Chapter 2 : Mutants

Belle got her guns and starts shooting the zombies trying to exit the stairs leading to the second floor from the third floor ' The blood packs on the second floor are going to be a little but still , a blood pack is a blood pack . '

Belle killed the last group of zombies with a machete and opens the gates to see no mutation on their DNA ' So far only the girl and the tree have a mutation ' she had also gotten rid of the virus in the tree leaving only the vaccine she made on the tree .

It would result in the tree being highly immune to the viruses sent out by Project Holocaust . Belle walked upstairs to see that there aren't many zombies anymore ' It has a high concentration of people so they might have some mutations but that was a little wrong to think that way . '

Belle hot-wired a car and drove to a nursery parking her car in front of the school gate and looking at the closed windows and a beaten-up zombie by the entrance .

But she heard laughter a familiar voice she heard in the lab . She took her guns and ran to the voice and arrived at the small closet ' F*** I should've known they had other ways of experimentation . '

A sane and tall humanoid zombie looked at Belle " What a beauty ... I want you " Belle saw the torn bodies of teachers and a baby's head poking out of one of their vulva . The zombie looked at the baby about to get out " This is my child that I made from nights of raping her I made sure she received a lot of my seed "

Bang " Argh you bitch " he jumped on Belle going to the hallway but she took a fire extinguisher and swung it to his face as his mouth split open biting on it . He opened his arms to grab her but she gives the extinguisher a push and shot the palms of his hands .

" S*** " Belle pushed him down to the ground and shot through the extinguisher while she kicks down a tentacle at his crouch ( that would be his mutated genitals )

" You B**** " his hands took hold of the extinguisher and pushed back but Belle's strength was greater . She rolled to the side and shot him with her pistols ' Should've gotten a shotgun . '

He threw the extinguisher at her and she swat it like a fly and kicked him in the chin . Belle took the victim's body and pushed the baby to its head as the blood showered it " You leave me no choice . "

Belle kicked him back to the janitorial closet and shut the door . He watched in amazement and fear when he saw Belle's arm gather the zombie virus on his leg " Wait we are the " Belle immediately stabs his head and send signals of pain killing him mentally .

" This is disgusting " she started erasing the genetic data of the virus thereby disabling its traits and letting it die until it gathers DNA sequences from other cells ' The doors are locked that might mean there are still living people inside . '

Belle knocked on a door " Go away ! " she hears a teacher scream back " Don't worry the zombie is dead is there other zombies around here ? " the teachers hugged the kids they were taking care of and looked at the door .

" No are you part of the government ? " " No but I am here to save you is there other people in the building ? " the kids look scared while the teachers comforted them " No we are all in here " " How many ? "

" At least a hundred " Belle remembered the bus beside the building and went there to see it in just a wrecked condition " This will take a little time to fix " the bus was fixed by Belle who strengthened her body and remodeled the front by force .

After checking the engines and functionality of the bus she went inside the nursery and gathered the class hamsters injecting them with the virus of the girl at the hospital ' Good thing the variant virus the girl has acts as a repellant to zombies what a good four-leaf clover she is . '

She took the hamsters into their cages and knocked on the door " Hey it's me again you should keep the class pets maybe they will help calm the kids in there also there is a shelter you can go to using the bus and just to be sure to bring the hamster with you " Belle left the cages by the door and left the place .

' The lab released some patient zero that means I need to come more prepared ' Belle drove to a store ramming the zombies away and found shotguns and a dead man being eaten by some zombies .

" Of course " she took a silencer and killed the zombies throwing away the bodies and taking a shotgun with her ' This would be good in dealing with those mutants ... but first I need data ' Belle never thought of the other experiments that could have escaped from the lab or sent out to be tested during project holocaust .

' I need to do something about them don't I ' Belle grab a shotgun and threw it into her suitcase and drove the car to a shelter ' I'll check on that place it might have some escaped civilians '

She arrives at a shelter and was greeted with admiration " It's the school Belle she's alive " Belle made sure she wasn't to be messed with as she had guns and knives on her body " Oh my god even in an apocalypse she is unwavering "

Some girls didn't look at her with envy but with admiration as she didn't act like one who would chase others or fall for those who pursue her " Belle my top student " Belle slapped the hand who wanted to shake her hand just like she would to every one higher than her who did the same .

" So how is your food supply cause according to some survival experts at one point you're gonna choose who to eat next " Belle greeted a government leader who was struck by her beauty but recovered .

