Author here: The chapter got some gore scenes, blood, slits, and all, so if anyone here know that he/she isn't good with those? Just skip after the man named Gareth is mentioned...all the way to whenever you see Sasuke's name popping (ya know, scroll until you catch it; I wrote it in the Grand Line). Thanks and enjoy!.
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"Hey! Don't_" and the butt of the rifle struck Shane's jaw, who was about to rush, dropping him down.
"I won't give another warning, assholes. You are all going to the same place anyway, so get moving."
They were bagged and led to another place; the next thing they saw when those people took off the bags was the place they were in.
It looked like a barn/hangar type of building.
There were 5 men in the room, 2 holding guns and 2 holding butcher knives, and the last holding a baseball bat, looking at them with amusement.
Rick turned around and froze.
Somewhere behind them, there lay a man on a table, naked and dead. Another man was beside him...dismembering his last limb.
Rick felt his mind going blank seeing the scene, and a thought came to his mind, one that he wished from the deepest of his heart wouldn't be right.
A man came behind Rick and kicked at the back of his knee, dropping him down, making him kneel like others in front of a big basin.
Rick growled, the gag making him unable to talk. He looked forward; on the other side of the long basin, his wife was kneeling too, looking back at him with tears flowing down.
To her left was an unfamiliar woman with a cap, who looked at Abraham with hopelessness.
He turned to his left, seeing T-Dog, Shane, and Mike...all with the same terrified look of realization.
Beth whimpered as she leaned on her sister's shoulder, every single step from one of the men behind her making her flinch.
Hershel, who was beside Rick, was already feeling on the brink of breaking apart hearing his daughters sobbing; he closed his eyes, praying for anything to save them...he doesn't fear death, but not his daughters, not like this.
"Hmm, my mother said that already, but welcome to Terminus, the finish line."
The leading man, who introduced himself as Gareth finally talked, spreading his arms after getting his fair share of satisfaction from watching their terrified faces.
Making Rick, whose veins looked like they were about to burst shout at him, still gagged. "WYTHDOINHAT!!!"
"Well, I guess it will be okay to hear your last words." Gareth stepped forward and pulled the gag from Rick's mouth.
"Why are you doing this? We never harmed you...look, we can talk things through, please, not this."
Rick saw the uninterested expression on Gareth's face, who was about to shut his mouth again and screamed, thinking of anything to stall him.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, let me finish my talk. We have a cure...we have a cure. You know that normal death reanimates you as a walker, don't you? We know the cure; we have it." His shouts attracted Eugene's group's attention, who themselves were on the trip to accompany Eugene to DC before getting caught, as Eugene too knew the cure for ending this virus, or so he said.
Gareth looked at Rick for a long moment and figured he could make sure of that statement himself, unaware that Rick was working on freeing his wrists with a small sharp piece of metal he was hiding.
"I got a feeling that you were about to say something interesting, and I was right. You have the cure, hah? Let's test if it's the truth, and we can talk then." Gareth smiled harmlessly before shoving the cloth back into Rick's mouth and stepping away.
He turned to his men.
"This cure aside, if they were lying...you have two hours to get them to the dryers, then we go back to our public face. Now is the time to get messy. All in all, we need to be done already by sundown. Whether he is lying or not."
"Got it." "Yes, sir." "Yes, Boss."
They responded; the man with the baseball bat moved behind Mike, who was the first from the left, and Michonne, kneeling on the opposite side of him was looking down with fury and hopelessness.
Mike screamed and thrashed, but like others, he was bound, and the second man kept him in place.
The bald man held his baseball bat, practiced a trial swing in the empty air, and then turned to him. He swung it to the back of his head and Mike dropped forward, unconscious.
The second man came to him, uncaring about the screams of others, grabbed his hair, pulled his head back, and slit his throat, then let go of his body to bleed in the basin.
Michonne, who was drenched by the sprayed blood from Mike's neck trembled, tears mixed with the blood staining her face.
The terrifying screams of the gagged people made the place sound like a pigsty.
