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.
If you were wondering how the intro changed, just imagine that the picture that Chris took in the first episode Total Drama Island appears right after Lori's picture, only this time, it is heavilly destroyed as it lays on the floor in a flithy room.
As for the addition of the cars into the group. Add Drake's truck, and the car they got from the gas station in the first chapter.
They entire group stared ahead of them as the bright light coming from the door shut off, leaving a much dimmer door ahead of them.
"Daryl, Duncan, you cover the back." Shane said as they formed a scattered line, making their way to the opening.
"Hello?" Rick called out as they walked further into the building, weapon still in ready.
"Is anyone here?" Chris added.
"Close those doors." Shane said to Daryl and Duncan who were the last ones in. They turned and closed the doors the shutter was previously blocking, "Watch out for walkers."
The group gathered in front of the center that had a mural and "CDC" written on it's front. There was a light above their heads, giving them enough light to be able to see what was going on around them, as Rick called out again, "Hello?"
There was a sound of someone cocking his gun and a man appeared in their view, aiming his gun at them, "Anybody infected?"
''One of our group was. He didn't make it." Rick answered, lowering his Python a little.
''Why are you here? What do you want?" He asked, making his way down the steps of the small landing he was on.
"A chance..." Rick replied.
''That's asking an awful lot these days." The unknown man stated.
''I know." Rick said with a nod of his head.
The unknown man took a minute to look around the group, not having a chance to see a living person in months, before saying, coming closer to them, "You all submit to a blood test. That's the price of admission.''
"We can do that." Rick said, lowering his weapon more.
''You got stuff to bring in, you do it now." The unknown man said, lowering his gun as he gestured towards the exit, "Once this door closes it stays closed."
Rick nodded his head as he headed towards the door again with a man. He, Daryl, Duncan, Chef, Alejandro and Izzy were the group that went out to the cars to grab everyone's essentials. T-Dog and Dale held the two doors open for them. When the group returned, they shut the doors, and the man slid his ID card through the security keypad next to the doors.
''Vi, seal the main entrance. Kill the power up here." The unknown man said to the speaker box.
The shutter came down on the entrance, blocking the entrance to this building, as Rick introduced himself to the man, extending his hand for a handshake, "Rick Grimes."
"Dr. Edwin Jenner." Jenner introduced himself, pausing to look at the group, before shaking Rick's hand.
He led them to the back of the hallway to a large elevator. When he said they had to take a elevator to the lower level, everyone knew it would be a torture. They had to squeeze to fit in, and they barely did.
"I have to say your group is remarkably big." Jenner told them, not hiding surpise in his tone.
''There were more of us, though." Bridgette said with a sigh. She could hear Tyler and Andrea letting out a sigh at her words.
"Doctors always go around packing heat like that?" Duncan asked Jenner.
"There were plenty left lying around. I familiarized myself. But you look harmless enough." Jenner answered as he turned to look around everyone in the group. He turned to look down at Carl, and joked, "Except you, I'll have to keep my eye on you." Carl gave him a smile as Jenner chuckled, turning to the keypad.
They all could feel the elevator stop as the doors opened. Jenner was the first one to walk out, and was followed by the rest.
"Are we underground?" Gwen asked as Jenner led them through the hallway.
Jenner turned back to look at her, but didn't stop walking, "Are you claustrophobic?"
"Yes." Gwen confirmed with a nod of her head.
"I am too." Carol added, "A little."
"Try not to think about it." Jenner told them.
He led them to another room that was filled with computers and large screens, "Vi,bring up the lights in the big room." The lights switched, lighting the entire room, "Welcome to zone 5.''
Rick looked around the room, it looked much emptier than he'd except, "Where is everybody? The other doctors,the staff?"
''I'm it. It's just me here." Jenner declared.
"What about the person you were speaking with?" Sierra asked, "Vi, right?
"Is he an AI, or something like that?" Harold asked.
He got his answer when Jenner looked up at the ceiling and shouted, "Vi,say hello to our guests. Tell them...welcome."
''Hello,guests. Welcome." A voice sounded in the speakers.
''I'm all that's left. I'm sorry." Jenner told them.
He turned around, leading them to the other side of the room, and from there, he took them through another hallway into another room. It was large enough to fit all of them without any problems while he took everyone's blood samples.
''What's the point? If we were infected,we'd all be running a fever." Andrea said, as she was the last one from the group to get her draw her blood.
''I've already broken every rule in the book letting you in here." Jenner explained, setting the syringe down, "All done."
