A few days have passed by and Christel is now feeling better so she was allowed to get out of the medbay but she hasn't gotten either her father's Plasma Sniper Rifle or the Psi Armour as she has no idea what happened to either of them. She walks to the control room since she was just called to go see The Commander. She enters the Control Room seeing The Commander waiting for her. "Christel Heinsch I needed to speak to you" It says as The Commander approaches Christel. "I wanted to say good job on that mission, really good job you took out that Thin Man really well" The Commander starts saying which makes Christel now learn the human like alien that was at the UFO was called a Thin Man. "By the way your weapon and armour was taken because we are wanting to study how XCOM produced them" It adds making Christel now know where they went. They went to a 2nd base the aliens have built. "Furthermore my psionics skills tell me your thoughts about where you are in Cydonia" It adds making Christel remember The Commander can read her mind. "Y...Yes..." She says nervously to it. "I think I will have an aircraft ready to give you a little tour around the city. My assistants are busy just now so I will arrange a navigator to fly a Small Scout for you" It says as The Commander uses a device to communicate around the base they are in. "Could a navigator head to the Control Room for a mission" The Commander announces then goes back to Christel. "So Christel Heinsch how are you feeling now after that poison you had suffered from" It asks as The Commander goes back to it's device waiting for an alien navigator to respond. "I'm...I'm fine..." Christel says nervously then she feels a sharp pain on her head, she resists to give a sound of pain but puts her hand onto the back of her head where the pain is at. "I am assuming that's your implant chip running in your head now" The Commander says which takes Christel by surprise by being told she now has a chip inside her head. "A-An implant chip?..." She asks nervously to the alien. "This chip was implanted while you were still in Medbay. This chip is used to keep track of your status since we never treated humans like you before, so for us to heal you from wounds is a lot more difficult for us" The Commander explains to Christel as the alien goes back to the device wondering why no aliens are responding to The Commander's orders. "Can a navigator report to Control Room now?" The Commander says again then they both wait only to still have no response. "Well Christel Heinsch. It looks like I will do be flying then" The Commander says then presses a button and walks out the Control Room. "Come on Christel Heinsch" It says as Christel follows The Commander to the UFO hanger.
They walk into the hanger and they approach a small round sort of shaped UFO. While she approaches the ship she hears an alien calling out to her. "Hey there human" The alien says as Christel turns around seeing it was a Chryssalid, possibly the same Chryssalid she met while in the Medbay from the fight. "I see your on a mission again. But why aren't you got that weapon of yours?" It asks as it seems like this Chryssalid actually cares about her safety. The Commander uses his psionics to read what is going through the Chryssalid's mind. "No need to worry about Christel Heinsch, she is going to see the city of Cydonia, also her weapon and protection are sent to the other base for understanding how XCOM produced them so we could replicate them" The Commander explains to the Chryssalid. "OK but what is she got to protect herself without them?" The purple grey alien asks questioning her safety. "It's Ok...I can just...borrow a weapon until I get them back..." Christel says hoping she could try calm the argument between both aliens. "She's right, she can borrow my weapon. Remember I use my psionic skills anyway" The Commander says as it enters the small UFO. "You sure about this human? Not having the armour or weapon makes you more at risk without them" The Chryssalid says sounding worried for Christel. "I'll be fine...It's just until they finish analysing them, that's all" She says sure there's nothing really to be worried about. "Well OK have fun looking around Cydonia, you'll like the city. I should get on my way to a terror mission I have been assigned to" The Chryssalid says as it walks to a much larger UFO. The UFO is shaped like a long rectangle with the middle have a cube shape added onto it. "T-Terror mission?..." She says to herself as she walks into the small UFO where The Commander is. "Ah Christel Heinsch your here" The Commander says as it is activating the UFO to make it be set to fly. "We need to wait for that Terror Ship to leave 1st" It says looking outside the craft seeing the larger ship starting to lift off. Christel watches on seeing the ship airborne flying off to the left direction where she is facing. "OK we're going" The Commander says as it starts to lift the UFO off the ground. Christel looks down seeing another UFO sort of the same size she is in seems to be waiting for the craft The Commander is flying to exit the area.
