Welcome to the UFO Aftermath Fan Fiction section.

All stories are listed by author, then by title in alphabetical order. We'll be adding many more stories in the near future so keep an eye out for them.

Accounting Troll

Advocates

Size: 1,602 words
Status: complete

A Reticulan tries to persuade a captured Old Grey to change sides and support the Reticulan experiments for the good of their civilization.  The Old Grey argues that the destruction of humanity would be too high a price for the security of the Reticulan people and that the Reticulan forces should surrender to avoid further loss of life.


Chronicles of the Interregnum

Size: 33,253 words
Status: complete

After the Council of Earth signs a peace treaty with the Reticulans, many surviving humans decide to stick it out on Earth rather than collaborate with the aliens.  This story details the tribulations of one group of survivors trying to establish a viable community, and the dangers they must overcome.  The harsh response of the Reticulans and their collaborators to the arrival of a second alien race convinces the community that the Reticulans have no intention of honouring the peace treaty, forcing the community and the new aliens to find a way to overthrow the Reticulans.


Zeal Does Not Rest

Size: 1,305 words
Status: complete

The Reticulans launch an air raid on the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal as part of a new strategy to destroy the human fighter coverage.  Will the fighters from two other aircraft carriers intervene in time to save the crew of the Ark Royal?

Aralez

Rough Times

Size: 2,287 words
Status: complete

The transgenants lure Phoenix Company into a clever trap in what should have been a routine mission to capture a transgenant for the scientists.  This story is based on the Combo Mod for UFO: Aftermath as opposed to the vanilla game.


The Walk

Size: 3,511 words
Status: complete

Shortly before the Fall, a team of explorers led by a descendant of the infamous Hernan Cortez who are exploring Antarctica are mercilessly hunted down and killed by a strange lifeform created by the Reticulans.

Cpl. Facehugger

Facehuggers UFO Story

Size: 1,928 words
Status: incomplete

In the months leading up to the Fall, a man is abducted by the Reticulans who perform horrific experiments on him.  Meanwhile, a secret cabal working at the Area-51 base, the Majestic 12, is planning to release a deadly virus as part of their bid for world domination.  This story is not for those who are easily offended.

Cunctator

Scientific side of the reticulan problem

Size: 2,273 words
Status: complete

During the Fall, the national delegates at the United Nations agree that they should put aside their national differences and unite against the common enemy, thus creating the Council of Earth.  During the fighting over the next few months, Phoenix Company retrieves the Dreamland files and makes contact with the Old Greys, enabling the Council to work out the background to the conflict.  This story is unusual in that it focuses on the deliberations of the political leaders instead of the soldiers on the front line or the civilians struggling to survive.

Devvie

Barely Nothing

Size: 899 words
Status: complete

A fatalistic military officer suffering from advanced combat fatigue positions his men for battle; which is the only time when he feels alive.

Exe22

Blood Ravens

Size: 1,610 words
Status: incomplete

This story follows a squad called the Blood Ravens, which is entirely comprised of soldiers who were transferred to the squad as punishment for disciplinary offences.  They storm an alien base, and as soon as they return to their base, somewhat drunkenly, they are sent by transporter to aid in a base defence mission.

Kaiser

Bunker

Size: 872 words
Status: complete

During the Twilight, the US government put thousands of soldiers into bunkers just in case the worst happened, which it did.  This is the personal log of one such soldier as he tries to make sense of the events of the next few days.


Woke up

Size: 343 words
Status: complete

The alien spores turned billions of people into transgenants or killed them outright.  This is the story of one such person.

Mike998

Again not again

Size: 1,120 words
Status: complete

Phoenix Company are on another mission against the transgenants, going up against car crabs for the first time.  Despite the destruction unleashed by the alien spores in the Fall, two members of the squad have found a reason to hope for the future.

Not Too Young Not Too Old

Following the Night

Size: 17,037 words
Status: incomplete

Two families ride out the Fall in a privately built and owned nuclear fallout shelter.  This story chronicles their efforts to adapt to the changes and survive the challenges they will face over the coming weeks.


Saundersville station

Size: 1,033 words
Status: complete

A military investigator is imbedded within a squad to assess the tactics it uses during a mission.  Unfortunately, the enemy forces turn out to be far stronger and better prepared than they had anticipated.

Phillip Culliton

The Assault Part I

Size: 2,884 words
Status: complete

A rookie soldier assigned to a battle hardened squad gets his first taste of combat as they attempt to secure an old military base.

rasuloman

My Feet Touch the Sky

Size: 960 words
Status: complete

This story brilliantly examines the very worst horror of being a transgenant; that a part of your mind might remember what you once were.

Sabreur

Jack

Size: 1,093 words
Status: complete

The narrator and his family survive the Fall in a bomb shelter, although tragedy strikes when they are rescued.  Embittered by his loss, he decides to join the army in the hope of taking out at least one Reticulan before he gets killed.

Shagpuss

All Alone

Size: 518 words
Status: complete

In one of the regions controlled by the alien biomass, a lone soldier is dying of his wounds as the biomass begins its task of psionically assimilating him.


The Room

Size: 153 words
Status: incomplete

Only the prologue has been written for this story about a room housing an enigmatic secret.

Skonar

Living in the Aftermath

Size: 999 words
Status: complete

After the invasion, two members of a group of survivors are on sentry duty when they hear a noise.  They investigate an office block looking for the creature that made the noise, and have the misfortune to find it.

Strahd

The Soldiers Story

Size: 949 words
Status: complete

A man is sitting in a cinema watching a film when the alien spores start mutating the people around him.  As he makes his escape, he teams up with a female army field medic and they make their way to a military base in the hope of linking up with other survivors.

Thorondor

Telltale writings

Size: 1,622 words
Status: completed

This is a collection of three short UFO: Aftermath themed stories.  The first is about the last moments of a soldier with a nice twist at the end.  The second is about a soldier who falls victim to an alien mine during a mission.  The third story gives us more details about the military helicopter used to ferry Phoenix Company to and from missions.