Welcome to Zoe World (New Universe)

"Oh fuck," Zoe groaned. She was lying in a hospital bed, but she wasn't certain why. The last thing she remembered from last night was a shooting star.

She tried to sit up but every part of her body ached or throbbed with pain so she gave up and fell back in bed.

"Fuck," she repeated. Her memory from last night started to come back in small tidbits.

Her best friend Layla had convinced her to live largely and they went to a rave and while she was there she met a guy on the dance floor. The **** might have clouded her better judgment, but she went home with him at the end of the night and they fucked like rabbits.

She was still high after that, and on a ****-induced whim, she decided to go outside buck naked and watch the meteor shower that night. One of them must have come crashing down in the park and almost hit her.

"Holy shit! I was almost dinosaured!" she groaned. She lived, obviously, but the explosion tossed her into a tree, bruised most of her body, and gave her one hell of a headache.

Most crucially right then, she was super thirsty, so she pressed the nurse call button and waited. She wasn't just thirsty she was also exhausted so she tilted her head back and closed her eyes. The nurse arrived a few minutes later.

"Hi, are you awake?" she asked. Her voice sounded familiar somehow, but Zoe wasn't certain.

"Wish I wasn't," she grunted.

"You're either the luckiest Zoe alive, or the unluckiest," the nurse said. She gently lifted Zoe's head and slipped another pillow behind her.

"You know that meteorite impact is listed as the least likely to way die?" the nurse said, "and you were this close. I won't judge, but if you hadn't been on all those **** you might have seen it coming."

"Probably," Zoe said.

"Can I get you anything?" the nurse asked.

"Just a glass of water please," Zoe said.

"Of course," the nurse said.

Alright her voice was definitely familiar, eerily familiar, so Zoe **** her eyes open and yelped in shock.

"I guess you can just leave your mouth open like that," the nurse said smiling. She poured the water into Zoe's open mouth and she had just enough presence of mind to remember to gulp.

The nurse looked exactly like her.

"You must have hit your harder than we thought," she said. She held up a small light and shone it in Zoe's eyes. She blinked and tried to look away, but she was still dumbstruck.

"Well you're responding to light, so that's a good sign, "But you seem concussed. What city are we in right now?"

"Uh... Seattle?"

The nurse cocked an eyebrow and said, "Try Zoeattle. What state?"

"Washington..." Zoe said.

"Well, that's correct at least. Named after who?"

"George Washington..."

"Zoe Washington," the nurse said, "You know, our first president?"

"Are you trying to gaslight me or is this just a mean joke?" Zoe asked, "Because it's not funny." The nurse tapped Zoe's wrist and left the room. She was gone a while so Zoe tried to watch some TV.

"The Zoe who survived a near-direct hit from a meteorite last night has been taken here to St. Zoe's medical center. The hospital has not spoken on her condition yet, but the event has taken the zoenet by storm."

"What the hell?" Zoe asked, "Why are they saying my name every other word?" The news showed a very unfunny meme where somebody had photoshopped her face onto the body of a Stegosaurus. Zoe threw her pillow at the screen in anger not because they were lampooning her near-**** experience, but because Stegosaurus lived in the Jurassic Period and wouldn't have even seen the asteroid!

Then she thought of something very unsettling. How did they even have her face to photoshop it onto a dinosaur in the first place? A few more mean-spirited memes flashed across the screen, and somehow they already knew what she looked like. Was there a video of the incident? She didn't think so, there had been no one else in the park at three in the morning. She figured that somebody probably could have looked her up and found her picture if they had released her name. She felt a little better after that, she was just uncomfortable being talked about on TV.

Then her jaw dropped again when she saw the reporter's face. Just like the nurse, she looked exactly like Zoe.

"The hospital has not released a statement regarding this Zoe's condition other than she is still alive. We'll keep you updated as we receive new information. I'm Zoe Parker, King Five." Zoe's face was completely blank and she frantically changed the channel.

The next channel was a commercial, which was probably for perfume given how pretentious the cinematography was. The sepia-tinted scene lingered on the torso of a woman in lingerie, then panned up. it wasn't subtle in the way it framed the woman's lace-covered tits either, but then when it reached her face, Zoe just stared in abject horror. It was her face again.

She changed the channel again and next up was a children's puppet show, except in addition to the usual colorful monsters, all the humanoid puppets were blond women who looked like her. The characters were talking about sharing when the human host appeared onscreen. Again, she looked just like her.

Zoe was starting to lose her mind and flipped through the channels at warp speed, but every person she saw was her.

"No." On C-Span, both the House and Senate were full of Zoe's.

"NO." A Japanese anime where all the characters were stylized versions of her.

"No!" Animal Planet where she was milking a snake for its venom. This version of her had an Australian accent, but it was still her voice.

"No." America's Most Wanted where she was a notorious bank robber.

"NO!" Finally, a basketball game where the whole team, the skimpy cheerleaders, and everyone in the bleachers were all Zoe.

She couldn't take it anymore and turned off the TV then threw the remote across the room.

"What the fuck is happening?!" she shouted while rocking back and forth.

"Are you alright?" the nurse ran back in the room with the doctor, who of course looked like her.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE?" Zoe screamed, "WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME?" The doctor kneeled by the bed as Zoe tried to crawl away.

"Zoe, please calm down," the doctor said, "We aren't going to hurt you. You received a serious head injury last night after taking multiple ****, so I understand if you're disoriented."

"Why... why..." she pointed at them and the TV, "Why does everybody look like me?!" The doctor and the nurse looked at each other with worry.

"Major concussion with memory loss?" the nurse asked.

"Most likely," the doctor said, "We should schedule an MRI scan to be sure." The nurse nodded her agreement and left the room. Zoe was still terrified and trying to crawl away, but she was already with her back against the wall. The doctor handed her the glass of water and Zoe snatched it direly. After draining it in one go, she made herself relax a little.

"Feeling a little bit better?" the doctor asked.

Zoe nodded and then repeated, "But why does everybody look like me?"

"Zoe, you may be suffering from acute memory loss, so I'll help however I can," the doctor said, "Everyone is Zoe. We always have been."