Ch8: Locked In Time
Valkyria Squadron by RedHunter2296
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Locked In Time

Darkness, Somewhere

What is this? I'm locked in? I'm dead again?......no...... At least I'm conscious, I think. But what is this, I can't move and I can't see. It's just like a few moments ago, before I fought that DOLL from before. And if I was dead before, how exactly did I come back to life? I remembered the conversation with THE BOSS, but what he said at the end didn't give me a good feeling. After a few seconds, I started to hear a voice in the background, I could not make it out well because it was strange, a little distorted.

"I barely have any data from Dylan's investigation!"
"I need more time to investigate if you want her to be operational again," a man shouted so loud that I could hear what he was saying."
"It's not my fault that bastard took everything and left only this, and yet you only want me to work on this for a limited time!"
"You're crazy! It's impossible to work like this!"

"Then make it worth the time and tell me what you have achieved if you want us to give you more time to investigate!" I think one woman said.

"Just a few things he left handwritten in a notebook, but his handwriting is so bad that I had to figure out what he was saying."

"Since the I.S.C. has broken the agreement we have, we are under no obligation to give you access to our equipment or resources in the first place," the woman said again, addressing her companion arrogantly.

"Wait!"
"That doesn't mean I have nothing!"
"Look here, I have some information," he replied desperately, then the man started to explain a little."
"...."
"The first thing is that this girl or weapon is a relict of a past civilization according to him, but it does not indicate the place from where he got her"
"Later he says that he found it in a quite decorated room, it was the throne room, in the central part of the room was the throne with the peculiarity that it was made of jade."
"On the throne was she, the final solution, the best weapon they had, according to the writings that were nearby, it was created using the best of them and they even used their own queen as material to create it, that she was the last descendant of a special lineage: the Last Empress, she gave her body and life as the basis to create this monster".
"The best warrior she had also gave his life so that she would have the courage and knowledge necessary for this weapon to defeat its greatest enemy, the True Dragon of Famine, Overlord".
"This weapon was built with only one clear purpose: to be able to kill even a god-killer."

There is something wrong with this story, something that makes me shudder just to remember it, and worse, to have someone outside of what happened tell it. But how did they manage that? It was impossible to return to that place after what happened.

"According to Dylan, he only wanted a machine to kill our enemy, the DOLLS, so it is only a body without a will that follows orders without questioning them."
"So he tried to find a way to wake her up, but had not succeeded until the day of the attack in Oslo."
"According to his last notes, before that he was studying if the crystals she had were the key, that maybe they were her source of energy to turn her back on and with that try to control her", the man went back to continue his story."

"The story is very nice, but in the real world we still have a war to win, I don't want to know what the hell Dylan imagined, what I want you to tell me is that it can be used to end the DOLLS and not lose control in the process," the woman replied with a clear tone of complete rejection of everything she had just heard, she just wanted results and apparently they were not going to give her  to them.

Then there was a great roar, it was a door closing, and with that the voices left, I could not hear anything else despite the attention I tried to pay. All of this just gives bad signals everywhere. I still have no idea how I'm alive, if I am, because I don't really know what's happening to me right now, and last but not least, I just heard Nanami's story from a stranger, so it can be dangerous. And what the hell are the angels doing? right now I need help, but they don't show up! Wait! I can hear something in the background! What is it? Is it popcorn? But suddenly, as if I had received a bucket of cold water and suddenly woke up, I managed to open my eyes. And the truth would have preferred not to. There were hundreds of things that had changed, and others not so much.

The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was the city again, there was the sound of weapons everywhere again, planes were flying over the area, and I could see several Alliance soldiers running everywhere. So I took cover behind a wall near me. But this time there were also other things, the first and most noticeable was the season, now it was fall, I was in a place where all the trees had their characteristic reds and browns, colors of this time of the year, in addition to a slight chill. This gave me a very big shock, because it was early summer when Stella woke me up this morning on the aircraft carrier. Seeing how strange the place was, I followed what I saw in the surroundings, trying to find an answer, but after seeing the language of the posters, they told me something else, the signs were in Russian. For my worst nightmare was to see where I just came from, because it told me that behind me was the capsule where Nanami's body was, and it was empty.

