Terminator: The Allison Young Chronicles

Chapter 2: A New Life

Los Angeles, 2017

(6 years after Judgment Day):

John Connor runs through the underground tunnels holding Allison in his arms trying to escape the area before an Aerial HK and/or a squadron of T-600's come to investigate the sound. After miles of running through the tunnels John decides that it's safe for now and stops to take a break. He kneels to put Allison down so he can look through his bag, John pulls out a water canteen and a protein bar and then hands them to Allison.

"Here you should eat something, you'll need your strength if we are to get out of here." Allison reluctantly takes the protein bar and takes a bite of it not feeling too hungry after watching what happened to her mother.

"Was that your mother back there?" John asks Allison. She nodded at him still too shocked and sad to speak. "I'm sorry l… I have lost people I loved as well… I understand what you're going through" John says apologetically.

"I m...miss her" Allison says whimpering with more tears rolling down her face, unable to control her emotions she hugs John tightly around his chest and sobs quietly while he strokes her hair trying to calm her down. After a moment Allison stops crying and looks up at John and says "thank you for saving me… I just wish you could have saved mommy too" John looks at her and is about to open his mouth when he is interrupted by mechanical noises echoing through the tunnel.

They both quickly turn their heads to the one end of the tunnel, then look back at each other. "We have to go now!" John says to Allison getting up from his kneeling position. "Can you keep up Allie?" Allison nods and takes John's hand, then they both quickly but quietly run through the tunnel trying to escape the sounds of a possible terminator pursuing them.

1 hour later:

After an hour of jogging through the tunnels, both John and Allison make it to an abandoned underground subway station where dozens of tunnel rats can be seen huddled near small makeshift campfires trying to keep warm. John looks at the scared Allison and says "Keep your distance from them, they can be very unpredictable" Allison nods at John and gives him a slight smile. they start maneuvering through the small through the subway, doing their best to avoid the tunnel rats hidden in the shadowy corners, while some are within the middle huddled in front of barrels with fire inside. John and Allison almost make it to the exit when Allie accidentally bumps into an older yet big looking tunnel rat. "Hey little girl, are you lost?" The tunnel rat grins at Allison with his rotting teeth showing.

Allison grips John's hand tighter, which he responds by looking at Allison then at the tunnel rat and says "Don't you got something better to do?" John says with anger building up.

The tunnel rat gives John and Allison a disgusted look but turns to leave and find his friends. John looks at Allison "Are you ok?" she nods at him "Good, I told you they can be very unpredictable so stay close to me and they won't hurt you alright?" As John turns his glance from Allison, but sees that both him and her are being surrounded by the tougher looking tunnel rats and the same one who he just confronted.

Well shit… what do these guys want? They must want her, Allison. They want to use her as some kind of sextoy or worse, John thinks to himself. He knows what people are capable of, He has heard a lot of gruesome things that they would do to little boys and girls like Allison, ranging from rape to even cannibalism.

"Look we don't want any trouble, we just need to get through so if you will just please…" John says until the same guy he confronted cuts him off.

"You must not understand the situation you are currently in fella" the tunnel ran says grinning at John, "We only want the girl…" the tunnel rat stares at Allison then back at John then continues. "Give her to us and we will be happy to let ya on your way."

"And... what if I don't want to give her to you?" John says in an angry yet defeated tone knowing that he is heavily outmatched and outnumbered. John knows that if he attempts to reach for his handgun, the tunnel rats will most likely react much faster than himself and that could cause unnecessary harm to him and Allison.

"Well… if ya don't agree..." the tunnel rat says while pulling out a pocket knife from his pants pocket while the others do the same. "We will just kill you and take her anyway." the tunnel rat says while giving John his disgusting toothless grin yet again.

John's blood boils with so much anger, thinking of what these tunnel rats will do to Allison if they get their hands on her. He wouldn't let that happen to her, he needed a plan a good one... in a quick couple of seconds of thinking and taking in his surroundings he comes up with a risky plan that he is going to have to try if he us going to save Allie. John turns to the tunnel rat and asks "Can I at least say goodbye to her?" John says in a sad but convincing tone to the tunnel rat.

