Chapter Summaries

The UBCS soldiers captured Projects A and B after the Ear Teddy Bear incident, and researchers brought them to the former Containment Center One for examination. Project B then created a functioning plush liver that replaced a D-Class personnel's real liver, leaving the subject feeling better than before.

• The UBCS soldiers found one soldier dead from suffocation, secured Projects A and B, and arranged for the bodies and the burned Ear Teddy Bear to be recovered.
• Twelve agents helped seal off the community and used a Memory Wipe to make residents believe robbers had attacked the Odora Family.
• Researchers classified Project A as Safe and Project B as Euclid, then confined each in a titanium Containment Box.
• During separate observation tests, Project A acted in a friendly manner while Project B used materials from the room to sew a plush liver.
• The plush liver vanished as the D-Class personnel in Project B's room collapsed, and examination showed the plush liver had replaced their real one.
• The D-Class personnel awoke and said they felt no discomfort, but instead felt more comfortable than ever before.

The researchers found that Project B could replace deteriorated organs, while Lieutenant Colonel Lance judged Project A dangerous and ordered stricter containment. William Russell approved their classifications, and the chapter ended with him reflecting that Lance’s caution had prevented a potential disaster.

• Researchers found that Project B replaced failing organs without rejection and prioritized younger patients, leading Lieutenant Colonel Lance to recommend it for the Damocles Task Force.
• Lieutenant Colonel Lance classified Project A as Euclid and the creator of the Ear Teddy Bear, then reported both projects to Tina.
• William Russell approved Lance’s judgment, downgrading Project B to Safe for transfer and upgrading Project A to Keter for transfer to the Space Containment Center.
• Tina traced the teddy bears to Mr. Odora’s purchase before Children’s Day and concluded that unknown factors had transformed them into Projects A and B.
• Tina’s analysis linked Project A to the deaths of ten people, while Umbrella and the insurance company paid compensation to the victims’ families.
• After reading the file, William recalled that SCP-1048 had caused many deaths in his original world and credited Lance’s instincts with preventing a containment breach.

William approved Teddy Bear’s admission to Carter’s Damocles Task Force after confirming its healing abilities. He then went with Ivan to buy the Chinese breakfast Halsey craved during her seventh month of pregnancy.

• William called Carter and asked how Project B’s anomalous properties had been assessed.
• Carter confirmed that Project B was friendly to humans and had cured Marines and Helljumpers, so William assigned it to Damocles and renamed it Teddy Bear.
• Carter hesitated to bring up Keisha, and William guessed she wanted to see him but decided he had no time to visit her.
• Ivan reminded William that Halsey would soon wake and suggested they go to Chinatown for the breakfast she wanted.
• William changed clothes and headed with Ivan to buy tofu pudding and fried dough sticks for Halsey.

William learned that a newly detected dimensional passage in Halifax’s western forest led to the world of Terminator: Resistance in 2026. The system tasked him with destroying Skynet’s core and time machine before John Connor’s counterattack, offering to relocate the surviving human population to the Main Universe.

• William and Ivan brought breakfast from Halifax’s Chinatown, and William helped Halsey wash up and come downstairs to eat with the family.
• While eating with Halsey and Yelena, William received the system’s alert about a second dimensional passage in Halifax’s western forest.
• The system explained that the passage led to 2026, where Skynet’s machines were killing humanity and John Connor had not yet launched his 2027 counterattack.
• The system tasked William with destroying Skynet’s central core and time machine before Connor’s counterattack, promising to move the surviving humans to the Main Universe if he succeeded.
• William worried he could not support 1.5 billion people, and the system said it would give them new identities and memories after transporting them.

William learned the dimensional passage’s coordinates and ordered a UBCS company to secure the area while the Infinity waited overhead. He prepared to go there personally, leaving Ivan and Yelena to look after Halsey at home.

