CHAPTER 7: NO WINNERS NOR LOSERS.
After departing from Rick and running away from the house...
Michonne rushed with her full running speed – completely ignoring her pain, her still but slightly bleeding bite marks from the dog's fangs and her limping leg, though the pain in her injuries and especially in her limping leg got her to grit her teeth while running through of the forests.
Though it was still dark and she did not know this forest, she did not needed the torche to enlighten her way forward, because of the fires all around of her and the fact that she saw somekind of weakly burning light between the trees and in a long distance away from him.
It was enough for her to know that to where she needed to head.
But the only thing what she needed to watch out were in the darkness lurking walkers...
...and possibly their attackers snipers placed up in the trees... or even their dogs.
Michonne kept running through of the forests, which greatly resembled the battleground in the aftermath of the bloody fight between of two warring armies in the war after the battle between of her, Rick and their attackers...
...but she still kept running through of still standing trees and those from the grenade explosions damaged and over to the ground fallen trees, which slowed her down on her progression in the trail of their attackers...
...through of burning and wrecked vehicles caught and tore apart by the explosions lying everywhere...
...through of the dense smoke from the fires all around of the forest and floating in the air between of the trees, bothering her eye sight...
...through of the flaming trees and bushes, which the explosions had ignited to fire from everywhere...
...and through of the dozens of dead bodies of their attackers lying everywhere in the ground either from the explosions burned, viciously mutilated or still in one piece.
And all of their weapons were either destroyed by the explosions but some of them were still in one piece and lying in the next to their dead wielders.
The grenades she and Rick had fired into the forest during of their attackers ambush, had indeed fulfilled their duty.
But Michonne didn't cared about it right now...
...especially when the survived attackers were still lurking out there.
Michonne kept rushing, without paying attention to look behind of her and waiting for Rick, who was unknowingly to her following her a short distance between of them away from her, to their attackers going direction, hoping to find their temporary camp from deeper of the forest.
And Michonne swore that once she has found their attackers temporary camp from the going direction to where she was all of time going, she will finish off every last one of them to ensure at first Alexandria's and her family's safety before the functionality of Rick's crazy plan...
...though Michonne still dared to question Rick's plan's functional after she and Rick had killed most of their attackers and their dogs, destroyed probably most if not all their vehicles and stole the weapons from their dead. It was sure that It was certain that if these people ever wanted to even negotiate with them, they will demand for it the high payment back for their dead and lost of their vehicles and weapons.
But... however this was going to end wit hthese people, from inside of her heart Michonne knew that she had to follow the man she loved to whatever end... to the war against Negan and uncertain victory or to the death.
She was at the moment starting to get closer of the source of the light she saw, as it increased even more and more.
But Michonne started to slow down, after she realized that she had maybe come too close of the light, which can reveal her presence to their attackers, and she needed to take them out by staying in the shadows both the night and the nighttime forest granted to her.
In the border of the light, Michonne quickly fell on her knees, hiding among of the bushes.
And once she had ensured that she was in the unseen position, she took her Mossberg MVP LR equipped with a telescopic sight and aimed with it forward at the source of light to check the odds with her weapon's telescopic sight.
She noticed that the source of the light came from the stop in next to the road. The light was coming from the ignited light pole's lanterns and which was also mixed with the lights of the cars' alarm lights, headlights and mostly with the lights of the spotlights to increase the light...
...of course with the risk that the light may lure the walkers out from the darkness of the nighttime forest.
She spotted through that there was one ambulance car and one police van standing next to each others with their backdoors open.
And she spotted than these seemed to be at least, less than or over than three dozen of arned attackers... However, it was difficult to say that were they just another packup troops of their attackers or the survivors from the two assaults... though their exact number was still unknown to her.
They seemed to have been gathered all around beneath of the light pole... and yet they also seemed to be focusing on to something in middle of their group, instead of even watching the area for the walkers or intruders.
They seemed to be even muttering something among of them.
Michonne was too far away from them to overhear that what they were discussing about with each others.
But whatever it was, Michonne was sure that it was all about the another attack against her and Rick.
It could mean that there could be even more than over three dozen of these attackers.
And it could mean that they could have even more dogs ready for attack, though she didn't heard any sound of growling.
However, Michonne knew that she had com etoo far to turn back anymore and she knew what she had to do to ensure the safety of their community, the safety of her family and Rick's plan's functional.
So, Michonne took the safety off from the gun and aimed with her gun at the light pole's lanterns above of the group...
...and fired!
She fired two shots...
...and both of them destroyed the lanterns, much to the attackers surprise.
Michonne also shot and destroyed with her gun at least two of the huge spotlights to reduce the light that she could hid herself better into the darkness, even though in this close of their camp without them to know.
As the shots were shot and the light pole and couple spotlights out, these people's tight group suddenly scattered and took their weapons and torches, aiming with them everywhere to find and kill the sudden attacker.
Michonne hoped that her sudden shots and ambush would have scattered their entire group all around so that she could find with her eyes their leader, who was possibly in middle of the group to explaining his attack plan's details to his men and was splitting the plan in parts as a tasks for his men before the attack.
And because Rick had mentioned that he caught one of the leaders back in the house's garage, Michonne assumed this another leader to be Billy, who had went missing after she and Rick had successfully managed to break free from their captors, who attacked them as the first wave, and killed them all with the help of their "watch dogs."
Though he went missing after Rick giving him the fierce punch to his faces, Michonne was sure that because he was not seen among the fallen, he had gotta be ran to the woods in order to avoid the gunfire.
Such of cowardly act. Michonne though.
However, he plant didn't completely worked, because the tight group didn't scattered completely... only those did who were searching for her.
So... Michonne changed her position, from where she would get the better shot to scatter the group even more... far away from the aroundings searching people.
And she found one.
The perfect position, where the large bushes covered the ground and which offered to her the cover from these people's eyes along with the night's darkness, and densely growing trees offerend for her the protection against the gunshots.
Michonne aimed with her gun towards the main group's people and opened the fire at them...
...managing to kill with the clear... or more likely lucky... headshots at least four of these attackers...
...causing another half of them, but still not all of them, to scatter around in surprise. Most of those people among of them were those ones who had stood near of their four own Michonne had just killed...
...until someone of them spotted the flash in her gun's barrel as Michonne killed yet another guy with the clear headshot, thus revealing her location to this guy, who as an result warned the others of his group and started to fire with his gun at her direction...
...and the others started to follow their fellow group member's example and fire at Michonne's direction with the heavy gunfire.
Though the trees fulfilled their job by protecting Michonne against the heavy rain of bullets, Michonne knew that she had to change her position just in case if they do have more deadlier toys such like grenades, grenade guns, missile launchers, rocket launchers and miniguns, with which they could easily tear her protection apart.
She took another snipper position from close of the road, where the trees weren't growing as densely as in the first one, leaving her mostly uncovered and an easy target for these people.
However, Michonne positioned herself ready in the bushes and raised her gun, aiming with it at the main group still beneath of the light pole and killing with one clear and one lucky headshots two larger group members of them to get them to scatter away from around of Billy, who was supposedly in middle of them.
Her plan worked, and from the sudden deaths of two of their own badly surprised people started to scatter away from their own dead, and they nearly opened the center of their group... perfect for Michonne to deliver the finishing blow with either the clear headshot to Billy's head or then threw the grenade belt, with one activated, into the center of the group and finish off both the Billy and his main group.
However, because her current hiding spot was in the open and too close of these people's group, the yimmediately guessed that from where the shots came and immediately opened their heavy gunfire at Michonne's hiding spot.