Andrea stood up from the seat, starting to black out, luckilly Jacqui and DJ managed to grab her, as Jenner asked her, "Are you okay?"
''She hasn't eaten in days." Jacqui explained.
"None of us have." Leshawna added.
The group was now sitting around the dinner table, eating, drinking and having a good time. The moment when the food arrived, everyone immediately dug into it, which also resulted in the comments directed towards Owen as the overweighted teenager was scarfing through his food as if he had bottomless belly. The contestants and two hosts just shrugged to it, already used to Owen's eating habit, but the people they meet in Atlanta were still getting used to it.
''Fine." Lori said as Dale who was standing at the end of the table poured her another glass of wine.
''You know." The eldery man said, handing her cup to her, "In Italy, children have a little bit of wine with dinner. And in France."
''Well, when Carl is in Italy or France, he can have some then." Lori said, looking between her son and Dale, taking a sip of her wine.
''What's it gonna hurt?" Rick insisted with a smile on his face, " Come on. Come on."
"Let him have drink, Lori. I had my first drink when I was three years younger than him. " Chris spoke up.
"Are you serious? You never told me about it." Chef asked, turning to look at his fellow host.
"Never had a chance to say it." Chris shrugged his shoulders.
Lori smiled as she shrugged her shoulders, taking her hand off Carl's cup and raised it in the air in defeat. Everyone laughed at that. T-Dog grinned and raised his glass, before having another sip as Dale poured down a few drops onto Carl's cup.
"There you are, young lad." He said, as he handed it to the boy, who took it from him and took his first sip of wine. Rick looked down at his son, chuckling upon seeing his son's face twist at the taste of the wine.
Carl quickly set the cup down, and looked at it in disgust, causing everyone to laugh, "Eww!"
Lori reached down for his cup, pouring what was left of his wine into hers as she patted him on his shoulder, "That's my boy. Good boy."
Carl shook his head, trying to get rid of the sour taste in his own, "Yuck. That tastes nasty."
''Well,just stick to soda pop there, bud." Shane said.
"Not you Glenn." Daryl said to the asian man, "Or you Noah."
"What?" Glenn asked, looking up from the wine bottle with a smile.
"What do you mean by that?" Noah asked.
''Keep drinking. I want to see how red your face can get." Daryl taunted both of them, to which everyone laughed, except for Glenn and Noah.
"What about you, DJ? You're not drinking?" Duncan asked, looking over at his fellow contestants.
"My momma wouldn't let me." DJ answered, even though he hasn't seen his mother since it all began, he was still staying true the things he promised her.
"You know your mom is not here, right?" Duncan pointed out.
"Duncan, If he doesn't want to drink, then he shouldn't." Courtney told him.
"I'm just saying, princess." Duncan stated.
"I wonder if they have any bread here." Bridgette said.
"Why?" T-Dog asked him.
"Then DJ can make us his sandwiches for breakfast." Bridgette explained.
"Oh, yes!" Owen's face lightened up at the mention of DJ's famous sandwiches.
"That sounds great." Cody said.
"Are they really that good?" Dale asked the teenagers, noticing their expression at the mention of DJ's sandwiches.
"Believe me, old man. His sandwiches are something you can die for." Heather said, being one of the contestants that were stealing sandwiches before DJ eliminated himself in Total Drama Action, after that happened, they all had to go through Chef's food every single day.
Rick spared a glance at Jenner. The doctor was sitting by himself by the table away from the group. He was the only one not laughing. He was just looking at the people in front of him.
''It seems to me we haven't thanked our host properly.'' He said, looking around the group, then at Jenner.
''He is more than just our host." T-Dog stated, raising his glass in the air.
'That's right!" Izzy added, raising he glass as well.
''Hear! Hear." Dale called out as the entire group raised their glasses in the air.
"Here's to you, Doc!" Daryl shouted, as he raised the wine bottle that was in his hand, "Booyah!''
''Booyah!" T-Dog said, loudly as they all clinked their glasses together.
''Thank you." Rick said, looking at Jenner, pressing his glass to his lips.
''So when are you gonna tell us what the Hell happened here, Doc?" Shane suddenly asked, looking into his glass, "All the—the other doctors that were supposed to be figuring out what happened, where are they?''
''We're celebrating, Shane." Rick told his best friend.
"We don't need that now." Alejandro added. This was the first time when he felt like in an old world, before the walkers in a long time, and didn't want this moment to be ruined.
''Whoa, wait a second. This is why we're here, right? This was your move supposed to find all the answers." Shane said as he pointed at Jenner, "Instead we found him. Found one man, why?"
