Future Shock

A/N: There will be some similarities between this and Terminator Salvation though it’s nothing spoiler related.

Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine.

John couldn’t believe it. He was at a loss for words. Staring him in the face was the father he never knew, Kyle Reese.

“What’s your name kid?” Kyle asked.

“Says his name’s John Connor,” Derek answered for him. “We ran into him a few minutes before you showed up. The way he identified himself you’d think his name was important, but I’ve never heard of any John Connor. Have you?”

“No I haven’t Derek. So John, would you mind telling us what you are doing out here in my jacket?” Kyle asked.

“Katherine Weaver picked a real good time to abandon me,” John thought. He was about to answer when one of the soldiers spoke out.

“He’s obviously responding to the message you sent out,” A female soldier with blonde hair who seemed to be in her early twenties said. “You remember, the one over the radio asking for people to join us wherever they were.”

John decided to go along with this for now. “Yeah that’s the truth,” John lied. I was on my way over here when I ran into a machine. I was letting my clothes dry after a rain storm when it showed up. In its attempt to kill me it shot up all my clothes, but I managed to get out of range before it could finish the job.”

“That’s the dumbest story ever,” John and Kyle thought simultaneously. Kyle wasn’t sure if he should trust this kid, but for some reason he decide to. He couldn’t put his finger on it, but he felt as if he knew John from some where.

“What do you think,” Derek asked Kyle as they turned their backs to everyone.

“I don’t believe his story, but for now he comes with us,” Kyle answered.

“Are you sure?”

Kyle nodded and turned to John. “Ok John, I believe you. Our HQ isn’t far from here.” Kyle then turned to the others. “Let’s move out team,” He ordered. As the soldiers marched forward John hung back away from the others as he did not want to answer any questions. The blonde solider, however, walked right over to him and said, “You can thank me later John.”

“Thanks for helping me out back there, but why did you do it?” John asked.

The girl rolled her eyes then smiled. “It has been a while. It’s me, Savannah Weaver.”

John was shocked. “Savannah it’s you!”

“Keep you’re voice down,” Savannah whispered. “The machines could be anywhere and we don’t want to give away our positions. I’ll fill you in on every thing when we get back to HQ.

“How are you alive though?”

“You can thank Ellison for that. Like I said though, we’ll talk more when we’re alone.”

After walking for 10 minutes several dogs started to bark. Kyle signaled for everyone to stop and to head into the building next to them. As they did Kyle turned to John. “Have you ever used one of these things before?” He asked holding out a grenade launcher. In truth the grenade launcher was one of the few weapons he wasn’t really familiar with, but he was sure it was the same basic point and shoot type of weapon.

“Yes,” John said as he took the gun. “What model is it?” John asked in reference to the terminator.

“Can’t be certain. The terminators had been sending out T-600s over the past few weeks, but it was probably till they could manufacture more triple 8s.

“Shhh,” Derek whispered. “It’s coming.” Everyone took cover as two machines came walking in to the building holding two plasma rifles. Their missions shown on their optical visions stated:

Primary target: Kyle Reese - Resistance Leader

Secondary target: Derek Reese - Second in command

John took aim and was prepared to fire when one of the other soldiers accidently made a noise when trying to get into a good position. The terminator turned its head and immediately opened fire. The exposed fighter attempted to dodge the attack but the other terminator fired as well. Their concentrated fire blew off his head.

Another resistance fighter fired his grenade launcher and blew off the terminators head. The other terminator looked up to the fighter’s vantage point and fired off several rounds causing the point to collapse under her feet.

John made an attempt to fire, but it saw him and Savannah. They both ducked just narrowly being missed by another round of fire. As they both laid low to the ground a grenade landed next to them. With only a few seconds to spare they got up and ran as fast as they could, but were still caught in the shockwave of the blast knocking them both into the air. John recovered, but saw that Savannah was out cold. The terminator searched the area for any more resistance fighters. It scanned the one it knocked down from the balcony and its screen showed:

Allison Young: Immobile

It was prepared to fire when another resistance fighter shouted, “Get away from her!” Exposing her position in the process. The terminator fired at the wall above her causing some of it to fall on top of her.

“Jesse!” Derek shouted as he ran to her.

“Derek, stay down!” Kyle shouted but it was too late. The machine shot him in the leg forcing him down.

Derek Reese injured: Terminate

Kyle raised his shot gun and fired off several shots to get the machine’s attention.

Primary target Kyle Reese: Terminate

Kyle made a run for it hoping the machine would follow, but it instead fired at the top of the opening bringing down more debris to block Kyle’s exit. Kyle turned and had his gun blasted out of his hand by the machine. This was it. He had finally met his match.

“Hey!” John shouted from the balcony loud enough to get the machine’s attention. As it turned Savannah blew the machine’s hand off with her grenade launcher. John took aim and said, “Hasta La Vista Baby,” and fired a grenade into the machine’s chest causing it to blow up. Kyle carefully walked over to the terminator and inspected its body to make sure it was dead. He then whipped out a knife and used it to extract the machine’s chip just in case.

“Ok all clear,” he informed John and Savannah. He then went to check on the others. Derek was mildly injured, but Jesse and Allison were badly hurt.

“Brewster, you better clear a room back at base. We have three injured, over,” Kyle said into his commlink.

“Does he mean Katherine Brewster?” John asked Savannah.

“Yes he does. How do you know her?”