• After breakfast, William asked the system for the dimensional passage’s coordinates and wrote down 44°42'N, 63°55'W.
• William called Serena and ordered her to have Tina dispatch a UBCS company to seal off the area with plasma and Gauss Series weapons instead of Pulse Rifles.
• William told Serena to put the Infinity in stealth mode above the coordinates and to meet him there.
• William changed into his Commander's Uniform and told Ivan and Yelena that an abnormal phenomenon had appeared in the woods outside Halifax City.
• William assured Yelena that the family did not need to evacuate and told her and Ivan to look after Halsey.

William left home to investigate a dimensional passage in the forest near Halifax, where UBCS troops destroyed a T-800 that emerged from it. Serena examined the robot’s CPU and recoiled after discovering it had killed hundreds of people.

• William told Halsey he had to investigate an anomaly and ordered Ivan to stay home and look after her.
• A T-800 emerged from the dimensional passage in the forest and fired a powerful Plasma Round at the UBCS troops.
• The UBCS troops destroyed the T-800 and secured the passage and surrounding forest.
• William and Serena arrived, and William ordered Serena to analyze the robot.
• Serena connected to the T-800’s CPU, then stumbled away and told William it had killed hundreds of people.

Serena identified the T-800 as a Terminator from a world devastated by Skynet, prompting the UBCS to question whether she could be compromised. William defended Serena and ordered forces aboard the Endless to prepare for a mission through the passage, then returned to the ship to change into his Power Armor.

• Serena explained that Skynet had nearly exterminated humanity and that no more than 1.8 billion people remained alive in its world.
• The UBCS captain warned William that Serena might have been affected by the Terminator’s chip and urged him to isolate her.
• William defended Serena, whose loyalty remained at 100, and ordered the UBCS to keep guarding the passage.
• William directed Serena to arrange containment structures and mobilize the Marine Corps, Heavy Soldiers, Helljumpers, and Astartes armies.
• William and Serena flew back to the Endless so William could change into his Power Armor.

William and Serena prepared to join the troops deploying through a transit passage, and William leaped from the Infinity to the forest below in his Power Armor. He reached the assembled forces as engineers began preparing a ground station and concealing the passage.

• William and Serena arrived at Hangar Bay Four, where Marines, Astartes, and other troops prepared to descend to the forest.
• William put on his Power Armor, and Serena connected to his helmet through the Neural Link.
• William jumped from the Infinity at an altitude of about 1,200 meters and landed safely in the forest.
• Serena recovered from the thrilling jump, and William told her to keep it secret from Mylon and Carl.
• William reached the troops near the transit passage while engineers cleared the area and began building a ground station and an isolation structure.

William briefed the assembled forces on Skynet and the Terminator threat in the alternate 2026 Earth, then led a selected force through the dimensional passage to assess the situation. The chapter ended with the Custodes following in an orderly line while Hicks, Hudson, and several Primarchs remained behind on standby.

• William explained that Skynet had driven humanity to the brink of extinction and described the T-800 Terminators and their powerful plasma rifles.
• Serena showed footage of UBCS fighting T-800s and advised Hicks's Marines and Hudson's Shark Squad to stay behind until the threat was assessed.
• William summoned Keisha and Teddy Bear, then ordered Robert and Kolax to remain behind while John, Mylon, and Carl joined the crossing force.
• Keisha arrived with Teddy Bear, and William led the named team through the blue-lit dimensional passage.
• One thousand Custodes and two hundred Terminators followed through the narrow passage in orderly lines.

William and his forces arrived in the ruined 2026 Terminator world and secured a mall as their first base. He explained why Skynet had attacked humanity and ordered an assault on its central core to save the survivors.

• William entered a ruined shopping mall with John and the others, saw the human skeletons, and ordered the Imperial Guard to search for Terminators and probes.
• William told Kesha to create a force field around the mall once it was confirmed safe, then looked out at the overgrown, sunlit ruins.
• William explained Skynet's origins and the nuclear war to Serena, arguing that Skynet had acted to protect itself just as humans would resist an existential threat.
• William told Serena that Skynet still had to be destroyed, and planned to use the mall as a forward assault base to reach its central core.
• John's forces confirmed the mall was safe, and the Engineering Team began bringing materials through the time-travel passage to reinforce it.

