COD: The First One's Story

Chapter 12: The Destruction Of The Earth

In 2016, the First One got the idea for a new way evaluate the happiness of humanity. It created an application for smartphones that enabled people to simply press a button to indicate whether or not they had a good day. The First One looked at all of the user data that was collected from around the world, but not being omniscient made it difficult for it to keep up with the data, making the idea a failed experiment. Throughout 2025, a large military faction and alliance formed and grew, known as the Strategic Defense Coalition, or SDC, and it was made up of Afghanistan, Mongolia, North Korea, China, and many other countries. The SDC and NATO were then the two primary world power alliances. Tian Zhao was the ruling dictator of China and the SDC at this time. In Shanghai, Province 22, China, there were two buildings, a multi-level mall and a sweatshop. Both of them had outlets for the International Zombie Center, an enterprise built on the fascination of the zombie apocalypse. The International Zombie Center had the protection of the SDC, evident by the SDC soldiers that were there. The International Zombie Center's two outlets there worked together, despite the differences in the wealth of the estates.

A weapon was developed that fired Element 115 in a modified state of matter that was like goo. The sweatshop managed to acquire a few pieces to build one, but they didn't get all of the parts. Around this time, in Hollywood, there was a film Studio that filmed many famous movies in many different genres. For an upcoming science fiction movie, they researched some futuristic-looking weapons. Two of the guns that were featured were the Ray Gun and the goo-shooting gun, but they were just replicas of the real things. The Studio began filming the movie in which these weapons were to make an appearance, Space Monsters from the Moon 2. Meanwhile, an amusement park was established in Nevada that housed a retro-futuristic exhibit called Nuketown 2025, in commemoration of the original Nuketown. In 2025, an international group of terrorists began to assault the industrialized nations of the world. However, the United States fought back. Nuketown 2025 and the Studio were just two of the many places that were ambushed by Mercenaries. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, and the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, colloquially known as SEAL Team Six, both sent armed agents and soldiers to defend against the Mercenaries. For unknown reasons, a nuke was dropped to end the battle in Nuketown 2025.

Later, a Black Ops team assassinated Tian Zhao. Back in Shanghai in the mall and sweatshop, flyers were placed around the area by the International Zombie Center, telling people to be on the lookout for a zombified Tian Zhao, which very few people likely took seriously. Meanwhile, a mining operation was begun in Angola that happened to be right above the long-ago abandoned Western ghost town. Also, the United States did some experimenting in the Green Run area, which had been abandoned since the 1960's, and they used the ghost town as a cover. They were operating within the Town there and within a nearby Power Facility outside of the Town. There, they made a secret underground laboratory. Within the Power Facility, they created their own power grid and a being fused from human biology, Element 115, and electricity, known only as "Him". Underneath the Town, they had a Pack-A-Punch that they never got around to assembling, as well as a fully functioning underground railroad system. They also artificially combined the genetic code of different creatures to create very strange abominations that they kept in cages underneath the Town. An American militaristic, corporate entity known as Broken Arrow also began to experiment with the uses of Element 115. One of Broken Arrow's agents was a man known as Russman, but he was fired.

The United States began another secret program in Nevada to construct a nuclear drill to try to drill deep into the Earth for an unknown purpose. They used it near the remains of Nuketown. However, the design was not perfected, and it caused massive amounts of destruction. In the month of January, radiation scientists were studying the results of the test in the ruins of Nuketown when they noticed zombies rising, which was due to either Element 115 in the nuclear blast of the site of the test or because the zombies themselves came from the overrun No Man's Land nearby. The radiation scientists sent a distress call to Area 51, which resulted in two groups of four agents each being sent to aid them. One group consisted of CIA agents. The other consisted of agents from the Center for Disease Control, or CDC. When they arrived, all but one of the radiation scientists had turned into zombies themselves. The remaining scientist, Marlton Johnson, a young protégé in his twenties, hid in the fallout shelter in Nuketown. A rigged intercom was still functioning in Nuketown that received transmissions from Griffin Station that could be heard across the site. The CDC and CIA fought against these zombies in the second Battle of Nuketown.