The rainstorm had intensified within a few hours of Aelita, Yumi, Odd, Jeremie, Ulrich, Rebecca, Dylan, Chase and Kyra's arrival back at the camp, and nearly everyone had went back to their tents in order to take shelter from the pouring rain and overall crappy weather. The Lyoko Warriors themselves were all gathered inside of the RV and were catching up with each other on what they've all been through over the last few weeks, with much of what they heard being very horrifying.
The Lyoko Warriors from the camp were all saddened and disturbed by hearing of the things the original five Lyoko Warriors had to go through in the last few days alone, especially with the parts about William and Kiwi dying and the highway full of burnt walkers... Likewise, the original five Lyoko Warriors were also saddened and disturbed at hearing more of what the rest of their team had gone through in Atlanta, what with Amy getting bit and the napalm being dropped in the streets...
But they all were still overjoyed at the reunion. The original five Lyoko Warriors were back, and it was absolutely a miracle that they were reunited at all. The Lyoko Warriors were finally together and back in action!
"I still can't believe you guys actually came here..." Jennifer smiled.
"Believe me, we can't believe it either..." Ulrich smiled back.
"It's been pretty rough on us all for a while now... but seeing you guys again? That's definitely some much-needed good news." Verity added.
The group all nodded in agreement before Aelita poured out cups of rainwater for all of the Lyoko Warriors, handing each of them a cup and filling up her own lastly, with her absolutely taking the one pink cup that was in the camp before anyone else could claim it. She also made sure to hand a cup to Chase, who was laying down on the couch with his foot propped up on a pillow so he could rest it for now. After that she set aside the jug of rainwater and sighed as she got everyone's attention.
"The last few weeks have been hard for all of you, the last few days have been hard for us as well..." Aelita began with a sigh. "Amy's gone and so is William and Kiwi... but we're still alive, and as long as we're still breathing then we won't forget either of them. Together, we can make it through this mess for as long as it takes. This camp? These people...? They're blessings... We won't waste them." She ended with a smile.
"Hear, hear!" Patrick agreed.
Aelita smiled at Patrick and her friends as she lifted her cup up into the air, and soon the other Lyoko Warriors all did the same with theirs.
"To Amy Smith, William Dunbar and Kiwi." Aelita toasted.
"To Amy, William and Kiwi!" The others toasted as well.
The group then proceeded to drink their water and reminisce about the good times they each had with William and Amy, along with all of the times either of the pair saved the members of the group on Lyoko whenever they had to deactivate one of XANA's towers. They all also remembered the good times they had with Kiwi... They'll miss that little guy so much. He was a good boy...
They group thought of the long period of time that William was captured by XANA and forced to be his general, causing Jeremie to have to make a clone of William so as to not arouse suspicions from anyone at Kadic Academy, and also of the countless times that William and Ulrich sparred for Yumi's affections. Ulrich won her in the end, and William ended up dating Rebecca for about a year before they split, with Rebecca going to date Dylan not long afterwards.
There was another time where Amy nearly drowned after being pushed off the bridge leading to the factory during a XANA attack, as there was a canal underneath it and Amy wasn't a good swimmer. That happened when XANA possessed the Kadic nurse Yolande and basically had her throw Amy off, causing Robert to literally dive off of the structure and straight into the water to rescue her before she could drown. Thankfully he succeeded just before she could lose consciousness, and Amy herself survived long enough for Jeremie to enter the codes for the Return Trip.
And of course who could forget about that one time where XANA possessed Chase and made him use his gun to shoot at his friends, causing him to hit William in the arm during a XANA attack? Or the times that Amy taught Aelita how to play games such as Poker, Blackjack, Battleship, and also the classic game that in her own words was called: "How To Stare At Super Cute Guys At The Mall Without Getting Caught", or: "HTSASCGATMWGC" for short? Or even the time that both Amy and William ended up accidentally trapped in the factory elevator for a good four or five hours one night due to some stupid technical glitch that Jeremie and Aelita had to fix?
All three of them would certainly be missed by all of them for the rest of their lives...
