ELLIE: CHAPTER 29: Change
Ellie is currently 17 years old. As the war has gone by, she has found that nothing has changed. People are still being starved, those who are infected still are to be executed. Those who are at any threat are executed.
With the Encampment hogging all the food and supplies, many are wondering if they broke the truce. The original plan was to be given protection, food, and supplies. All for Ellie.
Ellie is now currently in the community center. The people of Jackson are eating their dinner ration (which was just beans and bread).
Sitting down eating her ration, next to a couple of her friends.
"Look at them." Nick began, "trying to act nice even though we are barely fed."
"I know…" Ellie admitted.
"I'm done with this. I can't stand for this!" Nick said as he stood up from his seat. He said as he grabbed his unopened ration.
"What are you doing?" Ellie asked Nick.
"I'm going to shove this ration right up in one of those soldier's faces!"
Ellie stopped him. "Don't, please Nick."
"Since when have you gotten soft, Ellie. I know that your dad, or whatever you want to call him, is in the army; but they are clearly hogging everything."
Ellie tries to stop him again, but Nick shoves her arm away.
Nick now walks up to one soldiers behind the concession stand.
Ellie saw it go down. Two years ago, Nick was nothing but a pussy. Now he all of a sudden had balls.
"Hey bucket head!" Nick said as he walked up to the soldier.
"Is something wrong, sir?" the soldier behind the concession stand said.
"Something is wrong!" Nick yelled at the soldier, "You're keeping the food locked up! Ever since you guys took over the community center it's been like that!"
"I'm not sure if I understand?" the soldier said with doubt.
"Soldier come here." Nick said to him.
People were now surrounding Nick and the soldier.
"Give us the food we work for!" someone blurted out.
"Now, there is no need to start a riot over this." The soldier said again with even more doubt. "We can vote on this in the next town meeting."
"A meeting completely ran by officers?!" a woman blurted.
Ellie now saw the soldier touch something under a desk.
Seconds later soldiers with riot shields and police batons came in storming into the building.
The people inside began throwing their rations at the soldiers.
The soldiers just kept their cool as they took the hits.
The people of Jackson began to get in their faces.
"What you going to do, you bucket head!" Nick yelled at one of the soldiers.
Ellie didn't know who started it, but seconds later a gun went off.
Both sides attacked each other. Ellie got down as bullet went flying.
The soldiers weren't allowed to fire back. All they can do is hope the riot shields would hold.
The soldiers rushed at the people and threw the batons at them.
Mass arrest took place from there.
To avoid persecution, Ellie sneaked out from the back. Running through the snow to get home. She ran into Joel along the way.
Joel now looked like an Assault, but without the helmet.
"What happened kiddo?" Joel said stopping her.
"The people, all arrested!" she said trying to catch her breath.
"Slow down there, let's get home first."
They walked right through the snow to get to the house.
Joel opened the door for Ellie, she soon followed.
Joel now closed the door behind them. Ellie was waiting for him out the couch.
"Joel," Ellie began. "What happened out there—"
"Hold on there, kiddo. I got something for you." Joel said as he began pulled out something out of his backpack.
Ellie looked at what it was. It was an old Marvel Comic book.
"Woah, where did you get this?" Ellie said examining the comic book.
"One of the SOC teams retrieved it during the supply raid. They said something about extending the mission, but they never really said why…"
Tommy now entered the house.
"General." Joel stood at attention as he saluted him.
"You don't gotta do that when we're off work." Tommy stated.
Ellie just stood there, laughing at the two.
"Joel," Tommy began, "I've gotta talk to you."
"What's up?"
"The recon squads that patrol the area surrounding Jackson went dark. No bullets fired from what I know of. The SOC team that provided the huge cache of supplies also reported in. They said something about a Winter Offensive of 2037?"
"What do you mean? Operation Santa Claus isn't supposed to start until tomorrow."
"It's not our offensive. We're still getting the details as we speak. We can discuss this at the communication uplink center."
"You don't think? The JTAE doesn't have enough troops to defend against a possible attack by the Fireflies."
"What does that mean?" Ellie said with fear.
"Why don't you get some sleep?" Joel suggested.
"Alright." Ellie said going upstairs.
She found her room, opened the door and threw herself on the bed. Ellie now began going through the comic book.
"Winter Offensive of 2037." Ellie said to herself.
Its hours later. An alarm went off.
Ellie now got up. She looked out the window. She saw soldiers running in the direction of the gate.
Fireflies. She told herself.
She put on a coat and ran downstairs. Opened the door. She looked in one direction and found a squad of soldiers standing their ground, suppressing the enemy.
[Play All Gone (Aftermath)]
One of the soldiers, being Joel.
She looked in the other direction. Snow legionaries opening fire and running towards their enemy.
"ELLIE! GET BACK INSIDED!" Joel yelled.
A hole now appeared in Ellie abdomen. Ellie looking down found blood spilling out.
"ELLIE!" Joel yelled. Joel ran towards her. Only to be shot in the chest, causing him to fly backwards."
"Joel…" Ellie said as she fell to her knees and passed out.