PREVIOUSLY ON THE LAST DEAD

Marlene: "I've seen enough to know that this world and everything that we know about it is going to hell."

Joel: "Hey there. You all set?"

Ellie: "Yeah."

Joel: "All right. Let's go."

Lee: "You've been… all by yourself through this?"

Clementine: "Yeah, I want my parents to come home now."

Joel: "Ah, you too, huh?"

Lee: "What? What're you talking about?"

Joel: "Ellie and I are kind of the same deal here."

Ellie: "Yeah, a package deal."

Lee: "Oh. Huh."

Larry: "Son of a bitch! One of them is bitten!"

Lee: "It's either him or your son. I say it's him!"

Kenny: "Goddamn right; out on his ass with those things!"

Doug: "It's Doug, you got it."

Carley: "And I'm Carley."

Kenny: "Okay, Carley, you'll shift in with Doug when he needs it."

Carley "You got it, boss."

Doug: "No, get them off me! Aaahhhhh!"

Ellie: "Holy shit! Joel, he- they just-"

Joel: "I know… Goddammit!"

Carley: "Oh, my God…"

Larry: "I know who you are."

Ellie: "Why the hell didn't you tell him about Tess?"

Joel: "Because he doesn't need to know anything about her."

A/N The story progresses based on the choices that I have made in the game and how I think Joel and Ellie would fit into the story of The Walking Dead Game. What started out as a simple hunting trip eventually becomes a gruesome rescue attempt. Be sure to let me know what you think of this crossover. I do not own The Walking Dead or The Last of Us.

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A crossover event

Chapter 1: Three Months Later

Lee, Joel and the Macon survivors have been making their keep at the Travelier Motel since their escape from the drugstore in downtown, Macon. They decided to pay a visit to the Warner Robins Air Force Base in search of supplies and had brought back more than they had bargained for. They had found guns to protect themselves with, plenty of ammo to go with them, barbed wire, flashlights, a few other supplies and a survivor that wears glasses, a jacket with wings designed on the back and worked at the air force base, named Mark, who had brought his own supply of commissary food to the motel that was more than enough for everybody. Now it's three months later, and Lee was in the forest, sneaking up to a walker that was feasting on something that used to be alive. Lee checked to make sure nothing was around him before he rose to his feet and swings his fireaxe directly on to the walker's head and kicks it off. He looked to see what it was eating as Joel came up from behind him with a shotgun.

Joel: "Well, shit. What've they gotten this time?"

Lee: "Looks like a rabbit."

Joel: "Tch, don't we have all the luck."

The two of them began strolling through the woods, trying to find something for them to bring back to the motel to eat.

Lee: "Hard to believe that we've gone through all that commissary food Mark brought in for three months, huh?"

Joel: "I guess, but if it weren't for all that food of his, none of us would even still be around by now. If you ask me, heading on down to that air force base was worth it."

Lee: "I'm not complaining. I'm just saying that looked like it could've lasted longer than this."

Joel: "Yeah, well, it is what it is. Yesterday, Ellie was asking me again about getting her on a training schedule so she could learn how to shoot, saying that she's wanting to do supply runs to the drugstore and do some hunting of her own."

Lee: "And what did you say to her?"

Joel: "I said that it's probably not a good idea, and she wasn't happy."

The man couldn't blame her for that. With all the tension that's been going on within the group, everyone was on the edge nowadays.

Lee: "I'm not exactly keen to the idea of Clementine handling a gun, either."

Joel: "It ain't because I think that she's too young to learn, Lee. I just don't think that she can even handle using a firearm. Anyway, I went through all the food we had left before we came out here, and guess how much left of it there is."

Lee had thought about it for a moment and took a guess.

Lee: "Enough to last us for the rest of today?"

Joel: "For the rest of the week, actually."

Lee: "That still ain't gonna be enough for everyone."

Joel: "If we manage to find ourselves a buck out here, there will be for today. Hell, I'll even settle for a raccoon."

Lee: "You think Kenny and Mark are having better luck out here than we are?"

Joel: "I hope so. Between the lack of food and Kenny and Lilly's endless debating, that motel ain't exactly what I would call a paradise. You know, Kenny was actually talking about leaving once he manages to get that old RV up and ready to go, which I still think he's wasting his time on."

Lee: "Kenny won't abandon us. He's a good man."

Joel: "If that's what you think, but it sounds like his mind has already been made up. Can't say that I blame him. Larry's been giving him hell last night, and I really wish Ellie would stop trying to pick a fight with him. I've also notice that he's been giving you the most hell out of the rest of us. Mind telling me what it is that he's got against you?"

Lee was considering of telling him the real reason why Larry hates him so much, which wouldn't be the first time. But instead, he shakes the thought out of his head and lies to Joel.

Lee: "He's just an old racist asshole. That's his deal."

