Kylegriggs13-It's funny that you brought that up but I actually am doing that, I've decided to switch Allen and Ben. So Ben survived while Allen and Donna both died in Wiltshire estates.
Thedarkpokemaster-Glad to have you along for the ride once again and i'll be trying to change up some stuff so it doesn't get stale.
Guest-Clementine will be bigger this time but not only her, my hope is that I am able to give everyone a bigger part with more screen time and development.
Jason Kruger Myers-Glad to have you here for the reboot buddy. Yeah I feel part of the problem with my first writing was the deaths didn't hold any emotional impact. Sure killing some characters quickly can be unexpected but when killing someone who has been from the start has the same impact as someone they just met that doesn't bode well. So yeah deaths will be happening and I can't lie there will be a lot but hopefully they'll be better this time around. Also I will update Lost and Dead soon, glad you still are watching that story as well lol.
Enjoy
Chapter 2: Clearing The Yard
Lee awoke to a sharp kick to his leg, he opened his eyes and narrowed them as he saw Dexter looming over him, "The hell do you want?" Lee shot out,
"To wake you the fuck up, you snore like an asshole." Dexter replied as he turned back around and headed to the back of the cafeteria,
Lee got to his feet and headed over to the far wall in the room. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a nail, he quickly started to scratch a line into the wall, "How many days?" Chuck asked from behind him,
Lee looked back and let out a little sigh. He peered back to the wall and counted, after a minute he said, "One hundred and thirty four." Lee said as he slipped the nail back into his pocket,
"Hell." Chuck said while crossing his arms and leaning against the wall,
"What do you think it's like out there? I mean in the rest of the world." Lee asked in turn,
"Couldn't imagine, I could understand why some prisoners wouldn't take priority but over three months...where the hell is the military?" Chuck said a bit worried,
"I don't know but I'll tell you this if they don't get here soon things are gonna get bad in here." Lee said while he glared over at Dexter who walked out of the back,
"You still not seeing eye to eye with him?" Chuck asked not really surprised,
"Hell no, after the shit he's done. Trying to get with me then tricking Andrew into that, now all he does it get on my nerves. I swear if he doesn't back off i'll-" Lee started to say before holding back and taking a breath, "I don't know what i'll do."
"Stay calm son, we can't turn on each other. When we finally get outta this room we may need every single person to make it out." Chuck said calmly,
Lee nodded but paused for a moment before looking over to the corner of the cafeteria, "Look you may be right about that but that guy, Thomas. Something about him, he just isn't sitting right with me."
"I think you're just driving yourself mad, being in a room for this long will do that to ya, make you paranoid." Chuck replied dismissively,
"Maybe." Lee said watching Thomas eating his breakfast. "Still, i'd give anything to get the fuck outta here." Lee said as he slid down the wall and sat down.
Meanwhile just outside the prison two RV's sat closed between the second and third gates. Rick Grimes sat atop of the larger of the two RV's holding a shotgun on his lap. Rick Grimes was a county sheriff from Kentucky and for the last few months he had been trying to lead his group to safety. Unfortunately for his group they hadn't caught a break and in fact they had been giving the end of the a very short stick.
First they had been trying to live on the outskirts of Atlanta, this only turned out to be more dangerous than it was worth after an attack claimed the lives of many of their friends. They left the camp and Rick found a small gated community, Wiltshire Estates, it was almost as if the place had never been looted. His group stopped there for a day but had to flee as they found it was overrun, and this horde had taken the lives of Donna and Allen, the parents of toddler twins.
After Wiltshire Estates, they drove looking for a safe place Rick's son Carl was shot by a hunter who lead them back to a farm owned by Hershel Greene. Hershel was wary of letting people on his farm and this was heightened when he found that Rick was traveling with a man named Kenny, who had once stayed on his farm. Hershel blamed Kenny for the death of his stepson even though deep down he knew it wasn't his fault. After Hershel lost two more of his children he forced Rick's group off his land at gunpoint, all except three Mark, Glenn and Doug, they hated leaving them behind but they couldn't force them to come along.
