Thus, the Rage zombies devours! (from the 28 Days Later universe)
Zombies. The living dead. Walkers. Oh, they may have many names, but what they have in common, is the unending desire for living human flesh. Let me tell you a story, about how a released zombie plague, unleashed hell on both Great Britain and Falmart.
Now, before I can get to the meat of the story, I have to give you readers some background context.
In early 2010 or so, two Cambridge University professors, named Clive and Warren, (along with a dozen or so other scientists) were doing a medical research project, figuring out which neurochemicals caused extreme anger in humans, and developing an inhibitor that will control said neurochemicals. As they found the solution, Warren believed that a pill delivery system won't do and that the best way to deliver the solution... is with the Ebola Virus.
Author: Yes, that Ebola virus.
Sarcastic Deadpool: Yeah, that a good idea, let's use a deadly virus as the delivery system for an inhibitor!
Sarcastic Author: Yes, a great idea! [Brief pause] Idiots!
They infected a chimpanzee with the solution and due to a combination of inhibitors, along with the Ebola virus, the effect was that the chimpanzee was uncontrollable, full of rage, lust for flesh. This is the first instance of the Rage virus and this is when Clive abruptly left the project, due to the moral issues surrounding the project.
This is where the Animal Freedom Front comes in. The AFF, an extreme organisation for animal-rights, eco-terrorist bums, that contributes nothing to society, but commiting destructive acts of terror against actual, lawful and contributing British citizens.
Deadpool: And probably commiting beastality while they're at it.
Professor Clive told members of AFF of an imprisoned chimpanzee at research ground, but left out the fact that chimpazee was infected. Then Clive commited suicide, with an inflicted gunshot wound to the head, probably trying to avoid the inevitable fate he will unleash upon the British Isles and Ireland.
Anyway, the AFF wanted to liberate the chimpanzee, sent a four-person team to 'liberate' the chimpanzee, not knowing that the chimpanziee is infected with the Rage Virus. Ignoring a scientest's warning not to open the cage, the AFF have the forever damnatory honor, of being the main cause of the release of the Rage Virus, opening the infected chimpanzee's cage, which repaid its 'liberators' by attacking them, and turning them into Rage Zombies.
Soon the virus spreads, and infected hundreds of thousands of civillians, and made civillians and all of the British and Irish Goverment, and British royalty flee Great Britian, with the British Armed Forces and Irish Defence Forces, struggling to contain the Rage zombies. US and NATO assistance came in as quickly as possible, helping the British and the Irish with slowing down the Rage zombies and the evacuation of Great Britian.
Aruthor: Although I'm a bit suspicous on how US intervention. Maybe they want to get samples to make a similar bio-weapon to the Rage Virus.
Deadpool: Yeah, and they basically made me into a walking, talking tumour with my rapid healing.
A single drop of either blood or saliva in contact with either the mouth or the skin, can turn a non-infected human, into something of an indiscribable horror, having and feeling no emotions, but only and always having the violent, unending desire of living flesh.
After the evacutation of Great Britian and Ireland was complete, when the GATE opened in the heavily infected part of London, with soldiers of the Saderan Empire marching in. They thought that they going to be masters of this world, just as they have mastered their world, but instead, they were doomed to die.
The Rage zombies attack the Saderans, only to be killed rather quickly. But the Rage virus quickly infected many Saderan soldiers, as the Saderan's fighting tatics, meant that infection by the Rage Virus was easily spread quickly among the soldiers. And by the end of the day, the entirity, the entirity of the Saderan expeditionairy army, was turned into Rage zombies. The infected, most went back through the GATE, with more infected on the way, as all non-infected civillians were evacuated to mainland Europe.
Over the next three days, more than three-quartars of all the infected Rage zombies, before the US and NATO high command spotted the GATE, and ordered the GATE's destruction, being destroyed by strike aircraft missiles and bombs. The destruction of the GATE, meant that the Rage zombies cannot re-enter Britian.
