Hello readers and welcome to my new chapter. After this chapter, I will be going into season 2. So, after this chapter, would you guys give your opinions/ideas as to what should happen during season 2? I have my own ideas, but I would like it if you give your own thoughts on what to do. And it might get the chapters out faster. So, here we go. Enjoy.
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S1 Episode 10
While Rick, Shane, T-Dog, Glenn, and Morales went in the basement to see what's in there, everyone else is upstairs doing different things. Carl, Sophia, Louise, and Elisa are currently playing 'Sorry' in one of the rooms, while Alex watch them play, waiting for a turn and also packing a few stuff.
"Alex, why are you packing?" Sophia asked her brother, looking up from the game. "Do you really think we'll be leaving?"
Alex nodded as he put a book in a duffle bag. "You heard the VI. It says when the power runs down, a wide-spread decontamination will occur."
"Do we even know what that means?" Elisa asked him. "I mean, it might be something else. Something harmless." Alex shrug at that.
"I don't know, but I don't really want to find out." Alex stated. "And if we end up having to leave, at least we can get a few souvenirs from this place."
Before any of the other kids could say anything else, they suddenly heard the cold air stopped flowing from the vents. Alex stand up on the bed before flowing his hands back and forth between the vents. "Something wrong Alex?" Louise asked him.
"The air conditioning stopped." Alex said, eyebrows furrowing. Then the lights suddenly turned off. "And did he lights." Now he really have a bad feeling about this.
-TWD-
They're locked in. And a bomb is ticking. A bomb that could obliterate them in a millisecond.
After everything started shutting, everyone got out of their rooms and followed Jenner, who explain to all of them that Zone 5 is shutting down itself. He also told them that the French stayed in the labs, trying to find a cure, until power started shutting, like the CDC is doing now.
Rick and the others who was in the basement got back up, with the cop telling everyone to pack their bags and keeping moving. That's when Jenner locked everyone in.
Jenner, after the demands of the adults, snapped at them, telling that the place they're at have stuff you don't want the public to know about. So, if a terrorist attack happens, the doors get sealed shut and HITs get deployed in the building to prevent anyone from getting out. And that's basically explosives that can set the air on fire. That could kill all of them in just milliseconds.
Now, Daryl, Shane, and T-Dog are trying to open the door with axes, while the others are crying, are in shock, or watching as they try to open the door. "You should've left well enough alone." Jenner stated to all of them. "It would've been so much easier."
"Easier for who?" Beth cried out.
"All of you." Jenner said to them all. "You know what's out there. A short, brutal life, and an agonizing death. You all saw what this virus can do. You've seen it." He then turn to Rick. "Is this what you want for your son and your love?"
"I don't what this." Rick stated angrily and emphatically. He turn his head when Shane came over, dropping the axe on the floor and leaning on the computer.
"It's no use." Shane said tiredly. "Can't make a dent on those doors."
"Those doors are made to withstand even rocket launchers."
"Well your head ain't!" Daryl roared, running to Jenner and ready to chop his head off. Luckily for him, and the rest of the group, Rick, Dale, and T-Dog grab him before he could do that.
'You should let him.' Alex thought to himself, glaring at Jenner. He is just so tempted to shoot this guy right in the head. What stopping is that, one, they'll be trapped in here for good if he does. And two, the man already suicidal. Why waste a bullet?
"Yes you do." Jenner said, getting the attentions of the others. "You do want this. You said last night that it was only a matter a time before you lose everyone love. Before they all die."
Many in the group stare at Rick in shock for Jenner's statement. "Really? You said that?" Shane questioned angrily. "After all your big talk on not giving up, you said that?"
"He was drunk. You don't know what you're saying when you're like that." Alex shot back at the hot-headed police officer.
"Alex is right." Beth backed up the young boy. "Besides, even if he meant it, there were times all of us have thought that. He needed to keep hope alive."
"But can't you see?" Jenner cut in. "There is no hope. There never was."
