I said I was done writing this story arc, but I found this chapter deep in my Google Drive, so I thought I'd finish and post this.

The best I could explain that what happened in previous chapters had a good reason for happening.

The first question was why didn't Alex butt into the fight with Jane And John? That's because she was trying to aid Allison whom she thought was dead. And as for Victor not helping? I honestly don't know where the hell he was at. Maybe standing guard outside?

The next question being why does John not ask any questions to Veronica's nature? Well it's simple. Chapter 9 and 10 have a two week gap, so we must assume that Veronica had informed him during that time.

So why did everyone leave the command center? Well the base is as not packed with soldiers as you may assume, and the base is more massive as well. Most soldiers inside the command center had also volunteered to help look for the Skynet assassin. At least John didn't leave the base completely unguarded and left three soldiers, plus Anthony, not expecting that Jane was as skilled as he initially thought.

The last question was how the hell did John catch a shotgun? Well that was just pure luck! I know that it's impossible, if not really difficult to catch something that has that kind of weight to it, but John Connor has always had luck on his side! That's why he is hard to kill.

That's all the questions I can answer as of this moment. So thank you guys for the reviews and keep them coming!

Terminator: The Allison Young Chronicles

Chapter 11: The Attack

Los Angeles, 2014: (Angeles National Forest)

3:43 pm:

John Connor, and his partner Alex are seen casually walking through the dead remains of trees and shrubs of the Los Angeles national forest. Both were holding their own hunting rifles that had a makeshift suppressors made out of old water bottles and duct tape, and even old towels that were wrapped around the barrels of their rifles.

"We've been walking for hours." John complained tiredly.

"Well, we need to get food somehow." Alex answered sarcastically.

"So do you really expect their to be anything here to eat?" John Connor asks his companion.

"I was up here a few days ago. I saw some rabbits and squirrels here." Alex informed John when suddenly, out of nowhere, she went prone on the ground.

John quickly followed her example and laid down on the ground right next to her. "What do you see?" he asked.

"Skynet patrol, one hundred feet from us." Alex replied in a monotone voice very much similar to a terminator.

"What!? Why are they patrolling where everything is almost dead!?" John said in a loud whisper.

"Shh! If we keep making noise, we are most certainly dead!" Alex shushed.

"You know, you sometimes confuse me if you're even a human or machine." John muttered absentmindedly.

Alex looked from where the Skynet patrol is located and gazed at John with a very disgusted look. "I'm both, remember?"

John immediately regretted what he said when he saw the way she had looked at him. "Look Alex. I-im sorry I-" he was about to apologize before getting interrupted by Alex.

"Shut it John! I know what you meant by that." She said with a whisper but also with Venom in her voice.

When the patrol left the area, John and Alex get up off the ground and continue their hunt. They ran out of food in their bunker a couple of days ago and we're forced to find food elsewhere. It was too dangerous to look for food in the city with the machines constantly patrolling every corner, and it even wasn't very safe in the burnt down forests, out in the open.

•••

After hours of hunting, John and Alex only came up with three rabbits, and two squirrels. "Well so far we aren't really doing that great" John sighed with a frown.

"Well I'm sorry I'm not the best hunter!" Alex snapped before walking off in a random direction.

"Alex Wait!" John shouted from across the field but is successfully ignored. Alex keeps walking until she disappears behind the dead brush and deeper into the forest.

Dammit Connor! He mentally kicked himself. John quickly started chasing after her deeper into the forest, but quickly lost her and got lost himself after a long period of searching aimlessly. John knows that it is a bad idea to be shouting out her name, due to a possible Skynet patrol nearby that could hear him and immediately hunt him down.

•••

After at what appeared to be hours, John had finally come to terms that he was lost. He also had lost the only person that was capable of even protecting him out in the wastelands of post Judgement Day. John could also tell that the sun was setting as well, even though he couldn't see it through the dark clouds that covered the entire sky.

John finds a large boulder through all the dead trees and sits on it, taking a short break. "Well. This is just great." He muttered to nobody in particular.

