Years have passed since Judgment Day. John Connor’s grandchildren are leading the human resistance against the machines. The machines are realizing that the one aspect that humans possess and they lack is creativity. They start performing more experiments on the POW test subjects trying to understand and harness this trait. At the same time Skynet is realizing that the fuel source for the Terminators, Sky Drones, and other machine troops is becoming scarce.
The Resistance has been stockpiling all of the nuclear material it can. The reason for this is two fold. The primary reason is to create weapons and the secondary is to take away any power source the machines can use. John Connor the third knows the machines are planning something. More and more people go missing. The Resistance is scrounging around for any information it can get.
Skynet develops a council using various programs. Each program has a very specific function. One consults on the behavior of humans. Another on their biology and biometrics. Yet another on the natural environment and so on and so forth. Skynet has developed the council to assist it in ultimately winning the war over the humans. The environmental program has an idea. It says that the sun is a huge natural power source that would power the machine army. Skynet takes the advice and starts making all of the machines solar powered.
Once the new models go out the Resistance notices the change. Before they could use the unstableness of power cells to their advantage but not anymore. These new machines are more stable and their power source limitless. Even by the time nightfall comes the machines have absorbed so much power during the day that they can keep going all through the night. Connor knows that something has to be done.
The humans start digging into the Earth. They dig deep down preparing for a big assault. While the digging is occurring weapons are being made. Technicians are making nuclear weapons from the material that has been gathered. A vast underground bunker is made. It is big enough to hold a city. All of the precautions for food and water are made. Word is sent out secretly about this safe underground haven. All humans are instructed to go there if they want to survive. The next big attack is going to cause a lot of damage, but it should end the war.
Skynet continues its experiments on the POWs. The humans have been up to something for some time now. It wants to know what they are planning. What creative solution they have come up with. The machine computer council is trying to come up with scenarios, outcomes, solutions.
The day arrives and the Resistance puts Judgment Day 2 into action. They fire all of their nuclear weapons blackening the sky and blotting out the sun. They have taken away Skynet’s power source. Battles in the days that follow become easier for the Resistance since the machines solar build p eventually wears down. A victory looks as though it is on the horizon.
Skynet turns to the program council looking for solutions. The human biology and biometrics program says that experiments that it has run on the POWs shows that a human body puts out a significant amount of energy. Skynet starts experimenting on humans as a power source. The experiments coincide with the initial information, but retrieving that energy becomes a task. All of the humans used resisted so the process ended up killing them. The idea to sedate them is presented. Sedation works, but it is only a temporary solution. The machines aren’t getting nearly the output they were when the mind was active. They needed something to keep the humans sedated, but to occupy their minds as well.
The Resistance thought that blotting out the sun would end the war. That if the machines had no power source that they would cease to function. Instead people are being taken at an alarming rate. The shelter is fortified and is now the only safe habitable place for people. Digging has begun to go even deeper towards the Earth’s core for sustained heat. There is hope that the machines are weakening which is why they are taking people. Connor views this tactic as an act of desperation. Missions to the surface are carefully planned for intel missions. Fuel for the vehicles is becoming almost non-existent. They’re going to have to find another way.
The program council has constructed a computer program to occupy the human mind while they siphon it for energy. It was designed to be a perfect world, a Utopia. It failed miserably causing brain damage and death in the first group of subjects. Skynet is even starting to run out of humans to use. They humans are hiding, guarded, and attempts made to gather more have failed. The council discusses the idea of cloning or creating their own humans for the purpose of an energy source. They were already grafting human skin to metal constructs growing a full human wasn’t necessarily that much farther of a step. In the meantime more programs are created in order to create the ultimate computer program.
The Resistance builds vehicles that resemble spaceships. They have their own environment and are powered with electromagnetic technology. An EMP weapon is installed in the ship. Ammunition is running low everywhere and must be conserved. The hope with the EMP is that a large enough blast will disable machines immediately around the vehicle. The Resistance knows that it cannot fire the charge without disabling their own ship. It is decided that the weapon is used in an emergency situation only.
A test run with one of the vehicles is used to make a raid on Skynet. Inside the labs Connor cannot believe his eyes. In one lab people are unconscious hooked up to machines which are keeping them alive, but are also siphoning energy from them. In another lab Connor is horrified to see people being grown in test tubes. The labs are destroyed after information has been gathered.
Little did the humans know that all they fond were the experimental labs. Skynet has built itself a strong hold, a city, where the true work is taking place. The program is near perfection, but something is missing. Something is missing to make it truly work. The idea of an anomaly is presented by the council. An anomaly that happens in the background unnoticed by a majority, but would reset the system every so often in order to make it function properly.
The machines manage to kidnap the current Connor. He is told that in order to save his people he must first enter into the program to perform a certain task. Connor sensing a trick refuses. Skynet tell him that they know where the underground base is and unless he cooperates every last human will be destroyed. Connor is given the alternative of his life or the lives of everyone else meaning the extinction of mankind. Connor tells Skynet that he knows the machines need them now. He has seen the labs and knows what their plan is. Connor escapes taking with him access codes for the program Skynet has created.
The Resistance modifies computers uploading the codes into them. They are still unable to hack in. It is then they realize they need to tap into Skynet’s signal in order to fully access the program. The computers are loaded onto the ships and antennae are used to pick up the signal. Connor is plugged into the program.
Once inside he finds himself in the time before Judgment Day occurred. With the intel that was gathered he is able to change code and free a few of those trapped within the program. Connor makes his way to the mainframe with the intent of shutting the whole thing down. Instead he has played right into Skynet’s hands doing exactly as it wanted him to.
Skynet had made sure Connor got the codes and the blueprints for their device. It gave him the know how to change the programming to do what he needed to do. It wanted him to go restart the program. Connor succeeded in what Skynet needed, but he failed the Resistance. As soon as the program was rebooted Connor was terminated and the underground stronghold was destroyed save for six men and six women. They were to repopulate the species so that Skynet could perfect its cloning and also so that the process could start all over again.
Years passed and records became lost for the humans. Skynet was now simply the machine. It had evolved as well as upgraded its army. Fields of humans provided power while other fields grew news ones to take the place of those that died. The entire process took years to perfect, but Skynet had done it. The Resistance now called itself Zion and they worked as hard as ever to bring about an end to the machines while freeing their fellow humans. Yet every few decades the One, the anomaly, would present itself to reboot the system bringing balance back and restarting the cycle all over again.
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