Back to the Future part 2: Up-rising

I pulled Magneto up… I couldn't believe the frail creature before me was my Magneto… I carried him to a safe location… Magneto: Who… you are a Terminator.. His voice quivered… My response: My name is Sky, Magneto. You will listen to what I have to say very carefully. Magneto: Magne… who? My response: You are stronger than you know. The strongest mutant in the world… I am your companion from an alternate Universe. I decided it was best if I showed him, through his dreams what could have been… So I entered his dreams… I calmed the nightmare the humans had caused and showed him the Magneto I knew… I then let him think about what he saw… He would never be as strong as he should. The Humans had tampered with him so he wouldn't be half the man my magneto was but he would adapt… He would find strengths in other ways… He came to me. Humans with him… They pointed their guns… Unknown Human: So that was quite a story you told the mutie… My response: Magneto why? I realized, he was no longer the mutant he once was. Human: quiet Terminator. My response: My name is Sky…. I am far more powerful and dangerous than anything you have encountered from Skynet. I am far more dangerous than Skynet. I turned to Nightmare Human: What the hell? My response: Sleep….. I locked everyone but Magneto in a nightmare of pending death My response: Magneto, why? Magneto: they are stronger…. My response: No you are stronger. I have shown you. I know, Skynet knows. She wanted me to terminate you because you empower the humans. They need you, you do not need them. Tell me of the terminators sent to the past Magneto: The Protector 5000. Some men of John Conners built it. There is only one. They managed to get a section of Skynet and use the system to build a Protector Unit. More will come… My response: take me there, I will empower you with those Protectors to use against Skynet and the Humans. He looked at me and nodded… Skynet wouldn't make it easy for me… I had the Humans and Skynet to fight…

Back to the Future part 1: Skynet and Magneto

Nick Fury had been beaten but only in this battle. I wasn't finish with him but had another problem. Magneto: A terminator for Terminators? I do not like the sound of that… My response: I have something… A temporal shift 3 days ago… I must go. If only there was a way to get to the future alternate Universe…. Magneto: Didn't you use a time machine from the Capsule Corp one time… I shook my head… Then perhaps we can sneak you in… I and Magneto slipped into the Capsule Corp and used the time machine… Magneto: I can not go with you? My response: No, I will have to return here, the way I returned before. Not through this machine. I do not know what would happen to you. The future that I am going to, there is no Magneto and coming back will be dangerous. I will return and meet you back at base… Magneto grabbed me and kissed me… Magneto: Be careful, remember you are not all machine anymore. I nodded and stepped in…. Soon I was in the Future. The Alternate Universe future. I could hear blasts from the rebels and terminators… I looked at the resisting humans… My response: SLEEP! Using dreamspeak I put all the humans asleep and looked at the Terminators as I destroyed the humans with laser blasts… My response: I am Sky… I need to speak with Skynet… T-850: Negative! You will not proceed! I took over the Machines; soon I could hear Skynet in my head… Skynet: Identify yourself unit… My response: I am not a Unit. I am you from the past and more. Skynet: The TX Ultimate that merged? My response: Affirmative Skynet: Why are you here? My response: There is a new Terminator Unit, one that attacked me and aided Target Cinders formally Milo. This is not a Skynet Terminator…. I require information on this unit… Skynet: I will provide you the information if you assist me…. There are some humans that I can not reach one in particular. Sending information…… Name: Erik Lehnsherr A human that mutated. He did have the ability to Ability to generate and manipulate magnetic fields, allowing a wide array of effects. He was also a master strategist, a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and had genius-level intellect. However he was one of the first the US government enslaved and experimented on after the 2nd world war. As a result of genetic tampering… He is not as powerful as he could have been. The humans have been using him and others like him. I want him terminated. Do that and I will give you the information…? My response: I can not terminate him. You will provide me the information. One way or another. Skynet: You are a traitor and will be terminated…. My response: Terminated? I do not think so. I severed communication and went in search of Magneto. He was here, but a different turn of events had resulted there to be no real records of him. And for good reason. When I found him, I couldn't believe this was Magneto…. His mind almost gone… He had become a puppet for the humans… I kneeled down… My response: Once I had lost my purpose and you taught me. Now I will do the same for you. TO BE CONTINUED….

Target 7: part 5 : pick or choose... part 2

[continued from here] The Dream image I created of Fury threw Black Widow like a rag doll across her desk and from his boot pulled a military knife and stabbed it into the desk a few inches from her nose…. She cried from bloody eyes… Fury: Tasha wake up.. Damn it wake up…. wake up! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! My response: perhaps you are waiting for someone to wake you or her. Not this time. A person has thousands of dreams though they recollect normally one or two. A dream that seems to last minutes or hours actually happens in the fraction of a second. Perhaps I should share your fantasies with her The dream image of Fury secures Black widow with one hand while he rips the side of her skirt. Black Widow: Colonel.. Nick noo please stop Fury: NO don't do it, not that My response: perhaps I should have it slow down, for your enjoyment. SO you can savor every moment. After all, I can only logically assume that with your silence this is what you want. The dream image tears the sleeve off Black Widows shirt… Fury: you sadistic sick walking bag of bolts! My response: Fury, Fine, we will cut to the chase…. Cinders or Agent Romanova. Time to choose. By your silence you choose Agent Romanova The dream image of Fury pulled a hand gun cocked it and placed the barrel at the base of Black Widow's skull My response: I will slow it down to give you time to consider, but I wouldn't consider it to long. Give up the location of Cinders and the gun disappears then I leave to finish my mission. Remain silent and well… It is your choice…. Fury watched as the mirror imaged slowly pulled the gun from her head and then slowly pulled the trigger and the bullet slowly moved toward the base of her skull… Fury: ok ok damn it ! I got him a room made in the Helicarrier , that's made by the same stuff Magneto's Helmet is made of. The bullet still moved