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Titans Terminated: Chapter 1 The future is not set.
The wind howled against the black of the night, no creature was present upon the earth as a flying Hunter Killer made its patrol sweep over the barren land, no not one rodent or lizard scurried across the ground as its search light swept across an over pass lined with rows of cars that were little more than heaps of burnt, twisted, and vaporized metal with the remains of the men, women, and children who had been fortunate enough to have been caught in the blast unaware, and not suffer the aftermath of what rose up from the nuclear fires that scorched the earth.
Program Results : 0.0 humans found Area Secure: Continue search
The FHK continued on its flight path scanning with infared for any sign of resistance fighters.
Audio detected: most likely match = automobile engine
New directive: Pursue and destroy.
Without wasting a second the HK banked hard to the left and began acquiring its target. "Hey Sarge we got incoming! Flying HK on our rear and gaining speed quick!" yelled the young gunner standing in the back of the mid-90's Toyota pick-up to his commanding officer. "What the hell are you waiting for?! Take it down!" yelled the Sargent as he pressed down harder on the gas pedal. Both the gunner and the HK fired plasma rounds from their respective machine guns with neither hitting their target as Sarge swerved left and right to try and avoid fire. The engine screamed as sarge pushed the truck to its limits "Come on, come on" he thought as he cut the wheel, and thanked god he had taken what was left of the streets for this run as they had enough space for him to maneuver around when needed.
BOOOM! With a lucky shot the gunner was able to bring down his skyward assailant "YO sarge I got 'em!" he said excitedly "That's what you suppose to do." Said Sarge trying to remind the rookie that they were still in a combat zone with a little over a mile to go to their destination . "How bout a good job rook? Or nice shot kid?" no sooner had the gunner asked did he become blinded by a beam of light "Another flyer, he's right over us!" he yelled as the Sargent resumed his swerve tactic. "Take this you bastard piece of scrap, ARRRGGHH!" shouted the gunner as he fired wildly at into the sky.
Calculating Driver trajectory: Target Locked
Arming Missile: Firing!
BOOMMMM!
The missile hit just off to the Pick-up's front left side "Ohhh Shittt!" yelled sarge as his vehicle tumbled thru the air, CRASH THUD. The Toyota landed on its roof before rolling with the momentum. Pain shot through Sarge's body as he crawled out of the space where the driver side window used to be. "Cameron!" he called to the gunner as he pressed the palm of his hand against his head to try and stop the massive headache he was having "Cameron, are you alive?" he asked again, he received no response. Looking up he noticed the HK was making its way back, he knew he had to move or he would be as dead as the rookie under his command was now.
He found a spot just outside of the flyer's search pattern (one good thing about fighting machines was that they were at least predicable and study of them could find holes in the way they operate) Sarge took a moment to look over the wound on his arm he had from the wreck, the crimson blood was a contrast against his green skin even in the darkness "Sargent Logan do you copy?" said a static voice from his radio "This is Sargent Logan I copy, my ride is destroyed, Private Cameron is dead, over." He said checking the sky again "How far are you from the target?" the voiced asked with no change of tone, death was a sad part of this war that had been all too common "I'm about a mile out, and I can see it from here. I'm on my way over and out."
Logan weighted his options carefully, should he become a bird and fly? Quicker but he had enough of Flying HKs today. Borrow underground? No, slow rate of travel and worm mines would be all over where he was headed. It looked like it was pounding the ground this time. He made his way from cover to cover slowly but steadily making his way to the only building that wasn't missing half its structure, a large steel colored pyramid in the middle of the vast wasteland. Every step he took reminded him of what was there before all this, before that pyramid was built, before the nuclear fire, before Judgment Day, before Skynet.
The fighting became more and more intense as Logan made his way closer to his objective, Conner had said that today was the day this war would end and one way or another Logan was sure he would be right. He was sure because in all his life he had only known one other man who could lead his troops the way that John Conner could have, and anyone who could lead the way Robin had was the best man for the job in Logan's mind.
Logan stopped for a moment to survey the area, The Resistance was fighting right outside Skynet's door, ground troops made up of whatever men and women who could fight had cleared through most of opposition of Terminators, but were now up against twin ground Hunter Killers. The ground HKs rolled and crushed whatever pieces of steel and skull that lay under their treads, the steel behemoths fired in burst at the cars and trucks that carried the large machine guns, blowing up their targets and forcing the Resistance fighters back some.
Logan raced over to the fight as fast as he could, running past buildings as they collapsed from the nearby explosions, he kept in stride as he scooped up a phase plasma rifle from a downed T-800 and a time bomb from a dead comrade before finding some rubble to take cover behind.
