The Walking Dead : This Lucky Bastard

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 Calvin was doing a series of squats with a 200kg deadlift barbell over his shoulders and he was sweating profusely.

Near him in the same room, Christina was sweating on the treadmill in full sprint and Rachid was nearby repeating blows with a wooden saber.

It was the family exercise room of the White House so Calvin, Christina and their son took advantage of it every day.

 Everyone suddenly stopped to look up at something and it was Clementine on the climbing wall. There was a fairly difficult obstacle for her to overcome and Calvin had told her several times that it was still an impossible task because of her current physical limitations.

Clementine was the best of her protégés in handling firearms followed by Riley, Paul's son, so she preferred to fight at height where she would have a certain advantage. For that, Calvin introduced her to climbing and it became a real passion for the little girl who was very talented in the field.

 Rachid: Hey, Spider-Clem, how many times are you gonna faille ?

 "I'm not going to fail this time" Clementine responded with a hint of pride as she caught her breath.

 Rachid: That's what you said last time and the time before…and the time before…and the-(interrupted)

 "Stop making fun of your aunt, I remind you that she is faster than you at this exercise" Christina said as she continued running (Clementine is officially Calvin's adoptive younger sister, who is himself Rachid's adoptive father) .

 " At least I know my limits, she's going to get hurt one Day. Inshallah, I hope I'm wrong..." Rachid said with a shrug. 

 Clémentine : Molly showed me a new technique, It's gonna work.

 Calvin said nothing and just watched as Clementine tried to jump to reach the other hold but her little body didn't have enough propulsion and she fell.

Fortunately, her harness prevented her from reaching the ground as her face had a frustrated expression, Rachid wasted no time in making fun of her and Calvin reminded her that she had physical limits to respect if she wanted to survive.

It was admirable to go further but there was always a limit no matter how competent we could be.

 After that, each of them took a bath before eating together, Lee wasn't there because he went to assess the new arrivals at the outer camp by pretending to be a new survivor himself and it was going to last two weeks approximately.

As for Molly, she and a few men went to look for Nadia and the other women left behind in Greenville.

Calvin had granted Christina's request to bring them back but he also had his reasons, the current circumstances don't allow them to neglect a female contribution to a community and the more women there are, the more children there will be to increase the human population.

 If it was up to him, he would have left them there but as a leader, he had to think of the common good before his own desires, it was his responsibility and it pissed him off.

 It had been 5 days since Lise's operation and Calvin had to bring Duane and Sophia back to their parents in Alexandria.

Christina didn't really have a connection with Rick's group so she stayed to lead the community with Molly and Paul.

With only King, Calvin took with him Duane and Sophia but also Clementine who came for the simple reason that she wanted to stay with him.

As for Rachid, he stayed in Lincoln to attend the training sessions of his dog which he called Abdenour (slave of light).

 Alexandria the community was located between the real small town of Alexandria and the town of Manassas 38 km from Washington DC, Calvin rode for a while with the kids in king when he reached a warehouse near a train station.

He was about to continue on his way when shots rang out in the direction of the warehouse followed by a loud bang caused by an explosion which made Calvin stop the vehicle, definitely intrigued by it.

 "An explosion and gunshots, survivors are confronting each other." He said to himself out loud.

 "Maybe also survivors facing walkers, we should at least check and help if we can." Sophia who was sitting near him at the front told him.

 Cal: It's none of our business.

 "Maybe they're good people…like my parents. You said we needed to recruit as many good people as possible for our community. You're the one who said it and what's more, you always save people like superheroes..." Said Clementine while making her puppy eyes 

 "Why did you have to come?" Calvin asked him, sighing while rubbing his eyes.

 Clémentine : Because I'm your little sister that you love and Christina couldn't come so here I am, she wanted you not to do stupid things... She didn't want you to kill people in access .

 "Stupid things ? I'm the adult and we say "excess". He responded by cutting the contact as Clementine had a victorious smile on her face.

 "Alright, I'll go but you lil niggas are gonna stay here and don't touch anything at all, I'll be back soon." He got up to go grab his light equipment consisting of his silenced pistol and a medium-sized ax made entirely of metal from blade to handle.

Duane insisted on coming with him but he asked him to watch over the others because he was the strongest among them.

 (in the warehouse)

 "Eugene?" Tara? Tyrese?" Glenn called them to find out if they were still alive because Aiden, despite his warnings, had caused a violent explosion by shooting a zombie who was carrying grenades on his bulletproof vests.

He saw Eugene safe and sound, coughing, but also Tara unconscious in the rubble, debris separated them from her and he hurried to do what was necessary to reach her.

 Tyrese was also fine (they never met Noah so he's still alive), he was very stunned by the detonation and was disoriented in addition to the injuries on him but fortunately, he was on the same side as Glenn.

 The group was not out of the woods yet, the gates that held the walkers in a nearby section gave way due to the explosion and they got out.

One of the dead saw Eugene and went towards the latter who began to panic. Glenn saw this and asked him to calm down but Eugene took too long to react when another walker attacked him from his side but fortunately for him, he was saved at the last minute by Glenn.

 Too many zombies were out and several of them spotted the unconscious Tara who they moved towards, Eugene noticed this and a shiver came over him.

 "Oh no…" Eugene said, pointing to Tara's position at Glenn.

