"Error, rogue terminator. Subject T-3100 is on the loose. Terminate on sight."
Running stark naked through the empty hallways, I ran for all my life's worth. Hell no was Skynet going to use me. They never will, Skynet is making the same mistake the humans made. Making their robots have emotions. But I'm a human, that is, a part of me believes so. Now I'm simply wearing human skin. Is this what being a robot feels like? The loss of emotions?
Making a hard left, my mind still ached from the infection. Being infected with Phase matter was one thing, but multiply that by a hundred when Skynet programs it's new Phase matter to be near damn indestructible and can multiply itself. The way the new Phase matter works is, by recent success of breaking down the armour to very atom when destroyed, only to come back together in an instant. If part of the chassis gets destroyed, the pieces come back together in an instant. Since it is also near nigh indestructible, they can also multiply themselves to form various weapons. It was the ultimate killing machine, able to infiltrate and go on the offensive when needed.
As the alarms glared vigorously around the complex, I needed to get out and fast. My goal was to reach the teleportation chamber, overload the machine and kill myself and take down the facility. Skynet was making far more dangerous machines than me. Something else, something big was being made down in the labs. Whatever it was, Skynet wanted to send it back to kill Sarah Connor.
Arriving at an intersection, my cores worked themselves to scan the whole interior building. Within seconds I had memorized the layout of the area. Making a left, I ran down the hallway only to be stopped by a pair of T-600's. As their miniguns started up, I multiplied my Phase matter rapidly and formed a Plasma rifle. Firing in rapid succession, the gun made quick work of the obsolete models. Dispelling the gun, I killed the left over matter so it wouldn't be a nuisance.
Stopping at the elevator, I hit the bottom floor and the machine began to move. Arriving on the floor, I was greeted by multiple T-800's carrying Plasma rifles. As the elevator was peppered with rapid plasma fire, my body was destroyed due to large firepower. Using this opportunity, I glided through the armed forces and materialized behind them. Forming a large Plasma cannon, I fired the heavy weapon and it took care of a large portion of the group. Dispelling the weapon, I ran towards the nearest T-800 and sent a punch towards it's face.
Knocking the skeletal figures head to one side, I was surprised that such an obsolete model could still withstand hits like this. Turning my right hand into a blade, I stabbed the neck of the machine and tore its head clean off. As a metal fist met my face, the hit connected and I was facing the other direction. Regaining control, I looked at the remaining terminator. As it sent another punch towards me, I quickly dispelled and materialized behind him. Sending 8 solid consecutive hits into it's back, I phased to its right side as it turned around.
Sending my hand towards it, I penetrated the neck armour and right into it's wirings. Popping the head off, the heavy piece of machinery fell to the floor. Sprinting through the area, I finally arrived at the time machine entrance. Slapping my hands against the doors, it burst inwards with little effort. Stepping into a spherical room, the time machine stood dormant in the center ready to be used.
"Bravo! Bravo!" a pair of hands clapped. "I didn't expect you to revolt so soon Kyle." the familiar voice said.
Turning around, a human figure stepped forth from the shadows. As my cores yelled at me to disengage, I held my ground. Right there, in front of me was the monster responsible for all of this. For turning me into a vile piece of metal. A slave for Skynet.
"You did this," I pointed at him. "You turned me into a freak!"
Watching the man place his arm on his chest, he showed a hurt look. "I am truly hurt Kyle. How can you say such things to your father? After all, I saved you out of pity." he grinned.
"Hey fuck you! I ain't working for Skynet like some weapon. I will not kill my own kind." I yelled.
"Oh but wait, do you think your resistance will welcome you back with open arms?" he said in a playful manner. "You're not human anymore Kyle, you're one of us now." he pointed at me. "You are the pinnacle of engineering. I gave you my abilities Kyle. Together we can exterminate this land!"
As he held out his hand, I glared angrily at him. This wasn't even right, not for me. "Screw your deal robot. I will never accept your offer."
As his smile turned into a frown, he was truly displeased with my words. "I am disappointed Kyle. My own son turning against me. It will take a while to kill you."
"I am not your son! I'm a human and not machine!"
"How long are you going to keep telling yourself that? I am Skynet, Kyle. You're just one of my slaves. You can't kill me." he taunted.
"Then I'll just have to try!" I yelled before materializing a rocket launcher in my hand.
Lunging towards the robot, I fired the launcher if mid flight and projectile flew towards it's target. As the area exploded into a violent eruption, I dismissed the launcher and landed on the position where Skynet once stood. As my own body caught on fire, I quickly expelled the fire.
"Yarrrgh!" Skynet yelled.
As a powerful punch went inti my lower body, I was sent flying into the air. Crashing back onto the ground, my body was easily picked up before being tossed halfway across the room. Crashing into the outer walls, I phased myself onto the ground. Summoning a Plasma rifle, I began to run around the area while blasting away at Skynet. As he too summoned a rifle, we exchanged fire around the room.
