I don't own Total Drama and The Walking Dead. I only own my OC's.
Sorry if you find any grammar mistakes. I'm still learning English because it's not my first language.
This chapter takes place after Rick woke up from the coma, and found himself in Atlanta where he comes across Glenn and the group from Atlanta.
If Rick Grimes was honest with himself, this wasn't how he was excepting to wake up from the coma. When he woke up from the coma, he found a completely new world. His hometown was desolated and there wasn't anyone alive in sight, at least he thought that his hometown was completely abandoned, until he came across a man named Morgan and his son Duane who explained everything that Rick needed to know, the day after, after taking every gun that was left in the police station, the two men said their goodbyes to each other and Rick left to Atlanta, hoping that he'll find his way there.
As for now, he was riding along the empty side of the highway to enter Atlanta, a city where he was told by Morgan people made a safe zone for the people, but his first impression of it were far away from good. He could easily tell that the city was abandoned, even from the highway.
He only found himself to be correct when he rode into the city and along the streets. He saw that the streets were abandoned and there was trash everywhere. He lead the horse down the street where there werehelicopters, cars, and even a tank wrecked along the road. He rode past a bus and some of the walkers saw him. They got up and start to walk toward him, but he didn't panic.
''Whoa. Steady. There's just a few. Nothing we can't outrun." He told his horse, calming it down. He simply rode past them, heading down the street. He glanced over at the tank and saw a dead body that is being pecked at by crows. He rode past it, taking his eyes of the body, and it was just a moment before he saw a helicopter fly above his head. He told his horse to follow it, and when they turned around the corner, the police officer saw a huge group of walkers.
"Oh, shit." He cursed under his breath at the view of a massive group of the undead. He quickly turned the horse around to the side from which they came from, but was quickly meet with another group of the undead which surrounded him and the horse. He did his best to get away from the group of the walkers, but he couldn't. There was simply too much of them. He was trapped.
"Oh, god." He said to moments before the walkers completely filled his surroudings, knocking him down off his horse. He quickly started to crawl away from it, leaving behind a bag that was filled with guns he took from the police station from his home town. Several walkers quickly dug into the horse as the animal screamed in agony as it was eaten alive by the undead.
Rick quickly crawled down underneath the tank while some of the walkers were still trying to catch him, crawling right after him. He quickly pulled out his Colt Python, the only weapon he had with him at this moment, and shot some of them down, but it didn't matter how many he killed. More came, quickly crawling past the lifeless bodies of the ones that Rick just killed.
It was when he came to a realization. It was over for him. Walkers were coming from him from every sides, and he was running out of bullets, he only had one or two left his in his Python. He aimed it at his head, ready to use he last bullet to himself, whispering to himself, "Lori, Carl,I'm sorry."
Just as he was about to pull the trigger and end his life, he looked up and saw the hatch to the tank was above him, and it was opened! He still had a chance to get out of this. Quickly forgetting about the fact that he was about to end his life, he crawled into the tank, quickly shutting the hatch, so the undead wouldn't get him.
He sat down on the ground of the tank, breathing heavilly, just moments before he saw a dead soldier in the tank, a soldier just like everyone else on the street. He took the soldier's gun, and used the last bullet in his Python to shoot him through the head. The sound of the bullet in the enclosed space hurt Rick's ears and it took him a minute to get his hearing back.
"Ah..." He groaned, waiting for his ears to stop hurting, and when they finally did stopped hurting, he started to crawl up to the top hatch and looked outside. He saw that the bag of guns was lying in the street way out of his reach. The rest of the walkers started to converge on the tank to get to him, but luckily Rick shut the hatch before they could get him. Rick sat in the tank and seemed very disheartened, knowing that he was still trapped in the middle of the herd of the undead.
Just then, the radio in the tank starts to make static sounds. A voice on the other end started talking, "Hey, you. dumbass. Yeah, you in the tank. Are you cozy in there?"
Rick could feel how his heart almost stopped when he heard that noise, at first, he thought that he was just hearing things, but the other voice, "Hey, dude. Are you still there? Me and my friend here are getting worried."
The police officer crawled to the radio and answered to their calls, "Hello? Hello?"
"There you are." The first voice stated.
''Where are you? Outside? Can you see me right now?" Rick quickly asked these two men a few questions.
"Yes, we can. You're surrounded by those things, this is bad." The second voice answered.
