For anybody new to my stories, you need to have read my other stories first. The volumes are;
Cameron's Redemption and the Saving of Sarah, then
John Connor's Awesome Responsibilities, followed by
Sarah Connor's Growing Family, followed by
Time Travel and the Connors, finally
Undoing the Past, Cameron Phillips
Thank you.
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Last time, the Team, with Derek and Sonia's help, retrieve the submerged terminators from the ocean bed with Cameron-2's help, but she is shot through her chip port which leaves her and her chip destroyed.
She is hidden in the workshop roof – Sonia, Lesley and Derek will keep her existence a secret.
Derek was injured by flying shrapnel but he will recover in good time.
The Jens are having a rest until Sunday, then they will go back to Zeira and prepare the TDE for Monday.
The little Allys were bitten all over their legs by termites.
Allison is with child.
The kids are still learning their lessons, plus Spanish, sign language and outside activities like killing terminators etc.
Cameron's search for Kylon passes no bounds and once she finds him, he is in a terrible way. She spends a long time in hospital with him. You can imagine what will happen afterwards. She is a terminator and the duty of a motherly terminator to bring the perpetrators to justice…. Isn't it?
Oh, and another thing. Cameron is up the duff too. She duffed herself, didn't need a man this time.
Allison has bonded well with John, at last.
Catherine is still busy at Zeira going about her business and making lots of money out of it.
Jumping back to 1962, Tony got the blame for Kylon's kidnap.
Mrs Pillow is not entirely convinced that Kylon has been doing all the magic spells, will her mind be changed?
For the information of the readers, I feel really ill about what I am going to portray in 2009 but I want to get it over and done with and on to other dastardly Skynet activities. I have no intention whatsoever of upsetting anybody. They will go on to other inhumane activities.
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Having Cameron as a mom, 2 days pass quite quickly. It is now Saturday, 18th August 1962. Kylon is only 11 days old but already he has grown 1/9" (one ninth of an inch).
As a precaution, the medical team had put a loose plaster around his upper leg making it tight below his knee, to stop him twisting it and making his foot point outwards or inwards.
Their tubes have been removed and Kylon must stay still.
Cameron is very patient and talks to Kylon when he requires it.
If he wants a story read, she asks a nurse to bring some books.
He requested that she doesn't keep explaining the meaning of words as he wanted to enjoy the story. That being said, Cameron's awesome memory never repeated the explanation of a word – she never needed to with Kylon.
He talked about the story that she read to him whilst he was under the influence of the anaesthetic. It turns out that he did miss some of it, so she repeated it to him.
Cameron is just as clean and tidy as when she lived with John. She cleans Kylon up and sorts out his toilet arrangement.
He hates it but feels better when his mom says "don't worry darling, very soon you will go back to your normal life".
Kylon asks a question, which leads to another and then another.
Cameron explains that she thinks he was kidnapped because of superstition.
He is now well enough to be told by his mother exactly what it means and what she has planned.
"That's dangerous, won't they hurt you?"
"No, I am not human, they won't hurt me".
"Are you really my mommy?"
"Yes, I am still your mother. Approximately 211 days from now, you will be able to go home to meet your father John Connor and his mother Sarah".
"Home is with Tony and Sylvia and Tilley and Ol' er Daddy. Are they coming with us?"
"Not Sylvia and Tony".
"I want them to come with us, and Ethel". (Kylon's vocabulary has much improved over the last few days. His ability to remember is phenomenal).
(Cameron chooses her words and practises lying, just as she had always done when it was necessary). "They can come with us if they want to".
Again he asks, "are you really my mother? I don't look like you. You don't have nails like mine and you are big. I've never seen anybody like me. Where are they?"
"I gave birth to you".
(Cameron spends a long time explaining chips, tantalite, Skynet, regenerators, Kylon's own flesh regenerator and how she must monitor his growth every day. She tells him that he is a new breed and that she designed him).
Finally she says "you will find out soon enough that you are superior to humans. You can't shine your eyes blue (shines eyes), or red (changes colour), or even both (mauve) like me. You can heal very quickly and I believe your femur will have fully knitted by tomorrow".
Using her hands, she gives him a little hug around his waist and then kisses him on the forehead, adding "I love you. You are my highest priority. I will always stay by your side from now on".
They spend a few more hours talking about the plan of action for when he gets out of hospital tomorrow. He is quite worried but says he trusts his mother. He wants to get those nasty men and make them pay for what they did.
Finally, Cameron tries to put her son's mind at rest by sitting next to him and showing him the words that she is reading from a book that Tilley's principal, Ms Melina Matthews obtained from the local library.
It is a reference book on Greek mythology and tells them all about nymphs of the lakes. Kylon now knows that they don't exist but he likes to hear about people that are similar to Elves.
Next, Cameron is asked to do something that she has not done before.
"Mommy, can you tell me a story about nymphs?"
Immediately Cameron comes up with the answer. Skynet, HKs & terminators will be Mercury's home, his minions and their chariots. He wants to reward their prowess by searching out nymphs, (whose mother is Nomia). They were renowned sex symbols. All nymphs were daughters of Zeus, so Mercury must be cunning.
She used names in the reference book of nymphs, such as Lilaea & Cephissus.
She begins her story.
"Far away in a land of turmoil, the god of war, Mercury…."
She looks down and sees Kylon smiling with wide eyes.
