Terminator: The Allison Young Chronicles

Chapter 9: Jane Connor Part 2

Crystal Peak, 2022: Resistance Base

Jane Connor jerks the gun from Allison's head, and towards John. She aims between his eyes and squeezes the trigger, with the bullet flying out of the chamber of the gun.

John's instincts that have been drilled into him by his mother took hold and quickly ducks and dives behind one of the various beds inside if the infirmary, with the bullet barely missing John and hitting the wall behind him. Everybody that has their weapons trained on Jane, quickly found cover but we're unable to return fire. Jane was using Allison as a body shield, and preventing anyone from firing, if they didn't want to risk Allison getting hurt.

Jane realizes that she won't survive much longer with her cornered like this. She looks up at the ceiling and sees a single light bulb that lit up the room. She then raises the handgun that she had stolen from John and shoots the light bulb out, and engulfing the room in total darkness, where she can make her escape.

"Can anyone see anything?" Martin asks to everyone inside the room.

Everybody responds to Martin question by saying no as they rush for some kind of light source but are unsuccessful until Martin pulls out a tiny keychain flashlight from his side pocket and turns it on. Martin shines the dimly lit flashlight around the room and sees everyone except for Jane Connor and Allison Young.

"Allie!" John shouts out in fear as he looks around to see if maybe she was just hiding under a bed or something. "Where the hell is she!" He then says in an infuriating tone.

"She took her" Veronica states as she gets up from behind the bed. "They must have escaped through the ventilation shaft." she then says, pointing at the open small open hatch near the floor.

John quickly exits the room and runs down the corridor with everyone quickly following behind him until they all reach the command center. "We need to find her!" John says to everyone as he enters the command center with a stiff posture. "We need to inform the whole base of this." he then adds.

Alex nods and walks in front of him to the computer consoles and speaks into the intercom. "Attention Crystal Peak. Be on the lookout for a teenage girl that is here in the base. She has a younger girl as a hostage as well, so don't shoot on site if spotted."

Kyle turns to look at John. "What are we going to do John?" Kyle asks him with concern.

He puts a hand on his shoulder and shakes his head "I don't know. But we'll find her Kyle."

"She's somewhere in the ventilation, so she couldn't have gone too far." Alex states, which brings them some relief but not to much. Allison was kidnapped by a Skynet assassin that is here to kill me. She could and most likely will use Allison in order complete her mission, he thought to himself.

Martin glances behind him and sees that everyone inside of the command center is staring at his sister with fear and disgust, while some are even slowly drawing their weapons.

He then takes a long look at his sister and sees that her metal endoskeleton underneath her skin is still being clearly shown; mostly on her face though, and her back was still badly burned as well.

"Uhh Alex" He says, bumping his elbow on her side. Alex turns around and sees that all the men and women who looked up to her, all the the people who she had known, the people who she saw as her friends looked at her like she was a monster. Alex cowards down in fear, and backs up, hiding behind her brother looking for help. "What the hell are you all looking at!?" Martin said defensively with anger boiling inside him.

"She's metal!" One guard shouts out as he raises his rifle at Martin that was intended for Alex but was being blocked.

Martin immediately grabs his MK-12 and aims it at the guard but is greatly outnumbered when more guards and soldiers aim their rifles at him as well. Veronica, Kyle, Victor and Anthony rush to Martin's aid and raise their weapons back at the soldiers but are still badly outnumbered. Everyone was starting to turn on each other. John understands that he should do something to stop this.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" John shouts as he stands in between his friends and the soldiers. "My daughter is missing right now, and we are here at each other's throats just because she is different?!" John said, pointing at Alex. "I knew what she was when I first met her, and I wasn't disgusted in anyway. She is probably more human than anyone inside of this room!" He said in loud and angry tone that made all of the soldiers flinch and lower their weapons. "Is this what the Resistance is supposed to be? How the hell are we supposed to beat Skynet if we can't put aside our differences and just be human?"

Everybody listens to John's speech, looking at the ground with regret. John's words made them think to what and why they are fighting for the survival of their race. For the first time, John's words actually put hope into them. Those very words that were meant to defend a friend, we're inspiring to them. Something to take as an example.

"Look i'm not asking for much. But I need to find my daughter before it's too late. If anyone wants to volunteer to help me save her. Step forward now." John then asks in a calmer tone.

