XCOM (Season 2)

## The Plot

**Episode One : Devil's Moon**

In the year of 2015, rumors and reports of mysterious sightings are increasing that leads to representatives at the most powerful countries around the world banding together as a council of nations in the aftermath of their Kiryu-Kai force having direct contact with extraterrestrials. Their most recent meeting in Geneva brings their activation of XCOM who have to quickly get to work with what resources they have been given to investigate a site in Munich which has been reported to have alien objects and a missing German recon team.

**Episode Two : Lost Sleep**

With the personnel of XCOM getting settled into their new lives and operations for however long this invasion lasts, the commander is forced to choose between several target countries to help which leads to a squad going to Dallas where alien abductions have been in process in hopes of neutralizing hostile targets. Although despite a successful mission, XCOM faces the repercussions of not being able to help the other country in terms of panic level for the first time but also get a new satellite network to scan with up and running.

**Episode Three : Blinding Shroud**

Once research into alien materials collected so far is completed, XCOM is given the chance to manufacture a nano-fiber vest in engineering that has just finished getting running successfully after some trouble. Later, their council reveal that there have been reports of the aliens releasing an unknown substance into the environment of Mexico City before having XCOM send a squad there to not only disrupt the activity but also retrieve a sample of said substance by securing the canisters for analysis back at their headquarters.

**Episode Four : Blinding Stranger**

When research into xeno-biology leads to some startling discoveries, the leading members of XCOM come to decide that, to progress further, they need to work on a way to capture live aliens. However, as they start to make progress in doing so, a UFO contact is detected above the United States which forces them to, for the first time, send one of their pilots to successfully shoot it down and in turn find the UFO is mostly intact for the chance to investigate for anything useful while they face the Outsider for the first time.

**Episode Five : Brutal Pyre**

Having manged to complete the research and manufacturing of the arc thrower and also finished construction of the alien containment facility, XCOM gets their first chance to capture a live alien while responding to an alien abduction in process within Osaka where they aim to neutalize all targets on site. After a successful mission and capture of a Sectoid, XCOM works on the interrogation and get some interesting results while also getting pilots stationed around the world in their smaller, still in development, bases.

**Episode Six : Cold Vanguard**

Finally putting their research into the meld substance, XCOM discover that they can use it to experiment on their own soldiers and gain an advantage on the battlefield as their engineers start their long excavation process. Meanwhile, a second UFO is shot down over the United States and so a squad is sent to engage all surviving crew and recover any useful components from the crash but they also find themselves fighting an new Seeker enemy while a decision is made to try and capture the next encountered Outsider.

**Episode Seven : Driving Hymn**

When the science team successfully finish researching weapon fragments and develop a targeting module to help in missions, France becomes interested and requests acquiring it for some field testing of their own while one of the squads is sent to Lagos to deal with reported alien activity in the area which leads to them facing the new Thin Man enemy that they can capture and bring back for interrogation. In the meantime, research into experimental warfare unlocks potential for a new phoenix cannon, flashbang grenades and reaper rounds.

**Episode Eight : Portent**

The council come into contact with XCOM to reveal that they have been monitoring reports of an unauthorized military convoy that was ambushed by both Human and alien forces within Marseille and has XCOM send an squad there in order to investigate the area and secure any survivors or cargo that remain after the hijack and report back to them after. As this mission happens, XCOM does autopsies of the collected Seeker and Sectoid corpses which allows the creating of ghost grenades and respirator implants.

**Episode Nine : Devil's Heat**

After detecting a slightly larger scout class UFO above China, they shoot it down and head to the crash site in order to both complete their normal objectives but also use it as a chance to capture an Outsider which proved even more difficult when they come to face against a new Floater enemy that they also work to capture and bring back to their base but, in the aftermath of finishing the mission, XCOM is left confused over the fate of an captured Outsider but do manage to create uplink targeting for their pilots.

