[America The Dead 01] • The Rising of the Dead

When a catastrophic natural disaster looms on the near horizon, the government releases an airborne virus designed to make the human race tougher, better able to survive. It was developed for soldiers to make them better able to fight, go longer without food and water, and increase their strength.

In its virus host it bonds itself to our own cells and helps them to regenerate at an advanced rate, so that even if you die you can rise again. In non combat field tests the soldiers become aware of this, they called the phenomenon Overclocking and looked at it in a positive light. How could you look negatively at being able to live forever? A quick shot of the antidote after the heart had begun to beat again and the virus seemed to slip into remission, leaving a healed body the would come out of the virus induced coma in a few days once again its own.

But the virus does something the governments didn't consider, it never stops working, never truly becomes dormant. Even after the body has ceased any real life, the virus lives on, rebuilding it's host in a new and potentially indestructible way. Days later, what was dead becomes alive once more.

There area few senior officers and medical staff that suspect it has far reaching complications, but the time is ticking down, the coming catastrophe will surely destroy the majority of the Earth. The scientists and military machine behind the virus see no other way to save the human race, so the compound is released over all the major cities in the U.S., and from there it is quickly carried abroad.

Now the catastrophe has come and gone. Those that remain are picking up the pieces of their world. Those that have died lay in their sleep of death, but in their bodies the virus works on, mutating, adapting, changing, setting the stage for a second catastrophe far worse that the first.