Chapter 4- Collapse

Cravying her son's hunger since he doesn't appreciate her cooking, Sarah was standing near the register at Joe's House restaurant. Her eyes were lingering around the area admiring the different celebrities that have eaten at the diner. Who would have thought Elton John, Madonna, and that crazy face painted KISS band came to a place such as this, Sarah thought. She chuckled thinking Joe's House been around for a long time in which she did miss working in places such as these with history behind it.

Thinking through all of this, Sarah actually realized something was out of place since her last visit.

"It's kind of quiet." Sarah said to the cashier.

The cashier saw his big boss step out of the kitchen area, with an irritated and fuming look as he knew his boss finally found out.

"Not for long." The cashier said.

The Boss walked over to the register. "Where's Seen, Jeffery?! I sent her to deliver food and that was an hour ago. The delivery is only in a three block radius!"

"Maybe she got lost. She is new around here." Jeffery said laughing on the inside as he knew where she was.

"Don't get cute," said the boss knowing he was being a smartass. "Call her and find out where she is."

"Yes sir, Mr. Sullen." Jeffery said watching his boss walk back towards the kitchen. He gave Sarah her food inside a brown bag.

Sarah took it and smiled. "Maybe I shouldn't have asked. Thank you."

Making her way outside the restaurant chuckling to herself; Sarah went to her jeep and put the food inside. She closed her door, ready to approach the driver's side but stopped her movements, glancing into the distance.

Sitting on a crate on the ground next to a small newsstand, Sarah saw the missing waiter in action reading a magazine.

Contemplating on ignoring the situation, waiter to waiter, Sarah finally broke down to give the young child a heads up before entering her job from her angry boss. She figured this girl needed all the help she could get, having no clue what punctual means.

After fiddling with her keys for a minute, Sarah looked both ways down the street and safely walked across towards the newsstand.

Into her comic book, of the latest adventures of Batman, Seen felt a shadow hovering over her as the person half block out the sun from her eyes. She actually wished the person was a little taller to fully block the sun to finish on her reading.

"Interesting."

That voice and using the same word she used, Seen looked up seeing her customer she saw yesterday. She stared at her, puzzled, wondering why her customer was talking to her out of the blue.

The atmosphere felt awkward as Sarah exhaled doubting herself what she was doing. Why did she care if this girl got into trouble? Her good side always got the better of her of doing needless things.

"Okay," said Sarah trying to play it off. "I just wanted to give you a heads up…your boss is looking for you. He seems really angry."

"Two number two's and a number one with water." Seen said.

Sarah looked at her oddly not understanding her words. "Excuse me."

"The order the customer or 'guest' ask, is the name I give them until they give me there's. It helps me remember." Seen said giving her a half smile.

Sarah thought about her weird method as it was efficient. The girl had some good memory skills to remember every guest she had.

"Okay," Sarah smiled. "While I just wanted to come over to say your boss is looking for you."

"You think I should get back?" Seen asked squinting one eye of the unblocked sun irritating her eyesight.

"You're asking me should you get back to work?" Sarah asked the bizarre question. "Then…yes you should."

"Okay." Seen said in a loaf manner.

She started to put the comic book in her backpack as she dug in her pocket and gave the newsstand owner money for the book she was looking at. She gave Sarah a smile and walked across the street towards Joe's House restaurant.

Sarah looked at the teenage girl curious, questioning why she always met the weird people out of civilization. Technically she shouldn't talk in her current situation. She believes in machines and actually time jump through time. In other people opinions, she should be in a mental institution at this point, again.

Searching through the documents she required from Agent Ellison, Madison saw a few clues that stood out from her investigation. Looking at the bank robbery picture of the Connors that happened in 1999, the bizarre event made her think of another event she remembered that happened a few weeks ago.

Footsteps caught her attention walking outside her office. "Agent Stewart."

The young Agent stopped his pace and looked at the woman calling him. He saw her smile at him.

"Please come in, I have something to ask from you." She said.

"Sure." Stewart walked into her office standing in front of her desk, taking a liking to the new Agent in the building. "What can I help you with?"

"Can you pull up the unexplained killing in San Diego from two weeks ago from the database?"

"No problem. Thinking it has something to do with this case?" Stewart asked.

"It may or may not. I want to catch this guy…and any little information to help find him." Madison said seriously.

"I'll get right on it." Stewart said feeling the same way about his FBI friends being killed without justice. He walked out of her office passing by Ellison on his way out.

Ellison knocked on the door making his presence known.

"I heard a possible lead." He said overhearing a last few seconds of the conversation.

"I've been thinking," said Madison. "In a nine month time period a group of my team and a division from the CIA have been investigating unsolved murders that have been happening around the world lately, Hong Kong, Germany, South Africa, Russia, in the United States, but mainly around the west coast.

"Murders?" Ellison looked at her curious and then sat down in a chair in front of her desk already pulled into her story.