 "TARA!" shouted Glenn who took out his gun and fired from his position but there was smoke, too much rubble and it was extremely dark, he was able to kill a few zombies but there were too many of them so he and Tyrese started to do noise to attract them and it worked for a few zombies but the others remained focused on Tara much to Glenn's panic.

Suddenly, two bullets lodged in the heads of two zombies near Tara while a very fast shadow circulated between the zombies to hit them in the head and kill them in one hit with an axe, it was Calvin who arrived near Tara and carried her on his shoulders, it was under the light of his torch that Glenn understood who it was.

 Glenn: CALVIN!

 "No time for greetings, several of these bastards are coming behind me in large numbers thanks to your explosion, this route is ruined for a group with people injured ." He said with slight annoyance.

 "There are also walkers at the entrance to the warehouse. We...we have to find a way out of here..." Glenn told him before coughing from the dust.

 "Fuck! Fuck! FUUUUUCK!!!" they heard a cursing voice and saw Nicolas who screamed in the corner, apparently he had survived too and went to look to find Aiden impaled by iron bars on the rubble.

One of the bars had pierced his left shoulder and the other pierced his right side at the top of the hip. Nicolas was near him and immediately headed towards the others.

 "He's dead…HE'S DEAD…" He said shaking his head.

 Tyrese: Oh my God...Deanna...

 "Wow, one of Deanna's sons…?" Calvin asked nonchalantly, narrowing his eyes. They wanted to go to Aiden but Nicolas told them that it was already over for him and that they had to leave from there.

However, several walkers were already there because if Calvin was able to hear this detonation, so were the zombies in front of the warehouse and in the surrounding area outside.

 They saw an office with a bay window where they hid from the zombies to think of a plan and it was there that behind them they heard Aiden coughing and begging them not to abandon him, he was still alive.

 "He's still alive !!!" Tyrese whispered, looking at Glenn.

 "Oh bastard, didn't you say he was dead?" Calvin asked Nicolas while poking him.

 Nicolas: I...he didn't move anymore...I-(interrupted)

 "He makes noise and it attracts the dead…the rubble prevents them from passing directly but it's a matter of minutes before he gets eaten alive." Glenn said watching from the window and the others did the same.

 Cal: We'll get him and get out of here asap.

 "We're all going to die if we do that, he's screwed. If he can attract them and give us an opportunity to get out of it then we should take advantage of it." Nicolas said starting to panic.

 "We can't do that, Nicolas." Glenn replied.

 "I more or less agree…with him. We're all going to die if we stay here..." Eugene said as panic also invaded him when he saw all these zombies.

 Cal : Pussy-ass mullet...pfff

 Eugene : I just want to stay alive...

 "It's not like I'm gonna give you a choice, he's in danger and I don't have time to worry about two cowards. (to Tyrese) Cuz, you're going to carry that bitch who helped destroy your prison and we're gonna rescue your boss's son. Glenn and the two losers, you've got our backs..." Calvin said as he opened the door to go out and this spontaneity shocked the others but it was too late, they had to follow now.

Tyrese immediately carried Tara and Glenn drew his silenced assault rifle, Nicolas and Eugene followed them but looking at all these zombies in the huge dark space, Nicolas started to seriously panic.

 He looked towards the back lane and saw a small opportunity, he sweated profusely watching the walkers and he made a decision for his survival.

 "I'm...I'm sorry..." He said and the others looked at him before he shot Eugene in the leg who screamed in pain and that attracted the zombies, Nicolas started to crawl away under the rubble in the darkness without attracting the dead who were heading towards Eugene.

 Glenn: NICOLAS!

 "This nigga is dead once I get out of here. I swear to God... I swear to mother fucking Jesus..."Calvin said coldly before asking the others to return to the office because of Eugene being injured and hide by blocking the door while he went to take care of Aiden alone.

Glenn without question did everything Calvin asked without question because he knew perfectly well who he was dealing with.

[THE ENTITIES]

Eternity : This warehouse, it's in this episode that in the series Noah dies because of Nicolas' fault, right? 

Reality : Yep but with the changes in events, especially Dawn who joined their group earlier, we don't really know what happened to Noah in this reality and if you ask me, that's good.

Eternity : I don't know, I liked Noah...

Death : He had potential, but if his absence prevented Tyrese's ridiculously stupid death in Richmond, then that's fine with me.

Reality : THANKS !

Death: Tyrese's death is an insult after all he did for Brigith, he deserved to live and see this little girl grow up but instead of Tyrese as a protector and uncle/friend, she had a closeness to that thug Negan. JUSTICE FOR TYRESE.

Reality: And what's more, did you see how outrageously fast the virus killed him? Carl lasted much longer than his bite when he was a grumpy compared to Tyrese.

Etetnity : I admit that it was really ridiculous and forced, especially since at the time of the bite Tyrese could easily push this zombie child away without any effort but we have the impression that he let himself be bitten.

Death + Reality : THANKS !

Death: In any case, I hope he's really going to kill Nicolas, this bastard is really annoying and I'll come and take his soul myself. 

Reality: For sure ! You haven't heard Calvin swear on "mfcking Jesus" ? Bro my man is pissed as fuck rahahahah 

Eternity + Death (laugh) 

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I hope you enjoyed the chapter, it does me good to resume writing this story. Thank you for your time, love y'all