XCOM Creeperian Squadron - Episode 22
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Hello again.
We have yet another small mission here, in Chimerian Squadron. And it's...
Ah, you know what? Screw describing this mission.
Here's what I'm gonna tell you right away instead - the next mission is much bigger and probably will be familiar to you if you kept a check on what is happening, Watchers and Commenters.
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JARED'S MIND
BRAIN MEMORY: INVASION IS HELL, PART 5
DATE: 9-SEPTEMBER-2015
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START MEMORY
Jared runs with surviving zoo guards and the medic on the streets of NYC towards the nearest bridge, being followed by heavy volumes of plasma fire. LMG helped to get rid of aliens sniping them right away, but, otherwise, they're on a losing escape, as Chryssalids pursue them relentlessly
(breathing heavily) Darn, they're quick... Disgusting overgrown insects... We can't continue running...
((DON'T LOSE YOUR HOPE, AS YOUR DESTINY IS STILL BEING WRITTEN))
The voice in my head... It keeps telling me that I can overcome... the invulnerable...
((AND YOU DID. ALREADY. FIGHT AGAINST YOUR DOUBT AND YOU SHALL DESTROY THEM AGAIN))
What did the voice say...
As Jared thinks about that, Chryssalids bumrush through the nearby building and jump directly at the group from above. Jared's LMG did slow some of them down, but not without a sacrifice - the medic wasn't too lucky about dodging
((DESPITE YOUR CONFIDENCE, THIS IS ONLY A SHADOW OF WHAT YOU'VE OVERCOME - A DISTANT AND UNPLEASANT, BUT A MEMORY STILL))
Medic, you won't be forgotten... If me and the survivors get out, then...
A tank, heavily damaged, rumbles from the right side of a damaged road. Jared saw the problem and did a sidestep, but the Chryssalids nearby didn't, leading some of them to be crushed under the treads of the tank. Other Chryssalids ran to the tank and striked it with their spikes, giving Jared and surviving zoo security a chance to escape. But Jared, already seeing too many of people die today, wanted to at least help the tank crew
Nope, they won't get'em that eas...
Because of moment of hesistation, mutons did catch up and shot three of zoo guards down. Seeing that if he stays here along with two remnants of the zoo to help the tank crew, they're all dead, Jared with a lot of sorrow had to turn and continue running, while shooting the LMG at the mutons and Chryssalids
Men, forgive me...
((A PASSION FOR YOUR FELLOW SPECIES. A CONCEPT UNFAMILIAR TO ETHEREALS - AS THEY FORCED THEIR OWN KIN TO FIGHT IN THE NAME OF COMPLETE DOMINATION OF THE TRUE GODS... SOMETHING IN WHICH I'M ALSO A SINNER))
Jared finally saw the bridge. But something has changed - as if the atmosphere around turned into something incomprehensible. Pain inside his head increased, and Jared was scared of images of people lying around, being covered in some kind of a puffy smoke
The bridge... I have to get across...
Jared did approach the bridge with two survivors. It was a trip through a car-ridden highway to the mainland. Chryssalids and mutons now were close though, with their shots following humans and blowing up cars. LMG had run out of ammo. But a soldier platoon was seen on the other side
I'm saved... just a little longer...
Soldiers, seeing lots of Chryssalids running their way, were scared. In case of this, they did deploy some explosives
Big explosion, wiping out sections of the bridge
(scared) What... they did do...
*Two zoo guards see a cable path - shaky, but the one which could help them escape. Both them and Jared rush towards it and begin to climb it - sadly, mutons were rather smart and began to shoot at its support.
Jared and survivors almost fell down, barely hanging on three cables. Jared managed to get up, along with one of survivors, but the second was almost ready to fall.
Jared knew that he had to get to soldiers, but suddenly he remembered this moment from 21 years ago - the time when he decided to run away - and being highly ashamed of his cowardice in the time of need for years*
((THE OPTION IS YOURS - TO LIVE IN SELF-BLAME ONCE MORE OR TO SACRIFICE YOURSELF))
With hesistation and a brief practical/honorous conflict, Jared turned around and started to help the second survivor get up. A lucky muton plasmaball shot through Jared's armor right into his heart. As Jared lost the power to hold on his feet, he began falling towards the water below as two zoo guards didn't manage to catch him
(in his thoughts) ...the guard died, while I ran away. But now he will have a chance to change the world...
((YOU HAD TO SUFFER THROUGH THIS DREAM LIKE IT WAS JUST A SECOND AGO. YOU REMEMBERED YOUR MOMENTS OF SELFISHNESS - BUT WHEN GIVEN THE CHANCE, YOU DECIDED TO CHANGE IT. EVEN IF IT MEANT YOUR OWN DEATH.
SOMETHING THAT THE ETHEREALS WOULD NEVER DO...))
Jared finally wakes up on a bed in Avenger's infirmary, disoriented, but in some kind of a peace with himself over his more cowardly memories
END MEMORY
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