Chapter 17: Regroup
On board the Bebop
As John began to wake up he noticed two things. One was the smell of coffee and two; every muscle in his body was stiff as a board. Opening his eyes, which was an effort in itself, he saw two large mugs of coffee set on the table in front of him. On the other side of the table Faye was still asleep on the couch and John saw someone had put a blanket over her. Looking down he noticed someone had done the same for him. He tried to reposition himself and muscles let him know that it was a bad idea. Letting out a loud groan he sat up straighter and began to remove the blanket that covered him. He heard a loud bark and looked down to see Ein walking out from underneath the table.
"How long have you been laying there?" John asked.
"Ein was playing watchdog. Wanted to make sure you and Faye Faye were ok. Same as Ed." A sleepy but cheerful voice answered from one side. Turning, despite the protests his neck muscles were giving him, he saw Ed sitting on the floor a few feet away from him. She was rubbing sleep from her own eyes but still had that large grin on her face.
"Is he the one that gave us the blankets to?" John asked. Ed giggled at the question.
"No, Ed did that. He made sure that no one bothered you." Ein barked at the compliment and behind him Faye began to move.
"Could somebody shoot that dog?" She groaned, still half asleep. "Or at least throw him overboard." Ein barked in protest at the comment and Ed just continued to grin, joined by John.
"Sorry Faye." John said as he reached for one of the coffee mugs. He groaned again as more muscles were being forced to stretch. "But I think this is our wake up call." Faye let out another groan and pulled the blanket over her head.
"He's right." Jet said as he entered the room. "You two did need some rest but we can't afford to waste any time." John knew Jet was right but looked at his watch. They had been asleep for five hours and he saw why Jet was eager to find out what happened. Faye mumbled something but sat up.
"I guess we should be thankful we got this much rest at all." He remarked. Faye growled at him and picked up the other cup of coffee. As soon as she took a sip her face contorted wildly and her eyes seemed to bug out of her head. She swallowed the coffee but looked like she was going to throw up and started coughing. Jet stood by calmly while John stared on in confusion. Ed, on the other hand, found Faye's reaction hilarious and was rolling on the ground laughing. When Faye sent her a nasty glance she scrambled behind John's chair then poked her head out cautiously.
"What was that!?!" Faye shouted when she stopped coughing.
"A specialty brew that cops like to use." Jet explained. "Guaranteed to keep you awake through any stakeout and to kill any hangover no matter how bad it is." Faye made a face and put the cup down. "Hey you're awake aren't you?" John looked at the cup in his own hand and decided that anything would be better then how he felt now. He took a sip and though he couldn't see it he knew he had the same reaction as Faye. The taste was the strongest he had ever had and almost spit it out. As he forced himself to swallow the strong, and almost scalding hot, coffee he did find himself wide awake and after a few seconds felt energetic.
"What's in that stuff Jet, pure caffeine and water?" He asked when his own coughing fit was over. "There had to be another way of getting us up." Though he did have to admit that the aches in his muscles were starting to fade.
"Actually Ed gave me a pretty good idea but I opted for the coffee instead." Jet said.
"Really?" Faye asked as she and John looked at the still hiding Ed.
"And just what did she suggest?" John asked.
"You don't want to know." Jet answered as he sat down in the second chair.
"Ed doesn't get to have any fun." Ed moped as she slunk back to her computer.
"Earlier you two said something about a new type of robot." Jet said, getting down to business. "What exactly happened?" John and Faye told him everything that had happened. They had gotten to the point where they had run into the two Terminators and John had been shot and then Faye had almost been killed by one of the machines imitating John's voice when Jet interrupted.
"Hold it. What do you mean he was able to imitate John? Was he using a recording of John's voice?" Faye shook her head.
"No, he was talking using John's voice. His mouth was moving in sync and everything. It was a perfect imitation. I never would have known until I ran into that thing."
"Luckily I was able to get to her first." John said. Jet processed this new information. After having Ed do some checking he found that Terminators could imitate human speech flawlessly, and while he felt stupid for not having found that earlier he knew that it wasn't their fault. The only reason they hadn't found out about this before was because they had only been studying the T-800's combat actions, not its infiltration capabilities.
"We'll try to find a way to counter that later. For now tell me about this new type of robot you saw."
"We had gone back to the first town to get John's wounds tended to." Faye explained. "Later that night everything starts blowing up. We went to see what was happening and we saw this new son of a bitch."
