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Properly seasoned and prepared, however, Muton meat was remarkably tender and tasty. The smell almost knocked her unconscious. Petrov remembered the first time she field-dressed a Muton. She rubbed the slick Elite trigger gently.Īliens did not look appetizing at first glance. She put her crosshairs on the new-breed’s nasty, grinning head. I’m on the gollum, dead center, she called. He rotated his eye socket tighter into his scope. Even basic field intel got multiple confirms.ĬK spat again and looked over at her. But their psionic reach did not extend six hundred meters. The bastards could sense something, she could tell. Petrov’s scope view put her right in their midst.
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The other was new-breed more than twice their height. Two were old-time Xrays, just a meter high. Not if she was hungry.īelow, three Sectoids emerged one by one from a half-collapsed A-frame chalet. Jean Natter was a petite woman with the voice of a little girl. But CK could traverse a rockslide like a puma. Size like his typically didn’t work well in the highlands where they operated. In his meaty hands, even a bulky laser rifle looked like an elaborate toy. The hell they looking for?ĬK Munger was a large mound of a man. They been in there, what, an hour? Place is deserted ten years now. He was sighting through his rifle’s optics too. I don’t like it, growled a big man, straddling a boulder on the rock ledge. The enemy is food.Ī deep voice off to her right mumbled something incoherent. Her stomach gnawed with both hunger and hatred. A thin Pavlovian film of saliva thickened her tongue. Step into the light, you slimy little bastards, she whispered.Įye to scope, Petrov waited hungrily on targets six hundred meters below. With a pull weight adjusted down to just six-and-a-half ounces, the slightest tap would send a copper-jacketed round burrowing straight through a target at one thousand meters per second. Its carbonitride coating provided the perfect lubricity for moments like this. LIGHTLY, ALMOST LOVINGLY, Alexis Petrov slid her index finger across the Vektor’s trigger. Can XCOM unite the resistance factions under its direction to counter this new deadly threat? Or will the alien escalation finally sweep away the last dogged defenders of human civilization? In response, the alien Elders have unleashed a lethal and terrifying new infiltration team called The Chosen. Other factions operate more overtly, some with mysterious and unsettling capabilities. Tribal enclaves of former ADVENT Troopers-powerful human-alien hybrids called Skirmishers-roam the alpine passes of the Continental Divide, wreaking havoc on their hated former overlords. Gritty bands of Reapers-expert marksmen and fearsome hunters of alien flesh-operate in the high-country wilderness. Twenty years later, homegrown pockets of resistance have sprouted in the hinterlands. As Earth’s survivors poured into the eerily clean and perfect New Cities, XCOM began to secretly rebuild and retool for a long-term guerilla war. XCOM, the elite military unit created to defend the planet, was betrayed and forced underground. In this original novel based on the hit video game, the Resistance gains new allies in fighting a new powerful alien enemy force.īack in 2015, Earth’s council of nations, facing an extraterrestrial onslaught, cravenly and abruptly surrendered to the alien invasion force.