[Augment: Meta eye+Harden]
He looked through the scope, using his identification instantly on the five figures. He noticed the fact that all five were unnaturally good looking. A perfect tool to help with infiltration. Mikael had wondered how strong the future assassins would be. And regret filled him instantly.
[
Model: T-800 Model 101
Specifications:
Creator: Skynet.
Manufacture Site: Automated Skynet production facilities
Height/Weight: 6'2" (1.88 m) / 360 lb (163 kg)
Endoskeleton: Hyper-alloy combat chassis composed of a titanium-tungsten alloy for extreme durability
Power Source: Compact nuclear power cell providing decades of continuous operation
CPU: Neural-net processor capable of adaptive learning and advanced tactical computation
sensory Suite: Infrared and low-light vision, acoustic tracking, olfactory sensors, and full-spectrum audio reception
Integument: Living-tissue sheath (synthetic human skin, blood, and hair) grown to specification for realistic human appearance and thermal masking
Weapons: None
Machine Grade: High Tier C
Defense: 1000
Energy values: 2000
Strength:40
Agility:33
Physique:43
Equipped Abilities:
1.Master Cyborg Physiology
2. Advanced close combat technique
3. Elementary gun control
Skills
1 Terminate
2 Tremor stomp
3 Endo lunge
4 Cyber Rift
5 Endoskeleton
]
Wasn't this just the system wanting him to die. Both in stats and skills the five figures completely outmatched him. And what did he do to attract Skynet's attention anyways. 5 terminators weren't it treating him to highly. Even John Connor had only a single Terminator sent after it. This was simply too Viscous!
The Five had matching values, except for the two Terminatrix who had higher agility and slightly lower strength. Mikael saw how the three were still kneeling and the eerie process by which they stood up, He immediately aimed. And for the first bullet of the battle, he pressed the trigger. It was time to test his knowledge.
'Bang bang bang'
Three rapid fire bullets were released from his Barret. Their speed accelerated instantly within range of the Terminator. His target was one of the Terminatrix. The three arrived before the Terminatrix could react, the first bullet perfectly landed, digging deep but the damage it did was minimal, only removing the fake layer of skin above.
The second bullet did the most damage, it directly destroyed the knee joint and knocked the Terminatrix down. The third landed higher up its thigh further impeding its movement. What truly creeped him was how the Terminators, after seeing the Terminatrix down had then turned their eyes back on him.
Fou red rimmed eyes turned towards him. Their intelligent eyes locked onto him instantly, instantly putting him as a target of elimination
'Bang, bang, bang, bang'
The remaining Terminatrix suddenly burst with extreme agility, dodging his shots with impeccable movement, almost as if it was performing a sort of ballet. His bullets were wasted on it. It suddenly rolled before he could do anything else and picked up the downed Terminatrix and using it as a shield it charged in with the other Terminators who were already on the move. Like speeding trains their movement brought a great suppressive force to the minds of those against them.
Mikael abandoned his position instantly he was too out in the open and unfortunately, he currently had the disadvantage within this fight. The only saving grace in all this was the fact that the Terminators were targeting him and not Sarah Connor. And before he was dead, they would fully ignore her. That was simply how they were programmed.
He rushed into the forest that was beside the road, jumping forward and leading the four deeper. He was soon to notice that his speed was insignificant Infront of their own, they were quickly catching up.
[Skill Activated: Black Fog]
Before the Four could arrive upon him Mikael activated his skill, shrouding the area instantly in darkness. How effective the Terminators' sensors were in this darkness he was yet to find out.
He turned instantly, locking onto the Terminator that chased him at the front. Mikael had already realized that the skin covering the Terminators was not only useful as a form of infiltration, it also provided a certain level of defense to the Terminators, so how effective his bullets were was yet to be determined.
"Bang." His target was the Terminators head, the bullet impacted it, crushing the skin and its metallic skull. The Terminator was forcefully thrown backwards Impeding the movement of one other behind it as they crashed into each other.
