Liquid Snake vs. Albert Wesker

## Description

*Born with superior genetics, these two classic series spanning terrorist antagonists were products of shady human experimentation to create an Übermensch and would take up a similar fondness of trench coats, sunglasses, and... going shirtless. But who wins in a Fatal Fiction?*

## Interlude

Hiro: There's no line man won't cross to create the ultimate weapon. If they have to push themselves beyond human limitations through science, so be it.

**MBStarscream: That idea gave birth to these two government projects.**

Hiro: Liquid Snake, clone of Big Boss from Metal Gear.

**MBStarscream: And Albert Wesker, researcher of the Umbrella Corporation from Resident Evil.**

Hiro: I'm Hiro Hamada.

**MBStarscream: I'm MBStarscream.**

Hiro: And it's our job to examine both warriors' strength, abilities, weapons, and weaknesses to see who would win in a fight.

## Liquid Snake

Hiro: In the 1970s, the U.S. government conceived Les Enfants Terribles, planning to create clones of the world's greatest soldier, Big Boss.

**MBStarscream: While eight clones were created, six were intentionally aborted to strengthen the other two. In these two, Big Boss' genes were split.**

Hiro: The man who would become Solid Snake received all of his dominant genes, while his twin, the future *Liquid* Snake, was given all the recessive traits. Believing himself to be inferior from birth because of this, Liquid Snake broke away from the government's intended path for him to lead a squad of child soldiers in Africa until he was soon captured by Venom Snake before escaping once again and being presumed dead.

**MBStarscream: Liquid Snake wouldn't resurface fully until the Shadow Moses Island incident, where he alongside other members of FOXHOUND would capture a Metal Gear and use it to blackmail the United States, seeking to return to a world where soldiers fought for a purpose.**

Hiro: Liquid is a highly advanced soldier due to his genetic engineering. As a result of his genetic engineering where he endowed with Big Boss' superior soldier genes, he possesses higher endurance, enhanced strength, speed, durability, recovery rate and a genius-level intellect.

**MBStarscream: Liquid demonstrated that he is able to survive numerous events that would kill others, which is best displayed throughout his fights against Solid Snake where the only thing that can kill him being the FOXDIE virus Naomi injected into Snake's system. He possesses an IQ of 180, and due to his superior intelligence, Liquid became the squad commander of FOXHOUND and spoke seven languages.**

Hiro: His intellect, along with his charisma, enable him to persuade and manipulate others to get what he wants. His advanced intellect and charisma also enable him to assume the disguise of Miller near flawlessly as long as he does not undergo intense emotions and in his pre-teens, formed a militia of child soldiers.

**MBStarscream: Liquid's superior genetics make him a lot better than your average soldier, enough so to hold his own against the likes of Venom Snake and Solid Snake, the former being Big Boss' body-double. His fighting style seems to be comprised of boxing, wrestling, Taekwondo, karate, Krav Maga, Muay Thai, jujutsu, and judo.**

Hiro: Liquid also excels at parachuting, rappelling, Scuba diving, free climbing, and use in small arms and military vehicles. He is an especially adept pilot; as demonstrated by his piloting of a Hind D during a blizzard when the gunship's IR and navigation systems were nonfunctional, especially in combat against two F-16s, as well as co-pilot it from within the weapons operator's cockpit, which Revolver Ocelot attributed to the successes of the "Les Enfant Terribles" project.

**MBStarscream: The standard weapon of Genome Solders is the FAMAS assault rifle, a fully automatic assault rifle with a fast 1000 rounds per minute rate of fire and holding 25 bullets per magazine. Liquid also uses a Hind D helicopter for aerial combat and even piloted a Metal Gear REX at one point.**

Hiro: Liquid has immense strength and willpower, allowing him to survive the crashing of his Hind D, and, more impressively, survive the destruction of Metal Gear REX and battle against Snake on top of it, going on to live even after being knocked off. Even in this condition, with FOXDIE advancing through his system, he went on to chase Snake and Meryl out of Shadow Moses, refusing to die or give up even after he crashed his jeep.

**MBStarscream: But none of this means that Liquid Snake is perfect. He's rather arrogant and easy to anger, and as with his brother, his genes were designed to make him age rapidly after 40.**

Hiro: Liquid is also incredibly resentful and bitter towards Big Boss, believing he had been knowingly chosen by the man to be his "inferior" clone, whereas his brother Solid Snake was endowed with "superior" genes. His resentment was so immense that it overpowered both Skull Face and Volgin's control over Psycho Mantis and triggers violent reactions to even the mere mention of the subject of fathers or parents.

