After an infection ravages the entire world, the life the Belchers once knew is gone, a devastating reality in its place.
To what lengths will Bob go to protect his family? And can any of the friends of the past be trusted?
COVER ART NOT MINE
Before we begin, I'd like to just explain the lore of the apocalypse and the infection. This fanfic is a crossover of bob's burgers and the last of us, and if you haven't played the last of us, I recommend you read this part.
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These are runners. They are the first stage of the infection. To quote the wiki "They are people who recently turned after contact with the Cordyceps Brain Infection within two days. They are defined by their intense speed, sluggish attacks and tendency to swarm their targets."
People who have been infected will enter this stage within two days, with increased irritability and hostility towards others being key symptoms. Their skin is pale and, as the eyes are first targeted by the fungus, Runners have poor eyesight, but maintain some human characteristics. For example, their moans are still human, just like their overall appearance. A way to tell them apart from normal survivors is their glowing orange eyes.
They stand in a hunched position when motionless or when moving around passively, unlike normal survivors. Their body language is sluggish while they are passive, suggesting they are resisting the fungus's influence, albeit usually in vain.
Some survivors believe that the infected person's mind is still intact, but trapped in their own body, as shown by a crying Runner that was upset at attacking her friends. Sometimes they do not attack at all, even when non-infected individuals are right in front of them. These non-aggressive Runners will only attack if attacked first or when an object is thrown at or near them, thus losing control. They will also become aggressive if a non-infected individual is extremely close in front of them. Much like sneezing, the urge to attack after such interactions happens involuntarily and unwillingly by the host.
That is all taken straight from the wiki.
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Clickers
"Clickers appear less human than Runners, with faces that are completely skewed and scarred by fungus developed from their infected brains. The fungal plates have adapted to keep the host/pathogen alive and able to spread, as a direct shot to the face with a powerful weapon such as a revolver will more often than not just break off a chunk of the mold, leaving the Clicker's brain unharmed but exposing the victim's face and rendering them able to see once again (until the fungus regrows). This makes them deadlier, but at the price of being completely blind due to fungal infection taking over their face.
