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Darth krayt1: I like this episode as well for the same reason. Nothing was the same after this episode :)
Brendan: You'll have to wait and see :)
fan: It indeed begins. I'm really looking forward to writing the part of this season. There aren't any other TD characters living at the Hilltop at the moment. :)
ThEndymam: I liked this episode as well because of the impact it had on the series. I'm glad you liked the appearance of Dawn, Dwayne Senior and Dwayne Junior :)
rickgrimesdarlydixonglennrhee: They are definitely among the TD characters who changed the most because of everything that happened :)
Carol slowly made her way to her house, having just finished sharing the cookies she had baked today with every resident of Alexandria she had managed to stumble upon during the last several minutes. Her attention was brought towards one part of Alexandria as Sasha's voice echoed across the community, informing everyone Rick the rest had returned from their trip to Jesus' community. Not wasting any time, she immediately started making her way in the direction of Sasha's voice and saw Rick parking the RV in the middle of the street as Sasha, Aaron, Emma and Jo gathered around it.
"How did it go?" Emma asked as Rick opened the window next to him and looked out of it at her, Aaron, Sasha and Jo.
"Pretty well." Rick replied as Carol stopped close to the RV, "Get Olivia. She should inventory what we have. We'll meet her at the pantry."
"On it." Jo nodded as she and Aaron turned away from the RV and headed towards the pantry.
"You have food?" Sasha asked in a hopeful tone as Emma looked just as hopeful.
"Yeah." Noah nodded as he walked into Sasha and Emma's view, having just gotten himself out of the RV, "Enough for another month."
Emma smiled widely at the news, "Great."
"I need everybody in the church in an hour." Rick said.
Sasha raised her brow at him, "What is it?"
"We'll talk about it." Rick replied, earning a nod of understanding from Sasha as he started up the RV again.
Carol stepped closer to the RV, "Rick, what's going on?"
"We're gonna have to fight." Rick gave her an honest answer and drove off towards the pantry.
Emma and Sasha left the scene shorty after, going to inform everyone from Alexandria to gather in the church as Carol was left all alone where she stood. She reached into her bag after everyone else walked off in their own directions and pulled out a small container containing one last cookie she had baked today. She put the container back in her bag and walked off towards the person she was planning to give this last cookie to.
She arrived at the cemetery a few moments later. She walked over to the small grave in the middle of the place which belonged to Darren and looked down at it. She stared at it silently for a few moments before she heard someone approach her from behind. She looked over her shoulder and let out an long exhale, seeing Morgan standing behind her. The two of them haven't spoken much for the last few weeks and for a good reason.
"It's been a while." He told her, "Weeks."
Carol raised her brow at him, "Since what?"
"Since we talked." Morgan replied.
Carol narrowed her eyes and looked away from him, "That's what we did in that cell? We talked."
"Why didn't you tell Rick?" Morgan asked her question he wanted to ask her for the last few weeks, "Tara, Gwen, Trent, Rosita, Eugene? Why didn't they...?"
"I told them to keep quiet about it." Carol explained.
"Why?" Morgan wanted to know.
"Can we just forget it, move past it?" Carol replied with a question of her own.
"You don't have to carry that." Morgan pointed out.
Carol turned around to look at him, "Carry what?"
"You know what I did." Morgan explained, "You don't want to tell anyone, it- it's kind of like you did it, too."
"No, it's not." Carol shook her head at the accusation, "Just go."
She turned away from him to look at the grave again as Morgan turned away from her and started walking away from the cemetery. She waited for Morgan to be out of her hearing and view range and put the last cookie on Darren's grave. She walked away from the grave right after, beginning to make her way to the church as she didn't want to be late on the meeting Rick had called with everyone.
The church was filled with people right now as many people who were living in Alexandria had arrived there to be there for the important meeting Rick had called after returning from his trip to the Hilltop. Everyone were sitting on the church bences, their eyes set on their leader. Rick was standing in front of everyone, telling them everything they needed to know about their deal with the Hilltop as Jesus, Dawn and a man whose name was Andy were sitting next to him, acting as the representatives of the Hilltop.
"...And we can work with the Hilltop." Rick continued to speak to his people. "Maggie and Noah hammered out a deal We're getting food, eggs, butter, fresh vegetables. We even got a cow, a mare and few chickens from them. But they're not just giving it away. These Saviors, they almost killed Sasha, Sanders, Duncan, Harold Daryl and Abraham on the road. Now, sooner or later, they would've found us, just like those Wolves did, just like Jesus did. They woulda kill someone or some of us. And then they would try to own us. And we would try to stop them. But by then, in that kind of fight, low on food, we could lose. This is the only way to be sure, as sure as we can get, that we win. And we have to win. We do this for the Hilltop, it's how we keep this place. It's how we feed this place. This needs to be a group decision. If anybody objects, here's your chance to say your piece."
The church was engulfed in a complete silence right after as everyone seemed not to have any objections regarding the idea of attacking the Saviors before they will attack them as a way of fulfilling their part of the deal with the Hiltop. Rick was about to continue talking but his words died in his throat as Morgan slowly got up from the bench he was sitting on, causing everyone ot look at him.
"You're sure we can do it?" He asked, feeling how everyone had their eyes on him, "We can beat them?"
Rick nodded in confirmation, confident in himself and his group abilities of taking care of the Saviors, "What this group has done, what we've learned, what we've become, all of us- yes, I'm sure."
"Then all we have to do is just tell them that." Morgan said, trying to convince Rick not to kill the Saviors.
"Well, they don't compromise." Rick pointed out.
"This isn't a compromise." Morgan pointed out in return, "It's a choice you give them. It's a way out, for them and for us."
"We try and talk to the Saviors, we give up our advantage, our safety." Rick pointed out another thing to Morgan, "We have to come for them before they come for us. We can't leave them alive."
"Where there's life, there's possibility..." Morgan started to say.
"Of them hitting us." Rick cut him off before he could finish what he was saying.
