Xcom IC

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'Maria' - Northern Residential District

Even as she licked at the cum dripping down her face Maria turned her head to glare over at where the soldier was bouncing on Carlos's cock, her tits glistening with Chris's seed as more of the men started to gather around her, stroking their cocks hard and fast as if eager to be the next to cover the new girl. That cum should be hers, and she should be the one gaping her mouth open with eager hunger to receive the next load, not the filthy soldier with the lusts of an alley cat.

As she growled with frustration Martin wandered over to the bound whore and quickly unclipped her from the wall before jerking hard on her chain, lifting her up until only her tiptoes were touching the floor. "I think this one's getting jealous," he rumbled, his deep sonorous tones echoing across the room.

"Bring her over here," Carlos said, waving his hand at the big lug, "I think we have room for one more piece of slut filth in the pile."

Nodding his head Martin half carried-half dragged Maria over to where Bones was in the process of receiving another shot of cum, this time over her face. With an almost contemptuous flick of his wrist he threw the whore down, forcing her to collapse face first against Bones's cum-smeared chest.

Not giving the slut time to pull herself away Carlos moved his hands over to grip the whore's head firmly, squashing her face against the medic's soft, inviting breasts as he laughed down at the boss's pet. "I think you hurt our guest's feelings, puta." he said with a sneer, even as he thrust his cock up into Bones's ass, causing the horny bitch to moan wantonly. "It would only be polite if you were to kiss and make friends with her."

Gesturing to his colleagues Carlos watched as the whore was grabbed by her legs and pulled down roughly onto the floor. Maria gasped as her chest slammed into the filthy ground, her tits splashing into the puddle of sexual juices gathering under Bones's well-used body. Quickly grasping her waist the goons flipped the whore over so that she was looking straight up into Bones's gaping cunt, with Carlos's cock pounding the asshole just beneath it.

"Open wide!" Carlos cried, barking out a laugh as he tipped the medic forwards, forcing her dripping pussy onto the pet's mouth as he moved his hands back up behind Bones's head, pushing it down between the fucktoy's dark thighs.

 

[Othermoose]

Nick left another empty house, growing more and more concerned about his missing medic. He stopped when he heard a sound from the left side of the compound. He stealthily makes his way through the maze of houses moving towards the sounds. "Voices!" Nick thought as he moved closer. "...bet she's real tight." Came a voice as Nick go closer. "Eager too. Fuck guard duty, I'm going in and fucking that bitch raw!" The first man laughs. "If you leave your post the only thing that'll get fucked raw is your ass." Nick heard the second man grumble and move away from the first.

Nick followed the sound of the second man and found him jerking his cock sullenly in an alleyway, his face to the wall. "Too easy." Nick thought sliding up behind the man and cutting his throat. Nick waited until the life left the bleeding man before moving to the house where he now knew Bones was being mercilessly raped. He imagined the red headed woman sobbing in pain and humiliation, wondering why Nick had let this go on as long as it had. "I'll be court marshaled. And I deserve it." Nick thought bitterly, knowing he'd let his team down.

He made his way to the house, silently killing the other guard, before taking a quick look inside. He saw seven men in various states of undress surrounding someone in the middle of the room. He knew it was Bones, even though he couldn't see her through the wall of men. Nick readied his alloy cannon as he stood in front of the door, preparing to kick it in and kill the men who'd defiled his teammate.

 

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Cpt. Hilary 'Bones' McCarthy - Northern Residential District

Bones had no choice but to moan hard as her mouth was forced down onto the chained whore's cunt, the weight of Carlos's body pressing down on her forcing the air from her body to wash over the dark-skinned girl's ebony lips. The fact her tongue chose to spill out of her mouth to lick its way up first one side then the other of the whore's juicy slit was something she had some control over though.

Taking her time Bones used all her medical knowledge to slowly work her tongue over Maria's vulva, letting the slut buck her hips against her mouth as the soldier slowly brought the girl towards her orgasm. This wasn't going to be like the quick and hard fucks the girl was used to though, Bones wanted the whore to understand that the only real pleasure in sex came from the touch of another woman.

