So… this is a thing.
I really don't know what the hell I'm doing with this. I had an idea and I acted upon it. And please read the ANs, they exist for a reason. Now then, without any other bullshit for me to spout, let's begin
I don't own shit of X-COM 2, WOTC, Alien Hunter, whatever, only the OC's
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The year is 2045, ten years since the defeat of ADVENT and the liberation of the human race. Thanks to the actions of the organization known as XCOM and their commander, the extremely powerful psions known as the elders and their chosen were defeated. The true turning point, however, was the alien race known as the vipers betraying ADVENT and realigning themselves with XCOM, upon their queen's orders. They had done this when the second chosen, the hunter, was slain. It was a sign to the reptilian race that they could escape from the clutches of the elders. With assistance from XCOM, they saved the few male vipers that ADVENT hadn't culled. Thanks to XCOM's chief scientist Dr. Richard Tygan, the male gender of the vipers were making a comeback, something the elders had suppressed to control the race better. Dr. Tygan also discovered all male vipers have cryogenic abilities, and all female vipers have pyrogenic abilities, much like the viper king made by presumed dead Dr. Vahlen. With the assistance of the reptilian race, now with the inhibitors placed by ADVENT gone, the combined forces made quick work of the final chosen, the warlock, and the elders themselves.
During all this, the commander of XCOM and the viper queen discovered the growing emotions for each other. At first, they went against them, they had demonized each other's race for years, and now they wanted to be with each other? But eventually, they gave in and began dating, even though they could only go to the bar on the Avenger. And after the elders were dead, the commander proposed to the queen of the vipers, who happily accepted. A year later, and the viper gave birth to triplets, a female human, but with the pyrogenic abilities, semi-clawed fingers for climbing, and stretchy tongue of a viper (the commander didn't ask to save himself the headache). And two male vipers, but with somewhat more human faces, and they had more potential for muscular growth than most vipers. A month after that, the commander volunteered for a genetic editing experiment proposed by Dr. Tygan that lets humans have either cryogenic or pyrogenetic abilities. It worked, and now the commander could freeze foes solid. The two military leaders thought they could have a somewhat normal life now with their kids, but on the tenth anniversary of their marriage and the freeing of earth, that hope was crushed.
(present time, the home of the commander and queen of the vipers, three miles outside Houston, Texas)
Jarik Godson, better known as the commander of XCOM, woke up next to his wife, Sscantha (AN: pronounced sa-can-tha), or the queen of the vipers. She was still asleep, but she had her tail curled around her husband's body lovingly, more out of instinct than anything else. Her scales, instead of the typical orange, black, and white, was replaced with crimson, forest green, and dark blue respectively. Though he couldn't see them, Jarik knew her eyes to be a supposed to be impossible violet. 'Heh, can't believe we've been married for ten years now when we hated each other at first.' Jarik thought to himself as he leaned in and kissed the viper queen on the lips. After wiggling out of Sscantha's grasp without waking her (being married to a clingy viper, he figured out how to do this early on), Jarik went to the bathroom to have his morning shower. As he was waiting for the water to heat up, he looked at himself in the mirror. What looked back was a muscular man that looked to be in his early twenties, but was chronologically around fifty, the de-aging was a gift from the gene therapy clinics that ADVENT left behind. He had jet black hair and green eyes, and hard features. A slash scar, courtesy of the chosen assassin, was on his face, starting at his lower left jaw and ending on his upper right forehead. While some would want to hide it, he wore it with pride, a badge showing he fought and killed a chosen alongside his men, and Sscantha told him it made him more attractive.
A few seconds after he entered the shower, he heard the tell-tale slithering of a snake. The now fogged glass door opened to show his wife, putting on a fake hurt look. "Leaving me alone in bed, my little heat stone? You wound me so." Sscantha teased. Jarik chuckled and hugged the viper close. "Well, it is the anniversary of our marriage and the defeat of the elders, my pet. Forgive me if I don't want to smell awful for the party." He joked. After they had washed up and the couple went downstairs, Jarik went into the kitchen to make breakfast while Sscantha went to watch TV in the living room. "Could you wake the kids up? Breakfast is almost ready." Jarik asked his wife a few minutes later. She sighed and went back upstairs to wake the children. Jarik had the standard setup for breakfast: eggs and bacon, orange juice for the kids and coffee for the adults, and a full steak for Sscantha. Seconds later, the commander's three children came downstairs as fast as their legs and tails could carry them. The first one was the human of the trio, and the only girl as well. She has amber eyes, soft features, and red hair, Jarik and Sscantha named her Samantha. The two lagging behind were vipers and the little girl's brothers. The first one had bright green eyes and crimson, green, and blue scales, much like his mother's. The second one had scales of grass green, sea blue, and snow white, and with blue eyes. They are named Jacob and Kile respectively. Sscantha followed behind the trio of nine-year-olds.
