Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 614 You need to attack this taunting character template first.
The time span from Metal Slug 2 to Metal Slug 3 was about two years. Although there were still small-scale local wars between the two factions, large-scale battles did not develop in general.

Or rather, the government forces did nothing productive except send out special forces teams.

Starting with the second game, the Martian faction officially appeared and made their debut as the final boss. It was at this special time that two special events occurred.

General Morden is captured for the first time. In order to rescue General Morden, Morden's army joins forces with the Peregrine Squad and the Sparrow Squad for the first time to fight against the Martian forces.

With the scene perfectly replicating the plane sacrificing itself to enter the spaceship from the movie "Independence Day," General Morden was successfully rescued... However, there is a detail that is very easy to overlook.

The General Modern who was captured and then rescued after the spaceship exploded was most likely a fake General Modern disguised as a Martian.

The evidence is on his... well, his underwear.

The rescued Martian, a pseudo-modern, was almost naked, wearing only a military cap, a blindfold, and a pair of underwear. At that time, his underwear was a plain brown boxer shorts without any patterns.

However, the real modern general has the same taste and preferences for underwear as Arthur and Cheng Tian. The underwear he usually wears is a white four-cornered style with a lot of strawberry patterns!
Although the soldiers of the Modern Army adored their commander, they obviously couldn't scrutinize such a personal detail as his preferred style of underwear, and there was no rule in the army that forbade their commander from changing his style, right?

However, it was this extremely easy-to-overlook detail that led to no one in the Modern Army recognizing that their commander had been replaced.

As time went on, this Martian pretending to be the president not only neglected the style of his underwear, but even got the eye patch covering his eye wrong. Modern wore the right eye patch, while the fake Modern was used to wearing the left eye patch.

The group of clueless Modern Army soldiers still hadn't noticed.

If it weren't for Cheng Tian's passive ability to "be an enemy of Martians," which caused this fake Modern to expose his identity, it's estimated that a BOSS battle equivalent to the first Metal Slug would be needed to reuse materials before they could proceed to the next stage.

It can only be said that the Modern Army, which incorporates some comedic elements, cannot be judged by common sense. When they saw their commander turn back into a Martian on the spot, the guards on the bomber were so frightened that they threw down their weapons and jumped out of the helicopter in a panic!
Or the kind where none of them have parachutes...

It can only be said that these soldiers almost all possess the "cowardice-courage duality," and they are extremely prone to leaning towards either side, with almost no median.

Meanwhile, the fake Modern Martian, who had deliberately exposed his identity, pulled the trigger of his special weapon without hesitation. Instead of bullets, three energy rings made of special energy shot out at high speed towards Cheng Tian like rings.

Cheng Tian, ​​riding a silver surfboard, was immediately enveloped in a protective barrier, which he then used to defend himself with layers of mental barriers, while simultaneously retreating rapidly.

Having completed Metal Gear 3 more than once, Cheng Tian was naturally very familiar with this process.

At the same time as the incident in the original work where the fake Modern reveals his Martian identity is triggered, a "1P kidnapping incident" will be seamlessly connected.

In other words, regardless of which character the 1P player controls, they will be forcibly abducted by the Martians, adding variables to the subsequent game content. Simultaneously, the 1P player will be forcibly reassigned to another currently idle member of the Peregrine Falcon or Sparrow squad. Cheng Tian was naturally wary of this aspect and had countermeasures in place. However, he arrived expecting a boss battle to follow, but he didn't anticipate that the situation from defeating the three Martian brothers in the "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs + Adventure Island" dungeon would extend to this crucial juncture, even skipping the expected boss battle entirely.

However, something unexpected happened.

Using the characteristics of a skateboard, Cheng Tian, ​​who ignored air resistance and instantly accelerated to Mach 2.4 while reversing, was still unable to escape the capture and restraint of the three energy rings, even though he was covered in protective measures.

These three things instantly accelerated to the same speed as a skateboard, binding Cheng Tian's shoulders, hands, waist, and legs tightly, and even his skills were disabled.

Oh no! This is forced plot development!?
The thought that he might become the genetic prototype of the Martian clone army made Cheng Tian almost lose his composure.

After all, even the space has been verified that its own clone has the terrifying potential to spread memes, while the Martian cloning technology... if the speculation is not wrong, it is most likely a quick-produced unit created by cultivating "mushroom spores".

From their appearance, it is clear that Martians are intelligent life forms that combine the characteristics of both mushrooms and octopuses, and they also share many similarities with mushroom-octopus species in terms of the continuation of life.

The green-skinned clones created using Martian mushroom spore technology, setting aside their ideological aspects, possess an almost maxed-out fighting instinct.

Just when Cheng Tian thought he was about to be taken away, he suddenly felt something being forcibly peeled off his body by the rings that were encasing him. At the same time, a new spatial notification popped up.

[The forced plot "Mars Binding Gun" has been successfully triggered. You are about to be abducted by "Fake Modern" and taken to the Martian mothership.]

[Detected that you possess inherent skills and an additional number of skills far exceeding the current dungeon's specifications—]

[The Martian Binding Gun cannot effectively bind your main body; instead, it targets "one random character template within you that has already been or has not yet been bound."]

Suddenly, a scrolling light appeared above Cheng Tian's head, invisible to others. All the character templates he had loaded so far were displayed in the scrolling light.

Then, the carousel began to move rapidly from left to right, eventually settling on a template that hadn't been seen in a long time.

A muscular phantom dressed in blue battle armor and holding a Stars and Stripes shield was forcibly removed from Cheng Tian's body along with the energy rings of three Martian Binding Guns, and then sped back towards the fake Modern.

[Your unresolved original-level protagonist template, "Captain America/Steve Rogers," has been abducted by the Martian Binding Gun.]

(End of this chapter)