Alien Abduction calls come flying in and we are handed a list of the three worst areas.
London, UK - Panic 3, Very Difficult, 4 Scientists
Montreal, Canada - Panic 4, Very Difficult, 4 Engineers
Sydney, Australia - Panic 1, Moderate, $200
Sarah begs us to head to her home, but I have to look at the future of everything here. With Canada providing us more dollar potential than the UK I send the group of to Montreal.
| Rank | Name | Health | Willpower | Offense | Defense |
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| Cpt | Sarah Martin | 9 | 81 | 70 | 0 |
| Cpt | Vanya Solovyov | 8 | 66 | 99 | 0 |
| Lt | Coffee Warlord | 8 | 55 | 73 | 0 |
| Lt | Ace Idol | 7 | 52 | 73 | 0 |
| Sq | Deacon Palmer | 6 | 60 | 72 | 0 |
| Lt | Benton Gale | 9 | 33 | 86 | 0 |
Martin is wearing one of the vests while everyone else has on Carapace Armor. Gale and Solovyov both have Laser Rifles, Idol gets the SCOPE and Vanya has the med kit. Squaddie Palmer has the Arc Thrower.
Operation Crystal Scepter
We touchdown outside a corner bookstore. Everyone starts moving and Palmer gets up close inside a bus stop. He spots 2 Sectoids inside the store. They scramble, one stops and fires at Palmer, missing but taking out a store wall with plasma.
The Sectoids must have yelled or telepathically sent something to the Flyers as three of them try and flank us on the right. Vanya and Gale each drop a Flyer.
Palmer takes out the Sectoid that shot at him and Sarah drops the last Flyer. Palmer moves a little more and has contact with 2 Thin Men. Idol whips his boom stick over and wipes out one of the Thin Men.
One of the Sectoids and Thin Men bail out into the side alley. The team moves into the building while Palmer and Idol head down the Alley.
It is a strategic move and cover dodging fire the Idol and Palmer take down the alley. Finally, they discuss and the plan is for Palmer to run out, hit the Sectoid with the Arc Thrower while Idol wipes out the thin man.
It almost happens to plan, Palmer rushes as Idol pops up, however his shot misses the Thin Man by a mile. Palmer is a tight spot and unloads his rifle at the Sectoid slamming it up against the wall. He then spins into his target spot hoping to get the Thin Man but he is slower and takes a plasma blast almost point blank. Palmer has a gaping hole in his chest and is bleeding, Idol is screaming for Vanya to come heal as he pops out and explodes the Thin Mans head.
Meanwhile, there are some large almost tank like Aliens moving in on the right trying to get the team into the store. Sarah misses one of them, Vanya pops up, shoots wounding one and runs towards the door to the alleyway. Gale is close and drops a smoke into the doorway and out into the alley providing cover for Idol and Vanya.
The Mutons have scrambles now, 1 ran into the neighboring building and out into the alleyway standing over Palmer, the other stays hidden in the building and the third has decided to go toe to toe with the squad. Sarah hits him with her machine gun.
The Muton in the alley fires once missing idol. Then the one out by Sarah fires and hits her. Idol pops a shot missing the Muton and it returns fire hitting Idol.
The chaos is starting to escalate as Palmer is groaning and Idol is still yelling for Vanya to get there. Vanya peeks out the doorway and sees the Muton, he fires and misses.
Gale makes a mad dash out of the doorway and slides into a dumpster by Idol, he pops up and manages to wound the Muton. Sarah takes a second plasma blast by the Muton and she is not to steady on her feet. Her armor is shredded, she is bleeding from everywhere, but she is still standing and returns fire, hitting again.
The Muton fires at Sarah and manages to miss. Gale takes a shot to the shoulder from the Muton out in the alley. Sarah takes another blast, this one is square in the chest and she finally drops. She is still alive, but bleeding out.
Gale takes a second shot and is still standing. Vanya pops out and drills the Muton right in the throat taking him out. Warlord finally gets into a position where he finishes the work Sarah did on the Muton outside.
Vanya manages to get to Palmer and as he picks him up to administer the med kit, Palmer gurgles a little blood and gives his death rattle. This one was close and Vanya and Idol will probably carry this one with them for a long time.
The squad manuvers back towards the neighboring store while Vanya scrambles to Sarah.
Warlord kicks in the door and is promptly hit square in the chest. He drops, rolls and grabs a grenade. He pops it and lands it in the Mutons lap. It explodes leaving a large hole in the creature and green blood all over the walls.
10 Aliens killed
1 Op Lost
UK is full on Panic.
Ace Idol is promoted to Captain and trains Opportunisty. He will be in the infirmary for 10 days.
Sarah and Gale will both join him, their stints will be 15 days and Warlord will be in there for 6 days.