Terminator: The Allison Young Chronicles

Chapter 4: Remember

Downtown Los Angeles, 2008

(Zeira Corp basement)

John Connor, his mother Sarah Connor, Catherine Weaver, and James Ellison rush down the stairwell inside Zeira Corp after an experimental kaliba HK Aerial drone crashed into Weaver's office, forcing to herself to reveal that she is in fact a terminator.

"The basement" Catherine Weaver calls out to John and Sarah, bringing them to a stop to look at her, allowing her to catch up with them. "Mr Ellison" she says while passing him heading closer to Sarah and John. "John Henry…" she then says before getting interrupted by Sarah.

"We need to get out! They're trying to kill my son." Sarah says to Weaver in a pleading tone.

"No they are trying to kill my son… just like you are" Catherine Weaver says in her monotone voice while looking Sarah Connor straight in the eyes.

Sarah gives Weaver the same look "I'm sure she's done it." she says to her in an angry tone. Sarah and John came to Zeira Corp with the intention of destroying this John Henry, because they believe it is to become Skynet.

"You better hope not" Weaver says with her Scottish accent and monotone terminator voice. "Your John may save the world… but he can't do it without mine" she then continues.

Catherine passed both John and Sarah and takes the lead down the stairwell with them following close behind. They all exit the the emergency stairwell and head down the halls of Zeira Corps's basement.

They continue down the hall to find a guard lying on the ground unconscious, They pass the guard, not even paying attention to his well being. With Weaver still leading, John quickly passes her quickly running to the large metal door and opens it.

John barges into the room they expected to find John Henry in only to find Camerons lifeless body in a chair with her head looking unto the ground.

John rushes to Cameron and searches her scalp, only find that her chip missing from her CPU port. "Her chip It's gone!" he says as everybody enters and looks at him. John looks down and sees that there is a bloody knife on the table and starts to panic knowing what happened here. "Where is he? Th-the John Henry!?" he says with anger and panic in his voice and starts trailing around back and forth and continues "He took her chip where did he go?!"

As a brief silence lies in the air Catherine Weaver walks closer to Cameron's body and examines it from a safe distance not wanting to agitate John. She then comes up with a conclusion to what happened here. "He didn't take the chip… she gave it to him" She states matter of factly while walking towards the computer servers.

Sarah looks at his son, seeing the panic in his eyes, the way he reacted when he saw Cameron's body lie there lifeless… an empty shell that is nothing now but scrap. Sarah glances at the monitor behind Cameron and what she sees shocks her. "John" she says pointing her head towards the monitor.

John looks behind him and sees the monitor with the words repeating in an infinite loop.

I'M SORRY JOHN

I'M SORRY JOHN

I'M SORRY JOHN

I'M SORRY JOHN

I'M SORRY JOHN

John looks at the monitor in shock at what he sees then looks around the room trying to calm himself down a bit but not succeeding much. "Where is he?" John says while looking back at Catherine Weaver.

Weaver stands at the towers of computer servers that used to house John Henry and starts typing into a computer console on the wall. "Not where…" She says while still typing into the computer then looks at them "When."

"What?" Ellison says with confusion in his voice "What do you mean when?"

Sarah takes another glance at the small box that contains some computer servers, she then sees something very familiar. The three dots she had been hunting for months, "I know that I've seen it before" she says to her son.

John looks at what his mother is looking at and comes up with a realization. He looks back at Sarah, "Is that the turk?" he pauses for a brief moment while walking a little closer to his mother then continuing. "That's Andy Goode's turk" he then says.

"Three dots…" Sarah says feeling stupid for not realizing that what she was hunting all along was the turk the whole time. She then looks at Weaver as she walks away from the console on the wall while the room goes dark. "You lying terminator bitch..." she says to Weaver with venom and anger in her voice. "You're building Skynet."

"No" Weaver states with a slight smirk, "I was building something to fight it." she says not taking her eyes off of Sarah. "And I'd watch who's calling who a bitch" she then says in her monotone voice.