Had they been alone Bones would've been using her hands to stroke over Maria's clit, teasing her labia and anus until the girl was begging to be taken, but the men surrounding them had other ideas. Grabbing her hands they pulled the medic's talented fingers up to wrap around their shafts. letting Bones massage them as they stood back, enjoying the sensation of her strong, powerful grip.

"Fuck, this whore is good," Chris moaned as he felt his balls stirring for another eruption, "Are you sure we can't keep her boss?"

"You heard the deal, EXALT wants her," Razor called back from where he sat on his throne, gently stroking his member as he watched the sex show before him. "Although now I think I know why. Such a fine looking slut would be perfect breeding stock, and all the sweeter considering she's one of the high and mighty X-COM cunts."

Listening carefully, even as she bucked her hips between Carlos's thrusting cock shaft in her ass and Maria's probing tongue as it worked its way up into her cunt, Bones made note of the new information. So EXALT are dealing with the gangs, or at least using them to take prisoners. That information alone would be worth having to put up with this humiliating ordeal, in fact if she kept going a little longer the thugs may let slip even more information which could be useful to Vesser.

Using the unassailable logic as her guide Bones lifted her mouth away from Maria's juicy twat and quickly pulled one of the goon over, stuffing his cock down her throat just as his seed burst from the tip. Guzzling noisily the medic sucked the creamy cum down, swallowing it all before letting the cock slip out from between her bruised and swollen lips, quickly replacing it with another.

 

[Othermoose]

Nick kicked the door in and fired his first shot, the alloy cannon in his hand removing the heads of two goons. His next shot put a hole in the chest of a giant man, his huge body falling lifeless to the floor. At this point the men have jumped away from Bones, and a second woman they'd been abusing their arms raised in surrender, but Nick didn't care. He blasted each man away until their leader was shaking on the floor, begging for his life. Nick goes over to where Bones is lying naked on the floor. "I'm... I'm so sorry I let this happen to you. Once we return to base I'll be stepping down from my command. I hope you can forgive me Captain McCarthy." Nick says kneeling next to his teammate. He helps her stand and presses his knife into her hand. "Anything you do to that human sack of shit I'll take full responsibly for. As far as xcom will be concerned, I killed him." Nick said quietly.

 

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Sgt. Angela 'Ironside' Spica - Western outskirt of the city

As she desperately spun around, her kinetic strike module smashing into the monstrous aliens with each turn and her railgun barking out shot after shot into the mass of targets closing in around her Angela had never felt so alive. Glaring down at the rest of her squad she saw them hunkered down behind their makeshift cover seemingly waiting for something even as she found against the overwhelming odds around her.

"Open fire, goddamn you!" She screamed into her commlink, hoping at least one of the soldiers accompanying her would offer some sort of support to her attack. If they didn't keep the momentum of her charge going she'd soon be overrun with nowhere to fall back to, and with no signal from the Colonel to let her know what to do next the sergeant kept doing what she did best.

One of the Mutons let out a deep, resonating bellow, the famous Blood Call of the warrior race, and the MEC Trooper quickly pivoted round, firing a railgun round into the creature's gaping maw. The shot bypassed the alien's tough hide and blew straight up into his brainpan, dropping him where he stood even as the cut off battle cry's echoes died off between the surrounding buildings. For a moment his allies seemed shaken, the brave call to arms instead becoming a gurgling death cry as the leader amongst equals collapsed in a heap.

Jumping forwards, boosted with her mobility enhancements, Ironside grabbed one of the stunned beasts by the head, squeezing the fingers of her kinetic strike module tightly around its thick skull before slamming it into the ground. "Anytime now would be good!" She called back to her allies again, trying to bring them out of their reverie and into the fight.

 

[TertiusHuman]

Aw hell, fuck this. He deployed the holo-targetting, raising his rifle, he broke cover and followed the MEC hulk as she kept laying down pain. The heavy plasma rifle joining her attacks, moments later he stood next to her, that crazed laughter bursting from his mouth as he kept firing into the Mutons.