"We're not trapped in this." Morgan stated, "None of you are trapped in this."
"Morgan... they always come back." Rick replied.
"Come back when they're dead, too." Morgan pointed out.
"Yeah." Rick nodded, "We'll stop them. We have before."
"I'm not talking about the walkers." Morgan explained.
"Morgan wants to talk to them first." Rick said as he looked around everyone gathered in the church right now, "I think that would be a mistake, but it's not up to me. I'll talk to the people still at home. I'll discuss it with the people on guard now, too, but who else wants to approach the Saviors, talk to them first?"
Aaron got up from the bench he was sitting on, making everyone shift their attention to him, "What happened here, we won't let that happen again. I won't."
Jo nodded in agreement and got up from the bench she was sitting on, wanting to add her own part, "This Negan reminds of Jericho. The guy who was leading the community where I met Brick. If you could call it a community. It was more of a concentration camp unless you were one of his closest goons. Jericho was a tyranical asshole who couldn't be reasoned with and from what we were told about Negan by our guests from the Hilltop, he seems to be someone close to Jericho. He needs to be stopped before he'll attack us first."
Rick nodded at Aaron and Jo as Aaron and Jo sat back down on their benches. He looked around himself, waiting for someone else to speak up. When everyone stayed silent, he nodded his head to himself, "Looks like it's settled. We know exactly what this is. We don't shy from it, we live. We kill them all." Morgan sighed and sat bcak down on the bench as Rick continued, "We don't all have to kill. But if people are gonna stay here... they do have to accept it."
The meeting had come to an end shorty after and everyone parted ways, going to either their homes or to plan out the attack on the Saviors. Dawn walked out of the church with Andy and Jesus, the three of them beginning to make their way to the place where they were going to plan out the attack on the Saviors with Rick's group. She stopped in her tracks as she saw Lorenzo walking along the street with Chet and Rock. She already noticed him back in the church during the meeting and what quickly caught her attention about him was the fact he was missing one hand.
She stopped in her tracks and set her eyes on Dawn, humming to herself "Hmm."
Jesus stopped in his tracks and glanced ta her, "Dawn?"
"You're not coming?" Andy asked.
"I'll join you in a few minutes." She told them, "I need to talk with someone."
Jesus nodded at her, "Alright."
"Just hurry." Andy said.
"Don't worry, Andy. I'll do my best to join you as soon as possible." Dawn reassured him as Andy and Jesus nodded at her. The two of them split up from her and started walking towards the place Rick wanted them met up with him and a few members of his group as Dawn walked over to Lorenzo, immediately earning his attention. She stopped in next to him and greeted him, "Hello."
Lorenzo shifted his gaze to her, "Oh, hey. You're one of the people from the Hilltop, right?"
"Yes. My name is Dawn." Dawn introduced herself to him.
"Nice to meet you." Lorenzo nodded at her, "My name is Lorenzo."
Dawn pointed at Lorenzo's missing hand, "What happened to my your hand?"
Lorenzo looked at his hand stump and held it up for her to get a better look at, "I was bitten during a supply run. Alejandro had to cut it off."
"I see." Dawn looked at him sadly, "I'm sorry to hear this happened to you."
"Don't be. It was my fault. I was a coward." Lorenzo sighed, "I just hope I became someone better than the person I was when I lost my hand."
Dawn nodded at him, "What kind of job were you doing around your community after the loss of your hand?"
"I was helping around at the construction site with my brother and friends." Lorenzo replied.
Dawn once again nodded at him, "How was this job treating you?"
"Pretty good, I guess." Lorenzo replied, rubbing the back of his head with his hand stump, "It's just would have been easier if I had two good hands."
Dawn hummed in understanding, "I think I have a way how to make this job easier for you."
Lorenzo raised his brow at her, "What are you talking about?"
"We have a blacksmith back at our community. I could ask him to make a prosthetic hand for you." Dawn offered.
Lorenzo's eyes widened at this information, "Really?"
"Yes." Dawn nodded in confirmation.
A large smile spread over Lorenzo's face, "Thank you so much. That would be great."
Carol's eyes slowly opened as she was laying in her bed, unable to get some sleep tonight. There was one matter bugging her mind because of the conversation she had earlier with Morgan and she couldn't fall asleep because of it. She let out a sigh as she got up from her bed, knowing she won't get any sleep tonight if she won't do something about this matter.
She searched her room after getting herself out of her bed and quickly found herself a notebook and a pen which was exactly what she needed to take care of this matter. She opened a random empty page in the notebook and quickly began writing down name of every person she had killed since all of this started, doing her best to remember everyone and not to miss anyone.
After a few minutes, she managed to write down every person she had killed since all of this started and quickly counted the names, wanting to know just how many people had died by her hands. She sighed after finishing counting, finding out she had killed at least 18 people since all of this.
Abraham was in his and Rosita's room in his, Rosita and Eugene's house, packing his stuff into the bag as he made his choice regarding the person he wanted to be with. He decided to follow Izzy's advice after thinking about it for the entire day and be with the woman who he knew he'll be happy with. In the end, he choose to be with Sasha. He knew there will be consequences of his choice as Rosita will definitely be hurt with his decision and will most likely despise him for it, but he knew Izzy was right. Nothing good will happen if he will stay with the woman he knows is not right for him.
"Packing your stilettos?" Rosita asked as she walked into the room and stopped next to him, "We'll only be gone a night."
"I'm going." Abraham said, not looking at her as he continued to pack his stuff.
"I am, too, but tomorrow." Rosita replied.
Abraham exhaled internally as he readied himself for the conversation he was about to have with Rosita and turned to look at her, knowing it was time to break the news to her, "I'm leaving."
Rosita stayed silent for a few seconds, allowing her brain to process this information, "...Why?"
"It happens." Abraham replied.
Rosita looked at him with a suprised look on her face, suprised he phrased it like that, "Are you serious?"
Abraham nodded in confirmation, "This is how I want it."
"Why?" Rosita wanted to know.
