I wanted to try this story out in a first-person view.
Description: SUBJECT NOT TERMINATED.
"No sign of him?" Johnson asked as Unikitty and Newton came back empty-handed.
"It's my fault, I shouldn't have helped you guys with the Ginger Kids," Karin said.
"How long are we going to keep lying to the kids that Peter's alright?" Newton asked.
"I know the kids will believe anything. Hell, they got tricked by a couple of aquarium workers into believing a whale lives on the moon." Chris said.
"Wait, they sent a killer whale on the moon?"
Peter
"Hey!" A voice said. "Listen to me if you want to live."
As I got up, I saw many people running. They were being shot at by machines. I knew where I was. This was Los Angeles 2029, 32 years after Judgment Day. I quickly ran inside one of the buildings so that the Terminators would not spot me.
"Make a left." The voice said.
I saw where the voice was coming from. It was from a radio from one of the dead soldiers. I took it with me as I left the building. I knew what this world was, The Terminator, and I was on the battlefield. I thought back of the last Terminator film I saw while dodging plasma blasters, Dark Fate. Everyone in South Park went to see it. Even I went to see it along with my friends. After leaving the movie, we were all mixed. I noticed overweight, unemployed, bearded men who live off of Youtube and complaining about the women not being attractive enough for them to masturbate and some even using T3 as a standpoint. Others, like the kids and many adults thought it was mediocre. And some like me and my friends thought it was good and better than T3, but not as good as the first two movies. In fact, I didn't like the first Terminator movie and thought it was inferior to T2. But everyone all agreed on what made Dark Fate inferior to the other movies...
The Death of John Connor.
The day after the movie aired, everyone was all complaining about the choice to kill John in the opening scene. Many called the events T2 pointless, others even went as far as to call the whole movie pointless. I was upset by that too until I watched the other Terminator movies on Hulu.
So hang on, since when has John Connor has really been the hero of the Terminator franchise?
It's stated that John must survive in order to lead the resistance. But I question those choices. Sarah Connor and the T-800 have done far more heroic actions than John. John was tricked in the third movie by Skynet into surviving Judgement Day and in the fourth movie he is also tricked by Skynet into destroying a submarine with Resistance leaders onboard.
You may say that John Connor was tricked by Skynet and his actions don't matter, but that's saying that you can punch a kid on the playground as long you apologize to them.
And if that wasn't bad enough, in Genisys, John turns into a Terminator and tries to kill his mother.
I told about this to my friends and we all agreed that John Connor was not a hero. I can go on and on about several plot holes in Dark Fate and even the franchise as a whole. Like how could John exist if Kyle Reese never went back in time to impregnate Sarah Connor? Who was John Connor's REAL father? You may say Kyle Reese, but how would John exist if Kyle never went back in time? If the Terminator still exists after Sarah and John stop Skynet, what was the whole point in sending a protector? John will still exist in the future even if his mom was killed. But I digress.
Peter
I made my way into a building. I heard faint voices.
"Come on, Patrick. We got to go." A voice of a young woman said.
"No." A voice of a 10-year-old kid said.
"I know you don't want to go, but we can't stay here."
"No!"
I opened the door. A young woman in her 20's in blue jeans, gray knit cap, and a brown hunting jacket was talking to a young boy with a grey hoodie, black shirt, and baggy pants.
"Who's there?" The girl said as her eyes turned on me. "See, Patrick? He's from the resistance. He'll help us!"
Resistance?
"No! They'll kill us!"
"You got help me, my brother... he won't listen."
"I said leave me alone."
"I know you're scared, but staying here is not an option," I said. "I'll help you."
"O-ok." The boy whimpered.
"Thanks. I'm Jennifer by the way, and this is Patrick." The girl said. "There's an evac point from here. Let's go!"
As Jennifer and Patrick left, I saw a handgun in the corner. I took it along with some ammo. At least I something to defend myself against the machines. I followed Jennifer and Patrick as they made their way throughout the ruins of Los Angeles.
"Look out! Terminators!" I said.
One unit was heading our way. We hid behind some cars as three Terminator models walked pass us. After they were gone, we arrived at hideout consisting of an elderly man, a hospital nurse, and a scavenger.
"You're from the resistance?" The elderly man asked.
"No. I just found Jennifer and Patrick and they took me here." I said.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Ryan by the way. What's yours?"
"Peter. I heard a voice on the radio. Are you that voice?"
