July 4th, 2022.
Amy and her team (Cameron, Mia, Kilee) went out on patrol at dusk, the air was still and they eased out of the tunnel. Amy looked down, some drawers and dirt were all that marked the spot where City Hall had been. A beautiful building reduced to ash in seconds. A sickening reminder of the past. "Don't think of the past, it hurts too badly."She told herself. Shaking her head she pressed on down the slope, to find some fun. She got what she asked for. At the end of the hill, there were 6 HK and FKs circling a small area with their lights on. A prisoner had escaped from a Skynet workcamp. Turning to her team, Amy asked "Ready to have some fun?" Since April, she and her friends had considered the war a game. FKs 5 points, HKs 10 points and terminators 100. The object of the game was to eliminate them and keep yourself and your team alive. It was a 200 deduction if someone died. Amy had become obsessed with destroying them, watching a machine burn or die took away her pain. Slipping behind them, Amy's team made its attack, C4 took down the HKs and a round of plasma ammo cleared out the rest.
"60 points." Amy say proudly. She grinned then examined her team and lead them to another spot. 30, 000 Terminators, a challenge but she gladly accepted it. Her team quickly stringed C4 around a 400 ft perimeter. They sat back on their stomachs and waited. The machines kept walking sensing for body heat or life. When they reached the hundred meter mark, Amy pressed her remote. A wave of fire and smoke erupted covering the whole field, a terminator head went flying towards Kilee, Amy grabbed her head and yanked her down. The severed head went over her. A cheer rang out from a neighboring team. The Resistance was starting to win the war.
May of 2027.
Skynet was badly losing the war. It was getting desperate. It had a plan, change the future by changing the past. Wipe Connor out of existence. Withough him, the army will fall. Skynet failed that mission it had not thought of Kyle Reese.
Connor was growing impatient, they should have found it by now. Maybe he had been wrong. Time was drawing to a close. They need another Time Displacement Lab soon. He had told no one for fear of losing the chance of completing the mission.
Cameron, Amy and Kilee had to go. All were to be sent back to 2007. Cameron the "Human" was a machine in fact Skynet made to infiltrate the prisoners and gain their trust and strategies. Now she fought for them. Amy was needed, she had seen Skynet's infrastructure, she knew the programs Skynet was made of. She was the best fighter in the future, she loved her job and in that way she lost pieces of herself. She had to go destroy Skynet before it was ever built. She knew what was coming, she had been in the room when Reese left, she had had horrifying dreams of her own death. Blurry at first, they were, then they became so clear. As if there were a memory of her own death. Kilee was meant to protect Connor at all costs.
When they returned at sun rise, Connor immediately briefed them, they had found another Time Displacement Chamber, they needed to go. He let thm have 4 hours of sleep. Cameron stood watch as both Amy and Kilee had nightmares. Amy first then Kilee. Amy and Kilee now shared a room, when Amy found out Cameron was no longer human to her, she wanted another roommate. Kilee was placed in her room. Kilee was like her, strong fighter, red hair and had nightmares. "A Perfect Pair." Connor called them. Kilee had missed her friends, Derek and Kyle, she needed the company and Amy thought how Kilee looked so much like her girls. If they had lived the would be about the same age. They got along well. Amy was on the bottom bunk, kicking and screeching. Kilee screamed and rolled off the top bunk. The noise woke both. Giving up on sleep, they dressed and went to HQ.
They groggingly walked into the room to a table and chairs. Connor looked up and smiled " My two favorite girls." Just then Cameron joined them. Laughing he said "Or three." Cameron's smile was replaced by a confusion. "Nevermind." He said.
"You all are aware of the missions?" Seeing the nod, he asked them to go into the chamber. He entered a date and in a flash of light, Cameron was gone. Connor came from around the table and told Kilee goodbye. He turned to Amy and noticed her sadness. Putting it aside while he hugged and sent Kilee through. Coming back to her he asked what was the matter.
Looking into her eyes, he realized it. "Oh, God, She knows." "She remembered." "Tell me, tell me how I killed a man. Why do I remember dying? I would rather die in battle by a machine then become the enemy, a machine myself." Not really wanting an answer she returned his sudden embrace, and walked to the sphere. Like Kilee she said. "Goodbye, John."
Amy was gone and Connor was finally alone.
Credit to Saphireblueelf for the character: Kilee.