**Episode Ten : Cursed Priest**

As engineering manage to construct a improved power generator for their base to use as well as finish construction of the foundry, XCOM send out a squad to Manchester, where the aliens are launching them abduction attempts, to clear the site of hostile targets and keep securing more of the meld substance for all future plans. Meanwhile, autopsies are done on collected Thin Man corpses which allows for the manufacturing of gas grenades in order to help their soldiers on the battlefield.

**Episode Eleven : Friends In Low Places**

When the council make contact with them again, XCOM learn of a former member of the Triad criminal organization who claims to have a piece of "unique", likely alien, technology in possession and are left to send a squad down to Beijing in order to meet with him and escort him to safety while facing the new Chryssalid enemy among a variety of other enemy forces. In the meantime, autopsies on the Floater corpses collected and that leads to the creation of a defense matrix for their pilots.

**Episode Twelve : Cryptic Giant**

Just as XCOM feels as if they are starting to get a handle on their situation and what they are dealing with, the aliens change up their tactics and Brisbane becomes the target of their very first terror attack which make XCOM send the squad there in an attempt to miminize civilian casualties by evacuating those still within the area and neutralizing all hostile targets in the threat of facing severe political consequences while research are put into the carapace armor project for a new armor to better protect their soldiers.

**Episode Thirteen : Vengeful Whisper**

Finishing the autopsies of their collected Chryssalid corpses, XCOM finds itself able to manufacture a needle grenade to use and special chitin plating while research into beam weapons leads to them starting to create laser rifles and pistols. A squad soon gets to test out this new weaponry on the field when they are sent to respond to alien abductions reported in Montreal where they aim to put all alien activity in the area to a pause only to find themselves facing a new Muton enemy in which they must capture to bring back.

**Episode Fourteen : Enduring Dirge**

When XCOM detect that a large scout UFO has landed within the United States, they find themselves with the opportunity to gain entry to a intact UFO and scavenge it for its full potential of what it can offer them but it also means that they have to fight against a full complement of the enemy crew. In the meantime, they manage to construct their second satellite uplink to allow for better coverage in the future while those engineers in the foundry complete their projects of an improved medkit and tactical rigging for their soldiers.

**Episode Fifteen : Hot Night**

After the council's sources report of a mysterious incident within a small fishing village located at Newfoundland of St. John's which resulted in it going dark, a squad is sent to the site to do recon and find out what had happened along with if there is any alien involvement while research into precision lasers is accomplished and results in them unlocking scatter lasers and laser sniper rifles. However, at the fishing village, the situation proves to be worse than originally anticipated and their opposition warrants extreme caution.

**Episode Sixteen : Confounding Light**

With his examining of the device provided by Zhang previously, Shen learns that it is this alien transponder that is tied to an alien battleship currently closing in on Guangzhou. Wanting to stop a possible attack on a target, a team comes up with a plan to plant modified transponders along a train and then activate it in order to divert the battleship to another location for their follow up mission. Meanwhile, construction and preparation of their cybernetics lab is completed which causes their attention to turn to looking for a volunteer.

**Episode Seventeen : Gangplank**

Now that XCOM has their hacked signal in place, the alien battleship has changed it's direction and is left vulnerable for them to strike through deploying a squad onto the ship's surface in order to take it down without damaging it by disabling its power conduits. However, in their opportunity to acquire what it holds intact, that squad face a resistance that isn't happy to see them which includes a new Cyberdisc enemy to fight as that research done into heavy lasers leads them to unlocking heavy lasers and a laser cannon.

**Episode Eighteen : Cryptic Tears**

Having found their first volunteer for the augmentation process, engineering commits to it and finishes building their first MEC to have their first MEC trooper be ready for duty just in time to test it when they shoot down an new abductor class UFO over China which leaves them to send a squad to the crash site just outside of a small town and investigate the new craft type while also sweeping the whole surrounding area to prevent any civilian casualties being done by any of the alien crew that survived the crash.

