Terra Nova (TV series SI)

"Alright old man, what's going on that Wash wouldn't spill about pertaining to Lucas?"

Commander Taylor sighs and seemingly ages a decade in a matter of seconds, "To explain that…you have to understand you refusing to come along with me, which I completely agree with, but then you refusing to come on the second with Lucas well…the little stability Lucas had gained from having you in his life vanished. I'm not blaming you Josh…frankly you made the right choice. You would have been too much of a liability in the early days of Terra Nova.

But without the stability your friendship gave Lucas he buried himself in his work to make travel between 2149 and Terra Nova possible."

"It was always possible, someone just needed to do the equations from this side after taking measurements here…and synching up with the systems in the 2149 that we left…if two way travel wasn't possible through the portal you wouldn't be able to communicate back and forth." I cut Commander Taylor off and he smiles at me like he missed this, before laughing softly.

"Lucas has been…let's call it baiting me leaving behind bits and pieces of these equations you mentioned." Taylor says as he slides a holoterminal cube to me, something that resembles the computer that Harry Osborne uses in the Amazing Spiderman.

I start looking over these equations and to compare them to a famous artist's work would be an understatement… "Fuck…he's close, I give it a month maybe three before he has a working portal generator/stabilizer built…nothing big probably only something big enough to open a portal to the future big enough for a data stick to be passed through….Nathan." I look Commander Taylor in his eyes, completely serious as I speak. "We have to secure the Terminus, Lucas can't make one big enough right now, with the resources he has available to him, these calculations tell me as much. But they also point out his plan to destroy the portal stabilizer/anchorer, you have so that he and his backers can build a new one in a location of their choosing."

"Are you talking about posting more guards around it or?"

"I'm saying secure it Commander…I'd say destroy the damned thing, but that will give him and his backers an advantage since we won't know where they are…when they eventually come through, we need a secure place, somewhere safe that we can keep the Terminus…but also someplace we can drop a mountain on it and anyone that comes through it."

Commander Taylor's expression screams that I just kicked him in the nuts, "What…if we cut off the portal from the other side…even if we fend off Lucas's backers more will come, Terra Nova is just too rich in resources to be ignored or only be a colony." Taylor mutters and I can tell he's talking more to himself right now than to me.

"I prepared for that eventuality…" I say somewhat sheepishly pulling the man out of his funk, he raises an eyebrow at me that says explain.

"Do you trust me? I mean really trust me." I ask Commander Taylor who without even a nano second of pause nods, "Just as much as Wash." He says to me making me sigh, stand up and open a portal into my pocket world.

"Holy shit…" The older man says with his mouth hanging open slightly, "Come on, gramps…you need to see what I've stock piled before you make any decisions."

"Josh…how long have you had these powers?" Taylor asks me softly, seemingly struggling with something.

"They awoke about two years ago?"

"Why?"

"Uhh…it's going to sound stupid to you…but when Lucas betrayed me, he and General Philbrick had me dead to rights but a portal like this opened and someone passed me a gun…" Commander Taylor explains to me and now I'm the one that feels lost.

"Are you saying people with powers are common?"

"No…but they appear enough that there are kill squads…to deal with them in 2149."

"I see…so…you gonna use that pistol and liquify my brain?" I ask while nodding to the sonic pistol Taylor slides into the holster, that's placed at about his mid abdomen.

Taylor snorts, "Why would I shoot my future son in law?" Taylor asks like an amused grandpa, talking down to his grandson that asked a stupid question.

I feel myself flushing a little at that…wondering why it bothers me so much to have that pointed out, over and over again.

"Come on then Gramps." I wave for Taylor to follow me through the breach, he nods a slight reluctance coming over his facial expression but he follows me anyways.

Inside my pocket dimension, there's tons of equipment, vehicles, weapons, medical supplies, pharmaceutical printers, and other types or printers for advanced technology and more average stuff.

"Jeez kid…were you preparing to start your own colony…how did you get a tank?"

"Uhh…I may have borrowed it from the Phoenix company transport…they probably won't find out it's missing till they go to bring it here themselves…it was stored at Hope Plaza."

"First Mira, now a well equipped army…"

"Mira…will be swayed to our side…"

Commander Taylor turns and looks at me sharply and this is Commander Taylor, not the friendly grandpa or father figure.

"What do you mean Josh?"

"One of the people I brought back with me is Mira's daughter…she was dropped onto me by her…handler in exchange for a favor…Mira's only motivation for doing all of this is her daughter's safety and a home inside of a dome. What she doesn't know is that as soon as she went through the portal her "contract" was thrown away and the Phoenix company was hired to replace her…and her crew of mercs."

"I can use her as a bargaining ch-"

"No you can't, she is a part of my family Commander Taylor…and I am her legal guardian, you do anything to put her life in jeopardy or try to use her as a political tool, our ties will severed without a chance for repair…"

"Are you sure that's how you want this to go Joshua?" Commander Taylor asks me and as much as I'm fond of the man my family comes first, I'll treat him as I would any threat.

