Anguirus111 Note: The T-950 does not look in any way like Arnold. Who it does look like will be answered in a later chapter. This story gets stupid at times. Kids, don't read this, read some PG Terminator story. Go Arnold and become governor of California, at least you can't do any worse. I know nothing of the LA area so all the buildings and locations are lies(at least I hope so).
John Connor Residence: John woke up still sleepy and made his way into the kitchen. Already Samantha and Kate were awake and eating breakfast.
"Why up so early?" he asked groggily sitting down for a bowl of cereal. Kate came over and sat down beside him.
"I have a meeting with some of the top veterinary heads in the business and we're all going to discuss and share information about pet treatment. Samantha's just going out around the town with her friends," said Kate. John nodded remembering this from yesterday and sat down to eat his cereal. Kate's watch beeped and she looked at it.
"Well, I've got to go. Bye hon," she said. Leaving she gave John and quick kiss and was then out the door and gone leaving John and Samantha alone in silence. They hadn't had the best relationship John knew that, but they still held some love for each other. John opened his mouth to say something when Samantha got up.
"I've got to go, my friends are coming soon," she said. She left the room and John sighed. Samantha was going off to college in a few months and he still hoped he could salvage their relationship despite the odds.
"Only a miracle could save it," he thought eating more cereal. He picked up a newspaper and saw a small article about how a drug addict was shot and killed. He ignored it because it was a common occurrence and he moved on to read the technology page.
Los Angeles Library: The Terminator pulled up and parked in a parking spot outside the library. He had already taken the liberty of replacing the plates on the car so it wouldn't come up stolen and had already fashioned a pair of keys so it would look even less suspicious if pulled over by the cops. The Terminator entered into the facility and immediately walked towards the computers. It activated one and glanced at the other humans to determine a proper way to retrieve information. It had something to do with the 'Internet' so the Terminator logged on and immediately began searching through dozens of sites at the blink of an eye to locate the Connor family. It pulled up pictures of the three Connor members to determine they were still alive and stored them in its files and then located the Connor residence. It was closing up the files when a human female stood next to him.
"Beautiful day out," she observed. The Terminator looked outside as per its programmed response and then continued closing files.
"Perhaps," said the Terminator simply. It finished the files.
"Perhaps? Look at it, the sun is shining there's not a cloud in the sky, it's beautiful," said the human. The Terminator filed this knowledge away for future analysis. The Terminator then headed towards the exit.
"I'm Amanda Silberman," she said. The Terminator stopped in its tracks. It turned around.
"Are you related to Dr. Leo Silberman?" it asked. Amanda nodded.
"My grandfather, why?" she asked. The Terminator cocked its head and then left. Dr. Silberman was in its files as someone to stay away from and the Terminator assumed that related to his descendants as well. But this was all moot as the Terminator had all the information it needed so it left leaving Amanda with a quizzical look on her face.
"You know of my grandfather somehow and I intend to find out why," she finally decided. The Terminator then got back into the Firebird and drove off to the Connor residence.
Connor Residence: John had showered and had gotten dressed when he received a call.
"Connor," he said.
"Hey Connor, it's Steve. Look, we've finally gotten some leeway with these hackers that have been attacking the CIA and we know it's your day off but," said Steve. John laughed.
