The New World (I never said it had to be good one)

It's been many years now, and yet there hasn’t been a single small crack in the way the zombies own and rule the world. No one saw it coming until it was too late, of course they didn't, no one ever does for these kinds of things. Either that or no one gave a shit, wouldn't have been the first time humanity stared it's own destruction in the face and did nothing to stop it.

It all started back in 2020, exactly 86 years ago. Rumor says it was a virus or some shit like that that started it, no one really cares about the details anymore, most of us have given up hope anyway. It's not exactly fun being a human in 2106, and the only thing you can hope for is that it won't be your turn that day. Every single human is kept inside walls, we still have buildings and jobs and lives, but it's all inside a big dome with no way out unless your dead, or undead in most cases. It feels like we're cattle just waiting for slaughter, maybe because we are. The worst part wasn't that we were like animals raised for slaughter, no, the worst part was that the zombies, the undead, the whatever, actually told us why humans were killed and what they did to the bodies afterward.

If you owned a chicken farm where the chickens were intelligent enough to understand you, you wouldn't tell them what was going to happen to them, you wouldn't let them know all their friends and family would die, and you would certainly not tell them what would happen with their bodies once they died. Not only were we raised like animals, but we were also chopped to bits like them, only we were treated better so we wouldn't rise up against them.

The thing that those shitheads don't know is that we have our own weapon, our own team to fight against them. A few years ago a rumor started, it spread like wildfire for all the humans and was carefully kept away from the zombies or their sympathizers. There was something new coming, being developed right under everyone's noses, quite literary. Someone had spent years digging a secret cellar mixing together the craziest kind of ingredients in the search for a cure, but what they found instead will soon become our solution. Because they didn't create a cure, they created a poison that almost instantly kills the zombies while taking days to kill humans unless they receive an antidote. Its name is the most fitting anyone could come up with D.I.E. because we want to kill all those suckers with the Drought of Instant Extermination, we want to make them pay for what they've done to us, what they've done to mankind.

The funny thing is, I never wanted to be a part of this, of the rebellion, of the revolution. I wanted to be alive with my friends and my family until my time would come, and at least then I could be dead without worrying about what other people I would lose. After the first one died, there was only sadness, after the first three there was numbness, but everything after five is a shit ton of anger, all directed towards those responsible. No matter how much they try to make us feel comfortable and at home, there is just no point with it after everyone around you is long gone, sorry, long digested. So damn right I became angry, I was lonely, I was useless and I was powerless. But the people of D.I.E. gave me a purpose, they gave me a gun and a target and said "shoot until you hit". And that's what I and so many other people have done ever since. They sent us on missions all around the city, they sent us to gather information, gather resources, and gather ingredients. We worked in teams where people were constantly being replaced as their time on the smorgasbord came and went, but I was always left. Biggest mistake of their undead lives, because they should've just killed me when they had their chance. Now it's too late because if someone dies, there is always someone else to fill their place, to keep carrying the flame until those suckers are dead. I've already said my piece and done my part and I will keep fighting until it's my time to do things, either that or I will be here when we win. Because we will win, maybe not today, maybe not this year or even in 100 years, but one day we will win, because as long as humans are alive we will never stop fighting for our freedom and our lives. Because this isn't about being alive, if it was then we would have been happy continuing with the zombies. No, this is a fight so that we can live, so that we can do something with our lives instead of just waiting for the end.

We will win. I know we will. Because this isn't only about those working with D.I.E., this is about every single person, every single human still living on this rock and it's for those who haven't even been born yet. Once we have enough resources we will make one dose of poison for every human inside the dome along with one dose of the antidote. And on the same day, everyone will take the poison, so when the zombies come to collect they won't know they've been tricked until it's too late. They will be dead and the humans who are left will take the antidote and continue with their lives, and they will start rebuilding the world and our society. No one in this lifetime has ever been outside the dome, we don't even know how much of the old world is left or if the world is what is left inside of the dome. But we are going to find out, if the world outside is destroyed or if it's exactly like inside the dome it will still be better than life could ever be in here.

So this is our fight, this is for everyone we've lost to come this far. This is for Charlie, for Amanda, for Evan, for Chris, Markus, Lillie, Anastasia, Sam, Max, Oliver, Hanna. This is for my family, for my mother, for my father, for my older brother, and for my little sister who was only four years old when they took her.

Now you might question who I am, and let me tell you, in the grand scheme of things, I am just a face among many others. You don't need my name or my face to know my story, you only need to know that I did what I had to do because I knew it was the right thing, because no one else should suffer as I have, no one should be scared shitless like I have. It's time to face our fears and it's time to kill all of those undead suckers so no one will have to live with that same fear ever again.

It's kingdom come, and now it's our turn to raise hell around here.