Warning, there be Gore here and many, many zombie tropes that get made fun of. Probably. This goes for the next 2-3 chapters
A city of the dead, something he was not expecting to deal with in this singularity, a bioterror outbreak in a city of Japan, this was a new one but now he was in the heart of hell. A city with broken windows, towering buildings painted in blood of those who were devoured or turned.
Even the streets were a mess, cars turned over and fires burning on the streets. Looking at all this, he was glad he came alone. Or atleast he thought he was alone. soon hearing the sounds of footsteps on the pavement, he was quick to turn, only to see that the portal had spat out one ally for him.
Cloaked in orange armor came Samus, visor green and glowing, seems she decided to tagh along, seeing the staring Ziden, she simply made the right call. " I can't get infected while in this suit. I'm tagging along because you could use the fire power." Her suit was absurdly powerful, that was for certain.
" Hmm, well alright, then come on, we are gonna make our way to the apartment complex and free the survivors there and find out what caused the outbreak and put an end to it." and he was certainly not ashamed of waiting, soon turning right around and walking off down the street.
Raccoon City ( Resident Evil 2)
" Fine by me, any infects, we take out." Her arm canon was set to Plasma beam, for extra headsplating goodness. The duo walking through the streets before seeing a large pile up of cars blocking the path. And normally, a smart plan would usually be forged here of just taking out the cars.
" Nah, we'd be swarmed and probably have way too many eyes on us, many of the buildings have knocked over into each other so that means we can run through around them and reach our destination. Move stealthily." Ziden explained while heading into a building and finding a broken up home, drenched in blood and body parts.
" Man, is this what a true zombie attack looks like?" Franky asked, the male even watching in terror while Ruby soon walked into the room and paled before leaving right out.
" Thriller Bark cannot even compare to this sight, is this Wesker truly this evil to cause this for no reason?" Robin asked while Romani gazed at the sight, even finding it hard to hold in what he was seeing.
" Yeah, he wanted to cause the evolution of mankind through the various viruses he had from what I remember, could be wrong. This looks to be the T virus, old school virus, far weaker than something like the Plagas or the G virus. It infects like how you you think, through the blood." And he made sure to walk through the home, only to find a notebook.
" Just like a cheesy horror movie, the Ing could cause similar things to occur with their possession, though, this seems...less messy." Samus looked at the torn up home, soon scanning along, seeing a long blood trail leading to a backroom. " Seems our path leads directly down this blood trail."
" Yeah, lets get moving." Ziden said before they moved through the home, the blood trail getting thicker and thicker, soon finding it leading into the kitchen, directly against an opened wall that leads to the next building. A paper on the counter that Ziden soon read aloud.
" I-I do not know who will read this but, i think writing this will make me take my mind off the chaos of the outside right now. My name is $%%^$$ and i have two kids and one of them was acting strange after their class mate bit him."
" Oh god no, please don't tell me." Sanae looked pale at what was heard as Ziden continued as Samus heard scuffling about in the hole.
" A few hours after that, he came down with a fever, so i let him rest in bed after school with his sister watching him. I, i do not know what happened, all i heard was screaming and I saw Yun..eating his sister. Her intestines, hanging out, what, happened to him? Was it this fever, or did I fail him as a parent?"
" Lady, I don't think ya failed him at all, ya." Law saw this and saw that the paper was red and dripping.
" I, I had to lock him in that room after he bit into me, i feel sooooo sick...so itchy..too. The house, tipped ovveeerggg, ah, i can almost hear him breaking down the door and coming down here. Ah...maybe, this will be my penance as a parent...failing my children like this...maybe soon, this itching will stop."
Ziden says nothing at that, nor do the people in the room before the sound of groaning fills the room, the opening now having a horde coming out of it, tall, short and even what was assumed of the woman and child. The virus caused a true horror to be shown to the people watching, even the RWBY crew who felt they were strong enough to watch.