One man walks forward, and stands in front of everyone. "I want to help sir!" he says while saluting.

A woman walks forward as well "I volunteer!" She said while also saluting.

"I volunteer as well sir!" The guard who originally started the whole conflict said.

More and more people step forward and in all ask to help in unison, until almost all people inside the command center have volunteered to help John.

John smirks slightly, maybe he had a natural talent for rallying people to his side, he thought to himself. "Alright! You all know what to do!" John says in a commanding tone. With that, all soldiers exit the command center and to look for Allison.

Alex walks up to John and gives him a tight hug which surprised him but happily returns the embrace. "Thank you for defending me like that John." Alex said with a smile on her face.

"You think I'd just sit by and let them treat you like that?" John asks her. She shakes her head and releases the embrace.

"Let's go find Allie." She then said which made John rush out of his thoughts and back unto the plan.

"We should split up into two teams."

"Good plan. We will be more likely to find her and terminate her if we do so." Veronica said in her monotone voice, but with a very small grin on her face.

"Right. So me, Alex and Victor will make up one team. And Martin, Kyle, and Veronica split up into the second team." Everybody nods in agreement to John's plan.

"So what am I supposed to do?" Anthony then speaks up in a sad tone at being left out.

"Your to stay here and guard the command center, in case if Jane tries to enter. got it?" Martin says to Anthony, which he reluctantly nods.

"Alright! Let's move!" John said in his commanding tone once again. The two teams leave the command center and into the corridor where they split up into opposite directions, to look for the Skynet agent and hopefully get Allison back as well.

Crystal Peak, 2022: (Unknown Location)

Jane Connor and Allison Young exit the ventilation shaft and enter an unknown room inside of the Crystal Peak Bunker. Once on their feet again, Jane tosses Allison towards a wall, without any regard to any pain that she may have sustained from the impact.

"Ow! What the hell is your problem!?" Allison asks in an infuriating tone. Jane just ignores her, which makes Allison even more angry. "Hey! I'm talking to you!" she then says while getting up off the ground and advancing towards her. Jane sees out of the corner of her eye that Allison is making her way towards her. So she aims the gun at her once again, without paying attention to her, as she searches through lockers for weapons or anything that could be of use.

"I'm not interested in you." Jane then speaks up after a moment. "Only John Connor is my mission."

Allison just scoffs at her response. "Then why did you take me? You could have easily killed him back in the infirmary, but you didn't."

"Unlike most terminators. If I get shot, I won't just shrug it off so easily." she states while closing one of the lockers and opening the next one.

Allison just starts laughing uncontrollably. "They send back a human to do a terminators work? That is the most stupidest thing I've ever heard!" She then adds mockingly.

Jane had enough of Allison's smart ass comments, so she kicks her in the chest which sends her flying back into the wall yet again. Allison's breath is knocked out and her vision blurred. "W-what the hell was that for?"

"You were annoying me." Jane states coldly. Jane walks over to Allison and crouches in front of her with the gun aimed once again at Allison's. "Where is the armoury?" She then asks while shoving the barrel of the gun at her forehead.

"How would I know? I've only been here for one day." Allison says sarcastically.

"You tend to get into a lot of predicaments like this do you not?" She asks Allison.

"More than you think" Allison said.

"You're a liability to others. You are just gonna get more people killed." Jane says harshly but in a calm tone.

Allison just lets those words sink in and looks at the ground defeated. "You're wrong." She says in a whisper.

"Huh? I didn't catch that?" Jane asks confused at not hearing Allison's words.

"I said you're wrong!" Allison then yells out at her with anger in her voice.

"Am I though?" Jane asks with a laugh, and walks into the next enjoined room. Jane returns a moment later with some parachute cord and begins to tie Allison's hands behind her back very tightly.

Jane is slightly interrupted when the bunker's intercom goes off with a message from Alex.

Attention Crystal Peak. Be on the lookout for a teenage girl that is here in the base. She has a younger girl as a hostage as well, so don't shoot on site if spotted.

"Looks like they are looking for me" Allison says in a partially defeated tone.

"That's the plan" Jane states simply.

"Plan?" Allison asks in utter confusion. She has an idea of what her plan is but wasn't really one hundred percent sure.