However, Michonne managed to sneak away to find the another perfect hiding spot just in time when the heavy gunfire suddenly stopped, but it was immediately replaced by the stearm of fire from the flamethrower, which burnt the bushes.
Michonne had to crawl along the ground and beneath of the bushes, as all from the main group scattered members of this group started to open their heavy and fierce gunfire all around of the area and some of them, who were wielding the flamethrowers, shoot the streams of fire on the forest in attempt to burn Michonne whereever she was hiding.
And, much to Michonne's horror, these people indeed had more dogs... at least eight bulky dobermans, which these people put to track down Michonne with their sense of smell, as they holders held in their arms the handguns.
Because of the heavy gunfire aimed to everywhere, the streams of fire of the flamethrowers and now even the hounds of their own, Michonne was not left choice but to pick up the hiding spot from somewhere more higher out of the reach of their hounds and cover her trail somehow, though she knew that the dogs would be soon or later able to track down her scent from the ground.
But to where...?
Meanwhile back in the near house...
Rick, was at the same time in the middle of the devastated battleground near of the border of the yard area and the forest... armed with his faithful Colt Python and carrying both grenade gun and Colt M4A1 in his back.
He rushed through of from the explosions devastated battleground's...
...from the grenade explosions damaged and over to the ground fallen trees...
...burning and wrecked vehicles caught and tore apart by the explosions...
...flaming trees and bushes...
...and all of those dead burning, mutilated or still in one piece being bodies of their attackers lying everywhere...
...heading to that direction where he assumed Michonne had gone.
Rick called Michonne by her name... multiple times over from every direction from the devastated battleground... but there was no answer coming from her, which made Rick to worry even more for the woman he loved.
"MICHONNE!"
"MICHONNE!"
"MICHONNE!"
No respond.
Rick was desperate after having no respond from Michonne, but he quickly snapped out of it to watch his own back in case of the dead. It was very dangerous to wander at the night time in the forests, because in the forests at the night time can be anything stalking at the living people... walkers wandering as a single or in the small or huge groups, hostile groups of marauders and the dogs gone wild and feral stalking both the dead and the living.
Suddenly, Rick heard the sudden gunfire, which was coming from the forest in a long distance away from him... where he saw coming both the weakly burning light... plus multiple flashes among of this light... meaning the rapid, dense and heavy gunfire at everywhere.
Rick gasped!
Michonne had indeed done what she had planned or with the risk of her own life threatened to do...
...and what now under their attackers heavy gunfire and probably either pinned down or even killed!
Rick quickly started to ran towards the lights, placing his Colt Python into his case and took M4A1 as his primary weapon... loaded and ready...
...and he hoped that he wasn't too late.
Meanwhile...
After Michonne had covered her trails and her scent from the ground as best as she could to avoid getting tracked down by these people's hounds, Michonne quickly picked up the tree from nearby and climbed on it.
Though the glimbing was far away from being easy, due to her injuries from the dog's fangs.
But despite it, Michonne kept climbing, trying to ignore all the pain she felt in her sides and legs injuries.
It didn't took long from their hounds and their holders to arrive to right beneath of the tree Michonne was taking the cover from their eyes and the shelter from their hounds, as all eight of them were tracking her down in the foot of the tree.
Michonne could have drop the activated grenade in middle of them, but it could damage the tree as well and even cut the tree down to the ground, and in the worse case, the explosion could either kill her as well or reveal her location to these people... so, Michonne needed to think something else to best these people...
...which seemed to be in the area less than one hundred left... after her six kills.
How many they exactly sent against us? How many of them even are there? Michonne thought.
Michonne heard some snarlingm which wasn't coming from the dobermans beneath of her but more likely from the walkers wandering in the woods towards them, attracted by the gunshots...
...they started to become individuals at first and then in smaller groups, the number of which began to grew and grew even bigger and bigger as more and more started to come from everywhere, following the source of the loud gunshots, after every kill these people delivered to the walkers.
Even the dogs and their holders have stopped to search of Michonne when the walkers started to come from everywhere, and they all turned their entire focus on defending themselves against the walkers... and they even released their dogs to attack the walkers, pin them down by teamwork or brutal force and maul the walkers with their teeth and claws.
And from some whimpering, Michonne guessed that some of the dogs, however, had fell as victim to the walkers when they started to swarm at them from every corner and pinned them down with brutal force and began to devour them alive... at least two dogs and one holder experienced such of fate.
Suddenly... Michonne heard Rick's voice weakly in a distance away from her... calling her name.
Michonne realized that Rick was right on his way to here.
And yet he had not knowledge about the large number of the heavily armed enemies still waiting here... ready for the battle against any kind of enemy, either living or dead. And more less he had the knowledge about the walkers wandering from every corner of the area and the dogs nor their flamethrowers.
And even some of these people started to be able to hear Rick's coming this direction from the forest and they even started to aim their weapons... one wielding the flamethrower... towards Rick's coming direction ready to fire.
Rick was walking straight to the gates of the Hell!
Michonne knew that she had to do something to prevent Rick from getting killed...
...she was absolutely not going to lose him again like she nearly did back in the carneval area.
Michonne checked the area to find something she could use as her advantage to turn the tides or turn their enemy side's attaention away from Rick and back to their main base camp.
Michonne looked at the guys wielding the flamethrowers and the flamethrower tanks...and briefly the dogs mauling several walkers...
...and then the grenades on her belt.
These makings got Michonne the form the plan to take at least most of them down...
...even with the risk of getting under the heavy and deadly gunfire herself after revealing her location to these people and attracting more walkers here.
But, for Rick, Michonne had to take the action.
The flamethrowers streams of fire had consumed some trees trunks completely, causing them to fall over to the ground, thus opening the clear way for the grenades she was about to throw at them...
...and luckily for her, they were surrounded by the over couple dozen of their own people, who were firing at the incoming herds of the walkers, as the flamethrower-wielding guys fired the treams of fire at the walkers, burning them to death.
And in the another side of the area, they were doing the same thing... as the others, who were ready to shoot/burn Rick to death.
And so, Michonne cut with her katana the grenade belt into four pieces, each one of them having the two-three grenades, before Michonne took two larger ones of them into her hand and activated one of the piece of belt's grenades, before she threw one piece of the grenade belt hurriedly towards near of the road standing attackers... using the grenades weight to make them to pull the belt down.
And thanks to the large size of the herd incoming from the road, they were too busy to even notice the piece of the belt full of the grenades, with one activated, to land among of them, and right next to the flamethrowers-wielding guys.
The grenades eventually exploded, viciously and mortally mutilating those ones close of the grenades and towards the tanks flew sherds pierced the tanks from the flamethrowers-wielding guys... causing in the seconds the tanks to explode in middle of the two dozen attackers into huge flash of fire, consuming nearly everybody in close of them and some walkers as well... and also the trees and bushes were caught by the huge flash.
And as an result, all those who were caught by the flash began to run as the living human torchers - or if the fire had caught to their sleeves or tousers - everywhere in panic and crying in pain and some of them leaped to the ground and started to roll on the ground to get to suppress the fire, though it was often too late for them and they were either killed by the fire or in fire flaming walkers, which swarmed them from everywhere, pinned them down with their own heavy weight and ravaged them to death under the pile of the burning walkers...
...and all those ones, who weren't caught by the fire, fell either as victim to the walkers approaching after their attention was pulled away from the dead to the massive flash right next to them, which knocked some of them down at the mercy of the walkers, but some of them managed to retreat before were caught and killed by the walkers, whose swarm through of the wall of the flames towards these people.
