This is a 2 part storyline regarding the original intended ending from "terminator salvation" If you have not seen the movie I urged you not to read these, if you have or you know the storyline, enjoy and review.

Part 1

John Connor is dead

Kate Brewster is in the OR trying to hold together the man she loved to call her husband, the infamous JOHN CONNOR now de facto leader of the resistance after central command was blown to pieces by one of SKYNET many traps.

(Internal Monologue)

What was the last thing he said to me: I'll be back.

He was back all right, hack to pieces by a terminator….

He looses so much blood that I know I can't stooped it…actually I now I can't stop it…but this is not another wounded soldier coming to my OR, this is my husband…I have to try, for him, for me, for the baby…I have to try.

It looked like he heard my thoughts…he touched my face and his eyes just went blank…I had to cry, I wanted to cry…only that I couldn't…I shed all my tears throughout the years of struggle and suffering and I seem to run out of fresh tears for my husband…he deserved better than that….he always did; he never back down to the promise that he made his mom….how hard he tried to please her memory and the valor and courage that permeated though him onto his troops….I never seen more loyal soldiers, the felt they were on the verge of greatness, the stuff of fairytales are made off.

Kate knew that he had to break it to the team, she couldn't keep it any longer….they needed a solution, something to say to the troops before the rumors eat away at the already low moral…

Kate came out of the OR; as soon as they saw her bright eyes…they knew as soon as she walked out, there was something missing in her bright eyes…

Barnes fell down on his knees holding a couple of crucifixes between his hands, he seemed…lost, like Saint Peter being deprived of his god…he was lost without his fatith, and without JOHN CONNOR that was pretty much what he had.

I can't hear his words but I think he is praying…he better be…for all of us. Blair is holding Marcus and she is crying in his arms… no matter how resilient a combat fighter is, we are human beings…. We need comfort…even from a machine.

I look away from JADA… I can't face the kid, how could I tell her that Superman is dead? We must find a solution… it seems that I was not the only one with that concern…

-"What are we going to do?"- Kyle Reese was the first to bring the subject in hand.

-"what can we do?"- Barnes replied with a broken voice….the voice of lost hope.

-We must do something! - Blair Williams responded with determination.

-I'll do it! - Marcus grave voice resounded in the hall with thunderous determination, everybody in the room was caught off guard, the idea of taking MARCUS using his cyborg body and grafted with JOHN CONNOR skin would have been impossible just hours ago, but decision must be made, the fight continues.

-You….sure you want to do this- Kate's voice was affected and she tremble a little bit.

- Take my body!- that was Marcus answered, if it had to be done, it should be done right now.

Blair stepped back trying to understand what has transpired here, JOHN CONNOR is dead, but is he? But who is JOHN CONNOR? For the few that had met him he is a natural leader, a powerful man with a lot of determination…but for the hundreds that listen to his nightly broadcast he is the "voice of hope"…the "prophet"…the only thing between hope and final desperation…. But what did he mean by I'll do it?

-I don't want to be a part of it! - Barnes said while walking out of the room…. He was appalled by the decision that was being made.

-It's ok! - Kyle's confidence was growing by the minute… he quickly understood that John Connor couldn't and shouldn't die if they want to win this war.

Blair turn her back to his fellow brothers in arms, she figure it out…. It's not that she didn't understand what was happening, it was that she didn't want to understand…she had grown fond of MARCUS, a lot more than she care to admit….she saw the man in him, even if she knew now he was all metal, she never look at him with morbid curiosity and she never felt disgusted. Even while kissing him, as far as she knew he was a good man.

Blair pulls back and violently and with passion telling Marcus goodbye….she quickly left the room.

-Are you ready? - Kyle looked at Marcus with respect.

-Remember that I told you never to aim a shotgun if you are not going to pull the trigger?.... he quickly added: Kate, pull the trigger!

Kyle slowly left trying to understand the weight of the decision they just made…. So this is what it felt to have the weight of the world in your shoulders….not an easy job.

Kate knew she only had the rest of the night to complete the task…it shouldn't be too hard to peel off the skin of the robot, after all you can't kill him and pain is not an issue, but desecrating his late husband body was something else…. She needed to mustard all her inner strength she had, if there was any left.

Everybody deserves a second chance, this is mine!

The scalpel felt cold and he immediately shut down, he didn't need to be awake for what was going to happen next.

PRIMARY PROTOCOL….. COMPLETED

SECONDARY PROTOCOL….. COMPLETED

ALTERNATE EMERGENCY PROTOCOL…. STAND BY