Phantom Terminator Chapter 2: COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE, a Terminator + Danny Phantom Crossover fanfic

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or The Terminator, nor any of its characters. Danny Phantom is owned by Nickelodeon and The Terminator is owned by StudioCanal. I only own my own characters.

Phantom Terminator

= CHAPTER 2 =

= COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE =

Inside one of the bedrooms of the Fenton household, an alarm clock beeped loudly while electronic numbers on it shows 7:00 A.M. on the nightstand. A black haired 16-year-old boy, laying shirtless in bed, moans while trying to reach for his alarm clock, tapping on the nightstand before finally feeling the clock and presses the button, shutting off the alarm.

This boy is Danny Fenton.

Danny yawns before rubbing his sleepy eyes, still feeling tired somehow. He sighs while as he slowly rose from his bed "Maybe… playing Doomed with Tucker till 12 wasn't such a good idea…" he told himself, thinking he maybe shouldn't have played that multiplayer online shooting videogame named Doomed.

While stretching himself, there was a knock on his bedroom door, being his 18-year-old sister Jazz "Danny! C'mon, little brother, you got school today!"

"Yeah, yeah…" Danny says with a sleepy voice "(yawn) I'm coming…"

While getting his clothes for today, being his regular white t-shirt and blue pants, Danny groans as he remembers something important "Ugh! Dammit! Today I got that Algebra retest, and I didn't even study!" he cursed himself even more as his little addiction to the videogame Doomed caused him not to study hard as he'd scored only an 'E' on his last test.

With his mind still being panicked and frustrated, Danny had put on his clothes after taking a short shower and walks down the stairs for breakfast.

"Morning, Danny." Danny's father, Jack said while he and his wife, Maddie were working on yet 'another great invention' to 'capture ghosts', showing it was a black-steel washing machine combined with electrical tubes, a satellite disk on top of it and multiple scanners on its side.

"Hey…" Danny simply said while going straight into the dining room where Jazz, who'd already eaten her breakfast, was reading another book about 'Criminal Psychology'.

While Danny grabs a pack of milk and some cereals, Jazz had noticed his brother's bit of sleepy face and asks him with a suspicion, "Having a rough night again, Danny?"

Danny grabs a bowl and pours in some of his cereals "What gives you that idea?" he asks without looking at her.

"Your face says it all, little brother," Jazz states. She puts her book down and asks while narrowing her eyes, "Let me guess: You have been playing that online videogame with Tucker all night again, haven't you?"

Danny groans while pouring the milk into the bowl with cereals "Yes, I did!" he rolls his eyes with annoyance "Danny Fenton did it again! Wasted precious studying time by playing a videogame! Woo-hoo…! He takes the golden medal at the Olympics for best person that wastes his and everyone's time, again." He finishes with some sarcasm "I guess I can say my future career at as an astronaut goodbye."

Jazz sighs and this time tells him in a more calming and sisterly way "Danny, it's just one test you have to redo. You don't have to stress yourself out for it. You still have a shot to achieve your dream to become an astronaut at NASA."

"And how do I do that by now, Jazz?" Danny asks in frustration while taking a bite from his cereals "All that I can score at best are C's or a 'B-'."

Jazz then offers him some guidance "If you need some help with that Algebra test, I can help you out, if you want?"

That made Danny raise an eyebrow at his older sister.

"I have free periods after lunch today. I can make up some time and help you study before you take the retest at 2:30."

Danny looks even more surprised at Jazz "How do you know what time I have to do that retest?"

Jazz narrows her eyes at him "Really, little brother? We know each other our whole lives and you still haven't figured out that I'm the smartest in the family?" she forms a small smile with amusement, clearly teasing him.

Danny chuckles "Point taken," he then gives him a bit of awkward nod "I… could use the help, honestly."

"Good." She says before resuming reading her criminal psychology book "After your last class today, I'll help you with preparing for your Algebra test. And don't worry, it's not so hard as it seems once you know how to correctly answer the questions."

Danny sighs, hoping that Jazz is right. He then resumes eating his cereals.

Later, in the abandoned house across Fenton Works, Ember, sitting at the old mattress with her back against the wall while leaning close to the window, was sleeping. But as soon as she felt the brightness of the sun shining on her closed her eyes, she groans before waking up.

"Ugh…! Fuck…!" she rubs her sleepy eyes as she hadn't slept much as she'd been keeping an eye on the house for so long.

She then looks out the window, spotting Danny from another window while taking his schoolbag. Seeing his face from a distance, Ember's heart skipped a beat as the boy from the old snapshot in the future was now… alive.

Danny walks out the door of Fenton Works while calling into the house "I'm going now! See you guys later!"

"Bye, sweetie!" Maddie called to her son "Have a good time at school."

"And better come home with a better grade this time, young man." Jack warns his son as he doesn't want him to come back again with a bad grade "Remember, you're a Fenton, and-"

"And Fentons are Straight-A students. I get it." Danny nags while rolling his eyes "Bye!" and shuts the door before walking down and headed towards school.

Ember, having climbed out from the back of the abandoned house, began following Danny from a distance, trying to act normal. Despite she wanted to get closer to him and… see his face very clear, she reminded herself that she had a mission "C'mon, McLain!" she angrily whispered to herself "You know why you're really here, soldier. Protecting Danny from that Terminator machine." That last word came out with venom, determined to protect Danny Fenton from being killed by that T-800 Terminator from her time.

After 10 minutes of walking, Danny walks over to an African American boy wearing glasses, a red baseball cap backwards, yellow shirt with long sleeves, green cargo pants with a black belt and brown boots.

"Hey, Danny!" the boy said before giving a long yawn.

"Hey, Tucker," Danny greets him, being one of his best friends, Tucker Foley "Being able to sleep after we played last night?"

Tucker shrugs "I tried," he answers before taking out his PDA and began typing on it "Still I wished I could stay home and sleep all I want."

"Yeah, me too." Danny says while he and Tucker walk together.

Ember kept following them from a distance.

"Hmm. That other guy. That must be Tucker Foley, one of Danny's friends from this time." Ember quietly says, remembering that Danielle and old Jazz had told her before about Danny's friends. "Isn't there a girl with them too? What was her name?" Ember asks herself while she thought "Samantha, was it?"

Ember kept following Danny till they reached a big building, being Casper High School. There, Danny and Tucker met with Sam, talking together about something that Ember couldn't hear.

"Ah. That must be her." Ember guess as she saw Sam, being a self-proclaimed goth having long black and some dyed-purple hair, black shirt with a skull on it and fishnet long sleeves, black-purple skirt and black goth boots with lots of laces. Sam's makeup consists of black-purple eyeshadow and deep-violet lipstick.

She kept an eye on Danny and his friends before hearing the school bell and began walking inside.

Ember narrows her eyes as she saw them entering the school together with the many other students. "It's no use going in there unless I want to get caught." She tells herself, knowing she can't follow him into this school building "I better look around town and get myself prepared before that Terminator arrives," she then looks at herself as she was still wearing the same clothes that she had stolen from that hooker last night "and get some decent clothes."

Ember left the area, heading to some place where she could get some new clothes as walking around in prostitute clothes isn't the best way to blend in with the crowd. She looks back at the school and whispers to herself, "Don't worry, Danny. I won't be gone for long," she then prayed to herself as walks a bit faster 'Better for that fucking Terminator not to come here now.'

Ember bypassed a few people while walking down several streets, with a few men looking with lust at her, with one even giving her smooch voices.

"Fucking perverts…!" Ember says under her breath, trying to ignore them. Then, while putting her hands in her pockets, she felt something in her right pocket "Huh? What's in here?"

Curiously, Ember takes what was in her pocket, revealing to be several 100-dollar and 50-dollar bills.

"The hell?" Ember asks herself with a bit surprise "Huh. This must be what that prostitute has been making while selling her ass on the streets." She tells herself.

Though in the post-apocalyptic future where she came from all currency had become completely worthless, being either used for decoration, making paper of even used to serve as toilet paper, Ember had been taught by her parents how to count money and figured that she can use this money to perhaps buying some clothes.

After counting it, Ember sees that it's a total of 550 dollars.

"Hm. Should be enough, I hope." Ember guessed as she has barely any knowledge how much worth this pre-war money is or how expensive things were in the past but took her chances as she puts the money back in her pocket "Well, let's hope I can get something out of this." and continued her way.

Meanwhile, in Columbus

The Terminator, now wearing the black coat, grey shirt, fingerless black gloves, black pants and grey combat boots he'd forcefully taken from the street punk last night, scans his surroundings as he stops in the middle of a street in a suburban neighborhood, spotting a grey colored Ford Mustang parked at the side of the road.

The cyborg walks over to the parked car before punching the window, breaking it instantly and unlocked the door. After stepping in, he tears open part of the cover of the steer wheel, exposing steering column. It then hotwired it, starting the engine and drove away.

Back with Ember, in Amity Park

After Ember made her way into downtown Amity Park, she noticed a big building, being the Amity Park Mall.

Seeing a mall like this undamaged than the ones she'd seen before in her time, Ember figured that there are lots of stores in there that sells clothes. When she walks inside, Ember surprised by how beautiful and clean it looks, with nearly a hundred people inside who were either doing some early shopping, buying food or other stuff.

As Ember walks down a long hallway that had all kinds of clothing shops, she curiously looks at what they were selling, being very luxurious outfits, wedding dresses, regular outfits for the summer, bathing suits, business suits, sports outfits and so on. Ember couldn't believe her eyes to see so many clean and new clothes in all kinds of sizes, colors and different combinations.

"Holy shit…!" Ember says with fascination "I never thought I would ever see all of this in my whole life."

Then, Ember spots a shop to her liking, which sells Goth, Punk and Rock clothes. As she stares out the window, seeing so many awesome clothes, a small smile forms on her face "Yes. This is the place." Ember walks in.

Inside the Punk clothes store, there was only a single female worker, standing at the register while reading a Goth magazine. She has long pink dyed hair, several piercings on her eyebrows and ears, black eyeshadow and black lipstick, wearing a black shirt with long sleeves, green pants and silver skull boots.

The cashier saw the young woman entering her store, being a bit surprised to see her dressed like a slut. But noticing how very curious she was searching through all the clothes she figured that she definitely needs a better outfit. She puts her magazine down and walks over to her.

"Finding something interesting?" she asks.

