Dudley

Dudley was a human-based cyborg, designated I825.M, and a forced Collaborator for the Machines as the maintenance and intelligence agent as well as the repair man Terminators during the Future War.

History[]

Originally an ER trauma surgeon in 2009, Dudley survived the Judgment Day and joined the eventual Resistance as a combat medic. However, he was nearly killed during a battle. Barely clinging to life after being blasted by some of Skynet's heavier artillery, he became Skynet's first known prisoner of war and an ideal candidate for the experimental Theta program.^[1] Subjected to experimental surgeries used to reconstruct most of his body and even the outer meninges of his brain, it took a computer the size of a city block to put him back together again. Dudley was remade into a mobile field unit for the maintenance of Skynet's newly perfected Series 800 Infiltrator. His surgical skills were later recorded and uploaded to all T-800 units.^[1]

In their initial fielding, it still took over a year to cultivate a viable human tissue sheath for the infiltration units, and Skynet needed something small and familiar with human tissue, able to maintain the perishable and hard to replace tissue sheaths. Tissue repairing became Dudley's primary function. Additionally, since he was mostly flesh, he was more successful at infiltrating human enclaves, able to go where even Series 800 Terminators could not go undetected. Intelligence gathering became his secondary function.

Dudley served Skynet faithfully, alerting the Processing Command Center at the TDE facility of Col. Randall's infiltration of the facility and activating the only three Terminators that had completed the tissue generation cycle. He repaired the damage caused by Lieutenant Koufaks to the TDE and oversaw the crude surgical implantation of the Plasma Pistol they would smuggle back in time.

Dudley was brought back in time along with the other Terminators due to his experience and knowledge in clandestine operations. He successfully leading the Terminators to the home of Dr. Hollister in time to save him from Mary's rebels.

However, his indoctrination by Skynet was incomplete, and he only served out of a sense of fatalism for the human race, seeing 2029 as a doomed dead end, and unwilling to resist. Once thrust into 1984 and confronted with the evidence that the wreckage of the first Terminator sent after Sarah Connor was the greater threat to humanity than any human scientist of the era, he finally rebelled and assisted Mary, Bart Lukens and Dr. Astin in their escape from the Terminators. During the escape, he destroyed the remains of the first Terminator as well as C850.D with the plasma pistol. He joined the surviving Resistance members and battled C890.L and HC875.S in a wild vehicle-borne chase that ended with both remaining Terminators going over the edge of a bridge into the Los Angeles River.

When his Terminator half, I-825.M, attempted to control him using his brain hormones, Dudley ask Astin to help him to get rid of the machine. Astin operated him, and took the chance to steal of his computer the Terminator's plans before escaping, but not before begin erasing his memories. Luckily, Mary interrupted the process before it erased Dudley's memory, but he believed I.825.M had been destroyed.

During the final battle against C850.D, Dudley jumped over him, shooting a gun inside his left shoulder's articulation, but the Terminator took him by the neck and throw him far. After the battle, Mary searched him, but Dudley had disappeared.

He only contacted her weeks later, giving her his location, the October 3, 1984. After Mary arrived at Dudley home, in San Diego, he attacked her: after being knocked out, I.825.M, which wasn't fully erased, returned to Skynet control by the Machine, tooking control of his body, keeping him in a coma. The Terminator stored weaponry to prepare for Judgement Day, and decided to get rid of Mary. He almost killed her... but after she hit him, Dudley awakened, temporarily regaining his human sensibilities long enough to avoid terminating Mary. He warns her instead of the new Terminator, kissed her and says his goodbyes. After she left, he self-terminated, blewing himself up with an entire crate of high explosives.

Personality[]

Constantly battling the cybernetic components of his own brain as well as the influence of networked active Terminators existing in his own time, Dudley is a tortured soul trying to cling to his identity. Later developing a romantic relationship with Mary, he continued to provide key information about Cyberdyne Systems history, Terminator weaknesses, and the ongoing Terminator pursuit of both the Resistance cell and Sarah Connor.