Resident Ranma -()- Prologue

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Some might say the world was better off not knowing what its fate would be. I have to admit I wish I didn't know the things I've learned; well most times we don't get what we want as I'm learning the hard way.

It should have been an easy mission, infiltrate an unused science facility and acquire a serum, a serum for what? They wouldn't tell us.

Eight men and women from an elite mercenary outfit; we were invincible, unstoppable. Pity we weren't immune as well. I suppose I should start from the beginning but I don't like to dwell on that time. Suffice to say we got more than we bargained for, the zombies we could probably have dealt with once we got over the shock of walking corpses; we might have even dealt with the mutated beasts that attacked us on a regular basis.

What we couldn't fight was the laboratories A.I., the computer decided that the only way to save mankind was to stop us from reaching too far into the base, and she wasn't particular how she did it either. Fools that we were we thought we could handle anything and worked to shut the mainframe down, and we succeeded. Then all hell broke loose.

It wasn't flashy, in fact most of the world never knew what happened, but I do….Sometimes the nightmares come in the night and I hope that this time I'll die from the fear and shame. It hasn't happened yet, but I live in hope, coward that I am. Instead I wake each morning and face a world where so few other people exist, the zombies died months ago.

Let me explain that.

Its strange but the virus was designed to destroy the one advantage mankind had over the other beasts of the world; the human mind. It removed all higher brain function even as it killed the victim. The thing is the virus utilized a little known fact, that the human brain continues to produce a faint electrical charge for at least a month after the victims' death. Not a problem or at least it shouldn't have been. If some bright spark in one of those brightly lit laboratories hadn't discovered how to utilize that charge into animating the corpses. So know instead of having something that was immobile but highly infectious now we had something that would try to eat you and still be infectious. I saw it happen too many times over the next few months as the few survivors I could find were attacked and unable to defend themselves, they scream, they scream until they stop. And then they get up and join the advancing army of undead.

Those of you who've seen horror movies with zombies in them don't even begin to understand the true horror of watching a friend die in such a manner, and to know that they'll do the same thing to you if they're given a chance. You see the only instinct that remains to them is their hunger; an insatiable need to eat that isn't assuaged even if the stomach were full.

We found some interesting things out about the virus in those early days. It seems the virus was specifically targeted at humans to suppress the fear centre's of the human mind making soldiers into unconscionable killing machines. Unfortunately it mutated as living things are wont to do and became something that targeted human higher brain functions. It seemed to have no effect on wildlife or domestic animals and they went on peacefully unaware of any virus. They weren't however immune to the undead that would swarm them and eat them where they stood. Then there were the mutations, grotesque beasts that resembled humans in bone structure while still seeming to have some of it's higher mental functions, it was supposedly a super soldier, but the Umbrella corporation could never figure out how to control them and ultimately they became the new predator for humans, they're fast and agile and it takes a lot to kill one. They've adapted to the virus and thus they're still out there waiting for a chance to take the last of us.

When I left the underground base I found a city in chaos, the buildings still stood but the people were gone. That was nearly a year ago, now there are nearly a hundred survivors here. I hope there are others but the world is much larger now, and so much is unknown…..

Authors notes:- Hello everybody, anyone for the apocalypse? Well jump on board because it's a whole new world, and a cruel one at that.

Oh yeah, I want to see reviews, lots of reviews and comments and suggestions. Oh my! This is going to be a fairly short fanfic, probably under thirty thousand words, but if I get enough ammunition I might be able to spin it out a little.