A Future With Wool? Ew

TRIGGER WARNING: If you have a history with abuse i suggest you read cautiously.
If you have a history with mental breakdowns i also suggest being careful when reading this.
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//LEGENDS OF TOMORROW\\


//A FUTURE WITH WOOL? EW\\


"There's no purpose for you here."


"You're forgettable."


"Replacable."


"Nobody cares about you."


"Worthless."


Her eyes shoot open but she doesn't move.


She feels beads of sweat trailing down the back of her neck and and her face. She tries to steady her breathing.


"What is it?" Someone asks from her side.


That's when Erin turns to face Sara with a smile on her face.


"Hi." She smiles at the assassin.


Sara smiles back for a moment and then her smile dissapears as she asks, "Are you okay?"


When Erin sends Sara a confused look she reiderates. "You're crying." She says.


When Erin touches her face she realizes that what she thought was sweat, is actually tears.


"Just a bad dream." She half-heartedly smiles.


"You want to talk about it?"


"I don't really remeber it." And that was true, Erin could barley remeber her dream. Only the few words that stuck in her mind; Forgettable, replacable, worthless.


"You sure?" Sara asks, a concerned look spreading across her face.


"I'm sure, it's okay." Erin smiles back.


Sara nods her head and returns the smile.


Of course Erin knew those words didn't really apply to her, but they still stuck in her mind.


The two layed in silence for a few moments.


Sara rolls over and reaches for her shirt amd her bra. When she reaches down she also grabs Erins bra and tosses it to her.


"Come on." She says while slipping on her underwear and pants, "We should probably go see what the rest of the team is up to."


Sara passes Erin the same things and Erin stands up to grab the shirt she would've put on earlier.


Sara stands by the door and watches Erin slip her shirt on. "You coming?" She finally asks.


Erin turns around after changing and smiles. "Lets go."


She quickly walks to Sara's side and the two walk out to find the team in the bridge.


"Ah, nice of you two to finally join us." Rip says as he notices the two walk in.


The team turns around to face them and Jax smirks at the two girls, who had vanished for hours from the team...together.


Ignoring the looks, and before the heat can rush to her cheeks, Erin asks "When are we?"


"Kasnian Conglomerate, 2147." Rip responds.


He leads the team towards the fabrication room.


"So what were you two doing?" Jax smirks as they walk together.


He gives them a smirk as to say 'I already know.'


"Oh shut up." Sara smiles and nudges him lightly.


The three laugh and when they enter the fabrication room Erins smile dissapears. "You want me to wear that?" She reffers to the outfit Rip is holding out to her.


He holds up a big white wool sweater with long black pants and a black shirt accompanying it.


He nods his head and passes the outift to Erin, who groans in response.


Sara doesn't laugh for long as her outift is next.


Each memeber is tossed an era-appropriate outfit and they all walk off to change.


As Jax, Sara, Erin, and Ray walk down the hall, Jax says "I can only imagine what Stien is going to say about this place."


***********


The team walks down the streets of the future, taking in as much as they possibly can.


"This future, it's..."


"Fascinating."


"Astonishing."


Stien tosses Jax and Sara a look.


"Actually," he counters, "I was going to say"


This time Erin cuts him off.


"Remarkable." She says.


Stein looks at her in shock, "Actually yes, that is indeed what i was going to say."


Erin smiles proud, "Wow. I just took a lucky guess."


"It is quite remarkable." Rip agrees.


He then adds on, "2147 was considered the world's zenith. All these people have five good years to look forward to."


"Before what?" Ray asks the Captain.


Rip then explains. "A ruthless dictator named Per Degaton comes to power, releases the Armageddon Virus, and most of them end up dead."


"Well that's depressing." Kendra comments.


Suddenly these bot-like creatures fly overhead.


"Woah." Someone from the group says as they all look up.


"Is that my suit?" Ray asks. The bots turn around momentarily as Ray realizes "That's my suit!"


A man runs past them, almost stumbling through the group but managing to avoid collisions, and the bots follow.


They blast laser beams at him and his falls with a hard thud, dropping whatever he was carrying.


All the bots surround him with their laser pointed at him. "You are in violation of Ordinance 12." One of the bots say.


"That is how Per Degatons father Tor maintains order in Casnia." Rip dorects their attention to him.


"Doesn't look like progress to me." Snart drawls from the back of the group.


"Speaking of progress." Rip spins around and the group is on the move again. "We need to get a better lay of the land."


"And i need to get a better look at how they made my suit autonomous." Ray contributes.


"Well why don't you take Martin and Jax with you?" Rip suggests. "Ms. Lance, Mr. Snart, Ms. Cooper, and i will work on locating Savage."


The group nods and walks away from the four.


The four who are left behind begin to walk. "Tor Degaton holds daily council meetings with his board of directors." Rip explains.


"And it's open to the public?"


"Course not." Rip says as they arrive at a building "Just Kasnia's shareholders."


"Uh, hate to break it to you but we're not shareholders." Snart points out as they enter the giant building.


Erin spots guards everywhere. Two at the enteranceq, which looks to contain a scanner of some sort.