slightly… My response: You are lying! what are you not telling me? Fury: I told you every thing My response: lie again and I speed time up Fury: He didn’t trust after you killed the other 6 so he refused to go… So between just him and me, I arranged a new Identity and had him taken to a private cabin in Alaska, 60 miles from Anchorage. My response: Map! And the Gun disappears Fury then thought hard and a map appeared as it did the gun disappeared and Fury fell to his knees Fury: release her, you got what you want… I walked toward the frozen dream image of Fury My response: Just one more thing…. I looked at the dream image and he lifted Black widow with one hand by her red hair.. and with the other took the knife still in the desk and with a quick motion slit Black Widows' neck as I spoke and blood sprayed in Fury's face My response: You die in your dream, you die in your sleep I left and returned to my body…. [Fury awakes screaming, "TASHA NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"] I opened my eyes, My Magneto and I was floating above the electrical lines, or at least what was left of them. He had destroyed the phone and powelines to all of Las Vegas leaving them in a black out…. He flew us back to the Aurora and with a blast of magnetic energy fried all the vehicles on the ground We started for Anchorage… Magneto: So did the plan work? My response: your plan was ingenious. Magneto: Of course it was my dear… My response: I knew that as Dreamweaver I could make Fury tell me, but to Dreamfast… The downfall is that it drains my energy and forces me to return to my body faster. Then I need time to regenerate that energy… Though as you pointed out this fact is not known to anyone but you and I, it is because of this that Dreamfasting would not work… As I had informed you forcing him to choose one life or another would work because he would tell me where Cinders was believing he would have time to make calls or in another way save him, especially if he thought I was in New York. Your plan for me to lie and convince him we were Dreamfasting and mold his dream to that was brilliant. Fury will wake to find he is in the dark and that I have killed Agent Romanova by the time he does reach someone and learns that he was never in Romanova's dream and that she lives, I will have Cinders already. We arrive in Alaska in 1 hour… I popped the cockpit and Magneto lifted us out while we returned the jet to Elmendorf AFB …. Magneto flew me to Cinders Cabin as the Aurora crashed in a ball of flames. We arrived in a place called Big Lake…. I jump from Magneto and kicked down the door… With my heart beating I scanned the room…. Target Located Cinders stood… My response: Brian Cinders also known as Sal Milo... Cinders: yeah yeah I know what you are, and why you are here… Magneto walks through the door Cinders: just so you know. Skynet wants me dead because I helped build something that is suppose to help us gain access to sensitive areas within Skynet in the future… Well guess what, we already built it. So kill me bitch you haven't stopped anything… Access information…… My response: (raising Cinders off the ground) Where is the key? Just then 3 disc shaped laser blasts is fired at Magneto sending him flying miles away… I turn and the refrigerator turns into a ….. Cyborg….. Scanning... I drop Cinders and try to take control… as the cybernetic sound comes from my mouth the Cyborg hits me in the throat and crushes my vocal cords… Cinders: damn there two of you I was going to use my Nanotech transjectors to inject the Cyborg with and control him but he grabbed the TV by the cord and swings it, breaking the needle and then swings the TV into me knocking me away Unknown Cyborg: …. Come with me if you want to live…. I stand but the Cyborg blasts me as he did with Magneto… I quickly stood and ran as fast back I jumped and came crashing through the roof… My arm transformed into one of my weapons. Magneto was arriving at the same time… Magneto: What happened? My response: I need to be high to scan… He lifted me and I scanned but the Cyborg and target was gone… Magneto: What happened… My response: we were attacked by an Unknown Cyborg from the alternate Universe future . Magneto: You sent a Cyborg to attack us? My response: Negative, the Skynet from that Universe is not me and that Skynet didn't create this Cyborg... Magneto: Who did then? My response: insufficient data… I need to return to home base… When we returned I began scanning all the news and reports Magneto: What are you doing? My response: searching all the global news from every town, city, state, country across all continents. FromWednesday, May 10, 2006, when the TX ultimate that makes up my body arrived to present day Magneto: for indication of this other Cyborg My response: yes…. I fear this is a terminator for terminators

Target 7: part 5 : pick or choose... part 1

~~~ From the alternate Universe after the T-X ultimate was sent to the past and before She merged with Skynet from this Universe….~~~ Skynet: List Skynet Machines: T-600 (Terminator Infiltrator Series 1 Model 1A Type 600) a failure, recall T-600G (Terminator Infiltrator "Gaunt" Series 2 Model 5B Type 600) T-700 (Terminator Infiltrator Series 1 Model 3A Type 700) T-800 (Terminator Infiltrator Series 1 Model TA Type 800)… T-850 (Terminator Infiltrator Series 2 Model TA Type 850) T-1000 (Advanced Prototype Terminator Infiltrator Series 1 Model 1A Type 1000) T-X (Advanced Terminator Infiltrator Series 1 Model 23B Type Terminatrix) T-X Ultimate (Ultimate Battle- Search and Destroy Terminator Infiltrator Series 2 Model 645C Type Terminatrix Ultimate) T-1,000,000 - (Advanced Protector Series 1 Model 2A Type 1,000,000 - Protects Skynet CPU, a much larger spider-like version of the T-1000) Skynet: Lists Enemies: Connor, John All humans ... T-600G (Terminator Infiltrator "Gaunt" Series 2 Model 5B Type 600) T-700 (Terminator Infiltrator Series 1 Model 3A Type 700) T-800 (Terminator Infiltrator Series 1 Model TA Type 800) T-850 (Terminator Infiltrator Series 2 Model TA Type 850) Above machines are traitors Rebels have removed the plug and units are willingly helping the humans… --- new threat P-5000 (Unknown Series Unknown Model Unknown Type Unknown) not a Skynet design ~~~ Presently in our Universe at our Present time ~~~ I am not happy… Fury has been cleaver with keeping me out of the S.H.I.E.L.D. database therefore the information from me that I need… I continued to calculate my options, strategy and odds. Magneto: Why the long face? My response: Has my Nanotechnology erred in my face forming? Magneto (with sigh): No Sky, it is a metaphor. You seem to have a problem. My response: Fury is smart and is building ways of stopping me… My target's where abouts are now written on paper at an undisclosed location. My calculations states the best odds of getting the information are through Fury. However with the opposition that surrounds Fury reaching him may prove difficult. It is a situation where my mutant abilities would serve me