Operation Fallen Daze
An alien craft was spotted by our satellites; the fighter we scrambled was able to force it down in the Nigerian interior, but it was so heavily damaged in the fight it is amazing it made it back at all. We’ll only be sending one Rookie (Alec N.) on this mission. Laura H. (Sniper), Wendy H. (Assault), and Gary B. (Heavy) will hopefully show him the ropes.
The squad moved up slowly on the crash site, taking advantage of cover. They were practically right up on it before a couple of sectoids poked their heads out. Wendy and Gary took snapshots at them, but they skittered back into the depths of the ship.
The aliens returned fire, wounding Gary slightly. Gary acquired better and patched himself up. Laura moved up to a better position for sniping, but the x-rays pegged her with a lucky shot. Gary and Wendy both missed so Alec tossed a grenade in doing considerable structural damage, but taking out the two x-rays that had the squad pinned own.
The squad moved cautiously into the alien wreck, but not cautiously enough, Alec was taken down by one of the Energy form aliens; Gary tried to finish it off, but missed and was mowed down as well. Wendy traded several shots with the alien, but it finally made a mistake closing to point blank, and while it did hit Wendy, it didn’t kill her, and her return fire made short work of it.
With all immediate threats neutralized she took a quick breather to heal and reload. She scouted the ship and found it to be deserted, but a trio of floaters was hiding out behind the ship. Due to long range she switch to pistol and winged one of them. However they swooped in overwhelmed her with numbers.
Sadly this was another total mission failure.
Memorial:
Anjoli KIA 3/5/2015; 2 Missions; 3 Kills
Will KIA 3/12/2015; 1 Mission; 1 Kill
Naeem KIA 3/26/2015; 4 Missions; 7 Kills
Patrick KIA 3/26/2015; 4 Missions; 2 Kills
Joanna KIA 3/26/2015; 3 Missions; 5 Kills
Duncan KIA 3/26/2015; 1 Mission; 2 Kills
Highcove KIA 3/26/2015; 1 Mission; 2 Kills
James KIA 3/26/2015; 1 Mission; 1 Kill
Wendy KIA 4/13/2015; 3 Missions; 7 Kills
Laura KIA 4/13/2015; 2 Missions; 1 Kills
Gary KIA 4/13/2015; 2 Missions; 1 Kill
Alec KIA 4/13/2015; 1 Mission; 2 Kills