"I'm using you to lure Connor to me so I can complete my mission." Jane said with what appears to be confident in her voice.

"And you're telling me this why? Allison says with even more confusion. This reminds her of those superhero comic books that John used to find for her so she could learn how to read when she was younger. The stories mostly consisted with the hero getting captured by the villain, and the villain revealing his plans for world domination. The hero would then break free and defeat the villain before their plan was enacted. Sadly if I was able to stop her, I wouldn't get the girl at the end. I'm more like the damsel in distress, Allison thought to herself, which made her chuckle slightly.

"You'll be dead soon enough" Jane said, while forcing Allison to her feet. "before John can save you, he'll watch you die, then he'll beg me to terminate him."

"Now that's just cruel." Allison says when Jane opens the door and forces Allison out into the corridor With the gun aimed at the back of her head.

"That's why Skynet chose me for the job. Cruelty is my specialty." Jane said in a monotone voice.

Both Jane and Allison walk out into the bunker's corridor where it appears to be empty until a man rushes down the left side and spots them. "Hey you! Drop the weap--" the soldier was about to say until a gunshot rang out and impacted the soldier between the eyes, and killing him instantly.

Jane walks over to the fallen soldiers and proceeds to grab his handgun, and any extra ammunition from his pockets. She then stands back up and grabs Allison yet again, with both continuing the empty hallways. Allison just stared in shock at what she had done, but just dropped it all together and continued to focus on her current situation.

"So where are we headed?" Allison asks after a long period of silence.

"To the command center. After I'm done with John Connor, I'm going to tip off Skynet of this base's location." Jane says very determined.

Allison eyes just widen at the revelation. This girl that is just a few years older than her is a real threat. I don't want to die, I need to warn John somehow. Maybe she was right… maybe I'm am just a liability to everyone. I'm gonna just get everybody killed. No. I will not let that happen! With that, Jane and Allison continue their trek to the command center, where Jane Connor hopes to encounter John Connor and kill him. Where she will then, kill everyone inside the base.

Crystal Peak, 2022: Resistance Base (Bunker Mess hall)

John, Alex and Victor make their way down to the mess hall, where they hope to find the Skynet agent and hopefully save Allison. John was very concerned with what Jane's intentions with Allison were. He hoped that she didn't fully know that she was practically his daughter, the one person he cares more for than Kyle Reese. His father. John knew for a long time, since his memory loss that Kyle was his soon to be father, but never told him that truth yet.

"John? You ok?" Alex asks with a worrying expression on her face.

John is broken out of his thoughts when he hears Alex's soft voice and focuses back onto the mission. "Yeah… I'm fine." John implies simply, which was a total lie.

"Don't worry we'll find her." Alex says reassuringly, and places her hand on his shoulder, John just nods.

All three enter the empty mess hall where only a couple of soldiers are seen searching through the back, trying to find signs of Jane and Allie. "She's not here." Victor informs them unenthusiastically.

"Alright let's move on." John then said as he and the other two walk out of the mess hall and back into the corridor.

Crystal Peak, 2022: Resistance Base (Bunker Armoury)

Meanwhile, Martin Kyle, and Veronica enter the armoury, also checking for any signs of the Skynet agent that appeared out of nowhere. "Clear. No signs that she was here." Veronica states in her stoic monotone terminator voice. "How big is this place?" She then asks Martin.

"Pretty huge. This bunker was meant to hold almost an entire military base." Martin explained.

"Well so far we aren't making any progress then." Kyle says with frustration. "Where else can she possibly be?"

"She'll turn up sooner or later" Veronica said which made Kyle start rubbing the temples of his forehead.

"The more we say that, the more time we waste." So let's stop socializing and keep searching." Martin said annoyed. Martin takes the lead and exits the room with Veronica and Kyle following close behind.

"So… I um… haven't seen you around here before" Kyle asks Veronica very nervously, slowly jogging up to her. "Are you new here as well?"

"Yes. I just got here one hour, twenty four minutes, and seven… eight seconds ago." Veronica simply adds.

Kyle's eyes widen. Nobody ever gives an exact estimate of the time. "Y-your the machine that everyone was babbling about?" He then asks her which she replies with a simple nod. Kyle swallows a lump down his throat as we backs away slowly.