Reloading he started firing again, though one of the Mutons somehow managed to avoid his fire. As the hulking creature reached him, he noticed that it had no weapon and was aiming for his rifle. Slinging the weapon to his side, he closed with the Muton, heavy fists meeting the armored hide of the creature, "Finally!!"

 

[sexnovella]

Patrick could only observe the battle from his position since he had no heavy weapons or explosives. Mr P wondered if was safe to fly down and take a heavy plasma rifle from an alien corpse without any risk. The Mutons seemed to be busy right now but other species could be hiding in the wilderness and he had to follow his orders by annoying the enemy as much as possible by intimidating them. Several Mutons panicked, others froze and some went berserk when Patrick shot at them.

 

[Jezebel1669]

Sgt. Angela 'Ironside' Spica - Western outskirt of the city

One of the Mutons head's snapped sideways as the high-velocity sniper round hit home, piercing its skin and dropping it to the floor in a limp heap. Next to it one of its fellows twisted its head back and forth as if hunting for whoever had just killed its friend before opening its mouth and bellowing loudly, as if enraged by the shifting turn of events. A moment later its head exploded as Ironside's Kinetic impact module smashed into its teeth and continued through the back of its skull.

"Good to see you getting your hands dirty, Corporal," the MEC Trooper called out as she snapped off a grenade into the nearby rubble, keeping the enemy soldiers hunkering down there hunkered down for just a few seconds longer.

The two X-COM warriors were back to back in the middle of the alien horde, and if the monsters took a moment to assess the situation they'd realise the humans had no hope of surviving the fight, let alone winning it. Luckily the lightning strikes of the sniper support was causing enough of a distraction to keep the enemy bewildered and Ironside was doing her best to take advantage of the momentary lapse of coordination among the beasts.

Finally plasma bolts started shooting down the road from the barricade her companions had erected as Snow and Eagle added their contributions to the madness. At this range they weren't likely to ht anything vital, but at least the added confusion kept the alien beasts guessing, and gave Ironside the opening she needed to shoot another Muton in the mouth as it tried to bark out a battle cry to rally its comrades.

Angela laughed, spinning and weaving her oversized battlesuit as though it weighed nothing, which as far as she was concerned was true. The artificial muscles and armoured limbs moved with the will of her mind as if they were her own flesh, and she'd had plenty of time to get acquainted with its balance and rhythm in training. "Any orders Sir, or shall I just keep killing things until they get the message and drop dead on their own?"

 

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Cpt. Hilary 'Bones' McCarthy - Northern Residential District

Rising up on unsteady legs Bones wiped away some of the cum from her body and flicked it aside as she wrapped her fingers around the hilt of the combat knife. "I'd love to show him first hand exactly how skillful I am with a surgical blade Major, but this particular sack of shit knows something we need to," the medic said, stepping over to Razor and grabbing him by his hair. "Watch out for the girl, she's psionic," Bones warned nodding her head over to where Maria lay on the floor, licking her lips clean and eyeing up the strong new man in her life as though expecting him to stripa dn fuck her at any moment, which in her previous experience had been the first choice for every man she'd ever met.

One simple tug had the gangster's head tilted back as Bones played the blunt edge of the blade over his throat. "I'm going to ask a few questions, and you're going to answer them nice and clearly," she told him, her tone steady and determined, "First of all, where are EXALT, and who do I have to call to get them here?"

Razor's eyes rolled wildly in his sockets as he tried to search for a way out, carefully avoiding moving his head at all in case the blade slipped and cut his throat wide open. "I.. I don't know what..." he stammered, only for his voice to break into a pained scream as Bones stomped her foot down hard on his limp genitals, almost crushing his cock under her heel.

"You think a cock in my ass stops my ears working, you dumb fuck?" Bones growled, twisting the blade just enough to break the boss's skin, letting a drip of blood leak out as she held the knife steady again. "You said they wanted me, that you'd received orders to take me alive."

