The Terminator

Mike having done his business in Springfield moved along his way to a new world, via help through a large white portal, summoned by a man in a black hooded suit. He appeared to Mike in a mysterious fashion, not saying his name but saying to him that he knew about his destiny and his future. Before the man could run off, Mike grabbed his left arm and asked the tall dark man, "Why are you helping me mister?" The man threw down the young boy's arm and said, "All in due time, 'hero of heroes'. First you must seek out the Terminator in the world of 'Earth 3041' of course the one which we are in now. Ask him about me: Tidus and he shall explain all there is to know about me."

Mike looked around his location and saw he was near a large overpass with a long, steel bridge and saw a man in a dark coat, with black shades rev up his motorbike and put on off just a little further away from him, following another brunette boy about his age on his own motorbike with his buddy (both of which had short cut hair since this was the 90s). He followed the tall dark man through until they both were inside a Galleria mall. Mike instead of following the tall dark man in the black leather coat he suspected being his target, followed the brunette boy with the odd comb-over he saw head into an arcade just a floor above his current location.

After a set of stairs or two, he finally found the brunette boy with his buddy that had a long set of punker hair on the back of his head pointing towards a blonde male cop with a short stalk of hair on his head chase after the boy, suspecting that he might know of the 'Terminator' that the man in the hooded suit from before told him. Mike panting from all the running he had to do thought, 'Man, I come here looking for one guy and the next he runs on off for the hills…'

Soon enough, Mike found himself through a large set of corridors, each marked with a large brown paint streak on each side. He kept running and running chasing after the boy and remembered some of his army training from before, 'When in doubt in a pursued chase, fake underneath the pursuer's sight and distract him.' Luckily Mike pulled out a set of smoke grenades and tossed them at the police man chasing the brunette boy and slid underneath his legs and past him. He found the brunette boy and after running past a pop vending machine crashed into the poor guy. It took a minute for them both to come to their senses.

He asked Mike, "Are you getting followed by a cop too?" Mike shook his head as they got up quick and soon enough the same tall dark man in the black leather coat appeared, resembling Arnold Schwarzenegger distinctly in his cut hair and the way his black shades covered his face. Just behind them, the cop Mike distracted from the boy he was pursuing also closed in on them getting ready to fire as the Arnold Schwarzenegger look-alike yelled, "Get Down!!"

One fire from his shot gun blew a giant hole in the cop's body, resembling steel-like flesh and then the tall Arnold Schwarzenegger look-alike grabbed both Mike and the boy next to him and covered them as a barrage of pistol bullets plowed into the man's dark leather jacket. After the boy screamed a little bit, both Mike and that same boy were shoved into a dark room labeled 'High Voltage' as more gunshots were heard by the rifle clicking and reloading with each violet pull of the trigger.

After getting a short glimpse of the tall dark man fighting the cop, Mike and the other boy ran for the stairs nearby the vending machine Mike past earlier down towards a basement parking lot of the Galleria, where in line were section after section of cars and motorbikes. They soon got onto a red motorbike to which the brunette said, "Get on." Mike did as told as the boy struggled to get the motorbike started. Three tugs on the handlebars and nothing happened. Just as hope was almost lost, the motorbike got started up and they soon were on their way just as the police man from before caught up to them. Nearly getting crushed by a giant black truck, they sped through traffic heading towards the same overpass bridge Mike first entered the world from and sped along the underside of the bridge and past a few puddles along the way. After looking back briefly sighing after the long high speed chase they were in, a black truck from above the bridge smashed through the railing and tumbled down just thirty feet from where they were resting. The brunette started the motorbike up again and they were dodging sharp turns and twists in the bridge underside pass as the half beat up black truck, with the cop inside, pursued them once more.

A sharp turn made the brunette stride off to the left just as the truck managed to get even closer and closer to them with each passing minute. They past by old junkyard cars half destroyed and shopping carts turned over as the truck smashed through each of them with ease. They soon past by underneath another bridge as the truck smashed its entire roof under it leaving only about 40% of the windshield unharmed. The cop raising his head from the dashboard smashed the windshield as Mike said to the boy, "Better pump more gas bud, he's gaining on us." Yet even that didn't do much though as the truck bashed their red rocket like motorbike five times, and a couple minutes later the tall dark man Mike saw earlier appeared from beside the black truck and grabbed both him and the brunette boy from their motorbike and put them onto his black motorbike and in a split second blew a hole in one of the truck sending it careening into another bridge they just past under.

With a sharp explosion all seemed safe for now. The tall dark man aimed his rifle at the flames only to find it was a flaming tire rolling along its way and put his gun away, revved up the handle bars and rode fast and true as the sun began to set. Mike and the boy looked up at the tall dark man and the brunette said, "Alright…time out. Stop the bike!" As he said this, the tall dark man pulled into a T-intersection off to another parking lot, miles from the Galleria at this point and shut off the engine to the motorbike. "Now don't take this the wrong way, but you are a terminator right?", the boy said. Mike intrigued by this finally found his man as the Terminator said, "Yes. Cyberdyne Systems, Model 101."

