AU - Apocalypse Setting Masterlist 2
Links Last Checked: April 13th, 2024
part one
A Scared New World (ao3) - Capstar98
pepper/tony
G, 44k (WIP)
Summary: It's been a few months since the world fell to a mysterious disease that made the dead rise from their graves. Now a group of survivors, led by Tony Stark, are trying to find safety among the madness. That's when they come across a scared kid named Peter Parker.
(Aka the zombie apocalypse AU)
Battle for the sun (ao3) - snoozingkitten
steve/tony
E, 9k
Summary: This story is about that moment, that hour, that day right after the end of the world where all the pieces were there but no one had any idea how they fit together any more. It is also about zombies. Mostly, it’s about unethical science.
Where it wasn't aliens, but zombies.
Better Natures (ao3) - Ataraxiom
frank/karen
E, 37k
Summary: “Work with me here, Frank,” Karen snapped. “Make some sense here. Talk to me. We can’t figure out what our next move is until you explain why you’re so disgusted at the thought of my being attracted to you — an attraction which, by the way, I’ve never let interfere with our work or our friendship —“
“I’m not disgusted,” Frank said in a strained, calm voice. “You have ghastly taste, but I’m not disgusted. No. It’s just the feeling of having carried a torch for miles and miles in the dark and... having the sun come up.”
City of Angels (ao3) - Kinthinia
clint/phil, steve/bucky, bruce/tony
M, 119k
Summary: On the verge of turning fifteen, Clint Barton is sold to Hydra. For the next six years, Clint's identity is slowly stripped away as both the infamous Swordsman and the Winter Soldier train him into the elite assassin Ronin. But through the slow torture, Clint hangs onto the idea of freedom -of escaping from Hydra. With Bucky's help, the two of them manage to escape. Not even six months into his new found freedom and Clint realizes he has to trade one collar for another in order to save his only friend. Except, S.H.I.E.L.D. is nothing like what Clint was expecting, especially not his handler.
Dead Inside (ao3) - starlight_starbright
steve/bucky, natasha/sam, bruce/tony
E, 44k
Summary: What do you say to your friends when they think you're dead? When you should be dead, when all of the odds were stacked against you, but you're still here? When you show up on their fucking doorstep in the middle of a zombie apocalypse with a not-fully-healed bite on your arm, covered in blood and dirt, claiming you didn't die, you just got really fucked up from a fall.
Or: Zombie apocalypse fic with lots of angst, pain, regret, and love.
In This Last of Meeting Places (ao3) - DrowningByDegrees
steve/bucky
E, 44k
Summary: It’s been three years since the world ended, and Bucky Barnes has gotten pretty used to the new order of things. From the abandoned radio station he’s laid claim to, Bucky protects his little corner of the world the best way he knows how, sharing information.
When he’s not behind a microphone, his home serves as a waypoint for weary travelers. He knows nearly all of them, counts them as friends even. It’s a good setup all things considered, and Bucky is pretty sure he has everything and everyone he really needs. Then, his ex-husband turns up.
AKA: Steve and Bucky are a divorced couple who find their way back to each other in between trying to avoid becoming a zombie snack.
Not Without You (ao3) - SevereStorms, wreckingthefinite
steve/bucky
E, 94k
Summary: Six months earlier, Bucky would have said the prospect of dying back home in Brooklyn sounded like a dream. Now, faced with his own imminent demise in a Brooklyn that is almost unrecognizable, it’s decidedly less appealing.
Honestly, it’s just sort of bizarre. Survive Afghanistan and come home to die in the pseudo-zombie apocalypse. Can’t make this stuff up.
one day they'll drink from our bones (ao3) - the chivalrous dead (S_Hylor)
steve/tony
N/R, 4k
Summary: The Avengers are meant to protect the world. But the world isn't the same anymore. The world is dying. But the dead aren't staying dead.
Now the Avengers a holed up in an abandoned prison, doing what they can, with what little they have left, their numbers ever dwindling.
Tony's not sure how much longer they can keep going.
Places Where We Dare Not Speak (ao3) - Lavendergaia
leo/jemma
E, 20k
Summary: “You know that we’re living in a zombie apocalypse, right?”
"It does have a remarkable resemblance to modern stories of the roaming undead.”
As what's left of the world falls apart around her, Jemma meets a young man in a grocery store.
Pretty Lies (ao3) - Spicysauce
mj/peter
T, 43k
Summary: Or, a zombie apocalypse AU, featuring our favourite trio, a lot of Peter whump, and a good dose of Irondad! (I promise the story is better than this summary.)
Rise From Ash (ao3) - Mikkeneko
loki/tony
M, 98k
Summary: When Loki's world falls apart around him, he learns that sometimes you do get a second chance.
take the sky from me (ao3) - sweetwatersong
clint/natasha
T, 4k
Summary: The end came as an announcement, a promise, a future of burning worlds and expanding stars. The end came and there wasn't enough room to save all of them, weren't enough ships to bring everyone beyond the reach of a hungry red sun.
But it isn't the end, not quite. Not yet. And there are stars still left in the sky...
The Blood-Dimmed Tide (ao3) - of_raven_wings
darcy/loki
M, 134k
Summary: In penance for his actions, Loki has been sent back to Earth and imprisoned beneath Stark Tower. New York has been shattered by the Chitauri attack, most of its populace scattered to other parts of the country. Those who remain in the city are struggling to survive as the world slides towards economic and political chaos. Darcy Lewis is one of those who chose to remain. Now an intern with Stark Industries, she is unexpectedly assigned to watch over Loki. More unexpected, she begins to share his dreams and memories.
Darcy, along with most of the world, believe Loki to be the greatest evil they have known. They have no idea what's coming...
The Long Road South (ao3) - citsiurtlanu
steve/tony
T, 41k
Summary: Zombie apocalypse AU. Steve Rogers is rescued ten years after going into the ice to find the world taken over by the undead, with the man who brought him out being none other than his old flame, Tony Stark. Believing that the serum running through Steve's veins is humanity's last hope for finding a cure, they begin the long journey south in order to meet up with Tony's other contacts - dealing with hordes of biters, living people of varying trustworthiness, and Steve's own unresolved anger toward Tony for his role in the War along the way.
this will be the day that i die (ao3) - archers_and_spies
clint/natasha, steve/bucky
T, 8k
Summary: We all know the story: boy meets girl, they fall in love, boy marries someone else, girl falls off a cliff for boy. This time around, Clint and Natasha let themselves fall in love without holding back. This time around, neither of them jump.
Or: As fugitives of the TVA, Clint and Natasha run from their scripted fate and instead find a home in each other.
your light guides me home (to you) (ao3) - bisexualbarry
steve/tony
M, 15k
Summary: Steve struggled with living for a long time. Even after escaping the New York Quarantine Zone, he doesn’t really know how to live.
Until he met Tony.
Zombie Day (ao3) - emma98
darcy/steve
T, 4k
Summary: Bucky really thinks Steve's future bride is a sweet lady, but he definitely gets the feeling that she doesn't like him very much.
He'd like to remedy that with a little Halloween bonding, but Darcy definitely doesn't like Halloween. What Darcy does like is preparing for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Really, really preparing for the entire world to turn into flesh eating zombies hungry for fresh brains.
And it's a good thing she did prepare so much, because it looks like it's really going to happen.
Zombies (ao3) - EaSnowPw
tony/stephen
G, 4k
Summary: The zombie survivors welcome a new member in their midst.
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