Rain slammed against the crumbling city like a relentless drumbeat. Smoke and ash choked the streets, and the stench of decay clung to the air. Towering buildings, once monuments of human achievement, now lay shattered—hollow shells in a world gone mad.
Kane Mercer ran. His legs burned, his lungs heaved, and every step felt like dragging the weight of a world already dead. Behind him, a growing mass of groaning, twisted forms surged forward: humans mutated into feral, mindless monsters. Their eyes glowed with unnatural hunger, their jaws snapped with teeth sharper than steel.
He turned a corner and froze. Wolves, grotesque and towering, stalked the streets with jagged claws. Birds the size of men swooped down, their beaks slicing through metal and bone alike. Even the dogs were no longer familiar—fused with some alien strength, their fangs like daggers. Kane's heart sank: there were no more humans left. Every shelter, every barricade had fallen. He was the last one alive.
A distant wail pierced the chaos. Kane ducked into a half-collapsed lab, broken glass crunching beneath his boots. Computers lay shattered, test tubes strewn like tombstones. Amid the ruin, one terminal flickered weakly, its screen faintly alive.
Curiosity battled with fear. Kane approached, brushing ash from the screen, and what he saw made his stomach drop. A signal—not of human origin—pulsed across the monitor. Strange patterns, codes that made no sense to any earthly system.
Then it became clear. The virus, the mutations, the world ending… it had not happened by accident. Kane's eyes widened as a distorted image loaded: distant alien vessels, releasing something into oceans, air, and soil. The mutation—the plague—was theirs.
A scream built in his throat, but no one would hear it. The monsters crashed through the doorway, claws and teeth rending everything in their path. Kane Mercer fell, alone, his life extinguished as the city burned around him.
And above it all, beyond sight, the aliens watched, calculating, as humanity's final hour came to an end.