After a while, she would be trained by a cloned Ocelot in how to use firearms. A half year after starting her training, Ocelot kidnapped Catherine and brought her to Mexico, to which FOXHOUND attacked his base to rescue her. Once Snake made it to her holding cell, she found Catherine holding Ocelot up at gunpoint, threatening to kill him, to which he retorted "[You] don't have the guts." in which Catherine replied "Try me." and proceeded to shoot him in the head. The following morning, Snake and Meryl vanished with a note stating that she would be staying with Otacon for the time being. This event scared Catherine to the point she blamed herself for her parents abandoning her and she began to cut herself from depression. On her seventeenth birthday she and Katnis put their money together a