It had been a pretty shitty day, everything had pretty much quit working, power, water, radio, nothing seemed to work and thats when it happened, a brilliant flash and thenPOOFnothing. Looking back, it had probably been a bomb, maybe a nuke of some calibre? doesnt really matter as I had died either way... but then again im sitting here in some random apartment of some sort thinking all this so i cant exactly be dead now can I? and thats when I noticed the screen.. a screen like from one of those games or stories I read so often.
Welcome to the next life and your new world user! your past life has been taken into account, your preferences for stories and fandoms and what could fairly be given to you to make your next life interesting without completely breaking with world setting too much! Congratulations, you have been granted the gift of the store! You can buy everything from every day items, food, entertainment, survival gear and any kind of Fandom fitting weapons and technology! The only option coming close to being SciFi is the human creation option, of which you get one freebie! Buy items using store credits, earn store credits by killing Walkers! Earn store credits by your party memebers killing walkers or enemy humans! The System may grant minor optional missions to receive credits or you may receive credits for certain actions! You will receive 1000 credits to start as well as a basic starting pack! Good luck host! You have 36 hours until things begin! Welcome to your new life in The Walking Dead!
Well that was a bit of a mouthful to wake up to I suppose but thinking about it for a minute, I wasnt really leaving anything back in my old world and it seems I even if I was there, i would be trading one apocalypse for another given how i died. Okie Dokie lets try this out! "System! Open starter pack please!" and before my eyes appearing on my bed in front of me, several things popped out in a small flash of white light. That was pretty neat admittedly. out popped a pair of cargo pants, black leather jacket, a 12" hunting knife, some combat boots, a litre of water and an MRE. not horrid but not the best, I also seem to have been given 36 hours to get some basic preperations of some sort done as well...
With that thought in mind I turn to the tab still flashing in the corner of my eye, 'Human Creation' option. It doesnt take more than a few seconds to figure out what I am going to do as it kind of reminds me of the option from Terror Infinity that I read about. Basically I can choose a template of someone from my mind and the system would fill in the blanks and i could change things from there. I chose to be a bit of a weeb and chose Natasha from Iron Man2, that was in my opinion when she looked the best. The only things I really changed and enhanced was her height, making her 5'8 instead of the maybe 5'5 she was. The system took care of keeping things proportional. I may have slightly enhanced her curves a small bit, made her skin more flawless, and made her more physically toned, such as a small 6pack, more toned arms and back and legs and such, without taking away from the perfection in my opinion and im pretty sure i had the template of her actress not the actual black widow, as im sure she would have already been pretty strong and toned for her size. though the personality should be similar to Black Widows from what I was able to read in the description since she is who i was trying to create.
After spending about an hour of dealing with that I decided to add skills. from the skill section of the store for my creation, i could buy single things like Karate, with various options such as novice,intermediate, and master or i could buy packages that include that or other mixtures of different skills. Assassin for instance had several martial arts and many other skills an assassin would need, such as various weapon skills of various levels, infiltration, hacking and anything else an assassin would need to do a job, which is the package I bought for Natasha as it suited what i needed right now best, the package cost me 750 of the points i was granted but I think it was worth it! I also noticed i could create more humans, each costing 500 credits, I would have to think about that but for now I hit the Creation button and Natasha appeared before me in all her naked glory... so i forgot to buy her clothes i suppose. whoopsie? she just looked at me, not quite blankly but more like she was simply waiting for orders.
"Hello Natasha... do you understand where you are right now?" I wasnt exactly sure what she would be like or what she would know about her situation when summoned, i just knew she was supposed to be loyal to me unless i horribly abused her beyond a certain limit. "Yes Master, I am here to serve and protect you, I know this world will soon suffer a calamity and you gave me life to help survive this world you found yourself in." huhhh so she does understand exactly everything, even me not being from this world originally. cool, that works for me and makes things easier that she knows how she came to be i guess.
"Alright Natasha, we have just over 33 hours befor this world turns to complete crap and we need the essentials, guns, ammo, food, water, medicine, I can of course get all of that from the system store, but we need to conseve System Credits for other things, maybe more people creation, potentially if needed anyways. Could you highjack a truck tonight and i dont know..? rob a gun stores vault or something along that line? preferably without killing anyone or being seen? things will go to shit in 33 hours so it doesnt really matter if the police find out about the crime, as long as it doesnt come back on us for at least 2 days. Is it possible?" she seemed to think about it for a few minutes and then asked me to use the store function, which i granted her. I didnt know it at the time but with permission, Human Creations can use the store functions to buy things as long as i had the credits. I saw several things begin flashing into existence in front of her and begin to cry internal tears of blood as my remaining store credits hit rock bottom. all i could do was sigh in sadness.
She quickly put on her gear and equipped the gadgets that i had no clue what they did. one of the few things i could make out was some kind of wrist computer, probably used for hacking in some form or way. of course there was also a silenced 9mm pistol, a Glock if im not mistaken with a holster. "I guess i should mention, that if you run into any human shaped monsters, whether they be Walkers, rapests, pedos or whatnot, feel free to end their existences as long as you can do it without getting caught. free points while making the world a better place at the same time." i tell her with a weak grin.. basically just gave her free reign to off people, I dont know how i feel about that as i have never actually killed anyone before even during my time in the army.
She didnt say anything to that, just walked up to me, and to my surprise pecked me on the cheek before grabbing one of my oversized hoodies and walking out the door with swaying hips. yah.. best purchase ever. I didnt really have anything to do at this point, the system was right when it gave me the boons that it gave me, probably picking up on my lasy nature and giving me minions in all but name. I checked the information on the laptop I found on the kitchen table and it had all my information pulled up, well the important things anyways. I know i died with a few thousand dollars in my account and my information was all the same in this new world, I should also mention that I look nearly exactly like i did in my past life, only back in my prime of 23 instead of 37. no longer caring about that I simply ordered groceries online from the local WalMart with a generous tip, pretty much spending all my digital cash instantly but it should last a few weeks.
I am kinda being cheap i guess, in the System Store food is pretty cheap, so are most frivilous things like alcohol, drugs and clothes, the only slightly expensive things are guns depending on what you wanted, for instance Natashas silenced pistol cost 50 credits with two fully loaded magazines. not horrible but expensive with no credit flow yet. It was a few hours later, around midnight, that i noticed my credit balance begin to increase incremintly. I guess she actually did find some scum to clean off the streets, or maybe some Walkers? things didnt degrade until a certain time but that doesnt mean they werent out there for days and weeks beforehand, they just hit a tipping point when things went to complete shit.