Ember gave the pink haired girl a stare before resuming her search "Just need some better clothes than the ones I wear now."

The cashier chuckles with agreement "Yeah. No offense, Miss, but that outfit definitely doesn't suit you."

Ember gave her a glare "No shit, Sherlock." She says with sarcasm. She takes out a shirt with fishnet sleeves, clearly being a too big of a size for her.

The cashier girl, clearly not being bothered of Ember being rude to her, shrugs "Well, look as long as you like. If you need any help, I'll be at the counter."

Ember gave a nod without looking at her "Yeah, thanks." She then takes a black one-shouldered leather crop-top, finding it to her liking.

After a half hour of searching, Ember came out of the dressing room, wearing a black one-shouldered crop top, skin-tight black leather pants with a grey belt, black combat boots and a long black-silver leather jacket. She had even taken a black hair tie to put her long dark-brown hair into a ponytail.

Ember looks at herself in the mirror for a quick look, giving herself a nod "Perfect." And tosses the hooker clothes away in the trash along with the sandals.

As she walks to the register with her Goth-Rock outfit, the cashier forms a smile, liking the style that Ember picked out and gave her an approval nod "Oh yeah. That's the right look for you, gal."

With a small grin on her face, Ember says, "Fuckin' A."

After the pink haired girl had scanned the clothes and boots Ember had picked out, she then says after pressing some buttons on the register, "That'll be… 194 dollars."

Ember took out the dollar bills from her coat pocket and puts two 100-dollar bills on the counter. When the pink haired cashier took the money, Ember turns and leaves "See ya."

"Oh, but… Your change, miss!" the girl calls, holding up Ember's change of 6 dollars.

Ember, without looking and left the store, waved her hand while saying "Keep it."

The pink haired cashier raises an eyebrow while watching Ember leaving. But as she looks at the change of cash that she left behind, she shrugs and puts it in her pocket "Ah well. More for me then."

Ember, while heading to the exit, told herself while looking at her cool new outfit "Okay, I got better clothes. Now… where to find weapons?" she asks while looking around, not seeing any place that sells guns.

At that moment, she saw a police car with its sirens on parked at the parking lot, seeing two police officers hastily rushing into the mall, going after a guy wearing dirty clothes.

"Police! Stop!" one of them yells while he and his partner runs after the criminal.

Ember, with her survival instincts kicking in, saw her chance and goes out into the parking lot. Seeing nobody else around, she quickly heads to the police car while keeping herself low.

She opens the front door of the police car and quickly checks inside for anything useful. Ember quickly spots a Glock 22 gun and a Ithica 37 shotgun.

"Bingo." Ember says and takes the gun, quickly checking to see if it has any ammo in it, counting 15 bullets. After Ember puts the gun in her pocket, she takes the shotgun and quickly grabs dozens of 12-gauge bullets.

Hiding the shotgun under her jacket, Ember left the area. She was lucky that nobody had seen her, but that came to no surprise as she'd lived to survive in the nightmarish post-apocalyptic future and had fought with the Resistance for years.

As Ember walks down a street, she bypassed a hotdog stand. The smell of freshly made hotdog meat caught Ember's attention, making her stomach growl.

Knowing that she hadn't eaten for some time and seeing how good those hotdogs look like, Ember shrugs as she tells herself "Well… a good soldier always need a good meal. I guess I can try a few of them." she walks over to the guy selling hotdogs and asks him "Hey. How much for those?"

The middle-aged old man, having short black-greyish hair and a short, trimmed beard, smiles at her and answers "They're 2 dollars each, Miss. Best hotdogs of Amity Park."

Ember gave a nod and said "I'll take two of 'em."

The hotdog seller happily took a few hotdogs and puts them in a few buns "Mustard or ketchup?" he asks her.

"What?" Ember says confused as she'd never heard of mustard or ketchup before. When the man pointed to the bottles of flavors, Ember gave a shrug "Uhm… sure, what the heck."

After the guy had put some mustard and ketchup on both hotdogs, he gives them to her, with her giving him a 50-dollar bill. He raised an eyebrow for giving him that much but shrugs and gives her back her change.

When the hotdog seller notices the shotgun Ember was hiding under her jacket, he got a little nervous and asks her with suspicion, "You're not from around here, are you?"

Ember, when taking the change and puts it in her pocket, she narrows her eyes at him "You can say that." she takes the hotdogs and leaves.

When hiding in a back ally, Ember took a bite from her hotdogs, loving the taste as she'd never tasted anything that good her whole life "Oh my fucking God…! This is good stuff, man…!" she enjoyed every bite she took, not wasting to taste these new and delicious tastes.

An hour later, with the Terminator in Columbus

The Terminator walked into a local gun store, called: Lawrence's Gun Shop

Inside the store, a 46-year-old man wearing a long blue shirt, black pants and wearing hat with the confederate flag on it, stood behind the counter, appearing to be the owner of the gun store named Lawrence. The Terminator walks over to him.

Lawrence, with a smirk on his face, asks it, "What can I do for you?"

"I need weapons." The Terminator simply said with his serious but clear tone.

Lawrence nods "Sure, buddy. What'll be?"

The Terminator scans all the guns and rifles that were for sale. With it saying after looking for just 5 seconds, "The HK416 assault rifle."

Impressed with the guy's choice, picks out the Heckler & Koch HK416 assault rifle and puts it on the counter "We just got 'em brand new on the market." The Terminator inspected the weapon while Lawrence explained "It fires 850 rounds a minute at a 330 feet range."

The Terminator then says, "The Benelli M4."

"Alright," Lawrence said as he took out the Benelli M4 Super 90 shotgun and puts it on the counter "That's Italian. Semi-automatic. Firing 12-gauge shells."

"The M2.0 pistol with laser sighting." The Terminator requested as he took a second checking the guns behind the glass dome at the counter, taking interest in the M pistol with laser sight.

Lawrence, seeing this guy was eager to buy his guns, takes it out and shows it to him "Good choice, man. That's a good gun. Just press the trigger, the beam comes on and you put the red dot where you want the bullet to go. You can't miss."

The Terminator inspects the pistol, seeing that the laser sight was working perfectly.

"Anything else?"

"Phased plasma rifle in a 40-watt range." The Terminator says.

Hearing that made Lawrence chuckle "A what? Hahahaha. This ain't Star Wars, man. We have what you see, pall."

The Terminator scans the other pistols and riffles and says after 3 seconds of looking, "The Uzi 9-millimeter."

Lawrence took the Uzi machine gun and puts it on the counter. "You know your weapons, buddy. Any one of these is ideal for home defense." The Terminator then inspects the shotgun while Lawrence asks, "So, uhm… which shall it be?"

"All."

Lawrence smiles "Then we close early today." He then turns and was about to take some papers for him to fill in "There's a 15-day wait on the handguns but the rifles you can take right now."

Without Lawrence's knowledge, the Terminator snaps a 12-gauge shell and loads it into the shotgun.

When Lawrence came out with the papers, he was surprised that the Terminator was loading the shotgun "Hey, you can't do that!" he was about to grab it, but the Terminator grabs his hand and throws him hard against the wall!

"Wrong." The Terminator coldly says before shooting Lawrence in the head, instantly killing him!

Back with Ember in Amity Park

Using a small saw, Ember saws off the grip of her shotgun, making it into a self-modified sawed-off shotgun. With a robe she tied the gun and over her shoulder and hides it under her jacket. Now, Ember was fully armed and ready.

She walks over to a 1986 grey colored Ford Mustang that is parked in the back alley where she was modifying her shotgun, taking an interest in it. Seeing nobody around, Ember takes her chance by taking the car, using a few old tricks she'd learned from her time.

After managing to open the car using an old coat hanger and a screwdriver she found in the garbage, Ember hot wires the car and manages to start the engine.

"Perfect." She says before driving away.

An hour later, at a local internet café in Columbus

The Terminator parks his car and steps out, heading to an internet café called 'LogInNet'. When stepping inside, the cyborg notices there were 30 cubicles in the shop, with only 4 other people using a computer. A Latino guy in his late 30's standing behind the counter, gave the Terminator a nod "You can use any computer that's available."

The Terminator gave him a short glance before walking over to the nearest computer that was for free. As it sits down on the chair, it starts the computer. With its own database in its systems, the Terminator was quickly going to the right website to look for the information it needs.

But as it got to a government website and tries to find 'Danny Fenton', it shows that it couldn't show any information without any authorization. But the Terminator, with its eyes glowing red, hacked into the website using some a sort of wireless hacking system and made a weird electronic sound, thus being able to bypass the firewalls and other internet securities and the monitor shows the Terminator everything about 'Danny Fenton', finding there are four people living in Ohio carrying the same name.

When storing all the information about all the Danny Fentons, their addresses and ID pictures, the Terminator rose up from the chair and began to leave.

The guy at the counter, confused why the muscled guy was leaving so soon, got angry as he didn't pay to use one of his computers "Hey, hold on a minute! You gotta pay, buddy."

The Terminator didn't listen and was about to go through the door.

"Hey, come back here, you son of a-" the guy angrily ran after it and grabs his shoulder, which the Terminator responded by grabbing his hand so tight it broke several bones "AAAARGH! MY HAND!" the guy screamed in pain while dropping on the floor, holding his now broken hand, with people in the internet café look in surprise and shock that this muscled guy broke the owner's hand with ease.

The Terminator steps back into his stolen car and drove away, heading to his first destination, to the first guy holding the name Danny Fenton.

A half hour later, the Terminator arrived at a quiet suburb area in Columbus and pulls over in front of a nice-looking home. As the Terminator steps out of the Ford Mustang, it scans the house, seeing it was the right address.

When the Terminator began to walk over to the front door, the neighbor's dog, having sensed the killing cyborg arriving, began to growl before barking out loud to it.

The Terminator ignores the dog while continuing walking, stopping in front of the door. It knocks, waiting for someone to answer.

Not long after, a 34-year-old Caucasian man, having short brown hair, a mustache, long white shirt with a red tie, dark blue jeans and black shoes, opens the door, looking confused at this stranger knocking on his door.

"Yeah? Can I help you?" the man asks.

"Danny Fenton?" the Terminator asks.

The man nods "That's me. Who are you?"

