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.
mcgman651 I'm glad you liked the chapter. :)
1. I'm glad you liked the stuff with Noah and Glenn in this episode. I felt it would be a good friendship moment between these two :)
2. Interesting predictions regarding Dwayne and Junior. You'll have to wait and see if you're right, though.
3. I can't promise Dawn (the same goes for Zoey) will end up surviving this story. It's The Walking Dead, after all.
Brendan: I hope you'll like this chapter! :)
ThEndymam: Interesting predictions :)
rickgrimesdarlydixonglennrhee: I'm looking forward to writing this episode :)
Leshawna looked around herself, letting out a deep nervous breath as she did so. The situation she had found herself in alongside Bridgette, Maggie and Carol was far from good to say the least. After the alarm sounded from the Saviors headquarters sounded from the said building, all four of them knew something must have went wrong during their operation of wiping out the Saviors before they will find them.
Maggie and Bridgette immediately pushed themselves into run towards the Saviors headquarters, having grown worried for Glenn and Geoff as soon as they heard the alarm. Carol had to stop the two pregnant woman from reaching the Saviors headquarters. Leshawna fought an urge of joining them, having grown worried for Harold. She stopped herself from joining them and instead helped Carol in stopping Maggie and Bridgette from rushing into the fight between their group and the Saviors as she knew she didn't have to rush there as she knew her sugarbaby was capable of looking after himself.
Once they stopped Maggie an Bridgette from rushing into the Saviors headquarters, another problem for their small group arose, because it was when they were attacked by a group of the Saviors who weren't in their headquarters for some reason with a ginger haired woman named Paula on the lead. Their attack took Leshawna, Maggie, Carol and Bridgette by suprise, forcing the four of them to surrender.
The four of them were taken closer to the Saviors headquarters right after they were taken captive by Paula's group. All of them stopped in front of the fence as Paula pulled out a pair of binoculars and looked through it at the building on the other side of the fence, trying to locate someone from either her group or Leshawna, Maggie, Carol and Bridgette's group.
She didn't have to search for long as a gunshot echoed from the distance. She immediately shifted her attention to the source of it and saw Daryl getting himself on top of the man who had just fallen off of a motorcycle. She allowed herself to take a good look at the scene, quickly recognizing the man from the motorcycle as someone she knew while Rick's group quickly gathered around him and aimed their guns at him.
"Damn it, they've got Primo." Paula said, not taking her eyes off the scene as she reached her hand towards the only man in her group who was standing next to her, "Give me the walkie."
The man next to her nodded and handed her the walkie-talkie, looking at the questioningly as he did so, "What's happening?"
Paula clicked the walkie-talkie she had just gotten her hands on and lifted it up to her mouth, "Lower your gun, prick. You, with the Colt Python. All of you, lower your weapons right now."
"Come on out." Rick's voice echoed from the walkie-talkie right after, "Let's talk."
"How many we got?" An old woman in her 60's wanted to know.
"Fourteen in sight." Paula replied, "Too many for us to handle."
"No, we can take 'em. We took more." The man disagreed.
Paula clicked her walkie-talkie again, "We're not coming out, but we will talk." She shifted her gaze to Leshawna, Maggie, Carol and Bridgette, "Names." When all four of them remained silent, she repeated herself, this time sounding way more demanding, "Names!"
"I'm Maggie." Maggie introduced herself and gestured to Bridgette, Leshawna and Carol, "They're Bridgette, Carol and Leshawna."
Paula shifted her attention back to Rick's group on the other side of the fence, "We've got a Carol, a Leshawna, a Bridgette and a Maggie. I'm thinking that's something you want to chat about. Now, we're gonna work this out right now, and it's going to go our way."
"You can see we have one of yours." Rick said as Chef and Daryl picked up Primo from the ground and held him out in front of them for Paul and her group to see, "We'll trade."
"I'm listening." Paul voiced her interest in the idea.
"First I want to talk to Maggie, Bridgette, Leshawna and Carol, make sure they're all right." Rick demanded.
"I'm gonna put you on. You say you're fine." Paula said as she turned around to look at Maggie, Bridgette, Leshawna and Carol. A walker came walking towards their group, but an old woman quickly took care of it before it did any harm. She stepped closer to Maggie, Bridgette, Leshawna and Carol, holding her walkie-talkie towards them with a threatening look on her face, "I'll know if you try anything else."
"Rick, it's Carol." Carol quickly spoke up to Rick, "I'm- I'm fine, but..."
Paula interrupted her before she could say more and held the walkie-talkie out to Bridgette, "Now you."
"Rick, it's Bridgette." Bridgette said, doing her best to hide how nervous she was right now, "All of us are okay."
Paula quickly moved the walkie-talkie away from her, seeing no reason in letting Maggie and Leshawna speak after Bridgette already confirmed all four of them were alright, "You have your proof. Let's talk."
"This is the deal right here." Rick replied, "Let 'em go, you can have your guy back and live."
"Four for one, that's not much of a trade." Paula stated.
"You don't have another choice or you would've done something about it already." Rick pointed out.
"We have to get him back." The man said.
"Primo can take care of himself." Paula replied.
"He can patch me up." The man pointed out, gesturing to his wounded arm as he glared at Carol, "I need him, thanks to that lost your balls, Paula. You should've shot her in the head so they could hear her die.
"If you could just shut up, I'll solve this." Paula told him to shush, growing annoyed by his whining.
