Curse the Mainframe! 202 The End of the Apocalypse

It had been quite an amount of time since Alec and Dominique had entered the spaceship with the alien.

Though they weren't sure whether or not Dominique was truly under the alien's control, they had faith that their boss would be able to take care of it. If there was anyone who was able to snap Dominique out of it, it would be the boss.

The rest of the party members didn't look so confident in their wellbeing, but the Spectres knew that their boss and Dominique were fine. Otherwise, the boss would have already called them using the Spectre mark.

The boss had laid out their plan earlier before they set off, and Yuki trusted his judgement. So far, everything the boss had done had not led them wrong yet.

However, other than the Spectres, the rest of them didn't seem so confident. Well, they would learn if they stuck around long enough.

Though Yuki felt a little jittery being so near females that weren't in his immediate circle, he dealt with it firmly by ignoring it.

Well, he wouldn't see them again after this stage was over anyway, so it was fine. He just had to pretend they weren't there.

Like Yuki, Vivian was not worried at all even though there were many variables in the plan. This was mainly because, as the one who had the most experience here, she would be able to feel the danger way before anyone else.

Without a doubt, Vivian was the strongest being on this planet right now, yet no one besides the Spectres were able to tell. While she could have ended this all with a single move, Vivian acknowledged that there was a way that they did things, and she did not want to undermine Alec's leadership.

They were all seated on the saucer of the UFO, watching and chatting as the zombies congregated below.

Karen and Liam were practicing their magic control under Lukas' instructions and tips, allowing them to hone their abilities in real time without any major danger.

However, Lukas seemed to think that it wasn't enough as he kicked both of them into the fray while he watched over their progress. There had to be a little danger so that they would use their abilities to their fullest, after all.

In this aspect, Lukas and Alec both agreed.

Unlike the rest of them who seemed relatively carefree, even if some of them were worrying about Alec and Dominique's safety, Natalie, who had woken up after a bout of unconsciousness, was almost going out of her mind with worry.

She'd been discomforted to realize that her memory over the past week or so was strange and unsettling.

At that time, what she did seemed completely natural – like it was her own thoughts that were directing her.

Yet, just now when she woke up and thought back on her actions, she didn't even dream that she was able to do something like that!

She'd already taken part in causing the calamity that had caused so many humans to die, yet she once again went down the wrong path?

Whenever she thought back about what had happened to her over the past week, she felt a sense of disconnect and horror.

When exactly had the alien affected her?

She didn't even know about it, let alone try and fight against it.

Natalie quietly worried about Dominique's wellbeing inside the spaceship.

The others hadn't experienced it, so they didn't know that it felt as if she was completely in control of herself when she did those things. As if it was the most natural thing to move according to those thoughts.

Te.ake would have cried if it knew that the humans were all casually using its spaceship like a sightseeing ship while it was trapped and tortured for hours on end by Alec.

Alec finally finished extracting the information from Te.ake, and he left the spaceship in satisfaction.

Te.ake was placed back into the metal container that it was well acquainted with, but the alien had never felt such stark relief seeing the darkness greet it like an old friend.

It almost felt as if it never wanted to come back out if it meant that it never had to see Alec's face ever again.

When Te.ake had given Alec the information, it had originally thought that it would die right after that, but who knew that they would spare its life?

Boohoo, that youngling was too scary! Te.ake teared up sadly.

Even if they had placed it back inside the metal container, Te.ake never felt such stark relief or gratefulness to any one being that the torture was over.

Of course, what Te.ake didn't know that was the exact reaction he'd been aiming to get. The relief and terror in turns would ensure that it was easy to extract information in the future.

The group gave matching expressions of happiness when they saw that Alec and Dominique were unharmed.

It was relieving that Dominique's usual normal gaze when he looked at Alec was back.

It had truly been too strange to see him without the fanaticism in his eyes. They didn't even realize that to them, Dominique's fanaticism towards Alec already felt like an integral part of Dominique's personality.

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Robin didn't know how to place the changes that had suddenly happened over the course of five years into the apocalypse.

With the first appearance of the zombies that now populated a vast majority of their planet, humanity had pulled themselves together, uniting as one in the face of their inhuman counterparts, yet that was only how it appeared to be on the surface.

The masses who wanted to remain protected within the bases ate it all up, yet people like Robin, who braved the dangers in the outside world knew that the pretty words the leaders spewed were all propaganda – just like before the end times.

People still backstabbed each other. They still lied, cheated and killed outside of the bases.

Only, now, it was a lot easier to do damage control. Disposing of bodies was so much easier compared to before, and there were so many more avenues for those with bad intentions to carry out their plots and machinations with the degradation of the world's law and order.

So, when things subtly took a turn, Robin was not the only one who remained unaware.

It started with the little things.

Things like people being more willing to lend a hand when you were out there – outside the bases, with only your teammates to watch your back.

Sometimes, injury was unavoidable, so the zombies that came after the scent of blood came relentlessly.

Robin didn't know when it started changing, but the people that left the bases started helping each other more actively, without wanting anything in return.

They shared and exchanged necessities with each other, lending each other a hand as long as they promised to do good to someone else when they needed it as well.

Strange, but good.

Robin reflected the changes in himself after a period of time and found himself helping others just as others helped him, but that was fine.

Nothing too unusual.

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But then, came the major changes like the zombie population thinning out, and gradually, there were less and less zombies that they saw from city to city.

People who got hurt stopped turning to zombies, while humanity's powers grew stronger over time.

Though the zombies grew stronger as well, humanity was still able to cope by banding together to take them down.

Four years after the zombie apocalypse began, someone who'd taken radical experimental treatment after they'd been scratched by a zombie came out entire unscathed, his previously greying skin returning back to its healthy, human shade.

That was a day where the entire world celebrated.

Then, when the fervour of the people grew to unimaginable heights, the cause of that was revealed.

A little girl called Amanda Stokes had been the leading cause behind the cure.

A little girl that held the anti-zombie genes, something that the scientist, Natalie Baker, managed to reproduce under lab conditions.

Now that they were no longer held back by the threat of zombification, the world's enthusiasm for zombie eradication reached new heights so that they could regain their world.

Life went on. Until, one day, when Robin left the base to do his daily procurement of supplies and to kill some zombies, he abruptly realized that he hadn't seen a single zombie the entire time.

His teammates wore equally stunned expressions on their faces when they realized what this meant.

The world was rapidly being cleansed. By them.

They returned to the base, spreading what they knew, and before they knew it, a new spree of zombie cleaning kicked off.

In as little as five years, the zombie apocalypse had started, and had ended just as quickly.

Because of humanity.

Because they'd banded together.

Because of a little girl called Amanda Stokes, and a scientist called Natalie Baker.

Robin wasn't ashamed to say that he cried, along with so many other people.

They held their friends, held their remaining family, and they rejoiced. Their tears contained both joy and sorrow. One for the hope of the new world, and one for the sorrow of those that had left the world early.

There had never been a happier moment when they realized that Earth had finally rid themselves of the zombies once and for all.

Robin looked into the setting sun, and he thanked the heroes from the bottom of his heart for making this all possible.

Chapter end