"Why are dingleberries brown?" Abraham replied, "It's just the way shit is."
"No, no. " Rosita shook her head, her voice starting to break as Abraham picked up his bag and started to walk away. She started hitting him in the chest, making him stop in his tracks, "After everything we've been through, you are not walking out that door unless you can tell me why. Tell me! Tell me why!"
Abraham grabbed her by her shoulders, making her stop hitting him and looked directly into her eyes, "When I first met you, I thought you were the last woman on Earth. You're not."
Rosita released herself from his grasp short after, not being able to contain her tears for any longer as Abraham silently walked out of the room, leaving her all alone in it. She looked over her shoulder a few seconds later, having just heard someone approach her from behind and saw Eugene standing in the doorway to her room who was eating one of Carol's cookies, completely unaware of what just happened between her and Abraham.
"You try one of these? They're chewy. They, uh... got some fight in them." He didn't got a chance to finish what he was saying as Rosita closed the door to her room, wanting to be left alone.
Tara and Denise were in the kitchen of the house, slowly preparing themselves to go to sleep as Tara was finishing washing the dishes they used when they were eating their dinner. Denise slowly walked over to her and stopped next to her, wanting to talk her girlfriend about what was going to happen tommorow as they won't have any other chances to talk about it.
"Are you worried?" She asked.
Tara shifted her gaze to her, wiping her hands and shook her head, "No. No, it's just..." She turned to face her, "I love you, and I just wanted to say it before- you don't have to say it back. It's..."
"I'll say it when you come back." Denise reassured her.
"Heath and I are still going on that two-weeker." Tara revealed, "We're gonna leave from there. Do you want to come? I mean, I can change it so we don't leave from the compound. We could come back and we could leave from here. You know, we're gonna get meds, so..."
"I can't." Denise shook her head at the offer, wishing she could say yes but she knew she couldn't, "No. I need to be here. I need to do my job as a doctor here and help Bridgette out in the clinic. So I can't."
Tara nodded in understanding, "Yeah."
"But I want to." Denise smiled at Tara smiled back at her, "I'll tell you when you come back."
The two of them laughed softly at each other and shared a quick kiss before going to sleep.
Rick, Daryl, Chef, Chris, Maggie, Michonne, Daryl, Glenn, Jesus, Dawn and Andy were gathered one table as they were in the middle of planning out their attack on the Saviors. Andy was drawing the plans of the Saviors headquarters on the piece of paper, making sure to tell them everything he knew about the place as Rick, Daryl, Chef, Chris, Maggie, Michonne, Daryl, Glenn, Jesus and Dawn were carefully listening to everything he had to say to them.
"It's a big place." Andy continued his explanation to them, "This is the hallway I saw. There is more."
Chris pointed at the part of the map which was laballed as the pnatry, "And every time, they had you bring things into here?"
Glenn shook his head, "Jesus."
"We brought a couple spears for them." Andy continued as he started to draw a line on the map of the Saviors headquarters, making it turn the corner to the right, "Two of the Saviors took them down this hallway. Now, they must've done something with them because they didn't come back with them."
"Maybe a weapon locker, an armory." Jesus theorized.
Chef nodded at the theory, "That's what I was thinking."
Glenn pointed at the part of the map where the armory was located, "We get in there, secure the armory, that's how we end it."
"That's how Carol and Heather ended it here." Maggie added, remembering when the Wolves attacked Alexandria.
Andy looked up from the map to look at the people around him, "But we don't know if they have an armory or where it even is."
"Well, we've got a lot of good guesses." Daryl stated, rubbing his chin with a thoughtful look on his face, "We've done more with less."
Rick nodded in agreement, "We go in at night while they're sleeping."
Andy shook his head, "The guards won't be sleeping. Like I said, I think there's only one way in and there's no way to bust through that door without waking up the rest of them."
"We don't need to." Rick replied, "They're going to open it for us, let us walk right in. They want Gregory's head, right? We're gonna give it to them."
It was the next day and a convoy of a few vehicles drove along the road. Rick's group had left Alexandria earlier today, wanting to arrive at the place where the Saviors headquarters were going to be as soon as possible and get themselves ready into putting their plan of wiping out the Saviors before they will attack them first into action. The convoy eventually stopped on the side road in the middle of the street and the group got themselves out of their vehicles.
"Aaron, Jo, Brick, Rosita and Gwen." Rick called out for the five of them, having just gotten himself out of the RV with Michonne, Carol, Jesus, Andy, Dawn, Chef and Chris, "You start here. We'll peel off every quarter mile, meet back here in a couple of hours. See what we got."
"You ready, Gabriel?" Chef asked as Gabriel walked along the road with a rifle slouched over his shoulder, looking around himself. Much to everyone's suprise, Gabriel volunteered to participate in this attack. Chef felt a part of him telling him he should worry about Gabriel's performance in this attack, but he brushed his feeling aside as something was telling him Gabriel was going to perform well today. He knew something had recently changed in the priest. He already showed it back when the walkers invaded Alexandria, "There's no turning back now."
"I could walk." Gabriel replied as Rick shifted his attention to him and Chef, watching their interaction, "Maybe run a little, maybe a lot. I'm not going anywhere.I wanted to learn and your group taught me for a reason."
Chef nodded in understanding, "Alright."
"Why are you still wearing that?" Rick asked, having just joined the conversation as he walked over to them. Chef and Gabriel looked at him and saw him pointing with his hatchet at Gabriel's clothes.
"It's still who I was. I think." Gabriel gave him an honest answer, "And it'll be harder for them to see me in the dark."
"Can't argue with that." Chef chuckled as Rick gave Gabriel a friendly pat on his shoulder, letting out a chuckle himself.
"Rosita." Gwen called out for Rosita as she walked over to her, having just joined her for the job Rick had assinged them to, "I heard about what happened with Abraham yesterday."
"I don't want to talk about it." Rosita immediately voiced how much she was against talking about it.
