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6/18 c28 bossyman15
I found the Lego scene really funny!
6/6 c28 ahelfrich05
Hey I just found your story's a couple months ago and they are extremely good and impressive I do like the twist you did to the lore especially in the first story and I cant wait to see what you'll do next but speaking of that I have a idea once you finish this story make a darker version of the first story you did you know blood gore character death etc something like that or maybe if you're up to it make a story where Cameron is evil and attempts to get John to be loyal to skynet either idea would be cool but even if you dont do them your work is impressive and keep it up
5/30 c28 Guest
It was well worth the wait, and thank you.

Not rushing things is totally fine by me. More importantly, you don't need to justify it. Sure, we're always waiting for new chapters, but we (well, at least the reasonable ones) understand it all. Your story is a good one, and I think everyone would prefer it stay consistently good and well thought-out. The fandom hasn't been active lately anyway. There are some pieces untouched since last autumn, still right here on the first page. Meanwhile you've been consistently updating for almost two years - only this story, your third one! - averaging 25k words per month as I've just calculated. You're one of the few people still keeping this section of the site alive; a small section dedicated to a show that hadn't made huge impact and was cancelled early almost 15 years ago, that only a handful of weirdos from all over the world still remembers. We don't get to demand anything from you here. Just, please, continue keeping it alive if you can.
5/27 c28 Alberto007
Sooo, new chapter? New review!

"And they eat reporters for breakfast." I would say that it would be a full course meals for a whole week... with a lot of saturated fats :-D

"You have no idea what you've gotten yourself into." I have. He is going to meet cybernetic nudist A-team :-D

"Are you kidding me? I'll do everything I can to make sure it still makes it into the morning edition." not very wise and his preservation instincts are questionable, but at least he has some good character qualities :-D

"is don't make such a fuzz out of it. It's just plastic toys." Negative. They are the incarnation of happiness encased in glorious shells of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene.

"I am?" Yup, the unstoppable nursing machine. Cough...

"Get him."
"Yes, John." In other words: "Fass!" "Woof!" ;-)

"He didn't wanna come," Did you say please? :-D

"You must think we're a bunch of spoiled American brats,” Well, lately you act as them, so yes, you are. :-D

"I'd prefer a different solution."
"What solution?" The efficient one, duh.

"I didn't say we're proud of it." But you are, do not try to hide it :-D

"You… you… you killed that man!" Nope, gravity did. Blame Newton :-D

"I won't move an inch until I get an explanation!" He is so slow...

"I don't have a brain." That is new :-D

"what do you mean you're married?" Slow!

"and then the team will decide who did best." It would be fun if they built the same thing with minor differences. As they are all the same Cam and even after getting different experiences in the end, they are still the same in their core.

"That's a whole new shitload of trouble, John, a new level - even for you." Conclusion - Sebastian was good for them. Thanks to him, they did not get in so much trouble at once. :-D

"I hope it goes without saying that being dressed is mandatory while we have guests on board.
Everyone groaned and rolled their eyes." And the legend says that it was the worst thing that had happened to them that day. :-D

"Don't mix up cruelty with effectiveness, Jens. Never forget that I know the future." I would call it a god complex :-P

Lucky Melanie. Nicely done.

Ok, where is the ending of this chapter? 'Looks at the word count'... Uh, oh. Houston, we have a problem!

"Yes. And that is why I want you to observe Peter Williams. To see what happens." It starts to sound like a final destination movie :-D

"Maybe one day, Iset and I will have a child as well." "Honey, let's make a baby" Khufu said and put a soldering kit on the table. :-D

"apparently hadn't thought to put on any clothes and were stark naked." George: Looks like LEGO torture was worth it!

"Cameron and Emily beamed at John, not only for defending them, but also for finally acknowledging their newly-found hobby and taking it seriously." And what choice did he have? Acknowledge it or be terminated? :-D Also, considering their age, only Emily is allowed to play with LEGO :-D

"Only too bad Derek walked into it as well." Yeah, right, that was the best day ever for you, don't hide it. :-D Mine was :-D

"He doesn't even try to hide that he's undressing us with his eyes… even during dinner." Considering that you walk naked whatever you can... what is the problem? Wasn’t it your objective? :-D

"I feel it too," Emily stated. "Vibrations, as if something or someone just bumped against the hull." Get LEGOS! We need to build second wall of defense :-D

"The east by southeast section of the house was moving down by 0.93 millimeters per year - and that meant that we'd have to repaint the walls the following summer because cracks would be showing up. And they were." Nice implementation :-)

"The pursuit of power and influence is completely beyond them." The Supreme reverend proved this theory to be completely wrong :-D Seriously, if you keep repeating it as a mantra, it will not become magically true. Too many facts are against you.