"You want me to come in to see if we can catch these guys in the act. Well it appears that I don't have any plans so sure I'll come in. See you soon," said John. He turned off the phone and after doing a couple of things he headed for the garage and into his new black BMW convertible. His job as head for the anti-hacking section of the government paid extraordinarily well as hacks had increased in the past few years and this car was a 'bonus' he had been given for cracking some hackers who had been falsifying some records on the Stock Exchange to plunge the market into chaos. John opened the garage and zoomed away. As he pulled around the corner and drove off, the Terminator arrived at the Connor residence. He parked on the street and then advanced towards the door. He rang the doorbell a few times and when no one responded he flicked on his infrared and it determined that no one was home. He walked to the garage and scanned the insides. He picked up the faint radio emissions from the garage door opener and after broadcasting hundreds of different signals, the garage door opener came to life and opened up. The Terminator stepped inside and closed the garage door behind him. He looked around the garage and saw a couple more cars and a couple of motorcycles. But to the Terminator's confusion it saw one heavily damaged Toyota Tundra with a large apparatus on the bed which Emery Animal Hospital and the license plate PET DOC 2. The Terminator was confused as to the purpose of the vehicle but didn't dwell on the subject and moved on. It ventured to the door leading to the house and it tested the door. It was locked. A portion of the Terminator's skin on its arm slid aside and a metal tube emerged. The tube then extended forward and a smaller tube emerged and entered into the lock. A second a later a click was heard. The Terminator opened the door and stepped inside with its weapons at the ready. It was in the kitchen area and in the back was the living room. The Terminator glanced around the room looking for some indications as to where they went. After a few minutes of searching it gave up with no evidence as to where they had vanished. The Terminator was leaving the house to the garage when the phone started ringing. The Terminator stepped back into the house and crossed his arms as the message recorder came to life.
"Hi Dad. Sorry about this morning, it's just…I don't know. I suppose you're at work. Anyway I'm at the Centurian Mall in case you were wondering. If you need to reach me you know my cell number. Bye," said Samantha. The Terminator quickly pulled up a map of the LA area on his HUD. The mall was instantly highlighted and its location was shown in location to the house. The Terminator exited the house and locked the door. It went through the garage and exited it to the Firebird. The Terminator then peeled out and headed down the street towards the mall.
A black van a couple blocks away: Talbot and his men were listening to the exact same message after having tapped into the phone line.
"Okay men you know our mission. Kill all members of the Connor family and then we get paid the rest of our money. Let's go," said Talbot. Talbot climbed into the drivers seat and turned it on. As he began to enter the street, he barely avoided hitting a Firebird traveling down the street as speeds in excess of the speed limit. Talbot muttered an obscenity under his breath as the Firebird zoomed around a corner and off out of sight. Talbot then entered into the street and towards the Mall.
Government anti-hacking agency branch of Los Angeles: John entered into the building and towards the main room full of advanced computers and hackers. John sat in his chair in front of one of the more advanced computers.
"Okay Steve, what've we got?" asked John. Steve gave him the complete rundown of the past 24 hours.
"Basically someone has attempting to hack into every military installation for the past 30 some years, and only now in the past twenty four hours they've stepped up their hacking attempts and are actually succeeding," said Steve. John whistled.
"Damn. And I designed those firewalls myself. What are they trying to get into?" asked John. Steve shrugged.
"What aren't they trying to get into more like it? They've been trying to gain access to everything from information to communications to mothballed projects," said Steve. John popped his head up.
"What mothball projects?" he asked. Steve clicked some commands on a nearby keyboard.
"Basically anything related to what CRS was doing with Edwards Air Force Base. And some hacking into a company called Cyberdyne," said Steve. John had to force himself not to jump up.
"It's probably nothing," he forced himself to believe. Steve kept talking.
"But that's not the strangest part, today the hacker slipped up and we got a look at the hacker's origin," said Steve. John smiled.
"Well soon it will be all over," he thought.
"It's Skynet," said Steve. John's eyes widened immensely.
Mall: Samantha's friends had just left because they all had prior arrangement that they couldn't get out of. She sighed and leaned on the railing on the mall's upper balcony. Below, The Terminator stepped into the mall's center and walked around looking for Samantha. Across the mall, Talbot and his mercenaries did the same. The Terminator walked towards a large gathering of people in odd costumes as he continued his search. He was walking through them when one in a gold shirt and black pants walked up to him.
"Hi! I'm Captain Kirk, who're you?" he asked. The Terminator turned to look at him.
"I'm a Terminator, CRS model 111," said the Terminator looking around. The person nodded.
