Amy sat in her small cubicle of a room as the machine walked away. She looked over at her right arm. It was bent at a funny angle. Broken. She couldn't tell how many places. Her left stung but not nearly as badly. Moving it was impossible. Slowly she rose to her feet only to collapse again. Couldn't move, couldn't breathe.. Sounds shifted. The metal door opened again. A T800 stalked up to her and grabbed her neck.
Amy sneered. "You haven't won a thing and you never will even if every human dies. We live on. You can turn my family into ash, I found a new one. You can line my friends up in a work camp and kill them off and I'll fight harder. You can take everything from me but my spirit because being human has nothing to do with my skin, or blood and organs, or the hormones and chemicals in my brain or whatever the **** you think it is. It's the strength of a human heart, the measure of ones' soul. " The pressure on her neck increased and she passed out.
April 19th, 2011
Amy stared dazily at the man across from her. An older man, he seemed quite at ease with she was no threat to him. Fool.
"How are you feeling, Ms. Adams?"
She glared at him. "What do you want?"
"Well, I'd like to get to know you. Why you were found sneaking into a highly secretive military facility, armed with explosives."
She smirked. "I was trying to stop the end of the world."
He put his pen down. "Eleborate please."
Amy rolled her eyes and stared at the calender. The date she knew all too well.
You want to know who I am? I'm the girl who was orphaned at 18, due to some plane crash in the carribbean sea. I'm the girl who joined the military when I graduated high school because it meant a job where they took care of me and kept me away so my brother wouldn't have to drop out of college because he couldn't afford to care for two people. I wanted him to have a good life."
"And did he?"
"Of course. He graduated with honors and married a colleague. Nice house 'N car. Good salary job. Couldn't have kids though…. One thing he missed. I picked the Marines because that's the branch my boyfriend picked and I wanted to be with somebody I knew. A few months in he asked me to marry him and I agreed because I didn't want to be alone."
"Didn't you love him?"
"Of course I loved him. He was my everything."
"Then what happened?"
"I ended up pregnant and left the Middle East to have my kids…. Twin girls. I switched from active field work to a desk job, which I hated and later left to be a recruiter. Thought I had it all. Two-story house, expensive car, a good husband, happy and healthy kids and a job I loved."
"What was missing?"
"I liked being out on the battlefield. It made me happy to actually be fighting, It made me feel alive. So, I left my kids with my brother and I went back, me and Sam. We came home when the girls were 5. I wanted to be with them. The every other year thing was annoying. They needed stability. I sucked it up and worked for a company."
"What kind of company?"
"Cyber researching. They wanted to replace the humans with machines. They would do our jobs and never would we lose a life. It sounded wonderful to those who didn't get joy from the adrenaline rush like I did." Amy shook her head. "It never was actually tested. A computer virus shut it all down. I was called into work early that day because of it."
"What day is that?"
"The day the world went away. It was their birthday. My girls. I had party supplies and gifts hidden under my bed and in the closet where they couldn't find them. I was supposed to pick up the cake at 2, get them at 3 and the party was at 5 when my brother got off work. By the time the party was supposed to start, the entire world had burned. I saw the missiles rise off in the distance and I ran for the mountains. I thought my heart was going to explode as I ran. The sound of thunder followed me. I made it to the mountains with a few co-workers. I turned around and stopped up on the ledge. I had to see it. It was a mistake and I knew it but I had to see it." Amy justified herself.
"What did you see?"
Amy looked up "Hell. I saw hell. A single sparkle of light dropped on the city and it exploded in a mushroom cloud of flames. A blinding white like magnesium burned through my eyes. The fire spread out and up and it grew and grew and it burned it all!" She slammed her hand on the table. "It burned everything and everyone! It was all gone!" She sobbed. "People turned to vapor, shadows on walls and streets. The blast wave was like a ripple in water and came straight toward me. It picked me up and tossed me a few miles. I landed around three miles from where I was standing. I looked back towards the city but there was nothing visable anymore. "