"The future ain't what it used to be."

Beyond Our Fate: A John Titor Fanfic

Troy Titor

Timekeeper
-Beyond Our Fate-​
-I: The World Titor Left Us-​
-Patriot’s Point, Charleston, South Carolina, AUS-​
-August 21, 2036 (Beta)-​
Trillions of Lines,​
Progressing slowly into Infinity.​
Yet,​
Only one is illuminated.​
Active.​
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A haggard, weather beaten man trudges across the scraggy badlands. To his right, the once majestic U.S.S. Yorktown, crown jewel of Charleston Harbor, lies rotting on its side, its steel hull a quarter-way consumed by dry earth. The aircraft carrier was one of the final victims of the War.​
As the man fixes the collar of his military uniform, he shivers. The Sun is still blotted out in these parts.​
To the left of the solemn man, the flayed carcass of the Laffey blocks most of the skyline of “Black Charleston.” The East Cooper Bridge, once a symbol for the city’s inhabitants, still stands, albeit rust covered and decrepit. Even if the city had still housed people, the bridge would be useless. The swamps beneath had long since given way to rock and sand.​
A car’s horn draws the man’s attention. Rotating his head, he spots an active truck. A 2015 Toyota Vendetta. It’s in quite good condition, the man notes, despite all the hardships it had most certainly faced in its machine life. An Asian girl, an older teenager, pokes her head out of the driver’s-side window.​
“Oi!” the girl calls out, a lop-sided, goofy grin adorning the attractive features of her face. “Shaw-sempai! I picked up the JT204 from HQ.” As she calls out to the man, Shaw, she steps out of the truck, and slaps the side of the Vendetta affectionately. “God knows this hunk of scrap was hard for the Brass to get their hands on. The NARC sure is protective of its toys.”​
Shaw smiled weakly at his protégé. Despite her youth, the girl in the Vendetta had been with him ever since he’d discovered her as a child in the wreckage of Old San Francisco in 2022. He’d given her a gun, and shown her how to use it. She’d killed her first man at the age of nine.​
Shaw had concluded long ago that he didn’t deserve the idolization she held for him.​
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"In late 2016, after the third term of American president “Barack Obama” was announced, nearly all of the “Red” states (barring a few outliers) seceded and formed the “Allied Union of States,” or the AUS. Declaring a “state of emergency,” Obama took advantage of the universally Democrat Congress to reform the United States of America into the “American Federal Empire,” establishing himself as dictator. What followed is commonly called the “Nine-Years War” by historians, taking place from 2016-2025. As other nations chose sides, the war resulted in the total collapse of NATO, the United Nations, and related organizations. During the conflict in American, Korean dictator Kim Jong Un took advantage of his newfound freedom from scrutiny by building a massive stockpile of nuclear ICBM’s, which North Korea fired at AFE, and a few AUS, cities. The AFE fell apart, making the AUS the victors of the Nine-Years War by default. The AUS was unable to savor victory for long, however, as the newborn nation was dragged into a war that would last a single year, yet claim 5.7 billion human lives. The War of Korean Aggression. The War to End All Wars.​
World War III."​
An excerpt taken from the introduction of “The End of Western Rule,” published in 2034, by Harry Turtledove.​
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“Suzuha,” Shaw began. “This isn’t just some old ‘toy.’ This machine is our future.”​
Suzuha Hashida, the girl in the Vendetta, frowned. “Sempai,” she hesitated, momentarily, before clenching her fist hardening her resolve. “I don’t…get your obsession with the changing the past. John Titor…even he wasn’t able to change the Attractor Field! All he did was delay the events! This is the hand Fate has dealt us, and we‘d be foolish to resist her will.”​
Shaw lowered his head. “Titor didn’t even know what he was doing. The poor fool assumed he was in an alternate world. And even then, he never actively tried to change events. When they found him in Florida last month, he was insane.”​
Shaw laughed dryly, remembering a bit of trivia. “The poor fool actually thinks his name is “John Titor,” y’know? Started referring to himself that way after we told him his counterpart died way back when the AFE sacked Miami in 2017.”​
Joseph Shaw raised his head, his brown eyes gazing into the ocean of gray haze blanketing the sky. “It must have sucked for him to return home, only to find that our worldline had overwritten his. Worldline Alpha, the reality with all his loved ones, was restructured into the Beta Worldline…our reality.”​
Shaw felt thin, but toned, arms wrap around him from behind. The intimate contact with his adopted daughter quelled the torrent of emotions rushing about within him.​
After a long silence, Suzuha pulled away. “If you really want to go through with this,” she whispered. “Then I’m coming with you.”​
The protest rising in Shaw’s throat was halted when Suzuha grasped his hand, leading him towards the Vendetta.​
At 5:04 P.M. on the Twenty-First of August, anno Domini Two-Thousand and Thirty-Six, a single black truck, along with its two occupants, vanished from the Carolina Desert.​
At the same moment, Worldline Beta ceased to exist.​
EDIT 5/14/13: Included 201ajgrant's brilliant modification.​
 
I do not own "Suzuha Hashida." She is a character from the visual novel "Steins;Gate."

This is a plot bunny that's been floating around in my head for awhile now. I needed to write it down.

Worldline Alpha: The worldline Titor told us about in 2000.

Worldline Beta: Our Worldline

Worldline Gamma: ???

(This is a work of fiction. All names and concepts are fictional or used fictitiously.)
 
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