"So who was that guy that gave us that 'welcome' into the camp?" Jeremie asked as he remembered that jerk from earlier.
"Shane Walsh... From what he, Lori and Carl have told us, he was a police officer before this mess began. Lori was married before all of this and her husband was Shane's partner, but now her husband's dead and I think she's fucking Shane now." Patrick replied with a roll of his eyes at the prospect of Shane and Lori sleeping together.
"Right now he's basically the de-facto camp leader." Charles added.
"The guy's a colossal prick most of the time, but admittedly he does try very hard to keep everyone safe... Hell, some of us might not even be here if not for him." Chase conceded with a shrug.
"Just keep the guy away from us and I think we'll be fine..." Yumi commented.
Chase nodded in confirmation as everyone kept chatting and taking drinks from their cups of water. The rainstorm just kept getting worse and worse outside, so they all decided to just stay in the tent and figure out where Jeremie, Aelita, Ulrich, Odd and Yumi were going to sleep later on.
"So what about those people in that department store...? Can no one really go to try and help them?" Odd asked.
"As much as it pains me to say it, they'll have to try and find their own way out of there... It's too risky to head into the city to rescue them." Miranda sighed.
"No one at all can go in there...?" Aelita cautiously asked.
"No one at all..." Chase confirmed. "It's bad in there, sis... There might be literally thousands of walkers in the city as we speak. We wouldn't make it fifteen feet down a street without being eaten alive..." he added with a sigh.
"So much death in so little time..." Jeremie sighed while shaking his head.
The group fell silent once more as they kept thinking about those poor people trapped in Atlanta, along with how frustrating and disheartening it was to simply let them fend for themselves. The sound of the rain hitting the roof of the RV intensified during this time as well, definitely capturing how the mood turned for everyone. Robert had finished his cup of water and set it back down on the counter next to the sink, and after that he turned his attention towards Jeremie as he had one pretty major thing on his mind...
"Did XANA cause this outbreak...?" Robert suddenly asked.
"Honestly...? I'm not sure..." Jeremie replied truthfully. "My laptop was destroyed a couple of days ago when our van crashed. I don't have any possible way to check if XANA truly caused any of this or not, but... I would say that the odds are that he did." he sighed.
"How in the hell could he do something this huge though...? XANA's never caused anything this horrific before!" Jennifer stated.
"Exactly! I'm used to him trying to do stuff like turning the ground into mud to sink Kadic Academy into the earth! Or trapping us inside the cafeteria with electricity on the walls!" Kyra said. "But this...? This is evil! This is absolutely evil!" she added.
Jeremie didn't have any answers this time, neither did Aelita or any of the other Lyoko Warriors. All he could do was just give a resigned shrug as a reply, which in itself unfortunately wasn't much.
"I don't know at all, guys... I really wish I did, but this time I just don't know. I'm sorry..." Jeremie sighed.
After a moment or two of more silence and taking in the fact that they may never truly know what caused this outbreak, the group finally noticed that the sound of the rain hitting the rooftop had disappeared, and when they looked out the window they could see sunlight. The rain finally went away...
"Rain finally lettin' up?" Verity asked out of curiosity.
"Yeah, but now we've gotta head back out. Camp's got some chores and a lot of us need to start doing them." Miranda replied.
The other Lyoko Warriors all nodded in agreement and they all stood up from their chairs, except for Chase who continued to lay on the couch with his ankle propped up as he had to rest it for a while.
"We can ask around and see if anyone needs help with anything. We want to contribute..." Aelita offered of herself and the other four original Lyoko Warriors.
"That'll be great if you guys can help out a bit here and there..." Rebecca replied. "We've got a lot of things to do around the camp and the extra hands would absolutely be welcomed by everyone here." she added.
Charles opened the door to the RV and one by one everyone stepped back outside to find some chores to do or whatever else could be useful. Jennifer gave Chase a kiss on the cheek before she likewise left, whereas Dylan and Aelita also stopped for a moment to check up on their brother.
"You gonna be alright cooped up in here, Chase?" Dylan asked with a grin.
"I'll probably die of boredom before any walkers get me, but I think I can manage." Chase jokingly replied to the pair.
