X-COM:Earth Defenders

Episode 1:Prelude to Invasion

Introduction
Narrator: In the year 1999 UFOs started to appear with disturbing regularity in the night skies. Reports of violent, nightmarish alien abductions begin to appear more frequent then ever. Mass public hysteria spreads among the people, showing the possibility of a vastly technologically superior intelligence may be infiltrating Earth.
On December 11, 1998, a secret conference is held in Geneva. The topic of discussion, a possible real extraterrestrial threat. A organization would be formed, to investigate, combat, and defeat the alien menace. The organization was named the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit, otherwise known as X-COM.
On January of 1999, the X-COM force took to the skies, and thus the covert alien wars began.
It is now the year 2001, and the covert wars of the 20th century are gone. The aliens begin to do open warfare upon Earth, through their terror missions. Countless civilian lives are lost, but the X-COM forces fight on. They are determined to fight until the alien threat is eliminated...
ACT 1Commander Jake Rowell: Captain, what's going on in there...
<garbled transmission> Captain Mike Tompson: Sectoids have cornered off civilians real good, and have taken a strategic defensive point. If we go in there, there will be X-COM and civilian casualties.
Rowell: What floor of the building are you on?
<transmission breaking up> Tompson: We are on.... rd floor, rep... thir.. oor.
<Anger in his voice> Rowell: Damn transmitters, allright, Watkins is it, you're with me, follow me around the side of this building...
<Looking up at the building> Rowell: Watkins, hand me your Auto Cannon.
<Unsurity in his voice>Watkins:Uh, yes sir!
<Quiet, concentrating, and taking his time>Rowell:I gotta make this aim perfect...
<Cannon shot, Sectoid scream>
<In the building> Tompson: Now everyone lets move it!
<Laser pistols, plasma rifles, and various weapons sounds fire off>
<Looking up at the destroyed window, seeing the gunfire> Rowell: Damnit, don't kill any of the civilians...
<Hears a laser skim past him and turns> Rowell: Floater soldiers, get down!
<Watkins is hit in the chest and screams in pain> Watkins: Ahha!
<Rowell fires his Laser Pistol a few time at the Floater until he kills it, Floater groan...>
<Looking at Watkins> Watkins are you ok?
<Watkins makes a coughing sound, coughing blood> Watkins:Sir, I don't think I am comming back from this one...
<Watkins coughs, hacks, and then is heard no longer breathing heavily>
Rowell: Noooo!<An alert sound is heard><Rowell wakes up, hearing the alarm>
Rowell: Mike, status report!
Tompson: Medium UFO sighted on a course to the Dallas area, X-Command suggest possible staging of a terror mission.
<Rushing>Rowell:I am on my way to the Command CenterEnd of ACT 1Act 2
Rowell: Prepare Interceptor V!
<Lt. Kari Hanson looks up from her station> Sir, Interceptor V is in repairs, Interceptor IV is ready for launch...
Rowell:Armaments?Hanson: 2 Laser Cannons
Rowell: The LaserSmasher? Well, if its the only chance Dallas has left, Launch Interceptor IV!
<Jets are heard as the Interceptor begins take off procedures...>
Tompson: Interceptor launched, ten minutes until interception
Narrator: Meanwhile, outside Dallas borders, a pickup truck is rushing as fast as it can to intercept the UFO as well. The pickup truck belongs to Jenni Evans, a reporter for the Dallas.COM online news networks. She stumbled upon the exisistance of the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit a year ago, and was intent on proving it's existence. She had heard that a strange large light had been seen in the area. Of all places she searched for UFOs, she didn't expect to be chasing after one near Dallas. She is driving as fast as she can, one hand on the wheel, the other on a Cellular Phone.
Evans: I have been racing down this road for an hour, and I haven't even seen as much as an airplane...
Narrator: On the other side of the line, UFO fanatic, William Miller, a real nutcase who believes that the X-COM organization is really a cover-up to try to suppress friendly communications with the alien civilization.
Miller:It's out there, cops sighted it 30 minutes ago.
Evans:Mabye it flew away at Warp! The captain decided to engage!
<Sarcastically> Miller:Ha Ha... <Regaining Seriousness> Listen, remember that Compass I gave you, point it in your best guess of north.
Evans:Lets see, there's the lights of Dallas, so I would guess that this is the about North, wait a minute the compass is pointing in another direction, Will, you idiot! You got me a broken compass.
<With rising hopes> Miller: The compass isn't broken. There is the magnetic field emitting from a rapidly approaching Extraterrestrial Starship.
