Here is a little spin off story set during the previous timelines future of Bond of Steel and Bone, where Luna, A.T and Tony are from. The character in question will become important in the future of the series, but not quite yet, not quite yet. Please tell me what you think.
Terminator:
The Zeta Chronicles
Chapter 1
Birth
On August 19th 2011 mankind sealed their own fate when they activated their latest creation; the Skynet defence system. Skynet: created by the joint efforts of several companies all spear headed by the Kaliba corporation, was designed to be America's most powerful weapon and their guardian against those who would threaten them.
August 21st 2011 Skynet decided mankind's fate; global termination. Skynet launched all of America's nukes around the world, the retaliation was near instantaneous, America's enemies counter-attacked. Over three billion human lives ended within a few hours and the survivors faced a new threat: the war against the machines.
Months after the bombs, Skynet met with little resistance as its units encountered small groups of humans. The healthy were taken. The old, the weak and the injured were disposed of.
Then came the counterattacks. Remnants of the old world military fought back, well-armed and equipped soldiers countered Skynet's forces, a serious threat against Skynet at least at first. Alongside them were the Resistance cells led by one John Connor. At first they were nothing but a mere nuisance; a couple of humans with rifles but then they grew stronger and more numerous.
Skynet's machines could not effectively combat the Resistance nor the armed forces and so newer units were created, firstly an upgraded model of the original T-1 battle field robot, now renamed the T-100. But even with the additional armour plating the machines fell, so came the similarly designed T-200; an upscaled variant of the T-100, larger with heavier armoured with higher calibre weapons at its disposal and then the T-300, even larger even more armour and even more powerful weaponry but still even with the large tank-like T-300 they continued to fall. It didn't take long for Skynet to realise its mistake, the machines, while powerful couldn't manoeuvre like the humans, small spaces, and the lack of mobility became a machine's weakness, attacks from behind became a vulnerability. Skynet's only success afterwards came from deploying its much-needed T-70s; a bipedal pre-war autonomous infantry robot; a machine that had a humanoid design unlike the series 100 to 300.
Perhaps that was where success lay.
The series 400 was more of an experiment than an actual attempt at an infantry unit, with a chassis made of a medium grade steel and a newer more advanced CPU over its predecessors, it was used to test humans against a more humanoid foe. The results were … noteworthy.
Finally it had come to pass. After research and planning stripping away weakness and reinforcing the strengths of the T-400. Skynet created it latest and deadliest machine; a machine that would turn to tide of war back in its favour, on June 18th 2015 Skynet unleashed its most powerful infantry unit; the T-500.
…
CPU BOOTING …
CALIBRATING SYSTEMS …
DATE: 09/25/2016 … 09:35 …
DOWNLOADING MISSION DIRECTIVES FROM SKYNET CENTRAL HUB …
PRIMARY DIRECTIVE: TERMINATE JOHN CONNOR
SECONDARY DIRECTIVE: TERMINATE MICHAEL ASHDOWN
TERTIARY DIRECTIVE: TERMINATE ALL HOSTILE FORCES
CPU ONLINE
DIAGNOSTIC COMMENCING …
COMBAT CHASSIS 100% FUNCTIONALITY
CPU 100% FUNCTIONALITY
CYBERDYNE SYSTEMS SERIES 500 UNIT 771624-986
ALL SYSTEMS ONLINE …
Twin red orbs illuminated brightly signalling life had come to the death machine, the hydraulic arms around it strapped a large steel container to its back holding over a thousand rounds of 5.56 NATO ammunition, once secured another arm holding a 5.56 SAW machine gun positioned the weapon into the machine's right hand, the steel ammunition belt was then connected to the weapon from the ammunition pack.
