7 Years Later

Excetra fiddles with her bright green blouse carefully as she adjusts the red scarf around her neck and pats down her dark yellow long skirt around her waist before smiling as the bell rings and out pours a sea of kids from the school before spotting the one she was looking for. "Milina." She hisses and the child looks up and runs toward her.

The half viper child with a long red scaled tail where her legs should be and only above the waist was the human half of her, where she was wearing a bright yellow blouse and a jean skirt that her father was able to make up while patches of red scales were on her cheek that looked like claw marks that shone bright red in the sun. "Hi, mommy. Where's daddy?" Milina asks looking around.

Excetra smiles. "Busy. He will…be…back soon. Come." She says taking her hand and leads her to a large van which was acquired through a rather different channel.

Milina giggles as she slithers in and gets into the backseat as Excetra sets up the destination before the van drives off on its own before her seat turns and looks to Milina. "How's…school?"

Milina smiles greatly as her tail flicks around happily. "Great. I was even able to stick it to that mean jerk. Lunch boxes make good clubs."

Excetra sighs as she places a hand over her face. "What did…we…talk about?"

Milina groans out loud. "Never attack somebody unless necessary. But I had a good reason."

Excetra crosses her arms and raises an eyebrow at that. "I'm waiting."

Milina pouts. "He called you a stinky alien that started this war. I know my mommy would never do that."

Excetra stares at her before sighing. "He's right…in…one way. But…he doesn't…know the…whole…story."

Milina smiles proudly. "And that's why I kept hitting him over the head and swept his legs out from under him. The second part he tripped over my tail." Milina quickly explained as she chuckles nervously from the look Excetra was giving her.

Excetra slowly shakes her head and her seat turns back around. "Father…will have…words…for you." Milina slouches at that as she is now dismayed at the news. "Nice…job." Excetra finishes smirking as she looks into the rearview mirror and sees Milina perk up.

Nick yawns as he steps through the front door in his street clothes of a blue button down shirt and dark blue jeans as he looks to the large farm as the workers and automatic equipment was working in the fields and animals. "Ah geez. There better be a princess working that game to death." He calls out humorously and hears a giggle. "That better be a gamer killing it." He says walking in and drops some files onto the key table nearby.

Milina peeks over the couch and looks over to him. "Hi, daddy. I've killed two games today."

Nick raises an eyebrow. "Did you now? What were they?"

Milina blinks and stops as she rubs the back of her head. "Um…they are…"

Nick nods. "No dessert for you."

"Aww!"

Nick chuckles as he walks by. "Don't push yourself, sweetie." He says smirking as he walks into the kitchen and sees Excetra at the stove. "Okay. What's the problem now?" He asks walking up to her.

Excetra sighs and turns to him. "Fight."

Nick rolls his eyes. "Really? Was it a fight that escalated to a fire fight?" He asks and Excetra just stares at him. "Fist fight?" He asks again and Excetra keeps staring at him. "Verbal?" He asks getting slightly confused and gets the same look. "Come on. Not even a rap battle? Geez." He groans out as he rubs his head. "Was it about the war at least?" He gets a nod as an answer. "Of course, it is. Even after all this, there are still old die-hards who will never let it go." He says looking outside to see a muton carrying a cow over its shoulder to the barn. "At least there are safe havens made by XCOM for this."

Excetra nods and looks to him. "Happy still?"

Nick smiles and wraps an arm around her waist. "You know the answer to that. Now then…you didn't sneak a dessert to her, did you?" Excetra smirks at that. "You did. Didn't you?"

Excetra snickers as she turns her head away from him. "Maybe." She hisses slyly still snickering.

Nick smirks and brings her in closer. "Tell me. What did you give her?"

Excetra shakes her head. "Not telling."

Nick taps her side. "Tell me."

Excetra giggles. "No." She hisses and slithers her tongue out at him.

Nick grins. "Tell me or I will keep my hugs and kisses away from you."

Excetra smirks. "You won't. Because…I will…just do…this." She says poking his chest and wrapping her tail around his legs.

Nick looks down and smiles at her. "And I will pounce and have some fun. We never did the whole kitchen routine and I do think that apron will look hot on you."

Excetra eyes the pink apron hanging from a hook nearby. "That? On me?" She asks leaning her head close to his.

Nick nods as she slithers her tongue out and licks his cheek. "Yes. The loving housewife. Great look. Am I right?"

Excetra leans to his ear. "Tonight." She whispered before kissing his cheek and pulls her head back as they hear some slithering and looks to see Milina coming around the corner. "Yes…honey?"

Milina blinks as she sees her mother's tail around her father's leg. "Are you two going to ask me to go to sleep early again?"

Nick chuckles. "She doesn't miss a beat and we can't trick her like the old days."

Excetra nods and picks up Milina before setting her on the table. "Hungry?" She asks tapping her nose.

Milina nods. "Yeah. Meat?"

Excetra smiles. "Meat."

"Yay!" Milina cheers before they heard the doorbell ring. "I got it." She says getting off the table and slithers to the door and opens it before gasping happily. "Uncle Commander!" She cheers.

Both Nick and Excetra leans over the doorway and sees the commander still dressed in a cloak that covers his face in shadows. "Hey, kid. You being a good girl for your parents?"

Milina nods. "Yep. Did you bring anything?"

The commander chuckles and reaches into his cloak and takes out a sunhat. "Here. Enjoy." He says putting it on her head before walking inside. "Permission to enter? Too late." He says walking up to the two as Milina looks at herself in the mirror with her new hat.

