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Skynet Spreads
Just above her, Sawyer had just arrived on the ship's top deck, the rain tearing down him as he checked his pistols for bullets before moving to the front.
The scene in front of him was not one he was happy to see. Hyde was lying on the ground, the burn on his chest still vivid and he himself showing little signs of getting up any time soon. Mina was on the ground below him, looking like she was currently out of it, with several small bruises sprouting on her face. Terry was currently trying to hold the T-X back from his unconscious friends, but he didn't seem to be coping too well.
Time I contributed to this thing again, Sawyer thought, as he whipped out his pistols and aimed them at the T-X. She was pretty close to Terry, but he was confident that he could strike her without hitting him.
He fired. Both bullets struck her in the side of the head, directly where the 'pressure point' would be in a human skull. From what he recalled of his knowledge of human anatomy, the bone there was less strong than anywhere else, so conceivably a human thumb pressed there hard enough would go through it.
It appeared that the same wasn't true for the T-X. The bullets did wound her, but not as badly as his previous shots. Looking up at him, she suddenly struck Terry even harder and knocked him onto his feet.
Before Sawyer could fully process that, the T-X was right in front of him, and had whipped out what appeared to be a simple nozzle. However, remembering what Terry had mentioned, Sawyer ducked sharply to the right, just before she launched off a massive burst of flame where he'd been standing.
As he landed on the ground, Sawyer launched off four bullets from his guns at the T-X, desperately trying to keep it back. Daring a look, he was relieved to see that his bullets had struck the T-X in the chest, although she didn't seem to be hampered by them. With no other choice available to him, Sawyer fired off his last few bullets at her, charging forward as he fired. While they distracted the T-X, Sawyer leapt off the edge of the deck, rolling as he struck the lower one.
Looking around in the brief seconds before the T-X joined him on the deck as he reloaded his guns, Sawyer was horrified to note that the others were still all out of it; Terry appeared to be regaining consciousness, as did Hyde, but he couldn't be certain they'd be up soon enough to help him. Mina was still completely unconscious; he couldn't expect any help from her.
Dammit! Sawyer thought to himself, as he heard the T-X crash onto the ground behind him as he just managed to finish reloading his guns. Spinning around, Sawyer launched off two bullets at the T-X, but still failed to cause anything worse than a couple of holes on it.
Just as the T-X was preparing to fire its flamethrower again, the massive form of Edward Hyde crashed into it from the side, grabbing it by both arms and turning its flamethrower on itself. Despite the rain, the flamethrower was extremely effective; it completely burned away the T-X's upper body and head flesh, along with all its hair and whatever covered its eyes.
"Take that, you bitch!" Hyde yelled, as the flamethrower apparently ran out of juice. The head that was left didn't look even remotely human; it was tall and thin, with large electric-blue eyes and a wicked-looking mouth. What parts of the body had been exposed were simple metal, that appeared to link together in a very elaborate-looking way.
"Nice one, Hyde!" Sawyer yelled, as the T-X stared up at Hyde with what could possibly be called hatred in its eyes.
"Thanks, Sawyer. Now, if you didn't mind, there's something I'd like to check out..." Hyde said. Before Sawyer could react to that, Hyde had lifted the T-X high above his head and had thrown it over the side of the boat!
"What the... Are you insane, Hyde?!" Sawyer yelled at the League's muscle, as he noted Terry get back to his feet. "It's after the League, remember; if it's in the ocean it'll target the Nautilus! They won't have a chance!"
"Far from it," Hyde replied, his low growl still audible even over the now torrential rain. "I was partly conscious for most of this fight, and Henry and I have noticed something about the T-X; we think it's only after you or Mina."
"What?" Sawyer asked, baffled. "That's ridiculous; Terry told us it was the League's protégés that stopped Skynet, not the protégés of Mina or I!"
"No," Hyde said, as Terry looked over the side of the boat at where the T-X had fallen. "He said it was our protégés. He never said whose specifically."
"When it charges back up here, then I'll be prepared to acknowledge that I may be its target," Sawyer replied, trying to sound disdainful of Hyde's theory. However, Hyde noted that Sawyer was checking his guns for ammunition while he said that. If nothing else, it was a good sign he didn't believe what he was saying himself.
