Bob emerged through the inter-dimensional portal, his loafers touched down on a thin office carpet, he looked and in front of him was an old man with eternally balding white hair.
"Hey Peter," Bob said to the old Saint.
"Greetings Bob, sit down, I need to talk to you," Saint Peter replied.
"Whats there to talk about you guys canned me remember?"
"Right, about that, so handing your job over to Hezekiel didn't go over as smoothly as we thought it would,"
"Did you figure that out before or after billions had become zombified? And you hit quota 300 times over?"
"As a matter of fact, after, you see the zombie virus has one effect we didn't predict, you see in addition to destroy the body and mind of the victim, it also destroys their soul. You understand what that does to the cycle right?"
"Enlighten me"
"Well because the virus rots the soul we can't recover them, so we have billions dieing and no souls to replace them with. Whats more because, the virus rots the soul that makes it incurable, humans can fix the mind and body, but not the soul."
"In theory they can't, but we don't know for sure. I mean they've never tried, suppose if they were smart enough they might be able to heal the soul,"
"Hmm, possibly but the soul-rot isn't the only wrench in the works, and who could be smart enough to figure this out?"
"I know a couple of fella's dirt-side,"
"Alright well we could talk about this till the cows come home, we need to talk about your job now."
"Your not saying you need me to be Death again are you?" Midway Bob's voice cracked with excitment as he spoke.
Peter through his head back and gave a hearty laugh, "Death! That's rich! Bob you've seen that place we don't need another Death, what we need is an avatar,"
"An Avatar? Why can't we just fix everything in blaze of light?"
"We can't you remember that new rules no mega-miracles everything has to be done through the humans. They brass is only letting one weak avatar."
"And how am I involved?"
"They want it to be you,"
"Me? Why?"
"Three reasons, first your where against the apocalypse from the beginning, two your the best killer we have right now, and three you already have connections with the humans who have the best chance of stopping all of this."
"Alright, when do I start?"