"There's a good news?" Rick raised his brow.
"No." The second voice replied, "I wish there was though."
''Listen, whoever you are, I don't mind telling you, but I'm a little concerned in here." Rick told both of them.
''Oh man. You should see it from over here. You'd be having a major freak-out." The first voice stated.
"Got any advice for me?" Rick asked them.
There was a small pause on the other side, before one of the voices spoke up, "Yeah, we'd say make a run for it."
''That's it? "Make a run for it"?" Rick said in response.
''Our way's not as dumb as it sounds. You've got eyes on the outside here. There's one geek still up on the tank but the others have climbed down and joined the feeding frenzy where the horse went down..." The first voice explained the situation to Rick.
"Are you with us so far?" The second voice added.
"So far." Rick replied with a nod of his head, knowing that they couldn't see him nod.
''Okay, the street on the other side of the tank is less crowded. If you move now while they're distracted, you stand a chance." The first voie stated, "Got ammo?"
''In that duffel bag I dropped out there,and guns. Can I get to it?" Rick asked.
"No, dude, this will be pretty much a suicide for you. You may stand a chance when you'll get out, but when you'll try to get this bag, this chance will be gone." The second voice pointed out, "Do you have something with you?"
Rick quickly checked the pistol he got from the dead soldier, all it had was one clip of ammo, "Yeah." He also found a grenade laying around. He picked it up and put it on the slot on his belt, "I've got a Beretta with one clip,15 rounds."
''Make 'em count. Jump off the right side of the tank, keep going in that direction. There's an alley up the street, maybe 50 yards. Be there." The first voice told him.
"Hey, what's your name?" Rick asked the two men about their names.
"We'll tell you once we'll find each other, now you're running out of time." The second voice pointed out.
"Right." Rick said, agreeing with him on this.
Rick made a quick break after grabbing a metal shard in the tank. He opened the top and whacked the walker off the tank with the metal shard, slicing its face wide open. He quickly got himself off the tank and began to run towards the alley, shooting every walker down that came into his way in the process. They turned around the corner, almost killing on of the men from the radio in the process, " Whoa! Not dead! Come on!''
Rick quickly followed him to the ladder where a red clothed teenager who went by the name of Tyler stood, "C'mon guys!" He shouted as he started to climb up the ladder, the guy from the radio and Rick followed his example and climbed up the ladder. Once they got up there, they stopped to catch a breath.
"Nice moves there, Clint Eastwood. You the new sheriff come riding in to clean up the town?" The man from the radio joked.
''It wasn't my intention.'' Rick stated.
"Yeah, whatever. You're still a dumbass." He joked before introducing himself, "My name is Glenn. My friend here is Tyler."
"I'm Rick." Rick said, shaking Glenn's hand, before moving it to Tyler, so the teenager could shake it too, "Thanks."
"No problem, it's pretty rare to see someone alive in this city." Tyler said back, as all three of them looked up at the rest of the ladder to the roof.
"The bright side: It'll be the fall that kills us. I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy." Glenn stated as he climbed up the ladder.
"Yeah, it much better than getting eated by the walkers." Tyler said, before following Glenn, and was followed by Rick.
"Are you the one that barricaded the alley?" Rick asked them as the three men reached the roof.
''Somebody did... I guess when the city got overrun." Glenn replied.
"Or it happened when they bombed this city." Tyler added, remembering how he and everyone came to Atlanta to get some help, but they didn't even made it into the city as it was bombarded.
"There's one thing for sure. Whoever did it was thinking not many geeks would get through." Glenn stated before climbing down a ladder into the building, then everyone ran through an office building and out the back door. They ran down the steps. They stopped when they saw two walkers in the alley. Rick aimed with Barreta he got from the tank at them and was about to shot them down but three guys with armor bursted through the door with the baseball bats and beat them to death as Glenn and Tyler lead Rick inside.
When, they were inside a blonde woman pinned Rick to the wall, pointing her gun at him, "You son of a bitch!"
"You realize what you just done?" Courtney added, joining the woman's side. Thankfully, her broken leg had healed a long time ago, and she could actually start doing something, and going for journey to cities like that was one of them.
"Andrea, Courtney, just calm down." Bridgette tried to calm them down.
"That's right, girls. Aiming that thing at each other is not going to help anyone." Leshawna added, standing by Bridgette's side.
''Come on, ease up." A black skinned woman, Jacqui added.
