The Last Of Us (Fan-Fic)

Summer- Chapter Two- Part 27 Humvee Chase

I went back to where there was a red ladder half way down. "Here. C'mere Ellie" I say, kneeling down slightly, "Okay" She replied. Ellie stood on my knee and I stood up, she grabbed hold of the ladder with one hand and her other hand on my shoulder. Ellie yanked at the ladder and pulled it all the way down. Ellie climbed up first and I followed on after her. When we were up the first small amount of stairs we could see the bridge up ahead, "We're almost there" I say, looking at it. We both jumped down and look around for some ammo, I find none so I head around the corner.

"Let's go through the alley" I tell Ellie, she seemed to be a little far away from me. "Agh, it's that fucking truck" Ellie says as the truck goes past. "Six" I hear somebody say. "Nope" Another replies, they sound like hunters. "Not even close". "Ten". "Keep going". I moved closer to the voices. "I don't know. Twenty". "Try twenty five". I move other to the window of the building. "Bullshit". "Swear to god". I quickly jump through the window. "You have twenty-five cans of bacon?". "Well, twenty-four. I just finished one". As I jumped through the window I find some alcohol and pick it up quietly, and carefully. "How the hell do you have twenty four cans of bacon?" One of the man asked as I quickly made another health kit. "Military locker".

"And that shit's still good? When you making some more?". "Why?". I could see the two men now, it looked like they were part of the hunters with the truck, I had to be smart when taking them down. "Why do you think? I want some". "Yeah, I bet you do". I quickly healed myself before deciding what to do about them. "Man... I saved your ass from that clicker last week". "I'll think about it". "I shoulda let your ass die back there". "Oh, Jesus. I'll make you some if you quit bringing that up". I move around the corner and fine myself right outside the room their in. "It better be as good as you say it is". "It's bacon. Of course it's good". I slowly shuffled into the room, staying low. As I looked closer it seemed like there were more men in the room.

Suddenly one man sees me and I have to beat him down. Of course that made a lot of sound and one guy started to shoot at me, so I had to shoot him as well. Me and Ellie quickly had to duck down behind a counter as they truck started to shoot at us. "What the fuck are they shooting at us with?" Ellie asks as the gun shots come at a alarming rate. "Some kinda military turret, just stay down!" I tell her. I kept behind cover as I shot at one of the other men in the room. There was no chance that I could take the truck head on, so I climbed round back to where I reloaded my gun. I quickly moved over, behind a police car that was in front of the truck, but they saw us and continued to shoot.

We quickly bolt to the next open building where we take more shelter as the truck still shoots. Before I knew it there were people in the room we were in as well. I shot the man quickly as he came around to us, it wasn't hard to take him down as he had been injured already by the rapid fires of the truck. Of course that wasn't it, another hunter makes their way into the room. I wait for them to show their face as I hold my gun out ready. As one comes charging towards us I shoot him down, making sure Ellie is out of the way.

I go and pick up their ammo, keeping low. I decide to take a chance and jump through a window to the next room. I had enough to make a melee weapon, so I make a bat with scissors on the end. I quickly put the bat on my backpack and jump out of the window which led of of the building. From here the truck was on the other side of the gate, letting us have a good head start before they would be able to get in. There was another hunter, but because he was alone it was easy to kill him. I pick up the man's ammo and see that it fits my revolver which was good, as I was running low on it.

As we turned the corner the truck started to shoot at us again through a different gate as I killed another hunter.   The tank still finds a way to shoot at us through fences, making it hard to move to the next cover available. We timed it right and got through the gun shots, straight into a building. We quickly ran up the stairs in case there were any more hunters. I took as many supplies as I could in a very short amount of time. We jumped out the window to where there were stairs on the side of the building and stayed low as we climbed them.

"I think we lost 'em" I say to Ellie as the stairs end. There was already a plank which let us cross to the next ledge with more open windows. I went into the first open one and grabbed some tape as soon as I was inside. The bathroom had the shower curtains on the floor and a bottle of pills lied on top of the curtains which I picked up quickly. I looked at all my guns and saw that I was low on ammo for all of them. We jumped out the the next window, onto the next ledge again as the stairs down were blocked. Halfway across the tank drove by again, slowly. "Oh shit" Ellie murmured. I looked at the tank closely and replied, "We're okay. They can't see us". The tank drove off quickly and I jumped through the next open window.

Suddenly someone grabbed me by the neck and started to try and strangle me. I pushed the man back so that he hit into the wall and Ellie cut his arm with her blade before he pushed her off. "What the fuck?" The man said as he looked at Ellie. "Sonofa-" I shouted, I pushed his head back onto the wall and pulled him over the top of me. When he was down I started to punch at him, "Joel" Ellie said. "Wait. Wait" The man protested. "Joel, stop" She shouted at me. 

I stopped and looked at Ellie, "Look" She told me, pointing across the room. I looked to where he was pointing and saw a young boy holding a gun. Me and Ellie both raised our hands, knowing we couldn't take them down when he had a gun. "Leave him alone" The man one the ground said. "Easy, son. Just take it easy" I say, backing up. "It's alright. They're not the bad guys. Lower the gun". The young boy does what he says and lowers the gun. 

"Man, you hit hard" He says, looking at his injured arm. "Yeah, well, I was trying to kill you" I replied. He stands up, "Yeah, I thought you were one of them too". "Then I saw you" He continues, pointing at Ellie. "If you haven't noticed , they don't keep kids around. Survival of the fittest". The man turns around at the young boy see's him arm, "You're bleeding" He points out. "Ah, it's nothing" He reassures him. He takes the gun from the boy and goes into his backpack. "I'm Henry. This is Sam" He says, taking a bandage out. "I think I caught your name was Joel?". 

"Ellie" Ellie says, introducing herself. "How many are with you?" I ask. "They're all dead" Sam says as Henry ties the bandage on his arm. "Hey. We don't know that". "There were a bunch of us. Someone had the brilliant idea of entering the city. Look for supplies. Those fuckers - they ambushed us. Scattered us. Now it's all about getting out of this shit hole".

Ellie comes forwards, "We can help each other". "Ellie" I say, not knowing whether it was such a good idea. "Safety in numbers and all that" She argues, "She's right" Henry speaks up. "We could help each other. We got a hideout not far from here. Be safer if we chat there". I think it over for a second and then look at Ellie, "Alright, take us there" I finally reply.