On August 18th, 2016 the first case of ZV was reported in Madagascar. Less than a year later the majority of the population was infected or dead. From there it spread to the outlying continent of Africa, before quickly making its way north to Egypt. That is when the world first noticed the ZV.
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I was eighteen at the time and in the thick of all things teenagers worry about; sex, popularity, alcohol, and my parents wrath if my nightly escapades were found out. So that is why I never noticed what was going on until things started breaking down.
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On October 31st, 2018 the great experiment that was America fell. Not from war or civil unrest, but from the unstoppable tide of zombies that swept in from both Mexico and Canada. The great putrid wave of necrosis and blood that did not stop until it spread from sea to shining sea.
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There were survivors. There always are, but from reading this you should already know that. The single most catastrophic event in human history, the reason we all are so familiar with the sea, and why pop culture now shuns everything zombie.
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The first couple of years on the ships were tenuous at best. Checking every fishing net for necrotic properties. Once it was discovered that ZV was a human only contagion there was less worry. Our first real breakthrough was the Wave Powered Electric Generator, in the interest of brevity it will be shortened to WPEG. Once our need for diesel was extinguished ninety percent of our encounters with the ZV’s suddenly vanished. Again, the rest is history until our second breakthrough, the ZV Elimination Movement.
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We would encounter survivors in our forays into the mainland for supplies. They would wow us with their ingenuity for dispatching the ZV’s. Eventually we started inviting them aboard, giving them safe living space and starting a militia. Not since the days of manifest destiny has a movement been so universally supported. We became kindred spirits with the Roman Legion, for those that know of that sort of thing. Riot Shields and pikes were the standard fare, loudspeakers as lures, pure human grit and determination as fuel.
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By the time we cleared out the first city, it was apparent that we were going to need a better plan of action than brute force. That’s when people much smarter than me holed themselves up in the local library and came up with a plan. While bigger by far than our test city, they decided that Manhattan would be our next target.
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Manhattan took almost two years of cleaning before the work was done. Amazingly, throughout the whole process we kept finding survivors who had barricaded themselves in , starting on the third floor of skyscrapers, and moved around on haphazardly created wooden walkways that would lay between windows. They would evacuate to another building, if one was overrun, which apparently happened with alarming frequency. Weak minds would break and try to get out through the barricaded doors letting the ZV’s in.
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My personal favorite survivor would spend weeks preparing a skyscraper, then lure as many ZV’s in as he possibly could, repel down the side of the building, and weld the doors shut, trapping the ZV’s in a single building. The same guy had the ingenious idea of using the ZV’s as a source of locomotion to move the dead bodies that we were piling up. Building a sort of cage on wheels and dropping it around a group of ZVs, they pulled the liters filled with rotting and fresh corpses to the crematoriums. Doing this allowed a single human to lead the ZV’s wherever they needed to go. Crowdsourcing, using ZV’s in new and entertaining ways, became popular, and soon the methods were perfected.
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I know this seems like a history lesson, just bear with me and it will all be made clear at the end.
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The second step of the plan was to post sentries on the bridges using loudspeakers to lure in the ZV’s. The guards would play whatever they wanted to listen to and when the ZV’s showed up the slaughter would commence. Their instructions were clear: Brain anything that looks, acts, and smells like a ZV. Brain, rest, brain, rest, brain, rest, brain, rest. The downed ZV’s were pushed, by bulldozer, into a pile to deal with after the flow died down. Eventually the ZV’s stopped coming in large numbers and only came in singles or pairs, that was when the long and arduous task of burning bodies came about in full swing.
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Fuel for that sort of work was not self sustaining, we cleared out most of central park during our burning of just the city ZV’s. Eventually, we needed to convert to more practical methods to burn bodies. One of the survivors was a giant nerd before the collapse and had seen a video where some scientist or researcher focused a lense to put out enough heat to melt metal. We were fortunate to have people with enough working knowledge to make such a magnificent lens. From the moment the first one was installed bodies were burned in what would soon be known as ‘Observatories’ during days and in crematoriums at night, effectively cutting our fuel consumption by half.
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I was twenrty-five by the time we finally cleared out New York City. But the place was defiled. The constant burning of rotted flesh turned the city into something that smelled of rotting barbecue and wood smoke. We converted the clear cut land of central park into farmland and hauled soil to roof tops that were not being used by solar arrays. The new hip thing was conservation and sustainability. The only combustion engines that ran were construction equipment, useful things to squish ZV’s, and a few military vehicles. To be completely fair, most of those categories overlapped.