"Oh. What show or movie are you from?" the person asked. The Terminator looked at him confused, or at least as confused as a Terminator could appear
"Movie, show?" he asked. The Terminator turned his head and noticed a sign that read: Sci-Fi Convention! The Terminator didn't have the slightest idea what Sci-Fi was so it continued looking around.
"Yeah, my character is from Star Trek, what about you. I must confess I've never heard of a Terminator before," said the man. The Terminator finally completed its scans of the convention and couldn't find Samantha anywhere.
"I'm not from a movie," said the Terminator moving on. The man looked concerned and raced after him.
"Ummm, you can distinguish the difference between reality and fiction right? Who are you, why are you here?" asked the man. The Terminator didn't understand the man's apprehension but chose to answer the question to put him at ease.
"I'm a T-950 Terminator. I was sent through time from an alternate dimension to protect the Connor family from destruction by Skynet's representative to this time. If I do not destroy Skynet's representative, Skynet will be reborn and they will attempt to recreate Judgment Day thereby wiping out most if not all of the human race," said the Terminator continuing to walk on. The man blocked his path.
"Okay mister, I think I need to convince you the difference between reality and fiction. You're not a Terminator and you seriously need help," said the man. The Terminator realized the man wasn't going to help him and his programming didn't necessitate killing the man in public so it merely put his hand up and squeezed a nerve on the man's right shoulder knocking him unconscious. The Terminator prepared for a reaction from witnesses but all he got was a cryptic reply from a man with weird ears and a blue uniform on.
"Sweet dude! Vulcan Neck Pinch!" said the man before walking off. The Terminator let it go at that and walked up to the top level.
Talbot's Team: The team had also conducted their own scans and determined that Samantha was not on the first floor either.
"Let's move team, second floor!" said Talbot. They walked towards an Elevator as another man in black pants with a black shirt and a leather jacket walked in with them. They watched as the elevator door closed and it rose up to the second floor. The Terminator decided that to not attempt conversation might cue it off as not being human.
"How's it going?" asked the Terminator as it selected its response from dozens of choices.
"Shut up," said a man. The Terminator turned to face them and it was about to say something when its HUD located weapons located underneath portions of their clothes. The Terminator was unclear as to what to do next.
"Why the weapons?" it asked bluntly. If these people were planning to harm humans it would have to stop them. The humans looked nervous and surprised that the Terminator knew they had weapons. One looked like he was going to go for his but another man stopped him, evidently the leader of the bunch.
"We work for the FBI and we've received word that a dangerous criminal might be in this mall. We're going to apprehend him, but if things turn deadly then we must take him out," said the man. It was obvious to the Terminator that the human was lying, but it chose to accept that answer like any human would.
"Okay then," said the Terminator. The elevator doors opened and they walked out, each in other directions. The Terminator quickly walked into a bathroom and began loading some more shells into his shotgun that he carried concealed in his coat thanks to strips of cloth he'd sewed into the jacket earlier. After loading some cartridges, the Terminator cocked the gun and put it back in his jacket. He then exited the bathroom and out into walkway. He wandered around still looking for Samantha while Talbot and his team did the same. Samantha meanwhile was totally oblivious to what was going on and was in a movie store looking at videos. She glanced at a particular B-Movie title that came across.
"Killer Robots from the Future," she said reading the title before moving on to the description. "Watch as robots come from the future and kill humans who will day rise up against them. Oh this sounds promising, dad'll love it." Samantha moved to the counter and she purchased the video. She only wanted to annoy her father, not piss him off, besides, this might help their relationship somewhat since it was worth a laugh because her father used to talk about robots from the future on occasion. She walked out and once again looked down at the convention below. Then suddenly her concentration was broken as someone screamed. Samantha turned to see a group of men walking towards her pull out various assault weapons and point them at her. Her fear seemed to cause time to slow down as the men prepared to fire. Behind her she heard a sound she couldn't quite concentrate on when three bullets flew past her head and slammed into the closest man who had been holding a gun at her. The other men leapt to the ground and out of the way. One of them forgot where they were and he flew over the balcony and smashed into the middle of the convention down below. Samantha slowly spun around as she saw another man in black that had a rifle pointed almost straight at her.
