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You are reading Citizenship's version of FanFiction South Park!
Disclaimer: I do not own any South Park Characters
Claimer: There won't be any Ocs in this story
Before you read this zombie story, you must go over the details listed below. This is not Solanum we're dealing with.
Briefing:
The town of South Park has been overruned and destroyed by zombies, the virus was created by the Doctor Alphonse Mephesto for an unknown purpose. He has turned himself in after the pandemic, but now his virus has mutated with a Influenza strain we call the 2009 Swine Flu. Creating the ultimate weapon.
Kyle, Stan, Cartman, Wendy, and Shelley are living in a large mansion rented by a friend after being displace by the pandemic. Wendy's parent's succumbed to the disease and now lives with Stan. Randy, Sharon, Gerald, Sheila, Jimbo, and Ned have survived the outbreak and are living together in the mansion. The mansion is similar to Tokens house except it's painted white and it has it's own Solar Panels and Verticle Axis Wind Turbine on the roof, not to mention an Energy Storage in the basement.
With a Zombie "Apocalypse" on the way, everyone was preparing for the infection.
The National Guard in neighboring states were posted at Colorado's Borders to try to halt the infection, massive roadblocks were put in place on all routes that goes in and out of the state. The US Government spent some money to put up a chain link fence on the border of Colorado, then they scrap the chain link fence idea and switch to a Cinder block wall reinforced with steel bars and concrete to keep out massive hordes of infected zombies.
They made it 10 feet tall with quarantine signs on both sides placed half a mile from each other, however due to Colorado's geographic location in the Rocky Mountains only the flat plain areas received the walls. The massive mountains that sits on the state borders had Chain Link fences place on them, they were electrified in order to avoid people from passing through. Barbed wire was placed on top of the cinderblock walls as a precaution.
People began to stock up on food and water since they cannot leave their homes, every superstore in the state of Colorado was sucked dry for supplies. Bathtubs and available containers were filled with water from the tap, windows were boarded up from both the inside and outside, Gasoline immediately ran dry at the pumps but Diesel was barely touched since the 18 wheel trucks aren't going anywhere.
Some however tried to flee the state, thanks to the roadblocks it prevented a mass migration and it soon clogged up the main roads. Even the back county roads were monitored by Law Enforcement, which prevented further travel. The Colorado Public was ordered to remain in their homes for 90 days, people who are needed to keep utilities running are called to work. People who worked for the utilities that refused to go because of loved ones ended up taking their families with them, both Power Plants and Water Treatment Plants ended up receiving more hands than needed.
Our survival group explained earlier has barricaded themselves inside their home and are waiting it out for the outbreak to blow over, it's going to be a long wait.
Now you know what's going on, let me give you a short description of the zombie we're dealing with through their senses.
Sound:
Zombies hearing is just the same as Humans, they somehow able to pick up sounds from where they came from. The zombies are attracted to high pitches of sound and will ignore lesser ones, the higher the sound the more they are attracted to it. Zombies are constantly listening to everything in search of their "prey", they are pretty much attracted to all sounds we normally ignore. Such as the air conditioner running.
Sight:
The eyes of the zombie have horrifyingly changed dramatically, they glow in bright fluorescent red. Similar to the brightness of a Red Light Emitting Diode, this increases the fear factor of the zombie. Just imagine a zombie "with bright red glowing eyes", the sight could be terrifying. With simple chemistry, the eyes are similar to glow in the dark materials. This will easily tell who's a zombie and who's not.
Humans normally see in all colors of the Visible Light Spectrum: Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, and Purple. Zombies can see the color red and only the color red, it's just like looking through a Red Filter. Zombies can also see in the dark thanks to it's glowing eyes, if it's pitch black they can see everything as bright as day in the red color and will leave humans in the dark. Remember, you can also see the zombie's glowing eyes in total darkness.
Though it will help as a reference point in the dark and help give the ghoul's position away, once the zombie is dead however the eyes stops glowing almost immediately and will turn into a black looking color. It's still up to debate on how the eyes are able to glow, ironically it's the same color as the virus itself.
Taste/ Food:
In order for the virus to keep the Failing Cells alive, the virus must feed on living non-infected flesh in order to stay alive. It begs the question if the zombie's digestive track is still functioning or not, we'll discuss this later. Zombies do feel hunger, it's also a symptom to the early stages of the zombification process. This hunger is so great and painful, some of you reading it might have felt it before but imagine dealing it with the rest of your life.
The virus is not picky of what kind of meat it's host is eating, zombies are known to eat other living creatures if Human Flesh is not available. Some are known to fight over the food, some play with it, others might use a dismembered limbs as weapons. If you wonder into any zombie infested environment, you'll find it stripped from animal life.
Touch/ Coordination:
Zombies do not feel pain, all pain receptors remain dead after reanimation. They are known to push the limits, some zombies are able to lift a car over their heads. Zombie muscles have stiffen due to the virus' job on tearing up Healthy Cells and reanimating dead ones, this hinders a zombie's ability to move. Since they are clumsy, they will have trouble getting up to their feet for the first time on being a zombie.
Smell:
The nose of a zombie still functions, it's sensitive nerves are able to smell a fresh corpse and living beings from a mile away. Good luck trying to hide your body odor, it doesn't even work for your own kind in some cases.
The Zombie Brain:
The virus mutates the zombie's brain rather differently than the Solanum virus, instead of targeting the frontal lobe it targets other places of the brain at random. The result may vary but it always ends the same, or similar. The Brain Cells are severely damaged, preventing the zombie to think straight. These zombie can think to some level so don't be surprised to find one coming after you with a crowbar, actions speak for themselves than words alone. If you watched George A. Romero's Land of the Dead, then you know what I'm talking about.
The virus makes the skin pale and they eyes glow bright red florescent red, it glows twice as bright at night so the zombie could see clear day in total darkness. Luckily, the only way to tell if there's a zombie inside a pitch black room is to look for the two red eyes. Be wary, the red eyes serve as a psychological warfare like the classical moan.
Zombies do not sleep, they hunt their "prey" day and night. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is one of two top advantages over the living, restlessness and lack of touch.
Like all zombie viruses, the only way to kill them is the destruction of the brain.
Other organs:
It's debated on how the zombie virus is able to extract nutrients from eaten flesh without the use of the Digestive Track, most organs including the heart no longer functions. The lungs only use however, is for communication only. What is clear about the zombie's need to feed is that they will continue to commit cannibalism even with their stomachs burst from within, distended bellies are expected in older zombies.
The brain is the most important organ in the zombie's body, the zombie will do fine without it's eyes and ears but without the brain it does not function. Destroying it will render a zombie as an ordinary corpse.
With you familiarized with what you're dealing with, here's a word of advice: The zombie virus can mutate it's host into something sinister, like Resident Evil for example. Remember to add this story to your author alerts and favorites.