He wondered what the hell was up with Alex. She was acting very unusual since the morning they had left the bunker, and traveled to the old national forest. She usually always was the quirky one of the whole group. Always made jokes to lighten every situation they were in, even if they weren't even very funny, she still made them laugh a bit.

John takes off his travel bag and places it on the ground, also placing places his rifle next to him. He then takes out a water bottle from his bag, opening it and taking a long swig before closing it and placing it back at its previous location.

The temperature was starting to drop as the sun had fully set. When the bombs fell, nuclear winter had been casted all over the world, and making it much more colder. John had pretty much missed all of it however. He traveled only four years into the future, before ending up in the Zeira Corp basement where Alex, James Ellison and Martin had found him. The world was still trying to recover from the nuclear fallout that had engulfed it years prior as well, so it was very surprising to find wildlife still teeming around the old dead forests.

John is broken out of his thoughts when he hears some twigs breaking in the distance which spooks him. He quickly grabs his rifle and aims it in the direction of where the sound is coming from. "Who's there?" John shouts quietly but enough for his voice to travel a far distance. He hoped that whatever it was that was making that sound, was just a large animal, or better yet Alex. The rifle he was sporting wouldn't really do much damage to the current terminators that stalked the landscape sadly, so John was probably very screwed if that's what the sound was. John turns around when he hears more branches cracking against the ground behind him.

Shit! I'm surrounded! John thought. If i'm goin down. I'm goin down with a fight! He then rushes to the large boulder that he was previously sitting at and takes cover behind it. On the bright side it provided cover for him, from both angles. But he was still out in the open. Everything that his mother had taught him: always know your exits, never be caught out in the open. He practically ignored everything that his mother had taught him and got into this predicament he was now in. John raises his rifle, prepared to shoot anything that could appear out of the dead foliage.

A small wild dog and her two puppies come out of the brush, chasing a little hare that they had been hunting for some time. John lowers his rifle in relief when he sees that it was just some animals trying to do the same thing he was. Surviving. John turns on his heels, completely disregarding the sound of the mother dog and her puppies barking and growling towards his direction.

When John turned around, his heart almost stopped at what was behind him. He saw in the distance between the tree line and him was a girl. She appeared to be between seventeen to eighteen years of age. The only thing John could make out was her apparel. She had chestnut brown hair and was wearing a black leather jacket with denim jeans and black combat boots. She looked a little familiar to John, but he immediately dismissed the idea.

The girl was just standing dead still. John was a bit curious so he starts slowly making his way to her with caution as well. "Hey! Are you lost?" He then decides to ask when he is only seven feet away from her. The girl tilts her head in an odd fashion, like she was confused at what he had asked. She then returns her head to normal and turns on her heels, before running off and disappearing in the foliage. "Hey!" John shouts out in confusion. He then breaks off into a run and starts chasing after her.

After at least a mile of running through dead trees and steep mountain ranges, The girl finally stops in the middle of the same field that he and Alex were at only hours ago. The girl turns around once again, Just as John had barely caught up and was out of breath. She looks at him with softness written on the features of her face. John was much more closer to her to this time and could make out a few more familiar details that she had displayed. She had brown doe eyes and a mole on her left eyebrow. It was hard to see in the darkness but nevertheless he still could see her face clearly.

"John?" She said in a concerned tone.

The voice was also familiar he thought to himself. But in his mind, he couldn't put a name to a face. He felt like he knew her but didn't know who this girl was.

"John!?" She says again but with more intensity.

John just looked at her, unable to move for some reason. He was lost in her beauty I guess you could say. Her clothes were definitely from pre Judgement Day as well, which in turn, confused John even more so. Suddenly, a bright light, beams over him. John looks up and shields his eyes from the light, and trying to see what it was. He quickly looks back at the girl and sees her still standing in the same spot. A Hunter Killer was looming over John, with its plasma cannons aimed and ready to fire at him.

"JOHN!" Alex's voice shouts at him, but this time from just opposite of him. Alex tackles him unto the ground, just in time as the superheated plasma rounds hits the spot that he was previously.