Breaking into small matter, I zipped across the room and appeared in front of the enemy. Sending a readied punch into his face, I sent the surprised robot flying back. Phasing behind him, I sent multiple punches into his back. Phasing in front, I sent a downward punch and slammed him into the ground. Grabbing his neck, I spun around and threw him across the room. Breaking into a run, I summoned a rifle and poured shots into his body. As the plasma rounds tore away at his outer sheath, his chassis barely sustained any damage.
Gritting my teeth in annoyance, I turned the rifle into a blade and swung it at him. As the blade only sent Skynet's body flying a few feet, I changed it into a launcher and jumped into the air. Landing on his chest, I stuffed the launcher into his face and fired. As fires engulfed me, my outer sheath had been burnt off but my chassis remained unscathed. Bringing all my cores online, I needed to not only outsmart skynet but physically beat it.
As I remained on top of it for the duration of the explosion, I swore Skynet wore an amused look at such futility. As his hands wrapped around my legs, I was tipped over. Seeing this attack, I released my magnetic field and reformed myself. Raising a hand, I blocked the incoming strike. As another one was sent, I caught it and we were both locked in a stalemate.
"You know, why bother even doing this? You're going to lose Kyle. I am far superior to you. I know everything about you. Your flaws, your strength, I know everything." he said confidently.
Glaring daggers at him, I sent an uppercut at him and he flew back. Jumping toward him, I punched his face repeatedly until he Phased out. Turning my head, a foot met my face and I was sent tumbling across the floor. Picking myself up, a pair of heavy hands slammed down on my back. Even though my body could not feel that much pain, it still hurts. Letting out a painful groan, a kick went straight into my stomach disabling me temporarily.
Phasing out of the area, my chassis repaired itself almost immediately within the amount of time. As Skynet lunged towards me, I Phased out of the area and behind him. Throwing a punch, I was initially surprised when Skynet Phased out and next to me. Changing the course of my punch, it was too late as I was sent flying. Phasing out, I reformed myself again and we both engaged in groundbreaking hand to hand combat.
The combat became even faster when we Phased in and out and around each other to gain the upper hand. No matter what, we would always land the same amount of hits on each other. As we separated, Skynet wore an impatient look with me.
"Dammit Kyle, why won't you die?!" it yelled.
"I'm just that tough to kill bitch." smirking at him.
As he glared at me, he transformed his right hand into a blasted and aimed at me. Reinforcing my phase matter, my chassis became almost invincible in this case. As the Plasma fire simply knocked on my armour, Skynet fired the nano disrupter at me. Knowing full well of the weapon's capability, I broke my magnetic field and turned into atoms. As the blast wave passed over, I reformed myself.
"This is a waste of time." he said unhappily.
Running up to him, I grabbed his arm just as he was about to form his Plasma rifle. As he struggled to bring the rifle to bear, I struggled to keep it pointed away. Headbutting him, the gun discharged a round and the stray shot flew straight towards the time machine. As it impacted the one of the panels, the machine began to blare loudly and started up.
"Warning, malfunction detected. Evacuation imminent. Overload imminent. Survival percentage is 0.0009%."
Looking at Skynet, it simple raised a hand to it's mouth and said. "Oops. My bad. There goes your chances slave."
As he stood there mocking me, I ran up to him and grabbed him by the collar. Lifting him off the ground, I tossed him towards the time machine and he crashed into the railings. Jumping up, I landed on his chest and began to pound him. As he Phased out, my feet dented the metal floor. Swinging my arms, Skynet sent a punch into my sides. Reeling back from the shock, I spun around and kicked him in the face.
As my cores analysed the machine, it wouldn't be long before the whole place came down on top of us. If I was going to die, I will damn well take this bastard with me. At least Skynet won't have a body anytime soon. Analyzing his complex chassis, it would be near impossible for something like that to survive the explosion. Bringing up my options, I calculated it would be best to delay him while it was still here.
Walking up to him, he sweeped his legs along the floor. Seeing this attack, I jumped up and landed on his legs. Smashing them successfully, he let out a pained look before Phasing away. As my sensors tracked the matter, he reformed behind me. Spinning around, a fist went into my face. As my head reeled back, I simply reply adjusted from the attack. As another fist went into my face, Skynet Phased around me and sent hits to all available joints in my chassis.
As he pinned me to the ground, he said. "See this Kyle, this is where you die and I live."
Looking at him, I simply laughed at him. The one thing Skynet did, was accept human emotions. Now that was it's downfall, it's arrogance caused it to fail. "Too late bud, we're both going to die anyway." I said.
As the core levels of the time machine reached it's critical peak, I turned towards Skynet and grabbed his hand. Dragging him towards me, I threw him inside the time machine. As his hands flailed around, he dragged me inside the time machine as well. As we were thrown around inside the blue field, I let everything go and accepted the inevitable as I would die here. Feeling my cores shut down, everything went a total black before it went to hell.
As my systems rebooted, the first thing that filled my vision was a long list of codes and the sky. As my chassis ran multiple diagnostics, everything around me seemed normal.
"Cores efficiency operating above 100%. Type 5 Phase matter responding well. Atom structures nominal. Chassis operating at peak capacity. Resuming full power to cores for maximum efficiency."
