AI and machines that rose from those nuclear ashes soon built several machine cities all over the world. All humans got united, and came under the leadership of a man called JC from “JC in hell” fame. In the 21st century humans went underground and lived militarily but with meager weapons compared to what skynet had. So a confrontation no matter how well planned was meaningless, we used simulators mostly, but nothing much actually took flight, off the table. The time machine usage was so frequent, that we soon started looking speaking even stinking like them, those T800s. We couldn’t tell who was who, we even started thinking like them. The leadership quickly understood that this was symmetric, and no one was above the other. They could have infiltrated our bases our safe havens and colonies, but nothing happened. Things weren’t happening that fast. They were technologically driven, mostly, focusing on capturing and studying the liberation people. It was a horrible time for the human race. Almost a psychological disaster for most people, everyone lost their identities in no time, we would usually wake up as somebody else, a screwed up time line. Traces of machines and time displacement assaults all over the place. The world was no longer habitable even, filled with machine stink, and gun fire. But our k force was strong keeping us united, babies were born all IVF, no real heretidary genes remained, everything replaced with k. For years we did not get reconosense on the machine cities, staying in hiding from them building human population was the only interest and goal of the settlements. JC was now a keycard that anyone could carry, no longer a real person.