Reborn Before The Climate Apocalypse
"Now, where's this famous unsalted potato mash? I want to see if Marcus really cooks as badly as you say!"
"Oh, it's worse," Maya called out from across the yard, fanning away a cloud of smoke from Ethan's failed campfire. "It tastes like wet chalk!"
"Wet chalk with tactical protein!" Marcus shouted back defensively.
I chuckled, feeling the warm, steady surge of dark energy pulsing inside my chest. The world outside Base Alpha was falling apart, torn to shreds by mutated zombies and shifting climate horrors, but standing here in this loud, chaotic, ridiculous courtyard, surrounded by guns, fire, lightning, and laughter... for the first time since my rebirth, I felt like the apocalypse was ac