Previously, Cameron takes Sarah to 2024 in order to get Skynet technology and save Sarah's life before she dies of leukemia. They have just arrived.

This chapter is told from the point of view of the writer

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Cameron says "Sarah, I need to rescue a girl who will soon die, you can help me in my mission as you are human and she will trust you".

Sarah replies "I am beginning to doubt your motives; if you let me down I will find a way to take you to pieces when we get home – you say you are here to protect John but he is not here, he is alone with Derek, how can that be protecting him?"

Cameron says "time is relative, when we get home to our timeline he would not have known we were gone, except that he will see changes".

Eventually the 2 of them reach an area that has lots of cars piled on top of each other; it appears to be an old scrap yard.

Cameron says "Stay here, I will be back – it will be dangerous so do not follow me".

Cameron then goes off in the direction of the cars. After a while she reaches the top of a small cliff or gulley molded by the elements k's of years ago.

An hour, thirty three minutes passes and then Sarah hears a shout. She carefully lifts her head and peers over the top of a rock to see what looks like Cameron fighting with an endoskeleton which has a large rifle. The 2 of them fall over the cliff which is followed by "metal" shouted by a male voice.

Sarah is frightened that it refers to Cameron. The gulley has sand washed up against it forming a soft fall and they roll down the small hill that was formed by wind over many years.

Shortly there is shouting, gunfire and then a loud blast which resembles the firing of a heavy duty rifle. It is quiet for approximately 10 minutes. Sarah dreads the prospect that her life is over.

Cameron eventually appears on the right side of the cliff adjacent to the cars and shouts "come here Sarah". Sarah's tension suddenly dies and she questions herself for actually being relieved that Cameron is OK.

When Sarah reaches the yard, she sees Cameron, 2 women and 3 men. They all look very serious and grubby. Their clothes are all different but entirely suited to the mission they had just accomplished. They all have their weapons pointed towards Cameron.

A man says "this lady saved our life but she looks like Allison – why is that?".

Sarah replies "I don't know".

As Sarah surveys the group, she suddenly realizes that although one of the girls hair is hidden by a helmet, her face looks like Cameron.

"Who are you?" Sarah asks her.

"Don't say anything" says one of the men, "we have a situation here that might be suspicious and a threat to our security. Who are you lady?" he says.

"I am Sarah".

"Sarah who?"

Sarah looks at Cameron and she answers for her.

"Sarah Phillips".

The man says "Who is the girl Sarah?"

She replies, "my daughter Cameron".

Cameron smiles.

The man, who seems to be in charge says "Well, your daughter is as brave as Allison, it takes guts to risk your own life to save the 5 of us, she could have died. I am glad we could save her life and all stand here now. Where are you from?"

Cameron says "we are looking for help, we left our group to trap food. There was gunfire & explosions in the distance. We hid for a while. When we returned they were all dead – We never had weapons".

Sarah nods in acknowledgement and invents her own story to authenticate it. Lying to these people did not sit well with Sarah but she knew she had to fit in somehow. Sarah asked the man what they used to destroy the terminator but he merely replied by saying "t-800".

The man invites them to join the group then says "when we get back to base you will be asked more questions".

35 minutes later, they stop. "Wait here he says". He goes off - then another man appears and he beckons to us. We walk towards an old car. The base of the rusty vehicle is missing and inside it a flat piece of metal stood against its interior right side doors.

We get in one by one and descend down a circular concrete shaft which is the entrance to a tunnel going off in opposite directions. It's large enough to stand up in and has metal brackets along its sides supporting various sized cables, cobwebs and dust.

We walk a short distance and then we are asked to wait. One of the other guys stays with us asks Cameron a question, "you know you look a lot like Allison, I think you know that so I guess there is not much point in my keeping quiet about it. If Allison was not so unique, it might have gone unnoticed or passed off as a coincidence. You have her cute little nose – it's that which I adore the most, it makes her look so cute, yet she is like 'action girl'. In fact I wish she would hold back a bit. Gee, am I in love? Haha. My name is Colin by the way, Colin McSteven."

Sarah replies "Nice to meet you, she does have that effect on men".

Colin replies "Who? You? Or her? Haha".

Sarah seemed to like that remark because she broke in to a small smile.

12 minutes later a man returns and immediately looks at Cameron, then Sarah, then back to Cameron and stares at her and says "where do you come from .. er.. Cameron, is that correct?"

"yes, I was adopted when I was a baby, perhaps we are twins and did not know it".

Sarah looks at Cameron and says "she calls me Sarah because I am more like a friend than her adoptive mother".