"Daddy! Will you bring us to the big airship today?" Samantha asked excitedly. Jarik had been promising to take the children aboard the Avenger for a few weeks now. The man ruffled his daughter's hair while smiling. "Yep, I'll bring you aboard the Avenger today." Jarik confirmed, much to his children's delight. As the family ate breakfast, the commander told stories from when he was a US Army Ranger and green beret. Not long after they finished eating, the skyranger known as Firebrand landed on the road and opened its bay door. Jarik grabbed his personal Psi-Amp, the elders wanted him as a chosen as well, a psion to surpass the warlock, to be specific. His psionics carried over to his children, but they hadn't awakened yet. "Heya commanders, kids. You ready to go to the Avenger?" The pilot, Kriss, asked, receiving five nods in response.
(Fifteen minutes later, Avenger landing pad)
"Welcome back commanders, and it's great to see the kids again." Chief engineer Lily Shen greeted while Bradford and Dr. Tygan stood beside her. XCOM served as a sort of extended family for the triplets. Even the die-hard reapers such as Volk loved the human-viper hybrids. The operatives often played games with them, such as paintball. "We want to be heroes like mommy and daddy!" Was always their reason. While everyone found it heartwarming, they hoped the children would never have to take a life. "Shen, Bradford, Tygan, it's good to-." Jarik was cut off by frantic radio chatter. "This is captain Black of the Houston police department! We need immediate backup! An unknown force is killing and capturing civilians!" The couple of commanders sprung into action immediately. They gestured to a pair of rangers for their comm units. The operatives handed them over immediately. "This is commanders Jarik and Sscantha of XCOM. What is the situation? Is it ADVENT?" They asked. The only thing they heard for about ten seconds was gunfire before captain Black responded. "Negative! It's not ADVENT! Some big gate just appeared on Main Street! Seconds later, thousands of, and I can't believe I'm saying this, ancient Romans reinforced by fantasy monsters began pouring out and killing and capturing everyone!"
Now the two commanders were skeptical. But they issued the order to move the Avenger over Houston. Just a minute later, and they saw what Black was talking about. Thousands of honest to god ancient Roman soldiers with what looked to be pigmen, orcs, ogres, and more moving through the city, destroying and stealing everything in sight. Jarik was about to issue the order to deploy troops when.
"ROAR!"
A man riding what looked to be a wyvern came into sight and made a beeline for Samantha, Jacob, and Kile. The two brothers moved in front of their sister and braced for the impact that never came. They opened the eyes they involuntarily closed and saw the wyvern frozen in the air, a line of psionics connecting it and their father. The ride pulled out a knife and jumped at Jarik, trying to avenge his mount that was put in stasis. He was intercepted, however, by Sscantha's tongue, which pulled him into her coils. Instead of playing with her prisoner like most vipers, Sscantha quickly snapped the man's neck. Jarik closed his fist, and the wyvern's neck was snapped as well. "Get all S.P.A.R.K.s and troops on the ground now. Bradford, take the kids inside and don't let them out of your sight. If it's not native to earth and doesn't look important, gun it down." Jarik ordered before taking one of the rangers storm gun and the fusion blades on his back before jumping off the Avenger and casting sustain on himself.
Jarik landed on what appeared to be an officer, killing the man. He jumped to the side fast enough to dodge a downward slash from a soldier and fired a shot into the what appeared to be a demihuman. He then pulled out one of the fusion blades and began blasting people away and cleaving them with plasma. He lobbed the other fusion blade at an archer trying to get a potshot on him. The ax cut the man's head in two and lodged itself in a skyscraper behind him. A soldier was about to run the commander through from behind when a beam of green plasma burned a hole in the Roman's chest. Jarik looked up to see Firebrand with his wife, the viper king, and as many XCOM operatives as it could physically fit. Ropes came out the back of Firebrand and the group came down guns blazing. Sscantha came up to her husband and smacked him upside the head. "You're inside, you know that right?" She sarcastically asked. Jarik chuckled and kissed Sscantha on the lips, catching her off guard. "It's part of my charm." He said before running off.