"I was lying, I was lying," Razor answered, almost in a panic as Bones ground her heel on his prick. "I needed the boys to think I had connections, that I knew people, but I was just gonna take you back to a place I know and keep you around for.. well, y'know?" Razor smiled up at Bones pitifully, trying to sweet talk the bitch with the blade to his throat almost as if he hadn't raped her only a few minutes earlier.

"Where'd you hear the name EXALT? How did you know they were looking for people?" At least some of the information had to be true, or else the rest of the gang wouldn't of believed the lying piece of shit when he told them about his 'connections', but had it all been just smoke and mirrors, or did the dealer actually have some worthwhile information to share?

 

[Othermoose]

"I was lying! Please! I was lying! I saw some guys, that had some badass gear. EXALT was on their armor. They went into a camp, maybe twenty people. They grabbed a few, and killed the rest. I told the guys they recruited me. That's it! I swear that's all I know! Just let me go! Please! I didn't mean to hurt you, I swear it!" Razor begged pathetically as the blade dug into his skin.

Across the room, Nick slowly approached the girl. She looked almost feral, like she'd never met a man above rape. "Hey, I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just hear to help you." Nick said quietly, squatting a respectful distance away from the psionic girl. "We're going to get you out of here, get you to safety. My name is Major Nick Temple. I'm with xcom. Can you tell me your name?" Nick asked, keeping his voice calm and steady.

 

[TertiusHuman]

"Fuckin A Sarge!" He managed to pummel the Muton far away enough to bring his rifle to bear and killed it with a direct salvo. "What do warriors do?" He killed a Muton,"KILL!" He reloaded, "What are you?", he slammed the clip home and opened fire, "Warriors!" He emptied the plasma rifle on the Mutons, killing a few in the process. "And what do you do?"

Tank answered himself with harsh laughter as he replaced the clip and killed even more Mutons in the pricess of protecting Ironside's back. He was running low on ammo and he knew it, the big gun did massive damage, but in a pitched fight it did drain clips fast. "Sir I am running Bingo on ammo!"

 

[Jezebel1669]

'Maria' - Northern Residential District

"We're going to get you out of here, get you to safety. My name is Major Nick Temple. I'm with xcom. Can you tell me your name?"

For a few seconds Maria was confused by the soldier man's attitude. Every male she'd ever encountered had only one thing on their minds, and it usually involved one or all of her bodily orifaces, but the soldier man was different, all Maria could sense from him was soothing warmth and gentleness which seemed opposed to his actions only a moment earlier as he'd relentlessly gunned down her men.

Anger warred with curiosity inside the young girl as she tried to decide whether she should rip the man's min apart for breaking up her fuck session or trust him. In the end Maria rolled up into a squatting position, her legs wide apart as cum dripped out of her onto the floor below, intrigued to see just what the stranger wanted.

"They called me Maria, or Puta," the psionic said, jerking her head in the direction of the dead bodies scattered around the room behind the Major, "I don't know if that's my name or not, but it is what I would answer to."

Lifting her chain Maria nodded her head down to the heavy collar fastened around her throat. Unxderneath it the skin was raw and chaffed from where the rough metal had been digging into her skin for as long as she could remember. "Could you please do something about this?" Maria asked, testing to see just how far this stranger's compassion could be stretched before his thought inevitably turned to fucking her in whichever hole was his preference.

 

[sexnovella]

"There are Mutons hiding in the bushes and they come from every direction. It looks like we can push them back but watch out for sneak attacks and use your ammo wisely. Try to get some cover from their fire and it is up to the highest ranked officer if we should flee or fight."

 

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Sgt. Angela 'Ironside' Spica - Western outskirt of the city

"Take your pick, Sergeant," Ironside called out, scooping up one of the alien plasma rifles that lay abandoned on the ground around her. With a quick squeeze of her mechanical fingers she cracked open the tough alien alloys, letting the components fall away to leave the power core sitting in her palm. "Luckily for us the Muties brought spare clips for us."

