Socialist Democratic People's Republic of Sudan Khartoum, Capital of the Sudanese People's Republic (SPR)
April 1983
Headquarters of the SKR After around a week or two of torture, as Matt had not been able to keep exact track as the days had rolled on, he realized Gregory Savaya had been right in telling Matt they were the Sudanese KGB equivalent, and that he would make Matt's life a living hell. He sat in the cell with Henry Genva, the NBIA Intelligence Operative assigned to his now dead task force, sat in the cold, dark cell in the jail sector of the Headquarters, apparently single-handedly committed to making people squawk. Genva, a trained Intelligence Operative was trained to never say information, even if a knife was sifting its way through his spine and into his lungs. Matthew DeLovie; Matt however, was just a soldier. The conditions were wearing on his torn, hungry, and beaten body. He felt like one of his friends who had been beaten as a kid.
Now I know what he went through, Matt thought. Genva, sat on the other end of the cell. It was a double-decked bed, sitting in the center of the cell, with two chairs, a sink, and a toilet with no seat. Genva had thrown up the first day, apparently NBIA Officers weren't supposed to or did get captured very often.
Genva said something to Matt. "You know, you better not start squawking anything they can use against the homeland." Genva said. "My mouth is trained to be shut, your's is trained to bark orders and start flapping like a cockadoo's mouth." He said. Matt got up from his seat. He was suddenly filled with anger, and Henry had been anything but cooperative in the past two weeks. He grabbed the makeshift knife he had made from a piece of rusty copper from the railing next to the toilet. It was sharp enough to kill. He put it in his pocket though. He realized Henry was a fool, but he needed to get himself and Henry out of here. He had been working on a possible escape plan, and had sharpened the rail into a knife without the guards hearing from outside the cell block door, which their cell happened to be on the very end to hear quite well, but could not tell Henry it if the guards were currently listening. He simply approached Henry, grabbed him by the collar of his prison sweatsuit, and whispered ever so softly into his ear; "Follow my lead." He then started: "You two-faced piece of shit, this is all your fault!" Throwing the Desk jockey officer across the cell and into the wall, enough for a loud bang to entice through the prison walls. He grabbed him, Henry barely bruised knowing the throw was coming, and threw him onto the bed, grabbed a chair, and smashed it hard against the post holding up the bunk. At that point, two guards rushed in, and the cells began to clammer with approval of the fight. They opened the door with the keys, and came in, pulling Matt back, and then grabbing Henry. As one made his move looking back towards Matt to restrain him, it was already too late, and the knife sunk in his chest by the time he had halfway turned around. This African man fell, and the Russonese man accompanying him, ducked out of the blow of the knife, but was caught by a kick to the jaw, with Henry then applying a chokehold, and silencing him. Matt realized there were few seconds left before more guards would be there without the return of the other two. He grabbed the African's gun, as Henry unholstered the Russonese man's one, and grabbed the keys. He unlocked the next three cell doors next to theirs, throwing the keys to the prisoners, and a riot ensued with them bursting out the still opened block-doorway. That doorway led to the desk where prisoners were photographed, and guards were put on alert, as well as a large waiting-room section and a section dedicated to interrogation rooms. Guards from the SKR either shot or tried to detain the prisoners, as families waiting to speak to their arrested sons and daughters by this evil state security agency went running for cover. Soldiers from the Sudan People's Army, the ground branch of the Sudanese Red Army of SRA, stormed the jail building, just adjacent to the HQ itself, and also close to the complex that housed the leaders of the various branches of the SRA and the Office of the CINC or Commander in Chief. Matt tried to hurry viciously threw the main lobby and find a backdoor, but he came face to face with Gregory Savaya, the man who had personally tortured him and a high ranked member of the SKR. He was a Russian and he was a bastard. Matt went to raise his weapon, but Gregory already had his raised and fired a shot to the right of Matt, hitting Henry, who had been running while looking behind him towards the lobby, with his head turned sideways. The bullet ripped open through his chest, and he sprawled to the ground, his orange colored prison suit mimicking the cherry blood pouring from his chest. He died in a second, and Matt went to raise his gun and looked back towards Gregory, but he was already right in front of him, and his pistol was already next to Matt's left shoulder. He fired into it, ripping the tendons and gushing out blood. But it was a shot he knew he'd survive.