John looks at Alex who was now lying on top of him. He tries to recompose himself as he looks into her eyes. "Alex?" he asks in utter relief.

She looks just behind her as the Hunter Killer swings around and bathes then in its search light once again. She quickly gets up off of John and hastily grabs his arm, and pulling him up onto his feet. "Run!" She shouts at him.

John nods quickly and starts running as fast as he can, with Alex following closely behind. Both sprint through the vast field, as the Aerial Hunter Killer pursues them, and fires of its plasma cannon, but misses almost every shot. The HK had no problem with losing them as well, since it was now nighttime, and the Hunter Killer used its infrared to track their heat signatures.

Both John and Alex sprint down a hill as fast as they could and unto an old road where their scavenged dune buggie was located.

"John you drive!" Alex says as she grabs an G36 assault rifle and hops into the passenger seat. John hurriedly got into the driver's seat and started the dune buggie. He steps on the gas pedal unnecessarily hard, with the buggies tires screeching on the ground before it takes off down the old concrete road that was littered with dirt and debris from the surrounding area.

The Hunter Killer appears out from behind the large hill and sees with its infrared sights, a vehicle speeding down the old road.

:SCANNING…

:PRIMARY OBJECTIVE…

:SCANNING…

:PRIMARY OBJECTIVE… FOUND

:ACTION…

TERMINATE

The HK activates its rear thrusters and begins to chase both John and Alex only the dune buggy that is speeding down the road. "Uh John? I recommend we go faster!" She said in a panic as she starts firing off the assault rifle at the Ariel HK.

"This thing can only go so fast on a asphalt!" He shouts back at her, but not taking his eyes off the road. This was definitely from a movie or something.

"Then let's get off the damn road!" Alex said as she unloads the empty magazine and pops in a fresh one and begins to fire at the Hunter Killer once again.

John stays on the road until he finds a much safer route to go off-roading and jerks the wheel to the right. The entire buggie turns and practically flies of of the road and unto a very steep hill that luckily lacked any trees. The Hunter Killer stops continues to fire at John and Alex as it starts tailing right behind them.

"We still aren't losing it! Any better ideas!?" John asks Alex.

"I might have an idea!" She she stated after returning to her seat. She looks at John and starts to formulate a plan on the fly. She glances at her surroundings and sees that they are starting to near the city. "We need to disrupt its sensors! If we can knock them out. We can render it blind!"

"And how the hell do we do that!?" John asked her with curiosity.

Alex smirks at John. "Leave that to me! When I say now. Step on the brakes as hard as you can, got it?"

John nods in agreement to Alex's plan. She then grabs two homemade pipe bombs and some poster tacks stuck to it. As the buggie nears the end of the steep hill and into the valley below, and with the Hunter Killer still following behind, Alex stands up on her seat and supports herself with the metal bar right next to her.

"NOW!" Alex shouts John's queue as he immediately steps on the brakes, which slow the buggie's decent down and with the HK, flying past them overhead. Alex jumps off roof of the vehicle and flies into the air and successfully landing on the Hunter Killer, almost falling off in the process.

Alex slowly starts crawling her way to the front of the HK, where she can plant the small explosives and completely blind it. Alex clasps against the small indentations that were located on the Hunter Killers hulls for support as she finally makes her way to the very front of the drone. She starts sticking the explosives right next to where the sensors would be located and uses a small lighter to light the fuse. As soon as both fuses are lit, Alex stands up and makes a large leap off of the Hunter Killer that would be very hazardous to a normal human.

KA BOOM!

Alex lands on the steep hill, with her tumbling down it uncontrollably. John sees the small explosion at the front of the Hunter Killer and as it blindly crashes to the ground, with a large explosion that could probably be heard for miles.

John randomly glances to his right where he can once again see the same girl from earlier sitting in the passenger seat, and staring at him. John stares back at her with curiosity to how she got there. Wasn't Alex just sitting there a second ago? How did she even get in here?

