Chapter Two
Year: 2026 (Original Timeline)
In the middle of the processing room, the body of a young girl lies on top of a table awaiting to have her chip inserted then ready to carry out her programmed mission. She's motionless and lifeless unaware of the battle that rages outside of the factory.
Outside the factory General John Connor and Cameron Connor lead an assault along with human and cyborg Resistance fighters, both of Skynets and John's forces are interlocked in a close quarters battle. As John continues towards the entrance to the factory holding tightly his Mark 3 Plasma Auto Rifle, he's suddenly struck by a plasma bolt to the shoulder, upon impact a few bits of metal are taken off his shoulder.
Instinctively Cameron jumps in front of John to protect, even though John has a Series 900 Hybrid Endoskeleton it doesn't mean he's invincible, Cameron takes a plasma bolt to her arm, immediately she returns fire with her Mark 3 Plasma Rifle putting down the T-950 that was shooting at both her and John.
The two of them take cover behind a burnt out HK Drone along with her T-999 escort, John was worried about the damage inflicted on Cameron.
"You alright?!" worry evident in his tone.
"I'm okay, John!" she shouts back.
John was about to pester her about not risking her life recklessly like that, but now wasn't the time as they were both in the middle of a battle-zone.
After a few moments John, Cameron and their T-999 escort make their way into the Skynet factory, luckily for them Cameron was able to stuff worm programs and malware into Skynets communications and satellites making it blind to everything that's going at the factory.
Before the assault John received intelligence from his forces that Skynet were making a new prototype cyborg, he didn't even have to persuade anyone into attacking the factory as everyone knew this had to be done, as John and Cameron along with their team scour the factory for the prototype, outside the fighting is dying as Skynets forces are dwindling fast they were not prepared for this surprise assault.
After a while John and Cameron come upon a processing room, they look through the door windows to find a person lying upon the table, they walk in followed by the T-999's, as they get closer it's obvious to them that it's the new prototype. Cameron scans the figure identifying it as a new model that has been recently made.
On the control panel behind the table is screens showing the details of this new prototype, John walks over to the panel pressing a few buttons, as he does so he sees things that both scare him and awe him.
"Look at this" he says to Cameron motioning for her to come and look, as she walks up beside him she takes in the data.
"It's a codename is TX-2"
Cameron takes a closer look, her eyes widen in interest "That's interesting" she deadpans.
John looks to her confused "What is?"
"This prototype doesn't have to make contact with any human being to take form it can create one itself, it has nanobot deposits for both repairing itself and other machines..." she continues to read the data scrolling across the panels before them "...it has nanobot composite of mimetic poly-alloy meaning it's outer shell can detect incoming projectiles harden the mimetic poly-alloy on impact rendering plasma bolts and projectiles virtually useless against it"
John looked at Cameron in fear, if this thing gets out on the field they'd either have no chance or it'll take a hell of a lot firepower to put it down.
"And that brings onto the other point..." Cameron continues taking John out of his daze "...this prototype has a main power cell like myself and other cyborgs, but for its nanobot mimetic poly-alloy it has a rechargeable power cell"
"Jesus Christ" was all John could mutter out, he looks to his left seeing the chip for the prototype it's about to go through its last stages of programming, Skynet Parameter Blocks. John rushed over quickly pulling the chip out of the port, he looks to the T-999's standing idly in the room awaiting orders.
He points to the body "Take the body with us"
The T-999's don't question his orders they immediately hoist the body out of the factory, John is about to leave the room when Cameron stops him, he looks at her questioningly.
"What is it Cam?"
She looks worried "Are you sure it's the right thing to do? What if it goes bad?"
John sighed "I don't know...but I know we have a better chance programming it ourselves instead of Skynet" he gave her a reassuring smile then kissed her passionately on the lips, she herself returned the favor. When they pull away John looks at Cameron seeing the sad smile on her face, he knew Cameron cared about him too much to let him do something she thought was reckless, but she knew herself that John was right they had a better chance at programming the cyborg themselves instead of not.
After their intimate moment they head outside to meet the rest of their forces then head back to base, having a lot of work to do ahead of them.
John had been in his private quarters since returning from the assault on the factory just over an hour ago, he's been looking through the TX-2 chip studying it, while programming the chip without Skynet's influence. Suddenly someone looks into the room, they wrap their arms around him comfortingly then plants a kiss on his cheek, John turns to see Cameron grinning at him.
"Hey" he says enthusiastically.
"Hey" she replies, after all these years being with John she grown accustomed to using many humans actions and phrases.
John remembers the incident where she could of gotten herself killed at the factory, he thinks now is the right time to talk about it.
"Cameron...about what happened at the factory..." he starts saying until Cameron interrupts him.
"I'm sorry, John...I felt the need to protect you at that point" she gives him a sad smile.