"Oops," she said with a sheepish smile. 'My darling girl, when Ramses destroyed Syria, that was an accident. You are a catastrophe!' mummy quote :-D

"I just hope it doesn't include blowing up any more ships – or other large objects," Tony remarked sourly. Ships? Meh, that is so old school... North Korea's Supreme Leader's toilet? That is more like it :-D

"Some kind of gas or…?"
"Something like that, yes," It's a fart!

"John is my lover, husband, best friend… and owner." And there went the speeches of free will...

"I hope that a volcano never erupts when we're anchored somewhere. She would probably blame us for that, too." Anyone wants to visit the Vesuvius? :-D

Whao, that's a long chapter. I need a break. I'll be right back! No one die screaming without me!

"Oh, off the top of my head, I can think of a few tests by which you might prove yourself worthy." Then pulls Thor's Hammer from her purse :-D

"I'll pick you up. Is six o'clock okay?" And get back before 10!

"I'm still having a hard time accepting that underneath that stunningly beautiful appearance is, well... a robot."
"A 'Very scary robot'!, Get your facts straight!" Charley angrily hit the table.

"Manga"? Try any other science fiction work or even real experiments. There are cyborgs now. People, who lost sight and now there are projects to create artificial eyesight etc. They are still primitive, but it's much better that to be blind :-P

"You mean like humans who were implanted with a pacemaker? Would they be cyborgs then?" No, but if you replace their heart with the artificial one, then yes. Pacemaker just stimulates the heart to work as it should. It does not replace it.
Terminators could be called cyborgs in a long shot, if you consider, that the tissue is actual living human tissue and it cannot survive without endoskeleton... It really stretches the rules, but oh well...

If you want to go this way Alison, then you are not alive :-P Sentience and being alive are different concepts. Philosophically you can argue about meaning of life etc, but biologically there are strict definitions. As a result, viruses are not considered to be alive too.

Scientifically being alive mean: sensitivity/response to the environment, homeostasis, reproduction, adaptation, growth and development, energy processing and evolution. There is not even requirement of being consious or sentient here :-P
Also, you have a problem with growth and reproduction requirements :-D In other words: Tree is more alive than sentient machines. :-P

So now, alive machines, go stretch yourselves to grow a bit and then get your soldering kits. It's time to start the reproduction courses :-D

"You cannot distract me. My scanners and sensors work independently from my conscious mind. What do you wanna know?" Yeah... Why do I remember a lot of bad stuff happening because you were distracted previously?

"That's something you have to accomplish by your own efforts" But if it is a boob job, then of course she will 'help' :-D

"all of his dogs were lying dead" That does it, Connors. John Wick is after your soul and no one or anything will stop him.

"Have you killed my dogs?" The dogs, WHY, WHY THE DOGS!

"She is very charming and kind - if you're her friend." And a dog killer! :-D

"nothing to do with our intelligence, only with the fact that your brains work differently than our CPUs." Actually, it does, it's called specialized intelligence. :-P Put a monkey and theoretical physicist in the jungle. Monkey will be considered 'smarter' at surviving in this situation. ;-) True intelligence is the accumulation of a lot of specialized intelligences.

Also, this constant 'rubbing it in' just makes them look rude :-D There is this saying. "I know that I know nothing". One of it's meanings mean that only dumb one can say that he is a smart one and knows everything, as a smart person would be able to understand how much they do not know yet. AAAAnnnnd I really doubt that cyborgs know everything :-D

"No, I'm a shape-shifting android. I have no biological components, even if my skin feels real to you." I will have to ask Isaac for confirmation :-D

"Who is the fat, repulsive human?" she asked. You know? How can he become better if everyone instantly call him like that? I am starting to think, that he just accepted what other think of him as his true self. :-D

"Well, I guess it's already progress" What progress? THE DOGS!

"How about another exercise in using my nanobots?" Sound like a sophisticated killing when everyone will be repeating the mantra about it not being a killing :-D

"I haven't yet given up hope that we will have something like a vacation on this trip." Good luck with that :-D

"Kimberly's theory actually seemed to have some merit." Or it is a beginning of a Final Destination movie. :-D

That awkward moment, when you have to reread the chapter, because while reading the ending you already forgot what has happened in the beginning. :-D Just to be clear. I am not complaining.

