Chapter 4

On the ship….

Flights before missions were normally pretty active with people talking, discussing battle plans, talking about what happened on the weekend, anything really. However this flight was dead quiet. It wasn't just because Valkyr couldn't speak, it was simply because neither of them actually tried to make conversation. Hana simply tried to focus on the mission at hand rather than talking to the mystery beside her. Hana could not shake the feeling that something would go wrong, and Sunwing would happen with Valkyr, she obviously couldn't say what, but she didn't trust anything. After around an hour of flying into the night sky, a voice announced to them. "Preparing for landing in five minutes. Please prepare yourselves." Hana finally turned to face Valkyr, "Place the breaching charge on the front entrance, and then get behind me, there's gonna be a lot of baddies in there, and I'll take as much damage as I can, you focus on gunning down as many as you can."

Valkyr nodded in acknowledgement. At least she agrees easily, Hana thought. The aircraft then landed about two kilometers south from the warehouse, the two began to run to their destination quickly and quietly, well, as quiet as a running mech could get. Soon, they reached the warehouse, it was very dark and the windows were broken and boarded up. If she didn't already know it was occupied by Talon agents, she'd suspect it completely abandoned. Valkyr tapped Hana's mech and pointed towards the entrance, which was empty and seemed to have no security, Valkyr then gestured to the breaching charge she carried. Hana nodded and Valkyr ran to the large warehouse door, whilst Hana took position behind her, ready for combat. The charge was set and Valkyr took position behind Hana, all that was left was to wait for the detonation.

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The charge detonated and revealed the inside of the warehouse, there were crates scattered all around the room, along with a small army of Talon agents armed with assault rifles and ballistic vests. In synchronization, they all turned to face the source of the noise, and upon seeing the pair, opened fire on them. When the shots rang out Hana immediately activated get defense matrix, soaking up as much damage as possible while Valkyr opened fire with her own rifle behind her. The agents dropped quickly as Valkyr seemed to never miss her targets heads, and more and more of them started to pile in from the other rooms. Once the crowd had thinned and was pushed to the back of the warehouse, Hana noticed that her defense matrix was about to drop, she had to think fast or they were about to become lead sponges. "Valkyr! Follow me to the crates then split off, use the crates as cover and take them out!" Hana couldn't waste time by waiting for an acknowledgement, she began to push up to a large stack of crates and once she got close enough pushed off to the right, moving from crate to crate, after she was in decent cover she looked back and saw Valkyr in her own cover, returning fire to the agents. While all the agents were busy focusing on Valkyr, Hana peeked out from her cover and also opened fire on the remaining agents, none of them stood a chance with the firepower that the two were delivering straight to them. They started to drop even faster and soon only Hana and Valkyr were the only two left in the room. The two met back up in the middle of the room. "We need to search the side rooms for any more, once we've done that the recovery team can search the area." After a quick search of all the side rooms there wasn't a single Talon agent remaining, they found the dark room that contained the main computer they used for their operations in Numbani, after quick shots were fired the two guards dropped and that was the last of the agents, meaning they finally earned a break.

"Ahhh. It's always nice finishing a mission rather quickly. I'll notify the recovery team shortly, but first I just wanna sit down." Hana hopped out of her mech and jumped up on a nearby crate. When she sat down, she noticed that a small light from the ceiling was shining down onto Valkyr, showing off her face and her body. Hana never took a proper good look at her body and realized just how good it looked. Thin waist, but not too thin, nice arms, amazing legs, and a surprisingly attractive chest… Hana had to mentally slap herself after realizing what she was doing. Stop! Checking! Out! The! Robot-Girl-Thing! Valkyr looked over and Hana immediately looked away as her face went into a bright red. I really hope she know what I was just doing, or what embarrassment is. Maybe I should simply ask her about what she's like, or maybe even Angela, that would give me a better understanding of her. I can't help but feel as if she's some part space criminal or something. Well, I guess it's a better time than ever to ask a couple things. As she went back to look at Valkyr, she noticed something move at the corner of her eye, but by then it was too late.

The Talon agent had already grabbed his rifle.

Before Hana could even say anything the agent had already pulled the trigger and released a fully automatic spray of bullets at the pair, Valkyr's study body seemed to take most of it but Hana had been hit by multiple bullets. She screamed in pain and watched as the blood fell out of her body and slowly began to pool up in front of her, but she heard two more screams, one sounding more of female anger and the other sounding of pain, she could tell that she was about to slip into unconsciousness, the last thing she saw before she blacked out was a very angry looking Valkyr. She couldn't tell, but it looked like she was utterly dismembering the agent. After the agent fell, Hana only felt somebody picking her up and carrying her out of the warehouse.