Utterly Mad

Through thick and thin, in the face of insurmountable odds, the Utterly Mad team, X-Com's finest, had come closer to bringing forth humanity's triumph than ever before. But in the end, no extraterrestrial force could best them. No, only a far more insidious force, one that no amount of training, weapons, or level-ups could prepare them for. Bugs.

The moment it became clear to them, they knew their last stand would be lost to time, lost to reality itself. And yet they stood and fought. Chaos and Noct. Mrno and Wilson. For once, Advent gave them no quarrel. Even The Lost were nowhere to be seen. The enemy knew, as sweet as it was to see X-COM fall, their own victory was denied to them too.

On that day, as the save was deleted, a final battle unlike any other was waged. To them, it was a glorious last stand, dying with honor and taking hundreds of abominations with them, things neither human nor alien mind could comprehend, before at last reality itself was swept away. To others, it was but a curious moment's delay as the save was deleted, as though the computer hiccuped for but a split-second...