"Then make the deal or we go in." The man continued, ignoring Paula telling him to shut up.
"She said shut up, so shut it." An old woman told him, annoyed by his whining as much as Paula was, "You should be glad she doesn't have a sack of gonads to trip over."
"Look, I know you're talking it over. It's a fair trade." Rick said, "Just come out, we do this, we all walk away."
"Smug prick." A black haired woman said, aiming her pistol at Leshawna, Bridgette, Maggie and Carol to ensure they won't try anything funny, "He must think we're stupid."
"That's a good thing." Paula stated, seeing how it could work in the benefit of her and her group.
"Do we have a deal?" Rick asked.
Paula titled her head to her left, hearing the walkers approaching her and her group from this direction, "I'll get back to you."
She turned around to look at the black haired woman and nodded at her, letting her know what do without saying any words to her. The black haired woman nodded back at her, immediately understanding what she wanted her to do. She made sure to cover Leshawna, Bridgette, Carol and Maggie's eyes as Paula moved towards the approaching walkers, wanting to get rid of them.
The last thing Carol saw before the black haired woman covered her eyes was Paul swinging her knife at the walker in front of her...
Leshawna, Bridgette, Carol and Maggie had no idea where they were brought by Paul's group. They had their eyes covered for the entire road to the place they had been brought into by the people holding them hostage. None of them could ask Paula where she had brought them with her group as they had been gagged by her group shorty after she finished her conversation with Rick, preventing them from uttering a word.
All four of them had their eyes uncovered shorty after they were brought to this place by their captors. The first thing Maggie saw upon having her eyes uncovered was a head of a walker that was pierced through the back of it's head with Paula's knife. It was held close to her almost like Paula was trying to give her a message that she shouldn't try anything funny otherwise she will share this walker's fate, before Paula pulled her knife out of it's head.
"Get on the ground." Paula ordered Maggie, Carol, Bridgette and Leshawna as soon as the walker hit the floor. She pointed her knife at Maggie, before pointing on the wall on the left, "You there."
Having no other choice, Maggie complied to her orders and walked over to the wall on the left, before sitting down on the floor. The black haired woman walked over to the two gas cans next to Maggie and picked them up, before carrying them out of the room as Paula ordered Carol, Bridgette and Leshawna where they should sit down. In the end, Maggie and Bridgette ended up on the left side of the room and Leshawna and Carol ended up sitting on the right side of the room, with a deceased walker laying between them.
Paula sit down next to Carol and pulled out a duct tape out of of her beg. She started wrapping it around Carol's legs with the intention of bounding them together, ensuring she won't try to escape and spoke up to the people she was holding hostage, "You're wondering if there's a way out of this. There isn't. Not unless I say so."
After she was done with bounding Carol's legs, Paula walked over to Leshawna and did the same to her as the black haired woman returned to the room. She grabbed the deceased walker by it's legs, beginning to carry it out of the room as Paula stepped closer to Maggie and Bridgette and wasted no time in making sure the two of them had their legs bounded, just like Carol and Leshawna.
"Paula, I need backup!" A female voice called out for Paula from the other side of the building, with the snarling of the multiple walkers sounding in the background at the same time.
Paula looked away from Bridgette, having just finished bounding her legs together and got herself into a standing position. She pulled out her pistol and aimed it between Leshawna, Bridgette, Carol and Maggie in a threatening manner, "I want to kill all four of ou right 's taking all I have not to, so go ahead, I dare you, try something. Just see what happens."
She ran out of the room right after, intending to help her comrades with the walker problem they had come across. She closed the door behind her, leaving Bridgette, Leshawna, Maggie and Carol alone in the room. The gunshots echoed from the direction Paula had just went into several seconds later as Maggie and Leshawna immediately started working on getting themselves out of their makeshift cell. They started trying to cut their bonds on the on the edge of a wall on their sides of the room as Carol found rosary beads on the floor and hid them in her pocket.
It was when the gunshots ceased and Maggie and Leshawna quickly gave up on what they were doing, realizing it was pointless for now because they figured out Paula and her comrades will come back soon as Carol let out a deep breath, followed by another one and another one. Maggie and Leshawna raised their brows at Carol, unsure whether she was faking it or not as Bridgette looked at Carol with concern written all over her face.
"When's the last time anyone checked this place?" Paula asked, having the man's hand wrapped around her shoulder as she walked back into the room, followed by the old woman and the black haired woman.
"It was fine a month ago." The black haired woman replied.
"Sweetie, that was a month ago." The old woman pointed out as the man sat down on the floor, "Shit hards quick. The gun have gone bye-bye, the food's gone bye-bye, and we got growlers up and down the halls."
"Means people can get through, too. Maybe we should get gone." The man said as Paula crouched down in front of him and his wounded arm.
"Carol!" Maggie's muffled voice called out for Carol as Carol continued hyperventilating, not giving her any answer. Leshawna and Bridgette called out for her as well, growing more worried for her, but the effects were the same.
"Yeah? Where the hell to?" The old woman replied, ignoring what was going on with Carol right now.
"Nowhere." Paula replied, "Got dead in the halls? Free security. Those assholes get here before our people, the cold bloods will buy us some time."
The old man turned to look at Carol with an annoyed look on her gave, knowing she couldn't ignore her loud breathing for any longer as she found it too annoying for her to ignore for any longer, "Shut up."