But it pratically sealed the fate of millions, and perhaps billions of Falmartians, as the Rage zombies, having no place to go, but into Falmart, chasing and eating its prey.
The Rage zombies for the Falmartians, they're potrayed as horrific monsters, being undead flesh eaters as they were known to the Falmartians, having no mercy for anyone, or anything. Nobles, slaves, merchants, demi-humans, humans, animals, get bitten and turn into Rage zombies. Towns and villages, no matter how many valliant soldiers or brave militiamen they have defeding, the Rage zombies will overwhelm the defenders, and turn the inhabintants and defenders into Rage zombies.
The Saderan Emperor, Molt sent army after army against the Rage zombies, only for the army to be turned into Rage zombies. Those who manage to escape, usally officers of nobility (as they had acess to horses), tried to tell the Imperial Saderan Senate and Molt, about the horrors of the outworlders, and try not to sent more young men to their deaths.
But the Senate and Molt were stiff-necked, as they didn't believe any of the survivours' testimonies, and began to conscript children into the army, and implementing harsh scorced earth tatics, which does not help in any way, and lay the foundation of mistrust between Falmartians and Saderans.
When the Rage zombies is continuing to advance, despite all Saderan efforts to push back, Princess Pina co Lada and her Order of Rose Knights was sent to defend the strategically important town of Italica, much to their delight. They had a hubris of superiority, believing that they can defeat any enemy that came before them
Deadpool: Given that nearly all of the Rose Knights, were spoiled 17-year old noble brats, I'm not hardly suprised they will believe that.
Such foolish notions, were of course, violently shattered, and as often the case at this time, quite gruesomely. They, along with the Italican milita, fought as best they can, before barely escaping with their lives, as the Rage zombies overtake Italica, leaving the remaining Italicans to their fate. The few surviving Rose Knights seeing many of their friends, whom they knew and trained with since they were children, be eaten alive by the undead flesh eaters, had broke them.
When the Rose Knights return to the capital. Princess Pina told the Saderan Senate that the flesh eaters from the outwold, are not the conventional enemy that the Saderan Empire had faced in the past, and was something different. Something terrifying. And that they have to do something, otherwise, the Saderan Empire will be overrunned by the undead flesh eaters.
And what the Saderan Senate and Emperor Molt do? THEY. DID. JACK. SHIT. They did not listen to fleeing refugees. They did not listen to surving officers (most being of nobility). And they certainly did not listen to a member of Saderan royalty. In fact, they mocked her for her 'defeatist' attidtudes. (And that my friends, is the definition of insanity).
Deeply angered by their insults, Pina stormed out of the Senate, and confines with her older brother, Diabo, who isn't has his head in his ass (unlike their half-brother, Zoral, both figuratively and literally). They both agree that they should hightail out of the capital, before the undead flesh eaters came. Which they did.
And Hardy's Flame Dragons were just as useful as the Saderan armies, because in the few moments they ate their first Rage zombies, they got infected, and turn into the Rage dragons (there were Rage dragons already, but they were small compared to the Flame dragons).
As the flesh eaters converge onto Sadera, the capital of the Saderan Empire, this is when Molt and the Saderan Senate had their 'Oh shit' moment. They tried to reinforce, but it was too little, too late. The city was going to fall either way. Molt and the Saderan Senate, tried in vain to defend the city. Tried in vain to evacuate. But they were eaten alive, by the flesh eaters.
Many of Saderan citizens, call upon the names of their gods, for salvation from the flesh eaters, in their greatest hour of need. But salvation will never come for those in the capital.
Only Prince Diabo and Princess Pina, were the only members of the Imperial Saderan Royal Family, that have managed to escape alive, because they they already long left the Saderan capital. Other survivors were the Rose Knights, several Saderan senators, a dozen merchants trades craftsmen, and a few hundred Saderan citizens.
They made an enclave in caves of the northern mountains, which were near mines that Diabo owns. Diabo was anointed Emperor of the Saderans (even though the Saderan Empire at this point, was non-existent).