''Ease up? You're kidding me, right?" Andrea asked, glancing back at Jacqui, Bridgette, and Leshawna.
''We're dead because of he just did!" Courtney added, pointing at Rick.
"Andrea, don't pull the trigger, you're just going to brind more of them here." Alejandro pointed out, taking last piece of gear off his body, before he started fixing up his hair which was messed up by the helmet, as Rick snatched the gun from her.
''Are we finished now?" He asked as Andrea and Courtney backed up a bit and looked at him.
"We're all dead, all of us, because of you..." Andrea said, she and Courtney looking like they were about to cry.
"I don't understand." Rick stated.
"Let me explain." The man named Morales said, before he lead Rick and the others into the store area, "Look, we came into the city to scavenge for supplies. You know what the key to scavening is? Surviving! You know the key to surviving? Sneaking in and out, tiptoeing. Not shooting down every walker on your way."
''Every walker for miles around hear y'all popping off rounds." The black skinned man, T-Dog added.
''You just rang the dinner bell." Courtney stated as they all looked at the main door packed with walkers, trying to brake in, "And we're the dinner. Their dinner."
"What are you doing here, anyway?" Alejandro asked.
''Trying to flag the helicopter." Rick explained, truthfully
"Helicopter? Man,that's crap. Ain't no damn helicopter." T-Dog stated.
"You were chasing a hallucination,imaging things it happens to everyone." Bridgette added.
"I saw it." Rick stated as Leshawna spotted a walkie-talkie tied up to his chest.
"Hey. T-Dog. Can you use it to contact with our people in the camp?" She asked
"There's more of you?" Rick asked, "The Refugee Center?"
"Yeah. The Refugee Center. They have biscuits waiting in the oven for us." Jacqui said, sarcastically.
"We can try on the roof." T-Dog stated.
Suddenly, the group heard a gun shot from the roof, as Tyler, "Don't tell me that's Dixon."
"I think you already know the answer." Morales replied as the group made their way to the roof to see a man in his late 40's, firing bullets from his rifle at the walkers on the street.
''Hey, are you crazy? We already have enough of them on our tail!" Alejandro pointed out, running up to him.
''Hey, Al! Be polite to a man with gun!" Merle laughed.
"You realize you're wasting bullets we barely even got?" Leshawna stated, glaring at Merle, Bridgette and Courtney by her side were glaring as well
''And you're bringing more of them!" T-Dog added.
"Hey! Bad enough I got this taco-bender on my shit all day. Now I'm gonna take orders from both of you? I don't think so. That'll be the day." Merle said back.
"That'll be the day? You've got something you want to tell me?" T-Dog asked.
''T-Dog, just leave it." Morales told them.
"No." T-Dog said.
"No. It ain't worth it." Morales stated.
"Now, Merle. Just relax." Glenn added.
"That's right. Arguing is the last thing we should do right now." Bridgette added. She despised Merle as much everyone else in the group did, but now there was no time to argue.
"You want to know the day? I'll tell you the day Mr Yo? It's the day I take orders from a nigger." Merle told T-Dog. The black skinned man glared at Merle, having enough of his behaviour. He lunged forward, intending to punch him but Merle was faster and hit him with his rifle, the man who tried to hit him fell on the ground. Everyone started to shout to Merle to stop as he started beating him to the pulp, and when he was done with it, he held up his gun, as everyone moved ot the wounded T-Dog, "Yeah! All right! We're gonna have ourselves a little powwow, huh? Talk about who's in charge. I vote me." He said, raised his free hand up, when no one else raised his hand, he added, "Anybody else? Huh?"
Everyone slowly started rising their hands up, with Alejandro being the last one of them to do it. He seriously had an urge to do something to Merle, he hated when someone was toying with him like Merle was just doing, but he'd never mess with a man who has a gun while he's weaponless.
"All in favor. That's good. Now that means I'm the boss, right? Yeah. Anybody else? Hmm? Anybody?" Merle smirked, looking around himself.
'Yeah." Rick as Merle turned around to the newest member of their small group, only to be knocked down and handcuffed him to a metal pipe,
"Who the hell are you,man?!'' The now handcuffed man asked.
"Officer friendly." Rick started explaining, "Look here, Merle. Things are different now. There are no niggers anymore. No dumb-as-shit, inbred white-trash fools either. Only dark meat and white meat. There's us and the dead. We survive this by pulling together, not apart."
