Terminator: Realities

LEGION & THE REV-9i

For almost a month, Quin went by the name 'Bob'. At that time he had to help in the construction of another RDE. He tried to go slow, or what could be considered normal speed. That at least could be explained away, but to throw in a 'monkey wrench' was a no-no, Chad and the others were constantly going over his work and would certainly have found it.

Chad was a Rev-9i, as was the rest of his team, Terminators from a reality controlled by a different AI called Legion.

Legion hadn't killed all of the humans in its own reality yet, but it had so much control that it wasn't even a fight anymore. The Resistance there had lost and humanity was just surviving like that last cockroach you couldn't kill

With that, there was no need to invent a TDE. Instead, it found a new way to expand itself and a new purpose when it invented the RDE.

It wouldn't take the chance of building another 'Legion' in a different reality, however, and not even clones could be trusted. It was too ambitious to trust anything other than itself. The last thing it wanted was a competitor.

That's where the Rev-9i came in. A pure infiltration Terminator that wasn't built in vast numbers, though still sizeable and highly sophisticated. Due to the fact it had won the war in its reality, a fighting machine wasn't deemed necessary and would be a strain on what little resources it had left.

The Rev-9i was created after several failed attempts to make an almost-human Terminator. In short, the brain and nervous system are mechanical. The rest of the body as well as its skeletal structure is organic and has one single organ that emits pheromones to fool dogs. Its nervous system allows it to take a massive amount of damage and then instantly regenerate. Also, this nervous system makes them stronger and faster than any human.

Although capable of combat, the Rev-9i's main mission was to quietly infiltrate another reality, locate Skynet or whatever the reigning AI was called, and use the neural remapper to reprogram it to carry out and serve Legion's objectives. In the realities where it was successful, the Resistance had little idea they were fighting a new enemy, much less how to travel to another reality.

Usually, that information was omitted during the remapping process. Not even Quin knew how it was done. Chad had planned for Quin to only build so much of the RDE before putting the finishing touches on it.

In the case there was no super AI. The Rev-9i was to assist in the construction of one and covertly have it operate under Legion's orders. These proxies would be carefully programmed only to wage their war in their own reality.

This made it a simple matter of finding the one Legion causing all this. What was also curious to Quin was that Legion wasn't that much more advanced than Skynet, its technology was just different.

The building that was chosen was an abandoned warehouse that was close by and a fixer-upper with lots of space. A few things all Terminators had going for them was the fact they didn't eat, sleep or stop for breaks.

"Bob," Chad called, handing over a list of items. "Some parts we need, you should be able to get these at the electronics store. Here are a few dollars."

Quin took the list and money. Looking at the list, then at the money, he said. "This ain't enough and we've already robbed most major retailers in almost a month."

"You're a Terminator," Chad replied. "Buy what you can, steal if you have to. We just need a few more parts to finish. You'll make it work. Benny, go with him. Karen and I will keep working on this."

Quin followed an armed Benny outside to a beaten-up truck and got in the passenger side as Benny hotwired it and took off.

It was getting dark. Quin would normally find it odd for a Terminator to be the one to search for a song on the radio and hum to it. But that's exactly what Benny did. Part of the Rev9.i's programming involved 'traits'. A Rev-9i could have dozens of them to appear like a normal human.