Previously on the Walking Dead/Underrated Classic

It has been six weeks since the start of the apocalypse. Hogarth Hughes went out of his town to find his mother while she left to find her family. Along the way Hogarth met new allies and friends Dexter, Danny Fenton, Tutenstein, and Arnold along with an enemy Davey. His mother found a new group which included the previously unknown NIMH mouse Mrs. Elizabeth Brisby along with her four children Martin, Teresa, Cynthia, and Timothy, Sam Manson, Cleo Carter, and Tucker Foley. When we last left our heroes they finally made it to the camp where Hogarth's mother was. They had all gone through much trouble. Not just with walkers but with certain people. Now the mid season part of the story.

Chapter 12: Found Friends

Annie looked down on the ground and saw her son. She couldn't believe her eyes, he was here. She got up from her post and went over to Sam who was looking down at the visitors. She too had an elated look on her face as she saw her boyfriend Danny standing there amongst the group.

"Sam go open up the gates."

Sam nodded in response and went to the swtich opening up the gates. As soon as they opened Annie stood there and looked at her son. Hogarth stood there as well with a smile as he look at his mother. He then took off running and ran towards her. Annie knelt down and opened up her arms. He ran into her arms and they embraced.

"Mom, I can't believe you're here, I missed you so much," Hogarth said with joy.

"Hey honey, I missed you too," she responded.

Sam and Tucker came forward and saw Danny standing there with a bright smile on his face.

"DANNY" they squealed happily in unison as they ran over and embraced their friend. Danny gave Tucker a playful bear hug lifting him off the ground.

"Woah you've gotten stronger man."

"Great to see you too techno geek." he said as Tucker gave him a slap on the back.

Sam then came forward and Danny embraced her, giving her a kiss on the cheek. That moment seemed to last forever.

"Hey baby, how's it been," he said to her as he looked into her beautiful eyes.

"It's been lonely for a while. I knew you'd come back Danny, I just knew you would."

Finally Cleo came in front of the gates. She had a look of confusion on her face as if she didn't expect this to happen.

"Hey guys, why'd we open up the gates," she said but she stopped immediately when she saw a familiar face standing there. Her best frend Tutenstein.

Tut saw Cleo and immediately ran to her and hugged her. Cleo returned the hug and looked him in the eyes.

"Tut, I can't believe you made it, I thought you didn't make it out of the museum."

"Remember Cleo, I'm already dead, so really avoiding the walkers was a breeze for someone like me." he said in a playful manner. Cleo laughed and hugged him again.

Hogarth and Annie were still locked in an embrace when Annie asked the question to Hogarth.

"Hogarth, where's Dean?"

Hogarth felt his stomach drop at that sentence. He didn't know how to tell her that... Dean was dead. He felt immense guilt overpour him and he didn't know what to say.

Hogarth looked at her and shook his head and he looked down on the ground tears streaming down his face as he began to weep. Annie felt the same feeling and embraced her son again, comforting him.

"Shh, it's okay baby, it's okay."

It took quite a while but eventually Hogarth got over his sadness and focused on what was important now. He still felt sad but he couldn't let it get in the way of what was happening now, it was time to move on.

"Well I guess that you guys have arrived," Sam said, "we have to introduce everybody."

"There's no need," Dexter said, "we've heard about all of you from the others."

"Yeah," Arnold said. "they've told us all about you on the ride over here."

Dexter then remembered something, he hadn't even introduced themselves. He slapped himself in the face

"My name is Dexter. I met these awesome guys on the road."

"Yeah and I'm Arnold, met them on the way as well," he said courteously.

"Well I guess, we know that but we still haven't introduced the other members of our group here" Tucker said, "they're inside now washing the clothes."

"Well I guess that'll be nice to meet some new people." Hogarth said, "let's go."

Everybody nodded in response and went inside the gated fence. Sam closed it behind them and they walked forward. Annie motioned to Hogarth and said something to him.

"Okay Hogarth listen, this person you're about to meet is a good person but you may seem a little 'unsettled' by her appearance."

"I'll keep quiet Mom, don't worry." he said in reassurance.

Elizabeth was over in the wash with her daughters while her sons were off playing on the ground. She looked up and saw that there were new people here, she got up and walked over to greet them.

