United States Marine Corps Captain Strongman John Conner is working with the Resistance, a group fighting against the Terminators, a group of cybernetic machines who seek to eradicate humans. Along the way he meets Kyle Reese, a former U.S Army Artillery National Guard and Resistance sergeant first class that looks up to John and has met a stranger who unknowingly has had all of his bones replaced with the same metal that the Terminators bodies are made of and his mind wiped.