After returning from the mission, I sat down at my desk to plan out new squad and equipment assignments. All soldiers should carry at least an AP and stun grenade, even if they would rather not use them.
That's as far as I got before
another alarm siren started. We're really going to have to go after security footage better. This one was at a mall. Most of the soldiers were still suited up, so I ordered them back into the APC. Two missions in a fifteen minute timespan during the night is probably bad for morale, but everybody else was still injured.
There were two main elevator shafts. Squads two and three would cover them, while my aerial assault squad would harass the aliens from above.
Zangi: "There's a popper up there."
Crazy Mutant Lady: "I've sighted an anthropod."
Bug: "Anthropod?"
Crazy Mutant Lady: "The biochemsists named it such."
Bug: "Ah. Guess they got tired of call them 'those blue, human-shaped aliens.'"
Bug: "Another one. Hey, why am I getting cold chills down my spine?"
Metal Militia: <Snickering>
Bug: "Hey, stop that!"
Bug: "I think it shot a civilian. Kill it!" (They usually don't bother targeting them.)
Zangi: "The popper's coming, fire!"
Zangi: "I like watching their explosions when they're not near us."
Dougan: "Anthropods dead. Brainsuckers have started coming."
Bug: "Haha, all brainsuckers dead. Area secure."
Nirur Torir: "We're in position. Two spitters down; one nicked my arm."
Nirur Torir: "Spartan, stay here and take potshots at it."
Nirur Torir: "It's not going down. I'll go in and drop a grenade on it."
Metal Militia: "Multiworms are leaving the building."
Nirur Torir: "That didn't work. I'll just use a stun grenade."
Zangi: "Mind moving in to support us, squad 2?"
Bug: "Roger that! Oh, I love this job."
Nirur Torir: "Multiworm stunned. We'll provide cover fire from up here."
Bug: "They went pop. Let's move in and finish the hyperworms."
Bug: "Arrg, they move fast. One got me, but I think I'll be okay."
Bug: "Crazy Mutant Lady ... I, l- ... love you. Al-" <cough cough> "Always have." He died there. We lost a good man.
Crazy Mutant Lady: ". . ."
Jimmybob X-1: "DIE! DIE! DIE!"
Jimmybob X-1: "Unseen hyperworm killed. Systems error: Neural-simulator malfunction detected. Shutting down."
Operator: "Scans show that you're all clear."
Nirur Torir: "Bah. Somebody patch the android up before it breaks."
That's the second soldier. The aliens will pay.