Telltale The Walking Dead : Scars Behind an Iron Mask

Prologue

Leaves fall, and branches shake as Clementine and AJ drive along the road. She adjusts the rear-view mirror to look at AJ, who is spinning the bullet chamber of a revolver.

"Whatcha doin' there, goofball?" Clementine asks

"Pretending we got bullets." AJ replies

"Well, don't. It's getting on my nerves." Clementine says, rolling her eyes

"I don't like goofball. I'm too big for it." AJ says

"Would you prefer shitbird?" Clementine asks

"No! That's mean! You're a shitbird." AJ laughs

"Huh, so I guess you're all grown up now."

"Yup. Let me drive!" AJ says abruptly

"I'm not letting you drive!" Clementine smiles

Somewhere else, a walker gets hit in the head with a boomerang like knife. A hooded figure walks over before yanking the blade out and sheathing it on his hip

The hooded figure shaked the blood of their blade and then cleans it on the walkers' clothes

Sun peaks through the canopy of autumn leaves showing that the figure was wearing an almost scarf like hood, leather gloves with holes in the knuckles, a spiked leather jacket with pointed shoulders, elbow length rolled up sleeves fur round the collar and makeshift parts added tight padded biker trousers with crude armour on the knees,shins and forearms with multiple blades stowed up his thighs

"Hmmm," the figure tilts their head forward as they pull down their ragged hood, revealing a longish black dyed fauxhawk hair with dark red accents their thick hair blowing slightly in the wind as they turn their face is hidden by an iron mask like helmet strapped to their face leather clasps wrapping round their head and down to their shoulder clipped into an almost climbing harness. the metal plates at the top of the mask coming from to the brow into a downward sharp peak like nose, the helmet vaguely resembling a Barn owl. The figure takes the time to use their scarf to whipe the blood that spattered on the cheekbone and upper lip like plates.

The masked figure kneels down and flips the walker over, turning their head at the smell. Reaching into the walker's pocket, the figure pulls out a wallet and a few miscellaneous items like a couple of coins, some crumpled notes as more walkers are heard in the distance

Scoffing through their nose, the figure swings a pack round their shoulder revealing a embroidered patch on the back of their jacket the patch looking like a two headed snake as they put the collected items in their bag before swinging it onto their back, still crouched the figure ties their boot laces showing metal toe caps peaking through the worn cloth and leather

More walkers are seen approaching the figure as they put their hood up and unsheathe their blades, twirling them edges face downwards

Cracking their neck, they approach the walkers when the distant hum of an engine catches their ear

Clementine tosses the can away. It rolls toward the mattress, revealing the corner of a hatch.

"Look."

"Huh?" Clementine turns

Clementine decides to move the mattress.

"Something under here..."

Clem moves the mattress, revealing a hatch on the floor.

"Floor door?" AJ Asks

"Yeah, you must have wanted to hide something." Clementine opens the hatch, finding lots of food.

"That's a lot of stuff!" AJ says excitedly

"Yeah. It is. We could eat for weeks with this much." Clementine reaches into the hatch, but a grenade rolls out.

"It's rigged!"

Clementine closes the hatch and grabs AJ just before the grenade explodes. "Oh, God... AJ!"

Clem hugs AJ. She looks out the window and sees walkers approaching.

"Monsters!"

Clem and AJ run outside.

"Fuck."

"Oh, shoot." AJ looks at the walkers

"Okay, we need to get back to the car. You know what to do. Stick to the sides and be my eyes while I clear a path."

AJ hides while Clementine kills the walkers. One of them bangs on the door AJ hides behind.

"Over here!" AJ pushes the door down, trapping the walker.

Clementine stomps on the walker's head, killing it.

Clementine ignores the walker, and it gets away." Let's get to the car!

Clem throws her backpack and knife into the car, and she and AJ get inside.

A walker reaches through the door. Clem reaches for her knife, but it's too far away. She jams the keys into the walker's eye and then kicks the door, which knocks it away. She closes the door. More walkers pound on the outside of the car. Clem releases the brake and shifts gears. A walker breaks through the back window, and AJ moves from the backseat to the passenger seat.

"Clem!"

AJ gives the knife to Clem. A walker breaks through his window and grabs him, and she kills it. A walker climbs into the backseat and grabs Clem; AJ stabs it, and Clem stabs it again, killing it. The car moves forward and hits a tree, pinning a walker against it.

"Clem, look! The keys!"

Clementine kicks out the windshield and takes the key out of the walker's eye. She starts the car and puts it on her seatbelt.

"AJ, buckle up!"

Clementine starts driving, but a walker crashes through her window; she tries to push it away, and AJ points his gun at it, but Clem loses control of the car; it crashes and flips over hitting her head on the wheel splitting here eyebrow. Arrows and a  knife fly past. Then, as someone looks into the car , he picks up an unconscious AJ and passes him to another figure

"Wait. Who--"

"No. Please..."

A blurred figure points to another figure to deal with the walkers as they reach onto the car

"Help. Please..."

The figure leans closer as arrows fly in the background

Clementine passes out.

"We gotta go!" One of the figures say as they pull an arrow out of a walkers rotten skull

The figure unbuckles Clementine and slowly pulls her out of the car, placing her on the ground

"We're out of time. Let's go." One of the figures runs off with AJ in hand,

As Clementine lays past out on the ground, the large figure quickly rips a piece of their scarf off and wraps it around Clementine's forehead, covering her split eyebrow, slowing the bleeding

The figure in the iron mask thought, bending down to pick her up as Clementine reaches up as the figure picks her up as she fully passes out "AJ..."

HOORAY NEW STORY!!! I hope you enjoyed this prologue. I'm a HUGE fan of the walking dead games and recently played through them, so I thought, why not write a fanfic? XD

See yall in chapter 1

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