"I guess we shouldn't have them all at once after all. Welp...next time we can do better." Gareth's expression didn't change one bit, but the screams did annoy him, and he kicked Lori as a warning then smiled at Shane and Rick.
He waited there, curious to see whether Mike would reanimate or not.
The bald man moved to the next target, T-dog.
And just as he did with Mike, he swung in the air a few times, making the woman looking at him shiver in fear.
He then turned to T-dog, pulled his arms that were holding the baseball bat, and then swung.
Only this time...it was his arm that was tossed in the bloodied basin, severed.
The baldy blinked, his mind finally registering the scene and screamed louder than anyone, kneeling on the ground and holding his cut flesh.
"What the f—" The man with the butcher knife who was beside him turned and felt a burning pain in his chest. He blinked looking at the face in front of him, then down at his chest, seeing the arm that went through it.
Sasuke, who did a massacre outside and came in at the right time through shunshin, pulled his hand that was holding onto the still-beating heart of the man, watching him drop dead near his feet and dropped the heart.
The Sharingan behind the shades he was wearing froze the other four men from Terminus in their place.
'''''SASUKE!!'''''
Rick and others screamed his name, their hope overshadowing the fact that they just witnessed him piercing through a human body with his bare hands.
"Well, that's a lot messier than I thought." The sweet voice made them turn, seeing a beautiful Asian lady in red stepping forward, her heels clicking against the bloody ground as she stood beside Sasuke, looking around with hidden disgust.
"Done?" Sasuke asked her.
"Yeah, there were 3 snipers on the watchpost on the left side."
"Alright, untie them." He tilted his head toward the group who were looking at them in disbelief and relief...he was here, and since Sasuke is here now...no one is going to die.
That was the thought they all had running in their minds.
Ada hesitated but obeyed seeing the hostile men still frozen. "What to do with others?" she asked him as she used a knife to unbind Michonne, who was looking at Sasuke with wide eyes.
Abraham's group's reaction wasn't much different. They just saw a damn human doing the impossible.
Sasuke didn't answer; he looked at Beth, who was gasping and crying as she looked back at him, Maggie, Otis, Patricia, Rick, and the new faces who recovered from the shock.
Sasuke released one of •Terminus men• from the hypnosis, who was three feet away.
The man didn't even hesitate to swing his butcher knife at him and flinched in disbelief seeing Sasuke grabbing it with his bare hand as if what he just caught was a mere plastic toy.
"I know this world is accursed, and trash like you would eventually surface...but tell me, asshole, do you know the feeling of being the hopeless prey?"
"Who the fuc—" The bulky man threw a punch with his other hand that Sasuke swatted aside and then punched his jaw, knocking down 5 teeth.
He pulled the dizzied man closer, grabbed both of his hands, and used his Chakra-reinforced feet to push at his chest.
A wet squelch sounded, making all of the present people wince from disgust at seeing the limbs being torn from the man's torso who dropped in front of the terrified Gareth, screaming in agony before passing out, torn flesh and bloodied bones poking out from his shoulders.
'I was trying to attack this?' Ada, who freed Rosita, trembled slightly from the scene; she couldn't believe she had kicked this man just some time ago, thinking she had a chance, and now she realized he had mercy on her...
Somehow, seeing him tear a human apart felt much scarier than seeing him kick a big monster away.
She watched two other men regaining their mobility, one of them tried to run but Sasuke threw a Kunai that pierced his knee, then pulled the steel wire tied to it, the man nearly flew toward Sasuke from the force used in that pull and Sasuke kicked his back midair, his spine snapping with a loud pop and Ada watched the man fold like a fucking bow as Sasuke literally kicked him into a wall, ending his life.
The other one trembled seeing the fate of his friend and tried to take the girlfriend of that demon hostage.
He jumped at Ada who side-stepped the tackle easily and brought her knee up striking his jaw, blood splashed from his mouth and she fired her gun killing him.
"Mmmf, thashku," Rick's muffled scream caught Sasuke's attention who was walking toward Gareth, and he moved to his side, slashed at the bonds on his wrists and ankles, and freed him.