Well, when things got bad, a lot of people just left, went off to be with their families. And when things got worse, when the military cordon got overrun, the rest bolted." Jenner explained.
"Every last one?" Shane asked him.
''No, many couldn't face walking out the door. They... opted out. There was a rash of suicides. That was a bad time." Jenner continued his explanation.
''You didn't leave. Why?" Harold asked.
''I just kept working,hoping to do some good." Jenner answered.
'"Dude,you are such a buzzkill, man." Glenn said to Shane.
After the dinner, Jenner led them to the residental quarters, "Most of the facility is powered down including housing so you'll have to make do here. The couches are comfortable, but there are cots in storage if you like. There's a rec room down the hall that you kids might enjoy. Just don't plug in the video games, okay? Or anything that draws power. The same applies—if you shower, go easy on the hot water."
When he walked away Glenn looked around the group, and said, "Hot water?''
''That's what the man said." T-Dog said, happily.
"I'll go first!" Heather stepped forward, having a chance to take a hot shower for the first time in a long time. She was going to enjoy this moment for as long as she could, "This is exactly what I needed!"
The entire group moved to take their showers as well. Neither of them could see the expressions of Tyler and Andrea, which were total opposite of happy.
The next morning, most of the group was around the table they had ate last night. Only this time, a little worse for wears.
"Morning." Glenn mumbled from his seat as Rick walked in.
"Morning." Rick said as he got to the table.
''Are you hungover?" Carl asked his dad, "Mom said you'd be."
''Mom is right." Rick smiled at his son.
''Mom has that annoying habit." Lori said, ripping a piece of bacon into smaller bits.
"Here you go, Glenn. Have some eggs." DJ said, serving Glenn some eggs he made.
"They're going to make you into a new person." Cody said, eating some of the eggs DJ made as well as Jacqui rubbed Glenn's shoulders.
"Be happy that Chef didn't made them, otherwise the effect would be a total opposite." Duncan added, Chef who was sitting by the table rolled his eyes at his words, eating his breakfast.
''Where'd all this come from?" Rick asked, struggling with a bottle of aspirin.
"Jenner." Lori said.
'' Could you help me,please?" Rick said, holding the bottle out to her, which she opened shortly after, "Thank you.
"He thought some of us may use it." Lori stated, looking over at Glenn.
Jacqui took a seat next to the asian man and still had her hands on his shoulder, "Don't ever ever ever let me drink again."
"You're still looking better than the bookworm." Chef said, glancing over at Noah who had his face burried on the table.
"Be quiet..." Noah said, rasing his finger in the air, as Owen who was sitting next to him offered him a quick pat on his back.
"Hey." Shane said as he walked in.
"Hey." Rick said, turning to look at Shane as his best friend poured himself a cup of coffee, "Feel as bad as I do?''
''Worse." Shane replied.
''What the hell happened to you?" T-Dog said, noticing some scratches on Shane's neck, "Your neck?"
''I must have done it in my sleep." Shane said, looking puzzled at his neck.
"Never seen you do that before." Rick stated.
"Me neither." Shane said, as he looked at Lori, "Not like me at all."
"Do you want one of us to take a look at this?" Bridgette offered.
"No. I'll be good." Shane assured her.
''Morning." Jenner said, walking in.
''Hey, Doc." Shane greeted him, which was followed by the rest.
''Doctor. I don't mean to slam you with questions first thing..." Dale was cut off by Jenner.
"But you will anyway." Jenner interrupted him.
"We didn't come here for the eggs." Tyler said, with Andrea nodding her head in agreement.
Everyone followed Jenner into the room with computer terminals after they'd finished eating. He set his coffe mug down on the table at his station and pressed a button on the keyboard. He was greeted by a beep.
''Give me playback of TS-19." He told the computer.
''Playback of TS-19." Vi said.
''Few people ever got a chance to see this. Very few." Jenner said as everyone gathered around.
Everyone saw a loading bar on the gigantic projection on the wall in front of them. In a second, four images appeared on the lower left of the video, all of them showing different angles of human brain. The bigger image showed a frontal view of a persons craniun, with brain showed in every detail.
"Is that a brain?" Carl asked.
'' An extraordinary one. Not that it matters in the end. Take us in for E.I.V." Jenner said.
''Enhanced internal view." Vi clarified.
