And so, ladies and gentlemen. Because of some picture in the smoking room (it was a long time ago, but who cares) I remembered the story about my squad in the first X-COM, but get ready to see a free fantasy on this topic. Coolstory will be conducted on behalf of survivor Ashley (I changed her name for confidentiality). Happy reading everyone, and remember that you can tell your cool stories about any game.
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— Charlie Squad! – a military man in a strict uniform with green camouflage entered the small room – We have an emergency task for you. In the Kharkov area there is a downed UFO of a new type, there may be new equipment, commanders and communications, as well as reconnaissance plans. Your main task is to clear the territory with the least possible losses on their part at any cost. You have twenty-nine minutes left before departure. Everything is clear?!
– Yes sir, yes sir! – the detachment answered synchronously and the military man left.
– For the life of me, I can’t understand why we? We do not have suitable weapons, equipment. And there are only four of us. There is no chance, this is pure suicide! – Private First Class Ramkich, a wonderful melancholic and medic, was indignant
– Calm down, new guy, aren’t you glad that we will go beyond the garrison?? Would you like to stay in this outback? You’ll be lucky if a hawk flies over the base. – I objected, collecting my assault rifle.
– You know, you’re also wrong, it would be better if we were given the task of reconnaissance of the situation in the same Paris, like the Bravo detachment, their equipment is also not so great, but still. – Henry answered, putting on his armor and trying on the Pecheneg PKP with new ammunition.
– Less words, more action! Can’t wait to try out my improved Barrett. – said Roman, Serbian sniper.
In the end we all gathered in a short period of time and began to head towards the transport. Warm conversations awaited us inside about this and that. We tried to defuse the situation as much as possible so that we wouldn’t worry so much. Of course, not everyone succeeded equally, but I was able to convince myself that this would be a regular task like “Clear the area with aliens and blah blah blah.”.
— Five minutes before disembarkation! – said https://partyspins.uk/bonus/ the pilot – Quickly check if everything is in place, if everything is on.
“Come on, Zach, we’re all ready in advance,” I reassured him
— I just don’t want to repeat that story with grenades, you know that there’s always not enough ammunition, but there’s nowhere to put grenades.
The transport helicopter flew close to the ground and dropped off the entire squad. True, everything did not go as smoothly as expected. There were certainly not natural waves at the crash site. Yes, waves on a solid surface, they were distributed at intervals of two meters. Having looked around the territory, I saw that the best position for Roma is that nearby building, on the roof of which you can easily see all the main entrances and exits from the plate. There were two of them, which didn’t simplify the work too much, but made it much easier.
– Roman, take that position.
– This moment!
Okay, now we need to look around. You don’t need to attack right away. Having ordered Henry to stand by the helicopter, I and Romkich went to reconnaissance of the territory at a distance of up to five hundred meters from the object. After looking around the entire plate and the surrounding area, I wondered why they didn’t post security on the outer level? This is risky, you need to at least send a detachment to patrol the area. It was probably the so-called “scientific dish”. Heh, sounds funny, quite childish. True, I remember what Alpha Squad told us. Brr, goosebumps, I don’t even want to imagine.
– Romkich, how are things going for you??
– Everything is clean, I hope you are too.
– Henry, let Zach go for refueling, let him come back immediately after refueling, we will need him here. And immediately go to the left entrance, we’ll start from there
– OK.
– Rom, how is the situation??
– Everything is dull, the trigger itself begins to whisper to me that it’s time to shoot.
– You’re strange. Okay, watch the right entrance, presumably enemies can run from there if they know about our location.
– Everyone is ready? – I asked, hoping that Romkich would not forget to prepare his Medkit
– The armor is a little tight, but – Henry hit himself in the chest – everything is fine.
– Well, knock it out!
A couple of moments and we’re indoors. It was very difficult to remember what happened before Henry knocked down the door. Everything was too fast, everything was very cool! The stun grenade was able to take some of the general workers and a couple of guards by surprise, taking advantage of the situation, we tied them up and unloaded their weapons. It is worth mentioning that although we had a relatively weak weapon, unlike the alien one, it had a much faster rate of fire and although there was a shortage of ammunition, it was not the same as that of the Alpha squad, whose weapons were all plasma or laser, i.e.To. we still can’t create our own batteries. But handling their weapons was included in the mandatory training program, so that they could not take advantage of the situation if they were released and given an additional clip.
– Last one, let’s go to the next level.
There was a roar again, everything was fast again. My blood was on fire, it was so fucking awesome! Adrenaline just hit my brain, which is practically impossible physiologically, but still. The feeling was unique. By the way, in that same turmoil everything was very strange. Why did they all give in almost without a fight, as if they were ordered to do so?.
“Henry,” I turned to him after I tied the last one. – haven’t you noticed that they all give up without a fight, like rag dolls??
– Yes, it’s strange, but maybe they understand that they can’t cope with us?