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Reconstruction of Manhattan was relatively quick, all things considered. When a group of twenty thousand plus people put their minds to do something, and without the need for day jobs or money, it gets done quickly. Unlike now with all the politicking, people cooperated with each other. There was a common enemy, and building a hub was the quickest and most efficient way to defeat this enemy, support ourselves, and keep our sanity. Rebuilding distracted the guards who had to deal with the walking nightmares and the people who were traumatized early on during the spread of the infection. We all had things we wanted to forget. By the time I turned twenty-eight, things in the city were almost like they used to be. One ZV would show up every month or two, but the plan could be officially called a success. We burned down the LaGuardia Airport to celebrate.
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We had been busy for the years that it took to clear out the city. Any competent leader knows that to sustain growth, more space is needed; thus we had begun refitting the armored vehicles to run solely on batteries. The idea was to drive until the battery dies, establish a perimeter and set up a mobile fence. They were much like the one we used for ZV locomotion, just without the wheels. Once that was done the recharging crew would set up solar panels and crank generators to recharge the batteries. After radio contact was established, music would then be played to attract the ZV’s. Check in was required every hour. The system worked beautifully, only losing two teams. Ever.
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The more the population grew, the quicker we were able to clean out infested cities. The quicker we cleaned them out, the more momentum grew for our cause. After only one year the entire state of New York was reasonably ZV free. There was much rejoicing, and we burned the Wall Street stock exchange building to kick off the festivities. We may have gotten a bit carried away with that particular celebration.
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With the state clear we split into three groups, one stayed, one went north, one went south. I was fortunate enough to head south. Without constant pollutants from humans, the environment quickly regenerated the damage we inflicted, that being much more quickly than computer models of the old world showed to be possible. While this was just awesome for the planet, we had been stuck with the coldest winters in recorded history during our stay in New York. The summers weren’t pleasant either. Being from the southwest portion of Texas, the thought of a mild winter was rather pleasing to me.
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We made our way south to D.C. where we met the worst setback we ever faced. In the final days, after the elected president fell to the virus thanks, to the complete incompetence of just about everyone involved, someone made the executive decision to nuke the capital. The idiot. Well, that’s what we assume happened, as there was complete television and radio blackout by that point for civilians. So, we skirted by D.C. and made our way south towards Atlanta.
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By the time we got there, CDC Headquarters in Atlanta was a virtual treasure trove for us . By adhering to their own safety plans, they kept a decent size population alive long enough for people that could get things done to assert themselves into positions of power within the city. It was strange to see how similar the strategies they used were compared to our own. They relied more on guns than pikes, but they had more ammunition, so it made sense. Their favorite way to exterminate the ZV’s was to guide them into a caged alley, just big enough to fit a group of ten single file, then shoot a single armor piercing bullet through the ZV’s heads. If all went down with the one shot it was considered a strike. Zombie Bowling they called it.
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As we cleared more cities we saw more of these ZV games. Out in the woods, one family used them to plow their fields, much the same way we used them in New York. The human ingenuity was at work across the nation and things were going well, that is, until we hit the Nevada border.
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Immediately we noticed something wrong. Everything was too clean. The people we saw made no use of the ZV’s that made their way into the territory. Police and the Army were in force with martial law. Even worse, some politicians were there. They had survived, and managed to thrive in the one place that looked the most like hell. They must have felt completely at home. Here the ‘United Survivors of New America’ met the old America. What we saw was a marvel. Everything we had missed: the false security, the political backstabbing, and the general stalemate that happens when you get too many stupid people in one place. They had no place in our new world. We got things done. We had accomplished more in ten years than the old country did in the past thirty. They told us that what we did was impossible, that we could not have gone through each state and eradicated any ZV that was not being put to practical use. They told us this and we said nothing. These men were content to stay in Nevada and keep things the way they were. Not once did they even attempt to take back the country.Not once did they try to expand. Not once did the perverse amount of scientists they had walking around Reno and Las Vegas actually contribute to society. These men were truly jackass’s.
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Their military was a joke. Children, all of them. They knew next to nothing about fighting humans. The men, who knew those sorts of things, fell months after the initial invasion of ZV’s. Back when they still thought the infected could be cured and scared into submission. No, the real soldiers were with us. Survivors, wanderers, vagabonds; they were the ones leading the freedom movement. So, we skirted Nevada completely. It fell less than three years later.
