Okay… I think I am the first person who attempts to write a Self-Insert for The Last Of Us but I hope more will follow if mine is a success.
Before I start there are some things I'd like to say. First of all English is not my native language, while Microsoft Word is very helpful in pointing out words I spelled wrong it won't help my if I got the structure of a sentence wrong.
Secondly, I won't be able to update regularly I have quite some free time on my hands now and I'm confident that I'll be able to write a chapter every week but that can change very quickly.
With that out of the way I suppose it is time to start with the first chapter, Welcome to: The Last of Me.
Chapter one. "I sat in the dark and thought: There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless precession of little ones."
I woke up on a hard concrete surface, I slowly opened my eyes and sat upright. No Hangover, that's good. I thought, the only thing that I remember from the night before this is going to a friend to have a drink, I must have had a bit too much I think as I take in my surroundings.
It appears that I'm on a roof of a building, but there is trash all over the place, the sun is shining low on the horizon and I see dozens of other buildings. How the hell did I end up here I think as I take another look around me.
I now see details that I didn't pick up last time, almost all the windows of the nearby buildings are broken and there are small plants growing on the walls and the roofs.
Shocked I stumble to the edge of the roof to take a look at the street, the building I'm on is four stories high and made of red bricks but that's not the strange part, there are trees growing in the streets. And I can see a large concrete wall about a hundred meters away from me.
This scene reminds me of two things, the documentary Life after people it is a documentary of how the earth will look if all humans suddenly disappeared, very interesting. But more importantly this scene reminds me of a game named The Last Of Us. Naughty Dog, the developers made this game PlayStation exclusive, I as a PC gamer without access any consoles besides an old Nintendo Wii raged about that for quite some time before I decided to just watch a Let's Play on YouTube. And after that watch another one.
I recognized the area just down the street, next to the big concrete wall is the restaurant through which Joel and Tess first leave the quarantine zone in the game.
So, let's get this straight I think I wake up one the other side of the Atlantic ocean during a zombie apocalypse.. That's just great…
I quickly pinched myself to check if I was sleeping, but it appears that I'm wide awake. After a few minutes I decide to accept my fate for now and move farther away from the edge of the roof.
There are remains of a small camp here on top of the building, there is a tent with only a few holes in it set up and some cans of food. On the side facing away from the quarantine walls lies a sniper rifle with a box full of ammunition next to it.
I decide to take a closer look at the inside of the tent, but just when I'm about to walk in a disgusting smell hits me. Inside sits a lone man with a hole in his head, a revolver is lying on the ground just below his right hand, there is a mushroom growing out of the open wound in his head and multiple mushrooms are starting to grow out of his left arm. The sight is nothing like it is in the game, I stumble backwards while resisting the urge to puke.
I decide to take a look at the entrance to the roof and I quickly see that whoever the dead man in the tent was he barricaded the only entrance to the rest of the building well, there is no way to open the door without having to move the large pile of furniture that's blocking the way.
I suppose this is a good thing I think, Infected can't get up here and there is enough food and water in here to last quite some time.
I walk around the roof for a few minutes before I've mustered the courage to get back to the tent, I quickly look inside but decide to let the smell leave first before I enter it. I leave the entrance to the tent open and turn back to the sniper rifle that's siting on a tripod at the edge of the roof.
I inspect the box of ammunition and quickly realize that it is not very full anymore. There are dozens of spend shells lying around the rifle but only 22 left in the ammunition box. After a closer inspection of the sniper I find that it is loaded with another shot and the safety is off. Down the street that the rifle is overlooking I can see multiple dead infected lying around through the scope of the gun.
After I sit around bored for a few minutes I decide to get back to the tent, as I walk inside I notice that the smell is much less bad than it used to be, inside I find a rope that I quickly pick up. Cautiously I walk towards the dead body and tie the rope around his chair, I make a double knot in the rope and gingerly pull it, the chair and body are both dragged towards me.
"Let's hope this works" I say out loud before I start to drag the dead body out of the tent, it takes a few minutes of careful manoeuvring to reach the edge of the roof without letting the chair topple over the debris that is lying around. But when I finally arrive there I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. To get rid of the body I will have to push it but just pushing the body off the roof just feels wrong.
"I suppose I can say a few words first" I say out loud, "I have no clue what your story or even your name is, but judging from the dead infected down the street, who are obviously killed by your sniper here I can only assume that you disliked them, and that is a good enough reason for me to like you. So, farewell… Nameless stranger, and thank you for the stuff that you left behind here." I finish before giving the body a last push over the edge of the roof.
Here it is, the first chapter of The Last Of Me. I hope you people enjoyed it, if you did please favourite, follow or review this story because that's a very big motivation for me to keep writing.
Have a nice day!