"Is something wrong?" Veronica then asks Kyle which he shakes his head which she could tell was most certainly a lie. "You're lying." She states matter of factly.

"I just don't trust metal, It's nothing personal. Well yeah actually it is very personal." Kyle says very venomously as he backs up to a bit.

"Oh. Well of it makes you feel any better, I have never killed anybody aside from other terminators." She says, trying to somewhat put some trust into Kyle.

"And you're supposed target?" Kyle then asks Veronica.

"She'll be my first. I wouldn't count her as a human kill though. She's definitely not human up here." She says pointing at Kyle's head, gesturing that Jane lacks the human part of herself.

"You guys gonna make out or are we gonna continue?" Martin says, butting in on the conversation. Both look at Martin and reluctantly shake their heads and continue their search.

Crystal Peak, 2022: Resistance Base (Command Center)

Anthony sits at a chair inside the command center with his Colt AR-15 assault rifle in his lap, ready to fire if needed. He was still upset that he was left out of the team and had to stay here guarding, when he could be out there where the action probably was. Anthony was always the type of person to be left out of everything. He could recall when he was only six years old. Before Judgement Day, he would always try to ride his bike with the neighborhood kids but was always left out because he was still using training wheels. The kids thought that he was a wimp and would make fun of him, leaving him out of their activities on purpose.

Anthony immediately rushes out of his thoughts when he sees that three of the men who were helping guard the place instantly got up off their chairs. He looks at the men and sees a blonde girl enter the room with a younger brown haired girl in front of her with the gun aimed at her head.

Jane takes her weapon and fires off three accurate shots, killing the three men and falling to the ground lifeless; not even being able to fire off a single shot.

Anthony notices the other men fall, and rushes to cover behind one of the old computer consoles while Jane starts focusing fire on him, but unsuccessful at landing a blow. Anthony then rises from cover a moment later, ready to fire, until he sees the brown haired girl look at him in fear. She was blocking his line of sight, which made him hesitate. He didn't want to shoot John Connor's daughter, but what could he do?

Jane throws Allison to the side and fires four shots into Anthony's chest, which made him fall to the ground instantly, back behind the computer console. Jane walks over to behind the console to see if he was still breathing, and if he was, she would finish the job. She sees that Anthony isn't moving and assumes that he is terminated. However though, Jane's cockyness instantly got the best of her when Anthony who is surprisingly still alive, because he was wearing body armor, lunges at her with his combat knife that was hidden inside of his boot, and stabs her in the shoulder with the serrated blade and tackles her to the ground.

Jane cries out in pain from the knife that is in her shoulder but immediately blocks out the pain and focuses back on the threat before her. She lands a punch on Anthony's face which made him slightly fly off of her and land not too far from her. Jane stands up and pulls the knife out of her shoulder and starts walking towards Anthony with the weapon, prepared to end his life with the large knife.

Jane stands before Anthony who is trying to recover from the hard punch that the I-950 had landed on him. She kneels next to him and raises the knife with both hands, ready to to plunge it into him, but is caught off guard at seeing Allison rush at her with her hands still behind her back, and uses all of her weight on her shoulders and pushes Jane away from Anthony. "Get away from him you bitch!" Allison screams at the top of her lungs. Allison then falls from not having any support and lands on her head which blurs her vision.

Anthony finally recovers and gets back up on his feet just as Jane is also rising to her feet as well. Anthony glances to the right and sees the handgun that Jane had dropped a moment ago and starts sprinting for it. Jane sees this and grabs the combat knife from right next to her and starts running at him with incredible speeds. Anthony successfully grabs the gun and quickly turns around but is too late when Jane who was now in front of him stabs the knife deep into his stomach. Anthony looks down and sees the knife that is now imbedded in his stomach and falls to the ground with him puking up blood.

Allison watches in horror at what the I-950 just did to the young man that tried so hard to stop her, but was unsuccessful. Allison then crawls like a caterpillar towards Anthony to see if he's still alive but knows that he won't last too long without medical attention. Anthony slightly turns his head towards Allison and tries to speak. "I-Im… Sorr--" Anthony says before a hail of gunfire interrupts him and into his face, instantly killing him.