**MBStarscream: He despises adult authority and hates being treated as a kid, as when Venom Snake patted him on the back in a friendly manner, Liquid almost immediately tried to kill him by taking his knife, only to have his right arm dislocated, which Snake immediately put back after lecturing him about respect and loyalty. He was also shown to have a lot of self-loathing to the extent of being suicidal in his younger years, as evidenced by his comment about freeing himself from his cursed heritage when about to fight Venom Snake, his lamentation about his fate being written into his genes, as well as his deeply considering suicide until he was convinced otherwise.**

Hiro: Liquid would ultimately rise above this, breaking free from what his genes had determined and setting out to tarnish Big Boss' name, no matter the cost, or who he had to fight.

*Liquid Snake: In the Middle East, we don't hunt foxes, we hunt jackals!*

## Albert Wesker

Hiro: In the 1960s, one of the most powerful companies on Earth would be founded: The Umbrella Corporation.

**MBStarscream Umbrella was created with one goal in mind: gain funds which could be used to cultivate a drug found in a flower in Africa which would bring humanity to the next step of evolution. In order to create these funds, Umbrella set about developing biological weapons to sell to various governments, including the T-Virus. But one of their founding members, Albert Wesker, had *other* plans.**

Hiro: Shifting from being a researcher working with the corporation to being a spy for them, Wesker secretly planned to take Umbrella's resources for himself. To this end, he, as a member of the Raccoon City Police Department, organized a team to clean up a compromised Umbrella lab. He planned to take all the research and destroy the mansion, but was seemingly killed by one of the mansion's experiments.

**MBStarscream: But before his death, he was able to inject himself with a prototype virus, which saved his life and gave him tremendous superhuman abilities. With those abilities, he facilitated the fall of Umbrella, and schemed to overturn the world, and make himself a God.**

Hiro: And he had just the means to make his vision a reality. Being one of the sole survivors of Project W, a eugenics program that head-hunts genetically gifted children to create an advanced race of humans, Wesker inherited advantageous genes and traits from his parents which gives him an unrivaled intellectual and physical potential, as well as other genetic traits that were beyond that of a normal human being, which he was able to achieve with the help of his creator, who sponsored and aided Wesker and provided him the resources money can buy.

**MBStarscream: Thanks to the Prototype virus, Wesker's strength is so much that he can throw large missiles with one hand, lift steel girders off his body, and kill a B.O.W. with one strike. Wesker's speed and reflexes are perhaps his most notable physical abilities since they allow him to dodge bullets at almost point-blank range, perform short dashes of speed faster than the brain could comprehend, giving him the appearance of teleporting, and leap great heights.**

Hiro: Wesker's endurance is also extraordinary; a rocket exploding in his hands only incapacitated him for a moment, and thousands of pounds of steel falling on him from a few stories dazed him for a few seconds. He also has very high amounts of superhuman stamina as well, making it much harder to tire him out in battle.

**MBStarscream: The injection gave Wesker a regenerative healing factor that allowed him to regenerate his fatal injuries when he got killed in that mansion. He healed from his face getting hideously burned within minutes, and even multiple bullets to the face cannot kill him with him quickly healing from them.**

Hiro: Since his resurrection, Wesker's physiology also appears to have stopped him from physically aging. His healing factor has also shown the power to resurrect him from death so long as the majority of his body remains intact. This means that only his body getting destroyed can kill him.

**MBStarscream: Despite mainly relying on his superhuman strength, speed and greatly-accelerated healing, Wesker is a highly skilled gunman and military tactician from his days as a S.T.A.R.S. member and keeps his Samurai Edge pistol holstered with him at all times, since Wesker never, *ever* lets his guard down.**

Hiro: Also, even without the enhancements of his virus, Wesker is an extremely skilled martial artist, much more than enough to go toe-to-toe with a Tyrant super soldier. His skills mean that even those that can get past his strength like Chris Redfield have a hard time beating him in a straight fight.

**MBStarscream: Wesker is also a natural prodigy in science, bio-engineering, chemistry, virology, military strategies, and other forms of technology. Wesker was a very fit, cunning, and intelligent person even before enhancement, having once been a top researcher for Umbrella before deciding to join the Umbrella Security Division as head of the force, and later, the special forces. This is all in addition to being a competent schemer and manipulator.**

Hiro: Samuarai Edge is far from the only weapon in Wesker's arsenal. Rifles, shotguns, bombs, and grenades are all kept under his sleeve. And should he use an unusually large amount of Uroboros, a virus develpoed by TRICELL, he will turn into a monstrosity.

