April 4th, 2017

Kyle and Derek entered the main part of the civilian sector of the base and went to their private space. Kyle sat down first and placed Destiny on his lap. Derek looked around and sat next to his brother. "

We should find her parents or whoever she belongs to."

Kyle smirked and looked from Derek to Destiny. "Later, she's sleeping."

"She's not staying with us, Kyle. She has a home. No one would leave something like her out there alone."

A thunder of footsteps approached and Kyle tensed when he recognized the voice behind the barking of orders. Quickly, he ducked and hid his head in Destiny's hair. Derek gulped and Kyle raised his head to look up, right into the eyes of the Devil. Tyler turned his left hand away withought breaking contact with Kyle and Derek got up and left.

Tyler nodded to Destiny. "Where did you find her?"

"She.. she was in the tunnels by herself."

Tyler gritted his teeth. " There was a can in the tunnels, running freely. How stupid can you be? Playing around with scrap metal loose. " He fumed.

He shook his head. "C asked me to fetch you, so get your ass up." He ordered and gave one last glance at Destiny before turning on his heels and marching off with Derek and Kyle in tow.

March 21, 2010

Destiny looked up at the ceiling and carefully looked around the mall.

"Thunderstorm?" Hannah asked.

"I hope so. Come on." Destiny said as she drug Hannah up to the second floor.

Destiny kept peeking over her shoulder as she rode the escalator. Hannah got off first and went into the nearest store as Destiny hopped off and bumped into John. After a moment, he frowned at her and opened his mouth to speak when he was cut off by the sounds of screaming. Destiny turned around to look downstairs. A part of the outer wall of the mall was burning. A silvery mass stood in the middle of the burning, Destiny grabbed John's arm and ran left. "Go!"

Sarah drew her gun at the sounds of electric sparking and screams.

Tyler positioned himself out in front. "Metal Juice." He muttered. "Grab the brats, I need to have a chat with the can."

Sarah rolled her eyes and dashed towards the stairs, making her way up to the second floor. Tyler marched forward up to the machine as it speared a local woman near it, taking her shape and letting her body fall to the floor. Tyler smirked as he threw the new shape against the wall. The machine paused for a moment before it spoke "Tyler Jess Devlin?"

He grinned and back away. " So now that you're all caught up, what's your decision going to be hmm? Fight or flee?"

The machine leaned off the wall, slithered to the floor and moved away. "aww, no fair." Tyler said patronizingly and followed it.

Sarah made her way upstairs and chased after the kids. "Move!" She yelled and shoved both teens towards the fire exit. Climbing down, Destiny, Sarah and John moved west to Sarah's SUV. John and Destiny climbed in the back seat while Sarah got in the driver's seat and gunned the engine.

"What about Devlin?" John asked.

"He knows his way home, John" Sarah answered.

"We should wait for him." John said.

"Leave him be, he'll be fine." Destiny answered."

How do you know?" John asked. "Because in a weird twisted way I know him and you. "

John stared at her. "You don't know my life."

Destiny smirked. "I live your life; because you did this to me, you could have not had me or gave me away. You could have given me a wonderful life, instead you gave me your life. You gave me your miserable life... spreading it around like a disease." Destiny sneered.

"Destiny, that's enough!" Sarah yelled from the front seat and focused to driving them home.

Destiny rolled her eyes and stared out the window.

October 7th, 2030

Katya screamed and threw her desk lamp at John. "Why?! Why did you do that? To her, to me, to mom, why?" she argued.

John ducked to avoid the flying lamp. "I had to, Kat."

"Did not! You didn't have to" She retorted sobbing and slumped against her bedroom wall.
Racheal walked down the tunnel towards Katya's room, planning some speech to her. Trying to find the right words to tell her daughter about Destiny withought completely breaking her heart. Hearing the noise, she picked up her speed and ran into the room, standing between John and Katya. John took a step forward but stopped when Racheal put up her hand. Racheal sighed and slowly walked over to Katya. She sat down on the floor next to her and silently cradled her. Katya nuzzled her face in Racheal's chest and sobbed.

