Past to Future
by Peter
Temporal Effects. . .wholesale.
Timeline C. . .2029. Skynet is taking over the world through its cybernetic minions. The Human Resistance, led by John Conner, fight against the machines. In an attempt to destroy John Connor, Skynet sends two Terminators back in time.
Timeline B. . .2029. Skynet is taking over the world through its cybernetic minions. At first, Skynet was a savior for the human race against the vampires and their minions, which were winning the war against the humans. Within five years of implementing the Skynet system, it managed to win the war against the vampires and demons. Then it turned against the humans it was suppose to protect and started the war against the human race. The human race manage to construct a one-way time machine when they realized the humans were losing the war quickly. They sent one person back in time to stop this from happening. Before the people running the time machine could destroy it, the machines took it and sent a Terminator back in time to stop the person who tries to change history and kill someone who could change the timeline by being alive.
Timeline A - 1979 - 1st temporal change - The alleys in New York were quiet for one night. Then the winds picked up and a sphere of pure blackness, like a black hole, formed. A man came out of the sphere and managed to hit the ground without hitting his face. He stood up and began working on getting clothes.
Timeline A - 1984 -2nd temporal change- The Terminator persued Sarah Connor through the warehouse. Only half of it was operational but most was still operational. It wasn't though when Sarah Connor crushes it with the hydralic press.
Timeline A - 1995 -3rd temporal change- The T-1000 was nearly fragmented due to the T800 Series 100 shot with the gernade launcher. It was overbalanced and fell into the molten steel. The temperature overwhelmed the polymetallic structure and it melted apart.
Mid-October 1998 - Los Angeles: It was night out. A black sphere forms in an alley in downtown Los Angles. When it disappears, a naked man is there. He stands up without noticing his nudity and goes to the nearest establishment, which happens to be a crackhouse where a meeting of around 25 gang members are meeting to discuss certain matters. Twenty-five dead bodies later, the muscular man leaves the building wearing new clothes and carrying a sawed off shotgun. He hotwires the motocycle and peels out onto the highway.
Someone notices this strange person. He calls his homebase, "Sir, a temporal portal formed in downtown Los Angeles. The individual who came out of the portal fits the discription you gave me. He is heading south on a black harley motocycle and is armed with a sawed-off shotgun.
"Noted. Do not follow him. We can handle it from here."
At a secret base in Montana, a man sits at a chair in front of a computer that vagely looks like a Cray III. He knows where it is going due to an exhaustive study of different supernatural activities during the past 15 years. The place is the current sight of the Slayer and a Hellmouth. If it manages to terminate the Slayer and opens the Hellmouth, we will lose and the final war will begin in a few years. (This needs a personal touch. My shock troops are good for normal situation but my personal involvement is maybe necessary to stop this thing.)
Next Day
*San Salvador* Buffy walks into the library after school to see Giles and San sparring with kickboxing gloves and blocking pads. They apparently are practicing at a slow speed and Giles is making comments on San's fighting form.
"Kick a little higher and to the left with that front kick."
"Okay, okay. Is this fine?" She snaps up a hard kick that impacts the spot Giles showed her and knocks him back a bit. "Yes, yes. That's fine," Giles grunts slightly. To him training with San is like training with Buffy, painful. "So have you any idea what that prophecy is saying?" "Well, I can figure that the forever-one might be an Immortal. Perhaps even you. But I can't figure out what could be the forever-vampire." "That makes sense. A vampire is already immortal. It's kind of redundant. But maybe the person could be a . . ." Buffy notices the pause in San's voice "A what?" Buffy was wondering about it. "Never mind. It's just an idea. I doubt it is what I think it is. Thanks for the workout. Except for your P.E. class, I don't get a lot of exercise during the day." "You are usually that energetic." "Yeah. I've been training like this since before Giles has been born. Where's Kelly?" "She's talking to one of the guys from her computer class." "It's good to see her fit in. I was worried about her fitting in especially with the problems she has had lately." Kelly comes in. She has the look of an excited teenager. Of course, she is one. But she really looks happy for the first time since San has met her. With a shirt tied up and with shorts, sneakers, and dark sunglasses, she looks younger than she really does. Kelly has the look of the country teenager rather than the chiche stylish city girl like Buffy does.