"JOHN!" She says in panic as she starts shaking his right shoulder very violently and points at the wreckage of the Hunter Killer that he was currently driving into. John looks in front of him just as the buggy, along with him, crash into the downed HK.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." Alex muttered in disbelief, as she rushed down the hill. Shit! Don't be dead! Don't be dead! Alex sprinted across the field until she finally makes her way to the crashed out HK and the buggy where John was located. She saw John slumped over, and laying his head on the steering wheel, and immediately assumed the worse. "John! Cmon, you can't die!" She shouted in anger as she pulled him out of the now destroyed vehicle, and dragged him away from the burning Hunter Killer.

•••

John opened his eyes, only feeling an immense headache. "Uhh… W-what happened?" John barely managed say. He looked up and saw that he was on resting his head on Alex's lap, and saw that she was looking down at him with tears in her eyes, as she stroked his now long hair. It was very difficult to get a proper haircut in the post apocalyptic world, so John's hair practically grew back to how it used to be.

"You're a dumbass sometimes, you know that right?" She chuckled a bit.

"I wouldn't be me if I wasn't." John said, as they both just sat there and stared at each other. "Where are we?" He then asks.

"I carried you for miles until I found this mine shaft that we are currently in." Alex explained simply.

"You know these old mine shafts are dangerous right?" John said with seriousness.

"It was either this, or get killed by a Hunter Killer." Alex persisted.

John slowly sat up, and rubbed his forehead, where he had a giant bump that was the size of a large stone. "God my head hurts like hell. What happened anyway?" He asked.

"You tell me? You're the one who drove into HK like you were all suicidal or something." Alex displayed more seriousness in her tone as she deadpanned him. "You even cost us our food and only source of transportation!" She then added with anger.

John bowed his head in regret. He didn't want to meet Alex's gaze, because he knew she was very angry with him. But how could I explain what I had seen to her? I can't just tell her that 'oh yeah I saw this girl who turned out to be a figment of my imagination that almost got me killed two times already.' So what do I tell her?

"I'm sorry Alex… I was just bein-" John was about to say before getting cut off by Alex engulfing him in a deep passionate kiss. John however, didn't know what to do. She was mad one second, and wanted me the next?

Alex pulled away immediately when she noticed that John didn't return the kiss and got up off of the ground. "I… I'm sorry… I wasn't thinking." Alex blushed with embarrassment.

John felt like an ass yet again. He had been saying all the wrong things today and somehow, Alex was still in love with him? Was that what it was? I have known her for the past two years and yet I still don't feel the same way about her. I'm not revolted by her in anyway, it's just… Maybe relationships are the last things that are on my mind? I need to focus on surviving. I need to learn everything I can if I'm going to become this messiah.

"Alex?" John asked in a soft tone, but she didn't turn around to meet his gaze. "Look, your an amazing person, but relationships are the last thing we both need to worry about."

Alex slowly turned to him with more tears trailing down her face. "Well what if you were to die? What if I was to die tomorrow? The next day? The next week? The one thing you don't understand about this hell we call a world, is that relationships don't last long either way!" Alex explained in a sad yet angry manner. "The only thing you can ever do is hope that you get to spend time with the ones you love before the machines take them away from you!" Alex added with more emotion.

John was at a loss for words. What do I say to her? I'm not interested in being in a relationship with you Alex? That would destroy her heart. She is practically my protector and I need her to be on my good side, even if that sounds selfish.

Alex just stared at John like she was expecting more from him. Was that the case? Do I expect more from John? Guess I got my hopes up. "Get some rest. Tomorrow when it's clear we need to go back to the bunker." Alex informed him before turning her back to him once again.

Los Angeles, 2022: (Burbank California, Skynet Factory)

11:15 pm:

What do you do when you find the man that you had fallen in love with, but didn't feel the same way? Easy. You act like it never happened in the first place. But what do you do when that same person that you knew, that you had fallen in love with, is gone? Do you just act like they are dead? That there is no bringing them back?

That was the question that Alex asked herself time and time again, when she had reminisced on that night in the mineshaft. She knew that she still loved John, but the same couldn't be said for him. After John had yelled at her, did she feel that the person that her and her brother had found that day in the tunnels, really died in the command center? To Alex it seemed so.