It was another few weeks of them driving through the snowy streets for them to find the prison. They could see it was overrun, walkers dotted the yard and they knew that the interior was probably worse but Rick convinced the others that they could stay here. With their food supplies extremely low and the horrid conditions of living on the road made this plan better than any other they had.
In Dale's R.V. sat Dale, Rick, Lori, Carl, Tyreese, Julie Tyreese's daughter, Chris Julie's Boyfriend, Carol, Sophia, Ben, the two twins Ben and Billy, and lastly Andrea. While in Kenny's R.V. sat Kenny, Katjaa, Duck, Clementine a little girl who chose to leave with Kenny rather than stay at Hershel's, and Carly the crack shot reporter. The group was just too big to be living on the road, trying to find a meal every day. They needed a place to grow and this place was sure to be it.
At just around four in the mourning Kenny left his RV to join Rick on watch, he climbed up the ladder and let out a small whistle to get his attention, "Hey, any problems so far?" Kenny asked as he took a seat down next to him,
Rick let out a chuckle, "Not one, well other then all these walkers shambling around." Rick stretched and let out a yawn, "What are you doing up anyway? Tyreese is suppose to be my relief, you should still be asleep."
Kenny just shook his head, "I can't sleep a wink in there, Carly is sawing logs and it reeks something fierce." He replied with an annoyed tone,
Rick nodded in agreement, "I hear you, I don't think Dale's RV will ever get the stench out of the walls."
Kenny let out a sigh and started looking around the prison yard, "You know Rick this place does look great but my family is starving. If we don't find food I may just have to leave." Kenny said hanging his head a bit,
"Jesus Kenny, you aren't serious are you?" Rick said shocked,
"I am, it ain't you or anyone here. It's just...we got too many mouths to feed and there just isn't enough to go around." Kenny replied with a bit of a sullen voice,
"Don't worry, just one more night man. Tomorrow we will find the cafeteria and we'll get some food for this group. You just gotta trust me."
"Trust ain't got nothing to do with it." Kenny mumbled back. Rick looked over to him with a bit of a worried expression on his face. Kenny peered back over to him and let out a low sigh, "One more night." He finally said with a nod,
"And one more push right?" Tyreese's voice said from right behind them,
"Jesus! Tyreese, you can't just sneak up on me like that. I don't have enough sleep for that." Rick said with a smirk,
"Sorry about that." Tyreese said with a smirk as Rick passed him his shotgun, "So what you doing up Kenny?"
"Can't sleep in there." Kenny replied blankly,
"Stinks don't it." Tyreese said with a smirk,
"You can say that again." Kenny replied with a smile on his face,
Rick rolled his eyes as he got up, "Well enjoy the fresh air then, I gotta catch some sleep while I can, gonna be real busy in a few hours."
"Rick I swear to god if this place doesn't work out I'm shooting myself in the face, I can't spend any more time in these RV's." Tyreese said lightheartedly, in turn he only saw Kenny and Rick looking at him in concern, "Relax guys I'm just joking."
"Not enough sleep don't you remember?" Rick said with a frown,
"Right, right, sorry." Tyreese said while shaking his head,
They waved Rick off and he quickly climbed down the RV ladder and snuck back into the RV trying not wake anyone. He moved to the back and squeezed into the small bed with Lori and Carl, he was tired enough to fall asleep despite the poor conditions rather quickly.
Hours later everyone shot awake as Lori sprinted out of the RV rocking it wildly. Rick sat up with a little smirk as the others let out annoyed groans at the abrupt awakening. "Morning sickness, sorry everybody." Rick said as he got up,
"Had to get up some time right?" Dale said with a little grumble,
Rick let out a little chuckle and he quickly walked out the RV and he spotted Lori dry heaving a few feet away from the door, "You okay?"