And on that bombshell, it is time to end, thank you for a nice chapter and goodbye. See you all soon :-) Entering the hibernation mode until the next update.
5/26 c28 Guest
Thank you for your awesome story, MacGuffin65, you are doing a great service to your readers. I'm very much looking forward to your new ideas, and am excited about what you will come up with.

Two edit suggestions:

But you have to proof yourself
But you have to prove yourself

Everyone looked at Louise,.
Everyone looked at Louise.
5/24 c28 Gast
Sch?nes Kapitel !
5/19 c28 Beauty715
Well... You've just outdone yourself!
It could easily be two or even more chapters!

Connors can find problems and adventures everywhere... Nothing will hide from their so called "luck". ;-)
Their honeymoon less and less resembles a honeymoon... What a pity. However, the moments with John protecting his cyborg wifes look just cute... Even though he was only protecting them from insults and rudeness.

Cyborg girls repeating, they can't be corrupted with power, sounds more like a mantra said for themselves and not some undoubted, absolute truth. Skynet, Rosi and Bridger perfectly proved quite the opposite. And Khufu is not far away from them.
It mostly depends on feelings and desires: Power gives you an ability to obtain what you want quicker, easier and with guarantees. For Cameron, Alison and Emily Their John, his well-being and their love for him is just the centre of all their universe, so they can easily get this thought, that to keep all this safe they should possess great power. The more - the better. And they will like and enjoy possessing this power. It will be sort of side effect of their love for John.

So, for now the question with Louise, Avery and Olga is closed?... Well, maybe a life in a "cage made of love" isn't that bad?... Maybe it's a pretty wonderful choice?... Can be...

More questions arise with Rumiko. Is she truly alive, sentient and with free will? Can she be there by her own choice?...

And the main intrigue of the last two chapters - Just what are the girls making with all this legos?! What?!

This chapter was just adorable, no less!
And again a month long wait awaits us... Well, it's sort of fair payment for enjoying SUCH chapters.
Stay safe, healthy ... and pamper your imagination as much as IT needs. ;-)
5/18 c28 MadMikeE
Riveting and fantastic once again - BRAVO!

I can appreciate all the things you said in the author's notes and still am truly amazed and thankful at what you have written in spite (and maybe a bit because) of those.

Thank you again for yet another fine gem of this story. Just glad you ARE ok :-)
Awaiting the next episode/mini-novella when it shows up.
Let us know with a blip that you are ok if it takes more than a couple of months please?

Take care, may life treat you well, and 'see' you in the future :-)
5/18 c28 24olischulu
If you need more time for a chapter, just take it. This is still one of the most brilliant storylines in TSCC ever and I've read them (nearly) all.
Sadly most good storylines were either not finished or taken down for a rewrite and then not finished . So continiuing is all I want from you. At least I have enough lifespan (I hope) to see it's end.

There's nothing more to say right now because "brilliant" describes it well.
4/9 c27 Guest
I'be been enjoying the series thus far, but lately something has been bothering me, and having read this this chapter I finally understand what it is.

So, we've seen that Alison in her TOL-900 body can: easily destroy all other known cyborg types; grill them with electric discharges powerful enough to melt metal; shrug off damage from any handheld guns and even repel or reflect plasma shots; bust through nuclear shelter doors; block or catch separate bullets when she decides to show off; quickly repair herself if she's still damaged somehow; become invisible; modify, mutate or dissolve people w/ custom pathogens including those designed to target only specific individuals; enthrall, enslave or send straight to cloud cuckoo land anyone in immediate vicinity; come pretty close to reading humans' minds; scan her surroundings for mere molecules of pheromones and DNA traces to track people down better than a hound could ever hope to. All that, and she's still finding out what else her body can do because TOK chip can't handle it all at once.

The problem is that TOL-900 were mass produced and used against the Resistance in that old timeline. And I fail to see how even one of these terminators - let alone two or more - hadn't casualy wiped every Skynet enemy, cyborg or human, on its trial run. Because that's what their mission was, and judging by the story there's nothing that can stop them. Well, aside from dropping a building on every single one of them. No place would be safe, the only chance would be to run away...faster than they could run after you, so not that big a chance too. In short, everyone from that timeline should have been dead before F.C stole the body.
4/4 c27 68keithallen
Lego? LOLOLOL! I have to say imagining the cyborgs, advanced and intelligent machines sitting around and building things with legos made me laugh until I had tears in my eyes. A great and comical surprise. :)

the Sebastian story was good, but I am eager for the upcoming events in Tokyo. You indicated that the Colony was going to be called to deal with Toru in his fortress. Still, I can't see the Connors not at least being part of the rescue mission to free the bird in the cage. OR coming up with something that no one else thought of to get the captive cyborg out without Toru even knowing anything happened until he goes down to fond the 'inescapable' containment empty.
3/31 c27 Alberto007
Damn, it took me a white to power on from the hibernation mode... anyway:

