A/N: An AU idea that has been stirring for a while and some choice things Central said in the Tactical Legacy Pack sparked the flames even more. What if they indeed didn't pick up Tygan? The result isn't as dour as you might think.
When he first came to, he wondered if he had died. But then the sensations started to hit. He was still crumpled on the floor of his laboratory, face resting in a pool of blood that came from the back of his head. He didn't want to imagine how it looked. If felt… agonizing. Like no pain he'd ever felt. He wanted to touch it, even if logic dictated that was the worst idea. However, he could barely move and even a few seconds after having awoken, he felt himself slipping again.
He was dying.
And even if he wasn't, if the people he managed to contact didn't come quickly, he doubted ADVENT would let him live after this. He clung to that taught. That they would come for him. It lingered when he faded away again.
They would come…