BACKSTORY: This story begins when Michonne decides to end her pattern of shutting down and being a lone wolf. After she decapitates all of the walkers around her, and goes in search of other survivors of the Governor's prison massacre, Michonne runs into a strange phenomenon...
She had just seen the tin container of chocolate pudding in the road, abandoned but recently eaten. Michonne knelt by it, then looked over at a particular house, sensing that the person that had eaten the delicacy, was inside at that moment.
Michonne stood to full height and was about to walk over to the curb, when something rippling caught her eye. She turned from the house and looked down the street.
Off in the distance, the scenery looked wavy. Like how it might look if it were 150 degrees and smoke was wafting up from the pavement. But it was not 150 degrees. It was no more hot than it usually was, and yet something wavy was moving her way.
Michonne shook her head at first, sure that she was imagining things. Maybe the wavy reality wasn't coming her way? Maybe it just looked like it was?
Then the oddest thing happened. Two walkers, that Michonne hadn't even sensed were nearby, passed her without so much as a glance and sniffed the air, hurrying towards the wavy wall, that had indeed moved closer.
Michonne stood transfixed, as the walkers walked THROUGH the haze! She gasped, her mouth open and katana poised, ready to strike. Where had those walkers went? And should she try and fight off whatever was behind this mysterious 'wall', or run to get help from whomever had eaten that pudding?
She swallowed convulsively and decided to run! She turned and ran towards the curb, bounded up the walk, across the lawn and up the porch steps! But before she could peer in through a window, to see who might be inside, the wave reached her and the house and everything began spinning!
The next thing Michonne knew, she was outside of the prison again. A perfectly intact looking prison. She heard snarls and quickly cut off the heads of three walkers that were dragging themselves up to her, before turning away and running towards the front prison gate. Someone saw her because the doors opened quickly, then closed before any walkers could reach the opening.
Michonne stopped to catch her breath slightly, then looked up in wonder as Hershel greeted her warmly!
"It's good to have you back, Michonne. I'm glad you saw the error of your ways." he said kindly, rubbing her shoulder. Michonne blinked, dumbfounded that he was alive and processing his words to her. 'The error of her ways'?
Hershel now looked concerned. Michonne was staring at him like she had never seen him before!
"Are you alright? Did you see something on your run? Where is everyone else?" he asked softly. Michonne continued to gape at him until her eyes left his and another 'ghost' appeared.
Andrea.
"Michonne? Hershel, I think something's wrong! Michonne?" Andrea now yelled in her face. Darryl slowly walked over and waved a hand in front of her face. He then looked at Hershel and Andrea.
"You'd better go get Phillip." Darryl advised. Michonne came out of her shock.
"Phillip? Who's that?" she asked, confused.
Now the three of them really looked at her like she HAD lost her mind! Andrea put a hand on her shoulder.
"Honey, Phillip is your husband, remember?"
Hershel pulled Darryl aside.
"I'm going to take her back to her cell and examine her. She could've been bitten and the wound isn't obvious." he told him.
"No one has ever had amnesia after being bitten." Darryl noted with a snort.
"We don't know she has amnesia. She seems to know us." Hershel noted. He then returned to the two women.
"Andrea, help Michonne to her cell. Darryl, get Phillip..."
Michonne suddenly shook everyone off of her and raised her sword!
"YOU are dead!" she snapped at Hershel. She then looked at Andrea.
"And so are you! I don't know what the hell is going on here, but I'm leaving! Open the gate NOW!"
Hershel backed off and whispered to Darryl for him to go get his bag. He planned to sedate Michonne and then get to the bottom of this once and for all. Darryl hurried off, unsure that he should be leaving Hershel and Andrea at the mercy of a sword wielding woman, who had lost her mind!
But he did as he was told, and on his way, passed Maggie and Glenn.
"What's happening?" Maggie asked.
"Michonne is back and something ain't right. Hershel plans to sedate her."
"I'll go and help," Glenn said, "Maggie go and get Phillip and Rick."
Maggie nodded and hurried off with Darryl. Glenn ran the opposite way and stopped short at what he saw. Michonne looked absolutely crazed! She was warding Hershel and Andrea off, and yelling for the gate to be opened. He eased over and Michonne saw him.
"Thank God! Someone that is really alive! Glenn, open the gate! I have to get out of here! The waves will take me back!"
Glenn said nothing and eased over to Andrea.
"Maybe she found some PCP or something on her run?" he asked.
"She found something and I don't like it!" Andrea hissed softly.
Meanwhile, Darryl hurried into Hershel's cell causing Beth, who was caring for Judith, to raise a brow. Maggie then whipped past her shortly after and ran up to Phillip and Rick.
"Phillip, Michonne is back and something is wrong! She's wielding her sword and Hershel wants to sedate her!"
Phillip hurried after Maggie, while Rick strapped on his gun belt and followed. Meanwhile, Michonne began to feel unwell. She suspected it was her lack of food after traveling in search of others. But suddenly, she passed out, dropping her sword.
When she opened her eyes, it was all she could do to keep from choking! The Governor, who Andrea called 'Phillip', was standing over her with TWO GOOD EYES! And Rick...Rick was the one wearing an eyepatch.
Her world went dark after witnessing such a confusing and jarring spectacle. It would only get worse when she awakened.
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