The main screen changed to show them the upper shoulders and head of the subject. The screen skewed to a horizontal view, then increased the magnification. The image became more and more detailed with each passing second. The magnification showed the Inside the skull. It appeared to be lit with bright blue threads of energy. Some areas were denser with light than others, but there were lighted threads throughout the skull. The detail zoomed in until the threads become closer and pulses of light can be distinguished.
"What are those lights?" Chris asked.
''It's a person's life experiences, memories. It's everything. Somewhere in all that organic wiring, all those ripples of light, is you the thing that makes you unique and human." Jenner answered.
"What?" Gwen asked.
"Can you speak English?" Duncan asked.
''Those are synapses. Electric impulses in the brain that carry all the messages. They determine everything a person says does or thinks from the moment of birth to the moment of death." Jenner continued explaining to them what was the screen showing.
''Death? That's what this is,a vigil?" Rick asked, giving a few steps towards Jenner.
''Yes. Or rather the playback of the vigil." Jenner said.
''This person died?" Andrea asked.
"Who?" Tyler added.
''Test subject 19. Someone who was bitten and infected... and volunteered to have us record the process." Jenner declared, "Vi, Scan forward to the first event."
''Scanning to first event." Vi said.
The screen showed a message which said "Scanning Forward" The brain had lights still flickering in the outer areas but the center had becoma dark as if black roots were growing inside of it.
"Fascinating." Harold said in pure awe.
"What is that?" Chef asked.
''It invades the brain like meningitis." Jenner said, looking at Chef, "The adrenal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes into shutdown, then the major organs. Then death. Everything you ever were or ever will be...gone."
''Is that what happened to Jim?" Sophia asked her mom.
"Yes." Carol confirmed with a nod of her head.
Jacqui felt her eyes watering as she looked at this. Was this what happened to Jim? In that moment she felt even more terrible for leaving Jim behind on that road. She didn't want the same to happen to her. Andrea sat on the chair as Tyler sat down on the ground, rubbing his head.
''They both lost someone a few days ago." Lori revealed, "Andrea lost her sister and Tyler his girlfriend."
''I lost somebody too. I know how devastating it is." Jenner said to Andrea and Tyler. He was silent for a few seconds before returning to his normal position, "Scan to the second event..."
"Scanning to second event." Vi said.
''The resurrection times vary wildly. We had reports of it happening in as little as three minutes. The longest we heard of was eight hours." Jenner went back to explaining, "In the case of this patient, it was two hours, one minute... seven seconds."
A red glow flickered at the base of the brain. The rest remained dark. Random sparks shoot out into the larger area of the brain but no further lights grow.
''It restarts the brain?" Noah observed.
"No, just the brain stem." Jenner replied, "Basically, it gets them up and moving."
''But they're not alive?" Rick asked, approaching Jenner.
The doctor gestured towards the monitor, "You tell me."
Rick shook his head, "It's nothing like before. Most of that brain is dark."
''Dark, lifeless, dead. The frontal lobe, the neocortex, the human part—that doesn't come back. The you part. Just a shell driven by mindless instinct." Jenner told him.
The subject moved, its mouth opening and closing. The head moved side to side, the shoulders move as if the arms were being lifted. The barrel of a gun appeared at the forehead pointing down. A bullet entered the brain and tears through the red cluster of embers. The brain went completely dark, the subject stopped moving.
"Oh, my..." DJ said, staring at the screen.
"God. What was that?" Carol asked.
''He shot his patient in the head. Didn't you?" Andrea asked the doctor.
Jenner placed his arms on his hips, "Vi, Power down the main screen and the workstations.''
''Powering down main screen and workstations." Vi said.
''You have no idea what it is,do you?" Heather asked, being straight forward.
''It could be microbial, viral, parasitic, fungal." Jenner said in a fancy manner that it could be anything.
"Or the wrath of god?" Jacqui asked.
''There is that." Jenner said.
''There are others, right? Other facilities?" Carol asked.
''There may be some. People like me." Jenner said with a little conviction.
''But you don't know?" Rick asked him.
"How can you not know?" Chris added.
''Everything went down. Communications, directives—all of it. I've been in the dark for almost a month." Jenner explained.
''So it's not just here. There's nothing left anywhere? Nothing? That's what you're really saying, right?" Andrea asked.
When Jenner remained silent, everyone knew what he meant by that, as Jacqui said, "Jesus."
Daryl rubbed his eyes, " Man,I'm gonna get shitfaced drunk again."
"Dr. Jenner, I know this has been taxing for you and I hate to ask one more question, but..." Dale said, noticing a clock on the wall, "That clock—it's counting down. What happens at zero?"
