With enough binding momentum, Hayden stormed his way across the forest's open extent and brought the Crucible Blade down to cut a Blaster in half. He moved his blade to deflect the shots fired by telekinetically pushing the other Blasters half away. Sparks shot up from the ground where Hayden's feet stood before leaping at great heights, spinning towards the Harvesters next.
Meanwhile, Negan and the remaining Savior crew members were all currently witnessing how much destructive capacity Hayden had been showing, after saving them from the Baron of Hell.
Leo and his assembly blinked in shock, eyes wide once Hayden began swinging the Crucible Blade, slicing off one of the Blaster's arms. The demonic creature took no notice of the injury, attempting to shoot Hayden as he stepped back. The cyborg sliced again, this time chopping off the creature's head. As its body toppled to the ground, Hayden noticed that more demons were quickly approaching him.
Both Dwight and Arat became startled yet amazed beyond disbelief. Right now, they were observing more of these monstrosities coming out of nowhere to exterminate everything that appears in their way. While Arat's eyes continued onward at how Hayden made himself resemble through a combative style, Dwight's expression didn't seem too surprised, but still conscious if any more demons were going to appear again.
As for Negan, his eyes wouldn't look away or at least the slightest bit of responding to any of his accompanied Saviors for that matter. He wondered for a moment about what Hayden has mentioned to him previously about this new threat. Upon learning this, Negan's heart swelled with such anger and contempt that his hands clenched into fists of irritation. How could he have not listened, assuming that all of this was just a bunch of bullshit spewing out from everyone's mouth?
Now, more people are dead, and it's all because of Hayden for lying to him of all people. Negan knew he must take full responsibility for neglecting Gavin's concerns and Hayden's so-called proposals. But it didn't make sense for Hayden to deceive him like that, especially hiding that strange sword away from him.
Throughout the whole engagement, Dwight could see from the corner of his eyes and spot a couple of deranged-looking figures exiting out from the Gore Nest. They wore mostly torn white suits with blue stripes and had pale, pinkish skin, including flesh growths caused by mutations. Some had steel implants on the chest and arms, as well as a single large hole that extends deep into each skull.
These were Possessed Scientists.
Once each zombified scientist let out a constant snarling noise upon spotting the Savior members, Arat and Negan soon took notice of the weird creatures.
"Son of a bitch! What the actual fuck are those things?" Negan asked in a cursing mood.
"They just came out of that thing or whatever. They almost look like walkers to me." Dwight said, looking back at Arat who frowned.
"Shit. Those things are getting in, guys!" Huck pointed at the former humans, spilling more of themselves out of the Gore Nest.
"Then let's not waste any time!" Arat declared, aiming her pistol out before shooting at each Possessed Scientist smoothly.
Negan and Dwight did the same thing as the others had begun firing at all the approaching mutated monsters. Without any second doubt, Negan begins walking forward across the grass filled with dead former humans, and made his way in front of the Gore Nest, looking for a way to remove it from having more of those things.
Nelson almost gawked at the Gore Nest, blinking, "What the hell is that big thing supposed to be?"
Arat expressed confusion on her face, "Boss, what are you doing-?"
Negan frowned, "What does it look like to you, Arat? I'm trying to figure this strange cultic bullshit out and..."
Negan's eyes traced all over the extended eye-like pustule and saw its fleshy heart.
"...lookie what we got here," Negan drawled with a small smile, knowing exactly what to do.
Whipping out his bowie knife at ease, Negan then slams the blade right through the heart before violently ripping it out from the Gore Nest.
Negan shrugged it off as he smirks at the Savior crew members, "See, nothing to get your panties soaked as a-!"
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Thinking that he took care of dismantling it, Negan gets taken aback surprisingly as the Gore Nest lets out an eerie, piercing scream that serves as a distress signal, watching it explode into piles of bloodied meat and carnage. Each of the Savior patrollers had their sensitive ears covered from the moment it screeched.
Zia, still covering her ears, asked in a disturbed tone, "What the fuck happened?"
"Okay, that was freaky as hell." Negan said with an abundance of honesty and a creeped-out expression.
While vibrating the sound of intense emotions, the android manages to use the Crucible Blade to block a Harvester's beam attack from absorbing his energy. Hayden expected no less from the Harvester, watching it jump a few feet away before unleashing its detonation attack, firing several large plasma shots.
"For a monster that comes from a terrifying place that will soon consume this world's people and their sins, you are trying to put up a fight." Hayden taunted and then sprints onward to jump over a couple of plasma shots, slicing only less than a few. "Unfortunately, I can not allow you to last as long as this."
As Hayden slashed with the Crucible Blade, he quickly cuts down one Harvester, then one slash later he had sliced through another Harvester. Prowlers parried against the frenzied cyborg's thrusts and strikes, but even with the Pain Elemental accompanying them by summoning Lost Souls. They were flying demon skulls ablaze intently with horns on each side.
A couple of Lost Souls began to soar through the air before becoming alert upon Negan and his Saviors.
"Fuck!" Negan cursed before pulling out his pistol to start aiming, "Shoot these things down, now!"
Instantly, the flaming skulls commenced charging towards the Savior assembly with open jaws, screeching demonically.
"R̶AAAĄU͡U͟UGGGG͜H̷H̡HH!͢!̨!̴!̛"
Just after everyone obeyed Negan's plan of action, they held out their guns and started shooting carefully at the Lost Souls, destroying two of them while the third one charges after Negan. He gritted his teeth before using Lucille to swing and bash the Lost Soul into total wreckage.
Everything right now with capturing that ringleader and its band of runners has become nothing but trouble for himself and his Saviors. As much as he wants to interrogate and expose Hayden for what he did, but the Savior leader didn't think it would come out to become this. With his eyes narrowed over to Dwight, the ideas must lie within his scarred Lieutenant for the time spent guarding the tall cyborg. As for right now, they needed to leave.
"You know what, guys? All this was a bad idea." Negan turned to everyone, "We need to get the fuck out of here and to our trucks, now!"
Leo turned to look at Negan nervously, "Uh, sir, I wanted to speak to you about our cars. Some of them got blown up and smashed on a couple of crew members."
Negan shook his head while stomping his foot out of anger, "GRRR, Fuck, FUCK, FUCK, F-U-U-U-U-U-U-C-C-C-K-K!"
Dwight looks over at Negan to ask, "But what about Hayden? We need to-"
But Negan beats him to it with a slightly enraged face, "Didn't you hear what tinman said before; he's giving us time to escape, or else either one of us becomes shish-kabob for these whatever the fuck these freaks are! Are you trying to fuck ourselves more through than usual, Dwight?! Because I'm sure as fucking hell that Arat or any woman here doesn't want to become a fuck slave to their fucking demeans!"
Dwight's eyes peered over to see Zia and Huck cringing for their lives at that conception as Arat snapped at the blond male Savior, "Negan is right, now shut up and let's go-!"
*GROWL*
Arat fell silent by that familiar growl shortly beforehand, which both Dwight and Negan took notice that the Baron of Hell was getting back up massively. While showing no second doubt, the entire group began to make their escape across and within the dense woods.