"Jesus, it's bleeding." The man shook his head, "It's not supposed to keep bleeding."
Paula looked over her shoulder at the old woman, "Molly, give me the rope."
"I'm not losing it." The man once again shook his head as Molly did as she was told and handed Paula a rope, "I'm not."
The black haired woman shook her head at his behaviour, "So you grind it out. Jesus, Donnie."
"Screw you, Michelle!" Donnie glared at Michelle as Paul started wrapping a rope around his wounded arm. He shifted his gaze back to Paula right after and looked at her with a pleading look on his face, "We have to get him back. He can fix it. We have to, Paula."
"No." Paula shook her head at his pleading, "I saw them, you didn't. They took the place down, they got the guns, they'll kill us, too."
Leshawna shifted her gaze to Paula's group, hoping she will gain their attention "Hey!"
"I'm not going down like that, not after making it this far." Paula continued, paying no attention to Leshawna's cry.
"Hey!" Leshawna repeated herself as Carol continued to hyperventilate.
Paula walked over to the Leshawna and removed her gag, glaring down at her, "What?"
"The sister's hyperventilating." Leshawna explained as she pointed at Carol, "Somebody needs to take her gag off."
"Sister?" Molly couldn't help herself and laughed at the way Leshawna referred to Carol, "Where are you from? From the ghetto or something?"
"Yeah?" Leshawna nodded in confirmation, narrowing her eyes at how amused Molly seemed by her confirmation. She fought an urge to ask her if she had a problem with that, knowing how idiotic it would be of her right now.
Paula shifted her attention to Carol, allowing herself to take a better look at the state the short haired woman was in right now and shrugged her shoulders with an annoyed look on her face. She shifted her attention to Molly and nodded her, telling her to remove the gag. Molly nodded back at her, understanding her order and stepped closer to Carol, irritation replacing her amusement.
"She's a nervous little bird, ain't she?" The old man asked as she removed Carol's gag, allowing the short haired woman to let out a inhale.
Michelle stepped closer to Carol and aimed her pistol at her, "Look at you. Bitch, how did you make it this far?"
"Honey, you need to take some yoga breaths and calm your ass down." Molly instructed Carol as Carol continued to let out one deep breath after another.
It was when something caught her attention in Carol's pocket. She reached into it right after and pulled out the rosary beads Carol had hid in her pockets a few moments ago. She handed the rosary beads to Carol as Carol held the rosary beads up for her and everyone else in the room to see, beginning to calm down a little. Molly looked down at her with an annoyed look on her face.
"Oh. You're one of those." The old woman said as she turned away from Carol. Leshawna, Bridgette and Maggie continued to watch Carol with raised brows.
"Remove the gags of the other two too." Paula ordered.
"Will do." Molly nodded as she walked over Maggie and removed her gag, before walking over to Bridgette and doing the same to her.
Paula stepped closer to Carol and looked down at her questioningly, putting her hands on her hips, "What are you so afraid of?" Carol remained silent, earning an amused huff from Paula, "Are you actually afraid to die?" She scoffed, "All this and you're scared of getting your ticket punched."
"It doesn't matter what happens to me." Carol replied, a lone tear falling down her cheek, "Just don't hurt Maggie and Bridgette. Don't hurt the babies."
Paula turned away from Carol and shifted her gaze between Maggie and Bridgette, "Yeah, right."
"They both got a bun in the oven and neither of them look like it." Donnie stated.
"I'm only two months, I think." Maggie replied.
Bridgette nodded in confirmation, "Same here."
Paula shook her head, looking at Maggie and Bridgette like they were idiots, "You're some kind of stupid, getting knocked up at a time like this."
"When was it ever smart to get knocked up?" Maggie asked, "Women used to just die in childbirth and they always thought the world was gonna end. Living through it, why would you just give up?"
"But are you gonna live through it?" Paula asked as Maggie remained silent. She shifted her gaze to Bridgette, "What about you?" The silence Bridgette gave her was the only answer she needed to get, "Anyway, that's cute. Babies are the point. Children are our future. Making bite-size snacks for the dead. The point is to stay standing."
"No." Bridgette shook her head, "Walkers do that. I'm choosing something and the same goes for Maggie."
"That's right." An amused smile grew on Paula's face, "You are. You did. Both of you."
She turned away from them and walked out of the room, leaving Leshawna, Bridgette, Carol and Maggie in the room with Molly, Donnie and Michelle. Donnie groaned in painas Molly pulled out a pack of cigarettes as she walked over to the corner of the room and put a single cigarette between her teeth. She lifted up a lighter up to the cigarette and used it to light it up, before letting out a few coughs.
"The babies." Carol pointed out they were two pregnant women in the room right now.
Molly laughed at her, letting out a few coughs as she did so, "Honey, in case you haven't noticed, you've got bigger problems than a little secondhand smoke."
"It still a secondhand smoke smoke." Leshawna pointed out, agreeing with Carol.
Molly shifted her gaze to Leshawna and let out an amused laugh, "Since when do your people care about stuff like this?"
Leshawna narrowed her eyes at her, "What's the supposed to mean?"
"You know exactly what I'm saying, sista." Molly replied with an amused look on her face, "After all, this is what your type of people are known for."
Leshawna glared at Molly as soon as she heard her remark, "My type of people?"
"Molls." Michelle called out for Molly.