It raises Cameron's happiness levels. She continues;
"Who fought Zeus's wars, was hearing complaints from his armies. They were spent and needed relaxation and entertainment". (She compared this to Skynet running out of fuel and armaments, thus needing time to replenish their stocks).
"They heard that the nymphs of the lake would be ideal for providing their relaxation and entertainment, and even have their children. Aristotle could consult the alchemist and make the nymphs compatible with them". (She knew this name was not accurate but, 'what the hell'. Here, she was using herself as a resultant character in the story. Cameron thought that perhaps the women of the resistance could be used for breeding with altered DNA designed by Skynet).
After a while, Kylon has his meal, drink and all other necessary things. He asks Cameron to continue with her story. It does not take long before he is asleep.
It is not a very good story but it seems Kylon liked it a lot.
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Forward in time to very early Morning of Friday 6th March 2009, Pretzel has repaired herself and the t-888, then sent it on its way to do her bidding. There are many terrible atrocities in the pipeline. First of all, Myron must darken himself slightly and then prepare to attack the Arab Mosque.
This time Pretzel is going to pretend to be an Israeli wife, whose husband is bent on revenge for what happened to his family a week ago.
Just knowing the Hebrew language is insufficient. She knows this, so she kidnaps a woman of that denomination. She needs to know how to portray extreme stress over events that t-888-Stark will execute/perform.
It does not take her long after she tells this woman that she is going to kill her family, (a lie).
It is horrible to say but of course Pretzel does not possess compassion, so the outcome is obvious.
Already Pretzel has plans for other denominations.
Saying that 6 billion people died after the nuclear explosion is so easy to say, but when details of individual deaths are mentioned, it becomes much more graphic & horrible.
This is the future war that Skynet/Kaliba will fight. They are going to try and pit man against man against woman against each other. They will have a fear of who is next in line for termination and death.
Meanwhile, its army is being built around the world by witless company bosses whose goal in life is profit.
It won't be long before some of the newly made t-888 army can infiltrate the factories and ensure that nothing goes wrong for Kaliba.
Myron Stark is ready to go. He has a cardboard box which contains various packages and some timers.
Within the packages he has the following materials for the below mentioned explosive mixes:
Using available commodities, Pretzel has obtained various chemicals which can be separated and cause their own explosions; Black powder: Potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur.
Flash powder. (fine metals, aluminium and magnesium), plus a strong oxidizer (potassium chlorate and perchlorate).
Ammonal, Ammonium nitrate,
Armstrong's mixture: potassium chlorate and red phosphorus, which is very sensitive and is a high explosive.
Finally; Sprengel explosives: a very general class inc. strong oxidizer and highly reactive fuel.
With the woman tightly bound up, parcel tape all around her legs and arms held to her waist, plus a screwed up piece of cloth in her mouth, they are ready to go.
Myron has donned a dishadasha, which is ideal for the well-dressed Arab man visiting a Mosque. He is also able to quite easily hide his packets underneath. His machine gun is another matter. He has chosen to purchase some large lilies and wrap the weapon in brown paper with the beautiful flowers poking out the top.
The poor woman is beside herself with fright and perspiration as she lies in the trunk of their vehicle. She can smell diesel fumes.
Pretzel sits in the car, wearing that woman's clothes, waiting. Soon the time comes and she walks in to the Mosque, waiting for Myron.
It has not gone un-noticed by John Henry, who monitors police frequencies, that the abduction of an Israeli woman has taken place across town, 6.3m away. He informs John and between them they agree that there is nothing they can do without any clue as to her whereabouts.
John feels in his inner self that this is an omen of bad things to come. He knows full well that Friday is the day of prayer and across the Muslim world they work on Sundays.
He feels that Kaliba would not do whatever they have planned within the vicinity of the abduction.
He phones Agent Ellison, "John, what do you want?"
"Try and get word to your superiors without drawing attention to yourself that they should be vigilant at all Synagogues in the town".
"Which religion are you talking about?"
"An Israeli woman has been kidnapped. I believe they will replace her and bomb an Israeli Synagogue".
"OK, leave it to me", (click).
Of course John is wrong and similar tactics are adopted to the last bombing ,except that this time the perpetrator (Myron Stark), is getting ready to shoot his way out of the Mosque just before it explodes.
Before that, Pretzel has run out of that same Mosque screaming at passers-by, yelling "MY HUSBAND, HE HAS GONE MAD. HE IS GOING TO BLOW EVERYBODY UP. HE SAYS IT IS RETRIBUTION FOR HIS FAMILY THAT WERE KILLED LAST WEEK NOT FAR FROM HERE".
Inside the Mosque, Myron starts shooting and grabs a man. He hits him over the head with the rifle butt and then places the explosives over him.
He walks serenely out through the front door and heads for the car. Shoots a police officer, gets in, starts the engine and drives it up the 3 steps at speed towards the Mosque door, just as the inside of the Mosque explodes.
Finally, he dives out the open door, lying there to watch the explosion.
The thundering inner BOOM, is followed by BLAAAMMMMM, and the car is ripped and flung apart, as the walls crumble. There is nothing much left of the frontage except the splashed diesel burning everywhere.
Myron gets up and walks through the smoke, down a side alley to the waiting car. Very soon Pretzel turns up and they drive off.
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Brrr brrr, John, Sonia & Sarah have just received consecutive calls.
They open their cells, "This is a conference call. It was an Arab Mosque that was targeted. The police are saying it is retribution".
