The New Apocalypse Part One

HI THERE! MY NAME IS James, James Fury. Which is cooler than “Bond. James Bond”. It really is though! Ever since the world was taken over/destroyed by monsters you never had to imagine, I’ve been pretty bored. More on the monster stuff later.
For now, let's focus on the reason you're reading this, me! OR maybe you're doing a book project. OR you don’t know why you're reading this at all. But, I’m gonna assume it’s because of au moi. It’s my story, after all!
I’m 15 years old, a sophomore when school still existed. I’m about 5’10, 130 pounds with brown hair and eyes. So yeah, nothing too special on the surface. I like comics and movies, which makes my powers pretty potent.
I should probably explain that, otherwise you’re gonna be more confused than me on test day. See, I have superhuman powers. Shocker, I know.
Let’s see…I can lift around, oh, I don’t know, 20,000 lbs or something like that. Of course, I also have super-speed. Nowhere near someone like Flash or Sonic.
But 210mph isn’t too shabby for someone like me. And I can move all my bones 360 degrees, or a full circle! But, I’ll admit, those powers are pretty ‘meh.’
None of those things can compare to my ULTIMATE power though. I can use my imagination as a super-power! Allow me to explain….

CHAPTER 1. THE WORLD NOW.

YOU SEE, I CAN MAKE things happen with my imagination. I can also make things with my imagination, and yes, there’s a difference.
Say I wanted to make a plane fall down. I would have to imagine the specifics of said plane falling down. In simple terms, I need to imagine the what, when, where and why of whatever I want to happen. Don’t over think it.
I can also MAKE things the same way. Same sort of deal, but instead of visualizing something happening, I need to visualize it being made. I can also grant myself additional powers in, of course, the same way.
Got all that? Know the difference or are you COMPLETELY LOST?! Well, it’ll make more sense at some point in this story…don’t quote me on that.


As I walk around, I’m still surprised at how different the world seems. Of course, there’s normal things like abandoned and crashed cars, the occasional “missing” poster, and wild plants. I’m used to all that.
The things I’m NOT used to aren’t what you would typically expect from an apocalyptic world. The skies are cleaner than they’ve ever been, the plants thriving, and not a single policeman in sight. God, I hated those policemen….

As you may or may not have been able to guess, this isn’t my Earth’s first apocalypse. A company called AURBONIE or something like that released an airborne toxin for the first time. No lab test or anything.
It was meant to ‘bring humanity closer together than ever before’ and ‘purify the world.’ Needless to say, that didn’t happen.
Like all multi-trillion dollar companies, they clearly had no idea what they were doing. The toxin DID bring everyone closer together…in hospitals because it was making everyone sick.
Thus, the military had to get involved, that turned into a regime sort of thing, you know, with a fractured government, starving and sick people, the usual stuff.
Then IT appeared. It was kinda like a black hole, if a black hole was a sort of portal from another dimension-universe. It let out ALL SORTS of creatures, none of which humans were prepared for. I was with my best friend Alex Star when it happened.
Alex is the opposite of me. I’m smart, he’s book smart. I’m generally talkative and annoying, he’s sort of like a scientist. I’m tall, he’s short. I’m the protagonist, he’s the best friend.
He also has dark skin, is bald and very skinny. I make fun of him a lot for being bald and skinny. He’s actually who I’m looking for right now. Who I’ve BEEN looking for.
But of course, nothing comes easy in this world.

Chapter 2: ZOMPIRE!!!

STANDING IN FRONT OF ME was a Zompire. Zompires are… hard to explain. Imagine if Frankenstein’s monster didn’t have the screws in his head, had as yellow as can be skin, and claws.
That pretty much sums up the part-zombie, part-vampire, all weird creatures up. Unfortunately for me, this one looked hungry. Don’t ask how I know that.
The Zompire gave up on its current task (attempting to open a car door), sighed in the most disgusting way possible, sniffed, and turned towards me.
Generally, Zompires aren’t too scary, unless they're hungry. Then you should probably run for your life, which is exactly what I plan. on doing. Well, more like walking for my life.
They’re slow from what I’ve seen. Of course, I never really encountered a hungry one before, so I’m not sure if it’s any more dangerous than normal. Spoiler alert, IT IS!
The Zompire started shuffling towards me in a typical zombie fashion, almost as if to get a better look. It ran into another car, tried and failed to walk through it, then just stared at me, as wide-mouthed as ever. After about 2 minutes of this life-or-death staring contest, it finally deduced I was indeed human.
I figured this Zompire was gonna leave me alone, as it seemed more interested in staring than anything. That goes to show why nature documentaries do matter, and there should definitely be one on Zompires, because, boy, was I wrong!
The Zompire, I’m gonna call him Timmy, finally realized it was solid matter and couldn’t get through the car. Timmy backed up, stared at his legs, and tore off a bit of skin hanging off, which seemed to give him an idea.

