| Snake would get a great view of something quite unusual as he prepared--the subway train flew at Metal Man, who was holding that third rail. There was a click, and a snap, and then a SMASHBLAMBONKBONKBONKBLAM as the train derailed miserably flipping end over end like a deranged sausage. Flying above it was Metal Man, who had just barely cleared the thing with his motors set to high. His heavily dented face visor shone dimly in the light, as he landed atop one of the crashing cars while it flew through the air.
Oddly, these cars were empty... probably some metaphor for another world's travelers rather than anything sensible. The armored violence unit leaped across the gap, smashing into the ground. Fire and death followed him, as the subway violently disintegrated into its individual metallic components, and wild arcs of lightning from the track blew apart what few bits of glass hadn't been shattered.
And so, Snake would see the Man of Steel towering over him, with a background of lightning and explosions. The visor had gone cold, not showing his face anymore, but rather, a heartless slate of broken glass.
Snake did not hesitate, firing his weapon again and again into the metallic menace. Pieces of steel flew off, followed with red lubricant. But to Snake's annoyance, the towering being was used to this treatment. While extended firing would kill Metal Man... Snake wasn't about to get that chance, with big, tall, and silver breathing down his neck.
"KNOCK ALL THE LITTLE PIECES YOU WANT OFF OF ME. I WON'T MISS THEM."
The man-machine activated his time machine, causing a blue wave of energy to activate. All available devices on Snake's person would begin to report anomalous readings as physics broke and Metal Man became surrounded by a hideous, blinding blue corona.
"I USED TO PLAY AROUND AND AVOID USING THIS, BUT PEOPLE LIKE YOU HAVE RUINED IT. NOW LOOK WHAT WE ALL HAVE TO DEAL WITH. I THINK I MIGHT JUST CRY A LITTLE ONCE I'M DONE LAUGHING AT YOUR MISTAKE. OH, WELL, I GUESS IT MAY BE INTERESTING."
Snake would shoot at the device. But moments before the heavy armor-piercing round could dash the device's weak surface, the Man of Steel dialed in a command, sending a wave of time energy to shove Snake, the round, and all of Snake's stuff into the wall.
This wasn't something he could just prepare a chip for, that was for sure.
Metal Man snickered as Snake went to move away.
"WHAT, GIVING UP SO QUICKLY?"
It was far from that; Snake had another ingenius plan up his sleeve.
Unfortunately, he wouldn't get the chance to use it at the moment.
"LET'S HAVE AN INSTANT REPLAY!!!"
Metal Man pressed his device's button like a mad Super Bowl viewer, and suddenly Snake was picked back up and placed back where he was...
...And then shoved back onto the floor.
"AHAHAHAH. THIS IS ALMOST BETTER THAN MYTHBUSTERS. LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAAAAAIN!"
Metal Man pressed the button once, then twice more. Snake would be flung about like a puppet, with Metal Man's rage evaporating. But then, the field would die, and Metal Man would shake his now blank time device's screen.
"DAMN IT, THAT'S THE FOURTH PAIR OF SUPER SPECIAL DOUBLE A BATTERIES I'VE USED THIS WEEK!"
Metal Man began fumbling to recharge his device's batteries, once again placing himself senselessly in harm's way. Snake could probably assemble a small cannon in the time it'd take Metal Man to replace the batteries for that thing... so it was his time to shine, yet again!
...If he could get over being stuck half-way inside a wall from that last throw. |