I don't own Total Drama and The Walking Dead.
Sorry if you find any grammar mistakes. I'm still learning English because it's not my first language.
Ms. Sleepy Clover: Both options have their ups and downs, but I think that the one with birthing a baby into this current world is less crueler. Despise how small the chance for a baby to survive in a world like this is, there is a also a chance that the child may survive and have it's life (Judith from TV show, AJ from the games, or even Aaron's adopted daughter Gracie), but it comes with the risks of it's mother dying during or after giving birth (TV version of Lori, or Rebecca from the games) or the baby dying either after being born or in some other way, (The comic version of Judith)
Another day has passed at Hershel's farm and everyone from the group were minding their own business in their camp. Andrea and Izzy were sharpening their knives, Tyler was cleaning his baseball bat, Chef and Chris were eating breakfast, Duncan was sharpening a stick with his knife, creating another arrow for his bow and Carol and DJ had just finished making another portions of food for the group.
Glenn sat by himself on the edge of the camp, having already finished his breakfast. He turned to look at the farm house and saw Maggie standing on the porch. She shook her head at him and he was to which she was referring to by that. He turned away from her to look at Dale and Noah who unlike Maggie nodded their heads.
He nodded his head at them, knowing what he should do next. He stood up from his sitting position and walked over to the group and stood in the center of the camp so everyone could see him, "Um, guys." He said, earning everyone's attention, "So...the barn is full of walkers."
Everyone stopped what they were doing as if someone had just frozen them is place and stared at Glenn in shock after hearing his announced about the barn.
Shane took a quick peek through the small hole in the wall and saw that the barn was indeed filled with walkers. He shook his head and walked over to Rick, "You cannot tell me you're all right with this."
"No. I'm not, but we're guests here." Rick pointed out, "This isn't our land."
"This is our lives!" Shane shouted.
"Lower your voice." Glenn told Shane, not wanting to alarm Hershel and his family that his group knew.
"We can't just sweep this under the rug." Andrea stated.
"What if they somehow break out of the barn? Our camp is not that far from this barn." Alejandro added, as he crossed his arms, the scenario that was similiar to their camp back in Atlanta popping into his mind, "Keeping them in there is too risky for all of us."
Heather nodded her head in agreement, "There is now way that I am sleeping when those things are in this barn."
"It ain't right. Not remotely." Shane stated, shaking his head, "Okay, we've either got to go in there, we've got to make things right or we've just got to go. Now we have been talking about Fort Benning for a long time."
"We can't go." Rick stated.
"Why?" Shane asked him.
"Because my daughter is still out there." Carol answered.
Shane looked at Carol and rubbed his head with both of his hands, "Okay. Okay, I think It's time that we all start to just consider the other possibility."
Chef crossed his arms at Shane, "Don't tell me that you mean what I think you do?"
"Do you really believe that we're going to find her?" Shane asked coming closer to the co-host of Total Drama, "You were in the army. Tell me, would a little girl without food or water, without any survival skills or combat experience survive in these woods on her own for so many days?"
"We're 'close to finding this girl" Duncan said before Chef could answer as Shane looked at the juvie who stood next to Daryl, "Daryl found her doll two days ago."
"That's right, Duncan." Tyler spoke up, "Daryl found a doll. We don't even know when she left it there. For all we know she could have left it right after Rick left her."
Bridgette turned to look at Tyler, shocked that he would say anything like this,"Are you even listening to yourself?"
"Tyler, this is a little girl we're talking about!" Harold pointed out.
"Don't you want to find her?" Gwen added.
"I want her to be here with us now, but we need to face the facts here." Tyler began. He and Shane had a talk about it yesterday and they both came to the same conclusion. He wanted to find Sophia, but the group had to face the facts, just like he did yesterday, "She disappeared so many days ago and we're not even close to finding her. We need to start considering that we may never find her. Duncan and Daryl almost died while looking for her christ's sake! We need to start thinking about the members of our group that are here now and how to keep them safe and that includes opening this barn and taking care of those things before they'll kill one of us!"
Daryl glared at the jock, "You don't know what the hell you're talking about."
"He's saying what needs to be said." Shane said, happy that at least one person was agreeing with him, "You get a good lead, it's in the first 48 hours."
Daryl glared at Shane and charged towards him, only to be held back by Rick who stepped between these two before anything could happen, "Shane, stop."
Shane ingnored Rick's attempts to shush him and continued, "Let me tell you something else, man. If she was alive out there and saw you coming all methed out with your buck knife and geek ears around your neck ,she would run in the other direction."
"Shut up!" Daryl shouted, attempting to charge at Shane again, only to be held back by other people in the group.
Shane stepped forward towards Daryl, not intending to stop, but Chef and Lori pushed him away, as Rick yelled out to him, "Back off."
"Keep your hands off me." Shane said to Lori and Chef, turning to walk away. He shot Chef a disappointed look. He excepted that Chef out of all people would realize it by now.
"Now, just let me talk to Hershel. Let me figure it out." Rick tried to reason with him.
Shane turned back at him, shouting angrily, "What are you gonna figure out?!"
Rick pointed at the barn, "If we're gonna stay,if we're gonna clear this barn,I have to talk him into it. This is his land."
