The Commander was discussing things with Gamma on the Avenger; I was again under the probe. At least Kurt and Julie are okay, and going to be sent to the HQ to be trained there.
"I should have expected this."I said as I sat while they probed my mind.
"Stop resisting."One of them said.
"I am not resisting."I said.
My head hurt as I felt him push, several painful minutes passed and he got up.
"He is clean, but his mind is tough, if he is accepted he could be a potential psionic soldier."The scientist said.
When I got out I started talking with Alessandra.
"So how is the Viper?"I asked.
"Natalie is fine."She informed me smiling.
"She chose a name."I said.
"Yes, not too long ago, let's go see her she was sad you were…captured."
The moment I entered her room I was constricted by Natalie's arms.
"I am so happy you are alive."She said.
I hugged her back and pat her in the back.
"I am happy to be back, so you chose a name Natalie."I said.
She smiled and the three of us talked about what happened while I was away. Shen had done a lot of improvement, exo suits and all magnetic weapons were ready, and she was researching plasma now.
Soon I was called to the Commander's room, I entered the room and noticed Gamma there, the Commander told me to sit down.
"I understand you are not under any kind of alien control and have decided to help Gamma and his cause can you explain the reason for it?"The Commander asked.
"His cause seemed fair, he is trying to restore the other races the Advent has conquered, races that were dominated like ours is being now, while it is kind of bad that he has kept the scientists there against their will he didn't mistreat any of them."I said.
The Commander was thinking, looking at me and at Gamma.
"Good, while I think the resistance won't like it I also believe it is the best chance for us to succeed, the Nest will be a new research installation for now, with personal to defense and a Firestorm in order to gather equipment and if needed make operations."The Commander said.
"I am glad we can be allies Commander, I must return to the Nest so the others can be informed."Gamma said as he walked back when he was at a good distance from us he teleported away with his psionic powers.
"It is amazing, he can open psionic portals at will, if that can be taught to our troops one day we will be far more effective."The Commander said smiling."Your interference might have given us a great advantage over ADVENT."Said the Commander.
"Thank you I just did what I thought was best."I said.
I left the room as I was commanded to go back to my old room, I had to go to the memorial to get my things and put them back there and as I took some things out of my backpack I pulled the codex skull…
I immediately ran to Tygan.
"Sorry for interrupting Tygan but I have the skull of the codex here."I said as I entered the lab with the skull in my hand.
"I thought it was lost when we evacuated."He said."It is good to have you back."He said as he took the skull from my hands and I felt something burning the back of my head.
"What is the traitor doing here?"Vahlen asked.
"He is giving us an important artifact, while know you have a negative opinion of him he is a capable scientists as well as a soldier."Tygan said; she huffed again.
"I still refuse to work alongside him."She said.
"I work on engineering not in the labs, but I still help out Tygan sometimes, by the way Tygan we got the Nest as allies, Gamma and the scientists that choose to stay there will be beginning a research facility for us."I told him; Vahlen was in shock.
"That is great news; the cooperation of our species is going to be a good step for a better future."He said.
The angry women just huffed and walked to a lab.
"Did she see Nat yet?"I asked.
"No, I am pretty sure she will want to boot her out of the ship."Tygan said."She won't be able to, she is an assistant here."He said.
"Really? I didn't expect that."I was surprised.
"She is good with technology, and since she can produce venom we can produce better medkits and viper round for all soldiers if they want."He said.
Things are looking good.
"Go see Shen, she will need your help, she is looking over the design of the ships so we can make one of our own."Upon hearing that I said goodbye and ran to the engineering.
"Shen? I heard you are working on spaceships where can I help?"I said as I entered, everyone gawked at me since they probably thought I was dead."Did no one tell you what is going on?"I asked.
"Not much was said so far, good thing you are alive now come here, we need to make a fighter capable of space flight."Shen said as she called me over.
"So how far are we?"I asked.
"We made hybrid systems, mixture of an elerium drive and a conventional engine so we can diminish our spending, we are thinking on working on a nuclear thermal engine, with their alloys and some elerium it is far safer to use them but we still have to research and test it."Shen said.
"Interesting, is it hard to produce?"I asked.
"Not really, but the infrastructure we need and the materials are hard to come by, and we still don't have enough elerium to build a factory and all its components."She said.
"What about weapons, did we get anything new?"I asked.
"We managed to create another tier of weapon, it is a laser, it doesn't need elerium just energy, a small battery can have enough power to hundreds of shots, we sent it to the HQ, it will eventually replace the conventional weapons we use, and it is about as effective as the magnetic weapons."She said.