Cameron says "Sarah is not a fighter but is very good at assembling weapons and constructing bombs" (in order to prevent her being accidentally killed.)

The man says "so, judging by what they tell me, you are just like Allison and doing dangerously brave things. I'm impressed by what you did, will you both join us?"

"Yes of course" says Sarah.

"Good, some of the younger ones are out in the tunnels checking the traps, to see how many rats they have caught. Do you catch rats or do you live above ground?"

"Above ground" says Sarah.

Then the man says "Any chance that any of you know anything about medics?" Simultaneously they answer, Sarah says "no, only first aid"/Cameron says "yes, I can assist with newly broken bones".

After a few seconds he has digested what they said in unison and says "OK, that helps, Sarah can you use your adult skills to help the children with rat cooking?"

Sarah tries not to look glum and agrees.

The man then says "Cameron, your birth mark on your left eyebrow is so weird, I never knew twins had them identically too?"

Cameron replies "No, it is not normal so perhaps it is part of our genetic makeup passed down the generations".

He agrees that this is plausible and invites Cameron to meet the others and takes her through a hole blasted in the wall to a large straight-walled corridor. It seems likely that this team is separate from John Connor's control, therefore he hasn't called everybody together to form the resistance yet.

Cameron is escorted to meet the other people who include Allison. They greet her and applaud her for what they have been told.

32 minutes later 2 children come in to the room, the boy is aged approximately 7 and the girl 6, followed by Sarah. She seems happy. They all have metal plates with cooked rats on them. The fur has been burnt off and the food is passed around, each of the group of 11 take 1 each.

Cameron says "the children can share mine because I ate earlier", which seems to please them.

Even Sarah is eating hers sitting next to the children, so it appears that they have bought out a maternal instinct in her. They ask her questions and one of them who has latino skin hue and appearance says "Mom, Sarah knows how to speak Spanish, now you can both teach me to speak it". The mother is the other woman from the group, so it seems that their survival depends on anyone who has combat skills.

Later, they they are shown where they can sleep and Sarah seems keen to retire as soon as possible. Cameron promises to stay with her.

2 hours later there is a small tap on the door, it is Allison. She hands Cameron a gun which does not seem to serve much purpose against terminators. She tells her in her quietest voice "they are short on weapons and that is all they can spare at the moment. They only have 1 other plasma rifle which was found next to a t-888 after it received a hit by John Connor's men a month ago, plus the one we got today. It will not last much longer before it needs a replacement part to fuel it".

Cameron understands what she means.

Allison continues "I want to ask you how you got here Cameron? Did you know anything about me? Do you think we have the same mother? Oleg (pronounced Olyeg), thinks we have to be sisters! Is there anything else that you know about our mother? Your name is unusual.!"

When Allison finishes asking questions Cameron tells her that she does not know the answer to any of her questions except that another woman shares her name and her name is 'Cameron Diaz'.

Cameron decides that now is a good time to ask her to do something for her and says "Sarah seems to be OK with your group and the children, can you keep her with you whilst I return to where my family were, there is something important that I need to fetch? As we are without doubt sisters, I promise you that I will be back very soon".

Allison says "We have only just met, if you die now I will be very unhappy, perhaps I can come with you".

For Cameron this proposition is not a good idea and will hinder her plan as she does not want her true android self to be discovered yet. Therefore she says "no, I am sorry but I must do it alone. Your group need you and they would blame me if you never came back. I will be very quick".

Cameron makes her way to the exit and quickly returns the metal lid. She tells the man standing guard that she has to fetch something important and will be back, then heads for the terminated endoskeleton and removes the power pack and places it in a bag that she found – the chip was obliterated. She thinks 'I need to head to a Skynet work camp where they are developing the epidermal regeneration processes and associated organ growing farms. Although I was developed underground in a basement at a large deserted observatory, my interrogation of Allison took place on an aircraft carrier. Many prisoners were used to grow my blood. I was temporarily stored at a Skynet factory before flying to the aircraft carrier with Allison Young'.

Very soon, using her compass, she arrives at the Skynet camp where the t-888s are built. She waits for a hunting party to return with prisoners and turns on her infiltration mode & shouts "Jason, I love you, I can't live without you".

They all stare at her and a t-888 comes towards her with a plasma rifle. It says "come with me, do not try to run".

She joins the 888 and gets herded in to the group of prisoners. When she gets inside, they are lead towards a containment center. She sees what she is looking for and stays with the others.

One by one they are taken upstairs for interrogation & barcoding. Cams turn comes and she lets it drag her up the stairs, complaining. When she reaches the top, with full speed she grabs its plasma rifle and pushes it down the stairs.