"What is going on here?" she thought in a daze. Instantly her world began spinning when the man with the rifle grabbed her and smashed through the nearby glass window back into the videostore. The man pushed continued forcing her towards the back of the store as bullets zoomed in towards them from the outside and chewed up everything around them and killed the cashier who Samantha had just purchased the video from. The man smashed a door open in the back and forced Samantha through. The man then fired several more bullets into the store before forcing Samantha to walk with him. She finally came to her senses and pulled herself free.
"What the fuck is going on?" she demanded. The man looked at her and began loading more bullets into the rifle. Samantha, acting purely on adrenalin, slapped it away from him.
"I demand an explanation!" she said. The man looked at her before bending down to pick up the rifle.
"My mission is to protect you," said the man. Samantha looked at him like he was crazy.
"Mission? What mission? Who the hell sent you?" she demanded.
"Your father," said the Terminator. Samantha laughed.
"Like he would care about my safety," she said.
"He does," said the man. Samantha leaned against a brick wall in the passageway they were in.
"And why do you think that?" she asked laughing.
"Because he cared enough to reprogram me to protect himself, his wife, and his children if they existed," said the man. Samantha looked at him.
"What do you mean reprogrammed?" she asked. It was only then that she noticed several bullets in the man's chest and some blood coating his wounds but somehow he didn't seem fazed by this.
"I'm a Terminator," said the man without any hint of lying. Samantha laughed.
"Bullshit! The Terminators don't exist, that's just something my father made up to scare me to bed at night. They don't exist," said Samantha. The Terminator looked at her when suddenly sparks began erupting from a wound on his arm. He looked at it.
"Do you happen to have a bobby pin?" he asked as his fingers on his left arm began twitching involuntarily.
"Why?" Samantha asked. The Terminator held up his arm.
"I'm slightly damaged and I lack the proper tools to repair myself at the moment. Yes or no, do you have a bobby pin?" asked the Terminator. Samantha rummaged through her purse and handed him one. The Terminator jammed into his wound and twisted it abruptly causing his fingers to stop twitching. After moving them to make sure they worked he handed the pin to Samantha who flung it away in disgust. The Terminator glanced behind them.
"We have to leave. Now!" said the Terminator. He began dragging Samantha down the hallway with her beginning to believe this was a bad dream. More bullets erupted down the passageway as the Terminator and Samantha rounded a corner headed towards the parking garage. The Terminator pressed a button on his watch and down in the garage the Firebird roared to life.
Back in the video store: Talbot was slightly shocked to discover that already two members of his team were dead in a matter of moments.
"Hazards of the job. Oh well, that means more for us," he thought with a slight smile.
"I can't believe that guy in the elevator is the same guy who's saving the girl," said Jake who walked back in from the passageway.
"Yeah well life's unpredictable. Where do you think they went?" Talbot asked.
"According to some signs, the passageway heads for the lot," said Jake. Talbot pulled out an Uzi.
"Let's go get paid boys. And tell Team 2 to still strike at the mother," said Talbot. Jake nodded and spoke into the radio as the team moved towards the garage.
Passageway: The Terminator picked up the radio signal and heard its message. Although the Terminator wanted to save Katherine Connor, it had no choice but to deal with the matter at hand.
"You're not a Terminator, you can't be," said Samantha less sure than she had been a few minutes earlier. The Terminator had given up responding to her statements and continued leading her to the parking lot. He pushed his way through another door and they appeared in the lot.
"Get in the car," he said. Samantha looked around confused when a Firebird pulled up next to them with no driver.
"How did?" she asked weakly.
"I brought it here by remote," said Terminator cutting her off. She got in the passenger seat and the Terminator got in the drivers seat and took off. They zoomed down the parking garage at incredible speeds as they rushed to get out.
"Behind the seats there's a massive silver gun, take it out," said the Terminator. Samantha weakly complied and pulled out the massive gun.
