Setting: A generic street

[unclebob]

The machine is puzzled. It's an odd emotion, but no stranger than the others he has felt over the past few days. Why is he still here? He was lowered into molten metal and went offline. That should have been the end of it. Should have, but was not. Now he is here, wherever "here" might be.

What is his purpose now? His mission has been fulfilled. John is safe. So the tall robot stands there with an unnatural stillness about him, staring out as the people pass on by. His face wears a small expression of befuddlement.

Comments

[unclebob]

2011? How had he slipped forward through time? It was possible, of course, but the usual methods should've caused him to appear on the streets naked. He looked around him, as if taking in the bustling streets for the first time. In his future, Judgment Day has come and gone by this point. The world is a desolate wasteland by 2011.

To see it alive and full of people, the way it should be, sets off a deep feeling of satisfaction within the Terminator. They had won. There's the briefest flicker of a smile before he answers. "Negative. There is nobody I know in this place."

[sociably]

Ah, it looks like his answer's well-received, and the man's smile elicits a responding one before Shouhei's (often slow) brain fully processes the words spoken and his smile goes fizzling out again.

"Then, how come you're here in Shizume City? Is it for a business trip?"

The man does seem distinctly un-Japanese. Foreigners come to Japan all the time for business trips, right? And it would explain why he seems to be so lost.

[unclebob]

"No. I am unsure why I am here. I had a mission. But I thought it was over." Perhaps it's his fate. That's what Sarah Connor was always going on about, how to change Judgment Day and end up saving everyone. Now, with his mission complete and the fate of the world completely changed, he's been left in the lurch. If only there was some hint or clue as to which way he was supposed to go.