March 21, 2010

Destiny sat on her bed and played with her laptop. She was IMing Hannah about her inability to hang out for the weekend. Destiny frowned when meebo hiccupped and kicked her offline. After trying to log back on 5 times, she gave up. Destiny sighed deeply at the thought of another birthday of being shot at. Meebo let her back online and as she re-opened her chat session, it kicked her again. "Moody little thing aren't you?" She muttered. "Who the hell invented this little twerp?" she asked as she opened a search engine. A few clicks later, she pulled up its history on Wikipedia and grabbed her laptop. Clicking down the stairs, she found Sarah looking at leads at the dining room table and she placed the laptop in front of her.

Sarah looked at the computer and then at Destiny. She began to close the lip. "I thought I made myself clear, no games, grounded remember?"

Destiny reached forward and pulled the lid back towards her. "I'm not playing around, I think I found something."

Sarah took another look at the screen. "Instant messaging? Nothing says Skynet like a good IM." She smirked.

"It's not just IMing. It's global communication and technology. It's software in most computers and phones."

"Destiny, …"Sarah started. "Nana, listen to me." Destiny whined. "It's technology with partnerships with other technology, it's a global tool and its sponsor is . Guess how many sister corporations it has? Two." She stated. "Three corporations by . That's three dots." Destiny said smugly.

"Nana?!" Sarah growled furiously, annoyance etched deep into her voice.

Destiny looked at her and saw the darkest clouds pack together over Sarah's head. She had made a crucial mistake; this was not her grandmother. Not yet anyways. This confrontation with the future to come would send Sarah on a rant, and by the look on her face things were going to be ugly extremely fast.

This Sarah was not her grandmother, who had mellowed some during the years of war, who had come to appreciate what little family she had left. This Sarah was still the young warrior-mother in the prime of her life with an enormous chip on her shoulder, who lived from day to day in the present with only one thought about the future ahead: stop Skynet from ever existing. This was not the Sarah Connor she had known back home. She missed her grandmother.

What could she possibly say to stop the coming storm that was hurricane Connor? She remembered the few times she had witnessed one of those, mostly directed at her father. He had become the center of her grandmother's famous rynos on occasion.

"I'm so sorry," she mumbled in an apologetic fashion. "I… I forgot." Sarah looked at her sharply, in her piercing green eyes a cold and deadly stare. It was a look Sarah had in common with her father.

"That's always the fúcking problem with you future idiots… You are way ahead and yet you forget!"

"I didn't mean to-"

"Damn right you didn't mean to," Sarah echoed. "You just do!"

There was no escaping this time. The storm was still building, and she could do was wait and ride it out. "You come here. Tell me things I have yet to do. And expect I'll simply accept it… Well, I don't! And I am not your nana!"

Destiny bit her tongue to keep herself from adding 'yet'. It would only make matters worse. For now it was best if she managed to keep quiet and not add fuel to the inferno. Deep sadness washed over her; she really missed her nana now. Her nana would never have gone off like this strange woman had. And her nana would most certainly never have made her feel like she was the smallest person in the world. Sarah had put her among Tyler, Derek and Amy. Three veteran fighters who would all stand up and weather this storm.

Destiny's eyes widened and backed away from Sarah whom still had murder in her eyes. Turning slightly, she walked quickly into the living room. She jumped at the sudden chuckle that came from behind her. "Category 5 hurricane huh?"

Destiny rolled her eyes. "Funny Derek."

He smirked. A bang at the door, alerted Sarah , John and Cameron to the living room where Tyler was dragging a body through the door.

"What is that?" Sarah demanded.

"Triple 8, I caught on the way home from my meeting with other can."

Cameron left for the kitchen and came back with a knife and screwdriver in tow. Cutting into the head, she pulled the scalp back and used the screwdriver to open it. A popping sound was made and then a crackling noise as she pulled the chip out.

John examined the burnt chip. "What the hell did you do to it?""

" chip destroyed itself when I opened the port covering." Cameron answered

"So this one's been programmed with a self-destruct feature." Derek concluded.

"Skynet must not want me reprogramming in the future." John summarized.

"Hell none of us want that." Amy answered.

"And why is that?" John asked annoyed.

"It makes the people afraid.. of your intentions." Cameron chimed in.

Amy scoffed. "It makes us wary to trust you if you're working with them, relying on them not us."

" I need them ." John insisted.