Dale stepped forward, earning everyone's attention, "Hershel sees those things in there as people-sick people-his wife, his stepson."
Chris titled his head at Dale, "You knew?"
"Glenn told me and Noah yesterday." Dale said as everyone turned to look at the bookworm who just nodded his head in confirmaton,
Shane shifted his glances between Dale and Noah, clearly displeased that they waited a day to tell them, "And you couldn't tell us sooner?"
"Noah wanted to but I told him to keep it a secret for one more day." Dale said as he glanced at Shane, "I thought we could survive one more night. We did. I was waiting till this morning to say something. But Glenn wanted to be the one."
"The man is crazy, Rick." Shane stated as Rick held out his hand to him, telling him to shush, "if Hershel thinks those things are alive or no."
One of the walkers in the barn started touching the entrance as Alejandro shook his head, his arms still crossed, "I don't like this. Not one bit."
"That's a gentle way of putting it." Tyler shook his head at Alejandro words, walking closer to Rick and Dale, "Are we supposed to live in a place where someone locks walkers in a barn because he thinks his relatives are still alive, leaving all of us in danger while doing so? I don't know about you but I wouldn't like to keep my loved one in this state." He turned to look at DJ, "What would you do if that was your Momma, DJ? Would you want her to be in this state?"
DJ glared at Tyler, pointing at it, "Dude, not cool. Don't bring my Momma into this."
"Answer to me." Tyler demanded as he came closer to DJ, wanting to prove his point about Hershel's delusions.
"Tyler, don't." Bridgette said.
"Just leave the big guy alone." Leshawna added.
Tyler ignored them and stopped in front of DJ, "If you came across your Momma as a walker would you like her to remain as one or would you want her to put her down?"
DJ continued to glare at Tyler as Chef walked over to the jock, giving him a stern look, "Leave him alone, soldier."
Tyler turned around to look at Chef, but never had a chance to say anything to him as the walkers in the barn started slamming themselves againt the barns doors. The group stopped arguing and shifted their attention towards the entrance to the barn as some of them took a few steps backwards.
Daryl and Duncan were in the stabbles, preparing go looking for Sophia. Duncan readied the arrows that he made in the morning as Daryl walked next to him, holding a saddle. The younger Dixon groaned at the pain in his abdomen and put the saddle down.
Carol who must have followed them into the stabbles approached them, "You can't, both of you."
Daryl simply shrugged her worries off, "I'm fine."
"Hershel said you two need to heal." Carol reminded them.
"I'll be fine. My stitches will hold out if I'll be careful." Duncan stated.
"And I don't care." Daryl added.
"I do." Carol said as Daryl opened Nelly's stable, "Rick and Chef going out later to follow the trail. Chris is joining them too."
"I ain't gonna sit around and do nothing." Daryl told her.
"Especially when Shane and Tyler are talking about leaving Sophia behind." Duncan added to which Daryl nodded his head in agreement.
"No, you're gonna go out there and get yourself hurt even worse." Carol stated as Duncan and Daryl simply shrugged it off, "We don't know if we're gonna find her." The redneck and the juvie stopped what they were doing and looked at Carol, their expressions asking her if she was serious, "We don't. I don't."
Daryl came closer to Carol, asking her, "What?"
Duncan was close behind him, "Are you serious, right now?"
Tears started to spill down Carol's cheeks, "...Can't lose both of you too."
Daryl and Duncan stared at her for a second before the former dropped his bag on the ground. He walked over to the saddle and angrily tossed it across the stabbles, almost falling on his knees at the pain he felt in his abdomen.
Carol quickly went over to his side, in worry, "Are you all right?"
"Just leave me be!" Daryl shouted, rising back on his feet. He exited from the stabbles, whispering, "Stupid bitch." to himself.
Carol watched him leave before turning her attention towards Duncan who walked out of the stabbles shorty after Daryl did. He made his way back to the camp, but wasn't going to stop there. He walked through the camp, earning attention of a lot of people from his group.
Courtney went over to his side, "Is everything okay, Duncan?"
"Leave me alone, princess." Duncan told her, increasing his speed.
Noah made his way to Dale's RV after a rather heated argument about what the group should do about the walkers in the barn. He needed to get his mind off this topic for a moment and there wasn't a better thing for it than a good book. He saw Andrea coming out of the RV with a bag wrapped around her shoulder. He turned to look at the barn and saw Shane and Tyler standing there, probably waiting for her.
He heard Glenn greet him from the top of the RV when he approached the vehicle, "Hey, Noah."
Noah looked up at Glenn and saw that the asian man wore Dale's hat and that his old hat was gone. "What happened to your old hat?"
"Maggie." Glenn answered.
"Let me guess, she didn't like that you told everyone about the barn?" Noah stated the obvious to which Glenn nodded his head in agreement, "Are you starting to have second thoughts about this?"
"I don't know, to be honest." Glenn answered.
Noah shrugged his shoulders, "Our group would found out anyway. If they didn't find out themselves, then I would tell them."
"What do you think we should do about the walkers?" Glenn asked him.
"I think we should kill them. Keeping them in there is putting all of us is danger." Noah replied, "And don't tell we that we should leave it be. I know that you have similiar thoughts about this, Maggie is the only thing that is keeping you from it."
