The Last Of Us (Fan-Fic)

Summer- Chapter Two- Part 17 Bloater

"They've broken through!" Bill shouted as me and Ellie shut the door at the other end of the room. "Let's um... We'll sneak out back" Bill said, it was weird to see him panic. I could hear runners in the building and there was a clicker a few feet away from us. I threw a brick near the clicker which also allured the runner into my sight. I took the chance to sneak by them, not having to waste any ammo on killing them unnecessarily. That was until i saw two more infected, and the other runner saw me. This meant I had to take out the infected closest to me and the clicker that was going for Bill. 

"Down the hall. I bet we can cut through those classroom" Bill said, keeping his voice down. I quickly reloaded my rifle and my shotgun, ready for another attack. I quickly wrapped a bandaged around my arm where I had a cut from somewhere before going in to the classroom. "There's a way through. We gotta get past those guys" Bill told me. I saw a small group of them so I threw a nail bomb next to them. When it exploded it took all of them out which I had not expected. I picked up two more shells for my rifle and put them away.

"Looks like there's a path down this hallway" I said quickly and quietly, of course it wouldn't be that easy as there were three runners in front of them that started to run in our direction. Bill took out his gun and shot the one closest to him whilst I took down the other two. I got to a door which I presumed the way out and tried to open it, but I couldn't do it by myself. "Help me open this" I told Bill, he came to the door and pushed the door until it burst open. We put some sort of racks in front of the door, but it wouldn't last. It seemed that we had stumbled into a school gym as it was very large with wooden floors and basketball nets. "This ain't gonna hold them for long" Bill said.

Suddenly there was a loud banging on the door at the far end of the room, we all looked over, was it a hunter? Maybe a runner?. "That don't sound good" I said. Before we knew it a large bloater burst through the doors it stood a good three feet above me and it's body was covered in fungus which acted like an armour, making it hard when you have to shoot it. "Oh no" I say. "What the fuck is that?" Ellie asked. "It's a goddamn bloater!" Bill shouted as it threw a large amount of spores in our direction. "A what?" Ellie said. "Ellie, take cover" I said. "What the fuck is it throwing at us?" She asked.

"Ellie- just stay away from it" I shouted. A runner came running up to me and I had to push it off. I dashed to the end of the hall which gave me the time to get my gun out. I shot the runner and ran to help Bill. "We gotta get up there" I said. "We can't climb these bleachers with all the infected around!" He shouted back. I quickly dodged another one of the bloater's spores as it came at me. I had to kill of more runners around me as they kept coming through the door. I changed to my shotgun after numerously shooting the bloater with my pistol.

After a while it was just the bloater left, and after wasting a large amount of ammo, the bloater finally went down. "There" I said, catching my breathe. "Ah, geez... What was up with that big guy?" Ellie asked. "He's been infected for a long time. We call them bloaters" I informed her. "Bloater... Okay. Got it" he sad. "I hate to interrupt your little biology lesson, but can we get the fuck outta here? Please?" Bill said, frustrated. "Let's get on top of these bleaches. Gimme a boost, Joel" Bill asked.

"Let's go people" I said, helping Bill over first, Ellie pushed his butt up un-needfully, although she probably feels like she has own her argument over his weight. When Bill was up he helped pull Ellie up. "Joel behind ya" Bill yelled, I looked around and saw another group of infected coming through a top window. "I got it, I got it" I said, leading the infected away from where Bill and Ellie were so I could kill them. They all came at me from different directions, making it difficult for me to quickly tak them all out. Although it seemed shooting them with my shotgun did the trick. 

"Oh, I fucking hate those things!" Ellie said. I reloaded the shotgun and went back to Bill who pulled me up. We all julped up and out of the window onto a ledge and then to the ground. A runner came from no where, grabbing me by the neck. I pushed it off and punched it until it died. "Keep going! I'm right behind you!" I told them, climbing up the ladder and to the next house. 

Bill pushed the ladder down with a leaf rake, hoping no infected could come in now. "Inside the house. Now!" Bill ordered. We all rushed inside and Bill shut the door. "So, that worked out well" Ellie said. I looked at her, as if to say stop, she got the message, "Okay, ah, i'll go check this side of the house" Ellie said, leaving me and Bill in the room. "Bill?".

"Somebody had the same idea. They stole my shit". "Well then what the hell is plan B?". "You ought to be thankful you're still drawing breath. That was plan A, B, C all the way to fucking Z". "And furthermore, tell Tess that she can take this job-". "Don't you bring Tess into this!" I shouted. "- She can shove it right up-". "She has nothin' to do with-!" Bill had stopped looking at me and stared at something behind me. I looked around and saw a man, he had hanged himself. "Jesus" I murmured seeing flies around the body. "What? Do you know this guy or something?" I asked.

"Frank" Bill replied. "Who the hell's Frank?" I asked, confused. "He was my partner" Bill said. I felt bad, and I had no idea Bill was gay, this man had to be the one he said he walked away from, by the looks of it this 'Frank' walked away from him. "He's the only idiot that would wear a shirt like that" Bill said, taking out his blade. Bill took his blade and cut the rope that Frank was hung from. Bill looked at his body, "He's got bites...". "Here. And..." He said, pointing at them.

"I reckon he didn't want to turn so he..." I couldn't finish the sentence. "Yeah. I guess not". "Well fuck him" Bill said after he noticed I was staring at him. 

There was a sudden rumble of an engine, I looked around and exited the room to see where it was coming from. That was when I found Ellie sitting in the front seat of a car, trying to get the engine running. "Look what I found" She said when she saw I had entered the room. "It's got some juice in it" She continued, putting her hand on the wheel. Bill looked at the hood of the car and his eyes widened, "That's my battery" He said. "That fuckin' asshole" He murmured. Bill slammed the hood down and told Ellie to "Get out".

"Get out" He repeated. "Okay, geez" She said, getting out of the car. Bill sat where Ellie just was and turned the key in the engine, he scratched his forehead and said "Battery's drained but the cells are alive". "Meaning?" I asked, not understanding his engine mumbo-jumbo. "Meaning we push it, get it started and the alternator will recharge the battery". "Is that your guess?" I asked, doubting the idea.

"Look, you wanted a "Plan B.". This is as good as it gets". "What're you thinking?" Ellie asked. "Thinkin' you drive and we push".