[Infection Z 02] • The Aftermath

The Aftermath

The Z virus fell from the sky and within days the world had changed in ways that no one could have ever predicted.

One month later, it was a wasteland.

The cities were dark, dead monuments to the horror filled final days of mankind.

The machines, cars and buildings were now just the ugly skeletal remains of what the human race had accomplished before it died.

The dead decaying bodies that lined the streets and highways, told the story of mankind’s final days to anyone who cared to listen.

The story of the struggle to live, then the story of those

who ran for their lives when the fight was lost, only to realize that there was nowhere left to run.

But there wasn’t anyone now that cared to listen.

To those that had died, even to the few that lived, it didn’t matter any longer, it was over.

Doctor Kennedy, Petty Officer Chervanak, Seamen Davis, Rogers, Reynolds and Connors had found the government’s survival facility at Granite Mountain, Utah, after their base, the Fallon Naval Air Station, had been overrun by the infected.

Finding the facility had given the men hope, both for themselves and for mankind’s survival.

They had spent the last month at Granite Mountain with

Doctor Kennedy making his nightly broadcast to mankind’s unseen survivors as the men scoured the storage bays to find what they could use to help those that had survived the Z virus.

However, the men soon began to realize the post-apocalyptic world wasn’t what they had expected.

It was worse.

Tony, Mike, Linda and Jamie were staying at a small cabin they had discovered in the mountains above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, after they abandoned their home in Westmont to escape the walking dead.

The cabin turned out to be a safe place to hide from the dead as they discussed their future.

They listened to Doctor Kennedy’s nightly broadcasts and waited for the doctor to tell them when the Navy would be able to send them help.

The doctor advised his listeners to stay somewhere safe until he could tell them that it was safe to move around again.

Deciding to follow the doctor’s advice, they waited.

When the nightly broadcasts suddenly stopped, Mike and Tony felt confused.

Why did the broadcasts stop?

Had something happened to the doctor and his men?

What was going on around them now?

By staying isolated at the cabin for the last month, had they missed something that would affect their ability to survive?

Tony and Mike decided that they had to leave the safety of their mountain home to find out what had changed.

Doctor Kennedy had told them to expect the bodies of the infected to gradually decay and begin to fall apart.

But what they found was something the doctor had never told them about.

They felt that what they had discovered possibly explained why the doctor’s broadcasts had stopped.

Their discovery also made them reevaluate their chances of surviving.

Fran lived with her dad and sister outside of Twin Falls, Idaho.

Her dad came home from work one day, his clothing soaked from the weird orange rain storm that had gone through the area.

By the end of that horror filled day, Fran was the only member of her family that was still alive.

Fran soon discovered that not only was she the last member of her family that was still alive, she was the last person anywhere still alive.

Over the next month Fran tried to find a way to overcome the fear and loneliness of being on her own as she clung to what was left of her life.