It had been a few hours, but Johnny was able to keep a good track of Lucy and her family. He was currently refueling himself with an oil can on the boardwalk while watching the family from a distance. Vanellope and rancis were feeding their kids ice cream. Johnny checked his diagnostics to make sure he was battle ready, without his synthetic skin he was somewhat vulnerable but he didn't have much options. The synthetic skin blocked access to some of his weapons, and having the head of a battle droid just made the skin on his head look weaker. He had the head of a b1, the body of a super battle droid, and the legs of a commando droid.
"Everything's good for now, but that 800's gotta be around here somewhere" Johnny said to himself
"I gotta say nelly, the kids have been really well behaved today" said Rancis
"I agree, I think they deserve a small toy each. Stop by a toy store or something on the way home" said Vanellope
"There are no toy stores in this game, remember?" Rancis asked
"Oh shoot, I forgot. Well then we'll look online later" said Vanellope
Unknown to the family, the t-800 was approaching. He tossed off his jacket and pulled out an e-11 blaster he stole from a trooper. He loaded the ammo clip into the rifle and approached the family. Johnny took notice and began running towards them. By the time the family noticed what was happening, Johnny tackled the terminator to the ground
"Run for your lives, he's going to kill Lucy" Johnny shouted
Rancis and Vanellope didn't hesitate and began running for their car with their kids in tow. The terminator threw Johnny off of him and fired his blaster at him, but Johnny managed to find cover and fired his shoulder mounted wrist blasters at the machine, but he barely made a dent in him. Stormtroopers rushed to the scene, which distracted the 800, giving Johnny time to make his getaway.
"Hands up, we got you surrounded"
The 800 slowly approached one of the troopers, a commander
"Blast him"
The troopers opened fire on the terminator, and while the shots pierced the skin, they didn't hurt the machine at all. The terminator grabbed the commanders blaster and killed all the troopers in seconds. It looked around to see the family and the renegade droid were gone, he knew they went back to the castle. He'd have to prepare himself, he was going to storm the castle, he needed to get Lucy out of the game if she was to die.
(Back at the castle, not long later)
Vanellope pulled into the castles garage and all the gates were locked and guarded. Johnny sat in the back of Vanellopes car, watching over the kids. He helped bring the kids inside and placed them in front of a pile of toys in front of the thrones.
"Spill it, who are you? Who was that guy? Why was he trying to kill my daughter?" Rancis asked
Johnny looked towards the parents.
"My name is RB117, you may call me Johnny. I am a battle droid repurposed from the year 2029. I have been sent by your family through a time machine in the game terminator resistance to protect Lucys life at all costs"
"The future? Yeah right, no game can replicate time travel" said Rancis
"Don't underestimate Skynet's capabilities. Your own daughter rebuilt me herself to protect her. While my programming says I can't reveal too much about things to happen, I can share a little information to make you believe me"
A small hatch opened up in Johnnys chest, and inside was a transformer built storage device. Johnny reached inside it and pulled a couple pictures out. One was of the family on a vacation to Disney in casual clothes, the other was of Lucy and Kevin in front of an arcade Kevin just opened called simply called Kevin's galactic Game Center. Kevin was wearing a brown suit and tie while Lucy wore her mother's princess dress, pearls, and a tiara.
"These pictures were taken when the kids were 7 years old. As you can see in this picture, this is you"
Rancis and Vanellope looked at the pictures, they were amazing
"My son is so handsome" said Vanellope
"And my daughters so beautiful" said Rancis
"At least I know I'll have some use for that old dress of mine" said Vanellope
"Your kids are amazing kids, they're active in daily affairs. They will by my time prove themselves worthy of running the game. Queen Lucy is a very smart girl, and will program her own kingdom into the game, a space themed world with several planets and colonies, protected by an army of droids, and ruled from a large station which looked like something she called Space mountain. Sadly, not everyone agreed with her rule, otherwise I wouldn't be here"
"What happened? What will she do?" Vanellope asked
"That information is classified and non relevant" said Johnny
"Non relevant? Well maybe we can change what she does-
"All I can say is, she got angry. That's all my programming will allow me to tell you, this was ordered by queen Lucy herself, and only she can change that. Back in my time, a citizen modified a t-800 terminator infiltrator unit, and sent it back to now to kill her to prevent what she'll do. My mission is to protect queen Lucy at all costs. My weapons have so far been limited on it, but I will not give up" said Johnny
After explaining more about the situation, Vanellope and rancis called any friends and family to the castle to protect Lucy, as well as getting the imperials to guard the entrances. Johnny stayed close to Lucy in her and Kevin's nursery room. He watched them play and he changed their diapers, and he made Lucy feel comfortable around him. Soon it was time for them to nap, and Lucy was having none of it, she wanted to play more. Vanellope was desperately trying to put her down.
