victory_road | 1st Match // [video | action] New Bark Town

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1st Match // [video | action] New Bark Town

[The video feed starts off with an eye.

Just one, surrounded by what looks like a mask. After a moment, the eye pulls away and the rest of the mask, which completely covers the owner's face minus the one eye, is revealed.

The voice underneath the mask is guttural and growling, but perfectly audible despite the barrier.]

Mother said to have fun and be careful.

[He rolls his eye and grumbles a bit, quietly at first but quickly growing louder. As he speaks he changes from his indoor voice to his outdoor voice, barking out the words louder and louder as he brings the camera close to his face again:]

How can I HAVE FUN WITHOUT MY AXE!??

[Somebody mad.]

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[It was strange to hear such nice words coming out of this creature's mouth. The word "nice" didn't really fit in with the harsh exterior of the creature's image. Yet, it showed that he had a heart at least.]

Yeah, some of the Pokémon are pretty cute. Don't let their exteriors fool you though.

[Snake knew how dangerous some "cute" Pokémon could be.]

I'm guessing that's a yes. What's your name, soldier?

[That's probably a good point. Gaige and Tina, for example, are both as cute as buttons but he certainly wouldn't actually want to mess with either of them. Unless he wanted to lose a limb or three. Which he typically doesn't.

He'll have to consider that some more.]

Call me Ishmael.

[His voice is a normal, steady volume as he enunciates the quote, but as soon as he's finished he laughs and shakes his head, as if amused by his own whimsy.]

Nahahahahaha...!

It's KRIEEEEG!!

[His voice deepens to a growl as he drags out the syllable of his name.]

[Snake froze. Those words. "Call me Ishmael." How did this guy know about that? Surely, he couldn't know that Big Boss said that to him back at the hospital all that time ago? When he didn't even know who that guy was....

...

shit. Either this guy was messing with his head or he genuinely was called Ishmael, which was a very scary coincidence.]

No, you- you can't be called that.

[Snake shook his head and closed his eye. PTSD was a bitch. Ishmael was Big Boss; the guy who he was supposed to be. That name just triggered some of his flashback and he had to pull himself together in front of this man.

The hospital.....he was there once more....lost an arm....woman attacked him....she got set on fire.....banadaged man said his name was Ishmael...]

Krieg? That's your real name? Not Ishmael?

Edited 2016-08-28 09:43 (UTC)

[He notices the other seems to be bothered for some reason, but he's not horribly curious as to why. Chances are high he'll forget all about it in a little while, anyway. It's just how these things tend to go.

He nods, a single upward jerk of his chin, and pumps the volume up again just for funsies:]

KRIEG!!

Right. Krieg. Got it.

[Did the guy enjoy hearing the sound of his own name? Huh. He seemed a strong dude who could flip out at the slightest of things. Maybe he was just excitable. Snake shook his head clear of any past memory and tried to focus.

Ishmael is not here. Big Boss is not here.]

Where are you from, Kreig?

Edited 2016-08-28 20:59 (UTC)

[Excitable. Sure. Let's go with that word. 8')

He draws back from the device a bit, twitches lightly, and tilts his head to one side.]

Panoramic putrescent pretentious parasitic pustule Pandora!!

Another one of you guys, huh? Seems a lot from Pandora have come here the last few weeks. [Jack, then there was Rhys and Tim, also Athena. So many from Pandora.]

You know Handsome Jack?

[From how Krieg was describing the place he didn't much care for it.]

Edited 2016-08-29 17:30 (UTC)

KNOW him?

[Krieg throws back his head and laughs - hard and loud, from deep within his belly.]

MnahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Just when it looks like he may go on laughing forever, he stops abruptly and hunches forward again, shoving his face right up to the device and growling:]

I RIPPED OUT HIS THROAT AND ATE HIS LUNGS!!!

...

[Ok....so Snake wasn't expecting such a strong response. Or rather, a ferocious response.]

Not a fan, huh? Sorry, buddy, but Jack is still alive last time I spoke to him.

[Should he dare ask what this guy's issue was with Jack? He seemed super pissed.]

Want to tell me why you want to eat his lungs?

Edited 2016-08-29 19:50 (UTC)

ATE.

[It's a small but significant difference - past tense, because it happened.

Well...he didn't actually physically eat them. But Jack was definitely dead.]

Manslaughter, extortion, illegal drilling, theft, arson, bombing, murder, child abuse, tax evasion, destruction of property, insurance fraud, murder, Claptrap, murder, and cyber bullying.

