A Simple Supply Raid

by Joel Johnson

A Collection of stories from a supply raid that went bad. I really wanted to write a Xcom story, and it's 10 am and school is about a week away. Let's do this Also a quick summary of the characters I put in this story and their gear Red- Assault SHARD GUN Wednesday-Grenadier Magn Canon Tombstone- Sniper Regular Sniper Rifle Spark 001- Heavy Autocannon Cargo- Specialist Magn. Rif

1. Chapter 1

Paint the Town Red

"Menace One-Five, You're clear to assault."

Red, Wednesday, Tombstone, cargo, and the Spark Unit all jumped off the ship, their rifles ready. The mission was simple, really, a supply raid. Lately, the Avenger has been running out of Alloys, Ellerium, and other needs to make new weapons. The snipers still had regular ballistics, everyone else upgraded to Magnetic weapons. Red, the Assaulter, ran up ahead, finger on the trigger. Their Shared rifle was their best ally, the only ally they can trust. Red stopped up against a tree, scanning around. As the assault, they have to scout out ahead looking for any uglies ready to fight. The Spark unit followed Red's lead, the clanking of the robot really annoyed Red. It was supposed to be a stealth mission, get in, kill the aliens, get out with supplies in tow. Red will never understand why the Commander brought the hunk of junk. Cargo and Wednesday Went together, they figured out that an all out assault were to happen, Wednesday will need a healer. Wednesday looked around, they can see Red with Spark, "good they will need back up like that." Wednesday thought, stopping at a supply truck, she can see what they came for. The bright canisters are just what they need. After minutes of silence, Red moved forward, that's when they saw it. A gross pink hand, they need it was a sectoid around that corner. The looked over to Weds. and Cargo, motioning them to their comms "Enemy squad spotted, A Sectoid with company." Red said Cargo gave him the thumbs up. Wednesday moved up ahead, they were at the head of the truck, on the passenger side. He looked around the corner and saw the full pink body. The Sectoid has turned around, Weds. can tell there were a 2 mutons with the Sectiod. Weds. opened him comms and let everyone know about the Sectoids bodyguards. Red nodded and checked their rifle. Cargo stood on the truck bed, up against the cabin of the truck, waiting for the enemy squad to make its move. Spark was right behind Red, calculating its percentage of hitting the targets. Red waited too long, he can hear his blood, the whirring of Spark, and the quietness of the open. He's going for it. He extended his rifle, lining up the shot, he was going for that ugly pink body. He hated aliens too much, he joined X-Com, not out of revenge for some tragic past, he just hates looking at the ugly things. And then, he pulled the trigger.