Oh yeah, the Falmartian Gods, are FUCKING PISSED. They're angry that godess bitch, also known as Hardy, had played a key role in opening the GATE into the other world, and from the other world, it unleashed horrors upon Falmart, and the gods' respective followers.
Some of the gods' apostles manage to rescued a few hundred people between them and the apostles made a small enclave, that the aspostle can easily defend against, flesh eaters.
But Hardy's apostle and followers, were treated with outright hostility, as most religous figures figured out that Hardy was responsible for this GATE debacle. But Hardy was just hit as hard as any of the other gods, even though she was the god of the underworld, she needed living followers in order to 'exist'. She never meant to open the GATE to a world that had the undead flesh eaters eat people
Deadpool: She's still an idiot, regardless if she opened the GATE into another dimension, flesh eaters or not).
And Hardy's followers soon died off, and Hardy, in effect, unexist. And people were, in effect, quite happy with her unexisting.
And both enclaves struggles to survive, as they have limited food supplies (thanks to Emperor Molt), unsanitary conditions (as they're sheltering in underground caves), and people-going-insane problem.
Meanwhile, for the next eight weeks, the British and Irish refugees, waited to return to their homeland, waiting for the remaining British and Irish Rage zombies to die out of stravation. After eight weeks, the remaining British and Irish army and goverment, began to re-establish Great Britian and Ireland, respectivly. For the next three years, martial law was the law of the land, as Britons and Irish, try to rebuild their nation.
Most of the pre-recorded infomation about the origins of the Rage Virus had been destroyed. (But what people don't know, is that the CIA's Special Activities Division, managed to somehow, attain the original Rage virus documents, and destroy the remainder of the evidence).
However, there was enough released public infomation (most likely... doctered, or just made up lies), that most people abelieved that the AFF created and released the Rage Virus (And of course, the AFF or AFF's members weren't around to retort these accusations, as they are, well, dead). This place many global eco-activism and animal rights organisations, such as PETA and Greenpeace, under heavy scrutiny, with eviromental and animal rights activists, being accused of being eco-terrorists, creating and harbouring similar biological weapons, believing that they will become some eco-terroritst variant of Osama Bin Laden.
Many activist were watched, arrested, trialed, and in some cases, imprisoned. And even if they were found innocent, they were often fired from their current jobs and blacklisted from getting future jobs. This period of distrust between normal people and activists, was later called, the 'Green Scare'. Even to this day, many people still held great distrust for enviromental and animal rights groups.
Of course, after every tragedy, there were conspiracy theories, some more fantastic than others. Some theories said that the Rage virus was a goverment weapons program, other theories said the Rage virus was intentionally released by a foreign power. But the real truth, will never see the light of day.
Back to Falmart, most of the Falmartians, have turned into Rage zombies, eaten alive by Rage zombies, or is hidding in the apostles' enclave. Without a steady source of living flesh, the Rage zombies and Rage dragons, slowly starved to death. Soon, within six months, the continet was dead, filled with millions of zombie-like corpses of humans and demi-humans.
And slowly, the Falmartians and Saderans began to come out of hiding, leaving the enclave and began to rebuild. The good news is that the Rage zombies are gone and along with natural predators. The bad news is low food supplies and low manpower. So human and demi-human labour became more valuable.
And on top of that, the Falmartains, blamed the Saderan (most of the time, justly) for the flesh eaters, as they're the ones to open the GATE in the first place. On top of Saderan's xenophobic attitudes to demi-humans, and all of this caused great distrust and deep resentment between the two, even to this day.
Ten years later, the British scientests, along with American and European technical assistance, reopen the GATE, and saw that the continent, was dead. Surviving wild animals shelter in the houses of ghost towns. For a few weeks, they can only see what, before the Rage zombies ravaged the land. Books, buildings, were all that remains of thriving nations.