" Don't worry about that miss , for the time being , we are feeding on limited supplies but we are also planting seeds on this soil that wasn't touched by the vaccine that was injected today " ' Did I just assume she was my superior ? ' without anger the leader waited for her still treating belle like she was a superior " Good then I guess you received a doctor who came with a girl ? "

The official froze and whispered to her " Miss are you the one who sent that man " " Yes he came from a mental hospital that doubled as a highly secured one as her parents paid the hospital to keep her alive due to their flawless treatment "

The official nods and gives her an escort to bring her to the tent where the doctor and the girl were in " Hello doctor " " Oh hi thank you for saving me " " Your welcome how was the progress ? "

" Um I got the blood " the girl hug the sheets of her bed at the mention " Don't worry little girl eat healthily and replenish your body be sure you don't get scared " ' Cause there are bigger things to be afraid of ' Belle looked at a picture frame ' Must be the one I saw beside her bed '

Belle smiles to see the doctor writing a report on what he needs ' Thank god someone has restraint ' " Um miss ? " " Yes ? " " Can I see mommy and daddy ? " " Don't know but I'm sure they're fine " ' Their daughter has been in a coma for so long but I don't think they will die so easily if they want to meet her again . '

Belle leaves the tent as the doctor went to a group to analyze the DNA of the girl's blood ' I wonder how the civilians are reacting ' just as she predicted a riot was sprouted from her college teachers.

" Belle where are you going ? " " Outside and leaving " Belle walks to the exit but was grabbed by a teacher " Come on show us some respect " Belle took a deep breath " No " she throws her grip off .

" Hey we were your teachers you know " " Yeah teachers that taught the same thing as high school and only made things look complicated and made all of us do quizzes and more complicated projects to work on instead of teaching us some new things "

" We were the reason you got a degree " Belle froze and turned her head then her body " Really , that's what you were thinking ... is that why you approached me " she starts walking forward " Because I owed you for a degree ? "

" I will tell you what during classes I was hacking into the school system to have my identity in it when I got my degree the next day I didn't lose it I burned it and soaked it and shredded it like it was nothing "

" And I don't respect teachers because I only see them as people who have a degree but can't even make use of the knowledge they know so they decided to teach students only to be the judge of them just because they are better "

" People call school six cruel hours of our life because all those six hours are in shoving a set sequence of facts into our ears but you know what I still can't forget the lessons or facts in summer when I started reading the branches of biology . "

" You waste our time teaching us formulas without telling us how it is used and give us a highly specific problem that won't even appear in our life . What kind of person has an equation on their head computing the sales of one product with x as the price? "

" Nearly everyone was so happy to say school is over because we hate school for its test , homework and expectations and finally the darn teachers who don't deserve respect . You make a teachers day for the students to respect their teachers but we don't get any of that "

" How about this I search school is useful and what I got was the keywords learn , gain knowledge ... but I learned the whole school years material in less than a week by reading the book you tell us we need to pay for "

" The worst part about you schools is holding a competition about math , science and you even take the credit of the student when they were successful by saying you taught them ... So I hoped that one day you will fall because there was a student who didn't use a darn thing you thought them in their life "

She threw those words letting the professors that attended the classes she stayed in know " So no I didn't owe you anything but you do ... for wasting my time " Belle turned her head and turned it back to sense something .

' Oh no ... this feeling is always something that will be bad ' she turned back and headed to a tent ' Change of plans I'm staying here for some time ' she opened her suitcase and put her gun on her belt an assault rifle on her back and a shotgun .

" ALERT THERE IS A ZOMBIE HORDE COMING CIVILIANS STAY INSIDE AND ARMED FORCES MOVE TO THE GATE " ' I knew it ' Belle went forward to the only gate and looked at the zombie horde .

' No mutants yet but it seems like they have yet to reveal their leader ' Belle sensed the instincts of a pack of wolves from the horde but the leader is elsewhere " Hey miss you can't just stay here ' because Belle was wearing a jacket and a shirt that doesn't cover her belly button and some jeans that were tailored for flexible movement and rubber shoes she looked like a thug instead of a soldier .

Belle shot a few zombies in the head without missing a shot " How about now ? " " Oh wow I like you girl " the female soldier starts shooting together with the rest as Belle remains vigilant for any hidden mutants holding her shotgun behind her and shooting with a handgun .