"No. I haven't able to get the radio working. Now, Albert wants to leave but I can't think that we might be leaving someone else behind. Don't you think we should look for them?"
"Yes," I said. "I'll go look for them."
"Good. I'll get the bus working. You should talk to Erin. She could help you with finding other survivors." Ryan said.
I approached the hospital worker.
"Are you Erin?" I asked.
"Yes," Erin replied. "And you must be the new guy."
"Ryan told me that you could help me find other survivors."
"Well, is he the one who rations our supplies? But do you need a medkit?"
"No," I said.
I left the hideout in search of survivors.
I went to check every building. That's when I saw a giant armored spider unit patrolling the area. But it had an exposed core on the back. I shot at it and the spider exploded in pieces. I went to the building nearby.
"Is anyone there?" I whisper-shouted.
"Who's there?" A voice said.
I saw another woman behind a door. I went up to her.
"I come to get you," I said.
"I'm not going out there! Don't you see that giant spider machine out there?"
"I took care of it."
"Oh thank god!"
The woman opened the door and I took her to the hideout.
"I'm Laura by the way." She said.
"Thanks for finding other survivors. I appreciate that." Ryan said.
Soon we saw Albert running towards us.
"Skynet!" He shouted.
I saw scout drones and spider-bots heading straight for us. Albert, Ryan, Laura, and I readied our weapons. I shot down a scout drone and several spider-bots.
"I'm out!" Laura said.
"Take this!" Albert said, handing Laura some ammo.
"What's the holdup, Jennifer?" I said.
Jennifer started up the bus and drove up to us.
"Get in!" She said.
I managed to get on the bus, as with Albert and Ryan, but Laura was shot by a T-800 unit.
"Damn it!" Albert said.
Jennifer got the bus up and running as we drove out of there.
Peter
"Damn it!" Albert said.
"What's wrong?" I ask.
"We're out of gas!"
"Pull up over there," I said, pointing to a nearby bunker.
We all got off the bus. I took my backpack with me as I was the last one off.
"I'll go search the area for any of those machines," Albert said.
"I'll go with you," I said.
Albert and I found no machines inside, but we did find a stash of supplies. Immediately, I thought we were at a resistance hideout. I found a small bed where I can lay my stuff at. As soon as I opened my bag, a face popped out. Luci.
"Boo." He said.
"What are you doing here?" I said.
"I was wondering where you're going, so I tagged along too."
"I don't need you," I said.
"But why did you leave South Park?"
"It's none of your business."
"You were mad at Karin."
"..."
"Okay, I'm not gonna ask," Luci said, looking at me.
"You talk ting to someone?" Albert said from off.
"No, I'm just talking to myself," I called.
Luci hid in my bag. I went back out to rejoin the others.
"I have a job for you to do," Ryan said.
Peter
For the next few days, I went out doing stuff for the group. I found a dog for Patrick to which he named "Wolfie", took down several more machines, and even recovering a plasma rifle from one of the T-800 models. As that happened, I learned more about the survivors. Erin had a husband to which she was separated from after Judgement Day, Jennifer's father had died from a T-800 machine, Ryan was a war veteran, hence why he was able to be skilled in guns, and Albert was a criminal serving several years before Skynet had launched their attack.
"You wanted to see me, Ryan?" I asked.
"Yes. According to the radio you recovered, there's a resistance outpost not too far from here. Didn't you say you tracked out the locations of the missile launchers for Skynet?"
"Yes," I said.
Luci and I made my way through the city and found the resistance base. When we got there, my foot got snagged by a couple of ropes. I was now dangling upside down with several resistance soldiers running up to me.
"I'm not one of them!" I shouted.
One of the soldiers untied me.
"Sorry about that." He said. "Skynet now has machines sent to disguise themselves as humans, so we need to be extra careful."
I made my way into the resistance base. It was led by a woman.
"Excuse me, are you the leader?" I ask.
"For this outpost, yes." She said. "I'm Jessica by the way."
"Jessica, I have something for you."
I marked the areas of the launchers on my map.
"Perfect, now we know where they are firing at us."
I felt that I completed my job for now. So I made my way back to where the group was.
Peter
When I got there, I saw Ryan pointing his gun at a stranger. With a green scarf around his mouth and a black hoodie, he saw me standing behind Ryan.
"Lower your weapon. I need to talk to this guy." The stranger said, looking at me.
"Let's hear him out," I said. "We need to know if he's bluffing."
"I'm not! And besides, shoot me and I blow up this place!"
