'How did it come to this?'
Damien rubbed his aching temples while looking at the syringe in his hand filled with a viscous black liquid while recalling what led up to this.
While he was on his computer looking through various different fandoms on zombie viruses such as all of Resident Evils different viruses and Marvel's "The Hunger" zombie virus a strange message suddenly popped up on his computer asking a very simple question.
[Do you want to be a zombie? YES/NO?]
Usually Damien would have just clicked off of it but for some reason this time he clicked YES.
Then instantly everything went black and by the time he opened his eyes again he was in an alleyway with a syringe in his hand and new information in his head.
"So this is a zombie virus serum? Well it certainly does look like something that contains a deadly virus." Damien looked at the viscous black liquid inside the syringe that seemed to be moving like it was alive.
'From the information I was given, as long as I inject this into my body it will reconstruct my DNA from that of a human into a zombie. Luckily due to the purity of the serum I'll at the very least become a special infected which will allow me to retain my consciousness and even grant me a unique ability. There's even a small chance of becoming a Progenitor, though the specifics on what additional abilities that grants isn't in the information I was given.' Damien thought to himself while weighing the risks of injecting himself with the virus.
"Eh screw it let's see what happens." Damien injects himself in the arm with the syringe and as he watches the viscous black liquid slowly dissappear from the syringe and into his body he can't help but mutter to himself.
"Well Jojo it seems like I'm rejecting my humanity." Damien can't help but chuckle to himself while remembering the meme.
As soon as the syringe becomes empty he pulls it out of his arm and puts it into his pocket just incase some junky finds it and becomes the first ever heroine zombie.
Over the next few minutes he feels a tingling sensation that progressively gets worse and worse until it feels like his whole body's alsleep.
After another 10 minutes the feeling abruptly stops and instinctually Damien can tell that while he may have once been human, now he's something more, he's an apex predator, a being designed to hunt humans, now he's a zombie and not just any zombie, but a Progenitor.
"Hmm, well it seems I hit the jackpot and directly became a Progenitor, this is turning out better than I expected, and the abilities I've been granted are outlandish." Damien can't help but grin while sorting through the information flooding his head about his abilities as a Progenitor.
[Infectious Touch: Living beings pierced by your fingers or teeth will become infected with the zombie virus. Ordinary humans will mutate into zombies within four hours if alive and one hour if dead. Mutant-type beings possess partial resistance. As the progenitor all infected beings will obey your commands unconditionally.]
[Infinite Evolution: As long as you come into contact with extreme viruses you will be able to absorb the traits of that virus and integrate them within yourself creating a new evolved strain of the zombie virus.]
[Rapid Regeneration: Consumes your bio-energy to rapidly heal injuries. Cannot die unless the brain is completely destroyed.]
[Psychic Link: As the Zombie Progenitor you are connected to all infected beings through a psychic link and can share thoughts, emotions, experience, and techniques. Infected beings can also be temporarily controlled by you through the link.]
[Zombie Physique: All senses are sharpened to superhuman levels, you gain superhuman strength (able to lift up to 20 tons), and you gain pain immunity.]
[Progenitors Authority: As the Progenitor you are granted the authority to use any of the abilities that the Special Infected under you possess.]
"Interesting, so as a Progenitor the stronger the zombies under me the stronger I become. Unfortunately, at this point in time I don't have any zombies under me and at most I have a superhuman level physique and Regeneration that will rapidly regenerate any part of my body as long as my head is intact."
"On top of that as long as I collect other extreme viruses I will be able to evolve and take on the traits of those viruses and even enhance them, but what viruses would be considered extreme?" Damien tries thinking about all the viruses he knows about from his old world but nothing comes to mind that would provide any crucial enhancements so decides to put it to the back of his mind.
"Well I might as well see what world I ended up in, hopefully its nothing too horrible." As Damien walks out of the alleyway while mumbling to himself he suddenly stops as soon as he sees an eerily familiar building with a giant A on it.
"Fuck, I'm in a marvel world. I seriously hope this is world is similar to the MCU and not not like the 616 comic verison or I might as well tap out now." While Damien was considering just how fucked he was he suddenly heard a commotion a few blocks away due to his superhearing.
Damien immediately starts running towards the commotion while trying to shake off his feeling of despair and as he gets close he starts to hear yelling.
"Get on the ground you Mutant freak! Don't make me shoot you!" In an alleyway similar to the one I woke up in there's a cop pointing his gun towards a man who appears to be severely disformed.
"Please officer I wasn't doing anything wrong, I'm just trying to survive!" The man lifts his arms up as best he can while on his knees trembling.
"Shut up freak! You're going to the Mutant Detention Center where all the other freaks like you are!"
"No! I won't go I've heard about the horrific experiments they do to mutants there!" The mutant gets onto his feets and starts running away from the police officer but just as he's about to turn the corner.
BANG BANG BANG
He suddenly gets three new holes in his chest causing him to fall onto the cold hard pavement as a pool of his own blood forms beneath him.
Haha, take that you Mutant frea-" As the cop is celebrating he suddenly feels a sharp pain in his chest and as he looks down he sees a hand piercing through his chest while holding a heart.
"Wow, talk about being racist or well in this case speciesist. But don't worry I'll make you something better, something more than just a Sublime pawn." Damien pulls his hand out of the man's chest and takes a bite out of the heart as if it's an apple as he walks towards the barely alive Mutant.
"An Epsilon level Mutant huh? I wonder what will happen if he becomes a zombie?" Damien bends down and picks up the barely breathing Mutant while digging his nails deep into his skin infecting him.
He then goes over to the cop and picks him up while walking towards a manhole cover in a deserted street and dropping the bodies into the sewer before he himself dives in.
'I don't want this virus spreading just yet as knowing this is marvel there are countless genius scientists such as Hank Pym and Tony Stark who could potentially develop a cure if I'm not careful.'
***Chapter 1 End***