Following back to Hayden, his sensors then accumulated to where he noticed Negan and the Saviors are retreating away, regrettably enough to see the Baron following them. Cursing at the thought, Hayden cleaved a Prowler by his Crucible Blade, sabering another few more in their torsos.
Each fell, gasping out a dying breath.
The cyborg only had a moment to check his surroundings, and then plasma shots fired past his face from Shielders coming forth. Hayden commences to avoid and block again and again by the troopers with fused arm-cannons.
Meanwhile, the remaining members of Negan's Saviors found themselves racing for their very lives as the Baron from afar lets out a loud, mighty, heaven-splitting roar. Negan ran as fast as his legs could carry him while Dwight and Arat were too busy following their leader, looking terrorized by all the hell they were currently going through.
Negan was rather displeased than scared and shocked. It had only been a few minutes since their moment of escape had begun throughout the entire forest. Everyone followed suit and tried to keep up the pace, though Dwight was possibly the only one capable of doing so. Unlike Dwight, Negan and Arat had not expected the rage and ferocity of those monsters, but indeed each of them had underestimated Samuel Hayden's value with being here to assist.
"This is bad! I don't know if Hayden will make out of those freaks attacking us, but he better not die!" Dwight seethes in thought about minutes ago, desperately hoping the robotic scientist would survive somehow.
"Come on, let's move it! We need to get there to the Sanctuary, on the double!" Arat yelled to the others.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck!" Negan blurted out, moving as fast as he could alongside Dwight and Arat inches behind him.
"That thing is a KILLING MACHINE!" Huck shouted, running in nervous anticipation for whatever was to come.
Zia quickly scolded in her panicked state. "Now, we're all going to die from an even bigger monster than those other ones before!" She gulped a little. "I don't even know how many more there are around here..."
Before anyone could say anything else, positioning themselves were a couple of Hell-Soldiers called the Shielders, with weapons functioning to a fused armed shotgun on one arm and a big, translucent blue energy shield on the other.
"Enemies ahead," Leo commented as he held his gun up.
"Nobody better get excited." Arat frowned, pointing her gun at the Shielders alongside everyone.
"Oh, what's this shit!?" Negan cursed in his gritted teeth, keeping himself at bay with a handgun.
Each Shielder began to hold aim upon Negan and his Savior members, but soon enough with a risky idea, their instincts caused everyone to start shooting at the Shielders. The Hell-Soldiers sniggered as they worked their blue-energized shields to deflect all bullets, but the impacts left minor cracks across the front. One prepared to aim the arm-fused shotgun at one of the Savior members until suddenly another round came firing from nearby.
*BANG*
The Shielder suddenly felt a sharp pain in its skull, but it didn't reach the brain to kill it. The Shielder looked back and was snarling at who it was. It was Dwight, noticing the piercing anger in his eyes. Negan used this distraction to his advantage. He ran up to one of the Shielders and swung Lucille straight into its face, instantly bashing through the nose. The Shielder yelled in pain and fell back. Negan growled in pure rage, the kind he felt was similar to the way he was when that Rosita chick shot Lucille, and there was only one way to stop his anger: beating the holy hell out of these dead ones.
Negan rose above the Shielder before he smashed its head with Lucille, and then again until he repeatedly did the same movement. The Shielder lay on the ground in a pool of blood with a face that wasn't recognizable anymore. Suddenly, a Blaster leaped up and knocked Negan off his feet. Fortunately for the Savior leader, the Blaster got taken down, and open fire by Leo and Nelson before it could do more harm to Negan.
"Fucking assholes!" Negan shouted as he pointed Lucille at the other Hell-Soldiers, "These fuckers got themselves some shields with them. Scatter and take cover, god-fucking-dammit!"
All of a sudden, everyone took cover while shooting their pistols and rifles. Negan then grabs Arat by the arm for the both of them to take cover behind a few towering trees. On the other side, Dwight ran across the forest area and trampled over behind a few trees, causing the Shielders and Blasters who followed him to search around eagerly.
Nearby, Zia looked up to see Nelson back away from the Hell-Soldiers while holding his left arm, "AHH! Shit, I got hit! I got hit!" Nelson exclaimed.
"Nelson, get out of there!" Zia called out from behind cover.
But it was way too late for the unlucky Savior's life as the Hell-Soldiers began to finish him. The Blaster pushed himself against Nelson, making sure he couldn't move. It grabbed Nelson's arms and began tearing them off one by one. Nelson screamed in pain but got quickly silenced when one Shielder shot him in the head. He then went to Nelson's legs and began breaking off his bones and flesh. Zia attempted to help, but she knew that she couldn't say or do anything to help Nelson now.
After ripping through Nelson's corpse from the stomach to the chest, the Hell-Soldiers violent opened up the two sides of Nelson's stomach, seeing all of his insides. Red glowing eyes wandered over with a glare, where each one grabbed Nelson's insides and effortlessly pulled them out. Saving for last, a Blaster looked at the heart and put its hands around to forcefully pull it out. Blood squirted everywhere, but they didn't care.
"Idiot," Zia muttered, shaking her head before she ran straight away to find where the others hid.
One of the Shielders trudged slightly nearby to catch hold of any human fragrance. Dwight, on the other hand, kept his posture stiff as possible behind the various trees after witnessing Nelson's gruesome death. His eyes stopped at a small stone before quietly picking it up in his hand, preparing for the exact moment to unfold.
The groaning noise of a Shielder far off somewhere caused this one to turn around suddenly, and gnarls in a croaking tone. At that moment, Dwight's hand flung the stone off into the distance. The zombified troops became notified by the abrupt sound as only a few went and checked it out, leaving Dwight to himself.
"Dwight, over here." Huck's voice whispered out to the scarred man.
Carefully yet rashly, Dwight slogs himself over to where he'd lean over and recognize Huck and Leo hidden behind the straying tree.
"Over here, man," Leo chimed in as well, cautious.
Dwight rushes across an excessive mass of the woods to alert the Savior members, and unexpectedly, he got hurled against a tree where his eyes almost grew widely at the atrocious sight. Of course, they forgot about the Pain Elemental hovering above Dwight.
"Damn, it's that thing again!" Huck cursed before getting herself up.
"Guys, I'm going to need some help over here..." Dwight trailed off just until the one-eyed inflated monster began to open its mouth widely.
Just before the Pain Elemental could conjure a Lost Soul out of its maw, something blazing hot came behind and sliced the floating demon in one half. Hayden came leaping in just in time before he silenced the Pain Elemental's attack from occurring.
"Holy shit, I didn't even see you out here. Thanks a lot, man." Leo praised Hayden, where Huck nodded with a softened smile.
With a breath of relief, Dwight recognized the cyborg as he landed safely onto its metallic feet. "Jesus, doc, where were you?" Dwight asked, feeling hints of respite from the chase.
"I apologize for the unpunctual timing, Dwight. Where is..." Hayden turned his head to the side and noticed Negan's divisive yet calm expression. "Negan, we have to leave before the Baron-"
"You lied, Hayden."
With that just came out of Negan's voice of hostility, the android himself couldn't help but sigh at this difficult situation. "Negan, let me explain this to you later..."