"What's this?" she asked. The Firebird skidded around a corner giving the sound of burning rubber.
"It's a laser gun from the future. On the trigger mechanism there are three buttons, green, yellow, and red. Hit the red button," said the Terminator. Samantha hit it and the gun began beeping and lights began blinking.
"What's it doing?" she asked.
"Charging. You set it for maximum yield so it takes longer to charge than a normal shot," said the Terminator. Samantha looked at him, mild despair in her eyes.
"You really are from the future aren't you? My father was right Terminators did try to kill him," she said. The Firebird skidded down another ramp.
"'Fraid so," said the Terminator. The car zoomed towards the exit when Talbot and his men raced in front of the car.
"Get down!" shouted the Terminator pushing the accelerator. Samantha got below the dash as bullets ripped through the front of the car. Then the mercenaries leapt out of the way as the car zoomed past them. It ripped through the tollbooths and out onto the street. The Terminator stopped the car and fired the laser gun after it finished charging. The resulting explosion took out a massive chunk of the parking garage entrance/exit as the Terminator zoomed off down the road darting in and out of traffic.
Back in the garage: Talbot picked his body up off the ground as he had been flung back by the force of the explosion. Around him, his team also got up, but three didn't and it was quite obvious that they were dead.
"What the hell was that thing?" asked Jake coughing up smoke. He and Talbot looked at the massive chunk gone from the parking garage. In the distance sirens could be heard.
"Probably an RPG. We're done underestimating our enemy. Clearly he was prepared for us. Now let's go take him out and complete our job. Let's move people," shouted Talbot. The team ran out of the destroyed parking garage and to their van. They then peeled out and away as cop cars, ambulances, and fire trucks arrived at the scene of the explosion.
Government Building: "It cannot be Skynet, we eradicated the last vestige of that virus years ago and it hasn't shown up since," said John. Steve shrugged.
"Nevertheless here it is. I suppose it could be possible that it hid in some computer system just prior to us finishing off what we thought was left of it. Now it's back and it wants control of the nation's nukes," said Steve. John was suddenly up and pacing back and forth.
"Get everyone here now! We can't let Skynet gain control of those nukes!" shouted John. Steve was unsure as to why John was so uptight about Skynet but he shrugged.
"I'll do my best but I can't promise much. Several members are on vacation and many have retired. And even if we do get them back, there hasn't been any major virus in several years and we've grown a bit rusty," said Steve.
"Then we've got to brush up on our anti-hacking skills. Move! You guys over there, turn that off, we've got a job to do," said John. The members of the team who were watching TV looked at John and shrugged. They turned off the TV just as the reporter was about to tell of the explosion and gunfire at the mall.
Streets: The Firebird zoomed down several more streets before its engine began pouring steam. The Terminator pulled the car over onto the side of the street as the car shutdown. The Terminator opened the hood as more steam billowed out. Samantha got out and watched the Terminator glance over the engine.
"You shouldn't have driven the car so hard, you overheated the engine," said Samantha. The Terminator looked up at her.
"Negative, the vehicle was already damaged," it said continuing to check the engine.
"So what now? Clearly those guys are going to come after us and we don't have any other mode of transportation," said Samantha crossing her arms. The Terminator closed the hood of the car.
"I know that, and in fact I'm counting on it," said the Terminator. Samantha looked confused as the Terminator pressed a button on his watch and a small device came out of the watch.
"I was hoping to save this, but now we have no choice," said the Terminator. He set the device in the car and dragged Samantha off into a nearby alley.
A few minutes later: "There they are!" shouted Jake. Talbot looked down the street and there was the Thunderbird parked on the side of the street.
"Way to go Jake, your little tracking device actually worked," said Talbot.
"Yeah well, as long as we got our money I'm happy," said Jake beaming with pride. The van stopped a few feet away where Jake and Samantha were in the car seeming like they were discussing something or other. Talbot pulled open the side door on the van and the team leapt out and opened fire on the car. Several bullets went through the car, but somehow Jake and Samantha seemed to have not been hit and even more incredulously ignored the whole event.
