Ezekiel ended up spending a month of his summer vacation helping Doom in Latveria while a clone hung out with his family half the time. Even with rushing to free everyone from the prison camps, it still took time and they could only do around five a day. They wanted to do more, but Ezekiel didn't have the medical personnel to properly handle it.
About two weeks into the campaign, the top government officials, including the king and his family started to panic. It was probably because Ezekiel kidnapped everyone related to the Latveria government and brought them back to the country. The king's family members who were in the United States along with all diplomatic representatives. Ezekiel planned ahead and made a 'public' notice on behalf of Latveria. It was a basic statement that said, they were recalling their countrymen and were closing their borders for the foreseeable future.
It did cause a little stir with some news sources talking about it and the fact no one could get information from inside Latveria. But Latveria was always considered a pretty closed off country since the 1950's. In the end, normal people didn't care and while some groups attempted to get information. Ezekiel had the entire border watched by cameras and monitored by JARVIS.
Any time a group of people tried to enter or leave the country, they were quickly caught. After an interrogation under genjutsu they were set back to whoever set them or Latveria's capital. Some people got the message after the first time, but people like the Latveria leadership kept trying. Ezekiel needed to disable all of their airplanes at one point because they kept trying to use them to escape. He would catch them before they could get too far, it was just annoying to do.
As for the overall campaign, by the middle of July Doom had liberated all of the camps. He also had a force of over a thousand healthy people who were fighting for him. He could have easily had more fighters, but a lot of people were still in bad shape and needed time to recover. So from the almost one hundred thousand people they rescued, only around one percent were healthy.
After the last prison camp was raided, Doom used gorilla tactics against the rest of the government forces. They also started taking prisoners since they were directly responsible for the camps. Ezekiel still interrogated all of them and any soldier that worked closely with the camps was executed. Luckily it was only a handful of people, since the camps were considered a secret and most people who interacted with them were already dead.
By the first week of August, Doom finally planned to launch his last offensive. The main leadership had pulled back all its troops and fortified part of the capital as they tried to contact the outside world for help. Unfortunately for them, Ezekiel and JARVIS had their entire communications infrastructure locked down. As the king and everyone else in the government hid inside the capital, Doom was in his tent with his advisors planning.
Sakumo moved some pieces on a holographic map as he said, "That is where the king and his family is located. His closest advisors are in that area there and the other officials are located there."
"How many troops do they have?"
"Almost twenty thousand, including thirty tanks, fifty artillery pieces, ten motor emplacements and over a hundred pillboxes loaded with heavy machine guns." Sakumo said as he pulled up a new map layer that showed the entire military layout.
"I won't be able to protect everyone from that much firepower." Doom said with a slight frown as he looked over the map.
"I could go in with my men to soften them up."
"No, you've already helped enough already. My people need to secure this victory themselves." Doom said as he shook his head slightly as he studied the map.
After a few minutes he pointed to a spot on the map as he said, "We'll attack here with a smaller force."
As Ezekiel studied the location, Doom turned towards Zora as he said, "Select one hundred and fifty troops and get them armed with RPG's. The ones who don't know how to use them should carry extra ammo."
Zora gave a crisp salute as he said, "Yes, sir!"
After she left, Ezekiel pointed at the spot Doom marked for attack and asked, "That's the main hard point for them… Are you sure you wanna charge into what would be a death sentence without magic?"
"If we crush them there, the rest will surrender without a fight."
"And if they don't?"
"Then we crush them all without mercy!" Doom said as he slammed a fist down on the table.
Ezekiel shook his head slightly but didn't comment on it as he used his tablet to send out messages to his ninjas. They were already in the capital and now that they had a point of attack, he had them sweep that area of the city for civilians. Doom checked a few more things on the map and double checked the enemy defenses before he said, "Let's go, Zora should be ready by now."
Doom was right about Zora, within twenty minutes she already had everyone prepared with their new loadout. Only fifty people carried an RPG on their back with three rounds while everyone else had five rockets. With a total of six hundred and fifty rockets, Doom's small liberation force packed a serious punch.
Once everyone was ready, Doom made a portal to the capital city, blocks away from the military's fortified position on a side street. After everyone was through the portal, he started chanting as he created layer around layer of protective barriers. Ezekiel also added a couple of his own before Doom led his troops out onto the main street. Once they appeared, the enemies opened fire with machine guns and the tank's turrets aimed at them.
Within seconds a barrage of oppressive fire slammed against Doom's barriers to explode harmlessly. Doom confidently walked towards the rain of explosions as he said, "Zora, take out those tanks."
"Fireteam prepare! I want at least three rockets per tank!"
The fifty people with RPG's all moved to the front and someone loaded it for them as they kneeled and took aim. A moment later fifty RPG's fired within a few seconds of each other. There were only six tanks at this defensive position, so almost all of them were hit with five or more rockets. Well not all the rockets hit the tanks exactly, but definitely the area where the tanks were.
A large cloud of dust and debris filled the air and for a moment the enemy fire stopped as Zora shouted, "Reload!"
