Turns Out Cats Are Endgame
Others unlocked special abilities.
Cats, though?
Different tier.
They were the only ones who got stronger through breeding. No slow grind. Every generation jumped ahead.
Before long, cats ran the apocalypse.
With their abilities, humans controlled the zombies, built a cure, survived.
The pets stopped evolving. Everything balanced out again.
Then, two years after it all ended, Bubba and Missy got thrown back here by accident.
A magnetic shift sealed their powers. They looked broken, half-dead in the rain.