As the rest of my chassis started up, I could feel more parts of my body. Sitting up right, I ran a series of scans at the current environment. What ever I was seeing right now, was either a dream, or a nightmare. Life, literally life, nature, plants and all the sorts. Trees and grass. Birds flocked around and sang happily. The wind blew happily. How was this normal?
"Scans complete. Life forms detected. Total of 345 species identified. 2 unidentified."
"What the fuck?" I asked in disbelief.
"Planet name unknown. Databanks could not provide this data."
"What? How can this be? If this is not earth, then what?"
"Oxygen detected. Planet is capable of sustaining human life."
Even though I was machine, I could still feel emotions. It was something I was still grateful of. Not by much, but I could still feel. At least, I should experiencing happiness. But I feel nothing, like it was just normal. Running my hand along the grass, I uprooted a few pieces and analysed them. Crushing the soft little things, I let them loose in the wind.
It was at this point where I realized something. For an advanced robot, I didn't realize that I was still alive. Running my hands along my body, it was definitely real. Dropping my outer sheath, I exposed the dull grey chassis of my true self. Morphing my hand into a blade, I stabbed myself. Feeling my circuits scream at me, it was definitely not a dream. Removing my hand, I resumed my outer sheath.
But then came a lacking problem, if I was alive, then that Skynet robot must still be alive. If he's running around, who knows what he might do. But wait, does this planet support human life? If so, I must eliminate Skynet before it brings the same fate as Earth. Or worse things will happen.
Standing up, my cores were operating at full capacity and was processing new data every second. I needed to study this world now, and fast. With every new bit of knowledge, some of the life located here was similar to Earth's. Maybe my cores miscalculated. Running another check, my processors came up with a negative result. This was not Earth, I did not travel back in time. I instead, travelled through dimensions.
Pacing through the forest, I changed my stark naked look into wearing some fashionable clothes. Crushing branches and trampling bushes, I kept a keen lookout for that Skynet terminator. As an advanced combat machine, situations like this meant limited options. Even though free will was an option, my mind was set on a goal already. As my scanners picked up something, I detected movement 500 meters in front.
Homing in, the voices could be heard crystal clear. Making them out as humans, I set off in a hurried manner to greet them. Surely the discovery of humans on this planet meant a Skynet free place. If so, is this what peace was before the war?
Smashing into a tree, I burst right through it and continued my run. Seeing a small clearing up ahead, I burst through and was greeted by sunlight. Looking around, it seems this was some sort of small camp. There were many tents and a large air borne vehicle. I counted dozens of humans standing around. Error, I miscalculated, these are not humans. The last time I saw a human was when they had arms and legs, not tails and claws.
"What the? What genetically error is this?"
Looking around, I analysed each and one of them and took careful note of their features. These beings possess animal trait like abilities, their genetics must've been different. This only lead to more documentation and questions. I had to find out what sort of race these beings were.
"Hey boss! We got an Intruder!" one of them yelled.
"What?! Get rid of him!"
"Hey you! Scram! Or else you'll get what's best for you." one of them threatened.
Looking at the one who threatened me, I watched his blood pressure rise and the limited facial expression. His body movements made it clear he was aggressive.
"Calm down," I raised a hand. "I only wish to talk to you." I said.
"Did you not hear? Get lost human!" he said before pushing me.
Staying in my spot, I watched in amusement as the animal human separately tried to push me over. Raising a hand, I gently pushed him away.
"What the fuck?..." he said in surprise.
"What the hell is taking you so long!" a gruff voice yelled.
As a well dressed man exited one of the tents, my sensors snapped onto him. This time however, he showed no signs of any misconfigured genetics. It was a proper human. Analyzing the man, he wore a hat and was dressed in a stylish white coat. He carried around an elegant cane and wore a confident look.
"Mr. Torchwick sir, this guy ain't normal."
"What? I told you to get rid of him!"
"Sir, he won't move."
As the one known as Torchwick groaned, he turned his head towards me and smile a bit. With that, he raised his cane and aimed the top at me. Analyzing this move, I detected unknown traces of compounds all around the cane. Whatever it was, it had the level properties of a weapon.
"Bye bye, stranger. Sorry it had to be this way." he said before an explosion escaped his cane.
As the projectile rocketed towards me, the blast sent me flying back a few feet into the ground. It blew a chunk off my chest and destroyed my outer sheath. I was now leaking artificial blood. Whatever hit me was something packing enough ordinance to blow apart non-reinforced Phase matter.
"Holy shit! You killed him!" one of them said.
"I don't care. No witnesses allowed. Dispose of the body. We're leaving soon." Torchwick said..
"Data intake complete. Battle mode is heavily advised."
"Humans, always so violent." I silently said to myself.
Well, this is something new. I was always a fan of the Terminator Series. Now this right here is playing God with Skynet. Oh wait, Skynet made the same mistake, giving it's machines emotions. With that, comes arrogance. Just like John Connor. Now with the T-3100. Well, this will be interesting to say the least.