The reboot Star Trek series is but one of the many remakes that have recycled ideas, presenting them again in different ways. I am particularly interested in this idea, as it attempts to explore the different outcomes of the events that happen in our lives.
I would like to present my own literary work of of an alternate version of the fight between pops and the 1984 Terminator. I know I have touched on this subject before, but I didn't address it in a very imaginative way. Who wins a battle is a very complex issue and it can matter or not to so many different kinds of people.
Therefore, I'd like to share with you one possible way the fight could have unfolded, if Pops had chosen to take on Terminator and defeat it without Sarah's intervention. Please comment, or present your own ideas.
The Terminator had closed the distance between it and the Guardian rapidly. The three shotgun blasts to its chest hadn't slowed it down at all and if the Guardian didn't react within a split second of the killing machine coming to within arm's reach of him, or be hurled and disarmed, loosing his weapon to tthe Terminator, who would have used on him expertly enough to disable him and then have a few seconds to tear the servomotor cables connecting his neck to the rest of his body.
The Guardian raised his shotgun horizontally and struck the Terminator in the face, striking him cleanly accross cranial area. The hard steel crumpled and snapped under the impact, breaking the weapon cleanly in two. The Terminator's head snapped back under the impact and its run was broken into a stumble. Guardian pressed his attack by slamming his fist down onto the Terminator's shoulder, hoping to damage the servomotor to his head so the fight would come to an end sooner, or at the very least, prevent the Terminator from raising his defending arm quick enough to defend itself.
Terminator responded by doing the same to Pops, aiming to achieve the same result. Guardian anticipated it and went to the side with the blow, managing to deflect enough of the impact to remain standing. He executed a new command that made him roll upwards after the blow to strike the Terminator under the chin with a vertical punch. It went up in such a way that struck the Terminator in his artificial nose, making him stumble back a pace. Guardian placed both hands on the Terminator's shoulders, turned him slightly sideways and pushed him backwards, breaking into a run.
The Terminator's struck a nearby lampost head and back first, denting the pole with a dull thud. It brought its arms over and then under the arms of the Guardian and then head butted him hard. Guardian contracted his body and head back at the same time, again managing to prevent his neck mechanisms from compressing under the recoil, but was momentarily stunned. In that time, Terminator side stepped, grabbed Guardian by one arm and, taking a fistfull of hair, slammed his face into the same lamp post. He did it twice more, causing enough of a dent to cause the lamp to collapse forward.
Terminator continued by hurling guardian forward into the nearby guardrail. All three of its railings crumpled under the weight of Guardian and he fell flat on his front. Having broken the fall with his arms and landing on earth, Guardian had sustained no significant damage. Terminator lifted him up by his jacket, gripping him hard. Guardian turned to face the machine and grabbed him by the shoulders, in preperation for the upcoming throw to the side. The move worked in his favor, allowing him to sail through the air in such a way that he landed on his face again. He broke what his sensors had already registered as a pay to use telescope. It came off cleanly as he struck it and fell well within reach. He quickly got to his knees, grabbed the telescope by its broken support, reaquired his target and swung at head level, having revised using it in advance and putting the command on standby.
The telescope struck the terminator full on in the side of his head. As Guardian prepared to swing it back the way it had come, he noticed the flesh on the left side of the Terminator's head has come away, including its left ear and eye. He wasted no time in swinging again, striking him on the opposite side with the other end of the telescope, not causing the same amount of damage as before due to the angle and battered state of the device, but hard enough to make the Terminator stagger backwards and have to turn away and stumble a few paces in order to avoid being hit. The section holding the many coins that numerous toursits and space aficionados had used to operate the telescope rained down on the ground, scattering and dancing wildly in the moon light.
Terminator quickly righted itself, taking a moment to assess the new threat potential. It became aware that its infiltration overlay had been compromised in such a way that would make the unit easier to detect. Aware his weapon was now useless, Guardian slammed down the telescope, making it crash on the ground in case there was still enough mass to allow it to be used as a weapon. Terminator processed the scenario rapidly and determined that it had to rush this other terminator or it could enter into a prolonged battle that could compromise more of its flesh cover.
The same idea occured to guardian and he rushed the Terminator. As he came close to the machine it grabbed him and its head ducked at a low angle and then came forward. Guardian moved his head to one side and forward, evading another headbutt. He snaked one arm under the terminator's grab and struck him with an uppercut punch, making Terminator's head snap upwards. Guardian continued with a hook punch to its jaw, making its head snap to the side, finishing the chain by knocking the arms of the terminator aside from the inside and then shoving him backwards.
Terminator fell backward and landed hard on the asphalt, creating a small crater like mold in its wake...
This is a sample of what I would write. I will continue it some other time. Please, let me know how realistic my take is.