What happens now?

Alone

Mia's POV:
I feel like I'm falling, I let out a small yelp and land on the floor with an thud. The fall knocked the wind out of me, I lay there for a minute to catch my breath.

"Mateo! Five!" I scream into the portal wondering if they'll fall down as well but the portal closes. I stand up only to be tackled down, I look and it is a creepy looking thing. It's head was practically a skull, blood and grime all over it, it tries to bite me.
I quickly grab a rock and hit it in the head two times and it's dead.

I get up and look around, its was night and dark, it's fucking freezing. I was in the woods, I start walking aimlessly until I see some light in the distance. I start to walk faster to the light.
I was about to walk into the light, looked like a bunch of cars circled around an area. I hear a man talking, I was about to walk in when I get tackled once again. It was a human that tackled me, I fight them but more people jump in and hold me down. They start to drag me into the area and they throw me down hard. I try to get up but the people hold me down on my knees.
I look around, they're is 11 people on their knees, people surrounding this area with guns, a man with a leather jacket on and a baseball bat with barbed wire wrapped around it on his shoulder. The man with the bat looks at me with an amused look of his face.
"Well, look at this! Rick, is this one of yours? Trynna recruit kids to come and rescue you now?" The man with the baseball bat asked a man named Rick that had an amused look on his face and he swings the bat from side to side on his side. A man in the center of the line of people on their knees, assuming that's Rick, shakes his head no frantically while glancing at me then back at the man. The man with the bat lets out a small chuckle before pointing his bat at me and gesturing his men to let go of me but to keep me on my knees.
"What's your name, sweetheart?" The man asked me with a smug looking smirk, my eyebrows remained furrow as I look up at him, his bat a little to close for comfort with the barbed wire wrapped around it so I push it away while staring him dead in the eyes.
"Mia." I reply bluntly as I continue to look up at him, the man's smirk widened as I pushed his bat away from me.
"And how old are you, kiddo?" The man asked while crouching down to meet eye to eye as I am forced to stay on my knees.
"...13. Who are you?"
The man lets out a small laugh and lightly taps the end of his bat on the gravel ground. "I'm Negan." He says with his smirk slightly widening as if his name had some sort of meaning but my expression remains stoic and somewhat confused.
"What did they do?" I ask while gesturing to the group that were on their knees to my left. Negan lets out a small breathy chuckle as he glances at the group then back at me while standing back up to his normal height.
"They killed my men, darlin'. More than I'm comfortable with. So now they gotta pay." Negan explains while slowly walking back over to the group and mostly towards the man named Rick. He paces back and forth, looking at every single one of the people that were in the line on their knees.
"I simply cannot decide." Negan said with a breathy chuckle, he pauses for a moment with a small smirk.
"I got an idea." He comments before walking up to Rick who was in the middle of the line, pointing his bat at Rick.
"Eenie..." He starts before going to the next person, "Meenie...Miney...Mo...catch...a tiger...by...his toe...If...he hollers...let him go...my mother...told me...to pick...the very...best...one...and you...are..." He says while going in the line, pointing his bat at them while saying the counting rhyme to pick who will die. I watch with slight pity in my eyes as I'm forced to watch these peoples faces contort in fear and anticipation.
"...it." His bat finally points at someone. A man with ginger hair and a mustache that travels down the sides of his mouth and ended at his chin, the man didn't look frightened though as he looked up at Negan, almost excepting his fate.
"Anybody moves, anybody says anything, cut the boys other eye out and feed it to his father, and then we'll start." Negan explains to everyone as I see the ginger haired man subtly make a peace sign with his left hand, the girl that was three people down let's small gasp and a chocked out silent sob at the peace sign the man made. There was another girl to the left and two people down from where the ginger man was, tears welled up in her eyes as her mouth was slightly open in disbelief.
"You can breathe. You can blink. You can cry. Hell...you're all gonna be doing that." Negan said before lifting his bat and slamming it down on the man's head hard, the hit made the man bow from the blow but he slowly came back up as blood stared to seep from a cut on his head that was on his hairline.
"Oh! Look at that! Taking it like a champ!" Negan said with a small chuckle as he watches the ginger haired man.