She is familiar with this place and heads for the next flight of stairs. Down the corridor is a room that is used for developing the chassis of their newest infiltrator models – she was designed here.

Another t-888 guards the door & Cameron fires a blast at its head and it falls to the ground. The required blood modifier is in this room. She runs in and grabs 2 of them, they are not very big, the size of a half a cucumber.

She hears the t-888s approaching & slams the thick door shut & fires a burst at the steel door bolt to weld it shut, this will momentarily slow them down.

The occupants of this room stand in terror. She says "Follow me if you want to live. If you stay here you will die as soon as they have finished with you."

The fire door at the opposite side of the room is permanently sealed and Cameron shoots the bolts – it opens as soon as she kicks it with the under flat of her foot. Her body is also in this room, assembled, skinned & ready for plastic surgery on the face.

She picks it up off the table where it is lying. Fortunately the chip is in it, encased by a plastic cover the size/shape of an egg cup. She takes her newly developed self through the door & slowly descends the fire escape.

A female that was in the adjacent room has rushed to the exit and follows her down - as she looks up she scans her cranium & facial features when the woman looks down at her - it is a match. Cameron hears the door in the room slam open so she jumps and lands on the ground. She dropped herself so she picks herself up & runs (literally).

The female runs off in another direction which is wise as Cameron is the prime target. She hears a shot fired and some shouting by the exit - she thinks 'I gave the humans a choice but it seems they did not move fast enough – they have either died or will be put back to work again'.

Cameron thinks 'Now that I have rescued Allison, Skynet will find another suitable young female to enter John Connor's camp but it will not happen as soon as they envisaged. This is actually bad because without me I am unable to predict how John will conduct his life here until my replacement is built and captured by him. It is possible that the next tok-715 will kill John but it will hopefully not be so important providing that I can survive to change his destiny. I now have a personal friend that can help me in 2008. Using my developing free-will, I also have the option of changing the prime directive of the newly acquired tok-715, then give it to this John. My main plan is that I will warn him: that if a female which he might find desirable or is his friend goes missing he should be wary and ensure they have dogs around him at all times, in case she mysteriously returns unharmed'.

Cameron eventually gets back to her newly found base and finds that a sentry has spotted her.

"Allison?" he says. "Cameron?" she says, followed by "I found this girl from my group, she is still alive".

Fortunately for Cameron it is dark and he cannot see the body's face. He looks at Cameron shocked and quickly urges her in to the tunnel. She carries herself over her shoulder and descends the steps which are single rounded rods set in the concrete. Going down and jumping with her left hand step by step is not a problem for her but she can see that the sentry looking down is mystified that she can do this.

Processing things very very quickly, Cameron also thinks about the 5th person to bring back to 2008 and make a valid contribution to John.

Kyle has always been the main choice but Sarah had her time with him and perhaps anything more than that will destroy her memories of him and lead to disappointments – he will not be the same Kyle, the moment has gone, his psyche, the events of the past. She thinks 'I don't know much about what happened but it has had a lasting effect on Sarah and to destroy her bubble that contains all these memories could be bad, cannot be repaired and embellishment is often tacky – I learnt all this from reading, I wonder if it would impress John?'

When Cameron gets to the bottom, she can see 2 of the children. She thinks 'I expect to see Sarah nearby, she has become an unwilling nanny – it will be interesting to see how she adapts'.

Cameron does see Sarah and she is accompanied by two of the males in the group. It seems as though they like this new lady and she is smiling, which is unusual. Perhaps she also feels that she is in her element?

When Sarah sees Cameron holding a naked female, she runs over and Cameron explains to her that 'it is me'.

The 2 men asks her what is wrong with her and Cameron says "I found her abandoned".

Knowing that these men might be panicked and get the wrong impression, Cameron says to Sarah "this lady asked to be looked after by you before she passed out".

Cameron is careful to ensure that 'her face' is turned away from them.

"Don't just stand there, give her some modesty, do we have any spare clothes?" said Sarah. Then she said "Please both of you, give her a break".

Cameron carries her to Sarah's room and lays her down.

When Sarah looks at her she asks Cameron why her face is missing features. Cameron explains that it is 'me' - "only plastic surgery is necessary and that the scars heal up very fast afterwards".