He took about 12 steps back and started shuffling forward again. Well, looks like he isn’t interested. So, I picked up my Indestructible Stick Sword Staff, turned the opposite direction, and continued on with life!
Yeah, there’s no way you believe that. And if you did, uhh, read a book more often. Here’s what REALLY happened.
I did pick up my ISSS and was going to turn around. Then, after I looked back up, I started springing like a bat directly out of hell! You see, Timmy, our double undead friend, was sprinting towards me, all claws and teeth pointed directly at good old lovable ME!

Chapter 3: Ah! Timmy!

TIMMY WAS, I KID YOU not, sprinting at me! Instinctively, I screamed before remembering where I was, then CRACK! I hit Timmy in the head with my ISSS.
He stumbled around for a few seconds and fell onto a bear trap, which thoughtfully removed his ears from his stomach (yes, they were in his stomach!) Instead of pursuing me, he decided his ear was much more important.
He picked it up, and slammed the ear near the top of his skull, shrugging off the fact that he completely missed. In fact, he apparently forgot that he was hungry, for he looked at me, confused, shrugged his arm off, and then started walking around again!
”Huhh uhhh…”
I spun around in search of the source of the noise, which sounded like someone sighing loudly while also trying to breathe. Then I found HIM.
‘Bout 10 feet tall, roughly weighed around a ton based on his size. He was wearing a bloodstained camo outfit with a rather cool, bright white mask! Also covered with paint splatters of blood as well.
Oh, and, of course, he had weapons. Some normal things like a shotgun and a pistol, sure. But he also had an axe with a human bone as a handle, a chain that was seemingly made out of a long metal spine, and a large bow and arrow. And he was coming towards me. Oh. Damn, I was enjoying life for the most part.
CHAPTER 4: THAT GUY…!
Supertraun was flying high above the clouds, scanning the city. His sensors detected the item he was looking for, but he would still have to get it.
It was the Reality Jem, one of the powerful cosmic artifacts, tools, and weapons called the Enfinety Jems. He needed 10 of the 12 Jems to bring about his goal of a cybernetic universe, one with the uniqueness of humans and the efficiency and powers of machines.
Naturally, some organic creatures were gonna have to die, but Supertraun was okay with that. He could bring them back as cyborgs anyways, so no permanent harm would be done. Still, there was something satisfying about taking an organic life, as the robot was about to enjoy doing again.
The woman was running as fast as she could, and she was pretty fast, easily outpacing the deer and wolves she was running besides woods with. He knew she spent weeks evading him, and wasn’t mad about this.
Indeed, he could have simply continuously tracked her as he never got tired and she eventually would. Instead, he took a more strategic approach, and waited for her to get comfortable or tired, whichever came first, and then STRIKE!
2 bright red beams shot out of his eyes, almost hitting the woman, Laura but instead it was just next to her, causing the debris of the road to hit her in the head and knocking her out.
He landed beside her, scanned her unconscious form, which was in considerably bad shape, and pulled the Jem from her pocket.
An organic creature would find the shining stone beautiful, with its white and blue and gold emitting off of it like rays of sunshine. Supertraun, however, didn’t care. No, he merely scanned the stone to confirm it was indeed the Reality Jem.
“Ughhh…” Laura was regaining consciousness. Supertraun stomped on her head with his shiny black foot, and she fell silent again. However she was still breathing.
”Die!” Said Supertraun in a loud, cold and calm voice. He stomped on her again, this time her spine, and her breathing slowed considerably.
Supertraun decided it was time to test the Reality Jem. He put it in his system, focused for a second, and a pan appeared. He hit Laura in the head to test the pan’s durability.
Her head was squashed in a bit, but the pan wasn’t harmed.
”Impressive durability” said Supertraun. Most unfortunately for Laura, whose head was slightly curved in, the wind slightly blew her hair, and…she sneezed.
”Whachoo!”
Then Laura’s eyes widened as she heard the previously retreating form of Supertraun speeding back. She laid very, very still.
Supertraun landed, and observed her for a bit. He determined she was finally unalived. So he hit her on the head for a 4th time as a way to celebrate this.
”1 down, 9 to go. CLANG!” Supertraun looked at his now bloody pan, and got mad at how messy it was.
”Organism Laura, your blood made my pan messy. Clean it, or I’ll hit you. Again! Why aren’t you responding? Oh, it’s because you’re dead. Well, that’s your fault, your skull didn’t have to be weak, it just was. Loser.”