"Screw you." Merle said to Rick.
''"I can see you make a habit of missing the point." Courtney stated, watching over the now handcuffed Merle with crossed arms.
"Yeah. Well, screw you too, CIT." Merle said to her.
''Be polite to a man with a gun. You said it yourself." Rick said, putting the gun to Merle's face.
"You wouldn't. You're a cop." Merle stated.
"All I am anymore is a man who is looking for his wife and son." Rick said as he searched Merle's pocket. He found drugs and tossed them off the roof.
"Hey! What are you doing! That's my stuff!" Merle shouted as everyone walked away from him, "Hey! If I get loose, you'd better pray... Yeah, you hear me, you pig?! You hear me?!"
He continued to shout insults at Rick, but he, along with everyone didn't listen to any word he said, as Leshawna and Bridgette went over to T-Dog to patch him up from the fight he had with the Dixon, as Leshawna said, "C'mon, sugar. Let us patch you up."
Rick went over to the edge of the roof, glancing over at the streets as Morales approached him, "You're not Atlanta P.D. Where you from?''
''Up the road a ways." Rick answered, gesturing towards the road for which he came from.
Morales looked in the direction of the road, and gave Rick a quick pat on his bed, "Well, officer friendly from up the road a ways, welcome to the big city."
Everyone were looking over at the streets from the roof as the streets that were still filled with walkers and it seemed like there wasn't end of them, more and more kept coming.
"God, it's like times square down there." Andrea stated.
Leshawna turned to T-Dog for a second and asked, "How's that signal?"
"Like Dixon's brain-weak." T-Dog answered, sending Merle a quick glance, to which the Dixon gave him the middle finger in response.
''Keep trying." Rick said, not taking his eyes off the streets.
'' Why? There's nothing they can do. Not a damn thing.'' Andrea stated.
"You know something, Andrea. You are a really discouraging." Alejandro stated.
"I'm just a realist." Andrea pointed out.
''Got some people outside the city is all. There's no refugee center. That's a pipe dream.'' Morales said to Rick.
"People?" Rick asked.
"Yeah, a whole group of them." Bridgette answered.
"There's no chance we're going to cross those streets." Courtney stated.
''What about under the streets? The sewers?" Rick suggested.
Morales turned to Glenn and Tyler after hearing this suggestion, "Hey, Glenn, Tyler, check the alley. You see any manhole covers?''
Glenn and Tyler quickly went over to the to check that, but unfortunely, walkers were all they could see, "No, must be all out on the street where the walkers are.''
''Maybe not. Old building like this built in the '20s..." Jacqui spoke up, as everyone looked at her, "Big structures often had drainage tunnels into the sewers in case of flooding down in the subbasements."
"How do you know that?" Tyler raised his brow.
"It's my job... was. I worked in the city zoning office." Jacqui explained.
It was all the information they needed to get from her. Most of them went with her to see if they could get out of this sitation leaving Merle who was still handcuffed to the pipe, along with T-Dog who was still checking the radio, Leshawna who was left to just be there in case if something bad happens, and Alejandro who was left on the roof to look through the binocular so he could find something on the streets that would help them escape.
T-Dog brought the walkie talkie to his mouth and tried to call the camp again, "Anybody out there? Hello? Anybody read? I'm hoping to hear somebody's voice 'cause I'm getting sick and tired of hearing mine."
''Yeah, well, that makes two of us." Merle stated.
"Oh, you're again with it?" Leshawna asked him, knowing that Merle was just looking for another way to mess with someone, "Can't you just knock it off for a moment?"
"You're starting to give me a headache, both of you." Merle stated, shaking his head.
"Why don't you pull your head out of your ass? Maybe your headache will go away." T-Dog retorted as Merle just chuckled in response, "Try some positivity for a change. Damn.''
"I'll tell you what... You get me out of these cuffs and I'll be all "Sammy Sunshine" positive for you." Merle said to T-Dog, as he turned to Leshawna, "The same goes for you, girlie."
Leshawna shook her head, "I don't think so,if we let you out you're just try to beat someone up again."
"You're really bringing that up? It's wasn't personal." Merle defended himself, as he turned to T-Dog, "Right?"
''I guess you want me to get that rifle over there too so you can shoot that cop when he comes back up, huh?" T-Dog stated, earning a glare from Merle as he looked over at Alejandro who was still watching over the streets, "Hey, Alejandro, see anything?"
