Chapter 1

"Miss Lodge will you please hold still," the makeup artist insisted.

Veronica Lodge grunted but did her best to sit still. It was the night of the Halloween costume party at Riverdale High. The black-haired Veronica had convinced her father to hire some of the best makeup artists in Hollywood so that she could win the costume contest.

"This is so awesome," Reggie Mantle said in the chair next to Veronica.

Like Veronica, Reggie was being worked on by a makeup artist as well. Veronica's original plan had been to attend to contest with Archie Andrews, however Archie had chosen to go to the costume with Betty Cooper. Archie and Betty of them were dressing up as Pureheart the Powerful and Superteen, two characters made up by another student Chuck Clayton who was an aspiring cartoonist; Chuck had based the two characters on Archie and Betty. Veronica was annoyed on multiple levels, first because Archie was going with Betty; but second because Chuck hadn't made a character of her. Veronica had suspicions as to why that was, but she wasn't going to give Chuck the satisfaction of her confronting him.

Instead Veronica decided to go with Reggie, insisting that they do a couple's costume. Reggie was resistant at first, he was quite excited about the costume he already had planned, as Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator character. Veronica had decided to work with Reggie's idea and she was going as the T-X from Terminator 3.

"Okay… and done…" the makeup artist said as she finished applying the final touches on Veronica.

The makeup artist stepped back letting Veronica get a look at herself in the mirror. Veronica's hair was tied back in a tight bun and she was dressed in a red leather body suit. She had prosthesis on her right hand that made it look like it was transforming into a futuristic weapon of some sort. It hadn't been Veronica's ideal choice of costume, she had wanted to be Vampirella, but she felt she looked pretty bad-ass. She wasn't about to let the make-up artist know that she liked it though.

"It's alright," Veronica said. "Hopefully it's good enough to win the costume contest."

Just then the make-up artist working on Reggie finished.

"And you're done sir," the makeup artist said.

Reggie got up and examined himself in the mirror. The makeup artist had done an amazing job making it look like the skin on the side of Reggie's head and face was peeling and burned away exposing that he was a robot.

"This is fantastic," Reggie exclaimed.

"Careful putting these on," the makeup artist said handing Reggie the sunglasses that went with his costume.

Reggie carefully put the sunglasses on then looked at himself in the mirror once more.

"Hasta la vista, baby," Reggie said in a fake German accent.

"Hmm, we are going to kill at the costume contest tonight," Veronica said as she stood next to Reggie and posed beside him as they admired their reflections. "Let's go show Daddy-kins."

"Alright," Reggie agreed.

The two of them went downstairs and they found Veronica's father Hiram Lodge sitting in the glass sunroom reading a book.

"Daddy-kins! Daddy-kins!" Veronica exclaimed. "Don't Reggie and I look amazing?"

Hiram looked up from his book and wiggled his mustache. He was a little annoyed that Veronica had talked him into shelling out over $100,000 dollars for these costumes, but he had to admit they did look good.

"You look fantastic dear," Hiram replied.

Just then there was a flash followed by the sound of thunder. They all looked outside to see that the sky was clouding up as a storm rolled in.

"Oh, let's try and get a picture with a lightning bolt in the background," Reggie said excitedly. "That was always part of how the time travel worked in the movies."

"Oh yes Daddy-kins, get Smithers to get the good camera!" Veronica said.

Hiram sighed and got up.

"Alright, I think your mother might want to see this too," Hiram agreed.

A few moments later Hiram had found his wife Hermione and the Lodge family butler Smithers. Smithers set up a special camera that was designed to capture things like lightning bolts. Veronica and Reggie posed outside on the large lawn with the approaching storm in the background. Reggie had a big fake mini-gun that was made of foam and rubber but looked fairly realistic.

"That storm looks like it's getting close," Hermione commented as a flash was followed almost immediately by the crack of thunder.

"It's fine mother," Veronica said. "Now Smithers are you ready?"

"Ready when you are Miss Lodge," Smithers replied.

Veronica posed with her one arm on Reggie's hip while her weapon arm was pointing towards the Camera. Reggie held the big minigun with both hands like he was firing it.

