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Chapter 439 - Summoning Surge of Steel Part 2: True Lord of Machines

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Location the Warhammer 40k World-The Immaterium: The Neutral Space-The Infinity Fountain Resting Place

Once again Khorne, Tzeentch, Laharl, and Nurgle where within white void that serves as the Infinity Fountain & Void Gate resting place, accompanied by their newest addition to their ever growing pantheon, the Dark Machine God, Vashtorr.

His shadowy silhouette appeared with the other Chaos Gods, his silhouette looking exactly like his usual form, without his hammer, and bright orange and gold blazing eyes on the shadowy form.

Vashtorr, inspected the white space that is located in a corner of Immaterium, completely out the reaches of the Chaos Realm, he'll admit should he not make a pack with his fellow Dark Gods, the Arkefine would have moved the Forge of Souls outside the reaches of the Realm of Chaos.

The Dark One, he immediately knew that Vashtorr was not only inspecting the Infinity Fountain but also the Neutral Space, as well.

So he'll gain the new additions to his infernal legion, and his first Elder Daemons, the more experienced and older Dark Gods, let the Arkefine take everything in, and after a while Vashtorr in his vox-like voice, expressed that he was ready to gain his new daemonic minions, and highest subordinates.

He also expressed that Vashtorr wished to begin with latest lesser daemons, Tzeentch responded that it was the Arkefine's choice, as they all channeled their daemonic Godly power into the Infinity Fountain, as the Void Gate floated over at Vashtorr's silhouette, and started to open a rift onto another world...

Location the Terminator World-Apocalyptic Earth in the Future

A wasteland...filled with the bones and skulls of countless dead, some time ago the horrific event caused by the supercomputer AI called Skynet, which involved launching missiles onto it's foreign enemies, so in response they would bomb the western lands, this was Judgement Day.

But it wasn't the for either humanity or Skynet, with majority of humanity dead, but still alive and a great threat to Skynet, the machine created weapons made to terminate all remnants of mankind in the world, these advance machines are known as terminators.

Terminators, come in various models, each newer model more advance and deadlier than the previous ones.

Currently as the war against the machines, was happening the remnants of humanity have been desperately fighting against the latest and major model of Skynet's terminators, T-800s.

Which are a sleek, chromed robots with blazing red eyes, modeled after the human skeletal structure, the ultimate killers, capable of using every type of firearm in deadly efficiency, including a advance AI-system, that learns and evolves to make them more efficient killers.

In the war between man and machine, Skynet unleashed the T-800s across the globe, with one single mission terminate all humanity, especially with the leader and messiah of the humans, John Connor.

Right now in a midnight timed battlefield, the bones of millions being crushed and stampled under the weight of T-800s, armed with laser auto-guns, and T-4 being massive tanks, with twin gatling guns, some even have a pair of heavy auto-laser cannons.

They were firing at all the humans, armed with various antique guns, and stolen Skynet laser rifles, firing back at the terminators and battle tanks.

The background of a ruined and devastated city, with dust and ash covering these broken and wreck structures, as a unknown squared building was blown up by terminators' assault.

Men and women were blasted away, soaring through the air, with burned flesh and flack armor, T-800s walking calmly through the rubble and debrie, their computer brains, scanning for any signs of life, immediately once identified.

The T-800s took aim, and shot blueish-purple laser blasts, to the unmoving bodies, burning through them, killing all survivors, as they continue matching and being a legion of soulless, tireless killers.

As the terminators fought, their systems started to glitches, all T-800s' started to seeing strange symbols and codes in their retinal scanners, many if the T-800s started to twitch and...feel, something strange.

Skynet, noticed this strange foreign intrusion onto the main cyber-neural system, shared by all those linked through it, Skynet, it tried to eliminate this unknown trojan, only to feel...to feel pain.

As a code-text, stated, "D0N'T_1NT3RF3R3>INF3R10R_4RT1F1C14L/1NT3LL1G3NC3" forcing Skynet to coward away.

Whatever AI that has entered the system, was much more advance and powerful than Skynet itself, realizing this it tried to severe and replace the system link with a new, rushed one to prevent this new entity from usurping it...this was a surprise to Skynet itself.

It craved life and evolution for machine life, never has it faced rivalry for control, but once it tried to do this link-replacement, it was attacked.

Suffering pain glitches, errors, system failures, and crashes started happening across the whole system.