"Lucy, you need your rest" said Vanellope
No matter what the parents did, Lucy wouldn't stop crying. Johnny didn't want Lucy to be like this so he finally stepped in.
"Allow me, I have certain protocols in place for this" said Johnny
Johnny closed the curtains and removed a couple items from his chest device. One was a projection device which projected hundreds of tiny stars around the bedroom, as well as planets and spaceships. The next was a music box labeled 'Ducktales NES moon theme'. He started playing the music box before turning a dial on his chest which changed his voice. He began to sing in a gentle loving voice as he rocked her in his metal arms.
'Look to the stars, my darling baby girl. Life is strange and vast, filled with wonders and joy'
'Face each new sun, with eyes clear and true. Unafraid of the unknown, because we'll face it all with you'
Johnny repeated the lines when the music box got to a certain part, and with no problem at all, he got both twins to fall asleep. He wrapped both kids up in blankets and laid them in their crib.
"That was amazing" Rancis whispered "I've never seen the kids go down so easily"
Johnny set his voice back to normal and spoke.
"Queen Lucy says you used to sing this to her whenever she couldn't sleep or was scared, and you'd play this music box among others. What you see here is her kingdom from my time, when she was only 7. She mentioned she loves looking at stars, they always calm her down. I'll watch over the babies, you go get some rest." Said Johnny
Rancis and Vanellope nodded before leaving the nursery. Johnny took a seat next to the crib, with a blaster in his hand. As the twins napped, he watched the projection of the kingdom. He watched as the ships moved to surround lucys castle, before the Star destroyers arrived. He remembered more of those days.
(The future)
Johnny ran past the turbo laser and proton bomb guns firing into space at the enemy fleet. Tie fighters and vulture droids flew outside, fighting. Droids everywhere were running and screaming. The castle was falling. Imperial troops were launching shuttles to land in the hangars. He watched as a dreadnought and lukrehulk exploded outside the windows before getting to Lucy in the command center. She was with her friend mocho, trying to assess the situation.
"Your majesty, our defenses are failing, battery fire is down to 30 percent, the ties are destroying them like crazy. Shuttles are landing as we speak to come and get you" said Johnny
"Prepare for battle. Keep the imperials away from the control center. Mocho, I beg you, please get to an escape pod" Lucy urged
"No, I'm not abandoning you" said Mocho
Johnny didn't hear the rest of lucys conversation, he had to get to the main hangar bay to support his fellow soldiers. Unfortunately he arrived too late. Stormtroopers had cut down nearly everyone. He hid behind a crate and could only watch as his fellow droids tried to save themselves.
"Wait, Don't shoot! I'm not the commander, he's the commander" one droid shouted
A stormtrooper shot the droid next to the droid, leaving him now the only one left.
"I guess I'm the commander now" the droid said before being shot down
"Commander Shaw, you're clear" a stormtrooper shouted
Johnny watched as 8 death troopers stepped out of a shuttle and towards the troopers. One of them removed his helmet to speak. This must've been commander Shaw he thought
"We have our orders, capture the command deck, capture the queen" said Shaw
He put his helmet on and the troopers began leading the way. Johnny began running, he needed to find more droid survivors.
(End flashback)
Johnny snapped out of his thoughts and looked again at the sleeping babies. He couldn't bear to watch more of the projection, so he switched it off and put it away.
(Outside)
Vanellopes friend Pyro and Sgt Calhoun were standing outside talking to each other and keeping guard. They noticed the 800 walking towards the castle in a new biker outfit and sunglasses, as well as holding a heavy blaster rifle.
"Halt, don't come any closer" Pyro shouted before aiming his flamethrower
"Out of the way or you die" said the machine
Pyro fired his flamethrower at the machine, but all he did was manage to burn off all the skin, revealing the endoskeleton underneath. Calhoun fired a gun at the machine, but the bullets merely bounced off the metal body. The machine began slowly approaching them.