No sooner were the bullets in, than the T-X was back in front of them. Its flesh had completely regenerated as though Hyde had never even attacked it; it didn't even look that wet, although in the rain it was admittedly rather hard to tell.
Just as Sawyer had taken in its new weapon (Something he couldn't immediately identify, but it looked like something he'd seen in Nemo's workshop), Terry had fired his weapon at it from behind. From what Sawyer could see he was using the same weapon as he had the first time he'd fired, so it must have been able to do varying degrees of damage, given that this blast blew the T-X right through the opposite railing and back into the ocean before it could fire a single shot.
Walking forward to join Sawyer and Hyde, Terry surveyed the hole the T-X had been blown through.
"She'll be back," he said simply.
"Hopefully, not for a couple of minutes," Sawyer said, turning to face the mysterious character. "There's something we want to know, Terry. That T-X seems to be mainly gunning for Mina or I, and has just been stopped by you or Hyde attacking her. Why is that?"
Terry replied to that automatically. "The reason is simple; it was not the protégés of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in general that stopped Skynet in this timeline. It was the protégés of Tom Sawyer and Mina Harker; the brother and sister team of Rebecca and Jonathan Sawyer, remarkable shots gifted with impressive physical strength and great agility, who prevented Skynet's coming online on the sixteenth of July 2005."
"Wait a minute... Sawyer? As in..." Sawyer said, but found unable to complete that thought.
However, Terry finished it for him. "As in you. They are the great- grandchildren of yourself and Mina Harker."
*****
Mina heard almost every bit of that conversation from where she was lying; even over the rain her hearing was excellent, and she'd regained consciousness as the T-X had struck the deck. However, it was that comment about the descendants that really got her awake again.
"WHAT?!" she yelled, leaping to her feet and staring over at the other three. "But... But I can't have children!"
"Really?" Hyde said, looking over at Mina. He seemed to be the only one interested in talking right now; Sawyer was in a state of shock and Terry appeared to have shifted over to his 'ready for attack ' mode. "And yet, as I recall, you have a young son called Quincey Jonathan Abraham Arthur Harker, whom you gave birth to after Dracula bit you?"
"Well, yes, but John and I...conceived him before the bite happened!" Mina replied, trying to find some logic in it all. "Vampires are naturally sterile, Hyde! I cannot have children now!"
Suddenly, Sawyer butted in. "Did any vampire ever try the old way before trying the new one?"
"What?" Mina asked.
"I mean, I know a vampire can be made by another vampire biting a human on the neck and all," Sawyer said. "But before they did that, did any vampire try to make a kid... y'know, the old-fashioned way?"
Mina suddenly realized what he was thinking. Maybe vampires were simply sterile because, since their bodies were now definitely reproducing one way, the other had stopped working. It did make a sort of sense...
"Good... point, Tom," she replied, walking over to join the others. "It definitely bears thinking about.
"Well, could we possibly discuss that after the T-X has been destroyed?" Hyde put in; he was looking slightly on edge, as though something was wrong. Sawyer and Mina recognised those signs easily; his body language indicated that the serum that transformed him had begun to run out. Evidently the damage he'd taken when the T-X had shot him had done more to him than he liked to show.
"Right," Sawyer said, as he whipped out his guns again and pointed them over at where the T-X had fallen. "Hyde, do you have a spare sample of your serum on you anywhere, or is one bottle all you ever have on you?"
"That's it," Hyde replied.
"Well, we'll just have to improvise. If you feel about to change, run and dive down to the Nautilus; if nothing else, you can get another serum sample there. Mina, Terry and I will just have to hold this thing back as best we can."
"Right," Hyde said, flexing his fingers. "Then I'll just have to get in a few good hits right now."
No sooner had he said that, than the T-X tore up out of the ocean, facing the League. It was still using the same weapon it had active when it fell over the first time, but it was actually starting to look angry now.