But Negan continued with a dark chuckle, alarming most of his Savior members as he stepped forward while Hayden backs away. "Ohoho, you can start fucking explaining now what the fuck you've gotten ourselves into with this shitty-ass charade you have been pulling out of your metal ass!"
"Wait a minute, boss," Huck spoke up, "Holt was the one who started all of this. Well, that, and Hayden had been keeping things from us all."
"Do you think I need you to answer that?" Negan snapped at Huck, who flinched like crazy. "So many of my people just got slaughtered moments ago. And there's no fucking way Dr. Killjoy here, has a goddamn chance of running away with his security this time."
Negan then glared back at the cyborg with an enraged tone of voice, "Right now, we were hightailing the fuck out of dodge by who knows what the fuckity fuck these shitheads are, and here you are pulling one big-ass fucking sword out of thin fucking air to fuck shit up! Thus, without so much as a goddamn thought of considering toying with the notion of telling me the FUCKING TRUTH, YOU LYING SON OF A BITCH!"
Leo tried to back Huck up, "But what are we going to do with-?"
But Zia interrupted, coming out from her hiding spot, "Nelson is dead because of that robot and its itchy trigger finger with getting everybody else killed! And now, we're just going to let him come back to the Sanctuary like that?"
"Wait, Nelson's dead!?" Leo asked in total shock and dismay.
"What!?" Huck cupped her mouth with her hands until she went and punched Zia's face, "Why the fuck didn't you help him, you fucking bitch!"
"There were too many of them, and he got shot for being a moron!" Zia held her bruised cheek from that punch, standing back up, "Would you rather have me dead alongside him, huh?"
Huck kept herself silent from Zia's outburst, clenching her hands into full fists as she glared at her deadly. Leo frowned at Zia as well, yet disappointed in himself for not saving Nelson when he was around.
"Yeah..." Zia looked away with a scowl, pointing at Hayden with a handgun, "Negan, that robot is a fucking menace ever since Laura and her group brought him here!"
Hayden couldn't keep quiet at this moment as he tries to talk some sense, "Everyone, the Baron-!"
Again, Negan ignores the cyborg as his attention goes along to Dwight, "And you, D, already have a lot of fucking explaining, to begin with, what this rusted fuck-it-of-bolts has been fucking telling you about himself! Hell, you might have not fucking told me where or how or why this thing is seriously here in the FIRST PLACE!" Negan shoved Dwight backward until the scarred man stumbled against a tree nearby.
Coming forward into Dwight's personal space, Negan's voice dropped to a standard volume, a tone laced with threats and venom. "Don't think I haven't figured you out fully, Dwight. I know you've been lying to me all this time. Maybe you even lied to me about killing Sherry. Oh, hell. You, for sure, fucking lied to me about that. And I especially know you're aching to go along with Doctor Tinman's shitty plans about chatting to Ricky and his piss-patrol of dipshits about this pool of piss we're paddling in like puppies. I'm going to make this slow and steady, so you can better repeat after me. They don't care. SAY IT!"
"No."
From what Dwight began to say, Negan's eyes sharpen into full slits as he grits his teeth with so much...
"They don't care."
...delight.
"Nice to put some real sense into you, Dwight, my boy. But you're still a nobody in way over your head. You've cost me yet ANOTHER super hot wife, and I might have to burn the other half of your face off to make you look like a testicle with fucking teeth. Now, see, I thought about killing you, and then I thought maybe that'd be too dignified for a little fucking dirtbag such as yourself. No, Dwight, I got plans for you." Negan said, licking his lips with satisfaction before saying to Hayden next, "You need to write down some notes for what progress is from now on, Hayden. Because those notes are going to get repeated with an 'I'm Sorry' each time after your punishment for-!"
"All of this, what you are doing right now, is not progress, Negan," Hayden said defiantly, sounding disappointed.
"Ex-Fucking-Cuse me?" the leader of the Saviors sprouted a smug, yet dark expression, not at all affected by being interrupted.
"What you're doing is madness coming from your leadership's alleged reason for what you'll do for yourself and the Sanctuary's future at a later time." Hayden leaned over to face Negan down with no gesture of backing down, speaking further as he stepped around him, "Listen, I am natural for tolerance at best. So, I'm willing to accept that you're doing this if you're feeling to admit that you need to stop. Because going up against this world's new peril alone isn't something you should stay on the issue of devising."
*BONK*
Not at all amused, Negan smashed Lucille onto one of the forest's trees. "You better choose your words very fucking carefully, Hayden!" he spats, his teeth grating together, and nostrils flared while spit came flying from his mouth, "Cause Lucille? She doesn't appreciate your tone, and neither do I! See, Hayden, I've been paying attention to what you've been saying these past couple of hours. You've been pushing me here and there like it's no big fucking deal, or like you can know fucking shit about what I do. All that is supposed to help me understand something about myself?"
"Despite how you strive to manage the Sanctuary," Hayden rumbled in a calming yet critical manner from his voice. "You have still led themselves to their demise, just as Nelson had been because of the example you teach to your patrollers. Surely, you have the traits of what a leader should need. You have an economy in place, a system of rules determined by your very own government. Of course, if you didn't obtain such a contemptible persona, your people would lose their fear of you and revolt soon enough anyway."
Hayden then gestured an open hand for Negan to shake, expecting him to smack it away. "You may seem as if distrustful of how I try and manage things, but rest has become assured that I am not your enemy, Negan. Nor do we want to perform any terrible request for the other communities' attention or aid in this future catastrophe of your world. Soon, we'll be able to find the Slayer himself from one of those settlements and win back what is all of ours."
Surprisingly, Negan leaned away to pinch the bridge of his nose with his free hand, with a sharp smile on his face as he rubbed his chin vigorously.
"Hayden," Negan heavily sighed, pointing his barbed wire bat directly at the android. "This is why your method is going to suck balls both figuratively and literally. I don't believe the bullshit that you're telling me. You're saying that the future can only be more of this shit? That I have to go against everything the Saviors stand for and give up solely to create unity among those wannabes at Alexandria, Hilltop, and the fucking Kingdom? If I don't like anything about the world, I'd change it. And I don't think having to listen to some fucking agent of chaos say that I'm doing shit wrong is something I want for me, Hayden."
Negan walked around with his arms, lightly waving Lucille in hand, "Do you have any fucking idea how much work and resource I would lose? A gazillion bunch of fucking cool shit pooped out in the open that will get wasted later on by the time a bunch more people of mine get KILLED for it! And now, it's happening for FUCKING REAL because of you being so fucking stupid NOT to tell me about what you know than we do, you fucking, fucked up FUCK!"
For a long moment, Hayden kept quiet while his thoughts were about Negan's cursory reasonings, watching the man pace around him. "I would like to apologize to you, Negan, and everyone here affected by my actions. I've kept these secrets from you all because there was no other point to grant either of you, strangely when one of those artifacts remains heavily powered by Hell's energy." Hayden stated.
Negan blinked, parting his lips and forming an o-shaped mouth, "Uh, what?"
Zia took her chance to address Negan, "Sir, that robot came from another world, colonizing outside of other planets. Not only that, he even said that they made the planet Mars into a living..."