Michonne then activated one of the grenades from two pieces of belt, and threw one of them at the dogs, who were about to get surrounded by the swarming walkers and one of them towards those dozen guys and the flamethrower-wielding guys... and getting herself quickly in cover.
The explosion tore both the dogs and the walkers apart, senting multiple pieces of flesh, bones, gutts and other body parts all around and forcing the dogs holders to retreat back into their camp base... and throwing the another belt full of grenades with one activated to among of those guys, who were still waiting for Rick's showing up though their attentions were caught by the explosion and the huge flash, was followed by the same explosion and the flash of fire, which consumed most of the people around of the flamethrower-wielding guy and ignited the fire to the nearby bushes.
Michonne, however, decided to save the last belt full of grenades for later, just in case if she still needed them.
And instead of them, Michonne took her gun and aimed with it towards the open area's another side standing guys with the flamethrowers.
Knowing well that the bullet is not enough to cause the tanks full of flammable liquid to explode unlike with the gas tanks, so Michonne aimed so carefully that she could even scratch the tank from its side and cause the liquid to leak from the tanks.
She of course wasn't as good sniper as Sasha, having got mostly only lucky shots in the urgent situations.
But, however, because the flamethrowers-wielding guys, as well as their colleagues around of them, had completely focused to kill from the forest in the massive waves incoming walkers, they wouldn't suspect anything before it was too late for them to react.
The target was perfectly in her aim...
...and it will not be heard by these people because of all of this loud gunfiring against the walkers and towards the source of the gunshots wandering walkers will cover it from these people.
And in addition, one of the flamethrower-wielding guys was standing still on her place... so the having the good aim and direct shot wouldn't be difficult.
Michonne aimed very carefully as she could with her gun at the guy's flamethrower's tank's right side and fired.
And, as she expected, the bulled scratched the side of the tank and caused the leak.
And though the flamethrower's wielder noticed the leak, it was too late for him to react to it in any way.
Because Michonne had immediately turned her gun's direction to the next flamethrower-wielding guy firing the streams of fire into the forest, burning the bushes, small trees and walkers.
This time... Michonne aimed her next shot to the guy's left leg's knee, knowing that what the shot will cause.
Michonne waited for a little bit, keeping her finger ready on the trigger and waiting for the guy preparing to fire the stearm of fire at the incoming walkers again.
And once the guy was about to do so, Michonne fired with her gun.
The shot flew through of the guy's knee, causing him to scream in pain and he fell over on his left side to the ground...
...and as he fell to the ground, he pressed in the process his flamethrower's trigger and fired the stream of fire towards his friend as he was trying to stop the leak in his own flamethrower tank... until he spotted the stream of fire coming right towards him.
The fire catched to the pool of the flammable liquid, instantly igniting it into fire and the flames followed the leak's liquid inside of the tank within seconds.
The flamethrowwer tank exploded into the huge fiery flash, once again, consuming under of its deadly flames all the people nearby of the flamethrower-wielding guy and some the walkers in the process. The flames also consumed the another from his knee wounded flamethrower-wielding guy as he tried to roll around in the ground, still firing the streams of fire to everywhere and accidentally burning his own people, and get out of the way before he was caught by the fiery flash and burned to death... and also his own flamethrower tank exploded into the fiery flash and consumed more people and more walkers...
...and both the fiery giant flashes ignited more bushes and trees into the fire and the and a forest fire spread quickly.
At least it was clear that now their gull attention was locked to the fires and through of the fire emerging flaming walkers and to get out of the area alive, so Michonne turned away from the flames and started to look around through of her gun's telescopic sight in the direction of the main group, in order to find Billy among of them and get the clear killing shot.
However...
The sudden explosion exploded very close of the tree where she was hidding, throwing the pieces of bushes and pieces of wood from the nearby trees, which took the impact fromthe explosion, to everywhere, caught her off guard and caused her to lose her grip from her gun and drop it from down.
The same sudden explosion also cut down two trees, the same trees whose trunks had took the impact from the explosion and damaged seriously enough to snap in half, and one of them was falling over towards the tree Michonne was hidding...
The falling trunk rubbed its own against Michonne's trees, cutting off the several branches and shaking the tree violently on it's way to the ground.
It nearly fell over Michonne, and if Michonne had not moved quickly away from under beneath of the fallen tree's trunk, it could have took her down with it and crush her to death between of the trunk's weight and the ground.
Luckily, Michonne managed to get away from beneath of the falling trunk, which ended up to snap the branch in half as it passed Michonne.
However, the violent shanking of the tree caused Michonne nearly to lose her balance and fall herself down from the tree, but by the reflexes, she managed to hold her grip and remained to hang from the branch for her dear life, before she climbed back to the branch she was sitting.
Michonne climbed back onto the branch, after which she wondering that from where did that sudden explosion came from...
...until she was caught under of the missile fire targeted at her.
Two of them, luckily for her, missed the tree where she was sitting, but they did explode as they hit to the two tree standing right behind of her and the explosions, which severely damaged their trunks, snapped them in half with their explosions.
One of the missiled hit to her tree's trunk a small distance above of her, snapping the upper part of the tree's trunk in half and shaking the rest of the tree violently.
As Michonne saw yet one last missile coming towards her location in the tree, she was left without the other choice and she jumped off from the branch just nick in time before the missile hit to the tree and exploded right behind of her.
Michonne was quite lucky that she was not caught by the huge blast of the missile nor getting hit by the deadly pieces of the wood - at least not lethally but instead slightly but still painfully, as she got some injuried from some in the high speed flying sharp-edged or pointed pieces of wood, getting one deep cut from one of them to her thigh, one stab-like wound to her side and one slight but long shash to her left cheek, causing her to grit her teeth in pain - but she was instead caught by her explosion's shockwave and roughly tossed aside into the bushes and fallen tree trunks... and among of the herd of the walkers...
...of which most of them spotted her on the ground and started to approach her from every corner, stretching out their dead grabbing hands and snarling in lust for flesh and blood at Michonne, as she was holding from the spots of her newly received wounds and rolled in the ground in pain...
Meanwhile...
Rick was halted back by the five sudden and massive fiery flashes coming from their attackers camp base, and which consumed lots of people and walkers and ignited the forest into the forest fire, which spread quickly all around and drove more walkers out of the darkness.
Rick looked at the massive flashes of the flames with the surprised look in his face... as well as the flaming people screaming in pain and running all around, before they got either killed by fire or eaten by the flaming walkers.
"Michonne!" Rick loudly whispered, knowing that somehow this was all Michonne's doings.
Suddenly, his attention was caught by the sudden explosions, which came from the between of densely growing trees from the near of the border of their attackers camp base, causing several of the trees to fall over to the ground... and Rick also saw several missiles flying between of the trees, before they actually hit to some of them and exploded them either in half or in pieces.
Rick did not need to guess twice that whom they were firing with the such iof missile-firing toys.
Rick quickly started to ran towards the camp base, with Colt M4A1 in his arms.
Rick indeed crossed paths with some of these attackers on his way to the camp.
Many of them were caught by the fire and running all around screaming in pain, so they did not pay any attention to him. However, Rick decided to at least to put them out of their misery, so he took his Colt Python and shot all those people, who were caught by the fire, into their heads, killing them instantly...
...using once again all eight shots of his Colt Python by killing eight guys caught by the flames...
...before he quickly get into the cover behind of one of the trees to reload his Colt Python, before he was able to continue his search for Michonne.
But those ones, who were caught by the walkers, Rick just passed them, due to the large number of out of the darkness emerging walkers, whuch he tried his best to avoid, even though they were coming from everywhere bot expectedly and unexpectedly.
