"Machines...call them what you want, computers, mp3 players, microwaves, toasters, Terminators, they are all the same, no matter how you look at it...at least thats what i used to think, but people like the T-850 and Cameron Phillips changed my veiws, my perspective if you will...then again so did skynet, in a way i'm no different from them either, i too am a "machine" i was "human" at one point, but skynet blured that line betwwen humanity and machine, in a way no one could have thought, and now they only way to stop skynet is to stop judgement day from ever happening...." -TI-1000, Drew
"The End is near" spoke a drunken homeless man, standing somberly in the filty alleyway, his clothes so ragged as to be completely indistinguishable from the rtted news papers the littered the alley floor, he slowly brought a bottle of jack daniels to his lips, his eyes abruptly rolled up in thier sockets as he toppled foreward as the loud crackle of electricity could be heard, a large orb materialized, cratering the ground beneath it, the charred remains of the homeless man's body lay struin infront of the crater, as the orb began to fad, a figure slowly became visible from with in it, a large muscualr figure, suddenly when the last of the orb faded, the figure looked up, scanning the alleyway for anything, as it looked, it's began to glow a birght red color, finally the figure stood up, the moonlight bathing the figure, it was in the shape of a tall muscullar man, it looked from side to side, and walked slowly and machaniclly down the alley way, as it left the alleyway it spied a corner store nearby and walked toward it, a man in a mask emerged from the store and crashed into the large terminator, it looked down at the stunned man and grabbed him by his colllar, the frightened man pulled a knife and drove it into the the machine's left pectoral in an attempt to subdue his captor only to find his captor was completely unmoved, as the terminator held the man, he scanned his body, and found that the clothes were a partial match for his frame, "give me your pants, sun glasses, and jacket, and i'll let you live." spoke the terminator machanicly, the now terrified man oblidged and began undressing, he handed the towering terminato the clothes, and stood shaking, the termintor smiled beriefly then reached out and removed the knife from his chest, looked at it momentarily then plunged it deep into the man's skull, the man stood for a moment in shock, then toppled over, his head meeting the pavement with a sickening thud, the blood quickly pooling around his head, the terminator grined smugly at his handy work, quickly slipped into the clothes that were given to him, he looked around quickly, then pulled the knife from the dead man's head, and slipped it into his belt, he stood up and began walking, "i will find you John Conner.", he spoke softly.
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The room of pitch black, she tried to scan area but was unsuccesful as the darkness was everywhere, suddenly, out from the darkness emerged a man, he was familiar, his shoulder length chesnut hair, his lean, somewhat skinny phisique, he was naked but he was thier none the less, she ran up to him and threw her arms around him, "i missed you so much, Drew" she sobbed softly, "it's ok, i'm here now, i'm never gonna leave you again."he whispered into her softly, he looked into her eye's and gentelly placed his hand under her chin, and raised her head to see her beautiful face, he leaned in slowly, the time seemed to go on forever, but finally just as thier lips met, drew was yanked back, out of her arms, by two T-888's, "Help me cameron, please help me!" screamed drew frantically, her arms suddenly shot out sideways, she whispered to herself "you siad you loved me...", a voice boomed overhead, "Love is for those who are too weak to survive on thier own!" spoke the voice mechanically, "You yourself should know that Cameron." "No your wrong, it shows that your strong enough to be able to care for someone other then yourself!", Scread Cameron, "pity you feel that way Cameron, prepare to die...", the voice boomed, from the darkness came a T-850, it walked slowly and efficently up to cameron, it slowly placed its hand into Cameron's hair and began pulling, the tearing of flesh could be heard as her skin tore from her colten skull, she screamed, not in pain but in fear, she knew the T-850's next move even before it did, the T-850 slowly raised it's hand to the shock damper in Camerons skull, and slowly slid out cameron's main cpu chip, her eyes went dull, then flickered, then went out completely.