They both stare at each other for a long moment before Catherine looks at Ellison "Coming James?"

"Coming?" Ellison says with even more confusion in his voice.

"After John Henry… our boy" She says to the former agent in her Scottish accent.

Ellison looks at the person he thought was Catherine Weaver, but now only seeing a machine that had its own agenda. "He's not my boy… and you, you're not…" he says before getting interrupted by Catherine.

"Do you mind picking up savannah then? Gymnastics ends at five thirty" She says to to Ellison knowing he already will.

Out of nowhere sparks of lightning start crackling through the room as a countdown timer starts going off.

Everybody looks around the room with confusion, seeing the bursts of sparks getting more and more rapid. "John… we can't" Sarah says to her son.

"He's got her chip…" John says to his mother while she starts slowly backing away. "He's got her…" John then says quietly with emotion in his voice.

A transparent bubble starts forming around John, Catherine Weaver and Cameron's body, with more sparks shooting around the basement.

Sarah backs away more and more out of the time bubble, until she is completely out of it, still staring at her son. "Mom?" John says to his mother, wondering what she is doing.

"I'll stop it…" Sarah says to her son knowing where he is going. She knows John is going into the future to find his protector, the machine who he really cares about, and doesn't want to lose her like he did Uncle Bob…

John stares at his mother and his mother stares back at him until he, and Catherine disappear with a bright flash of light and leaving nothing but Cameron's body in the same place they found it.

Los Angeles, 2022 (resistance camp)

07:02 hours:

John opens his eyes inside his room inside of the newly formed resistance bunker outside of Los Angeles. It's been almost years since he's had a good night's sleep, but he feels guilty about sleeping so well. Last night Allison and her group didn't return from their supply run that 'he' sent them on. John had no choice but to send Allison, he didn't know anyone with better skills for the job than her. Hopefully nothing has happened and she makes it back safe he thought to himself. John puts on his coat and walks out of his room and down the hall to the command center where he would monitor the base daily. Checking the bunkers stock on food and ammo. And recruiting every person possible to join the resistance and fight with him against the machines.

"General!" The man guarding the entrance says while saluting to John.

"At ease soldier" the guard relaxes his arm and continues his duties. John enters the command center and war planning room. The had a large table in the middle with a light illuminating above. The far end of the room had outdated computer equipment that is used to monitor the bunker using security cameras and also for monitoring Skynet activities in the area.

John takes a seat at one of the monitors and starts going over the footage of machines activities in the area. Most were the same, most of the terminators do the same thing over and over again. Enter the the area, search for threats, exit out of the area. It was so common that each of John's computer nerds even make bets if a machine does something different. John is pushed out of his thoughts when one of his guards comes into the room.

"General Connor!" the man says again with him also saluting again as well.

"Yes?" John says not particularly interested in much at the moment.

"Sir… Miss Young has returned from her supply run." The guard then continues. "She is in the infirmary." The guard says in a monotone voice very similar to a terminator.

John quickly gets up off of his chair and rushes out of the room but stops at the doorway. "Oh I forgot at ease soldier." John says last second before leaving the doorway and into the hall. A few minutes of walking later, John makes his way to the bunkers infirmary and sees his daughter sitting next to Kyle Reese.

Allison sits on a stretcher next to Kyle but not paying much attention to him. She has her head lowered staring at nothing but the ground thinking of what happened last night. What she witnessed happen to the man she saw as her brother die before her. Kyle elbows her in the ribs getting her attention and cutting her out of her thoughts. She looks up at him in confusion, then and glances slightly to the right and sees John running towards them. Allison quickly gets up off of the the stretcher and rushes to John and embraces him tightly which he happily returns.

"I was so worried about you!" John says happily having his daughter in his arms still embracing her with enough force to break her. "Are you ok?" he then asks worriedly when he sees a tear trailing down her face.