"What about the chip?" Sarah asks. Cameron replies "I do not know at the moment, there are 2 possibilities. If the chip has received its program, then I need to find out why it is not working and also change the directive. The other possibility is that it is not completely programmed and therefore I might have to copy parts of my programming on to it. Doing this is not possible here as only Skynet has the computers. Even if John's team can get a computer, it would never be able to hold enough data to produce the desired effects because 'memory' alone is a premium not possible on computers in this period either. Only these chips have enough memory and even the terminator models do not have sufficient storage to match mine because I have extra quantum panning to allow for emotional responses. I will not accept less Sarah. I need access to a mainframe and I believe this can be done back in 2008 because using Skynet computers would never accomplish this goal as it is too dangerous – they would block anything I do and their bases are guarded – they will learn a lot from my invasion and thus, going back would fail".

Cameron then says to Sarah "I can save the 2 children from this existence and possibly the Mexican woman who has adopted the other child. My calculations say that because women are smaller built, we can bring back an extra person – I must be absolutely sure because I only have 1 chance and any one of us could be left behind".

The children's names are Dean and Marta. Their mother is Connie, which she explained is Contessa Alvarez.

Sarah agrees to this, which is helpful.

Later, whilst they are eating their staple diet, Cam eats too, in order to fein authentication.

Cam says "Connie, may I lift you up and guess your weight, this is a good game we can play with the children. Cameron puts her arms around Connie's waist and up she goes.

"You seem to be quite petite por favor?" Cameron says

"Si !"

Then Cameron says "Dean, Marta, who do you think is the heaviest, Allison or Contessa?"

This is greeted by laughs all round and the game continues. Cam records their weights then says "I believe Connie is the lightest".

Words like "no way" and "not when she sits on you" & laughter ensues.

Then Cam continues with "now you two, I think Marta is the heaviest" It is obvious that this is not the case but it allows Cameron to weight them.

More mirth and Sarah is once again enjoying the whole thing, as is the other guys.

Cameron sees by her actions that Sarah will miss all these people but John will be her biggest draw back home.

Cameron thinks 'these people are only existing and could quite easily be killed in the near future, it might be too late for them before they join John, especially as she has now delayed his reprogramming of a cyborg that resembles a pretty girl'.

Whoever Cameron plucks from this time, the birth of Contessa will still happen and she will again exist in this time, as will Allison. Time will be altered but not in the way that many humans would assume. It is possible that Contessa will have Marta again in this time, whereas if j-day is averted Contessa's life will be completely different, whereas Marta might not exist at all.

Sarah invites Allison back to her room to try and find out more about her. There is not much to tell but her truthful story matches most of the things she said when Cameron interrogated her for 3 weeks before killing her. Sarah does not know this story and is captivated by her sense of loss from what seems like the perfect existence, nothing like John's childhood but perhaps he liked living in places like Nicaragua and befriending the soldiers.

The story of her mother Claire Young listening for hours to Chopin was quite surprising to Sarah. When Allison told her about her architect father, Sarah said that she expected him to be a soldier or the like.

Cameron was listening & thinks 'this is an emotion that will be even more intense if I decide to switch my emotions on and see how I feel about it – my only consolation is that I have now been able to change this timeline but the fact that it happened, like Kyle to Sarah, is something that I will have to live with'.

Cameron has learnt a lot through reading romantic novels.

Sarah asks Allison if she knows who Marta's father is. She tells her that she does not know and perhaps Conny will tell her.

Sarah and Allison talk about many subjects and Allison asks Cameron questions.

Cam tells Ally that she knew John and he is a man that she would like very much & explains that he is liked by many people and they respect his bravery and decisions.

Then Cam says "As well as Sarah Connor, he has had to fight these machines long before judgment day and between the 2 of them have had a life on the run, not only evading them but the authorities too, who did not believe their stories. They were ostracized by the very people that they were trying to protect, although the ordinary people were never told the truth".

Cameron continues "both himself and his mother could not have an ordinary relationship like other people. Whoever they were with were endangered by their presence".

Then Cam says to Allison "I believe he would find you to be different from many others. They tell me you are brave, I was reckless back there, it was my first and last time, I hope. He needs somebody like you. Have you ever felt strongly about somebody?"

Sarah listens and feels a little uneasy about where this conversation is going.

Allison says "no, I always have my thoughts on my group and any advancements I receive I try to be nice but firmly no. I must have silly unrealistic expectations".

Suddenly Allison asks why the girl has her face covered with a bandage wrap. Sarah butts in and says her face was hit by rocks or something as she found her face down on them.

"Was she... you know?" says Allison, Cam replies "What?"

Sarah quickly adds "we don't know. It is unlikely. She was probably washing or something similar when the t-888s attacked". Allison accepts this.

The biggest gamble of all is due to be played out the next day.