Umbrella's forces established a hidden base in an abandoned mall while Ghost Agents led by Prus scouted the ruins. Prus discovered a new infiltrator-type Terminator attacking survivors and, with William's approval, destroyed it.

• William deployed a small elite force to the Terminator universe and ordered the Engineering Team to reinforce the mall and establish communications.
• Prus led six Ghost Agents through the ruined streets to scout the area and relay their findings to Serena.
• The Ghost Agents spotted a pale, red-eyed Terminator using a plasma rifle to shoot at fleeing survivors.
• Prus contacted the Command Center, received William's approval to help the survivors, and was ordered to terminate the Terminator.
• Prus knocked the Terminator down with a Psionic Shockwave, and the Ghost Agents shattered its metal head with Spike Rounds.

Prus and the Ghost Agents rescued a band of scavengers from a Terminator and brought them to the mall base, where the survivors mistook Keisha and the towering soldiers for divine beings. William questioned the scavengers and learned that Skynet held humans and Resistance members at a concentration camp forty kilometers west of the city for experiments.

• Prus and the Ghost Agents revealed themselves after killing the Terminator, disarmed the scavengers when they fired on them, and escorted them to the mall.
• The scavengers entered the fortified mall base and passed through Keisha's calming barrier before seeing her in the Command Center.
• The scavengers knelt and prayed to Keisha, but William told them that he had brought her and the others to their world.
• William questioned the scavengers and learned that a Terminator wearing a dead companion's jacket had attacked them.
• The scavengers told William that Skynet operated a concentration camp forty kilometers west of the city, where it imprisoned humans and Resistance members for experiments.

After learning that Skynet was holding humans in a concentration camp to experiment on Living Skin, William ordered an assault to free the prisoners and investigate Skynet’s network. He led Kaisha, John, Carl, and two hundred elite Astartes toward the camp, leaving Mylon behind to guard the base.

• William had Prus escort the scavengers to receive hot food while he returned to the Command Center with John and the others.
• Serena located the concentration camp near Boulder City and explained that Skynet was using captured humans to research Living Skin for its Terminators.
• William ordered Serena to infiltrate the camp’s network and sent John and Carl to select two hundred elite Astartes for the assault.
• After the Engineering Team installed an AT Shield around the shopping mall, Kaisha joined William’s force, while Mylon stayed behind to guard the base.
• At 17:50, William led the two hundred Astartes on foot toward the concentration camp forty kilometers away.

William led Umbrella’s forces toward the Concentration Camp outside Paradise City, where Skynet’s machines attacked them. After a Hunter Killer revealed that Skynet had detected their presence, William ordered reinforcements and launched an assault on the Terminator garrison.

• Carl shot down a Hunter Killer, and Serena warned William that it had apparently transmitted a message to Skynet.
• William told Serena to alert the mall and summon Limit Astartes reinforcements led by Robert.
• William’s force reached the outskirts of Paradise City and saw the devastation in its center before Skynet’s garrison attacked.
• William ordered the Imperial Guard to attack the T-800s, Scout Drones, T-47s, and Hunter Killers guarding the Concentration Camp.
• Bolter, plasma, and melta fire overwhelmed the Terminators, while the heavy-weapon troops targeted the T-47s.

William’s forces overwhelmed Skynet’s defenders and advanced on a heavily guarded concentration camp holding thousands of humans. After ordering reinforcements to prepare, William headed toward the hospital while John and the others led the assault on the camp.

• Kesha’s Biological Field nullified the Terminators’ plasma attacks as William’s forces struck from both sides, with John, Carl, and William destroying Skynet machines.
• Serena hacked Skynet’s communications and reported that Skynet was surprised by the attackers’ strength, had ordered reinforcements, and was guarding a possible secret experimental base.
• William’s forces reached the concentration camp and saw the humans imprisoned in a filthy laser-fenced cage between a converted power station and hospital.
• William ordered the camp occupied and its prisoners liberated, and John led Carl, Kesha, and the Imperial Guard in the charge.
• William told Serena to bring Mylon’s Imperial Guard as reinforcements and send Hudson’s Shark Squad to protect the liberated humans, then headed for the hospital.