"There not just any run of the mill murders off the streets, but crime bosses, politicians, big corporation executives to CEOs at high tech in advance technology industries. To add to the mix, some of the men and women that was found killed, could not be Identified as we're thinking they were hired assassins."

"How come I never read about this?" Ellison asked puzzled.

"They have been in the news and some were kept in secret for political reasons," said Madison. "The CIA couldn't understand it themselves as there were no real leads, surveillance, or finger prints…not the ones that matched any of our files that were at the murders. My team started to investigate in the Underground Connection as they knew things before we did. When we asked questions to the book keepers that owed us favors from there past crimes, they were scared to talk about a few of the incidents, saying the person from rumors was a ghost or death itself."

Ellison chuckled a little. "A ghost?"

"Well, it's as if this ghost is controlling the Underground Connection, which makes this person more dangerous, a person we want captured. This person could be a problem in the future in endangering our national security. It's the reason why I'm here James."

Ellison looked at her intrigued, wondering why she did volunteer to work on his case. He just got his answer as his small mysterious case was much bigger than he imagined.

"When I read about your synthetic blood samples you've been finding at the murder cases you've been investigating, some where found at fifty percent of these unexplained murders in our cases we had."

Ellison eyes widen surprised and baffled. "I never heard of at least somebody was on the same case as me."

"Where FBI, Ellison. We keep everything a secret." Madison said sarcastically as her partner knew she had a point.

This new information boggled his mind that there could be other machines in the world then Kester. Ellison heart started to beat faster wondering how many machines are in the past that Skynet sent back. This was becoming a big problem not understanding Skynet's true motive, which made no sense to him at this point. He knew eradicating the human race was its main objective, but why eliminate random people. Would they have been a threat for there future plans?

"So what does it all mean? What is the objective out of brining fear to all of these big crime bosses and CEO's in different parts of the world?" Ellison asked wanting to know what Madison thought of the whole ordeal.

"You just said one of three words. Fear, power and money. You have all three of those you can bring a country to its knees." Madison explained.

She gets up from her seat and walked over to her coat rank where her grey business jacket was hung.

"You coming?"

Ellison looked at her oddly. "Where?"

"Taking a road trip." Madison said.

Agent Stewart walked into her office having a paper in his hand. "The information you asked."

"Thank you." Madison said as he walked out of her office. She held up the paper to Ellison as she didn't answer his question fully.

"We're taking a road trip to San Diego." Madison explained.

Digging in her bag for a pen as she made her way into English class, Cameron looked up and stopped in the doorway of the room. Not in his normal seat, she saw John speaking to his new friend. Right away, Cameron wasn't sure if John should be interacting with that girl. She could become a liability as this interaction was different from the other girl he use to talk too before she moved.

With Cheri she was just a classmate just like Morris. However, Cameron never seen John express certain emotions such as what she was witnessing right now. Happiness and laughter, emotions that she seen John express with his family.

Static started to plaque her view mode. Quickly before the process started to spread, Cameron forced her processing chip to override the error that popped up on her screen. Her forced override returned her screen to normal again. The glitch in her system was becoming a problem everyday she kept forcing her input functions to override another function from what it's normally suppose to do. If she kept this up her system will automatically shut down on her permanently.

Riley looked in the distance catching the stare John's sister was giving her which put her on edge. It was creepy as it sent chills up her spine. It wasn't a normal stare that she seen from other girls that disliked her. Her stare was impassive and blank like a Mine you would see on the boardwalk.

The English teacher walked in the room as this caught the attention from the students as they scatter to their seats. Riley looked at the teacher then back at Cameron who was sitting down in her chair taking out her textbooks as if nothing happened just a few second ago.

John sat down next to Cameron taking out his notebook for class. However, he caught the gaze his protector was staring at, on the other side of the classroom. He followed her eyes as he saw it lead to Riley, as his new friend was digging in her bag missing the silent threaten glare from his protector. John looked back at Cameron as thoughts ran through his mind hoping she wasn't getting the impression like she did with Charley at the old house they use to live in before it burned down.

"Are you okay?" John asked snapping Cameron out of her stare and directed it towards him.

"You shouldn't get involved with Riley," said Cameron in a low voice as the teacher was taking attendance. "Your mother told you to be invisible."

"What?" said John feeling offended which put him on the fence. "She's not a threat to me, okay. I can have a life to, a normal life like normal people."

"But you're not normal people," said Cameron monotone. "You should get rid of her before she ask to many questions. She'll end up becoming a liability to your safety."

John looked around the room making sure nobody was hearing there heated conversation. He glanced back at his fake sister hoping she understood him perfectly clear on what he was about to tell her.

"Look, she not a liability and I'm not the one to talk. You're going to meet Morris's mom." John stated.

"I just followed your example. I just said yes." Cameron said.

"Yeah and now I have to make something up so you can't make it. If my mother find out she's going to flip." John said shaking his head in disapproval. Taking care of Cameron at school was becoming a problem for him.