But before he would even get an answer, the Terminator grabs the door and heavily pushes it wide open, shocking the guy as he steps backwards "Jesus! What do you want?!" As the Terminator pulls out M2.0 pistol, the guy got scared and puts his hands up "Whoa, whoa, hold it, man! What do you want? Money?" the Terminator aims with its pistol's laser at the guy, aiming right between the eyes "No! No, don't kill me-"

But his words were cut short as the Terminator shot him between the eyes, killing the man instantly as he fell backwards on the floor! The Terminator then shot the already dead man five more times in the chest to be sure he's dead!

In its system, the Terminator removed the first Danny Fenton from its target list. It turns and leaves the house while other people in the neighborhood ran and screamed in panic. The cyborg steps into its Ford Mustang and drove off, heading to his next target.

Many hours later, that same afternoon, at Casper High

Danny, along with his best friends, Sam and Tucker, were leaving the school after the last ball rang, planning to spend a little time together.

"So, guys, feel like heading to Nasty Burger?" Tucker asked.

"Definitely. Especially since the food here is barely tolerable." Danny agreed. "Plus, it's a good way to celebrate that I scored a 'B' on that Algebra retest."

"Oh, come on, the veggie sandwich was the peak of veggie health." Sam countered as her vegetarian nature kicking in.

"Right." Tucker says sarcastically, as he really didn't like the veggie sandwich.

"Anyway, let's just get to Nasty Burger, and we can talk about something else on the way." Danny suggested, not wanting to start another argument about their diets.

Meanwhile, Ember was following them closely in her stolen car, being careful to keep her distance while doing the normal speed limit. And while looking at Danny closely, she began to blush, as he did look cuter in real life.

'Wow. He really does look cuter than in the picture.' She thought with a small smile. After driving all the way to Nasty Burger, she parks the car across the street and stayed where she was for a few minutes to wait for Danny as she'd gotten there first before seeing that there was another store to the right called 'Guns-N-Tabacco.' Deciding to look inside and wait for Danny and his friends, she went inside and saw that there were snacks, drinks, and some modern guns and bullets, as well as a shelf filled with packs of cigarettes, fresh and new.

"Oh, shit, fresh and not used." Ember said with a bright smile, as back in her future, the only cigarettes they have were old and smoked nearly all the way.

Ember quickly got down 3 packs and a lighter before getting a 50-dollar bill from her pocket and putting it on the counter. After getting her change, Ember left the store and got back in her car, seeing that Danny and his friends arrived. Thinking for a few minutes, she thought about getting something to eat, as she was a bit hungry for some real food.

"Hmmm... I think, maybe meeting him won't be so bad. Besides, I'm fucking starving." She told herself before getting out of the car and went inside the Nasty Burger. Though Ember had been inside some fast-food joints before in her time that were either destroyed or abandoned, but stepping into one that was still in perfect shape with food being ordered and served, Ember sure was surprised by its atmosphere and the smell of fast food. She sat at an empty table, looking for a moment at where Danny and his friends were sitting at the other side of the fast-food restaurant.

Tucker, who'd noticed the badass looking girl but also curious looking one entering and had just sat down, he whispers to Danny. "Hey, dude, check out the new girl."

Danny looks at the new girl sitting at a different table while looking away. When he saw her, he saw that... she looked very cute. "Wow. She's... beautiful." He said, getting a jealous look from Sam. But, taking a chance, he stands up and walks over to her.

Tucker forms a proudly smile "You go, Danny!" while Sam was having a mixture of jealousy and suspicion about this 'new girl'

When Danny approached her, he addressed her. "Hey."

Ember looks at Danny, surprised that he'd walked over to him to say hi. She forms a small smile. "Hi." Before her stomach growled, making her ask him awkwardly, "Um… don't suppose you can... order me something, can you? I'm really starving."

Danny smiled. "Sure." he says without a single doubt and was about to go to the counter before he turns and asks her, "Uhm… What you like?"

Ember just shrugs "I don't know. Surprise me."

"Sure!" Danny nods before going over to the counter and orders Ember some food.

"Just look at him, Sam," Tucker says while he and Sam were watching Danny ordering food for the new girl "I honestly haven't seen him this confident ever since he had a crush on Paulina."

But Sam was still staring at Ember with suspicion "I don't know, Tuck. There's something not right about her."

Valerie Gray, one of Danny's friends, who's working at the Nasty Burger at the counter, noticed Danny going over to her again and smiles "Hey, Danny. Wanted to order something more?"

"Well, Val, I just wanted to order something for her." Danny states while pointing with his thump to Ember.

Valerie looks, seeing the new girl, which made Valerie narrow her eyes "Oh. I see. Then what will it be?"

"Just… get me a burger with fries and a diet coke." Danny picks out for Ember.

Valerie sighs as she types it in the register "One Nasty menu with a diet coke."

Truth is, a year back, Valerie and Danny used to date for a while but things didn't work out the way they wanted. Thankfully, they remained good friends, though it still hurt Valerie to see Danny having interest in other girls.

"I'll bring it over when it's done." Valerie says.

Danny nods with a smile "Thanks." And walks back over to Ember.

Ember forms a small smile as Danny came back over to her, with him stating, "It'll be brought over in a few minutes."

"Thanks," Ember says before getting out her pack. "You don't mind if I smoke, do you?"

Danny was a bit surprised that this new girl smokes but gave a shrug while he shook his head "Uhm… no, not at all." As Ember takes a cigarette out of her pack and put it in her mouth, Danny adds, "But I think it's better you don't smoke inside."

Ember raises an eyebrow while taking out her lighter "Why?"

"Well…" Danny points to the sign at the entrance, showing that smoking wasn't allowed inside the Nasty Burger "…they kinda have a no-smoking policy inside."

Ember looks at the sign at the door, seeing it was indeed prohibited to smoke inside. She rolls her eyes while putting her lighter back in her pocket. As she stands up, she asks him, "But it's allowed to smoke 'outside', right?"

Danny shrugs "I… I guess so."

"Good." Ember says while heading to the door. Danny follows her.

As they sat at a table outside, Ember lights up her cigarette and inhales the smoke before slowly breathing it out. A smile forms on her face as these new and untouched cigarettes were way better than the ones from her time "Fuuuck… I so needed that."

Danny chuckles with an embarrassing smile "Yeah… hehehehe."

"You don't smoke?" Ember asks while holding up her pack, offering him one.

Danny shook his head without a doubt "No, thanks. I don't smoke. Besides, those things can cause cancer."

"Maybe," Ember says before putting her pack back in her pocket and took another drag of her cigarette "but it helps calming the nerves."

In his mind, Danny felt like his hormones were getting crazy to watch her smoking a cigarette 'Wow… She's really hot.' He said in his mind.

Taking up some courage, Danny asks her, "So uhm… Where are you from, actually?"

Ember looks at him before blinking, not sure it was a good idea to tell him where she's really from. So, trying to stay cool, she shrugs while slowly blowing out the cigarette smoke "Anywhere and nowhere."

Danny raises an eyebrow, surprised how mysterious she is about telling where she's from "Then, uhm… what… brings you here to Amity Park?"

Ember was getting a bit frustrated as he kept asking her where these things but stayed in her act and answers "Seeing how this place is, and what it has to offer."

"So… how do you like it so far?"

Ember shrugs while tapping her cigarette "Better than most places I've been." She answers with some truth in her words. "And you?"

"I live here with my parents and my older sister," Danny answers. "And I go to school here. But I think you already know that. Hehehehe." He again chuckles nervously.

Ember forms an amusing smile 'He's actually really cute when he's nervous. It's… far better than I could've imagined.' She thinks while giving him a flirty smile.

Seeing her taking some interest in him, Danny forms a smile.

Valerie then walks over to them, carrying a serving plate with Ember's ordered food "Here you go." And puts it on the table.

Ember gave her a simple shrug before taking out her cigarette from her mouth.

While Ember enjoyed eating some of the food Danny had ordered for her, she listened to him telling about almost everything. His life at school, his friends and even about some of his hobbies. Though she already knew some things about him in the future, Ember was enjoying to just sit there and listen about his interests in person, forgetting for a moment about her mission and just enjoying being with him like a normal person without any worry about the coming apocalypse and the future war with the machines.

As 30 minutes had passed and Ember had finished drinking her diet coke, Danny asks her with some interest, "So… how long do you plan to stay in Amity Park?"

Ember shrugs "I don't know yet. I guess… as long as it takes."

Taking a bold move, Danny suggests, "Well, I could maybe… show you around and… uhm…" he again got nervous, not knowing what to say.

Ember sighs "I'll see." She puts the now empty cup down and stands up "Thanks for the food by the way. It was… nice of you to buy them for me."

Danny was surprised that she was about to leave already, but shrugs nervously "Oh, uhm… Okay. Will I… see you again?" he asks very nervous.

Ember forms a small smile while she shrugs "Maybe you will. But I gotta go now…"

As she turns and was about to leave, Danny quickly got up and asks her "Hey, wait! I…" Ember stops and turns back to him, with him going over to her "I don't know your name yet."

Ember's heart skipped a beat as Danny was standing this close to her, seeing into his eyes as how he really wants to meet her again. Ember blushed a bit while she said with a cute smile "Ember." Out of her own movement, she puts her hand on his cheek "Take care… Danny." She softly strokes his cheek before walking away.

Danny was in an awe as how soft she strokes his cheek while giving her that lovely smile before his face turned all dreamy and gave a long sigh "Wow…"

But he was brought out of his thoughts as Tucker suddenly appeared and puts an arm over his best friend "Damn, Romeo! You just had a hot girl on the hook. I'm totally jealous, man." But then asks him "You did get her number, right?"

That made Danny feel stupid and slaps his face "Ugh! No. I didn't." but then confidently smiles "But… she did say that we may see each other again and she was going to stay in Amity Park for some time, so… that's something too, right?"

Tucker shrugs "Sure, dude."

"Hey, Fenton!" a very familiar voice calls to him, being no other than Dash Baxter, Danny's bully at school "You're dead." Dash mockingly says while walking over to him.

Danny got a bit scared, thinking Dash was going to kick his ass again "Wh-w-what do you mean? What did I do?!"

"It's on the news, nerd!" Dash says while holding up his phone and shows him the news bulletin from the police, showing a blurry picture of a 34-year-old man being murdered at his home.

"What?" Danny asks while looking at it, but Dash took it away and puts it back in his pocket.

"Have fun being a dead corpse, nerd." Dash says before roughly walking past him while he laughs and went inside the Nasty Burger.