Both Dylan and Aelita chuckled at Chase's response and Dylan playfully ruffled his older brother's hair before he walked out of the RV, intending to prepare on heading back out of the camp to put down some more warning signs on the highways with Kyra, Rebecca and Charles. Aelita, however, stayed for an extra few moments and she knelt down next to Chase to speak with him for just a little longer, the pair smiling at each other.
"I'm beyond glad that we finally found you guys..." Aelita smiled.
"You and me both, Princess..." Chase replied before his smile suddenly faded away a bit, turning into an expression of sadness pretty fast. "A lot of us thought for a while that you guys didn't make it, that you and mom and dad and the others all died back in France... I even had a few nightmares where I'd run into you as a walker..." he said, his voice dripping with a bit of sadness.
Aelita likewise felt sadness building within her when Chase mentioned all of these things, especially the parts about him mentioning their parents and about him having nightmares. She truly hoped that their mom and dad somehow made it out of this mess... but even if neither of them did, the Lyoko Warriors absolutely had to.
"I miss them too... But we got to keep going." Aelita stated. "Even if mom and dad are... y'know... then we have to stay alive. You, me, Dylan... we and all of our friends have to push through this. I'm here now and so is all of our friends, and none of us are intending to go anywhere. I won't become a walker anytime soon..." she assured.
"I know... I don't plan on going anywhere either and I highly doubt any of the others plan that either." Chase also assured, his smile quickly beginning to return.
Aelita smiled back at her brother and she quickly pulled him in for a hug, with him also making sure to return a hug back to her. They kept hugging for a few more moments before they let go of each other, and Aelita playfully ruffled her older brother's hair like how Dylan did before she stood back up and walked back to the door, stopping for a moment to turn back to look at him.
"Thanks for staying alive, Chase..." Aelita smiled gratuitously and happily.
Chase smiled and nodded as a reply to his sister before she resumed walking out of the RV and out into the camp, leaving him alone to recuperate his ankle for the time being...
A few hours after they left the RV the group was spread out amongst the camp, either taking part in doing chores or trying to find something to contribute to. Dylan, Rebecca, Kyra and Charles had all already left camp to put up some more warning signs on a few different highways around Atlanta, so they all would most likely be gone for an entire day at the least. Ulrich was chopping firewood with Alexandr, Odd and Verity, whereas several of the others were either cleaning clothes or pots and pans. Patrick and Miranda were both over at a washing tin near a tree and they were cleaning some blood off of the camp's knives, blood that was both fresh on some knifes and dry on others.
Patrick was in the middle of cleaning off his eighth knife when he looked over at Verity, seeing that she was already staring back at him with a bit of a seductive grin on her face. Patrick grinned back when Verity winked at him and used her head to gesture towards the forest, and he immediately picked up on what she was meaning. Patrick then set his clean knife down and stood up, brushing himself off and causing Miranda to look up at him as Patrick saw Verity was already walking into the trees.
"Where are you going?" Miranda asked.
"I've, uh..." Patrick began, hesitating for a moment as he tried to think of an excuse. "Aelita and Jeremie wanted me to help them with something, so I think I've gotta go and deal with that now." he lied.
Miranda blinked with a bit of confusion at this as she didn't recall hearing Jeremie or Aelita ask Patrick for help with anything, but she digressed and just simply shrugged as she returned to cleaning off some knives.
"Alright, but don't take too long. There's a bunch of knives here to clean..." Miranda replied.
Patrick nodded in confirmation and he began to hurry after Verity while trying his hardest to look as casual as he possibly could. When he thought that he was out of the sight and attention of everyone else at camp he quickly ran into the trees, and after that he walked deeper into them in an effort to find Verity.
But there was just one problem: where the hell did she go? Honestly he was looking everywhere around the trees for her, and yet he didn't see her anywhere.
Suddenly he felt a large pressure on his back and he was sent straight to the floor of the forest, causing him to cringe with discomfort as he immediately began thinking that a walker had pounced him. However he suddenly heard a bit of giggling, and when he flipped over to lay on his back he was met with Verity's face, as she was now apparently pinning him to the ground.
