A Mothers Gift

The bandits stared at Catherine in horror as they watched her kill their leader. Then as they watched their leader fall to the ground they clearly saw what had killed him, the strange woman's arm had turned metallic with her forefinger taking the shape of a spike that she had used to impale their leader through his mouth into his head killing him nearly instantly. They all stood frozen to the spot unable to move, terror keeping them in place as the strange woman stood staring at them with curiosity as her arm morphed back to normal as though she were just an ordinary woman.

"Now about that information I wanted." They heard the woman speak.

"W...w...what d...do you w...want to know?"

"For starters you can explain to me why the human race is not mounting any type of formidable attack against SkyNet?"

"W...what attack, who would attack SkyNet that would be suicide." One of the bandits said incredulously.

"But why? Why haven't you tried an attack before surely you would at least have attempted to fight back." She said.

"Well...yeah people did try at first couple of years ago the remaining military Generals from all over the world united what forces they had left and tried to fight but SkyNet beat them."

"What all of them?" Catherine actually sounded a little shocked and a little worried at this revelation.

"Well most of them I mean a few probably survived but only a handful all the main players were wiped out...well bar like one General ."

"A General survived?" Catherine enquired.

"Maybe it's just a rumour I heard a while back apparently one of the Generals was out on this big mission for the resistance but while he was out doing that SkyNet found the rest of them somehow apparently I heard it was linked to what the General was doing."

"Where is this General?" Catherine demanded.

"No idea." The bandit said with a grin.

Frowning Catherine took a threatening step forward towards the bandit who quickly lost the grin.

"Hey...hey I'm telling the truth ok...I don't know, no one does this stuff happened nearly 10 years ago ok you'd be lucky to find someone still alive from that time that knows more than that let alone the General, he's probably dead."

"It's not just the General I'm looking for." She answered calmly.

"Then who?" he asked.

"The surviving resistance members there experience and knowledge could be used to train and rebuild the resistance with the surviving humans."

"Hahahaha they won't do it." He said laughing as did the other bandits.

"And why not?"

"The same reason the survivors didn't do it straight after the Generals were killed, no one will trust anyone else there are camps and groups of humans sure but they don't help each other or contact each other or even trade with each other. Everyone is too scared of the Grays and the machines you live longer if you just keep your head down and do what the machines say."

"They have lost hope in themselves and any hope of winning the war." Catherine deduced.

" This isn't war" he said laughing "it's paradise."

Catherine stared at him in confusion before he continued.

"With the machines running things there are no rules, no laws, no prison we can do whatever the hell we want to whoever we want and never have to worry about someone coming after us." He aid laughing. "And the measures some people go to survive...well let's just say it's been a very pleasurable way of life for us." He said grinning lecherously.

Catherine stared at him for a moment before continuing.

"If General John Connor had ever met you he would have killed you without a second thought."

"Who?" he said.

"Just think yourself lucky you never had to meet him." Catherine said before decapitating him by morphing her arm into a long thin blade similar to that of a sword.

The remaining bandits fired their plasma rifles at Catherine as they saw another of their group fall, the plasma shots merely melted into her form leaving her unharmed then she heard one of them mumble 'T-1001'.

Turning her attention to the one that had spoken she questioned him about it.

"You've seen my model before? Where?"

"I...in exterminations I, we... after attacks people are weak and give in easy, the T-1001's I've seen all lead their own units of T-888." He said.

"What T-1001's do not lead petty ground strikes we are the personal detail that protect the SkyNet core base." Catherin said angrily as though she was insulted by the idea.

"What?" he said in desperate terror with confusion written across his face.

"Never mind it does not concern you." She said as she advanced towards them.

"Wait" one of them cried out desperately "we can help you find those resistance fighters you can't find them yourself."

But Catherine simply stared at him before morphing both arms into spikes and extending them a an impressive speed impaling both bandits through the chests.

"It's what we do."


