chapter one
In the small town named Cooperstown one would ordinarily find people walking through the streets and going about their daily business. Cooperstown had always had a lack of parahumans and thus they were usually left alone by both the PRT and the various villains around the United States. After all who wanted a small town like Coopertown?
However this wasn't a typical day as, where there would usually be the sounds of people getting through their day, there was a symphony of screams all throughout the town. The ones "conducting" this were the notorious band of serial killers known as the slaughterhouse 9, each of which were s-class threats to the world.
One of these members was gleefully skipping through the town, surprIsingly relaxed considering she had a bounty in the millions of dollars.
Bonesaw was on her own, holding a vial which contained a viscous black liquid. Jack had told her to release her "creativity", which usually ended in beautiful (to her) and horrific (to everyone else) deaths. She stopped when she saw a young male trying futilely to move after being i paled in multiple places by pieces of glass, shatterbird's work no doubt. Bonesaw let out a childlike giggle, this would do!
"motherfucking piece of shit" the teen grumbled, still dreadfully unaware of the girl mere meters away from him.
Bonesaw frowned at the language used by the boy in front of her, as he wasn't much older than her. She was planning on reconfiguring his anatomy into something new, perhaps something like a bear. Bonesaw decided on something different instead, she whistled at the boy to get his attention.
He slowly started to turn around, Bonesaw waited for the second he turned around to lackadaisically throw the vial at him. Bonesaw relished in his look of abject fear, Jack always said that was one of the best parts of killing someone: the expression people made, the realisation.
His face was frozen in abject fear as he saw her, which was a fairly common response but one that had gotten boring. A second later the vial shattered on contact with his body. Almost immediately the liquid snaked into his body however there was some of it which disappeared into the air, no doubt going to infect more people.
The boy convulsed on the floor before finally going limp, Bonesaw figured that in a few hours he would wake up as a murderous husk, a shadow of the person he once was. Bonesaw turned to skip away, while she and the rest of the nine had implants that would protect them from getting infected immediately the virus was somewhat based off of crawlers adaptive physiology so the implants would only work for so long if they were under constant exposure.
Either way this town was done as the PRT were likely going to quarantine this entire place and watch as the inhabitants tear each other to shreds
However, while most of the inhabitants of the formerly happy town of cooper were now mindless zombies, there was one tiny anomaly. Perhaps it was the boys sheer willpower or maybe it was dumb luck however the virus intergrated with his body perfectly.
So while his body and "human self were consumed by the virus his consciousness lived on. While the zombies rose, he slept.
After a few more hours it was done and he opened his eyes.