''The basement generators they run out of fuel." Jenner explained.
''And then?" Rick asked, but Jenner ignored his question and marched out of the room, with lowered head.
"What do you mean by that?" Sierra asked, but was ignored as well.
''Vi, what happens when the power runs out?" Rick asked Vi.
''When the power runs out, facility-wide decontamination will occur." Vi answered.
Rick led T-Dog, Shane, Glenn, Chef and Chris down a dark hallway, that lit up automatically as they passed through. Rick glanced over the wall and noticed a plaque that told them tthat the generator room is just ahead of them.
''Decontamination-what does that mean?" Glenn asked.
"I don't like the way Jenner clammed up. The way he just wandered off like that." Shane stated.
''What's wrong with him? Seriously, man. Is he nuts, medicated, what?" T-Dog asked.
"In here." Rick said as they entered a room full of pipes generators, " Check that way. Shane, Chris."
The group split up in two groups and they went in different directions, Chris stumbled across a generator with the fuel on "E". He poked it a few times as he said, "It's empty."
Suddenly the lights went out and came back up as Shane voiced their thoughts, "What the hell is this?
Chef, Glenn and T-Dog came running to them, with Glenn asked them, "Hey,you guys kill the lights?"
"Nah, it just went out." Shane replied.
"Anything?" Rick asked them.
''A lot of dead generators and more empty fuel drums than I can count." Chef explained.
"It can't be down to just that one." Shane stated.
"I don't like this." Chris stated, shaking his head.
"Me too, pretty boy." Chef agreed with him.
Jenner hurried down the hall of the houses. The people living there poking out their doorways as they noticed the power failure. The doctor kept his attention focused on the big room up ahead and ignored everyone else.
''What's going on? Why is everything turned off? Daryl asked, holding an empty bottle in his hand.
Jenner took the bottle from him, without slowing down, "Energy use is being prioritized."
''Air isn't a priority? And lights?" Dale asked.
''It's not up to me." Jenner said, entering the the big room with the crowd following him, "Zone 5 is shutting itself down."
"What does that mean?" Cody asked.
''Hey, man. What do you mean it's shutting itself down?" Daryl demanded, running up to Jenner, "How can a building do anything?"
Rick, Shane, T-Dog, Glenn, Chef and Chris came running down to the stairs as Lori called out for her husband, sprinting towards him with Carl, "Rick!"
''Jenner,what's happening?" Rick asked Jenner, walking along with him.
''The system is dropping all the nonessential uses of power. It's designed to keep the computers running to the last possible second." Jenner explained, pointing at the clock which reached thirty minutes, "That started as we approached the half-hour mark. Right on schedule."
Jenner took a sip from the bottle. He paused at the steps that lead up to the work stations in the big room. Everyone has followed and is grouped around. Jenner handed the bottle to Daryl who angrily snatched it out of Jenner's hand.
''It was the french." He said to Andrea and Tyler.
''What?" They asked at the same time.
''They were the last ones to hold out as far as I know. While our people were bolting out the doors and committing suicide in the hallways, they stayed in the labs till the end. They thought they were close to a solution." Jenner said.
"What happened?" Jacqui asked.
'' The same thing that's happening here. No power grid. Ran out of juice. The world runs on fossil fuel. I mean, how stupid is that?" Jenner said, laughing.
"Let me tell you." Shane said, moving towards Jenner but was stopped by Rick.
'' To Hell with it, Shane. I don't even care. Lori, grab our things. Everybody, get your stuff. We're getting out of here now!" Rick shouted. Everyone started moving out of the room, but stopped when the alarm sounded across the place.
"What was that?" Ezekiel asked, saying what was on their minds.
The screen lit up and it was now showing them a counter, counting from thirty to zero, ''30 minutes to decontamination."
"Doc,what's going on here?" Leshawna asked, nervously.
''Let's get out of here!" Cody shouted. The group tried to run through the door, but Jenner pushed the button and closed them down.
"No. Did you just lock us in? He just locked us in!" Glenn shouted, nervously.
Jenner went over to his computer and started recording, as Daryl yelled, "You son of a bitch!" and moved towards him with a glass bottle.
"Chef! Shane!" Rick shouted.
''You locked us in here!" Daryl shouted as Shane and Chef started holding him back.
''Hey, Jenner, open that door now." Rick said to the doctor.
"There's no point. Everything topside is locked down. The emergency exits are sealed." Jenner declared.
"Then open them! You control this place!" Alejandro shouted, banging his hands against the table.