Alex was sitting in the pilot's seat, in her and Martins Hunter Killer. She was the only one left guarding the HK, incase John, Martin and the remaining soldiers, needed a quick evacuation. Alex was curled up in her chair, crying into her knees, as she started to think back on what made her life this way. Sure, it all started when Skynet had turned me into a monster. But was that really the start? Every soldier that I had considered my friends, has disowned me.

Alex was broken out of her thoughts when she heard the sounds of footsteps coming from the troop bay. She grabs her plasma rifle and raises the weapon, ready to fire if necessary, while she slowly walks from the cockpit to the troop bay.

When she enters, Alex nearly jumps out of her skin at who she sees standing in front of her. "What the hell are you guys doing here?!" Alex nearly shouted in disbelief and anger.

It was Allison and Veronica who were somehow here, instead of being back at base, like they were ordered to.

"Nice to see you too Alex!" Allison said sarcastically, as she put her hands on her hips. Alex lowers her rifle in some relief but also a little angry.

"Allison tricked me into being a stowaway." Veronica said innocently, while pointing her finger at Allison accusingly. If Alex knew any better, she would have just thought Veronica was only a normal teenage girl, blaming her friend for getting in trouble.

"Hey! Now you're blaming me for this!?" Allison said with confusion and anger. It must be her infiltrator tactics, she thought.

"You did deactivate me." Veronica pointed out.

"W-wait, what!? You deactivated her?" Alex said in confusion and even surprise.

"No! Er- maybe… ok fine yes I did!" Allison hesitantly spoke truthfully.

"How do you just easily deactivate a cyborg and how did you guys hide?" Alex asked. She wanted answers, and she was secretly admiring Allison's skills.

"Well, I found a taser in John's stuff, and I was curious to see if it worked on a machine." Allison gazed at the cyborg next to her. "Turns out I was right." Allison explained with a chuckle.

"And how did you hide her and yourself?" Alex asked, seeing that Allison didn't answer that question yet.

Allison rolled her eyes. She didn't want to tell Alex her hiding spot. "Well first off, Veronica isn't as lightweight as she seems, and second off, there was a loose floor board that has an area, that is big enough for two people such as myself and Veronica." Allison then explained, but mentally gagged when she referred Veronica as a person.

"Where?" Alex demanded. She wanted to know where this loose floorboard was. Allison pointed at the seemingly fine floorboard right behind her and Veronica, which Alex pushes past them, kneels to the ground and lifts the board up, revealing the empty space. "Dammit! John's gonna kill me!" Alex muttered in a panicked tone.

"What kind of training does he have?" Veronica monotoned, and tilted her head.

"It's just an expression Veronica!" Allison said in an annoyed tone.

"Oh. Thank you for-" Veronica was about to say before getting interrupted by Alex.

"You guys need to go back in there" Alex said she got up from her kneeling position.

"Why!? I came because I wanted to help!" Allison stubbornly replies. She didn't become a stowaway just to stay a stowaway.

"And you'll help me by staying hidden so I don't get my ass chewed out!" Alex snapped in anger. "So get back down there Alli-" Alex said before being punched in the face and knocked unconscious by Veronica.

"Was that necessary?" Allison asked as Veronica hoisted Alex over her shoulder.

"Yes. You wanted to help, and she was stopping us from completing our mission." Veronica stated as she gently placed Alex into their hiding spot.

"Do you think she bought it though?" Allison asked with a smirk, as Veronica placed the floorboard back into its previous location.

"The deactivating me part was true" Veronica said in what seemed like an irritated tone.

"I was still curious." Allison persisted. I hope John won't miss his taser. "Will Alex be ok?" She then asks with concern.

"She'll remain unconscious for approximately two hours, seven minutes and twenty eight seconds." Veronica explained in her usual terminator expression. "It is quite easy to knock a Hybrid out."

"How so?" Allison asked with curiosity.

"I'll explain later. We have to go if we are gonna aid John Connor." Veronica changed the subject.

