#the vipers. and neonates overrun the place.

[etherealvoidechoes]

Having fun slowly making notes for a fic or two and eventually adding Zhao Huiwen(from XCOM Legends) to the Wandering Souls fics(probably a year or two in for that fic).

But right now my brain is partially fixated on making a fic about his hybridization and how that all came to be. Will be somewhat different from what Legends says and happens a few or more years before the absolute disaster of Subject Gamma taking over Vahlen’s facility and the other rulers breaking out.

Will also be partially Vahlen focused and will put her through the wringer a bit that’ll bring on a lot of guilt and apprehension and will have that small part of her brain go “The Commander would kill me as I have let my ambitions get the best of me again.”

A little spoilers below for the fic idea.

In short, Vahlen and co either find data(more or so traded for it) or catch wind of reports of a unique Chryssalid abnormal variant in the nearby region that ADVENT is having trouble catching or killing. Vahlen curiosity if piqued and wants to see/get her hands on it first despite the more concerned company saying it’s probably a bad idea.

But Vahlen puts together a little force to go investigate the whole affair and all the equipment they need and some pleasant resistance contracts she made over the years locate her a small abandoned facility she can temporarily operate from to study the creature as everyone has compromised on that thing is not being transported back to the main base as there is too much risk. And Big Sky is very “that thing better be hyper unconscious or dead before it’s brought onto my ship.”

They get there. They find it and see the difficulty ADVENT has with it. Very different than the normal they know. Manage to catch it, but things go wrong just as they are getting it in containment and Zhao takes a hit that would have been for her. And then they learn another concerning fact about this Chryssalid.

:)