The 158° Plague (The Watty Awards 2013)

Chapter 1: The Beginning

I still remember how it all began... With a plague, it was planned on being used as a weapon in World War III. To be honest I don't think anyone saw it coming... other than me that is. And my best friends; Kyle Smith, and Jonah Parks of course were told as soon as I found out.

Oh, and by the way my name's Amy Hall, I'm 24 years old, and before this apocalypse I was an intern for the F.B.I.. Not trying to brag but it seemed like their favorite intern at that, because I got to help on any case I could, and that interested me. Just as I finally got my recommendations, and my required work finished (to become an official F.B.I. Female Special Agent), World War III broke out.

I even got the job. I remember because, even as a little kid I remember wanting to be a cop, as I got older I realized what I wanted to be was a F.B.I. agent. So I had always dreamed of having this job, and now I finally got it! I felt like I got my dream job at the worst time though, I quickly found out that a war being fought against the U.S., brought A LOT of crime.

Well anyways, I worked there for 7 months, and 16 days. It wasn't always easy but, I loved every second of it. The C.I.A. Was supposedly "Handling" the situation with the on going war, as you can see that turned out great... Well yeah they obviously had no clue what to do, because they started fighting on U.S. Soil. It seemed like all the C.I.A. knew was why the war started (which at the time was common knowledge), and it started because, Japan the need to expand but, no one wanted them to. So they simply decided to do it anyways. First they took over China, then India, and now America teamed up with any other country that would, because, America was their next target.

Since that happened, and the C.I.A. Had no clue that it was going to happen the president; Jamie Marie Taylor(our first female president) decided that the F.B.I. could handle things better. So anyone in the F.B.I. was officially registered as a C.I.A. agent.

So thats how I found out with a little research on a Japanese Military Computer (it belonged to General White, general the Empire of Japan's Army), that they had made some kind of deadly disease that caused anyone injected with it to become a flesh-eating-mindless-lunitic, as soon as their temperature went from bad fever, to a deadly 158°(which would normally melt the skin but instead kills you, then takes over your brain). Thats why I got to meet the president, and inform her of my findings.

I went into her office after being patted down, and said to her, "President Taylor when I was looking through one of the computers that belonged to the Japanese Military, and I found something.".

She replied, "Okay what did you find Special Agent Hall?".

I informed her; "Well President Taylor, I believe they have an inside man, That is planning on injecting people in our government with some kind of plague called The "158° Plague". And I believe it causes people to become flesh-eating, mindless, and numb.". I thought to myself: •God she probably thinks I'm crazy, or this is some dumb prank....•.

The president didn't seem surprised at all, she asked "Well Special Agent Hall whose computer did you find this information on, and how is the "158° Plague" being spread?".

I said, "According to General White's computer once a human is injected with the "158° Plague" they begin to get a high fever, and once their temperature his 158°F they become flesh hungry, mindless zombies. They spread the "158° Plague" by biting or feading off of others." with as much courage as I could.

She replied, "Okay I'll run background checks on everyone, to see if there's any connection to the Japanese. And this time investigating them will not require locking them up like prisoners.". Little did she know it was too late. By then it had already began to spread.

So basically anyone who wasn't prepared for something like this was completely screwed. (Unless they were friends with someone like me of course. Then they'd have a slim chance; which means that they're better off than everyone else who had absolutely no chance at all sadly. Which is one of the reasons our great nation fell.)