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Cameron's eyes flew open, as she sits up in bed, she looks around, she notices the beads of sweat on her skin, "what was that?", she asked herself puzzled, "was that a dream, or was it what they call a nightmare?", she found herself confused and scared, but in pain at the thought of the one human who truely loved her, not for the just the human girl on the outside but the machine on the inside too, she slowly climbed out of her bed, and walked to her door, she opened the door and ventured into the hall to go to John's room, unsure if she should bother him with this strange development or if she should just ignore it, she suddenly felt a wave of nausea and found herself running to the washroom, as she leaned over the toilet vomiting, she wondered why she was so sick, as she thought that her hormoman indicators, they all showed the same thing, she was pregnant, she froze up for a moment, "imposible" she thought, she slowly and somberly walked back to her room, only to reminder herself that she had been going to John's room, she began toward's his door, she stopped for a moment to think, her thoughts were interupted by a hand tapping her on the shoulder, "hey tin head, your blocking the door to the toilet." spoke a grogey and rather tired Darek Reese, "up yours asshole!" barked Cameron as she grabbed Darek and hoisted him into the air, "do it, come on i dare you too, metal bitch!" sneered derek, "your not worth the effort, meat bag.", she lowered him back to the floor and continued to John's room, for a 15 year old terminator, she was rather civil and humanized, polite, apologetic, caring, and very loving, even if she's a machine. her long brown hair hung down her back limply, sweat covering her skin, her pink tank top stuck to her skin, damp from all the sweat and persperation, she wore a pair of matching pink panties, she had picked them out herself, while shopping one day with John for new clothes, Sarah had said they could do with some new clothes, considering most of Cameron's were in pieces from many encounters from skynets machines of destruction. she continued to John's room, stopping at his door, she knocked gentely on the wood, a faint grumble, then nothing, she knocked again, this time thier was the familier grumble, then the *plunk, plunk* of walking on hardwood flooring, the door opened a hair then John spoke softly "whats up?, its four in the morning, why are you at my door?"he asked rather confused, "I had a nightmare..." she whispered, "what....wait....what?!?!" replied a stunned and very confused John, "whats all the racket out here for?" asked sarah tiredly, "Cameron had a nightmare, mom." spoke John softly. "how can that be possible, i thought machines couldn't dream?" replied Sarah, who looked perplexed at the whole notion, "i can't...." spoke Cameron, breaking the awkward silence, suddenly thier was a flash of light outside the house, then another, and another, Sarah, John, Darek and Cameron all went out to the front yard to see what was causing it, "Get Back Now!!!" Shouted Cameron, suddenly a blue orb appeared and began to grow, soon it had cratered the the lawn and began cutting into the water main, just as the orb appeard itr began to fade, and in its wake was a man, the man raised his head slightly, and began to stand up, he looked toward Sarah, John and Darek, "Where's Cameron?" he squeaked, he turned and saw her, standing thier silently, tears streaming down her cheeks, he stepped foreward slowly, as he did a car drove past, its headlights illuminated his lean, trim figure, his long chessnut hair hanging freely, Cameron stared, wordless and seemingly breathless, the tears continued to stream down her face, as the man slowly continued toward her, his legs suddenly gave way and he toppled forward, Cameron's arms suddenly shot foreward, catching him in mid-air, he raised his head until his eye's met her's, "I told you i'd never leave you....i still love you..." he spoke before losing conciousness. Suddenly a nearby car errupted in flames, Cromartie walked through the flames, Ak-47 in one hand, Bazzoka in the other, he scanned all the people who were gathered on the lawn. He slowly raised the AK-47 as he scanned John. Just as he began to squeese the trigger, an explosion ripped out beside him, Darek standing breathless with a grenade pins on three of his fingers. Cromartie slowly looked at Darek awkwardly, he tilted his head slightly and opened fire, Darek closed his eye's and waited for his death to take him. The sound of metal bouncing off metal errupted through the night, as Darek slowly opened his eye's to see Drew standing infront of him, breathing heavily, Darek slowly stood up and glanced at Drew's chest, there were several bullet holes lining his chest. Drew panted for a moment, before snapping back to the problem at hand, he grinned smugly before running at Cromartie, who reacted by opening fire on Drew again, some bullets buried themselves deep in his flesh while others bounced off the metal endoskeleton concealed beaneath his flesh. Cromartie scanned his foe for the first time during the confrintation, he determined that his foe was a terminator of an unknown model and designe. His first reaction to this threat was to destroy it, he targeted Drew and fired his bazooka. Drew braced himself, and was struck back by the resulting explosion. pieces of his fleash strewn across the lawn. Drew slowly stood up and assessed his injuries, he had lost the flesh coving his whole right arm and a portion of the flesh coving his ribs. Cromartie beamed in enjoyment of the destruction he had caused. suddenly the flesh on Drew's should began to grow downward along his arms, soon his upper arm had regenerated the flesh leaving a bright red rash like mark in its wake, the flesh continued to grow untill his hand was covered in flesh once more, cuts and scratches marked his arm to his shoulder, the flesh on his ribs had begun healing, the same cut and bruised flesh decorated his ribs as did it decorate his arm. Cromartie stood in awe at his foe, threw down his empty bazzoka and raised his AK-47 and opened fire on Drew once again. Drew simply walked foreward while the bullets struck him, he soon stood infront of Cromartie, he shot out his hand and grabbed the