On the way out of the KARA, Allison grabs Alex's plasma rifle, which turned out to be three times more heavier than a normal assault rifle. "Damn! This thing is heavy!" Allison complained as she struggled to hold it up straight.

"Here take this." Veronica handed her plasma rifle to Allison in exchange for Alex's rifle.

"Oh! Why is this one much lighter?" Allison asks with surprise.

"I'm not sure. This one is only three pounds heavier than mine." Veronica said simply.

Allison just glared at her with a annoyed expression. "You're saying i'm weak aren't you?" It wasn't a question.

"Yes." Veronica states matter of factly. "You need more exercise if you're to become a Resistance fighter." Veronica explained.

"Gee thanks." Allison rolled her eyes in annoyance. She didn't like that Veronica was usually honest. How did I convince it to even agree with my plan? Maybe I should ask her. "So where is John exactly?" Allison then decides to ask her cyborg companion.

"They already stormed the facility." Veronica pointed out, seeing that the endos that were guarding the entrance are now only a smouldering pile of scrap. "I have a bad feeling about this situation though."

"What do you mean you have a bad feeling? Your a machine!?" Allison snapped at Veronica in confusion.

Veronica just tilts her head to the right, but decides to ignore Allison's snappy comment. "Even for Skynet, the security is very minimal than I had originally thought."

"Then this will be easier than I thought." Allison said in a very enthusiastic tone.

Before Veronica could interject, Allison breaks off into a jog and runs down the steep hill, overlooking the factory, and away from KARA. Veronica follows quickly a second later, quickly catching up to Allison as they both near the Skynet facility.

20 Minutes Earlier:

John Connor slowly walks down the hall with his plasma rifle drawn. He was currently leading a small group of Tech Com soldiers with him. Martin and John decided to split up when they had realized that even though the main facility was small, it also had an underground part that was three times more massive than the main structure.

John had about six of his men with him, as they walked down the empty corridor that was brightly lit, and was surprisingly clean. This made John wonder why Skynet even needed light when they could just as easily see in the dark.

"Sir!" One soldier whispers very loudly, catching his attention. John turns his head slightly to see the soldier from the corner of his eye.

"What is it sergeant?" John asked with curiosity, but not taking his attention from the long corridor.

"This doesn't seem right, We should be having a firefight with metal right now." The soldier explained with concern and worry.

"I agree. But this is the only place left to check for the T-800's." John sighed. He knew that his soldiers were very nervous, and honestly so was he. John knew that Skynet was more fierce than this. John lowers his rifle and takes his radio from his belt with his right hand, and begins to speak into it. "Perry, are you there?"

There was a long moment of static, before a very gritty static voice replies. "Yes general, me and Martin have have found something that you better take a look at." Perry said very worryingly.

"Where are you?" John asked.

"We are in the Southwest side of the facility. Trust me, you'll find it." Perry said before the static took over and drowned out any more of their conversation.

"That didn't sound too good." Kyle spoke up.

"They must have found what we were looking for." John said with a chuckle. "Let's keep moving!" John then ordered his men as he took the lead.

•••

"Ok so I'm very confused." Allison asked Veronica as they walked down the dark corridor of the Skynet facility. "Where are we?"

"I don't know." Veronica replied truthfully.

"Weren't you like built in one of these factories or something?" Allison asked confused.

"My memory is scrubbed when I was reprogrammed. It increases the chances of success." Veronica explained simply.

Allison and Veronica continued to advance through the underground facility where they enter one of the many rooms. Since it was a Skynet factory, it was very dark, therefore Allison had to be guided by Veronica. However, there was a white light illuminating inside of the room.

It was a large advanced computer terminal. The screen was fairly large, and had no keyboards present.

"Uhh, what is that?" Allison asked, pointing at the computer.

"Skynet." Veronica replied worryingly.

Allison jolted her head towards Veronica, not hearing her clearly. "S-Skynet?" Allison stuttered in fear. The thing that she feared most was in right in front of her. Veronica walked up to the terminal and placed her hand on top of a sensor which made her go stiff, and freeze in place. "Veronica? Hello?" Allison tried gaining the cyborg's attention, but was frozen in place. "Veronica!" She tried again, this time shaking her shoulders.

