2012 : Nova Gaia : The Outbreak

Here it is, the day of reckoning. The Council has gathered to decide the fate of the world. We heard that there was a prophecy, that the Earth will be destroyed. The threat of alien invasion, meteorite strike, giant anaconda migration and evil cannibal Santas seemed all so real. World leaders are told to stop their mutual discrepancies and mobilize their armies against the common enemy. It was human against human again, brother against brother.

Within a month of the landing of the unidentified probe 2i9 in Antarctica, the aliens have gained a foothold on earth. They have been mass producing heavy mechs, airships and droids on the planet itself. All human efforts to stop their factories have failed. By aliens I don’t mean large sized bipedes, they were humans like us, yet so extraterrestrial.

New York was hit by a massive infection what seemed like a flu virus. Within days the streets were abandoned. From the outside it might seem like a riot, but in reality a horde of bodies grabbing and eating each other.Dogs, thin to their skeleton prowled the lanes eating every bit of meat they can chew on. Soon, New York has to be destroyed to stop the virus from spreading. Humans or zombies, it meant no difference to me.

Dr. Schoenberg was found murdered as lab working on the concoction that could cure virus outbreak. I used to work under him, now jobless and penniless, somewhere in a Scottish moor. The future is as murky as the fog that shrouds the Loch in from of me.