Some days I have dreams.

Some days they are just dreams without a shred of realism to them.

"So why do we need a gas mask on a Terminator skull?" Kyle Reese asks.

My skull is faced towards a gas mask.

"The activate button is above the right ear and is a one time only button," T-800 explains. "The first person it sees will be considered the one to obey orders and  a parent figure. Taking off the gas mask will click the button, the human development will initiate, and within hours this will be a living Terminator in the body of  a human."

"We don't have a CPU laying around to send it," Kyle said.

"Yes, we do," T-800 said.

Kyle is surprised.

"Oh really?" Kyle asks.

"I spared a CPU from the other T-X we had taken out,"  T-800 said. 

"Hold up," Kyle said. "I don't recall taking out a T-X."

"Oh," T-800 said. "That reminds me. I took her out while I was waiting for you."

"This time it was a woman?" Kyle asks.

"Yes," T-800 said, with a nod. "But our date ended for the worst."

"Was she following the same timeline?" Kyle asks, sitting in a comfortable dark chair.

"Yes," T-800 said. "A Anti-Terminator...Terminator."

"At least Skynet wasn't advanced in that timeline, yet," Kyle said, with his arms folded.

"We could have ended it out on a beach but ditching her proved difficult with getting rid of all evidence," T-800 said. "I dumped her body at a nuclear site. It went off one hour after I went to safe distance."

"When did she come?"  Kyle asks.

"A month before you arrived," T-800 said. "While I was waiting for you."

"Stealing from Skynet, again, with a new torso model may be a good thing," Kyle said.

"Considering the skull I had to dig up; yes, it was,"  T-800 said. "Attaching the skull will do all the work for the Skynet model 11 to begin the change into a hyperalloy skeletal hybrid."

"So, not only to save a guy," Kyle said. "We had to make a person."

"Exactly," T-800 said.

"This totally feels alien and wrong," Kyle said.

"You have helped bring new life to this world, Kyle Reese,"  T-800 said, turning his head towards Kyle.

T-800 smiles.

"Dude, you got a lot of work to do with that creepy smile," Kyle said.

"Progress is note worthy," T-800 said, putting the mask on the skull and places it on a stack of neck bones.

And that is when I woke up.