Dropping Like Flies.The next USO was expected, however something was different about it. It was larger, and was heading towards our base.General Foley: Pilot, what are you doing!? You're wasting valuable funds there, shoot that thing down!
Barracuda Pilot 1: I'm trying sir! It's fighting ba- MY EYES!
At that point the pilot leaned forward on the controls and accidentally activated the Ajax missiles. The USO was downed relatively close to our base.Procedures were relatively the same again. Except for one thing.We were armed with thermal tazers to capture the aliens. Also note X-Com's strange procedure to make troops wear rockets as shoulder pads.Weapons Platform Controller: I see live aliens. *PCHOOO.*
Controller: I see dead aliens.
*BOOM*
Yvanna and Konstantin: ARRRRRGH!
Everyone else: !?
Controller: I think I got the one that killed them!
Controller: And Apparently Aquatoids have explosive blood.
((I never really found out why that exploded.))
Bill: Ship found. With a giant hole in the side.
Bill: And I think somebody went down!
Ghost: That would be Codec.
Gerald: Got the one that killed him!
((Due to my horrible screenshot timing, you can't see Gerald's location or the X, but that grey dot at the center of the screeen was the thing he shot.))
Ghost: Our tank is down!
Controller: No shit Sherlock!
Bill: Rho-Mu is down. Ghost?
Ghost: Stunned the Aquatoid that shot him. Tarran?
Tarran: What? I'm just sitting in the killing field.
The 7 people that died that day would only mark a string of bad luck for the whole war.