Tucker took out his PDA and types in what he and Danny saw on Dash's phone, seeing to their confirmation about a murdered man on the news and watch the video on it, showing a blond-haired anchorwoman giving the news.

"…has been compiled from several witnesses. Once again, Danny Anthonius Fenton, 34, father of three, was brutally shot to death this morning in his home in Columbus."

Danny and Tucker share a bit of surprised face, with Tucker saying with some humor "Well, at least we know there were more than 1 Danny Fenton living in America."

Danny shrugs "I guess."

Sam then exited the Nasty Burger and walks over to her friends, giving Danny a disappointed look "Having fun with the new girl?"

Danny smiles "I… actually did."

Sam rolls her eyes "I really had expected better from you, Danny." She says before leaving.

Danny was confused why Sam said that "What's up with her?" he asks Tucker.

"I think it's just Sam's way to tell you that she's worried you're going on the wrong path of society." Tucker wanders before he shrugs "Or she's just jealous."

Figuring it was clearly the second theory, Danny sighs, knowing how jealous Sam was when he was dating Valerie last year "Yeah… I think that's it." he then thinks back about Ember while forming a bit of dreamy smile while going back inside the Nasty Burger with Tucker 'I do hope I'll see her again. I don't know why, but… that girl, Ember is something else.'

Later, that same evening back at Fenton Works

While the Fenton family were enjoying themselves a good warm meal, Maddie began to say how proud she was about her son scoring a better grade today "I'm really glad to hear that you've scored a 'B' for Algebra today, Danny."

Jack nods "Yeah, good work, champ. Though it would've been better for you to score an 'A-', a 'B' is also okay. Even I wasn't that good in Algebra back in my day."

However, Danny was more into his 'dream world' as he couldn't stop thinking about the cool girl he'd met today.

Jazz, noticing that her little brother's mind wasn't on Earth, snaps her fingers in front of his face "Hey, Danny! Mom and Dad are talking to you!"

Danny blinks wildly as he was brought back into the real world "Wa-wha… what?"

Jazz rolls her eyes while taking out her book for 'Criminal Psychology' and reads it.

Maddie, wandering what was making his son being so 'dreamy', asks, "Did something happened to you today, sweety?"

"Did you see a ghost?!" Jack enthusiastically raises up from his chair.

Danny, feeling embarrassed, shook his head "Uh… no, I…"

"Danny met a girl at the Nasty Burger today and is clearly head over heels." Jazz answers while keeping reading her book, already knowing the answer as she'd heard from her other friends and Sam about Danny's meeting with the 'mysterious rock-goth girl'.

Danny blushes very deep.

"A girl?" Maddie asks a bit surprised while Jack sits back in disappointed, having hoped that his son had seen a real ghost today. "What kind of girl?" Maddie wanders, being curious to this new girl Danny has met.

Danny rather wanted to get away from facing this kind of embarrassing moment and groans with a bit of annoyance "It's just… some new girl in town that I met. It's no big deal, mom, really."

"Is she into ghosts?!" Jack asks again with the same enthusiasm.

Just as Jazz was about to answer for Danny, her cellphone rings. She checks her cellphone, seeing it's her intern supervisor calling named 'Doctor Silberman'.

Jazz stands up while saying "Sorry, I got to take this." and walks out of the dining room to take the call "Hello, Doctor Silberman?"

She hears him asking if she can come over to the police station to study the behavior of a new suspect the police have arrested today.

With a big smile, Jazz nods "Sure, Doctor! I'm on my way now!" she hangs up her phone and hurries to get her coat and notepad "Sorry, guys, but I have to go! There's a new suspect being arrested and I really NEED to have this one for my assignment! Bye!" she then hurries out of the house to head to the police station.

Jack raises an eyebrow as how determined their daughter is "Don't you think Jazz is taking this internship with Doctor Silberman a bit too seriously?" he asks his wife.

Maddie shrugs "Well, our little Jazz always wanted to become a professional psychologist one day."

Danny took his chance to get away from his family and keep being asked about the girl Ember "Can I be excused?" he asks and gets off the table without permission and headed up the stairs to his room.

Meanwhile in the abandoned house across Fenton Works, Ember was sitting at the dirty mattress close to the window, watching Danny while she was eating some cold sandwiches she bought at a local store. She takes out a binocular, that she'd found in the garbage, and used it to look better at the house. She spots Danny entering his room.

Ember gives a dreamy sigh as he really looks cute. But then she slaps herself on the cheek to remind herself that she still has to keep an eye out in case the Terminator would arrive "Ugh! C'mon, McLain! Focus!"

Ember then puts the binocular down before taking an old map of the state of Ohio and a piece of paper that carries a list of all the Danny Fenton's that live in the state that she managed to find after searching like hell on a computer at the public library and several old phone books that nobody seems to be using anymore.

With a pen, she points down the city of Columbus before marking it with a cross "Okay, the first 'other' Danny Fenton lived in Columbus, which the Terminator had already killed. So the next one…" she peeks at the piece of paper with other Danny Fenton's and circles around the town called 'Kent' close to Akron "…Danny Richard Fenton lives here and the other…" she then circles around the city of Cleveland "Danny Ben Fenton is here." Finally, she marks down Amity Park.

Ember tried hard to calculate how long it would take for the Terminator to get to the next town and next target. After some hard thinking, she comes with a number "Okay that means I… got between 18 to 24 hours before the Terminator would go after Danny here in Amity Park." She shook her head while trying to control her anger "I'm not surprised as I know how those motherfucking Terminators work and go after each target systematically." She then looks back out the window, seeing Danny working on his computer "But just in case… I better keep an eye out if that Terminator decides to show up here earlier."

The thought of the Terminator trying to kill Danny made Ember's anger boil.

"I swear I'm gonna smash that fucking robot into junk if he lays a hand on MY DANNY!" Ember angrily yells, but then shocking gasps as what she was saying, making her blush as she calls him 'My Danny'.

She sighs as she thought of how she was talking with him today at the Nasty Burger. Never having felt this amazing before as her dream to talk with the boy she has a crush on had become true, and yet… she was also scared that maybe Danny will reject her if he finds out why she's really here.

Then she got a little idea "Actually… he seemed to enjoy talking with me too. Maybe… I could stay close to him and… keep playing the mystery girl so he'll trust me?" she began to love that idea "It's the best way to keep him safe if that Terminator shows up… and being with him close…" she gave a dreamy sigh while she blushes. She then peeks at him using the binoculars.

That same night somewhere in the town of Kent

Inside a local diner that's open 24/7, a 26-year-old man with a bald head and a short black beard was sweeping the floor. He's wearing a uniform with a name on it saying: Danny R. Fenton. After he was done, he gives a yawn while looking at the clock, seeing it's 4:55 A.M.

This Danny E. Fenton hated working in the night shift but needed the extra money to pay the rent of his small apartment. "Why don't I have a better job than this?" he asks himself while rubbing his eyes, wishing he'd taken school more seriously and hadn't quit college.

"Stop moaning, Dan." His manager, a half white/half Latino woman with a skinny body named Nicky says, "At least be glad that you HAVE a job."

He sighs while taking the broom and went back into the kitchen.

That was when the door opens, with the Terminator stepping inside.

Nicky smiles and approaches 'it' "Well, hello, sir. Do you want some early breakfast?" she asks while taking out a menu "We have some delicious pancakes you should…" but the Terminator ignores her and scans the diner.

It then looks at Nicky, asking, "Where is Danny Fenton?"

Nicky was a bit surprised but answered, "Uhm… he's in the back, in the kitchen, but why do you-"

Without question, the Terminator walks past her and enters the kitchen.

"Hey, sir! You can't go in there!" Nicky calls as she goes after it but was then shocked when hearing gun shots!

Nicky looks inside, seeing to her horror that her employer 'Danny' lay on the ground, dead, with several bullet holes in his head and chest. Nicky shrieks with horror as she falls on her knees.

The Terminator looks at the dead body, with his system saying: TARGET TERMINATED and wipes away the second Danny Fenton from its target list. The Terminator then walks out of the diner, ignoring the horrified Nicky as she didn't oppose a threat to its mission and got into its car, heading to its next target.

Meanwhile, back with Ember in Amity Park

The resistance fighter from the future was laying with her back against the wall looking very sleepy while trying to keep her eyes open on the Fenton residence.

Ember had fallen asleep several times but tried hard to keep herself focused on her mission. But then, being unable to keep her eyes open any longer, slowly closes it and fell asleep as she heard construction sounds nearby.

Ember began to have a dream from when she was still fighting the machines in the future…

Ember's dream

Ruins of Chicago

September 2048

Several HK-Tanks were rolling over the piles of debris and human skulls and bones, scanning their surroundings for any humans to destroy. These several stories tall tank-robots were the ground vehicle Hunter Killer version from SkyNet, armed with several futuristic scanners, large plasma guns and search lights.

In the ruins of the once, while many plasma shots were being fired, Ember and her team of resistance fighters were hiding, ready to destroy these HK-Tanks right below their rubber tracks.

As an HK-Tank rolls passed them without it tracking systems seeing anything, Ember, then being a Sergeant, signals her 4 team members to get into position as the HK-Tanks were going right for their trap.

All 5 crawled through the debris, being extremely careful of the HK's not to spot them. A blaster fire exploded near them! But thankfully Ember and her team were unharmed and continued their way.

After less then a minute, all were in position. Once the first HK-Tanks were in position, Ember signaled her team to throw their EMP-grenades. Ember throws hers first, which got right under the HK-Tank's tracks. 3 of his other team members threw theirs, getting attached to their targets. But when the fourth, being a redhead 16-year-old girl, threw hers, she was spotted by the HK-Tank's search light and immediately fired its plasma gun at her, killing her!

"Fuck…!" Ember quietly calls in shock.

"ROSE! NOOOOOO!" a 19-year-old blond haired guy called in shock as that was his girlfriend that was killed.

The other HK-Tanks heard the boy's cry and targeted their guns at the source, firing at it, but missed as Ember pulls the idiot down, saving his life!

A few seconds later, the EMP-grenades exploded, destroying 5 HK-Tanks in several big explosions!

Knowing that their position has been compromised, called to her fellow men "FALL BACK! FALL BACK!" as the others did what she ordered, the blond-haired boy ran to his now dead girlfriend that was shattered in many body parts.

"ROSE…! Rose… no…" he cried.