Jane unloads the now empty mag that she had just used on Anthony and loads a fresh one inside. Jane glance at her shoulder that now has a knife wound and sees that it is bleeding a lot. "Yeah. Gonna feel that in the morning." She says at an attempt at humor, but really doesn't know much about it.

"He was just trying to defend himself and you- you killed him!" Allison says with complete fear and anger.

"He was at the wrong place at the wrong time I guess." Jane says with a chuckle.

"I can't wait to see a bullet between those crazy pretty eyes of yours" Allison says with venom in her voice.

"So you think I'm pretty?" Jane asks sarcastically.

"I also said you were crazy!" Allison then says.

"I can say the same about you then" Jane said as she walks to the main computer servers and starts typing onto the the old keyboard.

John, Alex, and Victor are walking down the corridor with their head practically bowed in defeat. They have searched almost everywhere and couldn't find them. They were walking back to the only place that they thought Jane Connor could be. The command center. The sudden sound of gunshots that were echoing through the corridor made them stop dead in their tracks.

"What the hell?!" John asks both of his companions.

"That's coming from the command center!" Victor then informs them with surprise. "Cmon!" he shouts as he takes the lead, with both John and Alex follow behind.

After a few minutes of running through the bunker's hallways, trying to chase the sound, they stop with twenty feet from the entrance when they hear more gunshots ring off inside.

"Shit Anthony's inside!" Victor yells in fear. Before Victor could enter however, John stands in front of him, blocking him from entering. "General, get the hell out of my way!" Victor then said venomously.

"You go in there" John said, pointing at the slightly open door. "You'll die before you open that door."

"He's right Vic. We need a plan on how to cut her off." Alex said in agreement with John.

After a brief moment, Victor finally calms down. "Ok. So how are going to get in?" He asks both of them.

Alex pulls out a small device out of her pocket and gives it to John. "What's this?" He asks her. The device was as small as a USB flash drive.

"That is a voice synthesizer. I had an engineer replicate it from what the terminators use." She states simply.

"So how do we use it?" Victor asks Alex with confusion.

Alex looks at John and Smiles, before she looks back at Victor. "Once John samples his voice on it, I will insert it next to my artificial vocal cords and that will allow me to speak in John's vocal patterns."

"Ok so I'm guessing we are gonna have to cut you open?" John asks her with some worry.

"We don't have any other options John. I'm the only one who can take a couple of rounds, and I can disguise myself to appear as you." She said matter of factly.

"Fine. Let's do this." John then says, not deciding to argue.

John starts to speak into the synthesizer, sampling his voice into it. Meanwhile Victor pulls out a small pocket knife and proceeds to cut where Alex instructs him to. After six minutes, Victor has cut through the skin where he can see the mechanical workings of Alex's neck, and can see where her vocal cords are located.

"Alright. General, the doohickey." Victor said, holding out his hand. John gives Victor the synthesizer.

"Ok. Now insert it right next to the cords and connect it to the wiring." Alex instructs Victor. He complies and follows her orders directly. It was kinda weird for Victor to be poking around inside of her neck like this, he thought to himself.

"Ok. It's in!" Victor says a little bit to enthusiastically. He then takes the flab of skin, where he had cut and places it back over her neck, and puts a small band aid on it for good measure.

"Good. John I'm gonna need your coat. And I'm gonna need something to cover my face." Alex asked. John nods in understanding and takes off his coat, and hands it to Alex, which she then puts on. Alex grabs her hair and starts tying it up into a bun when Victor pulls off his bag that he had not taken off since arriving back to base and takes out an old baseball cap and hands it to Alex.

After a moment, Alex is fully dressed in her disguise. She looks at John with a smile. "So. How do I look?" She says in John's voice which brought chills to both of him and Victor.

"That's probably the most creepy thing I have ever heard." Victor says, unable to control his laughter.

"Alright. Well it's now or never. Alex? You ready?" John asked her in a soft tone, which had a hint of concern.

"I'll be fine John. Thank you." She then says.

"I should be thanking you." John said, then gave her another tight hug. "Good luck."

"I'm gonna need it." Alex said. She turns on her heels and opens the large door, and enters inside of the command center. When Alex enters, she sees Jane Connor typing into the computer console with Allison lying down not to far from Anthony's body with tears welling up in her eyes. "Hey! It's me, John Connor!" Alex calls out in John's voice.