"I know." Gwen replied, "I just want to say, I'm sorry this happened to you."
"Thanks." Rosita nodded at her in a slightly grateful manner. She looked away from Gwen and saw Carol standing in the distance a few seconds later. Gwen looked in the directions he was looking at and saw Carol as well. The two of them exchanged glances with each other and nodded, having something they wanted to talk with Carol about. They walked over to Carol as Carol looked at them, "I almost told everyone at the meeting."
"We're not telling them." Carol replied, knowing Rosita was referring to the situation with the W man as she had her hands in her pockets.
"Morgan stood up in that church and tried to talk us out of this." Rosita reminded Carol of what happened yesterday in the church.
Carol raised her brow, "What's wrong with that?"
"Maybe that he didn't know what the hell he's talking about?" Gwen explained, "That he should take the win that we didn't kick his ass out for hiding that psychopath."
"If we told everyone, they'd find out about Denise, you know that." Carol pointed out.
"That hijo de puta tried to stand there and act like we didn't know what we were..." Rosita tried to say, but Carol interrupted her in the middle of the sentence.
"He doesn't want to kill." Carol cut her off, explaining Morgan's reasons for acting this way.
"We don't want to kill. We don't like it. It happens." Gwen explained, "Even Bridgette accepted that sometimes we have to kill other people to protect ourselves from danger."
"I'm not telling anyone." Rosita said as she turned away from Carol and walked off, "Come on, Gwen."
"Neither am I." Gwen added as she followed Rosita.
Glenn, Noah, Heath and Sky walked through the forest together, having went there to look for the walker with the head they can disguise as Gregory's. The group of four stopped in their tracks for a second, seeing a couple of walkers who were unaware of their presence walking forward themselves on their right. The four of them exchanged glances and nodded at each other, knowing what to do next.
They pulled out their knives and moved closer to the walkers, making sure to be quiet while doing as they didn't want to alert the undead of their presence. They stopped close to the walkers, hiding in the tall grass out of their view and once again exchanged glances with each other before moving in the walkers's view with their knives in ready. The four of the wasted no time and immediately started killing the walkers, managing to kill all of them in a few seconds.
Sky pointed her knife at the head of a bearded walker, "What do you think?"
Glenn crouched down in front of the walker she was pointing at to get a better look at it, " we, um, cut the hair, trim the beard." He shifted his gaze from the walker to Noah, "What do you think, man?"
"It'll do if we'll get all the stuff you just mentioned done, I guess." Noah replied, "I don't know if we can make it look like an asshole, though."
Glenn looked at him with an unamused look on his face, "Really?
"What? Details are important." Noah replied.
"We're gonna kill those people. Tonight." Heath spoke up, making Noah, Glenn and Sky look at him, "Look, I've been lucky. I haven't had to do it before."
"I haven't had to do it before either." Sky added, slightly nervous about it, "Have you?"
"I've been lucky, too." Glenn replied.
"I was in a few situations where my life was on the line." Noah started his answer, memories of Woodbury flying through his head, "But I haven't do it before either. Other people were taking care of this for me in this situations."
"You nervous?" Heath asked.
"Have you ever seen something that, um... afterwards, you- you didn't want to sleep and you weren't hungry because when you close your eyes you could see it? And when you try to eat..." Glenn was interrupted from finishing the sentence as Heath, Noah and Sky already knew where he was going with his words.
"Yeah." Heath nodded.
Sky nodded in confirmation, "Everytime when something went south during our supply runs."
"Do you really need to ask?" Noah added, "You all saw the stuff our group has been through out there."
Glenn nodded in understanding, "Killing somebody has gotta be worse than that. It has to be. So, yeah. I'm nervous."
A few hours had passed since the group had split up to get everything for their plan of attacking the Saviors ready. Everyone had made it back to where they left their vehicles at this point, having found everything they needed to put their plan into action. Chris, Chef, Daryl, Michonne, Geoff, Harold, Duncan, Leshawna, Bridgette, Sanders, Maggie, Glenn, Noah, Aaron, Brick, Jo, Sky, Heath, Alejandro, Heather, Abraham, Sasha, Izzy, Trent, Gwen, Rosita, Tara and Gabriel were gathered around Rick as Rick was reminding them every detail of the idea to them as he wanted to make sure everyone remembered their part in this attack.
"We're gonna take a look around, try to get a feel for how many people are in there." Rick declared to his group, standing in the middle of the road as he wanted to make sure everyone had their eyes on him, "We like how it looks, we go in. A couple of hours before dawn. The guards outside'll be tired. Everyone inside'll be sleeping. We don't like what we see, we head back, make a new plan. They don't know who we are. We'll keep Jesus in the shadows. This is how we eat. This is how we eat. We roll out at midnight."
Everyone from his group nodded at him as soon as he finished speaking to them, silently showing him their understanding of his words. He turned away from his group, having nothing else to say to them right now and started to walk away as his group shifted their attention away from him and split up around the road, preparing themselves for this operation in their own ways.
"Why are Maggie and Bridgette here?" Carol asked, noticing the presence of the two pregnant women in this operation when Rick was about to walk past her.
Rick stopped in his tracks and looked at her, "Maggie's guarding the perimeter and Bridgette is here just in case if something will wrong and someone will get hurt." .
"Yeah, but why are they here?" Carol wanted to know.
"Cause it's their choice." Rick explained.
"I want to stay out there with them." Carol volunteered.
"Leshawna already volunteered to do it." Rick replied, "This whole thing's a race to the armory. We need as many people inside as we can get."
"They shouldn't be out there with just Leshawna to watch over them." Carol argued, "They shouldn't be out here in the first place."
Rick thought for a few seconds and nodded, knowing nothing he will say will convince Carol to change her mind, "Okay."
"Good." Carol nodded at him, pleased with his choice.
Rick pushed himself into walk again and walked over to Jesus, Dawn and Andy who were making sure that they will have a head that looks like Gregory's head for this operation, "In Dawn done with the hair? What've we got?"