"Yeah I'm fine" She says looking up at him with a faint smirk on her face.

John let's go of Allison and looks around the room seeing that one person is missing. "Where's Derek?" He says looking at Kyle and Allison which they reply by lowering his head in sadness. John's heart sinks finding out that one of his best soldiers is gone.

"He… he saved us... " Allison says to John with tears welling up in her eyes again barely suppressing her emotions. "If it weren't for him… we wouldn't be here…" She then says.

John looks at Kyle as he gets up and reaches for his duffel bag and angrily tosses it to John. "Here's your damn computer… hope my brother was worth it" Kyle says with venom in his voice as he walks out of the recovery room, slamming the door behind him.

John stands there to going over what Kyle had said to him over and over again till Allison breaks him out of his thoughts. "It wasn't your fault John… you couldn't have known that Derek wasn't gonna make it…" She says to him trying to comfort him.

"I know… I know, I just can't believe that he is gone… He was a good man." John says to Allison with guilt in his voice as he looks to the floor at the duffel bag.

"John?" Allison says after a long moment of silence. "I need to talk to you about something…" She then pauses for a second before continuing. "Something very important."

John looks up at her wondering what she is going to ask him. "Sure Allie, what is it you want to talk to me about?" he says to Allison with curiosity.

"Not here… can we talk about it somewhere more private?" John nods in agreement and leads Allison out of the room, down the hall and into their quarters while he shuts the door behind him.

"Ok we are alone... what did you want to talk to me about?" John asks her still curious and confused.

"Yesterday when me, Kyle, and Derek were getting the supplies from the school you requested… we came a across a terminator." She says with sadness in her voice remembering her whole conversation with the unknown terminator.

"Ok so?" John says not really getting the point. "Was it what killed Derek?" Allison responds by shaking her head.

"No a hunter killer killed him…" She says to John then continues. "this terminator was very different from any we have ever encountered… it had actual skin on it!" She says raising her voice. "It said it was a T-888 model or something but we all know that the 700's are supposed to be the newest models Skynet has to date!"

"T-888?" John asks Allison and she responds to him by giving him a nod. "SON OF A BITCH!" John yells out slamming his fist into his desk. "It must have been from the past..." He then whispers to himself hoping that Allison didn't hear it, but thanks to her being very close to him she hears what he had said.

"John? What do you mean it's from the past?" she asks in a curious and confused tone.

John mentally kicks himself for his outburst and hopped that he wouldn't have to explain everything to Allison. Hell he didn't even know it all after what happened to him, arriving into the future and him hitting his head very hard causing him to have amnesia as well as the TDE mentally effecting him.

John turns back around to face Allison prepared to tell her the truth, at least the parts he can remember. "Ok Allie take seat this is gonna be one hell of a story…" He says gesturing her to sit in a chair which she does a moment later. John takes his time explaining the events he could remember, from him being destined to fight the machines, sending a man back in time to protect his mom and become his father, and him time jumping four years into the future.

Allison sits there trying to process what she had just heard. Even though it wasn't the full story, it was just too much to put together. Time travel? Does it actually exist? Is there actually such a thing as fate? This confused Allison too much so she let it go for now and decided to continue with what she wanted to say.

"So you are supposed to become the savior of humanity?" She asks John which he replies with a simple nod. "And you have encountered this type of machine before?" he repeats the same action.

"It's a lot to take in I know" John says sympathetically to Allison. "But even with how crazy it all must sound... it's true." he then adds.

"I guess that explains everything that the machine told me." Allison says under her breath while deep in thought.

"What else did the triple eight tell you?" John asks with his curiosity bringing his attention back.

"It told me that it's primary mission was to terminate you, which from what you just told me makes sense why it was after you… but that doesn't explain the other one." She says frustrated.

"There was another one?" Allison shakes her head the begins to speak.