barrel of the gun and bent it up, causing it to explode in Cromarties hand, Cromartie stummbled backwards as Drew launched a barage of punches, Catching Cromartie off guard, Cromartie reacted by cracking Drew with the butt of his gun, Drew stumbled back for a moment before relizing Cromartie had lodged a grenade into his unhealed lower ribs. Drew looked in horror at Cromartie, then was engulfed by the blast from the granade, Drew stummbled foreward for a moment towards Cameron, then toppled over on the ground. A large amount flesh had been burned and blown off of Drew's body, his arms were burned almost to his coltan endoskeleton, his chest was missing a large chunk of flesh, the his coltan chest plate was clearly visible, burns covered his legs and face. he lay motionless on the ground. Cameron stood shaking, her pain clearly shown in her face, tears streamed down her face. she ran up to Drew's fallen form and carefully lifted him into her arms. her tears dripped down her cheeks and onto Drew's face, he coughed slightly, he was alive but uncouncious. Cameron slowly placed him on the ground and turned to face Cromartie. Cromartie smiled in enjoyment at Cameron's pain, he slowly raised his gun at her and squeesed the trigger, bullets ripped through her chest and right shoulder as she tried to dive out of the way. she struck the ground clutching her shoulder, the red artifictial blood oozing from her wounds stainging her pink tank top crimson, she quickly glanced behind her to see Drew was no longer lying on the ground, he was standing some of his flesh had begun healing. He stared at Cromarte angrily, he charged at Cromartie and caught him with a left hook, Cromartie stood stunned, unsure of what had just happend, suddenly found himself on the receiving end of a car being dropped on him as Drew slammed down a nearby mazda 3 on Cromartie's head. Cromartie felt he flesh ripping as the car came down on him, he suddenly shot his arms out to deflect the car away from himself. he quickly spun around and sprinted away, relizing his new foe was much to strong for him to fight. Drew walked over to Cameron, who was still clutching her bloodied shoulder and chest, crouched down next to her and examined her wounds and detected a bullet lodged in her arm joint disabling her from using it. He quickly dug his fingers into the wound and slowly removed the bullet, Cameron looked up at him and wrapped her blood covered arms around him. A strange ticking could be heard, Drew scanned the yard and saw it, a small black box, it was a bomb, Drew ran to the bomb and grabbed it just as he threw it it exploded sending him sailing backward, part of his facial flesh was gone, his coltan skull was partially exposed from the wound. His hand was sevearly burned. he lay on the burnt lawn stunned and motionless. John and Cameron sat still, stunned at the sight of Drew motionless, Cameron crawled over to Drew slowly, tears streaming down her face for she knew what kind of bomb it was, it was a G-2 Concusion bomb. Drew's internal mechanical components were trashed, his body lay smoking, chared flesh ran along his right side, his face had patches of metal showing through the wounds. In Cameron's who life she had never felt this much pain, she felt dead inside like her whole world was destroyed, like the fire in her life had been blown out by a cruel unescapable fate. She looked down at his face, his blue eyes dull and lifeless, she cried, her pain too much to bear, Sarah slowly walked over to Cameron as John stagered too his fallen freinds lifeless body. he turned his face away, tears welling up in his eyes as the greif ripped through him like a chainsaw through a tree, the loses were begining to become to many in number, John had had enough, he ran toward Darek and grabbed Darek's pistol from its hoslter and raised it to his head. "Fuck this!!!, How many people have to die for this to end, How many!, i can't take this anymore, it ends here!", he shouted, "Don't be a fucktard John...", spoke a mechanical voice, John looked to the source to see Drew standing tall, burns healed partially, his coltan skull still showing slightly as his face hadn't healed completely. Cameron stared in disbelief, she climbed to her feet and staggered to Drew before lossing her footing and conciousness, Drew caught her in his arms, the flesh covering the lower half of his right arm tore off, leaving only the coltan endoskeleton behind. Drew suddenly got a horemone reading from Cameron and went pale. "She's pregnant....", he spoke finally, ".....and i'm the father..." he spoke again weakly, "how can that be even possible..." stuttered Sarah rather confused, "i don't know, all i know now is Cameron's safety is my number one priority now." spoke Drew firmly. Darek simply paced muttering about how the machines are becoming the perfect infiltrators. Drew simply lifted Cameron into his arms and walked toward the house.
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The Terminator walked toward the gunshop, as he did, he scanned the motorcycles out front and determined that the harley was the best mode of trasportation. he continued to the gunshop and entered, he drew his knife from his belt and drove it into the chest of the nearest customer, the customer looked at him in horror before toppling over lifeless, he continued foreward, snapping the neck of the next customer, he turned to the store keeper who was holding a double barrel shotgun, he was shaking nervously, the Terminator stepped foreward, the shopkeeper fired, the Terminator shuddered for a moment, then continued foreward, blood staining its shirt, the store keeper fired agian, this time the Terminator's head snapped back, some of the flesh covering its face had been torn open by the pellets. he continued foreward undaughnted. he shot his arm out quickly grabbing the shotgun, he flipped it around and fired on the shopkeeper. the shopkeeper stumbled backwards, gasping for air, as he tumbled downward to the floor lifeless. the Terminator read the shopkeepers name tag, "Colt, i like that name, it will be mine." he thought as he grabbed a pair of M160's and several ammo belts and a minigun. he slung the M160's on his back and tied the minigun to his newly aquired harley. he looked up at the moon and drove off into the night.