When Sarah is awake, Cam says to her "if you can convince Conny to bring the children with us, we will provide a much safer place for them to live and the constant fear of discovery will be much reduced, they will have a much better life if we join John (young John). If she agrees, they can come back with us and Jenny will house us until we can get back to John. The other people here will be OK. If we can avert j-day their bleak future will not occur".

The actual complexities of time displacement are not as first imagined and Sarah accepts my words and goes off to find Conny.

Conny and her group are just returning from spending time outside checking that their place of refuge is still safe.

Sarah says "Hi, how are things out there?" Colin says "quiet again, it appears that Skynet spends its time elsewhere. It was lucky that Cameron turned up when she did to save our group, it was almost as if she knew what was going to happen" he says jovially.

This makes Sarah pause for thought a moment, then says "do you stay out long?"

Colin says "not usually, it is too dangerous but very soon we will run out of supplies from the supermarket and then we will be desperate because when we went back last time if was burnt out & empty. We have rationed ourselves to this food once a week and ensure the children take a vitamin pill. Our water comes from below ground, (pointing to the spot), it seeps through the rock very slowly from the small stalactites, so we have to be careful how much we drink".

This remark further enforces Sarah's agreement to take Cameron's advice and she asks Connie to come and see her alone when she gets the chance.

Sarah goes off to find the children, who despite their dismal world seem to be in good spirits and fairly healthy - this is probably because of the good food and vitamin pills that are passed around once a week.

"So who is the luckiest ratter amongst you?" Sarah says.

A short while later Connie turns up and Sarah tells the children to see if they can find any metal objects like nails anywhere. The purpose is not necessary but it will keep them amused after she told them they will be used for bombs against the terminators, as this is their greatest fear when she talks to them alone. Shielding them from the realities of this world was futile for Sarah as they seemed to bring the subject up a lot and it was not as though they were children from 2008 because they were deadly serious in their descriptions and fears.

C: = Conny - S: = Sarah - the conversation below.

S: "Conny, I am concerned for you and your future. In the near future John Connor will rise up and become the leader of the resistance. Can I tell you some things that you promise not to divulge to anyone?

C: "It depends".

S: "Good answer. I have not been here long and already I have become fond of the children and I know you value their life. I believe you can use your influence to tell your group to find John Connor before your time becomes bleak. I am his mother and I can tell you that he has been trained all of his life for this role. He will lead them to victory over Skynet but he needs a united resistance of every person as soon as possible before you are all wiped out. This is not, no matter what, a place for children and I can save them but I cannot be their mother. Cameron lied to you about me. I am trained in all aspects of guerilla tactics and weapons".

(At this time Sarah reveals her wounds as she explains how she got each one - nothing is left out. A few seconds of quiet ensue).

C: "I see, and what can you do to help them?"

S: "I can take them from here and lifelong safety in an environment free from all this but you need to agree to go with them because the place that they go to will need you to guide them in the future. I cannot do this without your help and their future will be a slow downward spiral if they stay with John because his world is very dangerous and full of refugees, many of them with self-interest and much worse. Most of the refugees are good people but the food is short and the resistance must come first if this foe is to be destroyed. I know all this because Cameron has told me about it".

C: "I see. They are my friends, how do I know you speak the truth?"

S: "You don't but this is your chance to do the right thing. Please believe me that I admire you, you and I could be good friends if you come with me. Your skills will never be wasted and you can help in the place that I can take you to. You will be welcomed there. There is not much more that I can say except that your future will be quite unexpected in a good way", as Sarah smiles.

C: "I hardly know you but if you are wrong can I come back?"

S: "You can". Sarah was sure she spoke truthfully in this last remark.

C: "OK, I will speak to them and tell them that our only hope is to join John Connor, I think they will see that this is sensible".

S: "Yes, we need to let them think that we were captured after you tell them what they should do. We can do this by going to the surface with the children on the pretense that they need air and we are searching for moles whilst you and Cameron keep watch. We will disappear from view, the guard will not follow us - a good decoy would be for you to fire your plasma rounds from a distance and the children can leave their toys on the ground. When your group search for you they will think you have been kidnapped by Skynet".

C: "Si".

Sarah returns to Cameron and tells her that everything appears to be agreed to.

Contessa then enters the room and asks Cameron what the life she is expected to go to will be like. She says "the children will be much happier and will meet other children. You will even meet Ricardo who is from Mexico. When we arrive at the place of departure it will mean waiting in a bunker until we can leave here".

There is one unpleasant thing that Cameron has not told either of them ... and she won't.

Connie says "OK Cameron/Sarah, I will agree to this for the children but if I did not have them I would go with my friends."