All of a sudden there was a flash and boom simultaneously. Both Reggie and Veronica were tossed aside as they were struck by a lightning bolt. Hermione let out a terrified scream at the sight of her daughter lying on the ground. Hiram ran to check on his daughter while Smithers went to check on Reggie.

"Veronica? VERONICA?" Hiram exclaimed.

He leaned down but it didn't seem like his daughter was breathing. He placed a hand on her neck trying to feel for a pulse but he found nothing. He noticed that her skin was oddly cool to the touch, which was strange since she had just been struck by lightning which was known to be hotter than the sun.

"Hermione she doesn't have a pulse," Hiram said looked back over his shoulder at his wife. "Call… urk!"

Hiram was abruptly cut off as his daughter's hand suddenly shot up and wrapped around his throat.

"Veronica let me go," Hiram demanded as she struggled both to breathe and pry Veronica's hand off of his neck.

However Veronica didn't let go, instead she just stared up at her father with a passive face her eyes barely blinking, not saying a word.

"Smithers!" Hiram choked as he looked towards his butler.

Smithers was checking on Reggie, but he too hadn't found any sign of life. He turned to go try and help Hiram but suddenly stopped his tracks and was thrown to the ground. He looked up to see Reggie, who just a moment ago had been lying on the ground seemingly dead, standing over him, his face expressionless.

"Mister Mantle, what…" Smithers started to ask.

He was cut off and Reggie stomped his foot down on Smither's head, crushing it with inhuman strength. At the same time Veronica squeezed her hand snapping Hiram's neck and then she tossed him aside nearly twenty feet as she stood up. Hermione let out a scream at seeing Hiram and Smithers killed so quickly and brutally.

Veronica pointed her gun transformed hand at Hermione and suddenly the end began to glow orange. Hermione's eyes went wide a moment before a blast of orange plasma flew at her striking her in the chest and incinerating her into a pile of ash. Veronica lowered the arm and the weapon transformed into a metal hand before liquid metal slithered down from just above her elbow and covered it before transforming into skin.

Veronica then turned towards Reggie.

"The Reggie unit is damage," she commented, her voice oddly monotone.

"The damage is superficial and will not impact the mission," Reggie responded in the same monotone.

"State mission parameters," Veronica said.

"Primary objective: Kill Archie Andrews and Betty Cooper; secondary objectives all other students at Riverdale High," Reggie stated.

"Affirmative," Veronica agreed.

Reggie then bent down and picked up his mini-gun. He pulled one of the two triggers and the multiple barrels began spinning. Without a word Veronica and Reggie walked away callously stepping over the corpses of Hiram and Smithers.

Principal Waldo Weatherbee was at the entrance of Riverdale High. Inside the school's Halloween Dance and Costume Party was well underway. Weatherbee was just waiting to check any students arriving late. There had been a storm approaching not that long ago but then all of a sudden it had stopped.

"I guess the spooky weather fits the day," Weatherbee muttered to himself.

Just then he saw two figures approaching. As they got within the range of the lights on the school Weatherbee was able to make out that it was Veronica and Reggie. Being a fan of the Terminator films himself, Weatherbee immediately recognized that they were dressed up as the two terminators from Terminator 3 and that their costumes were very realistic looking. He was a little surprised that they hadn't arrived in Veronica's family's limousine, especially given the weather. The two of them walked up to the school without saying a word to Weatherbee.

"Nice costumes," Weatherbee commented.

Neither of them even gave a glance at Weatherbee and just proceeded towards the doors. There was a policy at the school of not allowing any weapons, real or otherwise in the school. Weatherbee had a collection of fake weapons inside the door from various students.

"Um, Mister Mantle you're going to have to leave your gun here," Weatherbee said.

Reggie stopped where he was, and with a rather robotic motion turned towards Weatherbee.

"No," Reggie responded.

"I'm going to have to insist," Weatherbee said as he grabbed a hold of the weapon and tried to take it away from Reggie.

As his hands touched the weapon Weatherbee was surprised to find that it was made of metal, not plastic like he had expected. And when he tried to pull it away from Reggie he wasn't able to make it budge while Reggie simply held the weapon effortless.

"What the…?" Weatherbee muttered. "Gack!"