"Suck...my...nuts." The man said in a slightly quiet tone, which would honestly be a little funny if we weren't in this situation. Negan lets out a grunted chuckle before hitting the man once again with the bat, making him fall down completely. The Latina woman stared in shock as tears flowed out of her eyes, the man to the far left that was a few feet away from me, looking slightly beat up and had a mullet, letting out a quiet sob. The dark skinned woman was silently crying and flinching with every hit Negan gave the man but it was clear he was already dead. Clearly man meant something to these three and as the rest of them stared in shock.
Negan was hitting the ginger haired man's dead body, over and over again before pausing, taking a step back and letting out a breathless laugh.
"Did you hear that?" He says while turning slightly to talk to his men and he even glanced at me for a moment.
"He said, "Suck my nuts." Negan said in a chuckle as he made an impersonation of the man's voice, letting out a laugh before he went back to beating the man's dead body with the bat ruthlessly. Negan eventually stopped and let out yet another chuckle like a mad man. The only thing that was really left of the ginger haired man was his body, but his head was mutilated into squashed nothingness. I've seen my fair share of bloodshed during my time in the umbrella academy before Reginald died, but even this made me sick to my stomach, even if I wasn't letting it show.
"Oh, my goodness! Look at this!" Negan exclaimed and swinging his bloodied bat to the side, making a blood splatter to land on every one of us that were on our knees.
"You guys, look at my dirty girl!" Negan said with a smile while panting, he suddenly pauses as his eyes land on the Latina girl who was staring at the ground, crying and gasping and her mouth open in pure shock.
"Sweetheart...lay your eyes on this." Negan said to the girl while putting his bat right in front of the girls face, her stare was a 100 miles away in her state of shock.
"Oh, damn. Were you together? That sucks." He said while gesturing to the man's dead body and pointing it back over to the girl.
"But if you were, you should know there was a reason for all this. Red—" He says and gestured back to the man's dead body once again.
"And hell, he was, and will ever be red. He just took one or six or seven for the team! So take...a damn look." Negan says loudly while glancing at everyone in the line before putting his bloodied bat in the girls face once again. The girls breathing became more sharp and shakily as he refuses to look and her gaze was still at the floor.
"Take a damn look!" Negan snaps at the girl, I go to try to stand up but was shoved back on my knees once again by the men behind me.
"Leave her alone!" I shout out angrily, Negan glances at me, giving a gruff looking man with greasy looking hair enough time to stand up and punch Negan across the face, he tried grabbing him but Negan's men were faster, grabbing him and tackling him to the ground, one even putting the man in a headlock.
"Daryl!" Rick screamed for him to stop but Negan picked his bat back up and pointed it at Rick to stop him.
"No!" Negan screamed while staring right at Rick as if giving him a warning.
"Oh, no." He said as his smile returns, he turns back around and walks up to Daryl and the rest of his men that were holding him down.
"That? Oh, my! That...is a no-no. The whole thing! Not even me bit of that shit flies here." Negan says sternly while also glancing at me as I glare back at him. A man with half of his face scarred up that looked like he'd been burnt, was holding a crossbow and pointing it right at Daryl who was still pinned to the floor, the scarred man asks Negan if he wanted him to kill Daryl as Daryl continues grunting and growling and breathing heavily. Negan roughly grabbed Daryl by the hair and pulled to get a look at his face.
"No...you don't kill that...not until you try a little." Negan said to the scarred face man, he slowly lowered the crossbow and helped the other men drag Daryl back to the spot he once was at.
"Anyway....thats not how it works. Now, I already told you people, first ones free, then- what'd I say? I said I would shut that shit down!" Negan screams and also glancing at me.
"No exceptions."
"Now I don't know what kind of lying assholes you've been dealing with...but I'm a man of my word. First impressions are important. I need you to know me." Negan said to the main group with a small sadistic smile on his face.
"So...back to it." Negan said before whipping around and hitting a Korean man hard on top of the head, making him fall to the group, everyone visibly gasps, clearly not expecting him to kill another, let alone him. Whoever he is, clearly means a lot to these people. Even Daryl watches in shock with tears in his eyes as Negan hits the Korean man once again.
"No!" A woman yells in a sob, she looked pale, sick, and sweaty, clearly something was physically wrong with her to be this ill, her face was also slightly red from crying, clearly this man meant a lot to this ill woman. The man slowly rises back up, gasping and groaning, his forehead and skull was visibly cracked, blood pouring down his face and one of his eyes were popped out. Even I stared in shock at the horror sight.
