The Trotting Dead

TWILIGHT'S P.O.V

After Aaron and Eric volunteered to look for Sunset and... others, I told them that I was going, also.

"Who's going to take over when you're gone?" Aaron asked.

"We have a counsel. They can handle themselves." I said as I holstered my gun.

"Suit yourself." Eric said as he grabbed his rifle.

"Let's go." I said.

RICK'S P.O.V

After a few more days of staying with the Resistance, we decided it's time to think long-term here.

"Have you seen Dewy around?" I asked Jesus.

"Yeah, he's chatting with the new recruits." He said.

"Wait, who?" I asked.

"Aria, Sonata, Norman, and Daryl. They decided to join us, along with others in your group." Jesus said.

I nodded and went to see Dewy. He was chatting with Glenn and Daryl.

"You sure you two can do this?" Dewy asked.

"Yeah, it's gotta be done." Daryl said.

"I'm in. I'll talk to Maggie about it." Glenn said.

"What's goin' on?" I asked.

"Some of your people are interested to join us." Dewy said.

"Yeah, I wanted to talk to you about that. If you have the room, I was thinking we should start talking long-term here." I said.

"Like what?" Dewy asked.

"Like farming, water, supplies." I said.

"We've been thinking of that, too. We have some of us farming, but we don't have any water sources, and even if we did, we would have no way of replenishing it." Dewy said.

"We can collect rainwater, morning dew, the usual primitive survival tactic." Eugene said.

"That's not a bad idea, Eugene." Dewy said.

"We need something to collect it all in, and we need a lot of them. We should get construction crew on it." I said.

"I'll ask Abraham if he's up to the task. I feel like he's a heavy-lifting kind of guy." Dewy said.

"That's one way of putting it." Glenn said.

Daryl was silent, but I could tell something was on his mind.

"Daryl, you alright?" Dewy asked.

"'M fine. Just... give me a sec'." Daryl said.

I took his word, and I left to check on Sasha, who volunteered to be placed in the school's roof as a sniper.

"You okay?" I asked her.

She didn't answer, and went back to checking the area.

TWILIGHT'S P.O.V

We went through the portal, but we wound up somewhere else...

"Wait, where are we?" Twilight asked.

"This is Virginia. We found the portal on our way out of Alexandria." Aaron said as he showed me where we came out of.

It turned out that we came out of another statue, but it clearly wasn't the same one. I read the sign-- I had some trouble, due to me knowing only Equestrian-- and it said "Shirewilt Estates".

"What happened here...?" I asked.

"We have no idea. All we saw was that sign over there." Eric said.

I looked and saw the words...

ADAGIO NOT FAR

and

WE ARE ALL ADAGIO

Written with blood.

"Adagio's here?" I asked.

"Wait, who's Adagio?" Aaron asked.

"You'll find out soon enough." A man said behind us.

RICK'S P.O.V

"Look, we can't go back to Shirewilt." Noah said.

"There're still supplies there, we couldn't get to them because..." I started, remembering Tyreese.

"I'll go." Sasha said.

"Me, too." Daryl said.

"We can go in there, take out those Walkers... We'll have another outpost. Count me in." Dewy said.

"I'm in, too." Abraham said.

"Screw it, I'm in." Norman said.

"Alright, let's load up." I said.

"Don't count me out." Jesus said as he grabbed one of his knifes.

TWILIGHT'S P.O.V

"...I'm gonna need you to get on your knees." The man said, backed up by his 20 other men.

We already gave up our weapons, and we got on our knees.

"Now, we don't know you people, but you definitely have a place. Y'all got clean clothes, no beards... Let's just cut this to the chase. You're shit, it ain't yours anymore."

"Who's are they?" I asked.

The man took a step.

"You're property... now belongs to Adagio."

We were silent as the man pulled two guns on Aaron and Eric.

"You see, we introduce ourselves by just poppin' one of you right off the bat. Now, question is, which one of you gets the honor?" The man asked.

"No-one." A voice said from behind us.

Before anyone could say a word, gunshots took out the 20 men, including Asshole #1.

"You can get up now! It's safe! We mean no harm!" The voice said.

We stood up, and watched as about 8 people came from the trees.

"Hello there, I'm Dewy. This is Rick, Sunset, Sasha, Daryl, Norman, Abraham, and Paul-- we call him Jesus." The kid said.

Aaron was panting for breath.

"Hi. I'm... I'm Aaron. This... this is Twilight, and Eric. Wow, that was something..." Aaron said.

"Were you two from here?" Rick asked.

"Actually, we're from there" I said, pointing at the sign.

"And what's there?" Rick asked.

I could tell he had no idea what I was talking about, so I stuck my arm through to show them the portal. Some of the group jumped back, while others just had a petrified expression on their faces.

"Let me sum this up. My name is Twilight Sparkle, and I am not human."