Molly looked at her comrade and saw the look she was giving her right now. The old woman shook her head, putting out her smoke with her finger, "Y'all are worse than a bunch of evangelical second graders."
"Those things'll kil you." Carol pointed out as Molly pulled out a white towel and coughed a few times into it.
"They already have." Molly replied, showing off her bloodied up towel, "I'm a dead woman walking. Which puts us in exactly the same boat."
Several minutes have passed and the room was silent for most of the time, with Molly occasionally letting out a cough or two. The silence in the room was eventually broken by Donnie. The wounded man let out a painful groan, followed by another much more groans. His painful groans earned Paula's attention as she made her way back to the room to check on him.
"My arm feels like it's on fire." He explained to Paula how he was feeling right now as Paul crouched down in front of ihm.
"You pull that off, you gonna be nothing but a spigot." Molly pointed out.
"Okay, hold on." Paula told Donnie as Donnie let out another painful groan, "Scout crew is coming. They're 30 minutes out, maybe less."
"He doesn't have 30 minutes." Bridgette said, making everyone look at her, "His nerves are dying. If he doesn't get medical help, he's gonna lose his arm, maybe his life." She paused for a second, debating with herself whether she should tell them she was a doctor or now. She ultimately decided to hide the truth from her, figuring out it will be better for her, her baby and her group, "...I'm not a doctor, but my Maggie's lost his leg, and I know that much."
"She's telling the truth." Maggie nodded in confirmation, "Your man, Primo, you think he can help you? It's time to end this. Talk to Rick."
"30 minutes." Paula told Donnie to hang out, paying no attention to Maggie and Bridgette's words as she got up from her crouching position.
Donnie let out a deep breath as he glared at Carol. He slowly got himself back on his feet and stepped closer to the short haired woman, "You know my problem?" He stopped in front of Carol, his glare not leaving his face, "She did this to me. She did it and she's just sitting there right as rain, fully intact."
"Hey." Paula called out for him, trying to make him shush.
"No, you're not gonna make the trade." Donnie replied, his eyes not leaving Carol as he put his hand on his holstered pistol, "And we just do 'em all now."
Paula walked over to him and stopped next to him, "No, we wait for the others. We have to be smart. We need insurance."
"Then shoot her in the arm, too." Donnie replied.
Paula chuckled, "No."
"You really gonna stick up for some gutless bitch over me?" Donnie asked as he shifted his glare to Paula. He clutched his wounded arm right after, feeling another wave of pain go through his body, "God damn it!"
"Shut up." Paula once again told him to shush.
"Don't push me, Paula." Donnie replied, letting out another painful groan.
"Shut up!" Paula repeated herself.
Having enough of Paula ordering him around and ignoring in how much pain he was in right now, Donnie clenched his fist and swung it at Paula, hitting her in the cheek. Paula stepped backwards at the sudden punch as Donnie looked down at Carol, intending to have his revenge on her. Seeing this, Maggie quickly took action and wrapped her legs around her right leg, making him fall to the floor.
Donnie quickly brought himself back on his feet and grabbed Maggie by her hair, glaring at her as Leshawna quickly stood up from the floor at the view of it and shoved herself at Donnie, freeing Maggie from his grasp. Maggie headbutted Donnie, pushing him closer to Leshawna as Leshawna hit him in the back of his head with her bounded arms, knocking him out.
Paula got herself back on her feet, pressing her hand against her now bruised cheek, "Your group really is kind of stupid." She shifted her gaze to Michelle, "Take them out. See if they knows anything. Should've done that before."
"Move." Michelle ordered as she pointed her pistol between Leshawna and Maggie. Maggie and Leshawna exchanged glances with each other and complied to her demands, walking out of the room. Michelle followed them, keeping her pistol aimed at her.
Leshawna and Maggie sat down next to each other right after Michelle brought them to a room in some other part of the building they were in right now. The two of them managed to get a better look at the building they had been brought into by Paula's room when Michelle was taking them to this place, but unfortunely the two of them still haven't figured out where they were right now.
Michelle sat down in front of them and kept her pistol at them as she started her interrogation, "You got nice clothes, time to make babies. You're holed up somewhere good. Tell me where."
Leshawna remained silent, refusing to give Michelle any information regarding her home as Maggie stayed silent as well for the same reason. The Greene turned away from Michelle right after and looked to the side. She lowered her head and gagged, looking like she was about to vomit. It turned out to be false alarm a few seconds later as she looked back at Michelle.
Leshawna looked at Maggie in worry, "You alright, sister?"
"Yeah." Maggie nodded, "False alarm."
Leshawna nodded in understanding, "Okay."
"Don't draw this out, you two." Michelle glared at them with an irritated look on her face, "Just tell me where. Help yourself, the baby in your belly and the baby in Bridgette's belly. She leaned closer to them, "The way you stay alive is you produce for us. You're not the good guys. You should know that."
She winced in pain before either Maggie or Leshawna could answer to her demands. She knew exactly where this pain was coming from. She looked at her right hand which had a bandage wrapped around her right hands little finger. She unwrapped the bandage right after, revealing herself to have been missing her finger as Leshawna and Maggie looked at her missing finger with evident on their faces.
"Damn, girl." Leshawna said, "What happened to you?"
"I stole something." Michelle replied and wrapped the bandage around her missing finger "Got caught."
"What?" Maggie asked.
"Gas, from this place." Michelle answered.