Jesus pointed at the head in the middle, "That one."
"It resembles Gregory the most." Dawn added.
Andy nodded in agreement, "Yup."
"All right." Rick nodded at their choice.
"Though, it's probably good we're doing this at night." Jesus stated.
Rick crouched down in front of the head to get a better look at it, looking at it questioningly, "Something wrong with it?"
"The nose. Gregory's is a different shape." Dawn replied, "There was nothing I could to make sure it will look like his."
Rick nodded at the information and immediately went to making sure improving the head's nose to make sure it will look more like Gregory's. He picked up the head by it's hair and punched it a few times, making it look like it's nose was broken during a fight as Dawn, Jesus and Andy exchanged glances at his action. Rick nodded his head to himself after punching the head a couple of times, now knowing it won't raise any suspicion from the Saviors.
He looked over his shoulder at Jesus, Dawn and Andy and set his eyes on Andy, "He fought back. He broke your hand, right?"
"Guess there's no reason to be subtle about it." Jesus stated.
Rick stood up from his crouching position and saw the way Andy was looking at him right now, "What?
"The Saviors, they're scary, but those pricks got nothing on you." Andy replied.
A single car drove along the road towards the satellite not too far away from it. It was night and the group knew it was time to put their plan of wiping out the Saviors into action. Andy got himself into the car with the fake Gregory's head and started making his way towards the Saviors headquarters which turned out to be a building with a large satellite in the center of it.
Andy stopped his vehicles in front of the building,not going further as he knew he should stop here as someone turned on three large red reflectors on the roof of the building and pointed them right at him, "Stop right there! Announce yourself, asshole!"
"It's Andy from Hilltop!" Andy replied, "It's done!"
"Step out!" The same voice ordered as Andy did as he was instructed. He turned off the engine of his car and got out himself out of the vehicle, holding Gregory's fake head which was kept in a bag in his right hand, "Is that it?"
"Yeah!" Andy nodded in confirmation, lying.
"Bring it here, shit brain!" The voice gave him another order.
Andy once again did as he was told. He wasted no time and started to make his way to the entrance to the building, wanting to get this over with as soon as possible. The front door to the building was opened a few seconds later and the two men walked out of the building. The two men moved towards Andy and aimed their guns at him as soon as they laid their eyes on him, making sure he won't try to do anything funny. They lowered their guns a few seconds later, determining Andy had no tricks under his sleeve as Andy stopped in front of them, proceeding to show then the bagged fake head of Gregory.
"I don't want the bag, needle dick." The bearded man said, revealing himself to be the man Andy was talking with a few moments ago. Andy opened the bag and reached into it, pulling out Gregory's fake head for them to see, "Will you look at this shit? Will you look at this shit?"
The second man slouched his machine rifle over his shoulder and took a few steps towards Andy. He stopped right in front of him and leaned his head closer to Gregory's head, wanting to take a better look at it to see if it was really Gregory as he knew there was a possibility this could have been a trick. He shifted his gaze between Andy and Gregory's fake head a few times, having immediately noticed the head had a broken nose.
"He broke my hand. I broke his nose." Andy explained, growing slightly nervous as he held up his broken hand for the two Saviors to see, "That's why he looks that way."
The second man nodded in understanding, still not sure whether it was Gregory's head or not. He took the head from him and eyed it for one last time to give him one last good look at it. He nodded his head to himself, buying this head as Gregory's before turning it around to show it to Andy. He started moving the head's mouth, lowering his voice a bit as he spoke up to him.
"Little bitch broke my nose." He told him in a joking manner, getting an amused laugh out of the bearded man as Andy gave them both a forced smile, going along with it for the sake of the plan. He threw the head aside, knowing he didn't have to hold it for any longer and wiped his hands on Andy's shirt, "Okay, looks like you learned. I'll get your guy, you'll go home, and you bring us more stuff next week, hmm?"
He turned away from Andy and walked into the building, leaving Andy along with the bearded man. The bearded man started whistling "Happy Birthday to you" to kill some time as he waited for his comrade to return as Andy looked at him, feeling slightly creeped out by the whistling. His whistling was cut short a few seconds later as Daryl grabbed him from behind and cut his throat with his knife.
The bearded man's eyes widened in pain as Daryl cut his throat with his knife, taken by suprise by this attack. Daryl threw him to the floor right after and stabbed him in the head, ending his life for good as the rest of his group moved out of their positions with their guns in ready and rushed towards the building, knowing it was time for them to step in and put another part of their plan into action.
Abraham, Heath, Brick and Aaron grabbed the body of the man Daryl had just killed and quickly carried it away, making sure it won't be there when his buddy with return while the rest of the group quickly cleaned everything up, making sure the place will look normally as if a person wasn't just killed here. Everyone quickly hid themselves after making sure the place was clean, leaving Andy alone. Andy took a deep breath as the front door was opened a few seconds later.
"Well, well, well. Look who it is." The second man said as he walked out of the building with a beaten up man. He stopped in front of Andy and showed him his beaten up friend, unaware what just happened to his buddy and what was going to happen to him in a few seconds.
His eyes widened in pain a few seconds later as Geoff pierced him with his machete from behind. Geoff pulled his machete man as the man collapsed on the ground, letting out a groan of pain as the beaten up man started to panic, thinking someone was going to kill him. Andy quickly moved towards him, wanting to reassure him Rick's group wasn't going to hurt him as Rick'sgroup quickly moved towards the front door to the building.
"It's okay, it's okay. We're bringing you back. We're bringing you back." Andy whispered to his friend, calming him down a little as Geoff stabbed the unknown man through the head with the machete, finishing him off.
The party animal put his machete down and crouched down in front of the man he had just killed. He began searching through his pockets, looking for something as Andy took his friend to the car, wanting to take him away from this place as Gabriel, Tara and Dawn followed them. Geoff found what he was looking for a few seconds later as he pulled out the keys. He threw them to Chef as Chef caught them without any problem.