"Yeah just throwing up, well dry heaving really. Don't have much to throw up." Lori said with a little smile as she wiped her mouth,
"You look so beautiful right now." Rick said with a warm smile,
"Stop." Lori replied with a scoff,
"Come on give us a kiss." Rick said holding back a laugh as he reached out to her,
"No, no, my breath!" Lori said with a laugh pushing him back playfully,
"I've dealt with it before just fine." Rick said pulling her in closer,
"Whoa! Aren't you two pregnant enough!?' Andrea said with a laugh as she walked out of the RV,
"Oh trust me, I am way too pregnant." Lori said pulling away from Rick with a smirk,
Rick gave a small half smile then walked forward at the now gathered group, "Alright people listen up! Now I know everyone is hungry and I know everyone is tired but I need you all to pull together today. I won't lie it's going to be tough but if we can work together I promise you that we can have a full meal tonight and a bed to sleep in as well." Rick could see everyone's faces light up, "Now here is the deal for today, Kenny, Tyreese, Carly, Andrea and I will be heading onto the other side of the to clear the yard. While we do this I want Dale, Carol, Lori, and Katjaa to walk the perimeter of the prison, check to see if any fences are down. We need to know if this is just going to be the dead from the prison or ones that are filing in. Lastly I want Chris, Julie and Ben on babysitting duty. I know it isn't the most fun job but I need you three watching over the kids."
The group quickly jumped into action each heading into their assigned areas. Rick's group pulled open the gate and walked onto the other side. "God I didn't realize how unsafe this made me feel, being on this side makes a big difference." Andrea said as she clutched her pistol,
"It's fine, were the best crackshots here. We'll take out any before they get close." Carly said with a reassuring smile,
"Easy there girls, gotta keep this quiet." Kenny said as he pulled out his machete, "Ya'll are just here to back us up."
"Yeah just remember that we are quicker than them, if they start getting close to you just run. We can do this just fine." Rick said confidently,
"Don't lie man, this is gonna suck." Tyreese said as he pulled out his hammer.
"It'll be worth it." Rick said as he slammed his hatchet into the first walker,
"It better be." Kenny grumbled out as he slashed his machete across a walkers head.
The five of them moved around the yard slicing and chopping through the scattered dead. For fifteen minutes walkers fell one by one and just as they were finishing up killing the final walkers one walker made it's way straight at Rick. Andrea without thinking took a shot that hit the waker dead in the skull killing it quickly. Everyone looked around and saw all the walkers had fallen, "That one got a little too close for comfort." Andrea said with a half smile,
"Yeah no kidding, thanks." Rick said with a nod only for the five of them to hear a deep roar from the entrance to C-Block. Everyone turned back towards the door and to their shock saw dozens of walkers beginning to pour out of the cell block.
"Oh you have got to be fucking kidding me!" Kenny shouted out in shock as well as anger,
Rick lowered his head and pulled out his pistol, "Andrea I need you to go back to the RV and have Ben get you the ammo bag, we're gonna need it."
As Andrea took off running for the gate the rest of them readied their pistols, "I told you this was gonna suck." Tyreese said with a frown,
"Yeah you sure did call it." Kenny said pushing his safety off,
"Head shots only, we can't afford to waste ammo now." Rick said to the group as he raised his gun,
"Anything else?" Tyreese said with a little smirk,
"Yeah, don't miss!" Carly exclaimed as the four of them began to fire at the horde of walkers.
Back at the RV Ben sat inside listening to Chris complain while the kids played cards together, "It's bullshit, so what we're seventeen. We all have guns, we do just fine at target practice. We should be out there helping Rick not sitting here fucking babysitting." Chris shouted out bitterly,
"C'mon chill out man, Rick is depending on us." Ben said a bit timidly,
"Oh what the fuck do you know Ben! You're just too much of a chicken shit to do anything!" Chris snapped at him quickly,
"Stop! That's not nice! Don't be mean to Ben!" Clementine yelled out angrily,
"Shut up brat!" Chris shouted out to her quickly,
"Chris stop it!" Julie butted in quickly,
"It's alright Clem, why don't you...just, like, go play cards with Carl and Sophia up front." Ben said with a small smile. Clementine nodded and glared at Chris before turning towards the front of the RV and walking over.
