Day Zero - News Update

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"Good afternoon, this is Neal Conan for NPR. Day Three of the crisis in Manhattan continues, with the destruction mounting. We have reports that the Roosevelt Island ferry was hijacked earlier this morning by a group of mutants pledging loyalty to the individual calling himself Apocalypse, who has claimed responsibility for this attack. We cut now to a press conference from New York Govern--"

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"My people. We have marked our place in the world, and by our very presence are beginning to change the course of history. Upon the ashes of this decadent bastion of humanity's excess and corruption, we will construct a new kingdom. A society of progress, of achievement, of the future. Those of you who have joined me know that this is a noble goal, and one that you have found worthy of fighting for. And fight you must, for the future belongs to those strong enough to carve out their place in it. We must, as a race, move beyond the complacency and dead-end evolution of homo sapiens. The time of the human is done, and ours is the mandate to confirm its end. Now marks the era of the new man, of novo sapiens, and it is our time. It is your time. Stand with me. Fight with me. Walk with me into our new future.

The world is ours. I am Apocalypse, and this is my word."

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