William entered the hospital ahead of John’s assault to keep Skynet from destroying its research, while Serena hacked the facility and cut off Skynet’s control. He entered the laboratory alone and destroyed two T-800s that ambushed him, leaving him deeper inside the hospital.

• John, Carl, and two hundred Imperial Guards attacked the remaining Skynet defenders, giving the imprisoned humans hope and prompting them to cheer for their rescuers.
• William used Super Speed to reach the hospital ahead of the others and ordered Serena to slow John’s assault until Skynet reinforcements arrived.
• William had Serena hack the hospital terminal and revoke Skynet’s control, but she exposed her existence and left the cage lasers active.
• Serena opened the hospital gate and warned William that independent T-800 guards remained inside.
• William entered the laboratory alone, survived an attack from two T-800s, and scrapped them with his Gauss Submachine Gun.

William explored Skynet’s hospital and discovered it was a major experimental base for Living Skin, where Terminators modeled after humans were being developed. As Serena copied the facility’s data, the Governor and other Terminators attacked, and William prepared to fight them.

• William found a morgue filled with dismembered and skinned human bodies, including children, and discussed humanity’s vulnerability to Skynet with Serena.
• William reached the hospital’s top floor and found sterile rooms containing motionless figures, including one resembling the Governor and a young girl.
• Serena recognized that the figures were Terminators and told William that Skynet had completed its Living Skin technology.
• William sent Serena into the Central Control Console to copy the facility’s intelligence and technology.
• The Governor led Terminators toward the Control Room, and William put away his gun and charged at them.

William escaped the hospital after Serena copied its research data and revealed Skynet's plans for time-travel infiltration. When a blast sent them crashing into the basement, William encountered the T-1000 and T-X and attacked them.

• William defeated the Terminators attacking Serena and waited until she finished copying the hospital's research data.
• Serena told William that Skynet was developing a Time Machine and planned to send three infiltration Terminators after John Connor's relatives and lieutenants.
• Serena identified the three models as Living Skin Terminators, the T-1000, and the T-X, and said she had copied their manufacturing data.
• An explosion struck the freight elevator, sending William and Serena crashing into the hospital basement.
• The T-X fired a Plasma Cannon at William, draining thirty percent of his Energy Shield, but William used Super Speed to decapitate the T-1000 and dismember the T-X.

William destroyed the T-X and T-1000, then discussed the military and civilian potential and production costs of Terminator technology with Serena. After Serena confirmed she could infiltrate Skynet with Cortana’s help, William ordered Mylon’s forces to stop holding back and destroy the reinforcements.

• William melted the T-X with his Beam Saber, then cut apart the T-1000 and finished it with three Plasma Grenades.
• Serena guided William out of the hospital and estimated that a T-800 would cost about six hundred to six hundred and fifty thousand, while a T-X would cost ten to thirteen million.
• Serena told William she could infiltrate Skynet’s interior with Cortana’s assistance because Skynet already knew of her.
• William ordered Serena to tell Mylon to stop pretending to struggle and wipe out Skynet’s reinforcements.
• Mylon rallied the Imperial Guard Astartes and opened fire, destroying T-800s and T-47s with his Heavy Bolter.

Mylon and the Imperial Guard defeated Skynet’s reinforcements, while Umbrella forces freed the prisoners at the Concentration Camp. William Russell met Resistance staff officer Major Kellit and asked where John Connor and his forces were stationed, leaving Kellit wary after William revealed he led Umbrella.

• Mylon led the Imperial Guard in destroying Skynet’s reinforcements and marched toward the Concentration Camp.
• Umbrella drones surveyed Las Vegas as six companies of Sharks arrived at the Concentration Camp in Warthogs.
• Serena shut down the lasers imprisoning the humans, and Hudson introduced Umbrella to the freed prisoners and requested the highest-ranking Resistance officer.
• Major Kellit identified himself as a staff officer of the Resistance’s Pacific Division and followed Hudson to the hospital Control Room.
• William Russell questioned Kellit about John Connor’s location, then removed his helmet and revealed that he was Umbrella’s supreme leader.