A-Paw-Calypse

You're a scientist at Raincoat labs. It's been a god job with plenty of opportunities and you've had no complaints helping develop cures to many of the worlds diseases. You were recently promoted to the Research and Development team, a massive pay increase. The R&D lab is unbelievable, especially because rather than curing diseases, they are making new ones. Engineered plagues tailor made to the desires of wealthy individuals. You got used to the new work quickly and as you were dosing a petri dish and getting ready to put it in the incubator you suddenly hear a crash! The lights of the lab go dark for a moment, then red. the whole place suddenly locks down with an alarm "Contaminant breach, Quarantine enacted. Contaminant breach, Quarantine enaaakkkk . . ." the alert quiets you hear crashing, and screaming! somethings gotten out. something angry. You dare to peak outside and see a monster, its body bulging with extreme muscles and walking on 4 legs with absolutely massive feet. it turns to look at you its you can tell he used to be a shark anthro. The F-00-T virus! it must have contaminated someone or one of the infected test subjects must have gotten out. You jokingly refered to these guys as footants. you panic you cant let these monstrosities get out the virus is highly infectious. but you have to also save your own skin.

You heard about the incident at raincoat labs like everyone else, the entirety of possum city is now under Quarantine and investigation. You sit there in your apartment in the warm glow of the television waiting for news from the police or the government. Fortunately it seems like the F-00-T virus isn't that dangerous, at least not to your health. Symptoms tend to only include massive foot growth, and the development of a Huge foot fetish. But it could result in more severe mutations in some instances.

Finally word, The governor not wanting to interrupt small businesses for to long deems it safe to resume normal activity as infected tend to pose no threat to non-infected. However to be aware and cautious of roaming Footants that may pose a more serious risk. assuring that the police will be doing everything in their power to secure the situation and prevent the spread of the virus to other cities without interrupting the economy. You sigh in relief well it seems everything is back to normal . . . right?

Its been just over a year since the tiny outbreak of the F-00-T virus, Its long since spread globally fortunately it was mostly benign. things are starting to settle back to some amount of normalcy, Infected people are now a common sight on the street, their huge bare feet now considered normal behavior, as they constitute nearly 70% of the world population. Efforts to create a vaccine or a cure have mostly been abandoned as the infected have pushed hard against any effort saying there is nothing wrong with them. And already the subtle changes in the world can be felt. new stores opening up catering to toe accessories, and advertisements featuring more and more infected. a general message that we should just embrace these new changes.

You are one of the 30% of uninfected people left in the world, you sigh as you get dressed and ready to head into the office. youre greeted as usual by the nice lady at check in and head to your cubical and get to work on your spreadsheets. looking around you can see most of your co-workers have the virus. walking around showing off their gross feet to the world. you shudder and turn back to computer thinking about hanging out with your friends at the cafeteria for lunch.