Jenner closed the power for the main screen and computers after he finished showing the video about his experiments on his wife's brain to the whole group.
And then explaining how the infection works by reviving a part of the brain, the part that can control how the body moves.
"So there's no cure ?" Andrea asked holding Amy's hand.
"Unfortunately no"
"How can you_" someone was already about to start the same boring game, throw blame at whoever you want so to ease some of the fear and anxiety.
"Alright, may i speak to them, doc?" Sasuke stepped beside Jenner.
"Sure Sasuke...it's all yours" Relieved, Jenner went to do some final checks on a computer.
With that, Sasuke revealed the fact that they are all carriers and already infected, and how death is the trigger to turn into walkers alongside the direct bite.
With Jenner affirming it reluctantly, he didn't know their mentality after all and feared the incident of rush suicide to play itself again.
This info put all of them in despair with many crying and cursing.
"Let me finish first, alright?...There's hope."
"One of you here was found to be carrying the antibodies to resist one of the problems, not the cure unfortunately, but with it we no longer have to fear the natural death...i assume everyone here understands how serious it is if that issue of turning to a walker after every kind of death that isn't brain damage is..."
"Really? Who is it?" Lori asked feeling some hope.
Sasuke signaled Jenner to stay silent with a hidden gesture only Rick who was also behind saw it.
"Due to many reasons, we can't tell the identity of our savior, i hope you understand how crucial is that...for now you don't have to worry about this and just survive and protect yourselves and your teammates here.
His blood from the blood-test of yesterday helped produce enough cure for all of us, but we will need his blood again to produce more of the substances. And to keep his identity hidden, we all will be doing that blood-giving too in the future, just think of it as a donation"
"You can't be keeping this from us, we need to know!!"
"Yes i can, tell me...what do you think will happen if that identity is told to the wrong person or group. Maybe someone crazy who doesn't want this world to survive or us...i won't take chance into putting you in that danger so that ends here. " Sasuke challenged, and the man just stepped back.
Rick watched the back of the young man in silence, admiring his resolve and strategic thinking.
Even if that meant shouldering the following blame.
He didn't choose to tell others what he did, what he is to them, or that they need to respect him, obey him because he was their hope and salvage.
Sasuke is strong, they won't be able to restrain him or force him to give blood, if he chooses to take control, now he has the key to that on him but he didn't.
No, he used that to further make them believe it was one within them, their friend here or their family, one of this group.
That would make them hope, protect themselves and others seriously, prevent dividing and all the issues that come with a newly formed group.
And like Rick, Billy and Jenner too understood how effective that decision is for the whole group even if it meant he will be facing judgements from the few who may think his decision to hold that reveal is tyranny.
After that they all made a line to receive the injection of the cure.
"Dr.Jenner, i know this has been taxing to you and i hate to be asking one more question, but...that clock, it's counting down. What happens when it hits zero?" Dale asked pointing at the clock in the wall.
"Fuel runs out from the generators in the basement, this whole facility will enter a protocol"
"What kind of protocol?" Rick was surprised, he didn't know that.
"HITs will be deployed"
"What is HITs?" He demanded, and Jenner decided to tell them, he and Sasuke had talked last night and he made up his mind to help him, he didn't know how to fight, not physically.
But with Sasuke and how special his body systems are, he decided to work with him, maybe he will be able to do something that makes his wife proud, He already made the first step and didn't want to stop now.
"VI, define HITs" Jenner said.
[HITs is a high explosive incendiary fuel vacuum bomb. It consists of two stages:
-Ignition of aerosol particles...They produce an explosion wave with greater energy and duration than any other detonator except a nuclear one.
The effect of vacuum pressure ignites oxygen to between 5,000 and 6,000 degrees.
Those explosives are used when human extermination or mass destruction of facilities is desired ]
People around started trembling, some crying, Carol hugged her daughter, tears running down her cheeks.
It was cruel, they had just made it here, a safe place, with walls, food and hot water...and now after less than a day, it is about to come to an end.
People wake from nightmares to the safe reality, but they had just woken up from the beautiful dream to the nightmarish reality.
"What?! A fucking bomb? What the fuck does that mean? You were about to kill us?" Daryl already reached for the bottle of alcohol he was drinking, ready to throw it at that fucking nerd, but got restrained by T-dog and Jim.
Jenner didn't reply, that was his plan, a quick death to escape this hell.
Sasuke glanced at the Everdeens and nodded his head in reassurance, they both knew that they won't be staying here for long...he had already spoiled it to them last night through Katniss.
"Everyone get out now and go pack your things!! We are leaving" Rick ordered the group, they still have 1h:14m:22s time to move.
He cursed under his breath, that false safety hadn't lasted even a whole day.