Other guards occupy various doors as well as stairwells and random places throughout the building.


"I'm more of a hard asset man, myself." Rip says, turning to face the group he slips something into his eye quickly.


He turns around and approaches the two guards by the machine.


He leans down and the machine allows a lazer-type took to scan over his eye, the three stand behind him awkwardly while the proccess happens.


"You're clear to attend." The guard on the right says after looking at a screen.


"They'll have to wait outside." He says, reffering to the three behind Rip.


"Oh, no, this is my accountant and these two are my personal assit-bodyguards." Rip persways.


The guard looks unfazed as he shakes his head.


"They must remian out here."


Rip walks through the small gate, sending the trio a look before turning around and continuing down the hall.


"So what are we suppose to do." Erin huffs, crossing her arms.


"Sit, and wait." Snart smirks.


They find a bench by the entrance and all take a seat, Snart on the left, Erin on the right, and Sara in the middle.


"So what exactly are we expecting to happen this time?" Erin asks the other two.


They turn her heads to face her and she continues.


"Find Savage, fight him, kill him?"


"That's the plan." Sara responds.


Erin only laughs, "When have our plans ever worked?"


Sara only shrugs, ultimately agreeing with the girl.


They sit in silence for a while, not sure of what to say to eachother.


Suddenly a big group of people, all in business suits and fancy clothing, begin to pass by them, leaving the building.


"Are those all the stockholders?" Sara asks the group.


Erin nods her head as she watches the group walk away. She then realizes Sara probably isn't looking at her. "Ya, i think so."


"So then where's Rip?"


"Probably got himself caught, probably dead." Snart says dryly.


Sara lightly snacks his shoulder. "You're so negative." Erin comments.


Moments later Rip comes storming into view.


"See?" Erin says as they all stand up, "He's alive."


"Ready Mr. Shareholder?" Sara mocks.


Rip just storms past them in a heap. Lets go" He utters.


"Jheez, someone's not happy." Sara remarks.


***********


"So he's a teacher?" Ray confirms as they all gather around Rips study.


"Tutor." The Captain corrects.


Slowly the team eases their way onto the bridge and finds themselves spots to sit.


Erin sits down next to Sara who's slupped into a seat. Swinging her legs over, Erin rests them ontop of Sara's lap.


"To young Per Degaton himself."


"You say that like it's suppose to mean something." Kendra counters Rips comment.


Rip further explains, "After the death of his father in five year's time, Per Degaton unleashes the Armageddon Virus, which decimates the world's population, leaving it ripe for conquest. Per Degaton primes the world for dictatorship and, when the timing is right, Savage snatches that power away from him."


"By killing Per Degaton." Jax sums up.


"Indeed."


"Okay, so, we have no way to take down Savage, but maybe now we can figure out a way to stop his rise to power." Rip thinks aloud.


"By depriving him of his springboard, Per Degaton." This time Stein speaks up.


The other nuclear half asks "Okay, how do we do that?"


Snart stands up, "Easy, we kill the little bastard."


This causes the group to erupt into a big argument.


"We can't murder a child." Stien argues.


"You can't, we can." Snart fires back.


Jax steps in, "We're still talking about a child here."


"We're talking about murdering a child." Sara reiderates, obviously against the idea.


"Who hasn't done anything." Erin adds on.


"Yet." Snart states matter-of-factly. "We already know what pushes this punk to the dark side; Savage."


"It's not the kids fault he's got a phycopath for a tutor." Ray finally speaks up.


Snart only continues to argue his point, "If we don't kill the kid now, Savage will as soon as he's done using him to take over the world."


Then, Rip surprises them all, "If he doesn't build him into the greatest tryant the world has ever known, Savage can't become the last tryant the world will ever know."


"Murdering a child in cold blood just like Savage murdered your own child." Stein spits.


Before the arguing can go any further Erin steps in.


"Okay," she says, "okay what if we just kidnap him? No murdering, we take the kid and see what that does to the timeline."


"Great, we've gone from infanticide to abduction." Stien comments.


"It's progress."


Rip nodds along. "First we need to devise how to abduct him from underneath the nose's of his private guard."


"And don't forget the army of Atom robots." Ray chimes in.


Rip spins around, walking back to his office. "We're going to need an accomplished theif."


"Well while you're kidnapping baby Hitler, Proffessor Stien and i will sabatoge the robot army." Ray adds in.


"I call team robot." Jax pipes in quickly.


"Isn't that a waste of time?" Snart shoots them down.


"Not for the Kasnian citizens that are tormented by my technology." Ray fires back.


Rip walks back out of his office, "That technology does aid in Savage's rise to power, good back up plan." He then looks at the rest of the team awaiting an answer.


"Fine, team kidnapping." Sara gives in.


They all look to Erin, who shrugs before saying, "I'm taking team 'staying on the ship'."


"Go team." Rip says pumping his fist in the air before they all walk their seperate ways.


Sara hangs back a minute and waits until the team leaves before she spins around to Erin, "You sure you're okay?" She asks her with concern lacing her voice.


