The Tanker Incident

The Tanker Incident
Solid Snake, working as an agent of Philanthropy, walked along the George Washington Bridge with the intention of leaping from it, and landing onto of the U.S.S. Discovery. Working with his team-mate and best friend Otacon via Codec, their mission was to infiltrate the tanker and get photographic evidence of a new Metal Gear supposedly being transported with in it.

This new model, code named Metal Gear RAY, was being developed by the Marines as a means to combat the abundance of Metal Gear REX Units being developed after Revolver Ocelot leaked the plans for REX onto the black market. At that time, almost every country had its own version of Metal Gear. Philanthropy was formed by Nastasha Romanenko and Otacon specifically to counter this.

Immediately after landing on the tanker, Snake witnessed the hostile takeover of the tanker by Russian Mercenaries who killed all the marines on the deck. Snake quickly managed to catch a photo of their commander, later identified as Sergei Gurlukovich, former GRU colonel. Not deterred by this new development, Snake commenced with his first objective: find out where the Discovery is headed.

After making his way into the bridge of the tanker, Snake saw the destination for the tanker was in the middle of the Atlantic, roughly 500 miles off the coast of the Bermudas. From this, Otacon estimated that RAY was practically combat ready. Hearing a noise, and heading out onto the deck to investigate, Snake encountered Sergei’s daughter, Olga Gurlukovich. After an intense Gun shoot out, Snake used his tranquilizer gun to knock her unconscious. Snake took her weapon and discovered he was being watched by an Army Cypher T. Otacon called Snake and told him that Philanthropy didn’t dig up the information for this new Metal Gear on their own, it was given to them as an anonymous tip signed “E.E” Otacon’s nickname for his stepsister, Emma Emmerich. Otacon also warned Snake that their codec line was being monitored by an unknown presence and the two arranged for a different message of sending the RAY photographs.

RAY Escapes

Pressing on, Snake descended into the holds where the Marines were being briefed by the Marine Commandant Scott Dolph standing in front of RAY itself. After taking photographs of RAY from the front, left and right side and the “Marines” insignia on its legs, Snake headed to the small computer in the main hold which Otacon had hacked into in order to send the photos. After sending, and as the Commandant’s speech wrapped up, Revolver Ocelot emerged from the shadows along with Sergei Gurlukovich and his mercenaries.

Gurlukovich, holding the Commandant hostage, spoke of how he was stealing Metal Gear RAY so it could be returned to the Motherland. All of the technology which gave birth to Metal Gear was Russian-made. Ocelot, amused by this, informed his comrade that he wasn’t stealing RAY for Russia but was instead taking it back to the “Patriots”. Ocelot proceeded to kill Gurlukovich, Scott Dolph and several members of the Russian mercenaries.

Activating the SEMTEX he had placed around the ship, Ocelot intended to sink the Tanker and proceeded to board RAY. Before he could, however, Snake leapt from his hiding place and confronted Ocelot. Before having any chance to react, Ocelot’s new arm started to twitch, before eventually Ocelot started to speak with the voice of Liquid Snake! Confronting his brother, Liquid climbed inside RAY and completely destroyed the Tanker. As RAY flees the scene, Ocelot was heard contacting his conspirator informing him that everything went as planned and photographic evidence exists of Snake on the tanker. Snake nowhere to be seen, was officially filed as Deceased after the incident.