Zia didn't get the chance to finish, getting interrupted by the sound of Negan's frustrated yelling, "Everyone SHUT the FUCK up! I am dealing with Dr. Killjoy here. It's got nothing to do with either one of you dipshits, so fuck off, will you!?"
Negan then turns to where Dwight stood, pointing with Lucille, "Except for you, D. By the time I get done with Dr. Killjoy here, your ass is NEXT."
As Dwight winced at Negan's swift gesture, the Savior leader glares back at Hayden. "Doc, if Rick himself would want to join by my side on this conquest to save inch by inch of possibly the world, then he shouldn't have gone off and killed a bunch of my men for his prickly reasons in the first place." Negan walked around the cyborg, menacing with such irritation.
Hayden kept his gaze to continue following Negan's circular motion. "Reasons could be that this man, Rick Grimes, had found out about your community beforehand? One of your men had told me that the Alexandrians snuck in and murdered a majority of crew members, correct?" he wondered.
Negan nodded before clarifying again, "You see, Hayden, you weren't even here for what I'm about to tell you. I never even knew about Alexandria's existence right before Rick's shit came plopping down onto us by taking out one of our outposts. Rick's a pretty bad guy, but he has a lot of guts for showing up and doing stupid fucking shit like that to a bunch of my people."
Hayden watched Negan stroll around up in front of him, where Arat and Dwight behind their Savior leader kept quiet as possible for Negan's sake. The air was tense as their faces were alarmed yet knowledgeable that Hayden was going to backfire with getting Negan to stop this enslavement upon the communities.
Though, despite Dwight being secretly supportive of defending Hayden, he did not want to break his loyalty enduring as one of Negan's faithful lieutenants. Arat, on the other hand, thought that she couldn't care less about Hayden and more about leaving this place before those monsters arrive.
"So, if you think I've done some pretty messed up shit before this moment, well, then maybe you've gotten yourself into a severe heap of rotten lemons beyond, doc." Negan finished before his eyes scrolled over to Arat.
"Arat, take away his big-ass sword," Negan ordered.
"Negan, wait-!" Dwight tried to speak.
"You've done enough, Dwight," Arat interrupted, noticing Zia nodding in agreement with a handgun, "Rules are rules."
While Arat complies to do so, watching her hold up her gun at aim, Hayden spoke this time, "Arat, you have a right to refuse his order, and I guarantee you will experience true fear that no human can witness without losing their sanity. Once you take the slightest grasp onto the Crucible here, your very presumption of reality will become obliterated."
"Yeah...what he said. Look, he's telling the truth you guys so back off for your own sake, Arat!" Dwight begged in defeat while Negan took note of this suspiciously.
"Dwight, it's you who needs to back down unless you haven't gotten it through your thick fucking head yet!" Negan barked back with a chuckle before witnessing Arat's face showing hints of anxiety. "What are you waiting for, Arat? Just grab the stupid sword, and we'll be done with the doc for fucking wasting our time soon enough. Zia, keep the damn robot at bay."
Zia complied with her handgun aimed at Hayden, "Yes, boss."
As Arat comes forth in front of Hayden to carefully touch the Crucible, Hayden sighed in annoyance, "Don't say I didn't warn you. Brace yourself."
With those words said, Arat had finally placed her grasp upon the Crucible's handle attachment before she began to twitch as her eyes glowed brightly in red. Arat started speaking falteringly and let out a piercing scream of fright.
From this point on, everyone was beyond confused straight as Negan glared at Hayden, "What the hell is going on with this shit?! Arat! ARAT!"
Meanwhile, Dwight just looked on with a calm yet intimidated expression as he watched Arat experience what he felt from the Crucible.
The Earth's destruction.
Demons attacking and mutilating other survivors.
Women and children receive a chain of petrifying molestation.
The screaming terrors that commence on above and beneath beyond...
...and that powerful man destroying every single demon in sight.
Wheezing out of breath, Arat automatically fell back to land on the ground, backing away with so much dread that even Negan couldn't understand what happened.
"Wh-What? How...How is that...? Gah...!" Arat faltered, shivering nonstop as she felt her heart constrict in the show of absolute fear in front of her.
Zia was not taking to this as well as everyone else did, "Son of a bitch!"
She pointed her handgun at Hayden and opened fire, only for a green force field to briefly appear, protecting Hayden from any damage. Zia's hand on the gun trembled, trying to make tone before all thought was lost and simply turned into mush. Everyone who was watching felt a shiver of fear running down their spine. Dwight, on the other hand, raised his eyebrow in surprise, he felt just a tad anxious that Hayden was almost going to die there if it weren't for that strange glow.
Negan blurted out in a fit of anger at Zia, "What the fuck did you do-?!"
Everyone took note of the massive uproar in stunned silence. Dwight and Arat's eyes widened, even Negan was shocked again at the display. Hayden then turned to the side before detecting the Baron's footsteps trudging around for the Savior members in the distance.
"We need to leave!" Dwight declared abruptly.
Dwight cursed to himself in thought as he zipped over, helping Arat by picking her up. However, she pushed the scarred man back out of fear while speaking in gibberish to herself. After a few seconds, Arat held her hand up to reassure her that she was fine, but decides to stay quiet about the whole thing for now until then. Negan looks over to see Hayden gripping the Crucible with two hands, his elbows pressed to his sides with the crimson blade held straight out in front of him.
"You can not stay here for too long, Negan. You have to retreat immediately, or else you and your comrades will die here. Dwight will be staying with me for now until we have everything else at the Sanctuary plotted." Hayden said, looking back at the Savior leader whose face became firm yet soft.
Just like always, Negan knew that he had been flapping his lips out loud for the whole world to hear, but here, he realizes that this dominating reign of his isn't going to make it for long. Especially now, that he has to deal with more of Hayden's unfavorable nonsense, a bit further than usual. Dwight's punishment will also have to get put on hold for now, considering the situation as of right now. So, he swallowed his pride and gave the cyborg an acknowledging nod before hustling alongside everyone else. Far away from their view, the Savior members suddenly spotted the leftover group of Shielders and Blasters shooting after them.
Hayden soon notices this as he lets out a cursing utter, "Damn them all."
But what caught his scanner is that Dwight was shooting back at the Hell-Soldiers with determination. It's as if the scarred man had started planning something for this moment right now. One Shielder of the possessed security rose out to try and strike Dwight but received a few bullets to the face before dropping down dead. After that, Dwight manages to snatch off a piece of metallic equipment attached to the monster's left forearm and place it on, seeing it whip out a blue shield with awe.
Aware that the Blasters were storming in, Dwight uses the blue shield to cover himself while aiming fire at different Hell-Soldiers. With the Baron taking notice of this, Negan gritted his teeth with frustration for Dwight's reckless actions.
"Negan, there's more gaining on us! We got to leave before that giant thing comes after us!" Leo shouted to the Savior leader.
"Just get the fuck out of here!" Dwight yelled back while he kept shooting.
"Fine, just don't get yourself fucked, D! And Hayden, I expect a full detailed story of who you are and where you come from!" Negan grudgingly agrees as he and everyone else move on through the woods and disappeared.
After killing another Shielder, Dwight then notices Hayden dashing over to him at ease. "Let's lead them off somewhere so that Negan and Arat can get away safely!" Dwight declares.