**MBStarscream: In this form, he can extends his limbs as if they were tentacles, spin the metallic pieces on his arms fast enough to use them as a drill, and fire tendrils to absorb energy from their victims.**

Hiro: With or without a virus, Wesker has certainly risen above the rest. He's contributed to the destruction of his own company, lead multiple underground operations, beat the crap out of Chris *and* Claire Redfield, and almost turned the world into an infected hell with Uroboros.

**MBStarscream: Too bad all his accomplishments make him insufferably arrogant to the point of a god complex. Plus, he needs to maintain a constant dose of a special serum to keep the virus in his body; however, overdosing on the serum causes him to show symptoms of poisoning.**

Hiro: And his dreams of becoming a god would crumble when Chris and the BSAA brought him to justice. But even after his death, Wesker still has posthumous influences, especially on his biological son, Jake Muller, who unknowingly carried his father's enhanced physiology and his dark legacy which would later be used by Carla Radames to produce the C-Virus.

**MBStarscream: But while he was still kicking, Albert Wesker wouldn't let anything stand between him and becoming God. So for your sake, don't look into those shades if you wanna live. Because in his own words, seven minutes is all he can spare to play with you.**

*Albert Wesker: Let me clarify something for you, Chris. I don't think of myself as a King. Natural selection leaves the survivors stronger and better. No. I am a god, and even kings bow to gods.*

## Fatal Fiction

*Mario flips a coin.*

Hiro: Well, Albert Wesker gets a win in territory, but can a god beat a soldier?

**MBStarscream: Things are gonna get volcanic.**

*Volcano in Kijuju*

The Hind D settled down on the rocky surface of the volcano as its propellers slowed to a stop. Its pilot, a man in a trench coat with a dark skin tone and medium-length blond hair, jumped out, his boots planting onto the rock. He looked around his terrain, taking out his FAMAS assault rifle. He knew this was where his new target had fled, a corporate spy working for the Umbrella Corporation, whose research had been a thorn in FOXHOUND's side for too long.

"Come on out, doctor." **Liquid Snake** beckoned. "It's time to end this."

"Oh, Snake..." A voice chuckled in the smoke, as Snake raised his rifle.

A man in sunglassed stepped up while adjusting his leather jacket, wearing a cold smile as he drew a grenade and pulled the pin. "It's already ended."

**FIGHT!**

**Albert Wesker** threw the grenade as Snake dashed for cover behind a rock. He peered out and fired his rifle as Wesker dodged and opened fire with the Samurai Edge, trying to hit Snake. He threw another grenade to draw him out, causing the soldier to flee into the smoke as Wesker fired. Wesker took a moment to reload before walking into the smoke in search of his foe. "You cannot hide from a god." He called out, searching for the clone of Big Boss.

"What's a god to a non-believer?" A voice answered before Snake lunged out of the smoke at Wesker, putting him in a chokehold and grabbed the Samurai Edge with one hand as the two genetically-enhanced men struggled with each other. Wesker elbowed Snake in the face before whipping out Samurai Edge, but Snake grabbed his shooting wrist and headbutted the Umbrella researcher, staggering him back. Snake spear-tackled Wesker and tried pushing him towards a pool of lava as Wesker grappled him back.

Wesker kicked Snake backwards and dashed forward, thrusting his palm into his face. The S.T.A.R.S. captain then vanished in a burst of speed before unleashing a flurry of rapid attacks on Snake from every possible direction, causing the clone to fall to a knee as Wesker fled. Snake forced himself up and shot wildly after Wesker as he took off in pursuit, runningly aimlessly (figuratively and literally) through the smoke of the volcano as his bullets flew through the air.

Snake stopped to catch his breath, being careful not to inhale the volcanic fumes as Wesker's mocking chuckle rang through the smoke. "What's wrong, Snake? I thought you *wanted* a fight."

"I'm not the one... running through a volcano." Snake panted.

"Oh, but you are. I'm just playing hide and seek. And you haven't found me yet, have you?" The unseen voice continued.

"Stop playing *games* already!" Snake snapped impatiently as he pointed his rifle. "I'm not messing around here!"

"Too bad for you. I'm just having fun."

