Wake Me Up When September Ends

Or sooner. The whole September had been one constant bad dream. Soldiers had been lost again and missions seemed to roll on like a slow moving train, a neverending death scene in a horror movie. Russia reported about a surveillance outpost that had been infiltrated by the aliens. Not very close to their base in Siberia, but Harmony Lad knew this region fairly well. It was close to his home country Finland, after all.

The site itself was easily swept and dispatched of thin men and other infiltrators. A group of scientists offered their permanent help to XCOM as a token of gratitude for saving them and that also marked the end of September. Alien invasion had been ongoing now for 7 months and whereas the situation with the council countries had been stabilized, actions needed to be taken to drive the aliens off from our home. That would still have to wait for a while more. Perhaps a month.