"Hey there." Verity simply said with a grin.
Patrick chuckled both out of amusement and relief that he wasn't walker food yet, and he grinned back up at his girlfriend as he set his hands on her waist, using his thumbs to rub them a bit through her shirt.
"Hey there..." Patrick simply replied with a similar grin.
Verity gently set her hands down on her boyfriend's shoulders and she leaned down to give him a quick kiss on the lips, quickly breaking it a second later just to mess with him.
"Be honest... Did I surprise you?" Verity grinned and tilted her head as she rubbed his shoulders.
"Oh, you certainly did surprise me quite a bit, cupcake." Patrick grinned back.
Giving out a fake gasp of shock and annoyance, Verity made sure to give Patrick a soft sucker punch right in his stomach, and she quickly began to fake-glare at him. To be honest he thought that it was actually pretty adorable...
"You know I don't like it when you call me that!" Verity fake-glared.
"I know." Patrick grinned simply and matter-of-factly.
The pair kept pretend-seriously staring at each other for a few more moments before they both burst out laughing with each other. But then all of a sudden Patrick slowly began to move his hands up Verity's body until they went under her shirt and settled on her chest, causing her laughter to cease and the expression on her face to change to that of arousal.
Verity immediately leaned down to begin unbuttoning Patrick's shirt as the pair locked their lips together for a hard and greedy mutual kiss, with Patrick's firm hands beginning to sensually play with and massage the breasts that he was currently grabbing onto under her tank top and jacket. Verity shuddered with pleasure and the pair gave low moans of arousal into each other's mouths as she slowly began to grind her hips against Patrick's leg, and after his jacket was pulled off and his shirt was fully opened by Verity he broke the kiss for a moment so he could pull his shirt the rest of the way off.
Patrick then quickly sat up and lifted Verity's denim jacket and her tank top off her body to reveal her bra. He then unhooked the bra and tossed it to the side so he could immediately dig his face into her revealed chest to gently bite and kiss all the skin his lips could find that was in front of him. The girl began to gasp pleasurably and her grinding and moaning was intensifying as her hand moved to go down into his jeans and between his legs...
...and that's when the pair suddenly heard a twig snap.
Almost immediately the pair pulled away from each other and began rapidly looking around for whatever caused that noise, with their assumptions being that it had to have been a walker. The pair were thankfully smart enough to carry a pair of knives with them at all times, so they unsheathed them and readied them for action as they began standing back to back to keep each other safe.
"You two having fun over there...?"
The two lovers almost literally jumped ten feet in the air due to shock and surprise, and the two rapidly turned to see that Jennifer and Yumi were casually leaning against a tree with huge amused grins on both of their faces.
"Well, well, well... Looks like you two aren't doing your chores, huh?" Jennifer grinned.
Verity immediately yelped with massive embarrassment and covered her breasts with her hands as she rapidly and desperately looked around for wherever the hell her shirt, jacket and bra went. Patrick picked up his own shirt and jacket as he averted his gaze from Jennifer and Yumi, even as he likewise felt the same kind of embarrassment that Verity was feeling. The Texan and Japanese girls were leaning against the tree and were biting their own lips while they struggled as hard as they could to not laugh.
"You two started dating, huh? You know, a lot of us in the group thought you would make a cute boyfriend and girlfriend. Do you agree with that assessment, Jennifer?" Yumi grinned teasingly.
"Oh, totally." Jennifer replied with a grin. "Y'know, Yumi... back when we were in Kadic, Chase and I actually had a bet on how long it would be until Verity and Patrick here make themselves a couple. He still owes me five Euros." she added, giving a playful teasing grin towards the lovers.
Verity thankfully found her bra and she immediately put it back on with her back facing towards the others, then she found her tank top and put that back on as well, followed by her denim jacket. Honestly, her cheeks were blushing so much at this point that they might as well have been the same color as Aelita's hair. Patrick quickly put his shirt back on and buttoned it up before pulling on his leather jacket as both he and Verity straightened their clothing and their own hairs, trying their absolute hardest to appear like they weren't getting hot and heavy with each other just moments earlier.
