Judgement Day
Chapter One of Three
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Terminator 3 crossover by Antonio Cabañas
Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon. Terminator and all related characters owned by C2 Productions.
E-mail: borg31de777@yahoo.es.
Spoilers: Buffy to season 7, Angel to season 5, although probably would qualify as AU. Great spoilers for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Author Note: I am following my own Terminator timeline in this story. According to my timeline, The Terminator is set in 1980 (John Connor being born in 1981), Terminator 2 in 1993, and Terminator 3 in 2003. I know that there are inconsistencies, but this is my best attempt to reconcile them.
Summary: two days before the Judgement Day, Buffy, now in San Francisco, began to have dreams about the incoming war.
TWO DAYS BEFORE THE JUDGEMENT DAY
A rented flat in San Francisco. 06:56
Buffy Summers awoke suddenly. She had had a weird and terrifying nightmare about a post-nuclear holocaust world where machines were killing the human survivors. "That's odd," she thought. She was used to dream about upcoming apocalypses, but they were always magical, not human-caused ones.
Then she heard a scream from Dawn's room. She ran and found Dawn trembling.
- Killer machines... Nuclear war... - she was saying, as if in shock.
- It had been only a dream... Only a dream - said Buffy, comforting her sister. "Not only a dream. I have to talk to Giles."
Ruins of Sunnydale. 07:03
The car was beginning to leave behind the last remains of Sunnydale when the cell phone of Giles rang. The two girls, two of the former Potentials that were now Slayers, who were sleeping in the back seat didn't awake to the sound. Giles caught the phone and saw that it was the cell phone of Buffy.
- Buffy? - said in a hushed voice
- Giles, I have had a weird dream tonight, and it seems that Dawn did, also. Had Rhona and Shirley...? -
- Buffy, we have ended our check of the Hellmouth half an hour ago. Rhona and Shirley are sleeping in the back seats of my car.
- Ok, ask them when they awake. I'm going to call Angel, to check if somebody there has had the same dream. -
Los Angeles. 07:08
- Buffy? What? - said Angel in the phone - Please repeat that more slowly... Aha, you and Dawn have had a weird dream... a post-apocalyptic world... killer robots murdering humans in droves... seems just from a movie. I will ask Faith if she has had the same dream. -
Washington DC 07:30
- Sit down, Lieutenant Finn, Mrs. Finn. - said general Jackson.
- Thank you, sir. - said Riley and Sam.
- I suppose that you are wondering why are you here, and why your unit has been put in alert. -
- Yes, sir. If I have to be candid, I have been wondering about it. -
The general produced two pictures. One was of a scruffy man on his early twenties and the other was of a well-built man dressed in black leather, wearing sunglasses, with an assault rifle in one hand and a sawed-off riot gun in the other.
- The young man is John Connor, he is linked to the destruction of the main factory of Cyberdine Systems in L.A. in 1993. After that he gained some reputation as a hacker. He disappeared in 1997, but the FBI had found his track recently, and thinks that he is behind that virus that is causing so many problems these last few days. They have mounted an operation to capture him in L.A., where they think that he is headed. -
- Excuse me, sir, but I don't see the need to... -
- The older man is the real reason for you being here. This man has been always seen around John Connor or her mother, Sarah Connor, who died 6 years ago. Reportedly, more than twenty years ago he began to kill all Sarah Connors from the phone guide of L.A. and reportedly assaulted a commissary where Sarah Connor, I'm referring to the mother of John, was. He killed all the cops and if a loon that had been stalking Connor hadn't been there detained, she would have died. The FBI lose track of him for 13 years, and then he reappears as some sort of bodyguard of John Connor, and helping Sarah Connor to escape from Pescadero, apart from the Cyberdine assault, of course. He hasn't been seen since then, but if he is still with Connor... He is not human, Finn. Witnesses had seen him get up after a sawed-off shotgun blast... at point blank range. Even the HRT would be hard-pressed against him. Your task will be serving as support of the FBI in this matter. -
San Francisco Airport. 08:34
- I don't know, Willow. It was like one of those strange dreams that we, the Slayers, have. -
- As we have come here to see Buffy, we could ask her if she have had the dream also. -
Buffy Summers flat. San Francisco. 08:47
- Faith? Ah, Angel told you that I wanted to talk with you. Last night, Dawn and me had a weird dream about a post-apocalyptic world... You too? With killing machines and skeleton-looking robots also? - Buffy paused a moment. - Before your call I was worried, now I'm frightened. - Buffy listened what Faith was telling her. - Very well, if Angel glean some info from the Oracle, call me. Willow comes here today and I'm going to ask her to investigate a bit. -
A motel near L.A. 08:51
- Buffy called me almost two hours ago and told me that she had had a dream like the one that you have described to me. - said Giles to the two girls.