**Episode Nineteen : First Heat**

Now that XCOM has their very first MEC trooper, engineering works on developing a railgun for them while another one of their soldiers volunteers for the augmentation process as well. In the meantime, a squad of the soldiers is sent on a trip to Paris, when the latest in a set of alien abductions is reported there, so that they are able to stop the aliens from capturing any more civilians while research comes up with these designs for the skeleton suit which is soon developed and readied for use by engineering.

**Episode Twenty : Broken Star**

In a surprising turn of events, the council alert XCOM to the existence of a traitorous organization calling themselves EXALT which soon launches a sabotage attempt on XCOM directly and leaves them to send an operative to India to infiltrate the cell there. Later, the operative is in need of extra once they have secured gathered intel which leaves a squad to head there in order to help her be extracted back to safely as them autopsies on Muton and Cyberdisc corpses result in some future concepts and a UFO tracking boost.

**Episode Twenty-One : Black Hydra**

Finally completing their research into the Outsider shard, XCOM find themselves given the coordinates of a hidden alien base in South America which leads to Shen creating a special skeleton key so that a squad get a chance to infiltrate the base and neutralize any contingent as they aim to capture the commander there that leads them to make an interesting discovery as well as to capturing a new Sectoid Commander enemy for interrogation as engineering finishes developing three new satellites for future use when needed.

**Episode Twenty-Two : Sacred Future**

As XCOM research the UFO power source, they start debating on how they could use Elerium for their own purposes and create multiple projects as their covert operation is finished which leads to an encoder and transmitter being set up to recover data from EXALT but a squad having to be sent to Egypt in order to guard these assets from inbound EXALT forces. Meanwhile, engineering works on upgrading their two MECs so then the soldiers in them can do more on the field as well as finish a project for conserving ammunition.

**Episode Twenty-Three : Lazy Chant**

When a remote observation serving the council and contributing information to the XCOM project through tracking and monitoring UFO activity within Mexico comes under attack, a squad is deployed to Guadalajara in order to ensure the safe evacuation of any remaining personnel back to XCOM headquarters but it proves an bit difficult when hostiles attempt to counter the team. As this mission goes on, more interceptors are deployed to their smaller XCOM bases around the world for any future UFO encounters that they may face.

**Episode Twenty-Four : Enduring King**

When a small UFO is detected having landed in the United States for their latest abductions, XCOM gets a chance to test out the newly improved grenades from the foundry through sending a squad to the landing area location in order to face the alien forces and stop them but end up fighting two new enemies in the form of Drones and Mechtoids during the process of that mission. Meanwhile, the foundry also manages to finish their heavy weapons platform project to start developing two different S.H.I.V. units to aid their soldiers.

**Episode Twenty-Five : Ashes And Temples**

While XCOM awaits their next mission and work on upgrading the MEC close combat proficiency, their Alien enemies make a big move in a surprising turn of events which causes XCOM headquarters to be infiltrated in turn leads to systems being shut down as they are left vulnerable. In the aftermath of this, XCOM must deal with both mind controlled personnel and incoming alien forces while one single squad are left with limited reinforcements and some base security to hold the line as the only thing standing between XCOM and failure.

**Episode Twenty-Six : Cold Justice**

Working forward to recover from the attack on their very own base while working on improving both pistols and their new S.H.I.V. units through various different projects, XCOM soon need to send a team to France in order to help the covert operative hack into EXALT comm arrays to secure all the intel they need and then get back to base safely. Later, their autopsies of sectoid commanders, mechtoids and drones lead to a mix of interesting projects to consider as well as a new mimic beacon.

**Episode Twenty-Seven : Empty Mist**

As things start settling down again, XCOM come to learn that the aliens are terrorizing Saint Petersburg in their latest terror attack in order to raise the panic levels of the council which leaves a squad to travel there in a effort to save as many civilians as they can and take care to avoid too many casualties as they neutralize all hostile targets at the site. Meanwhile, these scientists continue to research into how they may make use of elerium which leads to a way that they may improve their arc thrower and other things.

