Terminator: The Allison Young Chronicles
Chapter 3: Scouting Mission
Los Angeles, 2022
11 years after Judgment Day):
21:45 hours
An Aerial HK flies over the ruins of Los Angeles. The HK stops dead in its tracks when the sounds of an explosion appears on its sensors one mile from it initial location. The HK turns around and starts making its way to the location to investigate the mysterious explosion. After five minutes, the HK arrives at the front of the destroyed school and starts focusing its scan on the smoke cloud appearing in the west side of the building. The HK hovers and flies around the perimeter of the high school one last time before finally seeing movement come up on its sensors.
:SCANNING…
:IDENTIFICATION…
:UNKNOWN…
:ANALYZING…
:THREAT LEVEL… MODERATE
:ACTION...
:TERMINATE
The HK hovers over the three humans and bathes them in its bright searchlight. The three humans stand still within the bright light the Aerial terminator has focused on them. The Aerial then trains its plasma cannon at its targets, takes aim, and fires its super heated plasma rounds engulfing the front parking lot in a large ball of white and blue fire causing a bigger explosion to erupt into the sky gathering the attention of every machine in the area.
2 hours ago:
19:02 hours
"So… why are we scouting this place?" The young man asks his younger female companion. Both the young man and female stay hidden underneath a concrete slab across the area they are scouting from a safe distance. "What do we need from here? Books, Pencils? Because I'm pretty sure we can't fight a T-700 with or even a T-1 with a tiny wooden stick." The young man says sarcastically to the female next to him while looking through a pair of binoculars.
"We are scouting the area because John said that the science wing still has some computer equipment and chemicals we can use for making explosives Derek." The female says to him annoyed.
"Didn't know John liked his little science experiments that much to send us here." Derek says to the girl next to him. "Still think we should be looking for food and weapons instead of stupid school supplies Allie."
Allison looks up from her binoculars to Derek with a pissed off look and says "Well if you want to explain to John why we came back empty handed, I suggest you quit your whining and focus on the mission!" she whispers to Derek.
Derek and Allison stay under the concrete slab, waiting as a Centaur tank and a squadron of twelve T-700's follow along searching the perimeter for threats. When the Centaur and the 700's turn the corner heading down the next street, a few minutes pass until both Derek and Allison leave their hiding spot and start quietly heading towards the inside of the old school's entrance."So how long till Kyle gets here?" Allison asks Derek as he picks the lock of one of the doors trying to open it without making too much noise. "If John is right about this place being full of supplies, we are gonna need more help."
"Relax Allie he'll be here just be patient." Derek says successfully opening the door. "Plus if I know one thing about my brother… is that he never disappoints you." He says proudly getting up from his kneeling position and swings his bag back over his shoulder. He enters the building with Allison closely following behind.
They both look down the dark empty hall filled and see nothing but scattered paper layered with dust and lockers that are rusted shut. "Ok so where's the science wing?" Derek looks and whispers to Allison.
"John told me it was west of the school so I guess we head there, and look in that area until we find it" Allison states to Derek with her being just as confused.
"Alright, the sooner we find Kyle and get this stuff… Derek was about to say until he was interrupted by footsteps come from behind them down the hallway. Both Derek and Allison quickly Jolt their bodies to the sound and raise their rifles towards the possible threat ready to fire only to find Kyle!
Both Derek and Allison lower their guns in relief only for Derek to say "What the hell Kyle!" He says with anger. "We could of shot you, you idiot!"
"Well let's be glad it didn't happen that way" Kyle says with a mischievous smile of his face, lowering his arms from surrendering position. "So where's this science class we are supposed to be at?" he asks both Derek and Allison.
"It's on the west side, across the school." Allison repeats to Kyle of what she said to Derek. "We better get moving before it gets dark, so move your asses!" She tells both of the Reese brothers in a commanding tone.
The three maneuver through the remains of the old high school hallways trying to locate what they came here for. Funny this used to be a place of learning, a place where the only danger you were in, was if one of the popular kids had beef with you, and would be looking for a fight... Too bad I'll never get to experience that kinda thing, Allison thought to herself. Trying to decide what outfit you wanted to wear on what day… finding out if the cute guy in your class liked you or not… But it wasn't like that anymore. It was now a fight for survival everyday compared to then. That system of life ended when Skynet went online, and sought to wipe humanity off the face of the earth, like swatting a fly that was too annoying and had to be dealt with.
