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Adopting and Adapting
Chapter 20
Helicopter No 1 – Somewhere Over Western Asia:
After getting a search warrant for Wammy's House signed by Judge Echizen (1), the Task Force immediately took off on numerous helicopters to Winchester. Soichiro, Raito, Matsuda, Mogi, Aizawa, and Ukita were seated in Helicopter No. 1, and they were all wearing headphones to protect their ears. Soichiro knew just how massive the orphanage was, and they wanted to be thorough, so there were 49 other helicopters following the first one with five cops and their pilots in each copter. 250 dedicated police officers ready to get back as many innocent children as they possibly could. Their pilot, Yoshi-san, was a chief of another police building in Japan, and was good friends with the Task Force.
Yoshi-san was a heavier and older man who wore glasses and had a smoking problem. His voice was damaged because of it, but he was still a nice guy. Yoshi-san was wearing sweats, as were the rest of the people in the helicopter. He volunteered to fly the Task Force on the 16 hour flight, along with his co-pilot, Shiatsu-san.
Shiatsu-san was Yoshi-san's sister-in-law, and the two of them went to piloting school together. She was a Japanese woman in her mid-thirties, but she looked a little older than that. She wasn't very tolerant of silly children, but she respected Raito for being mature for her age.
The three goals of the trip were simple: Find Beyond Birthday, get any other children out of the facility, and arrest anyone employed there and bring them all in for questioning.
"Mogi-san?" Raito asked, tired. "Can I borrow your laptop for a minute?" Mogi nodded, then handed her the laptop silently.
The young genius went on the Internet and researched further into Japanese birth certificates, and also on how to get one for an adopted child. It turns out that all you have to do is take the adopted child and their new parents to court, and they'll do a quick check on the child and the household where the child is being raised. If the courts decided that the child is in good hands, they'll make the child a new certificate for the country where he/she will live. Only then would the adoption would be official and the child would be a legal citizen.
Raito turned to her father, who seemed deep in thought. "Daddy," she spoke into the headphone's speaker system to get her father's attention, "take a look at this article on birth certificates for adopted children. This is how we can get one for Beyond," she handed him the laptop.
Soichiro read the article, and it was from a good source, The Japanese Court of Law. He couldn't believe he and his wife didn't think to do that. They just assumed that everything would run through on its own because he was a police officer and involved with the law. They should've been more careful! But since it could be done that easy, he made a mental note to do that once they got back home with his son.
At that moment, as her father was in deep thought again and after she gave Mogi his laptop back, Raito swore to herself that she would get her brother back. That's just how it was going to be. L swore could screw off.
England, Europe – 1 mile from Targeted Location:
After a lot of sleeping so they would be well-rested for the mission, the cops in all the helicopters were ordered to put on all their gear since they would be arriving on the landing dock in 30 minutes. They landed on a vast helicopter landing site a mile from Wammy's, not wanting to let anyone know they were coming.
The young girl was the first one to hop out of the helicopter, dressed in grey sweats. Then the other helicopters all carefully landed after a couple of minutes. She could see a couple clouds in the sky, and there was tall grass growing far in the distance of all directions. There was a fence to her right, and countless H's painted yellow on the asphalt ground.
Soon, the 250 officers were all out of the helicopters and were being armed with their weapons; two Desert Eagles for each officer. Watching the whole thing, and seeing in person just how many men and women cared enough to help her brother and the other orphans, Raito started to tear up.
Her father talking into a megaphone stopped her though as she paid attention, "Listen up!" he called loudly to the officers. They all gathered around Chief Yagami, carrying their guns in their hands or in their holsters. "This is a very serious mission; I hope you all understand that. What we may witness in the next few hours would change our lives; children being beaten….children being starved or isolated. But it is our duty, and police officers, to help those innocent children and to arrest whoever is responsible for doing such things." All the officers listened very carefully.
"Listen to what I'm about to tell you…" said Soichiro. "Treat this mission like a government issuing. Be very stern and serious. Not only for the children we need to help, but also for yourselves and your own safety. We don't think anyone at Wammy's House had any weapons or dangerous means of protecting themselves, but we don't know for sure." Some officers nodded, others were like stone, motionless. "Are you all ready and armed? Good, let's roll."