Just then they heard Andrea shout out for the gate to get open. Chris and Ben got up and ran outside to pull open the gate. Andrea quickly squeezed through the gate, "The ammo! I need the bag of ammo right now!"
"Whoa, what's going on?" Ben asked confused,
"No time! I need all the rounds we have!" Andrea exclaimed as the three ran back inside,
Chris ran over and tossed Ben the bag, "We only have like ten clips loaded, everything else is loose. You'll have to load them by hand."
Andrea paused for a second and looked back up, "Look I need one of you to come with me, I gonna need one of you to load the clips for us while we take care of the walkers." The three teens looked at her fearfully no one stepping up, "Come on I need your help!"
"I-I'll go." Ben said timidly as he rubbed his arm,
"Alright good, follow me! Chris get the gate closed!" Andrea shouted as she and Ben ran out the RV. Chris stood there for a minute embarrassed before he walked out of the RV to close the gate.
"What do you think is going on?" Duck asked looking around,
"I don't know. Do you think I should have told them about Chris being mean?" Clementine said looking back to the three of them,
"Maybe." Carl said with a shrug,
"Clem, you ready to play?" Sophia asked handing her some cards,
"Yeah okay." Clementine replied picking up her cards,
"Okay." Sophia said with a smile then looked over to Carl, "Carl do you have a bearded man with a black heart and do you want to be my boyfriend?"
"Ew gross! No way, go fish!" Carl exclaimed in response while Duck and Clem snickered.
Meanwhile Dale's group had made it about halfway around the perimeter when they began to hear gunfire coming from the yard. Lori looked back fearfully, "Stay calm Lori, Rick knows what he's doing." Katjaa said with a soothing voice,
"Aren't you worried about Kenny?" Lori said turning back towards the group,
"Of course I'm worried but I trust he'll be alright." Katjaa said with a smile,
"Yeah...I know, I guess I'm not used to the sound of gunfire yet." Lori replied as the group began to walk again, "You know I always used to hear that you should live life like it was the last day of your life and it would make you a happier person. Now i'm living my life like it is my last day and it's horrible! I've seen too much death!" Lori said bitterly,
"Well anyone of us could die at any moment. We've seen it happen before, I know it's easy to feel that we are never safe." Katjaa said with a small nod,
"Geez guys could you give it a break? You're making me depressed." Carol said while crossing her arms, "Look around, this place is amazing. I almost have everything going perfect again, hell Tyreese is ten times better than my husband ever was. All we need is food and Rick seemed pretty confident that it would be in here. Hell we could rebuild here, start a new life!"
"Yeah I've heard that one before." Lori said with a roll of her eyes,
"Let's just say I won't be unpacking so quickly." Katjaa added on as the turned around the third corner of the fences.
Back with Rick's group the five of them continued to fire at the walker horde while Ben shakily continued to load pistol clips for them, "I-I have another one loaded!" Ben shouted out,
"Over here shit bird!" Kenny shouted out only for Ben to toss him the clip. Kenny ejected the spent clip and tossed it to Ben while he loaded in the fresh one, "This keeps up we're gonna run outta ammo!" Kenny shouted out,
"I know but we've got no choice, we just have to keep shooting!" Rick shouted back as Ben tossed him another clip,
"Hold on! I think we may have just lucked out!" Carly shouted with a relieved smile,
"You-you think that's all of them?" Ben said as he slowly shuffled towards the group,
"Only one way to find out." Rick said as he lifted his pistol and fired into the air. Ben jumped at the shot while the others aimed directly at the door and waited. Minutes past as the group stood there and finally they lowered their guns. "Okay I think we're good but we can't stop now. Andrea, Carly, Ben, you three head back to the RV. You let the others know that we're going into the cell block to secure it. I want the others to work on moving these bodies outside the fences for burning but keep Chris and Julie on babysitting alright?"
"You got it boss." Carly said with a nod as she turned around with Ben and Andrea,
"Hey Ben!" Tyreese called out,
"Y-yeah?" Ben replied and turned back,
"Good job today." Tyreese said with a smile then he turned back towards the cell block and walked inside.