Joel: "Yeah? Well, I could give two shits of what his deal is. Heart condition or not, he needs to start pulling more of his own weight around at the motor inn. And Lilly can go on about how his health ain't getting better all she wants, but that man can take care of himself. He may be old, but he's also about as strong as an ox. Which reminds me, I never did a straight answer on why he punched you in the face that one time?"

Lee: "That was, uh… just him getting payback at me for telling him off at the drugstore."

Joel: "Pssh, he certainly knows how to hold a grudge, then."

Other than finding a rabbit that got devoured and seeing a couple of birds flying by, the two of them weren't having much luck in their little hunting trip. But then, they spot a lone walker standing in one spot with its back turned on them. The two of crouch down beside a bush and Joel makes hand gestures to Lee of how they'll handle it. He silently tells him to sneak up on it and take it out while he goes around and watches his back. Lee slowly approaches the walker with his firmly in his hands. It was going smoothly until another living carcass unexpectedly came up to him snarling on his left. Before it could try to pounce on him, Joel grabs it by putting his shotgun around its neck and drags it backwards. The walker that Lee tried to sneak up on had turned around and noticed him. When it started stumbling towards him, he immediately rises back up and brings it down on the ground by swinging his axe hard on its head. Joel dragged the other walker over by a tree and shoves its head right through a branch, piercing its brain. It was a close call for both of them.

Lee: "I hope walkers don't become the only thing that we find out here."

Joel: "There's still plenty of wildlife around here so far. Let's keep looking."

After taking a few more steps forward, they both suddenly hear somebody screaming from the top of his lungs.

Joel: "What the- Who the hell is screaming?"

Lee: "I don't know. Come on!"

They both run to the right through some bushes and try to find whoever it was that was screaming. Lee was thinking that it was Kenny, or maybe even Mark and were both probably in a lot of trouble. Either way, he and Joel had to hurry. They run past several trees and bushes while glancing left and right. They eventually stop right beside a stump to look around them until they hear someone scream again.

Joel: "This way!"

They run to the left, passed a few more trees and find two teenage boys standing over a man with his leg clamped by a bear trap, which was the one who had been screaming in pain. They were all wearing letterman jackets with their names on them. The black-haired boy, named Travis, was tying his belt on the man's leg, named David. The brown-haired boy, named Ben, was just standing there with a horrified look on his face.

Joel: "You've gotta be kidding me."

The two teens noticed them and raised their hands in surrender.

Travis: "Oh Shit! No, no, please don't kill us! We just want to help our teacher! We'll leave, I swear!"

And then, Kenny and the new member of the group, Mark, arrive to the scene with their rifles.

Kenny: "Lee! Joel! You two okay?"

Joel: "Yeah, we're fine, but…"

Mark: "Jesus Christ."

David: "Get it off! Get it off, Goddammit! Get it off me!"

Ben: "Travis, maybe they can help!"

Travis: "These might be the same guys that raided our camp, and we barely got away from that!"

Mark: "What guys?"

Kenny: "Why the fuck is there a bear trap out here?"

Ben: "I don't know, man!"

Lee: "What the hell happened?"

Ben: "Mr. Parker said we should stay off the streets. We were trying to be careful, but-"

David yells again in agony before Ben could finish explaining.

Joel: "Yeah, we get the picture."

Mark: "Guys, this is fucked up! We gotta help them!"

Ben: "Please!"

Travis: "Ben, shut up! My dad was Special Forces; I know what I'm doing!"

Ben: "Just see if you can get him out! After that, you can leave us or whatever, I don't care! Please!"

The four men had been silent for a brief moment until Lee spoke up again.

Lee: "We gotta get him outta there!"

David: "Oh, God, thank you."

Kenny: "Fine, but you gotta hurry."

Mark: "Let me take a look at it. Maybe I can find the release latch on this thing. That'll get it open."

Marks bends down to look at the trap and starts fiddling with it to find the release latch on it. But then, a walker emerges from the left and was coming straight towards them. Joel raises his weapon, takes aim and fires a buckshot at its head. He pumps his shotgun as he says,

Joel: "We're gonna have to make it fast, or we'll be surrounded by more of those any minute."

David: "Hurry, please! Hurry!"

Mark: "Guys, this trap's been altered. There's no release latch."

Joel: "What?! Ah, fucking perfect."

But then, Travis notices more of the undead from a distance. He looked very worried when they were staggering towards them.

Travis: "Oh no."

All the other survivors saw the walkers coming and they all knew that they didn't have much time before even more of them show up.

Kenny: "Oh, fuck me! More walkers are coming!"

Joel: "Lee, if you wanna help him, you've got to do it now!"

David: "Please! Get me out of this!"

The man with the axe takes action as he proceeds to the bear trap.

Lee: "Mark, get the boys back!"

Mark nods at him, gets Travis and Ben away from the bear trap and aims his weapon at the walkers, along with Kenny and Joel. Lee kneels down to the trap while saying,

Lee: "Joel, Kenny, keep those walkers off of me!"

Joel: "Just get the damn thing open!"