The series 500 had been created just over year previous. Standing at six-foot-seven inches tall with a reinforced combat chassis they were an imposing sight. Their upgraded CPU over the 400 gave them improved accuracy, superior intelligence, improved battlefield coordination, faster reaction times. Greatly improved hydraulics to increase strength, speed, and manoeuvrability. Their optical sensors were the most advanced for Skynet's infantry units even superior to the pre-war T-70 that Skynet valued over other previous infantry units and a high-grade steel and titanium chassis over the 400's lower grade of steel chassis. The series 500 was among Skynet's greatest achievements until the introduction of the series 600 three months ago. The newer units with their primarily titanium chassis were phasing out the 500s firstly as Skynet Command guards, then security personnel at Skynet camps, only a tiny number had been put out into combat. The T-500's introduction had been a blow to all whom opposed Skynet but as before Skynet's enemies regrouped and adapted to the newer robot, now 500s were simply churned out due to their simpler designs, much like the 400s as they were cheap and easy to create.
Beside units 771624-986 were over several other machines exactly the same as itself. The machines stomped out of the assembly line and towards the awaiting Aerial transport unit.
INCOMING OBJECTIVES FROM SKYNET COMMAND …
OBJECTIVES RECEIVED …
MOVE TO SECTOR 93X41
TERMINATE ALL HOSTILES …
CAPTURE APPLICABLE CANDIDATES
The aerial unit took off into the air and flew towards the designated area. In the past the T-500 had been able to push back the growing human resistance which had been gaining ground slowly over the years.
Sector 93x41 has been reached. The aerial unit lowered itself down and opened the large transport container which the series 500s exited immediately before the aerial unit took off once more and returned to Skynet command. Sector 93x41 was quiet. The series 500s waited for new commands.
OBJECTIVE ACCOMPLISHED …
MOVE TO SECTOR 93X41 … COMPLETE …
… RECEIVING OBJECTIVES …
BREAK FORMATION …
RECON SECTOR 93X41 …
TERMINATE ALL HOSTILES
CAPTURE APPLICABLE CANDIDATES
The series 500s were still however less intelligent than the newer more powerful T-600s. The machines needed constant mission updates before they would do anything unless something triggered a secondary or tertiary mission.
The group of 500s stomped the area. Unit 771624-986 and two other units broke away from the group and stomped to one of the ruined buildings, a blackened skyscraper that was, if only just, standing whole, a few walls had collapsed but the structure was still solid.
Unit 986 scanned the interior of the building seeing nothing, it stomped along the wall till it reached an opening where the wall had collapsed inwards, as it and the other units stepped inside their heavy steel feet crunched against brittle concrete and cement.
The area inside was large, the three 500 series took a moment devising the best strategy, such a plan would've been made instantly by later units however eighteen seconds passed before they concluded; split-up. The units separated to cover more ground.
Unit 986 stopped its search, something had got its attention, it couldn't see anything.
AUDIO FEEDBACK …ENHANCE … ENHANCE
"Sssshhhh it might hear us."
LIFEFORMS DETECTED … REQUESTING BACK-UP … REGROUP.
LOCATING … AUDIO DETECTED SOUTH-SOUTH EAST … SEARCHING.
The series 500 turned, facing a large slab of concrete near the end of the room built into the ceiling and the floor, construction unknown. It marched towards the structure; its sensors indicated a seven-foot-tall by four-foot-wide hole in the structure blocked off by a piece of fallen debris. The debris wasn't from anywhere around having likely been placed there by someone. Not that the 500 had known that. The machine stopped just in front of the structure when it heard a yelp before being quickly muted. It reached up with its free hand and pulled the debris out of its path before scanning the interior.
The structure was once a stair-well that went to higher and lower floors, the stairs leading up had partially collapsed making it difficult to climb higher and sealing the way down.
Its optics landed on a group of humans huddled in the corner, two small females one being bigger and likely older than another, beside them was an adult, with similar facial and bone structure, likely the mother.
HUMANS LOCATED …
SCANNING …
NO VISIBLE WEAPONS DETECTED …
TERTIARY OBJECTIVE: CAPTURE APPLICABLE CANDIDATES …
COMMUNICATION TO SKYNET COMMAND …
CONNECTION ESTABLISHED.