Dale's voice called out for them from the RV, "Hey, Glenn, Noah."
"What is it, Dale?" Glenn asked the eldery man.
"You guys mind running and getting me some water?..." Dale asked them with a small pause in the middle, "... I just need a second."
"You'll keep watch?" Glenn asked Dale another question. When he didn't got an answer, he called out, "Dale?"
Dale answered after a moment, "Yeah, sure."
"As long as there won't be another walker in the well." Noah said. He didn't had much to do anyway
Glenn nodded his head and hopped off the RV, joining Noah on the ground. "Let's go."
"Let's just get this over with." Noah said, "And take Dale's hat off."
Glenn looked at him confused, "Why?"
"Because it looks ridiculous on you." Noah pointed out.
Dale peeked out from the RV and watched how Glenn and Noah were slowly making their way towards the well before turning his attention to the bag of guns. He zipped the bag and placed it over shoulder, intending to hide it away from a certain person from the group.
Rick walked into the farm house, intending to have a talk with Hershel about his recent finding about the barn. He knocked on the doors and Hershel told him to come it. Rick did as he was told to and walked into the house. He quickly spotted Hershel. The eldery farmer sat by the table and read a book while having a small lunch.
The sheriff depurt pointed at the book Hershel was reading, "A little light reading for lunch?"
"Been working so hard lately I get my studying where I can." Hershel answered.
"You know we can help you out with your work." Rick offered, placing his hands on the chair.
"It's my field to tend." Hershel stated.
Rick remained silent a for few seconds before bringing up the topic that he came here for, "We found the barn."
"Leave it be." Hershel said, his eyes on his book.
"Well, I'd like to talk about it." Rick said, "But either way, your barn, your farm, your say."
"I don't want to talk about the barn." Hershel said, sternly, taking his eyes off his book to look up at Rick, "I don't want to debate."
"Not a debate, a discussion." Rick pointed out.
Hershel wiped his mouth with a handkerchief before saying, "I need you and your group gone by the end of the week."
"I talked to Dale." Rick began as Hershel took a sip of his drink, "You and I have our differences with the way we look at the walkers. Those people,they may be dead, they may be alive. But my people,us, we are alive right now, right here,right in front of you. You send us out there and that could change."
"I've given you safe harbor." Hershel said, firmly, "My conscience is clear."
Rick sat down next to Hershel, "This farm is special. You've been shielded from what's going on out there. Dale said you saw everything happen on the news. Well, It's been-It's been a long time since the cameras stopped rolling." Hershel stood up from his seat and started to walk away from Rick, not wanting to listen to any of it, "The first time I saw a walker it was just half a body snapping at me from the ground. My inclination wasn't to kill it. But what the world is out there isn't what you saw on TV. It is much much worse and it changes you."
Hershel stopped in front of a window as Rick continued, "Either into one of them or something a lot less than the person you were. Please do not-do not send us out there again."
Hershel remained silent. Rick turned away from and started to walk out but stopped in the middle of a room when something came into his mind. Something that could convice Hershel. He thought for a few seconds before revealing somethng to the eldery farmer about his wife,
"My wife's pregnant." He declared as Hershel turned away from the window to look at the sheriff deputy, suprised by this revelation, "That's either a gift here or a death sentence out there. If we were to stay we could help you with the work, with securing this place. We can survive together."
Shane was leaning against an old tractor, observing the barn. He decided to start a watch duty over this barn the moment he found out that Hershel was keeping the walkers in there and he was the first volunteer. Tyler and Andrea joined him for most of the day, but as for now, he was left alone on the watch. He looked in the direction of Hershel's house and saw Rick approaching him.
"What's it gonna be, man?" He asked as Rick stopped next to him, "Which way does this thing go?"
Rick shook his head, "I don't know, man.."
"Well, what did he say?" Shane wanted to know.
"We're negotiating." Rick explained.
"You're negotiating." Shane snorted, "Clock's ticking, Rick."
"No, it isn't, Shane." Rick disagreed, "That barn is secure. We didn't even know about it till this morning."
"We didn't. Well, we know about it now. Right?" Shane pointed out, "We know there's over a dozen walkers in there. You heard the point that Alejandro made about this barn being about a stone's throw from our camp where we sleep. So look, if we're not gonna go in there and clear it out then we just got to go
"We're not gonna clear it out." Rick argued, "And we're not gonna go."
"We at least need our guns." Shane stated.
"We can't have them." Rick reminded him, "Not here."
"Why do you want to stay here when it's not safe?" Shane asked.
"We can make it safe." Rick answered.
"How we gonna do that?" Shane wanted to know.
Rick gave him an assuring nod, "We will, okay?"
Shane shook his head, "No, man, it's not okay."
"Shane." Rick paused for a second, "Lori's pregnant. We need to stay."
Shane didn't know how to react to this. He was in complete shock after hearing what Rick just said to him. He had to take a moment to process this information, "We need our guns."
"No, I can work this out." Rick assured him, starting to leave. He took a step away from Shane before stopping to look back at him, "You good?"
"Yeah." Shane said with a small laugh, "Lori's having a baby,man. Congratulations."
Rick, Chef, Chris and Andrea were gathered around Shane's car. Chef placed his map on the front of the vehicle as Rick started to move his finger along it, discussing where they should next if they wanted to find Sophia.