Wammy's House:
Raito looked at the immense building that was Wammy's House, the torturous hellhole that was well-disguised as an ordinary orphanage for gifted children. The brunette could sense that her brother was around; she could just feel it in her heart that he was here. The remembered how, on the way to Wammy's House, the English police joined with the small army of Japanese officers. L, whoever he was, didn't stand a chance. Not only did the two culturally-different police armies join forces, but they also both had their master snipers hiding around the perimeter in case anyone tried to escape. There were also countless ambulances for the injured children that would be rescued.
They finally invaded the place, Raito being safely escorted behind the human shield of Matsuda and her own father. Normally Chief Yagami would never put his children in the line of danger, but this was for his son, and he knew just how broken his daughter was without her sibling.
They raced through the long hallways, Raito trotting close behind. They were seen by a balding man, Roger Ruvie. They showed him the Japanese search warrant, then another English officer handcuffed him while the stream of cops kept steadily invading Wammy House territory. Those were the orders given by their Chief Superintendent Soichiro Yagami; arrest now, ask the questions later.
Raito yelled to her dad as they all kept trotting, "Dad, Beyond said this place is mostly made of classrooms. Ask a teacher where the successors are being kept. That's where Beyond should be!"
Just as he nodded to his daughter, Soichiro came to a door. Mogi kicked it down. There were some screams of small children from the inside, and some ducked under their desks in fear. 'They must think we're terrorists,' Raito thought. A cop immediately went inside and arrested the overweight teacher. She was mad as she was brought out in handcuffs. "Where are the successors!" the English officer yelled.
The sound of more doors getting kicked down and more childrens' screams could be heard in the background as more teachers were arrested and more children were escorted out of the building and to emergency help outside. In the background, more English officers could be heard yelling in the teachers' faces, "Where are the successors being held?" None of the teachers had a clue as more units went down the halls to find more classrooms, dorms, and offices.
After a while, Raito heard Aizawa behind her, saying, "Chief! This guy knows where the successors are!" Soichiro ran over to him. Raito was frozen in her mixed emotions and feelings, and she was shaking a little bit. Too much unnecessary excitement had occurred in her life in a short amount of time. She felt someone grab her right hand. Raito looked up and saw that it was Matsuda, "Come on, Raito-chan, we're going to find Beyond," he smiled and walked her to where the teacher was. The young and skillful cop had his Desert Eagle in his right hand.
"What's your name?" Soichiro asked.
"My name is Thomas Miller. I know where all the successors are," said the bald, muscular, and suited man.
"Where are they! And how many are there!" Soichiro yelled in his face.
Mr. Miller's eyes got bigger, "They're in the basement, there's only four, I'll show you…" he turned and walked with his metal handcuffs chaining his hands behind his back, Aizawa pointing a gun in his back. They went down different directions through the hallways, leaving the sound of doors being kicked down by Mogi and childrens' feet running outside to their new freedom.
Mr. Miller led them to an elevator. "All four of the successors are in the basement. They're being held in separate cells."
"Like a prison…" Aizawa spat in his tough voice, the one that once made his own daughter cry when he was scolding her.
"Yes, look can I go now?" Mr. Miller looked uncomfortable.
Aizawa was rough with him as he dug the Desert Eagle deeper into his back and drug him into the elevator with five English officers, Matsuda, Soichiro, and Raito. Matsuda still held onto his chief's daughter and Aizawa said to Mr. Miller, "Aww, why not come along for the ride? I'm sure you're used to this, scumbag." The elevator doors closed and the elevator descended to the basement.
The doors opened and their was a long black hallway with black cemented walls. There were two doors in each side. Aizawa kicked down the first three, each revealing a little boy about Raito's age inside. The redhead boy, the blonde boy, and the albino boy were all handcuffed and strapped to chairs with blindfolds on. They were all dirty too, and as soon as they were released from the chairs, all of them hugged the English officer that saved them. The three English police officers carried the three children to the elevator and the doors closed.
That only left one more door. That only left Beyond to be found. Soichiro did the honors of kicking the heavy door down, Matsuda, Raito, Aizawa, and the two other English officers were behind him. Behind the door revealed Beyond tied to a chair and his hands tied behind his back. He was not blindfolded. Raito saw that there was not only Beyond's familiar face in the room, but another familiar face. That guy from the night they ran away. The guy with the gun. That guy who saved them! That the hell was he doing here!
I actually went on Google to find famous Japanese Judges, and Echizen-san was the first one I found. That's just fancy-talk for "Echizen-san is a real person!"
It turns out that I didn't actually research on how to get a Japanese birth certificate for an adopted child, so I just assumed that that's what you'd have to do. I don't know…sorry.
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