Disclaimer: I don't own the SCC if I did I would have renewed them for a third season, and I don't own any of the Mash or AfterMash characters.
Despite Terminator 3 or salvation not being as succesful to fans and worldwide audiences as the first two, I wanted to use some elements like Katherine Brewster, her father and the whole CRS he was in charge with since Miles Dyson, I thought Miles Dyson not being the key but instead a pawn was neat and it would explain why the T-1001 in police uniform didn't go before the Connors and their protector to protect the chip and arm from the first terminator sent back to kill sarah.
Of Salvation I only enjoyed Marcus Wright's character, sam worthington is a greater actor than bale so I will use the concept the concept of Marcus but in another character, you guessed it: one from Mash who sells his soul -without realizing the consequences- to the devil.
Song~Mad world fits all Mash and Terminator.
All around me are familiar faces, no expression ...
Bright and early
for the daily races ... going nowhere
... going nowhere -
Their tears going up their glasses
No expression, no expression.
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow -
no tomorrow
Their tears, their sorrows of the MASH 4077, they were her mission now. She would play Devil's Advocate with them, she would tempt them, she would help them, but she would put them to the test. That was her mission.
Made to feel like they should all listen, Cameron Phillips, the newly reprogrammed unit by John Henry and his "mother" Catherine Weaver had been sent to the past, the year 1955 September 10. One week before Hawkeye, the alias of the famous doctor who served in Korea in the Meash unit 4077, would send the invitation to his former war buddies. During her stay in the future, a different one from the one she had originally been sent to protect Sarah and John, she learned a great deal about human emotions, now she could mimic, she could laugh without her program telling her to. She felt ... for the first time she felt what it was like to loose the person you care for the most.
And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
-the dreams in which I am dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to take -when people run in circles:
Is a very mad world,
mad world
Cameron took the name of Anna, and going for precaution, like Catherine Weaver told her -she reprogrammed herself -to fool her CPU and change her personality.
Anna the alter ego of Cameron was calmer, but she was also deadlier. She was Sky Net, Cameron broke free thanks to John and Catherine. Anna was also expendable, she didn't care about her own safety, as long as she could protect the program Sky Net; Cameron did.
Before making the time jump to the past, Catherine warn above all to make sure Sky Net still exists in their alternate version of tomorrow. Sky Net must exist -Catherine said- above all it is if for John's sake, if your John does not have Sky Net his reason to live ceases to exist, we all do. Sky Net brings us terror but it also brings us a purpose for a rebellion.
Could it be, Cameron assumed before reprogramming herself -that Catherine was afraid of a future where she could not exist? A future where she would still be present but not exist?
Children waiting for the day the feel good,
Happy Birthday, happy birthday
Existance -Cameron saw it as the state of being present, live and have thought.
I think therefore I exist -One famous human philosopher defined existance as the conscious state like the soul. If a living organism had conscience and free well, he or she could have a soul. Others like Sarah Connor and Derek Reese from her time thought only humans were exclusive to those luxuries.
Human beings could create -Sarah Connor once told her- machines cannot therefore they are empty vessels made only to immitate life, they destroy instead of preserving it.
But wasn't the purpose of Cameron's first visit to the past to preserve life? Then why could she not have a soul?
If the soul was to be in a conscious state, personality ... a face that shed tears, emotion ... all of this made Cameron Phillip -why was it she could not have a soul then?
All of this chain of thought took no more than one second, by the time she asked the question about the soul, her reprogramming had commenced, blocking all of Cameron's past memories and replacing them for the ones of Anna, the Terminator, the destroyer, the cold vessel that had no personality, no feelings, no sympathy -the mission of Anna as opposed to Cameron's was to seek and destroy and protect Sky Net.
Cameron shut her eyes, when she openned them she was no longer Cameron, she was Anna.
Anna looked at her surroundings. 1955, September 10th, she had no time to waste. She had to complete the mission and avoid detection from any human or other possible time travelers by the enemy -the Resistance.
Searching the nearest place for clothing she turned around hearing a distressed woman's voice.
"Someone help me!"
Anna walked with no hurry towards the woman. She was middle age about her height, brown hair like Anna's but much darker almost darker, her eyes were emerald green. She looked at Cameron frightened, putting a hand that was covered in blood to her mouth she said "Oh my God, dear God are you alright?"
Anna said nothing, her gaze fell to the dead man next to her. Middle age too, same height, blond hair. She looked at the woman again. This woman had killed him she decided.
She looked more thoroughly at what the woman was wearing, a simple dress. Her scans detected no fluids or liquid from the body or any other stains visible on her clothing.
Perfect Match
Her HUD told her.
"I need your money, your clothing and you purse. Give them to me now" She said coldly.
The woman stared in disbelief at Anna. What was she thinking? the woman thought -how dare she ask her for her clothing?
Anna by the pupil dilation, body temperature, sweating and the woman's hand moving to grab something from her purse, calculated that she would try and harm her. Before the woman could reach for the possible tool she intended to use to harm Anna, she got ahead of her grabbing the woman by the neck.
"Who?"
She stopped talking, Anna had squeezed harder and snapped her neck. She looked at the scene with morbid curiosity.