Andrea, Chef and Chris made sure to listen to Rick's plan,"...Also shows she could be moving this way south. If Sophia kept in that direction, she might have gotten out of the forest and into the farmland. So we take 74 up to Ivy road,then push down south on foot through the forest till we hit Christopher, go east a couple of miles and then double back."
"Sounds good to me." Chef nodded his head, liking his plan.
"When do we head out?" Chris asked.
Rick turned to the host of Total Drama, "In a few minutes."
"Rick." Hershel's voice rang in their ears and all four of them turned back to see the eldery farmer approaching them.
"Don't worry about guns." Chris told Hershel, moving his shirt a bit to cover his Glock which was in his pocket, "We have them because we're gonna go look for Sophia."
"Before you do that, I could use Rick's help with something." Rick declared.
"I'm in." Andrea said.
Chef nodded his head in agreement, "I'll go too."
Chris just gave him a silent nod of his head in agreement.
"Thank you." Hershel thanked them, "But I just need Rick."
"I'll be down at the barn keeping watch with Tyler until you're ready." Andrea said to Rick, before walking away from them towards the barn to join Tyler at the barn.
"Are you sure?" Chef asked Hershel a few seconds after Andrea left, "I can go with you. It would be safer if there were more of us."
Hershel thought for a few seconds before nodding his head, "Alright, but don't do anything unless I'll tell you to."
"Can we bring our guns?" Chris asked him.
Hershel nodded his head, "Just don't do anything with them, unless the situation will require you to use it."
Lori was busy cutting carrots for the dinner with DJ when Shane walked over to them. Lori had to admit. She was impressed by how fast and professionally DJ was cutting the carrots, but she could at the same time see that DJ was stressed out about something. This was probably about the argument they had earlier that day.
"Hey, DJ." Shane said, approaching them as they looked up at him, "Can I talk with Lori for a second. In private."
DJ nodded his head, but still, Shane could see the teenager giving him an angry look. Shane quickly realized that DJ must have been sending him this look because of things he said about Sophia, but he didn't care about it.
DJ picked up all of the pieces of carrots he and Lori cut so far, and said to Lori, "I'll bring this to our camp."
Lori nodded her head in undestanding as DJ headed off towards their camp. Shane waited until DJ would be in a safe distance from them, so the teenager wouldn't hear them talk, "I thought he was dead."
Lori instantly knew to what Shane was referring to, "Don't."
Shane ignored her and continued, "Then when he came back,right then,right there,you see I wished he was. Not-not because you wouldn't be mine,but because I knew that sooner or later he would be dead. See Rick,he ain't built for this world,not for what it is now."
"You're wrong." Lori shook her head, "You're wrong."
"Lori,how many times has he saved your life?" Shane asked her, "I just-I want to know how many times. Because by my account,I've saved your life on four different occasions and that's Carl's too. So I just want to ask you,how many times has Rick saved your life?"
He didn't had to wait long for Lori's answer, "That night at the camp. After the Fish Fry."
"No." Shane shook his head in disagreement, "That was me to. You see, Rick, he showed up late because he went on a suicide mission over nothing. Yeah, he joined in, but see, we wouldn't have been in that situation if he hadn't left because he felt that he needed to leave to save a drug dealer. And so we lost Amy, we lost Lindsay and we lost Jim. We lost-Rick told me..."
Lori cut him off, "Tell you what?"
She quickly realized what Shane meant by that when he said, "And I know the reason why you didn't is because you know it's mine."
"It's Rick's." She quickly said.
"Okay." Shane nodded his head, "You know, we carried on quite a bit before Rick got back,Lori. It's mine. You know it is."
"You're wrong. You're wrong." Lori shook her head, "I'm sorry. Shane,I'm sorry. But even if it's yours,it's not gonna be yours. It's never gonna be yours and there's nothing you can do to change that."
Tyler just finished his watch duty at the barn and made his way back to the camp. He could feel some of the people there giving him an angry look, but he ignored all of them.
He went over to a spot under a tree and was about to sit down under it but stopped when Harold walked over to him, "What do you want, Harold? If you want to talk with me about what is going on me with, even though that's not true, then don't even start."
"It is about Sophia." Harold told him.
Tyler sighed, "What about Sophia?"
"I know that you think she's dead and that we should stop looking for her, but you need to know that you're wrong." Harold said.
"I thought you would be smart enough to realize that." Tyler argued, "Didn't you heard the point that Shane made when he was talking with Chef."
"And, Sophia is not the only thing that I wanted to talk with you about." Harold said as he turned to look at DJ who was glaring at Tyler, "This is about the barn and how you brought up DJ's..."
Tyler shook his head, "It was just to prove my point. Keeping these things into the barn is already putting all of us in danger, and the worst of all, this is Hershel's own family. He is keeping his own family as the walkers and this is just wrong."
Harold crossed his arms, "And what would happen if someone brought up Lindsay to you if you haven't seen her since this begun? Would you like it if someone asked you what would you do if you saw her as a walker?"
Tyler gritted his teeth and punched Harold in the cheek, knocking the nerdy teenager on the ground, "Don't use Lindsay as an example. She is dead. Unlike DJ's Momma. There is a chance that DJ's Momma is still alive, unlike Lindsay who we all know died after a walker tore a hole in her stomach. Don't even think about bringing her up again."