After much walking, and hiding to avoid HK's patrolling above over the school, both Reese brothers and Allison make it to the west side of the school into the science wing. All three enter the science classroom that John had told them about and they get to work, doing what they do best. Kyle takes the back of the classroom, picking up anything of value, plus the chemicals that were located on a tall shelf and begins putting the the chemicals that will have much better use than a stupid presentation. Derek takes the far right in the middle of the room searching the computers that had a tarp around them keeping em from being damaged too much. Derek takes any computer monitor and console that wasn't too damaged and puts them in the giant duffel bag that Kyle supplied him with. Last but not least was Allison, she was to watch the door making sure any terminator that decided to patrol the schools interior wouldn't surprise them when they were most vulnerable.
Allison stands at the doorway armed with her OTs-12 assault rifle loaded with armour piercing rounds. The weapon was a little too big for Allison, but she was tough, she could easily handle the Russian assault rifle. She knew the rifle as well as we do breathing or blinking, she was taught by John to assemble and disassemble the rifle for cleaning like his mother used to have him do. She knows every rod and lever inside rifle and it was her most trusted weapon when the ammo was available for it.
Allison turns to both Kyle and Derek "Hurry up guys we need to get out of here" She tells both Reese brothers with a hint of uneasiness in her voice.
"Are you alright Allie?" Kyle calls out across from the back of the room and makes his way over to her. "Is something wrong?" he then asks her.
"Yeah I'm fine… I just have a bad feeling about this place that's all" Allison says to Kyle with signs of concern on her face.
"Alright we'll go, let me just grab my bag ok?" Kyle asks Allison and responds to him with a nod. "You ready to go Derek?" Kyle asks his older brother which he replies with with the same action as Allison.
Kyle walks over to the back of the room to retrieve his duffel bag while Derek finishes up grabbing some hard drives from the damaged computers. Allison then turns on her heels, checking left and right down the dark hallways making sure the coast is clear before they head out. Just then Allison hears footsteps coming from the left side at the far end making their way closer to the three teenagers."Guys somebody's coming!" Allison whispers loudly to Both Derek and Kyle.
"Man or machine?" Derek asks Allison and she responds by shaking her head. "Can you tell at all?" he then asks and she responds again by shaking her head.
"I don't know for sure" Allison says in a whisper "I can't tell from over here" she then says.
"Well what the hell do we do then? We just can't stay here" Kyle then speaks up. "We need to be sure… we should see if whoever it is, is friendly."
Derek looks at Allison and says "I agree with Kyle, we can't stay here… If it is a machine, we all know it will eventually find us" Derek says then turns his attention back to Kyle. "But what I don't agree on is risking our lives because we got too curious." he then says in an opinionated tone.
"Well John always says we need more muscle around back at camp" Kyle argues back at his brother. "If it is a human that is out there" Kyle then says pointing towards the door "Then we should give whoever this is a test, just until we can get a better look at him or her and know for sure."
"Kyle has a good point Derek" Allison says to Derek siding with Kyle statement. "All of us need to stick together if we are going to survive." She then says. "Even if it means risking our lives to make sure that a person may be out there."
"Fine" Derek says in an angry and defeated tone. "But if we do this, we do it my way got it?" He then says to Both Allison and Kyle which they respond with a nod. "Good now there is definitely one way to tell for sure if it is a machine."
"You mean besides the glowing eyes and metal skeleton?" Kyle says in a sarcastic tone.
Derek looks at Kyle with his angry annoyed look and continues. "What I meant to say is that we are going to need someone to be bait" still looking at Kyle then to Allison and continues, "The good news is if it is a person that is out there then the person who is baiting him or her should be fine."
"And... what if it turns out to be a machine?" Kyle asks already knowing the answer.
"Well let's just say you better pray that you'll die a quick painless death." Derek then says to his little brother.
Kyle Swallows nervously, forming a lump in his throat. "Ok so who's gonna be the bait?" he then asks his brother. Both Allison and Derek look at him with a smile and then he realizes why they are looking at him. "No way! I'm not risking my life!" Kyle says in a loud whisper trying to defend himself.
"Hey you're the one who came up with the idea" Derek says to Kyle pointing his finger at his chest. "So stop your whining and get out there!" Derek then tells his younger brother.
"God I hate you guys so much" Kyle whispers to himself while all three of them walk out of the old classroom.
Allison, Derek and Kyle get into position in the hallway with Kyle being the bait, while both Allison and Derek take cover behind the lockers opposite of eachother. Kyle makes his way down the hallway with his hands up in the air acting as if he were surrendering. "Hello?" Kyle call out with his voice echoing down the hall. "Is anybody here?"Down the hall the mysterious figure stops dead still and turns around to see Kyle slowly walking over towards him.
:SCANNING...
:THREAT LEVEL… LOW
:ANALYZING…
: MISSION OBJECTIVE… NONE
:ACTION…
:ACTIVATE INFILTRATOR MODE...
:ACTION...