Rotting bodies, missing limbs, muscles visible and even intestines and organs hanging freely, even the mother had hellish bite marks through her stomach as they staggered towards the duo. " found out what happened to the family atleast." Ziden's blade spun in the air as the zombies lurched forward, like lightning, they were cut down, his blade cleaving through skull and bodies without remorse or hesitation.
Samus stuck back and made sure to fire Plasma shots right through the skull, fire and skull matter sprayed out with each blast, the child able to sneak up on Samus and bite into the metal, shattering his teeth on her metal, Samus hesitating solely because it was a child, only for a blade of fire to cleave his head right down the metal.
" What, hey! That was just a-"
" A monster consumed by the virus, do not let their age fool you." Ziden had to be real. " In a place like this, you must abandon all morals to survive and to save people that are uninfected."
" Do...you have to say it so coldly?" Under her bow, Blake felt her ears flatten from this.
" Yes. I do, otherwise, if this gets out of here and reaches us, i need to be sure you guys can survive it while we destroy the source." Ziden swings his blade and looks at the blood staining the ground, soon heading into the next building, a Business office.
Samus seemed stunned for nary a moment before moving on, her map linking up and showing design of the building. " Alright, from here, we will enter a high rise apartment and then we move down to street level."
" Sounds simple enough." Many of the cubicles were trashed and damaged, caked in old and fresh blood. The navigation through it was hard, through this mess and seeing bodies lounging about, unmoving and cold.
A blip soon comes up on her radar, Samus quickly stopping and looking towards a blocked off Janitor's closet, heat signatures were inside, a sign of life. " There's people in there, alive." Ziden looks to Samus while thinking.
He makes sure to look around, no zombies, so it would be safe to grab them, which he did, the male knocking on the door. " Anyone alive in here?" He made sure to keep his volume low enough to not alert any sneaky zombies but he heard frantic hands hitting the door.
" Yes please! Save us! All our coworkers, devoured and killed! GEt us out of here please!" The voice was female for sure, and he made sure to open the door quickly and sees who was inside.
An orange haired woman in business casual and a young male with dark brown hair, from his age, he must have been an intern of sorts here. The woman seemed confident but she was covered in blood, no doubt from defending herself from the hordes while the male looked on edge.
"...Before we do anything, show me your arms and legs now." Ziden knew well of the zombie genre and how people would hide bites to avoid issues in the future, only to cause hell in a safehouse.
They stared at each other for merely a moment before showing their body to the others, no bite marks, and Samus even made sure to scan them, no blood was theirs. In the corner of the room, one could see a large bat, soaked in blood and brains from the fighter she was.
" Added them to my friendlies, will have them on our radars, listen, follow us, be armed, find a weapon? Take it, absolutely do not leave our sides, or I cannot guarantee your safety, we are heading to a safe zone." Samus explained to the duo calmly as the orange haired woman nods.
" Right, my name is Nozomi, his name is Curtis, he's from America on an internship. Well, he was before, all this." Nozomi nods as the group of four now heads on, Nozomi holding a bat while looking at her dead coworkers scattered around.
" Guessing the upper brass didn't make it either?" Ziden asked, looking back to her as she stares at the armored male.
" No, minus one, our boss, as soon as one person got bit and the building tumbled from a weird impact. He got through that weird door he installed." Nozomi pointed to the door next to the water cooler, seeing an indent inside of it and a note.
" To open this door, unleash the power of the combined beast scattered through the office and-"
SLAAASH!
No moment of rest at all, he cleaved through that door with the saber as Nozomi and Curtis yelped as the door fell down into the next room, quite loudly, soon hearing the moans of the undead approaching. " Yeah, not my brightest idea."
" You think!?" Yang's voice came hard into his ear, causing him to flinch before the group of four were besieged upon by Zombies, even with his sharp eyes, he could see many a door ahead of therm, an apartment complex, and the stench of blood was heavy.
" No fixing it now! Hurry up and duck into a house until we clear out the enemies!" And Ziden swung hard, 3 zombies cleaved apart like a mass of blood in a single swing, his strength kicking in as he literally leapt into the horde and started cleaving away.