He was, however, attacked by the walkers in the great numbers, who surrounded him nearly from every corner and streched their grabbing hands towards him to grab him, though Rick pushed the walkers out of his way and killed some of them with the ax he still had with him...
...and Rick was also under gunfire of four of these people, who have survived from the fiery flashes of the flames, and who had opened their fire - two of them with the handguns, one of them with the shotgun and the last one with the colf rifle - at him.
However, Rick managed to avoid getting shot by using at him approaching walkers as the shields, whose got most of the hits.
Though at the openings in the herd he was forced to open fire either at his attackers either through of the openings or over of the walkers heads... killing or wounding these four attackers and left them to be eaten by the walkers after they were dead.
Rick then turned his gun to forward of him and started to kill the walkers from front of him, but he didn't wasted the ammo to the single individuals but smashed their heads with his Colt Rifle's stern.
It didn't took long from Rick to get through of the herd - though they still followed him right behind in one big herd - to the borner of the camp base...
...only to cross the paths with three guys in middle of the burning camp, two of them wielding the grenade gun, with which they were firing at the forest - to the very same spot from the same spot where the first explosion took place - seriously damaging tree trunks and cutting some of them down with the exploding grenades, and thus causing dozens of sharp pieces of wood from the exploded tree trunks and the body parts of the walkers caught by the explosions to fly all around with the shockwave of the explosions...
...and one of them wielding the missile launcher, which he was at the moment leading with four fresh missiles, before he raised the weapon on his shoulder and aimed the missiles right to there where his friends had been firing their grenades.
It did not took long from Rick to realize that what, or more likely whom, these guys were firing with the missiles and grenades!
Knowing that this has gone too far to be stopped and hoping that it was not too late from him to take the action, Rick immediately raised his Colt Rifle at these two and prepared to fire with his gun at them to kill them, before either of them managed to fire any grenade or missile into the forest.
However, the missile launcher wielding guy quickly spotted Rick aiming them with his Cilt Rifle, and reacted to this by quickly turning his missile laucher at him and prepared to fire all his weapon's four missiles at Rick at once.
And as Rick realized that he was aimed with the missile launcher from the close distance...
"HOLY SHI...!" Rick cursed, as he quickly bowed down and leaped forward to avoid the missiles just nick in time as the missile launcher wielding guy opened fire at him and fired all missiles at once.
Two missiles flied over him...
...but as soon as Rick bowed down and leaped forward, the missile launcher wielding guy was quite surprised of Rick's sudden move, but quickly snapped out of it and reacted to this by lowering his missile launcher a bit more down and fired his two remaining missiles.
His two missiles hit to the ground, right in the front/among of the emerging herd's feet and right behind of Rick's back and it was followed by the huge explosion...
...and the two another missiles the missile launcher wielding guy's two first fired at Rick but missed him, ironically, hit to the heads of two walkers, largest ones in their size, and exploded in middle of the walker herd.
All four explosions mutilated viciously the entire herd in pieces and threw all blood, pieces of flesh and body parts all around.
The explosion also snapped one withered and hardened branch-like piece of wood in half, but the explosions shockwave had tossed the sharp-pointed piece twirling in the air towards these guys...
... luckily for them, two of them had noticed that happening beforehand and managed to get down just nick in time before the shockwave tossed the piece of whood towards them and it missed them by flying over them, but it, however, hit to another guy wwith the grenade gun, who was standing behind of them and pierced his head... sinking into his head through of his left eye and killing him instantly.
Rick was also caught by the blast, but not by the explosion himself, even though he was right next to the explosion's place, but he was instead caught by the explosion's shockwave, which violently tossed him in the air and forward and caused him to roughly roll in the ground... and lose his Colt Rifle in the process.
But after Rick's rough rolling along the ground eventually stopped and left him to lie in the ground, Rick started to climb back on his feet.
But climbing back on his feet was easily said than done...
...as Rick groaned in pain for several times after feeling the pain waves coming from the bad bruises he had got all around of his body when roughly rolling along the ground after being violently tossed forward by the explosion.
Rick also felt himself to be dizzy, which brough difficulties to stand up. Rick also felt nausea, in addition of a strong dizziness, and the painful headaches, which all together caused nearly to throw up to the ground...
...and not the mention the fact the explosions' loud sound had managed to deafened him as he heard everything now as a deep humming.
It took some time for Rick to recover from all of this and to stand up, but he was never given the chance.
Two remaining guys were angered of their friends death and they had attacked Rick, who had ironically landed nearly next to their feet after being tossed forward by the explosion and started to punch him and kick him violently to avenge their fallen friend - though the missile launcher-wielded guy was one to be blamed for that.
One of them first kicked painfully Rick to his stomach, causing him to grunt loudly in pain...
...before another one of them kicked painfully Rick to his left side, causing him to fall over to the ground...
...and both of them then grabbed from his hands and dragged him roughly up from the ground and then they tossed him roughly against the ground, causing Rick to fall too hard and painfully on his knees, thus causing him to grit his teeth in the pain in his knees...
...they both started to mercilessly beat Rick by punching for multiple times to his faces and stomach from both sides with the hard punches and kept doing it, wwith the intention to beat Rick to dead.
One of them, the missile launcher wielded guy, took then thick brass knuckles to his right hand.
"I'm gonna teach you the true meaning of pain, you fucking savior!" The man said with the venom in his voice, as he grabbed from Rick's shirt and draw his arm back, preparing to punch Rick's beaten and bloody faces so hard, which would either break his nose or break some teeth out of his mouth...
But before he was able to execute his strike...
"RICK!" echoed the familiar voice in the air as the guy's arm, which fist the guy was about to pull forward to punch Rick onto his faces with his thick brass knuckles, was suddenly chopped off from it's place... leaving the man to cry in pain.
Suddenly... as Rick looked up at the guy with the bleeding and amputated arm, the long and bloody blade emerged out from his chest in the place of the guy's heart, presumably having pierced his heard.
The another guy was shocked about that and instantly let go of Rick and stepped back for couple steps while reaching with his arms to his grenade gun, which he had settled to hang from his back.
And as the bloody blade was pulled off the dying guy's body, it fell over to the ground and revealed MICHONNE - covered by the blood and guts (both walkers and humans) and bruises and fresh scratches as well as her old one, but still alive and well though still limping - standing behind of the fallen body the bloody...
...and quickly turned her attention to the last guy.
Even though still limping due to her bleeding dog's bite in her leg, she quickly approached the guy as he was about to lower the grenade gun down at her and he prepared to press the trigger with his finger to fire the grenade at michonne, seemingly not caring about the fact that by doing that he would cause the deaths of all of three of them if he fires the grenade in middle of them.
However, despite her wounded leg and her limping and thus slow movement, Michonne was able to reach to the guy at first before the guy managed to press the trigger and fire any grenade at Michonne and Rick.
As soon as Michonne reached on a suitable close range, Michonne swung her katana with the hard swing from down to upwards, thuis knocking the grenade gun and it wielding hand out of her way, and swung her weapon over her head, ready to strike at her horror-stricken foe.
Michonne then executed the three hard and lethal swings at the foe, and...
...with the first hard swung from right to the left... Michonne sliced the deep - to the femurs reaching - cuts to the man's thighs...
...with the second hard swung from left to the right... Michonne slashed the man's stomach open, releasing the guts inside of the man's stomach and allowing them to fall to the ground on his feet...
...and with the third and very last one hard swung from right to the left... Michonne slit with her katana's tip the man's throat open, cutting his throat's jugulars and allowing the blood to bleed out from his throat with a high pressure...