He send Harold one last glare before walking away from him. Leshawna, Cody and Sierra quickly ran over to Harold, checking if everything was okay with him as Tyler headed out from the camp.
"Hey, Tyler." He turned to the source of the voice and saw Shane.
The jock turned to look at him, "Where are you going, Shane?"
"Dale took all of the weapons somewhere. I'm going to find them and give them to everyone in our group." Shane explained, "You with me?"
Tyler nodded his head, "Let's go."
Hershel led Rick, Chef, Chris and Jimmy through the forest to the swamps, planning to show the sheriff deputy and the two hosts of Total Drama his point of view about the walkers and how they were only sick people who just needed help.
"The silt on the bottom is like glue. You just sink in." Hershel said to Rick, Chris and Chef as they just made their way to the swamps, spotting two walkers stuck to the bottom. He quickly recognized one of them, "That's Lou Bush."
"You knew him?" Rick asked as they started approaching the walkers.
"Lou as in Louise. She has a farm up the road. Sweet corn mostly. Worked at hapman's bar on weekends." Hershel explained, "The man, I don't know him,but the coveralls, I've been to where he worked. How many have you killed?"
"Too many to count." Rick answered.
Chef nodded his head in agreement. The walker on that gas station, the first walker he ever killed popping into his mind, "Same here."
"I don't know either, but I know that I killed much less of them than these two." Chris answered as they stopped in front of the swamp, catching the attention of the two walkers.
"Can you stop?" Hershel asked. Rick, Chris, and Chef nodded their heads, deciding to go along with what Hershel was saying, thinking that it may convice him to let them stay on his farm. The owner of the said farm pointed at the walkers, "There are people out there who haven't been in their right minds, people who I believe can be restored."
"You're not talking about the walkers, are you?" Chef asked him, disagreeing with what Hershel was saying, but he knew he had to go along with it, at least for now. He had to keep the group safe and staying at his farm was the best option they had right now. He could say that Rick and Chris were disagreeing with Hershel as well, though they were staying silent about this, just like he did.
Hershel looked at the co-host of Total Drama, "It doesn't matter if you see them as human beings anymore. But if you want to stay at my farm with my people then, that's how you're gonna have to treat them. My farm, my barn, my say."
Duncan had no idea how much time have passed since he left the farm. He just wanted to be alone, to think about some things. He found a place that he thought was good for it when a lake came into his view.
He exhaled deeply and stopped right in front of the lake, looking at the water in front of him when a familiar voice sounded in his ears, "What are you doing here, Duncan?"
He turned to the source of the voice and saw Courtney coming his way. She must have followed him here, "I should be the one asking you this question."
"I just followed you to the place you were heading to." Courtney explained, stopping next to him, "You've been here before?"
"No." Duncan shook his head, "I was looking for a good place to think about something and found this place."
"Think?" Courtney titled her head, 'Think about what?"
"I don't want to talk about it." Duncan quickly answered. His encounter with Timothy in the forest and Carol's words about Sophia popped into his mind. He looked around his surroundings and saw that a familiar flower was nearby, "No way."
He started making his way towards the flower as Courtney followed him, "What is it?"
Duncan stopped in front of the flower and pointed at it, "It's a Cherokee Rose."
"How do you know that?" Courtney asked, finding it quite amusing that Duncan would know what kind of a flower this is.
"Daryl explained what kind of a flower this is to me when were looking for Sophia." Duncan answered. He turned away from the Cherokee Rose and looked at Courtney, before giving her a quick explanation about this flower.
Just then, they heard someone walking towards them. They turned in the direction of these people, Daryl readying himself to take his bow off his back just in case if these persons turned out to be walkers, but instead saw familiar faces of Daryl and Carol approaching them.
Courtney smiled at them, "It looks like they had similiar idea to yours."
"What are you doing here?" Daryl asked, approaching the juvie and the CIT with Carol.
"I left the farm, looking for a place where I just could think about some things, and she followed me here." Duncan answered, "And what are you doing here?"
"I wanted to show her something." Daryl answered, stopping next to Duncan and Courtney along with Carol. The juvie and the CIT knew why he took Carol here. The younger Dixon pointed at the Cherokee Rose, glancing at Duncan before shifting his attention towards Carol, "We'll find her."
"We'll make sure that you will see your daughter again." Duncan nodded his head in agreement.
"And I'll help the two of you." Courtney nodded her head to that, "You don't need to worry about me out there. I became a good shot during our training. I'm not perfect, I still have a problem with a moving target, but I'll improve."
Carol nodded her head at them, grateful as Daryl was silent for a few seconds before speaking up to her, "I'm sorry about what happened this morning."
"You wanted to look for her." Carol shrugged it off, "Why? This whole time I've just wanted to ask you. I would ask Duncan as well but Courtney already told me."
Daryl exchanged looks with Duncan before answering, "Cause I think she's still out there."
Dale carefully placed the bag with guns on the ground when he found a good place to hide them. It was in the swamps. The group wasn't being in the swamps that much and he thought that it may take a while before Shane will realize where he hid their guns. He started readying everything he took with him. He took out a hammer and a large nail.
