Walking Dead: Building Your Own Hope
Chapter 18 of my Walking Dead story, enjoy.
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Season 3: Episode 18
Rick sat tensely, hands on his gun, keeping himself ready to act at a moment's notice.
"Rick, are you alright?" Michonne asked, noticing his actions.
Rick nodded. "Just trying to, stay focused. I don't want to be caught off guard here."
Michonne sighed. "I understand that, but really, if you get too wound up and tense you could end up with tunnel vision and be caught off guard from the side."
Rick looked at her sharply for a moment, but then sighed and nodded, letting himself calm down a little. They were drawing closer and closer to the Saviours base, they had to be ready to act at a moments notice, given Dwight's warning that the Saviours would be expecting an attack.
'They could have lookouts, we'd probably have to jump out and start shooting if they do.' Rick remembered. 'Nevertheless, this is it, the time to end this evil group once and for all.'
With that he prepared himself as together the various vans, transporting the mix of local deputies, a SWAT team from the city and a number of FBI agents, a large joint operation designed to carry out that very ideal as they finally closed in and quickly began to surround the building the Saviours were within.
Exiting their vehicles, the group of varying law enforcement officers all readied their weapons and began to close in on the building, making sure they had every entrance covered while checking for any signs of danger. There were none, which made them all the more concerned. Rick took up a position behind Michonne who was on point at one of the doors.
"Rules of engagement?" Rick asked cautiously.
Michonne glanced back at him. "Any who surrender, we arrest. Any who resist, we have to take down."
"Negan a priority target?" Rick verified.
"Yes." Michonne replied. "Alright, weapons live, flash-bangs ready, on my mark."
Everyone was ready, making sure they could act at a moments notice. Rick swallowed and prepared himself, this had to be done, before these men hurt anyone else, before they could present a danger to Carl again, Rick remembered all too well Carl's story of how he and Jamie, along with Andrew, Marissa, Brian and Beth had been cornered and nearly killed by the Saviours.
"Alright, go." Michonne called out.
With that they moved in, getting the doors open, the stun grenades doing their jobs as they all got to work, moving throughout the whole base as quickly as they could to secure the place and take down the Saviours, in the midst of shouting and before long gunshots could be heard, further bangs and shouts and soon they were discovering, while the Saviours had been expecting an attack, they hadn't been expecting something this big, they therefore did have the element of surprise after all.
Rick grimaced as the first Saviour he came across reacted at once, taking aim with a gun. Having no choice, Rick opened fire, taking the man down. Michonne kicked open a door and worked her way through it, gun ready.
"Clear." She called out.
"Clear." Rick also called out as he did the same in another room.
They turned the corner and came across a trio of Saviours. They readied their weapons but the trio quickly dropped theirs and dropped their knees, hands up.
"Three surrendered." Michonne called out.
She signalled some of the men with them and they moved in to arrest and move the surrendered Saviours outside the building.
"They don't have that many numbers, we must nearly have them all." Rick noted.
Michonne nodded. "One more floor to check. We've secured a lot of weapons and money, drugs too. Roughly half of them have surrendered, the others we had to put down."
"Let's go."
With that they headed up with their team, the rest of those who had come all making sure the secured area was completely clear. Reaching the highest level they found it to be a single large room, a single large empty room.
"Clear." Michonne said at last, her voice quiet, troubled.
Rick lowered his gun, there was nowhere for anyone to hide, they had indeed cleared the whole building. Yet why was Michonne troubled, they'd taken down the Saviours.
Michonne was walking around the whole group, talking to other members of the team, checking the arrested Saviours who were all being ready for being transported away. Rick couldn't help but wonder what was wrong, she seemed rather on edge.
"What's going on?" Rick asked.
Michonne shook her head. "Hold on, I need to be sure."
She checked something on a PDA she was holding before continuing onwards, it looked almost like she was counting. Rick began to get worried, anxious. He was sure of it now, something was very wrong here.
"Oh shit." Michonne said at last, as she finally finished.
She turned around, biting her lip as she looked around the various arrested Saviours.
Rick hurried up to her. "Michonne, what, what is it?"
Michonne shook her head. "This, this is bad...very bad. This isn't how it was supposed to go."
"What?!"
"I just quickly checked, made sure to identify the ones we arrested and killed together…" Michonne explained, before revealing. "There are six Saviours missing, not amongst the dead, not amongst the arrested...and Negan is one of them."
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.