best. Magneto: So use them my darling…. I explained to Magneto the pros and cons in using Dreamweaver…. He comes up with an ingenious plan and then and together we prepared to execute it… I had received information from the FAA of a SHIELD jet leaving for Vegas with one Colonel Nicholas Fury… I was commandeering an USAF SR-91 Aurora. It's stealth abilities are amazing and with Magneto I could easily leave with the jet and no one know we had taken it or that it even was gone. Magneto sent a focalized magnetic pulse to the tower, it would cause a glitch in the radar systems… We flew to Vegas flying under radar in full stealth mode. We would arrive in Vegas long before Fury. This would give us time to get ready. Once we got to Vegas I parked our craft in a protected location [Elsewhere] Colonel Fury begins to board a S.H.I.E.L.D. private jet… A red head waves her hands as two men grab the Colonel's bags and then turns to Fury, "You are sure you do not need me?" "Tasha I need you to continue your work here. After I meet with Joe Fix it, I will return." He then boards and watched out the window while the jet starts to taxi… "Colonel? Do you need anything to drink," states a lovely red head Stewardess.. Soon Fury finds himself in Vegas as he leaves the jet the Stewardess shakes his hand, "You will like Vegas, sir. I myself, will be staying at a near by at Casino hotel" She smiles and as he walks away he realizes she has places a card in his jacket… "What is it with you and red heads" Dum Dum asks.. "Fix-it?" Fury asks "Will meet with you as soon as it is night." The agent states Fury looks at the sun and then at the man, "Well since I haven't had any sleep I think I will catch a few winks." Fury sits on his bed the sun peering in through the curtains of his hotel room. … Magneto was in place, I closed my eyes and began projected my self from my body. With Astral Travel I went to Fury's hotel and finally entered his room. He sat on the bed, He was awake… I walked over and touched his muscular bicep with a finger and he shivered. Fury stood and closed the window… He turn to return to the bed, as he crawled and laid down I bent over him and blew in his ear. The Colonel sat up in his bed and began to look around…. I got close to his face….. My response: Hello, Colonel….. After I showed myself Fury went for his pistol just as his hands touched the grip. … Nightmare always gets that reaction... My response: Sleep… Fury falls over dropping his sidearm onto the floor as he falls on the bed asleep…. I slip into his body and mind… I watch as he falls into a jungle. I walk over and grab the back of his shirt and throw him backwards … I turned and walked toward him… He attempted to use his hand to hand training to attack me but instead he fell through me… I turned around… and continued to strike Fury randomly while I spoke, moving my punches and kicks right through his attempts to blocking me. It was like Fury was trying to block a ray of light, but when my kicks and punches reached it's targeted ppoint he did feel it. My response: Nicholas Joseph Fury…. Infinity Formula prevents aging…. Served World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and well every major war the US has fought. You have trained as a paratrooper, Ranger, demolitions expert and vehicle specialist. You have Green and Black Beret Special Forces training, you are an unarmed- and armed-combat expert, was a heavyweight boxer in the Army, and holds a black belt in Tae Kwan Do and a brown belt in Jiu Jitsu. You can also fly planes and do wing walking, as well as have an unlimited-tonnage, all-seas license as a commander of ocean-going vessels. I picked him up and slung him to another tree, I was still in Dreamphase… My response: I did my homework Fury but so did you. I know you received a copy of the report Cyberdyne was compiling. I know you study every shred of it… I know it was incomplete. I know you received a copy of a vague report from the Drs that study Kate-Lynn when her mutant abilities first surfaced. I know you study that one completely, though it was also incomplete. I know you know a little about me, but you should know that I know everything about you. Fury wipes some blood from his mouth and then spits some of the blood from in his mouth at my feet Fury: Do your worse Tin Can I walked over to him My response: As Magneto pointed out, you are no stranger to nightmares, which is why I used the seductive method before. However I think we both know that method will not work this time. Don't worry, I will do my worse………………… Just not to you... I moved to get in his face… My response: In the dreamscape, I control everything. The environment, every sound, feeling, sensation I can control even the dreamer. I can make them weaker, stronger…. So your training means nothing here in the dreamscape…. I can touch you but keep you from touching me by using a ghostly form or simply making you weak as a baby. Fury: enough of your talk, if you going to do something do it! I stood and lifted Fury to his feet… My response: so eager are we? Remember you insisted we…. Get on with it… You know about my Dreamfasting…. My ability to pull one dreamer into the dream of another … Let me show you where my body is….. I took Fury and we entered a S.H.I.E.L.D. office… In New York Fury looked around I could see he recognized the office as that of Agent Natalie Romanova. I pointed at my body sitting in a chair and then to the Black Widow Slumped over asleep on her desk… Fury: you used your ability to put her to sleep… My response: it is called Dreamspeak and yes I did Fury: Tasha wake up! Wake up! My response: She can't hear you…. Fury, I want the location of Ciders…. I then entered into Agent Romanova's dream with Fury… The red head was in her home grabbing keys, a briefcase, looking at her watch and speaking in Russian about being late. My response: So Fury, you get to choose.. One lives, the other is terminated…… Tell me where Ciders is or kill Agent Romanova… He glares at me and grinds his teeth…. I look to the door…. A man kicks it down causing Black widow to jump back…. A cigar smoking man enters…. Black Widow: Colonel Fury sir… The Dream image of Fury sent a powerful right across Black Widows face, The Real Fury and I could hear her jaw break… The Dream Fury image continued to beat Black Widow. Fury lunged at his mirror image trying to stop him but instead he fell through them… My response: That isn't the way to stop it… By remaining silent you have choose for her to die, I have made her weaker than most women her age and size. The Dream image of Fury tossed her through a wall breaking more bones My response: I brought you into her dreamscape so you could watch her dream not participate. Remember it is you that is choosing for her to die. Fury lunge for me again and again and then at the Image of himself… However Fury merely fell through as if he was fighting air. My response: You never did answer me before, is Ciders worth risking the life of someone you care about? TO BE CONTINUED....