''That's not something I control." Jenner said, shaking his head, "The computers do. I told you once that front door closed, it wouldn't open again. You heard me say that. It's better this way."
''What happens in 28 minutes?" Chris asked, pointing at the clock.
"What happens in 28 minutes?" Shane asked, knocking over the chair.
''You know what this place is?! We protected the public from very nasty stuff! Weaponized smallpox! Ebola strains that could wipe out half the country! Stuff you don't want getting out! Ever!" Jenner started, as he sat back on his station, "In the event of a catastrophic power failure—in a terrorist attack, for example—H.I.T.s are deployed to prevent any organisms from getting out."
"H.I.T.s..." Harold said, knowing what this meant, having heard this term before in his life, "Oh, no..."
"What is it?" Gwen asked, turning to the nerdy teenager.
"C'mon." Heather demanded as Harold remained silent, "Your useless knowledge can be useful for once. Tell us!"
Harold sighed, bracing himself for the reaction he was going to get from the group, "I read about this in a book some time ago, before I signed for Total Drama. Iif I remember correctly, it is a high-impulse thermobaric fuel-air explosives consist of a two-stage aerosol ignition that produces a blast wave of significantly greater power and duration than any other known explosive except nuclear. The vacuum-pressure effect ignites the oxygen at between 5,000 degrees and 6,000 degrees and is useful when the greatest loss of life and damage to structures is desired."
"Is he right?" Bridgette asked, breaking the silence that formed in the group as she turned to Jenner, looking and sounding horrified by the explanation they got from Harold.
"Tell us he's wrong." Alejandro wanted Harold to be wrong.
"That is correct." Vi's voice sounded in their ears, confirming Harold's definition.
''It sets the air on fire. No pain." Jenner added, ''An end to sorrow,grief...regret. Everything."
Carol broke into tears, so did her daughter, bringing her closer to herself. Jacqui, Andrea and Tyler listened to that announcement with neutrality. Everyone else just stared at Jenner, having no idea what to say to him.
Daryl tightened his fingers on the bottle, before making his way towards the doors and tossing it at it. The bottle shattered into pieces, "Open the damn door!"
"Out of the way, soldier!" Chef shouted, running up to the doors with a fire axe along with Shane who had one himself. T-Dog tossed one to Daryl and all three of them tried to destroy the door, without any effect.
''You should've left well enough alone it would have been so much easier." Jenner told them.
"Easier for who?" Courtney asked.
''All of you. You know what's out there. A short brutal life and an agonizing death." Jenner said as he looked at Tyler and Andrea, "Your sister, your girlfriend. What was their name?"
"Amy." Andrea said.
"Lindsay." Tyler said shorty after.
''Lindsay, Amy." Jenner said as he turned around to Rick, "You know what this does. You've seen it. Is that what you really want for your wife and son?"
"I don't want this." Rick shook his head.
"Can't make a dent." Shane declared.
''Those doors are designed to withstand a rocket launcher." Jenner stated.
"Well your head ain't!" Daryl shouted, running towards Jenner with his axe raised.
Rick, Duncan and Alejandro all stepped in his way, stopping him from doing anything more, before T-Dog took the axe away from the younger Dixon.
''You do want this." Jenner said to Rick, "Last night you said you knew it was just a matter of time before everybody you loved was dead.''
''What?" T-Dog asked as everyone looked at him in shock.
"You really said that to him?" Gwen asked.
"After your big talk?" Noah added.
" I had to keep hope alive,didn't I?" Rick said.
"There is no hope." Jenner stated, "There never was."
''There's always hope!" Rick argued, "Maybe it won't be you, maybe not here but somebody somewhere."
''What part of "everything is gone" do you not understand?" Andrea asked.
"He told us everything we needed to know." Tyler added.
"Listen to your friend. They get it. This is what takes us down. This is our extinction event." Jenner stated.
"What you're doing isn't right." Bridgette stated.
"You can't keep us here!" DJ added, looking like he was on the verge of tears, "We don't want to be here!"
"One tiny moment-a millisecond. No pain." Jenner tried to convice her.
"My daughter doesn't deserve to die like this!" Carol cried out.
''Wouldn't it be kinder?" Jenner stated, "More compassionate just to hold your loved ones and wait for the clock to run down?"\
Rick turned around as he heard a gun cocking. His eyes shot open when he saw Shane walking over with a shotgun in his arms. He tried to stop him but Shane pushed him out of his way and aimed his shotgun at Jenner's face, "Out of the way, Rick! Stay out of my way! Open that door or I'm gonna blow your head off. Do you hear me?"