Sarah says "good, when can we go?" and Connie replies " 1 hour before dark if you think that time is safe?"

Cameron says "OK, I will make preparation, please come with me Sarah".

When the 2 of them are alone, Cameron explains that she has got 3 items that need to go with her and the only way to do that is to hide them under skin. She has put the powerpack in her other self in the abdomen area and there will be a bulge there. The other two she will sow in to herself now to allow the scar to heal enough to join, even if not healed completely.

Sarah sits there whilst she does this using an unpicked hessian bag and forces the rolled up thread through her skin using a nail that she has scraped to make the point blunt and thus gripping the thread as she pushes it through.

Sarah looks at Cameron doing this and does not see any emotion. "Have you ever tried turning your sensors on when you do that Cam, or is this kind of thing non-painful?"

Cameron replies "I tried it on my arm once and the pain was unbearable so I turned the sensors off".

That evening, Connie turns up with the children and says "we need to go whilst Colin is on guard up top, he will do as I say more willingly after I seduce him a little".

They go with the promise of moles and some worms for Colin is their joke of the day. They stay in sight until they reach the last standing wall.

"Sarah shall we give the children a piggy back ride? I learnt those words from a book at the library" says Cameron.

Sarah asks them and then says "Yes, they say that will be fun".

They run in front of the last piece of remaining wall from a house that is visible by Colin, then they run in the direction of Cameron. Cameron occasionally slows down to allow them to catch up. After a while Sarah is getting tired and Connie takes over.

"How much further Cameron" says Sarah. She replies "only 34 minutes but now would be a good time to stop".

Then Connie says "Children, we are going to fire our gun at this old metal wreck so that Colin knows that we are still here. Then you need to leave your baskets here until we get back, we are going to see some nice people". (This is to let Colin think they have been kidnapped).

Cameron explains to Connie at this point that they have to go underground when they get there. "It is a small bunker but it will take us much much further away from all this" she says.

Connie puts Marta down and fires some of her plasma rounds at the metal. Sarah fires her gun at another metal object and the children put the baskets down.

"That should be enough to tell him that we are still here" says Connie to the children. "OK let's go round here to meet our new friends and then everything will be good" said Sarah, who then picks up Marta.

Cameron picks up Dean again and they move as fast as possible but at a reduced speed now as Sarah is finding it hard going.

Eventually they arrive and Cameron says "we are here" so they put the children down.

Nearby the remains of a big house can be seen - none of it is standing except for a small area. There is not any sign of the shed that Ricardo first took shelter in.

Cameron says "we need to dig here". They do not have spades so they assist her by removing the soft earth as she uses the plasma rifle end to break through the sandy compacted soil. Eventually they reach metal and Sarah & Connie sweep frantically with their hands.

Earlier that day

Cameron goes to the tunnel entrance. It is Allison's turn to stand guard. She says "I need to move Sonia to John's camp, she is too ill now. Can you help me & get somebody to stand guard?

Ally says "do you know where his camp is?" Cam replies "Yes, I can arrange for his scouting party to pick us up at a hidden location. I have brought her to the entrance but I need some help lifting her. I will stay here whilst you find Colin".

Cam has placed a small amount of blood under the bandage to make it look as though her injury has gone bad.

Colin & Ally attempt to carry Sonia up the metal rungs, Colin has her over his shoulder but finds it difficult so Allison offers to go up first and pull a rope around his chest.

Cam feels it is best to let them do it because another show of super-human strength would definitely arouse suspicion.

As he climbs the ladder with his load, he looks up and says "It is a good job that Allison has her own combat gear otherwise I would never know who is who".

Cam assists Allison to pull the rope trying to look less able than her. They get Sonia up and lie her down. Colin goes back down and gets their home-made stretcher and brings it up.

"OK, good luck twins" he says and smiles at them as they carry her towards Jenny's plot.

An hour later and they are there - Allison is shown the way in to the basement of the demolished house, as they stretcher the other Cameron down.

Cameron says "Please stay there, I will be back very soon", then climbs the steps and closes the door and quietly place some rocks over it. Whatever happens next is up to Allison's curiosity but it does not matter either way.

Back to the present

The group go down the steps to the bunker (not the basement) and Cameron goes back up. She goes across to the ruin and removes the rocks. Allison is down there looking rather upset and shouts at Cameron "WHAT THE HELL IS SHE? WHERE IS HER FACE?"

Cameron's reply is "she is my sister and her face was made that way by Skynet before I rescued her. She will not die, she will be OK after plastic surgery".

"Huh, some chance of that" says Allison.