Leshawna raised her brow, "Why?"
"To get a new car." Michelle explained, "Look for my boyfriend's body."
"Did you find him?" Maggie asked as Leshawna nodded her head at the question.
"He was blown up. Not much to find." Michelle responded.
Maggie looked at Michelle and saw a tattoo with a name of her arm, "Frankie. Was that his name?"
"Hell, no. I barely knew him. He was a dick. " Michelle shook her head, "Frank was my dad. And that's what I was gonna name the baby.
"I'm sorry." Maggie offered Michelle her condolences.
"No." Michelle replied, "You aren't."
"I'm not planning to die today." Maggie said.
"Neither am I." Leshawna added.
"Same here." Michelle replied, "Thing is, someone from this room is wrong. Just tell me where."
The room was mostly silent after Michelle took Maggie and Leshawna out of it to interrogate them about their group. Donnie was still unconscious from the punch Leshawna had given him, Carol and Bridgette silently stared at Paula and Molly, exchanging glances with each other every few seconds and Molly took a look at Paula's bruised cheek and patched it up with the little stuff their group.
"Have you thought about it? Talk to me." Rick's voice sounded from Paula's walkie-talkie
Paula took her walkie-talkie and lifted it up to her mouth, "You weren't listening. I said I'd contact you.
"Would it make a difference if I said I was sorry about that?" Rick asked.
"What do you think?" Paula replied, sounding like she was just asked the most obvious question in her life.
"I think we're gonna make the trade, so tell me where." Rick offered his thoughts on the matter.
"We haven't agreed to that." Paula pointed out.
"You will." Rick replied.
"You know what? I'm not so sure." Paula stated, "We'd be taking most of the risk, not getting much in the way of a reward."
"The other option won't work out for you." Rick pointed out.
"We'll take our chances." Paula responded.
Bridgette sighed, "You don't have to do this. You don't have to fight."
Molly glared at her, "Your people killed all of my people. Of course we gotta fight. Why weren't you there with your group in the first place? It couldn't have been just because of the pregnancy."
Bridgette lowered her gaze to the floor, "I just can't bring myself to kill other people. I understand why my people have to do it, but I can't do it myself."
Molly let out a humorless laugh, "You can't kill other people, but are okay with other people doing it for you? What kind of a bitch are you? I now feel bad for listening to your friend as I just wasted a cigarette."
"We didn't want to kill your people." Carol spoke up.
Paula turned around to look at her, seeing how Carol was seconds away from bursting into tears, "But you did. So tell me why."
Carol couldn't contain her tears for any longer and started crying, "Your people ambushed my people on the road, tried to take everything we had. They were gonna kill them."
"Well, damn." Molly said, "So now we know what happened to T's group. Those idiots. Probably put on a big show."
"Okay, fair play." Paula nodded at Carol, seeing a point in her way of thinking as Molly pulled out another cigarette and lit it up before putting it between her teeth, not caring Bridgette was still in the room as she was still angered by her way of thinking, "You were just defending yourselves. But, see, your people killed them on the road, right? Blew them to pieces. So, why not stop?"
"They said they were working for Negan." Carol explained.
"And what do you think you know about Negan?" Paula wanted to know.
"He sounded like a maniac." Carol explained, "We were scared. We had to stop him."
Molly shook her head with an amused look on her face, "Sweetie, sweetie. We are all Negan."
"What do you mean?" Bridgette asked, confused by what the old woman meant as Molly let out a few more coughs, "What does that mean?"
Carol looked up at the cigarette between Molly's teeth, "Can I have one?"
Molly looked at her with an impressed look on her face, "Well, look at you, little bird. I didn't think you approved."
"I don't." Carol replied.
Molly pointed at Bridgette, "What about Ms. I'm okay with killing as long as I don't have to do it myself and her baby."
"It's okay." Bridgette answered, "One cigarette won't do anything to my baby. If it will help Carol calm down, then she can have one."
"What a great sacrifice your friend." Molly laughed as she pulled out a single cigarette from her pack and put it in Carol's mouth. She pulled out her lighter right after and used it to light up the cigarette between Carol's teeth.
"You are weak. What are you so afraid of?" Paula asked Carol, "So scared, you can't even stick to your own principles."
"You don't want me to stick to my own principles." Carol replied.
Paula sighed, "I was a secretary before. I fetched coffee for my boss and made him feel good about himself. I spent most of my days reading stupid inspirational e-mails to try and feel good about myself. There was this one that kept going around. A young woman was having a hard time and told her mom she wanted to give up, so her mom went to the kitchen and started boiling three pots of water. She put a carrot in one, an egg in another, and ground coffee beans in the last one. After they had boiled a while, her mom said, "Look, all three things went through the same boiling water. The carrot went in strong and came out soft. The egg was fragile and came out the coffee beans changed the water itself." You're supposed to want to be the coffee beans. See, to me, coffee was just a thing that my boss would drink up. No matter how many times I refilled his damn cup, it was just never enough. I was at work when the Army took over DC. We weren't allowed to leave. They had to evacuate all the important people first- members of Congress, government employees. So I was stuck with my boss. Not my family- my husband, my four girls. My boss was weak and stupid and he was going to die and he was going to take me down, too. He was the first person I kill so that I could live. I stopped counting when I hit double digits. That's right around the time I stopped feeling bad about it. I am not like you. I'm still me, but better. I lost everything and it made me stronger."
