XCOM 2 - Part 15

XCOM 2: Operation Hammer Walk
Starring Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise, Joe Jukic, Kristin Kreuk, and John Travolta

OBJECTIVE:
RAID THE ADVENT TRAIN AND RECOVER SENSITIVE DATA VAULT

LOCATION: Derelict freight corridor, Edge of Toronto Megacity
TIME: 0300 hours
MISSION CODE NAME: Hammer Walk

BRIEFING:
Central Officer Bradford (Voiceover):
“Commander, our latest intel confirms that an ADVENT data vault is being transported on a secured train skirting Toronto's ruins. This intel could expose links between the Elders and a covert human collaboration program codenamed ‘Project Rebirth.’ The squad will need to move fast, hit hard, and extract before reinforcements arrive. Good luck—Operation Hammer Walk begins now.”

TEAM LOADOUT:
Colonel Harrison Ford – Codename “Blaster”
Role: Grenadier
Personality: Gruff and unshakable, Ford is the team's demolitions expert. Carries a rotary cannon and high-explosive grenades. Still grumbles about snakes, even on alien worlds.

Major Tom Cruise – Codename “Stuntman”
Role: Ranger
Personality: Agile and fearless. Cruise dual-wields a plasma blade and a shotgun. Known for his wild flanks and impossible climbs.

Captain Joe Jukic – Codename “Glitch”
Role: Specialist
Personality: A deity-level hacker who bends the rules of reality with his GREMLIN drone and upgraded neural interface. Rumored to have once hacked a Sectopod to do the Macarena.

Lieutenant Kristin Kreuk – Codename “Phantom”
Role: Sharpshooter
Personality: Quiet and precise. She prefers staying concealed until the perfect moment. Her rifle’s nickname: Judgment.

Sergeant John Travolta – Codename “Disco”
Role: Psi Operative
Personality: Wears sunglasses at night and claims his psi energy flows best to the beat of disco. Uses Void Rift like he’s dropping a bassline.

MISSION START:
The ADVENT train crawls across a fog-drenched viaduct. Laser tripwires line the tracks. Surveillance drones buzz overhead. The XCOM squad deploys from the Skyranger via rope, landing in the shadow of a crumbling parking garage.

Ford (grumbling): “I hate trains.”
Joe Jukic: “Focus. Data vault's mid-car, shielded. I've got a three-minute hack window before it scrambles.”
Cruise: “I’ll lead the charge. Keep up, old men.”

FIRST ENCOUNTER:
An ADVENT patrol—two Troopers and a MEC—blocks the path.

Kristin (on comms): “Visual. Engaging.”

Her shot pierces the MEC’s power core. It explodes like fireworks at a funeral.

Travolta: “Boogie time.”
He conjures a Psi Storm, paralyzing the remaining enemies in glowing violet chains.

Ford: “Show-off.” [launches grenade to finish them off]

THE VAULT:
Joe reaches the train’s central car, bypassing a retinal scanner with a flick of his wrist and some choice code.

Joe: “Opening vault now. Who stores alien plans on trains, anyway?”
Cruise (leaping onto roof): “Same reason I ride motorcycles on submarines. Looks cool.”

Joe's drone downloads the encrypted files.

Joe: “Got it. ‘Project Rebirth’ confirmed. They’re cloning high-value humans. Celebrities. Scientists. Political leaders.”
Kristin (shocked): “We’re all replaceable…”
Travolta: “Not me, baby. I groove unique.”

EXTRACTION:
Alarms blare. Two Archons descend. One is instantly impaled by Kristin’s Judgment rifle. Cruise wall-runs across a container and plunges his blade into the other mid-air.

ADVENT reinforcements arrive in waves. A Sectopod stomps onto the scene.

Joe: “Okay, time to break physics.”
He hijacks the Sectopod with a successful Skulljack-powered override.
It turns and blasts the ADVENT General standing at the train’s helm.

Ford: “Damn kid’s a walking EMP.”
Joe: “Nah, just a glitch in the system.”

EVAC:
The Skyranger touches down. The team sprints for extraction, explosions lighting the night behind them. Travolta does a literal moonwalk backward into the evac zone.

Bradford (on comms): “Operation Hammer Walk: success. Vault secure. Good work, Commander.”

POST-MISSION DEBRIEF:
In the Avenger’s command room, Joe decrypts the files.

Joe: “Confirmed clones of Einstein, Elon, and… John Travolta?”
Travolta (pointing to himself): “Wait, which one of me is the clone?”
Kristin: “I’d say the one with the glitter jumpsuit.”
Cruise: “Let’s assume both. Just in case.”
Ford: “I need a drink.”