"What?!" We all said.
"That's right. I have explosives all over the place and a detonator in my pocket."
"You got what?!" Ryan said.
"We have to leave, now!"
"What for?" I asked.
"Skynet's on their way. They found you."
"They were looking for us?" Erin said.
"Not for you. For him." The stranger said, looking at me. "He's essential for winning this war. Skynet knows that, and they've been tracking him down. I have to make sure he stays safe. In a couple of minutes, an Infiltrator unit will walk in here and kill him."
What?!
"I can't let that happen. So I need to bury him here, once and for all."
"All right, we need to get moving. Let's get on the bus!" Ryan said.
"There's no time for that!" The stranger said. "There's a passage here that will lead you out!"
CRASH!
"What was that?!" Jennifer said.
I saw it coming through the walls. It was a Terminator. And it was after me.
"Give me that." The stranger, said, taking the gun from Ryan.
"Let's go!" Erin said, getting into the passage.
The Terminator stared menacingly at me. It looked like a human from the outside, but it looked overweight. It also had a wilting beard and hair, a black t-shirt and brown shorts. It looked like a T-1000, as it repaired itself by using liquid metal, but when the Stranger pierced its skull with a rebar, it split into two units. One of the units grabbed the stranger and flicked him away like a fly, while the other one stared at me. I quickly fled the area as the abandoned resistance outpost blew up behind me.
Peter
Everyone was unharmed thankfully. We made our way back to the resistance base with Jessica. But that was the least of our worries. I spotted what looked like to be the same unit that attacked me.
"Everyone into position!" Jessica ordered.
We all hid in separate locations. When the thing I saw approached our base, Jessica fired her plasma rifle at it.
"Check if it's still alive!"
I went up to it, only to find out that the thing was back up again. It was an Infiltrator!
"It's a machine!" I shouted.
"Take it down!" A soldier said.
The Infiltrator had a stronger plasma rifle than ours. But I managed to sever its hand with the plasma gun. Seeing how it is not repairing itself, I knew this wasn't the same unit after me.
"It's down! It's down!" A resistance soldier said.
We took the machine to a scientist, there he found living tissue on the machine, making it appear human. That was when paranoid spread among us. People started to suspect each other as machines. But Jessica kept everyone together.
Peter
A scientist named Mack had an idea of fighting back with our own Terminators. So he asked me to capture a deactivated Terminator so he can reactivate it and reprogram it to our side. Jessica sent a squad to go along with me. After taking out the first line of defense from Skynet, I saw the same stranger who helped me in defending us from the unit that attacked me.
"Is he one of them?" A resistance soldier asked.
"No, he's with us!" I said.
I ran up to him.
"Took you a while." He said.
"How do you know we were coming?" I said.
"I know more than you. Prepare yourself."
Everyone followed the stranger, but the resistance soldiers died along the way. It was only me and the stranger.
"This is it. This is where it is." The stranger said.
I ran in and found a deactivated model. But I couldn't take the whole model, I took the CPU so it can be reprogrammed.
"It's not here..." The Stranger said.
"What's not here?"
"The Central Core. It was supposed to be here. They knew we were coming so they moved it!"
"How could you know they were coming?" I said while the stranger is tracing the signal to the mainframe.
"When they were losing the war, Skynet sent a Terminator back in time. This Terminator must've warned them about it, so they moved the Central Core."
"How do you know all this?"
"Because I'm from the future too. I came back to go after the Infiltrator."
The coordinates of the Central Core appeared on the screen. I recorded it.
"Let's go!" The Stranger said.
As we left, the same unit that attacked us in the shelter found us.
"Won't this thing ever die?" The Stranger said.
The only we could do was run. The Stranger and I made our way back to the resistance base while the unit after us was trapped under rubble from a nearby explosion.
Peter
As we made out way back to the resistance base, I saw that it was attacked. Luckily, I convinced Ryan, Erin, Albert, Jennifer, and Patrick to leave, but everyone else was dead. I made my way to Jessica.
"So... you're here..." Jessica said.
"What happened?" I said.
"Skynet found and attacked us," Jessica said. "You need to see John Connor."
"Where is he?"
"He's at these coordinates. Also, the guy you met, has told me about the Central Core."
The Stranger reported this to Jessica?
"You need to leave, now," Jessica said.
I had to leave Jessica behind. When I left the shelter, I saw the Stranger there waiting for me.
"Come on, we need to go." He said.
