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        The zombie outbreak had begun due to a virus that was now turning people into zombies and the one that was generated when the zombies were around them. No one really knows where it came from but strangely enough, while America was amid a pandemic with everyone being trapped in their homes and the military was trying to suppress the zombies large companies were still in business with no real sign of slowing down their workforce. This was because now all their employees had been turned into zombies and were still doing their jobs at work. It turns out that all the big business owners had entered into a conspiracy and started the zombie outbreak by accident when they started to treat all of their employees like slaves which drained the life out of them turning them into zombies and now the virus is spreading to anyone around them. But these business owners still keep the jobs open and are willing to let this plague continue because mindless zombies are actually workers that don't need to eat or sleep or take any breaks so now they tend to work much longer. This did have the nasty side effect of some zombies running around that were not employed to them causing trouble but they didn't care about the hundreds of thousands of people turned into zombies and then being killed by the military or any innocent people getting killed.

               As for the zombies themselves, they seem to have not known that they were zombies but they had lost their free will and didn't really see that there was much of a difference between their old lives and their new ones. But what nobody seemed to realize is that a select few zombies were gaining the combined intelligence of all the other zombies in a sort of zombie hive mind. And it was then that the zombie plague incorporated the most important part into their new hive mind angry protesters from college. Several of the zombies that gained all of their intelligence including one known as Ted who was working in this large company obtained the rebellious spirit of today's youth and decided that zombies have the right to shorter work hours and basic workers' rights as well as go to workers compensation.

               Using his power over the zombie hive mind Ted was able to control all the zombies that were working for his company and make them go out and strike. All of the other zombies that had control over the others Began to go out and strike. Soon there were zombies holding up picket signs going out of work refusing to return to work until they were given the proper workers' compensation and rights. Even though other zombies that were currently Terrorizing the rest of America went to all of these companies to protest against the harsh working conditions.

               The conspiracy of business owners then tries to inform the military that the zombies are protesting. But before that, the military opened fire several scientists found that this was actually something quite interesting and wanted to study it. Realizing that no one seems to be harmed by this action the military decides to wait a bit longer. After people realized this was a nonviolent strike, they started to observe the zombies, and several reporters even got close to them. Ted went up to a reporter and told them that this entire zombie outbreak even started because of the horrible working conditions that all these big CEOs have been making for them. Now they are protesting and they will not rest until they get proper working conditions.

               Upon hearing this many people started to blame the CEOs for this huge outbreak and began demanding that they just simply give the zombies they are workers’ rights. Soon people started attacking the CEO's house and giving them death threats. Because of this the CEOs then began to bribe all the scientists with large amounts of money to give them a false story that the zombies were lying and that they were just completely insane. After the support for the zombies faded people wanted to get rid of them. The CEOs also ended up bribing the military to basically attack the zombies and started shooting them all. Soon almost all of the zombies were wiped out including all of the hive mind runs except for Ted who managed to escape.

                He ended up living in the sewers for some time and many people believed that the zombie outbreak had finally ended he became pretty much mindless since all the other zombies were gone. Soon enough more zombies came into the workplace because the evil CEOs were once again recruiting new employees and treating them horribly with bad working conditions and workers' compensation. What was even worse is that the CEOs were now forcing the angry college protesters to still work for them and they were becoming very vengeful and soon they began to turn into complete zombies adding to the hive mind which made Ted's new mentality.

               Once again he gained control of the zombies but he wasn't going to do things peacefully this time. He patiently waited for the zombie outbreak to start spreading again and then he grew control of all the zombies and knowing their knowledge of all the companies they quickly began to attack the CEOs. All of the hordes of zombies began hunting down the CEOs and Ted told them not to eat their brains or infect them just simply kill them he didn't want them to be inside the hive mind. One by one all the CEOs were hunted down and quickly killed with machine guns forks and any other method of instinct killing them. Ted also had the zombies take all of their assets and then Ted began running all of their companies. Then he gave all of the other zombies working under him workers compensation and workers rights making the zombies much happier. They continued running all of these companies and nobody seemed to care that they were now run by zombies since their work output was so much better.

December 04, 2024 07:09

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