 
 
^post
~2,944
[GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME
Rain or Shine!
~56,832
^otacon
[OTACON:
Here he comes!
~119,808
[COLD SNAKE
Is he on... a wheelchair?
~151,040
[OTACON:
Now, Snake! Pummel him to the ground!
~319,488
^post
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~399,744
[COLD SNAKE
FREEZE!
~477,440
^post
[GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME
It's been a long time... Snake!
~602,880
[COLD SNAKE
Huh?!
~635,392
[GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME
It's all thanks to you, Snake, that I, Timothy Crachit, will become the next Father Christmas!
~944,640
[COLD SNAKE
Timothy Cratchit?! You mean YOU'RE Tiny Tim, Saint Nick's C.O. on Operation Secret Santa?!
~1,166,976
[GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME
Hah! They stopped calling me that years ago, after my father, Bob Crachit, died of asphyxiation while lodged in a chimney.
~1,548,987
Do you know what he was doing, Snake?
~1,675,392
He was pretending to be Santa Claus for his children!
~1,869,824
Ah... how ironic it was that it was the Christmas spirit that stopped the rhythm of Bobby "The Little Drummer Boy" Crachit's heart...
~2,348,544
Then, of course, the media got wind of the story, and started calling me...
~2,588,544
[TRAGIC TIM
...Tragic Tim!
~2,588,928
[COLD SNAKE
Tragic Tim?!
~2,686,845
[TRAGIC TIM
That's right, Snake! Born an invalid, but to die the king of Christmastime!
~2,947,584
All I need from you, Snake, and we can do this the easy way, or the hard way...
~3,178,496
... Is Santa's passcode!
~3,259,648
[COLD SNAKE
But I don't KNOW Santa's passcode! I thought this was why you were going to bargain with the President in the first place!
~3,478,016
[TRAGIC TIM
Hah! And risk getting the US Military involved? I think not!
~3,708,932
When I learned that Jack Frost had been defeated, I wondered to myself...
~3,895,519
Could this be the legendary Solid Snake, trying to throw another wrench into my grand plan?
~4,159,872
[COLD SNAKE
Another wrench?
~4,201,728
[TRAGIC TIM
Hah! You still don't know, do you?
~4,368,036
Three years ago, I sent Saint Nick on a mission called Operation Secret Santa...
~4,631,964
...a mission to a certain '14015 Hideo Dr,' to deliver a Christmas gift to the 10th floor.
~4,990,512
...I constructed that house, Snake!
~5,084,160
[COLD SNAKE
Impossible!
~5,127,891
[TRAGIC TIM
Perhaps you didn't notice the outright lack of windows on the INSIDE in spite of them being on the OUTSIDE!
~5,473,152
Or the sheer number of infrared sensors -- much more than would be necessary in any household?
~5,782,967
Or perhaps the fireplaces without log racks didn't give away that they were, in fact, false fireplaces!
~6,127,831
[TRAGIC TIM
It was a trap, Snake!
~6,203,016
A prison in which I would keep Saint Nick! Torturing him until he'd reveal his passcode!
~6,446,448
Unfortunately, I ran into an unforeseeable inconvenience.
~6,691,332
[COLD SNAKE
Unforeseeable inconvenience?
~6,771,456
[TRAGIC TIM
YOU, Snake!
~6,817,152
YOU were not part of Operation Secret Santa!
~6,949,278
Had it not been for YOUR assassination of Saint Nick, Operation Secret Santa would have been a success...
~7,250,340
...and I would have become Father Christmas!
~7,387,392
Then of course, the U.S. government took possession of Nick's body in order to cover up the death of Christmas.
~7,714,596
It was by chance alone that they'd left behind Santa's Hat.
~7,923,942
I was left with no choice but to come up with another plan...
~8,106,207
...a plan to negotiate for Nick's brain, to retrieve the password stored deep within!
~8,392,871
To do that, I needed to access the SOC System,
~8,564,670
...and for that, I needed to get in touch with the children of the Three Wise Men.
~8,795,895
[COLD SNAKE
The Ghosts of Christmas Past!
~8,854,590
[TRAGIC TIM
That's right! You see, Santa's Hat could only be used by Nick Jr., Santa's son.
~9,238,858
Under the pretense of activating Merry Gear for mutual gain, I created the Ghosts of Christmas Past!
~9,650,752
Little did they know that the Merry Gear was not, actually, a bipedal sleigh with the ability to launch gifts from any location.
~10,002,432
[COLD SNAKE
It wasn't?!
~10,018,590
[TRAGIC TIM
Of course not! What use would that be to anyone?
~10,217,952
No. The Merry Gear was actually a V.R. training simulation course, designed to transform ONE person into the next Santa Claus!
~10,726,113
[COLD SNAKE
But why would you want to do that?
~10,795,350
[TRAGIC TIM
To bring an end to the tragedy of Christmas.
~10,936,399
[COLD SNAKE
Tragedy of Christmas?!
~11,001,297
[TRAGIC TIM
It was only by becoming Father Christmas myself that I could ensure that the children of the Three Wise Men would never become it.
~11,378,283
By becoming Father Christmas, I could end Christmas, once and for all!
~11,713,002
[COLD SNAKE
A world without Christmas, but what kind of world is that to live in?
~11,874,408
[TRAGIC TIM
Hah, Snake, that's not something YOU'LL ever have to worry about!
~12,135,215
Now tell me, Snake! Tell me, or I'll extract it from your brain!!
~12,325,956
His passcode!!
~12,369,047
[COLD SNAKE
I don't know Santa's code!
~12,441,930
[TRAGIC TIM
...What were Saint Nick's final words?!
~12,584,878
[COLD SNAKE
Hmmm...!
~12,656,320
...Santa's last words were...
~12,728,320
[TRAGIC TIM
Yes! Out with it!!!
~12,814,756
[COLD SNAKE
Happy Christmas to all...
~12,898,725
[COLD SNAKE
And to all...
~12,997,980
A good night!
~13,036,992
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