His hopes that Shane wasn't going to find out where he hid their weapons were quickly crushed when he heard a familiar voice call out to him, "Man, this is a good hiding place. We ain't been in the swamps much, huh?"
He turned to the voice and saw Shane standing with Tyler, "Imagine if you applied your tracking skills to finding Sophia."
Shane and Tyler started approaching him, the latter asking him, "How about you'll give us this bag, Dale?"
"I'm not gonna do that if Shane is here." Dale answered.
"Yeah, you are, Dale. After all, you're the one that has a rifle over his shoulder." Shane pointed out.
"Just give us the bag, Dale. We just want to keep our group safe, including you." Tyler added, "We need to give each member of group a gun. Hershel is putting all of us in danger by making us sleep next to a barn that if filled with walkers."
"Guys, Rick is trying to get him..." Dale was interrupted.
Shane cut him off, "Dale, shut up. Just shut up and give me the guns."
Dale turned to look at Tyler, hoping that he'll change the red clothed teenagers mind, "Tyler. Rick is trying to convice Hershel to let us stay on his farm. Our group is going to safe here, just like you want."
"By making us sleep next to that barn and leaving us weaponless? No, our group won't be safe enough." Tyler shook his head, "Tell me, Dale? What is going to happen if the walkers in the barn will somehow break out from there when we'll be sleeping and we'll be unaware of that before it's too late? Everything we're doing right now is to protect our group and I hope you'll understand this." He approached Dale and picked the bag up from the ground, "Just think about it." He turned to leave, intending to head back to the farm, and looked at Shane, "You're coming?"
"In a moment, kid." Shane assured him to which Tyler nodded his head at him.
Dale and Shane watched Tyler leave until the former said to the latter, "This is where you belong, Shane."
"How's that, Dale?" Shane wanted to know.
"This world, what it is now, this is where you belong." Dale stated, "And I may not have what it takes to last for long, but that's okay. 'Cause at least I can say when the world goes to shit I didn't let it take me down with it."
Shane nodded his head at his words, "Fair enough."
He send Dale one last look before following Tyler to catch up to him.
A few people were simply minding their own business around the farm house. Carl was doing something with Patricia and Beth on the porch, Noah was reading a book after finally having a chance to get his hands on one, and Maggie and Glenn were sitting next to each other on the porch.
"You look like you should be in line for the early bird special." Maggie said, touching Dale's hat on Glenn's head.
"I know." Glenn laughed, pointing at Noah who sat behind them, "Noah already told me that I look ridiculous in this hat."
Maggie smiled at him, "Go get your cap. I'll wash it for you, okay?"
Andrea, T-Dog, Alejandro and Heather approached the farm house, T-Dog asking, "Do you know what's going on?"
"Where is everyone?" Alejandro asked shorty after.
"You haven't seen Rick." Glenn asked in return, standing up from the porch.
"He went off with Hershel." Andrea explained, stopping in front of Glenn, "We were supposed to leave with Chef and Chris a couple hours ago."
"Yes, you were." Daryl said, as he approached the farm house with Duncan, Courtney and Carol, earning everyone attention, "What the hell?"
"Rick told us he was going out." Carol added.
"Uh, guys." Another person approached the farm house. This time it was Sierra who approached the farm house along with the rest of Total Drama contestants, "Have you seen Chef or Chris?"
"We thought that they went with you and Rick but that obviously didn't happen with you being still on the farm." Gwen added.
Andrea shook her head, "I was about to ask you the same thing."
Duncan eyed his fellow contestants and noticed a spot on Harold's cheek, "What the hell happened to you, Doris?"
Harold rubbed his cheek, "Tyler punched me and then just left."
"What did you do to piss him off?" Duncan asked another question.
"I went to talk with him and tell him that he shouldn't be saying that Sophia is gone and that he shouldn't be asking DJ what would he do if he saw his Momma as a walker." Harold explained, "He punched me after I asked him how would he felt if someone askedhim what would he do if he saw Lindsay as a walker."
"Where did he left?" Courtney asked.
"I and Glenn saw him heading into the forest with Shane." Noah explained.
"Uh, guys." Owen said, pointing in the direction of the forest, "I think I know where they went."
Everyone turned in the direction that Owen was pointing at and saw Tyler and Shane walking towards the house. Shane exchanged a look with Tyler who had the bag of guns wrapped over his shoulder.
Daryl was the first one to respond to this and stepped forward from the rest of the group, "What's all this?"
Shane and Tyler walked over to him and the latter held out a shotgun to the redneck, as Shane asked him, "You with me?"
Daryl took the shotgun from Tyler, "Yeah."
"Time to grow up." Shane declared, approaching the rest of the group with Tyler. He glanced behind at Andrea, T-Dog, Alejandro and Heather, "You already got yours?"
"Yeah." Andrea nodded her head as Tyler held out a shotgun to Duncan who took it from him, "Where's Dale?"
"He's on his way here." Tyler assured her as he started giving out weapons to everyone in the group. Some people took a weapon from him without hesitation, like T-Dog, Alejandro or even Heather who was one of the ones that still were not a fan of being trained how to use a gun when the training started. There were also people who didn't want to take a weapon from him. Bridgette, DJ and Cody were one of them.
"Do I have to?" Cody asked him, as Tyler shoved a pistol towards him.
