1 Prologue

The Mayans were wrong about 2012 or so we thought. When the world kept rotating humanity had a great laugh, made a few corny Hollywood hits and went on throughout their daily lives.

However, there was always a sign telling humanity it was coming, we constantly fantasized about an apocalypse to the point that we no longer feared it. Some of the looneys actually welcomed the thought with open arms. Preppers bought their land and learned to make and store their own resources with the intent of holding out. Under or above ground, it didn't matter. There was no copy and paste survival plan, everyone had their own theories and only some of them were close to the truth.

Most of these people were either considered living in fear or crazy, of course they don't seem as crazy now with the world falling apart compared to those who were just the month before trying to out show their neighbor with expensive holiday decor.

The elite were the worst of them all, they were the quiet believers. While channeling secret funds to their luxurious bunkers they even pushed the norm on the rest of the world so that they could be prepared for their escape but not startle the daily hustle and bustle that paid for it.

Too bad for them, no one expected this, as if the asteroid was called from earth herself no man was safe. No amount of money nor skill could change their odds; there was a disease within us, a dormant one that resided in our genetics.

While the world masked up and overused the hand sanitizer because of a virus that they thought was spreading like wildfire. We had no idea it was only the asteroid getting closer. Though mankind is a striving species to a fault, relying on science yet again, another miracle vaccine was created just in time for Christmas.

The "ARK" vaccine, what it was called at the time, now the remaining world calls it the 40 vaccine. For irony purposes of course if you know the Christian story, it's terrible we know but shedding a small amount of dark humor goes a long way nowadays. If you're lucky it can even gain you a can of green beans, (I'm so sick of the green beans.) But it's also called this because it took at least forty hours after the asteroid passed for things to really start to change.

Then we found out that the ARK vaccine was not strong enough to fully withstand the effects of the asteroid. While millions who were un-vaccinated slowly lost their ability to breath and passed on, the vaccine did keep many more millions from fully reaching death's door. Usually this would be a good thing if it weren't 2021. The vaccine carried the undesirable genetic disease within so even if you didn't carry it before, you do now and you were affected by the asteroid.

Turns out the side effects for those vaccinated was a less than appealing mutation, spastic high pitched screaming that almost only dogs could hear and a uncontrollable bite. Just bite though, we don't think they actually eat people but then I don't think anyone is sick enough to stand by and watch.

But hey, at least they are not dead… Says no one.

Don't get me wrong, I mourn those who lost their lives after the first of January but in my own way. Because I have been too busy just trying to stay alive, imagine that in an apocalypse, there is no time to stop and smell the roses.

You see, I'm from a small area and I didn't see the point in getting vaccinated when I almost never left my house. I had a nice one bedroom apartment where I worked and paid my bills from. I tested video games, wrote reviews, and slept all day for a living. It was great, I loved my life. I was a threat to no one in the spread of this virus even if I caught it, which I couldn't because I didn't carry it at all in my genetics but that's besides the point now.

My friends however, they either vaccinated up or claimed to have already had the virus once so they were golden because they were not going to miss the biggest event to kick off the new year. Since all the comic-cons were cancelled throughout the year due to the virus, now that the vaccine was out, they were doing a large new year celebration. Bringing out all the big guns for all the gaming and cosplayers delights in one place, it was going to be like Christmas... I bet you already guessed where, yep New York and not too far from Times Square.

Needless to say, I was convinced by multiple friends to go along. They mostly tempted me with the presence of a beautiful girl. She was a fellow gamer/ reviewer who never showed her true identity. She promised she would partake in this room-share with the small group I was friends with online. I'll admit, it was easy to get me out of my nice small apartment for new years after I received a message from her questioning if I would go.

I had quite the crush on her even though I knew nothing about her real life. I just couldn't get this girl out of my mind and it wasn't because I was shy with women in real life nor, in my opinion, unattractive. But I really liked this girl, we got along like old friends when we talked in the private discord group and I enjoyed when we played online together. We were really compatible on a team and I was anxious to meet her in person and my friends knew this.

So I flew to New York, found out it was 8 players in a one room with not enough beds, oh it was a blast. Except comic-cons don't last only one night so once people began to get sick, the small room arrangement became the worst possible nightmare I could have ever imagined.

Eight players rented a room and only- Wait I'm getting ahead of myself, so allow me to share my story from the first day when the earth began cleansing itself of mankind.

My name is MattreX95 and this is my official Final Blog.

-PS. If you are reading this, for obvious reasons I will no longer be streaming video game reviews and I'm going to keep writing till me or my phone dies.