"Brother, brother, this is not the way you do this. We will never get out of here." Rick tried to convice him.
"Shane, listen to him." Lori said.
"It's too late." Shane stated. He yelled, moving his shotgun inches away from Jenner's face and firing a round. It hit the computer screen that broke into hundreds of different pieces, "Open the goddamned door!"
Rick struggled to take the gun away from Shane. He hit Shane across the head with the butt and threw an elbow into Shane's shoulder. Shane fell on the ground, and Rick ran over to his best friends. He fainted with the shotgun butt, ready to hit him again to keep him down.
''Are you done now? Are you done?" He asked his best friend, showing that he's ready to use this method again.
''Yeah,I guess we all are." Shane stated.
Rick handed the gun to Chris, despise the host having no idea how to use it, as he said to Jenner, "I think you're lying."
"What?" Jenner asked.
"You're lying about no hope. If that were true, you'd have bolted with the rest or taken the easy way out. You didn't. You chose the hard path." Rick pointed out, "Why?"
"Eh, You mentioned you lost someone earlier after you asked about Andrea and Tyler..." Ezekiel spoke up as everyone looked a the home schooled kid, "Was that the person you showed on the screen?"
"That's right." Jenner confirmed with a nod of his head, "I stayed, because I made a promise to her. To my wife."
''Test subject 19 was your wife?" Lori asked.
"She begged me to keep going as long as I could. How could I say no?" Jenner said, his words were accompanied by Daryl's and Chef's bumps on the door, "She was dying. It should've been me on that table. I wouldn't have mattered to anybody. She was a loss to the world. Hell, she ran this place. I just worked here. In our field she was an Einstein. Me? I'm just... Edwin Jenner. She could've done something about this. Not me.''
''Your wife didn't have a choice." Rick said, "You do. That's—that's all we want—a choice, a chance."
''Let us keep trying as long as we can." Lori added.
Jenner stayed silent for a moment. He looked back at Rick and Lori, before walking past them to the number pad, "I told you topside's locked down. I can't open those."
He slipped his card, re-inserting the code. The door opened as Chef called out, "It's open!"
"Come on!" Daryl added.
The group began sprinting towards the doors as they grabbed their families and friends, as Jenner said to Rick, "There's your chance. Take it."
"I'm grateful." Rick said, looking into his eyes.
"The day will come when you won't be." Jenner declared.
"Let's go!" Glenn called out.
"Let's get out of here!" Izzy added.
Jenner and Rick shared one final handshake before the doctor pulled Rick close and placed his mouth next to his ear. Confusion grew on Rick's face but it quickly faded away as Jenner began explaining something to him, the sheriff deputy eyes shot open during hearing this information. Jenner detached from him and gave him one pat on his shoulder as Lori dragged her husband out.
"Guys! We've got four minutes left! We better get going!" Duncan shouted.
T-Dog was dragging Jacqui towards the door, "Let's go. Let's go."
'''No no. I'm staying. I'm staying, sweetie." Jacqui declared as everyone looked at her. T-Dog froze at this revelation from her.
''But that's insane!" T-Dog told her.
''No, it's completely sane. For the first time in the long time." Jacqui said, wiping a tear from her right cheek, "I'm not ending up like Jim, or Lindsay, or Amy. There's no time to argue. And no point, not if you want to get out. Just get out." She pushed T-Dog towards the door, "Get out."
"C'mon." Alejandro said, towing T-Dog back with the group, "There's no time."
Dale gestured for Jacqui to come, his expression saying, "Jacqui, why are you doin this?", but she shook her head, folded her arms tightly against her and turned her back. She didn't gave Dale an opening to persuade her. He looked over to Edwin and saw Andrea and Tyler there.
"I'm staying too." She revealed.
"So am I." Tyler added.
Dale's jaw fell on the floor, "Andrea, Tyler, no!" He looked over at the group standing by the door and gestured for them to get going, "Just go!"
Everyone except for Dale, Andrea, Tyler and Jacqui started running down the hallway as the eldery man ran over to Andrea and Tyler and got on his knee, "Guys, this isn't what Amy and Lindsay would want for you!"
"Lindsay is dead." Tyler stated, his eyes on the floor.
"So is Amy, and you need to leave." Andrea added, not looking at Dale.
The group reached the main lobby. Glenn rushed towards the frontal doors and yanked their handles, but they were locked with shutters.
"Get the doors open!" Shane shouted.