Heather pushed the door the building open and quickly walked into it, followed by Alejandro and the rest of her group. The large group started made their way into the building and walked together into one long hallway, making sure to keep their guard up and their guns raised just in case if the will come across someone there. Not wasting any time, they started putting another part of their plan into action and split up into smaller groups.
Rosita, Gwen, Aaron, Brick and Jo turned to the left and went together along one hallway, with Brick and Rosita walking in the front of the group of five as Rick, Daryl, Chef, Michonne, and Chris stopped in front of the door at the end of the hallway. Rick put his AK47 down and looked at Daryl, Michonne, Chef and Chris, wanting to be sure if they were ready for it.
Daryl, Michonne, Chef and Chris nodded at him, letting them know they were ready to move further into the building without saying any words to him. Rick nodded back at them and pulled out his knife, before slowly opening the door. The five of them took a look into the room and saw two Saviors, a man and a woman who were in their early 20's to be exact, sleeping on their bunk beds there.
Rick walked into the room and Chef followed him, making sure to pull out his knife as he did so. Upon entering the room, the two of them saw there was one more bunk in the room. There wasn't anyone sleeping on it, though. The two of the exchanged glances with each other, making a mental note to look out for this person after they will leave this room and go back to the hallway.
Rick stopped in front of the sleeping man and brought him knife down on him, placing it in his brain. Chef stopped in front of the woman, but didn't end her life right away as he noticed writing on the wall that mentioned three names. Those names were Tyson, Piper and Omar. Knowing those must have been the names of the people who lived in this room, he shifted his gaze back to the young woman he assumed to be Piper.
He stabbed Piper through the brain right after, ending her life. After making sure the two Saviors were dead and were not going to wake up anytime soon the walkers, Rick and Chef quickly walked out of the room as they didn't no further reason to stay there for any longer and made their way back into the hallway where Michonne, Chris and Daryl were waiting for them.
"One of them was not in the room." Chef whispered to Michonne, Chris and Daryl, "We need to watch out for him. He might be going back here right now."
Chris nodded in understanding, "Alright."
Chef, Rick, Chris, Michonne and Daryl moved towards another room right after Glenn, Sky, Heath and Noah exchanged glances with each other, preparing themselves to enter the room at the end of the hallway. After making sure they were ready, Heather quietly pushed the door open and Glenn, Sky and Noah walked into the room, seeing four sleeping people there.
Noah and Glenn exchanged glances with each other, knowing what had to be done right now. Noah pulled out his knife and walked over to the sleeping man at the end of the room. He stopped in front of him and let out a soft quiet exhale, bracing himself for what he was about to do. He looked down at his sleeping face and held his knife above him, right above his brain.
He slowly brought his knife down and stabbed the sleeping man through the brain, killing him. He slowly pulled his bloodied knife out of the deceased man's head, knowing he had just killed someone for the first time in his life. He stared at the body of his victim for a second without doing anything else, allowing himself to see how he felt right now after doing it.
The nervousness he felt when he walked into the room was gone. He felt nothing about ending this man's life. He nodded his head to himself, knowing it must have been because he knew he was keeping his community safe from them by doing this. He looked away from the man he had just killed and turned around to see how the rest of his group was doing. He saw Glenn and Heath standing in front of one bunk together and saw Glenn killing the second man with his knife as Heath must have been unable to force himself to do it.
"Guys." Sky quietly called out for them with a disturbed look on her face as she pointed at the wall in front of them with her bloodied knife. Glenn, Heath and Noah looked in the direction she was pointing at and saw several pictures of the people who had their heads smashed into pieces by something on the wall on the wall, "What the hell is this?"
"I don't know and I don't feel the need of knowing it." Noah replied as he glanced at Glenn and saw his friend silently staring at the pictures with a disturbed look on his face. The Asian man shook his head as he didn't want to imagine himself being one of those people from the pictures. The bookworm put his hand on his shoulder, making him look at him, "Hey, man. Come on. We have work to do."
Glenn nodded at his friend, breaking himself out of his trance, "Yeah. Let's go."
Abraham, Izzy, Trent and Sasha walked together through the hallway, keeping their guns raised for any possible threats as Sasha slowly walked over to the door and put her hand on the door handle. She looked at Izzy, Trent and Abraham and nodded at them. Abraham, Trent and Izzy nodded back at her, letting her know they were ready and Sasha turned back to the door and quickly pushed it open.
Abraham, Trent and Izzy quickly went into the room, seeing it was empty as Sasha moved forward herself along the hallway, keeping her rifle aimed ahead of herself. Abraham, Trent and Izzy walked out of the empty room and joined her in the hallway, the four of them slowly making their way forward. They stopped a few seconds later as they managed to come across another door to the room. Abraham, Trent and Izzy aimed their guns at the door as Sasha tried to get the door open, finding out it was locked.
"Honeypot." Abraham said as Izzy pulled out her hunting knife and handed it to Sasha.
Sasha took the knife from her and started opening the door with it as Izzy, Trent and Abraham remained where they stood, keeping themselves ready to mvoe into the room. They were unaware a door someone had just opened behind them. An unknown man walked out of the room behind them and immediately saw four armed people he had never seen before.
He immediately acted at the view of it Abraham, Trent, Izzy and Sasha and swung his knife at Abraham, slicing his arm and alerting him of his presence. Abraham immediately turned around to face the man who had just attacked him as the unknown man shoved himself at him. Abraham pushed him away from him towards Sasha without any problem. Sasha stabbed the unknown man in the chest with Izzy's hunting knife. She pulled it out of his stomach right after as the unknown man stepped backwards and turned on the alarm before collapsing on the floor, dead.
Trent, Izzy, Abraham and Sasha looked around each other as the alarm echoed across the entire place, knowing they had to watch out more right now as the Saviors who weren't killed by their group must have been awoken by this alarm. Not wasting any time, the four of them moved down their hallway with their guns in ready, readying themselves to open fire at every unknown face they might come across right now.