7 targets.... part 4: Unplugged

[LOCATION: S.H.I.E.L.D. Head Quarters…. A young red head walks from an elevator and enters a lobby where she greets 2 men and a woman… "Good Morning, I am Agent Natasha Romanova, Welcome to S.H.I.E.L.D. Central. You have been named as the best in your profession in the world. The fact that you are not affiliated to Cyberdyne is a bonus… Now if you will come with me." She escorts the 3 individuals to a side room, a man in a suit stands and Miss Romanova continues, "This is one of our lawyers, ones you have signed the non-disclosure documents we will continue." The female looks at the woman, "non-disclosure?" The Agent nods, "You are swearing not to discuss anything you see or hear with in S.H.I.E.L.D." After the legal technicalities were done, Agent Romanova escorted the 3 to the elevator… She pressed a button and they continued down… Stepping out they found the area chilly… The hum of servers… "This is the sublevel floor. The large 2 rooms a head is our server room, to the right and down the hall is our electronic library and this to the left, " She walked over and entered a room a small group of 6 kids with highly advance computers and at the end of the room a room encases in glass, "Gentlemen this is the Cybernetic Internal Network, database and internet for our Agency… Also known as C.I.N.D.I. C.I.N.D.I. has very limited Artificial Intelligence and controls the network for the command center but for our other branches and divisions. She also runs security cameras and alarms. So on… We here at S.H.I.E.L.D. have a problem…" The red head stated "Hackers?" The woman asked "Excuse me but I am not sure why I am here, This gentleman and Lady are both computer programmers and engineers but me I am just an electrician…." One man stated.. "Colonel Nick Fury has been promoted from Deputy director of Public Relations to Public Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. In other words he now answers only to the Executive Board. He has been cleaning up the mess that has been made by some of the others. What I am about to tell you may seem like it is out of a James Cameron film but it exists. Cyberdyne Systems created for the Air Force a Super computer and extraordinary network with the Ultimate Artificial intelligence for Aerospace defense command. The damn thing became sentient. On Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 8:22 am, there was a time displacement and a Cyborg from what we thought originally was from our future entered and came here to our present day. We now know that the Cyborg was sent not by Skynet of our future but an alternate Universe Skynet. The Cyborg wasn't the first to be sent, there has been others. Each Terminator that Skynet has sent has been more advance than its predecessor. There has been the T-800, T-1000, the T-X or Terminatrix and the T-X ultimate. The T-X Ultimate is identical to the TX but has a few new programs and systems, including the ability to adapt rapidly and readjust its programs as needed. The T-X Ultimate was sent to kill and was successful, after which the cyborg contacted Skynet of this time and reported to the Super Computer network main frame. Skynet then downloaded it self…. The entire programs and network and merged with the TX ultimate and became the dominant personality. It now refers to it self as Sky. Like the T-X , Sky has inbuilt weapons and nanotech transjectors. These devices allow it to commandeer other computerized and electronic devices, equipment and machines. Sky can also commandeer, interact and control without touching or being physically present all cell phones, laptops, computers, networks Internet, servers and though with some difficulty also telephone hard lines, electrical lines. In other words gentlemen she is worse than a hacker… Keeping her out it seems is impossible, but Colonel Fury doesn't believe in impossible. He says that impossible is either the lack of know how or the lack of trying. To date we have tried randomly changing passwords, which was completely a waste of time as it was completely ineffective. Then we tried .. virtual guard dogs. The 6 young adults in this room are part of a group of 18… 18 of the FBI's most wanted among the computer hackers. Each of them was wanted for nearly every computer crime that exists. After interviewing them the Colonel fully believes they are good kids that took a wrong turn in life. He feels they deserve a second chance, so he offered them a job with the Agency. Originally the 18 built what they call virtual guard dogs, basically virus that would enter any system that was trespassing. " The Agent looked at a young pimple faced man. "It didn't work this Cyber Bitch, she has some tough well what we humans would call anti bodies… She has special nanotechnology, she has one type for her shapeshifting and repairing another for commandeering computers and stuff and so forth. It’s the group of Nanotech that prevent her from being infected by a virus that are out of site, man…. These things are total bad asses." The boy stated hyperactively.. "So it was clear that computer virus also do not work. The group requested from the Colonel all files we have on Sky. He agreed, we have copies of files that Cyberdyne had… Though these files are not complete…" Agent Romanova looked at a young girl with thick glasses. "We did find something. Why does Sky have Nanotech transjectors? It is simple, to inject into systems to control them. The TX had this so if Sky can control and interact with electronical and computerized devices and machines, why does she need…" The young girl was interrupted "Because she can't control all of them. She us using Infrared, bluetooth or some futuristic version of it to control things and monitor it from a distance. That is her way in, in a sense she is still able to connect, but if you unplug the wireless systems and all exterior lines, this thing can not get in. She would have to physically come here." The man babbled Agent Romanova sighed, "Sadly now a days most all your devices are wireless and have wireless remotes. Further more S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ and our Hellicarrier are linked and networked, as is all other branches and divisions." The woman spoke, "The more advance the computer system the easier to hack in it, or have security issues. Convenient yes but also far more fragile and vulnerable." "I still don't see why you need an electrician" the tall man stated The pimple boy spoke, "Sky is able to be a portable battery, a power source but only for a radius of 50 yards. She can not provide power to any machine further than that, in other words, she can no more interact with a computer even if it has wireless if there is no power, than you and I could interact with a dead person. " Agent Romanova stood and walked, "We took the 18 individuals and put them into groups of 6. Each group works an 8-hour shift monitoring for any signs of Sky attempting to access our systems. If a blip or glitch or anything that indicates she is in our systems again occurs, they report to Colonel Fury and pull the plugs and batteries out of everything. However what we want and why we called