SonicxTerminator Chapter 02

Chapter 02: A Not So Happy Future
Sonic awoke to the sight of the bright sun shining upon his face. He felt disoriented, but then as he regained consciousness, he looked around him and saw nothing but desolate wastelands all around him. Then he saw his Extreme Gear laying next to him, and then he saw Jet laying on the ground, with his board laying next to him. Sonic crawled over and saying “Hey Jet, are you OK?”

Jet then regained consciousness and freaked out at the sight of Sonic. “Jeez, Sonic! Don’t scare me like that!!” But his mood soon changed when he looked all around him.

“Where are we anyway?” Jet asked.

“I dunno, some kind of wasteland?” Sonic answered

“Wherever we are, I don’t think we’re home anymore.” Jet pondered.

Tails woke up to the taste of sand and dust in his mouth, which he spit out promptly after waking up. He looked all around him and saw nothing but a whole heap of cars and other junk that appeared to have been decimated by fire. He then saw Wave, plump against an SUV, and he walked over to her and tried to wake her up.

“Hey Wave, you OK? Please wake up.”

She eventually did, and then looked around and immediately asked “What happened? Where are we?”

“I don’t know.” replied Tails, “Some kind of abandoned parking lot.”

“Sure looks like it. And there are our boards over by that truck.” Wave pointed to a dusty truck in front of them.

“Let’s grab them and look around.” Tails suggested as he helped Wave to her feet.

“Good idea. Then we can hopefully find answers.” Wave said.

Storm awoke to the sight of Amy and Cream looking down on him, and he said “What are you two starin’ at?”

Cream immediately responded: “Are you OK?”

“He’d better, because he’s gonna help us go find Sonic!!” Amy said angrily. “Is that clear?!!”

“Y-y-y-yes mam!!” Storm replied with much fright. “Uh, what is all this?” he asked as he looked around the playground they ended up in.

“Beats me, but something tells me that this place is familiar.” Cream added with much fright in her voice.

Sonic and Jet were walking along the remains of a road when they saw three figures walking towards them. Sonic gestured to Jet to take cover and get ready to attack. As the footsteps drew closer, Sonic prepared to ambush the person on the right, and eventually he did, and after pinning the person to the ground, he heard a: “Hey! You lookin’ for a fight?!!”

Sonic realized it was Knuckles that he’d ambushed, and he got off the echidna and helped him up. “Sorry Knuckles, didn’t know it was you.”

“I’ve always gotten jumped on….” Knuckles grumbled.

Sonic then noticed Rouge and Shadow were with him and Shadow said: “So, you’re alive. Good, because that was Chaos Control we went through.”

“How can you be sure?” Jet asked.

“Look.” Rouge pointed to a nearby ledge.

Sonic and Jet looked over the ledge, and there…was Los Angeles, or, what was left of Los Angeles. “What happened here?” Sonic asked immediately.

“This looks like the future. L.A. has been destroyed by war by the look of it.” Rouge answered.

“The future?!” Sonic gasped. “Then that means the Chaos Emeralds transported us forward in time!”

“Like I said.” replied Shadow. “But I don’t know what year we are in, less that anyone is alive.”

“Why don’t we ask him?” Knuckles suggested as he pointed to a figure down the road.

“Let’s find out then.” Sonic replied as the group set off.

Then, Shadow noticed something odd about this figure. “Hold up a minute, something’s not right.”

“What is it Shadow?” Rouge asked

Shadow crept closer and then the figure turned and saw Sonic, Knuckles, Jet, and Rouge in the road and produced a minigun. “Get Down!!” Shadow called as the figure opened fire on them. Luckily, there was a wrecked bus nearby that provided cover for the group.

Shadow then begun to advance towards the figure, as it fired at him, to no effect. Eventually, the figure fired a missile at him which sent him flying into a wrecked truck. “Shadow!!” Sonic cried as the figure slowly advanced towards him.

“Now what?” Jet asked in panic. Then Sonic felt a hand covering his mouth and of a gun resting on his shoulder.

“Do what I tell you, and you’ll survive.” said the person. Sonic and the others turned to the sight of a young man, 19 years old, and wearing combat gear.

“Who are you?” Knuckles asked.

“Not important right now. I’ll help you down that T-600.” said the man as he released Sonic. The man then switched out his submachine gun and produced a large .50 caliber rifle. He then pointed at Sonic and Knuckles, “You two, follow me.”

Sonic and Knuckles followed the man quickly across the road and dodged the T-600’s minigun fire. “I’ll knock it down with some rounds, you guys finish it off. Got it?”

“Okay.” replied Sonic and Knuckles.

The man fired 4 rounds at the T-600, which knocked it over onto its knees, and then Sonic used his homing attack to further damage it, and then Knuckles knocked its head off with a punch.

“Whew! That thing was harder than 4 robots combined.” Sonic said. “I’m with ya’ on that.” added Knuckles.

The man walked over the body of the T-600, and then pulled a large revolver out, and fired off 3 rounds into the body. “Another T-600, served up hot!” he said afterwards.

Rouge and Jet were standing by the wrecked semi helping Shadow out, and Shadow had to say: “A mere slipup, I appear to have underestimated this one.”

Then, Sonic turned to the man and said: “Thanks for the save, now will you tell us your name?”

“Oh yes, my name is Sean. Sean Kirkland.” replied the man.

“Nice to meet ya.” said Sonic. “I’m Sonic, and this is Knuckles.”

“Hello, Sean.” said Knuckles.

“Knuckles huh? I can see that you don’t need brass ones.” replied Sean.

Knuckles looked at Sean, who then said “What? Little joke.”

Knuckles said nothing, and then Sean looked and saw Jet, Rouge, and Shadow. “So who are your comrades?”

Sonic turned and pointed at them, “That’s Jet on the left, Shadow in the middle, and that’s Rouge on the right.” Then he turned to them and said: “Guys, this is Sean.”

“That was some nice moves ya’ pulled hon.” said Rouge. Shadow immediately got to his feet and grabbed Sean by the chest.

“Answer Me! What was that thing, and who do you work with?!!”

Sean didn’t panic, and replied: “Whoa, man! Calm down, I just saved your life and already you’re getting rough? Come on, I’m just a Tech-Com Resistance Fighter who saved you from that Terminator.”

Shadow then put Sean down and said, “Terminator? Tech-Com? What year is this?”

“It’s the year 2019.” Sean replied, and Shadow then said: “Then this is the future.”

“Skynet.” Sonic said immediately after, and then explained to Shadow and Rouge about Judgment Day and of Skynet. Sean was surprised at how much Sonic knew.

“Who told you this?” he asked.

“Sarah and John Connor.” Sonic answered. Sean immediately gasped in surprise, and nearly fell over.

“You know our leader, John Connor?!! I’ve never seen you before and you’re telling me you already know him?!! And what’s all this talk about Chaos Control?” he said in surprise.

“Take us to him and we’ll explain everything.” said Knuckles

“And why would I do that?” Sean asked.

“Because we saw him in the past, and I’m sure he’ll remember us.” replied Jet.

“Okay.” Sean replied. “I’ll take you to him, but stick with me, and we won’t have any more problems on the way.”

“Fine.” replied Shadow as they all set off.