The Collapse

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."

- Otto Von Bismarck

Author: I am back. Please forgive me for not continuing this story for such a time. My life has been very busy and I was happy to enjoy it until I decided to return to working on this story among the many other projects I have that I did not complete.

Do enjoy this new chapter!

Characters involved in this story:

Santiago Nereza - Spanish journalist

General Enora Leveque - French UN officer

Marc Ajanlekoko

Aleh Motyl and Elisenda Gutiérrez- Belarusian mercenary and cook (Soviet veteran of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Sino-Soviet border conflict, Ethiopian Civil War and the Soviet Afghan War) aged 56

Cuban nurse (Cuban veteran of the Angolan Civil War, Salvadoran Civil War and the Ogaden War) aged 46

Teniente Coronel Brisia Meza - Retired

Sergeant Carola Rivas - Spanish UN

Capitan Valeria San Martina - Ejercito de Tierra

Martin Glasser - German General UN - WW2 veteran North African Campaign aged 79

Four weeks later...

"À l'aise, s'il vous plaît. (At ease, please.)

Now, the situation has become worse than anyone expected this to be. We have all tried our best to fight this menace. But we have failed in that matter because of various problems, especially with the uncontrollable amount of refugees streaming away from the les morts ambulants. (the walking dead)

Mesdames et messieurs, veuillez regarder ceci. (Ladies and gentlemen, please look at this.)"

The room was filled with German, Spanish, American, Portuguese, Belgian, Pakistani, Indian and various other national officers dedicated to the cause of the UN within the continent of Africa. Many of them came from the rest of the continent that has not fallen to the hordes yet. Some were survivors from Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Ivory Coast and Ghana. The one speaking to them in that air conditioned room was General Enora Leveque accompanied by a general who flew in from Germany, General Martin Glasser.

The presentation had moved on to a map of africa. There were red zones, green zones, tan zones and blue zones. For now, the red zone had the countries of Burkina Faso, Ghana and Togo within. The green zone had Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone within. The tan zone had most of Liberia and the Ivory Coast as well as some of southern Ghana.

Zones

The look of many officers were grim. Others were still hopeful. The German general close to Enora narrowed his old eyes at the map. The French General explained

"The red zone belongs to the Spanish forces who are with the Commonwealth. A British company has already arrived and more will come. The Australians and New Zealanders promised to send a combined battalion in as well. Cameroon, South Africa, Uganda, Rwanda and Malaysia promised to send their own forces in too. We expect them by the 13rd of April.

Meanwhile, the green zone is under African Union control. The ECOWAS Standby Force is present as well as advance forces from South Africa and Morocco. I was told that they sent a South African battalion and a Moroccan detachment.

On the other hand, the tan zone is under the control of our opposing forces. Every day, their numbers grow due to the number of people they've killed and turned. According to our estimates, we are facing 10 million les morts ambulants. (walking dead) Walking dead, if you want me to translate.

Lastly, the zones that are under our own control as the United Nations is the last city of the Ivory Coast: Abidjan. Monrovia too was under our control but due to poor communications, we are not sure if they are still with us."

Murmurs took the room and it took a while for people to be quiet. The Frenchwoman said

"We are facing a crisis, ladies and gentlemen. We can't let it go easily. With our forces combined with the Commonwealth and the AU. We should all expect too that the Arab League, the ZPCAS and the IMAFT will get involved. That is all from me. I will now let General Martin Glasser speak."

The Frenchwoman sat down and the elderly German stood up, saying

"Schönen Tag. What dear Enora has said is right. Meine Damen und Herren, I will be helping all of you fight this...Horde von tot zu gehen

(horde of walking dead). My Rapid Forces Division detachment shall be involved too. I have requested the rest of the Bundeswehr to do something about this and even submitted a request for the European Unions entry into this crisis."

The Battle for Monrovia

Forces: Germany, Spain, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, France, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Mali

A Cessna 172 plane was flying over the front lines. All around the city, troops of the United Nations were taking advantage of old fortifications, civilian made barricades and defensive walls forming the perimeter that kept them and the people of Monrovia. It was demoralizing for the troops to realize that the world didn't really care for the crisis that they were forced to fight. The world thought that it was all just a disease limited to the continent. It further demoralized them too when they never saw mass media speak the truth about what was happening in Africa. All the world saw was too little for them to form a solid idea what kind of dangerous threat they faced.

But not all was lost. The United Nations and the African Union were the largest organizations involved. The rest were still on the way or simply ignoring the threat. Some of their best troops were in Monrovia. Survivors of previous clashes united with fresh faces from other African countries and from their homelands. That brought a little hope as even the troops realized that they have the better edge over the enemy. While outnumbered, they had their technology and their leadership. To them, they knew that a thinking living man was greater than a shambling corpse.

After a while, the Cessna returned to the Roberts International Airport. From there, the pilot and his companions rushed to supply the forces in Monrovia the pictures and videos they took of the zombies. When officers concerned took a look at what they had to show, many of them grew worried: The hordes were coming towards the city.

In response, requests for reinforcements and resupply were sent out. The only thing that could be done by the human forces in Africa was to send a company of South African troops, four Alpha Jets from Cameroon, 40000 kilograms worth of food and water as well as ammunition and other supplies. For now, the defenders and people of Monrovia were on their own.

Leading them were the surviving officers from the Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone. Reinforcing that leadership was the presence of Capitan Valeria San Martina, who arrived in Monrovia a few days ago together with Teniente Coronel Meza. They met Sergeant Carola and the agent Marc. They handled military affairs in Monrovia while surviving government officials took care of the civilians in the city.

The battle began when zombies flooded towards the Omega New Market which was defended by South African troops as well as surviving Liberian soldiers and police officers while the rest of the horde stormed Gaska and Paynesville. Both of these areas were under the protection of French, German and Spanish troops. Civilians fled from these areas as the defending forces rushed to reinforce those areas.

The intensity of the defense became greater as Alpha Jets strafed the mobs and dropped incendiary bombs on their heads. Platoons of men and women continued to push the zombies back from their fortifications and from the front lines with their rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers. Brave Liberians tried to help by tossing flaming molotovs and rocks at the mobs. For five hours, fighting carried on until the defenders stationed at the Omega New Market started to run out of ammunition and a breach was made by the zombies. That breach was formed due to the zombies overwhelming a street that was barricaded by the civilians before. It was all because of these that the defenders were forced to abandon the market and retreat towards Monrovia proper.

At the same time, help arrived in the form of a few Wiesels, Panhards and BMD-3s as well as several troops. They arrived at the airport and rushed to battle. They joined the M113s, T-55s and Centurions that were giving the zombies all their might as much as the infantry were. More and more civilians left the front lines as the troops struggled to hold the secondary defense lines so that their retreating comrades made it. When they did, all forces quickly withdrew to the Ministry of Health defense line.

The northern part of Monrovia however was subject to zombie attacks too. They were worse there as the troops lost their defensive positions close to Freeport Beach Police Station and then the lines around Bridgeway Corporation thus forcing them to hold on desperately to the Ma Juah Market and the Varmuco Shopping Complex defenses.

Only time will tell if the northern bridge into Monrovia will fall or the boulevard into Monrovia will do so first.