Angrily, Ember grabs the boy by his collar and drags him with her "ON YOUR FEET SOLDIER! SHE'S DEAD! MOVE!"

As several armed cars raced to the scene, Ember and her remaining team entered it before racing out of the area.

Ember saw 1 flying HK heading towards them "Shit! HK!" she took the machine gun on the car and fired at the HK!

But when the flying HK fired at Ember's car, it hit its tires, making Ember's car losing control and crashed against a partly destroyed brick wall!

Ember, being injured, tried to crawl out of the now destroyed car "Aaaarghh…! Fuuck…!" the car caught fire… catching Ember at her back, hurting her! Ember yells out in pain "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH…!"

End of Ember's nightmare…

Ember woke up with a shock while grabbing her shotgun and aims around her while she pants!

Seeing only the rats crawling away from her, Ember gave a long sigh of relief.

"A nightmare…" she tells herself while putting her shotgun down "Just a nightmare…"

Then, remembering she had to keep her eyes on 'her Danny', she quickly looks out the window, relieved to see that everything was still the same.

She sees that the sun was rising, seeing that it's already morning. Ember's now 1 day in the past and thankfully the Terminator still hadn't arrived yet, exactly as she'd calculated.

Ember sighs as she rose up from the dirty mattress "Damn… Wish I could take a shower or somethin'. But… first protect Danny… then think about taking a shower." She collects her gun and shotgun before putting back on her coat and left the building.

After Ember sneaked out of the place, she walks down the street, heading to some place to get something to eat before returning to protect Danny. She saw on a nearby store's clock that it was 7:18 A.M.

Ember finds a small shop that had just opened. "Let's hope this joint has some good food." She goes to it and enters the place.

An hour later, Danny quickly heads out of his house, being in a hurry to go to school.

"Shit, shit, shit! I'm gonna be late!" Danny cursed himself as he'd overslept "Hope I still can catch a ride on the school bus!"

Danny quickly headed to the school bus stop, seeing that the school bus was just about to leave.

"No no no no noooo!" Danny waves while running like crazy to catch the bus "Stop! Wait for me!"

But the bus had already left with the driver not even noticing Danny.

Danny stops while catching his breath, cursing himself "Dammit! I'm gonna get… detention now… for sure."

At that moment, Ember drove by in her car, stopping next to him "Hey." She says with a flirty smile.

Danny looks a bit surprised at first to see Ember before he smiled "Oh… hey, Ember."

Seeing that he could use some help, she offers, "Need a ride?"

Though Danny had always been taught never to take any rides from strangers, he was somehow sure he could trust Ember as they're technically not strangers and it was also a bonus to spend a bit more time with her. He nods "Sure."

Ember opens the door for him "Get in."

Danny steps into her car, sitting the passenger seat next to Ember before she drove away.

Danny sighs deep in relief "You're a real lifesaver, Ember. If I was gonna show up late for school again, Mr. Lancer would've given me detention for sure."

Ember gave a small chuckle "Sounds like this Mr. Lancer is a real asshole, huh?"

Danny, though surprised that Ember said that he shrugs "Well… he can be a bit strict, that's true but he's not that kind of a jerk." He finishes with a bit uncertainty.

"You sure about that?"

Danny gives a long sigh before he decided to be honest with her "Okay, okay. Lancer also rather plays favorites and excuses Dash from any kind of punishments for all the bullying he and his friends do to me and anyone else just because he is the star captain of the school's football team." That last part came with a lot of annoyance.

"And you're just gonna take all that crap?"

Danny shrugs "What choice do I have? If I want to become an astronaut at NASA, I need to stay on the teachers' good side." He folds his arms "Better for me to try to stay low and just take it all in till after graduation."

Ember raises an eyebrow at him as Danny clearly wasn't yet the Danny that Danielle described before training her for the coming nightmare against SkyNet. She had the urge to go into the school and teach these Lancer and Dash some hard lessons, but she couldn't expose herself like that yet.

So, staying in character, she offers, "Ever thought about taking maybe some… self-defense classes?"

Danny looks at Ember with a raised eyebrow before he shrugs "I don't know. I've… thought about it, but, what's the point? I'm only going to get into more trouble even if I try to stand up to myself."

Ember narrows her eyes "Standing up to yourself is not a crime, you know. And even if you manage to beat up that dumbass Dash and you get into trouble for that, that's not the end of the world, right?"

"I…" Danny shrugs, seeing Ember has a point "I guess…"

"Take it from my perspective," Ember says, "If you never stand up to yourself against any bully, they and everyone else will walk over you for the rest of your life. And then, you don't really have a life anymore. But if stand up to yourself and show them some balls, then it will finally stop one way or another."

That made Danny to think and forms a small smile "I'll… take that into consideration. Thanks."

"No problem." Ember says with a small smile.

While driving into the same street where Danny's school is, Ember had lightened herself a cigarette.

Danny points to where his school is "There it is. You can stop right over there."

Though Ember already knew where his school is, she nods and parks near the parking space of Casper High School.

"Thanks for the ride, Ember." Danny says while unbuckling his seat belt.

Ember, after blowing out the cigarette smoke, gives him a smile "Anytime."

As Danny steps out, he wanted to go into school right away to get on time, but something stopped him as he wanted to spend more time with Ember and… get to know her better. He turns and asks her "Hey, uhm… could we… maybe…" he felt a bit nervous to ask her.

Seeing what Danny maybe wants, Ember shoves a bit closer with a flirty smile "Spend some time together?" she guessed.

"Uhm…" Danny then nods "Yeah. That's… if you want it?"

Ember takes a drag from her cigarette and says while she strokes his hand "Yeah… I'd like that… cutie." She then softly blew the cigarette smoke in his face.

Though Danny wasn't used to cigarette smoke, he tried to look cool "Great…! Then I'll… see you… after school?"

Ember gave a small nod "Yeah…"

"Awesome…!" Danny said with a dreamy smile.

They just stared into each other's eyes while romantically smiling.

But their moment was interrupted when the first school bell rang.

Danny immediately was brought back to Earth and got out of the car "Shit! I gotta go!" he quickly got his backpack "Bye, Ember!"

Ember gave him a small wave "Bye…"

After Danny had gone inside the school, Ember deep down felt overjoyed. She wanted to yell out in happiness that she was really going out with Danny, which made her wildest fantasies coming true. Ember almost had the urge to cry out of joy.

"Hey!" a girl shouted at her. Ember looks and sees it's Sam who marched over to her in the car "What were you doing?"

Not feeling intimidated by her at all, Ember frowns while putting her cigarette in her mouth and steps out of the car, glaring at Sam "Offering your friend a ride. That's what I did."

"I think there's a lot more than that!" Sam almost yells, having seen them together in her car "And you were blowing out that disgusting cigarette smoke in his face?!"

Ember shrugs while blowing out smoke from her nostrils "So?"

"SO?!" Sam shouts "Don't you have any idea how deadly those fucking things are to you and others?! Those freaking papers filled with tobacco can cause you cancer and other stuff that are very bad to yours and Danny's health! Every year, more than 8 million people die from tobacco use."

Ember, starting to get annoyed by her nagging about how bad cigarettes are and how many people die from it, says while taking out her cigarette "I've got a better idea, hippy. Why don't you just take all of that preaching of yours and stuff it all back up your fucking ass?"

Sam, first surprised by her insult, then began to frown "What did you just say, bitch? I'm trying to freaking safe your life and that of Danny by just advising you how very bad smoking is! And by this point, if you keep smoking like that and don't care at all, you'll be dead within a few decades, maybe even less!"

Ember was now losing her patience and angrily tells her, "Like I said, hippy," she flicks her cigarette into Sam's face, hurting her a bit "Go fuck yourself."

Sam wasn't taking this kind of attitude from her "Hey, you better start behaving, girl, or I'm-"

"You what? Hm?" Ember asks with a threatening tone "You're gonna do what now?"

Sam didn't do anything and just angrily stares back at her.

"Yeah, I thought so. No balls, only words."

Out of her own move, Sam tries to hit Ember, but she grabs her wrist fast and holds it tight before she twists it and pins her against the car!

"OW! You're… hurting me!" Sam cries out in pain.

"LISTEN HERE, BITCH!" Ember shouts while grabbing Sam's hair, forcing her to look at her.

Sam pants, looking at Ember with fear in her eyes, staring into Ember's, like looking into the eyes of the Grim Reaper himself.

"In 13 years… everyone will die and everything you see here, will all be gone. So don't even THINK about preaching all your fucking BULLSHIT into my face again, you understand?"

Sam was shaking out of fear.

"DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?"

Sam nods "Yes… yes…!"

Ember then throws her away, making her hit the street hard. "Fucking hippy-goth." She then steps back into her car and drives off.

Sam looks back at where Ember was leaving, being in shock that she was talked to like that. "Fucking bitch… Fucking psycho!" She then walks into the school.

Later, when the first period was over, Sam was telling Danny and Tucker everything what had happened when confronting Ember.

"That girl's insane! A complete psychotic!" Sam expressed angrily "She was even saying all that nonsense that like in 13 years the apocalypse is going to happen." But then she shows some fear "The way she looked at me… It was… frightening… like I was staring at Death itself."

Tucker was kind of shocked to hear that "Jesus, Sam."

Even Danny couldn't believe it "But… she was so… nice to talk to and-"

Sam grabs his shoulders and tells him very seriously "That girl is a psycho, Danny! For all we know, she could be secretly a serial killer or something! I'm telling you this as a friend, okay. Don't even go near her. She's insane!"

Danny blinks his eyes "Uhh…" but then nods "Okay."

"I'm serious, Danny!"

"Okay, okay, I get it, Sam."

Sam sighs and let's go of Danny's shoulders and all went to their next class.

Danny was only with his mind, thinking back of that good talk she had with Ember yesterday and in her car this morning 'No, she… she couldn't be an insane serial killer, right?'

That was when Danny received a message on his PDA, seeing it's from his mother, saying: Your father and I have an important meeting in Cleveland today which may take longer than we think, so we will be home late. Jazz will be at her internship tonight. Please behave yourself and please don't go out late at night. Bye sweety!

Danny sighs while he puts his PDA back in his pocket "Guess it's only me for the rest of the day." He tells himself, knowing that his sister would have a long day of her internship with Doctor Silberman and would also be home late.

Later, when school had finished and the final school bell rang, Danny left together with Sam and Tucker.

