Another Year, Another Invasion

by 1944a

The following follows the events of The Bureau: Xcom Declassified and contains spoilers. The outsider threat has (mostly) been dealt with, but now there is an old threat that has returned: The Communist countries. After a fateful operation in China, the USSR invades the United States. Xcom must perform its original function and beat the Reds before its too late.

1. Prologue

Another Year, Another Invasion

The following takes place after the events of The Bureau: Xcom Declassified and contains spoilers.

Prologue

1962-The invasion and its aftermath

On October 28, the Outsiders, led by the one known as Origin, sent an expeditionary force to pave the way for an invasion of Earth. Xcom had to be activated ahead of schedule to fend off the enemy force, led by Director Myron Faulke. Through Xcom's operations, they managed to cut off contact with the alien planet and defeat Origin. It was revealed that agent William Carter had an Ethereal entity, named Asaru, attached to him. When the Outsiders chose to assault the Xcom base, Asaru broke off with Carter and linked with Faulke. Carter, unwilling to deal with being controlled by Asaru, decided that he wanted Asaru dead, so Faulke tried to keep Carter on the Avenger's brig while the rest of Xcom took down Origin.

In the end, the humans won. The Outsiders were forced to stand down and help rebuild before they would be eliminated or imprisoned. After the Outsiders were dealt with, Asaru left Faulke. It is unknown were Asaru went. Much of the technology was preserved and provided significant secret military and scientific advancements. Most evidence of the Outsider attacks were erased or covered up. The sleepwalker infection was treated (but, due to the death of Professor Alan Weir, the cure would not be fully administrated for a long time). The whole war was covered up as a "communist sneak attack" or the "Cuban missile crisis". Only the agents of Xcom and a select few politicians (in the United States) knew about the actual invasion.

Despite agent Angela Weaver's earlier comment of Carter "acting like a child" when he was resisting Asaru's control, she decided to convince Faulke to let go of Carter. When Carter was court martialed, the military judge let him go because there was not enough evidence to really punish Carter for his "treason", as Faulke put it. Carter was returned to Xcom and he did not try to hold any grudges against Faulke. For a long time, the agents of Xcom had to fill out plenty of false obituaries.

Even after the whole incident with the Outsiders, American President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev were continuing their bitter rivalry. Naturally, this did not show with their diplomatic discussions, but everyone in both countries knew that the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union did not trust each other.

On November 15, 1963, a Zudjari had somehow escaped custody and decided that he would somehow avenge his comrades. On November 22, he had managed to assassinate Kennedy. Cyrus Sinclair, a former Xcom agent (he was picked up from Truman's Secret Service detail) and currently a secret service agent, decided that he would deal with the assassin (which he had actually seen) himself (due to the confidentiality of the issue, he did not want to allow even his fellow secret service agents to see the evidence that there was an invasion) and afterward that the whole thing would be covered up to have a shifty looking communist by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald be the assassin (Which he actually did try to assassinate Kennedy, but it was the Judjari who had really killed him). Sinclair was able to do this because of his clearance level (which was almost as high as the president's) that came partly from his service in the Secret Service but also from his service in Xcom. The Vice-President, Lyndon Baines Johnson (who also had enough clearance to know about the invasion), took the reins as president.

Unfortunately, Johnson was quick to upset Khrushchev. He had intended to escalate the situation in Vietnam into an all-out ground war. Sadly, covert operations in Vietnam somehow led to China. On December 9, 1963, American soldiers were killed on the Chinese side of the Chinese-North Vietnam border. China declared war on the United States on December 13 at 1332 (Eastern Time), and the Soviet Union (partially reluctantly) backed up China. World War III had started. Every nation depleted their nuclear arsenals within a few hours.

On December 15, a joint invasion of the United States by Cuba, the USSR, China, and North Korea was organized and had begun. Xcom, with the original purpose of defending the United States from such an attack, was reactivated to fend off this invasion.