...and finally, Michonne finished off the dying man by kicking him to from behind of the viciously mutilated and quickly to the lost of blood dying's man's back approaching walkers, whose quickly swarmed around of the man's body, pinned him doiwn and started to devour his body.
However, with his last breaths and by the reflexes, the mutilated and now devoured man managed to press the trigger of his grenade gun with his finger before he succumbed to his deadly injuries and started uncontrollably to fire the grenades with his grenade gun to everywhere.
Four of them hit to and exploded in middle of from the fire emerging and towards them approaching herds of flaming walkers, butchering the herds completely...
...one of them hit to beneath of the ambulance car and exploded, violently tossing the ambulance car aside and causing the several other vehicles to explode...
...and the tree last ones flew among to the trees nearly consumed by the rogue forest fire and the explosions snapped them - as well as the several others still outside of the spreading fire - in half and caused them to fall over to every direction... two of them falling over and smashing the ambulance car wreck beneath of their weights.
After killing these two guys...
Michonne was nearly about to fall out of the exhaustion of all this running and fighting for her dear life against all three enemies: these people, the walkers and the dogs while trying barely to stay alive in front of these people's superior weaponry.
Michonne squatted slightly and bowed forward, taking support from her knees with her hands as she panted heavily out of exhaustion, to which her slight but still continuously bleeding wounds and her limping movement due to her badly injured leg had also part.
Michonne even started to feel herself even a bit dizzy.
But because of this, Michonne failed to notice that one of their attackers was running towards her, holding the fire ax in his hands in attempt to strike with it mortally to Michonne's back, as well as three walkers, who passed Rick, were approaching and about to attack Michonne...
...only to be quickly spotted by Rick, who hurriedly draw his faithful Colt Python out and fired at the attacking man's legs, causing the attacking man to leap and fall roughly over to the ground and roll to the feet of the walkers, tripping two of them with his along the ground rolling body and catching the third one.
Michonne was snapped out of this to witness the walkers crawling or kneeling down at the man, pinning him to the ground and starting all together to maul the man and devour him alive.
And after snapping out of her exhaustion, which nearly cost her her life as three walkers were approaching her from behind of her back, Michonne turned around and swung her sword at the walkers, beheading all three at once.
"Michonne! This is not a suitable place nor time to have some breath!" Rick yelled, as he quickly stood up and grabbed the ax to his another hand as his extra weapon in addition to his faithful Colt Python.
Hearing Rick's warnings, Michonne looked around of her and realized that Rick was right.
The whole camp base was surrounded by the rogue forest fire and nearly completely overrun by the flaming walkers.
And their attackers, of which were not very much bust slightly less than thirty men left due to Rick and Michonne and the walkers, were scattered throughout the camp and were fighting for their life through of the walkers, abandoning all their bigger weapons and using their handguns and in addition some melee weapon, such like machetes, axes, hatchets, sledge-hammers, sharp-edged stock-shovels, pick-axes and and wooden stakes (from the vampire stories), both long-handled and short ones and one of them even used a chainsaw against from every corner at them approaching walkers as they were trying to make it to their vehicles and get out of here before the entire area is completely overrun by the walkers, leaving no any escape route to get out of here...
...and the only vehicles that were left were two the last police vans, with the room for only over one dozen guys.
These people four fiercely and each one of them killed at least ten walkers with his handgun and some melee weapon, before they were one by one surroiunded and swarmed with the huge herds of the walkers, pinned down by the force of numbers and mauled/devoured by the walkers...
...causing them to lose from their group no more than six people to the walkers.
The whole ground of the camp base was covered by the bodies of the dead people and walkers, which were either still in one piece or viciously mutilated or burned... but as the number of living people was decreasing, the number of walkers only increased by the fresh ones emerging from the fire or their own dead people coming back to life as the walkers.
Even Rick and Michonne were forced to fight against the walkers as well as these people to get out of here...
...but instead of running back to the woods, both of them - Michonne on the lead - were charging through of the swarming walkers heading towards the police vans in order to finish Michonne's querrilla attack upon these people to ensure Alexandria's, her family's and the functionality of Rick's plan.
Among of these escaping people, those ones who had managed to reach to the police vans, had took into their hands the shotgun and started to cover with them their own people's retreat to the van by firing shells at the walkers, smashing at least three walkers heads at once... or using the shotguns as the melee weapons against the too-close reached walkers.
The walkers, however, outnumbered these people's number with fifteen against one, and to avoid the risk of getting surrounded by the massive herd, four of them hurried to the seats of the driver and passenger to get the vans ready to take off... as several of them started to load themselves into their backsides... where the polices ussed to keep their prisoners before the wolrd ended.
Michonne killed dozens of walkers from every direction of her, beheading with every swung wit hher sword at least three walkers at once or amputating some legs of the walkers, making them cripple and causing them to fall over to the ground...
as Rick sliced the walkers heads in half with his hatchet and pushed several of them out of his way.
And seeing their enemies trying to get out of here and to leave them here... they both increased their speed towards the vans through of the herd... as the walkers behind of them were gathering together as a tight herd.
Michonne crossed path's with two of them, battling the walkers with the hatchet and shovel in addition of their handguns, which had probably already ran out of the ammo as they weren't using them...
...and reacted to this by lunging towards them and beheading them both one by one with her sword, leaving their severed heads and headless bodies behind to be devoured by the walkers following right behind of her.
Rick also encountered with some of them.
First two of them reacted to Rick's sudden emerge out of the herd by picking one walker from the herd and tossing them at Rick...
... but however...
...Rick, having a good experience of being thrown with the walkers back in the first days in the prison, quickly reacted this by grabbing to one walker and tossing it over to the closest walkers from the herd following behind of him and firing with his Colt Python at two others int otheir heads, killing them instantly...
...before Rick aimed with his Colt Python at these people and fired each one of them into their heads, killing them one by one and leaving their dead bodies for the walkers, but as he passed them, Rick threw aside his hatchet and grabbed from one of them Mossberg 590 shotgun (the same one he remembered Shane having wielded back in the Atlanta Camp to Hershel's farm).
Rick was then suddenly spotted by four member of this group and they raised their own shotguns at Rick, and before any one of them managed to open fire at him, Rick raised his Colt Python at them and fired all his remaining shots at them, killing all four one by one...
...though one of them, after getting shot by Rick and leaned against the closed backdoor of one of the vans, he by reflexes pressed the trigger with his fingers after his shotgun had turned towards one of his own and fired the shell through of his fellow group member's stomach... killing him... before dying himself to the gunshot wound he received from Rick.
And and after them, Rick started fiercely fire the shells at the incoming herd, killing with every shot two walkers at once.
Rick of course replaced the shotgun after he had used the first one with another one and kept firing with them at the walkers.
With one of them, Rick aimed to the driver's seat of one of the police vans, killing both the driver armed with the shotgun - as he emerged out through the door's window and was about to shoot him with the shotgun - by firing his heads off.
Rick didn't saw the reason to waste the ammo to two another one in the backside of the van, as they failed to close the backdoors as the entire herd swarmed inside of the backside of the van. Both of them were doomed, no matter how many walker heads they blew up with their own shotguns... until they received the first bites from the walkers to their legs and the rest of their bodies were following after them.
Replacing once again his empty shotgun with another one he took from the dead driver, who was now lying headless in the driver's seat, Rick opened the fire at the walkers, aiming them to their heads in the hope that the shells will kill more of them than just one at once.
And while doing so, Rick searched with his eyes Michonne from around, having realized that because of the multitude of the walkers and desperate attempt to not get shot from the shotgun or get the lethal bite from the walkers, they had separated from each other...
And so realized Michonne as well.
"RICK!" She called the man he loved as she searched for him with her eyes among of the chaos...
