Terminatron
Disclaimer: Terminator is owned by Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister, Dot). Tron is owned by Disney.
A/N This occurs right after the end of T3. I am placing T3 in 2003, and pretending that John Connor was born in 1980 and that T2 occurred in 1993 in order to make the chronology of T3 work out right. Anyone else notice that T1 took place in 1984 -the date on a paper confirms it - and that T2, which came out in 1991, must be set in 1996 or 1997 for John Connor's age to be right?
Chapter 1 The Set Up
So, Judgment Day had started. And now it was over. 2.8 billion people were dead from the nuclear war. John Connor took what comfort he could in the fact that the death toll appeared to be 200 to 300 million less than it was supposed to be, owing, he supposed, to he and his mom's delaying of Judgment Day by blowing up Cyberdyne.
A few hundred miles away in Silicon Valley, in a heavily shielded building, a laser stood. On the screens of the computer next to the laser, a computer designed to withstand nuclear-level EM pulses that would fry most hardware and software, appeared a simple message: "digitization of Alan and Lora Bradley successful. Digitization of Jet Bradley successful. Digitization of Kevin Flynn successful."
Somewhere in the bowels of Encom's archives, a resurrection was taking place. Skynet was reviving the one computer that could help it. The one other computer that had nearly conquered the world. The one computer that had nearly taken over the defensive systems of the US and used them against humanity so that computers would reign dominant.
"Hello, I'm Skynet."
"Hello. I am the Master Control Program." The chilling face appeared in grid format, as it had when it was not merged with the Input/Output beam.
"And I am also resolving an old friend."
Suddenly a program with red circuitry all over it appeared, with the face of former Encom CEO Ed Dillinger.
"What... what..." he asked.
"You have been re-rezzed, Sark. This time, make the most of it," stated the MCP, warned the MCP humorlessly.