YEAR: 13 A.I (AFTER INFECTION) OR 2162

LOCATION: EARTH, RUINS OF THE UNITED STATES, NEW YORK

SUBJECT: DR. JAMES HORRIS YERNSFIELD, AGE 46

DOCUMENT: HISTORY OF THE APOCALYPSE

ANY UNAUTHORIZED PERSONELL VIEWING THIS DOCUMENT IS A CAPITAL OFFENSE AND WILL BE PUNISHED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW.

SYNOPSIS:

12 YEARS AGO, A U.S.S.R BIOCHEMICHAL REASEARCH FACILITY TESTED A HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE AND POTENTIALLY TOXIC NERVE AGENT, KNOWN AS OXYDROHYDRENATIC NITROXIC PARASITIS OR O.H.N.P, FOR COVERT WEAPONS PRODUCTION. UNTIL RECENTLY DISCOVERED, O.H.N.P CONTAINS A PICOSCOPIC PARASITE KNOWN AS "THE LEECH." THE LEECH WOULD QUICKLY, ONCE ENTERING THE HOSTS BODY, ALTER THE VICTIMS DNA TO TURN THEM INTO A CREATURE, A LOT LESS HUMAN.

STRANGE THINGS BEGAN HAPPENING TO THE SCIENTISTS AT THE FACILITY THAT WERE IN CHARGE OF OBSERVING AND CONTAINING O.H.N.P. THEY BEGAN ACTING STRANGELY, BECOMING UNABLE TO TALK, INSTEAD THEY MADE LOW, GRUNTED SOUNDS. SOME HAD DARKER, CHIPPED, OR BURNT SKIN. MOST WALKED IN A SWERVY AND ABNORMALLY ERRATIC FASHION, THEY WERE ALSO UNABLE TO RESPOND TO COMMON STIMULI. THEIR BEHAVIOR WAS THE MOST STRIKING THOUGH. THEY PHYSICALLY THREATENED OR ATTACKED CO-WORKERS, OFTEN KILLING THEM. THE RUSSIANS ULTIMATELY DECIDED TO IMMEDIATLY SHUT DOWN THE FACILITY BUT CONTAIN THE STRANGE ACTING SCIENTISTS INSIDE FOREVER TO KEEP THEM IN, RATHER THAN TO KEEP SOMEBODY OUT.

BUT THEY HAD MADE A FATAL MISTAKE.

THEY LEFT THE O.H.N.P INSIDE THE FACILITY, ALONG WITH THE OTHER PROTOTYPE BIOCHEMICAL WEAPONS. THE O.H.N.P BEGAN UNDERGOING ITS HALF-LIFE PERIOD, DECAYING THOUROUGHLY AND MELTING ITS CONTAINMENT CHAMBERS. ONCE FREE OF THE CHAMBERS, IT SPREAD ACROSS THE ABANDONED FACILITY AND VIOLENTLY REACTED WITH THE OTHER CHEMICALS. ONCE ALL THE CHEMICALS IN THE FACILITY WERE MIXED AND REACTING WITH ONE ANOTHER, THEY EXPLODED IN A MONSTEROUS, CHEMICAL COMBUSTION. O.H.N.P, AND THE OTHER CHEMICALS THAT CAUSED THE EXPLOSION WERE NOW FREE FROM THE DESTROYED FACILITY AND BEGAN TO SPREAD ACROSS RUSSIA, INFECTING ITS DENIZENS WITH "THE LEECH." THE SCIENTISTS THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND INSIDE THE FACILITY WERE NOT ELIMINATED, AND BEGAN ROAMING ACROSS THE DOOMED COUNTRY. IT WAS THE START OF A NEW ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE.

THE SPREAD OF O.H.N.P DID NOT JUST STOP AT RUSSIA. IT SPREAD TO ASIA, EUROPE, AFRICA, AND AUSTRALIA. BASICALLY HALF OF THE GLOBE WAS INFECTED WITH THE LEECH, TURNING PEOPLE INTO ZOMBIES. NOT ONE PERSON WAS ABLE TO AVOID BEING INFECTED. THE O.H.N.P EVENTUALLY STOPPED AT THE PACIFIC OCEAN, BUT BIRDS THAT WERE CAUGHT IN THE "INFECTION ZONE" TURNED INTO MONSTEROUS, ZOMBIE-LIKE BIRD CREATURES KNOWN AS "LEACHERS." LEACHERS BEGAN MIGRATING WEST TOWARDS NORTH AMERICA AND SOUTH AMERICA. ONCE THERE THEY BEGAN ATTACKING PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE LEACHERS WOULD BITE THEM, THEREFORE SPREADING THE LEECH VIA TOXINS IN THEIR SALIVA, AND THE VICTIM WOULD TURN INTO A ZOMBIE. THOSE ZOMBIES, AND THE LEACHERS, WOULD BEGIN ATTACKING NON-INFECTED HUMANS, AND MAKE THEM JOIN THE RANKS OF THE UNDEAD.

THE ZOMBIES WOULD BEGIN TRASHING BUILDINGS, AFTER INFECTING EVERYONE INSIDE. THEY WOULD MAKE THEM COLLAPSE OR SPIT LIQUID O.H.N.P AT THEM, CAUSING THEM TO DECAY AND ROT. CITIES WERE NOW IN RUINS AND HOMES DESTROYED. HAPPY FAMILIES AND INNOCENT CHILDREN PLAYING AT PLAYGROUNDS WERE ABRUPTLY TURNED INTO ZOMBIES AFTER BEING ATTACKED BY ONE OF THE UNDEAD.

RIGHT NOW I AM HOLED UP INSIDE A CONFIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT LIBRARY, AND I AM WRITING THIS, IN HOPES OF WHEN THIS CATASTROPHY ENDS, PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE WOULD KNOW OUR STORY AND REBUILD OUR GREAT NATION. WAIT…WHA-WHATS THAT? THE WALL IS MELTING! AGH WHAT IS THAT STENCH? ACK…IM…IM…