Mogadishu of the Dead - Book Two

"'Not only were they buried under a sea of the living dead -but so was the last, best hope for the world, a chance at a cure.'"ARISEN - Mogadishu of the Dead was released by Glynn James and Michael Stephen Fuchs. Launched in late 2013 on the Kindle and they continued their collaborative project together. Within the first month of the Audible release of Fortress Britain, Mogadishu of the Dead was released with RC Bray narrating.

Book Description
A world fallen – under a plague of seven billion walking dead.

A tiny island nation – the last refuge of the living.

One team - of the world's most elite special operators

''The dead, these heroes, humanity's last hope, all have... ARISEN.''

When the Zombie Apocalypse came, one country had shut down its borders in response to a major terrorist attack. Now Fortress Britain is the last bastion of the living. And one international team of supremely elite special operators are humanity's last best hope for survival. Supremely trained and armed, always the most skilled, resolved, and unstoppable amongst us, now the commandos of Alpha team are tasked with one last desperate operation. They must cross the Atlantic aboard the world's only remaining supercarrier and insert by air into the very middle of a dead continent, all in search of a rumored vaccine that might bring humanity back from the brink.

But their op goes dangerously wrong from the start, with their team scattered to hell and back, and their target site a dry hole. Now they must fight their way on foot through a city of 3 million ravening dead guys, in search of an underground bunker that might hold the Last Man on Earth. But these undead will not be like any Zulus they have ever fought before – and they surround their new target in a writhing ring of death 30 feet high on all sides...

ARISEN

Hope Never Dies.

Plot(Spoilers)
''In short, all that is of the body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapours; life a warfare, a brief sojourning in an alien land;and after repute, oblivion. - Marcus Aurelius''

''Generally speaking, the way of the warrior is a resolute acceptance of death. - Miyamoto Musashi''

Mogadishu of the Dead starts off with the USS John F. Kennedy headed to North America with Captain Martin and Andrew Wesley on board. Elsewhere, ALPHA team goes over their plan; Sacunda Mortem, into undead North America. They’re going to perform a HAHO (high altitude, high opening) jump over Lake Michigan and guide their parachutes to land on the roof of the building of Neurodyne Neurosciences where they will proceed to find labs and whatever useful intel they can. Extraction will be an island outside of the city.

Homer pulls Commander Drake aside after the briefing and warns him about the sermon he witnessed below decks in the chapel. Drake responds that the job posting for ship’s Chaplin is now voluntary as two of the three quit and the third went missing. With their current chaplain, they are now referred to as the Zealots. Homer tries to press the urgency by letting Drake know about the weapons cache, but again is unconcerned, but reassures he would follow up.

At the USOC Headquarters in Hereford, Fortress Britain Lieutenant Corporal Bryan was on service in the quarantine room, and gets a phone call that informs him that Echo team is headed in with one casualty consisting of wounds of unknown origins. Doc Bryan locks himself in the quarantine room and prepares for the patient. As Echo team wheels him in, they keep insisting to Bryan that it’s just a ricochet. The dogs in the room are barking as he tries to thoroughly check him, with the added pressure from the squad to let the patient in, he eventually relents. The Black Hawk helicopter that brought back ECHO team is getting maintenance. A Hellfire missile attached to the helicopter accidentally launches lands right in the mess hall turning it into an exploding mess. Doc Bryan is called to assist the urgent care situation leaving the patient in care with the nurse. Doc Bryan quickly set up a triage center about 100 meters from the mess hall, where the Hellfire exploded. When he calls for help, none shows up so he decides to head towards the hospital and check on the patient he treated earlier. There he finds the nurse with a bite on her neck.

The Colonel gets a SITREP about the hospital and surrounding area, so he runs toward the helo hangars and orders Captain Charlotte Maidstone to get in, both the Colonel and Charlotte get in the Apache, and he tells her that he’s in full authority for what happens next. He decides to drop flechette loads, doc - 96 darts per warheads the length of the hospital and completely destroyed it. Doc Bryan has no choice but to make the motorcade garage the new medical facility.