"You sure about that?" Carol asked.
"I'm alive." Paula replied.
"With those people, those killers." Carol pointed out.
"Your people are killers, Carol." Paula pointed out in return, "That makes you a killer."
"You." Carol said, "You're the one."
Paula looked at her with a confused look on her face, "Excuse me?"
You're the one who's afraid to die." Carol stated, "And you're going to. You will die. It's what's gonna happen if you don't work this out."
"Are you going to kill me?" Paula asked.
"I hope not." Carol gave her an honest answer.
Paula stared at Carol for a few seconds, seeing the short haired woman was completely serious right now. She reached for her walkie-talkie and lifted it up to her mouth right after, "Asshole, are you there?"
"I'm here." Rick's voice echoed from her walkie-talkie right after.
"We've thought about it. We want to make the trade." Paula informed him.
"That's good." Rick replied.
"There's a large field with a sign that says "God is dead" about two miles down I-66. Good visibility in all directions." Paula informed him about a perfect place for the trade.
"We'll meet you there. 10 minutes?" Rick asked.
"10 minutes." Paula nodded, ending her conversation with Rick. She hummed to herself right after, "Mm-mm. Now, that was too easy."
"Maybe they're just itching to get their people back." Molly stated.
Paula shook her head at the theory, "No, there was no static. There should've been static. They're close. They're probably already here. We were careful, but there were tracks. There had to be. They killed everybody back home. They have the weapons. They know what they're doing. They're probably waiting to kill us as soon as we walk out those doors. That's what we'd do."
"No." Carol shook her head as Paula looked down at her, "You have to listen to me, please. Rick is a man of his word. He wouldn't put me, Bridgette, Leshawna and Maggie at risk to attack."
"Then he's just as stupid as you are." Paula stated as she clicked her walkie-talkie a few times, contacting the Saviors on their way to this place, "What's your ETA?"
"A few minutes away, but the car is running on fumes." An unknown male voice sounded in the radio a few seconds later.
"We have gas. We'll fill you up and then we move. Radio when you're back in the perimeter." Paula told him.
"Copy that." The man in the walkie-talkie voiced his understanding.
"We gotta get ready." Paula said to Molly, beginning to prepare herself for the arrival of the reinforcements she had just spoken with, "Pull 'Chelle out so she doesn't get stuck in a fight. We have to be ready to move at any second."
"What about these two?" Molly asked, referring to Carol and Bridgette.
"Leave them for now." Paula replied, holstering her pistol, "If we leave, we travel light and if the pricks are here, we pick 'em off at the door."
Molly nodded in understanding, "Alright."
Paula walked over to the door next to Carol and opened it, letting a single walker into the room. She quickly stabbed it through the head with her knife and walked out of the room, "Molls, we need this hall clear."
Molly nodded as she followed her out of the room, making sure to close the door behind her and left Bridgette and Leshawna alone in the room. Carol watched them leave and nodded to herself, knowing it was time to act. She quickly started rubbing rosary beads against the floor, sharpening the cross. After making sure it was sharp enough, she used it to cut the tape keeping her hands bounded.
She quickly made her way to Bridgette and used the sharpened cross to cut her bounds as well. After making sure both of them were freed from their bounds, Carol and Bridgette walked out of the room through the same door Paula and Molly used a few moments ago. They followed the track of the dead bodies left by the two of them and came across Molly who had just killed a walker.
After locating Molly and learning which path they shouldn't take, the two of them turned away from her and went in the opposite direction, beginning to look for Maggie and Leshawna. They looked through the window into every room they came across in search for the two members of their group, managing to find them a few moments later. The two of them walked into one room, seeing how Maggie and Leshawna were trying to free themselves from their bounds.
Bridgette closed the door behind her and Carol as Carol walked over to Maggie and quickly freed her from her bounds, before doing the same to Leshawna. After making sure both of them were free, she wrapped her arms around Maggie as Bridgette walked over to Leshawna and wrapped her arms around her, all four of them gladdened to see all of them were alright.
"You alright, sister?" Leshawna asked as Bridgette freed her from the hug.
Bridgette nodded at her, "Yeah. Thanks to Carol."
"What do we do now?" Leshawna asked.
"They've spread out, but I think we can make it past them." Carol replied, releasing Maggie from the hug she had just given her, "We have to try."
"We can't leave them alive." Maggie said.
Carol shook her head at the suggestion, "No, we should just go."
"She's right, Carol." Leshawna agreed with Carol, "We have to finish this. We have to."
Carol sighed, "How are we going to do this?"
"The guy who was knocked out by Leshawna had a gun. We should go get it before he wakes up." Maggie replied.
Carol, Leshawna and Bridgette nodded at her. The group of four made their way to the room where they have brought by Paula's group and saw Donnie was still laying on the floor. Maggie walked over to him and crouched down before checking his pulse and learning he was death. It was when the group of four got an idea how to use Donnie's body as a trap for Molly, Paula and Michelle.
Molly let out a few coughs as she made her way to the room where she and Paula had left Carol and Bridgette in. She grabbed the door handle upon arriving at the door and pushed the door open, feeling how her eyes widened just a second as a walker Donnie shoved himself at her. Donnie grabbed her arm and bit into it, bitting out a piece of flesh as Molly gritted her teeth in pain and stabbed him in the head, killing him for good.
