Frost Dogs: Dogs of war

Chapter 1

Big Boss wasn't sure what awaited him after death, a great dark nothing, eternal purgatory, white halls. He didn't know and as his life slowly slipped away from him after he met his 'son' solid snake for the first and final time he didn't really care, having gone through everything he had and done, he was happy to be finished with this life and was ready for whatever came in the great beyond no matter what it was. Big Boss closed his eyes for what he thought would be the last and final time.

"b-s c- y-u he-r me Boss BOSS!" as he slowly came to Big Boss opened his eyes to the sight of a soldier in a balaclava shaking him.

"Guh, wha- what's going on?" he looked around confused sure that he had died in that graveyard.

"Thank god you're okay we weren't sure, you just up and keeled over before that flash of light happened."

"Flash of light? What's going on?" asked Big boss now generally confused.

"Snake!" came an all too familiar voice from beside him.

"Kaz?" Kazuhira Miller limped over using his crutch for support. Everything about him was how he remembered him during while keeping an eye on him during his days at diamond dogs. The beret on his head, the beige trench coat over an officer's uniform, the missing limbs… everything. Now that he put some thought into it everything seemed familiar, the offshore platform he was on, the men and women that had crowded around him, everything rang with familiarity. The only thing that didn't was the cold almost frosty temperature.

"What happened?" Big Boss didn't know if he really was dead and this was his afterlife, or if he was having a hallucination before his life finally ceased… or if something else was going on. But being the practical man that he was he decided to debate such things later, right now on the chance that what he was experiencing was 'real' he needed to get a report and devise a plan of action.

"We don't know, you keeled over then a bright flash of light the next thing we know we're here where ever here is." Big Boss arched an eyebrow at that.

"What do you mean?" Kaz gestured behind him, Big Boss turned around and in the distance he could see land. A lot of land.

"At first we thought someone had dropped a nuke on us but then when the light faded and revealed the land over there we began drawing some disturbing conclusions. One, the land mass over there is entirely unfamiliar, compared to any landmasses mother base was even anywhere near. Two we haven't been able to contact or pick up any form of radio transmission. But third and most disturbing… is that." he pointed slightly to his left. Big Boss looked in the direction, and wondered how he missed that.

There in the distance was a massive wall of ice and stone, it reached far into the sky it's top obscured by clouds. There was no such structure anywhere… not on Earth at least.

"What the… where are we?" Big Boss could feel the smallest traces of fear and uncertainty in the back of his mind; he and his men were God knows where in the middle of a foreign ocean, next to a foreign land. He needed to think his next actions through carefully because if he made any mistakes it could have dire ramifications.

"You're guess is as good as mine Boss, Ocelot thinks that we should set up an FOB on land, just so that we have a place on land to conduct recon from and gather some information. I personally agree with him, but it's your call." Big Boss only gave it a moment's thought.

"Do it, but take no chances I want the men and women going there fully equipped and armored, send a few tanks and armored vehicles as well, once the FOB is set up we'll move all the tanks and armored vehicles there, they'll be of no use to us stowed away on mother base." Kaz nodded and moved off to dispatch the soldiers. Big Boss took this opportunity to check something that had been bugging him; he headed to the nearest rest room, after closing the door he looked in the mirror to check what he would see. Staring back at him was not the face he had expected, it was the face of his younger self aside from a large chunk of shrapnel embedded into his forehead. He instantly recognized the face of the phantom he and ocelot had made after waking up from the attack on mother base in the Caribbean, complete with prosthetic limb which he proceeded to flex as if to prove its existence, but that was not all, memories that weren't there before nestled comfortably alongside ones he himself had made, they were also the memories of his phantom. Big Boss or Venom Snake gave himself one more look over before deciding he'd dealt with worse situations before he could deal with being stuck in his phantoms body, at least he still had one. Leaving the rest room he was greeted to the sight of 50 soldiers all done up in battle dress giving their gear a final check making their way towards the several helicopters sitting ready on the nearby landing platforms. On one of the far away R&D platforms he could make out the sight of tanks, armored vehicles and supplies being loaded on to the larger helicopters that Diamond Dogs owned. Turning away from the prepping forces he made his way to the control tower where he met up again with Kaz.

"Where's Ocelot?"

"He's over at R&D overseeing the vehicles being loaded."

"Right, I'm going with the men." He decided suddenly

"WHAT Why!?" Kaz all but shouted

"It'll do the morale of the men good to see me in the field, plus what better way to get a scope of the land than to see it for yourself."

"Grr… fine but please be careful boss, who knows what's out there."

"I will." Snake said putting his hand on Kaz's shoulder before walking off to grab his own gear.

Mance Rayder had spent a little over a year on this side of the wall. After turning from his 'brothers' in the nights watch he had headed north, unsure of what would await him, he sure as hell wasn't expecting to be savaged by a direwolf and left to bleed.

"Seven hells" he cursed he looked around as he sat against the tree, it gave him a nice view of the beach down bellow, and he could swear there was something new out in the middle of the narrow sea, but he was sure it was a hallucination from the blood loss. He gave a dry chuckle, here he was hoping to have made a better life away from all the bullshit with his so called 'brothers' in the nights watch only to wind up dying in the middle of nowhere freezing his arse off as his life blood turned the snow a deep crimson.