After feeling the skin on the Terminator's face, the boy said, "Holy shit…you're real, I mean.. you're a machine, but sort of alive outside?" "I'm a cybergenetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.", the Terminator said quick and with no feeling/emotion. Mike buzzed in and out of conversation as he was thinking about Chris and Victor and what became of them. He was suddenly snapped out of his daydream as the boy asked him his name, "Oh sorry…the name's Michael, but most people call me Mike for short." "John Conner, but I usually like John.", John Conner replied. They then listened to the Terminator as he said he was sent on a mission to protect John, by John himself 30 years into the future. John could only respond heavily saying, "This is deep."

Along the way out of town, the Terminator explained about the cop (the T-1000 precisely) and his goal of terminating John Conner and that he would not stop until it was achieved. Night time soon set in as Mike asked the Terminator as he sped up on his motorbike, "Do you know of a man named Tidus?" The Terminator paused for a moment and as a breeze past by them quickly. "Tidus is a man I met the first night I arrived in this time period. He was the one that said I am to protect you from the T-1000 as well. Someone reprogrammed it to find and terminate you as well. They soon stopped off at a payphone for John to call home, but were interrupted by a familiar voice Mike heard. "I wouldn't bother. Your foster parents are dead right about now.", said a man in black hooded suit. Mike then said, "Tidus!"

"Very perceptive. I am here to warn you of great danger my boy. You must stay out of harm's way for now until I say you are free.", he said pulling down his hood. He looked exactly like Auron from Final Fantasy X with a few grey hairs near his sideburns. "What's happening?", Mike asked him. "I suspect that a man from your own world got to this T-1000 and reprogrammed his data in order to seek you out and destroy you. I may be able to find him, but you must seek out Sarah Connor. Only with her help, can you find your destiny." Tidus summoned a white portal and disappeared as fast as he appeared. "Well that's settled. We gotta rescue Sarah Connor.", Mike said. "Negative. She is not a mission priority.", the Terminator replied with a cold stare through his black shades.

John said to him, "Yeah, but she's a priority to me!", getting caught by the Terminator on his sleeve and screaming for help from every corner and when John ordered the Terminator to let him go, he did as such explaining he was ordered to do so. "Look, I'm going to go get my mom and I order you to help me.", John said calmly and quietly. The Terminator being a loyal servant obliged to this request and followed John and Mike to his motorbike. About an hour or two later they arrived at the 'Pescadero State Hospital", where Sarah Connor was being kept as one of the mentally insane. "Why did we stop?", the Terminator asked. John told him that had to promise not to kill anyone. He even made him swear as well to put the finishing touches on the promise as he reiterated that he 'would not kill anyone'.

Even as the guard stopped them at the gate, he merely shot his left foot and his right knee saying, "He'll live" as he punched open the gate doors. Soon enough they got into an elevator and travelled up and caught up to brunette woman in white asylum clothes made for the criminally insane at this mental hospital. She ran in fear from the Terminator as he stepped out from the elevator to which John rushed out and yelled to her, "Mom wait!"

They chased her through a long window barred hallway and soon enough were caught between different men in white suits with policeman batons armed to the teeth for fighting. The Terminator told John to wait a few feet behind him and Mike rushed in before the Terminator could stop him. One man tried to nab Mike from behind, but the boy slid under his legs, knocked him in his ball sack and kicked him to the floor sharply. He quickly got up kneed a guy beside him and slammed him into a white door to his left with bars over the window. Mike then grabbed two more guys and slammed them into each other knocking them out cold and as John warned Mike of a tall brunette lady in a brown shirt about to grab him, the Terminator just punched her in the forehead with ease launching her ten feet away from them.

Calming her down, John said, "It's alright mom, he's here to help." In no time flat either, the T-1000 disguised as a cop also appeared from a set of jail bars by merely walking through them since his structure could permeate through any surface or obstacle. The Terminator yelled out, "Get to the elevator!!" opening fire upon the T-1000 with great precision. He fired many times from his rifle as Mike, Sarah and John reached the elevator doors. Narrowly avoiding the dreaded monster, going down the elevator wasn't any easier. The T-1000 opened up the elevator doors and began slicing through the elevator itself to get to John Connor, Sarah Connor and Mike. Sarah and the Terminator opened fire with their rifle and pistol at the dreaded T-1000, Sarah Connor just narrowly getting her shirt sliced during the onslaught of the action in the elevator.

They soon found themselves in the underground parking lot of the Pescadero State Hospital and robbed a policeman of his car driving off as fast as they could. Driving off outside the hospital, the T-1000 grabbed onto the car and smashed a hole inside the car aiming its metallic 'knife-like' arms at John to which Mike grabbed Sarah's pistol and fired upon the creature's body like a kid throwing a baseball at a pyramid of bottles at the carnival for a prize. No effect happened however, and the T-1000 narrowly scraped Mike's blank white T-shirt. The Terminator then fired a large round right at the T-1000 sending him flying off the car and out of their way. Tidus appeared in police car momentarily saying to Mike, "I have found a clear way to destroying the T-1000 Mike, but you may need to awaken yourself boy." John explained to his mother about the Terminator and his intentions as well as Mike and his intentions on fighting to protect his siblings and Tidus, the mysterious man who sent them to Sarah Connor in the first place. "Awaken? What do you mean?", Mike asked.

