XCOM: The B-Team, Chapter 12 – Operation Red Moon

THE B TEAM by CHRISTOPHER RUZ Chapter 12: Operation Red Moon   Table of Contents Note – This is the first chapter of The B-Team in over a year. Life got in the way, along with a host of other problems, but I think I’m back now. Will try to update regularly until this sucker is done! Prepare for heartbreak, ladies and gentlemen. – – – “You understand the importance of this operation, Colonel Gollnick?” Colonel Wendy ‘Scarecrow’ Gollnick stared straight ahead, hands by her sides, soaking in the battle plan. It was ridiculous. Impossible. But Commander Pournelle said it had to be done, so she’d do it. When the Commander said jump, she jumped, and when he gave her a bigger task than she could chew, goddamn, she got chewing. “Sir.” “Doctor Vahlen says there’s no mistaking the energy signal coming from that ship. It’s in communication with the big cheese, the alien HQ, wherever that is. We need that comms device. Just as important is dealing with whatever leader-caste creature is in charge of the device. Killing it, Doctor Vahlen says, could cripple the X-ray’s war efforts. Bringing it back alive could end the war altogether.” “I understand, sir.” “Now, you know I could send in waves of rookies, swamp it with bodies. We’ve got some promising recruits out training with Captain Nomi Chi right now – Hunt, Wendig, Oakes and Hart, I believe – but a smaller precision team will best suit this job. You’ll need to […]