Raining Fire

by DESTINYSARA

S#1 The story of Amy Adams, a Sergeant Major in the Marine. Involved in the development of a supercomputer. There is a huge problem with Skynet, the supercomputer. Gradually put in charge of everything, it develops a mind of its own and acts after it. When the bombs stop falling, she surveys the world or what is left of it. All alone, she sets out on a quest to defeat Skynet.

2. Chapter 1: Digital Fingerprint

Amy arrived at CRS: Cyber Research Systems shortly before 5am. The division was strictly Air Force. The only time an applicant from another branch was brought in was in dire circumstances. After checking through security, Amy got to work at sector 61 where the problem originated. After hours of attacking the virus whole, she was met with dismay. The virus had predicted her strategies and protected itself well. Frustration caused her to attack each of its components which revealed a corrupted driver. Before she could examine it, the driver had healed and the virus was much stronger. A tattle-tell sign that it was feeding off of a program. A "Digital Fingerprint."

Before she could do anything else, the computer locked itself down and the alarms sounded. The alarms brought the first in command, General Anderson and his team of advisors running to the room . After rebooting the computer in sector 61, Amy was about to hack into the virus again. The digital fingerprint led to CRS's newest, most prized and fully unmanned program, Skynet.

Standing over her left shoulder, General Anderson froze. He had supervised the entire construction of Skynet, it just couldn't be. Skynet had always been troublesome. Since its creation in 2010, it had had problems. The software was bought from Cyberdyne when it was destroyed in 1995 by the Air Force. By 2007, the program took a new turn when General Anderson met with Cyberdyne's old intern, Andy Goode. Andy had a machine named the Turk, it played chess and was capable of emotion. The Turk had won a chess match against the Japanese and with it, money and a military contract. A rare machine would fit in nicely with the software and other programs like ARTTIE, and so, Skynet was born.

By the time it was 3 months old, Skynet had complete control of L.A. It had a habit of throwing tantrums until it got what it wanted. In January 2011, it wanted control over all of North America, the Air Force refused. Skynet retaliated by causing a satellite to fall from the sky. The Air Force gave in. April 10th, 2011, Skynet demanded complete control, without Andy Goode supervising it. After another tantrum, Skynet won.

The virus reacted like Skynet in everyway. 20 minutes later, Andy Goode was brought in to calm it. 3pm, Skynet had admitted to creating the virus as another way to persuade the Air Force into giving it total control. Once again, the Air Force refused. They began discussing terminating the Skynet program completely, despite the millions they sank into building it. Thanks to the ARTTIE program lending its code to Skynet, the AI heard every word. It saw everything and began to grow afraid.

Even Andy agreed something must be done though General Anderson disagreed to having the whole program destroyed. A dispute broke out in the room. Half of military wanted Skynet destroyed like the threat it was, the other wanted to simply try to repair its attitude. Skynet became angry and afraid.