"I will want to have a look at them later but let's make the fighters."I said; I was happy to be back here, where it is safer.
28/05/2035
I got back to my old routine, Kurt sent me a message saying they are on training and it is hard but they might get transferred to the Nest, they are happy about that.
The HQ and their flagship have a laser system as weapons as well, they actually were the first to raid an entire factory and escape with most of it, now we have industrial equipment and are looking for a place to hide it and start producing equipment.
We are getting more and more people joining, we captured more UFO's and are working on our own ships, we are not just an annoyance for ADVENT we are now a credible threat.
Yesterday a facility related to the Avatar project was bombed by the Phoenix, setting them back and making it to the news, we are now pirates with stolen ships and that isn't exactly something people like hearing about but still the people that oppose ADVENT are now much more confident in joining.
"Well now we just need to build a prototype then."I said as I looked at the schematics.
"Since we got something to work from we were able to make it faster but I think we can make the first one in a few hours."Shen said.
We looked at the plasma weapon we were working on, since we had the bigger ones from the ships and their schematics we could discover faster how to miniaturize them.
"Half of the staff is making the laser weapons and the other half is fixing the armors we will have to wait."I said.
"Oh, right, why didn't the South American cell finish the factory yet? We can't make weapons for the entire resistance."She grumbled; the HQ, the Avenger and even the Nest were working hard on the equipment for the rest of the resistance, we had enough lasers for everyone inside the Avenger and we are still making more.
We then looked at the screen; we could see the Phoenix flying and the ADVENT symbol making us realize they were the ones recording. The Speaker appeared in the corner and began a speech.
"The terrorist organization known as X-COM has been acting without opposition over the last few months, with several attacks on factories, research facilities and causing several deaths but we don't need to fear them anymore."He said."The Elders acknowledge that they are not just a small fringe group, they are an enemy that is dangerous, and with that they dispatched a fleet to hunt the down and this is going to be the first victory of the fleet."He said.
The image showed the Phoenix firing its weapons at a research facility, it was live, they were sent to another facility recently build and being fired upon but suddenly a beam of light struck it, it focused its weapons above and something that wasn't seen on Earth for years appeared; a battleship.
The Phoenix weapons scared the hull of the battleship, railguns, lasers and plasma cause small explosions but the ship was too small, soon two more beams hit the Phoenix and it fell, upon hitting the ground it exploded and the Battleship with little damaged fired again on the ship.
"The terrorists, no, the enemy will not make us run anymore, we will hunt them and we will win."The Speaker said.
We were shocked, our flagship, our best hope of taking the fight to them was just destroyed with ease.
I looked at the others they all were with their emotion obvious, we are done for.
29/05/2035
The Avenger has landed, we hid the ship in the mountains and hid it, it would take off when they find a better hiding spot, all the cells were hiding, stopping their operations and lying low, we had flown towards the South American cell so we could assist in the factory, and if we were to bring down the battleship we would need more firepower.
I got inside the factory, it was under construction and very soon it would be done, the engineers from the other bases were all working on the design of new weapons and ships for us, we were going to lay low for a while but we will strike back at them.
"Okay listen up people."Shen yelled; she was in charge of the factory now.
"We might have lost a ship but we still can fight, we have been looking for a way to build our own ships and now we can, we have enough resources to make our own ships, the captured UFO's we captured will be the resources we will use to build our fighters, our new ships, they will outmaneuver our enemy and bring it down, the Lightning transporters will allow us to board the battleship and just like we did before we will claim it, we developed a virus that once it is introduce to their system it will destroy it."She said.
"But what if there are more of them, the speaker said it was a fleet."Someone asked.
"We survived for Twenty years, without ships, or lasers or magnetic weapons we can deal with them, they send that because they are afraid, we could face them head on and we still can, those are the plans for the Firestorm Mark 2, hybrid, and human built fighter, it will have the firepower of a UFO but it will be far faster, using one of the old one we can build four and a half of them, and with the other resources we have in store we can build even more, the lightning transports are even faster, with better shields and with a single plasma beam but still very capable, they knocked us down but we will rise up."She yelled, they all cheered as they looked at the designs of the ships.
"Good speech."I said.
"This was the easy part, the hard part starts now."She said as he she handed me the plans, we would have to reshape the factory, recycle a lot of metal and make small operations to get materials, just like the beginning. We can do it, I am certain of it.
…how did I get here…
