Snake simply slammed his plate in front of the cafeteria workers and allowed them to pile on the food however they pleased, and made his way through the cafeteria without even looking at it. Pot luck, but whatever they'd given him he'd eaten worse. He'd never been anything close to picky.

The first thing he had to do would be to find Otacon - or Fox, he realised, although something close to shame began to fill his thoughts as he remembered him. He couldn't force Fox to stare him in the face again and see Big Boss. Who he'd stolen from him.

He glanced up and down the rows of people, all talking away and eating like machines, and -

- comes from the same world as I do, the one filled with Darkness and skyscrapers. It's very empty there but Roxas keeps me company.

That voice.

He shouldn't have been brought here, he thought fiercely. The kid's mentally unstable as it is, and he needed to be left alone. He needed to go free. Not even this Landel would lock away a man like him and expect him not to lose it. It's beyond madness.

He moved swiftly over to where he'd heard the voice. Two kids, and a young man.

But that voice...

"Raiden?" he asked, weakly, realising his mistake too late.