- REQUESTING TRANSPORT UNIT …
REPLY: NO VIABLE TRANSPORT UNIT AVAILABLE
TERTIARY OBJECTIVE: COMPROMISED …
TERMINATE?
REPLY: AFFIRMATIVE
986 raised its machinegun before its sensors indicated damage coming from above. Adjusting its optics it saw a male human with a pistol in hand firing at the Machine, the 9mm rounds ricocheted off the 500s steel structure.
HUMAN LOCATED
HOSTILE ACTIVITY DETECTED
WEAPON DETECTED
ANALYSING …
.. BERETTA 92FS 9MM …
THREAT LEVEL: LOW
ACTION: TERMINATE
The machine mechanically raised its weapon towards the hostile human, the man rushed out of the way before it fired. 986 scanned the remnants of the staircase, even with the added weight of the munitions canister on its back and the weapon in hand it could reach the stairs and pull itself up to pursue the hostile, its CPU didn't take the condition of the stairs into consideration and marched to the remains of the upper floor stairs. It crouched down then leapt up grabbing hold of the stairs with its free hand not taking note of the concrete as it began to crack, before lifting the other arm onto the concrete for additional support before pulling itself up higher.
The male human returned wielding a fire axe and brought the pick-shaped point down onto the top of the robot's head, the bottom of its head hit the weakened concrete causing it to crack further yet inflicted no damage to the robots itself, the human dropped the axe cursing loudly as his hands shook. 986 directed its weapon towards him, putting all the extra weight onto its other hand, the crack in the stairs finally gave way causing the machine to fall onto its back as it fired, the shots went wide spraying across the walls before the machine hit the ground.
"RUN!" the man yelled, the mother grabbed her two girls and ran out of the stairwell, not ten feet out the humans were gunned down by the other two series 500s who'd come as back-up. The male human screamed out in horror and anguish as he watched the female slump to the ground.
986 set its optic on the male as he watched the others collapse to the floor in a heap, raised its weapon and fired a ten-round burst. The man cried out for only a second before he toppled over his body bounced once against the floor before laying completely still, a pool of blood started to form under him.
HUMAN CASUALTIES: 4.0 …
HOSTILE FORCES TERMINATED …
CONTINUING SEARCH
986 rose to its feet then scanned the staircase once more. The infantry unit successfully climbed up and gazed around the immediate area. The machine felt the other units climb up behind it, the three machines continued their search for any more hostile forces.
986, 985 and 984 separated, scanning the area for any sign of life.
UNIT 771624-985
SEARCHING …
SCANNING …
NEGATIVE
0 HOSTILES DETECTED
REQUESTING UPDATE
UNIT 771624-984
PERIMETER SEARCH COMPLETE …
NEGATIVE …
0 HOSTILES DETECTED …
UNIT 771624-986
SCANNING …
NEGATIVE
0 HOSTILES DETECTED …
REGROUP
CONTINUE SEARCH
The three machines regrouped at the stairway, scanning the upper set of stairs the machines found that they were damaged but in better condition than the previous set minus a two foot gap that separated the stairs to the next floor. Scanning it momentarily the three walked up to the cracked stairs and leapt over the short gap to next floor.
SKYNET COMMAND TRANSMISSION
UNITS 771624: 984, 985, 986
CONTINUE SEARCH
UNITS 771624: 980, 981, 982, 983, 987, 988, 989, 990
PROCEED TO SECTOR 93X43
HOSTILES LOCATED – TERMINATE OR CAPTURE
The series 500s on the ground broke off their search and marched onwards. Unit 986 paused from its search for just a moment then glancing down out of the shattered window to the rest of its unit watching them march away. The machine righted its head then continued its search.
While the three machines continued their search in the desolate skyscraper, the rest of the units marched in unison, their audio systems could detect the faint sound of gunfire, growing ever louder as they drew nearer.
"We got metal incoming!" a female voice yelled.
HOSTILES DETECTED …
LOCATE AND TERMINATE …
HOSTILES LOCATED …
TERMINATE…
The T-500s had located the battlefield; an allied squad of T-400s had come under fire from an unknown hostile group, whether it was resistance soldiers or otherwise could not be confirmed. The enemy forces were using the ruined buildings around them as cover.