John speaks," OK JH, I'll call the Howards, let them know that we must expect the unexpected. I'm pretty sure this is the work of Kaliba trying to stir up ethnic wars. We must remain calm".
John leaves the room and searches out Allison. She is with Riley and Sofia, looking at the pom poms and laughing as Riley jumps up and down with a pompom holding herself firm with the other arm.
He grabs Allison's hand and says "come with me", waiting for her to adhere without pulling her.
Sophia and Riley look at each other as Allison wonders what he wants.
As they walk, "there's been another Mosque bombing, if things continue the way they are we might find ourselves in the middle of a bombing spree. If only Sonia had known there were 2 cyborgs, we would have given her backup. Now they're out there running wild".
"Why are you telling me John, do you want me to provide the solution?"
"No, I'm upset Ally. That's all. The authorities can't resolve this problem, I'm pretty sure that Kaliba didn't leave any evidence. I feel helpless but something has to be done".
"Welllll, can't you change the future".
(Bearing in mind that John does not know where Pretzel came from and how long she has been in our time and also bearing in mind that Myron Stark has been around since 1920, John could jeopardize his future. The two 2040 Thomas Reese lookalike terminators had also been in hibernation for over 5 years. They are the instigators of recent events. John would by playing a paradoxal game and he would not know anything about it and ultimately checkmate.
He does not know Cameron is stuck in 1962 either. If he went back in time to a point where he had not lost Cameron and prevented her travelling back to 1962, there would come a time when 1962 Cameron returned to 2009 with her enterage and 'ola', 2 Camerons.
It also stands to reason that no guy wants two Camerons, an Allison and 2 tiny kids with another bigger one on the way all to himself!
What?).
John replies, "I suppose we could try but who would go back in time? For some reason, it seems that whatever we do affects the future. Skynet finds out what we've done and sends a terminator back to counteract what we do".
"Well, the FBI BUA or whatever they're called set a trap for Sonia, how about something like that?"
"I think your idea is the best one but we need to sit on our hands until the tunnel is built. We should be able to start next week. We mustn't be left vulnerable after going out on a mission like that. The one we've just been on was bad enough".
"That suits me, you can help me look after 3-Ally, and keep her safe".
"You mean from…. I don't mind that, what is she doing at the moment?"
"She's with Claire. John. I'm going to have your child".
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The time has come to leave hospital. The hospital Staff doesn't know it. It is Cameron's decision.
It is 19th August 1962 – Sunday morning. Obviously Cameron has missed her 'Spur 'Em on' session, she will have to contact the manager soon. He should know she is in the hospital anyway..
Last night, She did a fair bit of lurking in the corridors whilst Kylon slept (or perhaps a better word is fossicking, a word that Jesse used once in the J.C.) She needs some equipment, including a few scalpels. She will be doing some cutting and drawing blood.
She has spoken to Kylon in great detail, as she wants him to be ready to witness what she is going to do.
He must not be scared or worst still run away. He has a job to do and he must perform it perfectly.
Mrs Pillow, her Nephew and some other guys blame Kylon for the demise of her granddaughter, now they will see the results of their action. It will be very distressing. There is no doubt about that.
Before that, Cameron tells Kylon that she is going to remove his plaster by gently squeezing it all around the perimeter to break it.
Using her vice-like grip, it is not a problem & the plaster crumbles on to the bed, whilst he goes "ooh be careful. Ooh ooh. Oh, very good mommy, you didn't hurt me".
She unties his traction cord attachments and slides the broken plaster, which is held together with fabric, down his leg.
She says "stay on the bed and move your leg up and down bending it. It will be stiff at first and will hurt to bend. You need to persevere, as it will aid recovery. Some of your muscle and sinews have healed to the bone and will detach and revert as you get back to normal".
"Ooh, aah, I see what you mean".
"Put your clothes on too".
Cameron walks off, to check on something. Yes, her plan can go ahead from here.
She goes back to find Kylon, packs up their belongings and says "go to the car and wait for me".
"What? I can't".
"Yes you can, the plan has begun. You must not let me down". She picks him up and puts him on the floor.
"Oww oww oww", as he starts to hobble down the corridor in the opposite direction towards the exit. When he sees a nurse, he hides by the reception desk.
Very soon, he finds the car and waits beside it, hiding between the parked cars, listening for footsteps.
All of a sudden, he hears "GET READY".
Cameron runs up with a baby wrapped up in lots of blankets. She opens the rear car door and places it in the back. "Quick, get in".
She runs round the other side, starts the engine, undetected and gently drives off.
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6th March 09 continued.
"How did that happen?"
"Oh for Christ's sake John".
(Smile) "I don't think you planned this. Are you happy or sad?"
"Worried. I told mom and she said she worries all the time and that I should join the club. No, er, correct that, join the family".
"OK, then we'd better make preparations. Will your mom help you?"
"I wouldn't be surprised if everybody does" (smile).
He takes her hand, "let's go". As they walk she says "I'd like to choose the name if it's a girl".
"Oh really, do you have something in mind?"
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Back to 1962.
"He's crying mommy, what shall I do?"
"Nothing, you can't help. We will be there soon".
Sure enough, Cameron enters the drive to the boating lake and finds that the parked car which belongs to the deceased elder Ricci's has been parked in a slightly different position.
It's a sure sign that the 2 youngest sons have moved back home to turn their mother in to a skivvy.
She parks well away from the house, so as not to be noticed… hopefully.
A few people are boating on the lake. They can be seen quite a long distance away. They have hired moored boats from Mrs Ricci.