(A minute later, area around the gate)
Jarik peered at the gate from his spot on top of a building, and saw red. He saw men and children being shoved into caged carriages without proper medical care, but what enraged him was seeing these invaders having their way with the woman. He jumped off the building and casted sustain, crushing a soldier. They all turned to see a man with purple 'mist' coming out him, and decided charging him was the best plan of attack. They laughed and jeered at Jarik in what he assumed was Latin, and then, his psionics lashed out and killed all 50 of them. The only one left was what looked to be a noble, which Jarik promptly froze, and put in stasis. He used his psionics to rip the doors off the caged wagons as he ran to the women. As he was comforting them, the XCOM forces, led by Sscantha, turned onto the main road only to see the massacre that Jarik hadn't realized had continued.
Psionic zombies, like the one the chosen warlock had at his disposal, had killed all the grunts and incapacitated the important looking ones that had been retreating. Sscantha slithered up to her husband. "Jarik?" She asked, concerned for her mate. She placed a hand on his shoulder, causing him to look up. "This… is wrong. ADVENT never went this far. I will find out who ordered this, and I will bring them to justice." Jarik said with conviction. Sscantha was concerned, however, she had only seen him like this just before the assault on the elder mothership. Jarik ordered Volk to send his best reapers to track down the kidnapped, to which the other man agreed instantly.
(an hour later Avenger interrogation room)
Earl Lynch, son of Zachary and Jamie Lynch and heir to the Lynch noble family woke up to see himself in a grey room, light shining down from above. He was handcuffed to the chair he sat in and across a table sat Jarik and Sscantha, both giving him glares that could kill (a little less for Jarik, as he could probably do that). "What's your name?" Jarik sharply asked, still clearly upset with the invaders. 'Oh this will be fun.' Earl thought to himself, thinking about how he will get a rise from this man, not knowing how dangerous he really is. "Earl Lynch, heir to the Lynch family and richer than you can ever be peasant." The nobleman taunted. Jarik merely raised an eyebrow, before asking another question. "Why did you attack, capture, kill, and rape civilians?" He harshly asked. Earl was confused, was that not normal? Never the less, he answered. "For slave labor and honor, of course. The killing was to instill fear, and the raping was to break their wills." Jarik remained silent for a moment. Sscantha was enraged, but that was outmatched by her fear for what her mate would do to this man. That was answered when Jarik's psionics broke the handcuffs, which were meant to hold a berzerker if needed, grabbed Earl by the throat, and slammed him into the wall. Jarik got up, walked over to the nobleman, and grabbed him by the face so he had to look the commander in the eyes. "Honor? Honor?! Where is the honor in cutting down people who can't defend themselves? One of your men was about to have his wyvern eat my kids, three nine-year-olds, without hesitation! Where is the honor in that?! If you weren't important, I would gut you where you stood, and let you bleed out, as that would be the only justice. But as it stands, your a hostage, you have some worth to us, so hope and pray that I don't find a reason to introduce you to the grim reaper." Jarik monologed. He dropped the now shaking noble, and went to leave. Sscantha followed after calling some guards to escort Earl back to his cell.
Jarik stopped in the doorway, and gave the nobleman a backward glance. "You made a mistake comming through that gate with hostile intentions, as it leads to a world that knows war like a sibling. We've fought all manner of enemies, and when our people are threatened, we don't know the meaning of mercy." He stated darkly. And with that, he left. 'Whoever ordered this attack, may God have mercy on your soul. Because I just ran out of it.' was his thoughts as he walked to his room on the Avenger to get some rest. He had a invasion to enact, and civilians to save.
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Well then, that got darker than I expected. In case your wondering, no, he will not just simply kill emperor Molt, he was just enraged beyond rational thought at the time. I mean, he spent YEARS saving humanity from the elders and ADVENT, and watching these midevil assholes trying to make all that go up in smoke? Anybody with the personality I'm giving would make a berzerker look calm in that situation. So yeah, a psionic that is very, very protective of his planet is about to show Falmart the true meaning of the words 'military might' and 'power,' so may the gods have mercy, 'cause XCOM wants the debt owed to be paid in full.