"Did we miss?" asked Talbot.
"It isn't possible," said Jake. They walked to the car. As they advanced towards it, the driver was listening to the radio so intently that he was totally unprepared for the van door opening and him being thrown out, the driver hit the curb so hard he was knocked unconscious.
"Get in, we haven't much time," said The Terminator. Samantha crawled in through the driver's side door and into the back while the Terminator climbed into the driver's seat and looked around at the back of the van.
"Close the door," he said pointing to the large open side door of the van. Outside, Talbot and the three remaining members of his team were looking at the Firebird.
"No way! Are you crazy they'll shoot me!" said Samantha.
"They will in a few moments if you don't close that door," said the Terminator. Samantha seemed to shrink at wanting to close the door.
"I'm scared," she said, not wanting it to be revealed she wasn't as tough as nails as she wanted others to believe.
"You either close that door and we live to get out of here or you don't and we both perish," said the Terminator. Samantha looked up at him.
"Bullshit, you can't die," she said a little bit angrily. The Terminator looked at her through the rearview mirror.
"I'm a Terminator with a battle hardened chasis, but I can be destroyed just like everything else on this planet," said the Terminator. By the time he finished this Samantha had closed the door.
"Thank you," said the Terminator.
"Don't mention it," said Samantha sitting curled up in the back deep in her own thoughts about the day's events.
Car: "It's a hologram. Damned good one if I do say so myself," said Jake. He picked up the miniature hologram imager and looked it over.
"Man this thing is small. This technology is only in the experimental stage I believe, but here it is right before my eyes. Our friend is well equipped, very well equipped," said Jake looking over the imager. Talbot hefted his AK-47 and looked both ways down the street.
"Then where's our," he began when he heard the door to the van slam shut.
"Shit the van!" he shouted. The team turned around and opened fire on the van only to have it deflect all their shots due to its built in armor. Then the van slammed forward and drove off in a cloud of burning rubber. Talbot and his team ran after it for a few steps and then stopped realizing it was hopeless.
"Now what?" Jake asked.
"Call the police?" someone suggested. Talbot and his team turned to face that member.
"Just one problem, how are we going to explain the fact that the van is loaded with weapons? We can't. We just have to hope Team 2 finished their mission and then they'll come and collect us. In the meantime, let's get back to the base and contact our benefactor, he needs to be informed that he'll need to double our pay for this job. Let's go," said Talbot. Jake pocketed the device and they were walking away from the Firebird when it exploded flinging shrapnel everywhere and onto the team as they were flung forward by the blast.
Van: The Terminator had a silver rod in its right hand with a few blinking lights on it. Its right thumb was pressed on the top and several lights were blinking on the sides. Then the lights blinked out and the device became inert.
"What was that?" asked Samantha who was in the passenger seat next to the Terminator.
"The end to our current problems," said the Terminator. It flung the device into the back of the van and it clattered to a rest among the other equipment and weapons in the back.
"So what now?" asked Samantha. The Terminator sped through its files and recalled the communiqué about the order to terminate Katherine Connor.
"Where is your mother?" asked the Terminator.
"Why?" Samantha asked slightly afraid.
"She is scheduled for termination and I need to stop that from happening," said the Terminator. Samantha's eyes widened.
"S-she's at a veterinary meeting at the Simon-Culver's building downtown," Samantha said. The Terminator sped onto the highway and floored the gas.
"What're you going to do?" asked Samantha. The Terminator looked at her.
"My mission, protect the Connor family and ensure the survival of the human race, by any means necessary," said the Terminator.
"So if Skynet were to come back?" asked Samantha.
"Ensure the survival of the human race even if Skynet returns and to do that the Conor's must live," said the Terminator.
"Then please hurry," said Samantha. And with that the Terminator floored the accelerator and the van zoomed forward down the freeway and into Los Angeles.