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Fifteen years and the nation was about as clean as we could make it. The problem that we had now was ZV’s coming down from Canada and up from Mexico. Our National borders too long to actively patrol and secure. The cause of this problem was lack of shear manpower, as humans can only reproduce so fast without proper infrastructure. The children that were just coming to fighting age were not even near the numbers that we needed. So, we did what we could. We invested in the children of the nation. Clearly their generation were the ones that would finally rid the world of this plague. We sent patrols into Canada and Mexico, with a certain grim determination, we continued our march against the undead. It was what we did best.
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So here we are, back in New York City, where the cleansing movement officially began. I’m now sixty-eight years old, and I feel every year of it. The entire North American continent is clear of ZV’s. Using natural land features, we keep South America ZV’s in check. The plan must change now. South America is vastly different from North America. More rainforests, more mountains, and hopefully more survivors. Mexico had held out extremely well, though their movements were much slower than ours because of geography and a sheer overwhelming amount of the damn things.
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This safety has allowed us to bring back some of the old power grid and manufacturing capabilities lost to us during the collapse. Universities and labs across the continent have been repurposed to study the ZV virus. We've found that while the brain shuts down for the most part, not all of this is lost. Through vigorus trial and error, some function was restored to the necrotic bodies and minds. They developed skills, such as stair climbing, running, opening doors, and other horrifying new abilities that no sane person wants a zombie to know how to do. Bureaucrats are responsible for this. They hemmed and hawed about making them useful to society, I guess forgetting about the million, no, sorry billions of people this virus has killed and brought back, not to mention the stench that invades the senses when one is near. They ignore the fact that ZV’s don't heal when injured, they ignore the fact that these things are, in fact, dangerous. What will they do when their free labor force is too broken down to work? Why, they will infect new people, of course. Lunacy!
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I miss the days when my terrors could be combated with pike and shield. With a sturdy fence and a long sharpened pole. Hell, running would be great right now. This new society frightens me. They have replaced the people that I trusted to lead us with idiots who want power for powers sake. I’m writing this so people will remember what we've been through as a species. Do we really want to go back to the way things used to be? Not me. I remember Nevada all too well. I remember the pointless things people argued over when I was still young. That is the path to assured destruction. We need to be like our European cousins and use this to change our society for the better. We need to get rid of the bureaucracy that has taken root once again. Some call me an anarchist. Maybe that’s true. But I think words like that should have died in the old world. Survival was my government of choice. It was simple and just. If you weren't smart or strong enough, you died and the world moved on.
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Yes, our working population has tripled in the past twenty-five years. Survivors from other countries radio us with their success stories. Germany almost didn't even get hit with the plague. Their actions have made some of the old timers rethink their stance on how they view Germany now. It was one of the two old governments that survived this tragedy. They were instrumental in removing the virus from the European continent and Eastern Asia. But, I’, losing sight of what I’m trying to convey to you people.
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I have lots of reasons why I need to write this. But, I think, mostly it’s because I want future generations to know that I wasn't a lunatic or some kind of moron. I have valid reasons for doing what I’m about to do. I am sane, and furthermore, I am trying to do what is best for humanity as a whole. I simply cannot allow this government to continue its course. I cannot stand idly by as another Nevada comes about. Politicians that do nothing, scientists who know nothing of people, and people ignoring the dangers of both.
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Our old leaders knew how to read people, they knew the business of killing ZV’s, and they got things done. Now we’re stuck in a stalemate where the decent leaders left off, pushed into obscurity by charismatic leaders that will eventually get us all killed. Canada is clear, but there is no move towards clearing South America. The only news that has come from the south is that the jungles are dense, the creatures deadly, and the people are zombies. All signs point to few survivors. By now colonies of them should pop up working their way north, or south to cooler climates. But, no, we have to sit here while these idiots play at leading.
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Know this before I make my announcement. I am not the only one that feels as I do. I have talked to the old leaders, and they agree that to stop moving is to die, just like when the ZV’s first appeared. Move or die, that is our law, the law of survival. This is how the world should work.
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So now, onto the announcement. As of noon today, our so called leaders were served tainted food. In less than two hours they will be the new breed of ZV: they will become what they created. I find this a fitting punishment. If no one is able to contain them, though, may God have mercy on my soul. I will have started the second outbreak.
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