"Hold on a second." Jet interrupted. "Describe him as best as you can. Ed, have MPU try to find anything that matches their descriptions in Cyberdyne's files."
"Roger Jet person." Ed answered and opened the files.
"Please enter description." MPU said.
"He was massive." John started. "At least eight feet tall. He was human shaped for the most part…."
"Except for his right arm." Faye interrupted. John glanced over but didn't say anything. "That was some kind of machine gun. More like a cannon." There was silence for a few seconds before Jet spoke.
"That's it?"
"We didn't get a good look at him." John answered.
"We were too busy trying not to get shot or stepped on." Faye added.
"Processing information." MPU said. "Likely match found." He said after a few seconds of searching. A technical diagram of a robot appeared onscreen, one that was a dead ringer for the one Faye and John described, labeled T-70.
"That's him." Faye and John said in unison.
"God damn." Jet mumbled. "MPU, find any other files about Cyberdyne's military projects. I don't want anymore surprises popping up that we could have known about."
"Searching." MPU said and began going through all of the files he possessed. While he searched Jet turned back to Faye and John.
"So how were you able to destroy that thing?"
"It wasn't easy." John said. "For one thing the power cell wasn't where it was supposed to be. After we found that out we did the only logical thing to do."
"We turned tail and ran like hell." Faye broke in. "We sort of led him to an abandoned building…"
"Sort of?" Jet inquired.
"It was kind of an accident." John explained. "We were trying to get behind cover and ended up in this abandoned building." He didn't say just 'how' they had gotten in the building and hoped he didn't sound anxious about it. "Faye was able to disable its cannon and we managed to bring the building down on his head. Which is why we came back covered in this crap." He added, brushing off some of the gray dust that stubbornly clung to his clothes.
"So it took a building falling on it to finally stop this thing?" Jet asked, almost not believing it. Even Terminators didn't need anything close to that to be brought down.
"Actually no." John said sheepishly.
"NO!?!? You mean even after that it was still moving?!?"
"In a manner of speaking." John said. "After the building collapsed we thought we had it then saw it start to dig its way out. It managed to get its head out of the wreckage but it got stuck before it could free its arms."
"So what did you do? I thought you said you destroyed it."
"That's the interesting part." John said with a wry grin. "After we saw him start to come out Faye storms up there and plugs the bastard between the eyes at point blank range. Blew its head to pieces."
"Shot him point blank?" Jet asked. John nodded. "With the plasma gun?" John nodded again. Jet turned to Faye. "You know how dangerous that is. What were you thinking?!"
"She wasn't." John said before Faye could answer. "That's why she almost blew herself up." Faye shot him a nasty look. "Hey don't kill the messenger. You weren't exactly acting too smart right then."
"It wasn't like you were doing anything intelligent at that point either. You just stood there staring at it." Faye growled.
"That's enough!" Jet said. He knew if he let this go far enough punches might start being thrown. "Let's get back on track. After you destroyed it what happened?"
"The towns people patched us up and gave us a ride back to where Faye could call some transportation."
"You mean they didn't abandon the town?" Jet asked.
"They wouldn't leave." Faye said. "We told them what would happen if they stayed. Even after we told them about the Terminators they still wouldn't leave. They said they had too many injured to move."
"We turned them into sitting ducks." John said bitterly. "That thing tracked us there and now they're in the center of a bulls-eye thanks to us."
"It's nobodies' fault." Jet said. "You couldn't have known about that new robot or that it would be able to follow you. If we could I'd say we all go back and help protect those people, but we don't have enough weapons or people to do that. Plus we don't know what else the Dragons could throw at us. MPU, how's that list coming?"
"I have scanned all confiscated files and have found several files dealing with Cyberdyne's involvement with the military. The first is this." A diagram of a strangely shaped aircraft appeared. Two rotating engines sat at the ends of its wings and a third in its tail. It had a basic fighter shape but looked wholly different from anything they had seen before. "Cyberdyne attack craft, designation Hunter Killer. Armed with a variety of guns and missiles these automated craft were to linger over a battle for hours, destroying all hostile forces it came across. A prototype was completed at the time of the gate accident."
"Well at least that's something a bit more normal." Faye remarked.