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Drew walked into Cameron's room, Cameron unconcious and wounded in his arms, he slowly made his way to her bed and carefully placed her on it. he looked at her slowly, "how can she be pregnant with my child?, we've never done anything like that, so how?", he wondered, "so, you know i'm pregnant...", spoke Cameron weakly, "...and that your the father." she squeaked, "yah, i know." spoke Drew softly as he stroked her cheek softly, "so are you going to leave me beacuse of this?" she spoke slowly as she began to sob. Drew leaned down and kissed her softly, "i'll never leave you, i'll always love you, and i'll always be here for you.", he spoke softly, she reached her arms around Drew and hugged him close, "I love you....", she whispered, "I love you too...", he whispered back. Drew carefully helped Cameron to sit up in her bed, he then reached under her bed and pulled out a pair of needle nose pliers. Cameron smiled shyly as she lifted her bloodied tank top over her head, her thin and trim figure helped extenuate her otherwise flawless breasts. Drew looked closely at the bulletholes that lined her shoulder and chest. he slowly raised the pliers to the first bullethole and carefully slid it into the hole, he twisted the pliers around sharply and tugged, slowly but surely the bullet slid out of the hole. he proceeded to remove the rest of the bullets one by one, after about thirty minutes, he had extracted the last of the bullets. she smiled shyly as he looked at her body, he grinned sheepishly as he reached under the bed and pulled out some tenser bandage, he carefully started to wrap her chest, he smiled nervously as he slowly brought the bandage around again and again. On the seventh circle he snapped the bandange and tucked the loose end neatly into the tightly wrapped bandage. Cameron stood up and walked over to her dresser and pulled out a plain white t-shirt, she slowly slid it over her head. she walked back over to the bed and began applying dressing to Drew's burns, soon his hands and ribs were wrapped in bandages. He leaned over and gave Cameron a peck on the cheek. he slowly stood up and slipped into a pair of Darek's pj's. He noted that they fit rather comfortably, a little snug in the crotch but otherwise ok. He walked over to Cameron's closet and pulled out a pillow and a sleeping bag. He layed the sleeping bag down on the floor of Cameron's room and carefully placed the pillow just above it, he laid down slowly and closed his eye's as sleep took him over. Suddenly he woke up, he saw Cameron squatting in front of him, She looked quite scared. He looked at her carefully, her cheeks were once more soaked in tears. "What's wrong Cameron?", he asked softly, "I threw up in my bed…", she said nervously. Drew slowly raised his head and glanced at her bed, she had indeed thrown up, her bed was soaked right through to the mattress. "Ok, you can sleep here with me in my sleeping bag." spoke Drew finally.
Cameron blushed slightly, "ok…thank you." She spoke softly, "No problem Cameron, after all you are the mother of my unborn child." Said Drew nervously as Cameron slowly slid into the sleeping bag. Cameron felt nervous she had never felt these feelings before, "Could this be true love?", she thought to herself as she curled up against Drew's warm body. She smiled as she slowly drifted to sleep. Drew lay there awake for a moment, "Tomorrows a new day." He thought to himself as he slowly fell asleep.
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Colt scanned through a school database while he rode his motorcycle down the long strech of highway. He had just begun scanning the Crestview Highschool database, when he had found his targets. They were John Reese, Cameron Philips, and Drew Murdock. Colt grined silently to himself as he accelerated down the highway. He sped past a police cruiser, who began chasing after Colt. Colt hear the siren but ignored it, he reached inside his jacket and produced a hand granade from the inside pocet of his jacket, he calmly pulled the pin and whipped it through the police cruisers windshield, the officer only had enough time to look down at the granade before the cruiser was engulfed by an explosion. Colt grinned a he continued to Crestview highschool, his targets only one hundred miles away.
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The house was filled with the smell of fresh cooked bacon, eggs and pancakes. John awoke to the pleasant aroma and quickly scrammbled to get dressed, he wore a black hoody with the words "No Fate", writen on it in white, a pair of ragged jeans and blue sneakers. He opened his door and walked over to the kitchen and saw Drew at the stove fliping pancakes. "What's for breakfast?", asked John sarcasticly, "Bacon, eggs and pancakes." said replied Drew, in the same sarcastic tone that John had used only moments before. As Drew placed the last pancake on the rather large stack of pancakes, Cameron walked in to the kitchen slowly, the smell of cooked bacon wafted through the air, she wore a turqouis t-shirt and tight fitting denim jeans, she smiled when she saw Drew at the counter cooking. Drew turned around with the large plate of pancakes in one hand and a bottle of molsen in the other. He carefully made his way to the table and placed it gentelly on the laminated wood. Cameron walked over to the table and sat down next to Drew, who was nibbling on a piece of bacon. Cameron smiled as Drew slid his hand into hers and held it gentelly.
Darek walked into the kitchen, a somber look on his face said that he'd been up all night thinking. He walked over to Drew and tapped him on the shoulder, "I need to talk to you in private....Now!", spoke Darek uneasily. "Huh?, sure.", replied Drew confused. Drew stood up and walked with Darek to the back door, they stepped outside and made thier way to the backyard, "Listen i got something here, that was really for you back before you were taken, but i guess i can give it to you now..." spoke Darek nervously. Darek cautiously walked over to the side of the garage and reached under the steps, he carefully slid out a large guncase and placed it on the ground, he carefully flipped open the snaps on the case and opened it, inside was a W2000 Custom Sniper Rifle, a very rare weapon, Drew wondered where darek had aquired one. Darek carefully handed the rifle to Drew. Drew was stnned at a Darek's generosity. "Thanks man, this is awsome definatly gonna take down some triple eight's with this." spoke Drew proudly, "Don't mention it man, now lets get back inside and eat." spoke Darek finally, "Sounds good to me." replied Drew. Darek walked over to the back door while Drew slung his new rifle over his shoulder, they both entered the house just as Sarah came into the kitchen. "Drew your going to school with John and Cameron, so please don't get into any trouble while your thier, i've taken the liberty of placing you in all of Cameron's classes for obvious reasons, so you'd better get going soon.", spoke Sarah tiredly. Drew looked at Sarah for a moment before grabbing Darek's car keys, "See you later then!", shouted Drew as he ran to Darek's car.