At the edge of North America, ALPHA prepares for their trip to Chicago. Ainsley asks Drake to contact him as soon as comms are back up with Hereford. While walking away, Fick asks what's happening and he informs him of the outbreak at Hereford. Drake tells Fick he doesn’t intend to tell ALPHA because they have enough on their plate. Homer thinks about his family out in Little Creek, VA and makes a promise to himself that if they survive the Chicago mission, he’ll go and find them.

Back in the UK, Alice Grisham interviews the group now known as The Tunnelers, where they learn 38 people had lived inside the tunnels, and even a child was born inside during their entrapment.

The JFK’s de facto ship’s chaplain, Aaron Carson, watches ALPHA fly off to mainland US, and that’s when he decides “they needed to go back home.” He heads to the locker room and has his two henchmen grab Brian, a Zulu he found a few years ago aboard the ship. When they let him go things didn't go as planned. Wesley and Martin awoke to explosions on the ship, they phone Drake and ask him what is the current situation is. Finally after the third try, Drake picks up confirming that the Zealots have taken over the ship and are trying to run the JFK aground. When Wesley and Martin arrived on deck they could tell the ship was moving at a fast pace. As they start running to the Island a huge explosion goes off, and that’s when Martin see’s multiple Zulus.

ALPHA teams' jump into Chicago is rough right off the bat, scattering the team in three different locations. Handon, Henno and Pope all land on the team's intended target building. Ainsley lands through a wire fence and needs help getting out. Ainsley called for a SITREP and learned about Juice and Homer’s last minute rescue attempts.

Juice briefs Handon on their situation and cuts Pred free and tries to straighten out his leg. Juice  checks the roof access doors of the rooftop and feels the door rattle with Zulus on the other side. As Ainsley and Handon gauge the situation, they are unable to radio back to the JFK. Ali has to make a quick decision and lands the elevated train station, a bit too late and takes a sharp turn, and this momentum forces her to crash through the roof which causes a piece of wood splintered into her left bicep. Homer landed on the street below her.

Inside Neurodyne Neurosciences, half of ALPHA start the descent towards their intended location. They clear level 18 and find an email printed out.

Homer has a perfect landing on the street; he notices that it’s pretty quiet for a city of 3 million dead. After a few blocks he hears music at a jazz club and cocktail bar with Frank Sinatra's “My Kind of Town” playing. When he walks in, he discovers the satellite jukebox and a fridge full of unopened beers plugged into the same outlet. When Homer meets with Ali at her location, she suggests they stay put and keep the area clear for the team.

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Ainsley reads over the email and learns there’s an underground bunker in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dr. Simon Park fled for safety to keep working on the vaccine and left instructions how to reach his location and get inside the bunker. The team checks out the map and makes an adaptation to the plan.

When Wesley and Martin reach Drake he says they need to retake The Island back within 15 minutes or the JFK will run directly into the Virginia coastline at full speed. Martin suggests he shut off the reactor to help save time, and reassures Drake he can handle this with his background in nuclear engineering. A sailor reminds Drake that the plane that dropped off ALPHA is headed back in and needs to land immediately, so that they can refuel and fly out for ALPHA’s extraction. ALPHA all merge together around the corner heading towards the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and they start noticing zulus are coming from the direction in which they are headed. Two Foxtrots ambush Pope from an alleyway, which he was quick to dispatch with his knife skills. As the team moves around the backside of the Hyatt, they see the Chicago Mercantile Exchange with Zulus surrounding the lower levels of the building. Ainsley shoots out a pane glass window as the team fights their way through to a service access staircase. They head down to the basement looking for any signs of a secured door. Homer finds the door and opens it for the team as the dead were ascending upon them. Handon locates another door at the end of the corridor with a lit CCTV camera and the door is opened by Dr. Simon Park.

