Take the Shot

You knew all to well, being a Commander off the field meant having to trust and enable your team leads in the field, you had to trust split second decisions in battle, even if your strategic brain said stay still.

"Open Fire."

You felt the shot fired before the sentance could finish, the body hitting the ground as the distinctively large Advent Officer helmet shattered.

Tornado took her queue and bolted to grab the fallen keycard. Her hands grasped toward the dirt, when suddenly enemy Advent bullets fired on her. Two lower level Advent Troopers scrambled a wild shot toward the exposed Tornado as they made a run behind a concrete baracade cover facing our sword wielding XCOM soldier. They hissed and eyed the soldier with an alien lust, they prepared their stun devices in excitement. Tornado knew what would happen to her body in this **** position if the mad monsters got a hold of her.

Hawkeye knew too, but she simply cracked a wicked smile. It wouldn't happen again this time, not like South Africe again. The Advent were beautifully exposed from the side, not realizing where the original shot came from. Cocking the next round, a clean execution of the next soldier #2 added another notch to her vengeful tally.

'I got hit!' Tornado shouted back to her partner, into the chaos as she retreated back to safety with the keycard in hand. Suddenly the whirring chain gun from the street level began to shred the remaining Advent Trooper and its concrete barrier into gravel as the heavy gun focused fire, blood and rock flowed into the street as Dyanmo laughed maniacally. The chunks of brown dirt flew into the air, it had likely been 80 years since it had last tasted sunlight in this future city paved in concrete. But it got its chance as it the final enemy fell.

The team recouperated and reloaded as Hawkeye felt a slight pit of regret in her stomach, knowing the chaos and damage to Tornado might have been rash. Her anticipated relief from her own anger had not been granted.

But the time to think was later, battle is the time to act. They made their target the Gene clinic next.