Bread on Toast 2162 - A Future Man s2 Fanfiction

The I of the Tiger

Warnings: strong language

"SHIIIIIT!!" Tiger shrieked as she felt herself falling through the air. Wolf and Liv didn't scream like her, just clinging to her. They couldn't breathe from the DMC gas. Their fall was broken by some shallow water, Tiger wasn't sure where it came from, but that was something she would worry about later. She forced Liv and Wolf's weak bodies to come up for air with her. Wolf and Liv both gagged and started coughing up water.

"How did we...?" Wolf dry heaved. Liv spat out a shit load of water, hacking and coughing. Tiger realized she should probably be coughing too, not just spitting out water.

She fake coughed. "Get outta there?" She pretended to splutter. "I dunno, mind fuck." She helped Liv and Wolf up. Liv opened her eyes, looking around frantically.

"Where the fuck are we?" She asked in a rough voice. Wolf struggled to open the TTD, but when he did, he almost dropped it in disbelief.

"2162." He and Tiger said.

"We made it." Tiger gripped onto Wolf's shoulder.

"Twenty-" Liv collapsed back into the water, knees giving out.

Tiger looked around at the water and realized the were in a shallow pool.

"'This reflecting pool commemorates the innocent lives lost in the horrific Kronish Tower Terrorist Attack'." Wolf read off of the monument right next to them. "Oh my God. We fucking did it."

"We did." Tiger's face broke into a smile.

"We did it!" They both cheered, embracing and sobbing happily.

"Tiger, we did it!" Wolf squeezed her as tight as he could. "Liv! We-" Liv sat in the water, gently crying and pulling her knees into her chest, looking frightened. "Tiger look," Wolf pointed to Liv. "Liv's just as happy as we are! We did it!" He splashed some water around excitedly. "So long Biotics, you only exist on a plaque now, that's all that's left of your filthy kind!" Wolf jeered.

Tiger paused. "Yeah! Not a..." she saw her reflection in the water. "...not a single one left. So, we don't have to talk about them ever again."

"Liv, you don't have to keep happy crying," Wolf said, looking down at Liv, who was still crying quietly, head in her hands as she stayed sitting in the water. "We're done with that."

Tiger looked at Liv. "Wolf, I don't think she's-"

Liv looked up at them with red eyes. "You took me with you. You weren't supposed to do that."

Tiger knelt in the water in front of her. "Liv-"

"You promised!" She choked. "You promised and you broke your promise-"

"Liv, Liv!" Tiger grabbed her shoulders. "You were going to die, I had to save you, I-"

"He did it, isn't that what matters? The little guy did it and now Liv, you live here with us." Wolf said.

Liv's crying grew uncontrollable as she looked up at the sky and back to Tiger. "You have to take me back."

"What?" Tiger shook her head. "We can't do that Liv, I'm sorry-"

"I don't want to be here." She wailed.

"That sucks." Wolf clambered out of the pool.

"Wolf!" Tiger hissed. "I'm going to..." she shuddered. "I'm going to give you a hug to make you feel better." Liv stopped crying for a moment, hiccuping.

"The fuck?" She sniffled.

Tiger awkwardly pulled her into the worst possible hug. "There you go. Are you better now?" Tiger pulled away quickly and got out of the pool.