"There's always hope." Rick argued. "Maybe it won't be you, maybe not here. But there's gotta be hope from somebody, somewhere-"
"What part of 'everything is gone' do you not understand?" Andrea said bitterly. Amy, who was leaning on one of the computers in despair, look at her sister in shock.
Jenner spoke up once again. "She's right. This is what takes us down. This is our extinction event."
With that, everyone stayed silent. The sounds were the crying of the children, san Alex, as well as Carol. "This isn't right." The sobbing mother croaked out. "You can't just keep us here."
"Only a tiny millisecond. No pain." Jenner insisted to her.
"My sister and mother doesn't deserve something like this!" Alex stated angrily, glaring at the scientist.
"Isn't it more kinder, more compassionate, to just hold your love ones and wait for the clock to run down?" Jenner pleaded to all of them.
"If there's no other choice." Morales stated as he held onto his crying children. "But there are other choice. None of us can die like this."
Suddenly, everyone heard a gun cocked and everyone turn to Shane holding a shotgun. "Shane no!" Rick shouted, but Shane push him out of the way and aim his shotgun at Jenner.
"Stay out of this Rick!" Shane shouted furiously before looking at Jenner. "Now, listen to me. You better open that right now or I'll blast your head off. Do you hear me?!"
"Brother, brother, this is not the you do this." Rick tried to calm his partner. "If you shoot him, we will never get out of here."
"Shane, you listen to him."
"It's too late." Shane replied back to Lori, his shotgun still aim at Jenner. The scientist still look calm, even with a shotgun near his face.
"Shane, if you do this, we all-" Rick was interrupted when Shane screamed in anger. "We all die! Shane!" Rick push the shotgun away from everyone, just as Shane started unloading the gun. After three rounds, Rick grab the gun and push Shane down to the floor. He then prepare himself to use the butt of the gun to hit Shane. "Are you done now?" Rick asked him. "Are you done?"
"Yeah, I guess we all are." Shane shot back heatedly. Rick then get up, pulling Shane off the floor. Everyone stayed silent, not really knowing what to say about this. Rick look around, seeing everyone looking at him. He thought for a moment, trying to think what to say to convince Jenner to let them out.
A thought suddenly come up, and he turn to Jenner. "I think you lying." Rick stated. The man look up, confuse. "You're lying, about no hope. If that was true, then you would have bolted with the rest. Or taken the easy way out. You didn't. You chose the hard path." Jenner look away from him. "Why?"
"It doesn't matter."
"It does matter." Rick said back. "It always matter. You stayed when others ran. Again, why?"
"Not because I wanted to." Jenner said to him, turning back. "I made a promise to her. My wife."
Realization dawn on everyone. "Test subject 19 was your wife?" Lori asked. Jenner nodded in confirmation.
"She begged me to keep going as long as I could. How could I say no? She was dying." Jenner explained to everyone. "It should've been me on that table. I wouldn't have mattered to anybody. She ran the place while I just worked here. In our field, she was an Einstein, while me? I'm just Edwin Jenner. She could've done something about all of this, not me."
"Your wife didn't have a choice." Rick said to them. "You do. That's all we want. A choice, a chance."
"Please." Beth begged him. "Let us keep trying as long as possible." Jenner didn't speak, taking in the words. Finally, walk over to one of the computers.
"I told you topsides' are locked. I wasn't lying when I said that." Jenner told them all. But even with those words, Jenner press a few keys and the door suddenly.
Daryl, who was hitting the door with an axe, turn to the others when he heard the door open. "Come on!" Daryl shouted to all of them. "Let's go!" Nearly no one hesitated to get their bags and run to the doors, four minutes on the clock.
"I'm grateful." Rick said to Jenner.
"The day will come where you won't be." He told the officer. Before Rick could leave, Jenner lean towards his ears and started whispering a few words into his ears. Rick look shock at what Jenner told him. Rick lock his gaze at Jenner before Alex's voice got him out of his shock.
"Officer Friendly, come on! We got four damn minutes left!" Alex shouted towards him. Rick snapped out of it before going to the others. Nearly everyone started going out of the door, with T-Dog urging Jacqui to move.