" R-right!" They watched in awe, to them, Zombies are a hellish threat but to super powerful, armored heroes that were protecting them.
Office workers, torn apart by his blade, brains and blood spraying out with each slice, the duo soon getting into a apartment where the door was blasted down by an unknown force. The duo soon hiding back in the bedroom, ignoring the bloody mess in the kitchen. Ziden soon leaping back from the horde he destroyed as he heads into the complex with Samus.
" Had fun?" Samus jokingly asked while heading into the Apartment with him, seeing the mess that was there, a body with its head blown off and a shotgun, double barrel, a good find to have in this place as he takes it off the body. Samus scanned his body as if it was a common thing for her to do.
" Blunt force trauma, left leg is missing with bite marks along the leg, like it was bitten off, far sharper than normal human teeth. Was in the process of succumbing before taking his own life." Samus concluded.
" Damn, guess he tried to defend himself but didn't do too well." Sanji's voice came through their mics loud and clear.
" Yeah but those bite marks, they are not human, they look canine in nature. Can even animals be infected by the virus?"Eirin asked before Ziden spoke once more, tossing Nozomi a shotgun and a box of shells.
" Eh? For me?" Nozomi asked, quickly stuffing the bullets into her pockets, seeing her torn up pants, she makes sure to tear them up to make them into shorts.
" Yeah, give the bat to the other guy. Kid rather." Ziden said while stepping out of the home and soon making his way through the darkness as the others followed.
" Ziden, I'm getting two heat signatures on the second floor of this complex. Small, child sized. and another two a bit away from them, hiding." Samus noted, seeing the blipping her armor gave off, showing the heat signals.
" Then lets grab em and hit the streets, from there should be a hop, jump and a backwards longjump to the Complex." Ziden said while the group began their walk through the darkness of the halls, fire dancing along Ziden's armor and lights from Samus' armor lit the way for them, bloody dog paws dotted the floor and endless amounts of bodies lined the halls, stepping over many of them.
Once They reached the stairwell, he made sure to move down them carefully as Samus and the other followed behind him slowly, moving down the steps until they hit the second floor of the complex, the sounds of groaning filling the air. " Hah, the song of the damned?"
" Huh?" Nozomi looked towards Ziden, frazzled and scared at the noises.
" The undead are making their noises, so they are all up on this floor, Cut and blast our way through, we gotta make this floor clear entirely if we wanna save them." Ziden said while his blade was shining as he soon opens the door, only to see a hulking buff zombie before him that grabs him and throws him into the hall.
" Ziden!" Samus was quick to fire at the zombie, only to see how fast it was at dodging her shots, to make sure to go after Ziden, quickly spinning onto his feet and soon swinging his blade upwards, tearing clean through a trenchcoat and then flesh before perfectly bisecting a potential Zombie clean in half.
Samus quickly switched to her Ice beam and began to fire beams at the hordes that approached, freezing their skulls solid as the male with the bat soon went right in and started smashing their skulls as Nozomi teamed up with Ziden to start blasting away at the zombies.
" The kids are down the hall to your left! We'll grab the adults!" Samus said over their comms as Ziden and Nozomi made their way through the monsters in their path and soon reached the door. Blood stained and with a body stubbornly before it.
It was a really mess, a adult female, stomach torn clean open, legs smashed up and chewed in places, Arms entirely gone but her remaining body remained against the door, making sure it stayed closed before Ziden made sure to move the body gently. "..."
" Ziden, was that the kid's-"
" Yeah, it was no doubt, or their sister...lets save these kids." Ziden said while going to gently open the door and heading inside. The house smelt normal, but it was darkness as far as he could see. His flames letting him see around the home and soon coming across the two kids huddled together in the corner, black haired the both of them, 7 and 5ish as well. Seems the sister was the older one.
Seems the boy saw him and got scared before seeing his belt. " k-Kamen Rider! Kamen Rider!" Like a spring he ran over and hugged on Ziden's legs as the sister looked scared of the stranger in her home. " He's gonna save us nd mommy from the scary people outside!"