Buffy Summers flat. San Francisco 09:51
Dawn hugged Xander after she let him enter the flat.
- Hi, Dawnie. Where is Buffy? -
- She is in the shower just now. What are you doing here? I hadn't expected you until this evening. -
- Buffy called me half an hour ago. She said something about a nightmare that both of you had had. - said Xander.
- Yes, it was horrible... - and began to explain the nightmare.
The Oracle. 10:28
The place was the same that Angel remembered. After fulfilling the ritual, he went inside the smoking door. Inside the room were the two beings that always received him. Once Angel broke the subject, he obtained an unexpected answer.
Buffy's flat. San Francisco 10:35
The preparations for the summoning had concluded, candles had been placed in the right places, and chalk had been used to draw a weird design in the floor. Willow sat in the center of the design and began to chant. The other people in the room waited while her voice become inhumanly deep and boomed like the voice of doom. Finally, with a crescendo that threatened to break the glass of the block that chant ended.
A being that seemed to be made of smoke appeared in front of the red-haired witch.
- To answer a question have you summoned me, but a riddle must to be solved by you before. -
Willow nodded, accepting the terms of the being.
- Tell me then: you can see me, but I don't exist; I need light to be, but I'm darkness. What am I? -
Willow thought some time before answering.
- I think that it's a shadow. Am I right? -
- Right you are, human. Your question formulate you can. -
Willow proceeded to repeat the description that Buffy and Dawn had made of the dream. The being thought a moment.
- If known I had that your question that would be, higher my price would have been. Dark and grim the future will be, come with me if know you want to. - the being extended what seemed an arm - My hand to touch have you, and I'll carry you to the one that explain the dream can. -
After a brief moment of doubt Willow touched the hand of the being and lost consciousness almost immediately.
She found herself in a white space without points of reference.
- Disorienting, isn't it? - said a female voice at her back.
Willow turned and saw a blonde woman in her mid thirties, with a stern and determined expression on her face, and eyes that burned wherever they looked.
- Who are you? -
- I have been summoned to answer your questions, but as there is another which wants answer to the same questions, can you wait a bit? -
La Guardia Airport. 12:51 AM
- Riley and Samantha Finn? - asked the older man.
- Yes, I am. And you...? -
- Special Agent Rover and Special Agent Ford. We are in charge of the capture of John Connor. -
After the exchange of pleasantries, they went to the parking lot and boarded the car of the agents. They started the engine and left the parking lot toward the city.
- I understand that you are part of a special ops unit, and that you are here to supplement the HRT and the local SWAT in the capture of Mr. Connor. -
- Yes, we are. -
Somewhere
Willow heard steps and she was surprised to see Angel walking in the same whiteness that she and the mysterious woman were.
- Both of you are here to know about something, tell me. - said the woman
Awkwardly they began to repeat the description of the dream that Buffy and the other Slayers had had. The woman closed her eyes and sighed.
- My name is Sarah Connor. - she started - When all of this started I was a waitress... -
She began to tell them her story, and about the terrible future, that was awaiting them all. Hours passed outside, but to them seemed only a few minutes.