"I-I found… something." Veronica informed, still with a blank expression. She pulled up a video feed of a room, with several soldiers inside, looking at a similar terminal as the one they were using.

"Wait, there's John!" Allison pointed at the men entering the room. "What the hell is going on here?"

"Trap…" Veronica muttered before she fell onto the ground unmoving. Allison rushed to her cyborg companion's aid, trying to figure out what was going on.

"Seriously? Now you have to shut down!?" She snarled at the unconscious machine. She glanced at the computer again, only to see several figures emerge from the shadows. "Crap…" Allison gasped. She grabbed Veronica's plasma rifle and bolted out the room, desperate to find John as fast as she could.

•••

John and his team walked into the room that Perry and his team found. It looked very similar to the other rooms, but this one had a large computer terminal in the middle of the room. It was also dark so it made it harder to make out anything else.

"What is this?" John asked Perry with curiosity.

"It's a weapon." Perry simply stated, motioning at the machine in front if them. "I'm not sure what it does, but it seems rather too harmless."

"What kind of weapon?" Martin asked. He had never seen anything remotely similar to this in his future.

"That's what we are trying to figure out Sergent Mathews. We need to assemble our engineers here and take a look at this prototype." Perry answered. Suddenly, the lights went out, with the entire room being engulfed in darkness. John was the first to turn on his flashlight in his assault rifle, with the rest of the soldiers following as well.

"What the hell?" A soldier said perplexed, as he frantically looked around.

"What the hell is going on up there?" John spoke in his radio, trying to get a message from above ground. There was no reply, only static. "Red team, do you copy?" again, only static. "Alex are you there?" John then tried raising, only to get the same treatment. Something was wrong.

The lights on the computer terminal instantly turned back on, with an unknown female face appearing on screen. "Hello John Connor." a mechanical female voice greeted. "I have been waiting for you."

"What the hell? What is this, a game? Perry sneered and rose his rifle at the screen.

"No Lieutenant Justin Perry. War is no game." The voice replied in a mechanical yet soft voice.

"Who are you?" John asked the computer.

"I can be many things John Connor." The voice said coldly. The screen went dark, and reappeared as a familiar face.

It was the face of his mother.

"I can be someone you cared about," the voice sounded like his mother. A voice he hadn't heard in a very long time. The screen then went black again, and returned to show his face. "I can be you." The screen went black once more. It was now using both his face and voice. "I can even be someone you once loved," The computer said and turned into the face of an older Allison Young.

"Stop playing games!" John snapped at the computer. "Who the hell are you!"

"Your killer." The computer said in Allison's voice and went blank.

"That didn't sound good at all." Martin stated with worry.

"We… we have to get out of here," John mumbled to himself. Skynet knew they were here. It set a trap. "Move!"

The soldiers compiled and rushed to the door, where a large figure now stood right in front of it, blocking their escape. The figure was hulking with its face resembling an Austrian bodybuilder. John immediately recognized the model. The same face as the one he knew from his childhood. He never saw the power of the machine firsthand, but he knew that they didn't stand a chance.

"800!" John shouted and rose his rifle. Everyone else followed his example and rose their rifles at the machine in front if them. However, it didn't do anything, it just stood there like a statue. John randomly gazed around the room, to see a several dozen more T-800's emerge from the shadows. They were surrounded.

"Fire!" John ordered and flicked the safety off of his assault rifle and started firing a one cyborg. Everybody also did so and started firing their weapons, but they didn't do anything.

The T-800's shrugged the bullets off with ease and rose their plasma rifles at the bunched up Resistance fighters. They were dead and John knew it. "Get down!" He barked at the soldiers. But it was too late. The machines had fired their weapons, with the superheated plasma impacting almost every soldier in the chest area.

Within seconds, a dozen of Resistance fighters were cut down. Within seconds, John's group had fallen into a large pile of smouldering corpses.