"Agreed. Climb up and hold onto my back area with that shield out to protect us from behind assaulters." Hayden said to Dwight, who most likely didn't know what to expect just as he clings both his arms and legs onto the tall cyborg's back.
Without a second thought, Hayden initiated a functioning mode to begin running at a fast pace while Dwight held on for dear life, almost regrettably for doing this insane stunt.
The Baron of Hell started turning its concentration upon Hayden racing off as he carried Dwight along with him. A raw radiance of green fireballs generated within each clawed hand, until the Baron opened sharp throws at the duo.
"Hold the protective shield up and prepare ourselves, Dwight. Barons are highest-ranking beasts in the order of the Hell Knights due to their destructive natural force." Hayden told the scarred man while running forward, bounding overhead some trees that got viciously mangled.
Dwight, regarded as the incoming green projectiles, raises his blue shield out and safeguards Hayden's progression. One fireball came and struck onto Dwight's shield as the color blue soon purpled. The Baron's attack was somewhat effective, only throwing them off guard before Hayden reaches through another part of the dense forest to mislead the Baron's sight on them.
And just like that, Hayden and Dwight were already gone out of sight.
The Baron came to a stop before bellowing out a roar of outrage, slamming its fists through the forest's soiled ground as it puffed out air from its nose. Annoyance soon turned into questioning as the monstrous giant gave a glance upon its left side's surrounding area, believing to have heard a noise somewhere. Desiring to know, the Baron of Hell commences onward through the woods, ignoring the fact that Hayden and Dwight were down below a steep hill with logs blocking their view.
"We need to get out of here and fast!" Dwight whispered as he got off from Hayden, who suddenly halted him.
"Dwight, the Baron seems to become intent on whatever he had just heard. We must pursue after the beast before it starts creating more chaos upon those who stand in its way." Hayden declared, placing a metallic hand on the scarred man that starts to back away.
"But we'll only risk ourselves to more danger if we follow the giant bastard! What's the point?" Dwight asked roughly, not liking where this was going.
"The point is that none of the other communities are aware of any demonic presence lurking around each territory. What if the Baron had suddenly appeared where the man Rick Grimes would be at Alexandria or the Hilltop Colony, or the Kingdom? We can utilize both our forces as an advantage to cooperate with any of the settlements, then destroy the Baron without dispute." Hayden finished explaining.
Once again, Dwight didn't have any other defenses to match Hayden's fortified judgment upon uniting each community with one another. He knew that there was no possible way for Negan to take on the demons of Hell, let alone brag about having Rick and his group stand alone for this one. So, Dwight swallowed his pride and decided to take the risk, "Okay, let's go. I know where to find the locations, so we'll only have to take that chance to stop and put an end to Negan's reign. I don't know if I'll be able to stay at the Sanctuary now that Negan has found me out about Sherry."
Hayden nodded at that statement but then spoke, "True, but I don't think that killing Negan will become an option for them anymore. The Saviors need Negan to lead them, and we need to put this conflict aside to approach the process of obliterating the demons. As for you, Dwight, you'll be safer with me when we go back to the Sanctuary. Negan wouldn't kill you even if he had the chance to do so. People are a resource, after all."
"And if this doesn't work?" Dwight asked, raising an eyebrow.
Hayden became silent for a moment before answering, "Then the demons just so happen to have won your dimension altogether. It would most likely take Hell to conquer this Earth in just about a few days. Hell could even massacre the scores of this world's state before Negan or Rick could be ready. That's why I've decided to take action once and for all and have the Sanctuary's aid in formulating an interdimensional travel machine. Using the demonic Crucible and the tethering device that I hold, I can link their properties to network a power grid and open a portal. A doorway that leads from this world to my world."
Dwight frowned a little at this response but didn't show any doubt to back down from this future demonic war.
"Let's go," He said, determined.
Looking at each other with a nod, they exited out of their hiding spot and continued through the forest onto a clear path after the Baron until they disappeared somewhere else. Hell has overrun numerous worlds with more advanced civilizations than this Earth, so it wouldn't have made much difference how the people here could prepare. If they couldn't talk to Negan about working together to bring annihilation upon the demons from commencing Hell on Earth, then maybe talking to Rick Grimes is the way to go.
"Tara, what the hell is going on here?! And what is that dead thing outside of the cabin?!" Cyndie shrieked out of fear, in which Tara had just become confused.
"I-I don't know, Cyndie!" Tara hesitated, "My friends and I only came here so I could talk you all in on helping us fight the Saviors, and now, this is all confusing the hell out of me!"
While Cyndie was too busy feeling alarmed about the whole situation, Natania was presently looking out the cabin's front window with a fearful expression. She had never seen a dead carcass look so shredded and ripped apart like from some wild beast. The older woman covered her mouth as she saw blood splatter everywhere on the dead-looking monster. Three of the young girl started hyperventilating as Rachel looked over at the window where the demon corpse sprawls outside.
"Rachel, tell me everything you saw!" Natania pried over to the young girl, "Whatever you and the children saw outside must be warned to the community immediately."
Then, Natania looked at Tara with a gun aimed at her, "As for you, Tara, you're coming with me-!"
"But grandma, we can't go out there! You can't go out there with those monsters trying to eat everyone here!" One of the girls exclaimed as they sobbed fearfully.
"No, you girls stay in here and lock the cabin until it is safe to come out." Cyndie chided, looking at Rachel. "You grab one of the knives and the revolver that you have, so you can-!"
"No, I want to help fight! You and grandma can't go out there alone with those monsters...and him." Rachel refused, scorning at Tara who stayed calm.
"Him? You mean this man that Tara mentioned and saved you from one of those terrible things?" Natania drawled in a questioning manner.
"Yeah, and he scares the shit out of me! He punched one of those things, and- and they die like that!" Rachel cursed with a rapid nod, despite the disappointing looks from Cyndie and Natania about such foul language. "Sorry."
"If that's true, then maybe we should go find him and see if he knows what this is?" Cyndie asked.
"No, what if this man is just as hostile as Tara's group?" Natania argued, shaking her head. "There's a chance for us to get everyone back on our side and regain our guns to kick these people out."
Tara tried to but into the conversation and provoked, "Hey, wait a minute! We didn't mean to hurt anybody here-!"
A piercing jetpack sound came and thumped onto the roof from outside the cabin. The women inside were gravely surprised by the strange noise before Natania hushes the rest of the women and children in the room.
"Hush," Natania said quietly.
"What the hell was that noise?" Tara whispered, her eyes not leaving the ceiling.
"I said hush, dammit," Natania said again, hissing.
While silent as a group of mice, the woman, and children endured in their speechless behavior, where the thumping sounds were almost like footsteps. They all could recognize that there was something or someone up on the roof before the trampling steps suddenly stopped.
Tara, confused as she ever was, maintained her voice, "Okay, okay. I'm starting to get crept out, and I'm not sure why, but my friends are probably wondering where the hell I am. Will somebody please tell me this shit isn't real?"
"No, this is all your fault!" Natania accuses, glaring daggers at Tara who becomes shocked.
"Wait, grandma, stop! It's over." Cyndie pleaded in a sorrowful tone, "Just talk to their leader, okay-?"
