Date: 12 August
My name is Donatello Hamato. Normally I wouldn't keep a journal, but keeping my thoughts organized will be very important in the upcoming months.
I'm not sure how it happened. That's what I'm trying to figure out and, if there is a way to (and if there is, I will find it), fix it. Whether this is something of the Kraangs' design, some virus experimentation gone horribly wrong, or nature screwing us over for screwing with it, none of us know. Having access to topside news has been a complete godsend, and if my brothers and I hadn't heard about it so early, we wouldn't have been prepared for what we saw the very next time we went topside.
Zombies. And here I was, thinking I'd never see anything more downright horrifying than what I'd already seen.
Even from a distance they didn't appear to have the same mindset. It seems these aren't a hivemind, like you see in most zombie movies, but they certainly aren't human anymore. Walking, groaning, rotting corpses... It's horrifying. Even Raphael was put off; though I don't think he ever expected to see his comic books come to life in such a gruesome way. The virus is clearly transmitted by bites, or even contact with bodily fluid. I was lucky enough (or stupid enough) to get close to one, and, lo and behold, her neck was bruised and bloody, with what I hope were traces of saliva from where she was bit. It was like the whole ordeal with the parasitic wasp all over again, and though we don't know any of the victims personally (so far), it's still as horrific.
With these, the Kraang, the Foot Clan, and all the mutants that want to kill us to deal with, this is going to be one hell of a ride. All the more reason to keep April as safe as I possibly can. We'll be putting in new safety measures for the Lair effective almost immediately. There's no way the zombies will be getting in here, regardless of whether they take to the sewers, and if they do, it will be over our dead bodies.
Though, I think they would be willing to make that happen. That is, if they even have will anymore.
I doubt they do.
Donatello, out.