:TERMINATE
The mysterious terminator walks towards Kyle and says "Is there anybody else here?" the terminator says getting closer to Kyle. "My group has wounded… they need help." the terminator says in its monotone voice.
"yeah, where is your group? me and my friends were looking for supplies here and we managed to find a medkit" Kyle says to the terminator still oblivious to what the man actually is.
"Excellent!" The terminator says to Kyle using its infiltrator voice. "Where are your friends at?"
Kyle looks at the man with a grin, and turns on his heels to give his friends the all clear. "Guys! He's a friendly you can come out now!" Kyle calls out to Derek and Allison.
Both Allison and Derek come up from behind the lockers, still having their rifles trained on the mysterious man and not taking their eyes off him."He says he has wounded in his group… I figure we should help" Kyle says to Both Allison and Derek not taking his eyes off the man either.
Just as Allison appears from the shadows and into the light illuminating from the ceiling, the terminator turns his attention to Allison and runs a quick scan on her.
:SCANNING…
:IDENTIFICATION…
:INFILTRATOR MODEL TOK-715…
:IDENTIFICATION CONFIRMED... CAMERON PHILLIPS...
:THREAT LEVEL… MODERATE/HIGH
:ACTION…
:TERMINATE
The terminator takes its hidden shotgun from the back of its coat and raises the weapon towards Allison ready to fire. Before the terminator could pull the trigger, Derek runs towards it tackling it to the ground. Giving both Allison and Kyle a chance, they both run to cover behind the lockers while the terminator grabs Derek by the throat and hurls him down the hall like a rag doll.
The terminator grabs his shotgun from the ground and starts to continue firing on Allison's location. Seeing his brother down the hall Kyle realizes that he just got everyone killed by this insane man. He sees the man concentrating fire on Allison, so Kyle grabs his M9 Beretta out of his thigh holster and fires five shots into the man's face, only to stop and look at the man in shock when he sees metal underneath the skin.
"METAL!" Kyle screams at the top of his lungs. The terminator glances at Kyle with a menacing look before continuing it's fire on Allison.
Derek looks down the hallway with his vision blurry from landing on his head, trying to figure out how a man could throw him like he was nothing. Luckily Derek's vision came back just in time to see his brother Kyle fire five shots into the man's face and seeing nothing but metal under the skin and hears him shout.
Derek quickly ruffles through his bag to find something he had been saving for an occasion such as this and pulls out a homemade pipe bomb.
Derek looks and sees Kyles duffel bag full of chemicals right underneath the terminator. He takes this opportunity and lights the bombs fuse, and hurls it at the terminator with it landing next to the bag. "GET TO COVER!" Derek then yells out to both Allison and his brother, which they do just in time before the bomb explodes.
KA BOOM!
The pipe bomb explodes with the bag of chemicals making the explosion more bigger and more deadly. The terminator goes up in flames smouldering and lying on the ground with its legs and right arm being blown off from the initial blast.
Allison and Derek both were the first to recover from the explosion and make their way to the downed terminator. "Nothing but scrap." Derek says with a smirk on his face while he stands next to Allison. Derek picks up the terminators shotgun and finds one shell in the chamber and aims it at the terminators right eye ready to fire until Allison puts a hand on the shotgun and slowly lowers it. "What are you doing?" Derek asks Allison confused.
She looks at him and says "I need to know something" Which he reluctantly nods and lets her continue what she intends to do. Allison looks at the terminator "What is your mission?" she asks the downed terminator.
The terminator looks at her confused but replies in its monotone voice "To terminate John Connor, leader of the Resistance."
Allison looks at the terminator knowing that the resistance is still barely being formed. How could this terminator know that he is the leader? Allison then decided to continue her interrogation "What model are you?"
The terminator looks at her again with the same look, still wondering why she is asking all these questions but decides to answer them anyway. "T series 888, model 101" the terminator states matter of factly.
WHAT?! Skynet barely came out with the 700 series a couple of years ago! How could they have already come out with an entirely new series? This one was entirely different… It had what looked like actual skin on it but how is that possible?
Allison then has another question in her mind… why did the terminator only fire at her? Why didn't it fire at Derek or Kyle? They were within easy reach but it chose to only fire at me. "Why we're you only shooting at me?" Allison then asks the terminator.
"You were the highest possible threat." the terminator states yet again in his monotone voice.
"Why was I the highest possible threat? I couldn't even get a shot off at you, let alone cause you harm" Allison then says to the terminator.
The terminator looks at Allison and says "You are my secondary mission… you are like me which makes you a higher threat" the terminator says while staring at her.
What does he mean I'm like him?! Why am I his secondary mission? "W-what is your secondary mission?" she asks already knowing the answer, but needs to know what this machine's intentions are.