Alejandro shook his head, "Nothing's changed. I just wish we could've find a way how to get to those trucks."
The group had sent Glenn, Morales and Tyler to the sewers to let them find a way out of this rather bad situation. Rick, Andrea, Jacqui, Courtney and Bridgette all stayed behind and waited for them to return in the store, which also watching over if the walkers are going to break through the glass.
Rick peeked over his shoulder and saw Andrea, looking down at the necklace, as he approached her, "See something you like?"
Andrea gestured towards the necklace with mermaid on the counter, ''Not me, but I know someone who would... My sister. She's still such a kid in some ways. Unicorns, dragons... She's into all that stuff. But mermaids... They rule. She loves mermaids."
"Why not take it?" Rick asked her.
"There's a cop staring at me.'' Andrea pointed out as Rick chuckled, "Would it be considered looting?"
''I don't think those rules apply anymore." Rick stated, "Do you?"
Andrea grinned as she took the necklace off the counter and hid it in her pocket.
Andrea wasn't the only one who was staring at jewerly, Courtney noticed that Bridgette was staring at something in her right hand. She peered over her shoulder and that it was a heart-shaped locket. It was open, revealing a picture of her and Geoff, their arms at each other shoulder, smilling at the camera. They looked so happy.
"Where'd you get that locket?" She asked the surfer girl.
"Oh, that?" Bridgette looked over at Courtney. The surfer girl being one of not many Total Drama contestantst that CIT got along with, "Geoff got it for me after Total Drama Action. He said that it was a "I'm sorry" gift for acting the way he did during the aftermatch shows." She sighed, "I just really miss him."
Courtney gave her a quick pat on her shoulder, "We're going to find him, one day, I'm sure about it.."
"I hope so." Bridgette gave her a sad nod in reponse.
The CIT was about to add something before everyone heard the sound of shattering glass. Everyone's eye went over to the exit to see the walkers breaking through the first glass doors and moving over to the other ones which would lead them straight into the shop. The group went over closer to the doors, with Rick drawing his gun out in order to defend himself and the rest from them in case if they broke in, as Morales, Glenn and Tyler went back to their group.
''What did you find down there?" Rick asked all three of them.
"Not a way out." Morales answered.
"We're literally trapped in here, guys." Tyler added.
"We need to find a way out, soon..." Courtney stated, her eyes not leaving the walkers, "It's a matter of time before they get here."
The whole group went back to the roof, and and went over to Alejandro to see if the hispanic teenager found anything, with Tyler asking him, "Hey, Alejandro. Please tell us you found anything new."
"I think you already know the answer. Just wish we found a way how we can get past those things to this construction site or one of those trucks." Alejandro answered.
"Wait, there's a construction site?" Rick asked Alejandro.
The teenager in response handed him the binocular, "Take a look."
Rick took a glance at the streets, mostly at the construction site and trucks Alejandro mentioned, "That construction site, those trucks you mentioned... They always keep keys on hand."
''You'll never make it past the walkers." Morales stated.
"You got me out of that tank." Rick pointed out, sending a quick glance at Glenn and Tyler.
''Yeah, but they were feeding. They were distracted." Glenn said.
"Can we distract them again?" Rick asked.
''Right. Listen to him. He's onto something. A diversion, like on "Hogan's Heroes"." Merle butted in.
"Oh, give it a rest." Leshawna told him.
Ignoring Merle's comment, Rick said, "They're drawn by sound,right?"
''Right, like dogs. They hear a sound, they come." Bridgette replied.
''What else?" Rick wanted to know.
''Aside from they hear you? They see you, smell you and if they catch you, they eat you." Courtney answered.
''They can tell us by smell?" Rick asked.
"Can't you?" Glenn said.
"They smell dead, we don't. It's pretty distinct." Andrea concluded.
Rick hummed, an idea of how they could get past them forming in his mind as Alejandro looked over at him, "Is this what I think it is?
Rick, Tyler, Alejandro, Glenn, Morales, T-Dog, Andrea, Leshawna, Jacqui, Bridgette and Courtney, well pretty much everyone in the group except for Merle was preparing for the idea that Rick came up with,
''If bad ideas were an Olympic event, this would take the gold." Glenn stated.
"He's right. Just stop, okay? Take some time to think this through." Morales added.