**Episode Twenty-Eight : Red Prophet**

With the aliens starting to step up in their number of abductions, XCOM have a squad travel to Kolkata in that effort to stop one of the several currently in progress around this globe as well as collect more meld for planned future advancements. As this mission goes on, the construction of XCOM's first elerium generator is finished and the foundry manages to provide a upgrade to the S.C.O.P.E. equipment while research into that alien navigation computer finally leads to several interesting concepts related to their satellites.

**Episode Twenty-Nine : Crystal Hero**

In need of being on the same scale as their competition, the science department starts putting their work at researching and developing plasma weaponry, starting with the pistols, while the foundry is able to create a drone of their own to heal their S.H.I.V. units on the field. As all this progress is made, a large scout UFO is shot down in a remote area of China which leaves a team to take the Skyranger and fly to the site of the crash for the hope of eliminating hostiles that survived and recovering undamaged components.

**Episode Thirty : Morbid Ring**

After infiltrating an cell in Nigeria, their covert operative was in the process of getting some data when they were attacked and forced to hunker down until XCOM send a squad in to help in neutralizing EXALT forces and protect the encoder and transmitter in the process but, when facing their rivals, they find that they have all undergone some genetic modifications. Meanwhile, the foundry has been able to develop ways to hide away satellites from searching UFOs as well as improve their arc thrower.

**Episode Thirty-One : Crystal Scepter**

Having detected a new alien abduction in process, this time in Paris, XCOM are left to send another team out on a mission to stop it before any more civilians are taken by the alien forces but the mission itself becomes a little complicated when they face a new alien that can be captured and brought back for interrogation and that mission costs them a life. In the meantime, research into plasma weaponry continues with the development of a light plasma rifle and another power generator is constructed.

**Episode Thirty-Two : Deluge**

After so long since he was captured, the EXALT operative that survived that convoy raid has revealed their location of the missing transport vehicle which the council manage to track down to a dam in Lyons but that truck itself has been cornered by alien forces there. Wanting to recover that cargo, XCOM act fast and send a squad there to secure it but they are racing against time as the dam has been sabotaged to collapse very soon while their pistols are further improved from within the foundry.

**Episode Thirty-Three : Black Chant**

Having gotten this request from Germany, XCOM find that they may be able to pinpoint the hidden source of where EXALT have been getting their large weaponry supplies from if they provided Germany with some of them EXALT's rocket launchers in storage. Meanwhile, the latest recruit Annette gets a change to prove herself when a team respond to a abduction operation in process from within Mumbai in order to stop all of the alien forces that remain in the area and XCOM try to learn more about her history.

**Episode Thirty-Four : Secret Fall**

Not long after the previous mission, XCOM detects that a UFO has landed in their United States and they soon discover it to be an abductor class one which allows them a new chance at looking at one intact if they can eliminate an alien crew before they finish their own operation in progress, leaving a squad to be sent in. As that mission happens, research continues in to plasma weaponry and leads to a better rifle plan being ready to get manufactured and decisions are made on how to harness Annette's abilities.

**Episode Thirty-Five : Blind Engine**

Their covert operative establishes contact with XCOM again to make them aware that both their encoder and transmitter have been set up but help is needed to defend the two devices from inbound EXALT forces yet again which leads to a team heading to India and discovering that their rivals have finally upgraded to laser weaponry. Meanwhile, Vahlen is more successful in helping Annette regain her memory of her time in captivity as the autopsies of the berserkers lead to the creation of combat stims.

**Episode Thirty-Six : Broken Fist**

As things generally remain quiet for XCOM in terms of any alien activity, their covert operation is successful in infiltrating a different EXALT cell in South Africa but they are discovered before they can fully hack into that data and get any intel which leaves a squad to go and rendezvous with them so that they can secure the intel and escape. As this is done, research into plasma weaponry results in being able to manufacture new cannons for their pilots and the first satellite nexus is constructed.