Rick stood hurriedly, took off the gag, and hugged Sasuke.
"Thank you, I'm sorry, thank you for coming, thank you." Rick didn't even know what to say to him.
Because he knew, even if he succeeded in freeing himself, there was still the question of how he was going to take others down and rescue his family from this place.
"Carl is safe now with Jacqui and Gloria; don't worry." Sasuke moved and freed Hershel, who ran for his daughters, then Shane, who still looked disoriented.
"Stay here; I'll finish with them—so, Rick?" He blinked, seeing Rick grabbing the butcher knife from the ground; the look on his face made him seem like a beast unleashed from the depth of hell.
Rick breathed heavily walking toward the frozen Gareth, his eyes seeing red from the fury he was feeling right now.
He stepped closer to him, grabbed his neck, and stared at his eyes for a long moment before speaking hoarsely to him.
"I told you, I'll kill you if you touch my family," and buried the knife in his shoulder. The action automatically overwhelmed the genjutsu, and Gareth screamed from pain, twisting out of Rick's grip and dropping to his knees. Rick pulled the knife and struck again, then again, then again.
Uncaring for the blood spraying at his face and clothes.
At the same time, Mary, Gareth's mother, rushed in from the separate room just to witness the scene.
She screamed and raised her rifle, ready to pull the trigger, but Ada was faster; she took aim and shot at Mary's hands, then the other two people who were rushing in after her, all in three seconds.
She then turned to Sasuke who looked back at her, took off his shades after deactivating the Sharingan, and mouthed, "Not bad, Mrs. Bait."
Ada resisted the urge to raise her middle finger and frowned even more seeing a woman launching herself at Sasuke, hugging him.
It was Maggie who bolted for Sasuke the moment she was sure her dad and sister were fine; she clung to him, calling his name, apologizing, and trembling.
Sasuke patted her back and pushed her gently.
"It's okay; are you hurt?"
"No, no, we are fine; Sasuke, you came back."
"We are still in hostile territory; gather around first."
T-dog and others hugged Sasuke and thanked him, grateful for what he did, saving their lives...
Abraham too stood and walked to him after checking on Rosita and Eugene, offering him a handshake and thanking him with gratefulness evident on his face.
While Ada kicked Mary who was trying to crawl to her disfigured son back to the ground.
"The signs..." Mary gasped, holding her hand that was shot. And looked up at Ada, Sasuke, and Michonne, who stood in front of her.
"They were real. It was a sanctuary. Our intents were pure; it was supposed to stay so, but people came and took this place. And they raped. And they killed. And they laughed! Over weeks... but we got out. And we fought, and we got it back, and we heard the message! You're the butcher... or you're the cattle."
Mary grinned at them and stiffened hearing the faint chuckle; she glared at the Asian woman who didn't look amused at all unlike what her sweet chuckle suggested.
"And your genius revenge on the world was by making other innocent people go through the same suffering like you did? There's an 80% chance of meeting psychopaths and criminals in this new world, yet you let out your craziness on the remaining 20% that were innocents? You are a new kind of crazy bitch I am meeting. If you feel rage, get it delivered to the assholes who deserve it; there are plenty out there." Ada looked at Sasuke then pulled the trigger, not wanting to waste more of her energy.
She wasn't a good person herself, but she sure as hell wasn't this crazy either.
At least she gave her the quickest death here, something no one from her group in this place received.
At the same time, Sasuke's CB received a call, Ghost's voice coming through.
"We are at the site, sir. Hostages confirmed secure, moving along, drones are locked on 7 breathing targets. Any new directives?"
Sasuke was truly impressed that the Dixons caught on to him that fast even though he told them the meeting point while he was on the road to here.
He grabbed the CB and answered Ghost.
"Just subdue if possible, eliminate if necessary, and I'll interrogate them myself."
"Copy, moving on."
"Who was that?" Rick, who was hugging his wife, asked, not familiar with the voice.
"A friend, let's get out of here."