Author's Note – Hey guys, Michael here! I wanted to give my fans, friends, and followers a litter preview of my next Fan Fiction based off of How It Should Have Ended's "Terminator – How It Should End" trailer on Youtube. I liked the idea of the Terminator films (films which I just absolutely adore) combining with one of the greatest films (and film trilogy) of all time in Back to the Future. Now, I know I haven't written a Fan Fic in a long while now, and I may be a bit rusty, but I am really excited about this next project, which will most likely be a long one. Please go watch the HISHE Terminator video as it's done really well and serves as my basis (and a trailer) for my latest story. Thanks guys for sticking with me and here is my Preview/Prologue for my next cross-over story "Terminate the Future"!

"Three times the machines have sent an assassin back in time to take the life of my son, John Connor. Three times we've been able to stop them. It's only a matter of time before the machines figure out that they can just go back in time and kill one of us at infancy. There's only one thing that can be done…" – Sarah Connor

2029

Running through a tunnel, a man fires his AK-47 at the enemy behind him. When he was a boy, this man used to have nightmares that the enemy would return, that it would kill both him and his mother. His mother is dead now. Cancer. But the boy, now the man, still remains and he fights in her memory. "There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." That is what she used to tell him when he got scared, when he got lonely, when he had nowhere else to go. He is John Connor, and today he is fighting for his life.

Running down the hall, John fires at his enemy, a T-1000 class Terminator. For over 15 years John has been fighting Skynet, the program that one day went rouge, nuked the planet, and created human terminating cyborgs to destroy the remaining population of Earth, all in the name of peace. They call this Judgment Day; judgment to the world for relying on too many machines. "What a joke" John thinks to himself. This same class of Terminator once came after him as a boy, another model traveled through time to save him and his mother. They obviously succeeded as John is alive today, this he knows, but they never stopped J-Day.

Again and again and again John shoots at the T-1000. Entering a room, John bolts the door behind him and runs over to a secret compartment, pulling out another weapon. The T-1000 melts its body into a liquid metal solution in order to soak through the doors and enter the room in which John his hiding.

"There is no fate but what we make…"

The T-1000 starts to form its body into a humanoid form, but it is far from human. Taking his guise, once again, as a man once known as an FBI agent, the T-1000 tarnishes the good man's name by forming a sword out of each arm and turning its head toward John.

"Alright metal, it's time to gloss you over for a while!" says John as he yells at the cyborg with more rage than his mother and father combined. John blasts the T-1000 with this new weapon, an ionized electro-magnetic pulse, which sends the now-solid robot across the room and offline.

John quickly rushes to the cyborg and opens the control panel on its currently solid head. Three of his soldiers rush into the room as their fight is now over, for the moment.

"It was hot out there Connor, but we took care of it" said his lieutenant Jay Williams.

"Good, good" said Connor, still working on re-wiring the T-1000's circuits. "This thing only goes offline for 120 seconds before its system reboots, I need to work fast."

"You can do it John, I know you can." says Kate Brewster-Connor, John's wife, as she puts her hand on his shoulder.

With 30 seconds to spare John finishes the re-programming to the T-1000, making it follow his orders.

The T-1000 awakes, stands up, and waits for John's order.

"That's so cool, dad! You have got to teach me that one!" says John and Kate's daughter Kyla Connor, who is now 13 years old.

"Maybe one day Kyla, but not today, today we have something important that we have to do."

Later, at the Resistance base camp outside of Los Angeles, California, John Connor meets with his top leaders in his Resistance army, including Kate, Kyla, and Jay.

"As you all know, a few months ago, we sent Kyle Reese back in time to stop Skynet from killing my mother, Sarah Connor. As we also know, just last month Skynet again tried to kill me at a younger age, this time in 1995. We sent a T-800 back in time to protect myself and my mother from the T-1000 in which was sent. What you don't all know is that there was a third time in my life where a Terminator, one that we have yet to see, has tried to assassinate me. Now, I am not the bragging type as I hate this war, but we all know that if I were to die, the Resistance would have died 8 years ago when all of the major leaders and generals were taken out in an all-out assault of our former-home base. I was the only one here with the ability to lead, and trust me it's a burden I would not wish on anyone. We've been fighting a long time, some of us longer than others, but all of us fight for the same thing. We are outnumbered and outgunned by machines who can work around the clock without quit. We are not machines, we bleed, and we die. Humans have a strength that cannot be measured, that a machine like Skynet would never understand, that only we can show through our power and our hope! Skynet has the upper hand; it has a Time Displacement Device. We've found it; we've exploited it, twice. My friends, I ask that you would help me do so again. However, this time we will not be protecting someone, in order to beat our enemy we have to think like our enemy. We have to terminate the creator of time travel…"

Author's Note – Well, what do you all think? I hope you enjoyed this Preview/Prologue to "Terminate the Future"; it's a project that I am very much looking forward to writing and honestly is going to be huge. Please let me know what you thought of this 1st chapter of the story and do not forget to watch HISHE's "Terminator – How It Should End" video as it is basically a trailer (and my basis/inspiration) for this story. Thanks guys!