Danny was relieved that at least he wouldn't have to endure any of Dash's bullying but was still with his mind about Ember and had barely even paid any attention to all today's lessons.

"You okay, dude?" Tucker asks with a bit of worry "You're like completely down all day."

"It's… nothing, Tuck." Danny just shrugs.

Right then, Danny spots Ember in her car across the street. But when Sam saw her, she immediately drags Danny and Tucker with her as far away from her.

Ember frowns when seeing that Sam was keeping Danny away from her 'God fucking dammit! That hippy-goth is going to make things even more difficult for me to protect him!' she curses in her mind. But determined and not going to give up that easily, Ember starts her car and slowly follows them from a distance.

After walking together for a few more streets, Sam looks back, spotting Ember driving in her car after them. She pushes Danny and Tucker to walk faster "C'mon, guys!"

"What? Why?" Tucker asks confused.

"It's her!" Sam looks back at Ember, who drives by and shouts "YOU BETTER GO, BITCH! IF I EVER SEE YOU AGAIN, I'LL CALL THE COPS!"

Seeing it was pointless, Ember drives into a different street.

Sam then suggests "Danny, it's maybe better you stay at mine or Tucker's place tonight."

Danny, having enough on his head already, tells her "Okay, just stop, Sam! I don't need this from you right now, okay?!"

Sam looks surprised at Danny's response and tells him "I'm just trying to help you."

"Well, you aren't!" Danny says before looking sad again "I just… want to be alone right now." And walks away, heading to his house.

"Danny…!" Sam wanted to go after him, but Tucker stops her.

"Just let him be, Sam." Tucker tells her.

"But, Tucker, what if that girl-"

"Maybe you're just overreacting. And besides," he turns back watching Danny "I haven't seen him like that since he and Valerie broke up."

Despite she wanted to protect Danny, Sam felt that Tucker was right and doesn't want to hurt Danny more than he is now.

Danny didn't know why, but he felt horrible, feeling like that the amazing cool girl he would only meet once in a lifetime wasn't like he imagined she would be, thinking that maybe Sam is right. Honestly, Danny didn't know anymore what to think.

Then, as Danny was only a block away from his home, he stops, not feeling like going home right now. He turns and decides to just walk around town for a bit.

Ember, still determined to protect Danny, peeks from her car around the corner. She curses herself before checking the time, seeing it's 3:50 P.M. Knowing the Terminator could possibly arrive any moment, Ember had to stay close and protect Danny, so, she drives from a distance, hoping she wouldn't cross paths with Sam again.

A few hours later, at the Amity Park Police Station

Edward Theodore Traxler, a 41-year-old African American detective lieutenant of the Homicide department of the Amity Park Police, walks by a few cops while they're bringing a biker-guy to his cell as they'd arrested him an hour ago for attempting mass slaughter and resisting arrest.

He takes a sip from his cup of coffee while wanting to walk back over to his office.

"Hey, Ed." Another detective, named Hal Vukovich calls to him after hanging up the phone and taking a few files with him.

Edward, simply keeping walking to his office, reaches out his hand for his partner to give him, what he thought was another case "What have you got?"

"Dead guy." Hal said while giving him the file.

With a bit of annoyance, Edward says, "I can see that." before he returns his gaze at the picture of a murdered man.

"Danny Antonius Fenton, office manager, 34. Shot 6 times at less than 10 feet. Large caliber weapon."

Edward holds up his glasses "You know, these work." he said, telling Hal that he can read the case himself.

Hal then gives Edward the second file.

"What's this?"

"Dead guy number 2."

Both entered Edward's office while Hal keeps talking what's in the file.

"It was sent over from our guys at Kent this morning."

Edward raises an eyebrow at his partner "Kent? That's not exactly in our county. What's exactly the point to all of this?"

"I know both cases are not in our county but just look at the name of dead guy number 2, Ed." Hal states while pointing at the file.

Edward began to read it along with the picture of a man murdered by multiple gunshots in a kitchen of a local diner.

"Danny Richard… Fenton?" Edward looks with a bit of shock "Is this right?"

Hal nods.

"You've got to be kidding me?"

"No kidding, Ed." Hal says with a bit of serious face before giving Ed the third file "This just came in from the Cleveland Police Department."

Now this really got Edward's attention and reads to his shock the name of the third killed man, reading its name: DANNY BEN FENTON

"The press is gonna be short stroking it all over the place soon." Hal states.

"A name pattern killer."

Hal nods "Yeah. I hate the weird ones."

Seeing the seriousness of the situation, seeing they're dealing with a serial killer that targets everyone carrying the name Danny Fenton, Edward wanders and asks Hal "Don't we have a family living here in town? The Fenton family?"

Hal nods "Yeah, the crazy scientists with their weird experiments and beliefs in ghosts. We all know 'em."

"Do they have someone in their family named Danny?"

"We're already looking it up, Ed."

Edward nods while putting the files down on his desk "Well the faster the better. If we're dealing with a 'weird killer', the last thing I want is having the mayor's bullshit on my ass."

After a few minutes, Hal was able to get the right information and tells Edward "Yeah, I got it here. Those crazy ghost scientists have one son. Danny Fenton. 16-year-old high school student."

"Get them on the phone, Hal." Edward says while he was studying the cases of the other 3 murders, being all shot with the same type of caliber gun.

"Right." Hall begins to call.

After more than a few hours, Edward asks as he comes back into his office "Did you manage to reach the Fenton family yet?"

Hal shook his head "No. I get only the answering machine."

"Send a unit."

Hal sighs "I sent a unit. There's no answering the door."

"Call them."

"I just called them-"

"Call them again!" Edward says more serious.

Hal nods and dials the same phone number of the Fentons again. But still only gets the answering machine.

"Same shit." Hal says while holding up the phone.

Edward sighs and can already imagine what the papers are going to call this new serial killer "I can hear it now. He's gonna be called the goddamn 'Phone Book Killer'."

Hal takes out a cigarette from his pack, not liking the sound of this "I hate these press cases. Especially the weird press cases. It's one of the reasons I transferred from Los Angeles to Amity Park, hoping for something more simple cases."

"Think again, Hal." Edward says, "We might never have a serious case like this for decades, that still doesn't mean we shouldn't take this serious."

Edward checks the time, seeing it's 7:45 P.M. He got an idea how to contact the next Danny Fenton.

"I'll contact our boys in Cleveland to make a statement." Edward says while taking the phone "Maybe make these jackal journalists work for us for a change. If they can get on the tube by 8 o'clock, maybe he'll call us."

Hal nods, liking the idea "Yeah, that could work."

Not long after, at a pizza place in Amity Park

While Danny was sitting alone at a table, eating some pizza, the tv at the bar began to tell the news.

"A special report has just come in. Police in Cleveland have announced the name of another victim, the third of 3 execution style murders which have taken place in the past 24 hours across the state of Ohio. Incredibly the names of the 3 victims are virtually identical. Two hours ago, 31-year-old Danny Ben Fenton was pronounced dead at his home in downtown Cleveland."

While Danny was just about to take a bite, he'd heard to his surprise his name at the tv with the anchorwoman talking about the third victim in a row. Danny quickly goes over to the bar to listen to the news.

"Danny Anthonius Fenton was shot yesterday afternoon at his house in Ohio's capital of Columbus. The Kent Police Department reported the death of 26-year-old Danny Richard Fenton, who was shot very early this morning in a 24/7 diner where he used to work. Police are refusing to speculate on the similarity between the shooting deaths and no other connection between the 3 victims has been established as of yet. We'll have more on this late-breaking story as it comes in."

Danny was in a deep state of shock. Not 1 but 2 more people having the same name as him were killed today.

He quietly walks back to his table while thinking of Sam accusing Ember being possibly a serial killer. These thoughts made Danny paranoid. He quickly takes his PDA wanting to call the police. But to his shock… saw that he only had 1% battery left.

"No…!" Danny said in shock.

Only a few seconds later… his PDA shuts down cause of lacking battery power.

"Shit!" Danny curses before asking a waitress "Excuse me? Do you guys have a phone."

The girl nods and points to the phone-booth at the back "We do, but… it's out of service."

Danny looks in shock and quickly walks over to it, reading the sign that says: OUT OF ORDER.

Danny, trying to keep his head cool, decides to pay for the food and leave quickly, hoping to find a phone to call anyone for help.

He walks through a few more streets before spotting Ember standing in a corner close to a back alley.

Danny quickly looked the other way as the thought of Ember maybe being the crazy killer that Sam says she is, was beginning to drive him crazy.

Ember meanwhile began to walk behind him from a distance.

Feeling that she's following him, Danny walks a bit faster, looking for any place to get to a phone booth. He then spots the Amity Park Movie Theatre and heads in there.

As Danny walks inside, he hides himself for a little while till he was sure that Ember had bypassed him.

Without thinking twice, he walks over to the guy at the counter selling movie tickets and asks, "You guys got a phone?"

The guy nods "Yeah, it's in the back." But just as Danny was going in, he tells him "Hey, you can't go in without paying for a ticket!"

Danny nods and just picked out the first movie that was available "Right, uhm… just get me a ticket to Sayonara Pussycat 2."

The guy nods "That's 7,50."

Danny quickly pays for it and takes the ticket, going inside and headed to the nearest phone booth, using the few quarters he'd left in his wallet to call.

But as Danny calls the police, the phone says, "You have reached the Amity Park Police Department emergency number. All our lines are busy. If you need a police car sent out to you, stay on the line."

"Shit!" Danny calls out in panic, just wanting to get in touch with anyone from the police.

Not long after, at Fenton Works

The Terminator walks over to the front door of the Fenton residence. It knocks on the door, waiting to be answered. But after a minute, with nobody answering, the Terminator kicks the door open!

It walks inside and scans his surroundings using infrared scan while taking out his pistol. As it goes upstairs and checks every bedroom, including Danny's, he searches around for any clues, with the Terminator finding an old PDA that Danny once used. Seeing it may be of use, the Terminator places it in its pocket.

Just then, the Terminator heard the phone ringing. It walks out of Danny's room while going downstairs.

The answering machine then played its message, with Jack's voice, saying, "Hi! This is the answering machine of Jack and Maddie Fenton, professional ghost hunters and scientists. We aren't around to pick up your call but leave a message and we'll call you back as soon as we can, especially if you're dealing with a ghost infestation!"

BEEP!

