Valkyria Squadron

Ch8: Locked In Time

Darkness, Somewhere

What is this?... I'm locked? I am dead again?......no...... after all, 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 fighting that DOLL from before. And if I was dead before, how exactly did I come back to life !?. I remember the talk with THE BOSS, but what he said at the end didn't give me a good feeling. After a few seconds, I began to hear a voice in the background, I could not distinguish it well because it was heard strange, a little distorted.

"I barely have a couple of data from Dylan's investigation !!"
"I need more time to investigate if you want her to be operational again" some man exclaimed so loud that I could hear what he was saying.
"It's not my fault that bastard took everything, leaving just this behind, and yet they just want me to work on this for only a limited time!"
"You are crazy! it is 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 a woman said.

"Just a couple of things that he left handwritten in a notebook, but his handwriting is so bad that I had to figure out what he says there"

"Since the I.S.C. broke the agreement we have, we have no obligation to give you access to our equipment or resources" the woman said again, arrogantly addressing her companion.

"Wait!"
"That doesn't mean that I don't have anything!"
"Look here I have a little information" He responded desperately, then the man started to explain a little.
"...."
"The first thing is that this girl or weapon is a memory of a past civilization according to him, but it does not indicate the place from where he got her"
"Later says that he finds her 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 that 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 that they had also given his life so that she had the courage and knowledge necessary for this weapon to defeat his greatest enemy the True Dragon Overlord"
"This weapon was only built with the clear objective: to be even able to kill a god"

There is something wrong with that story, something that makes me shiver just from remembering it, and even worse, of someone outside what happened to tell it. But how did they achieve 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 that 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 perhaps they were its source of energy to turn her on again and with that try to control it". the man went back to continue his narration.

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

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