Once everyone decided to assist XCOM in defeating the Micronoids, they quickly began drafting up the best of their forces to send to Earth. This wasn't exactly easy, in part because some of the more powerful units that any of the affinities could bring to Earth would probably cause far more damage to Mega Primus than the alien did (well, unless they used a mothership or battleship, or dropped an overspawn on the city). Additionally, most of the hybrid units harmony used couldn't be sent to Earth, on account of the differences in atmosphere. While those powers had acknowledged this and bred strains that could survive on Earth, only a token amount of the unmodified creatures native to Chiron could join this battle.

Of course, that still left the natives with a ton of viable units to send back to Earth, among them battlesuits, CNDRs and packs of domesticated aliens. Already the forces of each faction had mustered up in preparation for the battle, with tanks lining up to enter the portal, infantry escorts close behind them.

As for me, well, everything that I was using could easily enter the portal, even my Commander, so I didn't really have any limits-what's this message I'm getting from...XCOM!?

Confused and shocked, I opened it, revealing the contents to be the schematics of some kind of ship, along with a note:

"Seeing how you wanted our technology, we deemed it likely that you would desire that of our foes. To get it, though, you'll need a way to take the fight to them, so here's a nudge in the right direction."

What was he talking about-OH!

I re-examined the designs and smiled: they matched those of the dimension prove, the first craft XCOM could send to the Alien Dimension. Combined with the relatively intact alien ships I had in my possession, it would be relatively easy to engineer a vessel that could void death by antimatter when it entered the alien dimension.

I was getting ahead of myself, though. First, I needed to prep up my forces to head to Earth.

Turning my attention toward my facilities on planet, I ordered the production of new tanks, bots, artillery, and aircraft, as well as several dozen fabbers. I also ordered my existing fabbers to start building several teleported gates: once I arrived on Earth, I'd need to setup a beachhead. From their, I'd set up factories, power generators, and ab innovation I made out Spore tech: matter coree. These could synthesize matter out of energy, and since I could violate the law of conservation at will, well, I didn't really need to ever worry about running out of resources anymore.

With my forces being prepared, I turned my attention briefly back to my charges. The kids were starting to take their psi lessons, which were rather humorous to watch. Intwrnally, I was glad that XCOM would only teach them to control their powers, not use them offensively. That was a disaster waiting to happen.

"So, it looks like you'll finally be going to battle again, won't you, my pawn?"

Ugh, not now.

"I assume you'll stay to watch me battle the Micronoids? It will likely be awesome to behold."

"Well, since this is your first big battle since Xylem, yeah, I'm staying. Though, may I suggest one thing?"

"I'll allow it."

"You might want to see just what you can get from these aliens. There tech isn't like any that you've encountered before. I mean, most of it is alive."

"I know. I hope to acquire all of it."

Dimension traveling technology? Disruptor weapons? ANTIMATTER RESISTANT AIRCRAFT?! I wanted it all. With it, I'd grow in strength far faster than I was already, and could rapidly speed up my mission to find the rest of the artifacts in this universe. The weird ones, anyways.

Melissa merely responded by smirking at me. "Well, I'm looking forward to seeing what happens, so though it may sound odd, good luck."

"...thank you."

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It only took an hour for everyone to muster their forces and make their final preparations. My forces were intermixed among those of the natives, but a fair amount of them composed what would be the first wave of the forces sent to Earth. My units were expendable, people were not.

At long last, the order came to for the assembled armies to advance. My forces charged through the portal, ready for battle.

On the other side, though, things were relatively calm. Our guests had called in to their headquarters to inform them that friendly forces were coming through the gates, which was the only reason the forces circled around the portal did not fire on us. Once they were sure that we were friendly, they let us continue on.

Lining the streets were the citizens of Mega Primus. Many were staring on in stunned silence, never expecting this to happen. A few players takkng pictures. Idly, I noted the presence of a few androids and alien hybrids, likely preventatives of the Mitant Alliance and S.E.L.F.

We didn't have long to enjoy our arrival, though. Merely ten minutes after the first of my bots entered the portal, three dimension gates opened, spewing out roughly two dozens UFOs. Their designs matched what I remembered were the ones of the Destroyer, Bomber and Assault Ships, along with a couple of escorts.

Well, fine with me. Let the war begin.

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