- ...I thought that we had definitively ended with Skynet and the Terminators when we blew Cyberdine. But deep inside me something was telling me that we hadn't cheated fate, that the Judgement Day was awaiting us in some moment of time. -
Los Angeles, FBI office. 16:01
- This is the full file on John Connor? - asked Riley when he saw a folder as thick as his leg.
- No, this is. - said Agent Ford placing over the table a folder even thicker. - That is the one about his mother. -
Sam had begun to leaf through the Sarah Connor file and whistled surprised.
- Listen, Riley. Sarah Connor hung around half a dozen of paramilitary groups, ending in the group of Travis Gant... -
- We found Gant a few months ago in one of our missions. He is a psycho ex-Green Beret that works as mercenary, and a big muscle with some brain and an attitude. -
- Apparently, she and Gant were lovers part of that time. After that she disappeared until she tried to blow Cyberdine, but she was captured... -
After reading the psychiatric report about Sarah Connor, Riley asked.
- Where is Dr. Silberman? If John shares the same paranoid fantasies than her mother... -
- Unfortunately, Dr. Silberman... broke when John Connor and that guy rescued Ms. Connors from Pescadero. He has passed years in therapy, and currently works with the LAPD, but... -
- Yes, I know. He could break again if we press him. -
The two FBI agents had gone to speak with somebody in the LAPD and Sam and Riley were alone.
- I have a bad feeling about this, Riley. -
- You too? We have seen enough weird things to not think automatically that when anybody who talks about cyborgs from the future and an upcoming Apocalypse is a loon. But the date of the Judgement Day has passed and nothing happened. -
- Yes, I know. But I would feel better if we hadn't heard something about a "Project Sky Net" some months ago in the Pentagon. -
Buffy's flat. 23:57
Willow finally awoke.
- Willow! - said Kennedy, who had been at her side the last hours. Kennedy gave her a glass of water. - Have you found what those dreams meant? -
Willow nodded and said.
- The Judgement Day is coming. -
TO BE CONTINUED
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Chapter One of Three
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Terminator 3 crossover by Antonio Cabañas
Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon. Terminator and all related characters owned by C2 Productions.
E-mail: borg31de777@yahoo.es.
Spoilers: Buffy to season 7, Angel to season 5, although probably would qualify as AU. Great spoilers for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Author Note: I am following my own Terminator timeline in this story. According to my timeline, The Terminator is set in 1980 (John Connor being born in 1981), Terminator 2 in 1993, and Terminator 3 in 2003. I know that there are inconsistencies, but this is my best attempt to reconcile them.
Summary: two days before the Judgement Day, Buffy, now in San Francisco, began to have dreams about the incoming war.
TWO DAYS BEFORE THE JUDGEMENT DAY
A rented flat in San Francisco. 06:56
Buffy Summers awoke suddenly. She had had a weird and terrifying nightmare about a post-nuclear holocaust world where machines were killing the human survivors. "That's odd," she thought. She was used to dream about upcoming apocalypses, but they were always magical, not human-caused ones.
Then she heard a scream from Dawn's room. She ran and found Dawn trembling.
- Killer machines... Nuclear war... - she was saying, as if in shock.
- It had been only a dream... Only a dream - said Buffy, comforting her sister. "Not only a dream. I have to talk to Giles."
Ruins of Sunnydale. 07:03
The car was beginning to leave behind the last remains of Sunnydale when the cell phone of Giles rang. The two girls, two of the former Potentials that were now Slayers, who were sleeping in the back seat didn't awake to the sound. Giles caught the phone and saw that it was the cell phone of Buffy.
- Buffy? - said in a hushed voice
- Giles, I have had a weird dream tonight, and it seems that Dawn did, also. Had Rhona and Shirley...? -
- Buffy, we have ended our check of the Hellmouth half an hour ago. Rhona and Shirley are sleeping in the back seats of my car.
