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Check In #0032: Exploration and Investigation Unit 1 aka EIU Unit 1.

Data: Humans thrive in small villages and towns. Low technology. Violence remains rampant. Advice: Send out small extermination force to finish priority #1.

Current Mission: Power Source Not Yet Located. Will Continue Search. Human Remnant puts up little resistance to search. End Transmission.

End Report #0032

Report Received at 1800 Hours

Skynet Reply: Transmission Received. Continue Mission. Will Send Units to Investigate Human Remnant. Power Source Must be Located. End Reply.

The Terminator opens its eyes and activates motor functions. It rises to its feet and slowly walks forward out of the empty, blood filled inn. It pushes open the door and strolls down the street. Screams start filling the village when the delivery boy finds what is left of the innkeepers. The Terminator ignores the screams and continues onward, still focusing on the location of the power spike.

In an Underground Chamber Elsewhere on the Planet:

Five puddles of metal float in stasis. The stasis field drops and they slosh onto the floor. The metal morphs and rises up to form five bodies. The figures glance at each other before examining their hands and the rest of their bodies. "Proceeding to the desert," they say simultaneously. Five metal doors whiz open when they approach. Sand explodes outward and the liquid metal Terminators step out onto the sand.

Same Time at the Sand Village:

Shukaku the one tailed demon raccoon towers over the village wall. The Kazekage stands proudly with his weak wife at his feet. He holds his son in one arm while doing one handed hand signs and focus chakra into the seal on his son's stomach.

"Name him…Gaara," whispers the Kazekage's wife.

The Kazekage ignores her as Sand Ninja throw wind and sand attacks at the huge demon to keep him distracted. He shouts, "Seal!"

The demon Shukaku roars, "No! I cannot be defeated! I'm the great Shukaku!" His yell is filled with pure rage as the seal slowly drags him into imprisonment. Gaara's mother breathes her last and the demon is sealed.

Miles away:

The Terminators impassively watch the demon disappearing in the distance and continue their trek onward. Their eyes zoom in on the distant figure of the Kazekage, who is ordering his wife to be buried and his son to be taken away to the Kage's Tower.

The Kazekage wipes his brow and looks out across the desert contentedly, now that the demon has been vanquished. He spots the five figures in the distance. Frowning, he calls his elite guard to him and waits.

Slowly approaching the village, the terminators flex their fingers and eye the men standing on top of the wall. When they get within earshot, the Kazekage shouts, "What is your business here?"

The Terminators exchange glances and start running towards the wall. The Kazekage and his men drop to the sandy ground. The Anbu pull out their weapons and brace themselves. The Kazekage swallows a soldier pill and shouts, "Wind Style: Slicing Wind Blade!" A blade of wind forms in his hand and he throws it at the closest opponent. The wind slices cleanly through the Terminator, but the liquid metal quickly fills in the hole left in its chest. The Kazekage jumps back while drawing a kunai just in time to block the terminator's hand extending into long sharp blades. He jumps back up onto the wall, his men easily massacred by the liquid metal monsters. He runs through hand signs as the terminators slowly climb the wall, their eyes locked on him. He shouts, "Sand Coffin!"

The sand from the desert reaches up and yanks the five figures from the wall and encases them. He pushes his hand forward and the figures are dragged away from the wall. Grunting from exhaustion, the Kazekage states, "Desert Sand Burial!" The sand pulls the five machines deep underground and crushes them. He sighs and slowly turns to walk back to the village. He climbs up onto the wall and is about to leap across the rooftops to his office when sand explodes once more and the liquid metal men crawl out of the desert. "I'm getting tired of you," the Kazekage growls. He gestures and more Sand Anbu surrounds him. "They're liquid metal of some kind. Kill them."

The shinobi drop to the ground and rush forward, throwing wind blades and sand shuriken at the intruders. They get knocked back a few steps, but they keep coming. "Execute," drone the machines. The Kazekage narrows his eyes and drops down to his men. "Sand Style: Sand Tsunami!" The surrounding ninja throw their hands to the ground in sync with him, adding their chakra to the jutsu. A tidal wave of sand approaches the intruders. The terminators take one look at the sand wave and say in a monotone voice, "Retreat." They turn to run when the sand wave hits them and carries them further out into the desert.

"Finish them!" the Kazekage shouts.

The ninja nod and say simultaneously, "Huge Desert Sand Burial!" They slap their hands against the sand and the terminators are sucked into a whirlpool of sand and are pushed several hundred feet under the sand. The pressure gets too high for them to move.

Report #0033 Unit Five. Designation: Search and Destroy Human Life Forms.

Data: Humans use unknown energy to manipulate the element of Sand and Wind. Sending Combat Data Now. Combat Data Sent. Human resistance proves formidable. Caution Advised. Requesting backup in Section Alpha Beta Gamma 24. Transmitting Location of Unit Five. Location Transmitted. End Transmission.

Report Received at 0800 Hours.

Skynet Reply: Transmission Received. Combat Data Received. Location Received. Analyzing human military strength. Sending Unit Six of SAD(Search And Destroy) to assist. Will attempt retrieval of confined unit before moving on to attempt to destroy human settlement. End Reply.

The liquid metal machines receive the reply and power down. They gradually lose shape until they are self contained metallic puddles once more.

In the Sand Village, the Kazekage and his shinobi walk back to the village. He climbs up onto the wall and glances over his shoulder warily. After a few minutes, he decides that they are not coming up this time and leaps across the rooftops. He lands in his office window and strolls in outwardly calm, though inwardly in turmoil over the strange enemies. The Kazekage glances over reports and finally looks over to the crib where the small red-haired baby lies.

Peering down into the crib, the Kazekage whispers to himself, "It seems I was right to seal the Shukaku in him. We'll need him if more of those things come."

At Konoha's Gates:

"State your name, business, and country of origin," says a Chunin in a bored tone. His equally bored comrade sits up and stares at the man in front of them.

The muscular man says in a monotone voice, "Arnold, to find possible ways of containing large power sources, and I have none."

The second Chunin frowns and inquires, his hand resting on his weapons pouch, "Everything has chakra, even civilians. Why am I sensing none from you? Are you suppressing it?"

"Of course," 'Arnold' drones.

The first Chunin scowls, "Only ninja can suppress chakra!"

"I am a ninja," states Arnold.

The Chunin draw their weapons. "You just said you were searching for energy containment measures, not that you were a ninja! I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to come with us. Ninja without a country are missing nin!"

"I am afraid I cannot obey your request," drones Arnold. He lunges forward and plunges his fists deep in each of their chests. They stab at his face, arms, and chest to no avail. The Terminator does not flinch as the sharp objects slice open his artificial skin. He pulls out their hearts and crushes them. After wiping off his hands on one of the Chunin's shirts, he pulls off a clean headband and Chunin vest from one of the bodies. He ties the headband as he saw them wearing it over their forehead and snaps the vest in place. He stoicly enters the village.

An hour later, the next shift walks up and finds their dead comrades. "Put the village on alert!" a ninja shouts. "We have an infiltrator!"

Arnold hears the screaming from his hotel window and states, "Infiltration complete. Tracking Power Source Now." He sits on the bed and his eyes glow a dark red.


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