Lee examines the trap for a moment and tries to think of how he was supposed to open it if there was no release latch while his comrades behind him were popping bullets at the walkers to keep them at bay.

Ben: "Do you think you can get it open?"

He sets his axe down so that he can try to pry it open with his bare hands, but David shouts in pain and tells him to stop. He would have to figure out another way to open it.

Mark: "Lee, do something!"

He notices a rock beside the bear trap and decides to use it. He picks it up from the ground, stands over the chain that was attached to the trap, raises the rock over his head and throws it down on the chain. It had no effect.

Ben: "There's gotta be something we can do!"

Travis: "Try to cut the chain!"

Lee heard his suggestion and gives it a try. He picks his axe back up, raises it up and brings down on the chain. Not a single scratch on it.

David: "Hurry! Aaaauuuggh!"

Lee tries it again, but still wasn't getting anywhere.

Kenny: "Let's go, let's go!"

Lee swings at the chain a third time and Mark stops him when he recognized what the chain was made out of.

Mark: "Forget it! We use chain like that in the Air Force base to lift ordinance. You're not cutting through that!"

Lee gives up on cutting the chain and kneels back down to think of a different method to free David.

David: "Come on, try something."

Ben: "Oh, Jesus, those things are gonna be here soon."

Joel: "Lee, it's now or never!"

Lee notices a branch that was also close to the bear trap. He picks it up and tries to use it to pry the trap open. But then it breaks and it was now useless.

Lee: "Goddamn it!"

Mark: "Lee, it has to be now!"

He throws the branch away and tries to use his axe to pry it open. David continues screaming and once again tells Lee to stop since it was causing so much pain to him.

Lee: "Ergh, fuck!"

Joel fired his shotgun at another walker and was beginning to become impatient of Lee not being able to make any kind of progress.

Joel: "Lee, what the fuck is taking you so long?!"

Lee: "I'm trying everything I can, but I can't figure out how to open the fucking thing!"

Joel: "Shit!… If you can't open it, then you'll just have to cut him free."

Ben: "What?!"

Travis: "Jesus! You're crazy, man!"

Joel: "Do you want us to help your teacher or not?"

Ben: "Well, y-yeah, but…"

Lee: "Joel, if I chop off his leg, he could die a lot sooner from blood loss."

Joel: "Have you got any better ideas?"

Lee: "No, but still-"

Mark: "Damn it, Lee, just cut off his fucking leg!"

Kenny: "We don't have time for that! I'm sorry, but we have to go, now!"

Lee looks ahead in the forest and sees a small herd of walkers heading their way. All of them were being attracted by David's blood and screams. He takes a look at the man's clamped leg again and decides to go with Joel's suggestion. He slowly stands back up, tightening his grip on the axe in his hands. David could tell what he was about to do just by looking at his face.

David: "Oh, God."

Lee: "I'm gonna have to cut you out."

David: "No, no, no! Try the trap again! Anything! Please!"

Lee cringes when he raises the axe over his head. He didn't like what he was about to do, but if it ends up saving his life, then it'll end up being worth it. Lee swings the axe on David's leg, causing a major wound to form and blood splatters all over. The teacher's painful screams intensify when Lee lifts the axe and chops his leg again. David clutches his half-chopped leg and Lee brings the axe down on his leg for a third time in a row. It was almost off; the leg was hanging by the threads of his appendages. He takes a deep breath to prepare to swing his axe on the poor man one last time. He lifts it over his head, swings it hard on the leg and was now completely free from the bear trap. David had tried let out another scream, but then faints. As soon as Travis looked at what Lee just did,

Travis: "Oh, God!"

He instantly walks a few steps away and spews his guts out. Mark and Joel stand beside Lee to see what he had just done the teacher.

Mark: "Shit! Is he…"

Lee: "He passed out."

Blood was leaking out from the chopped leg, forming a pool of blood on the grass.

Kenny: "If he's alive, grab him and let's go!"

Mark straps his rifle on his back, pulls David up and carries him away on his shoulders. Kenny had went ahead to find the quickest way back to the motor inn. Joel ushers Ben to follow them, but Lee sees the walkers getting close to the other teen.

Lee: "Behind you!"

Joel and Ben turned to see Travis wiping the bile from his lips and wasn't paying attention to what was approaching him from behind.

Ben: "Travis!"

Ben tried to run over to his friend, but he was held back by Lee and Joel.

Joel: "There's nothing we can do, kid! There's too many of them!"

Lee: "Come on, come on! We gotta move!"

Travis: "Aaahh!"

The walkers were closing in on Travis. He tumbles down backwards on the grass and tries to get away from them, but his back connects with a boulder that was right behind him. He had nowhere to run. He cries for help and screams in terror when three walkers grab on to him. They start biting down on his neck and eating him alive.

Ben: "NOOO!"

THE LAST DEAD

EPISODE TWO: STARVED FOR HELP

TO BE CONTINUED