 
No, please, no. Not again something like that, no, please no. I turned to look down. There were two large mountains blocking my view to my feet. SHIT! I knew there was a trap in his words! Of course HE had to have a trick. He couldn't do something as simple as leaving me in my body again, no. HE had to find a way to make things as complicated as possible. He put me into Nanami's body. Now I have the body of a fox girl who suffers from albinism. As if that were not enough, it also means that the weapon that the Alliance High Command thinks is me. Great, now I have to see what I can invent to get out of this complication they gave me for helping the Angels. The only good thing about it is that I have the Codex tied to my hair so I don't have to look for it. I was still complaining at the worst possible time and place when a radio rang right at my waist. I hadn't noticed, but now I had different clothes than the last time. Now I had a pair of shorts next to my combat belt, plus a small tactical vest, a pair of fingerless gloves, and combat boots. In my belt I had a small combat radio with a voice coming from it.
 
"Alright, let's get started," a woman's voice, and it doesn't seem to be the same as when I was "sleeping.
"My code name is War Lady.
"I see on the monitor that you have already been activated."
"So I'm going to give you your mission."
"Near your position to the south is an assault DOLL."
"Eliminate it as quickly as possible!"
Nothing else? Like I do this every day?
 
"Hurry up."
"It is causing great damage to the city's air defense system."
"If it falls, so does the city," she added in a threatening voice."
"As if you understand," the woman from the radio added."
"Why that damned Dylan disappeared and left everything behind, and now the investigation is barely progressing at great cost".
"I agree with my boss when she talks about getting rid of this money-sucking project."
 
Discarded? What are you talking about? Is she talking about me? This certainly puts me in a very difficult situation
 
"Valkyria!" was the name that she told me.
"The target is approaching your location prepare to fight hard"
 
But she had just finished talking, and I saw the wall I was protecting myself from exploding into pieces, but not from a bomb, it was pure brute force, brute force coming from a girl exactly like the one I was sure I had defeated a while ago, she was even wearing the same clothes as the last time.

"Hey, you look like a strong opponent. Why don't we fight?" the girl said to me.

And just as I was about to reach for my weapon to respond to her suggestion, I realized something terrible, I don't have any weapons! Knowing that it was impossible to win in my situation, I did my best to stay alive.

"Fuck it, I'm out of here," I said as I started running to the other side.

"Hey wait, don't run!" she said.

I started running like a madman down the street looking for something to fight with, because winning against an unarmed DOLL might be the worst idea I ever came up with.

As soon as I moved a few meters, I could see some bodies lying near me, they seemed to be from a demolition team, but they still had some explosives. Seeing that I could use the same technique I used to defeat the first one, I went to where they were. Just before I reached out to grab her, I saw the DOLL again, she was bending her knees and preparing to jump in my direction while holding her large sword. Knowing what she would try next, I threw myself sideways to avoid her, which worked, she had completely failed and now she was several meters in front of me. Without thinking, I took the explosives the dead men had near me and also one of the pistols they had.

Then I got ready for the doll to charge at me, and I threw the bag of explosives towards where I thought it would end up, and then I dodged it again. The doll didn't land as close to the bag as I would have liked, but now I had no choice. Surely she wouldn't miss a third time. So I took a shooting position and aimed at the bag. There was a good explosion right after that, I could barely throw myself to the ground to try to take as little damage as possible. After a few seconds, I looked up to look around, and I was happy to see that the DOLL was nowhere to be seen. I had won again against one of those things. Seeing that my work here was done, it was time to flee as quickly as possible and see what the hell was going on.

Just as I started to run, the radio came back on.

"Great," said War Lady.

"The truth is that this would only be a test to develop it without the rest of the High Command claiming us for wasting funds."
"But it seems to be able to serve its purpose, that will be good for my boss!"

This did not interest me in the least, so I started to turn towards the south, thinking that if the doll had gone there, the chaos of the battle would be there, and it would be better for me to escape there. But when I had advanced a few meters, I felt a stab in my neck again. I had been a fool, I had completely forgotten that it should have a safety mechanism, and what I had on my neck was just that. And with that, I fell back into the rare state I had been in before.

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