Peter
We made our way to John Connor's resistance base. When I got there, I saw him standing with several other soldiers reprogramming a Terminator.
"Connor," I said.
"Ah, Peter. How nice of you to join." Connor said. "The Stranger has handed the coordinates of the Central Core to us. Tonight, we stop Skynet."
"Are we going to attack the Central Core?"
"Yes. But Skynet will realize that they're going lose this war so they will try and send Terminators back in time to stop that from happening. But we will be able to smash through their defense grid."
"Can I ask some questions?" I asked.
"Sure. You have the time."
"Who is the Stranger that came for me?"
"In the future, when we led our attack on the suspected location of the Central Core, Skynet sent an Infiltrator unit, the Rev-9, to go after you. The Rev-9 is 100 times stronger than the T-1000's Skynet has started creating, capable of splitting into two units, liquid metal outside and a metal exoskeleton inside, we knew a human nor Terminator cannot match the strength of that. So we needed a new way. When a group of rogue survivors attacked our base earlier, you were the one able to defend our base against them at the cost of being wounded. We discovered how the rogue survivors were able to attack us. They were augmented to be cybernetically-enhanced so that their power can match a T-1000. So the one I chose to be augmented was you. You were the one called Stranger."
So the Stranger was... me?
"Why am I being targeted for termination?" I ask.
"Because you were the one who destroyed the Central Core. You were the cause of Skynet's downfall. They could send a T-1000 after you, but they discovered about your augmentation and sent an even more powerful Terminator after you."
"Wait, shouldn't Skynet be after you?" I said. "You formed the resistance."
"While I did play a key role in causing Skynet's downfall, you were the cause of their defeat. But you learn more about it as it goes on. Tonight Soldier, we stop Skynet."
Peter
I met up with the Stranger.
"So, you learned the truth." He said.
"So you are me?" I said.
"Yes. I was asking, why did you come here?"
"I thought you were me. Shouldn't you already know that?"
"I know. But I want to hear from you."
I had to tell everything. Even if the Stranger was me.
"I felt unwanted in my world. I thought if I got here, I feel that I could be useful."
"I can see that. But protecting my past self was not the only reason why I got here. The other reason why I went back was to protect Luci."
What?
"When I first got here, I didn't know Luci was there in my backpack. A Terminator shot a hole in my bag, but I survived. When I got to the shelter with the other surveyors, I saw why. The Luci that I have shielded me from the plasma shot."
Luci popped out of my bag when he heard that.
"So, I'm dead where you come from?" He said.
"Yes."
Before we can discuss things further, Connor made an announcement.
"All right, soldiers! We're ready to launch our counterattack on Skynet!"
Everyone armed themselves and made their way to the battlefield.
Peter
Music: You know the theme. The more orchestra one.
Skynet sent everything after us as we made our assault on Skynet. Terminators, Scout Drones, Armored Drones, Ariels, tanks, and giant walkers all flew at us. While Skynet was stronger, the resistance fought smarter. They shot at weak points of the machines, they hacked weaker Terminator models and turned them against the machines, I took down an Ariel that was pinning several resistance soldiers down.
"Move out!" Connor ordered.
We arrived at the defense grid of Skynet.
"Connor, we can't get through the defense grid!" I said.
"HK tank's on its way!" He replied.
And with that, we smashed through the defense grid.
"The Central Core's up ahead!" The Stranger said.
"Peter, we received intel on Skynet. Their Time Displacement Equipment has been activated! They know they're going to lose this war!"
More Terminators arrived, but we gunned them down.
"TDE's online! I repeat, TDE just went online!" Connor said.
The tides were turning...
"The first Terminator has been sent!"
Skynet was losing...
"The second Terminator went through!"
The Stranger and I found our chance, we ran inside the location of the Central Core.
"The third Terminator has been sent! I repeat, the third Terminator was sent."
We made our way to the Central Core.
Peter
The Central Core... the thing was never seen at all in Terminator. And now, I'm standing next to the person who discovered the location of the Central Core. At the center was a giant spider-like robot made entirely of poly-alloy, the same material used to make the T-1000. It was thrashing its arms around like tentacles and guarding the main computer.
"The T-Meg..." The Stranger said. "I heard about it, but I never thought of seeing it physically."
As if that wasn't bad enough, the same unit that chased me while in the resistance outpost had arrived. That must've been the Rev-9. The Stranger and I hid while the Rev-9 approached the T-Meg.
"YOU HAVE FAILED ON YOUR MISSION." The T-Meg said in a robotic voice.
