Gates

"Stupid little fool,didn't your sweet darling mommy warn you?If you run into a scary man,protect your wallet AND your ass or you're get it in the end...."

- Gates's threatening Colonel Marius.

Gates is the primary antagonist of the anime Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid.Known as Mr Kalium in the Light Novels.

One of the few know Amalgam's principal and most brutal agents,was obsessed with his insane pursuit of the famous ARX-7 Arbalest,Until the same Arm Slave lead him to his demise in Hong Kong.

Gates was in charge of Amalgam's Execution Squad,whose job was to terminate targets that compromise or impair Amalgam.When Gates is sent to do his job,he won't think twice of pulling the trigger,in fact,his impulsive acts has caused harm for himself more than once across the series.

Unlike Gauron,Gates rarely appears in action and only confronts Sosuke twice,He is always showed off-action doing is own deeds and hobbies such as extorting,swimming or watching pornografic movies of dubious legalitzation (zoophilia).When it comes to work,Gates is always girded by his squad,normally their number varies from seven to five members,Gates always operates with his Plan-1058 Codarl-i,equipped with two Gatling Cannons as first weapon,Monomolecular Cutter as a short-ranked weapon,and a Lambda Driver.

The Second Raid
In episode 2,Gates task was to contact with Colonel Marius from the Republic of Balic's militia,who received considerable aid from Amalgam against the anti-militia guerrilla and now he was unwilling to pay for the borrowed services,and make him pay,whatever means possible.

Taking more of a protagonist role in the episode,Gates is first showed in episode two,traveling in a military helicopter to the Republic of Balic with his squad of 4 members,and the Xia Yu twins in a ruined city of Taboli showed in episode 1.Gates uses binoculars to analyze the battlefield,and guiding himself with the sets of footprints and fire marks quickly deduces every movement made by Mithril's Agents in the previous episode,aldoe his subordinate questions his results,Gates remarks convincingly that it's "The White A.S" work, making a manic grin in the process. With his subordinate constantly questioning his judgement,Gates begins to narrate the battlefield analytics as a baseball match commentator,changing his calmly mood into a energized run,and with all the rambling,his underling doesn't notice that Gates put his feet on his back,pushing him out the helicopter and making him fall in the river,after that,Gates recovers his calm and proceeds to see the client.

The Republic of Balic's militia and Amalgam's agents found each other in a desolate baseball field,where Marius shows once more that he clearly doesn't want to pay,Gates then threatens him and shortly after,he mortally shots the Colonel in the head,and orders his squad to kill Marius's men,while he,for not hearing the massacre,begins to randomly sing the Ave Maria.

While Gates finished his bizarre singing,his execution squad has already killed every militia member in the field.Gates then acts with surprise,realizing he cannot collect the money now that his client is dead.Then,when of his subordinates reproach him that he is the one who ordered the attack in the first place,Gates opens fire against the squad member,Gates approaches the dead soldier and begins to shake him,telling him that he shouldn't blame the others for "his own" mistakes.Shortly after,Gates shockingly realizes that the man (he killed)is dead,and begins to dramatically complain about the world,saying that such senseless death and violence makes him sad,Xia Yu Lan,being present the moment of the random murder,calls Gates an idiot. Violently pushing Lan's mouth with his pistol,Gates sadistically scolds the girl,saying that if she doesn't apologize,he will be forced to give her a spanking,pushing his pistol forward and making her gums bleed,the Xia Yu twin doesn't show any display of pain,making Gates grow bored and leave her with her sister,Gates gives the order of withdrawal to the execution squad,but firstly he mocks the twins saying that their master,Gauron,has become a pile of food fish,and later heads to the helicopter singing.In the last scene of the episode,he is showed staring into the sky into the helicopter,after a long silence,he offhandedly says that he needs to shit.

Gates appeared again at the beginning of episode 3 and in all episode 4.In Nanjing city,Jiangsu.Charged with the task of escolting five north chinese official whom were taken as hostages by Amalgam,to the Nanjing Yangtze River Underground Tunnel.Escolted with three Rk-92 Riveni.Gates watches calmly as his subordinates anihilates the northren chines forces.Then suddently,he encourages the Savages to keep killing them.After various gunshots,Amalgam forces encounters with a police barricade,warning them not to go any further,before the police officer could finish the sentence,Gates interrupts him rambling as always,pulls out an rpg 7v2 from the car and opens fire at the police cars.The Savages follow Gates's orders shooting at the barricade,causing a massive explosion and the certain death of all the northren chinese police members.Gates once again shows complete disregard for human life,screaming the actual events as a some sort of sport match and describing Nanjin as an "Arena" while his car and the Savages operatives enter into the Nanjing tunnel,leaving left a trail of destruction.