"Stay there. I'll be back!"
"OK mommy, be quick".
Cameron is not as quick as intended. She goes round the back of the house, goes in through the back and finds both of them sitting on a settee drinking beer and watching TV.
Mrs Ricci is in the kitchen when Cameron approaches.
"Hey, what do you want now?"
"Your sons kidnapped my son and one of them tried to kill him. Now they will pay".
"NO PLEASE, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?"
Walking past Mrs Ricci, Cameron pushes the sitting room door open to find the 2 brothers have heard the yelling and are going for their guns. They feared this moment might arise, although they were expecting Oleg.
She reaches the 1st before he has a chance to lift it from behind the settee and pulls him back up, flinging him backwards on to the armchair opposite.
The 2nd brother, 'Tricci Ricci', points his gun at her, saying "WHAD'YER DOIN' 'ERE?"
Without a word, she moves on him and reaches for his gun.
This is one instance when a terminator does not grab the gun out of the hand of her intended because he tripped backwards just before she arrived.
He yells "I'm warning you, get any closer and I'll kill you. Nobody will know any difference. Go and see who's out there" he adds to his brother.
Cameron shoves the first guy down again and says "fire that gun and I will shoot you", and then goes down on her knees shielding her eyes. She went down to protect her unborn daughter, giving her quarry a chance to succumb.
He opens fire with a shot to her shoulder.
She looks up and turns her eyes red.
He fires twice more to her chest but to no avail, apart from a 'clink clink' of metal on metal.
"NOOO, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?"
"I'm your worst enemy". Then she grabs hold of him firmly and shoots him in the fleshy part of his upper legs.
"AAAAAHHH ", "AAAAAHHHH".
She turns and grabs his brother by his upper arm with one hand, leans down, picks up the gun and fires carefully aimed shots in to his upper calves.
"AHHH HELLLL NOOO HEEELLLLPPPP".
The people on the boats probably heard the shooting but are too far away to do anything.
With very little persuasion, the brothers reveal the whereabouts of where Kylon was imprisoned.
The last words Cameron hears from Mrs Ricci is "will I ever see them again?" as she witnesses them being dragged, this time out through the front door entrance.
"NO".
Mrs Ricci stands there with a blank look on her face, wondering what life is about. It is a shame that she is the way she is. Nevertheless, without the influence of a sane mother, her sons just ran riot when they were children. They turned out to be the most hated family in their village. Of course it was their father's fault, he was a brute.
Her sons should never have treated her horribly. Now they might never again.
Looking out the window, Kylon sees mommy dragging 2 guys out of the house. He stands on his good leg, bending the other one at the knee as far back as possible, helping it with his hand.
Mommy opens the trunk, amidst the crying baby noise and throws the 2 brothers in the back.
She gets in, starts the engine, says "OK, now we are off to Levinson Avenue", reverses up a bit, turns and drives off.
When they arrive, it is 11:43am and nobody is in. The plan could go wrong.
She gets back in the car. Fortunately the baby has stopped crying and is asleep – probably the gentle swaying of the car journey.
Off they go again, this time to the isolated farmhouse in the middle of a field.
Approaching the destination, she can see 2 cars.
Her cadillac is pretty easy to spot, but the nephew of Mrs Pillow does not know it belongs to the most fearsome foe he could possibly imagine, even in his worst nightmares.
He saw her pink Cadillac and opens the front door with an inquisitive look on his face.
Cameron draws her gun from behind her and marches towards him. He turns to run. BANG BANG, one in each calf from a highly trained tok-715.
She runs past him in to the house. Standing there looking exceedingly alarmed, is Mrs Pillow.
"Stay there or die", then Cameron checks the rest of the house. She goes out the back door, walks round to the front and pulls the Nephew back in to the house. At this stage she does not know it is him that threw the vase.
He yells "AUNTY, SHE SHOT ME".
"LEAVE RAY ALONE, HE HASN'T DONE ANYTHING TO YOU".
Just then, who should walk in the door, yes Kylon. He had wound the window down far enough to climb out and drop to the ground. He landed on one leg but found as he walked he could improve his walk and ended up moving quite fast to the house.
He says "it was him, I saw him pick up a big round thing. He threw it at me".
Cameron's eyes turn red as she stares a look of thunder at Ray. Mrs Pillow is really freaked now. The shocks of seeing Kylon walk in to the house then the red eyes almost immediately afterwards, cause her to urinate slightly.
Cameron purposefully says "don't put any spells on them yet baby, come with me to get the others". She looks behind her to check he is following her out of the door.
From inside the house, Mrs Pillow grabs a shotgun from a wall cabinet. She runs to the door and aims.
Despite his leg, Kylon is a speedy little mouse with good hearing. He springs awkwardly in to life and shoots behind a tyre in this junkyard of a garden. He screams "mommy" at the same time.
To protect her tiny foetus, she bends down on to one knee as before, with her head bent down.
She hears the shotgun trigger click and prepares to take a blast.
BLAM.
It misses.
Another click. BLAM.
The top of her head and shoulders are peppered.
Kylon, looking past his feet, screams "OH NO MOMMY", then gets up and runs away.
Cameron stands up, yells in high frequency "I'M OK, COME BACK", then walks towards the front door.
In the background the baby has woken and is crying.
As Cameron approaches, Mrs Pillow whimpers "you, you're a monster, what's that noise? It's a baby".
Grabbing her and frogmarching her back indoors, Cameron looks around for something to tie Mrs Pillow up with.