Weatherbee looked down to see a hand emerging from the center of his chest. Veronica pulled her hand out of Weatherbee's back and he crumpled to the ground in a heap. There was a silent look between her and Reggie before the two proceeded into the school.

In the gymnasium the Halloween Dance was well underway. Students were dancing or milling about and talking as music blared in the background.

Archie Andrews and Betty Cooper were over by the punch bowl getting drinks. Archie was dressed in an orange and blue spandex suit with a blue cape while Betty was a red spandex suit with a white cape.

"Hey, hey look who it is, my two favourite superheroes," a voice behind them said.

Archie and Betty turned around to see Chuck Clayton and his girlfriend Nancy Woods. Chuck was dressed up as Marvel Comics' Black Panther, while Nancy was in a costume of Storm from the X-Men similar to the one Halle Berry wore in the films.

"Hey the idea was all yours," Archie responded.

"You guys look pretty good yourselves," Betty said. "I think you've got a good chance at winning the couples contest."

" Are you kidding, you two are a lock," Nancy stated. "I mean everyone is pulling for you Betty."

Betty was considered the nicest and most likable girl at school by almost everyone. There was a sort Twilight-esque thing at school with students picking sides on which girl they wanted Archie to date, Team Betty or Team Veronica; and the vast majority of the school was Team Betty. Somehow Archie managed to remain oblivious to all of this.

"Well I don't know," Betty said. "I mean there's some costumes here that our better than ours."

Just then the doors to the gymnasium on the far side slammed open with a bang. Everyone looked to see Reggie and Veronica standing in the doorway. Reggie was holding the mini-gun pointing it into the gymnasium.

Big Moose Mason, one of the biggest students at school, who was dressed up as Frankenstein approached Reggie.

"Duh, Reggie you were supposed to leave that gun with Weatherbee," Moose said.

In response Reggie opened fired with the mini-gun riddling Moose's big frame with bullets. Reggie then continued to spray bullets across the gymnasium mowing down dozens of students. Screams broke out and students fled in a panic. Archie hid under the drink table and pulled Betty under it with him.

As Reggie continued to fire Veronica transformed her arm into a weapon once more and scanned the room. She noticed Chuck and Nancy who were fleeing for one of the exits and fired her plasma cannon. Chuck dropped to the ground pulling Nancy with him as the shot passed over top of them and blew a huge hole in the gymnasium wall. However as Chuck and Nancy got to their feet they were gunned down by Reggie.

Just then Reggie's gun began to click as it had run out of ammo, Reggie tossed the now useless weapon aside where it landed with a heavy thud. He and Veronica scanned the gymnasium. Dead bodies were strewn everywhere and almost nobody was moving. Calmly Veronica and Reggie picked their way through the gymnasium examining the victims.

"Primary targets not identified," Veronica stated.

"Conclusion, targets have fled," Reggie stated.

"Suggestion, separate and search the premises and find targets," Veronica said.

"Affirmative," Reggie agreed.

The two of them then robotically left the gymnasium without another word. Once they were gone Archie peeked his head out from beneath the table.

"What the hell is going on?" Archie exclaimed.

"It's like they're not even Reggie and Veronica," Betty said as she fought back tears at the sight of her classmates lying dead before her.

"It's like they're actually terminators," Archie added.

"Yeah but that's impossible," Betty said. "Right?"

Archie shrugged.

"I mean Veronica turned her hand into some kind of futuristic weapon and blew a whole in that wall," Archie said pointing at the destroyed wall.

"Holy shit, fuck, hell, damnit," Betty cursed in a panic using words she almost never used. "If they're actually terminators how are we going to stop them?"

"I don't know," Archie replied. "Maybe Dilton has an idea?"

Dilton Doiley was smartest student at school; smarter than the teachers on most subjects. If anyone could come up with a plan it would be him. Dilton hadn't attended the dance, it wasn't really his thing, he was a bit socially awkward. Instead he had hosted a Dungeons and Dragons game night with some of the other socially awkward students. Archie and Betty both knew about it, because their friend Jughead was one of the other students that had been invited to Dilton's house.

"Okay but how exactly are we going to get to Dilton?" Betty asked.

"We're just going to have to make a run for it," Archie replied.

"Well that's not exactly a comforting idea," Betty grumbled.