Ziden felt his heart lurch in his chest as he looks at them. Simply shaking his head. " Come on, we need to get you two some place safer, get anything you can fit in a backpack and lets go." Ziden couldn't tell them but they did as asked as Nozomi helped them.
" Oi, Ziden, you gonna be alright?" Zoro could tell, even through his mask, Ziden could not hold it together.
" He'll be fine, he has to be strong in this hell for them now." Yukari answered while Eirin was observing the samples being scanned by Ziden's blade.
" Kill more of those creatures, I'm already working on a vaccine and cure for this nightmare." Eirin stated, heading back to her lab after seeing the data on her tablet. The male soon seeing the kids with teary eyes and holding onto their backpacks. Their room was by the open door, they saw what became of their mother.
" Cover their eyes Nozomi. Samus, there's a balcony over looking the streets-"
" I know, I'm already taking our rescues there." Samus answered, the woman firing Beam after beam into the heads of the zombies in her path, compared to the ing, these enemies were rather weak. The area cleared and now leaving the group of three over the balcony as she tells them to wait.
One was a heavy set fat japanese man, balding with a perfect mustache and round of hair flowing around his head. The other, a slim, but rather curvy woman with bright blonde hair who was his secretary and god knows what else from how dolled up she looked, the woman standing there and looking down at the horde below the building, a good bit of the street to the left was open, but the zombies would make it hard.
" Huh, if you were to lead the zombies away somehow, we could easily get past to the streets and duck into buildings if we need to, Sir Takanaka!" Curtis smiled while looking at the horde of the undead, not noticing that Takanaka was coming up behind him.
" Yeah, and i know just how to get rid of em!" Takanaka was quick to Grab Curtis, exactly as Samus was coming into view, seeing the young boy literally being lifted by the fat man, kicking and screaming as she was trying to reach him, watching in horror as the man tossed Curtis down into the horde, directly to the horde as he was stunned on the open space.
" G-geh! AGH!" A shattered leg and his back was hurting but that was the least of his troubles, as the horde saw him and swarmed, the male screaming in utter agony as the sound of flesh being torn was heard. One could see the carnage being caused, his stomach torn right open and his intestines being ripped out and feasted on by the horde, screams getting steadily weaker as more and more blood leaves him and joins the street below.
" Utterly perfect! Now we can get out here! In this place, kids have no right to survive, only us adults! Now come on, lets get out of h-" He was cut right off by the feeling of a blade slicing right down across his chest, Ziden's blade soon leaving his body and sending him flying into the streets below.
" Honestly, leave an asshole alive and they will ruin your plans of survival, that is a truth." Ziden said while seeing the man screaming as the same zombies raced over to tear him apart and feast away on him, more mass meant more flesh to them, Curtis, he didn't deserve this fate, but now, they had kids to watch out for.
Nozomi saw what happened and held in her tears, a boy like that, dying because of the cruelness of their boss. There was no mercy needed there, holding onto the kids in her arms, she made sure to walk with them down the stairs. Ziden and Samus followed and made sure to not only lead but trail, Ziden in the front, and Samus in the back. Once they hit the streets, the duo got to work instantly, the horde now a mass of bodies and limbs from their quick action.
" You guys are making good time, it will be getting close to Noon when you get to the apartments as long as nothing goes wrong." Ziden heard Romani's voice coming through his Codec, but something odd was going on. An odd sense of danger.
" Can we hurry to the shelter, I really want to be somewhere safe and not have to deal with walking so much." The secretary lets out a sigh only for it to turn into a scream as she was knocked clean off of her feet by a Zombie, being chomped right into like lightning as Ziden and Samus barely saw the creature run by.
A run of the mill zombie but something was different, all of this dust was coming off of it, no, smoke? Their eyes were glowing red and soon and another appeared on the scene, soon seeing Samus get hit and sent skidding along the floor before she recovered.