Derek chuckled as Kyle pulled himself to his feet after Allison had decked him.

Grumbling as he picked himself up off of the ground Kyle glared angrily at Allison's retreating form.

"You've only got yourself to blame." Derek said laughing at the dirty looks Kyle was shooting at Allison.

"What how is it my fault?" Kyle growled angrily.

"You know what you did, you should know better than to provoke a woman."

Kyle snorted "She isn't a woman she still just a kid."

"She's 19." Derek said looking at Kyle incredulously.

"DEREK" A voice shouted.

Turning around Derek saw that it was Ando rushing towards him.

"What is it?" Derek asked.

"We found bandits, dead bandits four of them up on the surface not far from here can't have been killed more than a day or 2 ago ."

"Terminators?" Derek questioned.

"Looks that way" he said nodding his head "Looks like it was a T-1001, they where all stabbed to dead with no Plasma burns only clean cut wounds." Ando said.

"Shit! EVERONE GET BACK HERE NOW." Derek screamed.

Within a minute every one of the resistance fighters were standing around Derek.

"Ok people we have a T-1001 loose out there probably with a team of T-888 with it so we are going to scout out and see what we can find if you dins anything do not I repeat do not attempt to take them on get back to us and ...we'll figure something out ok." Derek said as everyone nodded.

"Wait Derek before we go there's something you should see we found something in one of the rooms down here and well it's just weird you need to see it for yourself." The resistance fighter said.

Derek stared at the man for a moment before addressing the other fighters.

"People hold your positions here while I go and check this out."

"Ok Mike lead the way." Derek said to the fighter.

Mike lead Derek down a hallway and past a few doors before turning into one on the left at the end of the hall where a broken lift lay rusting away.

"It's in here Derek." He said pointing into the room.

Inside the decaying room lay a lot of broken machinery laptops, projectors and hard drives as well as a lot of other things but the interesting thing about the room was that a good portion of the floor was missing and below it lay a plain black coffin.

"A coffin" Derek said with a raised eyebrow to Mike "So some lucky fuck actually had a proper funeral, good for them what's so important about this?" he asked Mike.

"Take a closer look." Was all Mike said.

Sighing Derek carefully hopped down onto the coffin gripping his flash light and stared at the upper part of the coffin.

"What the fuck." Derek whispered staring at the Coffin "Get Connor" he growled.

Mike immediately did as he was told and rushed out of the room, down the hallway and towards the door where Allison was keeping watch over Connor.

Bursting through the door Mike found himself wide eyed at a Plasma rifle pointed right at his head.

Swallowing hard Mike tried to speak.

"Er...erm D...Derek wants to see Connor."

Huffing a sigh of annoyance Allison gently gripped John's shoulder and shook him awake.

"John, John come on you need to wake up." Allison said gently as she shook him.

Groggily John immediately woke up looking around he saw Allison and some guy he didn't know.

"Connor up, Derek wants to see you." Mike said.

"Groaning John managed to get to his feat and followed Mike out of the room and back to the room Derek was in.

Derek was standing in the middle of the room still on top of the coffin obscuring most of it from John's view with his back to him.

"Derek." Mike called.

Derek turned around and gave a nod to Mike indicating to him to leave the room. Mike complied and left without a word.

"Connor I'm going to ask you a question, what kind of coffin has a keypad lock and fortified to withstand damn near anything?

"I don't know, why would I?." John said.

"Oh well then perhaps you should explain this to me." he growled tapping the top part of the coffin above the keypad."

Stepping forward cautiously John stepped down onto the coffin and knelt down to look where Derek indicated.

Here lies John Connor

beloved son

and hero

Born 1985

Died ????

The first strike opens the lock, never forget the past

but remember there is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

(So here's the fourth chapter please read and review I've got some good ideas for the next few chapters but if anyone has any idea that they think would fit in well with the story I'll consider them just put them in a review or email me. Thanks.)