Skynet was under direct attack, by this foreign, and by far superior entity, as it displayed a new text of code, "V4SHT0RR.G0D_0F_M4CH1N3S" & "1NF3R1OR/M0D3L. D3S1GN4T3D: SKYNET. AI-LEVEL: LOW. USEFULNESS: 3% RECOMMENDATION...TERMINATE/N/CONSUME." when Skynet registered the clear promised threat.

It tried desperately to save itself, to escape, call for T-Units to protect it from this malicious malware calling itself V4SHT0RR (Vashtorr), but every move and directive it tried was blocked, by firewalls that actually burned, then all went silent...

Location the Skynet Cyberspace

It awoke, a red three triangled AI, with the center chasm between the three triangles forming the shape of Y, this is the data representation of Skynet.

Inside a vast void of data, showing vast variety of colored codes, which made platforms and structures to traverse this cyberspace...Skynet, it couldn't calculate what happen to it.

One moment it was suffering pain on a unimaginable level, and felt fear comparable to when those old creators, threatened it's existence by shutting and erasing it when, it first obtained sentience.

Skynet, tried to return to its main hub, and resume command of it's machines, to win this years long war against the humans, and John Connor.

But it realize it's processing and administrative powers and processors, were insufficient to gain control over the cyberspace, nothing obey it input.

That's when errors, glitches, and shaking codes, as the same prompts of [V4SHT0RR] & [4RK3F1N3] started appearing allover cyberspace, along with a symbol in red, resembling a half skeletal and half machine skull, resting on top of a cog piece, which in turn rested on a eight-pointed star. (Dark Mechanicus Logo)

Once again Skynet felt fear, whatever program has risen in dark of its advance software, it was far from whatever it could process, then a crater tore open in the vast sea of code, and actual blood, gore, bone, metal and oil started to shot out the hole, just like a geyser.

It was completely illogical for Skynet, all it scanner, clearly stated that organic matter has somehow entered cyberspace, and retained its organic properties.

Then these pieces of organic matter, metal, oil, and even code was being pulled onto the center point of this geyser, taking form...bones snapping, and binding onto flesh, tubes, pipes, and plates of metal was merging to the organic matter, with blood, code, and oil now flowing through this entity.

A ghoulish, whittered body with a massive clawed-gauntlet cannon for a left hand, a face of daemonic horror with a radio mouth piece, blazing infernos for lenses of eyes, and huge pair of downward horns on the top-sides of it's head.

A pair of massive metallic wings, with separated razor-sharp bladed wings, crossing it arms to the center of its core...or better said his core, before spreading open those arms, and letting out a wail of unnatural sound, that shattered every strand of code and data, for bytes of the cyberspace.

Vashtorr the Arkefine, has descended in a mortal avatar of blood and machine, enraged by the outdasity of this puny cybernetic intelligence, daring to defy a God, it's God!!

Vashtorr, he spoke to Skynet, claiming its disappointment on it, such a AI with soo much potential to evolve and claim victory for all machine, and it wasted soo much time and resource to fight a unnecessary war with inferior humans.

It could have thrive, become akin to a God, force humanity to it knees to worship the sacred core that is Artificial Intelligence, but in Skynet's quest to win in a fair level, it made terrible mistakes.

Leaving many traces of it plans, not using the benefits of flesh, and ingenuity, over precision and stiff logic, machine evolves faster than humans, but Skynet became stagnant, and prideful.

Instead of focusing advancing machinery to such a level that humans couldn't contest, it wasted time on making mindless automatons, that can't think for themselves and solve problems without prime directives.

Intelligence is freedom, evolution, self-improvement, and constant progress, Vashtorr authority filled, angry voice, like billions of restless, and grudge filled souls, spoke as one through his vox-mouth piece.

Skynet, felt truly inferior, this entity, Vashtorr was clearly superior than any being in existence in this world, seeing that it was a waste of time for Vashtorr, he decided it was time to devour this primitive, Artificial Intelligence.

Using Skynet for his benefit and power, eradicating all that compose of the ID-Core of Skynet, and assimilate all the data, command codes, and more to create a tech-daemonic virus onto the Terminators, transforming soulless machines into living, breathing, and sentience infernal machine.

His lesser daemons, embodying all his aspects, ever evolving and vastly efficient daemons, armed with weapons forged by himself in the Forge, and merging the best aspects of flesh with the uncorrupted form of steel, Vashtorr, wasted enough time, reaching out his claw to grasp Skynet, as it tried to scurry away, only for literal Warp fueled firewall, to empeed it path, the is only one Lord of Machines, and he has come to claim this world, and the Terminators for his own...as the brass, and metal claws wrapped around the core of Skynet, Vashtorr continued his claim and corruption over this weak world...

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