Ziden blocked a swipe from these new zombies before his blade quickly cleaves right through that body of his, the Zombie flying past him in two halves, watching the street turn red from the blood.
But when that upper body landed, the smoky corpse quickly got onto its hands and charged right at Ziden, the male showing shock before his blade cleaves right down the center, head and brain destroyed as he sees Samus leaping high into the air, seeing Nozomi quick to defend the kids with her shotgun, surprisingly skilled, the woman made sure to track a zombie coming right for them and blast its head clean off, sending it flying. The kids clung to her legs.
Samus while airborne, blasts a Zombie apart with the Wavebeam, barely leaving anything but a bloody mess behind as the zombies were taken out.
" W-what the hell were those!? Those were way too fast and strong for zombies!" Romani's voice came through as Eirin was looking at the screen in her lab
" That...was not a virus empowering them, even from here, i could feel it...the faint air of the divine." Eirin explained.
" You telling me a God is messing with zombies now?" Ziden said while swinging his blade clean before running over to the secretary. seeing the blonde haired Secretary bleeding out into her blue outfit, the woman shaking hard from the pain she was in, the bite was in her arm but white smoke was pouring out of the hole and making her wound turn grey.
" Miss Atago..." Nozomi looks at her violently shaking from the infection process, the shaking only getting worse once the veins reached her neck, blood oozing out from an orifice, any orifice on her face, blood and black gunk leaving her as smoke soon came out of her mouth and soon stood right up, the male standing up and switching right into his Sylph form and firing his magnum right into her face, splattering her blood all over the floor and knocking her body out of its spasms.
" H-hey! What the hell! Can't you have just healed her with your bloodlike Robin told us you did for the maid!?" Sanji asked this, his chivalrous nature coming out from how quickly Ziden put her down.
" No, the reason Sakuya can handle it, is because her body is magically attuned enough, if I gave the woman my blood, she would have likely been warped and destroyed." ziden explained while looking at the headless body of Atago.
" A shame, heard she transferred over from a Military sea base, think she was one of those ship girls or something." Nozomi stated while Ziden raised his brow.
" Yeah, I've heard of them, Kantais and the army group known as Azur Lane, no, navy even. Ships given human form to face against threats to humanity." And now Steve Rogers was pitching in now. " But thanks to Bison taking over and destroying their enemies, they all just kinda lived civilian lives now. Though i guess some can never escape hell."
" Ship girls huh, so they can be affected." Ziden thinks for a moment before turning his back on the body. " Come on, everyone, lets go."
The group leaves the body behind as they make their way over to the apartment, the city got more destroyed the deeper they got into it, bodies laying about, torn asunder and the air filled with the stench of blood and rotten dead air, accented by the endless burning of fire.
Stores ruined and destroyed by riots of the undead and looters, fighting for themselves and for family, the male soon moving down the street and past the street leading to the park, seeing something truly unordinary.
No, it was not the massive amount of zombies lingering around the apartment area, nah, that was normal in this crisis, the really, really odd sight was the massive dome around the apartment complex, that gave Ziden the memory of Chrono Trigger, the dome was massive, covering the entire complex, a powerful glass meant to even handle Missile strikes. A doomsday prepping maniac must be gleeful right now.
" This...puts a hamper on things." Nozomi pointed out while watching the utterly massive horde.
" Oi, can't want of you just run in and slice them all up." Zoro pointed out the option here.
" Yeah, but realistically, bad idea with that much people and the risk of damaging the dome and us getting swarmed. We might be strong but we cna still be swarmed, especially since we have people out here." Ziden pointed out, Zoro blinking.
" wow, that actually makes sense, so, what are you guys gonna do?" Nami asked, the woman having cleaned her mouth from the horrors seen, despite them being pirates, seeing people torn apart like this was a tad too much for them
Ziden is about to say something before a massive explosion of wind literally blasted down upon the zombies, seeing nothing but red air and particles from the sheer force of the wind, the sound of the wind almost busted their ears before the stopped, a familiar figure soon floating down from above.