"I planted an explosive device into engine number one. But it looks like somebody else had already taken care of it." This base really lacks in security department :-D

"Hmmmmm..." A terminator did a "Hmmmmm..." :-D What next, flying pigs? :-D Maybe she was neglecting service mileage and now her gears are starting to grind ;-)

"he's found the Lego store…" Oh no... no... HELL YEAH!

"They didn't have a childhood," Technically their childhood consisted of... killing people, being uncommunicative, purple jacked and trying to kill John and have sex with him. Not necessary in this order :-D Yeah... Really disturbing without context...

"children's toys." From now I am rooting for Skynet, case closed...

"Great, they want to have hobbies now. What's next? Collecting stamps? Going fishing? Building a model railway?" Let's just hope they will not discover Magic The Gathering, or they will go broke :-D Now I have that cursed image in my head: ACE in torn clothes and dirty are standing in the alley and holding carboards with "will terminate for LEGO" :-D

"When hell freezes over," Lucy: "Hey, I can arrange that! Can somebody finally give me Emily's number? It's not often I get rejected. I am intrigued!"

"no one has ever raised a cyborg from infancy" His view on parenthood is quite disturbing... lock them up until they start to like you... yikes...

"I found a man who owns a night club in Los Angeles" Lucy: "Emily's number, NOW! Don't look at me like that, detective..."

"But she's obviously an identical model." Rumiko's resale value has dropped even more :-D

"I want to have them and add them to my collection!" Ehhhh, no comment...

"Marcus Curtin left the interrogation room." The ballsy lion is back!

"I'll return to Washington when I'm finished here." and he is out...

"And I also happen to know that once it's active, you can't switch it off again" What kind of black magic is that? :-D

"I'm counting on that. I am prepared." That is negative, mister. :-D お前はもう死んでい / Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru

"then the pack of rats gathered in front of him." oh, the Ratatouille. I almost forgot about this kage bunshin Disney movie star :-D… stars?

Ehhh, I would like to remind that rats have a lifespan of a few years at best, and 'few' means 2... sooooo, what next?

purified? more like broken :-(

"My younger self is limited in that way, yes " Limited, or just an exhibitionist with an excuse? :-D

"I know the time and cause of your death, and it's not heart failure." Is it a snapped neck then? :-D

"It wasn't planned for Sandra to keep her memories and her brains." Well, death is not a good option too. :-)

"which drastically reduces their life span" can't they just build new ones? ;-) Also, I don't think antibodies could work on metal :-D

"I can recite a few incantations if that helps you. Hocus pocus, abracadabra..." Avada kedavra, oops.. wrong one :-D

"until you have become a better person." A better rat. How you can become a better person, when you are actually a rat? :-D Now, the Ratatouille will not even fit in the chef's hat...

How to make calm people angry? Tell them to not be angry...

And are there any consequences of one dead rat? ;-)

"No," she spat at him. Well, then we will have to find a really big cat :-D

"imagine being an ever-mutating tentacle monster." Sounds like a good career option in live action hentai :-D

"Good enough to earn a Michelin star." Ratatouille! Angry oversized rat cooking in the top restaurant! I would like to see Gordon's reaction to that :-D Pissed of Gordon shouting on pissed of mega rat, I would like to see that :-D

"nanobots that come with nano power cells," I am starting to believe that the only way those could be real (as real as you could say in science fiction), if they were built with Time Lord tech and they are bigger on the inside :-D
They need so much energy, that even if you convert all their mass to energy, it would not be even close to the required energy :-D

I am starting to like Sebastian :-D

"Ludwig explained it to me, he left me instructions in case I ever become a Terminator's target."
A. it is that audio signal used by that narcissistic prototype.
B. one more feature, which appeared when the plot requires and Sebastian will come and save the day :-D
C. Future Alison/Yanni the 4th wall all problem fixers. :-D
D. There will be a Penis Festival in Japan :-D

"I mean, seriously, it is as if some mean author is writing a story that brings us into trouble all the time. Can't it just stop for a while?" 4th wall? Well, it could be always worse, it could be a fanfiction ;-)

"They're not going down!" what are you going to do about it? Sue them? :-D

"Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker," Bruce Willis' voice answered. I laughed a bit too much. Excuse me while I change my pants :-D

Looks like it will be plan C.