Using an information technology expert,Captain Vincent Bruno, to leak and sabotage all the communications of Mithril into Amalgam's channel,and infiltrating an expert trained assassin,Yu Lan,among the other hostages,the next step of Amalgam's plan was to wait for the Mithril's agents to come into the tunnel and ambush them.

If Mithril's presence is destroyed,the neutral zone of Jiangsu would be compromised,and with the northern chinese officers missing,the tension between North and South China would rise at the scale of a civil war,a war which Amalgam would take profit for years.

Gates's only preoccupation seemed to be only wait for the Arbalest and fight him.When one of the sensors detected him,Gates referred to the Arbalest as "more beautiful that what he's heard",saying that,otherwise,the entire Amalgam operation would be meaningless.Gates then proceeds to assign targets with his available pawns:Xia Yu Fan,equipped with a Zy-98 Shadow,would take care of a M9E Gernsback controlled by Kurz Weber, and Xia Yu Lan,camouflaged as a hostage,would kill a rescue squad,leaded by Melissa Mao,leaving only himself,with his Venom against Sousuke Sagara with the famous Arbalest.

Sousuke later finds himself surrounded by three Savages and Gates.Gazing at the enemy Venom,Sousuke is astonished,for this was the Arm Slave of his old Nemesis,Gauron.While he is remembering Gauron's death,gates interrupts his thoughts,raising an arm of his Venom with its thumb gotten up,he sarcastically warns Sousuke that he shouldn't move,or his bullets might miss him,then he drops the thumb,representing the Pollice Verso of the ancient roman's amphitheatre.With that sign,the three Savages behind the Arbalest begins the shooting.Sousuke quickly eliminates one of the three and shoots the Venom with his XM 18 Wire Gun,Gates quickly activates his Lambda Driver and eliminates the shoot.Shortly After,Gates gives the order of a non-seizing fire against the Mithril's forces,and begins to chase the Arbalest,with Bruno's help,Gates discovers that the Arbalest is withdrawing to the point 0312,seeming only to clash against the Arm Slave,Gates keeps hunting down Mithril agents and acquiring data of their every move,at the point of saying that he has preparing for this day for a long time (possibly he refers of proving himself stronger over the Arbalest)

At one point,Captain Testarossa deduces that their communications have been leaked,and decides to put up the strategy of the Cretans (giving reversed orders),following the opposite of the orders,Gates ends up chasing Arbalest,who is moving into position 3,and orders Yu Fang to assist him.It doesn't take long until the twin realizes that is a trap,so he retreats to find his sister and escaping.On the other hand,Gates confidently follows Arbalest and orders his men to wait patiently and jump them when they come.

Finally,Gates arrives into position 3,only to find three of his Savages and not the Arbalest,then,Gates notices three Arm Slaves in a higher position and realizes that it was a trap.When the shooting begins,Mithril's agents quickly destroys the three Savages Units and only Venom remains,using his Lambda Driver to create a energy field,then Sousuke tries to overheat Venom's energy field by using his own Lambda Driver,but the confrontation ends up with Venom's driver overcoming Arbalest's.Gates then mocks Sousuke saying that he let him down and he should just kill him right there.Ironically,Gates realizes that his own Lambda Driver is overheated and is forced to withdraw,making the entire tunnel of Nanjing city explode,warning the protagonist that he will remember this encounter before he runs away.Again,Gates operation turns to be a failure once more.

This time,in episode 5,Gates is shown off-action,trying to reform his errors in episode 4,Gates is enjoying his free day in a private pool while he he is talking by radio with a member of his execution squad.After the incident on Jiangsu,Vincent Bruno tries to save himself from Mithril,hiding at somewhere in Sicily with a member of the Italian Mafia.It doesn't take long until Mithril finds out where he is,and sent Sergeant Major Melissa Mei and Kurz Weber to capture him.If Mithril captures Bruno,loads of Amalgam's information will be discovered,and Gates task was to wipe him out  for saving his organitzation that nuisance.Sending 3 Savages,Gates wait until Bruno was captured by Mei and put him away from the mafia's cover.After a long pursuit,three Savages beguins to shot Mei and Kurz,now in a car rided by Sousuke,only to be destroyed by a Mithril's M9D/A4-1 Falke,piloted by Belfangan Clouseau.Gates receives the news from his subordinate while he is swiming and,in and impulsive act of rage,he drags his partner into the pool and drowns him,recovering from his anger,he says that he cannot allow himself to fail again,Meanwhile the twins are following a diferent road.

Episode 6,where the deadly Xia Yu twins go rogue and steal a Plan- 1056 Codarl  or Belial,when Gates is informed about it while he is spending his time masturbating odd zoophilic videos of little mammals such as kittens or squirrels,Gates wonders why did they betrayed him since he did "satisfact them,although they were underage",making an unintentional joke.immediately changes his channel and connects his television to the Belial's communication,after a short chat with Yu Fan,he discovers that the twins are planning to kill Sousuke Sagara and Chidori,for avenging their master,Gauron.