The story unravels. 

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Art by Rare Designer

Apepe Odyssey: Chapter 1

The entire Apepeverse were locked in their homes, glued to their TV"s desperate for updates about a potential cure, and survival plans of how they could win the Zombie War and avoid being eaten and turned into Zombie Apepes. 
 Back at the secret pond lab, the scientists filled with guilt, and wanting to do whatever they could to save the Apepeverse from the Zombie War, looked at each other, then glanced over at the emergency safe and proceeded to pull out this mysterious red ooze that they had been working on along with the experimental prototype ooze blaster