Chapter 146: Ch.146
I got word the triple eight was dealt with and they were as safe as they're going to get for now. I headed back to Sarah whose water broke and she went into labor at the hospital. She gave birth to a baby girl we named Artemis Osbourne. I fully healed Sarah so she was back on her feet the next day.
We left the hospital and adapted using the nursery at the house. Sarah asked me to stop holding back and remember before putting a stop to it all for them and the baby. I told her I'd be back before leaving with a laptop. I got out of LA and hacked into the NSA satellite feeds, all of them. I wrote an algorithm and with it I found the drones Skynet was using.
I tracked one and brought it down with a shotgun. I jacked into the main hardware and used it to track Skynet back to a small defense contractor company where I found it had ties everywhere. I put everyone to sleep and burned the AI from the internet before planting a literal fuck ton of explosives, dragging all the assholes out and reading their minds before finding the backup servers.
I blew everything up before using a tracking program to find all the drones. I brought them down and took them out before blowing up several dozen warehouses and more than a few industrial complexes. I then shot and killed all the inventors involved, going on the war path. I killed half a dozen more AI tech companies and shot down dozens of geniuses and disappeared in the wind with no witnesses or proof.
A nation wide manhunt was underway for the AI hunter the news called me and yet they had no photo or picture to go off of because I'd killed all the witnesses or erased the minds of those that could point a finger at me. Half of California had suffered along with three other states in the month since I disappeared. After that I wrote a satellite program and used magnetic frequency fields to track the presence of tin cans, ambushing and taking out hundreds all over the place. I tracked Coltan and using magnetic frequencies I was able to find them all, systematically wiping them out and undoing their work.
Soon they were no longer able to come back having the future changed so much they couldn't access a timeline after this point and with no way of changing the past, they were done for. I returned to LA after six months and told Sarah it was done. I told her there were only three tin cans in the world and they were all in LA.
I gestured to Cameron before telling her. "There's one and the other two are at Zeira corp. Not even the liquids were spared and after a bit of creative hacking, I was able to undo all their work, erasing them with thermite. The coltan in them is how I tracked them and can continue to do so. Fuck Nowhere, we're safe here and now."
She asked about Skynet and I told her, Derek, John and Jesse everything. I told them I'd gathered all their stored coltan so even if they were able to get more it wouldn't be much so even they'd suffer due to weak metals. "Even if there is a war in the future, it won't be nearly as one sided and they certainly won't have enough coltan to make effective liquid metals even if they mined the rest of it in the here and now. I'm going tomorrow to get the pieces from the broken triple eights from Weaver, then no one will be able to study the technology once I fire bomb Zeira corp and leave them melted slag."
Derek asked if I needed help before John told me not to. He told me to get the broken pieces and dispose of them alone with the reactor cores I have, but to leave Zeira corp alone. I asked him if this was coming from John Baum or John Connor to which he said Baum was just a name. I closed my eyes before Derek said he'd get the pieces we need to vaporize.
Jesse said he'd go with and so did Cameron and Sarah. I growled at the last part and Sarah told me she'd been cooking her heels for long enough so they'd do it together while I stay with Artemis, Riley and John. I let it go and John snuck out using Riley as a decoy until I heard it in her mind. I shoved her against the wall and put a gun in her hand telling her to watch Artemis and not to leave the house.
I left and got to Zeira corp just as they found Cameron's chip gone, her body in the basement and John Henry left to the future. Weaver took John who insisted on going and left even when I wanted to go with him as well. He told me his mother needed me here and the future may need him there so he'd see me there in a few years whether it's in seconds or later. I found and destroyed the pieces of the old triple eight and we went home, starting over.
I erased all the FBI had on Sarah and John, minds included, before destroying all the evidence they had. Sarah was free to use her maiden name again and she did. We monitored the tin cans and made sure none were found again as time passed. Twenty years soon flew by before we found John again, with no judgement day happening there were no time machines to get back to. The liquid metal had dissolved in the temporal displacement field with John Henry before her.
I'd gathered all the coltan in the world by then and it was now in my ring. Artemis had grown up knowing everything and yet lived a normal life or as normal as she could knowing her brother was in the future. Sarah and I never had another child in that time which made Artemis all the more a blessing. John said he screwed up and I told him he now had an older sister and several cousins thanks to Derek and Jesse playing the part of rabbits from Australia.
They actually lived there and came back every now and then. More AI's had been made, but a law passed with my funding that they had to be taught morals in case they should ever learn to think for themselves so they didn't start Armageddon on humans. As a world renowned tech company owner who worked in software and AIs which had become common, my words had been proven right when several AIs had gone crazy and killed several corporations full of people because they had no morals.
Hundreds died and it became law to teach the AIs to value human life. None became Skynet while many became self aware. Then that line of technology pretty much stopped because I released an alternate route, chain super computers with crystal micro processors in the quantum side of things. Basically I made really smart simulated AIs that couldn't become self aware and yet did all the work with much more efficiency than a temperamental AI that took months or years to teach.
They became obsolete for our needs so people stopped making them and using them. By the time we found John, space ships had been invented that were capable of FTL while wormhole technology to other terraformed planets was being used. Earth was just one of the United Planets now and he was a bit caught off guard. The planet was cleaner than it'd been before and all the plastic, trash and stuff was all left on Mars cause really, when you can, why not?
The oceans were clean, a hundred humans million lived on earth while the rest had spread out through the stars themselves. We did have an issue with two predator and alien xenomorph species, but the predators learned the hard way we'd play hard ball while the xenomorphs had been dumped on all the predator's home worlds, fucking them royally. Their technology was taken and made of use while they'd been made extinct by the game they'd hunted and ruined civilizations for.
Sure the United planets hated a hard time with the xenomorphs until corporations like mine put their foot down and exterminated them. They were simply too dangerous to be allowed to live. Anyways, John was stumped to learn how advanced we'd become as a people. He got to know his older sister now and life goes on as they say.
John grew up, married and moved out while Artemis had long since married and Cameron was gone so thanks for the memories run cans. Sarah and I watched John and Artemis take over my company and run it better than I had. Artemis knew all about ascension and that she was capable of it so I left it to her to decide. John didn't want any part of it, preferring to live in the here and now and not waistline any precious time.
Sadly he inherited his mom's knack for getting cancer so he was sick for a while before we were able to cure him. Still, they gave us a great many grandchildren, especially John with his ten kids. Artemis had two and found it harder to have kids naturally so she adopted six more. Once they were getting older, I gave them the longevity serum they duplicated and sold, giving humans thousand year lifespans and super soldier bodies.
All in all Sarah and I stayed two hundred years before we said our goodbyes. She'd decided to stay having experienced a fraction of her normal lifespan and now knew she didn't want forever, even in my arms. We'd been closer than any couple before us and she knew I wanted to leave and explore, to see humanity and experience it all. In the end she let me go even though it was extremely hard on us both.
So there I went, unbound, unending and forever moving forwards.
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