"Second is this." MPU continued, ignoring Faye. Another diagram appeared, this one of an oddly shaped treaded vehicle appeared. Its base looked like the base used for heavy machinery like large cranes, flat top and wide tank like treads. Out of the base rose what looked like a tower. Near the top of the tower two 'arms' branched out on each side, each holding an underslung gun turret with two barrels apiece. "This unit, dubbed the Goliath, was at first designed to act in conjunction with the Hunter Killer aircraft in battlefield situations. Any enemy units the Hunter Killers missed the Goliath would destroy. After several studies it was shown that this unit had several weaknesses that could be exploited on the battlefield and used to easily neutralize it. Large enough trenches would entrap it, making it an easy target for artillery. An even simpler method would be to use explosives to destroy the treads, rendering it immobile. It was decided that these units would be used for base defense, their heavy firepower and mobility made them well suited for discouraging an attack. The gate accident occurred before the first of these units could be built."
"Did the Dragons have any of those built or under construction?" Jet asked.
"No." MPU answered. "There is no record that construction was attempted."
"We can consider ourselves lucky on that account." Jet said. Dealing with fighter craft would be easy. Dealing with that thing, that would be next to impossible. "Is there anything else?"
"The last of Cyberdyne's projects for the military is the creation of several new types of metal that were to be used in the construction of new units."
"I think it's a safe bet that we don't have to worry about that." Jet remarked. "The alien metal from the spear is bound to be better then anything they could come up with. Thanks for the info MPU."
"You are welcome." MPU said and shut himself down.
"So we've got new stuff to worry about." John groaned.
"Only four things." Jet said. "And only one that we know exists. There's no evidence that anything other then that T-70 you saw has been built."
"And that one's more then enough." Faye said. "Between being almost unstoppable and the arrogant way it talked…."
"It talked to you?" Jet asked. Faye nodded. "But why? At Cyberdyne none of the Terminators said anything to us. Why would this thing waste time like that?"
"Oh no!" John said, putting his hand over his face. "We should have realized this before."
"What?" Jet and Faye asked. John lowered his hand and looked at Faye.
"You remember what that thing said to us?"
"Of course I do!" Faye answered, sounding a little insulted. "It said…." She broke off and the look of realization came over her face.
"Well what did it say?!" Jet asked, beginning to lose his patience.
"John Connor. Faye Valentine. You have been sighted for termination." John said, imitating the T-70.
"DAMN!!" Jet shouted.
"Ed doesn't understand. What's so bad about what new machine man said?" Ed asked, suddenly appearing over John's shoulder. John noticed with some amusement that he didn't bolt out of his seat like the other times.
[Guess that means I'm getting used to this.] He said to himself. "It means that the robot wasn't there by chance, it was looking for us." He told Ed, indicating himself and Faye. "The Dragons know we're on Earth, and that means that things have just gotten a lot harder." There was silence until something began beeping. Reaching into his pocket Jet took out his communicator and switched it on. It hissed and popped with static due to the interference but they were able to make out Spike's voice.
"Jet can you hear me?" Spike asked. "I'm getting mostly static on this end."
"The reception is bad on this end to but I read you Spike." Jet answered. "Something up?"
"I've got good news." Spike answered.
"Great, because I've got plenty of bad news to go with it." Jet replied. "Well let's hear what you've got."
"We got one Jet." Spike said. He sounded like that one statement would explain everything. On the contrary, no one in the lounge had any idea what he was talking about.
"Got one of what Spike?" Jet asked. "You and Kyle were supposed to go to Doohan's and try to get help. What have you got?"
"A Terminator, completely intact and operational." Spike said in a tone most people would use in saying they were bringing back a new car. The group was stunned speechless. "Jet? Are you still there? Damn piece of junk!!" In the helicopter Spike shook his communicator and banged it against the chopper's instrument panel. "Is anybody there?!" He said and held the communicator close to his ear. Jet was about to answer when Faye grabbed the communicator out of his hand.
"You're bringing a Terminator here!?!?" She shouted. In the coptor Spike jerked his head to one side and held his communicator as far away from him as he could, Faye's voice ringing loud and clear. "Are you so big of a lunkhead that you forgot how dangerous those things are!?!?!" Before she could go on John grabbed the communicator from her.
"Just what the hell are you bringing it here for anyway!?!" He yelled. "There's nothing we could get from this!!!" Jet took the communicator back from John and talked at normal volume.
"I'll have to agree with Mr. and Mrs. subtlety." That got him a dirty look from John and Faye. He ignored them and kept talking. "Bringing something that dangerous back here is not a good idea. And John has a point. What are you bringing it back for?"
"So Ed can take another crack at hacking the brain of one of these things." Spike said. Ed had been listening with interest and when she heard that her eyes lit up and she flashed a thousand-watt grin.
