Humanity’s control of the world ended one blood-soaked day when the dead came back to life and ran wild across the globe. Society collapsed in the space of a few short, shocking hours, and nothing would ever be the same again.
Becky Smith was one of the casualties. Even though her heart was ripped from her chest, she’d been infected by one of the undead, so became a brain-munching zombie. Months later she recovered her senses and took her first tentative steps as a monster with a conscience.
B learned, as time went on, that a war was being fought to determine the fate of the planet. Two powerful forces were pitted against one another on the streets of London. An insane clown, Mr. Dowling, stood on one side with an army of mutants and savage babies. The kindly Dr. Oystein stood on the other, with his team of compassionate, revitalized, zombie Angels.
Dr. Oystein told B that two viruses existed. One, Clements-13, would wipe out every zombie in existence within a couple of weeks if it was released. The other, Schlesinger-10, would kill off all of the surviving humans just as swiftly. The doctor possessed a sample of the crimson, zombie-destroying Clements-13, but Mr. Dowling had gotten his hands on a vial of the milky-white, human-annihilating Schlesinger-10, forcing a standoff.
Having suffered more than most of her wretched kind, B eventually wound up in the clutches of the murderous clown, held captive in his underground lair. He professed his love for her, and she eventually agreed to marry him in exchange for his vow to stop killing. On their wedding night, reacting to some hidden command buried deep inside her head, she mentally ripped the location of his vial of Schlesinger-10 from his thoughts. Mr. Dowling attacked her and they fought like tigers. B managed to escape with the aid of a cloned baby whom she had nicknamed Holy Moly.
Storing the vial in the cavity of her stomach (which had been carved open and largely emptied of intestines and internal organs), B headed for the surface, desperate to pass it on to Dr. Oystein, so that he could deploy his mixture of Clements-13 without fear of retaliation.
While waiting for the doctor in an old brewery, B found evidence that she had been played for a sap. She was horrified to discover that it was Dr. Oystein who had masterminded the release of the zombie virus that had brought the world crashing to its knees. Shocked and furious, she struck out at the man she had grown to love and respect, then fled, terrified of what he would do if he had both vials in his possession.
All seemed lost when some of B’s fellow Angels trapped her, but she was rescued by an ex-soldier, Barnes. He took her to a safe house and the pair planned their departure from London. But, late that night, a familiar foe of B’s appeared—Owl Man, so called because of his massive eyes. Owl Man had a sinister psychic hold over B, and to her horror he ordered her to kill Barnes. A slave to his whims, she automatically obeyed.
As B stared sickly at her dead comrade, Owl Man pointed to the doorway and Dr. Oystein calmly entered the old pub where she and Barnes had based themselves. Taking a seat, the doctor told B that Owl Man was his nephew, and that he and she needed to have a little talk…