BNHA Zombie AU

Prologue: The Downfall

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. "

                                                                                                   J.K. Rowling

David Shield watched as his entire life's work crumbled in front him, the Islands main plaza, once beautiful, now a hellish inferno full of crazies tearing each other apart. And if they didn't get you, the fire did. At this distance the bodies seemed like dots, but David had seen them, he had seen charred remains of what had been his colleagues, friends... Their clothes had melted into their flesh, fused with their skin, they had called out to him, reached out for him with their wilted fingers, cried as he pretended not to see them... This was too much, too much for a man to take in all at once, he felt tears rolling down his face, tears of shame, tears of sadness, tears of relief, tears of guilt.

"Dad?"

Melissa. He thought, he couldn't give up yet, he couldn't die just yet, he had to get her out of here, he had to warn the world about what had happened here. The man pulled his beloved daughter closer to him, "Come on Melissa, let's go." He glanced back one more time at the place he had built, then turned towards the platform supporting their ride out.

As the helicopter rose into the air, in the darkness as he felt sleep taking over him, he allowed himself to sob, to mourn, to fall asleep...

"Sir, chamber B's alarm has been sounded."

"Ah, probably a lost tourist. Samuel, if you would kindly escort him out..." David Shield smiled at his assistant. I-Islands security was one of the best in the world, designed by David and Metal Knight himself. The security of it rivaled Tartarus and David wasn't going to report a small breach to ruin his reputation.

"All right Sir, I'll head right away!"

"Good luck Samuel, and it'll probably be best if you could scold him a bit, he did break into our facility after all."

"Yes Sir!"

Shield chuckled at his assistants stiff formal movements and continued to design his new suit sample for special ops. Chamber B was a medical lab used to research low class bacteria commonly used in vaccines to see whether they could create one vaccine for all easily preventable diseases. No-one was going to gain anything stealing from there, almost everyone was vaccinated and they haven't even come close to creating a prototype. All of these thoughts came and went as he kept designing the suit, he found them annoying, he couldn't concentrate until whoever broke in was removed from his facility. So he sighed and took out his handheld receiver.

"Samuel, have you gotten rid of him?"

*Static

"Sam?"

A feeling of unease settled upon him, "Sam, I'm calling in the security alright?"

"Don't bother... he's already dead"

"......" David jumped at the voice, it was rusty, strong, yet quiet.

"I-I'm sorry, who is this?" He silently scolded himself for stuttering.

"Oh, you'll find out soon enough, and I do hope you tell the world what you have seen..."

David felt sweat dripping down on his hand, this person whoever they might be, had broken into his lab, stolen Sam's receiver and claimed that he was dead

"What do you mean! What did you do?" David could now hear the desperation and strain on his voice. No answer. Just some laughter and giggling from the other side. Then "You better run Davey boy, it'll be a waste for you to die now, then we would have to get another person out there to spread the news." *Muffled laughter

The next few hours passed in a flash, he remembered running to where Melissa studied, pulling his daughter out of class, learning about what happened, escaping the bombings and crazies, running through the Island to where he knew had not been affected too much and had a way out. Too much had happened. Too much for him to take in everything. But he remembered, he remembered the letters imprinted onto the terrorists uniforms. The three letters that strike fear into people's hearts. The symbol of despair. In his unconsciousness, he managed to make out an oath. I will never forgive you, I will never let you live in peace, I will hunt you down, I will kill you. 

Shigaraki Tomura.