Cameron says "Anything is possible Ally - would you please keep her identity a secret until I can explain things - we should take her back up the steps, our party members are here".

They take Sonia back up the steps and across towards the bunker and put the stretcher down.

"Down there" Cameron says. As she goes down she grabs Sonia and follows her.

Allison looks round at Cameron surprised. "Keep going" says Cameron who opens the double door and is greeted by the others. Allison stands there in shock.

Cameron enters the room and lays Sonia down.

Connie is the first to speak and asks what is going on.

Cameron replies "I did not tell you my full plan but all will be clear soon, please wait there".

Cameron goes back through the double doors and picks up the 2 metal sheets that were placed against the wall close by. Takes them up to the surface and places one against the other in the shape of a roof. Then puts rocks next to the bases of the sheets and pushes as much sand up as possible against one of the sheets.

Finally with the lid, she rams it up against the sand covered side, It rises by an inch, the other sheet drops on to the lid and the other sand covered sheet falls on top of that as she drops the lid in to place.

Any abnormalities in disguise of the entrance will be hidden by the next strong wind or rain.

At the base of the steps is a double door that has a good thick rubber-like seal to protect the room from the elements.

When Cameron goes inside she sees them all standing there. Sarah has begun to explain that the equipment in the room is designed to take them away but has not said any more.

The children looked in a small box and inside were bottles of water. "Can we drink these" said Dean. Cameron said "yes".

"That was thoughtful of Jennie" said Sarah.

As Connie crosses the room to join the kids, Cameron quietly says to Sarah (forcefully) "When we transport, it is important that you hold on to Connie & Allison no matter what happens do not let go. The TDE will recognize 2 people as 1 if they hold a bleeding wound together. This is because it cannot differentiate the difference between humans with wounds and where their body mass begins and ends. The TDE is designed for 5 people but I calculated by lifting Connie and the children yesterday that we are less than 5 people.

The first thing Cameron does is explain to everybody "I arrived from 2027 three years from now and went back to 1999. I then travelled forward from 2008. Finally I travelled to this time and saved Allison from certain death - I knew where she would be because I had knowledge of this from 2027. I did not know Connie or the children but they are not needed in this future and can do a lot more good in 2008. They, more than anybody else, can appreciate what it is like to be children in 2024".

Cameron speaks to Allison "because I have saved you, they can't build your cyborg in this timeline. They were going to mold her in your image and send her to kill John Connor and place his head on a pike for all to see. That event has been temporarily prevented but they will build another cyborg sometime in the near future so we must go back and continue our fight to prevent this happening. Sarah, are you ready to do what has to be done?"

Sarah has been quiet up until now and has a few things to say on the matter "Cameron, you never told me about this, Allison is not a willing guest... are you?"

Allison replies by saying "no, I can't possibly do anything that means leaving my friends".

Sarah says "It's OK Ally, I have got them to agree to join John Connor in this battle and they will go later today".

Allison says "so where is the group of people who are coming to save us?" Sarah replies by saying "we will see them soon".

Lots of talking ensues, even the children ask questions.

During the cross talking, Cameron quickly butts in and says "Sarah, I need to explain to you what will happen next" then takes her to the other side of the room.

Cameron speaks quietly to Sarah "when we transport, it is important that you hold Allison and Connie's hands. They will try to break free and grab me but what I will do is important. You are a strong woman and will be able to stomach what I am to say to you next. The cutting of a wound in to the hands has to be the palms of the children. I will do this just before transport because they are the only 2 light enough to be considered as a single organism by the TDE software. They will soon recover but Allison and Contessa will not understand and to explain to them now will be futile. I am sure you can hold on to 1 hand each long enough to restrain them sufficiently as transport takes place. You can leave the timing up to me".

Sarah says "Of course Cameron, I can do that, I know how drastic times call for drastic measures - get me back to John and then I will deal with you".

Cameron gets the equipment set up. The generator is covered by a big plastic sheet and cloth. The oil drum has got oil in it so she starts it up. The noise is quite loud and the children suddenly jump and hold their ears, Connie momentarily does the same.

The equipment all seems to be OK in this dry environment and works.

After 5 minutes she has set the coordinate time to the same time that this equipment was set from = the time of arrival will be 1 minute after transport from 2008.

Cameron places Sonia on the floor and asks everybody to stand in the middle of the room next to her and asks for the 2 children to stand on the other side of Sonia close to her.

Then she presses the start-up and electricity starts flashing.

"OK" says Cameron, "please stay calm everything will be OK".

The bubble starts to form and Sarah grabs hold of Connie and Allison's hands and holds them firm.