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Cameron closed her eye's as the wind blew through her hair as Drew drove down the highway toward Crestview Highschool, Drew's new rifle tucked safetly away under the back seat where John sat. Cameron slid her hand onto Drew's while he drove, Drew looked over at Cameron and smiled, he slowly lifted his hand and placed it on her cheek. Cameron placed her hands on his hand and held it thier, she slowly brought it to her mouth and kissed it softly. Drew smiled as the warm morning sun shone down on them, Cameron gentelly placed Drew's hand on her thigh while he drove. Drew looked into her deep brown eyes and leaned over and kissed her softly. The kiss was only supposed to have lasted a moment but it didn't stop, the kiss had become so passionate that the car had begun swerving around in traffic, their tounges swirling around in each others mouths. Drew suddenly felt someone hitting his shoulder, he slowly broke away from the kiss and realized that the car was swerving, he straightened out the car and continued driving. "Thanks John for snapping me back to reality." Drew said a little annoyed, he turned off the highway and sped up down the gravel road toward Crestview, the school now coming into view, he saw the parking lot entrance, and swerved into it and slammed the breaks hard, bringing the car to a stop. He unclipped his seat belt and swung open his door, he got out and closed his door and walked over to Cameron's side and opened her door, she slowly climbed out, looked at Drew and kissed him softly on the cheek. They walked over to the school with John in the lead, Cameron and Drew were holding hands as they walked behind him. John pointed to the principals office, " you'll wanna go their to get your schedule, I'll see you in chemistry in a few minutes." spoke John. Drew walked into the office with Cameron, He talk with the secretary for a few minutes, then was handed a schedule. He scanned over it quickly then shoved it into his pocket. He and Cameron walked into 's chemistry class slowly, Cameron took her seat while Drew took the empty seat next to her. "Hello their sexy, lemme show you what real man can do." spoke a cocky blond boy. Drew tilted his head slightly before grabbing the boy. He walked over to the window and dangled the boy outside of it, "so you gonna take back what you said to Cameron or am i gonna have to drop you, whats it going to be." asked Drew slightly annoyed, "sure sure, i take it all back, please don't drop me." pleaded the boy, "that's better." replied Drew as he pulled the boy back into the room. The boy took his seat and was quite. walked back into class and began teaching, about halfway through his lecture on the effects of radiation, a loud voice was heard. "John Conner i know your in their, come out now or i will kill every person in this school." shouted the voice. John, Drew and Cameron all stood up and ran over to the windows, they looked down and saw him, Colt was standing beside a black Harley Davidson, his mini gun aimed at the school, Colt glanced at the windows and saw John, he targeted him and opened fire, Drew saw this and pushed John and Cameron to the floor, just as the bullets began ripping through the wall. The students screamed and ran from the room, some suddenly dropped to the floor lifeless as they ran. "Get John out of here, I'll deal with him." spoke Drew finally, Cameron and John crawled along the floor to the door, as Drew stood up and began taking bullets from Colt's barrage of mini gun fire. Drew glanced at Cameron, seeing her go through the door, he looked out the window , he took a step back and ran at it, crashing through the pane, falling 3 stories to the parking lot, he got to his feet and assessed his foe. Colt was unflinching as Drew landed in front of him. Drew determined that Colt was a Unicorp TS-2500 model 101 unit. He ran at Colt slamming his shoulder into Colt's Chest, Colt staggered back a moment before cracking Drew with his mini gun, the mini gun broke apart as it hit Drew's head. Drew looked up at Colt and grabbed him, he forced him into the side of a parked mini van, Colt looked at Drew for a moment then grabbed him by the throat and lifted him into the air, with a small grin Colt threw Drew across the parking lot. Drew landed on the hood of Derek's SUV, "Crap, Derek is gonna be pissed now." he thought to himself as he got to his feet, he saw Colt sprint into the school, Drew quickly ripped the door off the SUV and reached under the backseat and pulled out his Custom W2000. He quickly looked at his chest, it was riddled with bullet holes and blood stains. He shrugged his shoulders and ran towards the school. Colt entered the gym and analyzed the students, he decided they were no threat to him and began walking forward when a shot rang out, Drew was at the door his Rifle aimed at Colt. Colt looked down to see a large chunk of flesh missing from his left thigh, He looked back at Drew and pulled a pistol and began firing, Drew rolled to the side and fired again, this time striking Colt's chest. Colt staggered back for a moment, then regained his balance and looked at his chest, he saw a large amount of flesh covering had be blown off and that his chest plating had been dented slightly. Drew fired again, catching Colt's forehead this time, Colt staggered back again. His facial flesh almost gone, save for his lower jaw. His coltan skull glistened in the light. Colt assessed his injury's and continued forward, before Drew could fire again Colt grabbed him and yanked the gun out of his hands, then threw him through the gyms concrete wall. Drew was motionless, Colt walked out of the gym silently as the students looked on in horror, Drew's lifeless body protruding from the gym wall. One student slowly reached out and touched one of the bullet holes on Drew's chest, Drew's head suddenly snapped up and his eyes flew open. He slowly pushed himself out of the wall and walked up to the nearest student. "Which way?", he