"It thought I was a terminator… it called me Cameron. it told me that the machine was your bodyguard or something and tried to eliminate me" She says to John but after a long moment of silence of him not responding and staring off into space she frowns. "You know something about this don't you John!?" She says with anger lingering in her voice.

John looks at her trying to process all of this just like Allison did with his story. "I-I don't remember Allie… I told you that I couldn't remember much about my past except what I told you…" John says apologetically to his daughter. "I'm sorry I can't help you Allie… you know if I could remember everything I would tell you first before anyone else right?" She gives him a nod then gets up from the chair.

"I know John… I just wish I knew what was going on… It's just so frustrating knowing that there might be a terminator out there that's got my face." Allison says with fear and anger. "I'm going to get some rest… all of this talk about time travel and fate is starting to wear me down" she says yawning. "I want to talk more about this later if that's ok with you?"

John gives her a nod "Sure Allie whatever you need, I'm here." With that Allison walks to her side of the bunker sliding her makeshift curtain door that allows her some privacy to the side and closing it allowing her to disappear into her room.

John sits in the same chair watching as Allison enters her room to get some rest. He sits there deep in his thoughts reliving the conversation they just had inside of his head. What the hell is wrong with you John Connor?! You just lied to your own daughter and for what? Because you were afraid that she would have judged you for having feelings for a machine that just so happened to looked like her? She has questions right now that I only have the answers for and I just practically told her to piss off! After I found her she was the only reason why my memories started to flood back to me… she is the one who took a broken teenager that was alone in this world and put him back together. She is the reason why I'm still here fighting for our species and why I chose to fight again.

John got so wrapped up in his thoughts thinking that with this future being not too different from the ones that I have been told about… could the same thing happen to Allison? Could she suffer the same fate that her alternate self did by Skynet cloning her likeness onto another Cameron? I'm not stupid, I know that Cameron had to have had gotten her appearance from somewhere. Even with how young Allison still is, she resembles Cameron a lot in terms of appearance. If Allison wasn't my daughter, I would have just ignored it. it would have been another sad death that just happened, But that wasn't the case.

John then remembers what she had said about fate earlier. Was she supposed to die so that Cameron could be created? So I could send her back to stop myself from getting killed by the terminators sent back to kill me? I couldn't do that… I wouldn't do that… but if I die then humanity is as good as dead without me in any timeline.

After minutes pass by of him reflecting on decisions he was always told that he would someday make, he is once again pulled out of his thoughts when the same guard from earlier opens the door and rushes in with fear in his eyes. "General Connor we got an emergency!"

John gets up off his chair "What is it?" John asks the guard confused.

"No time to explain sir this is urgent" the guard then says to John, he quickly follows the guard, shutting the door behind him disappearing into the corridors.

Meanwhile Allison lays on her bed looking up at the ceiling with tears flowing freely from her face as she tries to get some rest, she is unable to sleep with all the questions she had, but no answers given for them. Allison hears the guard rush in asking for John's help, and both leave allowing her some peace and quiet.

Just then a loud violent rumble shakes the entire bunker causing her to fall off her bed unto the cold hard ground. She gets up off the floor and heads for the door Opening it, she looks down the hallway and sees soldiers rushing up and down quickly heading to their posts until she stops one soldiers by blocking him from his direction.

"Miss I'm going to have to ask you to step aside!" the soldier say to her annoyed.

"What is going on?" Allison asks the soldier completely ignoring his question.

The soldier looks at the little girl knowing she won't move until he answers her question do he complies. "Skynet found us… command said that there are at least three dozen 700's aided with some hunter killers… they are trying to get through the base." the soldier says and quickly rushes past her to get to his post.

Allison starts heading towards where the soldiers are heading heading only to find the emergency steel entrance closed and locked. Allison puts her ear up the door where she can hear the agonizing screams of soldiers and the sounds of plasma rounds being shared between both man and machine. After a moment it's quiet from the other side and nothing could be heard.