Tara, Jesus, Dawn, Andy and Gabriel were watching the Saviors headquarters from inside the car they had parked between the woods not too far from the place out of everyone's view when the alarm echoed across the area. Having immediately been alerted by the alarm, Tara, Jesus, Dawn, Andy and Gabriel got themselves out of the vehicles and took a few steps towards the Saviors headquarters.
"We need to go." Tara said, "Get them back to the Hilltop."
Jesus looked at her in suprise, "What? Your people could be in trouble."
"If you get them back, the deal's still on, right? Right?" Tara asked.
"If they get themselves back." Jesus replied.
Dawn shifted her gaze from the building to Andy, "Andy, drive him back to the Hilltop."
"Alright." Andy nodded as he got himself into the car and started up the engine. Jesus took off his jacket and his hat before putting a black bandana over his mouth as Andy drove off in the direction of the Hilltop.
Tara stepped closer to Jesus, realizing he was going to step in, "Look, if they see you and we don't make it."
"We're gonna make it and they're not gonna see me." Jesus replied and moved towards the building in front of him and the rest.
Tara looked at him in confusion, "Are you kidding?"
"He's not kidding." Dawn reassured her, watching Jesus make his way to the Saviors headquarters, "Trust me. They're not gonna see him."
The situation in the Saviors headquarters became slightly harder for the group because the Saviors were now awake and fighting back. The group didn't worry much about them, though as they knew they still had the upper hand because the Saviors were taken by suprise by their attack and many of them were still trying to figure out what was happening around them, resulting in Rick's group having enough time to kill them whenever they came across some in their way.
Rick and Chef ran out of the corner and saw a few Saviors heading down the stairs with their guns in ready. The two of them wasted no time and immediately opened fire at the walkers, not giving them enough time to fight back. The Saviors dropped down like flies before any of them could react to Rick and Chef opening their fire at them. After making sure the Saviors were dead, Chef and Rick moved further down the hallway as Chris, Daryl and Michonne joined them.
Jo and Aaron looked out of the shelter they have taken after the alarm sounded across the place at the hallway ahead of them, wanting to be sure they won't run straight into any Saviors' view. After seeing there was no one on the hallway except for them, the two of them moved into the room next to them. Jo immediately looked around herself, seeing there was one man inside as Aaron closed the door behind them.
Aaron's eyes widened as soon as he closed the door because it was when he heard the sound of someone smashing a bottle against the wall. He looked over to the source of it and saw Jo fighting an unknown man. The unknown man swung his broken bottle at Jo as Jo dodged all of his strikes, holding her knife in her right hand in ready. She narrowed her eyes at him, waiting for the perfect time to strike back.
She saw a perfect time to strike back she was waiting for a second later and immediately swung her knife at him, stabbing him in the chest. The unknown man groaned in pain, falling to his knees as Jo pulled her bloody knife out of his chest and stabbed him in the head, killing him for good. She let out a deep breath, wiping her bloody knife on her pants and looked at Aaron.
"It's us or them, right?" He asked her.
"Yeah." Jo nodded in confirmation, "Let's go."
Aaron nodded at her and turned towards the door. Jo walked over to him, ready to move further into the building as he opened it just as a man was about to run past it. The unknown man stopped dead in his tracks as soon as the door was open and looked at Aaron and Jo in confusion, confused by their presence as he was not excepting to see them there.
"What the hell?" He asked in confusion. He was about to aim his rifle at them, but never got a chance to as someone shot him in the head, killing him instantly. Jo and Aaron walked out of the room right after his deceased body hit the floor and saw Rosita, Gwen and Brick standing not too far from them, with the former keeping a smoking machine rifle aimed at them.
Daryl fired his shotgun at the Savior in front of him, killing him as Rick, Michonne, Chris and Chef walked past him and moved further into the building. They were forced to stop again shorty after as another Savior leaned out of his cover and opened fire at him, pinning them down to one position. Rick, Michonne, Chris and Chef returned fire and shot made by Chris was ultimately the one to kill the Savior pinning them down, allowing them to start moving again.
Tara's eyes widened as she continued to watch everything from the woods with Dawn and Gabriel. She stepped towards the Saviors headquarters, having just noticed a man and a woman ran out of the building and opened fire at them. The woman was hit in the head, killing her instantly as the man froze in his tracks and looked around himself in panic, trying to locate the shooter. It wasn't long before he shared the fate of his comrade. He got hit in the chest and landed on the ground, wounded.
Heath gritted his teeth, firing his machine rifle at the Saviors in front of him, Sky, Glenn and Noah. The four of them were going further into the building before they were forced to stop and take shelter as they ran into a group of the Saviors. Heath emptied his magazine at the group of Saviors, managing to give his group enough time to flee from the scene before following them.
Noah, Glenn, Sky and Heath ran as fast as their legs could carry them as the group of Saviors they stumbled upon a few moments ago wasted no time and followed them, firing their guns at them as they did so in hopes at least one of their bullets will hit someone from the people who attacked them. Sky, Glenn, Noah and Heath's situation got ever worse a few seconds later when they turned the corner and ran into the hallway with no way out.
Knowing they couldn't turn back right now as they would ran straight into the Saviors chasing them, the group of four continued to make their way down the hallway towards the room at the end of it. Glenn aimed his machine rifle at the door handle of the door to the room at the end of the hallway, making sure the door will be open when he and his group will reach it.
The group of four reached the door a few seconds later and Sky quickly pushed it open. She quickly entered the room, followed by Glenn, Heath and Noah. Noah closed the door behind him and hit the ground, hearing how the Saviors had just catched up to them. Sky, Glenn and Heath followed his example and hit the floor as the Saviors opened fire at them, filling the door with holes.
The group of four looked around themselves, trying to find a way out of this situation. They didn't have to search for long as they found out they have just found the armory just a second later. Without exchanging any words with each other, the group of four knew what they should do next. They instantly jumped to their feet and grabbed the closest machine gun they could get their hands on.