"You must do as I say when I say, you hear me everyone?", Tidus explained. Not having much choice, they agreed and pulled into a large industrial factory. Inside was a large area of four pillar furnaces filled with lava-like adhesive inside each one. Tidus said, "You may be able to defeat the T-1000 from this vantage point, but must be ever vigilant. Judgment Day has been postponed for now." Sarah shaking her head asked, "How could that possibly be? The date for Judgment day is set for August 29, 1997." Tidus nodded as he said, "I uncovered various data on the T-1000 using their technology and then destroying it along with everything in sight just to grant Michael his power. Behold…" The man touched Mike on his head and in a single second, light covered his body as he asked, "Woah…woah…woah what's happening to me?"

"My boy, you are a chosen of three in your family. You are proclaimed to be the Hero of Heroes and shall bring forth peace to an otherwise hopeless universe. However, you need this new power I have granted you to do such a thing. It is a biologically enhanced powder I have tossed onto your body. It has the power to awaken physical strengths within any being harboring hidden power.", Tidus continued. Soon enough the T-1000 arrived just a few feet away from them as he said, "Take heed Mike. He shall not give in until you are all terminated. Treat this being in kind with the same mindset.", the man continued and disappeared into a white portal.

Mike propelled himself to the T-1000 smashing his right fist into his face tearing apart his metallic flesh and breaks his arms. He slowly remorphed however and sliced Mike through his stomach to which Sarah and John Connor gasped. Yet Mike feeling his body grow weak, kept fighting taking the T-1000's arms and slicing off pieces of that monster's clothes and its body, as they were getting closer to the furnaces. Mike once again got stabbed in stomach by the T-1000, but the boy still kept fighting though. Blood dripped on the floor as the Terminator blew a hole through the T-1000's head. Mike collapsed on the ground and even as John raced to his side to help him, Mike shook him away saying, "I have to do this John. I'm not just fighting for my life here. I'm fighting for my family's sake. I have to be strong. I must be strong." Tears began to drip down his and Sarah Connor's eyes as Mike punched the T-1000 in his chest piercing a hole through his flesh and ripped his entire stomach in half. The Terminator then blew another hole in the T-1000's body, but the monster knocked the Terminator over ten feet away smashing an eye beam along the way.

Mike then kicked the T-1000 down into the murky furnace below, ending it's insidious mission to terminate them a failure and thus collapsed on the ground out cold for at least a half an hour. Upon awakening, the Terminator said his most famous line to John wiping away his tears, "I know why you cry. But it is something I can never do. Goodbye." Sarah asked him, "Are you afraid?" The Terminator looked upon Sarah with an expressionless face and said, "Yes." Soon she pushed a button to lower the Terminator into the same ooze that killed off the T-1000 and even as he disappeared into its boiling surface, gave a thumbs up even as it started to light on fire. Mike arose and noticed Tidus next to him bandaging him up and said to him, "It would appear that you have learned to use your powers well." Mike looked at his hands with confusion and some satisfaction as well. He looked up to Tidus and asked, "I have super human abilities"

Tidus nodded and said, "Like your parents, you too have great powers. I happen to know them because I met them in their travels years ago." Mike asked, "What else do you know? Is Victor and Chris alright? Is there anything I can do to find them?" Tidus smiled and said, "I shall reveal more of your destiny when you find me in Edmonton. Have faith and you shall find your siblings. Never give up hope, you will find them." With that Tidus vanished into thin air just as quickly as he reappeared again. John then asked Mike, "So what are you going to do now?" "I may as well travel back home I guess. I have a lot of work to do in order to find my family again.", Mike said. Sarah then said after a brief pause, "That's who you remind me of. I saw your parents years ago, when the Terminator nearly killed me and of course killed Connor's father. You have your father's determination and your mother's eyes. Tell me, are they doing alright?" Mike remembering his parents untimely death lied to spare any pain or loss. "Oh they're alright. They've been busy with work so much I hardly get a chance to see them really. I'll tell them you said 'hi' okay?" Sarah and John nodded as he opened up his own portal with his newly found superhuman powers and left back for his own world. It would be six years later that he would see John again and when Judgment Day would really begin.

(I know it has been a long time since I have updated this story, but felt the need was right for various reasons: two of the biggest ones is that it explains the whole events behind Legend of the White Knight and the Eternal Beyond itself. Mike's newly found powers are similar to that of Goku's from Dragonball and that of various other anime characters I've watched over the years especially since his style of fighting is based off of them. This becomes key to his story as these powers eventually give a fighting chance to become this 'Hero of Heroes' similar to Hercules and similar to Goku from Dragonball Z as well. Hopefully I will be able to get around this part, since I did split this story up into four volumes I've had to do some odd edits here and there and this is one of my edited parts of the story.)

(Ch. 5: Betrayal is at hand.)