Not willing to give it a chance to fire, Sawyer and Terry picked up their weapons and fired every shot they could before it could retaliate. Then, when Sawyer had run out of bullets, Hyde and Mina charged forward, Mina slashing at the T-X with her nails and her now-drawn sword while Hyde just punched and scratched like a mad thing. When they finally stopped, the T- X's makeshift flesh was practically nonexistent around the face, and her shirt was in shreds around her. Fortunately enough was left for the sake of decency; more likely than not Mina had been attacking down there and didn't want to give Hyde something to drool over.
"Ready to give up yet?" Mina asked the T-X, as she stepped back and held her sword out in front of her. In reply, the T-X simply roared and struck out, in a blow that even Mina's lightning-fast reflexes found difficult to counter. No sooner had the blow been deflected, Mina had placed one hand on the T-X's face, grabbed its weapon with her other one, and shoved and pulled simultaneously.
Instantly, the T-X's latest weapon came away in Mina's hand. Before the T-X could react, Mina had passed the weapon on to Hyde and it had been crushed into powder.
*****
Roaring at the vampire, the T-X instantly shifted its weapon arm to a fourth weapon, this one more basic than the others. It was a long sword stretched out to a length that matched Mina's, but honed to a far finer point.
Instantly, the T-X began to slash and swipe away at Mina, the vampire barely able to keep all the blows away from her. Part of her was hoping someone would fire at the T-X and give her an opening, but the other part knew that she was too close to the T-X for even Tom's rapidly improving aim to fire without the risk of hitting her.
She would just have to give him a better opening.
Ducking under the T-X's latest strike, Mina sidestepped around the T-X until she was right behind it. As soon as she was, she stood back up and grabbed the T-X around the neck and waist.
"Terry! Fire!" she yelled at the machine. Terry responded at once, picking up his gun and firing three shots at the T-X.
Each shot knocked the T-X back a little further, and tore through the metal that was her chest. By the time Terry had stopped firing, the T-X's metallic innards were exposed to the open air, and her and Mina were at the hole in the railings where she'd fallen off the ship earlier.
With the T-X still disoriented (Or whatever the machine equivalent was), Mina took one desperate chance to buy them more time; she leapt up over the T-X and kicked out at her head. Even Hyde couldn't have taken that kick without some kind of reaction; the T-X fell back and landed in the ocean again.
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Skynet Spreads
Just above her, Sawyer had just arrived on the ship's top deck, the rain tearing down him as he checked his pistols for bullets before moving to the front.
The scene in front of him was not one he was happy to see. Hyde was lying on the ground, the burn on his chest still vivid and he himself showing little signs of getting up any time soon. Mina was on the ground below him, looking like she was currently out of it, with several small bruises sprouting on her face. Terry was currently trying to hold the T-X back from his unconscious friends, but he didn't seem to be coping too well.
Time I contributed to this thing again, Sawyer thought, as he whipped out his pistols and aimed them at the T-X. She was pretty close to Terry, but he was confident that he could strike her without hitting him.
He fired. Both bullets struck her in the side of the head, directly where the 'pressure point' would be in a human skull. From what he recalled of his knowledge of human anatomy, the bone there was less strong than anywhere else, so conceivably a human thumb pressed there hard enough would go through it.
It appeared that the same wasn't true for the T-X. The bullets did wound her, but not as badly as his previous shots. Looking up at him, she suddenly struck Terry even harder and knocked him onto his feet.
Before Sawyer could fully process that, the T-X was right in front of him, and had whipped out what appeared to be a simple nozzle. However, remembering what Terry had mentioned, Sawyer ducked sharply to the right, just before she launched off a massive burst of flame where he'd been standing.
As he landed on the ground, Sawyer launched off four bullets from his guns at the T-X, desperately trying to keep it back. Daring a look, he was relieved to see that his bullets had struck the T-X in the chest, although she didn't seem to be hampered by them. With no other choice available to him, Sawyer fired off his last few bullets at her, charging forward as he fired. While they distracted the T-X, Sawyer leapt off the edge of the deck, rolling as he struck the lower one.
Looking around in the brief seconds before the T-X joined him on the deck as he reloaded his guns, Sawyer was horrified to note that the others were still all out of it; Terry appeared to be regaining consciousness, as did Hyde, but he couldn't be certain they'd be up soon enough to help him. Mina was still completely unconscious; he couldn't expect any help from her.