"The name's Kimberly Jackson," she said, "nice to meet you." Well, she lied, she is a shapeshifter :-D

"Suddenly, a yellowish cloud appeared around them" Someone farted :-D looks like it was a big one :-D No more tacos for terminacos :-D

Zeptobots? Smaller than protons? Smaller than elementary and quantum particles? Mister, you have just destroyed all laws of physics in this world :-D
Well zepto is 1000000000000 times smaller than nano...

"I don't need to. I have 360-degree vision." Sooo, you can look at your own butt? Quite a useful feature ;-)

"all that was still visible of her body, were her bones." I see it as an absolute win - the best Halloween costume ever :-D Wait, shouldn't that silicone in fake tits be visible too? ;-) Floating fake tits on the skeleton :-D

"All you have to do, is put on new clothes." And what if she doesn't have spare clothes here? :-D Run home naked like in the Rush Hour movie!

"Brutal even. Inhumane." In other words, cruel ;-) hypocritical terminators... Their "We are not built to be cruel" has to be changed to "We can be cruel any time we want and that is very often."

"demonstrate to them how utterly hopeless their situation is." and fear brings out hatred. Friendship is magic, remember? :-D

"You have to show them a way out, and alternative" That is a very strange way to show it :-D I doubt they will ever want to become friendly with you after that kind of stunts :-D

"Screw the worries, let's enjoy our vacation." And all it took John to stop worrying was... touching breasts... :-)

And on that bombshell, it is time to end, thank you for a nice chapter and goodbye. See you all soon :-) Entering the hibernation mode until the next update.
3/27 c27 Guest
Great chapter, and thanks. Please take the following questions as mere rumblings or food for thought - I encourage anyone who's not yet hooked to read this story - you'll enjoy it for sure.

So here some questions: Why would Sebastian keep using the same name with separate contacts, especially on the phone, if he was aware that all communication was monitored and he was as careful as suggested? What other ways might he have used to establish his identity to his former business contacts on the phone that would have been less prone to detection? On the other hand it's plausible that this was what brought him to John Henry's attention, and thus, by extension, to F. A.'s.

One more thing I am puzzled about, leaving aside any generally necessary suspension of disbelief, is how come hundreds of years in the future AIs seem to remain confined to low level roles of taxi drivers or to the boundaries of human sized bodies. Even Skynet exhibited a runaway expansion rate of development from its very beginnings. Why would they limit themselves to such a degree? Or maybe they aren't, and we encounter only those who did in our present, their past?
3/21 c27 bossyman15
Oh boy! Can't wait for them to get to Japan!
3/21 c27 Beauty715
Has been a long wait... As long as the chapter itself... ;-)
Well, anyway it's great.
It turned out to be a pretty intriguing chapter... It's full of intrigues. Here are probably more intrigues than in the entire "Game of Thrones". *LOL* Everyone is scheming something... ;-)

Legos by kilograms?... Well, it's an eastern market! So, who knows?... ;-)

Future Alison IS scaring... REALLY scaring. She doesn't look like a devil only when she thinks or speaks about Her Beloved John.
For example, instead of threatening and intimidating Qiu Guijin she could simply return Qiu's mother back to normal... Qiu Guijin would think of her like of a Saint, considering everything that happened before a proper punishment from Heaven Itself for her and her mother's sins that came to the end. Lesson taught.
Not to mention, her mother wasn't really punished fairly: their enemies don't really do something Cameron or Alison never did, and if Alison can convince a person to change for good, then there's no reason to torture the person like this, or it looks like a torture for the purpose of torture: "They must be sinners, and they must be punished for it".
Who said power can't corrupt a terminator?... We already have a few examples. It just doesn't always happen quickly.
Now probably the only good part of Future Alison is the part that loves John more than anything. Or maybe it's her not been with Her John for a long time has such an effect on her...

By the way - another time loop: when Future Alison is writing a message to John, she's reflecting on how she remember John receiving it. So, in her own time there also was a "Future Alison". Time loops appear and disappear...

Will be interesting to learn more about Rumiko as a person. Maybe this Toru isn't that bad?...
By the way, Rumiko tilted her head just like Cameron... Of course, she got her quirk somehow differently, since she's an absolutely different person. But still...

But more than everything I'm eager to know, what the hell they're doing with all this Legos?! ;-)
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