December 17, 2025 — 5:42 AM
Overwatch Command – MOA Complex, BGC.
The air inside the command center was taut with tension. Monitors buzzed, terminals flickered, and voices whispered over encrypted radio nets as Overwatch operators loaded the day's mission data. The early morning haze outside the reinforced windows barely colored the sky—dawn still struggling to rise.
Thomas Estaris stood in the center of the Situation Room, this was it, his fundraising campaign.
A full wall of holographic maps glowed in front of him—terrain models of Luzon, target overlays, grid references from drone patrols. Red clusters dotted the landscape like heat blooms on a battlefield: confirmed zombie concentrations. Most were outside NCR limits—Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Zambales, and the outskirts of Bulacan.
Thomas pointed to the first red zone—a bloated ring of data centered over the collapsed cityscape of San Fernando.