"Do you want to survive, kid?" Shane said, sternly to Cody, who nervously took the pistol from Tyler. Sierra glared at him, before taking one pistol for herself. Tyler moved towards Izzy and Owen who took a weapon from themselves, though the latter seemed to have seconds thoughts about this, mostly because he still had a lot to improve when it came to shooting. Shane stopped in the center of the group, so everyone would have their eyes on him, "We can and we have to. Look, it was one thing sitting around here picking daisies when we thought this place was supposed to be safe. But now we know it ain't."
Tyler took out a shotgun and a pistol and walked over to Glenn and Noah, saying to the asian man, "How about you, dude?" Although he was hesitant at first, Glenn took the shotgun from Tyler who looked at Noah held out a pistol towards him, "What about you, Noah?"
Noah took the pistol from Tyler as Maggie glared the jock and Shane, "Can you stop, both of you? You do this, you hand out these guns, my dad will make you leave tonight."
"We have to stay, Shane." Carl said, coming down the steps.
Lori approached the group, "What is this?"
"We ain't going anywhere, okay?" Shane assured Carl before turning his attention back to everyone else in the group, "Now look, Hershel, he's just gotta understand. Okay? He-well, he's gonna have to. Now we need to find Sophia. Am I right?" He walked over to Tyler and took out a pistol and came over to Carl, kneeling down in front of him, holding the pistol out to the kid, "Huh? Now I want you to take this. You take it, Carl, and you keep your mother safe. You do whatever it takes. You know how. Go on, take the the gun and do it."
Lori came over between them and pushed Carl away from Shane, glaring at him, "Rick said no guns. This is not your call. This is not your decision to make."
"Guys?' Alejandro's voice interrupted Shane before he could answer as everyone turned to him. He pointed at the forest, "Are you seeing what I am seeing?"
T-Dog was the first one to voice his thoughts, "Oh, shit."
"What the hell are they doing?" Heather asked shorty after.
Rick, Chris, Chef, Hershel and Jimmy stepped out from the forest. Jimmy, Chef and Chris were the first ones to step out, the youngest one from the three clapping his hands as Hershel and Rick stepped out shorty after. The walkers they found in the forest were with them. Rick and Hershel held them on the animal catching sticks as if they were dogs that they just found wandering around.
Shane instantly broke himself into run and everyone followed him, "What is that?"
"Shane!" Lori called out to him, running after Shane, but he simply ingored her.
Shane pushed the gate leading to the other side of the fence, quickly showing angered he was by the sight in front of him, "What the hell are you doing?"
"Relax, Shane." Chef said, coming up to Shane. At first they were going to make sure that their group will stay on this farm, and then they will make sure to take care of the problem of the walkers in the barn, "We're making sure that we'll stay on this farm."
"You're letting them do this?" Shane shouted at Chef, glaring at him, not even trying to hide how displeased he was by Chef's decisions today, "You said it yourself that you care about our group and want to keep everyone safe and now you're helping them bring more of them to this farm?"
"What do your people have guns?" Hershel damanded to know.
"Are you kidding me?" Shane asked, pointing at them, "You see? You see what they're holding onto?"
"I see who I'm holding onto." Hershel assured him,
Shane shook his head, "No, man, you don't."
"Shane." Chris said, "Just let us do this."
"And then we'll talk about this." Rick added.
"What you want to talk about?" Shane shouted, stopping ahead of everyone at the farm, meters away from the barn. Everyone had their eyes now him, "These things ain't sick. They're not people. They're dead. Ain't gonna feel nothing for them 'cause all they do, they kill! These things right here, they're the things that killed Amy and Lindsay. They killed Otis. They're gonna kill all of us!."
Tyler and Andrea nodded their heads, agreeing with what Shane was saying as Rick shouted to him, "Shane, shut up!"
"Hey, Hershel man, let me ask you something." Shane said, pulling out his pistol, "Could a living breathing person, could they walk away from this?"
He shot the walker that Hershel was holding a few times, and it was still moving, it wasn't even touched by the fact that it was shot a few times in the chest. Rick glared at Shane, "No! Stop it!"
"That's three rounds in the chest. Could someone who's alive,could they just take that?! Why is it still coming?" Shane demanded to know before shooting the walker two more times, "That's it's heart, it's lungs. Why is it still coming?"
"Shane, enough!" Rick demanded as Shane fired one more bullet at the walker.
Shane started approaching the walker that he just six times, "You're right, man. That is enough."
He finished the walker off with one last bullet to the head. The now lifeless body of a walker collapsed on the ground, bringing Hershel down on his knees. Everyone had their eyes on Shane and he made sure to use every second of it.
"Enough risking our lives for a little girl who's gone!" He shouted, "Enough living next to a barn full of things that are trying to kill us. Enough. Rick, it ain't like it was before! Now if y'all want to live, if you want to survive, you got to fight for it! I'm talking about fighting right here, right now."
He turned away from everyone towards the barn and ran over to it, picking up a pickaxe that was laying nearby.
"Take the snare pole. Hershel, take the snare pole." Rick said to Hershel but he didn't listen to him. He just watched how Shane picked up a pickaxe, "Hershel, listen to me, man, please. Take it now. Hershel! Take it!"