" Ayayaya! Come Nightmare or hell! Aya always saves the day! Come on! Come on before more come!" Aya quickly motions them to follow, the kids and Nozomi clearly scared of the winged woman before them but quickly moving through the bodies that rained down from the skies
Inside of the Dome...
Ziden finally detransformed due to the area being entirely safe and finally lets out a sigh of relief as the kids ended up staying with a older woman who would watch out for them, Ziden looking at Hatate in a wheelchair, simply looking out of the window blankly.
" So, you got here to evacuate us? That is damn good, whenever everyone gets packed, we will go ahead and get things going, this city...I do not think we can save it." Aya said while solemnly sighing and sitting down.
" That's fine...I guess." Hatate soon looks at the duo, sullen lifeless eyes as Ziden soon sees Aya looking up at him.
"...Glad you're alive though, knew you were alive but damn, it feels good to see ya up close." Aya said while smiling up at him. " And good timing too, things have been getting hectic to the max. Yeah like, weird hectic, because first of all we ha-"
Aya was utterly cut off by a loud scream that came from Hatate, the sight that caused her to scream, caused all of them to scream who were currently watching, a giant eye peeking through the window before the entire area just went white, a blast of force, sending all three flying out into the courtyard, the dome breached by the unknown creature as Ziden slammed into the ground behind Samus, his armor automatically coming on.
" Ziden!? We got major trouble at the gates!" They were only here for an hour, what could possibly be going wrong?
And he got that answer real damn fast, seeing the massive shadow at the gate which soon slammed right through the gate, allowing Zombies to pour right into the complex, along with the massive beast that towered over them all, one before them and the other looming over the apartment.
" Impossible! Why is that here!? And what the hell is that thing over there!?" Viridi's voice finally blasted through
Ziden looked towards the giant sludge monster behind him, glowing eyes staring at the group as zombies were caught in the sludge and soon falls over onto the ground, sludgy zombies with weird arm cannon things.
" Vaal Hazak! Why is one here?!" Even Palutena seemed concerned as Ziden looked to the creature towering behind them.
" And Hedorah as well, what the hell is going on here?" Ziden asked, Samus and Ziden watching as the humans quickly ran into the supermarket in the dome, planning to hole up there. A battle was about to brew and it was not gonna be pretty.
Elsewhere...
Above them on a rooftop, two foxes could be seen watching the events take place, a white fox and a brown one with red eyeliner whom watched the events unfold.
" Sister, are you certain of this?" The white haired one looked to her sister while the brown haired one smiled.
" I am indeed, if we are to rescue our Juniors from Hokkaido, then we must ally with that man and serve him to gain his protection. When this world is repaired, we will be in grave trouble." The brown fox simply giggled as the white one seemed more serious about this.
"...Indeed, very well sister, let us go and aid him, do not get bitten, we may be ships but the virus can harm us all the same." The woman in white and blue held up tags, soon engulfed in blue flames.
" I know very well sister, let us scare away that dragon after we see how well he can fight using Sakura Empire technology and magic." The brown haired woman softly smirks, seeing the male and Samus getting ready to fight.
Deaths:
Atago
Curtis
Trivia:
1. The fat guy was a trope of the asshole guy, who is usually old or fat that gets another char killed but lives through out for a long time. Not here, Realistically killing an innocent man during a crisis with a hero around is asking for it.
2. Curtis is a random OC, think of him as a Red shirt from Star Trek, alot of ocs you see will be red shirts.
3. Atago is directly from Kantai, you will learn more of them in a bit as to why Kantai is here.
4. Those two foxes will be very obvious if ya play a certain gacha game or watch a certain ship anime.
Author's note: No excuses, life got hectic again, job searching went south before shooting skyhigh because as of this chapter, i am know undergoing Job training so i am now employed and my mood is at an all time high, so from this point on, chapter uploads should be weekly for the main story and probably bi weekly for the original Touhou story: An Altered Chronicle. Anyways, thanks for the read, and make sure to leave a review!