" and what? We're just warm bodies? You sending them and working with them makes us wonder if we can trust you" "Amy growled.

"I built the resistance." John said smugly.

"Yeah because I helped you!" Amy yelled.

"What makes you think John needs help?" Sarah asked.

"Oh so I can go then?" Amy glared.

"Feel free." Sarah said as she waved to the door.

"I sent them back because humans can't be replaced. That's all." John said proudly. "

Amy pointed her finger. "No. No, John. That is not all. You trust them, you confide in them. There is one in every base and little miss bîtch over has flipped 3 times already and yet you keep her because you "need her." Amy quoted with her fingers. "It makes us wonder whose side you're really on, John."

"My son doesn't work for Skynet." Sarah gritted her teeth.

"Really? Well that thing…. Cameron beat the crap out of your son's pregnant wife, making her lose her child and John chose Cameron over his family. So what the hell is the point of fighting against the machines when we work with them?" Amy stated.

"It wasn't the kid that Skynet was after. Wasn't a person yet." John said.

"So what you're saying is my brother didn't matter, he wasn't a person yet." Destiny piped up. " Well I haven't been born yet, I don't exist yet. Am I not a person? Don't I matter?!" Destiny yelled from across the room and stormed out.

Ignoring her, Amy pressed on. "The resistance, John, its power comes from the core; The people in the military before Jay Day. People I introduced you to, who gave you a chance out of respect for me."

A scoff from behind made her turn sideways. "Right, because of you." Tyler snorted.

Amy pointed her finger at him. "Fúck off, Devlin!"

Derek pulled his hand down his face when he saw Tyler's eyes light up. "Perfect. Now you gave him an idea." He rolled his eyes.

"It's not going to happen, Reese." Amy glared. He smirked and disappeared out the door. Amy rolled her eyes. "Whatever."

John sighed and went out to the back porch where Destiny was sitting.

Sarah sighed when Cameron came in the back door with the birthday cake. "Nice to know you're still intact. You are aren't you?" Sarah asked, reaching for her gun.

"Everything's fine." Cameron said as she set the cake down and walked off.

"Not much of a birthday." Sarah said when she saw leaned in the doorway.

"She's had worse." Amy muttered.

Sarah nodded. "I bet."

John sat down on the porch next to her. "Go away, John." Destiny said, refusing to look at him.

"I didn't mean to not call you a person, you're living and breathing."

"Right." She snorted. He sighed and then laughed. Destiny looked at him as if he went mad.

"Come on, there's birthday cake that'll melt."He said and held out his hand. Taking it, he pulled her up and they went inside.

Sarah pulled away from the counter and started to take the cake out of the box. John opened the cabinets and took out the plates while Amy went to get Derek and Tyler from their glaring contest out back. Sarah went to cut the cake and serve it while John opened the sodas he got out of the fridge. When he opened the Orange Crush bottle, It began to sprinkle orange soda on the cake icing. Derek shut it off and went to wash his hands. Letting it settle, John opened it again and the bottle spewed up and on Derek. Sarah rolled her eyes and Destiny and Amy snickered. Derek turned around and looked at John who avoided eye contact. Sarah left to get a mop as Derek watched her leave. When she was gone, He went back to washing his hands and grabbed the sprayer. With one quick shot, he sprayed John head to toe.

John smirked and sloshed more soda at Derek earning a bigger giggle from Destiny. Derek turned and sprayed Destiny. She grinned and remained quiet when Sarah came back with the mop. After mopping between the counter and sink, she passed out a piece of cake for everyone. She took her plate and walked out of the small space and slipped, landing on her back. The cake smeared her forehead and her hairline. Derek and John moved quickly to help her up while Amy and Destiny rolled on the floor in laughter.

Sarah pulled herself up and glared at Destiny. Derek and John looked down at them and pulled them up. John started to laugh when Derek smashed a paper plate with cake in his face. Destiny grinned. Amy grabbed her cake and smashed it in Derek's face. John grabbed his piece and aimed to throw it at Amy when Destiny got her first. She winked at John. He lowered his throwing arm till Destiny looked down when he smashed his cake in her face. The plate slid off and fell in the floor when Destiny wiped the icing out of her eyes and stuck out her tongue at John.