"Buddy, you still there?" Negan mocked and he bent down to the Korean man's height of him on his knees as he grunted, groaned, and sputtered.
"I just don't know, it seems like you're trying to speak. But you just took a hell of a hit. I just popped your skull your hard, your eyeball just popped out! And it is gross and shit!" Negan said with a smile and chuckle as the Korean man stared at the sickly woman.
"Maggie, I'll fine you." The man sputtered out in a groan and the woman sobbed. Everyone sobbed, some even finding it hard to even look at.
"Oh, hell... I can see this is hard on you guys." Negan said with sympathy but I highly doubt it's real as I stare at Negan and glancing at the Korean man who continues to grunt and sputter, clearly having a head injury so bad to a horrible extent.
"I am sorry. I truly am." Negan said softly but then his face returned back to normal to its almost evil look and a slight smile.
"But I did say it. Not exceptions!" Negan said before turning back around and hitting the man once again, making him fall to the ground. The man's body twitched on the floor but it's clear he's dead. Every single one of them sobbing, the sickly woman sobbing the most.
"You bunch of pussies. I'm just getting started." Negan said in between blows of hitting the man's head which was no longer even intact and was now just a pile of mush.
"Lucille is thirsty. She is a vampire bat!" Negan said in a laugh while gesturing to his bat. After a while, Negan slowly walks back over to Rick who was staring at the ground in shock.
"What? Was the joke that bad?" Negan said with a smile.
"I'm gonna kill you." Rick said barely above a whisper, Negan slowly crouched down to Rick, staring at him and asking him to repeat what he said. After a moment, Rick looked into Negan's eyes coldly, "Not today, not tomorrow...but I'm gonna kill you."
Negan asks Simon, his right hand man, what weapon Rick had with him. A hatchet. After briefly talking to Simon and Rick, Simon hands Negan Rick's ax and puts it on his belt before grabbing Rick by the back of the collar of his coat and dragging him to the Rv that was to my right. They drive off. I felt out of place, not knowing what was happening, not knowing who anyone was, watching a horrific scene as if I had front row seats to a movie I didn't wanna see. I could've used my powers but I couldn't have anyone, especially to this amount of people, finding out, not until I figure out what's truly happening. Besides, I don't know who this Negan man is truly capable of if I decide to kill his men just to escape. Dawn was slowly breaking and I kept my eyes on the ground for a while until I glance over a woman who was sat next to the sickly woman, tears in her eyes but she seemed to be the more calm one of the bunch, she wore a white long sleeve shirt with jeans, she had long dreads that were currently draped over her face. I open my mouth to speak, to at least try and figure what was happening but before I could even say anything, a sharp pain shoots to my mouth, I was punched across the face. I let out a small groan as I spit out the blood that was pooling into my mouth and turn around, I glance at the man who had stuck me as I glare at him with a cold look in my eyes. Before I could speak, the man with the receding hairline, also known as Simon, walked over.
"Kids are a line...we do not cross. Do you hear me?" Simon said calmly to the man before walking back over to where he once was.
After what felt like hours, the Rv drives back up to the spot it once was, everyone waited in anticipation to see is Negan would come out with Rick cause if not, Negan ordered to kill everyone. After a few minutes, the door abruptly opens and Rick falls out with the ax in his hand, Negan steps down behind him and grabs him once again by the back of his jacket and drags him back over to the line one knelt people like a dog. He drops Rick in front of them and looks at every single one of them.
"Here we are." He said to the group before glancing at Rick and slowly circles him.
"Let me ask you something, Rick. You even know what that little trip was about?" Silence fills the air, the morning air can be felt on everyone's skin and the only thing that can be heard was the cicadas around the woods.
"Speak when you're spoken to." Negan said in an almost annoyed and exhausted tone. Rick's breathing got slightly heavy as he remained on all fours but glanced up at Negan before nodding his head, "Okay, okay." Negan fights off a smile before gesturing to the RV.
"That trip was about the way that you looked at me. I wanted to change that, I wanted you to understand." He explains with a small smile, his dimples are evident as he looks down at Rick.
