Ugly Gorebics

Image credits to XCOM 2's photobooth.

**Ugly Gorebics** is the pilot episode of Manifest Extraterrestrial.

## Synopsis

Akin Newcomer, a new recruit of the Extraterrestrial Defense Unit, is sent on his first mission, along with Karen Vuillard, Riot Bello, and Apathy Nobler. The four of them plant explosives on a statue and destroy it.

Upon returning to their command ship, the Manifest Destiny, the four of them are given roles; Newcomer becomes a grenadier, Vuillard becomes a sniper, Bello becomes a drone expert, and Nobler becomes a swordswoman. After this, the four of them are sent on an assassination mission to kill a Gorebic general.

The mission is completed and most of the squad is promoted, although Newcomer is severely injured from the battle.

The remaining trio is sent on a mission to ally with two other anti-Gorebic organizations; the Creepers and the Legionnaires. Karen Vuillard and Riot Bello are grouped up to ally the Creepers, while Apathy Nobler and Karen's sister Anne try to ally the Legionnaires.

After two of the faction members meet up, a Gorebic Cyborg, the Scout, arrives. This leads to a battle which results in Apathy's critical injury, before the Scout retreats. However, a wave of Cortex Consumer-controlled zombies is sent after the squad.

The team is able to take down enough zombies to reach their evacuation point before most of them get rescued. As he is about to enter the ship, however, Legionnaire Ox is abducted by the Scout, to the squad's dismay.

The rest of the squad returns back to their ship, where most of them are promoted yet again.

The Gorebic Commander assembles the three Gorebic Cyborgs, the Scout, the Sniper, and the Witch, who try to fight each other. The Commander breaks up the fight and tells the trio that they should do everything in their power to stop the Extraterrestrial Defense Unit and track down the Manifest Destiny.

Meanwhile, Gorebic forces are sent to an EDU base in a Chicagoan town, which they proceed to terrorize. Rookies Okenna, Crystal Amogelang, and Han Mei-Toto are sent to rescue the citizens, along with Riot Bello and Roza Sokolov, the Creeper from the previous mission.

The squad is able to bring six of the citizens to safety, and almost all of the remaining ones are gunned down by the Gorebics. Wishing to avenge the civilians, the squad kills the whole Gorebic Strike Team, along with a Cortex Consumer Mutant.

News of the Extraterrestrial Defense Unit's acts of violence spread across the globe. Most of the world is unaware of the Gorebics' secret attacks on humanity, and the EDU is branded by the media as a far-right terrorist organization.

In the Manifest Destiny's bar, the troops have drinks to celebrate their victories. While Commander LaCroix and his assistant, Zachary Harvard, are impressed by the EDU's victories, they fear that the Gorebic forces are getting stronger. Newcomer, having recovered from his injuries, claims that the organization almost always has a chance at setting back the efforts of the Gorebics.

## Differences from the Game

* Newcomer and Nobler's dialogue isn’t translated in the game, while it is in the episode.
* Some of the events on the ship that occurred in the game were omitted.
* The conversation in the bar never happened in the game.