Nick sighs. "Hey, commander. Everything is fine, right?"

The commander nods. "Yep. There are still some pockets, but we are taking care of it easy. They are not as organized as we were back in the day. So you two doing well here?"

Excetra nods. "Thank you…for coming."

The commander chuckles. "You guys are coming to the wedding, right?"

Nick smiles. "Wouldn't miss it. It's not every day you get to see an owl and a fish get married."

The commander grins and they knew it. "They said something about you cracking a joke like that. What was it? Oh yeah. Got a broom?" Excetra blinks before giving him a small broom from nearby. "Thanks." He says before smacking Nick on the head. "Hit him if he cracks a joke about our nicknames."

Nick groans as he lays on the ground. "Should have known."

Excetra smiles as she wraps her tail around him and picks him up before wrapping an arm around him. "Learn." She says poking his head.

Nick rolls his eyes. "You know I won't."

The commander chuckles. "Good thing you still have your attitude."

Nick nods and looks to him. "So…when are we going to expect your wedding?"

The commander smiles. "You know me, Wolf. I don't hurry."

"It's been seven years." Nick points out.

The commander rolls his eyes. "And I still love dating Shen. She's not complaining either. Besides, I would rather wait a bit more until I can ask her."

Nick chuckles once. "Best of luck to you then."

The commander nods and looks toward Milina playing her video games again. "Any problems?"

Excetra shakes her head. "No. Healthy."

Nick smiles. "Thanks for helping out with the genetic things. If you haven't, I would still have an arm."

The commander smirks. "Well, I didn't know how your girl here would act. Besides, I call that a happy break. Only you don't relax to relax."

Excetra chuckles. "Overjoyed…more like."

The commander sighs. "Well, I better be going. Tell your daughter that I'm leaving some money on the game account. Just not now." He says smirking as he walks off.

Nick grins. "No problem commander." He says as Excetra waves at him.

Milina peeks over the couch. "Bye uncle commander."

The commander stops and turns to her. "See ya kid. Kick some tail on those things." He says seeing the game before walking off.

Milina waves after him. "Bye uncle." She calls before turning to her parents as the door closes. "Dinner?" She asks hopefully.

Excetra chuckles and slithers off and drags Nick along with her. "Um…honey?"

Excetra stares at the trophy wall where some of Milina's trophies from the school stood before looking up to the two swords crossed over each other and then the plasma shotguns hanging beside them and lightly runs a claw over her old blade as she also looks to the armors on mannequins on both sides of her with one a viper mannequin with her XCOM armor over it and a human one with Nick's old warden armor.

"Thinking about it huh?" Nick asks walking in and sits in the study chair as he watches her run a claw over his sword now.

Excetra slowly nods before turning to him. "Time…passes."

Nick shrugs. "It has to. How else would we move on? Missing the life, though?"

Excetra shakes her head before slithering over to him and sits on his lap and leans on him. "No more…blood."

Nick hums as he brings up a hand and runs a finger across the scared cut above her chest. "It might come back. Remember what the Elders said before the commander blasted them all away. We might have to go back one day so let's just enjoy the time of what we have now."

Excetra nods before moving her tail behind a table and brings out a pink frilly apron. "So…fun?"

Nick chuckles. "Sure. I wouldn't mind here either." He says pulling her scarf off and puts it on the table nearby. Excetra chuckles as she takes off her shirt and throws it onto the table as well before slipping the apron on as Nick helps take off her skirt and slips it off by undoing a zipper and places it onto the pile. Nick smiles as he looks her over. "Yep. Still the same sexy lady I fell in love with."

Excetra smiles as she wraps her arms around his neck and kisses him while in another room of the house, Milina wears a pair of headphones as she plays on her own computer that her uncle made for her personally with his words of 'You'll love the upgrades soon enough,' and boy it is loud as she blasted away another spaceship.

Down on the dark ocean floor of the wreckage of the alien advent base, capsules that are long since dead started to glow purple. Soon the aura around the starts to move off the capsules and into the large crack nearby the monument statue of the elders as the crack starts to glow bright purple and sends out a small pulse of psionic energy as a deep roar was heard and tendrils of psi energy rises up from the deep crack and reaches out as the energy pool in it glows brighter and the cracks starts to grow.

Well wasn't that fun. I had a blast making this story. And I want to thank my editor, Dragonsoul1, for helping out and making sure I don't muck up and make things worse. This is actually the first story where I had to write it all in present tense and it wasn't easy as my mind still has some context as 'said.' I also want to thank Vantage77 for using his characters in the story. I must admit, it might be fun to combine some of the stories and make a little fanfic universe. But we are not that devoted.

Now onto other news, yes. With this ending of the game and the story, you can bet I'm going to be back for a possible Terror from the Deep game remake. Who doesn't love a good xcom vet and a viper together? About all of rule 34. Yeah, I go to the dark ends, but I still come crawling out for more if I get hit with it when it's not excepted.

As for the other news, this was being made while I was doing Zootopia and it's still the same fun. The facts and information on each of these animals are sometimes hard to figure out and I had to make a few changes. But it seemed to make the story all the more exciting.

So I hope you had a lot of fun reading this story as I had writing it. Good luck to your life. Watch for the squeal if the game happens. And check out my other stories if you want. If you don't want to, I won't be hurt by it.

See ya next time.