"Sure thang, just make it quick or I'll kill ya!" the tunnel rat says annoyed but believing he has won this battle.

John kneels down to face Allison, seeing her with more tears streaming from her face with the look of betrayal written on her as well. "Goodbye honey… these… these men are gonna take care of you now ok? So be strong for daddy alright?" John says in his sad but convincing tone yet again, but also giving her a wink that only she would notice. Allison quickly embraces John very tightly when John whispers in her ear, "When I stand up... and look away from you… i'm going to give you the signal and I want you to run and hide until I come find you ok?"

Allison then releases her embrace from John and nods at him with tears still running down her face. John stands up and turns away from Allison and walks closer to the tunnel rat until he stops within inches of his face. "RUN ALLISON!" John shouts at her which she quickly does running between two of the tunnel rats and disappears in the darkness.

Before the leader could react, John quickly grabs his SIG P226 from his thigh holster and fires two rounds into the leader's chest, puncturing his lungs and giving him a slow painful death. John then turns around and aims at the other tunnel rats with anger in his eyes, ready to shoot any poor bastard that decides to trying and take him on. The tunnel rats look at their leader that is now currently laying in a pool of his own blood dead, after one of the fired bullets punctured his heart. They look at their leader in shock and fear when they look at the man aiming his weapon at them. All the tunnel rats drop their weapons and start backing away from John and then run away from him cowardly.

Typical… John thought to himself and chuckled a bit, you kill the leader and then they all retreat. John lowers his gun and walks around the now deserted subway tunnel in search of Allison. "Allison!" John whispers loud enough to be heard in the tunnel, not wanting machines to hear him. "Allison!" he calls out again waiting for a reply. After two minutes of searching, John begins to think what if one of the tunnel rats grabbed onto her when they fled and kidnapped her! His heart drops at that thought and begins to panic. John then hears sniffling coming from behind a concrete barrier and makes his way towards it. John looks over the barrier to find a scared Allison behind wrapping her little arms around her legs looking up at him in horror. "There you are!" John said in relief and smiles at her but frowns when he sees she is not returning it back. "Allie?... are you ok?" John says worriedly to her.

She looks at him still not moving from her hiding spot and says "You… you killed that… that man" she says with more fear in her face. "W...why did you have to kill him? She then asks.

John looks at her realizing that she was already traumatized enough from seeing her mother end up like that. He feels a giant surge of guilt sore through his mind. "Im… I'm sorry Allie... I was just trying to protect you" John says apologetically "He and his friends wanted to hurt you and I couldn't let that happen." Every Time he looked at her he saw someone… someone very familiar, he recognized those doe brown eyes she had and that mole on her left eyebrow, but he couldn't quite make out how he knew her. John couldn't remember much before Judgement Day after suffering some mental trauma due to him traveling to the future using a TDE. John knew that he went into the future trying to pursue the someone that was really important to him, but a glitch in the TDE sent him only four years into the future when he was supposed to go much farther than that. He saw that Allison was all alone, she had no one else in this hell that they were in, and he was in the same boat as well, he lost his mother when he jumped into the future and knew that she didn't survive.

John quickly snapped out of his thoughts and looked back at Allison and said "I promise to look after you Allie… I won't let anybody hurt you." John said to her with determination in his eyes, he saw something in her, not just that she looked familiar but he cared for her. John has been alone for five years now in this world, he was not going to just leave her, he is better than that! he is John Connor! he is the one who is supposed to save humanity from the machines! How could he be this messiah if he couldn't take care of a little girl that needed him now more than ever! and he wasn't going to let any harm come to her, he was now her protector and he would die for her if he had to. John reached his hand out towards her and hoped she would take it.

Allison looks at John and sees the man that put himself in danger to protect her, He already proved it twice now today. He saved her from getting killed and she saw that he really cared… but why? She didn't know who he was nor did he know her, but the way he looked at her, like he knew her his whole life. Allison shakes out of her thoughts and looks at John and smiles while taking his hand. She embraces him once again very tightly with more tears coming from her eyes, but they weren't tears of sadness they were tears of happiness this time. She was both happy and sad, Allison was happy because she wasn't alone, she was sad because she is still grieving for the loss of her mother.