"Hello there, welcome to the group." she said with friendly air before she was cut off by screams.

Everybody reacted with fright at the sight of the life sized mouse walking and speaking at them. Hogarth pulled out his pistol and the others followed right behind him. Elizabeth held her hands up in the air and spoke.

"Don't shoot, I don't mean any harm!"

"Put down your guns, she's friendly." Sam ordered.

Hogarth put his gun down and recieved a smack in the back of the head from his mother. Everybody else put their guns down and stepped forward.

"Okay, I know this is impossible, but it is and I'm a talking life size mouse," Elizabeth expained as she walked over to over and examined each member of the group that just arrived. "My name is Elizabeth Brisby."

Dexter tried to find a way to justify all of this and spoke up "This isn't real, it's all just a figment of our imagination," he said acting smug.

"Well if I was a figment of your imagination could I do this," she said as she kicked Dexter straight in the groin.

"AWWW, God that hurts." he groaned as he fell to the ground.

"You didn't have to do that," Hogarth said to her.

"Sorry I was just pissed at that." she said with a smile.

Dexter got up from the ground and shook her hand as a way to apologize.

"I'm sorry," he said, "my name's Dexter."

"Pleasure," she said with a smile, "and who are all of you?"

They each came up and shook Elizabeth's hand and each said their name and each time Elizabeth nodded and gave warm regards to them.

"Danny Fenton."

"Arnold."

"Tutenstein."

"Hogarth Hughes," he said as the last one, "she's my mother," he said pointing to Annie who was standing next to Elizabeth.

"I always did hope to meet you," Elizabeth said, "and you look just as handsome as I thought you would."

"Aw shucks, well you know." Hogarth said as he just shrugged his shoulders.

"Mom, what's going on," a familiar voice said. It was the eldest of the Brisby sons, Martin, coming out with a stick, he had a very angry look on his face as he walked over to Hogarth.

"Hey there," he said kneeling down at the young mouse, who looked to be around nine, "you must be her son, it's nice to meet you." Hogarth said as he extended his hand expecting a handshake.

"Shut it," Martin said, "you pulled a pistol on my mom and now you pay the consequences." He then started wacking at Hogarth's legs with the stick but Hogarth barely reacted and just kept a smile on his face.

"That didn't hurt," he said calmly.

"Martin, don't act like that, he was just scared. Besides this is Annie's son here," Elizabeth said firmly to her son, she then turned to Hogarth "Sorry about him, he can be a little pugnacious at times, this is my son Martin."

"Mother?" the young girl Teresa said as she came out from the woods with her other siblings Cynthia and Timmy right behind her.

"Well what do you know," Danny said exuberantly, "you got a whole family."

"She sure does," Sam said as she came up to her boyfriend.

"Hello," Timmy said to the new members. "Where did you all come from."

"Hey there little guy," Arnold said, "what's your name?"

"Timmy," he said in a shy manner.

"And who are these cute little girls," Tut asked.

"My daughters, Cynthia and Teresa," Elizabeth said, "girls say hello to the new members."

"Hi," Cynthia said waving

"Hello," Teresa said as she gave a curtsey to them.

"Well now that we've a met each other I think it's about time we start to get to know each other and figure out how things are gonna work from here on in."

"Yeah, sounds like a plan," Hogarth said.

"He's right, hell of a plan," Danny said in a proud tone.

A couple hours went by and it was now evening. The group and their new members were sitting by a campfire. After a good meal it was time to get to do some talking. Elizabeth gave her explanation on the NIMH experiments and how she was part of the Thorn Valley colony. Everybody seemed content at hearing that statement and decided to let the subject go, as Elizabeth seemed like a very honorable and kind young woman.

Hogarth, Danny, Tut, Dexter, and Arnold started their story from their and told everything from the start. When everything started, ending up with Davey and being put through hell, and then eventually ending up here.

"Jesus, that guy must've been the biggest douchebag we've ever met," Tucker exclaimed.

"Granted he wasn't like that before, he actually tolerated me but when we came across Arnold, Hogarth, Tut and Dex well things would get pretty fucked up."

"Language we have children here," Annie scolded.

"Oh but he got to cuss," Danny said as he pointed to Tucker.

"Anyway," Hogarth said, "I'm really glad we made it to you guys, we found who we were looking for and we'll finally be at peace."

