Chapter 3: No Mans Land

Authors notes: im back after a very long time, laptop broke see, anyhow iv had a very traumatic year so im sorry for the dely but at the same time its my problem i had to deal with a family problem, anyhow back to the story. also on a side note im making a somwhat of a prototype filler, no idea on the name but basiclly non-canon to my storyline.

2059, New York City

ZEUS Came to shore of the coast of San Fransisco, it had found out it was in a trench 100 miles of the U.S coastline, and as soon as it clambered onto the and headed "home".

Now wandering the streets it was heading towards the bridge, this was not the part of the city he had been caught in. after consuming a few homeless to sate its hunger, it began its walk towards what was now called "Dead Zone".

ZEUS sat down, it had shifted into a man it had consumed long ago, wondering what to do, it had a plan, it just needed a way to impliment it without causing panic.

"You look down sonny, whats bringing you down?"

The voice startled ZEUS tensing into defensive but not shifting when he processed what the man had said "its nothing" ZEUS said slowly, its body was still readjusting to active movement again and it needed to take things slowly until it reached "full power" so to speak. Then it realised that this may be an oppertunity to glean some information without bloodshed, and some full answers instead of flashes in its head "what happened to Manhatten?" it asked, its head was down so it shifted just the face to an older face, around about 70-80.

"sonny where you been? under a rock" The man asked, then gave a shocked look as ZEUS looked up, realising that the the man (actually ZEUS) seemed to be much older than he first thought.

ZEUS thought quickly "been in a coma for round about 60 years, my parents were wealthy enough to keep me from dying, their last dying wish was for me to wake up and see the world, i had always wanted to go there" it pointed at the wreckage of a city across the river

The man sat down drawing a cirgarette and lighting up he offered one to ZEUS, who took one.
The man sighed and looked out "well about 50 years ago late 2009 a virus got out because of some man, nobody remembrs who or why, just it happened and millions died, anybody who lived turned into these... things, i was 6 when it happened, os forgive me if details are a little sketchy, anyhow, the man was caught that same year and executed, for some reason the infection couldnt be stopped all attempts to retake the city were in vain and eventually they shut the city off, blew the bridge and constructed a massive walle from the bottom of the river all the way round, the infection was unbelivably unstoppable and basicly the left the city to starve, military, civilians and infected, all shut off, the city is now shut off from the world, SAMs and Guun Emplacements and a 24/7 guard all around it" the man looked down noticing his cigarette had burned right down and tossed it away

ZEUS took in all this new info and turned to the man "so theres been no attempt to unblock the city? no rescue attempts back in the day to rescue anyone?"

"Nope nothing at all, no point if everythings starved is there?"

ZEUS nodded, it was the smart thing to do, however it knew that the infected metabolic system was the same as its, the they had to do was what it did in a well hidden area, let the humans survive and grow and then come back consume, infect and rehide.

The man was staring at him again "something on your mind guy?" The man asked ZEUS shrugged and drew on the cigarette, it was doing nothing for it and it was simply going through human motions.

"what if the infection came back? if its as unstoppable as you say that might happen" ZEUS asked

"no chance, the city is blocked off, there were a few attempts to get in by companies trying to get in and study the virus years ago but then a couple tried to sneak in and got shot so nobody else wanted to try"

"so i couldnt get in and take in the sights" ZEUS joked, trying to humour the human.

"hell no guy" the man chuckled "anyway i dont think everything is quite dead yet"

This caught ZEUSs attention "what?"

"hell if you go as far as you can on the bridge without getting shot up and listen on a quietish night, they say you can still hear a few howls and screams" The man shuddered

ZEUS suddenly stood up "thanks i think ill go to my hotel now, and... make some new travel plans"

The man nodded "best idea if i were you, some of the folks around here are survivors or children of survivors, nobody likes to be reminded of their past, maybe see you around sometime" he nodded and walked off.

ZEUS watched the man for some time taking in his scent and thinking, mayb that this man who showed it some kindness would be the first to be gifted.