"Give me another chance." The Rev-9 said.
"NO OTHER CHANCES!" The T-Meg said, piercing the center of the Rev-9 with its spider arms, destroying it. Then it detected us.
"YOU'RE NEXT!"
The T-Meg slashed its arms at us. I tried firing my weapons at it, but it was useless. Then it hit me. Maybe it can't be defeated in combat, maybe you have to deactivate it.
"Distract it!" I said.
"You got it!" The Stranger said.
While the Meg was distracted I made my way to the central computer of the central core. I activate it. As the battle of Skynet raged on, I activated the security file. It now had two options.
CANCEL OR DEACTIVATE.
I bet you can tell what I picked. After confirmation, the Meg died down, allowing the Stranger to finish it off with a power cell of a deactivated T-800. We escaped the building just in time as it exploded. Terminators and machines around the area died down. Resistance soldiers were helping the wounded.
"We did it. We won." The Stranger breathed as he collapsed onto the ground.
I saw the Stranger's wounds from that battle with the Meg. Luckily, several resistance soldiers took him to be treated.
Peter
I made my way back to the resistance base.
"Connor," I said.
"Well done, Peter. You destroyed the Central Core." He said.
More like deactivate it while the Stranger finished it off.
"So is the war over?" I asked.
"For some of us, yes. But just before you destroyed the core, Skynet managed to send three Terminators back in time. We need to send protectors among our ranks."
Connor took me to the Time Displacement Equipment.
"Sergeant Kyle Reese has volunteered to go back in time to 1984. He will go after the T-800 that is targeting my mother. By killing her, Skynet will erase me from existing. The second Terminator is the T-1000, he'll go after me as a child. We cannot send a human after it, so we must send a Terminator of our own. Thanks to the reprogramming from one of our scientists, it will be my protector."
I walked into the room with the TDE.
Music: "Ending Theme" from Terminator: Resistance.
"Then, there's the matter of the Rev-9 that was sent after you. Skynet created another one to kill you. Now, the Stranger is too wounded to fight, and many protectors can take your place. The war can end for you right now. But the question is, are you willing to sacrifice yourself to be augmented to fight back?"
I felt my blood freezing. I know the dangers of being augmented. But I know what I want.
"I... I don't want to go." I said.
"I cannot judge you. You've seen the horrors of being augmented, but some volunteers will gladly take your place."
Music stops.
Peter
(Peter narrates what happened to everyone after the final battle.)
John Connor had prepared the TDE so that he could send the protectors back in time. He knew that the final battle was not in the present but in the past.
(The image changed to an image of Kyle Reese being sent to 1984.)
A resistance soldier named Kyle Reese went back in time to 1984. His objective was to protect Sarah Connor, John's mother.
(The image changed to a T-800 sent in 1995.)
The second one was not a man but a Terminator. Using the chip that we reprogrammed, we took control of a single unit. Its objective was to protect a young John Connor.
(The image changed to Peter selecting his protector.)
I decided not to go back in time, but John Connor helped me choose a protector among them. I chose a young woman named Star, who can sense a Skynet unit approaching. I hope that she can protect me just like my future self once did.
(The image changed to the next day, where the sun was coming out of the clouds.)
32 years after Judgement Day, the war against machines was finally over. But not all of us lived to see the end of it.
(The image changed to the remains of the shelter. Jessica's body had disappeared with a trail of blood.)
I never found Jessica's body, but she never stopped fighting. Connor can only hope that she was alive.
(The image changed to Erin standing outside on the road. It showed what happened to the survivors and how Peter got them to leave the shelter.)
I lied to Erin about her husband being alive to make her leave the Shelter. I saved her life but at what cost?
(The image changed to Ryan overlooking the destruction.)
Ryan was kicked out of the shelter because of me.
(The image changed to Albert, Jennifer, and Patrick.)
Albert, Jennifer, and Patrick left before the attack. I'm glad I convinced them.
(The image changed to the Stranger.)
Thankfully, the Stranger survived his wounds. We decided to go our separate ways after that.
(The image changed to Peter and Luci.)
As for me, it was time to go...
Peter
"So, are we going to go home?" Luci asked as Rezzoch opened the portal for us.
"I was thinking we should go on our own adventure," I said.
"So, we aren't going home yet?"
"Yeah."
"So, where to next?"
THE END.
Okay, yes. I wanted to do FPPOV for so long. And yes, this is based on the Terminator.