Jane is interrupted from sending out a signal to Skynet and turns around where she sees a figure which appears to have John's voice. She raises her gun and fires off two shots into Alex's legs which make her stumble and fall to the ground. She walks up to Alex with her SIG P226 Sauer still risen at her until she is standing above her. "You're dumber than I took you for Connor." Jane said an evil smirk on her face.

Alex then turns her face around and reveals her to not be her supposed target. "I can say the same about you." Alex then says in her normal voice. Jane looks at Alex with her eyes widening. She has done messed up this time, she thought to herself. Alex gives her a stern kick to the chest, which makes Jane stumble backwards a bit but remains standing. Alex gets up onto a kneeling position and quickly pulls out her Remington 870 TAC Shotgun out of John's coat and fires a single shot into Jane Connor's chest, sending her flying backwards, and crashing into the computer consoles. "Clear!" Alex then shouts out from behind her. John and Victor immediately enter with their rifles drawn but lower them in relief when they see Jane Connors body lying on the ground, unmoving.

"Nice shooting tex." John said sarcastically.

"I could have done better." She said in his voice again, which made John feel uncomfortable. But unable to suppress a grin. "Speaking of which" She said in her normal voice before hearing a scream behind them.

All three instantly turn around and see that Jane Connor is back up on her feet, and holding Allison's hair with one hand while aiming the SIG Sauer at the back of her skull with the other. Jane was still badly injured, due to the shell damage that impacted her chest. She also had blood coming out of her mouth, which in turn, made her look more menacing; even for a teenage girl.

"Just because I'm human? You think that a single shotgun blast is going to stop me!?" Jane said, laughing menacingly. "I'm genetically enhanced for a reason!" She says with anger.

Allison looks at John who has raised his rifle at them, but unwilling to shoot, due to her being in the way. John sees that fear in her eyes and tries to come up with a Plan B on the fly, but is unable to. "LET HER GO YOU SON OF A BITCH!" John said with anger and fear boiling inside him. He was at a dead end and couldn't think. Some general he is, he thought to himself.

"With pleasure." Jane said with a mischievous smile.

"J-John?" Allison said with a tear trailing down her face. She looked so lost. So confused. She didn't want to die, but death most likely found her first. Jane let's go of Allison's hair, where she falls to her knees before Jane quickly takes aim at her head, and fires at the back of her skull from point blank range. Allison falls to the ground, and lies there, unmoving.

John's world freezes, as he stares at his daughter get shot from point blank as she falls to the ground with her hands still tied behind her back. John just stood there, at what felt like an eternity. John felt so lost at that moment. He felt like he lost the only person who had made him felt like what he was fighting for, was worth it. But now it wasn't. The only thing John felt at that moment, was pure rage. He drops his rifle to the ground, with his fists balled up very tightly as he starts sprinting at the wretched Skynet agent that took someone that he cared about.

"I'LL KILL YOU!" John yells in pure rage. John starts running at her as Jane Connor starts firing off multiple shots into John's chest, but doesn't do much, due to the adrenaline rush and the body armor he was currently sporting. John closes the distance between him and her and starts landing blow after blow at Jane's face, which makes her stumble more and more back. Jane manages to get the upper hand and punches John in the stomach with her superior strength, and knocks out his breath.

John falls onto his back, where he tries to recompose himself, when suddenly, Jane sits up on top of him and starts landing more blows on his face, using left then right, and repeating over and over again. John barely recovers and uses his right arm to block Jane's left fist from impacting his face again. John pushes Jane off of him and begins to get up. "Is that all you got!?" John said with cockyness, as he starts to take on a drunk boxers fighting stance.

Jane smiles and pulls out Anthony's combat knife that he used to kill him not too long ago, and starts to advance on John Connor once again. John decides to meet her halfway and begins to also rush at her with nothing but his fists. He knew that he probably didn't stand a chance, but he no longer cared. He was gonna keep trying until his last breath to defeat this monstrosity that had his last name.

Both collide with each other once again, however, John manages to grab her right arm and force it up into the air, and keeping it from possibly stabbing him. But John's inferior strength against the I-950, got the best of him as Jane frees her arm and slashes John across the face with the Knife, and leaving a huge gash.