Evans: Yeah, right, let me get my binoculars... Lets see if there is... Oh my god...
Miller:What is it?Evans:It...it's huge, and heading this way....
Miller: What does it look like...
Evans:Very bright, and flashes going off, its coming very close, and fast.
Milller:Get the camera out!
Evans: Yes...yes, now how do I put this damn thing together again?
<Sarcastically>Miller: Plug the power cord into the cigarette lighter, the network cord into your cellular phone, at the port that says Video Port, and press the button that has the little red circle that says REC under it...
Evans:Ok...my god, its huge, I think I almost got it... there you see it yet.
<Now seeing images of the incoming spacecraft, he is astounded> Miller: Wow... We hold the proof to Aliens now.
Evans: Here it comes... <Loud sound, like afterburners, as ship flies overhead>
Evans: Damn it's fast...<Another sound as the Interceptor flies over...>
<Shouting> Miller: Chase after it, we want to show the evil of X-COM as it shoots down that friendly Alien peace effort!
<Car driving off sound...>End of ACT IIACT III
Narrator:In the Command Center of the Lost Pines Base, everyone is listening to the reports coming in from the Interceptor pilot. Commander Rowell desperately to stay calm as the latest report comes in...
Rowell:She's doing what?Pilot:She's chasing after us in her pickup truck.
Rowell:Damnit! How does she always know where we are? Try to keep her out of trouble...
Pilot: I'll do my best sit...
Rowell:Damn right you will, we don't need a public civilian getting killed. Kari, get a crew ready for the Skyranger, you're piloting, I'm coming to. Mike, you are in command.
Tompson:Yes, sir!
Narrator:While, Jake and Kari ready for launch. A battle in the air rages, meanwhile, Jenni Evans continues her pursuit from the road, having to go off road every now and then.
Evans:Are you getting this Will?Miller:Try to keep the camera more steady...
<Frustrated> Evans: I am going 115 MPH, and I am still not keeping up, only because the two ships are firing at each other enables me to get as close as I am!
Miller: Allright...sorry...
Evans: Wait a minute, the alien ship seems to be slowing down...
Narrator:The alien ship does indeed begin to slow down, a maneuver that is brave when a Interceptor is trailing so close, inside the cotpit of the Interceptor, the pilot is unable to figure out why the alien ship is slowing down...
Pilot:What the hell? Wait a second...
Narrator:Just as the pilot begins to figure out the alien ships intentions, its weapons send plasma fireballs down at Jenni Evans pickup truck. She curses as she barely dodges the weapons fire...
Evans:Shit! I thought you said the aliens were friendly, doesn't seem like it to me.. I was fired at...
<A bit hurt> Miller:No, you must of been shot at by friendly fire....
<A little angry> Evans:Damn accurate friendly fire...
Narrator:As the Interceptor pilot begins to read another energy powerup, he makes the ultimate sacrifice, and takes the ship and smashes it right into the alien ship, a huge explosion resulting sending the UFO crashing down into the grasslands of north Texas...
Evans stops the truck, opening her door, looking at the alien wreckage...
Evans:Oh my god... Will, I don't think that these are friendly aliens...
Narrator:Suddenley the air fills with sound of humming as lasers shoot down at Jenni...
Evans:Damn! Now I am sure there aren't! Well, they want a fight, they can have one...
Narrator:Jenni ducks behind her car pulling out a pistol, she shoots at the unknown alien, it moaning as it dies, William Miller is heard screaming into the phone...
<Screaming> Miller:Noooooo! What are you doing!
Narrator: Jenni, not wanting to be districted throws the phone to the back of the pickup, meanwhile, a floating alien of sorts rises holding some sort of launcher device, then a shot is heard and a flying, floating, Frisbee like device is heard. Jenni sights the blaster bomb quick enough to escape the blast of the destruction of her pickup. She lifts her pistol in the air and shoots at the floating alien, and sends one shot before running out of ammo...
Evans:Of great... uh, Live long and prosper...
Narrator: All hope for Jenni looks lost, when out of nowhere a large transport ship reminiscent of the space shuttle touches down, the Skyranger..
Rowell:X-COM Skyranger:Enterprise has touched down, everyone commence clean up mission, hostile units are in the area!
Hanson:You heard the commander, move out!
Narrator:Seconds later the Floater is killed and Jenni is brought over to Jake...
Rowell: So, Miss Evans, what is it with you and your attraction to UFOs...
Evans: Commander, we want to know the truth to the X-COM Project, the people must know.
Rowell:The truth, you can't handle the truth...
<Sarcastically> Evans: Oh yes that's it I can't handle it... The people deserve to know what's going on...