"How much time?" Rick asked, "They already got through one set of doors, that glass won't hold forever.'' Rick said, throwing Glenn some clothes.
When everything was ready, Rick went outside, and took out the nearest walker before taking it with him, back into the store, as Tyler, Morales, Glenn and Alejandro were watching his back just in case if something bad was going to happen. Everyone stood ready, wearing lab coats and gloves for the next part of Rick's plan. They formed a circle around the walker.
Rick raised the axe in the air and was about to chop a hole in the walkers' body, but stopped at the last moment and kneeled down before the body, taking out a wallet, before reading to everyong who this man used to be, "Wayne Dunlap. Georgia license. Born in 1979. He had $28 in his pocket when he died... And a picture of a pretty girl. "With love, from Rachel." He used to be like us... Worrying about bills or the rent or the Super Bowl. If I ever find my family, I'm gonna tell them about Wayne."
"One more thing-he was an organ donor." Glenn added.
"Bad time for a joke, sugar." Leshawna said to Glenn.
Glenn bit his lips, "Yeah, I just realized that, sorry."
It was when Rick started chopping Wayne's stomach open, as everyone was clearly disgusted by it, Morales being the first one to sound his disgust, "Madre de dios!"
"I can't look at this." Bridgette said, taking her eyes off what was just happening, Courtney and Jacqui following her example.
"Okay, guys, this is too much." Tyler said, taking his eye off this as well.
Rick stopped for a second and looked over at Morales, " Keep chopping."
" I am so gonna hurl." Glenn stated, as Morales brought the axe down on Wayne's stomach, to make the hole bigger.
''Later." Rick told him.
A moment later, Morales backed away as it seemed like everything was ready for whatever they were planning to do, as Rick asked everyone. " Everybody got gloves? Don't get any on your skin or in your eyes.''
When everyone nodded their heads, they reached into the walker's guts and started applying them on Rick, Glenn, Tyler and Alejandro, the asian man was clearly uncomfortable and they couldn't really blame him, "Oh God! Oh jeez. Oh, this is bad. This is really bad."
''Think about something else... Puppies and kittens." Rick joked.
"Yeah, dead puppies and kittens." Tyler added, doing his best not to look as guts that were slowly being applies onto his body.
"When I said that I'd want to find a way how to get to one of those trucks or construction site, this isn't how I imagined it." Alejandro said, glancing at the ceiling, not wanting to look how Leshawna and Courtney were applying more and more guts onto him.
"This is so evil." Bridgette stated. This was far worse than anything Chris came up with during her time in Total Drama.
"What is wrong with you?" Andrea asked Rick.
''Next time let the cracker beat his ass." Jacqui said as she rubbed more guts on Rick.
"Do we smell like them?" Rick asked, ignoring Jacqui's comment.
''Oh, believe me you do." Leshawna said, waving the hand in front of her to get rid of the smell.
''Glenn. Just in case." Andrea said, handing Glenn her gun.
"What about Merle Dixon?" T-Dog asked.
Rick tossed the handcuff key to T-Dog. as he said, "We need... we need more guts.''
Rick, Alejandro, Tyler and Glenn walked outside, with Morales shutting the doors behind them, now the clothes they were wearing being fully covered by guts and blood, as they walked past two walkers that happened to be nearby The undead briefly looked at them, but overally didn't paid much attention to them as all four of them smelled bad enough for them to not get spotted by them. They crawled under a bus and came out on the other side where a huge group of walkers was, it almost seemed like they were waiting for them. They continued to shuffle through the crowd without any walkers noticing that they are alive, sigh of reliefs that it was actually working escaping Glenn's and Tyler's mouth.
As they were slowly making their way through the street, the rest of group made it back to the roof, looking over how they were doing but at first they had to spot them, as they heard Merle ask them, "Hey, what's happening,man?"
"Hey,T-Dog, try that CB.'' Morales said to T-Dog.
"Hey come on talk to me, y'all!" Merle called out, but was still ignored.
T-Dog brought the walkie talkie close to himself as he called out, ''Base camp, this is T-Dog. Anybody hear me? Can anybody out there hear me?"
"I see them!" Bridgette said, pointing down at the streets.
"That asshole is out on the street with the handcuff keys?" Merle asked, as thunder rumbled.
Another thunder rumbled, as T-Dog showed Merle the keys in response.