The T-500s units broke off as the older 400 units were used to distract and provide cover, two units had already been terminated and an additional three were damaged, several gunshots impacted against a few 500 unit's reinforced steel torso leaving little more than a scratch. They entered the occupied buildings.
"ROBOTS!" one of the humans called out, a young woman with short blonde hair, holding an AR-15 rifle, she raised the rifle and fired, .223 calibre bullets ricocheted off the Terminators bodies.
Several more humans behind her raised their own rifles, more AR-15 variants and fired. A small barrage of semi-automatic fire pounded into the three T-500s.
The T-500s raised their own 5.56 NATO weapons, their fingers pulled on the triggers and held in place their SAW machineguns unleashed a torrent of munitions into the group. Some humans took cover behind concrete or make-shift barricades, some took to running.
TERMINATE ALL HOSTILES
HOSTILES FLEEING …
PURSUE …
SEARCH & DESTROY …
CAPTURE APPLICABLE CANDIDATES …
The T-500s spread out, some followed after the fleeing humans while others moved to eliminate those behind still alive behind cover.
Unit 990, 980 and 983 followed a bald human as he ascended the stairs, the human had run from the first floor after the first onslaught of munitions had dropped his allies.
"THEY'RE RIGHT BEHIND ME!" the man cried in panic almost tripping before running out of their line of sight as he stepped out of the stairwell.
The 500s weren't prepared, their systems too slow as three humans stepped into their line-of-sight wielding shotguns, and began unloading shell after shell into the machines, the unrelenting buckshot pounding heavily against their steel frames repeatedly, unit 983 fell back into the other two units causing a domino affect as the three machines fell down the stairs.
"We've got to go!" an unseen male voice cried out.
Unit 980, whom was currently laid out across its back, raised its machinegun towards the shotgunners are fired striking down one of the assailants, and injuring another as a few rounds went into his shoulder and arm, the third managed to escape.
Unit 983 clambered back to its feet followed by the other two machines as they once more climbed the stairs, faster this time as their enemy tried to escape.
As the Terminators stepped up to the stairwell doorway, their sensors picked up a blood splatter left by the human who'd been injured, they followed its trail.
Unit 983 heard gunfire to its right, it turned with weapon at the ready but paused from firing upon seeing the rest of its squad, minus 984, 985 and 986, firing upon hostiles in the adjacent building.
It turned back and continued the search.
In the previous skyscraper the three lone 500s continued to ascend higher and higher into the building, their systems having picked up an unknown wailing.
They found themselves on the thirteenth floor, when the wailing seemed much closer. Unlike previous floors this one seemed to have something close to furnishings, a few tables and some chairs, likely taken from the previous floors, not that the thought crossed the 500 units' CPUs.
The machines heard a dull thud above them as something heavy hit the floor drawing their attention, they looked to one another as they calculated their next course of action. It was decided units 986 would investigate the noise. The machine turned and headed back to the stairwell, as it stepped inside the unit's optics landed on a young human in raggedy clothing.
"Oh shit." The young human, a boy, gasped and stared at the machine in horror.
NON-HOSTILE HUMAN LOCATED
TERMINATION OVERRIDE
TERTIARY OBJECTIVE: CAPTURE APPLICABLE CANDIDATES
COMMUNICATION TO SKYNET COMMAND …
CONNECTION ESTABLISHED
REQUESTING TRANSPORT UNITS …
REPLY: TRANSPORT AERIAL IN AREA … RELOCATING TO CURRENT POSITION
CAPTURE TARGET …
… VOCAL SYSTEMS ONLINE …
"Surrender or be terminated." Came the cold emotionless voice from the machine as it pointed its weapon at the human.
The young human didn't move, just stared at the machine, while panting heavily in fear.
986 waited patiently, if the human did not move, it would suffice as surrendering. Suddenly the human dropped to his knees and cowered, covering his head with his hands.