"I'm okay." Erin reassures her girlfriend, placing her hands on Sara's arm.


"You really want to stay on the ship?" Sara bites her bottum lip, unsure of herself.


"Yeah." Erin confirms, "I'm just going to sit this one out, i'm okay."


Sara nods her head, still not looking totally convinced, "Okay."


She places a kiss on the brunettes cheek and runs to catch up with her group.


"Gideon, pull up a map of Kasnia." Erin says spinning around.


A layout of the area pops up on the centre table and Erin hits the button to turn on her comn.


"Okay, so it looks like you guys make two rights and a left to get into position." She says.


"Are you talking to team kidnapping or team robot army?" Sara comes on asking.


Erin mentally face palms. "Right, sorry. Team kidnapping."


"Where's team robot army going?" Ray asks.


"Uhh," Erin moves the map around before pinpointing their destination. "Follow team kidnapping but keep walking to the very end of the street."


"Alright, if anything goes wrong, which i'm guessing it will, we'll need you down here." Sara exaplins.


"Keep on your comn." Rip says before their lines go dead.


Erin stands there in silence for a moment.


"Why the hell did i make this choice?" She says to no one.


That's when she realized, she wasn't the only one on the ship.


Walking down a few hallways she makes a few turns and finds herself in the brig, standing infront of Rory.


"What do you want?" He grumbles upon seeing the girl.


"I'm bored. I want to talk." She states simply.


"Well there ain't no entertainment here." He huffs, obviously still pissed about the teams betrayl.


"You know, i thought you had become a different person from that criminal i met on the rooftop. I thought you had changed." Erin spits at him.


Growling, Mick glares at her, "Like you thought your old man had changed?" He fires back.


This takes Erin by surprise and her shock sends her stumbling a few steps back.


"How do you know about him?" She growls back at him.


"When i became Chronos they made me search up every little detail of all your past pathetic lives. Yours just happened to be the most interesting of all." He explains.


Further going on, Mick says "Some interesting stories as well, they let me visit a few of those time periods and let me tell you, daddy dearest had the right mind set."


Erin contorts her face into one of pure anger, she clenches her fists tight and walks closer to the glass.


"I'm warning you, don't you dare continue!" She yells at him threateningly.


Mick only laughs at her and does the one thing she asked him not to, continue.


"I think my favourite period of your life to visit was when you were..." he thinks for a moment, "6 i believe."


She could already tell where he was going with this, Erin was right up against the glass by now.


"That's when it all started, right?" He teased. "I'm sure you remeber how it all started."


Suddenly slight tears are forming in her eyes but she holds them back from falling.


"Yet again, i guess you must have deserved it, don't hurt the little sister right? Or you might just end up eating with the chickens, like you deserve."


That was it. Something in Erin snaps and she just can't seem to take it anymore.


Within not even a second, Erin is inside the cell and beating Mick to a pulp.


Punch after punch she sits ontop of him and continuously hits him to the ground.


Her knuckles are bleeding and they're so sore, almost to the point of numbness.


But Erin doesn't care one bit.


She has to get it out, she just can't keep it all in anymore.


All the pain, all the memories, all the crying and breaking and all the hurt just floods her like a tsunami and all she wants to do is keep punching until her arms can no longer take it.


All she wants to do was let out all that anger, just let it pour out of her.


Tears stream down her face like a river and fall onto her hands as they are brought back and forth, back and forth, throwing punches to no ends meet.


She can barley see through all the tears, she can't even hear her knuckles striking the criminals face.


All she hears is her thoughts, her evil thoughts.


"Be more like your sister, she's more like the daughter we want."


"If you're going to treat someone like shit, then you will be treated like the shit you are."


"I wish you were never born."


"You're worthless."


"Shut up, you don't deserve a life here."


"You would be better off dead."


Her sobs are the only sound that Erin can't seem to drown out. If any voices are calling for her, she can't hear them.


If anybody walks into the room, she won't focus on them.


All she can focus on is getting that anger, that hurt, that pain, out of her system.


She doesn't seem to notice the arms wrapping around her waist until she is starting to be pulled away from her victim.


Her sobs only grow louder the further away she gets from Mick.


All she can realize is that she's out in the hallway now.


She has no idea who brought her out here but she sits on the floor, arms wrapped around herself and she sobs her heart out.


She cries and cries and cries.


She cries so much that it hurts.


It hurts to think, it hurts to move, it hurts to breathe and it hurts to even just be there.


When two strong arms wrap around her, Erin takes in the persons scent and cries even more as she realizes who it is.


Sara.


She cries, somehow know that it's okay to let it all out, it's okay to breakdown.


All Erin can feel is her messy hair sticking to her tear drenched cheeks and her shaky hands wrapped around her shakey legs.


But she feels the arms.


She feels the strong, supportive, loving arms holding onto her so tightly.


Erin only manages to stutter out three words through her sobs.


"I'm not okay."


A/N Okay so i hope that didn't hit too deep for anyone but i want you guys to get to learn more about Erin and her past.


I don't really have anything to say to be honest.


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Over and Out Superfriends!

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