Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriot Read Online Free PDF

Heaven.
    Much to Big Boss’s surprise, Snake proved himself a capable warrior. At the time, Snake didn’t know he had inherited his innate prowess from Big Boss. But in the end, the young clone destroyed Metal Gear and bested his original in combat. In effect, Big Boss was defeated by his own shadow.
    Ironically, due to these events, FOXHOUND became known to the world, and the existence of Big Boss was covered up. Afterward, Big Boss fled to Zanzibar Land, a remote former Soviet satellite in the Middle East, where he fought as a mercenary, helping local freedom fighters secure independence for their nation. There, he built a second Metal Gear and once again sought to bring chaos to the world.
    Big Boss believed that from this chaos would emerge a soldier’s Utopia—a place where warriors would be able to discover their true selves. But Snake, called in by the US government, crushed Big Boss’s plans once more. Then, when Snake faced his former commander, he learned the identity of his father—from his elder’s dying words.
    At Shadow Moses, Liquid made one demand of Washington—he wanted Big Boss’s body.
    Genes inform many traits—intelligence, personality, physique. One study suggested that some traits usually dismissed as entirely cultural or acquired post-birth—including political leanings—are decided to a certain extent by hereditary factors. Big Boss’s genetic code contained the “right stuff ” for soldiers, and his body was kept preserved in the Pentagon, a virtual library of soldier genes.
    Through a method of gene therapy, Big Boss’s genetic traits were given to select special forces soldiers. These soldiers would form the Next-Generation Special Forces, also known as the Genome Soldiers.
    The Genome Soldiers were among Liquid’s FOXHOUND forces at the insurrection on Shadow Moses Island. Once again, Snake, the man who made the impossible possible, was forced into duty.
    But the Pentagon’s true goal was only to send in Snake as a vector for a deadly virus—FOXDIE.
    The virus, a biological weapon designed by Dr. Naomi Hunter with ATGC Corp on behalf of the Pentagon, responded to individuals with specific strings of genetic code, inducing apoptosis in the heart and subsequent cardiac arrest.
    Snake’s orders—to rescue DARPA chief Donald Anderson and the president of ArmsTech, Kenneth Baker, and to prevent the launch of the nuclear warheads—were an outright lie. FOXDIE killed Baker and, finally, took Liquid’s life as well.
    I met Snake during the course of those events. As a scientist—or I guess I could say the chief engineer—I assisted Snake and threw myself into the battle to make the world a slightly less awful place.
    After the events on Shadow Moses, Snake and I worked to combat the worldwide spread of Metal Gear derivatives. At the marine decontamination facility Big Shell, off the coast of Manhattan, we learned of the existence of the shadow network called “the Patriots” that controlled not only America, but the entire world. After that, we shifted focus from being “anti-Metal Gear” to being “anti-Patriots.”
    Snake and I have been together for a long time now. This is the story of the last battle of Solid Snake—my lifelong friend, the man who met that geeky robot-obsessed scientist Hal Emmerich on Shadow Moses and changed his life forever.
    Snake grew tired of being called a hero, but I’m going to call him one anyway. Solid Snake was a real legend—to me, and to many others.
    I want you to know his story.
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    A CHEERFUL VOICE rang through the sky above the ruins like a message from God.
    “Acting under the contract of local authorities, the Praying Mantis PMC recently restored governmental control to this sector. Utilizing ArmsTech Irving unmanned vehicles, Praying Mantis conclusively delivered a swift and decisive outcome. We hope you’ll consider the Praying Mantis solution for all your future combat needs.”
    A commercial. Not that Praying Mantis would