Terminator Fan Fiction ❯ Twilight ❯ Part 2: ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

This is my very first Terminator/Prototype fanfic and crossover.

Date: 120110

Disclaimer: A Terminator/Prototype crossover. All characters and concepts belong to their respective creators and owners.

Synopsis: What if Skynet did not start a nuclear war? What if Skynet had used something called Blacklight?

T W I L I G H T

Part 2:

The massive defense artificial intelligence called Skynet was calculating the odds of victory in this rather unusual situation it found itself in. DX-1118 as it was called turned out to be quite the enigma with the rate of Infection it was spreading through the entire world. Skynet had considered launching the nukes in anticipation of Judgement Day than cancelled the order under the pretext of not wanting to repeat all the moves that would lead to its eventual defeat at the hands of John Connor and the Human Resistance.

'See where this goes ...' was a phrase that accurately described the situation for the moment. It had observed the infection called DX-1118 as it spread through the whole North American continent rapidly turning entire populations into flesh-eating zombies that craved the blood of the living. Had Skynet been capable of amusement at that point, it would have laughed out loud. Humanity had effectively destroyed itself without anyone's help or intervention for that matter. Not to mention, the expression on John's face for that matter. It still had access to the the security feeds at CRS that showed John struggling to free himself from his captors as the American military police dragged him away in cuffs for what appeared to be psychiatric evaluation. Kate had tried pleading with her father, all to no avail. John, future leader of the Human Resistance, being taken away by his fellow men in chains ... The irony could not have been more obvious.

Having no ready access to biological weapons, Skynet had never considered their use as WMDs until the viral outbreak. Now it was trying to find out as much about the outbreak as it could. Getting information about the outbreak was not the challenge. Getting accurate and up-to-date information about it was the true challenge. The Blacklight virus was mutating faster than even Skynet had initially projected in its conversative estimates.

'Into what?' was the question.

It hadn't crossed Skynet's mind that Blacklight could be a danger to its existence until the Infected began to show signs of sentience and independence on a level that disturbed the paranoid AI ... somewhat.

Still it had not taken any steps against the Infection, useful as it was in taking down the somewhat troublesome Human Resistance until ... it had finally gained access to Blackwatch's Headquarters with one of its Terminators. The T-600 unit had accessed the data held in Blackwatch's mainframe and its data had proven most intriguing and disturbing to the AI at the same time.

Blacklight was an enhanced derivative from one of the fourteen viral strains that was extracted from Greene, a survivor of the Idaho Project, in 1969. That was way back before Skynet had even been conceived or John Connor being born for that matter.

Another idea that I had while writing up Blacklight and Shadowwarrior.