"Eat shit and die, Donnie!" She glared at the deceased body of Donnie as Donnie dropped to the floor. She looked around the room with an enranged look on her face, knowing it was a trap set by their hostages, "Where are ya, Magnolia? Or you? You nigger bitch? I wanna bloody up that..."
She didn't got a chance to finish what she was saying as Leshawna attacked her from behind. She grabbed her from behind and took her knife away from her. She stabbed her in the stomach and pulled out her knife. Molly clutched her bleeding stomach and collapsed on the floor as Leshawna wasted no time and stabbed her in the head a few times, making sure she stayed down. She pulled the bloody knife out of Molly's head a few seconds later, glaring down at her lifeless body.
"Stay down, you racist bitch." She told her and turned around to look at Maggie, Bridgette and Carol who were standing behind her, "Let's go."
Maggie, Bridgette and Carol nodded at her as Leshawna walked out of the room, making sure to close the door behind her. The four of them wasted no time and headed further into the building in search of Michelle and Paula as Paula made her way to the room several seconds later, her eyes immediately catching the sight of Molly and Donnie's lifeless body.
She clenched her hand in anger, knowing Maggie, Leshawna Bridgette, and Carol must have been behind it. She made sure her pistol was fully loaded and walked out of the room in search of the people who just killed Molly and Donnie. She didn't have to search for long as she saw them fighting off a group of walkers in the hallway. The walkers weren't moving much as they were impaled on sharpened sticks.
She wasted no time and opened fire at them as Leshawna, Bridgette, Carol and Maggie went down, managing to avoid all the bullets she had just fired their way. After emptying the magazine in her pistol, she quickly holstered it as Carol aimed the pistol she had stolen from Donnie earlier at her. It didn't stop Paula from moving towards her and her group, though.
"Just run." Carol pleaded Paula.
"Shoot her." Maggie said to Carol.
"Go on, do it." Paula asked Carol to kill her, "You've killed Donnie, you've killed Molly. Your people have destroyed my home."
"Get outta here." Carol continued to plead Paula to leave as she didn't want to kill another person.
"You have no idea." Paula said, taking one small step towards Carol after another, "The things I've done, what I've given up, what I had to do.
Carol looked at her with tearful look on her face, "Just run."
"Carol, shoot her." Leshawna said.
"Go ahead." Paula said, "I've already lost everything."
Carol didn't got a chance to answer to this as an impaled walker behind her managed to free itself from the spear it was impaled on and attacked Carol from behind. Carol fired her pistol right after she was attacked from behind, the bullet missing Paula as Paula collapsed on the floor. Leshawna quickly took care of the walker with her knife and moved towards the hallway in front of her and her group, followed by Maggie and Bridgette.
"Paula?" Michelle's voice sounded in the hallway as Leshawna, Maggie and Bridgette hid behind a wall, making sure she won't spot them, "Molly?"
Leshawna let out a quiet exhale, readying herself to attack Michelle as Michelle walked into her view a few seconds later. She charged at Michelle, knocking her pistol out of her grasp as shoved her against the wall. Michelle's answer to her attack was instant as she headbutted Leshawna. Leshawna stepped backwards a little, feeling how her knife fell out of her grasp.
Michelle quickly used this situation to her advantage and kicked Leshawna in the stomach, sending her to the floor. She quickly picked up Leshawna's knife from the floor as Maggie came in Leshawna aid and rushed at Michelle before she could do anything to her. Michelle glared at Maggie and swung her knife at her, slightly slashing her abdomen. Maggie looked down at her stomach as Carol approached Michelle from the side and shoot her in the side of her head, killing her instantly.
"Maggie!" Bridgette called out for Maggie in worry as she ran up to her with a worried look on her face, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah." Maggie nodded at her, "The knife just slashed my shirt. I got lucky."
Bridgette breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank God."
Maggie shifted her attention to Leshawna, "What about you Leshawna."
Leshawna slowly got herself back on her feet and nodded at them, letting them know there was nothing to worry about, "I'll be fine."
After making sure Michelle was taken care of, Leshawna, Bridgette, Carol and Maggie shifted their attention back to the hallway they had just came from as they knew they still had to take care of Paula. Carol took the lead in the group of four and stepped closer towards Paula who was slowly getting back on her feet as Leshawna, Bridgette and Maggie watched everything from behind, having been told by Carol she will take care of it.
"You're good. Nervous little bird." Paula laughed in an impressed manner as she set her eyes on Carol and got herself back on her feet, "You were her. But not now, right? Me, too."
Carol tearfully shook her head at her, "I told you to run."
"If you could do all this, what were you so afraid of, Carol?" Paula asked, her eyes watering.
"I was afraid of this." Carol gave her an honest answer as Paula laughed and charged at her, knocking her pistol out of her grasp in the process.
She shoved Carol against the wall as Carol immediately answered to her attack and grabbed her by her shoulders. She moved forward and shoved Paula against the wall behind her before throwing her towards the speared walker. Paula felt explosions of pain going through her body as she was impaled on the spear. The walker wasted no time and immediately bit into her face, bitting off a portion of it as Paula screamed in agony.
"Paula, we're approaching the perimeter." A male voice sounded in Paula's walkie-talkie as Paula continued to scream in agony as the walker was feasting on her face. Carol slowly reached her hand towards her walkie-talkie, tearing up as she did so, "Are we a go?"