The Commander flies the aircraft away from the hanger and starts to fly ahead and starts to pull the UFO higher from the ground while Christel looks outside seeing she's very high up from the ground as the UFO starts to turn to the right. "OK Christel Heinsch look right you can see the city there" The Commander says as Christel looks seeing the city. Cydonia looks like a city back on Earth with pyramids and a lot of defences. "It's...Really beautiful to see from here..." She says as she is surprised to see what Cydonia looks like from where the view she is seeing the city. "I'll show you around the city" The Commander says as he lowers the UFO down to get a closer look but makes sure the UFO is still above the city moving a seemingly lowered speed. "OK Christel let's starts around about here" The Commander says then they both see a huge red flash. Christel covers her eyes from the brightness of the flash while the aircraft feels like it's bumping up and down. The flash slowly disappears which Christel starts uncovering her eyes and looks out of the UFO and sees this red flash looks like a laser beam heading towards Earth. "Wh-What was that?..." She asks The Commander as she sees the beam hitting Earth. "I don't know Christel Heinsch but I think that beam is going to awaken the aliens" The Commander which surprises Christel to hear it sa awaken the aliens. "W-What?...A-Aliens?" She asks as she really can't believe what The Commander is on about. "OK I'll explain Christel Heinsch. 65 million years ago there exist aliens on planet Earth with their city called T'Leth that crashed into the water. Ever since then the aliens were asleep but that beam has wakened them up again" The Commander explains to Christel. "S-So is Earth in danger?..." She asks wondering if Earth is now in danger. "If we can get to them before the Ethereals does" The Commander says. "It means we will have to head back to base now" The Commander says turning the aircraft around to fly it back to base. As the aircraft is heading back to base the aircraft Christel hears a sound then immediately the aircraft shakes violently and tilts sharply to the left making Christel be thrown onto her back hitting her head hard on the floor of the UFO as the impact feels like the floor had penetrates the back of her skull. The Commander pulls the craft upwards and presses a button on the craft as it can hear shots being fired from behind. The Commander starts to level the UFO off and turns right while Christel starts to get up feeling pain in her head walking closer to the front of the craft. "Wh-What's happening?..." She asks feeling worried thinking the UFO is now becoming uncontrollable. "Someone is shooting us down. Why isn't the defences system functioning at all?" The Commander says then they both hear a voice inside the craft. "S-C-0-0-2 you in an emergency?" The voice says which makes Christel quickly realise that someone in the base is tracking the craft. "Yes we are being shot down, we need rescue, craft is going down" The Commander says as the craft suddenly tilts upwards steeply, shortly after the craft pitches downwards towards the ground. "Commander an emergency craft is set for launch" The voice says but The Commander doesn't reply back trying to pull the craft back up again but it doesn't seem to do anything while Christel only sees the ground outside becoming scared that they are going to crash and both of them will be killed. The craft seems to start leveling out then Christel gets thrown back to the aircraft feeling the UFO bouncing off the ground making Christel start to black out then fully blacks out immediately the UFO hits the ground again but can still feel the craft moving and bumping on the ground. Time passes and the movement of the craft seems to stop.
