A/N: This is my own prequel to the original 'Terminator', it follows Kyle Reese through the worst of the war and ends where the first film started, it is mainly based on the ps2 game 'The Terminator: Dawn Of Fate', but staying more true to the films by maintaining the gritty, worn down human resistance, rather than have them quite advanced. The story will have a lot of action, and not that um, how would I put it, "Time Crisis" style shooter action scenes.
Enjoy!
Prologue: The War
In the Year 1997, The world ended. Five Billion people were wiped out in one day, killed by their very own invention. Skynet, a self-aware computer program entrusted with the national security of America. Designed by Cyberdine Systems in the early 1990s, the finished processor was issued to the Pentagon where it assumed command of all military drones and nuclear weapons.
The fatal design made the program become self-aware, it launched America's nukes at China and Russia, taking out both other superpowers at once, under the lie that the US Government launched the weapons, Russia retaliated, and China, within 24 hours, the majority of the worlds' population had been reduced to ash.
But that was not the end, oh no. The Machines rose from the ashes of the Nuclear fire, producing terrifying weapons on its' mission to wipe out the remainder of the Human Race, using an evolving series of cyborgs built to hunt down humans, Terminators.
The Human resistance stood up to this threat, using their own tactics and weaponry, we fought back against the machines, to protect our species in a war, which we could not stop. Our enemy couldn't be reasoned with, They couldn't come to an agreement, they would only pursue us until we -or they- were extinct. Our global resistance began to win the war, starting with the battle of Haiti in 2025
But just like before, Skynet would not stop there, realising they were nearing defeat, they rolled out their newest and most deadly Terminator yet, the T-800. This new Terminator was the most advanced of their 'Infiltrator' division, designed to look identical to a human for, the T-800 possessed an artificial skin coating which bled and tore away like a human's.
Infiltrating human bases and killing all of their generals, Humanity was pushed back by the massive advance of the T-800s, until Humanity held their ground in a massive counterattack, four twelve months, we held our ground on the west coast of America, keeping the Terminators at bay. By now, humanity had a leader, this man was not like any other leader who had existed before, hi, he was not some weedy politician, pretending to make a difference, he was a leader His name was John Connor, humanity's saviour.
As General Connor feared, we uncovered Skynet's latest plan; Instead of trying to kill Connor in the present like they have before, They planned to send a Terminator back in time to the year 1984, to kill the Resistance leaders' mother; Sarah Connor before John could even be born, therefore, changing history so Skynet would win the war.
We are going to launch an attack on their base at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, where they were to launch their attack on the past. This is the day we will take our stand...
Terminators