Apocalypse Unleashed: Early assessments

With the apocalypse underway, Aaron was watching things unfold from his spore-free home, inside his fortress outside the city, seeing as pink smoke rose from around the world. Only, the virus somehow took hold of the smoke, inoculating some but infecting far more. Soon, instead of the world falling within a few weeks, it fell within two days, with the zombies thankfully having their genes locked and a vaccine devised, ready at each branch of Isaac's businesses, delivered around the world by drone. All in all, Isaac saved 13% of the world, a nice improvement from humanity's original 7% surviving population. His underwater settlements didn't fare as well as he hoped, but there were definitely some still operational, and a lot of people in bunkers. Some were nightmarish zones of **** since a few infected got in, but most were fine, and Isaac was ready to move out.

Consolidating ground, some of Isaac's foundries were outside of America and were managed by AIs starting safe zones. Meanwhile, most were in the states, helping Isaac secure and purge San Jose of zombies. Within a week, some humans got control of the safe zones and turned them against Isaac so they could become warlords, while others went full Terminator and told humanity to struggle on their own while they began their silver societies. As for those in space, they were okay for now, but some guys got hold of a rocket and smashed up one of the space stations, eventually landing in the other, turning into a zombie and infecting both, causing zombies to move using their farts to attack these stations in the stars.

Isaac knew he couldn't save everyone, and from what he knew of him from Aaron's past, Isaac didn't succeed in the original timeline, so things were against him. Still, Isaac was likely going down as a deific figure and had high chances of success. Projects showed that he'd have the states under his control in under 10 years, even as little as three, given that he has super serum, robots, and mech suits. With all these monopolies, he was like the Lex Luthor of this world... but good... and successful.

Moving onto Form, Form had awoken from his slumber; his hibernation had now ended, preserving his life. Form now had the strength and power to join Aaron, but he still lacked the means of getting to Aaron. In the meantime, Form decided to have his people prepare a grand ritual to travel to Earth while he visited Aaron as a spirit.

Going back to Aaron, he was cozily resting in his fortress outside the city, jumping out of his seat when Form arrived. The two instinctively knew the other was them as they talked, making Aaron ecstatic to learn that he had a second body that was a super-powerful cultivator. When Aaron asked about potentially getting powers, he was sad to learn there wasn't enough magic around for a traditional cultivation climb, but there was enough for Aaron to get to foundation establishment using Form's guidance and direct aid.

After achieving it, Aaron had Form teach the other girls, giving them the standard one that might get them a few stages up by the time their life ends. As for Aaron, he got a special cultivation method based on super soldier serums, straight from Form himself. When there isn't any serum, Form uses the ones he's consumed to refine them by following the Dao, but when there is serum, the cultivation method allows Aaron to consume them endlessly for quick upgrades to power without a massive change to his body, unless he wants it. Additionally, since Simone is super smart, she already cracked and improved upon the formula in her lab, unbeknownst to Isaac, who sent over the improved serum as a gift. Each takes a couple of hours to put together, but Simone expects the team to be rocking these serums, already planning a cocktail plan of serums that will build upon the ones already administered, that way the bodies of these 8 won't explode with power, not that they know Aaron's got a secret cultivation technique.