...as she fought the walkers and beheaded many of them three by three with her sword as they kept coming closer and closer, and doing at the same time her best to fight both against the walkers, her own exhaustion, plus her own slowly incoming dizziness and out of nowhere appeared pain in everywhere... mostly in her from the dogs fangs wounded leg...
...until she was attacked two of these people, armed with the fire ax and hatchet.
Despite having the walkers surrounded them from every direction, they surrounded michonne, but attacked one by one at her, probably arrogantly, believing that highly tired and apparently half-conscious woman with the sword is not long-lasting or difficult fight.
However, They both did underestimate the woman with the sword.
One of them lunged at her and raised his hatchet over his head in intention to slice with it Michonne's head open... until Michonne unexpectedly raised her katana's long bloody blade in the way of the hatchet and the hatchet's blade got stuck to Michonne's sword from beneath of the hatchet's blade.
The man was quite surprised of this but he didn't manage to react to this as Michonne raised her leg and kicked the man to his stomach, causing him to let go of his hatchet's handle and fall over on his back to the ground.
The man recovered from the kick quickly, probably because he had the chest armor which reduced the impact of the kick...
...which was the reason why the physical force of Michonne's own kick pushed her violently backwards ans brought her trouble to keep her balance on her badly injured and limping leg, and the hasty steps did not change the pain in her injured leg, causing her to grit her teeth in pain...
...but the guy she kicked over to the ground wasn't luckier than Michonne, because he had not time to get back on his feet before the walkers began to swarm in the huge numbers around of him, and after noticing him they gathered together around of him, pinned him to the ground and started to eat him alive.
Another one of those two, angered of his fellow group member's death, attacked her as Michonne finally managed to keep her balance...
...but Michonne managed to dodge the attacking guy's deadly swing with the fire ax, which could have either chop off her head or cause the lethal wound to her stomach, by bowing down away fro mthe way of the ax's blade...
...before she swung her sword from down to upwards towards the guy, chopping off both of his axe-holding arms as he was about to prepare himself to another and straight strike from up to down, and slicing off his faces as well... killing him instantly.
After killing both of these guys, Michonne started once again to search for Rick with her eyes, as she started to back off from the area as the walkers were about to surround her from every corner.
Suddenly...
As Michonne was about to turn her head to the overrun camp base's area, she was able to see the glimpse of something swinging right behind of her head...
...until something suddenly and unexpectedly stroke with the huge power to her temple. The strike was powerful enough to roughly turn Michonne's head to the another side and it was powerful enough to double her dizziness.
As her dizziness took over her body, Michonne turned with her last strenght her head a bit to the direction from where the impact had came from, and the last thing she saw before her eyes blurred, was Billy's grinning face in front of her own.
"Goodnight, sweetheart." Billy wished mockingly.
Michonne then dropped her sword to the ground and eventually and eventually fainted from the hard impact against her head and fell over to the ground.
But before Michonne did, Two Ton guy, who had been earlier sent back to the base camp by the french leader, grabbed from her unconscious and limp body by wrapping his thick arm around of her waist to prevent her from falling over to the ground.
"Quick! Get her into the sack and let's go then!" Billy said as he pointed with his finger at the huge black sack, which was hanging wrapped on Two Ton's belt, waiting to be used.
And by Billy's order, Two Ton then grabbed the large and black sack from his belt, unwrapped it and with Billy's help he opened it's mouth to open.
The sack in the question was from its design identical with those ones, which were used by some illusionists in the circus' sub trunk illusions before the End of the World. And because of which, the sack was big enough and had enough of room from inside of it for the woman like Michonne to fit inside.
Two Ton and Billy held the mouth of the sack open as larger man shoved Michonne's unconscious body half inside of the sack her head ahead, leaving her waist, her hands and her legs still outside of the sack's mouth.
Two Ton then grabbed with both of his hands from the sack's mouth and lifted it to up from the ground that it's bottom barely touched the ground, due to his size, causing unconscious Michonne to slid inside of the sack's bottom, creating the lump in the bottom of the sack.
And after Michonne inside of the sack, Two Ton then wrapped his thick fingers around of the sack's mouth to close it and threw the sack on his shoulder, before both he and Billy hurriedly hurried away from middle of the walkers towards the remaining van, Billy killing the walkers out of their way with Michonne's sword.
Meanwhile...
Rick was continuing the fighting against the herd of walkers at the same time as two another guys as well.
Although these two did not engage Rick in close combat but rather picked the walkers from the incoming and them surrrounding herd and threw them one by one at Rick in order to slow him down.
They didn't even seem to care if they were themselves surrounded and get bitted from their arms by the walkers. They have already got many bites to all around of their bodies, mostly to their arms, from their wirsts to their shoulders, and with the few ones to their upper bodies
However, Rick didn't care about that... and neither did them.
Rick just kept charging forwards towards his attackers with the hatchet he had took from one dead member of this group and sliced with it the head in half from every walker they threw at him.
Rick also watched his back, keeping an eye the distance between of him and the approaching herd... and he turned for a moment backwards to face all those walkers getting too close to him and killed them one by one.
However, Rick eventually realized that every walker he killed from the front and from behind only slowed him down and wasted both his time and his own strenght.
So now, Rick pushed himself hardly forward, pushing himself through of two walkers these two guys had threw at him.
The first one Rick pushed among of the herd, causing the walkers to swarmed around of him from every corner, to kneel down next to him and starting to eat him alive...
...and Rick threw his hatchet towards the last one, who was trying to get his handgun out of his case and to shoot Rick, only having in the air twirling and towards him coming hatchet to slice his head open, killing him instantly.
After killing them, Rick quickly overlooked over the walkers head and trying to find Michonne with his eyes.
Oddly to him, Michonne had disappeared like ash in the wind.
At least Rick knew that Michonne will never abandon him to death, As well as he himself would never abandon her to death.
But the only problem in this situation was that he didn't know was Michonne still alive and fighting for her life still in the overrun camp base of these people or in the forest... or was she then got killed by those walkers swarming everywhere.
Rick then picked from the ground another shotgun and was about to fire with it at the walkers, until...
"YO, RICK!"
Rick heard someone calling him by his name, which he recognized as the voice of...
"BILLY?!"
Rick turned around to look in the direction of the last remaining police van, where he saw a huge and obese man firing at the herds of the walkers with the minigun trying to keep them away from the caar and the remaining men, mutilating and killing dozens of walkers from the entire overrun camp base, forcing Rick to get down to avoid getting shot from the minigun's bullet storm...
...and he saw three remaining men tying up with the rope the mouth of the sack close, in which bottom was strangely yet ominously the large lump just like someone was inside the sack, before they lifted the sack up from the groun and threw it inside of the backside of the van, before they too grabbed to their weapons and started to fire with them at the herd.
And then, Rick spotted Billy, who was standing on the roof of the van and looking at Rick.
"Look what we got in the sack! Or more likely, look what I got to prove to you that what we got in the sack which you presumably noticed!" Billy shouted as he revealed the long object from behind of his back...
...which Rick, much to his shock, recognized as Michonne's katana.
They had got Michonne!
"LET HER GO, NOW!" Rick shouted back, as he moved forward and raised his shotgun at Billy to kill him, until he was halted by with the gunfire aimed in front of his legs by one of these remaining men halting the herd with the gunfire.
"And I don't take orders from the fucking savior scum, you prick!" Billy shouted, or more likely, spit back at Rick. "All I can let go is only her sword, but I keep the girl. She will be taken to Dog House to be punished with the high price for trespassing to our territory and killing us."