Meeting of the Politburo
Specially Made to Accompany Senior SKR Officer Gregory SavayaThe meeting began. The Premier; Jean Paul Abboud spoke. "Officer Savaya, this meeting was officially made to insure that your current project interrogating Dutch Military Soldier Mathew DeLovie and NBIA Officer Henry Genva is going according to your directives. Contrary to your reports, it seems that did not go accordingly, with today's prison riot. Report!" The Premier shouted. Defense Minister Alexander Lanvik shook in his chair. Abboud had appointed him his successor, since he was dying from a heart-valve failure. But he was still a nasty old bastard. "Sir, the riot today occurred because unaware to me or the guards, DeLovie had acquired a weapon, a railing from the toilet made into a makeshift knife. The riot was dispersed, with all prisoners accounted for and Genva being shot by myself. He died seconds later." Gregory stiffened. "And why did you kill him?" Abboud asked. "Because sir, he was a high ranked member or at least valued field agent for NBIA and they have extensive training similar to us, that they will not talk regardless of harsh punishment. I feared if I let him live, he would help DeLovie recover from his stress by helping him." He said. "I see," Abboud said. "And of DeLovie?" "Currently in a maximum security cell. It has nothing able to make into a weapon, it was searched far and wide. The bed and everything with it is screwed to the floor, and has nothing rusting or sharp that can be pealed off." He said. I have a 10 man security team watching him from the one way-mirror that revolves 360 degrees around the outside exterior of the cell, which is made of iron steel and a titanium alloy. A door goes from the cell door to the wall the mirrors are placed on, so that he has two doors to get threw now. And with Genva dead, he has no one else. He WILL crack sir." Gregory insisted. "If you pull this off." Abboud said, you'll be in the running for adviser to SKR Minister Facob Retnaz" He said, gesturing towards Gregory's superior. "In the meantime, Egypt has been calling, demanding the release of DeLovie." The Premier said. "And what have we replied sir?" Gregory asked. "We've replied we do not have custody of him. They don't know we killed the team. We sealed the border, and guards are now patrolling the hole they snuck through. For all they know, they're MIA, but they're accusing us, and we're claiming we don't have them." He said. "The Dutch also grow impatient, and their nationalism levels of preferring to go to war, have brought the Congo and them ever so together." He said. "But, you do your job, and the government will do its. Dismissed." The Premier said, as the Politburo adjourned.
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF EGYPT Cairo, Egypt
April 1838President Anwar Sadet slammed his fist into his desk. He was not happy with the current turn of events in Sudan, and realized that the joint operation the Dutch had largely committed to had failed. Now, he has President Klerck on the line every other hour asking for updates, and his Cabinet was desperately trying to make efforts to talk to negotiators for the Sudanese side to release what they believed to be either the whole team or its leaders; Matthew DeLove and Henry Genva. The Sudanese Negotiators however, insisted they did not possess them. They claimed they were possibly MIA, but at the same time, denounced the efforts that Dutch troops had entered the sovereign soil of the SPR. However, hope emerged. A GDI or General Intelligence Directorate Officer called the President's office. He claimed he had an informant working for him on the line that he had reportedly seen the missing DeLovie, reported by a FREE-SUDAN Radio Channel from across the border with Egypt. With little time, the man had described DeLovie to his exact specifications. The President hung up the phone. He looked at his Secretary of Defense Hardani Karos, and Prime Minister Kareem Bata, and said: "Get a Press Conference Ready, We're Going to War!"