Behind her the damaged Sectopod, still barely standing with its hull cracked and hanging loose and its legs buckling under it, rose up with a grinding hiss of damaged gears and turned itself to face the robotic warrior. As she turned to face the threat, her railgun swinging round to take aim, the Sectopod blasted its main cannon, the energy beam smashing hard into Ironside's chest.

Screaming in agony as the neural feedback from her suit washed through her body Ironside was knocked down into the piles of dead Mutons beneath her, the side of her MEC blown open by the alien war machine's powerful attack. As she moved to lift herself back onto her feet the Sectopod stepped forwards its secondary gun firing a volley of plasma bolt into her damaged body, critically wounding her metal mount and leaving her sprawled helpless on the ground.

As she saw the alien mech suddenly stop moving, bracing its feet on the ground as the top of its armour began to fold back she screamed into her radio, not even sure if it was still working. "Cluster Bomb! Get clear, get clear!"

 

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Cpt. Hilary 'Bones' McCarthy - Northern Residential District

Rolling Razor onto his back Bones grabbed his cum-stained shirt even as more of his gang's filth dropped out of her splashing onto his legs. Bringing the blade up to his throat once more the medic leaned down close enough for her spital to splatter on his face as she growled at him. "It had better be everything you know, because you're coming with us and we're going to have a very long, very detailing discussion about your treatment of women."

Razor's eyes widened in terror. "Go with you? No, no please, don't take me. They'll know, they'll know!" He gibbered, out of his mind with fear. For a moment Bones wondered why the thought of being taken into X-COM custody would be so frightening for the gangster, after all he'd be safer on their orbital facilities than anywhere on Earth. As the moment passed something in Razor's hand caught her eye and as she looked down she realised too late that the alien grenade was already primed.

With barely a second to spare Bones flipped Razor on his side away from the Major and the psionic before jumping away herself. She was in midair when the explosion hit her, still too close to be fully clear of the powerful blast but far enough away not to be instantly incinerated, unlike the unfortunate boss behind her whose only remains were a few ashes drifting in the air.

Collapsing in a heap, her skin burnt and scarred, Bones reached out towards her armour, piled on the far side of the room. Her only chance of survival the medkits strapped to the belt. "...major... help..." she gurgled, her lips cracked and bleeding, blood flowing down into her throat.

 

[Othermoose]

"Of course." Nick said. He pulled a small knife from his belt and showed it to Maria. "I'm just going to break the lock, try not to move." He said slowly moving the knife towards the collar. He slipped the tip of the blade into the collar's lock and with a quick twist broke the lock. The collar fell away to reveal Maria's bruised and raw neck. Nick felt anger bubble in the pit of his stomach at the sight of Maria's abuse. "You'll never be hurt again as long as there's breath in my body." Nick swore to the young woman.

Nick looked around and found a pair of relatively clean pants. He handed the pants to Maria, and looked around for a shirt. After a few moments of not seeing any shirts that weren't covered in blood, or ripped to shreds, Nick gave up. "I'm sorry Maria, I don't see any shirts around here. Once we get to the ship you can have one of mine. Then when we get back to 'The Acid Queen' we'll get you medical attention, a shower, a room, clean clothes, and everything else you'll need." Nick said to the woman, feeling very protective over her.

Nick was about to say something else when he heard the familiar sound of an alien grenade behind him. He tackled Maria to the floor as a huge explosion rocked the small room. After a moment Nick quickly got up and checked the room. It was clear that Razor had set off the explosion. Nick saw Bones on the floor, trying to crawl to her armor. Her skin was burnt and bloody, and Nick felt despair rise through him at the sight of his wounded medic. He quickly ran and got her armor, injecting her with all of the medkits. He hoped the large amounts of medication wouldn't shock her system, but even if they did; it was better than letting Bones die. "Transport! This is Major Temple! We have a wounded soldier and need immediate evac! Radio the others and tell them to get to the extraction point." Nick shouted into his radio. "Roger that, Major. We'll be at your position in two minutes." Nick ignored the radio as he looked over Bones. "Captain McCarty? Can you hear me? Just hold on, we're going to get out of here soon." Nick said, trying to regain his composure.