Rick was then snapped out by several from behind at him incoming walkers. Rick smashed with his shotgun's stern the first one's faces, before he opened fire to the few ones too close, blasting their heads off one by one...
...before he turned back to Billy.
"Then take me with her too!" Rick suggested, worrying for Michonne's life because she did not seemed to be struggling inside of the sack, and in order to get to these people's headquater oddly called as the Dog House, in hope to get there to discuss with them... though it would be rash, foolhardy and even extremely dangerous act to get inside of the base, where everybody inside will believe every outsider as one of the saviors.
However, much to Rick's dismay, Billy refused.
"And why should I, prick?! We already have enough of just one to be punished for trespassing into our territory! Besides, you're already punished! These abominations all around of you will handle the dirty work for us in your case, while we punish with our own way your pretty girl!" Billy said, with quite mocking tone.
Billy then threw Michonne's katana towards Rick, with the intentions to either hit him with it or wound his badly that he would be an easy targed for the herd of the walkers.
However, he missed as one of the walkers got in the way and his occipital was sliced by Michonne's katana.
However, Billy did not mind this.
"Say goodbye to your girl, prick! I can ask her before her punishment to take greetings from me to you when you meet each others next time in hell, WHERE ALL OF YOU SAVIOR SCUM BELONG TO!" Billy shouted at Rick with the threatening manners.
Billy then jumped off the rooftop of the car and get into the driver's seat.
"GET IN, BOYS! WE'RE OUT OF HERE! LET'S ROLL OUT!" Billy shouted to the others.
One of them was caught off guard by the walkers as he was about to get into the van, until the walkers swarmed over him, pinning him down on his stomach to the ground and started to devour his back and his head's left side.
But Two Ton and one of them managed to get into the backside of the van and closed the doors behind of them... and the remaining one hurried ot the passenger seat.
"NO!" Rick cried, as he pushed himself harder forward in order to stop the van, before it gets away, with Michonne inside of it.
Rick started to even fire at the van with his shotgun, in order to damage it so badly that can't take off.
However, with every shot, the walkers were in the way and took most of the shots to their upper body, which did not killed them.
And suddenly, Rick heard the van's engine starting to go on...
...until it eventually moved and drove towards the road, leaving Rick in middle of the fires and the flaming walkers.
"No! No! NO, MICHONNE!" Rick cried as he realized that they were getting away with Michonne as their hostage.
Rick opened the fire at the van with his shotgun as the van was slowed down by the still-living and incoming or in the ground lying already dead walkers, but he only progressed by shooting the heads off from the walkers between of him and the van and the distance between of his and the van grew to enlarge.
And when the shells ran out...
...Rick quickly picked up from the ground the hatchet... and pulled Michonne's sword off from the dead walker's head...
...and hurriedly started to push himself forwards through of the walkers, pushing them out of his way or killing them, while trying to desperately to catch the van... though he himself knew that it was hopeless.
Rick then heard from a distance the sound of horn, which was coming from the road right before the police van possessed by these people managed to reach ot he road... and as Rick turned his attention to the road, he spotted the lights of the van coming towards the area.
And as the van emerged to the next of the stop in the road, Rick noticed the fact that this one looked oddly identical with their own, which he and Michonne left behind with that french man to the house...
...until Rick suddenly spotted that there was some one sitting in the driver's seat of the van as it slowly passed the flaming area... and it was not until then the driver turned his head towards Rick, revealing himself for Rick.
And Rick, much to his confusion and anger, recognized the driver of the van, who happened to be no one else than...
...the same french man he had managed to knock out and capture back in the garage of the house... but who seemingly had managed to somehow escape from the ties with which Rick had tied him up in the garage.
From this sudden and shocking fact, Rick realized that the van the french man was driving was, much to his shock and anger, his and Michonne's own van with all of those food, supplies and weapons from the carnival area...
...and with them went also his deal with Jadis and the scavenger!
"Au revoir, connard!" The french man wished for Rick with the mocking tone as the van with all of those with the hard work earned goods he stole disappeared to the forest, the police van with Michonne inside right after their own van.
Rick could not believe this! This was bound to be some sort of a nightmare! He had lost everything! The van, all those goods, food and the weapons from the carnival area! He had lost Michonne to them... and now... he was all alone in middle of the BLOOD-RED FIERY HELL FULL OF UNDEAD!
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Rick let out in the air echoing, dramatic-sounding but with one hundred percently serious cry for everything he had just lost...
...before Rick went into the pure berserk rage and turned around to face the entire herd on his own.
The fires filled the air space and the dark forest with the blood-red glow...
...the bloody beheaded heads and severed body parts flew in the air...
...blood blew and the guts flew in the air...
...Rick's dramatic shouts in pure berserk rage echoed in the night sky...
...more walkers were incoming...
...Rick blasted, smashed, sliced and beheaded the heads...
...the ground was covered by the blood and mutilated bodies...
...as Rick, without the care about the exhaustion nor his skin's own safety...
...kept fighting against the entire herd despite being surrounded by the hundreds of walkers through the entire night!
Four hours later
When the dawn began to shine...
The rogue forest fire had started to calm down, leaving the burned forest left from the firestorm Michonne had caused the last night...
And the entire ground in the abandoned camp base was covered by the massive layer of the walkers, the entire herd from the last night, with the hundreds of walker heads either blasted off with the shotguns, sliced in half with the hatchet or beheaded with the sword.
and among of the dead walkers was also viciously mutilated walkers from the explosions.
The deep silence had landed upon the area...
...and there was not even one single walker nearby.
They were all dead...
...though there was still some of them still alive, who were twitching in the ground.
Some of them, the cripple ones, were snarling crawling in the ground over of the carpet of the dead walkers, like they were desperately and hurriedly heading all to the one spot in the area.
These walkers had also stretched their grabbing arms towards forward like there was something moving in the area, which had caught their interest and for what they were all from all different directions heading.
And it indeed had.
There was one deer walking peacefully through of the dead walkers, but by its instincts, it stayed away from the crawling ones, who were trying to crawl at the animal and grab from its legs to pin the animal down and to be eaten by them, as it continued its way through of the area.
The deer also passed the many different sized piles of the walker bodies all around.
And the deer just kept moving.
Until, suddenly, the deer's head jumped up by its instincts, like it had just sensed something stalking it around.
However, the deer had no time to recognize the danger before the bulled fired out of nowhere pierced its neck...
...killing the animal, as it fell to the ground.
And after the animal had been fallen over on its side to the ground...
...some one suddenly pushed the half of the pile of walkers off in one of the piles of the dead walkers bodies.
It was Rick, Rick Grimes...
...fagged out and covered by the multiple bruises and lots of walker blood and guts and He had the limbs rigid, some places sore, and he had not very good feeling from the entire night lasted bloody and exhausting fight with the walkers and from sleeping the rest of his night under the pile of the dead walkers in order to not attract more walkers while sleeping...
but he was still alive and unharmed by the walkers claws nor teeth.
Ricck slowly stood up on his feet, which were really rigid from the last night's battle and he felt dizzy in his head, due to the stale scent of the blood of the dead walkers... which had nearly caused him to lose his track of time... as he didn't knew how long he had fallen asleep or was now the morning or middle of the day.
But as Rick's head get slowly more clearlier after catching some fresh air of the morning, Rick started to remember what had exactly happened back in the last night in the very same place in middle of which he was standing.
Rick remembered the rogue forest fire and all those flaming walkers all around of him... which made Rick to wonder that how in the earth he had managed to survive from the such of dead trap in middle of the herd without reveiving any bite from them.