They found the few Falmartains and Saderan communities that managed to survive, and assist them whenever possible, usally in the form of food or medical supplies. They also act as protectors and mediators, making sure that the rebuilding Saderans and Falmartians don't make war with each other.
The British use Falmart, as a resource base, and over the next thirty years, Great Britain continually rebuild itself and Falmart, into advance, modern societies. Great Britian, the Confederated Republic of Falmat and the Kingdom of Sadera, become some of the fastest growing nations during that time period, with advancements in technology, especially in medical technology. The irony was that one of the most sucessful British medical product (which was Tranquillity), was derived from the same emotion inhibitor drug, that Clive and Warren founded over a decade ago, before they merged it with Ebola and evolving into the Rage virus (don't worry, Tranquillity is in pill form).
Speaking of the Rage virus, suprisingly, Russia and China, who you would think would be instantly start reseaching into this Rage virus, took one good look at it, and saw it was some fucked up shit, and decided not to invest into anymore time and money, into weaponising it, because it was more horrific than any other weapon that mankind had devised.
The US on the other hand, continue to research and experimenting into the Rage virus at the Dugway Proving Grounds, but also came to the realization that the Rage virus, was highly unstable. So they terminated the research program, and destroyed the files about the program, with the remaining files being stored in Area 51, because if you want something that will never see the light of day, Area 51 is the perfect choice.
However, there were many instances of rouge nations and organisations, that tried to recreate the Rage virus, hoping to release it among their enemies (i.e America or Western Europe).
The little shits in North Korea manage to sucessfully recreated the Rage virus, and planned to place into their missiles, but the CIA made sure that an 'acident' caused an outbreak, and over the next week, the nation of North Korea, basically became extinct, with the goverment and the most parts of the army fleeing the country, into amicable China or Russia, leaving the more 'previlleged' North Koreans (i.e. those who live in Pyonyang), to their fate, to be turned into Rage zombies.
Unfortunatly for some, the Russians opened fired on the North Koreans fleeing to Russia, afraid that the North Koreans are carriers of the Rage virus, and are taking no chances. But Kim Jong-Un, with his family and with high-ranking officals fled to China. He formed the North Korean goverment-in-exile, calling not just the retaking of North Korea by North Korea, but also the re-unification under his goverment. The world, just laughed at this statement, as he can't step back into North Korea, without being eaten alive by Rage zombies, let alone, reunifying Korea with maybe a few hundred people.
The South Koreans, after waiting two months for North Korean Rage zombies to die out, South Korean troops move into North Korea, and South Korea was unified with North Korea, simply becoming the Republic of Korea. South Korea made a deal with the PRC, that American troops will not be station in North Korea, in return, China will not try to restore North Korea, as China knew it wasn't in its best intrest to restore North Korea, especially when China knew about North Korea trying to do something about the Rage virus, and specifically warned North Korea not to research the Rage virus.
The remaining North Koreans, were angry at China for this, but since the population of North Korea in exile, has been reduced to a few dozen high-ranking goverment and military officials, and their familes, there's nothing much they can do, apart from a few angry diplomatic spats at the Koreans (making them very unpopular with the international community).
Other countries and terrorist organisations, also dabble into creating a similar virus to the Rage virus, but were often unsucessful, as the Rage virus was extremely unstable (compared to the first instances of the virus), and that US and NATO special forces, manages to destroy the virus and kill those who are working on it.
The Rage virus outbreaks in Great Britian and North Korea, along with hostile nations trying to make similar bio-weapons, caused nations to relizead, that biological weapons is, with one anoymus person say, 'one of the most vile things that science has created', which lead to international treaties that reduced existing biological weapons, and either limit or stop the production and development of new biological weapons (of course, most people don't know of the USA's development into Rage derived bio-weapons. Just in case).
The mistakes of the past, will not be repeated by the generations of the future (or will they?)
Author: I really like this chapter, as I think that the Rage virus is something unique in the zombie genre, and how its portrayed in the '28 Days Later' Universe. And the next story, is...
Deadpool: MORTAL KOMBAT!