Rick, Tyler, Alejandro and Glenn proceeded to make their way through the streets, as they all heard Glenn whisper to himself, "It's gonna work. I can't believe it."
"Don't say anything, dude." Tyler whispered to Glenn, being quite happy that this was working. They finally had a chance to get out of here.
"Don't draw attention, both of you." Alejandro told them.
A walker came over to Glenn, walking right by his side. A spark of panic grew inside of him, as he started to growl, trying to imitate how a walker sounds like,
Then, completely out of sudden, it started to rain, the droplets of water falling down at the city, and more importantly at the four people who were closer and closer to their task of getting out of this city. They tried not to panic, as they continued to walk in normal pace. The worst thing of all they noticed that the rain was starting to wash of the guts of their clothes. The walkers were starting to get a whiff of life walking past them and they started to get a little more aggressive towards all four of them as they try to figure out if they were dead or alive.
Glenn could hear Alejandro cursing in spanish under his breath as he asked Rick, "The smell's washing off. Isn't it? Is it washing off?"
''No, It's not.." Rick answered but quickly found himself to be wrong as the walkers noticed them, "Well, maybe."
"Guys, we better run." Tyler stated.
The four of them started running down the street, taking out every walker that was standing in their way as they literally chased by every walker on the street. They finally made their way over to the fence and climbed over it before the walkers were able to get them. While Glenn was trying to find the keys to the truck, Rick pulled out a pistol and killed more Walkers with it, as Tyler and Alejandro stabbed the other few of them with their knives.
When Glenn finally found the keys to the truck, he threw them to Rick. All of them quickly got themselves into the truck, being practically squished in there as it was clearly not made for four people to be inside of it at the same time, but it wasn't on their mind right now. The truck quickly sped off, as the walkers were trying to catch them.
''They're leaving us." Andrea said, watching everything from the roof.
"What, what do you mean?" Merle asked.
''Where they going? Where they going?" Morales asked.
''No, no, come back." Courtney said, anxiously.
''Oh my God. Oh my God. They're all over that place!" Glenn panicked, looking around himself.
''You need to draw them away. Those roll-up doors at the front of the store... That area?" Rick started explaining everything to the asian man, "That's what I need cleared. Raise your friends. Tell them to get down there and be ready."
"And I'm drawing the geeks away how? I-I missed that part." Glenn stated.
"Noise, and Tyler is joining you." Rick explained.
Rick busted the window of a red sports car and opened the door.. The car alarm starts to sound across the street and Rick hotwired the car for Glenn and Tyler. Glenn and Tyler got into the car and drove off along the street to lead the walkers away from the shop while Rick and Alejandro took the truck back to the place from which the came from.
"Those roll-up doors at the front of the store facing the street..." Tyler said, sitting next to Glenn who was leading the walkers away from the shop,"Meet us there and be ready."
Everyone on the roof immediately reacted to that, and started heading towards the place where Rick and Alejandro would be waiting for them, not seeming to care that Dixon was still handcuffed to the pipe.
"Hey, you can't leave me here! I'm not fooling, man! Morales! Hey, man! Don't do this!" He called out to the group, as everyone left the room, everyone except for T-Dog who was still hesitating if he should leave Merle or not, "Hey, T-Dog. No, man. You can't leave me, man. You can't leave me here... Not like this. You can't, man. It's not human. Come on, don't do this!"
T-Dog groaned but decided to free Merle, however, when he ran back towards Dixon, he trippe. The handcuff key fell out of his hand and ended up dropping down a drain.
Merle glared at the black skinned man, "Son of a bitch! You did that on purpose!"
"I didn't mean to!" T-Dog said, rising up from the ground.
"You lie! You did it on purpose!" Merle shouted, not believing him, as T-Dog slowly started walking away, towards the exit.
" Don't leave me, man! Don't leave me! Don't leave me! You liar!" Merle kept shouting at him.
"I'm sorry. Man ,I'm sorry!" T-Dog apologized for him for what he was about to do, as he ran towards the exit, but before he ran down the stairs to join the rest of the group, in an effor to help Merle, he chained the door to the roof shut, so the walkers wouldn't get to him if they eventually broke into the shop.
The last thing he heard as he was running down the stairs was Merle shouting, "Don't leave me! You'll die! Go to hell! Damn you! You're gonna rot in hell!''
