet.
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