“Met her once when I was thirteen. She was the first girl I ever kissed, but let’s not get into that.”

“Not a bad shot John,” Kyle congratulated as he walked over to the two. “You’ve gained my trust.”

“Thanks.” John replied.

Resistance HQ

Upon reaching the HQ Allison, Derek, and Jesse were all taken to medical bay. Savannah offered for to share her quarters with John, which Kyle initially rejected considering what happened the last time they had co-ed quarters. She eventually wore him down however.

“So now that were alone can you tell what exactly happened after the T-1001 and I left and what year are we in?” John asked.

“The year is 2025. After you vanished Ellison came for me and picked me up from school like that machine asked. Even though I was just a kid he still filled me in on everything. I didn’t know what to believe, but Ellison took me on the road shortly after that. I was pretty much living the life you did. The nukes fell when I was only eleven. The resistance began to form months later, but they were still scattered for the most part. In 2014 Ellison was terminated trying to protect me from a T-600. I met up with the resistance shortly after that. I rescued Derek, who was acting leader at the time, from a T-888 and he was impressed with me and allowed me to join up with the resistance. Kyle proved to be quite the soldier, however, and took over the role of leader 8 years later. He was a better leader than Derek actually was.”

“Do you know what happened to John Henry?” John asked needing to know the answer to that question as well.

“No. I never saw him again after the day Derek was killed in the present timeline. I can only guess he was picked up by the machines.”

“Wherever John is the T-1001 will probably try to find him. She disappeared shortly before you guys found me. She said that she was creating something to fight Skynet, but why would machines fight machines. As far as I could tell she didn’t seem to be reprogrammed.”

“There has been a rumor going around that a certain branch of machines had separated from Skynet. Though no one has ever confirmed these reports. Any other questions.”

“That girl that was injured during the triple 8 attack is Allison Young isn’t she?”

“Yes. How do you know about her?”

“When Cameron was experiencing a glitch in her programming it caused her to believe she was a girl called Allison from Palmdale. Up till now I had no idea what she had been talking about. My next big question is, what’s my father like?”

“Kyle has probably the biggest heart out of everyone here. He’s also strong and completely stubborn, which a lot of us believe is why most of his plans work out in the end.”

“One final question, Savannah. My mother died didn’t she?”

“Terminal Leukemia in the year 2009. She was cremated in Mexico.”

“Lights out you two,” Derek said as he walked passed Savannah’s quarters. Savannah was out like a light in no time, but John had a significantly hard time falling asleep. He was in the future that his mother had tried so hard to prevent with the father he never even knew. Worse yet up till today John had never destroyed a terminator in his life and now they’re crawling all over the place. How could he ever lead the Resistance. He’s just a kid for crying out loud.

Three weeks later

John, Allison, and Savannah silently traversed the post-apocalyptic landscape. It was meant to be a simple recon mission. The machines had gotten quiet in the last few days and the resistance decided now was as good a time as any to see what John was capable of.

“John, have you found anything yet?” Kyle asked over the commlink.

“Nothing. We’ve been out here for over a half-hour, but we still haven’t seen anything.”

“Ok then. Savannah, you and John continue to scan the area. Allison, you go on your own. Report back if you’ve found anything. If you see a machine, follow it without being caught, but don’t engage. I repeat do not engage. Understood?”

“Understood Kyle,” John replied. “Will you be ok Allison?”

“You don’t have to worry about me John. I can handle myself.” Allison said as she walked off. She spent the next ten minutes searching when she heard something behind her. She spun around and pointed her gun at John’s face.

“John what are you doing here? Kyle told you to stay with Savannah.” John remained silent. Allison took a few steps back while tightening her grip on her shot gun. She looked down at his shadow and saw that his hands were starting to form blades behind his back. Allison’s eyes filled with shock and she fired at the T-1000’s chest as she began to run.

“John!” She shouted into her commlink. “It’s a T-1000. Help me!”

“Hang on Allison, were on our way!” John shouted back as he and Savannah ran to her position.

Allison looked behind her to see the T-1000 was starting to gain on her. She fired several more shotgun blasts temporarily slowing it down, but it continued to chase after here. Suddenly, however, it vanished. Allison took this opportunity to reload her gun while she headed over to a big pile of debris hoping John and Savannah would be able to spot her from up there. While her back was turned she looked down and spotted the T-1000 reforming right behind here. She turned and raised her shotgun, but it grabbed her gun with one hand and pierced her shoulder with the other before going for her leg.

“AHHHHHH!!!” She screamed.

“ALLISON, WHAT’S HAPPENING TO YOU!” John shouted with worry. There was no answer on the other end. “ALLISON, ANSWER ME!”

There was nothing Allison could do. She was thrown off the debris and rolled to the ground immobile. Allison saw a bright light descending from the sky and saw a huge net being dropped on top of her.

“John did you find Allison?” Savannah asked praying he had good news.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t find her anywhere,” John regretfully replied. There was suddenly a loud noise followed by a Skynet prisoner transport flying just over head.

A/N: Allison isn’t going to be in the same situation as she was in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. She’s still being taken to a Skynet prison camp, but something different will happen while she’s there. Please review and all constructive criticism is welcome. I'll probably explain what happened after John's first day in the resistance in the next chapter, but I wanted to do the Allison cliffhanger first. Does anyone know any good Beta Readers? I don't want to mess the rest of the story up.