Kylon runs back indoors and sees Ray sitting on the floor, holding his legs and groaning.
Cameron says "don't make any more spells, I'm alright now".
Mrs Pillow hears that and is horrified. 'He's a demonic elf or the elf king. How the hell could he save his mom's life?'
Kylon points and says "they took me and Tony down there".
Cameron deduces that is where she will find some rope.
She roughly pushes Mrs Pillow through the door which reveals the steps.
Down the steps they go where the rope that Tony was bound with, still lays on the floor.
Kylon picks up a frayed piece, "I had to scratch through this with my nails and there's the box they put me in. There's the chair they tied Tony to".
Having seen all this, she picks the chair up, shoves Mrs Pillow in to it and picks up the rope.
She says "after I've tied her up, I want you to stay here and watch her. If she tries to escape, fill her bladder with urine".
"Why?"
"Because I detect she can't hold her water".
"Ooh".
Cameron leaves the room and goes upstairs. First of all she heads for the kitchen and looks in the fridge.
There is some milk, which she drinks, plus a packet of sliced ham. This also goes in to her mouth without chewing.
After she has looked for more food, she fossicks around and eventually makes up some bedding in a drawer, which she places on the table, then goes out the house and heads for the car.
She brings the baby in from the car, along with the bag of stolen items from the hospital.
Placing the baby in the drawer, she goes outside and brings in the 2 brothers from the trunk.
One at a time she carries them over her shoulder down the stairs to the basement. She looks across the room and asks Kylon this question; "where were you when they hurt you?"
"There".
She sees the smashed inner glass window between the room they are in and the small room where the hatch is.
Another quick dagger stare at her captors and then she goes upstairs.
2 more times down the stairs, now all the feted humans are in one place, ready to face their outcome. They are all tied up.
Cameron reiterates her instructions to Kylon, who must stay downstairs watching them. She also says "be very observant and check all of them all the time, just in case one breaks free. You know what could happen to you. I love you. Please stay safe".
She goes upstairs.
Kylon looks around the room, observing the high table and all the other things that are quite high up. Wooden tools, hooks, cutting saws with teeth & grassy hay on the floor.
He walks towards Mrs Pillow then jumps up on her lap.
She shakes and squirms.
He studies her face for a while and notices that her eyes and flesh around them tell a story; Fear.
He puts out his hand to her cheek, and then touches it with his fingers.
Running his fingers down to her neck, he notices that he can feel more than he had ever taken in to consideration before. She not only felt warm but he could taste her.
'This is strange'. He holds his hand there, which freaks the woman. Moving it around, he detects more than just salt and dirt. There is soapy residue, bitter scent, plus something else. He is not sure what the other things are but memorizes them for future analysis or comparison.
Just to be naughty, he sticks his pointy fingernails gently in to her neck, then laughs when she jerks away.
"Mommy is going to kill them when she is finished with the baby upstairs".
"MMMmmm umf"
"I'm going to put a bad spell on you. You will never get rid of it. I am thinking about making you smelly. So smelly that people won't want to be near you. Through my fingers, I detected soap and perfume on your skin. My magic will (Kylon can't think of a big word), make them not make you smell nice. Hehehe".
Then he waves his arms in front of her face and goes "pssshhhh pppsssshhhh", which sounds just like water being squired out of a tap. The same noise that mommy made with her toe in the bath and made him laugh.
He goes "ppsshhhh ppsssshhhhh" again and can't stop laughing, so he does it again until there is an awful crying noise upstairs.
He looks at Mrs Pillow, over to the 3 guys who appear to be in awful pained states, then back to Mrs Pillow with a worried look on his face.
"I'm going to see what mommy's doing to the baby. If you move away, I will scratch you all over".
Kylon was feeling brave. He should remember that he wouldn't be so brave if Mrs Pillow was untied.
(What will happen next is not very pleasant. It would not be practised by Doctors in this manner. Perhaps not even by aliens on abductees, if you were to believe in these things. Cameron is A.I. and as such, will adopt the most efficient method she can).
Upstairs, Cameron has attached a tube from her arm in to the baby's arm. That is why he is crying. Before that she had taken some of the baby's blood and analysed it. Testing his neck pulse, she reduces her own blood pressure to that of the baby's.
She discovered that he was a different blood type and has therefore used her own regenerator to produce that blood type, mixed in with her own.
Now is the horrible bit. She needs to do exactly what pioneering doctors are developing in America using stem cells. Kylon has entered the room and jumped up on to the chair.
"Stay on the chair darling. I am going to repair the baby's cleft palate and lip".
(Having instructed her nanodes to do what they did with Allison, she has begun a shut-down on the baby's brain. It won't happen straight away but she must get started, so that the next part of her plan can proceed).
She holds the baby's mouth open and head back. Using a scalpel, she rapidly cuts away the deformed area, including cutting completely round the inside of the mouth, thus causing the deformed area to drop away.
Kylon is having a fit and screaming at his mom as the poor child screams in agony.
In reality, there is nothing better that Cameron could do, as time was of the essence.
Fortunately the child is receiving sustenance during this period from Cameron, through her blood. She is no longer lactating.
Downstairs, Mrs Pillow's chair is shaking from side to side as she becomes more and more frantic.
"Go back downstairs baby, make sure everything is OK. This baby will soon be fine and he can go home again. Don't forget to say that your spell cured him".
"Are you still going to kill them?"
"Yes".