" Come on use both hands " a soldier complained " This doesn't feel right why would a zombie horde suddenly come here on the first day of the apocalypse ? " he started to think for a while " Yeah your right ... even in horror movies only really good zombies are enough to do that "

" Of course , that's the case the zombies haven't even mutated yet and they can only go to the nearest living person that isn't a zombie in their sight . " Belle explained the knowledge she had gained inside the lab to the soldiers as she tried to find the problem .

" Then what is your suggestion the leader is hiding ? " " Sure , But where ? " Belle and the soldiers looked around while firing down a few zombies " I have no idea but you should tighten security sooner "

Belle left as the horde was decreasing and entered the center warehouse where a lot of refugees are ' This is an efficient way of protecting people concentrating the refugees at one big warehouse but it makes them vulnerable to people themselves '

Belle grabbed a man and glares at him " Hey what are you doing miss " because of his panic he ignored her beauty and acted according to his personality " What do you think you are doing huh ? walking around the shelter with a big bite on your arm "

Everyone looked at his red sleeves with some holes on them " So what it's just a bite nothing like the movies " " Sadly the movies were right about zombies " Belle could feel the virus spreading on the man's arm .

' This means there is a leader mutant here forcing the virus of his arm to spread ' Belle turned to grab an ax and chopped off the man's arm by the elbow" AHHH WHAT THE F*** DID YOU DO ? " everyone around covered the children's eyes , gasped or screamed in horror .

' The virus already infected the bones before it went to the unfinished infection at flesh ' Belle complained and gripped the ax and looked for any fuel to use to burn the arm " You b**** cut off my arm !!! " " That was just an arm that could've killed you "

The arm reddened and Belle poured some oil " Who has a fire starter !? " she looked at the ground and found a table with some matches beside the stove " Give me that " she flicked the matchstick and dropped it on the puddle of oil .

' The leader is nearby but where exactly ? ' a chilling cold wind made the people shiver . Belle looked at everyone shaking but recognizes the cold they are experiencing . She looked at her hand and the burning arm .

The arm was also shaking despite not having any organs to support its life ' This isn't a cold wind but it was like the fear of the jungle when a lion roared ' Belle didn't turn around and pretended she didn't notice .

' Alright behind me is a horde of zombies but also some soldiers ... ' Belle then walked out to snipe the last zombie as she kept holding her luggage ' I'll stay here until I finish killing the mutant in here '

Belle frowns and scans the line of soldiers who were drinking their rations ' That feeling of the threat came from there but I don't know who . ' Belle went around and tried to recognize anyone that could be a scientist or an experiment she saw in the lab .

' Or it could be someone random ' Belle found a place to stay and stacked her luggage so she could sit on them ' Okay now mutant where are you ? ' Belle spread her senses as she heard voices " General a horde just a while ago " " And was it destroyed ? "

" Yes sir and we haven't seen any strange zombies yet " " That's good is our rations enough ? " Belle went to look for another until she heard someone near her " Hey pretty lady why not spend some time with me ? "

She could feel the perverted gaze and glare at him " Really ? But too bad you won't have it " Belle grabbed the man's neck and pulled him away without notice . She turned and pinned him inside a portable toilet ( a bathroom that is inside a tall box with a door ) " Tell me who gave you a bite ? "

The man's eyes widened and he exuded a fearful mood " Well I don't need you to tell me " Belle held his forehead and made him look up and then look behind him " Well now to memorize another complicated genetic sequence "

...

" Dang it why can't I contact that lab ? " a hacker has been trying to get inside the security of the lab Belle was in even after she had placed some security system that redirects the hacker to another random security system " Sir I can't get access to this lab " " It's fine the lab lose the connection sometime before Project Holocaust . Send some people to reactivate the connection "

The soldier nearby saluted and looked at the contact information " Sir do I call our nearby contacts they are in the same city ? " " No they will make demands and we cannot afford anyone planning to sabotage our position "

" But we do have one contact he is a little inefficient but he is near and also infected he might not have gotten the vaccine because of our warnings " " Call him but first check on one of the experiments at that city "

A soldier contacted a number and someone already picked up " Hello " a hoarse voice replied and the surrounding soldiers were frightened " The head scientist wants to speak to you " the soldier gave the phone to the scientist .

" Ay sir how's it going " " How are you still alive " " Relax sir I got a life-saving mutation before that b**** could finish me ... good thing she wanted me to die a painful death and crushed my heart "

" Okay , then I want you to follow a man who is inside the shelter to the lab and send the data " " Can you at least send me a photo ? " " You'll have to improvise but we will tell you his name by the end of the call ... I'm sure you will work well together "

" I see then I'll head that way then also tell me the experiment at the camp I'm getting very confused about who is who there . " the call ended after the scientist gave the names and a profile then the scientist gave the hacker the phone " Call our contacts and make sure the call doesn't get intercepted or spied on " the hacker type down the numbers and gave it to the scientist while he coded to protect the call .