asked sternly, the student pointed towards the gym door, "Thanks.", he spoke again as he picked up his rifle and slung it over his shoulder, he sprinted out of the room. As made his way up the stairs, he saw bodies littering the stairway, so much blood covered the walls and floors, he moved past the bodies and arrived at the top floor. He raised his rifle and scoped the hall, it was empty. Suddenly he heard Cameron scream, He sprinted down the hall and saw colt standing over Cameron his foot cocked back in preparation for a kick, Drew squeezed the trigger, nothing, it was jammed, Drew slapped his gun hard, a shell ejected, Drew fired at Colt, Colt lost balance and tumbled over, Colt looked at his knee, the flesh was missing and the joint was damaged, he slowly got back to his feet and looked at Drew, Drew fired again, blasting a hole through Colt's right shoulder. He stumbled backward, but continued forward, Drew fired again blowing the remaining flesh off of Colt's head, he stumbled back again, Colt charged at Drew and grabbed the rifle and threw it out the window. He then grabbed Drew by the throat and threw him to the floor beside Cameron, He continued past Drew and Cameron towards the teachers lounge. He smashed his way through the wooden door to the teachers lounge. John was hiding in the Closet, loading his pistol, suddenly the closet door swung open, John slowly looked up to see Colt pointing a glock at him, John raised his pistol and fired several times, Colt just stood still and slowly began squeezing the trigger, John closed his eye's and waited for death to take him. The sound of glass breaking snapped John back into reality, he opened his eye's to see Colt was no longer standing in front of him with a gun to his head. He slowly rose to his feet and stepped out from the closet, he saw a broken window and walked toward it, he looked down to see Colt's motionless body two stories below on the cracked pavement, "Help me!!!" screamed Cameron as she hung from a ledge about five feet below the window. John knew he wasn't strong enough to help her so he ran out into the hall to try and wake Drew. He looked down at Drew and tried to shake him, but it was no use, Drew was too heavy, suddenly Drew's eyes flew open and he slowly climbed to his feet. John showed Drew to the broken window in the teachers lounge, Drew looked down to see Cameron hanging from the ledge, "Help me Drew, Please!!!", She screamed as her fingers slipped from the ledge as she began to plunge to the ground, Drew dove out the window and grabbed Cameron in mid-air, he spun so that Cameron was on top of him. Seconds later Drew struck the pavement with Cameron on top of him, He lay motionless, blood oozing from his wounds. Cameron slowly rolled off of Drew and pulled her self to her knees, she looked at him carefully tears slowly running down her face, she laid her head down against his bloodied chest, Tears streaming down her face, she looked at his right pectoral, a broken parking lot sign post protruded about three feet into the air from it. "Cameron run!!!!" shouted John from the broken window, Cameron turned around to see Colt standing above her, he grabbed her by the throat and held her in the air, he slowly raised his left hand, the bare endoskeleton gleaming in the sunlight, she looked in horror as his left arm slowly transformed into a laser torch. He looked at her face, her eye's said it all, she was terrified, He grinned as he slowly brought the laser torch to her left cheek, the flesh began to bubble and peel away as it burned. Cameron screamed in agony as Colt continued to press the torch to her flesh. The loud revving of an engine cut through the air like a knife, John sitting in the driver's seat, he stomped his foot down on the gas peddle and drove toward Colt. Colt only had a moment to realize that a car was coming at him, he twisted his head toward it and saw it coming, the hummer slammed into Colt knocking him back, causing him to let go of Cameron. The car continued forward until it struck the buildings concrete wall, Colt pinned between the car's recked front side and the cracked wall, John wearily looked over the dash as he raised his head, blood oozed from a wound on his forehead as he tried to force the driver's side door open, it wouldn't budge. Colt slowly began to raise his head as he rebooted, he slowly began pushing against the hummer with his chest, the hummer began slowly squeaking back. John looked on in horror as the Colt forced the hummer back. Cameron looked over at Drew, his lifeless body splayed out on the pavement, a large amount of his chest plating was visible, some of his colten skull could be seen through the wounds on his face. Suddenly his eye's flickered open, he slowly raised his hands to the post that was sticking out of his right pectoral, he wrapped his fingers around it and began pulling, it slowly began to rise out of his chest plate, he tugged hard and it slid out completely, he tossed it aside as he carefully sat up, his black t-shirt clinging to his torn up chest in tatters. He looked at Cameron, she had a bad burn on her left cheek, some endoskeleton was visible through it. Cameron looked at the hole in Drew's right pectoral plating, the damage appeared to be affecting his body's power flow, it would have to be repaired soon or he cease to function at all. Drew knew what Cameron was thinking as she looked at him, "I'm sorry." he spoke suddenly, "i have to do this, it's the only way." he spoke sadly, Cameron knew he was right, but she didn't care, she would give anything for their to be another way to stop Colt, but their wasn't, Drew was going to self destruct while holding Colt. Drew saw colt pushing his way free of the car and wall, Drew scanned the car and saw John was trapped in it. "damn, this can't be happening." thought Drew as he ran up to the car, he placed his hands on the sides of the door and ripped it off the chassis, John jumped out and ran towards Cameron, who watched the man she had fallen