"Mom, Dad, Jazz, it's me, Danny! Please pick up if any of you guys are home!"

Hearing it's the fourth and final Danny Fenton he's hunting down, the Terminator looks with interest at the phone with the answering machine.

"I'm right now at the movie theatre downtown. I'm really scared, I… I think there's a killer after me! No, this isn't a joke, this is for real! Uh… I hope you guys can play this back soon, I need anyone of you to come and pick me up. The police keeps transferring me around. I'm gonna give 'em another try. Please, anyone… I need your help!"

Danny then hangs up the phone.

With the Terminator having the place of the movie theatre in its mapping system, it left the house and walks over to his car to get to the theatre and complete its mission.

10 minutes later at the Amity Park Police Station

"Ed! It's him!" Hal says while holding up the phone, saying that the Danny Fenton their trying to contact is on the phone.

Edward takes the phone "Danny Fenton? It's Lieutenant Edward Trexler."

Panicked, Danny begs him, "Lieutenant, please! Don't put me on hold! Don't transfer me to another department!"

Edward, keeping his cool, assures him, "Don't worry, I won't. Just relax. Can you tell me where you are?"

"I'm at the movie theatre. The big one, downtown!"

"Yeah, I know that place. I've went there with my kids before." Edward wrote the address "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, but… I don't want to leave. I think there's a psycho following me."

"Okay, now listen, Danny. Listen very carefully. You're in a public place, so you'll be safe in there but stay visible. Do not go outside or even to the restroom. I'll have a car there in a minute."

"Okay… Thank you." and Danny hangs up the phone.

Back in the Movie Theatre

Danny, taking Lieutenant Traxler's advice, sits at a counter that was selling popcorn and sodas. In his mind, he begs for the police to come and pick him up fast, not wanting to die.

Meanwhile, the Terminator arrived at the theatre. It scans its surroundings, finding over a hundred people inside but nobody that matches the description of Danny Fenton.

As the Terminator walks further inside, the ticket seller calls to a security guard "Hey, that guy didn't pay!"

When the security guard was about to grab the Terminator, it grabs his hand and twists it so far it broke his whole arm!

"AAAARGH!" it fell on the floor, holding his broken arm "AAAAARGH, MY ARM!"

The people standing in line were all looking in shock while the Terminator just walks in further, searching for its target.

Danny meanwhile was looking at his back, hoping to see any police, but still didn't see anyone "C'mon…! C'mon…! Where are the police when you actually need them?!" In his panic, he accidentally lets someone's drink fall over the counter.

"Hey! What the heck?!" the guy turns in anger to Danny.

When he saw who it is, Danny was in shock that it was the bully, Dash Baxter.

"Fenton?!" Dash then smirks before grabbing him by the collar "Well, well, well. Look who decided to show up?"

"Dash?!" Dannys asks in shock before he shook his head and states in panic, "Look, Dash, can't we do this another time? There's a killer after me!"

But hearing that made Dash only laugh while 2 of his bully Jock friends, Dale and Brad joined in "Hahahahaha! Oh, boo-hoo!" He mocks Danny's way of panicking "Well, the only thing you should be scared of right now are my fists for your well-deserved beating. You missed your appointment today at school, so now, I guess we're gonna do this right-"

But before Dash could finish his sentence, Danny kicked him as hard as he could right in the nuts, hurting Dash a lot!

"AAAARGH!" Dash cries out in pain, causing him to let go of Danny and holds his crouch.

Danny quickly took his chance and ran away while Dale and Brad looked in surprise.

The Terminator walked nearby, bypassing several people, but didn't spot his target in the crowd.

"What are you waiting for!?" Dash angrily called to his 2 jock buddies "GET 'EM!" He points at a fleeing Danny, ordering them to grab him.

Dale and Brad, obeying their leader, ran after him.

"Get back here, Fenton!" Dale calls.

Hearing his target's last name, the Terminator stops and turns, spotting 2 high school football players running after a boy. With his systems calculating an 86% chance that it's his target, the Terminator followed them, seeing Dash, now back on his feet, going after Danny too.

However, in the crowd, Ember, who'd managed to sneak into the movie theatre, had seen everything and ran through the crowd, taking a different hallway.

Danny, quickly trying to find a way out, tried to get into one of the cinema rooms to hide, but he was stopped by one of the cinema workers, asking, "Hey, hey, hold on! Where's your ticket, kid?"

Desperately, Danny takes his ticket, but the guy shook his head.

"You're at the wrong place, kid. Sayonara Pussycat 2 is at-"

But Danny quickly ran away into a different hallway as soon as he saw Dale and Brad.

"There he is! GET HIM!" Brad calls.

Suddenly, a group of people exited a cinema room where a movie had just finished. Danny, having no time to pass them by or stop, bumps against a few girls, causing him to trip and fall on the floor!

Danny tried to get up quick, but was grabbed by Dale and Brad.

"Gotcha, Fenton!" Dale says while he held Danny tight, same with Brad.

Danny tried to get loose, but the Jocks' grip was too strong and drag him with them somewhere else.

The Terminator spots Dash, walking very angrily over to Danny.

"Okay, Fentoast…!" Dash growls with rage while clenching his fists "You're dead!"

The Terminator scans Danny, who Dash hit him hard in the stomach, identifying his target.

Danny groans with pain as how hard Dash hit him in the stomach before Dash punches him in the face! While his lip bleeds, Danny looks at Dash before seeing a muscled man wearing goth-punk clothes walking over to them.

Ember, quickly appearing in the crowd, draws her shotgun and forces other people out of the way.

As Dash raises his fist… the Terminator grabs it and throws Dash away hard, making him hit the wall! Dale and Brad look in complete surprise before they look in shock as the Terminator draws his M2.0 pistol.

"Shit! He's got a gun!" Dale yells before he and Brad run out of the way as the Terminator aims at Danny.

Danny froze while the laser beam is aimed at him right between the eyes…

Ember then shoots the Terminator with her shotgun, causing it to miss Danny! The Terminator had no time to react as Ember fires four more rounds at the Terminator's chest, causing it to fall back on the floor!

Everyone else in the movie theatre screams and runs away in panic.

But after a few seconds, the Terminator began to stand up and draws his Uzi machine gun before firing a rain of bullets at Ember who quickly hides behind another snack counter while several innocent people were caught in the hail of bullets! Ember fired back, but quickly had to cover for the Terminator's bullets!

Then, the Terminator looks back, returning his focus on its target: Danny Fenton, who'd tried to escape.

Dash, while having blood on his nose, yells in panic like a little boy and grabs Danny "Help, Fenton, I-" but his words were cut short as the Terminator fired at him, aiming for Danny but hit Dash at the back instead!

Danny was looking in total shock as Dash fell forward on the floor, dead.

Ember tried to shoot at the Terminator but missed, making it to fire back at Ember till its Uzi machine gun had run out of bullets

Danny looks at the Terminator with horror, trying to run but tripped backwards and fell on the floor.

Danny froze while the Terminator walks over to him while reloaded his machine gun, aiming at Danny, but before it had the chance to shoot, Ember appeared and shot the Terminator with her shotgun several times, causing it to fly backwards through the front window of the movie theatre, lying on the ground!

Danny panted at the Terminator, shocked that despite the many shotgun shots, that man still didn't seem to be dead. But as he looks at his savior, he blinks in surprise that it is Ember.

Ember, being very seriously focused, looks down at Danny.

"Ember?"

Ember reaches out her hand to him "Come with me if you want to live!"

Outside, the Terminator slowly was getting back on its feet.

Danny looks in shock before looking back at Ember.

"C'mon!" Ember yells, still offering her hand.

Seeing there was no time to question her, Danny takes her hand and she pulls him up before dragging him with her, heading to the nearest emergency exit while the Terminator began to run after them.

Ember kicks the emergency exit open while dragging Danny with her by his arm "This way!" and ran through the back alley while Ember quickly reloads her shotgun.

The Terminator kept running after them, using its infrared sight as it was remained focused on its target.

At the end of the back alley, where Ember had parked her stolen car, both stop as she aims her shotgun at one of the other cars near the Terminator, causing it to explode near it, hoping to destroy the killing machine in a big fireball!

"Get in!" Ember yells at Danny as she opens the car, with him going in right away. As Ember starts the car and puts in reverse, the Terminator, though its hair partly burned away along with its eyebrows, ran through the flames, much to Danny's shock and disbelief. As Ember drives hard backwards, the Terminator jumps from on one of the cars on the bumper of Ember's car.

The Terminator raises its fist and punches right through the windshield, attempting to grab Danny!

Ember takes a sharp turn, crashing against another car which caused the Terminator to lose its grip and fell on the street! Ember then accelerates and raced out of the area.

A young male police officer, who'd just parked his car nearby to write a parking ticket on a car that hadn't paid for parking, saw to his surprise Ember's car driving with speed just after hitting another car. He grabbed his radio to broadcast the situation to the other police cars "This is 1-L-19. I got a hit-and-run felony. Suspect vehicle – old model grey Ford headed westbound on Grimson.

The Terminator stands up, spotting the police officer in his car and walks over to him.

"I'm gonna need an ambulance at Tenth and Williams right now." The officer reported, thinking he needs an ambulance for the injured man. But to his surprise, the Terminator grabs him and slams his face against the car, knocking him unconscious! The Terminator steps into the police car and heads to where Danny and Ember had escaped to in their 1980's Ford car.

Back with Danny and Ember

Ember drives fast through one street to another while asking Danny with concern "Are you injured? Are you shot?"

But Danny, being still in shock, didn't say anything.

"Danny!"

Danny blinks before he heavily shook his head "No… no, I'm… I'm alright! But… what the hell is going on?!" he asks in panic.

"Just stay calm!" Ember yells at him "Don't move unless I say. Don't make a sound unless I say. Do you understand?"

"I… I…" Danny tried to say, but no words came out of his mouth as he was still in shock.

"DO YOU UNDERSTAND!" Ember yells even louder.

"Yes! Yes…!" Danny nods.

Ember takes another sharp turn while driving into another back alley before coming back on the road, avoiding a coming car. She then ensures him by explaining, "Don't worry. I'm here to protect you. You've been targeted for termination."

Back with the Terminator

Inside the police with the Terminator, it was scanning while still driving fast. It grabs the police radio and calls in with the police officer's voice as Terminator are able to mimic other people's voices perfectly "This is 1-L-19. Westbound on Olympic. Approaching Sinnerland."