The cameras clicked, the video cameras started rolling, and Anwar Sadet began his press conference. Standing in the Press Conference Room of the Nile Residence, the Egyptian White House Equivalent, Sadet spoke; "At approximately two weeks ago from this date, in late March, 1983, the Dutch government was operating a squad of forces inside Sudan's borders in an effort to appropriately recon the situation and caliber of possible weapons of mass destruction, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, and SCUD Missile Launchers reported, as well as bases and quantity of weapons and soldiers. Those forces have gone missing in action. For a full two weeks, on behalf of the Dutch government we have pleaded with Sudanese leaders to free them, as they are believed to be in captivity. Finally, a day ago, an eyewitness has reported that he saw the leader of this squad during a prison riot in the jailhouse of the headquarters of the Intelligence Agency of the People's Republic; the SKR. The Federal Republic of Egypt believes the Sudanese have tortured Mr. Mathew DeLovie, but believe he is still alive in a new location under arrest by the SKR. We know that the Sudanese lied to us and with a foreign man's life in the balance, the Federal Republic of Egypt 45 minutes ago approximately raised its READYCON Level 2, making that heightened military awareness and foreign military intervention. As such, the Federal Republic of Egypt declares war on the Sudanese People's Republic.
Al-Nafka, Large Border Town 35 Miles East of
Main Border Town Wadi HalfaGeneral Ferdinand Ganem, an Egyptian Military Commander directed by Secretary of Defense Hardani Koros and his Joint Force Chief of Staff Bardoni Raba. He moved the 105th Egyptian Armored Cavalry Unit of the Egyptian Federal Army across the border of Egypt, into Al-Nafka, and was surpirsed to find barely any troops stationed there. They had ll retreated to the South. They began bombarding the APC's IFV's and other Humvee and jeeps of the 105th. It had around 50 Wheeled APC's, 35 Treaded IFV's and 70-80 Jeeps and Humvees as well as an estimated 8,000 man task force. Ganem realized that he could advance no farther, and pulled back until steps could be brought to take down that artillery. Unfortunately, for the next 5 days, his troops were hunkered down, and the artillery advanced, attacking the Northern section of the city, killing civilians in the conflict, and destroying most of the IFV's and half the APC's with half the man now stranded without suitable mobilized units to retreat, Ganem, the only General to put boots into Sudan for now while General Farhad Atiyeh kept border skirmishes to a minimum in the West, General Jetsu Bishara kept units from Sudan occupied in the West, and General Daqar Zogby kept standstill conflicts in the Central North of Sudan, AKA the Central South of Egypt, and trying to keep units clear of moving East from the Center towards Ganem's forces. Ganem was prepared to dig in and fight it out WWI style trench warfare if necessary. Meanwhile, the Egyptian Carrier Federal Navy Ships or FNS
Anubis mobilized in the Suez Canal, and starting moving towards the Northern half of the Red Sea.
In turn, the Sudanese self-made carriers or PCC mobilizing. There were 4, with two more planned for 1984. The
Red Comet and
Russiya Sudanya were mobilized into the Southern Red, near the port city of Halaib on the coastal boundary line. In turn, the two others;
Immortal and
Hammer & Sickle were mobilized in Port Sudan, ready for deployment. In addition, the regular fleets of these countries have also been mobilized.
DUTCH REPUBLIC OF THE NETHERLANDS President Klerck held his own press conference. "While the Dutch Republic echoes the statements of the Egyptian President and his office and cabinet, and publicly denounces the Regime in Sudan, our country is not in the current state to go to war, despite growing and rising popular demand for such a conflict based on the fact Mathew DeLovie was both a loved man in the Homeland and the Congo, that the Dutch Commonwealth is now increasingly happy with the Dutch Homeland and will be glad to assist and allow troops to mobilize through the Congo, in order to attack the soft underbelly of Sudan. In the meantime, the Dutch Foreign Army will continue to root out insurgency from the Northern and Eastern regions of the Congo, but at the current time, the Congolese people, for the most part, have expressed that if the Dutch handle this war correctly, with the fewest casualties possible made to Congolese natives at least, that they will be here to stay for the long run. The Dutch officially denounce the regime in Sudan, and freeze all assets of any foreign trade partners there, although my sources tell me the communist country maintains no free enterprises partnered with Dutch corporations. We will continue to follow the escalating conflict in Sudan and Egypt in the meantime. Thank You."