But she had other things in mind. "No, no, I'm staying." Jacqui acknowledged. Everyone stopped at the door, while T-Dog is frozen in place. "I'm stayin sweetie!"
"But that's insane!"
"No! It's completely sane." Jacqui stated, wiping a tear off her cheek. "For the first time in a long time. I'm not ending up like Jim. And there's no time to argue….and no point, if you want to get out." She pushed T-Dog away. "Just get out. Get out…."
"T-Dog. Come on man." Shane said as T-Dog slowly back away with the group.
Dale stare at Jacqui, silently asking why, but the woman merely turn away and walk back. Amy also has the shock look on her face as well.
What shocked her even more is what her sister suggested. "We should stay too." Andrea told her sister. The got the attention of both Amy and Dale.
"What?" Amy said in disbelief.
"Andrea, no!" Dale exclaimed, with equal disbelief. Dale look at everyone standing at the door and made a gesture to keep moving. "Just go! Go!"
Everyone ran out the door, leaving Dale and Amy to talk to Andrea.
-TWD-
The group reach the main lobby. Glenn and Alex dash towards the main doors, They yanked the handles, but they weren't budging. "Open the damn doors!" Daryl shouted.
"It doesn't work!" Alex shouted back, kicking the doors in frustration.
"Wait a sec!" T-Dog shouted, going to the number pads on the wall. He put in the same codes Jenner use. "Try it now!"
But it didn't work. They tried hitting with axes, a chair, and shooting the glass, but none of it worked.
"Rick!" Carol called out, going through her purse. "I have something that might help."
"I don't think a nail file is gonna do it…." Shane said under his breath. Carol ignore him, and took out a frag grenade. Rick frown, forgetting that he grabbed it in the tank. He nodded to her thanks as he grab it.
"Everyone, get down!" Rick instructed to everyone. Everyone immediately obeyed once they saw what's in his hand. Rick walk up to the windows, crouching down and grabbing the pin. He held his breath as he pull off the pin and let go of the safety lever, deploying the grenade near the grass.
Rick let out a breath and started running from the grenade. "Oh shi-"
The grenade went off, sending Rick flying off and falling into the ground. The window cracked and shattered, the glass making a loud noise as it collided against the floor. "Rick!" Beth cried out.
"I'm alright!" Rick stated, slowing getting up like the others. "It's open! Come on, let's go!"
Everyone walk out of the window, adjusting to the sunlight. The grass was still filled with dead bodies, and a few walkers are still here as well. They started limping towards them when they noticed.
Daryl shot a walk with his crossbow while Rick shot another one. Everyone wasted no time getting into their cars "Where Amy, Dale, and Andrea?" Beth questioned.
"There!" Rick pointed at three figures slowly coming out of the windows. He check his out, only to see that they're not gonna make it in time."Everybody, get down! Dale, Amy, Andrea, down! Now!"
Beth, Carl, Sophia, Carol, and Alex obeyed, going under the car. Shane and Lori duck down in the car their own, the same with the Morales family, Glenn, Daryl, and T-Dog in their cars. Realizing they won't make it to the car in time, Dale, Amy, and Andrea duck behind one of the sandbags.
Just in time for an explosion to decimate the entire CDC building. The blast wave shook the survivors' vehicles and threw dust all over them. In seconds, the building turn into a pile of debris.
After the explosion was done, the three who were at the sandbags ran into the RV. Once they were in the RV, they all sat down. But Andrea gave both Amy and Dale a glare, something the two notice.
After a moment, all the engines roar to life. Rick drove off into the road, the rest of the group following him. Beth grab onto his hand, shaken by the near death experience. Rick squeeze it back tightly, not taking his eyes off the road.
And that's the end. I hope all of you liked the chapter. So, what do you think? Good? Needs work? And this is the end of season 1. Next stop, season 2. I would appreciate it if you guys give your own opinions on what should happen during season 2. Again, I do have plans of my own for it, but other ideas to think about wouldn't harm anything. Neither does any advices on how to improve the story. Review, favorite, and follow and I will see you guys later.