"But you're still looking at me the same damn way...Like I shit in your scrambled eggs and that's not gonna work. So..." Negan says while crouching down to Rick and look at him.
"...do I give you another chance?" Negan asked Rick as his breathing got raggedly, still not answering but finally he does, nodding his head and glancing at Negan for a second, "Yeah. Yes...yes."
Negan pats him on the back before standing back up and nodding his head. "Okay, alright. And here it is- the grand-prize game. What you do next will decide whether your crap day becomes everyone's last crap day or just another crap day." Negan says before glancing at his men all around.
"Get some guns on the back of their heads." Negan ordered, the man that punched me an hour ago was about to raise his gun but was quickly stopped after Negan pointed his bat at the man.
"Ah, ah, ah, not her. She's not apart of them." Negan said with an amused smirk while looking at the man who almost pointed his rifle at my head, Negan glances at me for a moment before turning back owner to the rest of them as a few of his men point their guns at the others.
"Good. Now...level with their noses, so if you have to fire...it'll be a real mess." Negan said while imitating an explosion sound and his hand. He glances at every one of the people on their knees before his eyes land on a boy that looked around my age, a bandaged wrapped around his head that was covering his left eye, his hair was long like Daryl but more thick and he wore a sheriffs hat.
"Kid....right here." Negan said to the boy while gesturing a "come here" motion with his finger before pointing to the ground right next to Rick. The boy stared at Negan coldly, waiting a moment before standing up and slowly walking over to Negan. He begins to take off his belt while still staring at the boy, "You a southpaw?"
"Am I a what?" The boy asked confusingly but keeping his cold tone.
"Are you a lefty?" Negan corrects himself so the boy could understand what he's asking.
"No."
"Good." Negan says with a small smirk as he starts wrapping his belt around the boys left arm, tightly tugging on it, "That hurt?"
"No."
"It should. It's supposed to. Get on the ground, kid, next to daddy. Spread them wings." Negan said and snatched the boys sherrif hat off and chucked it behind him carelessly.
Negan asks for a pen from Simon and he quickly responds before tossing a crayola marker to Negan.
"Sorry, kid. This is gonna be as cold as warlocks ballsack, just like he was hanging his ballsack above you and dragging it right across the forearm." Negan said while making a straight line across the boys freckled left arm. Rick seemed to finally click what was about to happen, "Please. Please. Please don't. Please don't." Rick quietly begs just above a whisper as he looks at Negan.
"Me? I ain't doing shit." Negan respond in a chuckle while standing back up.
"Rick, I want you to take your account...cut your son's left arm off, right on that line. Now, I know- I know. You're gonna have to process that for a second. That makes sense. Still, though, I'm gonna need you to do it, or all these people are gonna die. Then Carl dies, then the people back home die....and then you, eventually. I'm gonna keep your breathing for a few years, just so you can stew on it."
Rick stays silent out of shock and so does everyone else until the woman with the dreads speaks up, "you don't have to do this. We understand." She says as a way to get out of all of this.
"You understand. Yeah. I'm not sure that Rick does." Negan says with a smile at the woman before turning his attention back over to Rick.
"I'm gonna need a clean cut right there on that line. Now, I know this is a screwed up thing to ask, but it's gonna have to be like a salami slice-nothing messy, clean, 45 degrees- give us something to fold over. We got a great doctor. The kid'll be fine,.....probably." Negan says and I let out a small and quiet scoff.
"It can-it can..it can be me." Rick sputters out in shock as he glancing at Negan and back at the line that Negan drew across the boys arm. Negan denies and stands back up, taking a step back and looking down at Rick.
"Not making a decision is a big decision. You really want to see all these people die? You will see every ugly thing." Negan says as Rick's breathing becomes fast and he lets out a small chocked out sob.
"Are you gonna make me count? Okay, Rick. You win. I am counting."
"3."
"Please! It can be me." Rick screams in a sob.
"2."
"Please, don't do-" Rick started but was interrupted by Negan bitch slapping him, Negan grabs Rick's face with one hand as Rick sobbed.
"This is it." Negan said while looking into Rick's eyes with a seriousness behind them. Rick lets out a sobbed out scream before picking up the ax and raising it, Negan crouches down and Rick stops as he sobs and breaths quickly and heavily.