 

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'Maria' - Northern Residential District

Quickly moving up beside her new friend Maria looked down at the wounded whore. The slut had been lucky, most of the blast had been absorbed by Razor before hitting her, but her skin was still burnt and broken in too many places to count and she seemed to be slipping away more with each moment that passed.

Moving her hands down Maria gently lay one over Bones's bruised crotch while the other she placed on the fucktoy's breast, her fingers easily wrapping themselves around the medic's naturally curved tit. Taking several deep breaths the psionic concentrated her energies and let them wash down through her arms and into the soldier's body, feeling Bones arching her back and pressing up with her hips as the pain running through her twisted and reformed into pleasure.

Looking over at Nick Maria smiled through gritted teeth at him. "I can help stabilise her, but not for long. You have transport coming?" She asked hopefully. Maria had seen wounds like these before, and they rarely ended well, but these soldiers seemed well equipped and highly trained so hopefully they had access to better medical tools than some old, rusted pliers and a spool of duct tape.

 

[Othermoose]

Nick watched as Bone's pain seemed to change to pleasure. He wasn't sure exactly what was happening; Maria didn't seem to be harming Bones, so Nick decided to leave the two alone while he gathered the energy weapons from around the room. He used a blood stained shirt as a makeshift sack, and filled it with the energy weapons as well as Bone's gear.

"Major Temple, we have arrived." Nick's radio buzzed as the sound of the transport's engines hummed outside the door. Nick handed the sack of gear to Maria, before gently lifting up Bones. He cradled her in his arms as he carried her to the ship Maria following closely behind him. Once onboard, Nick gently placed Bones in a stasis pod, and sealed it closed. "This should hold her until we get to 'The Acid Queen'." Nick said to Maria, taking the sack from her have and placing it in an empty locker. He walked over to his own locker and pulled out a plain white t-shirt with the xcom logo on the right breast. "Thanks for your help, Maria." Nick said handing her the shirt.

The ship took off and began to fly towards the team. Nick heard his comm crackle as they moved back into range. "Ground team, this is Major Temple. Move to the extraction point, evac ETA is five minutes. Just hold out a little longer, and we're home free." Nick said to the entire team.

 

[sexnovella]

"Yes Major. I will leave my position and go to the extraction point right now."

Mr P flew like an angel of death and used the last rounds on the aliens before he got rid of his rifle. Patrick took a huge plasma weapon from one of the dead Sectoids and used it to send the Mutons back to the hell where they belonged. He really hated the ugly purple bastards with their puke green armour and mr P was pissed when the mistress in his dreams got injured.

 

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Cpt. Hilary 'Bones' McCarthy - Dropship, enroute to evacuation rendezvous

Bones writhed her body as Maria's hands wandered over her. She could feel the girl's pheromones seeping through her skin, transforming her pain into waves of pleasure even as her body ached with the burns covering most of her skin. The slave's fingers moved down between her legs, gently plucking at the medic's swollen, sore lips as she strummed them almost playfully, but her face a stern, concentrated expression showing just how intently she was taking her vital role of life support as Bones was ferried onto the transport craft.

Barely conscious Bones moaned with disappointment as she was loaded into the stasis pod, softly drifting off to sleep as the systems lulled her body into a suspended state, ensuring her condition would remain steady until they finally arrived at the medical facilities onboard the Acid Queen.

Maria's pheromones were still creeping through her bloodstream, keeping Bones's heightened emotions in play just on the cusp of orgasm. It was going to be a very long, very pleasurable trip for the naked, injured soldier.

 

[TertiusHuman]

Tank

Ironside was down. Four clips remaining. Cluster bomb armed and ready. Shit.

He reloaded, bent down to push Ironside's emergency release and used the moments to fire at the approaching mutons, "Die motherfuckers die!" The heavy plasma rifle cycled quick enough to empty, he reloaded, released the naked body of Ironside and swung his rifle to his side as he did the one thing he hated.

He ran away.

Three buildings further was all he could manage when the bomb went off, lowering a shoulder, he used bulk and momentum to crash through the door of the building, twisting to land on his back and slide up against the furthest wall. The building did what Tank had wanted it to do, it took the brunt of the impact as the bomb exploded.

