Apocalypse System Novels & Stories

Then the apocalypse prevails. Sharon glanced at the child. “And if I accept?” Alex stepped closer. “You are the apocalypse.” The sky went black and a man appeared.Then the sky grew dark and a man walked out. The ground began shaking. The boy's irises turned completely white.The boy's eyes turned white. Then, the system came into the world for the first time, in this strange world. FINAL CHOICE UNLOCKED SAVE THE WORLD OR SAVE YOUR SON Sharon looked at the two choices. Then another message, a third, appeared.

Liam accepted being pampered without worry, knowing full well he would make Jack pay for it tonight. Tomorrow he would stay home to rest and look after Sophie, and give Hannah a day off. ... Meanwhile, by early February, over five months had passed since the apocalypse began. Since the extreme cold began, the Central Satellite Broadcast had been reporting on the zombie situation and the freeze disasters in different regions and urging people to take protective measures. Today, it finally broadcast updates about the bases. It said that most of the bases were mostly finished. The bases had originally been led by the official military, but many Superpowered individuals had joined since, so the

But come the apocalypse, even the most impenetrable fortress would turn into an iron tomb without power. Once the floodwaters smashed through the city's main power grid, the municipal electrical supply would collapse entirely. Water filtration pumps, hydraulic steel blast doors, and perimeter surveillance radar would all demand an endless reserve of electricity. Worse still, Astrid knew firsthand that the apocalyptic cycle wouldn't end with the deluge. When the impending ice age set in months later, temperatures would plummet into the deep negatives. Regular diesel sold at retail pumps would gel and freeze into useless sludge, wrecking internal combustion chambers beyond repair.

All this while I've been communicating with RESS in my mind inaudibly. “You just assigned me the man who practically destroyed humanity! The man who killed my best friend Zeph! Who killed me!” CORRECTION: THE APOCALYPSE WAS A MULTIFACTORIAL EVENT.] I nearly choked. “Are you seriously defending him?” [THE SYSTEM DOES NOT ENGAGE IN EMOTIONAL BIAS.] “Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.” I pressed my fingers against my forehead. “Tell me something. When you said I needed to find a suitable teammate, did you mean someone who could help me survive the apocalypse or someone who could personally bring it about and use me as his first breakfast?”

The downtown streets were starkly abandoned, save for a few exhausted sanitation workers struggling to push through their shifts. After mapping out the general mood of the city, Willow ducked into an air-conditioned boba tea house to cool down. Browsing her phone while sipping an iced oolong milk tea, she stumbled across a trending online forum thread discussing apocalyptic survival scenarios. Naturally, most commenters treated it as a joke, treating the end times like a sci-fi movie trope. Willow frowned thoughtfully, typing out a quick, anonymous reply on the thread. "Early warning signs of an approaching systemic collapse and how families should prepare..."

"Friday, seven in the morning. The first drop on the glass. By nightfall, every hospital in the city is full. People on the floors. People in the parking lots." Saturday the Internet dies then the phones next. "Saturday night. The last thing I saw online was a man on a roof, screaming at the sky." Sun down. Power out in Crown District first. "And Sunday." Her pen slowed. "Sunday, Sabrina knocks." She stared at the word she had just written. She did not underline it. She did not cross it out. She moved to the other column. Three days of groceries. Rice cooker. Candles. Phone charger. "That's it," she said. "That's everything I had the first time. Food for one person, and two more mouths on th

“There’s a military checkpoint outside the city where survivors are being taken, but nobody knows how long it will remain operational.” Adrian studied the map. “We’re not going there.” Daniel frowned. “Why?” “Because it’s already compromised.” “How do you know?” Adrian didn’t answer, and I was getting tired of these mysterious conversations. “Can someone please explain what’s going on?” Daniel looked at me. “You really don’t know?” “Know what?” He hesitated, and then he pointed toward Adrian. “Your friend here has been preparing for the apocalypse for months.” I turned slowly, and Adrian didn’t look surprised. “Months?”

I let my guard down, leaning on the car and finally taking a breath. Everything seemed so much sharper now. Smells, sounds, even my eyes seemed to work better all of a sudden. It could have been a result of the virus. Or maybe it was the system. I was yet to fully understand how a person could even become a zombie hybrid. Not that I understood much about the apocalypse anyway. It happened so suddenly. First had been the black rain. Acid rain, whatever you wished to call it. It burned through your skin like acid and left it like melted plastic.

I know how it sounds, but because of that I can tell what comes next. The power grids will fail across the southern sectors in nine days, it's why we use radio systems instead of the more advanced electrical units. The eastern pass breaks three weeks after that." My voice shook. "And I can tell you how you die. In my memories of the first life, you held Harrow's Gap in the first week of winter...." "That's enough Aurora! I don't want to hear about that." He commanded loudly. For a moment after, Cassian said nothing.

“Maintain your resolve. Our extraction units may experience delays, but they will reach you!” The recorded warning played continuously, bearing all the hallmarks of an automated crisis alert. Did they actually heed my prior counsel? A profound sense of vindication, mingled with quiet satisfaction, washed over me. I had initially anticipated receiving another Healing Potion as compensation for shifting the trajectory, yet the system remained silent. [Disaster mitigation directives were not explicitly disseminated by the system administrator. Consequently, the "Selfless Savior" designation was not activated.]