Faster than Snake could react, a fist hit him in the side of the face as Wesker dashed by. Snake felt more hammer-like blows assault his trained body, Wesker's fists flying too fast for him to properly counter and slowly wearing him down. Wesker grabbed his collar and pulled him closely, pulling down his shades to reveal glowing red eyes underneath.

"Look into the eyes of a god, Snake." He said. "They'll be the last you'll ever gaze into. Be not afraid, Snake."

"Why would anyone be afraid of *you?*" Was all Snake had to say before breaking Wesker's arm with his elbow, making him shout in pain as the bone snapped. Snake started pummeling Wesker in return, knocking off the doctor's glasses. Wesker then grabbed Snake's flying fist and punched him backward. Snake could hear a wet crunch as Wesker reset his arm, his healing factor fixing up the bone like it had never snapped at all. Smirking, Wesker pressed the offense.

The two super-terrorists traded blows while Wesker's glasses lay on the rocks, Wesker slowly regaining the upper hand. Lava whooshed from a pit behind them as they fought.

Wesker crossed his arms to block an attack before stabbing Snake's chest with his fingers as a counter. Snake aimed his rifle at Wesker, but Wesker kicked it out of his hands and dashed into Snake with a dark aura around him, knocking him back. Snake lunged for his rifle, but Wesker kicked it away before he could retrieve it and lifted him up by his hair, pulling back a gloved fist. Snake blocked the blow and used CQC to force Wesker into another hold, threatening to break his arm again.

He forced Wesker onto his knees in front of a lava pit, and as the molten rock started to bubble for another spray, Wesker lifted his head and hit Snake in the face just as the lava burst out in a whoosh that would've melted his face off if he were none the quicker. Wesker elbowed Snake from behind and slammed him bodily onto the ground, holding him down while punching his face.

Another whoosh of lava caused some to spray onto his back, making him shout and grit his teeth in pain. Snake saw this opportunity to push Wesker off of him and push him to the ground just inches in front of the lava pit. He pressed his arm against Wesker's throat while pulling a fist back. Wesker rolled Snake off of him and got up, a kick to the chin sending the soldier onto his back. Aiming Samurai Edge, Wesker pulled the trigger, and a bullet hit Snake in the chest, spraying blood from the new wound.

Snake screamed in pain as Wesker stomped on the bloody wound, the pressure of Wesker's foot making the bullet dig deeper into the shredded flesh. Wesker stepped off of him to lift him by the throat in one hand, Samurai Edge hanging by his side in the other.

"The U.S. government was ambitious in trying to create the perfect clone from the perfect soldier." He said with Snake in his grasp. He began taking Snake to the very top of the volcano, dangling him over the crater. "But what they didn't make..." His eyes narrowed.

"...was the perfect god."

Snake's neck snapped before his body was dumped into the maw of the fiery mountain, rolling down the hill before landing on a platform in the middle of the lava. Wesker looked down the hole before adjusting his jacket once more and walking over to pick up his glasses.

Turning his head, he put his glasses back on as he said his last words to the soldier. "And soldiers *bow* before gods."

He walked away.

**FATALITY!**

## Results

**MBStarscream: You know, there's a lot of ways you could cook a snake, but I didn't know a volcano was one of them.**

Hiro: Both Snake and Wesker were beyond what human physicality could accomplish, but one was superior to the other, and with the Prototype virus running through his veins, Wesker had all he needed to secure a victory.

**MBStarscream: Snake's enhanced genetics put him on a similar level to Wesker stat-wise, but the virus gave Wesker insane healing that left Snake with few finishing blows available. Even if Snake could adapt to such a healing factor, Wesker would likely tire him out before he *could* surpass it.**

Hiro: Snake has also shown a vulnerability to viruses before, meaning Wesker could just infect him with the Prototype virus and finish him off that much quicker.

**MBStarscream: Both have fought formidable foes in their worlds, but Wesker edges out here by putting him on par with the Nemesis, who was far beyond what Snake went up against, at least on his own.**

Hiro: Rivalling his foe in stats and overcoming him with everything else at his disposal, Albert Wesker proved too much for the creation of the Les Enfents Terribles project.

**MBStarscream: There'll be no rest for the liquid.**

Hiro: Albert Wesker wins.

## Advantages

### Albert Wesker (Winner)

* Even in stats with Snake
* Far better healing
* Superior physiology via virus
* Able to infect Snake with the Prototype virus
* Can be compared to greater foes than what Snake fought