As the rocket team reloaded, Ezekiel stepped forward as he flashed through hand signs before he said, "Futon: Daitoppa!"
A massive gust of wind erupted from his mouth that not only blew away the dust, but it also sent rocks and debris flying towards the enemy position. Once the area was clear again, Zora and her troops could see all the tanks were destroyed so she commanded, "Aim for the heavy machine gun emplacements!"
All the soldiers shifted their aim before another fifty rockets slammed into the enemy defenses before Doom started walking forward again. The enemy troops started to return fire again, but it all harmlessly slammed against his barriers. As Doom's troops moved forward they would reload as Ezekiel cleaned the air before they would take out another target.
By the time Doom reached what used to be the gate, the entire enemy battle line looked like it belonged on the moon. It was completely covered in craters and besides the color difference and gore, it would fit perfectly there. Doom strode into what was left of the previously fortified position before his troops spread out to sweep the area. Random gunshots filled the air as his troops found small pockets of resistance.
Troops along a smaller secondary line of defensives half a mile away, watched in without firing a shot. After half an hour, Zora regrouped the troops before they matched forward towards the secondary line. As they approached closer they found the defenses empty and the gates opened.
When they marched through the gate they found a handful of people without weapons waiting for them. The highest ranked man who was a middle aged man with a Sargent rank stepped forward with his arms in the air as he said, "We surrender!"
The handful of people behind him all dropped to their knees with their arms in the air as Doom asked, "Where are the rest of your troops?"
"They ran away."
Doom glanced towards the castle a few hundred yards away as he asked, "What about the men defending the castle? Are they also surrendering?"
"I… I don't know sir. The normal army wasn't allowed inside of the castle, only government officials and their body guards."
The prisoners were quickly taken care of and set back to the camp to be processed as a few hundred rounds of RPG ammo was brought over. Once the rocket team was resupplied, Doom marched towards the castle with his troops. When they were around a hundred yards away Doom enhanced his voice as he said, "I am Victor Von Doom, true ruler of Latveria! I command you to open the gates and drag the corrupt government dogs out here before me. This is your only warning!"
It was silent for a few moments before a high caliber rifle shot broke the stillness from one of the castle towers. A fifty BMG round slammed into Doom's barrier inches from his head where it pancaked before it dropped to the ground. Doom didn't even speak as the entire rocket team dropped to one knee, aimed and fired as one. The entire tower and part of the castle wall was turned into dust and debris as the rocket team quickly reloaded.
Doom waited for almost a minute before he started walking forward again as his voice carried over the area, "Destroy the gate."
As the rocket team took aim at the gate it slowly started to open as someone over a bull horn yelled, "We surrender, don't shoot!"
Doom raised his hand in the air and the rocket team quickly stood up before Doom started walking forward again and they followed. As they approached the gate, people were being either marched out at gun point or dragged out in some cases. One of the enemy men, an older man with grey hair and walking with a cane approached. He calmly stopped fifty feet from Doom as he said, "Me and my men have subdued all of the other bodyguards and are currently bringing everyone out."
"And you are?"
"Ernst Sablinov, current leader of Wild Pack. We were hired as bodyguards by the royal family earlier this year." Ernst said as he studied Doom before he added, "We are helping you with your enemy's surrender and after the prisoners are transferred, I'd like to ask that my team be allowed to leave without incident."
"You can leave after you've been processed and proven innocent of crimes against the Latveria people."
Ernst frowned slightly and before he could speak up Ezekiel said, "I'll vouch for him and his team."
Doom glanced towards Ezekiel with a raised eyebrow along with Ernst before Ezekiel said, "One of my teams watched them the entire time, they had no idea what the government was really up to. If they did, they would have quit on the spot or possibly started the revolution themselves."
Ezekiel stepped forward and handed Ernst a card as he said, "I'm Ezekiel, it's nice to meet you. I'm a big fan of your work. This is my personal number, call me if you ever need help with anything… Or if you want to walk without a cane."
Ernst took the card as he said, "Thank you."
With Ezekiel's endorsement, Doom didn't press the issue and moved over to inspect the prisoners before he asked, "Where is the king and the rest of the royal family?"
Ernst shook his head as he said, "They've been in their personal bunker the past two weeks with a handful of servants and no guards. I can show you the entrance, but I have no way to open it."
"Show me." Doom said as he started walking towards the castle.
Ernst, Doom, Ezekiel, Zora and a handful of soldiers were led down into the basement where they found a large sealed vault door. Before Ernst could even say anything about it, Doom started chanting before he threw magic spells at the door. The spells hit the heavy door and caused it to melt like it was an ice cube in the middle of summer. Within moments the floor where the door stood was covered in liquid metal and solidified after a few moments.
Behind what used to be the door was a hallway that led deeper underground to another thick solid door that Doom melted. Inside was the actual bunker itself where they finally found the king and his family. The king was the most surprised when he saw Doom and the others enter the main living quarters and yelled, "Who. Who are you?!?"
Doom stepped forward and almost had a regal air as he exclaimed, "I am your end. I am Doom!"