Cameron watches the bubble forming and then takes out a Stanley knife and places it between her legs close to her crotch with the blade pointing outwards. She pulls the children by their waists to her side and says "please hold my hands".

She then slide her grip down to their fingers and quickly cut the entire length of their palms.

Sarah holds tighter, the children scream, Connie/Allison struggle. Finally, Cameron holds their bleeding palms together and transport takes place.

The group are now experiencing the arrival - the bubble is dying away.

Jenny & Ricky are suddenly startled by the reappearance of the bubble which reveals pandemonium. The 2 women are pulling as hard as they can to try and reach Cameron. The 2 children are screaming and yelling as Cameron lets go of their hands and they fall to the ground.

Sarah lets go, or perhaps the women break free and rush towards Cameron shouting at the top of their voices and swinging their hands at her.

Cameron takes the blows and decides to fall to the ground beneath them.

Sarah runs towards them and tries to pull them off whilst shouting "it's alright, Cameron had to do it to get them through".

Cameron breaks free and rushes over to where she left the Stanley knife in this timeline and immediately cuts the 2 items out of her abdomen and rushes over to Sonia and cuts the powerpack out of her stomach.

Sarah has knelt down during this process to explain to the 2 women why Cameron did what she did but Cameron's action did not go unnoticed by the children.

Cameron rolls Sonia over on to her stomach and sits on the floor next to her facing the other way.

The sight that plays out before Ricky & Jenny is drawdropping.

They just stand there as the children run towards Jenny and cling to her legs from behind her.

Ricky still stands there dumbstruck when all of a sudden Sarah turns to face him and shouts "for gods sake man, get us some clothes".

He stands there a little longer after hearing her and moves his head to glance this amazing site until Sarah shouts "NOW POR FAVOR".

At this he suddenly comes back to earth and rushes towards the exit. Cameron did not plan anything so mundane as clothes on standby before she left this timeline.

Whilst Ricky was upstairs Sarah eventually restores order and explains why Cameron had to cut their hands.

Cameron in the meantime walks unashamedly towards Allison and tells her that she will explain everything.

Jenny has thought these events through and suddenly realizes that they might all be hungry.

"I am Jenny and I am from 2024. I know you will be hungry for nice food, shall we all go upstairs and eat as soon as Ricky returns with the clothes?"

Of course the response is "yes" from everybody as they sit on the floor in their respective position with their knees up and hands over their breasts trying to preserve a little modesty.

Connie has called the children over and asked them to sit next to her.

Jenny says "I will get a needle & thread for you Cameron".

When Ricky eventually returns Jenny is at the door and prevents him coming in. "I bought extra jumpers and a belt each for the children, I could not find clothes for them" he says.

"Thank you Ricky, wait there a moment and then we will be up" says Jenny.

Very soon the doors swing back and the smiling children walk through, immediately followed by everybody else except Sonia whose face is unbandaged and wrinkly.

Cameron has already explained to the children why she had to cut them which is re-enforced by Sarah which they happily accept. She uses this excuse to explain to them about the abdomen cutting whilst Sarah is choosing clothes and asks them to keep this secret in exchange for some nice new games.

It seems their time in the future has made them a lot less squeamish. They both have a cloth around their hand and Jenny has promised to get them a nice big plaster to make them better.

Cameron has told everybody that Sonia was left with this affect after Skynet experimented on her. "I will get medical help to make her well and arrange plastic surgery too" she said.

Ricky looks in and asks why the other lady has been left behind. Allison says "she will be OK for now" because Cameron has told her so.

Cameron stays downstairs until Jenny returns with the needle & thread. The others go upstairs and in to the house slowed down only by the pausing by the adults & children from 2024 who say many things about the wonderment of it all.

Jenny says there is not a lot of food but is surprised by what they eat, things such as all the fruit, the tins are emptied, numerous baked beans, tomatoes, raw potatoes, almost everything that she has in stock.

The children are disappointed to find that the frozen chicken is too hard which they would have probably eaten raw.

Ricky asks Cameron if she would like to join him on a trip to town and get more food. She declines saying that she needs to get back to John but Sarah insists that she go. (No doubt his motives were to find out more about her and we can't rule out physical attraction - dangerous ground... eh Jenny ! - if Sarah approves, then Jenny approves... but it still makes her a little jealous... a lot actually).

"I will phone John to say everything is OK. I will tell him we will see him later and that he must stay there" Cameron says.

There is another stage to Cameron's plan that 2 of these guests are not expecting, 3 if you include Sonia.

Avid fans of the show will remember those words spoken by Jesse to Riley: "I rescued you from hell and bought you to paradise".