Valkyria Squadron

Ch32: The Rescue

When I woke up I noticed that something was out of place. I was in a completely unknown room. It was not a cozy place like my home, it was quite the opposite, it was a nightmare. I was locked in a filthy room with little light. There was a metal door near me, it had a grill through which you could see a little into the corridor. But there was no one, everything was quiet.

I was scared, I didn't know where I was and I didn't know what they were planning to do with me. But one thing was for sure, whatever it was was not good for me.

While looking around the room I managed to see someone's silhouette.

It was that of a girl, she was sitting quietly watching what I was doing. When she recognized me she approached me and I could see her school uniform. When I got closer to see who she was I could see that she was Haru Yamamoto. She was the granddaughter of Officer Yamamoto who helped me find my daughter Maria. But what was she doing here with me?

She was as terrified as I was because neither of us knew what was happening. Only now we were locked in some strange place.

"Mrs. Adelis, are you here too?"
"Do you know what this place is?"
"What are these gunmen planning to do?" the poor girl asked.

I thought for a moment about how to respond to her since I didn't even know for sure what was happening. But looking through the grille of the setting I managed to see how some armed men passed through the corridor, they wore good military equipment in addition to assault rifles, they looked more like a patrol of soldiers, so this was not a simple case of kidnapping. This was a properly calculated plan because if they have such good funds, they must know who I am. So I could only imagine that those must be I.S.C men who managed to find me.

"Everything is fine, don't worry"
"Soon your grandfather will come to rescue us"
"We just have to wait until he arrives"I told the girl trying to make her feel better

But the truth is that I was completely in a panic. The alliance won't notice my disappearance until tomorrow, and I can't say how long it would take for them to investigate. Haru's grandfather is undoubtedly a smart man who will certainly look for Haru even if he has to go door to door throughout the city, but what could the police do against what is basically an elite army entrenched in a warehouse. There was only Cesar, who although he noticed my disappearance and knows that he is probably in the warehouse that Tama mentioned, they are only two people and no matter how much experience they have, they can win against so many enemies and without help from anyone. In the best-case scenario, he may be able to give the police clues as to where to look, but how will the Inspector take it, if someone as strange as him leads him here?

I was still thinking about the situation when the metal door slammed open. The patrol of soldiers pushed someone into the room and quickly closed the door. After that, two of them were left guarding the door while the other two were guarding the corridor, leaving us with no possibility of escaping. But anyway I could do it, I'm just an ordinary lady. I've never exercised in my life and only used a pistol a couple of times at a shooting range just because I was asked to know how to use it with my work at the Alliance. Besides that, I have to protect this girl who is by my side. I can't do anything stupid that will leave us both dead.

I turned to see who was the person who was pushed into the cell. And to my surprise, it was someone I knew too. She was the fruit of my husband and me, she was my precious daughter Maria. After recovering from the fall, she looked around and saw my face. She was just how I remembered her, exactly my little girl that I raised. And as soon as she saw me she started crying unconditionally and running she hugged me

"Mom is you?" My beautiful daughter spoke to me
"Is it you, right?"
"I'm very sorry about all this"
"Everything that's happening is my fault"
"If I hadn't told you that I saw you in one of the photos in the cafeteria this wouldn't be happening to you now!"