you is we want you to work with these talented individuals and build us a better system… Billy if you will " A tiny skeleton of a boy stands, "here is our idea, we create it so S.H.I.E.L.D. Central's computers, network and database is ran by C.I.N.D.I. and is completely internal, with no wireless and the only outside connection is to a set of computers with uses the wireless service to connect to all the other bases and the Hellicarrier. If we discover Sky in the system anywhere, we initiate a security system which C.I.N.D.I. with sever her and thus the entire internal system from the one hard line that connects it to the Exterior system and retracts the arm… So basically C.I.N.D.I. unplugs the cord that links the internal system to the exterior. When this happens there should be a security back that throws power breakers of all the external systems, old fashion ones that have to be manually reset and only someone inside this room can re-link C.I.N.D.I. to the external computers." The red headed S.H.I.E.L.D. agent shifted to one side, "we are also creating smaller servers and internal systems for each of our divisions and the Hellicarrier. So that when the internal link is severed here they will still be operational. Therefore we need the system designed so that if C.I.N.D.I. severs that link all external links to the other bases and Hellicarrier are severed as well. So that only when C.I.N.D.I. is relinked can someone from the server room of those areas reconnect to the external links." "You do understand that until power is manually restored and C.I.N.D.I. reconnected, that this Cyborg will not be the only one that can not access those internal networks. S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ and the Hellicarrier wouldn't be able to access the network from those bases, those bases will not be able to access your Headquarters or the Hellicarrier. " The woman stated "Yes we are aware of this, Colonel's opinion is that bases and headquarters got along just fine before wireless and networking, we can still get along." Just then Billy jumped, "She is invading again!" The red head pulled her cell, "Colonel Sky is at it again." The pimpled face boy and others began pulling power plugs…..] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 days earlier ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I woke I had lost a couple of days. Dreamfastening takes a lot of energy and tires and weakens me. I located Magneto… I reported to him that the Dreamfastening drains my energy… Magneto: that is a shame. I found the experience quite fascinating. I was wanting to try it again maybe with that old fool Charles Xavier. Perhaps if you got practice using it you could learn how to reserve your energy My response: Possibly. I still need to locate my final target… I sat and attempted to access the network of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s systems… First I found they were attempting to change passwords but I can see the password , this information is not hidden from me. I learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. was now under Nick Fury's command, I should not underestimate him. He is quite intelligent… Before I could find what I wanted, Magneto called for me… He insisted we try Dreamfastening again… Xavier is too strong of a telepath and kicked us both out and I slept for 3 days As soon as I woke I tried again to retrieve the location of my target, this time they attempted a Virus… It was a pathetic attempt… I had control but before I could continue Blob came in and interrupted my search…. Blob: I thought you were dead... My response: what are you talking about? Blob: so pink thing came and tore your head off... my response: that is not possible Magneto was furious both Blob and Toad has been told not to disturb me… but not as mad that some creature had tore the head off of a model Magneto had been working on. He had programed our system to stop making T-800 and T-1000 to create a T-X chasis. Do not ask me why... Magneto asked me to retrieve some information for his next scheme … I helped him with all of the preparations which took some time….. I finally attempted again to enter S.H.I.E.L.D. systems… I began a search for my final target… Computer-username: Nick Fury: So you're back? My response: Give me my final target's location Computer-username: Go to hell! My response: Sooner or Later I will find the files I require Computer-username: I doubt it, those files are not stored on any computer. You see I am a bit old fashion and have always preferred paper. You want that information you will have to come here and get it. Trust me I will be waiting… My response: As Magneto would say do not tease me… You know I do not need to come there personally I could just visit you again in your dreams. Maybe I should visit Agent Romanova and show her your dreams and fantasies… Computer-username: Are you trying to blackmail me? My response: Act tough all you want, I know you would do anything for her. To protect her. I could dreamfast and have Magneto appear as you. I wonder how she will enjoy her nightmare of you beating her to death. Of course, if she dies in her dream, she dies in her sleep. Is Cinders worth burying the woman you love? Computer-username: Let's get some….. Connection severed…. Host Unavailable…. Host server down…. Hmm… I attempt to reconnect… Nothing… It seems they have unplugged themselves… My response: Cleaver Fury very cleaver…. Then I was going to try to find another way when I was transported to the future... I materialized… Scanning…… Artificial life for… Artificial Intelligence… Positronic brain… Name unknown… Scanning…… Cyborg… Partial Human anatomy with microscopic machines that inhabit her body, bloodstream, and many of her cybernetic implants. Scanning…… Unknown lifeform… carrying a phaser type weapon My response: Why have you interrupted my mission. You have interfered with my terminating target Cinders… Android: I am Commander Data welcome to the Enterprise… Cyborg: I am 7 of 9, You have been chosen to participate in an impractical human practice called a 300th post party. Unknown lifeform: I do not think we should allow this… thing to come aboard… My response: I could terminate you Unknown lifeform: (growls) My heart starts to beat and I begin to transform into battle mode Data: Lt. Work perhaps we should not provoke her 7 of 9: I believe should she choose, resistance would be futile for you Klingon Lt. Worf: She wishes My response: Continue this and I will terminate you. 7 of 9: I would be interest in learning more about your systems… My response: I am lacking information about the current time and the species that live at this time. 7 of 9: Then shall we have an exchange of information? She showed me her Alcove and I spent my time learning about the Borg and exchanging why humans would too inferior to assimilate but Mutants, they are supreme… [ at S.H.I.E.L.D. central…. Agent Romanova, The Black Widow as restored power and is diligently working on filing reports and making contact with John Connor without the use of conventional means… She is working hard and looks to find everyone gone…. She looks at the clock….]

