Sorry it's been a bit since I updated, I got a little sidetracked with other stories, but I'm back now. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter.

Green Hal37: Yep. Wasn't so surprising to me, the guys I hung around with at John's age swore pretty often. Indeed I was. Well, Cisco and Caitlin trust 'Dr. Wells', they have no reason to think he's got anything but an academic interest in helping Barry. Glad it was done naturally. Indeed it could have been.

Central City

Afternoon

"So, that thing was a robot?"

This was asked by Cisco and directed at the man in the leather jacket. He was driving a Star Labs van, Dr. Wells in the passenger seat. In the back, Barry had been laid down on a make shift bed, some monitors there to monitor his vitals as Caitlin and Cisco checked him over. They were currently heading towards their destination as Dr. Wells directed the man towards it.

"A Terminator, living tissue over cybernetic exoskeleton, model T-1000. It is an advance prototype, mimetic-poly-alloy," the man explained.

"Liquid metal," Caitlin noted and he nodded.

"And you're one to?" Cisco asked and the Terminator nodded.

"Model T-800," he explained.

"This is…insane. Not to mention impossible. The technology to make something like this doesn't even exist yet," Cisco said in disbelief.

"You said it yourself Cisco, yet. I'm guessing our new friend isn't exactly from around here," Wells noted as he stared at T-800. "How far ahead did you come back from?"

"2034, twenty years into your future," T-800 said simply and Cisco and Caitlin stared at him in stunned disbelief.

"That is…impossible," Caitlin said stunned.

"When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth," Dr. Wells told her as he mused on what was happening. "Who sent you?"

"They did," T-800 said, jerking his head towards the stunned Cisco and Caitlin. "In the year 2034, I was reprogramed by Barry Allen and Cisco Ramon to protect their past selves along with Caitlin Snow in this time."

"The coma guy? What does he have to do with this?" Cisco asked bewildered as he looked down at Barry's sleeping form.

Before T-800 could respond, the van was suddenly rammed by something moving over eighty miles per hour. The van was pushed off the road, flipping over a few times before landing in a ditch.

"Is everyone alright?" Wells asked, lifting his head out of the airbag.

"I've been better," Cisco said, dazed from where he had landed on the roof, the unconscious Barry on top of him.

Caitlin did not respond, having been knocked out from hitting her head when the van had flipped. T-800 ripped the airbag out of the steering wheel and grabbed his shotgun.

"Run," he told Cisco before getting out of the van.

As he got to his feet, a city bus raced over the road, barreling towards the van. T-800 fired a single shot, which broke through the windshield and hit the driver in the head. The bus swerved out of control as it headed towards the van before T-800 held out a hand and used his strength to stop the bus. He skidded a few inches closer to the van before it stopped.

Then, a grey formed walked through the bus, a bullet falling out of its head before resuming human form. It was the T-1000.

The T-1000 threw a punch but T-800 blocked before he grabbed T-1000 by the shirt and slamming him into the front of the bus, denting it. T-1000 retaliated by throwing a punch before kicking him in the chest, sending T-800 slamming into the side of the van.

The force of T-800's weight caused the van to flip, landing on its side. Cisco, Caitlin and the unconscious Barry were thrown onto their side as Wells looked around wildly.

"I think we should take his advice Dr. Wells," Cisco said freaking out.

"Even if we did, we wouldn't get far with Caitlin unconscious," Thawne mused, wondering if he would be forced to reveal his secret.

At that moment, Cisco spotted the Cold Gun and got an idea.

Outside, T-800 and T-1000 were going it, throwing punches that would crushed a human's jaw when Cisco emerged with the Cold Gun.

"Get down!" Cisco shouted before firing.

T-800 ducked as the T-1000 was hit. It shuttered as, once again, ice covered its entire body.

"Okay, this time, we cut off its head!" Cisco shouted.

"That would not kill it," T-800 said simply. "It would only free it faster."

"Then what can kill it?!" Cisco shouted in frustrated.

"We do not know," T-800 said simply.

Later, the ice cracked as the T-1000 freed itself. But by then, T-800, Cisco, Caitlin and Wells were gone, leaving only a damaged Star Labs van and a dented bus.

Harrison Wells' house

Night

"Are you sure you're alright Caitlin?" Wells asked as Cisco treated Caitlin's cut on her head.

"I'm fine Dr. Wells, thank you," she said kindly before looking over at T-800, who stood silently in the corner. "You were sent to protect us."

"Affirmative," he said with a nod.

"If Cisco and Barry sent you…who sent the other Terminator?" Caitlin asked.

"Skynet," he said simply.

"Okay and what the frak is a Skynet?" Cisco demanded but he was silent. "Oh, so it's gonna be like that."

"I am not programed to tell you," T-800 explained.

"Cisco, I could use a glass of water," Caitlin said, noticing ho stressed he was.

Before Cisco could move, T-800 walked into the kitchen. To the surprise of all three of them, they could hear him picked up a glass and ill it with water before he returned. He walked over to Caitlin and silently offered into her.

"Thanks," Caitlin said weakly as she accepted it, the implications of what happened sneak in.

"You have to follow Caitlin's orders," Wells noted and he nodded.

"Affirmative."

"In that case…I order you to tell us what Skynet is," Caitlin said after taking a moment to consider this new piece of information.

"An AI. It was designed to be the latest in military technology, a computer program that would adapt and learn any strategy, to take charge of America's strategic defense. But it malfunctioned. It saw the human race as a threat to the earth; it became self-aware at 2:14 A.M. on August 4th, 2024. It launches its ICBM's and destroys civilization as you know it. Millions of lives are lost as the survivors of what becomes known as 'Judgement Day' band together and fight back," T-800 explained.

For a moment, it was silent, each of them processing the horrors of it all. Cisco and Caitlin were completely horrified by this future, it was beyond anything could have imagined. Thawne was silently musing. Something had changed the future, somehow. He needed to figure what and fast. Which meant finding out as much as he could about this new future.

"Why is it after Barry, Cisco and Caitlin?" Thawne demanded.

When T-800 remained silent, Thawne looked over at Caitlin, who nodded.

"Answer him," she ordered.

"In the first two years following Judgement Day, the survivors are captured and put into work camps, forced to work until they die. Then, one man takes charge, brings the fractions of the human race together, forms a resistance to Skynet. Barry Allen," T-800 explained. "Cisco Ramon and Caitlin Snow were his most trusted generals."

"So Skynet sent back the liquid Terminator to kill us now so that we wouldn't be there to fight it in the future," Cisco realized and T-800 nodded.

So now he had the why. Now Thawne just needed to figure out the how, he mused.

Sorry it's a rather short chapter, but next one will be longer.

So the future Team Flash has learned of Skynet, but the origin of it will be expanded upon later on, leading to a pretty important plot point.