"W- We weren't doing anything!" Verity lied, not even daring to look either of the two girls in the eye.
"That wasn't what either of us saw." Yumi grinned.
"S... S-Seriously, we weren't! W- We thought we heard a walker out here!" Patrick lied as he likewise didn't dare look at the two girls.
Both Yumi and Jennifer glanced at each other for a moment and struggled their absolute hardest to not laugh as they looked back at the two lovers.
"Was the walker what Patrick was grabbing under Verity's shirt, or was it what Verity was grabbing down inside Patrick's pants?" Yumi joked.
Verity immediately grabbed a small stick off the ground and threw it straight towards Yumi out of pure annoyance, but luckily the black-haired Japanese teen managed to duck and let the stick fly over her before it could possibly hit her anywhere. After that she stood back up and kept grinning at the lovers, crossing her arms as Verity lowered her head out of embarrassment.
"Y- You guys won't tell anyone about this, right...?" Patrick cautiously asked.
"We won't tell a soul, don't worry. It'll be our little secret..." Jennifer smirked.
"At least for now..." Yumi added with a smirk.
Both Jennifer and Yumi burst out laughing as the lovers blushed even more out of their shyness and embarrassment at the situation, and the two girls proceeded to start walking back towards camp together to let Patrick and Verity have their privacy once more. Too embarrassed and shy to say anything whatsoever to each other at the moment, the couple gently locked hands and likewise began to make their way back towards the camp together...
They both made mental notes to find a better place for this kind of stuff next time...
Jeremie and Aelita were busy washing some of the camp's clothes in a washtub together, with several others in the camp nearby doing the same thing. The two geniuses felt pretty tied from the large amount of work they had done in these last few hours, but they kept pushing through it as it was simply better to be tired and alive rather than not tired and dead.
While they were washing they noticed that Jennifer and Yumi had walked out of the treeline of the forest, and the pair were followed by Verity and Patrick just a short time later. Aelita and Jeremie noticed that Yumi and Jennifer both had smirks on their faces whereas Verity and Patrick appeared to be heavily embarrassed about something, and soon all four teens were back to doing whatever they were originally doing earlier. Both Jeremie and Aelita paused in their work for a moment before they glanced at each other, both confused and very curious about what may have happened.
"From the looks of those four, it appears something strange happened..." Aelita stated.
"Definitely... Maybe Jennifer and Yumi walked in on-" Jeremie began to say.
Suddenly Jeremie stopped in mid-sentence and he rose an eyebrow as he began to look around for some reason, causing Aelita to blink with confusion. What was he doing...?
"Are you alright, Jeremie?" Aelita asked.
"Yeah, it's just... do you hear something or is that just me?" Jeremie asked.
Aelita likewise rose an eyebrow and she stood up from the ground and began to listen, not noticing anything other than the normal sounds coming from the camp. But then she did begin to notice a noise that sounded like it was coming from very far away from the quarry. It sounded repetitive but she couldn't put her finger on it...
"You're right, I definitely hear something." Aelita confirmed.
Jeremie nodded and he likewise stood up from the washtub. He brushed some dirt and dust off of himself before both he and Aelita hurried over to the RV, as they knew Dale was at the top and was keeping an eye out for any trouble up there. When the couple got to the RV they saw Dale was already standing up with a pair of binoculars in his hands, and by this time the noise was getting loud enough to draw the attention of everyone else in camp, who like Jeremie and Aelita came running to the RV to find out what the hell was going on.
"Talk to me, Dale! What're we dealing with? Is it Dylan and the others?" Shane asked.
Dale kept trying to find the source of the encroaching noise with his binoculars, but he was still having a bit of trouble finding the source.
"I can't tell yet!" Dale replied.
Some of the others in the camp ran to grab their guns just to be safe, and Dale himself just kept looking around for whatever was causing the noise. His binoculars finally settled on a dust trail that was quickly making its way through the side of the quarry in an apparent attempt to make it to the camp. Dale lowered his binoculars as his eyes widened.