He slide Ironside to the ground and injected her with painkillers from his med-kit, "Sorry sarge, no clothing around." He reloaded, checked the outside and found it relatively cleaned out by the cluster bomb, then he returned to pick Ironside up and slung her over his shoulder.

"Tank and Ironside moving out, Ironside has been hit." He climbed through the rubble, slung his weapon back into position and headed for the extraction zone, "En route to the EZ."

 

[Othermoose]

Nick covered his team from the air with a turret off the side of the ship as they made their way to the extraction point. The ship quickly landed and the entire squad piled on before the ship took off again. Nick stayed in the turret spraying mutons until the ship left the atmosphere. Nick exited the turret and found his team all collapsed on the floor, gasping with exhaustion. "You all did extremely well here. I'll save the speech, rest up." Nick said to his team before walking over to Ironsides who was awkwardly leaned against Tank. He gently lifted the woman up, carful to keep his hands away from her breasts, ass, and pussy, as he carried her back to her human sized mechanical suit. He helped her get strapped in before whispering to her, "thank you for keeping your head out there. I doubt any of us would've made it without you. Everyone on this ship owes you their lives." Nick said to the sergeant. He looked into her beautiful eyes, wishing he had more to say to her. After an awkward moment Nick cleared his throat and walked away to check on his other soldiers. After he was sure everyone was alright Nick stripped out of his heavy armor, leaving it and his weapons in his locker for the engineers to fix, before changing into a pair of grey cargo pants and a white undershirt.

After about twenty minutes the transport ship docked with The Acid Queen. "You have two hours. Get some food, get cleaned up, get some rest. We'll be debriefed in the command center by commander Vesser. Maria, you'll come with me to med bay, everyone else is dismissed." Nick said to his team before walking over to Bones's stasis pod. He activated its built-in hover-dolly and guided it to the med bay, with Maria in tow.

Nick left Bones and Maria in the med bay, after he'd been assured they would both be well taken care of and he'd only get in the way. "What now?" Nick wondered as he left the girls in the doctors' care. He wandered the ship aimlessly until he found himself outside of a small gym. The ship had a huge main training area that was always full of people, along with several smaller ones that were usually less crowded. Nick walked into the gym and was happy to see it was empty. He walked up a punching bag, and began to unwind as he slammed his fists into it.

 

[TertiusHuman]

Tank

The trek to the EZ went rather well all things considered, it was getting into the transport with Mutons so close on their heels which posed the problem, but the turret laid down enough suppressing fire to give them the time they needed. After Ironside was retrieved and he had nothing more to do, he secured his rifle, slipped the helmet from his suit and took his seat.

After docking, he went to the engineering bay, stripped off his armor, filled out the short report and headed to the residential quarters for a shower, he got dressed in his combat boots, cammo pants and vest. Since there was nothing else for him to do, he went to the mess hall to grab some chow.

 

[Jezebel1669]

Sgt. Angela 'Ironside' Spica - MEC Workshop, Acid Queen

As she rode in the Corporal's arms Ironside couldn't help but feel naked, but not due to her lack of clothes or even armour, but because she didn't have a weapon to strike back at their pursuers with. Right now she was little more than a liability to her fellow soldiers, a burden to be carried between them until they could find her some new hardware to link up with.

Finally they made it back to the drop ship and the Major helped her up into her humanoid 'uniform', the metal plates closing around her bare flesh and locking into place with a familiar comforting grip. She turned her face to look at the officer, wanting to thank him for his assistance but he'd already turned away, coughing his throat nervously.

There had definitely been a moment between them, and Ironside could tell how carefully the man had been to avoid touching her in any of the places most men would've been eager to slide their hands. Angela was under no false impressions with how she looked out of her armour, even with her limbs gone her body was still attractive enough for some of the deckhands to occasionally make lewd suggestions to her, but the MEC pilot was still uncomfortable with people thinking of her that way, as nothing more than a piece of meat to be tossed around and used.