"It's not over, Cyndie!" Natania hisses in frustration as she walks in front of Tara, pointing at her.
"Listen, Tara," Natania's voice became reassured fiercely, "I don't care what you and your people did, but we're not losing our guns, or my people for some war that you will die later! Do you want me to talk so badly? Fine then! We're going to talk to your leader about all of this nonsense, and remind everyone what's happened to us because of them! I don't care if I do this, and I'm going to die, but it's that important for them to open..."
*SNARL*
"...t-their e-eyes...?" Natania's voice broke into pure fright as to what she just heard.
From the corner of each female survivor's eyes, they glanced at this horrifying display of a Revenant hovering upside-down facing the window outside, glaring intensely at the women and children with eagerness for blood and meat bags to slaughter. The Revenant emits a loud, high-pitched, hollow scream before smashing its fist through the frosted glass window, causing the three girls to screech out of fright.
Without any second thought, Natania began to aim fire at the rotten-looking skeleton until it uses the sported jet pack to raise itself high above onto the roof again. But that didn't stop the older woman as her aim levels up to the roof where she keeps shooting to attempt on killing the monster.
Natania ceases fire as she narrowed her eyes upward to have faith that she killed that thing, where both Cyndie and Tara were terrified but amazed as to what happens next.
From outside of the cabin afar, their eyes had spotted the Slayer reloading the super shotgun at ease before dashing towards the small home and springing upwards. He grabbed the edge of the roof until the Slayer could pull himself up and presented the Revenant with two more gun blasts, making a red smear on the rooftop.
Not one to waste an opportunity, the Slayer leaped at the still stunned Revenant, grabbing it with both of his hands, and then took it down by driving his shoulder into the skeleton. The women and children from inside watched in shock as the Slayer impacted outside the cabin's field with that annoying skeletal fucker beneath him.
Following that, the Slayer positioned himself, so both of his feet grounded through its torso. He seizes both of the Revenant's shoulder-mounted cannons until the Slayer smashes them together, crushing its head during the process. Without keeping his anticipating off through the distance, the Slayer climbed back to his feet and stood where his back remained turned for the women in the cabin to observe. Suddenly, the HUD starts to beep until VEGA decides to inform the Slayer of something mattering.
VEGA: {I am detecting small quantities of Argent Energy emanating from afar. There is an increased chance that several of the demonic presence has followed where your location is. We have a Gore Nest's signal locked within reach.}
"Good to know, VEGA. Now, it's finally time to bring me back into the real fucking action." The Slayer considered as he popped one of his wrists.
Meanwhile, inside the cabin, the women were currently displaying expressions of shock and bewilderment as they watched the Slayer prepare himself for more of those monsters to arrive again.
While Cyndie and Natania didn't know what to think of the Slayer, just after the brutality he bestowed on that Revenant, Rachel sensed a hint of relief inside that they were going to be saved by someone else so compelling yet terrifying.
"What...the...fuck?!" Tara couldn't help but whisper to herself in a state of shock for witnessing the Slayer coming out of nowhere and destroying that skeletal-looking monster.
*GROWL*
The women inside shivered a bit with worried faces, while outside, the Slayer grinned with satisfaction. More monsters rose out from the interior of Oceanside's dense trees and bushes as if they all had fearfully anticipated his interference. Five groups of Hell-Soldiers, Shielders and Blasters, shot rounds of plasma at the Slayer while two more Pinkies charged out of their hidden spots within the woods.
Everything the Slayer was up against remained no match for him, and they all knew it. Regardless, it happened at once with the Slayer pulling out the plasma rifle again to fire a stun bomb. The Slayer managed to stun two Blasters who grouped closer together while jumping over the third group. He pierced his hand right through one Blaster, causing its blood to splatter all over him. The Slayer turned to kill another at his feet as three more Hell-Soldiers converge on him with their armed cannons.
The Slayer's thrust boots allowed him to break the necks of all three with a swift strike to their heads each. The cracking was audible as they fell to the ground, lifeless. While still in midair, the Slayer whipped and hurled a frag grenade at the next group of Hell-Soldiers. The blast took out two of them and damaged the other three, which the Slayer instantly chose off with pellets of plasma, before lunging at the two still stunned Pinkies.
The Slayer jumped at the first, slamming an armored kick into its head on the way down, and then clutched both its upper and lower jaw until he began ripping its face in half. After that, the Slayer's hand swiftly grabbed the tusk of the other one, tearing it out to the point where he sliced its throat wide open. Switching to the heavy assault rifle, the Slayer strafed around as the Blasters discharged more firepower, this time intending to kill the Slayer.
Holding the trigger, the Slayer began to notice that despite the fifty-caliber Devastator Ammo, hitting their target. Some of the Shielders' blue holographic riot shields were more sturdy enough the take a few hits, bouncing off like it was nothing. Soon switching the heavy assault rifle to the rocket launcher, the Slayer aimed at the Shielders and pulled the trigger. Watching the rocket-propelled grenade fly out from the weapon, it made contact with Shielders, exploding and causing each of them to stagger.
Speedily enough, the Slayer zipped across the bloodstained field of demonic bodies before charging at the Shielders. The Slayer pulled out and fired his combat shotgun two times while continuing the attack, blowing the zombified head off the first Blaster, and sent it flying away until crashing somewhere in gore. Another Blaster got flung across the area by the Slayer's next shotgun blast directly to the midsection. The Slayer dodged a few Shielders before raising the combat shotgun with sharp pulls on the trigger.
Two more Shielders dropped down next, where the others leaped up at the fountains of blood spurting out everywhere. Another pair of former humans drew their arm-fused guns and fired where the Slayer stood but had already launched himself past each shot. One Blaster hadn't drawn its weapon by the time shotgun pellets found their way into the midsection and head. With a thunk, the Blaster dropped to the ground. The Shielder had time to widen its eyes and turn to block his attack before the Slayer's fist found a permanent home through its head.
The women, including Tara, who was in the cabin homes, stared at the Slayer in shock with dropped jaws. He seized another Shielder's neck with only his right hand, and the trooper began struggling to break free but can't from the Slayer's vice grip. He held a sincere but still bored expression. The Slayer's eyes have hardened like that of a veteran warrior. He then gazed to the left to see three more Hell-Soldiers charging from afar. So with one arm, the Slayer lifted the bastard off the ground, throwing his enemy at three others like a baseball with unrivaled strength.
The result was something the women didn't suspect. Behind the throw was such force, and after colliding with the others, they all crash through several trees. With a short grunt, the Slayer whipped out the rocket launcher and shot directly at the target. There was a big explosion, whereas the Slayer had his visor covering his face to block the debris flying every which way. When the dust cleared, all there was is carnage and gore from what used to be the Hell-Soldiers. The female survivors from the cabin were stunned at his power. But the Slayer didn't stop there as he saw about seven more undead creatures coming toward him.
"Christ, the big guy is totaling those freaks, like they're nothing. I'm glad he's on our side." Tara breathed fearfully, looks at Cyndie next, "Listen, maybe we can get past those monsters while the big dude's doing his thing, and we'll gather everyone up to defend themselves. I don't know what's going on, Cyndie, I admit it, but something tells me that we're going to die if we don't move at all."