"I'll be damned..." Dale said.
"What is it? What's out there?" Ulrich asked.
"A stolen car is my guess!" Dale replied with a small grin on his face as he quickly realized who probably stole that car.
The noise intensified and soon the group saw a cherry red Dodge Challenger fast approaching the camp. Even Chase was drawn out of the RV by the noise as he hobbled to stand in the door of the RV with his pistol in hand, as although he was completely confused by whatever was going on he was still determined to defend the others. The sports car stopped a short distance from the group and the noise was absolutely a pain to listen to, and everyone knew the sound had to be stopped as soon as possible due to the threat of walkers being drawn towards them. Dale climbed down from the top of the RV as an Asian-looking man got out of the car and looked at the group, who was beginning to be annoyed by the noise itself.
"Holy crap, Glenn! Turn that fucking thing off!" Patrick frowned.
"I don't know how!" The man now known as 'Glenn' exclaimed.
Glenn?! Aelita, Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi and Odd all immediately recognized the name from that discussion hours ago about the group in Atlanta... The other Lyoko Warriors said that this guy was with them! If that was the case then how the hell did he get out of the infested city alive?!
"Pop the hood!" Shane ordered.
Before Glenn could go to pop the hood open so Shane could deactivate the car alarm, Amy Harrington quickly ran up to Glenn with a feeling of worry.
"My sister, Andrea-" Amy began to say.
"Pop the damn hood, please!" Shane frowned with a growing feeling of annoyance.
"What...?" Glenn asked as he had difficulty hearing Shane due to both Amy and the car alarm, but he quickly realized what Shane was talking about after he gestured towards the car. "Okay, okay! Yeah!" he added as he hurried over to the car.
Glenn ran to the driver's side door of his new car and he leaned inside to find where to open the front hood. He found the button to do that and soon Shane was looking inside to find where the car battery was so he could unhook it and stop the alarm.
"Is she okay? Is Andrea alright?!" Amy asked with pure concern.
"Yes, yes! She's okay!" Glenn replied.
After another moment Shane had finally succeeded in unhooking the battery and finally shutting the alarm off for good. Now all they had to worry about is if any walkers may have heard the alarm... which had to have been a certainty if the alarm was on all the way from Atlanta.
"Is she coming back?!" Amy asked.
"Yes!" Glenn replied.
"Why isn't she with you? Where is she? She's okay?" Amy asked, her concern finally beginning to die down a bit once she heard that Andrea was alive and well and on the way back to camp.
Glenn nodded in confirmation before he turned his attention to the others in the camp, noticing about five newcomers there but deciding not to say anything for the moment.
"Yeah, Andrea's fine. Everybody is..." Glenn confirmed to everyone at the camp. "Well... Merle though... not so much." he added, hinting that something pretty bad had happened to another in the supply group named Merle Dixon.
"Are you crazy driving this wailing bastard up here?" Shane asked Glenn as he leaned against the hood of the sports car, immediately worrying about the possibility of walkers following the noise. "Are you trying to draw every walker for miles?!" Shane also demanded to know.
"I think we're probably okay..." Patrick replied.
"You call being stupid okay?" Shane sarcastically deadpanned.
"The kid's right..." Dale interjected, defending Patrick. "The alarm was echoing all over these hills. Hard to pinpoint the source..." he also stated.
When Shane heard that reasoning from Dale he simply scoffed and rolled his eyes, believing the exact opposite of what the older man said. Glenn's stupid move here may have gotten the camp killed later on!
"I'm not arguing, I'm just saying..." Dale added with a shrug.
Everyone else in the camp was silent during this exchange, but once it was done every single one of them quickly turned their attention back towards Glenn.
"Maybe... But either way it couldn't hurt you to think things through a little more carefully next time, Glenn?" Chase asked with a frown from the doorway of the RV.
"Sorry..." Glenn apologized to the members of the camp, although this was quickly followed by him giving a bit of a sheepish smile as he took off his baseball cap. "I got a cool car though..." he added as a bit of good news, although this was unintentionally mostly to himself.