After making sure every single of them was carrying a machine gun, they turned to the hole filled door in front of them and opened fire at the Saviors on the other side of it. They emptied their magazines, making sure every Savior standing on the other side of the door was dead before lowering the smoking machine rifles. The four of them stepped closer to the door and Heath opened it, allowing them to get a good look at what was on the other side of it.
They saw a literal bloodbath on the other side of the room as every Savior going after them was laying on the floor in the pool of their own blood. The four of them lowered their guard, thinking every Savior in front of them was dead. They were wrong, though. A black skinned man opened his eyes, having been pretending to be deceased and aimed his pistol at them, ready to open fire and avenge his deceased comrades.
He didn't got a chance to open fire at them as someone who was standing behind him shot him in the head, killing him for good. Glenn, Noah, Heath and Sky looked in the direction the shot came from, taken by suprise by it and saw Jesus calmly standing in front of them. He put his smoking pistol down, having no further need to keep it up and took off his bandana, showing his face to them.
"So, this is the next world." He said calmly as Sky, Noah, Glenn and Heath stared at him silently.
Gabriel stepped forward from the woods, making sure his rifle was fully loaded as he slowly made his way to the wounded dying man who was shot by Tara a few moments ago. The wounded man didn't saw him Gabriel coming towards him, but heard someone walking towards him and it was enough to make him panic as he knew it must been someone from the group who attacked him and his comrades. He immediately started reaching for his pistol as Gabriel stopped in front of him, keeping his gun aimed at him.
"Drop it." He ordered.
The wounded man turned around to look at him and chuckled after seeing the clothes Gabriel had on himself, "You, uh- you gonna kill me, Padre?" Gabriel stayed silent and took more step towards him, making sure he will land the shot once he will fire at him, "Padre?"
""Let not your heart be troubled."" Gabriel spoke up to the wounded man a second later, beginning to reciting one verse from the Bible.
"You're just as dead as me." The wounded man taunted him.
"In my father's house are many mansions." Gabriel continued to recite this verse from the Bible, "If it were not so, I would've told you."
The wounded man chuckled, "You're all dead.
"I go prepare a place for you. Blood's coming." Gabriel finished reciting this verse from the Bible and fired at the wounded man, putting him down, "Amen."
It was day now and the sun had replaced the moon on the top of the sky. The group walked out of the building through the back exit, managing to come out victorious in their attack on the Saviors without any casualties. The group looked around themselves, trying to see if there was any threat to them in the area they had just entered. They didn't saw anything worth mentioning other than a couple of cars and an RV.
"Hey." Glenn called out for Heath, having just approached him with Noah and Sky as Heath had taken an interest in the RV, knowing it will be a perfect vehicle for him and Tara to go on their two week supply run in, "Hey, you want to just come back with us? Take a couple days before you and Tara go out again?"
"No, man. " Heath shook his head at the offer, "I just want to get out of here."
Glenn nodded in understanding, "Alright."
"Watch out for yourself out there." Sky offered her friend good luck.
"I will." Heath reassured her, "Make sure Scott will be fine for me, okay?"
"I will." Sky chuckled as she moves towards Heath and wrapped her arms around him, giving him a quick hug.
Heath wasted no time and hugged his friend back. They released each other from the hug a few seconds later as Tara walked over to them, informing Heath she was ready to move out. Heath nodded at her, letting her know he ready as well. The two of them got themselves into the RV and drove off away from the Saviors headquarters, heading out on their two week supply run.
Rick watched Tara and Heath drive away from them for several seconds before they vanished from his view. He shfited his gaze to Michonne a second later and saw the look she had on her face right now, "What is it?"
"Just want to know which one of them was Negan." Michonne replied.
The two of them brought their attention back to the Saviors headquarters as the sound of a motorcycle engine rang through their ears. They weren't the only ones who heard it. The rest of their group heard it as well. It was when a man drove out of the building, riding towards the woods on a motorcycle. It didn't took a few people in the audience to notice this motorycle was familiar.
"Wait a second." Duncan's eyes widened in suprise as he looked at Daryl, "Redneck. Isn't that your...?"
He didn't got a chance to finish what he was saying as Daryl immediately recognized this bike as his own, "Son of a bitch!"
He pushed himself into run towards his motorcycle as Rosita, Gwen, Sanders and Alejandro opened fire at the unknown man, one of them managing to hit him in the shoulder. The unknown man fell off the motorcycle as soon as he got hit in the shoulder as Daryl was only a few steps away from him. Seeing Daryl running towards him, the unknown man tried to get himself back on shi feet but it was too late to do anything at this point as Daryl easily tackled him to the ground.
Daryl punched the unknown man in the face a few times as the rest of the group gathered around them, "Where'd you get the bike?"
"Just do it!" The unknown man shouted, seeing how everyone had their guns aimed at him right now, "Like you did everyone else, right?"
"Lower your gun, prick." An unfamiliar female voice echoed from the walkie-talkie laying next to the unknown man, "You, with the Colt Python. All of you, lower your weapons right now."
Rick picked up the walkie-talkie and lifted it up to his mouth, "Come on out. Let's talk."
"We're not coming out, but we will talk." The unknown woman replied as Rick's group aimed their guns in various directions, knowing she could have been anywhere right now, "We've got a Carol, a Leshawna, a Bridgette and a Maggie. I'm thinking that's something you want to chat about..."
If only our characters knew how much they will regret attacking this place in the near future..
We got a trailer for the new Helluva Boss episodes and it left me pretty excited for them. I'm really looking forward to see all the stuff with Moxxie's dad, Barbie Wire, Striker and Andrealphus.
We're so close to the part 1 of part of season 4 of Attack on Titan and I'm super excited for it. I just can't want to watch the Rumbling and "This is Freedom" scene animated. If what they gave us in the trailer looked us good and showed the horrors of the Rumbling so well, then I can only imagine how good the scene will look like without any cuts.
Hope it wasn't that bad. See you in another chapter.