"Are you sure this is how you want things to go? I'm your best chance at getting through to Lucas and Sienna is the best chance Terra Nova has to heal the bridge between Terra Nova and Mira's group, a group much more familiar with the wilds and surviving in them. Something Terra Novans may be in desperate need of in the coming months. We can stand here measuring dicks or beating the shit out of each other but at the end of the day I'm younger and stronger, with people to protect, so you think you can take me Gramps...?" I ask Taylor with an annoying smirk on my face.

"Three round spar, winner decides how we use Sienna and these resources?"

"Sure... don't expect me to be gentle just because you're hitting ninety, Gramps."

"Little shit, I'm only fifty three..." Commander Taylor growls playfully as he takes off his weapons and throws them away from himself and squares up with me, I take a relaxed stance and we begin circling one another.

"Scared Josh? Scared this grandpa's gonna kick your ass?"

"Nah just waiting for the geriatric old timer to tire himself out walking around in a circle..." I joke and pretend to look at a non-existent watch, "Ohh hey look at that time it's after four pm shouldn't you be getting tucked into bed by your gay male nurse old man?"

"You're going to need a nurse when I'm done with you... I'll be sure to send Lucy to take care of you..."

"You're going to send your very beautiful daughter to soothe my aching sore muscle..." I wink suggestively at the aching sore muscle part while motion to my groin.

Taylor grunts and moves in quick trying to score a gut punch but I easily side step out of the way and hit him in the face with a pimp slap, "Aww, look at the slow ass old timer, thinking he can still play with the youngins." I continue to shit talk and Taylor smirks as he dabs at his bloody cheek.

"Oh this is gonna be fun." Taylor smirks and he starts throwing blows which I step out of the way of or dodge while landing light blows that his like steel, Taylor's knuckles are bleeding and he keeps rubbing at them and flexing his fingers like they hurt.

"Arthritis from jerking off too much in your youth getting to ya, Pops?" I joke and Taylor grumps, "It's like you're made of steel."

"Ehh, I've been training, and strengthening my body hard for years..." I say with a shrug.

"It's good to see you committed to something a lot of the recruit's for the security forces don't come with even a quarter of your determination." Taylor complains as we got back to sparing and I take him down a few seconds in, the older man let's out a chuckle.

"Alright you win Josh... I've got the experience to know when I'm beat...besides, Lucy would never forgive me if I bruised that pretty face of your's she loves so much."

"What?" I ask and Taylor laughs as I pull him to his feet, "So...the classic car and the flying sorts car...seem a bit like poor choices..." Taylor jokes and I shrug, "They're more for here than out here..." I admit and Taylor nods.

"I'm surprised you came here Josh this place seems amazing." Taylor says with a bit of wonder in his voice.

"It is...but it's also small...the only people I've shared this place with are you and my sister's...come on I got something that will give us a bit of a leg up on the enemies." I say and wave for Taylor to follow me, as I lead him to the air support I managed to acquire after some very very risky portaling practice.

"Whoa...an SA-2 and a mark three lateral Jet...these things were still in development when I came through the portal."

"Yup...now we just need pilots, I've already got them scanned down to the smallest parts, and intricate software so my printers can make all the pieces... we'll just have to put them together."

"Sorry about earlier Josh...I know you're a good ki...a goodman, but I have to look out for everyone, I don't enjoy the thought of using a teenage girl as a bargaining chip but without knowing who to trust in 2149 we need to shore up all the weaknesses we have here to better prepare our defenses."

"I understand Gramps, for now we should relocate the Terminus, bring it here and then use three or four decoy convoys to hide where we move it to, then then Terra Nova into a fortress."

"That would rile up the civil...the colonists too much..."

"And you don't think being turned into slaves, having their mothers, daughters, sons, fathers, brothers, uncles and so on enslaved and defiled by the private army that's most likely going to find their way here no matter the precautions we take to buy time or ensure that they don't come through?"

"Come on Commander Taylor...you saw the worst of people...and those kinds of people will come here and strip mine this entire worlds and leave the once hopeful people of Terra Nova best case scenario dead, unbroken and unviolated..."

"I get your point Josh, but if we tell them what is possibly coming...you haven't seen the way people react to a threat like that...like I have."

"You're right I haven't...I trust your judgement so trust mine when I say let me be the one to try and bring Mira and her people back into the fold...Mira knows me...we have an established friendship from our shared time at Hope Plaza I'm sure with Sienna's help we can turn her into an ally, and she'll help us track down Lucas...and hopefully we can prevent things from happening for a long ass time."

"Okay Josh...but I want constant updates on your progress."

"You got it Pops, now let's get back before Wash goes crazy from worry." I joke making Taylor laugh.