in love with enter the final battle against Colt. Drew raised the door above his head and brought it down on Colt's skull, the door bent around Colt's skull, Drew threw the door to the side and saw his rifle by the other end of the parking lot, Drew looked at Cameron, her burn still apparent but healed somewhat more then before. "Cameron get my rifle and shoot him when i restrain him!" shouted Drew as he threw the hummer off of Colt, Colt looked at Drew for a moment before throwing a punch with his laser torch, Drew reeled back in pain as he felt the torch burn his arm. Drew looked at the burn, it was down to his endoskeleton, Colt stuck again, but Drew grabbed Colt's wrist and twisted hard, the sound of metal cracking was heard as sparks flew from the torch, the torch flickered out as Drew twisted Colt's wrist completely around. The torch was crushed and completely inoperable, Colt was not pleased with this as he deminstraited by catching Drew square in the jaw with a powerful right hook knocking Drew backwards. Drew regained his balance and grabbed Colt and put him in a bear hug. Drew kept Colt on the spot with every bit of strength he had, Colt continuously struggling against Drew trying to break free. Cameron dashed over to Drew's rifle and picked it up, she took aim and fired at Colt, blowing off the flesh on Colts left shoulder, She aimed and fired again, blowing off the flesh covering on his right arm, She took aim once more and fired, blowing a chunk out of Colt's abdomin. Cameron squeesed the trigger again but found the gun to be empty, she dropped it to the ground and ran towards John and took him by the hand and ran toward the school cafateria doors. Drew released Colt and struck him with a powerful left hook to the jaw. Colt was unaffected by this and grabbed Drew and threw him through the wall, Drew found himself in the abandoned carpentry classroom, He slowly rose to his feet and scanned the room, he saw a stainless steel crowbar and grabbed it. Colt looked at the hole in the wall momentarily before walking away, as he took his first step several police crusisers pulled up, the officers all piled out, their weapons raised, "What the hell is that thing?" one of them asked, "I don't know but we'd better take it down!" replied another as they opened fire on Colt. Colt walked foreward as the bullets simply bounced off his Colten endoskeleton, as he walked his right forearm transformed into a plasma cannon, He opened fire on the poor, unsuspecting officers, the first cruiser errupted in a massive fireball as officers scrammbled away, He fired again, this time killing most of the officers in a massive explosion that engulfed four of the crusiers in red hot flames. Drew emerged from the hole in the wall and charged at Colt, Striking him in the face with the crowbar, the crobar hooking itself on Colt's eyesocket. Drew ripped the crowbar forward, ripping open Colt's coltan skull, the complex circutry now visible. Drew drove his fist into the hole in Colt's skull, He pulled back hard ripping out Colt's Cpu chip. Colt stood still a moment as his right eye flickered wildly on and off, suddenly the light was solid again and Colt reached out and grabbed Drew by the throat, squeasing tighter and tighter, Drew knew he'd have to finish Colt off now before Colt finished him off. Drew flipped the crobar around in his hand and drove it up into Colt's skull, the end of the crobar just touching Colt's back up cpu, with the last of his strength , Drew shoved the crobar through Colt's cpu and out the back of his head, Colt went limp as his eye flickered again, the glow slowly faded away as Colt's hand released it's grip from Drew's throat. Drew stepped back from Colt's lifeless body, he looked at Colt's forearms carefully. "I might bee able to do something with these." he thought to himself as he snapped off Colt's right and left forearms. He carefully tucked them under his left arm and slowly walked away from Colt.
As he walked away, Colt's eye relit as he slowly raised his head, Colt suddenly charged Drew, who spun around and grabbed the protruding crobar and ripped it downward, severing the top half of Colt's head, his eye extinguised as he toppled lifelessly foreward. Drew kneeled over Colt and slipped his fingers into the hole on Colt's shoulder, he slowly peeled open Colt's chasis and ripped out Colt's fusion genorator to ensure Colt wouldn't come back again. He dropped the heavy piece of equipment onto the pavement and shattered it with a stomp of his foot. He slowly walked towards the cafeteria, he carefully opened the door and stepped inside. He saw John and Cameron hiding behind an overturned stainless steel table, he walked towards them slowly, as he got close to them he stumbled and fell forward, striking the floor hard. "Drew!!!" screamed Cameron as she saw him hit the floor, she ran over to him and kneeled down next to him. He slowly rolled over onto his back as Cameron carefully positioned her legs under his head. He looked up at her, her burn had almost healed, it was still red and somewhat blistered but it looked a whole lot better then it had a few minutes earlier. "Is he dead?" asked Cameron as she stroked his face gently, "I'd say he's dead, considering I tore off the top half of his head." spoke Drew weakly, "I'm pretty sure I'm going to need some repairs to the pectoral plating on my endoskeleton..." he squeaked, "I'll take care of that for you Drew." spoke John softly. Drew smiled as he looked into Cameron's eyes, he felt himself slowly drifting away, his head tilted to the side as he slowly began to lose consciousness. By now news vans had arrived with an excess of police officers to apprehend Colt, but for them it seemed as though Colt had escaped, Cameron knew what really happed to Colt, Drew had torn open his head and ripped out his power source and had snapped off Colt's forearms then hid Colt's body in the crawlspace beneath the auditorium floor. She knew their would be more, and she that Drew knew it too.
