Written By: Gary M. Gadsdon
Authors Notes: This fic came about after I was reading another fan fic over at Fanfiction.net which had Maggie being taken in by the Lovejoys when Bart and Lisa move away to South Park (yes, THAT South Park). I was kinda inspired by it, and it gave the basic concept for this fic, but I wanted a different approach, I wrote my own concept, but Leif also provided some and I mixed the two, using more from Leif's concept than my own. After a while writing I decided to give it the Metal Gear title, and weave in references to the original Metal Gear Solid game. In the Metal Gear Solid canon, this would be placed between Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2, it does contain spoilers for The original game, I suggest you play it before reading beyond Part Four.
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Part Two - Lisa Simpson
Four years had passed since the three Simpson kids had to be forcibly split up, Bart and Maggie adjusted to their new parents quite easily. Bart using his quick wits easily managed to turn Bill Warmond into somewhat of a second version of Homer, and Maggie is just playful, but seems to have forgotten about her life at the Simpson Household all together. Lisa however, did initially have difficulty adjusting, and would constantly ask Bart how he managed it, but he couldnt give her a proper answer. Lisa did eventually get settled in when she started school. Lisa had joined the school band thanks to her talent with her sax, and within a year she made first chair saxophone.
In a school recital, Lisa's popularity would suddenly peak when she was given a sax solo to perform. Though she worried about it without the encouragement of Marge, Lisa pulled it off. Now, Lisa is one of the most popular girls in school, and all this was starting to go to her head. Lisa was starting to forget about the terrible events that she had to overcome to get where she was now. She never did tell any of her friends about the death of her real parents, or being separated from her brother and sister.
Near the time of Lisa's graduation she tried to get in touch with Maggie, but for some reason, Moe would not allow that, Lisa just simply concluded that he had not told the truth yet, she tried to reason with him to do so, but no avail. She also tried to contact Bart, but she had lost contact with him all together.
While Bart was a senior in high school, he had enrolled himself into the Military. He figured that he should finally do some good for his country. The semester in the Military School he did with Lisa was a major plus for getting him in.
It has now been eight years since the event of Homer and Marge's deaths. Lisa is about to graduate High School. In heaven Homer and Marge don't seem to be any older, and have not taken a physical effect to the last eight years. Maybe when you're in heaven to take the shape you had when you died.
"Homie...?"
But Homer wasn't in the room.
Looking out the window, Marge could see that Homer was playing at the water slide which had just opened. It seems that's all he does these days. Well, at least it beats drinking beer, sleeping and watching TV.
"Homer!"
Homer was at the top of the water slide, he wasn't paying attention to where he was and ended up sliding down the thing head first, he belly flopped into the water, with a huge splash.
"Geez, didn't that hurt?"
"Of course not, this is heaven, there's no pain up here." said Homer
"Physical anyway" replied Marge
Homer grabs a towel and walks with Marge to their room.
"Homer, Lisa is about to graduate soon"
"We both knew that Lisa was able to go all the way"
"Homer, she's going to college"
"All the way, like I said Marge. So what's the deal anyway"
"I wanted to be there for her"
"Marge, you're dead"
"Yes, I know, but we're missing out on so much of the kid's life..." Marge says, starting to cry.
Homer puts his arms around Marge.
"Dont worry Marge, I managed to cut a deal with God to allow us to become Ghosts for a few hours on Earth. No one can see us though. I've been spending the time playing jokes on Lenny and Carl. But you can use it this time to visit Lisa"
Homer hands her a small card with the words "Earth Visa - Homer J. Simpson" written on it.
Lisa is at her graduation and in the audience, Marge's ghost is present. Lisa is the valadictorian. Marge witnessed the whole thing up front and saw Lisa up front for the first time in eight years, even though Lisa herself couldn't see her.
Marge wanted to visit Maggie, but for some reason, the screen in heaven had lost track of her, like she has completely gone off the scope. One would think that heaven would have much better technology than what Earth would have.
Over the years, Bart, Lisa and Maggie were becoming more distant from each other, in fact, Bart and Lisa lost contact with Maggie pretty much entirely. Lisa had graduated high school and abandoned her dream to become a Jazz Player and decided to get a law degree, while Bart was still in the Military. Lisa was initially having trouble with getting her degree, but as always she gutted it out.
After four or so years, Lisa was 22. Lisa had finally gotten her law degree, after the intense level of coursework, and examinations. But Lisa was proud of what she had accomplished. And why wouldn't she, Lisa knew that Marge would've been proud. Indeed she was.
Lisa got a part time job at a local lawyer place, where she worked there for four years, after being given the place full time after two. After those four years, Lisa would receive a phone call that she should've received years ago. The call that finally allowed Lisa to return to Springfield.
Lisa had a talk with her boss, who was actually a nice man, he gave her all the time she needed off, after all, it seemed like that Lisa deserved it. She'd been working hard for the last couple of months.
Lisa packed a suitcase, got into her car, and started to drive back to a town she hadn't been allowed to return to for at least two decades.
When Lisa arrived in Springfield, she could see that not a lot had changed, at least, not what she expected. The Nuclear Plant was still there, with more cooling towers, and the Kwik-E-Mart had since become a slightly larger supermarket, and Apu was still running it. Lisa just skipped past everything and just went straight to Evergreen Terrace.
When she turned the corner, she found her iconic old house where she lived up until she was eight. Not much had changed from the outside, the lawn had become overgrown but it did seem as if someone had been cutting it, it should've been much longer, Lisa figured that someone was maintaining the outside of the house while she was away. Lisa parked her car in the driveway, which would usually house Homer and Marge's cars. Good thing that Lisa retained the key that Bart had given her to collect her sax with shortly before leaving Springfield.
Inside, the house was dark and dusty, but unchanged. Lisa just walked around to gaze at the house and the memories it contains, the most vivid being that of seeing her own parents collapse at her feet in the living room. Lisa went into her old bedroom where she found her old desk, bed, and bookcase mostly covered with a thin layer of dust. No way was she going to lay on her bed now.
Lisa went back into the living room, sitting on the couch, staring at the TV, primitive by today's standards, but Lisa just couldn't stop staring at it. Even though the thing was off. She doubted it would've worked anyway, or at least be unable to pick up a signal.
Just then, Lisa heard some noises, coming from the back door. They sounded as if someone was picking the lock. Next to the couch was one of Bart's old crowbars, Lisa armed herself with it and stood in the doorway to the kitchen and waited for whoever was breaking in to do exactly that.
After several minutes, the door swung open, Lisa leapt out from the doorway and then struck the intruder in the head. Knocking him down to the ground.
