Terminator: Evolution

Ch. 8

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San Diego Police Station

May 22, 2009

8:25 A.M.

The sun shined through the window of the jail cell, waking Micheal up from his slumber. He observed his surroundings and noticed the thing that was controling his body was no longer inside of him. Micheal soon needed to get out of jail and fast.

" Hey. anybody there? Can somebody please let me out." said Micheal. A police officer entered the room and notified him that he's being released.

"Alright, buddy, you're free to go, just make sure you don't drink too much next time, and by the way, somebody's already here to pick you up." the officer said. Micheal was confused, who would be picking him at this time.

"Who's picking me up?" Micheal asked.

"The guy said he was a friend of yours, he's right out front waiting on you" said the officer. Micheal left his cell and headed out of the police station. He got outside, he saw a familar face.

"What are you doing here and what do you want with me?" Micheal said. The familar person was Lin, who came to help Micheal locate Ezekiel and others.

"Kinda felt bad for ya because of what happened the other night, so I thought I'd help you out and take you to where your friends are located at." Lin said.

"You know where they are? Wait a minute, how do you know about the others?" Micheal said with a careful tone in his voice, not knowing if this person is a terminator or not.

"Just hop in the car and I'll tell you everything that you need to know" Lin said. Micheal got in Lin's squad car and the two men headed off in search of Ezekiel and the others. During the drive, Micheal wanted some answers and fast.

"Okay, who the hell are you, man, really? Because if you are what I'm thinking you are, then I won't let you kill my friends." said Micheal.

Lin smirked a bit. "Relax, I'm not here to hurt you or your friends, in fact, I actually saved your old buddy, Ezekiel, a couple nights ago." he said.

"So what are you? are you a Terminator or something entirely?" Micheal asked.

Lin smirked again, so morphed into his natural, silver humanoid form, which shocked Micheal.

"You know, you're the second person that I've shown my true form to." Lin said.

"Second person? Wait a minute, you know where Ezekiel is, don't you?" Micheal said.

"Well, I just passed by him a while ago. I think he was with somebody." Lin said.

"He must've found the Resistance unit that was sent here a while back. Hey, you could take me to them since you know were they are." said Micheal.

"What do I look to you, a cab driver? Look, I'll take you to the downtown area, that's where I last saw Ezekiel, but you're on your own after that." Lin said.

"Just one last thing I need to ask you: the other T-1000, did you know about it?" asked Micheal.

"No. I thought I was the last T-1000 left, but finding out that another one of my kind survived gives me at least some relief, by the way, having that that thing inside your body must've been a bizzare experience." Lin said. The duo soon traveled to downtown area of the city in search of Ezekiel, but little did they know, they were being followed.

Arcade, Downtown San Diego, 8:40 A.M.

The Female T-1000, who wanted to know more about humans, found herself inside a building with various arcade cabinets. She never seen any of these things before, but was intriged by the cabinets technology. The female T-1000 walked to the cabinets and attempted to play one of them. She chose a game that featured two characters engaged in hand to hand combat, which according to her observations, was a fighting game. The T-1000 then picked a random character and proceeded to playthrough the whole game. As she was figuring out the controls, The T-1000 ended up inputing a command that caused her character to morph a part of it body into a melee weapon. Her susprise turned into fascination as she continued to play and figure out more of that character's moveset.

Meanwhile

Lin and Micheal finally arrived in the downtown area where Ezekiel was last seen, hoping to find him in time before anybody does.

"Here we are, I last saw him and one of Resistance buddies headed down that way towards the arcade." Lin said.

"Thanks, by the way, take care of yourself" said Micheal

"No problem, now if you'll excuse me, I got work to do" said Lin as morphed into his police uniform and drove away. While he was driving away, Lin thought about the other T-1000 venturing out on her own, trying understand the human race. He then dissmissed any worry, assuring that she can handle herself.

After Lin dropped off Micheal and left, the new T-X (a female one) followed suit by following Micheal, assuming he would lead her to the other resistance members, so she take them out in one fell swoop.

Back at the Arcade

"It's sure nice to take a break after all that transpired recently." said Ezekiel.

" You know, seeing all of this really makes me miss the world before Judgment Day." said Grace.

"Yeah, I never got play any of things before, so I might as well try them out while I have the chance to." Ezekiel said. Ezekiel browsed around the arcade while Grace roamed around the mall to see explore more areas. While Grace was wandering around, the T-X found it's way inside and continued searching for the Resistance, while Micheal also entered the mall to look for his squadmates.

Ezekiel was playing a fighting game at the arcade until some girl stepped next to him, but Ezekiel had no idea that the girl was a T-1000.

"Can I play too?" the T-1000 asked.

"Sure, let's see what you got." said Ezekiel.

The two began playing against each other with Ezekiel being quite susprised by her skills as he was beaten in every match up. Ezekiel was surpised her skills, she basically knew every character's move set.

"Wow, so how long you've played this game? " Ezekiel asked.

"Actually, I've only started playing these games today." The T-1000 replied.

"Huh, that's strange. Well, anyway, wanna play something else?" Ezekiel said.

" Actually, I wanna explore more of this place, such an intresting area." The T-1000 said.

"Okay. you got anywhere in mind?" Ezekiel said.

"I want to go to where those are being made" The T-1000 said while pointing towards the food court.

As Ezekiel and the T-1000 made their way to the food court, the T-X spotted them and began advancing towards them.

Grace, Meanwhile, was hanging around near the department stores when she felt someone grab a hold of her. She was about to reach for gun, but was instantly relived when she found out it was Micheal.

"Oh my god, Micheal, when did you get here?" Grace asked.