Why had the woman killed the man she guessed could be her spouse, friend or lover and then regret it afterwards praying for forgiveness? Humans were irrational creatures -she decided. Beginning to strip the dead woman from head to toe, she dressed up quickly.
Her HUD said to advance and begin her mission, but for some reason Anna would understand much later on, she ignored her programing. Walking out from the alley where came from she began to explore, passing off as another american sweetheart tourist she received a few whistles from young men, most of them fresh out of higschool they were drunk and noisy.
Mission Priorities
Her HUD began flashing the names of the perople involved in the creation of Sky Net:
Lt. Colonel ... Frank Burns Korean Veteran war Hero
Colonel Margaret Houlihah
Anne Elizabeth Brewster
Margaret O'bannon
Bryce Megara Dawson
The list kept on going.
Her HUD vanished, sometimes she found it useless to have her HUD on all during her Infiltration missions. Seeing the world humans looked at it allowed her to understand it better.
One week later ...
Francis Mulcahy was walking near his house, he didn't notice a pair of jealous eyes watch him.
He settled down his cloack, his cross putting it on the top of the drawer next to his lamp and a picture of all the crew of the MASH 4077 that served in Korea.
Resting, he fell asleep unaware of a figure openning the bedroom door, peering closer at the former chaplain from the 4077.
Anne looked at her target.
From nowhere a memory came to her of unknown origin:
**In another place in another time**
"Hello" questions like this were asked and you might wonder who asked him, but isn't it better when the people who read the story don't know all the answers right away?
If we knew everything right away, everything would be spoiled there would be no reason for us to read the end -because we would know it already.
Those who give too much away is because they know people love a good mystery, and they want to do one but so self involved are they in their problems that they end up forgetting about the purpose of their tale: to tell a mystery and make it one more mundane story that references their lives.
We don't want to know who the author is, we don't want to know her or his story, all we want is the mystery, the suspense to keep us busy.
The entity programmed as Cameron stared with blank and souless eyes at her opposition -John Henry. Known also as Cromartie, but this was not the terminator she and the Connors helped terminate in Mexico approximately four months ago. This was only John Henry in the flesh and metal, his chasis but the chip and programming were of different kind.
Cameron titled her head, "Hello" she whispered back after he greeted her, no emotion coming from his voice and none from hers either.
They were terminators programmed to kill, and no matter as she told John, how much they reprogram or "fix" her from "going bad" she will always be a terminator and an Infiltrator. Derek Reese was right when he warned Connor not to be fooled by her shell, she was not some mongrel pup he could summon, teach her tricks and make her do his bidding.
Deep down she wanted to grab John by the neck and kill him, put his head on a spike on top of the Resistance' future HQ for the rest of Sky Net's enemies to see.
It was her destiny, it was logic -and hers was never flawed.
John Henry, the artificial entity that Catherine Weaver had created to combat Sky Net imitated her head movement. "I know you" he said
"And I know you" She said too.
Made to feel like every child should: sit and listen
-sit and listen ...
His "human eyes" finally became focused on her "Will you join us?" he asked the dreaded question. Cameron turned and closed the door behind her, pulling out a knife John Henry watched carefully.
The answer was already spoken by Cameron when she took a sit in front of John Henry "Guard it well" she warned him before she took the only thing that would encourage John to come after her, fulfilling his destiny (not as General Connor) but as the man who would help bring the resistance troops to victory against Sky Net.
Anne, no, now Cameron. Both were not one separate entity but one being with two different personalities that became joined together when Cameron's memories of that fateful day with John Henry had returned.
She finished blinking, she was no longer confused.
Went to school and I was very nervous ...
no one knew me, no one knew me.
Despite failing, she had become more aware and more effective. Perhaps this had been Catherine's intention all along to make Cameron finally conscious, finally aware.
Hello teacher tell me: what's my lesson?
look right through me, look right through me
She advance closer to Father Mulcahy's form. Could she do it? Could she terminate him here and now? He was dead anyway, he served no purpose other than to aid Catherine and John Henry in their fight against Sky Net. He was nothing especial, a nobody who had no power, no important rank. He was insignificant -
And yet, Cameron-Anne could not bring herself to do it, she could not kill him.
Cameron exit Father Mulcahy's home, she would play a silent watcher, waiting until the moment came where he would die naturally.
Her HUD was visible again warning that she had to carry on the mission, she had found her target, she had to terminate him and keep on with the rest of her mission protecting her top priorities and making sure they and their descendants would create Sky Net.
And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had -
Cameron was unable to respond, she just stood there outside the building watching the only window where at night it always kept the light on, where Father Mulcahy slept.
I find it hard to tell you,
I find it hard to take
TARGET FRANCIS J.P MULCAHY: TERMINATE
This was an order she could not obey.
Whe people run in circles -
It's a very mad world, mad world ...
Her HUD kept on flashing the possible consequences of her decission but she ignored them, like she had many times when it told her to Terminate John Connor as opposed to protecting him.
Enlargen your world,
mad world
She was no longer Sky Net, she had a choice now, be or not to be. She chose the first option be, and this time her HUD did not stop her from walking the other way.
A/N: There is hope you like it. It will be soon posted in the crossover but in the meanwhile it will stay here on Mash.
I expect to see some reviews so don't think about it and give your comments, criticism as long as its constructive!
~Heather