"Copy that, 1-L-19."

Back with Danny and Ember

In the fleeing Ford car, Danny shook his head, being in disbelief that he's been targeted by someone "But… this is got to be a mistake! I didn't do anything!"

"No, but you will." Ember states "It's very important that you live."

"But-but…" Danny stuttered "How could that man just get up after you…!"

"It's not a man, Danny. A machine. A Terminator. Cyberdyne Systems model 101." Ember tells before taking another turn, getting off the main road and headed into a different one.

Danny looks at her with surprise and a very confused look "A machine? Like… a robot?!"

Ember shook her head "Not a robot. A cyborg – cybernetic organism."

"But… he was bleeding."

Ember then pulls Danny's head down as a different police car with its lights an sirens on raced towards them "Get down!" Ember immediately hit the police car, causing it to lose control and crashes against two other parked cars!

Another police car with sirens raced after Ember and Danny, with her taking a sharp turn into a back ally, bypassing several garbage containers with the police car still behind them.

Ember then breaks hard, causing the police car to try to stop but crashes against a garbage container. Ember then accelerates and escapes the back ally.

Seeing they'd lost the police, Ember quickly drives into a multistory car park, slamming through the lot gate. After finding a good spot to park to stay hidden for a while, Ember parks her car at the place.

Ember then resumes explaining to Danny, "Alright, listen, Danny. The Terminator's a T-800 infiltration unit. Part man, part machine. Underneath it's a hyper-alloy combat chassis. Microprocessor controlled. Fully armored and very tough, but outside it's living human tissue. Flesh, skin, hair, blood – grown for the cyborgs. Having sweat, bad breath, everything. Very tough to spot. I had to remain close to you to wait till he moved on you before I could shoot him."

Danny shook his head, not believing what Ember's been telling him. He buried his face in his hands before telling her, "Okay, look… Though I really appreciate that you've saved my life back there but I'm not that stupid, okay? There's no way that such a killing cyborg exist! They cannot make things like that yet!"

Ember shook her head while she stayed being serious to him "No, not yet. Not for another 40 years."

Hearing that made Danny's eyes go wide "What…? Are you saying that… thing is from what… the future?!"

Ember sighs "One possible future… at least, from your point of view."

This made Danny to chuckle "So what, that this means like… you're from the future too?"

"That's right."

Danny tried hard not to laugh "Hahahaha… Yeah, right! You're from the future and so does that robot…!"

Very irritated, Ember grabs him by the collar, showing how very serious she is "DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M CRACKING A FUCKING JOKE WITH YOU, DANNY?! You fucking lucky that you're alive!"

Danny looks again in shock at her, seeing the very determined and fire in her eyes.

"So, listen and understand what I'm saying, Danny! That Terminator is out there." She tells him, showing in how much danger he is as she's been fighting those killing cyborgs all her life in her time "It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse of fear and it absolutely will not stop, EVER, until you are dead!"

Danny gave a small nod, seeing that there's no way to argue with her about it, but still was so confused as why that Terminator was out send to kill him and why Ember was here to protect him. Though he was deep down glad that Ember wasn't a serial killer, he was however still worried that she might be somewhat crazy if this whole thing isn't true. But at this moment, he had little choice but to listen to her.

"Can you stop it?" Danny asks.

Ember sighs as she lets go of his collar "I don't know. With these weapons, I don't know."

For a short while, Danny didn't know what to ask and Ember too wasn't sure what else to say while still looking out if either the police, or worse, the Terminator would find them.

"Ember…" Danny began to ask "Why me? Why does that machine want to kill me?"

Ember looks back at Danny. Though unsure if he's ready to handle the truth about the future, she began to tell him everything "Okay… but you've got to belief that everything that I'm saying… is nothing but the truth, okay?"

Danny was a bit unsure, but gave her a nod.

"Alright…" Ember then began to tell him, "There was a nuclear war. Less than a few decades from now. All of this, this whole place, everything, it's gone… just gone."

Danny couldn't belief to hear from Ember that in the future the world was going to be destroyed in an all-out nuclear war, very hard for him to imagine that horrible kind of future which was feared by everything if World War 3 would ever break out.

"There were survivors, here and there. They called that horrible moment Judgement Day. For a short while, nobody knew who really started it." Ember states before telling him who or what was really responsible for Judgement Day "It was the machines, Danny."

"I don't understand…"

"It was a powerful AI-supercomputer named SkyNet, hooked into everything, trusted by the American military to run it all. They allowed it as how fast SkyNet learned to outsmart all of Americas enemies." Ember states before she gave a bit of sadly sigh as what the terrible consequences were for creating this very powerful AI-supercomputer "But eventually, SkyNet became too smart – It became a whole new order of intelligence. It saw then all the humans as a threat. That heartless computer had decided our fate in less than a microsecond. Extermination."

"Jesus…" Danny says, shocked by this story about the future. Despite it seems so unreal, he could see in Ember's eyes that she is telling the truth, somehow seeing what she had to go through. "Did you… Have you seen this nuclear war?"

Ember, after reloading her shotgun, shook her head "No. I grew up after. Born in the ruins. We were starving while hiding from HK's."

"HK's?"

"Hunter Killers." Ember stated "Patrol machines, built in automatic factories for one purpose: Destroy any human survivor." She then removes her right sleeve, showing a barcode that was burned on her right wrist "Most of us were rounded up and put in camps for orderly disposal. This is burned in by laser scanner."

Seeing how real that burned barcode is, Danny looks even more shocked.

Then Ember tells what horrible things she'd seen when she was rounded up in a Skynet extermination camp with her family "Some of us were kept alive. To work. Loading bodies. The disposal units ran night and day."

Seeing how much trauma she's been clearly been gone through, Danny felt very sorry for her.

"Humanity was on the brink of complete destruction. But there was a woman who taught us to fight. To storm the wires of the camps and smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. With her leadership, she brought us back from the brink and turned the tide."

Danny looked with some fascination as this Resistance leader had managed to turn the tide and safe humanity from being exterminated by the robots "Who? Who are you talking about and what has this got to do with me?"

"Her name was Danielle. Danielle Fenton."

Danny blinks his eyes "Fenton?"

Ember nods "Yes, Danny. Your daughter… Your unborn daughter."

Danny was now in complete surprise and shock to hear that the future leader of the world wide resistance against this AI-computer against SkyNet… is going to be… his own future daughter.

Not long after, back with the Terminator

A few minutes later, back with the Terminator in the stolen police car, it receives a message on the police radio.

"All units. All units. Grey Ford suspect vehicle has been found in a parking structure at Destiny Street."

Hearing that the car his target had fled into has been found, the Terminator made a sharp turn and headed to the multistory car park.

With Danny and Ember

While one police car slowly drove through the parking lot, with the officers using search lights to look for the suspects, Danny and Ember were hiding behind a red Chrysler Voyager. As soon as the police car had passed by, Ember drags Danny by his arm quietly while staying low.

Ember then spots a black Ford Mondeo, with her using some small tools to open the car door. Danny raises an eyebrow as he watches Ember being able to open the car door without using keys.

Danny got in first before Ember did and she quietly closed the car door while both kept low. Ember checks her pockets, taking her last 5 rounds of shotgun shells and reloaded her shotgun with it. Using the shotgun grip, Ember carefully broke open the keyhole, taking a few wires from it to wiretapping the car.

Near them, the Terminator with the stolen police car arrived. It scans with a serious look for his target and his unknown protector.

When Ember peeks up, she saw the Terminator driving nearby. "Shit…! He's here." She took the wires and attempted to start the car.

The Terminator stops as it sensed a car was igniting its engine. As it saw Danny and Ember in the car, it quickly grabs the shtogun that was inside his police car and shoots at them, hitting the car and windows!

Danny kept far down as how scared he was while Ember manages to start the car and accelerates!

The Terminator pursuits in his patrol car while still shooting at them. Ember took out hers and shoots back! Both cars slam against each other, hitting a few cars in the parking lot with the Terminator got stuck while Ember raced out! The Terminator drove in reverse before accelerating.

"Hang on, Danny!" Ember calls while they got out of the parking lot and drove with speed over the road, with the Terminator in its police car not far behind them, bypassing several coming cars.

While the Terminator tried to get close to them and shoot with its shotgun, Ember tried to steer left to right to avoid any of its shots.

Danny looks up, watching his back, seeing the Terminator in the police car.

As they drove into a tunnel, the Terminator got closer to them. Seeing her chance, Ember allowed it to come further to them on her left, before she slams her car against it, making it lose control and crashes against the wall, but Ember lost control too and almost crashed before she came to a stop!

From the other side of the tunnel, over a dozen police cars with loud sirens raced towards them.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck!" Ember cursed herself while trying to restart the car, but was unable to before all the police cars surrounded them.

Ember was this close to take her gun and shoot at the police, but Danny quickly grabs her hand "No, Ember! No! They'll kill you."

Ember looks back at Danny. Seeing that she can't risk him being hurt, Ember gave a nod while her instinct told her not to. She let go of her gun.

With the police officers guns drawn, all aiming at Ember, one of them called "You in the Ford Mondeo! Step out of the car with your hands up!"

Danny raised his hands, while Ember slowly did hers. She slowly opens the car door and steps out with her hands still up.

"On the ground, face down!"

Ember obeyed the police's orders and began to lay on her belly on the ground.

The police officers approached Ember, with two of them holding her down while another puts handcuffs on her wrists "You're under arrest."

A female police officer opens the other car door at Danny's side, taking him out of the vehicle "You, out of the car."

Danny shook his head "No, wait…! You don't understand…! She… Ember was only trying to protect me." he tried to explain to the officer.

"You can explain all of that at the station, son." The female officer said.

Danny then looks back at the crashed police car of the Terminator, seeing to his surprise that the killer cyborg was gone.

Ember, who was being dragged in handcuffs into one of the police cars, knew that this isn't over by a long shot, cursing herself that none of these people know what kind of danger they're in. She prayed that they won't lock her away to prevent her from protecting her Danny from certain death.

A/N: Oh yes… now the real battle begins with the Terminator!

I hope you all like the way I made this chapter. I felt that Ember did deserve at least a bit of happiness and having a small taste of a normal life before resuming her role as the fierce resistance warrior from the future and Danny's protector.

What will happen next? Find out soon in the third chapter.

Like and review and I'll see you all next time.