“Zach is flying up,” Romka said.
– Great, now we’ll go out with the prisoners.
“Wait,” he paused, “there’s something here… OH SHIT…” all I heard next was interference.
– Henry, hurry to the exit with Romkich and find out what’s going on there, while I collect important data and send an SOS signal.
He nodded and quickly headed towards the exit, Romkich reluctantly hesitated, but still increased his pace to keep up with Henry.
– As long as there is no system failure… As long as there is enough memory… Come on… Everything, ready! I have the data, all I have to do is take it to the base and decrypt it.
In a hurry, I took out a walkie-talkie and contacted the base via an encrypted communication channel so that they would send us a new helicopter for evacuation.
– We’ll arrive in fifteen minutes.
– Fifteen minutes?! You understand that all of us here could easily be killed during this time, and you will lose the cargo!
– I don’t care about your condition, all the main forces will arrive at half past five, after that we will send you a helicopter, you selfish selfish thing.
—Bastards! – I shouted to them
— End of connection.
– Fucking hell, medic! – Henry yelled – Stop dawdling, we have two on the front and three on the flank, such bastards.
“Don’t you see that I’m doing everything I can, but Ashley isn’t, she could have cheated us.”!
“You son of a bitch, give me Limonka here already.”
Romkic extended his hand with "Limonka" Henry. He pulled the pin and threw it to the right front. Bach! The fragments only scratched the hull of the ship, but the infantry continued to move, their armor could not take damage directly from an explosion or shot.
– Run through the other exit, you can examine them there and show me their weak point.
– But…
— ALIVE!
Just not to be late, just not to miss the moment… Heading towards the right exit, I saw Henry behind the cover, leaning against him, I started asking what the hell was happening now. In short, the aliens turned out to be more far-sighted than us. Dispersed around the perimeter, they used their costumes as camouflage, but not everyone can do this due to the novelty of this type of costume. They can also redirect their energy to other attributes, such as defense. That is why bullets readily enter that energy portable shield.
“We have no chance,” he added, “the weapon is too weak.”. If there was something similar to an EMP..
Romkovich came running, he said that the idea with an energy weapon could work, and also if you aim it at the side parts of the suit body. then you can hit the energy node, as a result of which the suit becomes a simple iron can. It’s a shame we didn’t pay attention to such a detailed story.
— Ready?
– Yes
The plan was as simple as three pennies. All the squad needs to do is split up and, while the aliens in suits are distracted, fire at them at the power center. Romkovich rushed to the left flank. The aliens’ attention turned to them and they began to fire. Just don’t misfire… Shot. Directly to the power center. The shield turned off, the iron can stopped. Henry added a burst of machine gun fire to them. Ha! How much he was corrupted, as if the suit was made of tin. True, the other squad did not sleep on the battlefield, we were given a good energy charge to heat up the area, which gave us a reason to remove Henry’s armor, although without it he was weak, but more tenacious. Romkovich’s run over again. Got distracted again. Shot… A hit, but the suit did not stop working, it was still functioning. Henry fired a burst at the squad moving towards another shelter. Two had a cracked helmet, a third was hit in the leg, a fourth was dragging him. They won’t hide anywhere, little doves… Shot. The fourth lies in the remains of his brains, the third lies motionless.
— Moving to the next shelter! – Henry said, I just nodded after him. Romkovich was here, he was preparing to check us, but he just grabbed the rifle from me and shot at the armored suit.
– What the hell just happened?? – asked Henry
– Just something you couldn’t do without me
— Arrogant schmuck! You understand that without my instructions you would not have been able to recognize the weak point in the suit. Do you remember what happened in San Francisco?? Do you remember how you begged to be saved?? And who saved?
The shot was sudden. Henry fell to his knees. He was shot in the lung.
– Bitch..
Shot again, blood splashed in my face. He looked at me defiantly.
— Pathetic mammal. I didn’t even notice the change. It was easier than fooling a primate. Oh, you are primates. Your consciousness is not ready for a psychic attack. — I stood in a daze, it was an unexpected move on their part. Perhaps..
– Yes, you’re right. It’s me, the third one, in your understanding.
– But… You still lost the battle, give up.
— Ha! Do you know what will happen to him?? With this soldier? He’ll just go crazy. Just kill him, he’s still a mindless animal, shaking for his own well-being. Low morale. Material assets. HE personifies your stupidity. Kill him.
– Now explain to me, Ashley, why you killed him?
– He asked me himself.
-Are you sure?? Maybe he didn’t want it, maybe his consciousness was captured mentally.
“No, I’m absolutely sure that this was a deliberate step,” having answered confidently, he decided that it was so and for the record of events he wrote it down like this.
– You are free, Colonel Ashley Collins.
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That’s all, I’m not sure that the adaptation to the story turned out to be worthy, but I tried my best. If necessary, I can describe the characters later.