The Last Of Us (Fan-Fic)

Summer- Chapter Two- Part 32 Suburbs

"Fresh air..." Henry says as he breaths in. "Wha-? Look at this" Sam says, pointing at the wall. There was a message in red reading: WARNING Infected Inside DO NOT OPEN. "Oh, are you fucking kidding me? Thanks for the warning on the other side, guys" Ellie said. Henry chuckles, "So where's this tower?" I ask Henry, wiping the sweat off my forehead. "We're close. C'mon. Let's go" Henry replies, walking down the steps. 

"Hey. How you doin', little man?" Henry asks, "That was a close one, huh?". "Yeah. Not one of our finest moments, but we made it out". I make a Molotov quickly and a health kit. I put everything back and catch up with the rest of them.

They were all crowding over the railings, "Hey, look at that. Yep, what'd I tell you, huh?" Henry says, looking at the radio tower that he had just talked about. "Let's find a way around it" I murmur, noticing that it was quite far away. As we continue forwards I ask Ellie, "What about you, how you holdin' up?". "Business as usual, right? When I was with Henry, I took out a couple of Infected by myself. You'd be proud" She tells me. "Yeah" I reply.

As I check a open house for supplies, Ellie and Sam start to chat. "How did you two end up together?" He asks her. "Oh... I... A friend of mine, Marlene asked him to take me to the Fireflies" She says quickly, "You seem to get along well". "Yeah, well... Now I just boss him around" She chuckles, she looks over at me, "Isn't that right, Joel?".

I don't reply, in fact I act as if I don't hear, I needed to stay focused. "I was just five when the cordyceps hit. My memory's pretty hazy, but I remember living in a neighbourhood just like this" Henry says, I hadn't noticed that they were all behind me. "What do you remember?" Ellie asks curiously. "Ahh... Barbecues. Parents, they would throw these big barbecues and invite a ton of people. You know, I remember the smell more than anything. Weird" Henry says, as if he could smell it right now.

As we jump down Ellie says, "Oh. Doggies" as there were two playing with each other. "You're gonna want to stay away from those. It's not like it is in the zone. These are wild" I inform her. "What is this?" Ellie asks, stopping by an ice cream truck. "Oh, this is an ice cream truck" Sam tells her, "An ice cream truck?". "Yeah, Henry told me about these. They'd sell ice cream out of the truck".

"What? No way. Joel?" She asks, "It's true. This thing would drive around and play real loud creepy music and kids would come running out to buy ice cream" I confirm, "You're totally fucking with me" She says, not believing us. "Um-mm. Serious". "Man, you lived in a strange time" Ellie comments. "Told you so" Sam says. 

I go into a garage and find a workbench, I knew I had a lot of parts, so I put my bag on the table and took all my guns out. By looking at all my parts, I saw that I had about 200. I put some parts on my bow which would make it easier to pull it back quicker. I then put a few parts on my hunting rifle so they bullets would be able to go through armor. I also put some more parts on to make the reload speed better on my rifle, and on the clip capacity. Lastly I put my last parts into making the clip capacity better on my shotgun. 

We move into the house and Ellie looks in all the cupboards, like me, taking alcohol and bandages. As we leave the house and jump down a gun bullets fires straight over my head, "Oh shit. Get down!" I say to them. Everyone ducks behind a car. "Fuckin' sniper" Henry says. "Did you see where it came from?" He asks as it fires again. "Somewhere down the street" I reply. "Alright now... Y'all stay here" I say, "No" Ellie argues. "Before you start - I need you guys to keep him busy" I say, "I'm gonna go around and see if I can get the angle on him". "Okay" Ellie agrees. "Hey. Be careful" She adds. 

I nod and quickly run to the next car, "Where do you think you're going?" The man with the sniper shouts out. "That car is not gonna save you!" He shouts, that makes me move into the next house, I hadn't realized that there was a man in there. I shoot him three times before he is dead and then come out of the house again, seeing it wasn't safe. 

I throw a smoke bomb quickly so that I can move to the next car without him seeing me. As I go behind one of the houses there were three more of his men who I killed with a nail bomb. I take another man out and go back indoors. I can hear the sniper continue to taunt me as I get closer and closer to the building that he was hiding in. I throw a Molotov at some of his men, which also helped as a distraction to let me get even closer. The sniper laughed manically as his shots got closer and closer to my body.