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John kneeled over Drew with a blowtorch in hand, his forehead dotted with beads of sweat as he worked to repair the damage to Drew's endoskeleton. "Ok Cameron are you ready with the treated coltan bar?" asked John loudly, "Almost, are you sure you know what your doing?" she asked nervously, "Yes, i know exactly what i'm doing." he shouted back, Cameron dipped the coltan in a large pot of sulfuric acid to acid treat it and bring the density to the same level as Drew's coltan chasis. She carefully lifted it out of the pot using steel tongs, she slowly lowered it into a barrel of ice water to harden the metal. She reached her hand into the barrel and grabbed the coltan bar and brought it over to John. John carefully touched the blowtorch to the bar and waited, it took about three hours before the end of the bar began to melt, John carefully let ooze around the hole in Drew's pectoral plating, soon the hole was sealed, John took a grinding saw to grind the new metal smooth, he then grabbed a rag and polished the pectoral plating. "Ok Cameron flip him over so i can repair the hole in his back." Cameron looked at Drew for a moment and carefully rolled him over onto his chest, John looked at the hole for a moment then he reached into his apron and pulled out an switch blade and carefully cut a square in the flesh around the hole and lifted it off, he took a wet rag and slowly wipped off the blood and dirt around the hole. John carefully dripped some molten coltan on the hole until it was sealed, he once again ground it down till it was smooth, then polished it with a rag. Cameron put her hand on John's shoulder, "Thank you for all your help John, you should go inside and rest." spoke Cameron softly, John nodded in agreement as he stood up and left the garage. Cameron looked down at Drew, she picked up a roll of guase and placed it on the table next to Drew, she carefully propped him up, she slowly wrapped the gause around his torso, when she had finished, she looked at his face, she carefully put some bandages on the large open wounds on the right side of his face.
She was surprised when she felt his hand on her's, "Careful, that spots a little sore." he said quietly, Smiling warmly as he looked into her eye's, Drew slowly leaned towards her and kissed her softly, Cameron blushed slightly as her lips met his, their tounges swirling gentelly in a frenzy of passion. When their lips finally parted, Drew slowly hopped down from the table and walked hand in hand with Cameron to the house.
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In a barn just off the I-14, electricity began to crackle in the air, winds were howling as electricity rippled through the bar, scorching the nearby cattle and horses, a glowing metalic orb slowly formed and began growing and growing, soon it had grown to size of a smart car, slowly it began to fad and the silouette of a man was visible, he stood up slowly, the smell off burnt meat was in the air, The man paid no attention to it, He slowly stepped out of the barn and walked toward the nearby farm house, as he stepped onto the porch, a farmer with a rifle stepped out and pointed it at him, The nude man did not stop he continued foreward, the farmer fired a round at the man, the man staggered back an inch but continued forward, the farmer raised his gun and fire at the man's face, the man stummbled back slightly but continued foreward, the light from the house soon illuminated the man's face, the metal beneath his flesh visible to the farmer. "what the hell are you..." spoke the farmer terrified. "Your worst nightmare." replied the man monotonusly.
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Three months had gone by rather quickly, life seemed to return to normal, Drew, Cameron and John went to school each day, although they had developed a tendancy to skip class a lot. Cameron had a very slight belly, and her breasts had grown slightly larger, Drew's wounds had almost completely healed up, his chest still had some scratches but other then that he was fine, He was rather happy that in six months he'd be a father. He and Cameron spent a lot of time togeather, while John hung out with Riley. Riley was smart, witty and very beutiful, she had bleach blonde shoulder length hair and kicking curves, John met her two weeks after Colt had attacked the school, He fell in love practically at first sight. She often came by the house a lot to see John. Sarah herself saw that John had never been happier in his whole life then when he first met Riley.
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Drew and Cameron walked down the street hand in hand, talking about the movie they had seen togeather a few hours earlier. Drew slipped his hand out of Cameron's and ran it along her small belly, Smiling as he did so, he then slid his hand back into her's and continued walking. A few hours later they arrived at home, Drew placed his plasma pistol on the dresser in Cameron's room. He had taken Colt's Plasma Cannon arm and re-enginered it into a hand held pistol like weapon. Aside from the glowing blue markings on the gun, it looked like an everyday pistol, origonally he'd had some trouble stabilizing the plasma relay but had fixed the problem by using circutry fom the laser torch arm he'd taken from Colt. In the months that followed the Colt incident, things had seemed pretty normal aside from the ocasional fall or cut, everything had gone back to normal, They knew they Judgement Day was still coming but for now it was a time to rest and relax and have a normal life or at least as close to normal as they could get. Drew and Cameron were now officially going steady, John and Riley were madly in love and everything seemed right in the world, but little did they know everything was all going to come crashing down around them.