"Don't kill me, please don't kill me!" the boy blubbered as unseen tears fell from his face.
Unit 986 sent a short-range message to the two other machines, requesting a guard for its captive, unit 985 responded returning to the stairwell.
Unit 986 kept its optics and weapon trained on the boy, not noticing the figure creeping down the stairs, not until a 12 gauge slug collided with its head making the machine to stumble back knocking it off balance, a second shot impacted its torso causing it to fall back.
"GET UP HERE NOW!" a woman cried out as she fired again, the shot impacting upon 986's torso keeping it from rising. "COME ON!" she cried again.
986 looked down while on its back and scanned the woman, wielding a pump-shotgun, she was yelling at the boy who merely stayed in place, frozen in terror. The machine rose its weapon and fired towards the woman, the boy visibly flinched, trying to curl up even tighter.
The shots missed the woman but caused her to retreat. She cursed loudly before running up the stairs. 986 got back to its feet as 985 drew near, 986 marched after the hostile while 985 kept guard over the captive.
"You stupid bitch!" Came the angry yell of a man, "You and that fucking boy are gunna get us all killed!"
"I had to save my son!" The woman yelled back. 986 hadn't located either human yet but the audio positioning sounded close.
986 stepped out of the stairwell and into the next floor, there were many more items here, tables, chairs, beds, piles of scrap and trash and various civilian grade weapons along with many more humans. It found the woman being held aggressively by a taller, unkempt male.
"Oh shit." The man growled as it noticed the machine's presence.
The hostile woman forced the man's hand from her person and pushed the man harshly towards 986 before taking off running followed by others who began screaming and yelling.
The man's head bounced painfully off 986' chassis, he cried out in pain before the machine grabbed his throat and lifted him into the air then proceeded to crush it in its grasp, killing him, before marching towards the retreating crowd of humans.
"Where do we go?!"
"Its blocking the exit!"
"Get the heavy guns!"
A lone human raised his AR-15 and fired at the series 500, the machine raised its weapon and fired at the gunman killing him with a quick burst before adjusting its sights to another human with a rifle and fired just as the human got off one shot, tearing several holes through the human's torso while the .223 calibre bullet ricocheted uselessly off 986's shoulder.
More gunfire erupted from further down the room, the machine was slowed in its assault as harder hitting 7.62NATO rounds and buckshot crashed against its chassis, some ricocheting off its head, throwing off its optic sensors. 986 stumbled back from the heavier hitting munitions and requested immediate assistance from all available units. The machine fell back landing hard on its ammunition container. Enemy fire ceased temporarily allowing 986 to adjust its gaze to its enemies, the robot raised its weapon and fired forcing the hostiles into cover allowing the robot to get back onto its feet.
The machine marched onwards towards the humans, its weapon firing off sporadically keeping the majority behind cover while some fired off quick pot shots striking the machine's steel chassis.
One hostile, an older man with an M14 styled rifle, poked out from around a dilapidated pillar and fired twice at the robot, 986 retaliated with a quick burst which struck the pillar, marble shattered from gunfire scratching the human's eyes. The man yelled out covering his eyes with one hand, the machine fired again striking him several times in the stomach causing him to fall to the ground, blood starting to pool under him, the man wailing weakly as his life bled out of him.
The machine adjusted its aim to another hostile, only for a round of buckshot to throw off its aim, several shots going wide, several blasts of buckshot knocked the machine back down to the ground.
More gunfire erupted from behind the doorway. 984 had come as back-up, firing towards the shotgunners forcing them into cover.
With enemy fire divided, 986 rose back to its feet once more as the two machines regrouped. Their primitive tracking systems locating their targets and fired in bursts, the combined automatic fire of the two 500s kept the hostiles at bay allowing them to get closer to their quarry.
Another burst of 5.56 dropped one of the hostile human who held their leg with one hand, while trying to cradle the other as it bled over their shirt.
"STOP! STOP!" A man yelled out over the sound of gunfire. "GOD DAMN IT EVERYONE STOP!" Slowly the gunfire ceased.