" Hello ? " " Ugh I told you not to sleep with a woman " " Come on a boss you know me I can't resist a sexy body " " Anyways meet up with this man he is also an experiment so you can team up with him . "

" Wuu what's the catch " " There is none other than going into the lab and restarting it " " Sir " the hacker whispered a few words to the scientist " Actually there is an additional mission find the woman that managed to defeat and toy with the experiment "

" Oh is she hot ? " the scientist made a silent sigh and replied " We only managed to get a glimpse of her figure " " oh I see I accept and after you are done with her she's mine " " Okay I will be giving you the name at the end of the call "

" So is that the last call they will hear from you " Belle looked at the owner of the phone after changing her voice back to normal by changing her vocal cords back from the copy she made from the man .

Belle clenched the phone and flushed it down the toilet ' Too easy to copy this man has too many perverted messages even to his own employers ' " Ugh " she looked at the corpse and opened her suitcase opening a hidden compartment and grabbed an injection of highly-potent and non-infectious virus .

" He'll be a good bait for me to use now that I got the profile ... but I got to do it quietly . " Belle moved the bones back together and injected the injection into his system near the bite ' This way the mutant will be attracted by him then I'll kill them later . '

Belle took a sign and hung it by the door reading "disinfecting" . She took her bags and left the place dodging attention as she reached the boot camp that was giving away one cup of water per person .

' Well it is the apocalypse , Unless they manage to purify the water completely then there is no other way to drink clean water but saving it is too easy . ' Belle looked around seeing some people scared as she looks madly at the portable toilet .

Belle entered a vacant bathroom stall and made sure no one is watching ' Let's organize a bit I am their goal to achieve immortality , I can also control bio life or anything related to it , I can resist the transformation of the body to the cellular genetic sequence , I know a variety of genetic combination additionally, I also can use new bases of the DNA and RNA '

Belle watches as she transformed her arm into a variety of skin and color and then watches as the cells managed to stick themselves together ' Their goal is to be a singular god but unless an internet god can find this information then no one will know about Project Apotheosis '

She looked at the door and sighed ' But the people who are doing this research probably don't even know about this . Project Apotheosis will gather as much data until they got the right genetic sequence and make a copy of the perfect serum by using DNA storage which would arrange the whole thing creating a serum . '

She grumbled clenching her fist ' DNA hard drive you doomed us all convenient but in the apocalypse , we don't even need to seize the DNA sample out of an organism but one cell with DNA will do '

Her phone beeped and she got her laptop to see some updates on the lab's computer network " Oh no this is very bad " she looked at the program and scrolled as fast as she can before she was disconnected .

" Oh I already have enough on my plate and you give me this ? " Belle sighs and closes the laptop " Fine then you bastard of a zombie I'll go get you for this " Belle closes her luggage and walks out of the bathroom and heard shouts .

" There is a zombie in one of our bathrooms please stay away from any restroom for your safety " Belle looked at a crowd holding their guns and pointing them at the bathroom door in case a zombie gets out .

" What ? " Belle couldn't find the portable toilet she trapped the zombie in " No I was only gone for a few minutes . I can't believe they were already injecting successful virus serum " Belle groans and imagines the number of people that could have such an injection .

" Ugh good thing one of the notifications told me a black market ... I just need the history " Belle reached her luggage and stopped ' What am I thinking ? Right now I am going to eliminate the only one mutant in this place . '

Belle shot her senses up again and finally found the activated mutant " Two people one is in the restroom while the other is running this means that there are some mutants that can deactivate the mutated cells and activate them again like dormant cells .

Belle ran with her luggage in her hands as she throws the luggage in a hidden spot and locks her position and approaches the target location .

" Just like the boss said " a soldier was chewing the arm where Belle had injected a serum . The soldier ripped and ate the arm as he tries to suck out the fresh serum he had smelled ' GOD I'm feeling so full of energy '

He could feel like he could do anything like he was on drugs as he felt like he was in heaven until he downed the arm and tried to suck up the elbow to get the serum that he so wanted .

Sniff " This smell " he closed his damped eyes and sniffed out the scent " Oh god it smelled like that b**** I f***ed this morning " he became so aroused when he picked up the scent of a woman's perfume .