John falls unto his back, feeling the immense pain that soared through his face. He starts to crawl backwards, while Jane starts slowly walking towards him with the knife by her side. "Did you really think you could take me on John?" Jane asks him.

"Just hurry up and kill me!" John shouts at her with rage in his eyes. In his mind, he was finished. He had done all that he could. Now was time to let go and hope that maybe there was a heaven, where he would hopefully see Allison again. That was all John could wish for.

"As you wish." Jane responds at his final request. Even if it was a very different reaction than she was originally expecting, her plan was going well. John closes his eyes and waits for the final blow of the large combat knife that will eventually gut him, and end his miserable life. Very slowly and painfully. But still ending it.

"John! Heads up!" Alex shouts from across the room from near Allison's body, as she tosses her Remington 870 TAC Shotgun at him with surprisingly great accuracy and distance. John opens his eyes just in time as he sees the shotgun flying towards him. He catches the weapon at what would probably make even Derek Reese proud, and quickly raises it at Jane Connor. John cocks the shotgun, takes aim at her head, and squeezes the trigger. With the shotgun shell blowing up half of Jane Connor's face, as she falls to the ground lifeless, with a loud thud, and a large pool of blood forming around her.

John stands up and walks up to what remains of Jane Connor. No the Skynet assassin that had failed her mission. "It's over." John said as he sheds a tear for the first time in years. He then drops the shotgun and quickly rushes to Allison where he can see Alex holding her. John kneels down next to Allison and looks at her with even more tears streaming down his face. "I'm sorry Allie. I wasn't fast enough." John said regretfully.

"John!?" Alex says in surprising tone.

"What?" John said as he jerks up his head to meet her eyes.

"She's alive! Look!" Alex shouts in joy.

John takes a more careful look at Allison, and sees that she is in fact breathing. He then looks at her head and sees something that brought immediate relief to him. "The metal plate saved her?" John said in disbelief.

"I guess it did." Alex also said in disbelief but starts chuckling.

Meanwhile across the command center, Victor kneels above Anthony's lifeless body, "I'm sorry brother. You tried your best." he said before tears welling up in his eyes, but manages to suppress them. He had been in the same squadron with Anthony since he had joined the Resistance. They became like brothers. They watched each other's backs. Now he is in a better place, he thought to himself.

After at what seemed like hours. Martin, Kyle and Veronica enter the command center with their guns raised. They had heard the shots from the far end of the bunker, and tried to make it back to the command center as fast as they could. Kyle sees John and Alex sitting on the ground with Allison in their laps, and rushes to them in complete worry.

Martin walks over to Victor who was kneeling above Anthony, thinking he might need some comfort. While Veronica walks over to Jane Connor's dead body.

"Terminated." She states simply to herself. She glances not too far and sees Anthony's Colt AR-15 rifle. She proceeds to pick it up and walks over Anthony and kneels on the opposite side of where Victor and Martin are located. She places the rifle on his chest and moves his arms onto the rifle. In her own machine way, she felt sad. Even though she had only known him for like one day, she felt close to him. He had defended her when she needed it most. That was what she saw in him. Veronica saw a man that was willing to change his views on his fears and face them with bravery.

Everybody stands up, and all regroup with each other in the middle of the command center. "What do we do now?" Martin asks John who was holding Allison in his arms.

John looks at everybody who were looking at him. They all saw the leader he was. The leader who would defeat the machines until his very last breath. They now looked at him for guidance. "We rebuild. We keep fighting. That's what I would do." John said very determined. "And I have a plan on how we are gonna win this war." He then said to them. John takes the lead and walks out of the command center, just as everybody came rushing back in. Once Allison was safe again. He would plan his next course of action. He would continue to fight Skynet. Whatever the cost. Whatever the sacrifices.

Author's Note: Very climatic ending huh? The Connor team's most dangerous threat as of yet has been defeated. But that's just the tip of the iceberg! I also knew that Allison's metal plate would come in handy, in a later chapter as well.

Next chapter will focus on John's plan against Skynet. It will be risky, but it's John Connor for crying out loud! He's known for doing the impossible.

This was probably the most violent chapter I have wrote by far. Still not enough to rate it mature though. Now I've added on how this John gets his famous scar.

The second time jump will probably occur after the next chapter. But if not, the chapter after the next will have it. That's where I will begin the second story in the series. So keep reading to find out! :)

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