Rick remembered the french guy he had managed to knock out and tie up back in the now-destroyed house's garage, before he had realized him having somehow escaped from his bounds and escaping with the stolen van.
Rick remembered the stolen van with all of those goods, food and the weapons he had managed to receive from the carnival area before the last night's mess and blind bloodshed between of these strange people and him and Michonne.
And Rick especially remembered that they had kidnapped Michonne in middle of the fiery and hellish chaos, having shoved her into the sack, throwing to the backside of the van and escaped from the overrun area with her as their hostage.
And it was certain they would no longer come back, because they probably believe he was dead, killed by the overwhelming and overnumbering herd, and now they were probably planning something and somekind of "punishment" for ichonne in the place, they called as Dog House.
The biggest question for Rick at the moment was...
...WHAT NOW?
However, Rick found out himself hungry, and spotted the dead deer lying in the ground - which was ironically killed by the pistol he had with him in case for the walkers or any other hostile people, until it had got jammed and fired the bulled from beneath of the pile beneath of which he had either fainted or fell in sleep and which was ironically waked him up - and which was now surrounded by the incoming crawling walkers.
Not wanting to lose the deer, which Rick had selected for breakfast, to the walkers... Rick quickly picked the deer's body up from the ground and smashed every walker's head by smashing them one by one by stomping on their heads under his foot.
And after that, Rick looked with his eyes the perfect place, where he could start skinning the deer to remove all the walker blood from its fur, after which he could start to make a fire and begin to roast the deer's meat.
However, he suddenly heard more walker snarling in the area, and started to look around to see that from where the sounds were coming from.
Rick then quickly spotted a few walkers, which had surrounded the wrecked ambulance car smashed in half by the fallen tree during of the battle with the walkers and these people... just like there was someone inside in the ambulance car's wreck.
And whatever it was, Rick had to find out that who was inside of the wreck of the vehicle... especially after having experienced the one sleepless night filled with the hostile people, aggressive dogs and the massive herd of walkers.
But he had still to take care of the walkers at first before he was able to check inside of the vehicle.
Knowing that he had not quite much of strenght to take out the walkers in the physical combat, due to his still rigid limbs and sore places in his shoulders...
...and not willing to draw more walkers close by gunning the walkers down with his reloaded faithful Colt Python...
...and knowing that it will cost him his breakfast...
...Rick started to walk towards the wrecked ambulance car and the walkers around of him, carrying the deer's body in his arms and he approached the car slowly.
Rick then whistled to get the walkers attention away from whoever inside of the wrecked vehicle to him.
It worked and with the exception of one individual, the rest four started to walk slowly and hungrily snarling towards him.
And as the walkers were close enought, with all strenght he had left from the night, Rick tossed the deer towards the walkers, which weight took all four down on their backs to the ground.
This worked as well as the walkers, immediately losing their interest about Rick and focusing their all attention to the deer Rick just tossed them and began to tear the lifeless deer's body into pieces like the hyenas with the fallen gaselle.
As all four were out of the way, Rick continued the rest of his way to the wrecked ambulance vehicle, and get rid from the last one walker snarling to some one inside of the wreck with the stap to its head from behind.
And after the walker was dead, Rick peeked inside of the vehicle...
...and to his surprise...
...Rick found from inside two still living people, who were trapped under of the fallen tree's branches and the tree's weight - one of the was pinned down against the overturned ambulance car's inside wall by the bramch, which pressed the lucky survivor from the chest and another surivor's neck had got stuck between of the wall and the branch, pinning the survivor down - and they were both nearly unable to move nor get out from there on their own.
However, Rick recognized these two people immediately.
One of them, Hispanic-American teenager girl, with very long black-purple hair with two purple-headed, and freely hanging ponytails reaching behind of her bare thighs, with cape-like blood-red hood and with purple bikinis and black women's denim shorts and brown women's boots, leaving most of her upper body and her legs bare...
And another one, Asian-American man with the riot suit, with the black mohawk and with the vicious-looking dog tattoon on his faces.
Zoe and Jackie, from Billy's group who had captured them back in the house before the bloody battle between of two sides.
They were probably accidentally left behind by Billy and the rest in the rushing hurry to get out of here before the whole place would be overrun... and just like in Rick's case, these two must have been spent their entire night in here trapped under of the tree.
Both of them struggled to get out from under of the tree's messing branches...
...until they both suddenly spotted Rick's faces emerging from the outside of the vehicle and from behind of the fallen trunk.
Both of them created the looks of the deep and pure hatred towards Rick... but they also realized that they were both helpless and defenseless in front of Rick, whom they still believed to be one of the saviors.
But Rick saw also some unbelief in their eyes, which was just like as if they had not ever before lost to anyone in the battle, due to their superior toys, their great numbers of people and their own war dogs, or then they are not just accustomed to lose before.
"You won, fucking son of a bitch! You killed them! All of them! You and your black cow burned our camp base to the ground and you killed more of us! And I though that HE occupied his outposts with the large groups of unspeakably pigs, pathetic cowards and stupid school-bully minded animals playing with the big boy's toys... and we were defeated by two mother fuckers... A MERE DUO!" Zoe spit in complaining way, openly expressing her apparent hatred towards the saviors, as she described them in ways that perfectly fits to the Saviors.
Rick had to admit that the girl was more than right, after having experienced or heard the ways how the saviors treats the other people of the other communities.
"DO IT!" Zoe suddenly cried as she looked with the hatred at Rick.
Rick looked at Zoe quite surprised of her sudden loud voice.
"WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT OR WAITING FOR, YOU STUPID FUCKING PRICK?! JUST DO IT! Finish us off, you fucking coward! Shoot us into the heads with your fucking Colt Python and finish your victory! You fuckers may have won today, but mark my words, that every kill from our two hundred soldiers only increases our hatred and vengeful desire to avenge our dead! One day, we will put your pathetic people on their knees before us! We will piss to your pathetic bodies! We will feed your bodies to our dogs! We will make you to fear the might of the STREET DOGS and pathetically beg the mercy from us! Maybe not today nor tommorow, but one day we will! Live so long that you can see it!" Zoe spitted.
"DO IT, you motherfucker!" She sternly added.
Rick a bit hesitated... after hearing that he and Michonne had killed nearly all from their people, whose number was revealed to be a bit over two hundred before their attack, leaving only Zoe, Jackie, Billy and his escaped men the only survivors from the attack...
...and only because these people did not see them anything else but part of the saviors and Negan's cult, of which they cannot apparently tolerate on their territory.
And Rick could not blame them for it... and he even felt sorry for these people though they just tried to kill him and Michonne... decause it was obvious that just like he did, these people also desperately wanted to get rid of the saviors and their tyrannical rule, even though they were not so desperate under of their rule, due to their superior weapons and strong attitude and desire to declare the war against them.
Too many has already died for one night, and only because of their false beliefs about us, Rick thought.
However...
"As you wish." Rick eventually said, as he pulled out his Colt Python and placed it's barrel on Zoe's forehead, taking the safety off and preparing to execute Zoe with one shot into the head... as Zoe still looked at Rick with the coldly sharp glare like the ice at Rick's eyes.
To be continued...
Seventh cliffhanger...
Michonne had been kidnapped by these people and taken away. Rick and Michonne's van has been stolen by them. Zoe and Jackie are left behind by their own group by accident and in hurry and are both now at Rick's mercy.
What will happen next to Michonne and to both Zoe and Jackie... And will Rick either shoot and kill both Zoe and Jackie as they wished Rick to do so or will he spare their lives? We'll find out the next time...
Man, writing this chapter nearly took from me forever... so much details in order to make perfect story.
I hope that you guys liked this chapter.
See ya.