He joined the rest of the survivors just in time before the walkers broke through the second set of doors and stormed the store, but fortunely for the survivors thanks to Glenn and Tyler who were drawing the walkers away in the sports car, Rick and Alejandro had the chance to pull in with his truck.
Everyone quickly got into the back of the truck and Rick and Alejandro took them away from this place as soon as everyone was inside, but when they were driving away, they noticed that someone was missing and looked over at T-Dog.
"I dropped the key." was the only thing they had to get.
Realizing there was nothing that they can do, the group drove away from Atlanta. Andrea noticed Glenn and Tyler weren't around, "Where's Glenn? And Tyler?"
Down the highway through which Rick entered Atlanta, the car alarm wasstill ringing as Glenn and Tyler speeded down the highway in the red sports car. They were listening to music and screaming at the rush of driving down the road this fast.
"Whoo-hoo-hoo! Yeah-hoo-hoo!" Glenn cheered loudly, clearly enjoying it.
"Maybe getting ourselves covered in the walkers guts wasn't so bad, right, dude?" Tyler said, enjoying this as much as Glenn did.
The asian man nodded his head in agreement as they proceeded to drive towards their camp.
Glenn and Tyler had finally arrived in the camp as they got out of the car, the alarm was still ringing as the entire camp was gathering around at their arrival.
"Turn that thing off!" Chef told them, approaching them.
"I don't know how!" Glenn answered, with Tyler nodding his head in agreement.
"Pop the hood, please. Pop the damn hood, please." Shane Walsh said, approaching him as well.
"My sister Andrea..." Andrea's sister, Amy asked, as she ran over to them.
"Pop the damn hood!" Shane repeated himself.
"Tyler what about Leshawna, Bridgette, and everyone else, are they okay?" Harold asked.
Shane popped the hood disconnect the battery to turn the alarm off, as Glenn said Amy, "She's okay! She's okay!"
"Is she coming back?" Amy kept asking about her sister.
"Yes!" Glenn replied.
"What about the rest, are they coming back?" DJ asked.
"Everybody is fine!" Tyler answered, "Except maybe Merle..."
"Are both you crazy, driving this wailing bastard here?" Shane scolded Glenn and Tyler, "Are you trying to draw every Walker for miles?"
'' I think we're okay?" Dale Horvath stated.
"You call being stupid okay?" Chris asked, turning to Dale with crossed arms.
"They could have drag more of those things into our camp." Heather pointed out.
''Well, the alarm was echoing all over these hills. Hard to pinpoint the source. I'm not arguing. I'm just saying." Dale explained as he turned to Tyler and Glenn, "It wouldn't hurt you to think things through a little more carefully next time, would it?"
"Sorry..." Tyler apologized, rubbing his forehead.
"Got a cool car..." Glenn added as everyone could see the truck arriving in the camp and a moment later and people started coming out of it.
"Amy." Andrea said as she ran up to her sister and hugged her.
"Andrea." Amy said as she hugged her sister back. Tears slowly started to stream down their cheeks
"Tyler!" Lindsay cheered, happy to see him again as she finally ran over to him and embraced him. Leshawna and Bridgette were being greeted back in the camp by their friends.
"It's good to see you again, Al!" Owen shouted, as he held his hand for a high five, Alejandro's eyes twitched, recalling that he told everyone to not call him "Al", some of them respected his request, but some of them, Owen being one of them didn't. Although he was a bit hesitant, he gave Owen a quick high five, as he walked into the camp.
"How'd y'all get out of there anyway?" Shane wanted to know.
''Some guy we've meet helped us." Bridgette answered, after sharing a quick hug with DJ.
''Some guy you've meet?" Chef raised his brow, titling his head in her direction.
''Yeah, crazy white boy just got into town." Leshawna explained.
"Hey, helicopter boy! Come say hello!" Morales called over to Rick to came out.
Shane looked at man who helped his people get out of Atlanta and his expression turned into shock because he saw that it was his best friend, who he thought was dead. He took a few steps back as he could not believe his eyes, then he glanced over at Lori and Carl, Rick's family who looked over at him. They, just like him couldn't believe their eyes at who just arrived in their camp.
"Oh my god." Rick said as he started to walk towards them.
"Dad! Dad!" Carl shouted as rushed forward to Rick, followed by his mom. The family embraced each other tightly as most of the camp stared at them.
The family was reunited.
Hope it wasn't that bad. See you in another chapter.