Bread on Toast 2162 - A Future Man s2 Fanfiction

Día De Los Robots

  Warnings: strong language, I don't know how to speak Spanish

  The four of them, Josh, Wolf, Liv, and TyAnne all sprinted out of the compound, alarms still blaring.

  "It was you this whole time?!" Liv was screaming.

  "You know her-" Josh began to ask before gasping, remembering their conversation from right before the Pointed Circle captured him the second time.

  "Tiger and I found this place called the Mons and met this timeline's version of her. She's really annoying..."

  "Ohhhhh!" Josh nodded. "TyAnne!"

  TyAnne whipped her head around. "Achilles." She corrected him. She stopped in the middle of the staircase, turning to Liv. Wolf and Josh bumped into Liv, groaning. "We're going to the storage units, do you remember where those are?" TyAnne asked her. Liv gaped up at her, eyes wide with so many questions. TyAnne drew in a deep breath through her nose. "I will answer any and all questions once we get there. Now come on, help me lead your friends."

  Truth be told, Liv didn't exactly remember where the storage units were, she had just been following Tiger, but she recognized some of the landmarks on the way. Climbing into the underground lab where Hogeveen had been found, Josh and Wolf gawked up at the ceiling. It wasn't big, or anything worth freaking out over, but Josh seemed to be having his mind blown. TyAnne plunked down in a chair, exhaling.

  "So...what was with the...voice?" Liv finally asked.
 
  TyAnne looked up at her. "You mean this voice?" She asked in her nasally voice. "It's a long story." She said in her normal voice, waving her hand and brushing off Liv's question. Josh and Wolf both immediately turned at the sound of TyAnne's whiny voice, both looking confused.

  "Oh..." Wolf made a face at the sound. "That's really annoying..."

  Liv just blinked at TyAnne. "So are you going to tell it, or..."

  TyAnne sighed. "Fine. Sit down, it'll take me about twenty six minutes and thirty seven seconds to tell you guys."

  The three of them slowly sat down, as TyAnne started from the beginning. She told them about her life as a young child, growing up with a computer dad. It had fucked her up. She'd never experienced actual human interaction until Eunice Hogeveen, AKA Athena, became her care-taker at the age of nine. At fourteen, when TyAnne had finally lost it with Stu, Hogeveen sat her down and told her the truth behind Stu and his plan to enslave the human race and his obsession with bodies being shells.

  Fourteen year old TyAnne had had to sit through 4,891 videos of Stu attempting to upload different people's consciousness into a computer, brutally killing all but one when he'd learned the subject must go willingly into the upload machine. That's how at just fourteen, TyAnne had become Achilles, being Stu's Achilles heel. He'd felt a powerful connection to her, and that was why he'd taken her in as his own.

  As she had to continue to live with a monster, she became one herself, hence, the voice and the attitude. It was an impulsive decision made by her teenage self, but a decision that she had kept up for eighteen years. Finally, after years of begging Hogeveen to be of more use than just Stu's spy, Hogeveen tasked her with going into her bathroom and inputting a code into her bathtub; rose petal, rose petal, geranium, bubbles.

  The next day, TyAnne had done just that, opening a passage into her room, where she was faced with her ex, Torque.

  Liv, Josh, and Wolf all gawked at TyAnne. "Wait, Torque?! Like Wolf's-" Josh started.

  "Yeah, yeah, Torque and I had a thing, and he," she pointed at Wolf. "Looks like Torque. I'm not done."

  She continued to tell them how together, she and Torque (who Wolf had deemed "a loser nerd") (TyAnne shot Wolf a nasty glare as she continued) had infiltrated Stu's system, trying to shut him down. The attempt had ended poorly, having fried Torque's brain until he...died.