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From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe

So… *sigh*… there was Nina.

Nina was the leader. She was a really pretty Asian girl. I don’t if she was Japanese or Korean or what, she never said. But like I was saying, Nina was the leader. She was a magic type. She had this wicked cool staff that she cast spells with.

Then there was Jason. I guess his job was to look good and make girls go all giggly. He wasn’t all that smart but he was... he was nice. He had a knack with gadgets though. Even though he was a little dim he picked up things and made them work like they didn’t work before.

Lucy was a Peacebringer. I guess she actually kind of like, died at some point but this Kheldian stepped in and merged with her and saved her.

And Last was Vicki. Vicki was a freakin’ android ninja. I mean, she was like, built. Well, yah, built and built if you know what I mean. She actually made me question if I might like girls too… but anyways…

Yah, that’s who I’ve been hangin’ with for the past three years.

Three years? “But Megan”, you say, “You only took off from home and found out you were a mutant less than a month ago”.

Yah yah… funny how stuff happens in Paragon City.

So, like, the day after I had that mishap at KR bank, I met Nina and found out she’s a lot like me, just a little older. Her family sucked, couldn’t deal with her doing magic and she took off. She met Jason and the others and now me and we all have pretty similar stories. Except for Vicki. Vicki’s “creator” is like, a full on super villain who never expected her to appreciate “right” and “wrong”. He’s been the main pain in our posteriors because he keeps sending robot ninjas to try and bring her back.

We had some serious adventures for quite a while. Even went out in space and saved the whole freakin’ planet. But about a year ago, or like, two years from now, everything went really really wrong.

It wasn’t the Vhazilok or even the Pantheon. It was more your “Night of the Living Dead” type of thing. It started slow with like, one or two corpses clawing their way out of a grave and just kind of wandering around until someone put them back down. But then there was more and more. And they’d turn you too. If they bit you, you’d be one of them in a few days. So yah, pretty soon it was a full on zombie apocalypse.

Even the gorram Rikti started leaving us alone because the zombies killed a lot of them too.

Let me tell you something. Nothing sucks more than grabbing someone you love by the shoulder to see if they are ok, and they turn around and try to eat your face.

Jason was the first to go. Then Lucy.

They got Vicki in Perez Park and tore all her circuits out.

Soon it was just me and Nina.

We were trapped in the sewers and it was just a matter of time before they overwhelmed us. Especially since I hadn’t seen the sun for days and I was almost drained. Nina used her staff, one last spell. And she handed it to me.

So here I am. The same day I met Nina. Except the day is almost over and I haven’t met her yet. A lot of things are different Today than the last time it was Today. Maybe it’s not even my Today? I don’t know.

Everything else is still the same. Synapse is still funny, Posi is still a geek, Manticore and Sister Psyche are still married and Statesman is still an asshat.

So I’m just sitting here by the statue of Cyrus Thompson, where I met Nina. I’m holding her staff and she’s not here. None of them are here.