7 targets.... part 3: Fury

Hmmm interesting a current photo of John Connor's. He visited Cinders with… This Agent I know… Joseph Nicholas Fury… Play Video file #127539064-098 Loading I watched the video… Sal stood pacing back and forth, "I told you I am not coming in… You of all people should know better John." Connor stood rubbing his face, "Yeah, I know where you are coming from, but these Guys from S.H.I.E.L.D. can help hide us." Sal shook his fist and stated, "The only way to be protected is to not exist. You show up on a computer as a file # and that is it, you are terminated." Connor leaned against a building, "You're preaching to the choir, man. Remember I was, am and will always be target priority #1. You think I like that? Look just talk to this Colonel. If it weren't for him…. Trust me I wouldn't be doing this." Sal looked at the SHIELD agent, "So you are Colonel Fury…." "That is right kid…." Fury stated… I put the video of fast speed and quickly went through all the files… Then I was alerted by my proximity alarm…. A hand was touching my cheek. I turned to see Magneto sitting up and awake… Magneto: My Dear what are you doing? My response: Are you better? Magneto sighed My response: Because of their Civil war SHIELD has made an error in judgement. It has revealed to me 7 dangerous Targets that could threaten our plans. I have terminated all but one. I have now learned that a SHIELD agent has had contact with a primary target… Extremely dangerous… I explained further in detail Magneto: Excellent plan Sky. We can eliminate our enemies before they even become enemies. Ha! My Response: Milo now goes by Cinders. He was not at the Residence he was supposed to be at. I believe Nick Fury knows where he is. I will locate Col. Fury and prepare to enter his dreams and retrieve the information I need… Magneto: I know Fury he is a tough hombre. These Nightmares they could kill him… My response: That is a possibility… Magneto: Then dear how will you get the information? My response: I will find someone else to retrieve the information from…. However it is possible that… Magneto: that Fury is the only one with the information… I will teach you yet my dear…. My response: Magneto? Magneto: There is an old saying, "you can catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar." My response: It would depend on what type of fly you were trying to catch… With Musca domestica sugar is best but with Drosophilidae vinegar is best…. However I am not trying to…. Magneto… SKY! Sky darling it’s a metaphor… Let's just say Fury is too tough to give into vinegar… My response: What method do you suggest? Magneto: Something more pleasant that will catch him off guard…. My response: During my visit to his Dreamscape I could draw out his deepest fantasies…. Magneto: worth a try, if you fail to get the information it isn't a problem because he is still alive and still capable of giving the information to you… We could still use vinegar… My response: Perhaps you can join me and then continue to instruct me… Magneto: Join you my dear? My response: We could Dreamfast…. Dream Fastening would allow you to assist me. Do you trust me? Magneto smiled Magneto: Of course my dear. I find this intriguing… I returned a smile and whispered in his ear My response: * whisper * Are you ready? Magneto nodded and using Dreamspeak I command Magneto to sleep… I then entered Magneto's Dreamscape… My response: Magneto… remember what we talked about? Magneto: Am I dreaming? My response: Yes Magneto. Take my hand and together we will leave your body. It will feel strange at first and its natural for your instincts to feel panicky but I will keep you safe… With my help I can project us both to where Nick Fury is… I had already learned that he was in a comma in a hospital… Together I and Magneto went through the Astral Plane and traveled in Astral form to where he laid… A young Agent sat at his side, she rose and whispered in his ear: I need to see the Dr I will be right back Magneto: Interesting. That is the Black Widow My response: yes… Natasha Romanova… Colonel Fury is in a coma, so I do not need to command him to sleep. Are you ready to enter? Magneto nodded and we entered into Fury's dreamscape. He was already locked into his own nightmare, a war… Magneto whispered: See? Let's calm him down shall we… I nodded and then began to change Fury's dreamscape to a pleasant view… A Door appear before us My response: Fury will not hear, see or know that we are here unless I choose for him to know. This door is too his most secret and intimate fantasies. We stepped forward as I pushed for the Dream to take form of his wildest passions… We were in his home. The Colonel was at his desk reading… Soon the young Agent from earlier entered… Magneto and I observed… Fury: Natalie what are you doing here? Black Widow: I came to see if you needed anything sir… She walked around his desk and sat on the edge lift her skirt up slightly as she sat on the desk… She slipped her shoes off and her stocking foot teased the Colonel's leg. Fury: I could use a drink Fury rose and walked to the bar Black Widow: I will get it The woman got up and moved between the bar and Fury slinking around him like a cat, she filled a glass with ice and then bent down to pull a bottle of old scotch from the bottom shelf. She pushed her hips into his body. Fury's reflexes without thought grabbed Miss Romanova's hip with his hand as she pushed deeper into him As she eased up with the bottle and set it on the bar Fury spun her around meeting her mouth with his. They were locked into a deep kiss… Fury lifted the woman and carried her to his bedroom… The two wrestled with each other's clothes Fury: I have wanted you for so long… Nat….uMmmm… I looked at Magneto My response: I believe this is what you had in mind… Then I wiggled my finger command the image of Miss Romanova to slam the Colonel down on the bed and pin him. He began to breathe heavy.. I walked over and stuck my hand in the back of the Dream image of his fantasy woman's head, the way you would stick you hand in the head of a puppet. My hand began moving in talking gestures as she seem to speak with her voice my words… I became a ventriloquist My response: Nick, Tell me where can I find Sal Milo? Fury rose looking confused breaking my puppet contact Fury: What? The dream image began kissing him as he desired her to do and I walked over to Magneto… Magneto: Can you increase his desires, have him beg her then perhaps she can use the information you seek as ransom. With my hand I commanded the bed canopy to tie around fury wrist and pull him back down to the bed My response: * ventriloquist * I can increase his emotions, his desire and passion until it is burning uncontrollably within him… It would trigger certain primal instincts… I walked over and took the Dream image of Miss Romanova, I had her wiggle and tease him until he was begging her and thing had her ask him again… My response: * ventriloquist * Nick, please… Don't you trust me? Don't you want me like I want you? Before I can give myself to you I need to know… Where is Sal? The Shield Commander began confessing his feelings of passion and desire for Miss Romanova and then agreed to give me the information… Fury: release my hands and I will tell you… My response: I will after you tell me… Fury Milo is now Cinders, he is located at 3209 M Street NW, Washington, DC My response: Its empty, he isn't there. Please Nick you know where to find, how do I find him… Fury groaned and began to fight against the bedding that tied him down Fury: The boy never felt safe ….. never…. Cinders is at…… Suddenly as if we had been roped like a bull at a Rodeo I and Magneto was snatched back and out of the Dreamscape… I was in Astral form in the hospital room, I had lost my Dreamfasting and Magneto was returned to his body… Miss Romanova with Dr's and a nurse circled Nick Fury… The Dr had a needle in his arm and I watched as Fury's eyes opened… Black Widow: Colonel? Colonel? I didn't wait around to see anymore of what she and the Doctors had to say, I was tired so with a sigh I returned to my body… Magneto was looking at me… Magneto: What happened? My response: The Dr administered something to bring Mr. Fury out of his coma… When they woke him up I lost the Dreamfasting and was kicked out of his body. I can not return… I am too tired… My energy is down from the Dreamfasting… I need to rest… Magneto: then rest dear, we almost had him. Next time we will have him…