CHAPTER 5: TIMMY! Featuring Guy Regular!

Timmy was wandering around the beautiful wasteland. For a Zompire, he was…lonely. He never had any friends. He spotted the first human he’d seen in a while, and he was happy!
Sure, he had difficulty communicating as he couldn’t speak anymore, but he was happy!
However, when he tried to go up to him, he received a stick to the skull before falling into a trap meant for Earthly bears, which took his ear from him!
And the human boy didn’t even tell Timmy that his ear was in the wrong place, so he walked around for several hours before he looked at a mirror and noticed something was wrong.
Timmy wanted to show his shiny white rock to someone, but there was nobody around to show it to. Thus, he continued on his path, which ironically wasn’t really a path at all.
After a few minutes, Timmy stumbled across 2 other humans! One had the back of her head beat in and squashed. Timmy wabbled over to the body, causing many of the birds that were pecking at her flesh to fly off.
Even in her bird-bitten, squashed state, Timmy recognized the figure, though he didn’t know how. A memory suddenly came back to him. He was standing in a sort of dark war room with all sorts of creatures. He didn’t know why he was there, but he didn’t see a reason to leave.
”Timmy, listen up! This is VITALLY important. Remember, you must walk, walk to…!”
The Zompire couldn’t remember the rest. However, he had a burning desire to finish his mission of walking. To where and why, he didn’t know.
”Hey, Timmy!”
Timmy spun around so fast his head fell off, literally! However, the man caught it, but instead of trying every method known to man to destroy it, he gave it back to Timmy.
His name was Guy Regular, and for good reason to. He was of average height and weight, light skin, and basic brown eyes and hair. He was wearing a regular T-shirt and pants, along with his basic sneakers and socks.
”Here’s your head back, Timmy. Isn't it odd how you can survive virtually anything and everything? Well, I’m sure that’s not important. Where are you walking to?”
Timmy reattached his head, but then shrugged, which caused it to fall off again. However, he simply picked it up and put it back on again!
”Well”, said Guy, “Wherever you’re walking, I’m gonna join you. Timmy and Guy vs the new apocalypse. You know, that sounds like a chapter in a book. Could you imagine if we were in a book? I sure can. Oh well, guess we’ll never know. Well, let’s wander!”
Timmy agreed with Guy, and together they started walking. Any other pair would question the dark, eerie, bloodstained road they were literally on, but they just kept walking. Nothing could stop them in their quest to walk! NOTHING.

CHAPTER 6: Jaxsen and Alex
I WAS IN COMPLETE SHOCK. Standing next to the man with the white bloodstained mask and axe was Alex Star, my best friend!
”James! I finally found you! And this guy, who’s a variant of Jaxsen Vores! The multiverse is REAL!”
Alex was wearing a shirt with a red science beaker, black pants, and a golden necklace with a diamond on the end of it. Aside from the nerdy shirt, it was the best I’d ever seen him. And it was the Apocalypse!
“Hey, man…” I said as we did our handshake, fist up, fist down, fist bump snap, “How did this happen, why are you wearing that, what’s going on?”
Alex, however, was looking at something in the distance, wide eyed. “RUDE!” I thought.
”Uhh, buddy, I’m talking to you. Hello? Hello?!”
”I’ll explain everything, after we take care of that Gorelise!” And sure enough, a large gorilla-like hand would have hit me if I didn’t dodge it in time! “Whoa!”
Standing before us at 12 feet, 6 tons was a Gorelise! It looked like a standard large gorilla, except it had glowing bright blue spikes alongside its spine and wood-like spikes around its massive arms, legs, shoulders, elbows, and knees!
Before I could compute what the hell this was, a blast of bright blue ice came out of its mouth! I barely had time to dodge before having to dodge a blast of red fire!
Jaxsen, the guy with the axe and bloody white mask, jumped behind the Gorelise and drove the axe deep in its head! The Gorelise flung him off like a doll, but he was cross-eyed and uneven.
”SREEEAHCHAA!!!” In its pain and confusion, the Gorelise threw a car at Alex, who just barely managed to dodge! Then Alex threw a sort of acid bottle at the monster which caused the Gorelise’s skin to melt! It screamed for a few seconds and then fell down!
”Well,” said Alex “That’s that!”
“Someone needs to explain what the hell is going on!!!” I yelled. Jaxsen and Alex kinda just looked at each other. Then, just as Alex opened his mouth, one of the weirdest beings I have ever seen appeared in a flash of fire behind us!