Cosmic Calamity

***Cosmic Calamity***, also known as the **10th Anniversary Special**, is an upcoming sci-fi/horror-drama story that will be written in November 2022 as part of the Extended Universe, making it non-canon to the Original Series. A crossover event, it will feature characters from multiple story arcs of *The Walking Dead by EDStudios*, all of whom are alternate versions of characters from the Original Series.

Set in an alternate reality known as the Wrecked World where futuristic technology was commonplace, it follows a version of Edwards known as "Wolf" who becomes trapped in this alternate reality and joins a rebellion against an empire of cybernetically enhanced warriors.

## Plot

*After stumbling across a breach in space and time, an alternate version of Edwards is thrown into a dark future where cybernetics and enhanced zombies reign. With only one way home, he joins many different versions of himself and his loved ones on a quest to destroy the evil overlord of this Wrecked World, only to encounter a cause far greater than himself...or his true home.*

*A crossover event featuring characters from across the series both past and present, the 10th Anniversary Special will be a celebration of a decade of developing and sharing this story and these characters, which began in November 2012 as a fan-fiction of Telltale's The Walking Dead.*

## Synopsis

### Episode 1: "The Breach"

In a summery of his life up to the present day, Edwards remembers his time at the school, his battle with Stoffman, torture at the hands of Bart Rhodes, the burning of Greencole, the escape from Archangel and the founding of the Commonwealth. In the present, Edwards, his wife Bethany and close friend Kyle answer a distress call concerning a nearby cave. Deep inside, they find a magnificent, blinding white light; hearing sound coming from the light, Edwards approaches and is suddenly dragged away by an unseen force. As Bethany and Kyle fail to reach him, Edwards is pulled into the light. He sees variations of his life, including several of his potential deaths, before landing on a pile of corpses with the light above him; he recognises most of the bodies as some of his loved ones. Panicked and confused, he does not notice as someone approaches; as they near, it becomes clear that the figure has a glowing red eye. The figure reveals himself to be Bart Rhodes, who gleefully greets Edwards before firing a red beam from his cyber eye. Edwards throws up his hands in surrender as the beam hits his right arm, burning it to dust and cauterising the wound. Edwards screams in agony and collapses as Bart charges his eye.

## Episodes

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## Characters

### Main

* Wolf Edwards: an alternate version of Edwards whose reality closely mirrors that of his mainline counterpart
* Holly Parker: an alternate version of Holly who survived in her divergent reality
* Enlightened Eden: an alternate version of Antony Eden whose reality dramatically diverged from his mainline counterpart
* Prime Edwards: the Edwards native to the Wrecked World and the leader of the rebellion
* Primal Edwards: an alternate version of Edwards who chose to stay in the Wilds after the events of *The Fatal Frontier*
* Prime Eden: the emperor of the Wrecked World
* Bart Rhodes: a henchman of Emperor Eden and amalgamation of both his original and remake counterparts
* Sarah Terringham
* Leyton Jones
* Ol' Dead Eyes

## Trivia

* *Cosmic Calamity* will feature two endings.