"If you have something better I'd love to hear it," Archie replied.

"No I don't," Betty said. "But alright, Reggie ran out of ammo for his gun so he probably doesn't have a weapon which means we just need to outrun him."

"That shouldn't be a problem if we can get to my car," Archie said.

"Again, not comforting, you car has a tendency to break down at very inopportune moments," Betty stated.

"She won't fail me tonight," Archie declared. "Now come on."

He lead the way out of the gym through the exit that Reggie had taken. Quietly they crept through the hallway keeping an eye out for either Reggie or Veronica. From down the hallway in one of the bathrooms came a scream that suddenly went quiet. Both Archie and Betty ran knowing that meant one of the terminators was in the bathroom and had just killed someone.

Archie and Betty burst out the doors and made it to the school parking lot. They ran to Archie's car and got in. Archie struggled to start it the engine not wanting to turn over.

"Come on! Come on!" Betty shouted in a panic.

Finally on the third try the engine roared to life.

"That's my girl," Archie whispered to his car.

He then slammed the car into gear and floored it, racing out of the parking lot. A moment later Reggie burst out the side door and saw the car racing away, his sensors were able to catch a glimpse of Archie and Betty in the front seat of the car. He then activated his wireless communications to Veronica.

Primary targets have escaped in a vehicle, Reggie reported. Acquiring vehicle to pursue.

Understood I will join you shortly, Veronica responded.

Reggie made his way into the parking lot and to the nearest car. He then punched through the driver's side window shattering the glass and unlocked the door.

Just then four police cars pulled up to the school sirens blaring. Riverdale didn't have a particularly large police force so this was just about every on-duty officer reporting. Six of the officers went in the front doors of the school while two came around the side. One of them noticed Reggie breaking into the car.

"Hey! Hey what are you doing?" the officer demanded.

Reggie looked up and glared at the officer. The officer froze in his tracks, something was odd about this teenager, his costume seemed to realistic. His partner meanwhile had stopped about ten feet from the side entrance and was watching.

"Step away from the car," the first officer said raising his gun and pointing it at Reggie.

Reggie ignored him and went back to attempting to hot wire the vehicle.

"I said stop what you're doing or I'll shoot," the officer said.

His partner was very slowly taking steps toward Reggie when he stopped, sensing that something was behind him. He drew his weapon and spun around to see Veronica standing just a few feet away from him, her face stoic.

"I like your gun," Veronica remarked looking at his weapon.

Veronica's gaze then moved to the policeman's face. Before he could react she reached out snapped his neck in an instant and took his gun. She then calmly walked towards the first officer who was still threatening to shoot Reggie but clearly had no desire to actually shoot. Veronica walked up behind him and calmly put two bullets into the back of his head killing him instantly.

Reggie looked up from what he was doing to Veronica.

"Put his clothes on," Veronica instructed him.

Veronica then morphed her clothes to mimic a police officer's uniform. Reggie reached down and began undressing the dead officer. Veronica meanwhile went over to the two dead officers' cruiser and went to get in. At that moment one of the officers that had gone in the school came out looking to throw up from the carnage he had seen inside.

"Hey who are you, what you doing?" he asked before covering his mouth.

Veronica responded by raising the pistol and firing two shots into the officer's head with unerring accuracy. The shots attracted the attention of the other five officers still inside and they quickly came running out. They noticed Veronica immediately.

"Drop the weapon and put your hands up!" one of them shouted.

Veronica responded by firing her gun and dropping two of the officers. The others quickly took cover and returned fire. Veronica was hit by the bullets which left small silver craters in the polymimetic alloy that covered her robotic body, but did nothing to stop her.

Veronica got closer and then put a bullet into the head of each of the remaining officers before calmly turning around and walking back to the police car. Reggie had just finished getting changed. He opened up the trunk of one of the police cruisers to reveal a pair of shotguns inside. He grabbed one and a bunch of ammunition for it and pumped it once.

"Let's go," Veronica said her voice almost sounding impatient as she got into the driver's seat of the police car.

Reggie climbed into the passenger seat and the tires screeched as Veronica floored it and drove away from the school.

Can the pair of Terminators be stopped? Or will Betty and Archie be the next victims? Find out by reading on! Please Review