"To terminate TOK-715 infiltrator model known as Cameron Phillips..." the terminator says still staring at her then continues "Second in command of the Resistance and bodyguard to John Connor… Which is you."
Allison stares at the terminator in shock. Why did it just compare me to this terminator named Cameron Phillips? Who was this machine? apparently this terminator recognized me as it, but why?
"I'M NOT A MACHINE!" Allison yells out at the terminator, "I'M HUMAN! I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS OTHER MACHINE YOU CALL CAMERON IS! Allison screams out letting her emotions get the best of her with tears streaming down her face.
The terminator decides to scan Allison a second time to confirm her statement. And sees that the this girl is in fact human."You're telling the truth" the terminator says to Allison and looks away from her. "I failed my mission..."
"Good! you piece of useless scrap!" Allison continues to shout at the machine knowing it won't hurt the terminator but deciding to unleash her emotions at the machine making her feel somewhat better.
Derek sees the pain this machine is causing Allison, so he raises the shotgun once again to the terminators right eye and fires off a blast, effectively destroying it's chip in the process ending the terminators life... if it had one.
Allison looks up at Derek with shock and anger. She then launches her right fist into his face, knocking him very quickly onto the ground. "WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT!?" Allison says shouting at Derek. "I WASN'T DONE ASKING IT THE QUESTIONS I HAD!" Allison says with pure rage in her voice.
Derek sees Allison and how broken and confused she now is after the conversation with the metal. "Allie… I'm sorry… I-I just didn't want to see you hurting anymore." he says apologetically to her.
"You don't get to do that Derek! I need to know… I want to know who this Cameron… this machine is, and why that terminator right there" she says pointing at the destroyed machine and continues, "even compared me to it!" Allison says with anger and sadness in her voice.
Derek gets up off of the ground and stands before Allison and looks at her "You're right… it wasn't my call… I had no right to do that… I'm really sorry Allie…" Derek says to her hoping she will at least somewhat forgive him.
Allison quickly embraces Derek and gives him a tight hug, attempting to squeeze the air out of him and begins crying into his chest."I forgive you..." She then says to Derek after a moment raising her head from his chest to look at him, still hugging him very tightly.
"Did we win?" Kyle asks while getting up from behind the lockers still disoriented from the explosion. Both Allison and Derek look at Kyle with relief and and happiness that he is okay.
"Kyle!" Allison screams out in joy, happy that he is alive and makes him join the now formed group hug.
"What did I miss?" Kyle then says suddenly surprised by Allison's sudden happiness. Kyle looks at his brother as Derek let's out a chuckle.
"You missed quite a bit little brother" Derek then says to Kyle which confused him even more. "Let's get the hell out of here before more metal shows up."
With that Allison, Derek and Kyle walk down the hallway and quickly exit the school as the sky gets noticeably dark. "We aren't gonna make it very far in the dark with all these HK's around." Allison says to Both Derek and Kyle which they both nod in agreement. "We should find somewhere safe and setup camp for tonight."
"Then head back to base in the morning" Kyle says agreeing to Allison's statement. They all walk into the darkness of the wasteland before them. And start walking off campus.
Out of nowhere, all three are surrounded by a blinding bright white light and stop dead in their tracks trying to make out what is over them. An HK is revealed and hovers over the three and starts to preform a scan on them.
:SCANNING…
:IDENTIFICATION…
:UNKNOWN…
:ANALYZING…
:THREAT LEVEL… MODERATE
:ACTION...
:TERMINATE
"HK!" Derek shouts out. He knows that they aren't going to survive the pursuing Hunter killer. Derek looks at his brother and the girl that he sees as his sister and comes up with a decision. He quickly pushes both Allison and Kyle out of the HK's line of fire allowing them to run to cover.
Both Kyle and Allison look at Derek from behind cover. "COME ON DEREK!" Kyle shouts at his brother.
"Goodbye…" Derek says with a tear trailing down his face. Knowing that his brother and sister are safe he let's out a faint smirk from his face and closes his eyes knowing what comes next. The HK aims its plasma cannon at Derek and fires its super heated rounds consuming Derek in white and blue flames. Both Kyle and Allison look at the where Derek once was but now just a crater erupting with fire. Both stare at the crater in horror and shock and their eyes widen.
"DEREK!"
Author's Note: Some twist huh? A T-888 comes out of nowhere, and sees Allison as Cameron, and attempts to terminate her. What the T-888 told Allison will be explained more next chapter so don't worry about me just forgetting to flesh it out more. decided to put my own twist in here by having Derek sacrifice himself to save both Allison And Kyle. But this isn't the last time we will see Derek, so those of you who are fans of his character don't worry he'll be back!
Reviews are appreciated!
UPDATE: I altered the dates of the story in the previous chapters to close off plot holes that I unintentionally made.