**Episode Thirty-Seven : Furies**

Using intelligence provided by Annette and some searching, the council has discovered that these aliens had been transferring three other captives, with the same potential as Annette herself, to their ship in a remote area near the Alps in Paris. Wanting to recruit Annette's fellow abductees to XCOM as well, a team is sent to find and rescue them while eliminating all opposition as quickly as possible before their life support is cut off while their foundry manages to upgrade their current armor of all their units.

**Episode Thirty-Eight : Swift Night**

With the genetics lab having finished construction, XCOM's research team start looking making progress in at performing experiments on their rescued abductees to take full advantage of their potential as developments at plasma weaponry continue to be made, leading to the creation of a heavy plasma and particle cannon for their troops. In the meantime, a squad heads into Russia in order to help their covert operative protect the set up encoder and transmitter and get more intel on the location of EXALT's base.

**Episode Thirty-Nine : Cursed Sentinel**

After a little while without any detected activity from the aliens, XCOM discover a new type of large UFO above Brazil and manage to shoot it down which gives them the chance to investigate the supply barge class UFO that is used by the aliens while a team sent also faces against a new alien that can be captured and brought back for interrogation. Meanwhile, satellites are launched in Brazil and Argentina while plasma research next leads to the development of a new and powerful sniper rifle for them to use.

**Episode Forty : Enduring Heat**

With alien abductions starting to pick up again, and worse than ever as well, XCOM is left to respond to a report of one in Tijuana in hopes of responding to the latest one in order to stop it before more civilians are taken by the aliens. As this happens, their foundry manages to develop plasma weaponry for their S.H.I.V. units as well as upgrade their MECs after research is done, that also unlocks better armor for their soldiers as well, as their research department finishes putting Annette through gene modifications.

**Episode Forty-One : Devil's Stallion**

With Egypt having reached the panic point where they may withdraw funding for the XCOM project, these alien invaders take advantage and launch their latest terror attack on Port Said which leaves XCOM desperately sending a squad in to avoid political troubles and to minimize civilian casualties by neutralizing all hostiles at site. Meanwhile, five satellites are built in preparation and research into the hyperwave beacon has brought on some interesting theories as well as plans to start working towards.

**Episode Forty-Two : Stone Smoke**

As that research team come up with a new armor that allows users to go invisible and a second satellite nexus is finished in being constructed, a team is sent into Japan where they are to help their covert operative in getting the remaining intel needed from the EXALT cell and getting back to base. As this mission goes on them autopsies on the heavy floaters lead to possible ways to improve repair time while research is able to make up blueprints for a new S.H.I.V. unit type and a new, improved, fighter craft.

**Episode Forty-Three : Patient Thorn**

Having finally collected enough intel, XCOM successfully determines that Canada has been harboring that hidden EXALT base and send a squad to raid the base itself in Edmonton and finally eliminate the EXALT threat at its source by gaining entry to it atop a skyscraper in plain sight and dealing with all EXALT elements inside. In the meantime, XCOM also handles that request from China for some mechtoid cores so that they may start developing advanced drones and other unmanned vehicles to defend against the invaders.

**Episode Forty-Four : Enduring Rain**

When the council gets reports of a UN official and the rest of his entourage having been caught in the middle of an alien attack in Ibadan, they request that XCOM send in a small squad to escort the targets to safety in order to avoid panic spreading due to the official being killed or abducted while the mission ends up giving them a new recruit for their soldiers. After the mission is done, the research finishes coming up with the archangel armor as the foundry performs upgrades on their drone and satellites are launched over all of Europe.

**Episode Forty-Five : Hot Hydra**

While the engineering department manages to develop a third new S.H.I.V. unit and the construction of the final access lift is finished, allowing XCOM to start working on doing the remaining excavations, a squad is deployed in to Brisbane in order to deal with the latest abductions in progress which results in their team encountering a new alien that they can capture for interrogating but also leads to two more deaths on the team. Meanwhile, a project to reducing their repair times of interceptors and S.H.I.V. units is completed.