"Forget it." Jet said quickly. Ed's face fell. "We tired that once and it almost took over Ed's computer. Why should we try it again?"
"Because this time we have the whole thing." Spike answered. "The AI doesn't need to go into Ed's computer if it still has its original body." It sounded like a solid theory but still..
"Are you sure about that?" Jet asked cautiously.
"No." Was Spike's only answer. That didn't help much.
"How long until you get here?" He heard muffled talking before Spike came back on.
"About fifteen minutes." Jet let out a sigh of defeat.
"All right let's give it a shot. We'll be waiting for you when you get here."
"Roger that." Spike said before signing off. Jet turned off his own communicator and turned to those gathered around him. It consisted of John and Faye, who looked at him like he had gone insane, one very hopeful looking computer hacker and one confused looking dog. Ignoring the other three Jet spoke directly to Ed.
"Ed, if you get another chance to look into the head of one of those things will you be able to handle it?" Ed nodded enthusiastically.
"Now that Ed knows what to watch out for skull head won't have a chance."
"Then I guess that means we're going for it." Jet said as he walked over to the hidden compartment in the floor where the plasma rifles were stored. "Ed, get MPU ready for another try. Make sure he knows how to deal with the AI if things get rough. John, find the longest piece of computer cable you can, Ed is going to stay as far away from that thing as possible." He took out a fresh plasma rifle, loaded it and tossed it to Faye, then took one for himself. "Faye, you and I are going down to the hangar and make sure nothing goes wrong." He tossed her a second loaded rifle and both made their way down to the hangar. A few minutes later John and Ed followed them in, Ed carrying Tomato and John carrying a large coil of wire as well as a plasma rifle of his own strapped to his back. Ein followed closely behind them.
"This was the longest I could find." John said. "We had to cut it to attach the jacks but it's still about one hundred feet."
"It'll have to do." Jet answered. He looked around the hangar then pointed to one of the machine lifts the ships used. "Have Ed set up then run the cable to over there." John nodded and Ed went to work. Once things were set up John, Faye and Jet stood and waited for Spike to arrive with his cargo. As Spike promised, fifteen minutes later the four of them heard a loud mechanical growling and saw one of the oddest machines any of them had ever laid eyes on approach the Bebop.
"What the hell is that?" John asked but his words were lost as the craft came closer, hitting them with rotor wash. Putting their arms up to block flying derbies they squinted into the wind and watched the helicopter enter the hangar and land. As its rotors powered down they saw the back of it open.
"Stay here." Jet told John and Faye then ran over to the chopper, instinctively keeping his head low. Once he got to the ramp he looked into the chopper and saw Kyle pointing his plasma rifle at the Terminator Spike had told them about. It looked like the others he had seen but this one wasn't moving and its eyes were closed. Before he could question Kyle or the person that rode with him Spike and someone who he had to assume was Doohan come out of the vehicle's cockpit.
"You have someplace to put this guy?" Spike half shouted as the noise from the rotors began to wind down.
"Everything's all set." Jet answered. "Ed's ready to go and John and Faye are standing by in case something goes wrong."
"Good." Doohan spoke up. "Then give us a hand with this heavy bastard. No telling when this thing will wake up." Jet slung the rifle over his shoulder and bent down along with Miles, Doohan, and Spike, lifting the heavy machine and carrying it out with Kyle covering them. Even with Jet's help it was still a struggle. As soon as they stepped off the chopper Faye and John aimed their own rifles, ready to fire if anything happened. Ein let his opinion be known by growling but he stayed put.
"I'm with the mutt on this one." Faye remarked, keeping a close eye on their 'guest'.
"Same here." John agreed. Both would have had Spike dump the Terminator in the ocean but since it wasn't their decision they had to live with it.
"So where do we put this thing?" Miles grunted.
"Over here." Jet answered and led them over to machine lift. Once they had set the Terminator onto it Jet used the controls to raise it to a height were they could work on it. "Ok you got it here, now how to we access it?"
"Same way as last time." Kyle answered and tossed his rifle to Spike. He searched his pockets and realized he was missing something. "Anybody got a pocket knife?" He asked. The group looked around at each other but nobody said anything until Miles spoke up.
"I've got one. Souvenir from a ballgame." He said and brought out a small pocketknife. Taking it from him Kyle looked at the handle.