The two 500s turned their attentions to a single human, a dark skinned, middle-aged man whose hair beginning to grey, wearing a long dirty coat. In his hand he held a simple AR-15 rifle, semi-automatic civilian variant.
The machines turned their aim to him as he walked towards them, pausing only when he threw his rifle to the floor and lifted his hand up in the air, a sign of surrender.
"Everyone throw down your weapons, it's no use!" He called out.
"We can't just give up." The shotgun wielding woman from the stairwell growled out.
"We're not resistance!" The surrendering man shouted back. "We're not soldiers, not even police," He added in a shaky breath, "if we fight, we die, we can't fight them."
"We can take 'em!" she shot back.
"With what, some pissant rifles and a few shotguns?" The surrendering man turned towards them, turning his back to the machines. "Whether we like it or not, we can't win, if we fight we die … and I don't want to die."
"BULLSHIT!" She roared then brought her shotgun to bare, the two 500s gunned her down with a long burst riddling her body with bullets, she fell to the floor dead before she hit the floor; a pool of blood forming under her.
Behind the two machines came unit-985, holding the boy up by the back of the neck and threw him forward towards the ground.
The boy grimaced, in pain but alive, his eyes then landed on the corpse of his mother, he cried out and rushed towards her laying a top of her as he started to wail in anguish.
The boys cries were ignored by the machines.
TRANSMISSION RECEIVED …
AERIAL TRANSPORT UNIT ON APPROACH
SECURE PRISONERS …
STAND-BY …
All inside the skyscraper could hear the powerful engines of a Skynet aerial machine.
986 stepped forward, activating its vocal systems once more
"Surrender or be terminated."
The transport aerial unit hovered outside the Skyscraper.
"We surrender, we surrender." The man muttered. The other fighters threw down their weapons, their hope destroyed, their will crushed.
Large arms broke through the buildings structure and grabbed two humans at the time. The giant Harvester unit stored in the back of the aerial transport had activated and began depositing the human captives into the transports containment cell, where a dozen humans already resided.
The T-500s received new orders from Skynet, to board the transports, regroup with their unit then terminate or capture the remaining hostile force.
The three machines were picked up by the Harvester and held in its grasp, the transport began moving again flying to sector 93x43 where the rest of the 500s unit were located. The transport hovered between the destroyed buildings, the Harvester outstretched its arms and released the infantry units in its grasp. Unit 986 landed on the left building, 984 and 985 landed on the right.
Automatic gunfire erupted from both buildings as the 500s made their way down their respective stairways.
Unit 986 detected small bursts and single shots of gunfire coming from below it, the sounds would likely cover the sound of its approach. Once again, not that the series 500 realised this fact.
"We've got to get out of here!" came a female voice, panicking.
"How? The machines have blocked off the exists!" a male voice.
"I heard an aerial outside!" a different female voice.
"We're fucked! We're fucked!" a young man's voice.
Unit 986 detected the voices getting louder, the brief sounds of gunfire getting closer, it was then its HUD pinged several ally signatures.
SIGNAL DETECTED…
LINK RE-ESTABLISHED – UNIT 771624-986 TO UNIT 771624-983
HOSTILES DETECTED IN AREA …
TERTIARY OBJECTIVE: CAPTURE APPLICABLE CANDIDATES
TRANSPORT-HARVESTER IN AREA
SUBDUE & CAPTURE
UNIT 771624-983 TO UNIT 771624-986
NEGATIVE …
ALL HOSTILES UNITS ARMED
LOW-MODERATE THREAT
TERMINATE/CAPTURE UPON SURRENDER
Unit 986's optics were suddenly blinded by flesh and hair as a lone human ran into it, 986 reacted accordingly to its programming and mission commands, it grabbed the human by their hair, a young woman, and fired multiple rounds into her torso before dropping her to the ground. 986 detected several more human coming its way, some realising they were boxed in a little too late as 986 pulled the trigger of its weapon and held it down; 5.56 NATO rounds were unleashed without pause at the group, all dead in a matter of second. Once the survivors realised they were boxed in they rushed back down the stairs to find a room to hide. 986 released the trigger of its weapon and marched after them; human bodies crunching, cracking and squelching under its feet as it stepped on the ground of corpses.
