Hi guys. This idea just came to me today. In this story the fungus that is responsible for the infection is killed by the radiation of ectoplasm and the Fenton's live in Boston and finished the portal in 2013, the day of the evacuation and 6 years prior to Danny, and Ellie's births. Also we continue with my theory that Ellie is in fact bisexual because in this story I am pairing her with Danny, which is weird considering that in my other last of us story she is paired, or will be, with Danny's clone/daughter Danielle. Please give better suggestions for a title I am fairly good with plots but no so good with titles. The story starts somewhen between when Joel, Tess and Ellie encounter the soldiers and Ellie's immunity is revealed and the eventual arrival at city hall where Tess reveals her infection.

Also if you are curious it May be the apocalypse but Jack and Maddie, prior to forced enlistment to outside duty, were still geniuses who homeschooled their son and I always liked genius Danny. They made his tech over the 14 years of his life.

See the end note for 3 plot bunnies.

Chapter 1 the portal accident

"No. Nonononononononononono. NO!" this was what Daniel Fenton said to himself as he stood in the lab his parents had built staring at the bite mark on his hand. After everything he had done one infected got a lucky bite and it was all for nothing.

"I can't believe that after all this work this is how it ends? NO!" In complete disbelief he starts angrily muttering as he walked into the large heptagonal tunnel in the side of the room, his parent's greatest invention.

20 years ago Danny's parents were paranormal scientists and inventors and had constructed a portal to the ghost zone, a powerful device capable of punching a hole into the parallel dimension where ghosts live, but then the infection rose and the world descended into chaos and they had to move to the quarantine zone. They were able to take or recreate a lot of their technology and even allow their young son to invent his own gear, but they couldn't move or rebuild the portal. Ever since he heard about it Danny knew what he needed to do. He needed to head to the portal and activate it.

He had got his chance when his family was selected for 'outside work' once he was alone he snuck out and used a smugglers tunnel and his cyber mask (Peter quill's mask from guardians of the galaxy with blue (Green in ghost mode) eyes) he made it out of the quarantine zone. He had nearly made it to the lab but he was ambushed buy a pack of runners. He took them down and fell into the lab at the same time but one got lucky. The bite was comparatively small. But it was a bit and that was enough.

Ellie was a 14 year old girl with some strange immunity to the infection. She had learnt this 3 weeks ago when she and her best friend Reilly had been ambushed and bitten in a mall by a group of runners.

She wore blue jeans and a black long sleeve shirt and a red T-Shirt with a tropical sunset on the chest. She had green eyes and reddy brown hair. She was wearing a blue rucksack. Close behind her were Joel and Tess 2 smugglers the fireflies had hired to take her to a group at the capitol building.

Unbeknownst to the others Tess had been infected about ¼ of an hour ago so was only up to 2 days away from becoming a runner.

Joel was still quite foul tempered, having not spent time around children, particularly young teenagers like Ellie, since the start of the infection 20 years ago when his 12 year old daughter was shot dead for no reason by a soldier on night one of this horror story.

Ellie was the suddenly furrowed her eyebrows, hearing something, muttering, not the sounds infected made but a person talking under their breath. Curious she strayed over to the hole it was coming from when the floor beneath her feet collapsed. She shrieked, alerting the 2 smugglers but before they could run forward they saw a pack of runners and a clicker heading towards the hole.

Unaware of the impending doom Ellie stood up to find herself in a small lab. In front of her she could see a tunnel with a teenage boy sat at the end muttering to himself.

"Hey! You all right?" she called walking into the chamber before tripping on a wire and falling, hitting a wall hard as she fell. Suddenly she heard a click before a steady whirring sound. She and the boy got to their feet and were about to run when the group of infected fell down.

"S***." Was all Ellie could manage before the chamber was filled with green energy that wasted no time in leaking out into the lab. The 2 teens let out horrific screams of pain.

Then the device sparked and blew up.

When the lights died down Joel and Tess ran over to the edge to see their charge and the teen unconscious among a sea of corpses.

Jumping down Joel noticed he couldn't identify the clicker. Confused he scanned the group even the 2 teens.

"Holy S***!" he exclaimed, showing Tess the scanner, which he had stolen from the soldiers that held them up earlier. Having scanned a group that contained a maximum of 1 uninfected being it was registering absolutely zero fungal infection.

And that was chapter one. Yes it is short but we will get longer in the future, hopefully. Also though Danny is smart now in Wyoming both he and Ellie will get a lot smarter.

This chapter was, as the title suggests simply a set up for the accident and the hints of the portal accident's anti fungal effect.

Onto the plot bunnies.

#1 a Danny Phantom and The Last of Us crossover (I am the only one contributing to this category right now!)

Basic plot: Ellie gets caught in a natural ghost portal and lighting accident that not only turns her Halfa (With the same effect as here) but sends her hurtling into the Danny Phantom dimension in amity park.

It's up to you if who you want to pair her with but basically work from there.

#2 basically a near reverse of #1

Danny (Immune like in this story for the same reason) somehow winds up in the last of us universe and winds up alongside Joel and Ellie.

Try to have it set some time early into the game; heck you could even have it that Danny is already with Ellie or Joel at the start of the main game (After the flashback) and work from there if you want!

#3 a transformers and the last of us crossover.

Plot: set in a similar post DOTM setting as AOE cemetery wind and KSI a destroyed by the infection after it is reduced to just the dirty foursome and Optimus. Lockdown abandons the planet, though infected cause the ship the Dinobots are on to crash off, and he flies off, explaining that any transformers still on planet are as good as dead. Optimus was far less wounded taking on his first AOE form; simply deactivating himself to avoid detection. 20 years later he winds up in Lincoln where he is nearly fully fixed up by Frank (Bill's partner) and is finally reactivated by Ellie, Joel and Bill. In the face of this battle Optimus is convinced to help them because of Ellie, a young person who is yet to actually take a life.

You can decide how the plot is changed by Joel and Ellie having Optimus instead of a pickup (Naturally the hunter's trap will be less effective) and if the other autobots will make an appearance but (for logical reasons) drift and crosshairs will need new alt forms (Optimus' evasion mode, Bumblebee's high octane mode, and hound's altforms would look less out of place in this setting).

I may actually attempt #3 myself.

Anyway next chapter we will see Danny and Ellie waking up and more explanations. See you there!