| Rk. Jordan Saxby |
Two days ago, the Council requested an evac operation to Canada. Sgt. Carlock, a combat engineer with the Canadian Forces, had discovered evidence of tampering with local water supplies, and quickly become the target of an alien abduction attempt. If he was taken, everything he knew would be lost. I scrambled the Skyranger immediately.
| Rk. Adrienne Joy |
By nightfall Canuck-side, they were waiting, breath steaming, at the
rendezvous point: a pier out on Lake Ontario. Before long, Carlock's rowboat paddled out of the gloom, and Gent was preparing to head back to the Skyranger.
Things went bad pretty quickly.
Until now, we'd only really faced the aliens that the labcoats call "Sectoids" - deadly but small, and we've got a fair grip on their MO by now. In Toronto, we got shaken out of new securities, and some of my more paranoid suspicions were confirmed.
How did the aliens know about XCOM? How were they able to destroy us so thoroughly, from the inside out? Human collaborators were always a possibility, but what if the aliens had their own agents among us?
Sq. Saxby quickly dubbed them "Thin Men".
The first dropped down right in the middle of them. Thankfully, the squad was alert, and the freakish creature went down in a hail of gunfire. The ensuing toxic cloud, however, put Gent down on his knees, coughing and retching.
At this point, Carlock panicked and made a break for the nearest warehouse. Before he could even leap forthe window, a watching Thin Man ducked from cover and blew his guts out. Mission failed.
Gent still needed to get his soldiers out of there, however. A grenade took out the bastard who did for Carlock, and a tense firefight followed, as the squad tried to claw it's way back down the pier to the evac zone. Somehow, they all made it out.
Back in the infirmary, Harvey was diagnosed with severe blood poisoning, but the doctor thinks he'll pull through. For dragging his team out of there, I've promoted him to Corporal. And with combat experience most of our "vets" can't boast, I boosted Rk. Katie Borg up to Squaddie.
But we lost Carlock. The Council isn't happy, and panic levels are rising over North America. Who knows what the X-rays are doing to the water.
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