Set ten years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, John Connor and his mother, Sarah Connor, are off-grid and separated in 2005. While Sarah is at Norfolk, Virginia, for matters too personal to tell her own son, John is surviving on his o...
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Reyna hated waiting. She even hated it more than her favorite book character did. While Reyna waits for Beischel to leave the building, she blocks every possible point of entry on the roof, including the doors and the chimney, and disables the security camera with a single bullet.
She had no doubt that the JEM-9 was already in the building. Would he even leave the building? If he did, there was an equal chance of him walking out of the exits on either side of the building— or a secret exit.
Reyna patrols the perimeter of the roof, close enough to see the ground, but far away so that the sun does not cast shadows on the ground. She checks the time on her watch: 50 minutes until Beischel leaves.
Forty-seven minutes and twenty-one seconds later, Reyna hears the opening and closing of a door to the building's east entrance. She lays on her stomach, flat to the ground and adjusts the scope of her snipe gun. Now that everyone else had left, she wouldn't have to worry about screaming employees.
There he was: Robert Beischel, a man with slicked back hair, a tall frame, and a suitcase in his hands. This was the man who had stolen the future of the entire world. Had he never picked up that chip, she wouldn't be here. John and Sarah wouldn't need to keep hiding.
But was he innocent? After plugging in that chip to his computer, he basically had his free will taken from him.
Then I will return it to him. Reyna aims for Beischel's heart and pulls the trigger. When he crumples to the ground, Reyna pulls the trigger again. The bullet lands in Beischel's head. Red blood pools around him. Not a Terminator.
The two guards leave their post to attend to Beischel, but two bullets from the forest laid them to rest next to Beischel. Sarah. Reyna hears the shattering of glass. Sarah must have disabled the cameras. Quickly scanning the perimeter of the building, Reyna signals for John and Sarah to come out of their hiding spot.
Reyna climbs down the way she had climbed up and meets John and Sarah at the entrance.
"That was too easy." John says, scanning the perimeter again while he hands Reyna an M-16, a Glock, and a few grenades, all of which she straps to her back and thigh. "We need to-"
Reyna drags the Connors flat to the wall just as a security guard on the phone pokes his head through the door.
"I need reinforcements! I have three dead and-"
Reyna slams the door against the security guard's head. He slumps to the floor and the phone clatters from his hands.
"Officer Kerrigan?" The dispatcher asks frantically. "Officer Kerrigan?!"
John picks up the phone. "False alarm, but we've got it under control. Thank you, dispatch." For a moment, Reyna saw the general inside of John.
"Okay. I'll call back the reinforcements." The dispatcher answers before ending the call.
