"I have come to protect Sarah Connor." The voice was bland, not cold, not detached simply bland. The person who spoke was buff with a rugged look. He had a worn leather jacket as well as somewhat cool dark shades, which he wore indoors. Strangely in his hand he was carrying a huge teddy bear.
[[Dreamer White, your Terminator ally has arrived to help you in protecting Sarah Connor]]
This was what Mikael had been called down to the lobby for, and he had been truly confused. A phone call from the staff saying someone was here for him had got him scratching his head.
He was sure it was not anyone from the Los Angeles department, they did not even know where he was staying. Mikael had thought maybe it was an ambush, but that did not make sense also. Curiosity won him over in the end and Mikael had gone over to see who it was.
And to his surprise, it was 'Pops.' The Terminator that had been sent to protect Sarah Connor from the impending T-1000 from the plot he could remember.
And what a surprise it had been for Mikael. He had believed he would have to struggle alone but it looked like the heavens had not forgotten their most favorite son yet! Plans would have to change.
"I have come to protect Sarah Connor." Pops repeated himself looking at Mikael blankly
'You already said that governor.' Mikael thought with an eye roll.
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They had gone back to the room, of course this time he was accompanied by 'Pops' still carrying his large teddy bear in his hands. The man entered the room stopped at the door and his eyes scanned the entirely of the room using his sigh scope vision. He noticed the disassembled parts lying everywhere as well as the processor chip connected to a computer. His eyes immediately zoomed into the setup.
"No need to worry about that big guy, I have it under control." Mikael said as he noticed the eyes of Pops looking at the T-888 processor chip. He realized what was happening and before Pops could try and destroy the chip he quickly moved to interfere.
This was something Mikael had noticed from his memory. In the plot, the characters would make sure to destroy every part of a Terminator once they had defeated it. Mikael saw this as a simple waste on his part.
While he understood their line of thinking, they did not understand the art of turning an enemy into an ally. He was even more confused on why they would send only one Terminator back to protect John or Sarah. Where was the logic in that! Thinking too much of it simply hurt Mikael's brain.
"I will wait here for Sarah Connor to awaken." Pops said as he put the huge teddy bear down on the couch and stood aside still. It was like a statue that would suddenly burst with great strength and be able to kill you. Strangle your neck while maintaining a blank calmness.
…
He ignored the silent new guest and moved on with his plans, what plan exactly he would have today. Other than waiting for the second round of Terminators to attack, Mikaels goals for today was to farm Favorability points.
How was he going to do this? He was going to make use of one of his recent rewards. The crime index log. Mikael opened his laptop once again, this time a map app with different icons upon it. These icons ranged from images of guns, banks, knives and robbery masks.
The icon each had different stars on them ranging from one star to the highest five stars. To explain further, this map showed what Mikael believed to be real time crime currently happening within the city of Los Angeles.
To go into dipper details Mikael believed these icons, the ones with the five stars were most likely the crimes committed by other Dreamers within the current mission world. One and two stars were most likely missions committed by the denizens of the Terminator world.
Mikael went a step further, he took the T-radar from his storage, with quick ingenuity, the Radar was quickly connected to his laptop and in tandem to the Crime index Log. Now the red dots that once appeared on the T-Radar now blinked within the map of the crime index log.
Especially concentrated in the regions with five-star level crimes. This only made Mikael believe further the fact that these regions were occupied by Dreamers. And in his plan, these were regions for him to completely ignore. He then took the two-way radio and turned it on.
"System, redeem 30 Favorability points for a unit of three police cars." Mikael used the other feature which his rank allowed him. A unit consisted of three officers together with their cars, in total nine officers. Enough to act as a trial run for his goals.
[[Points deducted. The units of three are now available for your use. How would the Dreamer like for the to proceed]]
From his understanding now that Mikael had the three units within his control, unless they died, they would accept his command and accomplish them.
This obviously had its own restrictions, for instance he could not give unlawful commands to them, such as robbing a bank or killing a random passerby on the street. Normally Mikael believed the normal way to make use of this units was as backup when a Dreamer was about to die or being overwhelmed.
But Mikael's now unrestricted access as well as the Revered status of his favorability allowed him to have another use for them.
These units could be assigned missions by Mikael and by accomplishing this missions, Mikael's favorability would increase in favor of the law meaning he would have more points to make use of from the police faction store. And this was how Mikael had come with the idea of farming points.
The only true downside to the entirety of his plan was that the death of the Officers within this unit would most likely result to a drop in his own favorability with the law. And that was why Mikael wanted them to completely avoid the high crime index areas and High Terminator areas.
It would be like sending a chicken to fight a lion. Other than giving the lion a free meal your actions would be pointless.
"Okay listen up people, from now I'll be referring to all of you as units 1,2 and 3. "Mikael said over the two-way radio and received corresponding answers of confirmations from the three.
"Unit 1, your mission is narcotics enforcement. Head to 6th Street and San Pedro in Skid Row. There have been multiple tips about dealers operating near the abandoned lot behind the Midnight Mission. Unit 2, prostitution detail is yours, focus on South Figueroa Street between 23rd and 30th, near the motels; vice suspects a trafficking ring is working out of the Royal Inn. Unit 3, robbery suppression is your assignment. Patrol the Los Angeles Jewelry District around Hill Street and Broadway, with special attention to the area surrounding the International Jewelry Center. Report movements every fifteen minutes and act with precision. Move out."
"Yes sir!" The radio operators for each units responded and soon enough they were on their way.
Mikael's now acted as the guy in the office chair. He was quite laidback as he waited for the results. The missions he assigned were low risk.