The others in the camp then heard another noise, which they soon saw was caused by a U-Haul truck approaching the camp from the same route that Glenn had taken earlier. The truck approached the camp and parked itself behind Glenn's car, and although they couldn't easily make out the driver due to the glare of the sun the group saw that some people were coming out of the back of the truck, among them being Amy's sister Andrea Harrington. When the two sisters saw each other they both immediately began to run towards each other out of joy.
"Amy!" Andrea smiled.
"Andrea!" Amy smiled back.
The two sisters were heavily sobbing out of pure joy as they met in a bone-crushing hug, drawing smiles from the rest of the group as they watched this reunion take place. The camp then saw two others from the supply group arrive, two named T-Dog and Jacqui, who both went to hug some of their friends in the camp with relief at their own survival. Another supply runner named Morales also came from the passenger seat of the truck and arrived to give a handshake to Alexandr, both happy to see the other still alive.
"I told you that I'd be back, didn't I?" Morales smiled.
"You're not wrong... It's so good to see you again, comrade. From the things T-Dog said on the radio it sounded pretty bleak... Glad you managed to defy the odds." Alexandr smiled.
Dale proceeded to walk over to the pair and he went to shake Morales' hand, smiling at him and the survival of his group. It was truly a miracle that they managed to get out of there, even without that prick Merle...
"I thought we had lost you folks for sure!" Dale smiled to his friend.
"How's y'all get out of there anyway?" Jennifer asked the supply runners.
"New guy." Glenn explained with a shrug, drawing the interest of everyone who was listening. "He got us out of there..." he added.
Another newcomer? They literally just got five newcomers earlier that day, and now there was a sixth? Honestly what were the odds of six new survivors arriving in just one day?
"New guy?" Odd asked with curiosity.
"Yeah... The crazy vato just got into town..." Morales replied.
Morales smiled as his family came to hug him out of happiness of his survival, and Morales smiled as he hugged them back. After that he turned to gesture towards the U-Haul truck, where the newcomer was still at.
"Hey! Helicopter boy! Come say hello!" Morales shouted with a smile.
The camp then noticed the driver's side door of the truck opening, with whoever was inside getting out of the truck and beginning to walk over to the camp itself.
"The guy's a cop. Like Shane..." Morales informed the camp.
The camp watched as the person came into their view. Like how Morales described the man was definitely a police officer as he was wearing a police uniform, but when the five original Lyoko Warriors saw the man's face they all slowly began to go wide eyed due to nothing more than pure shock...
The man was Rick Grimes, the exact same police officer who had saved them from certain death on the bridge just the day beforehand.
Shane likewise noticed Rick's face, and like the group his eyes also began to widen from pure shock as he apparently also seemed to have known who Rick was in some shape or form. Wait a minute... he must've been Rick's partner from before the outbreak! Rick quickly noticed that Shane was right there in front of him, and if that wasn't shocking enough for him he quickly noticed that Aelita, Ulrich, Jeremie, Yumi and Odd were all also there as well. But those shocks were nothing compared to the two people he noticed next...
Lori and Carl themselves were a short distance away and they also started looking at the newcomer, and once they realized it was none other than Rick their hearts literally skipped a beat. Lori's husband and Carl's father, the man who they literally thought was gone forever had returned... Lori was too shocked to move when she saw her husband, but after a moment Carl began to run as fast as he possibly could to get to his father.
"DAD!" Carl repeatedly began to shout from pure joy.
Like Lori, Rick was far too stunned to move for a few moments, but then he began to walk towards his son as tears welled in his eyes. When Carl arrived to him he engulfed his son into a very tight hug, both of them now openly beginning to sob with each other as they reunited. The others in the camp all quickly picked up from Carl's words and this hug that Rick was indeed Carl's father and Lori's husband, much to their own feelings of shock and joy. Rick picked up Carl and kept holding onto him tightly as he resumed walking towards Lori, who although incredibly happy was still beyond shocked that her husband was alive. When Rick got to her the pair engulfed each other in a hug, tears going down the sides of both of their faces. Everyone else continued to watch as this happened, shocked but very happy for the three.
The Grimes Family was back together once more...