Zombies

*This article is about Zombies, the antagonists. For the zombie virus click (here).*

**Zombies** are a major antagonist to Star Phoenix and every other survival group in the main story of APAU.

## Description

Zombies are humans who have been infected with the zombie virus. Zombies are usually depicted as broken down humans with paler skin, rough, unkempt hair, no pupils, and occasionally scars or other injuries. Many of these conditions are caused by the zombie virus itself. Recently infected zombies appear more human-like than zombies who have been infected for multiple weeks. Usually newly infected zombies have less injuries, cleaner hair and overall appearance, and untorn clothes. Zombies smell of a rotting or dirty odor.

The zombie virus can also infect animals. Zombified animals usually display many of the same qualities as human zombies such as no pupils, rotting and broken skin, and scars and injuries. The blood of a zombie animal will still infect a human and eating the meat of a zombie animal will most definitely infect any organism.

## Behavior

Zombies slowly loose their human qualities the longer they are infected. Slowly they begin to loose control of most brain functions as the virus infects their nervous system. After around two weeks, zombies become aimless machines walking around looking for someone else to infect. This could be violent or slow depending on the physical strength of the human before infection. Some zombies claw at targets or use weapons, while most choose to bite the victim usually in the neck. Zombies respond to loud sounds as they are usually signs of life that they can infect. They exhibit most of this behavior until they die or rot to the point where they can no longer be mobile. Many zombies form hordes with other zombies.

## Appearances

Zombies have appeared many times throughout the main story of APAU as well as in APAU Zero. Here is a list of every chapter zombies have appeared in so far.

Appearances in **APAU**

* Chapter 2 - Small horde of zombies in the Jupiter Air China Airport
* Chapter 4 - Large horde attacks Star Phoenix until Antivirus comes to save them
* Chapter 7 - In the flashbacks, multiple zombies are seen. There is one zombie horde and multiple individual zombies including two unnamed zombies and the zombie of Cece.
* Chapter 8 - A zombie horde attacks Star Phoenix in Disney World
* Chapter 9 - The same horde from the previous chapter continues to follow Star Phoenix
* Chapter 10 - Multiple groups of zombies attack Star Phoenix members in the orange juice factory.
* Chapter 11 - Zombies chase Star Phoenix and Nixity in the building they are staying in. One zombie is seen later falling from a burning building.

Appearances in **APAU Zero**

* Comic 1 - Multiple zombie pigs and the first zombie is shown briefly
* Comic 2 - One zombie is seen approaching Bluey
* Comic 4 - Bluey fights the previous zombie

**Named Zombies**
* He wears a simple ragged shirt and pants with no complicated designs. David's hair is messy and uncut. He has sharp teeth and a few cuts and bruises all over his body.
* He was only infected for a few days prior to Chapter 2.
* He was killed with a knife by Bluey after he tried to attack Toxxic during the Jupiter airport outbreak.

 Alley
* Alley wears a fluffy blouse and unknown pants. Her hair is tied up in two pigtails. She has no visible injuries on her.
* She was only infected for five days prior to chapter 2.
* She was shot by Toxxic using his gun which was newly acquired from the corpse of a dead security guard after she tried to sneak attack Bluey in the Jupiter Air China Airport.
 Stuart
* Stuart dresses in damaged formal attire including a tucked-in dress shirt and pants. He wears a tie which is slightly ripped. Most of his clothing has minor blood stains. He appears to be suffering from a nose bleed.
* He was a regular worker and was bitten a week and a half before the events of Chapter 2.
* He and a small horde of zombies chased after Star Phoenix in the Jupiter Air China airport after they had just met Toxxic.
 Isaiah
* Isaiah stands at an average height and has long messy hair. He wears a simple short sleeved shirt which is covered in dirt and blood. He also wears long messy pants which has the right leg ripped off. He is very muddy especially his feet since he wears no shoes. His right arm is missing and bleeding while his left arm is cut significantly.
* He lived in a nearby neighborhood to Bluey and caught the infection after coming back from a work trip. He lived as a zombie for a few weeks isolated in his house and was only freed to the outside world once he was caught by Bombshell's attacks in the area. These attacked damaged most of the right side of his body. He laid in the rubble for days before finally escaping and travelling aimlessly.
* His primary weapon is a busted crowbar, which was damaged in the same Bombshell attacks. He eventually finds Bluey and fights him in Bluey's garage using the crowbar, which Bluey would pick up and later give to Apples.