As he lay their slowly bleeding a strange noise reached his ears, an odd chopping sound, coming from out to sea. He looked up and saw what must have been nearly 2 dozen strange metal beasts approaching from across the sea. He watched in shocked awe as the beasts drew closer, the chopping sound coming from what looked like spinning blades on their top. They soon came over land and began to descend, when they landed strange people wearing odd armor jumped out, pointing weird blocky contraptions everywhere. Then some of the weird beasts opened up and a strange growling was heard as more metal beasts come from their maw. They were the strangest and most frightening things Mance had seen. Then he noticed footsteps approaching and saw some of the soldiers being led by an older man with a large chunk of metal in his head making their way over to him, he had some strange contraption over his eyes and that same weird armor covering his body, he had two blocky weapons one at his hip the other on his back, with a third smaller one holstered on his thigh. As he approached he removed the contraption and Mance could see an eye patch covering his right eye.

"Who are you?" he questioned in a gruff voice with a wary tone, the man looked him over noticed the patch of crimson snow at his side.

"Your bleeding." the man said as a matter of fact but made no moves, his soldiers still warily scanning the area for any possible threats.

"Aye, I am. Don't suppose you'd put me out of my misery." The man arched an eyebrow.

"It's not that bad" Mance chuckled.

"Unless you're secretly a maester I'm not going to last long, I've got nothing on me to stop the bleeding, so it's only going to bleed me dry." The man turned and nodded at one of the people in the group who made their way forward; when they reached him they removed that same weird eye contraption before taking off what seemed to be a weird sack with holes in it and a metal plate over the top of the head, underneath was the pretty face of a young woman.

"Sir I'm a doctor, I'll be able to mend your wounds." She said in a firm and steady voice, not a hint of uncertainness or nervousness in it. Mance had never heard of a doctor or seen a woman serving beside men before but then again that was the least strange thing that he had seen.

"Just be gentle please" he smirked, she returned it.

"No promises."

(POV change)

Snake watched on as grey chameleon fixed the wound that the man had sustained. He looked odd wearing nothing but what seemed to be a giant woolly coat that covered his entire body. Snake looked behind him as the rest of his soldiers began propping up winter tents and setting up campfires, Snake made his way down to the makeshift camp, 3 of the 6 soldiers who had accompanied him followed behind. He approached Spitting Dragon the man he had put in command of the FOB as he was giving orders to set out foundations for different structures that would make up the FOB such as; a barracks, walls, a garage and a heliport using the supplies that were being unloaded from the larger helicopters which weren't used to transport vehicles.

"Dragon, status." Spitting Dragon looked up and saluted when he saw who was addressing him.

"We're marking out where we'll be placing the different structures, when we get some more supplies from mother base we'll be able to make out the foundations."

"Hmm, we only have a finite amount of resources back at base, enough for now but not forever."

"Well we'll only need a small amount to set up and maintain the FOB, the main concern in my mind Boss is fuel; we'll need a lot of that if we're to keep our vehicles running." Big Boss gave it some thought.

"That local man, I bet he could give us some lay out of the land, maybe he could tell us who's who and where to get supplies."

"I don't know Boss, we don't know who he is or why he's like this in the first place, and he could be a criminal."

"That's a chance we have to take, besides we need Intel and we have a willing source right here."

"Of course Boss. Grey Chameleon wants you sir." Snake looked behind him to see the medic beckoning him over, he thanked Dragon and told his 'guards' to help the rest of the men set up camp, the soldiers saluted and walked off as Snake made his way over to the local and the medic.

"Boss you may want to hear this" she said in a rather concerned voice.

"Okay what." The Local looked up at him with an expression of caution but continued to speak.

"As I was telling the lady here all these weird beasts and contraptions that you have no one has seen nor heard of such things, not in the seven kingdoms and not in Essos." Snake didn't like the sound of that.

"What do you mean; surely you've seen tanks, armored vehicles, guns and helicopters." Snake asked a small bit of panic leaking into his voice. Whether the man noticed or not he did not react to it.

"I don't know what any of those things are but we do have horses, swords shields-"

"Thank you I get the point" Snake shared a look with Chamelon before walking away and contacting Miller and Ocelot.

"We have a problem."

"Yep perfect one more for the bucket." Snarked Ocelot, clearly annoyed at something.

"What's wrong?"

"We just got finished checking the store rooms, we don't have that much food boss, we only have enough for 3 months, 5 if we ration but... Boss we need to find a steady source of food." Explained Kaz

"That's not the only problem." Snake then explained what he had learned from the local man.

"So not only are we in some bizarre world but we are also in a backwards and primitive one, well if it comes to a fight at least we have the advantage, but boss what are we going to do for supplies; food and gasoline are our top priority, we can filter water from the sea to drink and... keep hygienic, and we can use the solar panels for power, as for manufacturing ammunition we have the facilities here at mother base for that so we should be fine for now. But without food for the men and gas for the vehicles, we'll be in a very tight spot boss."

"I'll think of something." With that Snake ended the call, as he headed back to camp he took notice of a lone figure watching him and his men from the tree line."

(POV Change)

Jargen watched the outlanders as they milled about making themselves cosy. He'd seen them come in on their flying beasts and those living carriages. He had to report this to the Lord of Bones, if they could take them for their own; they'd be the strongest band of free folk this side of the wall.

Maybe even beyond the wall

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