"The Blue Sox?" He asked in a skeptical tone. Miles just shrugged. Getting back to business Kyle flipped open the blade and approached the motionless Terminator. Remembering where the access panel on the skull was he used a knife and cut into the robots artificial scalp. After cutting a slit in the skin he peeled back the scalp to get to the panel. The others were watching him intently, and most of them had plasma rifles pointed in his general direction. The way the Terminator had been laid down Ed was out of sight from the cutting Kyle was doing. Kyle didn't want Ed to see what was going on. Hell, he didn't even want to see what was going on. Even though he knew that this was a machine he just couldn't get past the impression he was cutting into another person's head. Pushing that thought aside he located the panel and began poking at it. From his past experience he had expected this to be the hardest part but to his surprise the panel opened on its own, accompanied by a soft whirring sound. In the dead silence of the hangar that sound was loud and when Kyle looked up he saw that instead of just pointing everyone who had a rile now had it aimed in his direction. When they saw nothing was happening they lowered the guns slightly.
"So what's going on?" Jet asked, still cautious.
"Just the panel opening on its own." Kyle answered as he plugged the cable in. When he heard it snap home he looked over at Ed. "It's all yours Ed!" He called. Ed smiled and slipped on her net diving goggles. The others backed away from the Terminator and slowly made their way back to Ed. Those who had plasma rifles paid attention to Tomato's screen but also kept on eye on the motionless machine.
"Preparing interface." MPU announced. Miles and Doohan gave the computer a curious look but didn't say anything. After everything they had seen in the past twelve hours they weren't going to question something as mundane as a talking computer. While MPU prepared to go inside the Terminator's head Spike and Kyle noticed Faye and John for the first time.
"You two look like hell. What happened?" Kyle asked. Both still had a good amount of gray dust on them and both sported bandages, John a bloody one. Both glared at Kyle but answered.
"We ran into the Red Dragons' newest toy." Faye told him. When she didn't explain further Kyle looked to John for an explanation.
"Later." Was the only thing he said. Kyle was debating whether or not to press the issue when MPU spoke up.
"Countermeasures are in place. Ready to interface. Do you wish to continue." Ed looked up at Jet, who nodded. Ed pressed a button, sending the command to MPU. "Beginning interface." Those who had witnessed the effects of the earlier attempt at this crossed their fingers but instead of something drastic happening three lines appeared on Tomato's screen.
[Unit systems offline.]
[Begin manual override?]
[Y/N]
"What does that mean?" Miles asked, giving voice to question on everyone's mind. A devilish grin spread across Ed's face.
"It means back doors are open for Ed to sneak into." She said and began typing. "Skull head give Ed all the files Ed wants."
"Does she speak English?" Doohan asked, confused as anyone at Ed's statement.
"What Ed is saying," MPU said. "is that due to some unknown circumstances all electronic defenses of this Terminator's computer have been shut down. Giving us unlimited access to anything in its databanks."
"Looks like putting that much voltage into him turned out to be a good thing after all." Kyle remarked. "So what do think you'll find Ed?" Ed didn't respond and continued typing. "Ed?"
"She's in her own world." Jet explained. "When she's finished she'll tell us. Until then all we can do is wait." He scanned the group of people. "In the meantime we don't all need to be here. We'll stand guard two at a time for about an hour then switch. Kyle and Spike will take first shift, we can fill in Doohan and… uh…" Jet realized that he never asked the name of the second person that had come with Kyle and Spike.
"Miles." Miles said. "And we've already heard everything already."
"Besides," Doohan added. "we'll probably be of more use to you guys if we don't do any fighting. Take those guns of yours," He motioned to the plasma rifles they held. "Do any of you know how they work or how to fix them?"
"I've been studying them." Kyle said. "And I'm pretty sure I can fix them if something happens."
"That's all well and good son, but what do you know about engineering?"
"I know about guns." Kyle defended.
"These aren't your run of the mill guns my friend. I can that tell just by looking. Now you probably do know your way around these things, but it wouldn't hurt to have a mechanic around to help you would it?" Kyle thought it over for a minute.
"I guess not." He admitted.
"If that's settled we should move on." Jet said. "John and Faye, you'll take the second shift. That gives you an hour to clean up and get your wounds looked at." Faye and John looked pleased about the decision and began to leave the hangar.
"If you don't mind I'd like to stay here and have a look around." Doohan suggested. "I like to know the layout of where I'm going to be working."
"All right." Jet agreed "Just don't go anywhere near that until we know it's safe." He added pointing to the Terminator.