**Episode Forty-Six : Forgotten Pipe**

After the aliens begin to terrorize Lagos in the latest out right attack on a civilian target to spread panic, XCOM send in a team to neutralize the hostile targets as they take care to avoid civilian casualties due to a very strong civilian presence within the site but it becomes complicated when they face a new alien that kills one of their members. In the progress of it, the foundry completes this project to improve their flamethrowers using elerium while their research team manages to create the concept of EMP cannons to start making for their pilots.

**Episode Forty-Seven : Hidden Blade**

As XCOM fulfills a request from Japan officials who are interested in acquiring some advanced targeting system prototypes from XCOM so they may field-test them themselves, a supply barge class UFO is detected landing in Russia which gives XCOM a great chance to get plenty of artifacts intact if they send a squad in and take care of a full complement of enemy crew successfully. Later, projects to increase movement of mechanical units and to have the arc thrower be used to repair S.H.I.V.s are finished.

**Episode Forty-Eight : Crystal Sleep**

After much working put towards it, XCOM has finally developed their first Firestorm and are now planning for each of their bases to get one while they get their first chance to test it when a abductor class UFO is detected above the United States before they send a team in to clean up after the crash but find themselves losing even more members. In that meantime, their research team manages to successfully create their guided blaster launcher as autopsies on the muton elite and sectopod are performed.

**Episode Forty-Nine : Bleeding Ring**

With emotions running due to their recent losses, XCOM are contacted by the council and made aware of their aliens moving to sabotage a major transportation network near a railway station in Cairo using a device of unknown destructive capabilities. Needing to stop them to avoid spreading of panic, the squad head there in order to deactivate the bomb before it goes off while further research leads to the development of the alloy cannon and a special weapon for the firestorm as satellites are launched over Canada and Nigeria.

**Episode Fifty : Enduring Gift**

After finally finishing the excavations as well as a project that allows for construction to be done much quicker, a effort begins for them to start constructing additional laboratories and workshops within their base for that growing amount of staff. Meanwhile, a battleship class UFO is shot down by them over Nigeria which leaves a squad to take a ride on the Skyranger to get to the crash site and take on heavy resistance as they know that this opportunity is too good of one to pass up after how hard it was for their pilot to shoot it down.

**Episode Fifty-One : Fading Sleep**

Having finally managed to finish constructing the planned hyperwave relay, XCOM start scanning with it in order to see what they couldn't discover before but, before they can detect anything new, aliens launch a terror attack on Acapulco which forces them to send a team into the site in a effort to avoid civilian casualties and enable all evacuations as well as neutralize any hostiles they find in the surrounding area. Meanwhile, they also finish constructing a elerium generator and six satellites for them to later deploy when needed.

**Episode Fifty-Two : Morbid Daze**

Still scanning with their new hyperwave relay, XCOM has their engineering department work on a project that improves the flight systems of their hover S.H.I.V. and special suit while they handle a request from a military contractor in Australia to provide them with heavy laser prototypes so that they may retrofit it into the tanks and APCs until more alien abductions are reported in Mumbai and they send in a squad to stop it from progressing any further through locating and neutralizing the aliens remaining there.

**Episode Fifty-Three : Falling Mother**

Just as some of XCOM are beginning to think that their hyperwave relay will have zero results, it starts being active and causes a commotion until they are able to detect an new and special kind of UFO over Argentina through it which gives them the opportunity to shoot it down as they also find the relay giving them more intel on a site than they have ever gotten before. Once it has been shot down, they deploy a squad into the area in order to investigate this "overseer" UFO and capture the main alien behind it.

**Episode Fifty-Four : Blinding Fear**

Having secured both the ethereal device and their ethereal captive itself, XCOM now have to turn their attention to the temple ship that has suddenly appeared as the research team interrogates and autopsies that ethereal specimen. In the meantime, the council receives reports claiming that the aliens are moving through a neighborhood of Ibadan and decide that XCOM should send in a squad to learn the motive behind this activity which turns out to be placing a bomb and leaves them to have to prevent it going off.