"I've got a date tonight. Robert is going to pick me up and we're going Bronzing." "Sound's like fun. Maybe Buffy would like to go with you?" "I don't know. It sounds like your giving me a. . .chaporone." "That won't do," Giles says, "Buffy has to go on patrol tonight." "Don't worry about that. I can handle Buffy's patrol for one night. She need a break from vampire slaying anyways."
"Why don't you go to the Bronze with Kelly," Buffy says, "I wouldn't mind going with Kelly especially if Xander, Willow, Cordelia come with me." "I would be the dottering lady around Kelly. You know, boys and the whole trust issue," San turns to Kelly, "Besides I'm sure that it would be better that native and near native Sunnydalers would be better to show you around." "Sounds like fun," San can sense more than a bit of a lack of enthusiasm in her voice though. "Let's see if we can get you something to wear, Kelly," Buffy led Kelly away and Willow followed. "I don't even want to know what she's going to wear." San moans as she and Giles go back to sparing. "You really don't want to know especially with how Buffy and Cordelia dress sometimes. But with Willow there, you shouldn't worry too much. But why are you worrying so much, if she is just your student?" San goes under Giles block and pins him to the wall, "With Immortals, or at least with me, students are like children." San sighs, "We can't have children and teaching Immortals how to survive and live is as close as we can ever get. I've never taught a student before and I don't want to screw up with Kelly. If I screw up, Kelly could die or worse." San slowly drops Giles from her pin. "I better be going to get ready for tonight." San walks out the door.
*Kelly*
It's been crazy these past couple of months. First, some deranged group of people kill my parents, my aunt, my cousin, and my cousin's boyfriend in some sick perverted joke. I keep telling them that there is more than two peple, but they just think I was mistaken. There was no evidence of more than two people. My cousin's boyfriend had freed me and got me out a window. That is when I saw six people in the house just before the shooting began. I then hightailed it out of there. After the court fiasco, I ran for my own safety. I went from Wisconsin to California in a little more than a month. I was doing fine until I got to Sunnydale Ca. when I ran into vampires. They tried to kill me and I ended up in the hospital. That was where I met San Salvador. After a few weeks the Social Services dropped me into one of their waiting homes until they could get me somewhere else. Thank goodness San had gotten me out of there. I would have been in limbo until I was eighteen.
"It's a bit tight." I say. The outfit is a tiny black skirt, shirt, and high heels. I feel ridiculous and clumsy. "This isn't anything like I want to be like." "So what is? That casual thing you've got going along with Willow?" That Cordelia has a notable lack of tact. "No. But scanty is not me." I put on a few different clothes. I go for the casual look and with a little help from Buffy and Cordelia. To me, it looks very pretty, tight looking and dangerous. "You couldn't happen to have a stake I can take with me tonight. I'm not expected any sort of trouble but I want to be prepared." Buffy hands me a stake and I slip it inside my jacket. Better safe than sorry.
*San Salvador*
I watched at Kelly, Buffy, Cordelia, and who could only be Robert, pile into Robert's car. He is tall, handsome and seems fine for a first date for Kelly. Of course I didn't let him know that I approved. When he came in to escort Kelly to the car, I gave him a talk, THE TALK, about respecting Kelly. Of course, he listened because I was chopping vegables finely and rapidly with a large sharp knife while I was talking to him. I think he got the point.
I get into my jeep and drive to my usual spot. Five minutes into the vampire hunting and I see my first vampire. It has just finished drinking a victim dry. It stands there and turns in my direction.
No! It couldn't be the thing I saw four years ago in that mental hospital. I pull my sword and rush him, intent on decapitating it before it could launch it's own attack. The 'thing' grabs my sword in mid-swing and backhands me in the face. I can't believe its incredible strength. I feel that my nose is broken along with several bones in my face. I can barely see as it pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and shoots me in my gut. Everything went black almost instantly.
The Terminator looked at the prone form of San Salvador. Even though there are no particular records on this person, she is no longer a threat. It assessed her lifesigns and determined them to be 0.0. It turned and started for its primary target, the Slayer. The cut in its hand heals quickly.