Glancing back at Tara with a look of fear and determination in her eyes, Cyndie turned her attention back to her grandmother, "Grandma, Tara's right. We need everyone if we're going to survive, and Tara's group can help us as well if what she says is true."
During the Slayer's loud and bloodcurdling rampage, and while almost nauseous at the mere sight of what fear was to her, Natania held the gun that she had and reluctantly motioned it sideways.
"Fine. We can not stay in one spot here any longer." Natania declared, glaring at Tara. "We need to get everyone to the arsenal now. And Tara, just because we're helping, it doesn't mean you're going to have us give up our weapons!"
Tara looked at Natania with a straight yet tense expression as possible to avoid any opposition, "I swear, and I'll speak with Rick if we make it out of here alive together. Nobody's going to die here, and I'll make sure of it."
With that said, Cyndie drew out her dagger alongside Tara, who had one if any walkers were roaming around. Rachel and the three girls stayed huddled together, but Rachel, on the other hand, had still maintained her knife with a firm look. Cyndie knew that keeping the young female survivors inside the cabin while those monsters were out there claiming what's theirs could provoke anxiety.
Or worse, having the witness those things breaking through their homes and eating the children alive. Cyndie shook that thought off her mind as she and the rest of the women and children exited the small cabin. They rushed down and began making their way to the center of Oceanside Cabin Motor Court.
Back where the Slayer was, VEGA had responded to him about Tara's group.
VEGA: {Tara is fleeting away alongside the Oceanside leader. I will track each of their heat signatures for you to pursue once you have to extinguish the remaining demonic presence within this area.}
The Slayer's eyes became narrow as his HUD examines beyond the forest, covered by shadows of the dark, where three shapes commenced their advance. The Slayer redirected his attention when he saw a trio of Hell-Knights, anticipating a piece out of his flesh and bones. One of them lunged ahead, aiming a fist for the Slayer.
Luckily, the Slayer avoided the punch and grabbed its hind leg before using the rest of his momentum to swing the gladiator-like beast away. Another let out a roar from sheer rage, charging at him as well. But only this time, the Slayer was caught off guard until it pins him to the ground, eager to start hitting him with its massive knuckles. Thankfully, this wasn't the first time something like this had happened to the Slayer.
Grabbing the fist in mid-swing, the Slayer used his other arm to punch the Hell-Knight away. Not wasting any time, the Slayer jumped over and got it into a headlock. He immediately twisted and broke its neck, out of force of habit, but showed no mercy for any of these brawny fuckers. The Slayer quickly let the demon corpse go, and he almost charged at the third Hell-Knight lastly, before he saw the first one already up with its attention somewhere else.
It clicked inside the Slayer's head. "I already knew what this fucker was going to find. The rest of the group was within the Oceanside's center of the place."
Jumping into a fighting sprint right after the Hell-Knight, the Slayer was then rammed abruptly by the other demon invader as he beamed at it in surprise for a moment before his eyes glowered red in annoyance. The Slayer mustered every strength he had within until his gloved fists performed a lightning-fast chain series of different hooks and a full-fledged uppercut.
The Hell-Knight got thrown back, and its body impacted violently through a couple of trees. Right until the burly demon was about to get back up, something caught its attention before glaring fearfully at me standing within inches above the Hell-Knight. The Slayer reached into his digital inventory, and with the speed of one who had gone through the motions a million times, pulled out the gauss cannon to blast through the Hell-Knight's facial and torso.
Blood, meat, and bones are just scattered all over the open space of the Oceanside. As far as the Slayer could see, he noticed that the Hell-Knight from before had already left to pursue the Oceanside center. The Slayer's eyebrows twitched violently once again. He has found himself getting annoyed with himself. Not only was the Slayer worked up over Rick's group, but that also wouldn't have caused him to bat an eyelash just a few hours ago. Putting themselves in danger has gifted the Slayer such haste and the overwhelming emotions tackling against his mind with all the delicacy of a battering ram.
VEGA: {We will have to be completely honest to Rick Grimes and tell him the truth. Do not worry about explaining everything. That shall be my part to do so. I will automatically switch on the Praetor Suit's speaker status during the explanation. My proximity sensor should know if the entire group is listening to me.}
The Slayer fully acknowledged that, but their lives are worth it much more. He's aware that this will put him in a tight spot with Rick and his people. But that didn't matter to him because saving everyone always comes first. The Slayer equipped the combat shotgun, now quivering with rage as he stormed right after the missing Hell-Knight.
Heavily alerted by several different shots fired, echoing all over from the greater distance, Rick and the rest of everyone here that including the Oceanside survivors were in the middle of the center.
"W-What's going on?!" One of the children exclaimed in fright.
"Dear Lord, we're not safe here anymore! We're going to die!" An elder woman prayed to herself in a scared tone.
"It's the Saviors! I know it is!"
"Please let this end! Please!"
More feminine voices whispered and shivered in a panic for their lives. They are all now listening to what seems to be a blood-soaked conflict somewhere nearby. Numerous sounds got let off as bullets shooting, things roaring, painful-producing screams, and so forth.
"What the hell is this?!" Francine looked around, startled by all the different noises.
"Rick, it has to be that man doing all this, would it?" Tobin asked the Alexandria leader nearby, who showed confusion across his face.
Rick didn't know what the hell was happening right now while his eyes cautiously jolt everywhere, looking in between his people and the captive Oceanside female group. Daryl, too, was just as frustrated as Rick during his time scoping over his surroundings for any potential danger.
"I knew it," Daryl surmised roughly, shaking his head. "I knew all this has got to be that son of a bitch you took in, Rick. And now, he's shooting all over the place! We're putting an end to that fucker!"
Rick then grits his teeth while narrowing his eyes at Daryl, "Dammit...no, Daryl; you and Jesus go find where he is and bring him back here, alive! I want him to tell me what he's trying to do here. All of this isn't going to waste because of whatever he's doing out there-"
"RICK!"
The former Sheriff pauses himself just as his attention settled towards where he recognizes Tara's voice, accompanied by Natania, Cyndie, and Rachel with the three girls.
"You need to let everyone go and get to the arsenal, right now! We're all dealing with something far worse than what you're doing here at this point!" Natania demanded firmly, nudging Tara's shoulder with the gun, "Tell him now, Tara."
Nodding, Tara looks at Rick, her terrified voice broke down, "Rick, it was terrible! I went to Natania, and then Rachel saw these really strong guys, and then there were even more strong guys. AND THEN BIG GUY BLEW UP ONE OF THEIR HEADS WITH HIS OWN HANDS, AND THEN THERE WAS EVEN MORE STRONG-!"
"Tara!" Rick interrupted tersely, a silence lingering in the air after the pony-tailed woman stopped. "Calm down! You said something about the big guy shooting something around the area, and what do you mean these strong-?"
"Look, the whole plan backfired! We need to get to the guns at the arsenal and get everyone here prepared! There were these things that just came out of nowhere and almost attacked us, but the big guy is fighting them, and he's ripping them apart like it's no big deal!"
As Rick became silent after what Tara just said, Carl comes up and asks, "What things, Tara? Where did the big guy go?"