The Hunter Killers continued to press forward as they scanned for heavy weapons users (They were priority targets and terminating them reduced the offensive capabilities of the human solders) all the while Logan crept up behind them, making sure to stay as silent as possible.
BAMBAMBAM
Machine gun fire rained down in overlapping bursts on the Resistance fighters, scoring multiple kills for each HK with mounted cannon. Finally the twin metal monsters came to a stop as they both took aim at a new target, one of the utmost importance, they had spotted the leader of the resistance John Conner. Both HK closed in for a better shot
Target acquired: locked on
BOOOMMM
One of the HK went up in a giant ball of flames as the bomb Sargent Logan hit the sweet spot of the undercarriage of the Hunter Killer. The remaining HK started firing as its torso swept counter clockwise, Logan hurried to outrun the deadly beams. He managed to dart and dodge past the gun fire and ended up behind the HK, wasting no time Logan jumped up and morphed in to a gorilla. He quickly scaled up the Hk's back before mustering all his strength and ripping its head off.
"Sargent Logan, you never fail to impress." Said Conner as approached the burning heap of steel Logan had left "Damn straight John, What's next?" he replied, Conner lifted his gun and pointed it towards the Pyramid "We breach the doors and take out Skynet's mainframe." Could it really be that simple? Logan thought to himself, all they needed to do was get past a few doors and this long nightmare would be over.
The inside of the Skynet building was cold and sterile, steel floors and walls made up each room. Conner led his men to the elevator in the center of the building, he and his men watched as they descended down each floor the automated factory housed in the building that assembled T-800 series terminators "So this is where the metal mother fuckers come from. I can't wait to blow this place apart." Said the demolition expert John chose for this mission "I hear that." Said another solider, a skinny man with brown hair and dark blue eyes as he looked on at the assembling terminators "Sir may I ask who's the new guy in our crew?" asked Logan in reference to the brown haired solider "Everyone this is Sargent Reese, I wanted him with us for this one. He's a good soldier and he's yet to let me down in combat just like the rest of you."
Skynet's innermost core was a long cylinder like supercomputer that went up twenty feet, it hummed and vibrated loudly as it analyzed and decided every order to its various components out on the battle field simultaneously. It was hard for some of Conner's men not to marvel at in at least some small way "Hamilton find out what you can from the input terminal, Logan cover the door, the rest of us will start planting the C4." Conner ordered.
"General I found something you might want to see!" yelled Hamilton as he typed away at his keyboard "What Is it?" Conner asked even though he knew what he was about to be told "Four terminators sent through time, all have orders to Terminate at least one person." Hamilton replied "Who is the fourth one targeting and what model is for that matter?" John asked, He had no memory of a fourth terminator coming back to kill him. "T-950, multiple targets including the Justice League and The Titans. I'm pulling up a full list now sir."
Hamilton's screen scrolled with the various pictures "Where's it headed?" asked Logan as he turned to face Conner "It look like it's destination is Jump City." Hamilton said keeping his eyes on the screen "Hmm I've never seen this one before." He continued as he enlarged a picture of a young girl, with long blonde hair and deep blue eyes, Logan took a few steps to see who Hamilton was talking about, If it was jump city and a Titan associate he would know who.
His eye went wide when he saw who it was "Her name is Terra and we need to keep her safe." Said Logan "You sure about that Logan?" asked Conner "I'm sure sir, someone has to keep her safe." Logan answered.
"Rex you and Jones see what's left in that store room, we need T-800s with skin A.S.A.P." Conner ordered. The men were able to find what John wanted but only three models were covered. John had an uneasiness about asking if any volunteers would go through time to protect his mother Sarah, he knew who would agree to this mission and what the result would be "I will sir." Said Reese stepping forward, John accepted the fate this timeline had for his father and sent Kyle back to 1984.
Hamilton finished reprograming the last of the Terminators and was ready to send them out "Which one is going to Jump City?" Logan asked "This one here." said Hamilton pointing to the T-800 model 101 on the end "Could I have a minute with it?" asked Logan all the while never removing his gaze from the cyborg in front of him. "Why would you…" Hamilton started to ask "I just need a minute with it!" Logan strongly interrupted, Hamilton just nodded as he backed away "Are you operational?" Logan asked the Terminator "Affirmative." It answered. Logan looked deep into the 800's eyes "I need you to deliver a message for me…"
The Terminator crouched down on one knee as the time displacement generator started up, Sargent Logan looked one intensely as what looked like bolts of lighting formed a sphere around it, a lot for Logan was at steak and the Terminator was his best bet.
He watched as the chamber filled with light so bright he and the rest of his Tech-Com squad mates had to cover their eyes, a loud whiring noise filled the room
ZZZZAARRRRGGGG BAMMMM
The spot where the Terminator had been was now empty
To be Continued.