John couldn't but smile at the cute innocent look on Cameron's face "It's okay I understand...just please don't be reckless...I don't know what I'd do without you"
Cameron smiles at the kind words then leans forward kissing him on the lips, he returns the favor, she then looks to the laptop on the desk.
"How's the programming going...for the chip?" she asks.
John smirks "It's weird to be honest, the chip is similar to yours designed to learn and imitate human actions and emotions...but the body is designed to be 'tank' in so many words"
"A tank?" Cameron asks tilting her head.
John chuckles even though Cameron has learned so much and developed over the years, she didn't know everything that's what he liked about her, to still be able to teach her things, "A tank...it means the prototype in so many words was designed to withstand and deal damage to the equivalent of a tank"
"Oh, thank you for explaining" she replies giving him a genuine smile.
"You wanna help me with the programming on this...seeing it's a newer chip?" John smirks pointing at the laptop.
Cameron smiles then pulls up a seat next to him, the two of them immediately get to work on programming the chip for the Resistance, both of them enjoying the closeness and time that they're having together.
After so many hours of programming John and Cameron finally finished, immediately they head to the room where the TX-2 was placed on arrival, as they enter both he and Cameron realize the excessive cyborg personnel ready to react if things went south.
John and Cameron walk up to the body, with is wife standing close beside him, as soon as he inserts the chip both he and Cameron take a few steps back and the cyborg soldiers within the room aim their weapons at the TX-2. It wasn't long before the eyes to the TX-2 opened, the girl shot up from the table, looking around scanning the various cyborg soldiers then John and Cameron.
The girl in front of John and Cameron just stares at them curiously.
"Uh...hello" John says.
"Hello" the girl replies immediately.
"Do you have a name?"
The girl suddenly looks down sadness evident in her eyes "No"
John thought through various names, he always wanted children but due to his nature of being half man and machine and Cameron incapable of reproducing it was therefore impossible, he always wanted a daughter called Cayden even Cameron knew this.
"Let's call you Cayden" John smiles at the girl.
Suddenly Cayden's eyes lighted up blue and a smile appears on her face "I like that name"
John smirks as for Cameron she just smiles at the cute innocent actions of the girl before them, reminding herself of how she use to once act like even when she first meet John back in 1999.
John suddenly speaks up cheerfully "Okay we got a lot to do...let's get this boat rolling"
Cayden suddenly tilts her head at John, confused, "I do not understand, boats cannot roll, they sail upon water?"
John smiles at the statement "It's a saying...it means we need get going" he explains.
Cayden straightens her posture then produces a sweet smile on her face "Thank you for explaining"
John had been out meeting with the other military leaders of the Resistance both human and cyborg, in the last few months both John and Cameron have taken it upon themselves to teach Cayden, after a while she became like a daughter to them.
As John walks into the quarters of both his, Cameron and Cayden he doesn't expect anyone to be inside, he knew Cameron was away in the Cybernetics Division for the afternoon helping to find new ways in improve the T-999's. As he walks into his and Cameron's bedroom he jumps at the sight of Cayden not expecting her to be there.
In her hands she had a book, John soon recognized the book, The Wizard of Oz.
Cayden looks up innocently "I'm sorry, I was just looking around when I came across this book" she says pleadingly.
John just chuckles "It's alright just warn me before hand" he then places his belongings on the corner table taking a seat next to Cayden on the bed.
She's in deep reading when she suddenly looks to John confused, "I don't understand...why did the Tin Man want a heart?"
John looked at her sadly "Because he wanted to show people that he was more than metal...that he was alive and felt emotion"
"But he must have had a heart to do that...could I get one?"
John smirked "It's not about getting a heart or using one...you don't need a heart to show people you care for them...you just need to know right from wrong"
Cayden's eyes started to widen in happiness but not too much "So I don't need a heart to show people that I care for them?"
"No you don't" John smiles at her.
In response Cayden wraps an arm around John then she quietly says "Thank you, Dad"
Author's Notes
So I've been getting this question a lot from readers asking me, who the new characters are based off (in terms of real life people) and I always respond with the answer 'The looks doesn't matter, it's the personality of the character that matters'.
With that being said I have decided to put up a little fun game for all of those who want to join in, starting from today you post me images of actors or actresses or fan art drawing of the new characters whom you wish them to look like.
After a week or more I'll be looking through the entries and choosing my favorite ones either real life people or fan art that I believe represents the characters I've created best. You'll be allowed to tweet them to me, PM me on here, email me them etc. On my profile I'll put links to contact information so you can send your entries in :D!
Finally sorry for the slower updating schedule, some of you will know that I am currently working on my on Cyborg Novel series that takes popular tropes from various franchises as well as my own.
Anyway hope you enjoyed the chapter and I'll see you on the next one!