**Episode Fifty-Five : Defiant Fear**

Doing some research into the ethereal device that they secured, XCOM come to have the decision of beginning to construct a proper chamber to contain it within while searching for a soldier with the psionic potential to use it through beginning to construct an psionics labs. As this is done, XCOM have their remaining satellites launched in the last nations without coverage while a team heads to the site of where a supply barge UFO landed in their United States where they find that the ethereals are appearing more regularly now.

**Episode Fifty-Six : Soaring Gift**

As the furies officially finish their own gene modifications and get closer to being prepared to join the fight and XCOM are left to deal with another UFO, although this time a abductor that has landed in Canada, through sending in a squad to gain entry and neutralize all enemy forces before they can harvest any live specimens for their experiments, the construction of the psionic labs is finished which leaves the research team to start testing Annette as they also work with engineering to develop a special suit in preparation.

**Episode Fifty-Seven : Demon Mist**

Just as the gollop chamber is fully constructed and prepared by their engineering department, the testing of Annette is finished and she proves to be a gifted individual for psionics potential but, before they send her at this gollop chamber, it is decided to test her new abilities first and they get the chance to do so when they detect a large scout class UFO and then shot down over Canada. Meanwhile, a request from engineers at Russia who wish to be provided weapon fragments so that they may make advanced weapons is fulfilled.

**Episode Fifty-Eight : Morbid Whisper**

Wanting to continue sending Annette out on missions to test out and train with her new found abilities, XCOM hold off on using the ethereal device for now and instead focus on a terror attack, that time on Cordoba, being committed by the aliens where they hope to eliminate the alien threat before it gets out of hand and too many civilians are caught in the fire. In the process of this mission, the engineering department come up with plans for a second new fighter craft that could serve as both a interceptor and troop transport.

**Episode Fifty-Nine : Avenger**

Now that Annette has used the ethereal device and made it possible for them to get onto the temple ship, a team is chosen and medals are awarded to these volunteers before it is finally time to assault the alien craft through having the strength to face the ethereals and forcing entry to the temple ship's bridge in their only chance to keep the future of humanity safe. However, they will come to find the mission proves to be something more as the high ethereal itself reveals some of the history and purpose behind the invasion.

**Episode Sixty : Enemy Unknown (Part One)**

With their new year having arrived, alien activity has gone down heavily but XCOM remains vigilant and working as they come to finish their creation of the second new fighter craft and with one for each of their smaller bases as well. However, their council come to contact them after they intercepted this signal indicating that their abductee was able to escape from alien captivity which leaves XCOM to send in a squad to take advantage of the limited opportunity they have and attempt a extraction while the rookies get to prove themselves.

**Episode Sixty-One : Enemy Unknown (Part Two)**

When XCOM get a report of an influential politician, who once advocated for cooperation and had suspected collusion with the aliens, has come under attack from the aliens themselves, they decide to send in a squad for the effort to retrieve and bring him back alive for some "questioning". Later, an alien plot which involves planting a bomb at one of the largest interchanges network in order to cause panic and disrupt distributions, leaving a squad to quickly deploy to the site in order to stop them in their tracks.

**Episode Sixty-Two : Enemy Unknown (Part Three)**

After getting a report indicating that a team of engineers had discovered environmental contamination of a local water supply, caused by the aliens, XCOM send in an team to bring them in to safety and learn everything that they know which also gives them some samples to analyze. Later, XCOM are made aware of an small convoy that was transporting a strange alien artifact to one of their very own remote data storage facilities before it was brought to a stop by an alien attack and so they need to send a squad in to recover the cargo.

**Episode Sixty-Three : Enemy Within**

Entering into the third month of the new year and XCOM has mostly been retired as all of their smaller bases have been shut down due to a lack of alien activity but the main base remains and they are soon sending out a team to help a friend of their council, who has been attacked by aliens while he was riding in his limo around a museum, by making sure he survived that ambush and then ensuring his safe extraction. However, as their mission is coming to be completed, XCOM find themselves a victim of betrayal as the real invasion begins.