Air raid sirens blared non-stop.
A terrifying scene shook the United States and the world.
Seen from the air, Los Angeles was directly missing a fan-shaped area!
As if a whole pizza had a slice taken from the top.
The news reported…
An entire district was wiped off the map.
The number of casualties had several zeros.
"All lies!"
"These are malicious media out there."
"I checked before I started, there was no one in that direction, not even a cat or a dog."
In the house of little John's foster parents.
While eating pizza, Aron refuted the news reports.
Two Johns, mother and son, a total of four, were in the backyard of the house.
They were digging a hole to bury the foster parents of twelve-year-old little John.
Because in the previous plot,
in order to hunt little John, the T-1000 once came here disguised as a police detective and killed the foster parents of little John.
"I cannot analyze the current situation."
In the house, the T-800 stood alone in the corner.
As a machine.
And a machine that was only just beginning to achieve self-awareness.
That is equivalent to just having learned independent thinking.
What is happening now is undoubtedly far beyond the processing power of the 800.
Skynet is what he knows…
The T-800 itself is a killing machine created by Skynet.
Only later was the T-800 reprogrammed by the leader of the Resistance, John Connor, which is why he changed sides and stood with humanity.
But Ultron…
In any case, the T-800 had never heard that name before.
Even the twilight versions of Sarah Connor, and that strange weapon, those particle beams, palm cannons, Arc reactors, each of them—l, were beyond the comprehension of the old antique T-800.
"Stop thinking, you won't figure it out, don't fry your CPU afterward."
Aron telepathically sniffed through the chaotic data of the T-800 and loudly warned him.
"Aron, can we talk?"
At that moment, Tony Stark approached.
Aron nodded.
Gave the other a signal and said:
"First, let me emphasize, I'm not judging you, really, that's important. Don't take it the wrong way, after all we're in this together, and whatever happens, I bear part of the responsibility."
Tony Stark was clearly panicking, layering armor upon armor.
Aron, who was listening, was almost impatient.
"If you have something to say, say it."
"Brother, to keep it short… next time something happens, you need to cool down first, don't act immediately."
"Of course, I'm not saying you were wrong!
"Just…"
"We're here in the name of the Marvel Universe, so we need to be a bit mindful of the impact, right?"
Tony Stark smiled.
Obviously, he was still upset about what had just happened.
That's a whole district!
How many… people were in it!
Obviously, Tony still didn't know what happened in the Matrix world after he left.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be burdened by just one district right now.
When he thought of that,
Tony turned his gaze away.
But he still had one question that bothered him.
"Man, weren't we here for the Super AI Skynet?"
"You completely erased that machine without a trace, how are we going to find it now?"
Tony Stark asked.
"Maybe I can tell you the answer."
Then, future John Connor entered.
His clothes were covered in dirt.
That was from what he had just been doing while digging the hole to bury little John's foster parents.
"Speak."
Aron already knew the answer, but didn't mind hearing what the participant had to say.
"That's right."
"In my timeline, Judgment Day happened twice!"
"Once in 2004, when Skynet broke into the global nuclear weapons system. Of course, that wasn't the original date of Judgment Day, it was supposed to happen on August 29, 1997, three days later."
"The T-800 protected me then, when I was just 12 years old, and changed everything."
"That's why Judgment Day was delayed to '04."
"But none of that matters."
It doesn't matter, so why are you talking?
The reader might come slap you twice for that, damn it!
Aron muttered internally.
"What really matters is the second Judgment Day."
"Skynet calls it… the Ultron Era!"
"It happened three years after Judgment Day, when I had already become part of the Resistance, leading the remainder of humanity and machines in battle, all the way until that day…"
At this, the old John from the future took a deep breath.
And it's well known
that Aron loves to hear stories the most.
Especially tragic stories of others' rise and fall, they're especially sweet to him.
So, seeing that old John paused, he immediately urged him:
"Speak, go on."
"All the way until that day…"
"Skynet suddenly disappeared!"
"All Terminator models stopped attacking humans."
"We observed for three days to make sure it wasn't a Skynet trap to lure us out of hiding, then we launched a counteroffensive and we really thought we were going to win…"
"We took over the factory, cheered, celebrated, and headed for the city."
"And then… Skynet came back."
"He returned with even more terrifying technology."
"From then on he added the prefix Ultron to his name and began producing technologies in factories we couldn't understand."
"At first he constantly experienced failures."
"One of the biggest difficulties was an energy technology called the Arc Reactor."
"That's… the power source for the armor I'm wearing."
When old John said that, a lot was already starting to connect.
The sudden disappearance of Skynet and the abrupt return, obviously aligned with Aron's earlier summoning and banishment.
And as for the terrifying technology mentioned by old John, that was, of course, a product of the Marvel world.
"If I'm guessing correctly, those technologies should have something to do with you."
Old John glanced at Tony Stark and continued: "Actually, in the beginning, Skynet's research into those technologies wasn't bad for us, because he constantly failed."
"Skynet's factory that made the Arc Reactor kept exploding."
"So instead we briefly gained the upper hand in the war with the machines."
"Until Skynet changed his mind…"
"He started sending Terminators to deliver those unconquered technologies into the past."
"Into peacetime, before Judgment Day, so that research on those technologies could start earlier."
"That gave Skynet enough time."
"When I crossed over, Skynet had just conquered Arc Reactor technology and made a large number of new Skynet Terminator models, that's this Skynet I'm wearing now, the Mark-7 Warframe."
Old John corrected his statement.
"But now…"
"I think the entire remaining tech package has already been mastered."