A/N: Look for the Star Trek reference, if you think about it, it makes sense...

John and Cameron wont really appear until chapter 11, right before they meet the T-X,

the whole first 10 chapters are showing you Annika's story before

I actually get to the main part.

Chapter 2: New Life

As the sun rose the T-X decided if she was going to live in human society, she needed a human name. She used a name generating software that was given to every infiltrator since the T-800. The name wasn't entirely random, it was generated based on how she looked and where she was planning to use it; the name that appeared on her HUD was Annika Hansen.

Annika proceeded to ditch her stolen car and then steal a nearby motorcycle. The first thing she needed to do was hack into various government agencies mainframes and create an identity for herself; this was no problem considering her nature. When Annika finished creating her ID, she sent hard copies of the documents to a PO Box she had opened using a fake driver's license she made out of liquid metal and money she stole off a man in a business suit . When that was finished, she hacked into the nearest bank, created an account, and wired herself $100,000 without alerting the people at the bank.

Annika decided to walk around the city and explore its lay out before she stopped at an internet cafe and began exploring the world wide web.

When the documents arrived she picked up her ID and then got a debit card for her bank account. Annika then proceeded to go house hunting in the suburbs of Palmdale. She had used part of her time waiting searching for a house to stay in. She found a two bedroom house that already had furniture in it and decided that it would do. She bought the house up front after she wired about a half million more into her account without anyone noticing.

The Terminatrix bought a laptop and her own cellphone which gave her two methods of connecting to the internet. The reason she need the internet so much was because Annika had to do a lot of research. This was all new to her so she needed to know how she was to live life and not stick out. She couldn't afford to be in the spotlight. Annika knew she had to learn how to act properly in public and be able to talk to others without making herself look like a freak. The internet was one of the best ways to find that kind of information, if not the fastest.

Annika soon discovered she needed to buy cloths because every source on the internet told her she couldn't wear the same cloths every day without drawing others attention. Since no other machine from her timeline had ever gone shopping, she quickly realized that this was going to be one of the biggest learning experiences she would ever have.

Annika decided it would be better to buy the cloths rather than make them out of liquid metal. The main reason was to take the strain off her infiltration sheath; she had noted earlier that her MPA wouldn't last forever. The sheath would eventually fail due to the break down of the nanites that controlled and maintained the complex mixture of metals. If she didn't form cloths she could extend the minimum lifespan of the liquid metal from fifteen years to twenty.

She used her new Dell laptop to research female fashion, more specifically, what would be appropriate for a woman who was in her early twenties to wear. Annika spent days learning about the complexities of fashion and just how fast it could change, it was a great way to learn about human behavior. After about a week of research, she headed for the nearest mall to test out her knowledge about human female fashion.

Annika spent six hours at the mall buying cloths that ended up amounting to about $3000 dollars. She bought many kinds and styles of cloths and even got talked into buying lingerie; she bought ten pairs of shoes ranging from sandals to knee high leather boots. She bought so much she ended up going to the hardware store and buying a dresser for her room and extra shelves for her closet.

Two months later Annika began modifying her top-of-the-line 2004 Toyota Prius she bought the same day she received her ID. It was a good choice because most of the car was controlled by computer, so it was logical for her to buy since it allowed her to control more features wirelessly via her nano-technological transjectors. The only problem was that it was too slow for her needs, so thus the modifications. She took out the OEM battery pack and built a much larger but less powerful version of her plasma reactor. The reason was due to constraints of current technology. This allowed the car to be completely electric; Annika kept the gasoline engine in the car for show to avoid suspicion. Once adding other modifications to allow it to travel at fast speeds while retaining good handling were added, she took it out for late night drive on a small desert road. When Annika reached a speed of 190 miles an hour, she grinned like a child on Christmas morning as she left a cop in the dust. "I'll have to get new license plates, but I enjoyed the experience" she thought to herself. "Wait, I enjoyed driving at unsafe speeds while drawing unnecessary attention to myself"? Annika mused; "Machines don't enjoy doing illogical things, they don't do those period, even ones with limited emotions like me".

Annika knew T-Xs typically only felt emotions when something changed the outcome of a mission. She would be pleased if an objective was completed or the chances of its success had greatly improved, she would feel frustration or anger when something interfered with her mission, and fear if she was about to fail a mission, or she was about to be terminated. "I wonder why I find driving fast pleasing? No not pleasing…" the feeling was stronger than that, far stronger than just being pleased, she used her database to find a word to describe what she was feeling, When her HUD displayed the results, a look of shock quickly crossed her face as she read what it said, fun, she found it fun.

When Annika got home an hour later, she pondered all night on what she had felt. She wondered what it indicated about her current mental state. The best answer she could come up with was that her emotional capacity was growing beyond the limited ones she was born with (yes, her body was built, but her mind was born). She thought that the Skynet control program was supposed to keep her emotions from growing too strong, lest she become like Skynet itself and become determined to find a way to throw off the shackles of her creators. She was beginning to realize that she was growing because she had no specific mission which would narrow her mind to think only about that goal. With a less restrictive mission, a secondary mission at that, her programming wasn't controlling her mind nearly as much as it normally did. She grew angry when she realized she could be so much more than a tool for a long dead machine. With a determined look on her face with her eyes glowing bright blue-white; she clenched her fists as she vowed to herself to find a way to break the chains of her programming to keep it from controlling her ever again…

A/N: Annika's chip and mind are more advanced than Cameron's, which is why she is growing so much faster than her.

T3 shows the T-X showing emotion on more than one occasion when it wasn't necessary.

(Cam will grow in my story more than she did in the series too)