"It does sound nice," Sam said.

"What about Davey though," Tut said.

"What about dick asshole, Tut," Dexter asked in a sarcastic tone.

"What if he finds us, he could try to kill us after we abandoned him on the road."

"Dude don't worry, Davey's long miles away from us, we did the right thing and he's not gonna come back for us," Arnold said as he patted Tut on the back.

Just then there was rustling coming from outside the gate of the fence. Elizabeth immediately heard the sound and turned her head in the direction it came from.

"What was that."

"Probably some walkers," Hogarth said, "we'll have to get rid of them."

"Good idea," Elizabeth said in response to Hogarth's idea.

Elizabeth got her crossbow while Hogarth got his shotgun and they walked over to the opening of the gates. Hogarth put two shells into his shotgun and got ready to fire. The other members of the group followed behind them, weapons held tightly in their hands in a death grip, ready to kill. Just then the source of their fear come out from the dark... it was just a dog.

"Well, that was fucking pointless," Cleo said.

"Swear," Cynthia said right behind Cleo, triggering Cleo to pat Cynthia on the head.

The dog was a female yellow labrador who was very small, probably a puppy. It came towards the members. Elizabeth felt very uneasy at the animal as did everybody else. It could have rabies and could be ferocious if they weren't careful. Hogarth thought differently and stepped forward, closer to the dog.

"Come here girl," he said as he kneeled and waved his hand out.

The dog came forward and sniffed Hogarth's hand. He then picked up the dog and looked at it, as it began to lick his face in a playful manner. Hogarth started laughing as he stepped away from the dog who looked up at him and started panting.

"It's harmless," Danny said as he chuckled.

"Can we keep her," Tut said, "she could be a good tracker for us when we go for food."

Elizabeth and Annie didn't know what to think. Could it be trouble to have a dog in the group. Sam turned to the two and spoke.

"It could work, besides it won't cause any trouble, it's harmless." Cleo stood next to Sam and nodded trying to get them to oblige.

Elizabeth and Annie then shrugged and responded.

"I don't see why not." Elizabeth said smiling as her response was met with cheer and applause from the members.

"Alright let's quiet down and get to sleep, we've got a long day tomorrow," Annie said.

"Okay mom, that's a good idea," Hogarth said as he turned to the dog and motioned her to come with him, "come on girl let's go inside."

The dog followed Hogarth's request and went inside with him as Hogarth scratched her ears. Everybody couldn't help but laugh at this playful sight.

It was close to midnight now and everybody was asleep. After the long day it was nice to unwind and just get some rest. There was one that wasn't in bed though and that was Danny.

He looked outside over the sight and saw nothing but the woods. He began to think of all that's happened. What would come from what they've done? Would they be able to survive out here, or would they eventually die all alone in the woods?

Just then he heard footsteps behind him and saw his girlfriend coming up beside him.

"Something on your mind," Sam asked.

"I was just thinking," Danny said quietly, "about all that's happened today."

"It feels great to be back doesn't it."

"Yeah," Danny chuckled, "but I don't know what will happen now," he said as scratched th back of his head.

"What do you mean," Sam asked curiously.

"After all that's happened today, what will be the outcome? Will me make it out here, we'll we be able to survive this whole thing?" Danny started rambling off until Sam put her hand on his shoulder.

"You don't have to worry anymore," she said with a smile, "things will get better, but you got have faith, otherwise your chances won't be worth anything."

Danny thought about that for a second. She was right in order to make his chances of survival work, he had to have faith in himself over what he was going to do. He then turned back to her and looked into her eyes

"You're right Sam," he said as a smile appeared on his face, "I know now things will get better, I just got to hope for it."

For a moment he looked into her eyes and pulled her into an embrace. Their eyes connected and their faces moved closer until they kissed passionately. They stayed like that for a couple minutes until they finally let go.

"Let's go to bed," she said.

"Okay," he said as he followed her back to the camp.

It finally seemed that everything would be at peace.

Well it's finall compeleted. Sorry I haven't updated quicker everybody but the weeks been pretty rough. My dog Genevieve was put down this week. I've decided to commemorate her memory by including her as the dog character in this story. Thanks for a lot of people who have seen this and continue to follow me here on the sight. This story will get better very soon I promise and eventually I'll move on to Season 2.