Suddenly, a mass of steel burst from the black fog shroud, like an unstoppable force ready to kill him by the collision between steel and flesh. Mikael instantly moved to the ground, his body lying completely flat. The tree behind him burst into splinter as the steel mass tore through it like paper.
His meta eye caught the movement, but he barely dodged the steel mass. The steel mass that had been thrown was the Terminatrix he had injured earlier. He noticed it was still trying to move towards him its red eyes never leaving his figure.
[Skill: Endo Lunge]
Mikael rolled to the side, another steel mass crushing directly where he had been lying down, the ground cracked, dust picked up and even he was thrown slightly away by the Terminator. Their eyes suddenly locked, and the Terminator raised its hands fist clenched and aimed at his head.
[Skill: Cyber Rift] "Bang!"
Before the attack could land, in the same instance Mikael took out the Barret M107 from his storage, the barrel aimed directly at the Terminators head.
The bullet pierced through the machine, reaping directly through the skull and blasting into the tree behind the Terminator. But the punch that too arrived still pressed forward. He moved his head in an unnatural angle, as if there were no bones within his neck and the punch crashed right beside him, enough to disturb his ear drum. The ground cracked next to him, and he had the unfortunate creativity to imagine that that could have been his head at that moment.
[Title Machine Predator progress 1/10]
[Dreamer has earned 10000 Dream Points for killing a T-800]
His eyes suddenly picked up movement above the still functioning Terminatrix lunging towards him faster than the male Terminator ever could. Mikael coiled into himself bringing his legs close to his chest. His muscles tense, drawing strength from his core. His legs bulged suddenly, and he felt a surge in power within them.
[Augment: 25% Strength]
His legs buckled after which they sprung upwards, throwing the dead Terminator into the descending Terminatrix. Unsurprisingly the dead Terminator did little to impede the Terminatrix. They clashed midair the Terminatrix force completely stopping the upwards force and now both the two fell downwards.
"Boom!"
The crush was great, but the Terminatrix was uninjured. Unfortunately, its attack had done no damage, Mikael had already sprung to his feet the moment the Terminator was launched. He started running again.
Suddenly Infront of him before he could dodge, the only still uninjured Terminator appeared, it lunged at him with speed he could barely catch not even with a punch, but it's opened arm impacted his chest. The force throwing him backwards and crashing into the ground.
It was like being slammed into by a car. His chest hurt, the saving grace of the matter was that his ribs were still not broken. The Terminator then picked him up with his legs, its mere grip making his bone creak by the force of its press. It easily lifted him upwards and like throwing a weightless stick he was violently thrown against a tree.
"THUD!"
His back impacted the bark and blasted right through the tree, he bounced on the stone ground and came to a stop a second later.
"Shit."
Mikael took out healing items from his storage and popped them into his mouth. One stamina pill and bone mending Powder. The two items were tasteless within his mouth by they brought instant relief to him. His back hurt less and that was good enough for him.
Mikael noticed something strange soon after. In fact, he should have noticed it earlier. While the Terminator had been man handling him earlier, the Terminatrix had stood back and just observed. And while the Terminatrix had pressed its attack, the Terminator had not done so. Was this some sort of weakness placed by the system or was it simply an arrogance within the Terminators themselves. If that was how they were attacking, it was time for Mikael to change the playing field.
[Augment: 25% Agility]
'Use all unlocated attributes on Agility. And change title to Monster Hunter I' Mikael ordered instantly assigning his points, strangely he felt a new sort of freedom as the points were allocated, it was a strange feeling. He noticed there was no physical change within his muscles but something else had happened. His choice of Agility was due to it being his highest attribute and in the event that he needed to run away it would be his most useful. He should have also changed his title earlier before the fight begun.
[[Agility: 28(3)]]
[Strength:27+1
Agility:33(3) +1
Physique:24+1
Perception:35+1
]
[A/N: An explanation on what's happening. In my book, the attribute points added can be referred to as Dream AP. They increased the Dreamers' stats, but they did not affect the original basic stats, this will be shown using the symbol () . The base stats now are the original Stats values, which can be increased over a period of time through training. The value added by Titles and other items will be shown with a +. Mikael use of augment affects his base stats. But when viewing another's status sheet, it will show the cumulative value.]