"What's up with that?" Kenny asked with a raised eyebrow,
"What? The kid did a good job, he was scared shitless." Tyreese said with a shrug,
"You like him better than Chris don't you?" Rick said with a little smirk,
"What? No, I...yeah okay I do." Tyreese admitted, "Julie's been dating Chris for awhile now but he's no good for her. I swear he's filling her head with some bullshit but she won't listen me, I'm kinda hoping that she'll leave him for Ben."
Kenny let out a laugh as did Rick, "That's pretty harsh man." Kenny said shaking his head,
"Yeah but come on now, we gotta keep our wits about us now." Rick said as he pulled his hatchet out along with a flashlight, "No guns okay, if things get bad we run."
"Fuck that, I am not leaving til we secure this block or I find food for my family." Kenny replied as he pulled out his machete,
"Well, alright then." Tyreese said with a little surprised scoff,
The group slowly moved through the hallways of the cellblock until they got to the main cell room, "Damn, doesn't look like we're gonna need these in here." Rick said as he flicked his flashlight off and stared at the large windows lighting up the whole room,
"That's great, you know I was kinda worried that we'd have to live like cavemen. You know living by candlelight or something. Wasn't really looking forward to living in the dark most of the time." Tyreese said with a smile as he looked around the cell block,
"Yeah, yeah, it's nice and all but enough gabbing, we need to finish this up." Kenny said as he began to look into each of the cells making sure their were no walkers lingering inside,
"He okay? He seems pretty on edge." Tyreese whispered over to Rick,
"He is, he told me last night he's planning on leaving with his family if we don't find food today. I don't know how serious he is about it but I hope we do find something in here." Rick said causing Tyreese to look back to Kenny in surprise,
After a few minutes of clearing the cells the three men moved out of the cell room and continued to explore the cell block. Almost immediately a walker let out a weak groan from the ground causing Rick to jump back in fear. Kenny simply walked over and stabbed the walker in it's skull while Tyreese gave Rick a nudge with his arm, "A bit jumpy aren't we? Were you not expecting to see any of these things in here?"
"Oh eat me, i'm fearing the day when these things no longer make me jump." Rick said while shaking his head,
"That day has come and gone a long time ago for me my friend." Tyreese said with smirk,
"Lucky you." Rick replied,
"Lights on guys, getting dark down here." Kenny said as he pulled his flashlight out and flicked it on. After a few more minutes of walking Kenny stopped dead in his tracks, "Ho-ly shit." He whispered out,
"What? What do you see?" Rick asked quickly,
Kenny stood with a smile on his face and moved to the side so they could see a sign on the top of the door in front of him titled Cafeteria. "About time things went our way." Kenny said with a wide smile,
"Uh, you see that though, right?" Tyreese said pointing to the door handles that had a police baton keeping it closed, "What do we do about that?"
"We go in there and get food, what the fuck do you think?" Kenny said with a scoff,
"Hold on, if memory serves this room probably has a bunch of lurkers locked inside. So here's the deal, we open it up and start firing. We take out a few and get back outside, we can handle them easier out there." Rick said as he pulled out his pistol and pulled the baton out of the door
handles.
"Sounds like a plan to me." Kenny said as he too pulled out his gun,
Ready when you are." Tyreese said grabbing one of the handles while Rick took the other and Kenny took the center,
"Go!" Rick yelled and they pulled open the door. The three put their guns up but quickly froze in shock as they saw a group of six prisoners sitting at a table,
The prisoners looked at them just as shocked and after a moment Dexter let out a smile, "Hey, you guys want some meatloaf?"
"We got more than enough to share." Lee said with a full on smile, the first one he's had in months.
Alright and here we are the end of the second chapter and if I can toot my own horn I feel it is ten times better than the last chapter two! I also have made my first big change which is trading out Allen for Ben, I think in the end Allen never really did much and killing off Ben in the background was such a stupid idea. So I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I look forward to reading some reviews on it, either a comparison or just a overall outlook! See you all in the next one!