John's foresight paid off as he opened the door and looked through it with a mirror.   The room beyond was dark, and looked to be a large open area with hookas and cushions for seating spread all about the many layers of carpet upon the floor, a tobacco den at first look of the room.   There was large entry door beyond the room directly in view of John's mirror but by the darkness beyond the doors to the establishment were closed.   The room was not completely dark as there was low light in the room, the virulent 'green from the alien's firearms as two more of the aliens named Sectoids were crouched before the windows to the right of the main entry looking out.<br/><br/>Geoff watched in horror as the Chrysalid picked up Yoshia and the scream he let out.   Geoff felt his skin go cold and sweat break out all over.   He had seen reports of this alien, but had never encountered one before in the field.   The after action report of the mission that his previous team had lost their lives.  All he could picture was each of them being torn apart by these creatures.   He shuddered a bit and then rage took and he raised up hos weapon and fired.   Again the thunderous report of his sniper rifle rang our and reverberated with enough force that those close to Geoff would feel their teeth rattle.   The Chrysalid's head exploded in a rush of gore that splattered over a wide radius.   The creature's body twitched and it dropped Yoshia to the ground where he continued to cry out and writhe in pain.<br/><br/>That was not the last head shot of this engagement.   Despite her slightly shaken resolve in the face of such an unnatural enemy, Ren managed to slam home the reload for her weapon and draw a bead upon the alien that had took down Nicholos.  The alien popped out of cover and as it did, Re pulled the trigger.   The resulting shot took the alien in its large, bulbous head.  Purplish and green body matter and fluid splattered all about the area the alien was, and then its weapon dropped to the ground.   Once more the weapon whined in high pitch whine clearly heard in the battlefield then exploded in a small flash of the putrid green light.   In the area where the gun landed, the surface of the roof was on fire.<br/><br/>The teamwork displayed by Rick and Andrea was astonishing given how this was their first mission technically, tossed into this conflict cold with no familiarization or coordination.  Rick's covering fire and movement had captured the other Sectoid's attention, allowing Andrea free movement and no longer under the alien's sights as she had been in the opening salvo of the battle.   The alien had no idea Andrea had flanked it, and her resulting weapon's fire riddled into the creatures spine.   Again while the entry wounds were small, the exit wounds were far from it and more purplish and green fluid and spilled out and splashed upon the covering wall in front of it.    It slumped to the ground, dead.<br/><br/>With the last visible alien in the LZ down, it looked like for the moment the team's insertion point to the battle was secured.   The did not know of the two aliens that John had in his sights inside the smoking lounge, and they did not know how many more aliens were perhaps out there, waiting for the team on the ground to make a mistake to take advantage, and perhaps turn the battle against them.