Both her and John stand there for a for long moment before he decides that it is time for them to leave and breaks off the hug. They both exit the old subway tunnel make it to the outside world seeing the the ruins of Los Angeles. To John it seemed like yesterday he and his mother Sarah were driving down this street... there it is again… those memories... I have tried so hard to remember pre-Judgement Day buy had no success… after two years I just decided to forget about it and focus on surviving in this world, trying to figure out how to start this resistance I'm supposed to lead so I can defeat Skynet and bring peace to this world. But first I need to get her to safety first before I can even come up with a plan to go to war with the machines before it was too late. John turns to Allison and asks "Did you and your mother have a camp not too far from here by any chance?" He asks kinda mentally kicking himself for bringing up the topic of her mother repeatedly. Allison looks at John and nods at him while grabbing his hand and leading him towards the direction of her camp.

4 hours later:

Allison led John to her and her mother's hideout where they have been staying for a couple of weeks now, both enter an old house that was located in what looks like used to be an suburban neighborhood. The house was mostly intact, the only damage there was to the house was the broken windows that were now replaced with plywood and chipped paint coming off the bricks house's exterior. The inside had a couple layers of dust but other than that, the house was in a pretty good shape. To John the house felt very familiar to him, like he had been there before but couldn't think to why it felt that way and just shrugged it off. John has had a lot of familiar occurrences today and just thought fatigue was getting to him.

John finds and sits on one of the dusty couches in the main living room, resting his eyes and enjoying the comfort he had not felt in years. After thirty minutes John gets up off the couch wondering what Allie was up to, curious to where she went. John looks in the second living room to find nobody there, he then makes his way to the kitchen to find it empty as well. "Where could she have gone?" he whispers to himself, "Allie!" John calls out she then responds from upstairs.

"Up here John!" She calls out from one of the rooms. John makes his way to upstairs and down the hall to find Allison in what used to be a nursery playing with old Legos she found.

"So what are you doing?" John asks Allison curiously wondering what she was up to. With her back to him he waits patiently when she tells him to give her a minute.

A few minutes later she turns around and shows him what she made out of the Legos she found. "I made it for you" She says to John with a smile on her face. John returns the smile and walks over to her and sits next to her generously taking her gift from her hands.

"What is it?" he asks curious wanting to know what it was she had made him.

"It's supposed to be a horse" she states matter of factly. "Do you like it?" she then says with worry on her face and voice hoping he doesn't reject her gift.

John looks at Allison and says "Do I like it?" She gives him a nod and then he continues, "No I don't like it…" he says to her "I love it… thank you Allie" he said and embraces her for a short period of time and gives her a kiss on top of her head.

John then gets up and heads to the doorway with the Lego horse still in his left hand. He turns around and says to Allison "It's getting late, we should get some sleep… it's been a long day." With that John turns around only for him to stop once again at the sound of Allison's Voice.

"Thank you for saving me today John." She says with a smile on her face. John turns around and and returns the smile to her.

"Your welcome Allison… Goodnight." John says and turns back around and heads out the door. " Don't stay up too late either ok?"

"Ok dad" Allison says sarcastically. John let's out a laugh from across the hall while she let's out a giggle. Allison then gets up off of the floor and lays on top of the bed in the nursery to go to sleep. She starts reflecting on the events that occurred today, she lost her mother to the damn machines just like her father not too long before that. She would miss her mother but she couldn't grieve at her death forever, she would have to move on, she had to keep going for her parents… for mom… for dad… for John. With that Allison closes her eyes and drifts off to sleep, ready for what the future holds in store for her.

Author's note: This chapter mainly focused on John's outlook on everything while he takes care of Allison. If there is any confusion to why John recognized Allison, the reason is because this John is from the main TSCC timeline but a glitch in the TDE that him and Catherine Weaver used thrusted him into 2012 instead of 2027 like in the show when he went after Cameron. (I will cover more of John's back story later to shed more light on the topic) The next chapter will advance 3 years into the future where we will see John starting the resistance with Allison by his side.

Reviews are appreciated!

UPDATE: instead of 3 years, the story will advance 5 years into the future instead.