Looking down at the metal pincers which had replaced her natural limbs as part of the necessary 'upgrades' she'd endured to come this far Angela began to owner if the price had been too high, and a moment later she caught her gaze wandering over to the Major as he stripped out of his own armoured shell and revealed himself for a few brief seconds before slipping into a pair of standard-issue pants. Angela blushed at the sight of the officer's well-equipped weapon, definitely something which wasn'#t standard-issue, but she quickly averted her gaze before he caught her staring.

Back on-board the ship Ironside sighed heavily as she stepped off the transport. Gina certainly wasn't going to be happy with the lose of the battlesuit, yet another multi-million dollar investment lost with one stray shot. Thinking back Ironside began to wonder what she'd done wrong. The Sectopods were tough opponents sure, but she'd taken down the first one without any problem, and the second had been lined up for the rest of the squad before it had blindsided her.

No, not her fault, but she'd have to consider asking for a transfer if the quality of her backup was anything to go by. She'd almost been killed when the squad had frozen around her, and if Tank hadn't acted when he had she probably would've been. As she walked down the corridor the MEC pilot quickly 'typed' up her post-battle report, making sure to note the Corporal's valiant efforts, as well as the other's dangerous incompetence.

Stepping into the MEC workshop Angela braced herself, waiting for the chief engineer's explosive anger to go off in her face but instead the short latina was bouncing around the lab full of excitement. "I did it, I finally did it!" SHe exclaimed as Angela drew closer.

"Did what?" There wasn't really much else to say, as Angela watched the engineer made her way over to a nearby counter and pulled out... a severed human arm. Except it wasn't.

"Artificially grown flesh," Gina explained handing the arm over for the MEC pilot to examine and taking a seat at her work terminal, pulling up what looked like autopsy reports on bodies discovered too late for the squad to help save. "It looks and feels just like the real thing, only it's not. It's artificial."

Ironside gave the engineer a crooked smile as she turned the arm over in her hands, watching as the joints rolled limply first one way then the over. "That's great Gina, but why in hell's name would we need fake dead people? We've got more than enough of the real thing as it is." As she spoke Angela added a couple of names to the list of dead people she'd like to see around the place, namely an absentee Captain and Sergeant X-COM could probably afford to lose.

Pushing away from her desk, Gina rolled over to her colleague and grabbed the fake arm from her hands. "You don't get it, the tissue's not dead, it's just inert," she 'explained' in a way which meant nothing to the MEC pilot. Rolling her eyes with a sigh Gina rolled over to one of the terminals which had been set up with a standard cybernetic link, similar to those found in Angela's shoulders, hips and back.

"The limb simply needs someone to tell it what to do, and it'll do it," Gina continued as she strapped the lifeless arm into a support cradle and pulled the base into the link. Moving back to her terminal the engineer quickly tapped the controls and suddenly the limb was anything but lifeless, quivering and shaking in the harness for a few seconds before finally settling down. As she tapped the controls the arm suddenly lifted up, the fingers wrapping together to give Angela a thumbs up.

Moving over Angela couldn't help but stare at the fake arm, her eyes watching the limn intently as the ramifications finally sunk home. "You can build me a fake body, right?"

"Exactly!" Shrieked Gina, throwing her arms up into the air with glee. "A fully working, fully prosthetic body." Suddenly the girl's mood broke, and a dark cloud settled over the engineer's demeanour. "The only problem is the process is very resource heavy, and I'm not sure I could convince anyone with high enough clearance to grant permission for the gear I' need to build a fully artificial frame for you.

Thinking back to her moment on the transport, and the Major's embarrassed cough as he'd turned away from her naked torso Angela's face broke into a wicked smile. "Oh, I think I know someone who might be able to help."

 

[Othermoose]

After several minutes of pummeling the punching bag, Nick moved on. He walked over to the middle of the room, and began to do crunches. He continued to do crunches for several minutes, then he rolled over onto his chest to start doing push-ups. Nick always felt less stressed after a good long workout, and after the day he'd had, he was going to be in the gym for a long time.