" She even has a dense smell of the serum " the soldier looked around as he found a suitcase and hears a crying voice . The soldier smiled and tried to make a calming voice as much as possible " Don't worry I'll get you out of there "

"Where're my parents " " Huh ? " Belle dropped and started beating the soldier with a stick she found as she started to smash his mouth away in hopes that he would faint as the recorder continued to play " Don't know " ... " Little girl , In the future , do not bite anyone or else they will hate you . "

Belle kept bashing until all of the soldier's teeth and possible weapons were broken and crippled ' Now I leave since the mutant is gone ' Belle took the luggage and the suitcase as she ran outside .

...

" Sir there is this beautiful lady you won't miss her by the way that informed us there may be a mutant that caused this mob of zombies into our base " he saluted to the general giving him a report .

" If what she said is true which among you believe it ? " a civilian among the ranks of the army raised his hand " I do "

[ Mutant had been slain ] ' So she is a bit special '

Nouke Aegis

Status : Regressor , the sole survivor of previous timeline apocalypse , system creator , Patient Zero , end of the apocalypse , Immortal walker

Current Systems owned : processor

' Turning back time was a very risky move as long as the minds behind the apocalypse have existed they would have followed me back to their earliest point causing the apocalypse to come earlier than a few million years later when technology was advanced enough to fight against some of the infected but now everything would be progressing too quickly '

Nouke looked at the giant map and found Belle's point ' She isn't even in the previous timeline hopefully she can help me too . She also seemed like someone who can keep my secrets '

Nouke as an immortal walker can never die from anything because he derived immortality from many sources . This allowed him to live through after his species went extinct as he transformed to make sure it as an adaptive species won't catch the eye of his predators .

He lived through time up to the era when humanity made great progress in research , technology , and science . But that humanity went too far as some greedy big wigs wanted to live longer to indulge in their life of luxury .

Which caused the first mutation countered and forced down by the 5 which only made this group more cautious and hides their research until the first breach of containment killed an entire population of a city .

While that city was destroyed it caused the government to investigate every important person which caused the entire group to be destroyed except for one lab where a scientist fought back becoming the first mind behind the apocalypse that Nouke encountered .

He fought for who knows how many years exterminating as many pests as possible until the whole world was barren with only one thing around which was his body . Refusing to wait he set time going back to his birth and woke up as a first life .

" I'm back moreover as the first life of this planet " Nouke worked hard and regained his humanoid form as he progressed through until the first mind behind the apocalypse was born earlier than expected .

The system he created also followed him carrying all the knowledge he learned in case he forgot about it .

' But I need to see if she is a foe or not ... according to the system there are two minds behind apocalypse one was the original one and the other is a new one with higher potential danger than the original . '

Nouke went to inspect the zombie getting a quick analysis by the system . and went to the bathroom where another zombie was deprived of its virus .

[ Mutant loses some blood after a few minutes of bashing ]

' Observe the target closely and make sure she doesn't notice ' the system sent a camera for Nouke to see Belle standing beside a motorcycle with her luggage and a suitcase ' I'll have to watch you closely from now on . '

Belle felt Nouke's eyes and turned to the direction of the camera's viewpoint ' This strange feeling ... someone is using a camera to look at me , but how ? ' " Whoever is watching me ... you better watch " she gave him her killing intent with a glare

The footage was shut off as Nouke fell to the ground panting ' This killing intent hurts so much ' Nouke looked at the system and ask it for her kill count .

[ 54 kills made recently ]

' 54 ? As if this is some terrifying killing intent that could rival that ambitious mind ' Nouke stabilized his breathing looked at the system and thought of Belle " That was pure killing intent I have never encountered ... it has anger for something I did but I guess it was reasonable "

Nouke was charmed by Belle's beauty but also understood the curse that follows it . Beautiful people are always targets of stronger people " What kind of person is she ? "

[ Unable to read her mind , it is changing constantly ]

' So she must be a professional actress then ' he opened the storage of his looking at all the stuff he collected ' As long as I have all of these survival will be easy but fighting the minds will be hard '

" Hello , annoyance " a hand broke through the stall and grabbed Nouke's neck " I won't jump anywhere else on questioning what kind of camera you use " Nouke felt Belle's strength and released her killing intent .

" cough ca " he could hardly breathe and four fingers behind him shot nerves to get through his spinal cord touching his nerves " But I hate that kind of gaze coming from you "