Just then the steel on the right of the door dents slightly in the shape of a fist. Allison panics and backs away very quickly from the door only to lose her balance and fall on her back. She stares as a T-700 breaks it's way through the door with ease and ripping it from the door frame and tossing it to the side like it was nothing. Allison quickly gets up and starts running down the hall trying to escape the terminator.

The terminator looks at Allison as she quickly gets up and runs away from the 700, sprinting down the corridor away from the machine.

:SCANNING…

:THREAT LEVEL… LOW

:ANALYZING…

:ACTION…

:TERMINATE

The terminator raises its first generation plasma rifle and takes aims at Allison who is halfway down the corridor ready to fire until a plasma round hits the back of the terminators head destroying it's chip instantly. The terminator falls to the ground but the shot to its head caused the T-700's trigger finger to twitch slightly, firing its plasma rifle down the hall towards Allison just barely missing her and hitting the wall in front of her.

Kyle appears behind the downed terminator and lets out a slight smirk, feeling quite happy with himself for taking down a T-700 so easily. Kyle looks at Allison who is now lying on the ground at the end of the corridor unmoving. Kyle stares at her with his eyes widen and with panic setting in he rushes down the hall to Allison.

The plasma bolt hits the wall with such great force that it pushes her backwards and sends her flying into the corner wall turning left into the next corridor. Allison lands on the ground with her vision blurred and a voice echoing down the hall. Unable to move she sees Kyle kneel above her screaming out her name "ALLISON!?" He shouts out to her but she doesn't respond. "ALLISON!? WAKE UP PLEASE WAKE UP!?" He shouts at the top of his lungs at her again.

"K-Kyle?" Allison says to him barely able to get any words out.

"It's me Allie I'm here, I'm going to get you to safety… you're gonna be ok" Kyle says with relief in his voice that she is still alive.

"My head... r-really hurts." Allison says while raising her hand to touch the back of her head feeling something wet. She then looks at her hand and sees her blood covering her entire hand. The adrenaline wears off and Allison feels the pain from her head start soaring through her making her very dizzy in the process.

Allison looks at Kyle one last time before her world fades into darkness.

Downtown Los Angeles, 2012

(Zeira Corp basement)

Sparks appear out of nowhere and start flying around the ruins of the Zeira Corp basement, getting more and more violent until a sphere forms in mid air then a bright flash, with the sphere disappearing and throwing a nude male towards the nearest wall knocking him unconscious.

Thirteen minutes later at the far end of the tunnel, two males and one female emerge from the darkness quickly running towards the sound.

"We really shouldn't be here… the machines could have heard the sound from above." The female says to her male companions.

They both look at her and after a moment the darker and older man speaks, "I know but I may know who could have made that sound." he then says.

"James no one you know would be down here." The other male says and then continues. "I agree with Alex, we should just leave before metal shows up."

James looks at his partners for a brief moment and decides to ignore them and keep on heading towards the sounds location, With Alex and the other male reluctantly following after him.

"This is a death sentence James and you know it." the male says to him with nervousness in his voice.

"Will you ever shut the hell up Martin?" James says annoyed.

All three enter the old basement checking the perimeter. "So from what I understand you used to work here James?" Alex says with curiosity in her voice but also already knowing almost everything about him.

"Yeah I did… didn't really work out though." James says remembering the events from four years ago.

"Hey guys!" Martin shouts from the far end of the old basement. "I found someone! Come quick!"

Both Alex and James rush over to Martin and see him kneeling down in front of a naked man looking about sixteen or seventeen years old. James kneels next to Martin while Alex stands guard above the men making sure any threats don't surprise them.

James grabs the man's face and moves it towards his to examine it. James let's go of his face and stares at the man with shock and surprise in his face.

John?

Author's Note: Decided to add flashbacks to finally explain the events before John found Allison. I don't know for sure if it will be an interesting storyline so it will be very short, and will be appearing in small bits in every chapter. The next chapter will focus on the Skynet attack on the base and Allison fighting for her life while having nightmares during her short coma.

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