Dammit! Sawyer thought to himself, as he heard the T-X crash onto the ground behind him as he just managed to finish reloading his guns. Spinning around, Sawyer launched off two bullets at the T-X, but still failed to cause anything worse than a couple of holes on it.
Just as the T-X was preparing to fire its flamethrower again, the massive form of Edward Hyde crashed into it from the side, grabbing it by both arms and turning its flamethrower on itself. Despite the rain, the flamethrower was extremely effective; it completely burned away the T-X's upper body and head flesh, along with all its hair and whatever covered its eyes.
"Take that, you bitch!" Hyde yelled, as the flamethrower apparently ran out of juice. The head that was left didn't look even remotely human; it was tall and thin, with large electric-blue eyes and a wicked-looking mouth. What parts of the body had been exposed were simple metal, that appeared to link together in a very elaborate-looking way.
"Nice one, Hyde!" Sawyer yelled, as the T-X stared up at Hyde with what could possibly be called hatred in its eyes.
"Thanks, Sawyer. Now, if you didn't mind, there's something I'd like to check out..." Hyde said. Before Sawyer could react to that, Hyde had lifted the T-X high above his head and had thrown it over the side of the boat!
"What the... Are you insane, Hyde?!" Sawyer yelled at the League's muscle, as he noted Terry get back to his feet. "It's after the League, remember; if it's in the ocean it'll target the Nautilus! They won't have a chance!"
"Far from it," Hyde replied, his low growl still audible even over the now torrential rain. "I was partly conscious for most of this fight, and Henry and I have noticed something about the T-X; we think it's only after you or Mina."
"What?" Sawyer asked, baffled. "That's ridiculous; Terry told us it was the League's protégés that stopped Skynet, not the protégés of Mina or I!"
"No," Hyde said, as Terry looked over the side of the boat at where the T-X had fallen. "He said it was our protégés. He never said whose specifically."
"When it charges back up here, then I'll be prepared to acknowledge that I may be its target," Sawyer replied, trying to sound disdainful of Hyde's theory. However, Hyde noted that Sawyer was checking his guns for ammunition while he said that. If nothing else, it was a good sign he didn't believe what he was saying himself.
No sooner were the bullets in, than the T-X was back in front of them. Its flesh had completely regenerated as though Hyde had never even attacked it; it didn't even look that wet, although in the rain it was admittedly rather hard to tell.
Just as Sawyer had taken in its new weapon (Something he couldn't immediately identify, but it looked like something he'd seen in Nemo's workshop), Terry had fired his weapon at it from behind. From what Sawyer could see he was using the same weapon as he had the first time he'd fired, so it must have been able to do varying degrees of damage, given that this blast blew the T-X right through the opposite railing and back into the ocean before it could fire a single shot.
Walking forward to join Sawyer and Hyde, Terry surveyed the hole the T-X had been blown through.
"She'll be back," he said simply.
"Hopefully, not for a couple of minutes," Sawyer said, turning to face the mysterious character. "There's something we want to know, Terry. That T-X seems to be mainly gunning for Mina or I, and has just been stopped by you or Hyde attacking her. Why is that?"
Terry replied to that automatically. "The reason is simple; it was not the protégés of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in general that stopped Skynet in this timeline. It was the protégés of Tom Sawyer and Mina Harker; the brother and sister team of Rebecca and Jonathan Sawyer, remarkable shots gifted with impressive physical strength and great agility, who prevented Skynet's coming online on the sixteenth of July 2005."
"Wait a minute... Sawyer? As in..." Sawyer said, but found unable to complete that thought.
However, Terry finished it for him. "As in you. They are the great- grandchildren of yourself and Mina Harker."
*****
Mina heard almost every bit of that conversation from where she was lying; even over the rain her hearing was excellent, and she'd regained consciousness as the T-X had struck the deck. However, it was that comment about the descendants that really got her awake again.
"WHAT?!" she yelled, leaping to her feet and staring over at the other three. "But... But I can't have children!"
"Really?" Hyde said, looking over at Mina. He seemed to be the only one interested in talking right now; Sawyer was in a state of shock and Terry appeared to have shifted over to his 'ready for attack ' mode. "And yet, as I recall, you have a young son called Quincey Jonathan Abraham Arthur Harker, whom you gave birth to after Dracula bit you?"
