The trip off of the homestead was fairly quiet and semi uneventful. If one could count winding up parked in front of a herd with their driver quickly scrambling out of the vehicle along with one of the guys from the back- uneventful. The moment that they had come across the herd, Rick and Daryl and Glen had all tensed up.

Call them crazy but seeing a bunch of walkers staggering and stumbling along the road towards them, with numbers in the hundreds, made them feel more then a tad bit uncomfortable. Especially considering that the damned things could sense and smell them through the flimsy glass and steel of the compact vehicle that they were sitting in.

And when Ali sighed and quietly slipped from the car with Jared not too far behind, they had become even more ill at ease with everything.

"What are they doing?" Rick demanded in his most authoritive tone. Yet he received no answer from Sin or Ren. In fact the two didn't look or seem overly concerned at all about their friends. Which was unusual since they were fairly protective of Ali at the very least.

Both because of her past and because of her being their leader.

"They need to get back in the car!" He heard Daryl say in a hushed and semi panicked tone while Rick silently agreed with him and simply sat in his seat, his hand anxiously gripping his gun and watching to see what it was that Ali and Jared were going to do.

From the semi relaxed way the two were standing, it would seem as if the hoard heading their way didn't seem like a threat to them.

But that was insane. Of course the damned things were a threat.

They attacked, killed and ate people! That alone made them a much bigger threat than their seemingly weak appearance led them all to first believe.

Rick narrowed his eyes a little bit as Ali turned her head and said something to Jared and then turned back to face the hoard which was now almost upon them and then did the stupidest, most surprising thing.

Instead of moving back to get back into the vehicle, the girl bolted forward towards the walkers.

Breaking through the first few lines of bodies and quickly disappeared as something that looked like blades attached to long leather ropes appeared in Jared's hands at which point the man began to slowly spin them so that the ropes were moving in a wide circle on both sides of him before they picked up speed. Gradually causing the blades at the ends of the leather ropes to begin to sing loudly enough for everyone in the car to hear them.

There were several snarls from some of the closer walkers before they made some sort of attempt to get in close to the man, but were easily cut down when he finally took up a stance and began to cleave out a path through them.

The stance was unfamiliar to him. But Glen must have seen something like it before from somewhere, because the man was incredibly impressed. Especially by the fact that Jared was managing to take out the walkers without leaving himself open and vulnerable.

They watched him almost single handedly wipe out the first half of the walkers in the hoard when Daryl noticed that the rest of them were missing and was quick to point out that their broken bodies were littering the ground half a mile from where Jared was standing.

It was at this point that Ren muttered, "Ali's been busy. I know that she can be destructive, but I think that was a little bit overboard."

"Well attacking the hoard from two spots was really the best way to thin out the numbers to allow us safe passage," Sin finally said as he leaned up a bit and rested his arms on the back of the front seat between Rick and Daryl before then saying, "Of course it goes without saying that we will not mention this incident to Hina. The man would skin each of us alive if he knew that we allowed Ali to place herself in danger. Especially when she may already be carrying the next generation of his kin."

Rick and Daryl both looked over their shoulder at the man and then exchanged a glance with each other, both of them silently agreeing to stick close to the girl if for no other reason than to prevent themselves from taking the blame for someone else's foolishness.

Turning their heads back to the front, they saw Ali walking up to Jared and watched as the man pulled something that looked like wet wipes out of his jean pocket and began to wipe at her face and neck in an effort to clean some of the mess off of her while he chided her.

"Honestly Ali, what were you thinking dashing off like that? We aren't in $%^&* anymore, you can't go running off everytime you want to. Especially now. What would Hina say if he found out about this little stunt of yours?"

"I dunno, something along the lines of, 'You put her in danger. Die!'"

"Don't even joke about that!"

"I'm not. He'd really kill the lot of you if he knew," She said as she opened the door to the car and climbed back in again before closing her door and restarting the vehicle and waited patiently while Jared climbed back in before finally saying, "So it's understandable that you lot would save your own skins by saying nothing. Now that that is out of the way, lets go check on the others. I have a feeling that something may be going on that I'm not going to like." She said as the car started moving again as Daryl leaned back a little bit in his seat and whisper/asked,

"She wouldn't really sic that giant fella on us would she?"

There was a chorus of 'yes's from Sin, Jared. Both of whom didn't seem terribly concerned one way or another. Possibly either because Ali was bluffing or the big guy wouldn't really hurt them. But the rest of them was a different matter entirely and Daryl and Rick for one were in no hurry to test the giants temper anytime soon.