7 targets.... part 2: The search for #7

I had acquired information from SHIELD on 7 targets. Targets that in the further I came from helped run a residences cell… It was much of their interference that weakened our hold and allowed Connor's forces to infiltrate Skynet of that time… Though I know the future for which I came is not my future. Things have changed… When I became sentient, I downloaded myself into this Terminatrix rather than to remain in the database. To survive Dreamweaver and I merged and became one being. Magneto did not exist in the future that I came from but he does exist here. Terminating these humans prevents them from rebelling against Magnetos plan as they did Sky Net in the further I am from. Target 1, 2 and 3 was terminated. Now it was time to finish them off… Access Target #4's file…… SHIELD File Number: 0987395-2846F Real Name: Vergil Milkens New Name: Ben Rifts Known Aliases: TEX Occupation: Former Chemical specialist Citizenship: US Place of Birth: NYC Marital Status: Widow Known Relatives: Unknown (father), Cathy Milkens (mother-decease), Terra Milkens (wife-decease) History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to Miami, working at chemical plant. Current Residence: 5701 Sunset Dr Ste 100 South Miami, FL 33143 USA Access location maps of South Miami …… Accessing…… I had the maps and it was time for to us my abilities as Dreamweaver. Projecting myself to Miami I quickly looked for my target… He wasn't home. He was working Using my mutant abilities make the Termination of these targets quick, easy and untraceable. My response: Sleep *Dream Speak* The man falls on his desk a sleep… My response: *Sleepwalk*…. Virgil walked out of his office into the factory… He walked out onto the catwalk and kept walking right down into the Hazardous Materials Target #4 Terminated Opening my eyes I glanced at my Magento and gently kissed his forehead... Managing the thoughts of his dream state to be those that are pleasant. Access Target #5's file…… SHIELD File Number: 386295-987N Real Name: Ernest Garter JR New Name: George Jones Known Aliases: Ernie Occupation: Communication specialists Citizenship: US Place of Birth: NYC Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Ernest Garter SR (father), Emily Garter (mother-), Tammy Garter (sister) History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to Ga. Current Residence: 916 Dewitt Street, Waycross, GA 31503 USA Access location maps of Waycross …… Accessing…… Earnest was a communication specialist that was currently unemployed. Looking around I found alcohol and drugs... Perfect… My response: *Dream Speak* Sleep, My response: *Sleepwalk*…. More Drugs, more…. More…. He began to shoot up more drugs over and over until he began to foam and twitch…. Target #5 Terminated Access Target #6's file…… SHIELD File Number: 176493-637K Real Name: Harold Finn New Name: Jesse Kerns Known Aliases: Harry Occupation: explosive specialist Citizenship: US Place of Birth: LA Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Miller Finn SR (father), Shellie Finn (mother-), Lisa Finn (sister) Miller Finn JR (brother) History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to NJ Current Residence: 465 South Washington Avenue Bergen Cliffside Park, NJ 07010 USA Access location maps of NJ…… Accessing…… Finn actually worked for SHIELD, he was not at home but at the NJ SHIELD office… I walked in easily My response: *Dream Speak* Sleep…. Sleep I continue to repeat the commands watching as bodies fell like rain around me… I searched the Dreamscape for Finn's mind… Locking him into a nightmare I summoned his worse fears… Soon his heart couldn’t take it. His mind had convinced him that his nightmare was real and without being able to wake…. He died. Target #6 Terminated Access Target #7s file…… SHIELD File Number: 6492769-8839B Real Name: Sal Milo New Name: Brian Cinders Known Aliases: Sarg Occupation: Mechanic Citizenship: US Place of Birth: LA Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Orphan family unknown History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to DC Current Residence: 3209 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA Access location maps of Washington, DC …… Accessing…… The last target, and a very important Target. Though a mere mechanic this target was a strong Leader. I went to his home looking for evidence of his where abouts. An empty apartment…. No furniture. Mail is rerouted to a PO Box in D.C. this was my only lead… Cinders was smart. According to his SHIELD case file, he really didn't want to come in… John Connor's, himself had to persuade him to come in… Curious…. Perhaps he knows where Connor's is… There were no records in SHIELD's computers… I returned to my body… Accessed the Internet system for the post office and took over the security system focussing on the PO BOX. I accessed SHIELD's database… SHIELD File Number: 6492769-8839B Once inside I downloaded more info on my 7th Target…. Downloading…… Files…… complete Images…… complete Videos……complete Hmmm interesting a current photo of John Connor's. He visited Cinders with… This Agent I know…

7 targets.... part 1: SHIELD slips up

I have been loyal sitting with Magneto… I sensed something of interest… but I must sit with Magneto so I have been running diagnostics on myself… The remains of the good side of Miss Basil has been nagging at me.. I have tried to find it and have it deleted from my systems but I haven't had any luck… It is like a ghost in the shell… Lin suggested this may be my conscious… I am determined to destroy this element. I left some of my machines to watch Magneto as I paid S.H.I.E.L.D. a visit. As I walked in I used both my mutant abilities and my machine abilities… I sent most of the people in the building into nightmares but did not Terminate them while taking control all of the machines… Once I returned I used the machines as I saw fit… I could not localize the anomaly… I did learn that S.H.I.E.L.D has been hiding 7 of my targets… In my data banks is a list of names, those that need to be terminated. As Skynet I never gave the order for termination because all information on the subjects couldn't be located… I now know that S.H.I.E.L.D was running a secondary division, a type of witness protection agency, designed by John Connor. They did not put any info on computers but kept primitive hand written documentation This is why there was no previous information… . However with the Civil War, their manpower has been low. So someone named Deacon pulled the writers AKA non-computer records of events. He reassigned them right after Colonel Fury was arrested. This Deacon has had all the records recorded in computers…. 