And I'm back. If I haven't posted it already I have written a chapter of my transformers challenge titled 'the last Prime of us' but whatever. Also for note neither this nor that will follow the Pittsburgh threat because though I like how they pulled it off I don't have the heart to write in Henry and Sam when anyone who isn't simply doing what I did a few weeks ago and picking random crossover categories to read and actually knows the story would be able to state the tragic fate they suffer, I also am in the midst of a marvel/last of us/Phantom/doctor who at least brainstorming phase. It would feature the timelord 2.0 ultimate Phantom and a post last of us world. Also in this story some time between bill and Tommy, which will feature more Danny/Ellie bonding (By the time they reach Tommy they will be official) and Halfa training, we will see Danny produce a Phantom suit variant based on the HTTYD2 Hiccup armour. Also I will feature marvel with Shadowcat, Nightcrawler and mutant versions of Spider Man and Silk (ASM vol 3) at Tommy's camp.

Regardless down here we will start in the sewers.

Chapter 3 fallout... Boston subway?

Joel put on his gas mask as he entered the spore filled subway station. Behind him was Danny in his mask (For the HUD and to assist in breathing and Ellie in some of Danny's old goggles for visibility. Ellie was a bit in shock, not only having just abandoned Tess but also having seen Joel's brutal side, having gone as far as to get 2 soldiers with a Molotov cocktail (In their remastered walkthrough TheMediaCows actually did this here), and as such was uncharacteristically quiet.

In total silence and synchronism Joel and Danny came up behind the 2 men patrolling the subway and snapped their necks. Looking at the 2 Ellie saw different things. Joel was cleanly simply accepting that it was the soldiers or them and it scared Ellie that this was a not uncommon attitude, Danny looked sad at what needed to be done. If the soldiers remained active they would see them and if they saw them Joel would be killed, Danny and Ellie were unsure if death was even an option for them, and they would have no way to get to where they could administer the cure.

Then they walked up to the tracks. They were only a few hundred yards from where they needed to get out but it was through a flooded tunnel.

"Um I still can't swim." Ellie pointed out.

"Can you hold on?" Danny asked.

"Yes?" Ellie replied.

"Then hold on to me and I'll swim for you."

"You can swim?" Joel asked.

"Yeah, my parents taught me."

Either way Danny and Joel started swimming with Ellie clinging to Danny's neck. When they got in place Danny allowed a pair of robot arms to slide up, weaving past Ellie and pull the 2 of them up before grabbing Joel by the backpack. They then started walking down the maintenance tunnel and out into the wilderness.

"Look, about Tess-" Ellie started before Joel cut her off.

"Here's how things are goanna work. You don't bring up Tess, ever, in fact if you 2 want to share histories then fine but leave me out of it." He snapped.

"If it helps you have my condolences too." Danny said. In the brief time they had been alone together Danny had noticed that Joel was harder on Ellie than on him or Tess. This suggested that he had a problem with girls around his age. He had an idea about it but wasn't going to bring it up for now. "Now what?" he asked, a hint of bitterness in his voice.

"I have a friend, well contact, who owes me and Tess some favours. He can get us a car and we can work from there." Joel said.

"Fine." Danny and Ellie said together. Danny also noted with mild curiosity that he was tasting hurt that definitely wasn't his. Ellie to was felling someone else's anger and looking at each other they saw these emotions on each others face as they melted into shocked confusion and they heard each other think.

'No way.'


"So what are you saying?" Ellie said as they walked behind Joel, marvelling at a nature they had never seen before.

"Well we were both in the portal when it activated. I think that somehow as we were remade as Halfas our sols were intertwined, creating a psychic link between one and other. That's how we were able to feel each other's emotions and thoughts. If we practice we may be able to have a private link for communication." Danny explained.

Ellie then looked ahead and laughed, running up to a group of fireflies. "Hey look fireflies, real fireflies that is." Danny chuckled, though also interested in the glowing insects and came over to the girl; Joel tried to be annoyed but couldn't suppress a small smile at the 2 quite mature teen's quite innocent fascination.

Joel meanwhile used a plank to build a bridge over the fence that was blocking their way into Lincoln. He spotted some smoke. "That you Bill?"

"Where do you guys meet up normally?" Danny asked.

"Um... different places." Joel replied absently.

"You've never been here before have you?" Ellie chuckled.

"No. I know he lives here but no I've never actually been here personally." Joel admitted.

"So the smoke is our best bet at finding him?" Danny asked.

"Yes."

"Then let's go." Danny and Ellie said together.


And that's a wrap for chapter 3 of the Halfa cure. In this chapter we learn that Danny and Ellie developed a psychic link in the accident but over wise no Halfa development they also have yet to achieve ghost mode. This will happen, alongside 2 of the main 3 (Invisibility and intangibility leaving flight for later) and ecto blasts. Next chapter will have the exploration of Lincoln and the meeting with Bill. It will also probably be the emergence of Phantom and Spectre (Ellie's ghost mode). Also up soon should be chapter one of the last Prime of us. See you later.