The baby starts to go quiet.
"Where are they?"
Sylvia walks in the room behind Tilley and stares. "I don't know. I wonder if they've gone home".
Oleg, who is with them, did not survive the tunnels for 13 years without becoming suspicious. He wonders whether there is a link between the police in reception & outside with Cameron's fast exit from her room.
He won't say anything.
They head back home, but this time they catch one of 2 buses. Tilley finds it amusing and hands the fair to the conductor, telling him where they are going. She has a big smile on her face, as the Negro man smiles back at her.
When they get home, there is Tony. He has been released.
They talk to him about what has happened at the hospital as well as asking him if he knows where he was held prisoner.
He replies "no, but I ended up at a service station. I followed the moon and went the wrong way".
"Which one?" asks Sylvia.
"Er Kanga. Er Wallaby Dropin, I believe".
Just then a car screeches to a halt outside the apartment & a door slams shut.
"Hell, what's going on now?"
Tilley once again is first to the window, "It's the police I think. The car has got red and blue lights on top".
Sylvia is not used to this kind of thing reoccurring and looks really worried.
Ring ring.
"I'll go" says Tony.
They can see talking outside the window and within a short time the Cops drive off.
Tony comes back upstairs.
"Wellll?" asks Tilley.
"They want to know if Cameron is here. I told them she was not and nor was her son".
(The police believe Cameron & her son have been kidnapped by the same people and will use Tony's descriptive journey to try and find her).
Back at the farmhouse, Cameron has finished working on the baby and leaves him to asleep.
She heads downstairs.
All her prisoners stare at her. They are frightened.
"MMMmmm, mmmoomm mmm" says Mrs Pillow, which Cameron interprets to mean what have you done to the baby? She did in fact say "have you killed him?"
Cameron replies "I've been out to purchase fuel", and then says, turning her gaze to Kylon, "why is the baby covered in blood?"
He cackles, just like he was told, "I've put a spell on him. Now those men will die".
Mrs Pillow's eyes open wide as the 3 pained men struggle to get away.
Cameron walks over and places a blindfold over Mrs Pillow's eyes.
She picks up a large fence post hammer, of which there are 3 and swings it down hard with the force of a lightning bolt.
Standing well back, Kylon is as shocked as the others.
Now that there is a hole in the floor, Cameron turns her eyes red and stares menacingly at the 3 pained men.
"AAHHH WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU"
Cameron drops her voice down to its default volume, just as it was when she interrogated Allison in 2024 before killing her.
"I AM THE REAL MOTHER OF KYLON. NOBODY HURTS MY SON AND GETS AWAY WITH IT". Just to add to the effect, she rattles Mrs Pillow's chair very slightly. It is enough to relieve her of some of her unwanted bodily contents.
(All this is necessary if Cameron and Kylon are to get away with murder, albeit unjust in human eyes).
She pulls up some more floor boards with her bare hands and they fly off in different directions.
She booms "NOW YOU ARE GOING TO PAY WITH YOUR LIVES".
Cameron drags the first up the stairs and Kylon follows.
Mrs Pillow hears a spine chilling yell and then silence. Minutes pass. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Kylon is the first to reappear. He has blood over his hair.
Cameron enters the room. She appears to be unmarked.
She drags the next upstairs, his legs flailing and kicking even though the pain is excessive.
Again, Mrs Pillow hears shrieks and then silence. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 minutes.
The 3rd time downstairs, Kylon is covered in blood, yet Cameron is as clean as a whistle – as they say.
"NO NO NO, GET AWAY FROM ME. NO NO" as he is dragged upstairs.
"NO, AAH".
Again Cameron continues to twist the head 360 degrees and pulls it off the torso. The victim's head and body was covered in a large piece of tarpaulin taken from the rear of the pickup truck.
She places the head, which is still inside the tarpaulin on the ground and Kylon shoves as hard as he can the wooden pole up the neck. It takes about 10 jabs to get it in far enough. This is why he is such a mess. It can't be denied that he is the son of Skynet, let's hope he is still a mommy's boy at heart.
Cameron picks the head in tarpaulin up, with the pole in her other hand. She goes across the hard-core parking area, places the tip of the pole on the soil, her other hand on top of the head and shoves it downwards.
The pole remains upright stuck in to the ground.
She removes the tarpaulin for the 3rd time and drags it along the ground, over the pickup and sets light to it.
It burns well.
She goes back to the heads, with Kylon gleely running along behind her. She twists the heads by their hair to face towards the field.
Now, back to the house and drag the bodies out, leaving them lying one on top of another to the left side of the door.
She speaks to Kylon, "try and prise the bullets out of their legs and throw them far away".
It doesn't take him long to do this and he happily goes indoors and tells mommy that he has done it. He is even bloodier now.
"Thank you. You are a very good son".
Finally, inside the house, she puts a chair by the sink and fills a bowl with water, ensuring the soap is close at hand.
Then, she does the unthinkable. She breaks one of the wooden poles and hits Kylon with it, just hard enough to induce bruises. "I love you, I love you. You will get better very quickly. We have to do this. There is no other way".
He knows why, as he yells in his baby voice very loud.
He wonders what Mrs Pillow must be thinking.
He has a few open wounds. During that time he felt a lot of pain but her nanode reprogramming helped him to withstand it. He understands the importance of this.
Then she goes down the stairs & unties Mrs Pillow's blindfold.
Cameron goes across the room and sits on a chair and ties her legs to it.