[[Endo Lunge]]
The Terminatrix moved again, it enhanced speed brought him instantly towards Mikael. But this time, Mikael easily dodged the jump, he rolled backwards and kicked himself up. But he did not give the Terminatrix space to peruse him once more. Mikael went into the attack, one dagger and his pistol within his hands. At the corner of his eye, he noticed how the Terminator had not pursued but remained standing aside observing the engagement.
'Success!' Mikael would have burst out laughing but the situation was too serious. While he could not handle multiple Terminators attacking him at once. Only one, one he could handle.
"Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr," His pistol acted as an automatic, the presence of the infinite bullet cartridge making It that Mikael did not have to worry about reloading. As he expected, the bullets did little to no damage to the Terminatrix, but there was a lag in its movement when the bullets impacted. The multiple bullets shredded into the fake skin covering the Terminator, reaping into it.
He soon came to notice something strange the moment he randomly checked the Terminatrix stats. The more flesh it lost the greater its agility rose and the more its physique reduced! But he soon noticed something even stranger the more attacks that landed on the endoskeleton of the Terminatrix the more its Defense value decreased. With this decrease, its movement became strangely less agile.
"Shit!" What exactly were these contradictory results. To shred the flesh or not to.
Mikael lunged forward using the brief moment the Terminatrix movements lagged. His dagger cut through the Terminatrix neck, cutting through flesh and wires. The Terminatrix raised its arm ready to crush down on his head. Mikael dodged under the blow weaving behind the Terminatrix. He attacked again, slashing through its back and exposing its machine spine. At the same moment his pistol was aimed at the machine, and he released another barrage.
"Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr'
This attack looked to have done extreme damage to the Terminatrix, it started to spark from its back electric arcs shooting from its back. The Terminatrix Defense further shot downwards. Mikael took out his Barret M107 ready to add another dead Terminator to his list.
[Skill: Tremor Stomp]
The Terminatrix had acted faster than him, it lifted its leg and slammed it down violently, the ground was crushed, and it suddenly vibrated violently. It was like a surging force rushed throughout the surrounding area and thrown his balance completely off. For a split-second Mikael had become air bone. But his reaction was equally fast, a grenade already within his arms
[Skill: Terminate}
With unnatural agility, the once clanky Terminatrix suddenly burst with unnatural reflexes, its arm snaking forward before his leg could retract as it grabbed onto his leg, a vice grip like hold that Mikael could not escape.
'This feels familiar.' Mikael thought before his back violently impacted the ground, the breath forcefully knocked from his lungs. But in his arm the grenade had already disappeared. The Terminatrix suddenly noticed Mikael sitting up a pin within his hands. It followed where his eyes were looking and within its stomach, which had been ripped completely of its flesh, a grenade was now there being held by its own metallic components.
"Shrkkkkkkkkk." "Booommm!"
The Terminatrix let out a shrill roar as it lunged at Mikael but halfway through the grenade exploded violently, the Terminatrix was reaped in half its innards shattered, its Fake skin completely shredded and smeared black.
[Title Machine Predator progress 2/10]
[Dreamer has earned 10000 Dream Points for killing a T-800]
"Hahahahaha." Mikael suddenly burst out laughing. A strange laugh that fully shook his downed body. His eyes were wide with hysterical joy, his teeth were fully visible showing the pearliness and, in that laugh, there was an edge of something dangerous. Something that was steadily growing.
"And only one remains." He stood up while throwing another bone mending pill within his mouth. The Sole Terminator standing still remained stopped observing. He wondered what exactly was going on in that machine mind of it but he would know soon enough. Once he pried the chip straight from its head. They stood observing each other, the silence further growing the tension.
"Hoot, hoot." Suddenly an owl hooted somewhere in the distance and like a signal they moth finally acted.
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