"Just last night, but we can catch up later, we need to find Ezekiel right now." Micheal said.

Back at the food court, Ezekiel and the T-1000 sitting with their food. Ezekiel was eating a pizza, goruging himself as he hadn't had any food since he got sent back through time. The T-1000, on the other hand, merely looked at her food, studying it, because she can't actually eat it. The T-1000 then noticed something, a woman came walking towards their direction with an emotionless look on her face. The T-1000 instantly knew it was a Terminator, so she had to act fast and herself and Ezekiel to safety.

"We have to leave now!" The T-1000 said.

"Whoa! what's the hurry?" Ezekiel asked.

"No Time! we have to go now!" The T-1000 said.

As soon as they left, The Terminatrix pulled out a Desert Eagle handgun and started shooting at them, resulting in mall-goers fleeing in terror. Micheal and Grace heard the gunshots and ran off towards the vicinity of the shooting.

The Terminatrix saw them running towards her and aim her gun at them, blasting shot after shot. Grace and Micheal took cover, Grace pulled out her gun and fired back at the T-X. The T-X took several shots, but was unfazed by them, so she turned her arm into a plasma weapon and fired off a plasma shot. Grace and Micheal quickly dove out of the way from the blast, just narrowly escaping the blast radius. The T-X then set off to hunt down Ezekiel and terminate him. The T-1000 dragged Ezekiel with her to the back area of the mall where the exits are located at.

"Where the hell are you taking me and what the hell is going with on you?" Ezekiel demanded.

"We must keep going. It isn't safe here" The T-1000 said. Just when the T-1000 thought her and Ezekiel were in the clear, a miniture H-K showed up.

"Where the hell did that come from!?" said Ezekiel, wondering how did a Hunter Killer know where to find them. Ezekiel pulled out his gun and shot at the H-K multiple times, causing the H-K to charge at them. The T-1000 sees this, steps in between Ezekiel and the H-K, then proceeds to morph into a giant shield. The H-K ends up crashing into the T-1000's shield form, exploding into pieces.

Ezekiel stood in complete shock as he had no idea that the girl he was hanging out with was a T-1000. A face formed from the shield, giving a concerned look towards Ezekiel.

"Run!" The T-1000 said to Ezekiel. Ezekiel was smart enough to get the message and he took off running to safety. The Terminatrix soon enter the area where the H-K was in and saw that it was in pieces and saw a giant shield morph back into human form.

" I thought SkyNet got rid of all of you" The Terminatrix said.

" SkyNet didn't get the job done. Now I'm gonna return the favor." The T-1000 said as she morphed into her silver, humanoid form and turned both her arms into sharp blades.

"You see, that's the kind of attitude that caused SkyNet to get rid of your kind in the first place. Get ready, because you're about to join the rest of those pathetic pieces of slime." The Terminatrix said. The T-X rushed at the T-1000, tackled her through a wall which lead to the parking garage. The T-1000 quickly recovered and slashed at the T-X, causing slash marks on it's body. The T-X delived a stiff thrust kick to the T-1000, sending backwards into the front of a truck. The T-X then fired shot after shot from her plasma arm weapon, while the T-1000 ran to avoid the blasts.

The T-1000 sprinted down to the other end of the parking garage and decided to hide close by, hoping to spring a sneak attack on the Terminatrix. The Terminatrix ran off to where the T-1000 went to only find that she wasn't there. The T-X scanned the area, trying to find where the T-1000 might have ran off to.

"Come out and show yourself, you pile of worthless primordial ooze." she said.

The Terminatrix then felt a sharp blade pierce through her chest, it was the T-1000, who emerged from a nearby wall with a cold, vengeful look on her face. The T-X tried to remove the blade from her chest, so the T-1000 found an electrical box and then morphed her other arm into a long blade, inserting into the box causing the electrcity to flow through her to the T-X, causing it to short circuit and collaspe. Now that the T-X has been dealt with, The T-1000 left to go back to Lin's home, shortly after she left, Micheal and Grace showed up and found the Terminatrix's body.

"Looks like somebody was doing us a favor." Grace said.

"We got get this body back to the safehouse, find what makes it tick." Micheal said.

"Let me call up Xavier, so we get outta here before the cops show up" Grace said.

A few minutes later, Xavier pulled up in a van carrying Ezekiel.

"Look who I picked up outside the mall." said Xavier.

"Micheal! holy shit, dude, when did you get here?" Ezekiel asked.

"Long story and I don't feel like talking about it, let's just get the hell outta here." Micheal said. It took the combined strength of Micheal, Grace, and Ezekiel to carry the T-X's body into the van and they sped off to the safehouse.

Later on, the police arrived on the scene due to the chaos at the mall. Lin was one of the cops that arrived on the scene. From what he was hearing from various wittnesses, he figured that is had to be another Terminator trying kill off Ezekiel and the others. He had a strong suspicion that the Nexus Corperation sent the T-X and by the looks of it, they weren't successful, otherwise, the paramedics would've found a body. Lin knew things were about to get worse, he needed bring down Nexus Corp. and fast.

Nexus Corp. HQ , 9:38 a.m.

Janice Mercer was watching the news report about the mall incident and shook her head in disapointment. She should've know that using a T-X was too high profile, but Nora insisted on utilzing the Terminatrix. Janice decided that the plans involving her new project had to be rushed now, not that she was happy about it.

Meanwhile, Nora took matters into her own hands. No more waiting around, no more hiding in the shadows. She went down to the company garage, got her motorcycle and sped off to hunt down the Resistance and terminate every single one of them.

Oooh boy, Things are heating up now. Stay tuned for the next chapter, everybody.