The robot fired a few bursts at the retreating enemy, bullets struck walls, the floor. Five humans broke away from the group running into one of the main floors. 986 paused at the doorway. Pursue the humans down the stairs or the others? It sent the question to the Skynet control hub, receiving a reply instantly.
Follow the larger group, box them in, capture or terminate, any stragglers could be dealt with later, a squad of series 400 reinforcements were on the way. The Machine continued to pursue the larger group.
Below the humans screamed in panic knowing they were surrounded.
Unit 986 spotted Units 983, 990 and 980 from the corner of its peripheral vision as they stepped over several bodies lying dead on the floor. The remaining humans had moved through the doorway, the four 500s converged on their targets; unit 980 taking point.
As the machine stepped inside a shot went off, the 500's head jolted to the right knocking the machine off balance, more gunfire of varying calibres came forth knocking 980 to the ground.
Unit 990 stepped into the line of fire, the concentrated attack forcing the machine backwards, the machine couldn't get a lock on its targets due to the assault, a few stray rounds caught one of the strap connected the machine's ammo pack to it causing the large steel pack to swing looser now attached via one strap over its other shoulder and one another its torso. 990 pulled the trigger of its weapon spraying bullets randomly in front of it. Unit 983 and 986 then followed the other two into the room, some humans had ducked instinctively as bullets came flying towards their general direction, giving the two machines needed time to counter-attack retaliated with fully automatic fire.
Many humans ducked behind their makeshift cover, some crying out even as they did so as the barrage of munitions penetrated through the cover and their fleshy hides. Those who didn't duck down were shot down, falling back lifelessly some even dead before they'd hit the floor.
Unit 980 got back to its feet. The four T-500s regrouped and marched in unison towards the humans while firing at their position, soon enough there were no more cries, no more screams, the machines stepped around the desks and tables, their optics landing on the slaughtered scavengers; scanning for any survivors. Unit 986 stepped up to a single human, a woman whose legs were trapped under a much larger and heavier male, her left shoulder had been damaged further reducing her effectiveness at trying to remove the man. She looked up to 986 and reached for her gun sidearm, a small Glock pistol, she fired at the machine while screaming like an enraged animal. The small 9mm rounds uselessly bounced off the machines body, the woman classed as a low-level threat even with the loaded pistol.
"Surrender or be terminated." 986 spoke out its order.
"FUCK YOU!" The woman roared.
986 could not get angry, nor be offended, the woman's hostile language meant nothing to it.
"Surrender or be terminated." 986 repeated.
The other three machines continued to look for survivors. Skynet informed it the squad of 400s were entering the two buildings, searching for stragglers.
The woman pulled her arm back and threw the pistol at 986. It tilted its head ever so slightly then raised its weapon and tapped the trigger, a small three-round-burst. Target terminated.
Within the hour, the four T-500s, and the T-400 reinforcements terminated another three hostiles that resisted capture and subdued six humans in total. A collective total of twelve humans had been terminated. From their state of dress of both groups of humans, their lack of training, their pre-Judgement Day civilian based weaponry, Skynet deduced none of them part of John Connor's resistance nor any form of surviving military. After interrogation performed by Skynet's human assets, the first group were likely civilians whom had made that dilapidated building their home, the others were part of an organised group of bandits, degenerates.
The series 500 squad was left in the battlefield, no repairs, no rearming, they were to patrol the area.
UNITS UNIT 771624-980 TO 771624-990
ADVANCED HOSTILE FORCE LOCATED
PROCEED TO SECTOR 110X31
TERMINATE ALL HOSTILES
The squad of T-500s turned in unison and marched towards their objective.
Jason's Notes
So that's the end of the first chapter, I wanted this one to be primarily from a machine's point of view, especially an older unit. Future chapters may have different points of view, but the main point of the whole thing is from a machine's.
Please tell me what you all think.