[He lists off all of Jack's various offenses (that he can remember off the top of his head) in a low growl, leaning back gently from the device as he names them off. When he's finished, though, he shoves his face right back up to it again.]

I'll kill him better next time!

[Shit. This guy claimed he actually ate Jack? But, how was the guy alive when he was brought into the Poke world? It didn't make sense. Did that mean Jack was dead on his own world but then the Poke world brought him in alive? Snake was confused.]

Let me get this straight. You killed Jack back on Pandora? Ate his lungs?

[Snake got that Krieg was listing off all of Jack's past evil deeds. What a long list but it didn't phase the soldier. What he was interested in was how Jack was alive if this guy.....ate him.]

Was Jack dead back on your world? Because right now he's alive here in this world.

Not breathing, bled out, eyes rolled back, mask fell off! Dead as a door nail!!

[Look, guy, he knows a dead man when he sees one, okay? He's seen a lot of dead men.

Also, he has no way to even begin to explain why Jack's not dead here, and he shakes his head vigorously to indicate as much. Better to ask someone whose synapses fire properly and consistently.]

Don't know why he's not dead here, can't explain! Ask Shield Lady.

[AKA Athena. Assuming Snake knows Athena.]

[Right. So this guy did kill Jack. Why would he make up such an allegation? Besides, Snake didn't doubt that Krieg could kill Jack if he wanted. The guy was built like a tank and had some sort of anger issue.]

That's what I'm wondering. I doubt this place has the power to bring people back from the dead. No one can do that.

[That was creepy shit.]

You mean Athena? [She had to be shield lady, right?]

[He nods, a single upward jerk of his chin.]

Shield Lady, yeah.

Yeah. I'll speak to her.

[It'll be on her private network of course, since he didn't fancy Jack listening in on their conversation regarding his possible death.]

You and Jack? He piss you off so you killed him? Something like that, huh?

MNhahahahaha, haa...

[He shakes his head - there is way too much complicated backstory here for him to even begin to answer coherently.]

Something like that. Ask Shield Lady that, too.

[Snake guessed that asking Athena directly would get him better answers than talking with Krieg. The guy was helpful but a little lacking in the speech department.]

What kind of man are you, Krieg? Can't help notice your lack of eye and thirst for bloodshed. [The guy looked like some sort of Frankenstein monster.]

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[Oh, nice, finally an easy question!]

I'm not a man, I'm a monster!!

[He's just deceptively man-shaped. Clearly.]

You're only a monster if you prove to yourself that you are one. Your actions determine who you are and how other's see you. Some could see me as a monster, since I was born to kill. I've ended many innocent lives through being a soldier.

[Was he a monster? Snake thought so. He had to murder his own troops for gods sake. Because they were infected with the disease.]

Edited 2016-08-31 06:53 (UTC)

Soldiers follow orders. I'm reeeeeeeally bad at doing what I'm told.

[There's a bit of unhinged laughter packed into that stretched out syllable.

Krieg ain't no soldier. Maybe once upon a time in his past life, but even that seems unlikely.]

Right. I kind of guessed you'd be the type of guy to do what you wanted.

[As in murder who the fuck he wanted. The guy was unhinged and Snake was aware of this.]

You're a one man army, huh?

Mnuahahaha...I can be.

[Especially when the bloodlust takes over.]

Guns and grenades come and go, but I do my best work with my axe!!

[Aaaaaand we've come full circle back to the missing axe. Sorry, Snake.]

That armour you wear looks pretty tough. Ever had many bullets flying at you and able to fend them off wearing it? How about grenades?

[He's only asking this from a soldier's point of view. Tactical advantages.]

Edited 2016-09-04 07:04 (UTC)

This is for brawling.

[He holds up his left forearm, displaying the heavy, makeshift iron gauntlet covered in large, protruding bolts.]

The shield is the bullet sponge.

[He moves his arm out of sight again and reaches down to pat his hip. When he doesn't immediately feel the shield normally clipped to the belt there, the video feed jerks abruptly as he twists to look down - it takes a bit of acrobatics to look at one's right hip when one only has one's left eye.

His shield is gone, disappeared along with his axe.]

GNNGhghgggRRAAH!!! WHO KEEPS TAKING MY STUFF!?

[Snake grunted in amusement at Krieg's loss. Yeah.]

Sorry, buddy. No weapons. This place doesn't want us killing each other it seems.

[Devastating, right? For someone like Krieg it probably is. It means Jack can fight another day.]

They took my pistol and grenades too. [Yeah, that sucked.]

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