"No problem." Doohan answered. As the others except Spike and Kyle left Miles began to mill around, looking at the Bebop crew's personal craft.
"Hey pops take a look at this!" Miles called, looking at the Red Tail. "Must have been a lot of work put into this thing." He stepped closer to get a better look.
"Touch it and you die!!!" Faye yelled from down the corridor, making Miles jump away from the craft.
The next hour went by fairly quickly. John and Faye were each able to grab a shower, get into clean clothes, then had their wounds checked and rebandaged. John's arm was beginning to heal, he felt very little pain and could move it almost as well as before he had been shot. That still didn't give him full mobility, if he overexerted his arm he would tear the wound open. Faye's cut wasn't as big a problem as John's arm but it had needed a new bandage. John was in the lounge sitting in one of the chairs, waiting for his shift as guard. As Faye entered the lounge from her 'check up' John again started to snicker at the sight of her having a bandage right in the middle of her forehead. As before Faye didn't appreciate humor at her expense.
"Something funny John?" She asked, knowing just what John was laughing at.
"Nothing." John said, trying to cover up his laughter.
"You know it's not nice to make fun of someone else's problems." Faye told him, poking him in his wounded arm, but not enough to cause pain.
"This is a real problem." John responded, pointing to his bandaged limb. "That," He continued, poking at Faye's bandage. "Is a papercut, not serious at all."
"And because it's not serious you think it's funny?" Faye asked.
"No, I think the way the bandage looks is what's funny." In all honesty John was expecting to get slugged for that remark but Faye just felt the bandage and sat down on the couch.
"I suppose it does." She admitted. That statement threw John off just long enough so the cushion she tossed was able to hit him in the face. "But that doesn't mean I like being reminded of it!!" She added. John made a mental note that the way she said that implied if he ever mentioned it again he would be hit with something a lot harder then a couch cushion.
"Nice to see you two back to your old ways." Jet remarked as he entered the lounge.
"Shut up!" Faye and John shouted at the same time. Jet inwardly smiled. He had kept teaming the two of them together because of their unpleasant first encounter with the original Terminator. He had figured that by having them fight together they would be able to recover from their experiences faster. He didn't know if John usually acted like this but Faye was defiantly back to 'normal' and to watch their personalities bouncing off each other was, interesting, to say the least. More importantly, they had learned to fight together and support each other, and at the least both had a grudging respect for the other. He just hoped that 'respect' didn't turn into bruises and broken bones later.
"Sorry if I interrupted something important but I figured you should know that your shift starts in fifteen minutes." That seemed to make them forget about killing each other for the moment.
"So how far has Ed gotten?" John asked. Jet shrugged.
"You'd think she would have made some progress by now." Faye added.
"She might have but she hasn't said anything yet." Jet told them. "With her you never know when she might be…"
"WOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!" A cheerful voice rang out from down the hall.
"Finished." Jet said. "Come on. That can only mean that she's got something." They went to the hangar and saw the others gathered around Ed.
"Edward has done it!!" Ed proudly announced. When she didn't elaborate Kyle spoke up.
"What have you done Ed?"
"Thought you would never ask." Ed answered. "Ed went inside machine man's head and made sure he would not do anything bad. Ed needed to rearrange skull head so that now he helps friends of Ed."
"Could somebody explain what she's talking about?" Doohan asked.
"You remember we told you about how the AI of another Terminator almost wrecked Ed's computer?" Kyle asked.
"Yeah, you said she had to wipe everything out to get rid of it."
"That's right." John spoke. "Onscreen the AI took the from of a Terminator skull. Now if I understand this right Ed managed to reprogram the AI so now we can get any information we want." He finished, motioning towards Tomato.
"John person is correct!" Ed declared.
"That means we can find out everything this thing knows." Jet said. "Ed the first thing you need to find is…."
"Ed doesn't need to answer." Ed said with a wide grin and pushed a button. Across the room the motionless Terminator opened its eyes and sat up. Ein's ears went back and he began barking.
"IT'S MOVING!!!" Kyle yelled as he and Spike aimed their plasma rifles. They would have fired except the Terminator raised both his hands in surrender. "What the hell?"
"You don't need to shoot. Machine man is friendly now." Ed told them. They looked over at Ed skeptically then back at the Terminator, who was now standing.
"She is correct." The Terminator said. Spike and Kyle took aim but the Terminator still held its hands up. "Termination unit 011 at your command."