Shane screamed as he started slamming the pickaxe against the entrance to the barn, intending to open it and get rid of the problem once and for all.
"No, Shane. Do not do this, brother." Rick pleaded Shane to not open the barn and many others people followed.
"Don't do this!" Glenn shouted.
"Don't open the door!" Bridgette shouted shorty after.
It was followed by Chef, "Just step away from the barn!"
Shane simply ignored them and proceeded to slam the pickaxe against the entrance to the barn until he finally managed to open them. He slammed his hands the now opened entrance, shouting, "Come on. Come on, we're out here."
"This is not the way! Please!" Rick shouted to his best friend for the last time.
Shane ignored it too. He took a few steps backwards and readied his pistol, aiming it at the entrance, awaiting for the walkers to step out, "Come on."
The entrance to the barn swung open and the first walker instantly came out, heading towards Shane. Andrea and Tyler quickly ran over to his side, as Shane got rid of the first walker that came out from the barn without any problem. Andrea and Tyler joined him and started shooting at them too, but they weren't the only ones. Duncan, Daryl, T-Dog, Izzy and Alejandro quickly joined them. The walkers began dropping like flies and didn't even had a chance to reach any of the survivors.
"Maggie." Glenn said to Maggie, unsure if he should join the other or not.
Maggie turned to look at him, with teary eyes as she just watched how her friends and family members were being killed right in front of her, "It's okay."
Glenn joined his group and started shooting at the walkers, and was quickly followed by Harold who was the last one to join. They proceeded to gun down every walker that came out for the barn and the members of the group that didn't join them just watched how the undead friends and family members of the Greene family were being gunned down by their fellow group members. Lori held her son close to herself, Rick, Chef and Chris shook their heads, Bridgette and Carol had their hands over their mouths and Hershel was just shaking his head.
Shane turned to his best friend who was glaring at him while holding the walker that he brought with him from the forest. He aimed his pistol at the walker, intending to finish it off once and for all, but someone else did it for him. Him and Rick turned in the direction of the person that just killed it and saw Tyler. The red clothed teenagers expression was set in stone as he simply turned back to the barn and proceeded to fire at any walker that appeared in his view.
Not even a minute had to pass until the barn was completely cleaned out from the walkers and the entire area was covered by now lifeless corpses. Shane turned his look away from the barn and looked at his at the group. He saw how almost everyone were glaring at him. He shrugged it off.
It was when Dale finally arrived at the farm and could only watch the scene in front of him in shock, having no idea what happened, but the corpses on the ground quickly gave him an idea.
It wasn't over.
A small figure emerged from the barn and looked up at the group. Everyone could see her face now.
It was Sophia...
Bridgette's eyes instantly widened in shock as she placed her hands on her head, DJ placed his hand over his mouth, Leshawna and Gwen exchanged looks, sharing looks of disbelief with each other, Ezekiel shook his head and placed his hands on his hat, Sierra, Owen, and Cody looked away, and Noah, and Courtney watched in shock. The other members of their group simply watched in shock or looked away, not wanting to see the little girl they knew from Atlanta in this state. The group that just killed every walker in the barn stood as if something froze them in place.
"Sophia!" Her mother immediately bursted into tears and pushed herself into run towards her daughter, only to be held back by Daryl, "...Sophia..."
Lori held her son even tighter to herself as Carl broke into tears in the exact moment when he spotted his friend as a walker. Duncan looked down, the little girl he's been searching for these past few days, almost dying by the hands of someone he knew before all of this was just found, but not in the way he wanted to. Chef and Chris shared shocked and uneasy looks with each other as Rick let out another deep breath after another.
Sophia let out a small growl and started walking towards the group, almost tripping over one of the bodies.
Lori could feel how tears started coming into her eyes as she whispered to her son, "Don't watch."
Rick let out one last deep breath before stepping forward from the group. He walked past everyone that just killed all of these walkers and stopped right in front of Sophia. He aimed his Python at the little girl and looked at her for one last time, seeing how her lifeless eyes were not leaving him.
He pressed the trigger and his Python fired, the bullet hitting Sophia right in her head. The now lifeless corpse of a little girl collapsed on the ground.
But it wasn't over. Everyone could hear another footsteps coming out from the barn as another walker slowly exited it. This walker was a woman. Most of the group didn't know who she was but Chris, Chef, and the contestants from Total Drama instantly recognized her and knew how important she was to one of them.
DJ's lips trembled as he immediately bursted into tears and fell on his knees, whispering a shaky and tearful, "...Momma..."
Everyone turned to look at him. The people who knew him and knew about his beloved mother looked at him him in pity as DJ lowered his head, not wanting to see his mother in this state, placing his hands over his eyes, sobbing his eyes out.
Chef sighed. He knew that he couldn't leave DJ's mother in this state for any second longer and stepped forward from the group, pulling out his handgun. He stopped right next to Rick and in front of DJ's Momma who was slowly approaching them, letting out grunts and growls every second as she did so.
"I'm sorry, DJ." He said to DJ before aiming his handgun at DJ's Momma. He pulled the trigger and one bullet to the head was enough to take DJ's Momma's down and her lifeless body collapsed on the ground, landing next to Sophia's.
Hope it wasn't that bad. See you in another chapter.