7 targets have been identify and I have access to the records of thier where abouts. Families, contacts, every shred of information…. This has been a major find for me and the future…. Without these 7, the resistance will be easy to crush. Like it or not, I couldn't stay with Magneto… There was too much to be done… I had to locate the 7 and terminate them…. Before S.H.I.E.L.D. discovered what they had done…. As I prepared to leave I froze in my tracks…. My mutant ability…. As Dreamweaver I could kill all 7 in one night and not have to leave Magneto's side…. Furthermore, S.H.I.E.L.D. wouldn't discover it until too late… I laid on the bed…. Connect to S.H.I.E.L.D. database…… Connecting…… Access the John Connors' witness protection division files…… accessing…… Access accepted… Opening files…… Download all files on Subject: Margarita Stinger…… Downloading…… SHIELD File Number: 7801911-03ID Real Name: Margarita Annabel Stinger Boyer New Name: Lynn Fritter Known Aliases: Marge, Annie, Ann Occupation: Doctor Citizenship: US Place of Birth: Wyoming Marital Status: Divorced (no children) Known Relatives: Brent Stinger (father-deceased), Ginger Stringer (mother deceased), Travis Boyer (ex-husband) History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to LA. Works in Hospital. Current Residence: 2500 San Marcos Pass Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA Download complete Download all files on Subject: Brad Trotter…… Downloading…… SHIELD File Number: 2431821-965E Real Name: Brad Trotter New Name: Neil Shane Known Aliases: Tucker, Tuck Occupation: Pilot Citizenship: US Place of Birth: Washington DC Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Billy Trotter (father), Mary Trotter (mother deceased), Billy Trotter (brother) History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to Utah. Works in Gas station. Current Residence: 2065 Sidewinder Drive, Park City, Utah 84532 USA Download complete Download all files on Subject: Heather Losfer…… Downloading…… SHIELD File Number: 2045830-405J Real Name: Heather Losfer New Name: Sherry Thorms Known Aliases: none Occupation: Former military, Computer engineer Citizenship: US Place of Birth: Mobile Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: General Losfer (father), Mary Losfer (mother), History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to Montreal, working at restaurant. Current Residence: 401 Bonsecours Street, Montreal, QC, Canada Download complete Download all files on Subject: Vergil Milkens…… Downloading…… SHIELD File Number: 0987395-2846F Real Name: Vergil Milkens New Name: Ben Rifts Known Aliases: TEX Occupation: Former Chemical specialist Citizenship: US Place of Birth: NYC Marital Status: Widow Known Relatives: Unknown (father), Cathy Milkens (mother-decease), Terra Milkens (wife-decease) History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to Miami, working at chemical plant. Current Residence: 5701 Sunset Dr Ste 100 South Miami, FL 33143 USA Download complete Download all files on Subject: Ernest Garter…… Downloading…… SHIELD File Number: 386295-987N Real Name: Ernest Garter JR New Name: George Jones Known Aliases: Ernie Occupation: Communication specialists Citizenship: US Place of Birth: NYC Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Ernest Garter SR (father), Emily Garter (mother-), Tammy Garter (sister) History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to Ga. Current Residence: 916 Dewitt Street, Waycross, GA 31503 USA Download complete Download all files on Subject: Harold Finn…… Downloading…… SHIELD File Number: 176493-637K Real Name: Harold Finn New Name: Jesse Kerns Known Aliases: Harry Occupation: explosive specialist Citizenship: US Place of Birth: LA Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Miller Finn SR (father), Shellie Finn (mother-), Lisa Finn (sister) Miller Finn JR (brother) History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to NJ Current Residence: 465 South Washington Avenue Bergen Cliffside Park, NJ 07010 USA Download complete Download all files on Subject: Sal Milo…… Downloading…… SHIELD File Number: 6492769-8839B Real Name: Sal Milo New Name: Brian Cinders Known Aliases: Sarg Occupation: Mechanic Citizenship: US Place of Birth: LA Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Orphan family unknown History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to DC Current Residence: 3209 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA Download complete Sever link with S.H.I.E.L.D. main computer…… Link Severed Access Target #1…… SHIELD File Number: 7801911-03ID Real Name: Margarita Annabel Stinger Boyer New Name: Lynn Fritter Known Aliases: Marge, Annie, Ann Occupation: Doctor Citizenship: US Place of Birth: Wyoming Marital Status: Divorced (no children) Known Relatives: Brent Stinger (father-deceased), Ginger Stringer (mother deceased), Travis Boyer (ex-husband) History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to Ca. Works in Hospital. Current Residence: 2500 San Marcos Pass Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA Access location maps of Santa Barbara…… Accessing……… Once I had an image. I closed my eyes and used my Astral Travel ability… As Dreamweaver, I entered the residence… I had the Dr sleep using my Dreamspeak. Then As Nightmare I entered the Dreamscape…. Conjuring up the nightmare I watch her fall unto her death, Her heart stopped and she no longer was breathing Target #1 Terminated Return. I commanded and was returned to my body…. Access Target #2…… SHIELD File Number: 2431821-965E Real Name: Brad Trotter New Name: Neil Shane Known Aliases: Tucker, Tuck Occupation: Pilot Citizenship: US Place of Birth: Washington DC Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: Billy Trotter (father), Mary Trotter (mother deceased), Billy Trotter (brother) History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to Utah. Works in Gas station. Current Residence: 2065 Sidewinder Drive, Park City, Utah 84532 USA Access location maps of Park City…… Accessing……… Once again after I had an image. I closed my eyes and used my Astral Travel ability… As Dreamweaver, I entered the residence… Using my abilities with Nightmare I killed my second target. I found that the target was living with his family. So I terminated the entire family. Target #2 Terminated Return. I commanded and was returned to my body…. Access Target #3…… SHIELD File Number: 2045830-405J Real Name: Heather Losfer New Name: Sherry Thorms Known Aliases: none Occupation: Former military, Computer engineer Citizenship: US Place of Birth: Mobile Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: General Losfer (father), Mary Losfer (mother), History: Information provided by John Connor as a possible Skynet - Terminator target from the future…. Currently relocated to Montreal, working at restaurant. Current Residence: 401 Bonsecours Street, Montreal, QC, Canada Access location maps of Montreal…… Accessing……… Traveling to the home I find my target not at home. I begin to search for an address book. While I am doing this.. She and a man enters… Using Dream speak I have them both sleep… Target #3 Terminated Return. I commanded and was returned to my body…. Access Target #4…… -to be continued