[X] Hammerheads on alert; if the cultists give too much resistance they roll in and flatten them.
[X] Stormriders on the lookout for runners. Cults are like a contagion; we need to keep it from spreading.
"I want Hammerhead to be ready to go in if it escalates, Storm riders are to separate into their fire teams and secure a perimeter. I want not one of these degenerate freaks slipping past us."
Bradford nods, "understood sir. Hammerhead is just outside the entrance and the Storm riders are already moving into position. I've also received word that the areas has already been cordoned off the police."
On the largest screen is a live video feed with Spookums acting as their bird's eye view, floating above the compound as white and grey dots signifying XCOM soldiers came into view.
Reaper Squad quickly gets over the wall with their grappling hooks before cloaking. They head towards the main cluster of buildings with little said between them.
Reaper 1: Command this is Reaper 1 approaching the Main House right now.
They reach the outside entrance to the basement, quietly dropping two of the cultists before hiding them in nearby bushes.
Reaper 1: Breaching.
The XCom soldiers drop a small sonic charge that muffles the noise of them breaking through the door. In an instant they jumping and quickly gun down the guard that stood in front of a locked, reinforced metal door.
Reaper 1: Hostages on the other side. 2, 3 your up.
Reaper 2: Understood.
Reaper 3: Roger.
As the sonic charge begins to die, they break through this second door using their servo boosted strength. The hostages turn to look stunned as the woman stands between them and the children
Woman: S-stay back!
Reaper 1: Mam stay calm, we are here to get you out of-
*Laser and gunfire*
Reaper 7 and 8 who are standing outside the Basement entrance are soon pelted with gunfire. 7 manages to return fire as he withdraw in but 8 takes a full burst of lasers all over his body.
Reaper 4: MAN DOWN! I REPEAT! MAN DOWN!
Reaper 3: Under fire!
Reaper 7: 8 has been hit! I repeat 8 has been hit!
Reaper 1: Command Reaper squad is pinned. We are under heavy fire! I need support IMMEDIATELY!
A dozen plasma bolts fly into the SHIV's screen, it starting to swerve and spew alloy buckshot as men with light plasma rifles and even a few drones with strapped on plasma pistols begin to attack it.
"Hammerhead move in" you order.
Hammerhead 1: roger!
Like a bipedal stampede, Hammerhead squad blasts through the gate entrance, vaporizing any poor schmuck in their way. The group charges to wards the cluster of buildings, noticing that many of the cultists were coming in and out of the Barn with weapons.
Hammerhead 1: 10, 5 the building!
10 and 5 unload their Heavy Plasmas onto the wooden structure, it first being set on fire before collapsing as each green ball of death carved holes into it supports. Only after did it come apart did they immediately retrain their guns on the rest of the cultists.
You yourself grimace, believing that you lost Reaper 8 because the SHIV got discovered.
Emanating that same malevolent energy was a tall man nearing eight feet, he only wore a tank top and jeans that were both dirtied and bloodied for quite sometime. He was bald, had a maddened smiling face as he held a large medieval battleaxe. The axeman charges at Hammerhead, taking lethal hits that left burnt holes where his intestines would be but he still reaches your line.
Axeman: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
Hammerhead 6 tries to wrestle away the axe with his enhanced strength only to be overpowered and see the axe swinging downward and cutting right through the alien alloy, killing him. Enraged Hammerhead 5 kicks him off before plasma shotgun blasting the Axeman's head pointblank.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
Hammerhead turns to see dozens of crazed mad man running at them with the same weapons and begins to open fire.
Hammerhead 2: The legs! The legs!
Hamerhead 9: Heads a killshot!
In the meantime Reaper Squad is already pulling out, with 6 carrying 8 and 7 carrying two children and the women carrying the last. The SHIV is continuing to dodge fire and its taken hits that pretty much blind you of everything but optical, forcing you to rely on less accurate Satellite data but as you are about to withdraw it, an unseen force clutches onto Spookums before throwing it to the ground.
Storm Rider 1: command we have a situation. Unknown aliens are teleporting in, heading towards Reaper and Hammerhead.
"can you repeat that Storm Rider 1" you ask.
Storm Rider 3: this is Storm Rider 3 I also have unknown aliens reporting in, red leather skin, horns, skulls...Commander are these demons?
Storm Rider 9: Multiple contacts on my end! shit...They've spotted me!
*Roars and Plasma fire*
Storm Rider 9: To many! I can't-AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
*Static*
[ ] Withdraw immediately, regroup and reorganize.
[ ] Hold them off while you call in help.
[ ] Write in.