"Well, yes, but John and I...conceived him before the bite happened!" Mina replied, trying to find some logic in it all. "Vampires are naturally sterile, Hyde! I cannot have children now!"
Suddenly, Sawyer butted in. "Did any vampire ever try the old way before trying the new one?"
"What?" Mina asked.
"I mean, I know a vampire can be made by another vampire biting a human on the neck and all," Sawyer said. "But before they did that, did any vampire try to make a kid... y'know, the old-fashioned way?"
Mina suddenly realized what he was thinking. Maybe vampires were simply sterile because, since their bodies were now definitely reproducing one way, the other had stopped working. It did make a sort of sense...
"Good... point, Tom," she replied, walking over to join the others. "It definitely bears thinking about.
"Well, could we possibly discuss that after the T-X has been destroyed?" Hyde put in; he was looking slightly on edge, as though something was wrong. Sawyer and Mina recognised those signs easily; his body language indicated that the serum that transformed him had begun to run out. Evidently the damage he'd taken when the T-X had shot him had done more to him than he liked to show.
"Right," Sawyer said, as he whipped out his guns again and pointed them over at where the T-X had fallen. "Hyde, do you have a spare sample of your serum on you anywhere, or is one bottle all you ever have on you?"
"That's it," Hyde replied.
"Well, we'll just have to improvise. If you feel about to change, run and dive down to the Nautilus; if nothing else, you can get another serum sample there. Mina, Terry and I will just have to hold this thing back as best we can."
"Right," Hyde said, flexing his fingers. "Then I'll just have to get in a few good hits right now."
No sooner had he said that, than the T-X tore up out of the ocean, facing the League. It was still using the same weapon it had active when it fell over the first time, but it was actually starting to look angry now.
Not willing to give it a chance to fire, Sawyer and Terry picked up their weapons and fired every shot they could before it could retaliate. Then, when Sawyer had run out of bullets, Hyde and Mina charged forward, Mina slashing at the T-X with her nails and her now-drawn sword while Hyde just punched and scratched like a mad thing. When they finally stopped, the T- X's makeshift flesh was practically nonexistent around the face, and her shirt was in shreds around her. Fortunately enough was left for the sake of decency; more likely than not Mina had been attacking down there and didn't want to give Hyde something to drool over.
"Ready to give up yet?" Mina asked the T-X, as she stepped back and held her sword out in front of her. In reply, the T-X simply roared and struck out, in a blow that even Mina's lightning-fast reflexes found difficult to counter. No sooner had the blow been deflected, Mina had placed one hand on the T-X's face, grabbed its weapon with her other one, and shoved and pulled simultaneously.
Instantly, the T-X's latest weapon came away in Mina's hand. Before the T-X could react, Mina had passed the weapon on to Hyde and it had been crushed into powder.
*****
Roaring at the vampire, the T-X instantly shifted its weapon arm to a fourth weapon, this one more basic than the others. It was a long sword stretched out to a length that matched Mina's, but honed to a far finer point.
Instantly, the T-X began to slash and swipe away at Mina, the vampire barely able to keep all the blows away from her. Part of her was hoping someone would fire at the T-X and give her an opening, but the other part knew that she was too close to the T-X for even Tom's rapidly improving aim to fire without the risk of hitting her.
She would just have to give him a better opening.
Ducking under the T-X's latest strike, Mina sidestepped around the T-X until she was right behind it. As soon as she was, she stood back up and grabbed the T-X around the neck and waist.
"Terry! Fire!" she yelled at the machine. Terry responded at once, picking up his gun and firing three shots at the T-X.
Each shot knocked the T-X back a little further, and tore through the metal that was her chest. By the time Terry had stopped firing, the T-X's metallic innards were exposed to the open air, and her and Mina were at the hole in the railings where she'd fallen off the ship earlier.
With the T-X still disoriented (Or whatever the machine equivalent was), Mina took one desperate chance to buy them more time; she leapt up over the T-X and kicked out at her head. Even Hyde couldn't have taken that kick without some kind of reaction; the T-X fell back and landed in the ocean again.
