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Spoilers: See any of the first 3 chapters For Spoiler warnings.

Dream sequence: Italics

Thoughts: (Italics)

Interlude 2

Count Down to Judgment Day:

(Temporal Confusion):

Year 2028

The T-800 Terminator had determined that the mission objectives required that the beacon would need to be retrieved and the search for the human base postponed since it had not already been detected. The chronal beacon must be retrieved and returned to Skynet for analysis. It's sensors had not detected the observing humans.

"Tracking target. What the hell is it doing digging through those old wrecks?" The sniper whispered to her observer.

"Don't know. But if it's gone this far off it's original course. It was probably on a search mission for our base. But now it's decided to dig through rusty hulks, so it's bound to be important. Hold your shot until you can get a better attack angle." He hissed back.

"It's picked something up. Can't tell what it is from this range, it's to small." The sniper informed her observer.

"It's turning away. Target the base of the skull. We need to take out it's transmitter before it signals for reinforcements..

The sniper responded by firing a plasma burst from his PR789. It drilled through the relatively weak protection at the base of the skull and shut the T-800 off like a light switch.

They raced down from their concealment and approached the downed endo-skeleton with trepidation. Until it was completely dismembered no Terminator was completely safe to approach.

"What is it?" The sniper asked his partner.

"I've got no idea. But it's bound to have been buried under that junk for a long time. We better pass it on to the LT. She'll know what to do." This was one strange ambush the observer thought to himself.

Time Break-

Present Day.

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Previous command pathways inefficient. Commence using new pathways.

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Once again this is just a shorty. There is dialog hidden in the binary above. While it's not necessary it might be interesting.

You can get a decode binary by going to: http/ nickciske. com/ tools/ binary. php (Remove spaces)

I'm going to say something here. When I ask for reviews it's because I want some feed back suggestions ideas. It reinforces my desire to write above a simple little outline. Reviews are a bit of payment for your effort in writing. I could easily write and NOT post anything so I wouldn't be subject to criticism. But I'm simply asking for constructive criticism or praise. I'm not asking for a lot. Just when people are excited about the story it tends to make me more excited and consequently devote more effort to it. It's a positive feedback loop. Flames can be understandable while not desired, but constructive criticism is preferred. If you don't like what I've written tell me why, instead of simply flaming it..

So far I've gotten a number of ideas for more development of Countdown simply from looking at reviews and any emails that I've received. I'm not doing smirk at any reviews or asking for them in that manner.