- Ok, ask them when they awake. I'm going to call Angel, to check if somebody there has had the same dream. -
Los Angeles. 07:08
- Buffy? What? - said Angel in the phone - Please repeat that more slowly... Aha, you and Dawn have had a weird dream... a post-apocalyptic world... killer robots murdering humans in droves... seems just from a movie. I will ask Faith if she has had the same dream. -
Washington DC 07:30
- Sit down, Lieutenant Finn, Mrs. Finn. - said general Jackson.
- Thank you, sir. - said Riley and Sam.
- I suppose that you are wondering why are you here, and why your unit has been put in alert. -
- Yes, sir. If I have to be candid, I have been wondering about it. -
The general produced two pictures. One was of a scruffy man on his early twenties and the other was of a well-built man dressed in black leather, wearing sunglasses, with an assault rifle in one hand and a sawed-off riot gun in the other.
- The young man is John Connor, he is linked to the destruction of the main factory of Cyberdine Systems in L.A. in 1993. After that he gained some reputation as a hacker. He disappeared in 1997, but the FBI had found his track recently, and thinks that he is behind that virus that is causing so many problems these last few days. They have mounted an operation to capture him in L.A., where they think that he is headed. -
- Excuse me, sir, but I don't see the need to... -
- The older man is the real reason for you being here. This man has been always seen around John Connor or her mother, Sarah Connor, who died 6 years ago. Reportedly, more than twenty years ago he began to kill all Sarah Connors from the phone guide of L.A. and reportedly assaulted a commissary where Sarah Connor, I'm referring to the mother of John, was. He killed all the cops and if a loon that had been stalking Connor hadn't been there detained, she would have died. The FBI lose track of him for 13 years, and then he reappears as some sort of bodyguard of John Connor, and helping Sarah Connor to escape from Pescadero, apart from the Cyberdine assault, of course. He hasn't been seen since then, but if he is still with Connor... He is not human, Finn. Witnesses had seen him get up after a sawed-off shotgun blast... at point blank range. Even the HRT would be hard-pressed against him. Your task will be serving as support of the FBI in this matter. -
San Francisco Airport. 08:34
- I don't know, Willow. It was like one of those strange dreams that we, the Slayers, have. -
- As we have come here to see Buffy, we could ask her if she have had the dream also. -
Buffy Summers flat. San Francisco. 08:47
- Faith? Ah, Angel told you that I wanted to talk with you. Last night, Dawn and me had a weird dream about a post-apocalyptic world... You too? With killing machines and skeleton-looking robots also? - Buffy paused a moment. - Before your call I was worried, now I'm frightened. - Buffy listened what Faith was telling her. - Very well, if Angel glean some info from the Oracle, call me. Willow comes here today and I'm going to ask her to investigate a bit. -
A motel near L.A. 08:51
- Buffy called me almost two hours ago and told me that she had had a dream like the one that you have described to me. - said Giles to the two girls.
Buffy Summers flat. San Francisco 09:51
Dawn hugged Xander after she let him enter the flat.
- Hi, Dawnie. Where is Buffy? -
- She is in the shower just now. What are you doing here? I hadn't expected you until this evening. -
- Buffy called me half an hour ago. She said something about a nightmare that both of you had had. - said Xander.
- Yes, it was horrible... - and began to explain the nightmare.
The Oracle. 10:28
The place was the same that Angel remembered. After fulfilling the ritual, he went inside the smoking door. Inside the room were the two beings that always received him. Once Angel broke the subject, he obtained an unexpected answer.
Buffy's flat. San Francisco 10:35
The preparations for the summoning had concluded, candles had been placed in the right places, and chalk had been used to draw a weird design in the floor. Willow sat in the center of the design and began to chant. The other people in the room waited while her voice become inhumanly deep and boomed like the voice of doom. Finally, with a crescendo that threatened to break the glass of the block that chant ended.
A being that seemed to be made of smoke appeared in front of the red-haired witch.
- To answer a question have you summoned me, but a riddle must to be solved by you before. -
Willow nodded, accepting the terms of the being.
