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Nature, however beautiful, wanted revenge. We had taken so much from her. She had given us life and we used to worship her and make sure that nature was never destroyed.
Now our population was greater and wider spread than any other in the world. We grew like a virus through the soft tendrils of Nature’s gifts and took whatever we wanted without giving anything for the pain and suffering it caused to Nature’s creatures.
Nature resorted to the last thing it could. She needed to reclaim her world and rid it of the black hand of humanity. For years she struggled against the onslaught of human and machine daemons with little success. Then like an epiphany the answer was found not by nature but by humans.
During an expedition into the amazon rainforest, a young English researcher found an incredible plant that had the power of mind control. This plant was a vital part of the ecosystem it lived in. It prevented any one species from becoming too dominant in the ecosystem and endangering the other species. The plant would make the animal in question die by a whole nest or colony of the same species and cause the spores from the growth within the animal to kill all in a radius around it. There was no threat to any other species. This plant was called Cordyceps.
Upon taking a large growth of Cordyceps back to England. It was exposed to humans every day for weeks. It grew, evolved, to infect humans with its spores. Nature saw this plant as the thing it desired for the mass extinction of humans.
One night, on the twenty third of June, a young lad assistant was cleaning the lab when, poof, the spore pod growth exploded. The assistant was instantly infected. He lost his control over his body and staggered drunkenly up to roof of the research lab. The assistant’s controlled body fell dead on the roof.
The days ticked on slowly but with each day another growth was rising from the body. On the early morning of the twenty ninth of June 2013, the three spore pods exploded. With the westerly winds of the morning and the dry air being perfect transport for the deadly spores, the town and surrounding areas were showered with the spores. All over those areas, humans dropped dead and began to grow the same deadly spore pods that the assistant’s had on the previous days. The infection grew and in country after country the Cordyceps slew and grew.
The great extinction had begun.