Whilst she does this, she speaks in her normal voice.
"Those 3 men kidnapped us. They tied us to these chairs and imprisoned Kylon in that box.
Kylon has magical powers and broke the box. He killed those men by casting spells on them".
Just then, Kylon comes back in the room, he has washed his hands. He proceeds to tie the rope around his mother's wrists with her arms down by the chair legs. He does quite a good job.
Cameron continues talking "they beat Kylon and eventually he ran away and unleashed his powers, summoning up his demonic real mother.
When the police arrive, this is your story. If you say anything that incriminates my son, I will kill you painfully.
DO YOU AGREE TO DO THIS?"
"MMMNNN" nod nod.
"OK, now we will wait".
It is 33 minutes before a police car can be seen approaching the farmhouse.
As far as Mrs Pillow is concerned, Cameron has turned in to a manikin, she does not even close her eyes.
This freaks Mrs Pillow further. Nobody can stay dead still with their eyes open. To make things worse, the area between her legs is very uncomfortable.
In reality, Cameron is speaking to her son, starting by telling him that she can shut down everything except her conscience. She trusts him to do what she expects of him.
She promises him a big reward once this is all over.
During their conversation at high frequency, Cameron tells Kylon about the future and how she blasted a t-800 when it infiltrated their underground tunnel. How it killed men, women & children and almost killed John's uncle Derek.
Mrs Pillow sees Kylon smiling at his mother whilst he talks to her, and then changing his expression to serious as he moves his lips as though talking, yet no sound comes out.
Cameron has time to explain to him how Derek never thanked her properly and the reason for that.
The police car pulls up.
Kylon runs over to the same wooden box and gets in through the broken area. He lies down, and then practises groaning in pain.
"Ooh, aah, mommy it hurts".
"Don't worry darling, the police are here now".
This freaks Mrs Pillow again.
"HELL SHIT MAN" BLURP.
"WHO THE HELL DID THIS?"
"Get your gun out, take it easy"
"OOH HELL SARGE, THE BODIES".
"Keep yourself together man. Are you ready? GO".
They enter the house.
They don't see anything unusual, which is until the baby is found asleep.
There is blood on it gown and its face looks terrible, with his lip cut away.
Cameron's nanodes have kept his bleeding under control. In fact he hardly bled at all. It is fortunate because his mouth did not swell up and he is not choking on blood any more.
The officer checks the little boy's pulse and then radio's base for an ambulance.
"This is Sergeant Dowler, we've got a serious situation here, send the county morgue out here and an ambulance for a live baby. Send out a murder alert, number of perpetrators unknown. They appear to be extremely sadistic. We're heading on downstairs to see what we can find".
"Copy that, be careful Sarge".
They search around, upstairs. Nothing.
Back downstairs, there is a door.
Officer Downling opens it and they look down the steps to the dim light.
(Quietly) "Me? How about you go first?"
"Aw please, I don't fancy what we're gonna see down there".
"Git down there you piece of turkey strip".
The rookie makes his way down.
He gets to the bottom and sees 2 women tied up.
"Sarge".
They run in to the room, guns still drawn,
"Is there anybody there?" says the Sergeant looking at Mrs Pillow.
Head shake, head shake.
Then they hear a little moan "ooh mommy, help me".
Cameron yells "UNTIE ME, I NEED TO GET TO MY SON".
"Oh my god, you're the one with the little baby that can speak", he says fumbling at her knots.
Cameron runs over, puts her hand inside the broken box and picks up her son.
She sits on the floor and cries her eyes out.
"Oh my boy, my little boy, what have they done to you baby? Sob sob." She looks up at Mrs Pillow and gives her a dirty look when she knows the officers are not looking.
"What happened up there Miss?"
"Those men beat my son, so he placed a spell on them. The demon came and did something to them. We heard screaming".
Then she looks down at Kylon and asks him a question, "what happened up there?"
He looks up with sorrowful eyes "boo hoo, the demon lady was mad at those nasty men for hurting me. She ripped their heads off and placed them on pikes for all to see. It is a warning for everybody that dare hurt me. If you take me away I will get you killed too".
The rookie's raising eyebrows almost break a world record as he steps back, "WHAT, YOU MUST THINK WE'RE STUPID".
(Little voice) "DO YOU WANT TO FIND OUT?" he replies jumping up in the air about 2 feet. He comes back down, "ooh, it hurts more".
Cameron rat-a-tats, 'that was impressive'.
Time passes by and the police sergeant suggests that some men were there, it being they who perpetrated this violence.
"There wasn't anybody here, we would have heard them, wouldn't me Mrs Pillow" says Cameron.
She nods feverishly, unable to talk, looking quite shaken.
Kylon has to have his little say "the demons are quiet. They came out of the floor and dragged them up the stairs".
"How the hell do you talk so well? Demons, what next", says the rookie, looking at the broken floor boards once more. He is probably wondering if a demon could come up through the floor, then tells himself, 'no, of course not. Don't be stupid'.
The sergeant asks Kylon a searching question, "Why do you have so much blood on you?"
(Cameron quickly passes on the correct reply to him).
"They carried me upstairs to witness the executions. I stood in front of them as their heads were ripped off".
Both officers stay quiet.
Kylon snuggles in to his mother. She says to him, so that the officers can hear
"You've got to go in the ambulance darling. Your wounds need to be looked at in the hospital. Everybody must know what these nasty men did to you, (pause) again".