She groans a little slowly opening her eyes seeing The Commander grabbing her shirt pulling her up and both of them runs out of the aircraft. Christel looks back seeing the craft has caught fire which is consuming the craft slowly. The Commander holds a device and talks into it, "Medbay can you give me a report about Christel Heinsch's status please?" The Commander please giving Christel a clue to say that the device is a communication device as she feels something on her front pocket moving her left leg. She puts her hand into the front left pocket and sees a green and grey pistol inside her pocket looking like the same weapon that Thin Man had on that mission she was on and then looks back at The Commander. The Commander listens for the response back from the Medbay. "Status on human is normal" The response is heard then The Commander goes to Christel and sits down next to her. "Well Christel Heinsch we are just going to have to wait for rescue to come over" The Commander says looking down to the burning UFO watching it finally explode. "There goes the elerium" It says as Christel also watches the explosion. "You think...Whoever shot down the craft could still be around?" Christel asks feeling vulnerable thinking they are going to be attacked at any time before rescue arrives. "Maybe Christel Heinsch but I have you which is all we need to survive from their assault" The Commander says which surprises Christel but then they both hear sounds of gunfire, they quickly get up with Christel pulling out the green and grey pistol from her pocket, she quickly looks around her but doesn't see an alien approaching. "Come on Christel Heinsch get behind the craft" The Commander says grabbing her arm taking her behind the now burnt out UFO, Christel sees 3 aliens approaching towards both of them with weapons, 1 of them a tall snake like alien with a similar pistol like weapon like what Christel has. Along with the alien are 2 other pink round aliens which they look like they are wearing green armour with larger green weapons than the snake like alien is carrying. Christel and The Commander hides behind the aircraft as they both hear the enemies opening fire. They both hear the ricocheting of the craft and sees the green coloured bullets flying past them missing hitting the UFO they are hiding by it. "OK Christel Heinsch let's take them out" The Commander says as it stands away exposing itself to enemy fire. Christel takes 1 step away from the craft and returns the fire at 1 of the green armoured aliens with the pistol The Commander gave to her, she manages to hit the alien on the chest but it didn't seems to do any harm. "What do we do?" She asks hoping The Commander has an idea what to do in the situation they are in. "What makes you think I don't Christel Heinsch?" It says while The Commander uses his psionics while Christel keeps firing at green armoured alien as well as dodging incoming firing from the enemies, she sees the tall snake is also putting her under fire while the other green armoured alien she can't see where it is gone. "Got you" The Commander says as Christel watches the missing alien re-appearing and shoots at the snake and the green armoured alien. "What the?" She says as she doesn't understand what is happening. Why is an enemy taking out the other enemies? She sees the enemy kill the same kind of alien as it while the snake like alien slithers away to hide while the alien chases it down. She turns head towards The Commander seeing it's head with like a purple mist. "Don't worry Christel Heinsch I've used my psionics to control that Muton" It says as she can't see either remaining aliens but can hear firing going on. "You think...We should take 1 of them alive?..." She asks The Commander wondering what should they do since she is unsure how much do they really know what the enemies are planning. "Take 1 of them alive Christel Heinsch? You have a point. We'll take the Viper and see what it knows what the Ethereals are wanting" The Commander says. "Come on we better catch them" Christel says but The Commander grabs her arm. "No Christel Heinsch I've got control of the Muton, I'm going to chase the Viper back to us" It says as the snake alien re-appears but the green armoured alien is no where to be found. The alien opens fire at Christel while she hides behind the burnt UFO. Christel sees The Commander's head with the purple mist appearing again, she looks back at the snake like alien dropping the weapon and approaching towards both of them. "Don't worry Christel Heinsch, the Viper is now under my control now" The Commander says which makes her be surprised. "You can...control aliens?" She says speechless that it can do that. "When you get the psionic ability, you'll be able to do it" The Commander says as they can see ahead of them a large UFO landing, it looks like the same craft the Chryssalid she saw earlier board.
The craft lands and they both see a large number of aliens exiting the craft running towards them. "Commander, human we got your rescue message across" A similar snake alien says to them but Christel could see it's like a different kind of snake-like alien armed with a large green weapon. "Should I get the order to shoot the enemy Commander?" It asks getting ready to kill the alien The Commander calls a Viper. "Negative soldier, did anyone come with a stun bomb here?" The Commander says in response to the alien's request. "I have a stun bomb here" Another snake-like alien says giving The Commander a blue glowing rounded shape bomb. The Commander primes the bomb. "Everyone move now" It says as they all walk away from the bomb as the alien The Commander is still in control says right next to the bomb. A blue electric field sets off by the bomb covering a small area where it knocks the controlled alien unconscious. "Good job troops now let's bring this Viper back to base" The Commander says as Christel starts to approach the alien to drag it to the larger UFO. "Christel Heinsch don't worry about doing that the Snakemen will do that for us" The Commander says to her as she walks back to The Commander, she turns around seeing these 2 Snakemen picking up the alien over their heads while the rest of the crew of the larger UFO, Christel and The Commander get on board. Christel thinks about the whole idea of taking this Viper alien alive. She wonders is this worth the risk her and The Commander took to take it alive? What will be uncovered by the live enemy and could they reach these ancient aliens The Commander explained to her before they do?