Pred and Juice were taking on rear guard security, fighting all the Zulus making their way to the end of the corridor. Ainsley pulls them in and pivots out the door, closing it before the concussion rounds go off, sacrificing himself.

Dr Park expresses his sorrow for Ainsley and introduces himself, and right after Pred passes out. Juice goes to take care of him as Park briefs the team on the history of the bunker and discovers that Britain is the last standing country and ALPHA found his email left behind at Neurodyne Neurosciences. Handon asks Park how they can get out of here and he replies they can’t because of the swarming dead, they theorize that the burning trash has been attracting a majority of the Zulu’s in Chicago. Park goes over the status of the vaccine and informs the team he needs patient zero to ensure it’s original DNA of the virus.

Drake stresses to the pilot how important his landing is, as it’s the only plane capable of extracting Alpha team out of Chicago. The pilot makes the first line and the crew who are supposed to come out and assist are being chased by multiple Zulus.

Fick, Wesley and Martin go to the reactor and it is all over run by Zulus. Wesley helps Martin shut down the nuclear reactor, while Martin explains why it’s easy to shut down a reactor, as opposed to turning one on.

As Drake was debriefing the pilots on their mission to pick up ALPHA, he looks up and sees one of the deck edge elevators coming up filled with Zulus. The two pilots start running for safety when Drake sees a zombie heading straight towards them. Commander Drake dispatches the Zulu right as he bites the co-pilot. Major Lee Vestbot got a front row view and jumped in to the cockpit and in the air as quickly as possible. Drake watches as he flies off and that’s when he felt the ship hit the ground.

In Chicago, the group notices smoke coming through the vents and think the generator might have exploded during Ainsley's last minute effort to save the team. Handon touches the wall and feels the heat on the door. They get in contact with the plane and he tells them they only have enough fuel to sit for one minute. A second explosion goes off and smoke starts billowing from the all vents.

As the team starts brainstorming ideas on how to get out of the bunker Pope pulls Handon aside, and Handon could tell he was infected. Once the team learns of his condition, Pope volunteers to be used as a diversion so the rest of the team can sneak away unnoticed. Pope leads the team up the staircase. As soon as they get to the ground floor, they see the two story glass windows of the entrance covered with zulus trying to get in the building. Pope throws a grenade at the glass and the Zulus all start to pour in. The team stayed as long as they could with their infected brother in arms. They said their goodbyes and run back towards the bunker, leaving Pope behind. As they make it to Lake Shore Drive, they hear the plane overhead. Once Major Lee Vesbost got off the JFK he was able to clean the zulu gunk off his shoulder. As he was flying towards the extraction island he started to feel the infection setting in.

The team is halfway across the land bridge towards Northerly Island Park when they notice an unnatural wobble on the plane as it suddenly drops altitude and crashes into a fiery explosion. The team now readies themselves for a last standoff with the horde coming their way when they finally get the JFK on the radio.

Drake could only enjoy the win on the JFK for a millisecond. They were now able to take back the whole island and capture the zealots. He gets ALPHA on the radio and learns they achieved their mission objective, but learns the extraction plane crashed. Drake can tell they are in a close combat situation and scans the map and tells the team to get to the marina and on a boat.

At the suggestion of Drake, Handon sees the masts of the boat and directs the team over to the marina. They decide to take on a sailboat as Drake tells them to chart a course to Beaver Island, where there's an airstrip and hopefully a limited population.

Commander Drake meets with Fick and tells him Martin would like to join the marines on their shore mission.

Locations
Neurodyne Neurosciences - Looking for any intel is the mission objective for Operation Secunda Mortem

Chicago Mercantile Exchange - Located under this building is the bunker where Dr Simon Park was the sole surivior

Hereford -

Northerly Island Park - Extract location for ALPHA

Battles
The USS JFK Insurrection

Operation Secunda Mortem

List of Deaths
Brian Marlin

Aaron Carson

Connor Ainsley

Pope

Lee Vesbost