The Rot

It is now eleven years since the first contact. Ground zero was located in New York City's LaGuardia airport—an Iranian infiltrator, highly infected with the deadliest of viruses in human history. Due to the lack of proper security measures because of highly relaxed government leadership, the infiltrator was able to smuggle in and strap on an improvised explosive device and
detonate himself in the middle of a security checkpoint. The blast instantly killed more than one hundred people, along with
dispersing the virus. In a matter of months, the planet—almost eight billion people—became infected, and the Rot spread and
fed on the living, creating an extinction-level event to humanity. In those eleven years arose an elite force called Reapers. This
force is led by a man known to his team only as the Commander.

The following is one story from that eleventh year adapting to a world now populated by rotting and highly infectious not quite
alive or dead humans.