Battle report, 13 June - OPERATION LAZY STRANGER

Another unexplained UFO landing, this time in the jungles of southern India.  Twitch and Nix are sent to investigate, taking newly promoted Cpt. "Sentinel" Saxby, Sgt. "Enigma" Lambert and two rookies.

The drop is in the middle of a wide, shallow river, thick with fronds and weed, humid and muggy.  The river is littered with rocks and logs flung down by some seasonal flood, and the hillside to the west is oppressed with jungle foliage, limiting visibility.

Sometimes a rookie's twitchy trigger finger is exactly what you need, as it might be the first warning you get when the enemy's on top of you.  Unfortunately, they tend to miss.

Soon there is blood in the water, both ours and theirs.  As if drawn by it, three hulking brutes crash out of the foliage, taking up good positions along the riverside.  We have not seen their like before.

They are dangerous, brutal bastards.  Sentinel, Nix and Enigma make short work of them out in the open, but the last retreats into the downed UFO.  Wounded, back to a corner, snarling to itself no doubt, it proceeds to tear our rookies apart.

One, water lapping around his thighs, back to a rock just outside the UFO, has his head blown off before we know what's happening.




The other is pressed up against the side of the UFO itself.

Somehow, it knows, it fucking knows he is there and shoots him straight through the wall, as if it wasn't there even there.

Twitch brings the killing to an end, but the bastard's work was done.