He made sure that there was little to no involvement of Dreamers of Terminators within them. He did so by process of elimination, choosing things in his own logic which he believed the Dreamers were unlikely to do within a mission world. Such as drug trafficking.
While he waited, his attention was attracted to the Television within the room, a live broadcast happening at the moment specifically talking about the current state of Los Angeles.
This caught his attention. Mikael was aware that the city had become a high crime rate area, the combination of Dreamers and Terminators already overwhelming the Law enforcers.
But he recalled his involvement had brought about the emergence of the Anti-Terror Task Force. What he was curious about was how this force would affect the current situation.
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Anchor: "We're bringing you breaking news out of downtown Los Angeles. A violent confrontation has erupted near Pershing Square. LAPD officers responded to reports of a heavily armed suspect, what eyewitnesses are calling a machine-like attacker. Let's go live to our field reporter."
The screen shifts to shaky handheld footage. Sirens wail; spotlights cut through smoke. A squad of LAPD officers unload their weapons on a towering, the rush of bullets shredding the figures clothes and leaving it with tatters.
But the buff figure remains unflinching, the bullets only delay its movement, sparking harmlessly against it and to the floor. The sound of clicking came soon after, a sign that the officers' bullets had finally run out of ammo.
The figure then finally acts, taking its own weapons from its back loaded and aimed at the officers. The officers can only stand in shock soon after a stream of bullets shred into them, tearing into their fleshy bodies easily.
No time for screams, only death. Seconds after all that remain is pools of blood and dismembered body parts laying everywhere. The Reporter luckier than the officers was nowhere near the danger zone
Reporter (Voice trembling): "This can't be happening, they're all dead! Is that thing human… Oh my God!!!"
Suddenly, a sound attracted the reporter from the terror he currently felt. Like a lifeline he turned, and the camera turned along with him showing what had attracted his attention. In the distance, an armored vehicle was approaching.
What was recognizable about it was its mere presence and the fact that it was completely black. Written on the vehicle were the letters A.T.T.F in bold white contrasting greatly with the black of the vehicle.
Despite its normal approach, there was something about the vehicle that immediately attracted one's attention, a sort of great danger that would shake your very being. The Terminator noticed the approaching armored vehicle and its aim switched towards it.
A hail of bullets burst from its guns, impacted the vehicle and surprisingly, the bullets did little to no damage at all! The vehicle looked to have even increased its speed completely ignoring the attack and soon after, it rammed into the Terminator like a battering ram.
Reporter (Shocked): Is that the military! Shit that thing is still alive…
The Terminator slowly stood from a pile of rubble, pushing away stone that had collapsed upon it. Surprisingly the guns it once held had been knocked from its hands, but this did little to stop it. It immediately charged at the armored vehicle.
The back doors of the A.T.T.F vehicle suddenly blasted open and in quick succession, four heavily armed officers quickly dropped from the vehicle. Each of them had on full body bullet proof armor from head to toe, leaving no space to show any skin.
The only indication that they were even human was their rising chests. The figures quickly stood in formation, perfectly lined up and the heavy caliber guns aimed at the approaching Terminator.
In quick succession, they unloaded their weaponry, once again a blast of bullets releasing from the guns.
This time, the Terminator was not so lucky, it experienced what it had done earlier to the officers, its fleshy skin was ripped apart, soon its legs was torn of, followed by and arm and a lucky bullet impacted its head completely killing it.
The next image was of the Task force moving in to pick up the dead machine lugging it back into the A.T.T.F vehicle and with the same silence they had arrived with the vehicle drove off with.
Reporter: What even was that…
…
Mikael nodded his head at the performance, it was a result he expected in fact. In his understanding the A.T.T.F could be seen as the anti-bodies of the world's will/plot fighting against the intruder that were the Terminators and Dreamers.
The A.T.T.F would act when a Dreamer had committed a certain level of crime, most probably five- and four-star level crime. This at least answered something Mikael was initially curious about.
Could Dreamers do as they pleased within this world? Would the Will of the world allow the Dreamers to do as they pleased? Within the Terminator world, the A.T.T.F was the answer to this.
[[Unit 1 has stopped a drug exchange Favorability increased by 5 points]]
[[Unit 2 has interfered in a robbery Favorability increased by 3 points]]
[[unit 3 has subjugated a pickpocket Favorability increased by 2 points]]
"Hmmm." Mikael hummed in satisfaction. More Dreamers should be like him, law abiding. Instead of mass killings they should strive to have his expertise as the guy in the chair, providing technical support for others.
He was so happy with the progress that he pulled out a can of Coffee up! Popped it open and let the sweet-Bitterness run down his tongue.
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Location: Salt Bear Lake
The surroundings were silent, not a calm silence but a strange one, an eerie one that would have sent shivers down any observers back. Near the cabin where Mikael had fought with the three agents a large figure was now standing observing everything silently.
The figure was tall and very muscular, the entirely of his body completely covered.
He wore a white apron stained completely red, and on his face was an equally bloodied hockey mask which hid the entirely of his face. This silence that had come to this place, this sort of shivers that were born from being within the vicinity, it was this man that was the cause of this.
The man observed the broken glass windows and splinters from the broken wall. His eyes wondered the dying embers of the wood, they then went to the bodies, dead bodies of his three teammates. And then he finally walked but he did not leave yet.
It was almost like he was following something only he could see, following a path he knew and that led him to the dock, the place Mikael had found Sarah hiding. He then looked around and then he observed the still Lake as if he were transfixed by something, but his voice came silent and chilly.
"It's a good day to kill."
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A/N.
Sorry for late release was supposed to drop yesterday
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