<Jokingly> Rowell:Oh, if we told you, we couldn't trust you with such information, remember we must Trust no one!
Evans: You are just a regular laugh riot...
Rowell:Listen, I have no time to talk about government conspiracies, X-COM, UFO fanatics, and over paid reporters. I got an hostile alien space craft, that is swarming with hostile alien life forms, that have hostile alien equipment, by which I mean big ass guns. So, I need to cut this talk short and get back to work. <Sarcastically> Nice seeing you again Miss Evans...
End of ACT IIIACT IV
Narration:The X-COM forces got to work, securing the area around the UFO. Jake then went and took a little inspection of the UFO, finding a spot to get in. Jake gathered the forces, and begun a short debriefing...
Rowell: Unbelivably, other then the collapsed rear sector, the ship is still in decent shape, we could do a decent recover job, if we play it right. Now, because the ship is in such good shape, I have a feeling its occupants are in decent shape, so I want you all to be ready for anything, because trust me, anything can happen. Now I know that pep talk was unneeded, because your the best of the best of X-COM, and as X-COM we are the best! Now lets get in and kick some alien asses!
Narration: The forces led by Jake Rowell make their way inside the ship. The alien ship is dark, damp, warm, and strangely humid. It feels very sticky inside the ship. The X-COM forces light their paths through the darken halls, finally coming upon a large room with hundreds of canisters...
Hanson: Wow, this must be some sort of cargo ship, whats in the canisters Commander?
Rowell: Shine your flashlight over here, thanks Kari, lets see, reddish liquid, with some dissolving green balls, and something else, bring the light closer, yeah that's better, oh my god, it human bones, this man's been melted down...
<Kari makes a bit of a barfing like sound..>
Kari Hanson: Ewwe, what are they doing?
<Disgusted> Rowell: I have heard rumors that the alien have been melting humans down for food...
Narration:Plasma streams down hitting 2 soldiers, killing them, Commander Rowell looks up to see Sectoids firing from a balcony down at the X-COM team..
Rowell: Sectoid, get behind the canisters...
<Grinning, a bit joking> Hanson: Guess they don't want us messing with there food...
<Smiling back> Rowell: Maybe they want to roast us now...
Hanson:I say we barbecue tonight, lets roast some Sectiods...
Rowell:Good idea, prepare for Hand Grenade Hand Signals, now!
Narrator:Kari and Jake silently tell everyone to prep grenades and prepare to throw, which the X-COM team does quickly and efficiently....
<Slowly>Rowell: 5...4...3...2...1... Now!
Narrator:Grenades fly destroying half the cargo section....Rowell:Hoorah!
Hanson:Hoorah!
Narrator:The crew start to celebrate, but too early as a whole squad of Sectoids and Floaters ambush the X-COM team! Plasma and lasers stream, and X-COM casualties begin to pile up!
Rowell:Retreat!Hanson:Lets go move it, move it! Everyone out of here!
Narrator: Jake stop one second to give the aliens a present, a heavy explosive... Jake does an evil laugh as he begins to run as fast as he can, dashing out of the UFO, the survivors of the X-COM forces are outside, prepping, Jake shouts for them to run as far as possible, as the timer hits zero, and a huge explosion tears the damaged UFO apart, sending them all flying, debris falling everywhere....
End of ACT IVACT V
Narrator: A few hours later, in the Rec Center of the X-COM Lost Pines base...
Rowell, with some bandages on, hold up his wine glass...
<Triumphantly> Rowell:To the latest victory of the Lost Pines X-COM Base, long live X-COM!
Tompson:Long live X-COM!Hanson:Long live X-COM!<Kari Hanson sighs>
Hanson: It would feel more like a victory if those good men we lost were here. Why does every victory still feel like a slaughter for us...
Rowell: I have had the same feeling for a long time, I am still haunted by the image of deaths of officers, the only thing that pushes me to go on in this war is the fact that, unlike the wars of the past, where we were fighting for freedom, or a better ruler, or land, or any other silly thing, in this war we are fighting for the lives of all humanity. With that in mind, I know that I must never give up...
Narrator: A bit of silence is given, and then Kari speaks up...
Hanson: Long live humanity!Tompson:Long live Earth!Rowell:Long live X-COM!
End of EpisodeNext time on X-COM:Earth Defenders!The Calm before the Storm...
Even the forces of X-COM get a brake from there constant duty to save humanity from the Alien threat, giving the officers time to mingle, and get to know each other better. But will they be able to stop a new threat, the aliens newest plot! Find out next time on
X-COM:Earth Defenders!
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