"I...like i said before, once the front doors a-" Jenner sighed, even after this...they would be locked in, he can't control the doors up there. And despair took over him again, not knowing how to word it.
"it's okay i can solve the front door's problem, Now, everyone, go pack your things, meet here again"
"You just gonna stay silent? This motherfucker was going to kill us, burned!!" Daryl shouted feeling frustrated.
"You may be forgetting things, we are the ones who came here begging for entrance...this is not his doing, it was going to happen with or without us here. He made your fucking cure so no one here would turn into a fucking walker if he died in his sleep. Focus on what is important, alright?" Billy glared at all of those who were shouting at the doctor.
His mindset started changing after spending those days with Sasuke, it felt as if the big picture was being revealed slowly to him.
He knows that they are all well stacked, and they would be mostly safe with Sasuke here and others that are trained too. Thus his braincells had already started working on other things.
Those people had forgotten who they were shouting at, a doctor, a scientist, a man of a value higher than most all of them.
A man with a profession that can save lives, in this apocalypse ? He was too damn precious.
And he understood why Sasuke was investing in him trying to make him one of them.
...
Ten minutes later they were all back in zone five with their baggage.
Sasuke walked with Doctor Jenner to Rick, Shane, Billy and Morgan who were discussing things with the group. Mainly the route and their next stop.
"Hey, I have a suggestion" Most of the group listened.
Especially Rick, his view of Sasuke changed from a strong kid to someone with a vision and a will to act upon it even if it was painful or unfair, thus he nodded at him seriously.
"Go on, we don't have much time"
"Alright, i know this is hard for everyone...things didn't go as planned. And you all want to leave as soon as possible. But there are many things here that we can't leave behind to be just burned. I see T-Dog and Glenn took food. Good thinking" He fist-bumped T-dog who raised his fist instinctively surprising him before relaying his thoughts.
"How about this, there is a military truck outside. We load it with what we can, sofas, mattresses, food and the things that Dr.Jenner will need to start his laboratory again." He asked but had already planned on emptying the whole place with or without them.
"We don't have time!" Lori tried to talk with the kindest tone she could muster while holding her son, she feared him revealing the secret to Rick but even more the ticking bomb .
"And we are wasting it, I, William, Daryl, T-dog and Harrison sisters will take care of the kitchen, you guys separate into different groups for each section. We will start piling things at the front doors with everyone willing"
Morgan stepped forward, detailing things quickly before putting his things and leaving with his family back with Glenn and T-dog already with him. Amy glanced at Sasuke before following her sister to the kitchen.
"Alright people that's the plan, You don't want to help? Fine...go wait at the front doors but don't hope to enjoy those things later" Sasuke clapped leaving them and going with Jenner to his laboratory to retrieve things.
While Katniss and Ciri headed to the rec room with other women where shelves full of books are in there.
Leaving the basement for Billy to work on dead-generators so that Sasuke can store them later without wasting time.
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Half an hour later everyone was in the front doors with bags and things everywhere behind them.
They grew anxious with the sirens that started suddenly when the clock turned to {00:30:00} and decided to leave immediately, leaving many things behind, as the trips back and forth here took time.
Sasuke didn't mind, as he had already taken anything they left behind in those last minutes, he was the last to come, seeing them anxious trying to break through the bulletproof glasses.
Shane had already shot it with his shotgun, yet it didn't work.
The bullet barely left a mark on the glass.
"I, i found this in your clothes when i was washing them that morning" It was Carol who took a grenade with cautiousness, showing it to Rick.
He took it and was about to go for the glass when Sasuke grabbed his arm, shaking his head.
"No need for this, it will only attract more walkers and we still need to load those things"
"Then how the fuck are we going to break it, with a sword?" Shane laughed angrily but didn't xpect Sasuke's reply.
"We got a genius here, mind stepping back Daryl" Sasuke ignored him and addressed Daryl, who was hitting the glass with an axe to no result.
"You don't mean..? Wtf?" Glenn and everyone watched in confusion as the boy unsheathed the gleaming blade and took a stance before slashing multiple times at a fast speed and then sheathing it again when nothing happened.
"Just use the damn grenade, we don-" Shane's words got stuck as he watched dumbly how Sasuke pressed his hand on the glass and pushed forward.
A clean big squar was pushed out from that fucking bulletproof glass, which not even his shotgun succeeded in breaking.
"Surprised scratchy? Don't be, it's just another fucking day with him" Billy laughed loudly, following Sasuke out after they told others to guard the place while they bring the truck.
From his storage seal...
Katniss smirked seeing the looks on their faces, it felt weirdly satisfying to know something amazing others don't. And even more being related to its source.
While Duan? Duan decided to up his training ten times more even if it meant passing out, he wanted to do that shit too.