"It doesn't work!' Gleen shouted, giving a frustated kick to the doors.
"Wait a second!" Harold shouted, hurrying over to the number pad on the wall. He typed the same combination he saw Jenner type when they got here, "Try it now!"
Glenn pulled the doors, but it still didn't move, "No!"
"Daryl!" Shane shouted, tossing the axe to Daryl. He, Daryl and Chef began hitting the windows, but all they were able to do was some scratches.
T-Dog came sprinting with a metal chair, "Guys, watch out!"
Shane, Daryl and Chef saw T-Dog running towards the window so they stayed out of his way. T-Dog raised the chair and beat the window, letting out cries. The window remained sturdy.
"Dog!" Duncan shouted, walking towards the window with a shotgun, "Get down!"
T-Dog dropped the chair and leaped away from Duncan's aim. The juvie fired a round at the window, but it ended like any other attempts, "Oh c'mon!"
"The glass won't break?" Sophia asked, nervously.
"What is this thing made of!" Noah shouted.
"Rick, I have something that might help." Carol said, walking over the sheriff deputy with her handbag.
"Carol, I don't think a nail file's gonna do it." Shane stated.
Ignoring Shane, Carol said, pulling out a grenade out of her handbag, "Your first morning at camp, when I washed your uniform I found this in your pocket.''
Rick grabbed it and thanked with a nod, as he declared to the group, "Everybody get down!"
The sheriff deputy walked over to the window and crouched down. He glanced back to group to be sure that everyone was on the ground, or behind a cover. He held his breath as he pulled the pin and let go off the safety lever, deploying the granade in front of the window.
He let out a breath as he rushed back to the group, "Oh shit!"
The grenade went off, the wave sending Rick flying and falling on the floor. The window shattered, the glass making a loud noise at it collapsed on the floor.
Bridgette rose her head and could feel relief overcoming her body, "Oh my gosh... it's open!"
Everyone jumped on their feet and ran out through the now shattered window. The grass was still covered by dead bodies and walkers still lurking around in the background. As the group was making their way towards the vehicles, Shane shot one of them down with his shotgun, Rick got rid of one of them as well with his Python, Daryl cut the head of one of them with his axe, Izzy stabbed one of them in the head with her hunting knife, and Alejandro smashed one with his baseball.
The group reached their vehicles. Chris and Chef got themselves into the truck, DJ, Duncan, Izzy and Owen went into the car they got from the gas station at the start of all of this, Shane and Alejandro got themselves in the front seats of the jeep as Noah and Ezekiel hopped onto the back of the same vehicle, T-Dog, Courtney, Carol and Sophia went to the Carol's car, Daryl went to his motorcycle, Rick, Glenn, Lori, Carl, Bridgette, Gwen, Heather, Leshawna, Harold, Cody and Sierra went to Dale's RV.
It was when they saw Dale, Andrea and Tyler, all three of them coming out through the window.
"Look, there they are!" DJ shouted, looking quite happy that Dale conviced Andrea and Tyler to leave.
Dale, Andrea and Tyler began making their way over to their group, but there wasn't enough time and Lori realized it. She poked her head through the window and shouted, "Guys, get down!"
''Get back! Everybody down!" Rick shouted as everyone in the RV fell on the floor.
As Dale, Andrea and Tyler took shelter behind the sand bag, everyone ducked in their vehicles. A huge fireball builded up inside the CDC. building until it filled the entire place. The heat blasted out the windows, setting fire to everything around it, exploading tanks, cars, trucks, everything it touched. The explosion expanded itself until the roof disintegrated and the building imploded on itself.
Everyone lifted their heads up to see the what remained of the CDC building as Dale reached down for Andrea and Tyler, "Come on. Come on.''
Glenn opened the door in the RV as the trio made their way over to the vehicle, "Get in!"
All three of them got into the RV. Andrea and Tyler sat down, both of them crying, as the blond haired woman gave the eldery man the look of anger while Tyler was receiving a lecture of what he was thinking from Bridgette, Gwen, Leshawna, Harold, Cody and Sierra.
It was just a moment before Rick started the RV, and drove away, the entire group following him and driving away from what used to be the CDC building.
It was when Edwin Jenner's words came back to him as the group was driving down the road. It made him feel more uncomfortable than he already was. He recalled what the doctor whispered to him and he wished he hadn't known about that, because he knew he had to find a way how to tell it to the group.
We're all infected.
Welp, we're done with season 1, and on the way we go to season 2.
Hope it wasn't that bad. See you in another chapter.