NatM / Terminator drabble: "Error! Error!"
all typos are my own.
Fandoms: Terminator:Salvation and Night At The Museum II: Battle Of The Smithsonian.
fic list is here.
Title: "Error! Error!"
Characters: Theodore Roosevelt, Sacajawea, Terminators.
Set: Before Salvation, years after the Battle of the Smithsonian.
Summary: Sacajawea and Theodore encounter a Terminator in the ruins of the Museum.
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Location: The Museum, early spring, a year or two after Judgement Day:
There was a full Moon overhead, and Sacajawea was sitting alongside Teddy Roosevelt, both at a safe remove from the small fire they had burning.
There was a crunching sound that seemed to be of something approaching, and hearing it motivated the pair to stand up and see who might be there.
For their curiosity had a purpose: to see who might be ekeing out a living besides themselves. For Larry Daley had died of radiation poisoning in the week following Judgement Day. While it had not been targetted by this Skynet, the Museum suffered damage that crushed many statues - the larger African animals and the Easter Island head amongst them. Muttering something about Akhenatin having the last laugh, Akhmenrah had handed the tablet to Sacajawea before he walked into the arriving dawn light. Octavius and Jebadiah had taken their fellow miniatures underground, never to be heard from since. Ever the good little guard, Dexter spent every nocturnal hour perched in the highest remaining points of the Museum.
This left Teddy and Sacajawea alone. Alone and more dependent upon one another than ever before.
"An animatronic?" Sacajawea asked, her hands on Teddy's arm.
"It would seem so," Teddy said. "Strange that the machinery is so exposed."
"Perhaps his creator was unable to finish the job before he came to life."
"Perhaps."
The Terminator would have fired by now, but its targetting mechanism kept insisting that there was a problem with the subjects. Hence the walking up to them, visually-analyzing them the entire way.
The Terminator reached forth, but stopped short before it could grab Roosevelt's neck.
For the first time, Skynet got an ERROR message.
The Terminators walked away from the wax objects whose visage was known to be all over the world.
deal with JOHN CONNOR Skynet instructed. investigate THEM afterward
"Have fun!" Teddy called after them, not knowing what else to say. To Sacajawea, Teddy said under his breath, "Strange folks, and stranger than any we've met before."
Sacajawea nodded.
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the end
Fandoms: Terminator:Salvation and Night At The Museum II: Battle Of The Smithsonian.
fic list is here.
Title: "Error! Error!"
Characters: Theodore Roosevelt, Sacajawea, Terminators.
Set: Before Salvation, years after the Battle of the Smithsonian.
Summary: Sacajawea and Theodore encounter a Terminator in the ruins of the Museum.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Location: The Museum, early spring, a year or two after Judgement Day:
There was a full Moon overhead, and Sacajawea was sitting alongside Teddy Roosevelt, both at a safe remove from the small fire they had burning.
There was a crunching sound that seemed to be of something approaching, and hearing it motivated the pair to stand up and see who might be there.
For their curiosity had a purpose: to see who might be ekeing out a living besides themselves. For Larry Daley had died of radiation poisoning in the week following Judgement Day. While it had not been targetted by this Skynet, the Museum suffered damage that crushed many statues - the larger African animals and the Easter Island head amongst them. Muttering something about Akhenatin having the last laugh, Akhmenrah had handed the tablet to Sacajawea before he walked into the arriving dawn light. Octavius and Jebadiah had taken their fellow miniatures underground, never to be heard from since. Ever the good little guard, Dexter spent every nocturnal hour perched in the highest remaining points of the Museum.
This left Teddy and Sacajawea alone. Alone and more dependent upon one another than ever before.
"An animatronic?" Sacajawea asked, her hands on Teddy's arm.
"It would seem so," Teddy said. "Strange that the machinery is so exposed."
"Perhaps his creator was unable to finish the job before he came to life."
"Perhaps."
The Terminator would have fired by now, but its targetting mechanism kept insisting that there was a problem with the subjects. Hence the walking up to them, visually-analyzing them the entire way.
The Terminator reached forth, but stopped short before it could grab Roosevelt's neck.
For the first time, Skynet got an ERROR message.
The Terminators walked away from the wax objects whose visage was known to be all over the world.
deal with JOHN CONNOR Skynet instructed. investigate THEM afterward
"Have fun!" Teddy called after them, not knowing what else to say. To Sacajawea, Teddy said under his breath, "Strange folks, and stranger than any we've met before."
Sacajawea nodded.
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the end