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[saveyourserpent]

[If one were to look closely at the video feed, they might notice some blond stubble on the man's face and a look of discomfort.]

So what do I have to do to get a razor around here?

[He's about to turn the video off, but he seems to change his mind at the last second.]

It's sort of an emergency.

Thanks.

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[cardboard_boss]

Maybe the ship brought you back to life. [Weird shit happens, right?]

Who knows what these captains are capable of. [Venom was wary of them all, since bringing people back from the dead was wrong and creepy. All sorts of creepy.]

Bet you're glad to be alive again though, right?

[saveyourserpent]

Seems to have given me a fresh new body, too, completely intact.

[He's pretty suspicious of the captains himself, but he's trying to get more information about them.] Who knows indeed. I must say I'm more than curious.

Of course I'm glad. Being dead simply wasn't working out for me. Now, when I return, I'll be myself again. Looking forward to that.

[cardboard_boss]

Better think yourself lucky then. At least you weren't brought here without an arm or leg missing. [Because he still had his prosthetic attached to his missing limb.]

When you return? What makes you so sure we'll get off this pile of scrap? [Venom was an optimist usually but what if they couldn't leave? What if the captains wanted them dead if they tried to escape?]

[saveyourserpent]

Hah. Before this, I pretty much was an arm. I didn't have a missing limb, I had a missing body.

[In a manner of speaking.]

What makes you so sure we won't? I don't know either way, so I'd much prefer to think about what'll happen if we do. And if we do, I'll have a body to myself. And if we don't? I'll still have a body to myself. [He'll figure it out, whether it happens or not.]

[cardboard_boss]

Just an arm, huh?

[Snake was going to ask how that turned out but decided against it. This was his future and maybe he wasn't supposed to know?]

I believe that you will find a way off this ship just like when you stole Sahelanthropus from Mother Base all those years ago. [Yep, he remembered that.]

[saveyourserpent]

Yeah. Let's just say I never give up.

[Never be game over.]

Well, I might not have Sahelanthropus now, or Mantis to help me pilot it even if I did, but I'm resourceful enough to figure something out. I'll get out of here eventually.

[cardboard_boss]

I can see you as a man that doesn't give up easily. You've got a lot of fight in you, Liquid. [Maybe too much.]

Just don't break your neck trying to get out of here or anyone else's. [Because guess what? He actually cares for you, kid.]

[saveyourserpent]

I've got so much fight in me that it's pretty much all I am. I was created for it, after all.

[No such thing as too much fight.]

Hah. You don't have to worry about that. I've died once and I don't plan to do it again.

[cardboard_boss]

I guess you could say that came from me. [Or rather Big Boss. Same thing practically.]

We're born for the battlefield. If you weren't a soldier what would you do with your life? [A curious question. One Venom probably couldn't answer, since he was a living weapon.]

[saveyourserpent]

I suppose. In a way. [He wasn't really his father, but since he was supposed to be his double, didn't that mean he got everything from Big Boss too? So, technically, it worked out that way.]

I... be a soldier anyway? It's hard to imagine life without any of this. Even as a child I knew my life was supposed to be like this. [He's really, really not sure.]

[cardboard_boss]

Yeah, I know how that feels. I wouldn't know what to do with my life without being a soldier.

[Because what else could there be for him?]

[saveyourserpent]

...Really messed us up, hasn't it? I mean, I never had that period of my life where I go "I want to be a doctor" or "I want to be an astronaut." It's just always been... this.

[He waves vaguely. Ah, complicated.]

[cardboard_boss]

Messed up? Yeah, you could say that. I'm not even the man I thought I was until I got told the truth. [That was some pretty powerful shit right there.]

[saveyourserpent]

Well, I thought you were the man you thought you were too. But I'd suspect it'd be a lot worse when it turns out you're not actually yourself. How are you holding up?

[cardboard_boss]

Not bad. I'm doing alright. [Which was how he always dealt with things.]

[saveyourserpent]

Guess it could be worse then. Personally, I'd probably end up having a fit.