*Kelly Greene*
I'm enjoying myself with Bobby at the Bronze. We're just dancing slowly in slow circles. My 'chaperones' aren't exactly watching me closely. I think about the past year and what has happened. I keep remembering being taken hostage in my aunt's kitchen. How my cousin's steady boyfriend gave me the few seconds I needed to get out. According to the police, my cousin was raped repeatably and killed as the rest were tied up. Over the hour afterwards, each were killed by getting their throat slashed after getting their bodies punctured many times. Charles was the last to die. When I was there, Melissa told me he was practically part of the family and vice versa. The cops finally said that the two guys, the ones they caught, had been beaten up by Charles in a fight. But I remember six people. I'll never forget their faces even though everyone is certain they don't exist. The guys had confessed and said they were the only ones there and there was no evidence to the contrary.
"You're lost in thought," my date says.
"Just thinking about thanking you for tonight."
"Why, your welcome." We dance some more.
After a while, Robert says, "I have to work tomarrow morning fairly early."
"I'll see you later, it's been a great evening." Then he leaned close and gave me a light brush of the lips before leaving. "Good work, Kelly." Cordelia said. "You had him eating out of your hand."
"Hey!" We all walk out of there. I am feeling great. The night air, the slight breeze, and the sound of activity. I'm hearing faint scuffling as we walk out of there.
"Something is wrong over there. I'm hearing some motion over there. It sounds like a couple of people fighting over in the alleyway."
"I can't hear anything," Buffy says. We walk a distance before the others can hear it. By the time we are even near the noise, Buffy and I both have our stakes out. San had finally taught me to bring out knives and other objects out of pockets in smooth and quick motions. We see two people, a man and a woman, holding Robert in a viselike grip while two other men are a little back.. Robert didn't look real well. A bit of blood dripped down his neck while he struggles slightly.
"Are those what I think they are, Buffy?"
"Yes, those are vampires."
We walk up to them. They notice us within seconds.
One of the men, apparently the leader, says, "Hello, lover, you're interrupting dinner again, I see." He snaps Robert's neck with a simple precise motion and drops him like a piece of garbage.
I recognize him from that night I became an Immortal. He was the one who tore into my neck with his teeth. I had felt my blood drain away. "Angel," Buffy and I both say at the same time.
"You can't hurt me, Buffy. You still love me."
"But I can," I scream and rush at him with a low thrust toward his heart, if there is one, with my stake. He blocks it laughing, then starts pushing it back toward me. I strain against him and Angel stops laughing because I am able to hold it against him for some strange and unusual reason.
*Buffy* I know there is something strange going on here with Kelly. First, when I met her, I felt my 'spider' sense go off and it still does every time I see her. But something felt different and I actually saw her in sunlight. Then when Kelly heard something that she shouldn't have been able to with normal hearing. Finally, actually matching Angel with the grappling of the stake, at least for a few seconds.
I fighting against the two henchmen vampires while Drucilla is standing there doing nothing in particular except for muttering. Kelly and Angel have dropped the stake and were fighting it out, barehanded. I stake both vampires and go to help Kelly. I stare in shock as I watch Kelly being knocked away. Kelly has a partial 'Game' face on. Something more than Hellmouth strange is going on.
"What in the Hellmouth are you?" Angelus and Kelly are about six feet from each other. Kelly feels her face in shock but keeps silent. "Another night, Buffy." Angelus turns and disappears with Drucilla.
"What is happening to me?" Kelly whispers. Her face shifts from a partially demonic visage to her fully human one.
"I don't know but I've got a feeling that Sandra might possibly have a few answers." I say. "She seemed a bit secretive when the two of us met. Like some piece of the puzzle had just been solved." We head toward Sandra's home. There is a blood trail starting on the steps and grass shows a trail from the jeep. When we go in, Sandra is lying on the floor, slowly healing but still bleeding a lot. Her face is bruised deeply and her clothes are in ruins and she is clutching her sword weakly.
"We have a little problem," San groans and then she passes out into a painful slumber.