Okay, first thing's first. I'd like to make a few notes about the Metal Gear stoyline. In the MSX version of Metal Gear, you do not know who the main villian is untill the end when you find out that it is big boss. On the other hand, in the NES version, it is instead said that a General by the name of Vernon CaTaffy is the villian. To make things straight, I will combine the two storylines to the best of my ability. Also, many think that Snake's revenge came after Solid Snake. This is untrue, although the two were released around the same time, Solid Snake takes place just before Metal Gear Solid. I know this because Snake has quit Foxhound before Solid Snake, but he is still a Foxhound member. One more thing, everytime you see Snake's patented Lucky Brand Cigarettes, shown here:  it means that a new mission has been started. With all that crap aside, let's go!
The Story of Metal Gear
200km north of Salzburg, deep in South Africa.
Outer Heaven...
An armed fortress was taken control of in the late 1990s by a mercenary named General Vernon CaTaffy...
Top secret information was intercepted...
Inside the fortress was a weapon that could change the face of warfare as we knew it...
Orders were sent to the hi-tech informal squad Foxhound, and Command sent a merc named "Grey Fox," to infiltrate and acquire more information about the weapon.
Operation name: "INTRUDE N313".
However, a few days later, contact with Grey Fox was broken after an urgent but short message, "...metal gear..."
Government superiors found this crucial, and again ordered Foxhound into action, leaving all their hopes in the mercenary, "Solid Snake".
Snake single-handedly snuck into Outer Heaven and contacted resistance members such as Schneider, Jennifer and Diane. With their help, he rescued the captive Grey Fox. He learned from Fox about the nuclear-mounted heavy walking tank called, "Metal Gear". Outer Heaven was going to win military superiority using this "Metal Gear."
Snake rescued an Eastern scientist, Dr. Petrovich Madnar, who was the developer of Metal Gear. Madnar was kidnapped by the enemy and was being used to reform their base with modern technology. Snake also rescued the doctor's daughter Ellen, and from Petrovich, he learned the weaknesses of Metal Gear, and how to destroy it.
However, the closer Snake came to finding out the vital truth of the whole operation, the more cunning were the traps he had to overcome.
It was as if all his actions were being leaked into enemy acknowledgment...
Schneider, who was the leader of the resistance, fell into enemy hands, and Snake himself was hurt too after numerous battles with enemy mercenaries.
Finally, Snake reached Metal Gear and destroyed it...
Surprisingly, the general commander of Foxhound was waiting for him...
The man responsible for mission N313 was Big Boss.
From the very beginning, Big Boss used Snake as a pawn for his own evil deeds.
He had jammed all vital information that Snake had sent to Foxhound. They knew nothing!
Big Boss and CaTaffy had been in on it together from the begining.
In the 100th floor underground, with no dogmas nor policies involved, a battle between the two men raged...
And Snake left only the smoldering remains of Outer Heaven behind him.
Snake is called into action once again...
This time, a man by the name of Higharolla Kockamamie has captured a large sum of nuclear weapons.
He plans on using them to take control of the world.
He gathers a huge army, like never before seen, to guard his "Fortress Fanatic."
Foxhound, now under new control, sends Snake and two comrades.
John Turner,(J.T.) of the Air Forces super-secretive intelligence.
And, Commando Nick "La Bomba" Myer, the explosives expert and leader of the Nitroglycerin Division at Foxhound.
They invade the Fortress Fanatic and defeat Kockamamie.
They destroy the second Metal Gear threat.
Sometime after this, Snake leaves Foxhound for an early retirement.
With the frigid relationships between USA and Russia and China and Russia thawing, the nations lead to the settling down of local conflicts, and the world is finally beginning to neutralize.
It is 1999, the nuclear threat of this century is leaving us, and we are ready to welcome the new stable 21st century.
However, a fraction of the populace does not accept this peace...
In the Middle East, a breeze of unstableness is blowing. Zanzibar Land, a small republic just next to Russia, China and the Arab nations, founds a military government.
It raids "Nuclear Arms for Disposal Storage" sites around the world and robs weapons that were still not disposed of, making it the sole nuclear-armed nation in the world, and begins non-discriminate invasions of nearby countries.
In a world which disposes of nuclear employment, Zanzibar Land's nuclear power is becoming a real emergency. A nuclear threat is budding once again.
At the same time, oil resources are quickly growing scarce. Despite the foretelling that they would last more than 30 years, the world is facing a serious energy source crisis with no alternative supply to oil.
Then, a Czech biologist named Kio Marv invents a micro specimen - "OILIX", which rectifies high-quality oil.
The world is once again in a tension regarding "OILIX". Dr. Marv is kidnapped by Zanzibarian radicals on his trip from Czechoslovakia to America. Zanzibar Land is trying to gain its military superiority through nuclear arms and "OILIX".
...A micro-organism the size of a few micrometers is going to decide the fate of the world.
A top-secret order goes down to Solid Snake, former Foxhounder.
"Single-handedly sneak into Zanzibar Land, and rescue Dr. Kio Marv!"
Snake must now rescue the doctor and take out a new, more poweful Metal Gear.
Along his way Snake meets up with a former enemy...
Big Boss is back.
Snake is victorious once more and retires to a normal life away from the military untill....
It is now the 21st Century, Foxhound has now been fortified as an anti-terrorist battalion. It' members have been exposed to scientific gene experiments. The foxhound mercenaries have now been transformed into super-humans known as SPACE SEALS.
In Alaska, a group of terrorists seizes a nuclear missile base. These terrorists turn out to be Foxhound themselves.
The group orders that the UN follows their demands within 24 hours or "Nuclear Winter" is in front of us.
Solid Snake is once again sent into action, to face his most dangerous foes yet, his former comrades.
Will Metal Gear be involved too?
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