"You answer to me. You provide for me. You belong to me. Right?" Negan says calmly and seriously as he starts at him, Rick nods his head vigorously. Negan's face visibly contorts in anger as he roughly grabs Rick's face once again, "Speak when you're spoken to! You answer to me. You provide for me. You belong to me. Right?!" Negan yells out angrily with a cold glare at her stares deadly at Rick as he repeats back in sobs and slurred.
"Right. That...is the look I wanted to see." He says while letting go of Rick, standing back up and taking the ax from him.
"We did it...all of us, together. Even the dead guys on the ground. Hell, they get the spirit award, for sure. Today was a productive damn day!" Negan says to all of them with a sigh at the end and a small smile.
"Now, I hope, for all your sake...that you get it now. That you understand how things work. Things have changed. Whatever you had going for you...that is over now." He says before turning towards the man with the scarred face.
"Dwight...load him up." He says while pointing his bat to Daryl, Dwight roughly helps Daryl up before shoving him into the back of a black van and shutting the door as the sickly woman sobs.
"He's got guts...not a little bitch like someone I know." Negan said while not-so-subtly glancing at Rick and crouching down to his side. Negan explains that if Rick still wants to try something he'll cut pieces off of Daryl and put them on his door step or have Rick do it himself. He pats Rick on the pat with a small chuckle before standing up and letting out a grunt, "Welcome to a brand new beginning, you sorry shits! I'm gonna leave you a truck. Keep it, use it to cart all the crap you're gonna find me. We'll be back for our first offering in one week. Until then...ta-ta." Negan says while walking away but then stopping right at my feet. I slowly stand up but still having to look up at him, a look of caution and coldness in my eyes as I look up at him. He lets out a small chuckle at my serious expression, "Look, clearly you don't know any of these people and I'm sorry you had to see that. Would you like to come back to the sanctuary with me and my men? We got food, water, a place to sleep, you're just a kid." Negan explains softly while looking down on me, keeping his bat on his side to make sure I at least felt somewhat safer knowing he wouldn't attack me. I stay silent for a moment before softly shaking my head no.
"I got a few people I need to find on my own." I say bluntly to not in a much hostile tone, Negan lets out a small chuckle and nods his head.
"You got balls, I like that, kiddo." Negan says before walking past me and getting into a truck and driving away.
There I was, left all alone with a bunch of people I've never met but clearly knowing that they've been through a lot in the span of just 3 hours. I've only been in this place for 3 and a half hours and I just seen some gruesome shit.
I'm fucked.
The only thing that could be heard were cicadas, the morning birds and the slight breeze. Everyone looks over at the sickly woman who is trying to stand up weakly.
Rick repeats her name over and over to try and get her attention. Maggie. Rick tells Maggie that she needs to sit down because of what was wrong with her but she quickly denies as she weakly walks over to the Korean man's dead body.
"You need to go get ready." Maggie says weakly.
"For what?" Rick asks while staring at her and putting a hand gently on her arm.
"To fight them."
"They have Daryl. They have an army. We would die-all of us." Rick points out softly, Maggie's breathing was slightly heavy.
"Go home. Take everybody with you. I can get there by myself." Maggie says as her voice breaks as if she is about to start crying.
"You can barely stand up." I interject softly while taking a step towards them all.
"You need to Alexandria. You were out here for me." Maggie says to Rick before breaking down sobbing.
"I can make it now. I need you to go back. I can't have you out here. I can't have you all out here anymore. I need you to go back." Maggie says while crying but everyone refuses. The woman from before that clearly had a connection with the redheaded man walks up behind Maggie.
"I'm taking her. I'm gonna get her there. I'm gonna keep her safe. I'm not giving you a choice." The woman says softly before turning to me.
"You can come with us." She says softly while looking over at me, I stay silent as my expression softens and I nod my head.
"I'm taking him with me." Maggie says while weakly walking over to the Korean man's dead body.
They all helped put the two dead men in the trucks as I stayed by Maggie's side, she stumbled for a bit before I wrapped an arm gently around her to steady her, I let her lean most of her weight onto me and I glanced down at the very small bump on her stomach. She was pregnant. Maggie, the other woman, and I get into the truck Negan had left as everyone else goes into the RV.
I hope this first chapter was decent. Have a nice day.