Carol leaned against the wall and stayed silent for a few seconds before replying, "Meet us on the kill floor."
Carol, Leshawna, Maggie and Bridgette stayed hidden behind the almost closed door close to the kill floor as they waited for the Saviors reinforcements to arrive. The group of four kept the door slightly open, wanting to see the moment the reinforcements Paula had called will arrive at the kill floor. They knew their arrival at the kill room was just a matter of time as the four of them just heard how they entered the building.
"I think I might have kill 18 people. 20 now." Carol said, "I should've killed Donnie, too, in the woods. I had a clear shot. I didn't miss. None of this would've happened if I had just killed him."
"Don't think about it." Maggie told her.
Leshawna nodded in agreement, "What matters is all of us made it out alive from this, sister."
Carol shook her head, "I can't stop."
"We're almost done." Maggie said.
It was when the group of four heard a group of people walking towards them. Carol lit up a cigarette she had stolen from Molly as soon as she heard this group walking towards her and her group as Maggie, Leshawna and Bridgette held their breath, doing their best not to make any noise. After hearing how the group of the Saviors reinforcements just entered the kill room, Carol and Leshawna moved out of their hiding and started to close to the door to the kill room. Maggie and Bridgette watched them from where they stood instead of helping them, because Carol and Leshawna wanted the two pregnant women to take a rest after what happened with Paula's group.
Carol took the cigarette out of her mouth before she and Leshawna fully closed the door and threw into it the kill room. The cigarette touched the floor, litting it on fire as the group of four made sure to spill the gasoline all over the floor before the Saviors reinforcements arrived at the building. The door was fully closed right after, trapping the Saviors inside the burning room.
The Saviors started screaming in pain, feeling how they were slowly getting burned to death as Carol, Maggie, Leshawna and Bridgette walked away from the room right after, leaving the group of burning Saviors behind. After making sure the Saviors were no longer a threat, Carol, Maggie, Leshawna and Bridgette started making their way towards the exit as they wanted to leave this building as soon as possible.
On their way to the exit, they managed to stumble upon the lifeless body of Michelle and a zombified Paula. The group of four stopped in their tracks and looked at the walker Paula, seeing how most of her face was gone at this point. Maggie pulled out her knife shorty after she set her eyes on the walker Paula and stabbed her in the head, killing her for good.
The group of four pushed themselves into walk again right after Paula was taken care off for good and reached the exit from the building right after. As soon as they reached the exit, it was opened and Maggie aimed the pistol at it, expecting to see more Saviors. Much to her suprise, she didn't saw the Saviors and instead saw Glenn, Rosita, Harold and Geoff right after the door was opened.
"Maggie." Glenn said with pure relief in his voice as he lowered his gun. He moved towards his wife and embraced her in a tight hug, showing how much happy he was to see her as Maggie returned the hug. The rest of the group walked into the building right after.
"Bridge." Geoff smiled at Bridgette with relief evident in his voice as Rosita, Izzy, Gabriel, Gwen and Trent moved further into the building with their guns in ready. He hugged his pregnant girlfriend as Bridgette immediately hugged him back while Rick walked into the building right after, holding a bounded Primo. Chef and Chris were right behind him.
"Leshawna." Harold wasted no time as he walked over to Leshawna and wrapped his arms around her as Leshawna instantly hugged her boyfriend back, relieved to see him.
Daryl walked over to Carol with a worried look on his face, "You okay? We got your trail."
"You start a fire?" Duncan asked, standing next to Daryl with Sanders.
Carol nodded in confirmation, "Yeah."
"Hey, you good?" Daryl wanted to know if she was okay.
Carol shook her head, "No."
"Come here." Daryl said and gave Carol a comforting hug, trying to make her feel a bit better. He relased her from the hug shorty after, allowing Duncan to do the same.
"Your friends are dead." Rick said to Primo, "No one's coming for ya. So you might as well talk."
"Let him burn." Daryl suggested.
Rick leaned closer to Primo, "I'm gonna ask you one last time... how'd you get the bike?"
"We found it." Primo replied, glancing away from Rick.
Daryl shook his head, not believing a single word he said, "Like hell you did."
"We found it." Primo repeated himself,
"Was Negan in that building last night or was he here?" Chef wanted to know.
Primo slowly turned around to look at Rick, "Both. I'm Negan, shithead. There's a whole world of fun that we can talk about, so let's have a chat."
"I'm sorry it had to come to this." Rick unremorsefully apologized to Primo and shoot him point-blank in the head, killing him instantly.
Only three more chapters left in season 6...
The new Attack on Titan came out and I can definitely say it was worth the wait. What a HELL of an episode. That was incredible. An hour of nothing but carnage and despair. I love how the Rumbling was potrayed. The anime perfectly potrayed the horrors of it. They nailed the apocalyptic tone and I loved all the original scenes they added showing the chaos of the apocalypse. The entire section with Eren and Ramzi was so good. It was just so sad to watch because of as you could see and feel Eren's despair on his face and in his voice (The voice actor never fails) They really did my girl Hange justice. As sad as it was to see her go (I literally teared up during the scene as she is my second favourite character in AOT after Levi), seeing her be a badass till the end, the music, the animation, her seeing all her fallen comrades, perfect.
Let's end this chapter with a quick question: From Total Drama characters who have died in this story so far, who do you think had the saddest death?
Hope it wasn't so bad. See you in another chapter.