Terminator: Kayden's Journey

It Starts Again

I jolted as my phone rang, waking me up from sleep. I groggily sat up and picked up my phone, answering. "Hello?"

"Kayden, there's someone here in the clinic! I have him in one of the cages." Kate told me. I glances at the time and sighed at how late it was.

"I'll be there."

"See you here." She hanged up and I got out of my bed, slipping on a t-shirt, plaid buttoned up shirt, jeans and a pair of boots before walking out of my apartment and to my car. I slipped in and headed off, towards the clinic. Who in their right mind would break into a animal hospital and for what?

I didn't dwell on the thought and pretty soon, I got there. What I saw though had made my blood run cold. A blond woman in red clothing smashed through the window of Kate's truck before just ripping the door off all together. I watched as she dragged Kate out of the car and threw her, making her land on the pavement.

"Kate!" I shouted as I scrambled out of my car. My shout caught the mysterious woman's attention and I just froze. The cool, conculating look on her face almost mirrored that of the T-1000.

She tilted her head, seemingly regarding me before she glanced at Kate and began to walk over to her. "John Connor was here. Where did he go?"

My eyes widened before I bolted as fast as I could to Kate and stood in front of her. "That's close enough! What do you want with John?!"

"...Are you Kayden Connor?" questioned the woman instead.

My muscles locked up and that was all she needed to know. She walked faster towards us. This couldn't be happening, not again, not after all these years of thinking we had finally ended it.

A squeal of tires reached my ears. The woman and I looked over when she was only feet away and saw a Pickup truck barreling off the road and caught some air. I was quick to drop to the ground, an arm around Kate as the truck slammed into the woman and went through a wall of the clinic, making the tanks beside it explode, casting a fiery glow across everything. We watched as the door open and I was frozen once again.

Tall stature, black outfit, leather clothing and, of course, sunglasses made for a familiar sight, one I haven't seen for years. He grabbed a gun, one that I wasn't sure off, and made his way towards us as I slowly stood.

"Katherine Brewster? Kayden Conner?" the terminator questioned as he looked down at her. I nodded and when she took too long to answer, he grabbed her, throwing her over his shoulder and made his way to her truck.

"What are you doing? Let me down!" Kate pounded on his back before noticing me following behind him. "Why aren't you helping me?!"

"It's for your own good." I simply stated as he opened the back doors of her truck and threw her in.

"Where is John Conner?" he asked her.

"If I tell you, will you let me go?" Kate swallowed.

"Yes."

"He's...i-in a kennel, in a cage."

He glanced over at the building before he reached over and grabbed something from a shelf.

"Y-you said you'd let me go."

"I lied." He shut the doors and pushed the thing through the handles as she screamed and pleaded. He bent the the metal that was already through and turned towards me.

"I know, wait here." I stated before going around the truck and into the passenger seat. I watched as he walked into the building before I put my head down on my knees, breathing deeply. It was starting again and he- well, someone like him was here to protect John and I- plus Kate, it seems- again. It was all hitting me way too fast.