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Back in 2009, it is late evening the same day when Sonia decides that something needs to be done about making the team more efficient. For a start, they need new rifles that fire tungsten tipped shells. Perfect ones. She knows where to get them from.
Talking to John, who in turns calls Catherine Weaver out of courtesy about his plan, he speaks to John Henry.
Soon he is provided with a map of Rock Island, Iowa. Here, they can obtain a Humvee or helicopter – Browning M2 50 calibre machine gun (designed in 1920s) yellow/brown/dark brown/gold tip bullets in a belt. And a diagram of what they are to obtain;
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(Readers should join last 3 lines together).
Having the Howards on side with their newly promoted status, perhaps he can far better protect everybody.
He knows a helicopter is out of the question but an armoured Humvee might be useful.
Then they discuss the distance. It is over 1,800 miles away from his ranch, the Golden Hills ranch -Tehachapi Road, Tehachapi, CA, (Tehachapi being the place where the TR-cyborgs did their bad deed recently).
During their time at the ranch, Billy has had to reroute customers along the eastern side of the ranch estate and erect signs saying PRIVATE RESIDENCE. They have to show that they are a legitimate business with an income to sustain the residents, for tax reasons. Thus avoiding suspicion.
It was not easy to start with but once the termis were positioned in suitable positions, Sonia could inform Billy by phone if a nosy customer started snooping.
When she wasn't there, the kids were given the job. They had to play along the fence, with instructions that if they do their lookout job well they would be rewarded. It was a small price to pay.
Keeping Allison close at hand, at the end of the discussion it is agreed that there is no way that they can bring these armaments and Humvee back to the ranch without being observed.
Here is a suitable use for the TDE on Monday, when they sink the hole.
He talks to Jenny for a while, about his plan.
Holding Allison's hand and giving her a kiss on the cheek, he then tells Jenny the news.
They listen to her telling Jennifer on landline speakerphone.
He leaves Allison smiling and heads for the gym to set up the equipment and punchbag.
Dean and Byron are interested too, so they follow him.
"Well done guys, I need some help. I have a regime just for you".
"Oh, what's that?"
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Meanwhile, in an unmarked warehouse, after extensive searching, Pretzel has received a DNA sample taken from a plastic cup in a café in Livermore, not far from Cheyenne, Wyoming.
All she had to do is run her finger over it and a grin appeared on her face. Her grin was not unlike that of a TX in another reality when it discovered the blood of John Connor. For that moment, she looked ecstatic.
This time is was not John's blood. It was a close relative match to Riley Dawson, which meant it was indeed her father, according to the chromo static analysis.
She is well aware that John has a weakness and if Riley Dawson is alive and kicking with him, there is no way they will not resist in intervening in this hostage situation.
She gets on her cell immediately. "Bring them both in and any other family members".
"OK, consider it done. Oh and (pause) the journey is approximately 1,200 miles Miss. We are already tired and will need to sleep. The journey time could be 20 hours. We don't be here for at least 24".
"Be quick, I will pay the agreed fee $5,000 when you arrive with them".
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Back at the ranch, Allison and a few other adults are with Claire, listening to her practising some piano recitals. When she starts singing, the look on Allison's face is that of real happiness.
Claire stands up and hands her a choreographic sheet, so that she can join in.
The kids are now in bed, (most of them). Soon the adults will do the same and it will be Saturday the 7th March 09.
John is already in bed asleep when she finds him. It appears that working in the newly created gym has worn him out. 'Oh well, never mind. I've got my John here'.
She checks on 3-Ally, who has her own little bed and whispers "good night".
Lying in bed naked next to John is not a good idea, so she quietly puts on her matching Leslie teddy bear pyjamas. It seemed like a good idea for 3-Ally's benefit. It certainly made John smile.
2 hours later, 3-Ally wakes Allison up. "Mommy, I heard Marta crying just now".
"What? Oh, she's got her mommy to look after her".
"Over there mom", pointing to the door.
"OK, I'll go and have a look".
Outside, sure enough is Marta fast asleep on the floor.
Allison bends down and taps her on the shoulder.
She stirs and looks up, "oh, I guess I was dreaming again".
"It seems like it, I'll go back to your room with you".
Back at the room, followed by 3-Ally, Conny is asleep.
(Whisper), "be quiet and go back to bed".
"OK. buenas noches."
3-Ally is very good and whispers back "buenas noches", then waves.
The door closes. This is child rearing.
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Just to clarify in this chapter, the pioneering work done by American scientists using gene therapy is on a serviceman's fingers which were blown off. They cut the stump and painted it with stem cells. It can visibly be seen that growth is there. This is what Cameron has done to the baby's lip and palate. The only difference being, her nanodes will repair it perfectly.
In the next episode, Cameron is back in the hospital with her son. When her apartment crew visit her and Kylon, they hear the incredible news. All the more so when they read the newspaper.
Cameron puts her time to good use.
In 2009 the time comes at last for the sinking of the hole in the bedrock. Will it go according to plan? Hmnnn well, not exactly.
Although it may seem complicated, Sonia is approaching her time to reconceive again but first, she must go somewhere… alone. It is the same problem, a form of tourettes/Skynet syndrome – something Cameron never envisaged when she rewrote Sonia's chip from scratch before she was activated and fell in love with Lesley at school. Oh well, these things happen.
Cameron herself suffers from the same syndrome, it could mean a massive brood of tiny elf-like humans, unless she (or Sonia), can understand that they are under some kind of Skynet hypnotic effect.