"Were those the sounds that were coming out of nowhere?" Enid asked Tara.
"What the hell are you talking about with all this bullshit?! He's only going to attract more of those walkers than we've just done! Tell me where he headed off and I'm gonna kill him, Tara!" Daryl questioned and was about to go further as Tara stuttered her words to try explaining.
"B-But, I-I-"
Cyndie interrupts with a yell, "Will you all JUST SHUT UP AND LISTEN! There were these things Rachel saw, and they looked a lot like any of the dead but were different. The walkers had guns on their arms as if they got stuck together, and then there was a walker with a jetpack. It was on the roof to attack us, but a man in this strange armor came rushing up and killed the thing before more of those things were coming to attack!"
"Did you ladies snuck out and left when you did see them coming?" Jesus asked, coming forth if she knew anything else.
"Yes, but I don't know what's going on anymore! We can't stay here and argue when we'll only-"
*ROAR*
"GET AWAY FROM ME! AARON, PLEASE! HELP ME!"
*BANG-BANG-BANG*
To the shocked surprise of everyone, Daryl recognized Eric's terrified voice crying out for Aaron's name while gunshots became heard by the group. His impulses drove him abruptly as the gruff archer races off to the sound with Jesus now following behind Daryl through the forest area.
At that moment, Cyndie zipped over with her dagger to cut loose the restrained Beatrice and Kathy, "Listen, we'll all still help you here and now to get rid of those things!"
As the two female guards got back to their feet, Kathy was the first to speak, "But these people trespassed on our home, Cyndie. How can we trust either of them?"
Cyndie looks back at Kathy and Beatrice before answering, "I trust Tara and she'll trust all of you."
"Then what do we do?" Beatrice asked.
"Beatrice, Kathy! You two lead these people over to the arsenal and gather everyone all our weapons!" Natania directed, and then looks at Rick, "You can help us, but this changes nothing!"
"Alright," Rick bulldozed back into the leader he is at present. "Gabriel, you go along with Carl and Enid to make your way around Oceanside's perimeter to check and see if any threats come ahead. Tobin, your team will follow along with the two women at the arsenal and see if you spot the big guy."
Among everyone affirming their leader with a nod, Tara comes over to Rick, asking, "What about me?"
Rick was about to say, "You and-"
But Natania beats him to it, "Tara will stay here to help me and Cyndie evacuate any of the women and children here who don't want to fight."
"Okay, but what about the big guy-!" Tara tried to speak.
But Cyndie interrupts her talking, "That man from before can most likely take care of himself. Right now, we need to get everyone up and the children safe from those...those demons."
With that getting said, Tara affirmed with a nod along with Rick, who began to motion everyone around him to get to their assigned tactics. Gabriel, Carl, and Enid all raced onward to the Oceanside's perimeter. Then, Tobin leads Francine and Scott alongside Beatrice and Kathy, taking the group to where the community's arsenal remains located. Lastly, Rick looks over at where Michonne's hiding post is and got out his walkie-talkie to speak into it.
"Michonne, I need you to stay put and snipe for any oncoming threats within the area. Try to be safe up there, you hear?"
[I gotcha'. What happened to the big guy?]
"I..." Rick tried to answer with words or even a sentence wouldn't budge out. "...I don't know."
Meanwhile, between Oceanside's arsenal and forest, Eric was busy running as fast as his legs could carry him before gazing back at the combative Hell-Knight, striving against Aaron shooting at its muscular back feet away. Aaron had told Eric to escape someplace safer than here while he could take on this monster alone.
"What the fuck are you-!?" Aaron spoke haltingly.
The man took a few steps back, almost tripping, and witnesses the Hell-Knight's hands ablaze as its hind feet pushed forward into a full charge upon Aaron. A loud snarl fills his ears just where the Hell-Knight unleashed a lunge attack towards Aaron, causing him to leap aside in avoidance of death.
Aaron, in a complete panic, jumps up and starts running the other way, his legs fly until he gets twenty feet. On the other side afar, when Eric hears his boyfriend's bellows of terror and gunshots. He stops dead, tears running down his pale face.
"AARON!" He turns back to help his partner.
Eric runs back, his heart pounding and gasping for breath again until he finds a deep puddle of blood somewhere, torn to shreds. Eric stares in great horror at what he saw were forms of demonic creatures lying around dead.
"Oh...my...go-URP!"
Eric immediately felt bile rising in her throat from the absolute horror and disgust at what he saw through the entire forest, causing him to run over to another side where he proceeded to vomit afterward. His knees buckled as he struggled to stand upright as he puked straight down on the ground. After he finished emptying the contents of his stomach onto the same spot, Eric wiped his mouth with his sleeve as he shuddered at the thought of what he had just seen. That image would become burnt in his memory forever.
"What happened here? What are those things?!" Eric asked himself in thought until a burning projectile came out of nowhere, causing Eric to jolt away in a rush as it incinerated the tree into nothing.
Eric's eyes scrolled over in more terror than ever to see a levitating, spherical, one-eyed monster shooting strange projectiles at the pale man.
It was a Cacodemon.
He gasped in shock as if he was going to collapse from such a vile beast, but he needed to get away and warn the others. Eric's legs took him to the other side and began running for his life, with the Cacodemon hovering after the man eagerly.
Hot heavily breathing beats below on Eric as warmth drips down from the Cacodemon while licking its mouth hungrily. As Eric looked back at the floating demon on the verge of his demise, he suddenly crashed against a tree and fell to the ground roughly. Shaking his head in pain, Eric gazed up only to look horrified as he became face-to-face with the Cacodemon's hanging maw, revealing multiple razor-sharp teeth and a bluish-glowing uvula.
Eric whimpered as he looked away with his eyes closed, accepting that this was the end of his life, feeling dreadful for what will happen to poor Aaron if he finds out about his lover's death.
*BANG-BANG*
Eric's terrified eyes shakily looked over and began to widen in awe, witnessing the Slayer bolting around the area while discharging a few rounds at the Cacodemon. Its painful snarls became much more aggressive before whipping out its elastic tongue around the Slayer's ankle, speedily hoisting up in the air to attempt on catching him within its feasting jaws.
The Slayer blankly growled before he snatched out his chainsaw and rived it up, purposely driving himself down in a spiral until the shredding chain-blades slashed through the Cacodemon's eyeball. The chainsaw roared during the monster's agony.
The Slayer beamed while spitting plentiful amounts of blue blood and intestines upon impact with the ground of clouded dust. At that moment, Eric covered his eyes from the large dust blasting around the forest at ease before it becomes transparent again. His eyes saw the Slayer coming forth with the chainsaw in his hands.
"Oh, my god..."
As Eric watches the Slayer switch from his chainsaw to the usual combat shotgun, the marine hauled him by the arm and up to his feet. Before Eric could get a chance to express his gratitude, the Slayer kept the man with him as they began moving through the forest to find the others. And maybe even earn a loud scolding from them eventually at an appropriate time.
A/N: [And here you go, folks. Sorry for the long wait. Again, I hope you guys enjoyed it. Please review, and leave your thoughts. Also, let me know what other kind of cool monsters you want to see!]