- Tell me then: you can see me, but I don't exist; I need light to be, but I'm darkness. What am I? -
Willow thought some time before answering.
- I think that it's a shadow. Am I right? -
- Right you are, human. Your question formulate you can. -
Willow proceeded to repeat the description that Buffy and Dawn had made of the dream. The being thought a moment.
- If known I had that your question that would be, higher my price would have been. Dark and grim the future will be, come with me if know you want to. - the being extended what seemed an arm - My hand to touch have you, and I'll carry you to the one that explain the dream can. -
After a brief moment of doubt Willow touched the hand of the being and lost consciousness almost immediately.
She found herself in a white space without points of reference.
- Disorienting, isn't it? - said a female voice at her back.
Willow turned and saw a blonde woman in her mid thirties, with a stern and determined expression on her face, and eyes that burned wherever they looked.
- Who are you? -
- I have been summoned to answer your questions, but as there is another which wants answer to the same questions, can you wait a bit? -
La Guardia Airport. 12:51 AM
- Riley and Samantha Finn? - asked the older man.
- Yes, I am. And you...? -
- Special Agent Rover and Special Agent Ford. We are in charge of the capture of John Connor. -
After the exchange of pleasantries, they went to the parking lot and boarded the car of the agents. They started the engine and left the parking lot toward the city.
- I understand that you are part of a special ops unit, and that you are here to supplement the HRT and the local SWAT in the capture of Mr. Connor. -
- Yes, we are. -
Somewhere
Willow heard steps and she was surprised to see Angel walking in the same whiteness that she and the mysterious woman were.
- Both of you are here to know about something, tell me. - said the woman
Awkwardly they began to repeat the description of the dream that Buffy and the other Slayers had had. The woman closed her eyes and sighed.
- My name is Sarah Connor. - she started - When all of this started I was a waitress... -
She began to tell them her story, and about the terrible future, that was awaiting them all. Hours passed outside, but to them seemed only a few minutes.
- ...I thought that we had definitively ended with Skynet and the Terminators when we blew Cyberdine. But deep inside me something was telling me that we hadn't cheated fate, that the Judgement Day was awaiting us in some moment of time. -
Los Angeles, FBI office. 16:01
- This is the full file on John Connor? - asked Riley when he saw a folder as thick as his leg.
- No, this is. - said Agent Ford placing over the table a folder even thicker. - That is the one about his mother. -
Sam had begun to leaf through the Sarah Connor file and whistled surprised.
- Listen, Riley. Sarah Connor hung around half a dozen of paramilitary groups, ending in the group of Travis Gant... -
- We found Gant a few months ago in one of our missions. He is a psycho ex-Green Beret that works as mercenary, and a big muscle with some brain and an attitude. -
- Apparently, she and Gant were lovers part of that time. After that she disappeared until she tried to blow Cyberdine, but she was captured... -
After reading the psychiatric report about Sarah Connor, Riley asked.
- Where is Dr. Silberman? If John shares the same paranoid fantasies than her mother... -
- Unfortunately, Dr. Silberman... broke when John Connor and that guy rescued Ms. Connors from Pescadero. He has passed years in therapy, and currently works with the LAPD, but... -
- Yes, I know. He could break again if we press him. -
The two FBI agents had gone to speak with somebody in the LAPD and Sam and Riley were alone.
- I have a bad feeling about this, Riley. -
- You too? We have seen enough weird things to not think automatically that when anybody who talks about cyborgs from the future and an upcoming Apocalypse is a loon. But the date of the Judgement Day has passed and nothing happened. -
- Yes, I know. But I would feel better if we hadn't heard something about a "Project Sky Net" some months ago in the Pentagon. -
Buffy's flat. 23:57
Willow finally awoke.
- Willow! - said Kennedy, who had been at her side the last hours. Kennedy gave her a glass of water. - Have you found what those dreams meant? -
Willow nodded and said.
- The Judgement Day is coming. -
TO BE CONTINUED
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