"She'll do the same with Riley." Cameron commented with her answer being the same circumstances.

"She have nothing to do…"

Becoming static, Cameron eyes focused forward but her view mode was going haywire again. She tried not to cause attention to herself, finding it difficult to gain control over her functions again. This time her processing chip wasn't responding fast enough as her body stiffen like molding clay.

John's conversation goes blank as Cameron heard dead silence. The teacher lips she was focused on were moving but she couldn't hear the lecture he was giving the class. This started to panic Cameron as she looked at John worried.

Immediately, John stopped talking as he saw the strange look on Cameron's face as if she was afraid. This alerted him quickly as something was wrong with his protector. Cameron never showed fear as his mother was right about Cameron malfunctioning again, his worst fear was coming true and it had to happen in school.

John looked around the classroom, hoping nobody was witnessing what was happening. Everybody was listening to the teacher which gave him the break to figure out what to do before somebody ask Cameron about her condition. John cursed to himself figuring out a way to quickly leave class before the worse happened. He looked back at Cameron as her left hand was shaking while her eyes were focused on her desk.

Unlike the others watching the teacher, baffled, Riley was staring at Cameron odd behavior. She watched John look around the room in a panic as she knew this wasn't normal behavior from his sister.

Finally, before anything happens to bring attention to them, John stood up from his chair.

"Could I go to the nurse office?" John said stopping the teacher's lecture as the students in the class started to look at him.

"Why, feeling sick today Mr. Baum?" The teacher asked.

"No, my sister has a medical history and forgot to take her pills which are at the nurse office." John said lying through his teeth.

The English teacher looked at him strangely as he glanced at his sister. "She looks fine to me."

Confused, John wondered was the teacher blind to not see the consistent shaking his sister had.

John eyes directed to his protector but paused, dumbstruck. Cameron was digging into her bag and then pulled out a pen in which she was looking for before the class started. She raised her head and looked at John. She gave him a smile as if everything was fine. John wasn't sure what was happening to Cameron but had to get her out of the classroom to make sure she was fine.

"Fine Mr. Baum. Take your sister to the nurse, however be quick about it or you'll miss the quiz," said the teacher as he took a book on his desk and started to flip the pages. "Okay class lets open our book to chapter four."

John quickly gathered his belonging while the students were occupied.

"Come on Cameron let's go." John said in a low voice grabbing her things and forcing her to come.

Cameron gave him a confused look. "What's the matter?'

"Your pills remember." John gave her a look to not cause a scene and follow him.

Cameron titled her head and then looked at the students as some of them were looking at them. She followed John as they stepped out of the classroom.

Walking at a fast pace down the hallway, John looked around hoping other students was in the school just incase something might happen. He didn't feel in the mood to make up another lie.

"Why didn't you tell me something was wrong with you? Are cover could have been blown." John said worried and furious at the same time that Cameron would keep this from him. This wasn't a time to play the secret game, not after she tried to kill him.

Cameron stopped walking that paused John's brisk pace. "But there's nothing wrong with me."

"What, are you kidding me. Yes it is." John took out his cell phone to call his mother to pick them up fast.

"No it's not." Cameron tried to over state the matter because it was something John and the others couldn't fix.

"There's nothing wrong with me." She said in a whisper acknowledging the problem and even she couldn't fix it herself.

John saw the concern on Cameron's face as she took a step away from him. But her legs buckled as she fell to the floor creating a loud noise hitting the floor. John eyes widen in fear.

"Cameron!" John went to her side in distress. He turned her around as her eyes were wide open but she wasn't moving at all. He touched her cheek trying to get a reaction, but it wasn't any use. She was completely offline.

John looked around frantically and then dialed numbers on his phone quickly.

"Mom! Get here now!" John shouted in a panic voice.

Pulling up to the curb like a drunk driver, Sarah came out of the jeep looking around the school grounds making sure nobody was going to see there actions. She didn't want to cause a scene to involve the guards that patrolled the school.

She ran to a back door as John already opened it. Already being debriefed on the situation over the phone, it was no time to ask her son the million question game of what actually happened. While she grabbed the top half of Cameron's body as John held onto the bottom, they carried Cameron out the door and quickly getting her to the jeep.

Sarah looked to her left seeing a male student stunned of what they were doing which seemed like they were kidnapping a student.

"This is why you don't drink in school." Sarah said going pass the boy.

Both the Connors put Cameron into the jeep and drove off quickly.

Entering there home, the Connors brought Cameron into John's room and laid her onto his bed carefully. Sarah looked at her son in panic as if it wasn't one thing it was another with his protector.

"You can fix her right?" Sarah asked.

John carefully looked over Cameron assessing the damage as it was her chip. It had to be as the metal that struck her head in the explosion did more damage then he thought.

"I don't really know. I don't know why she shut off." John said as he started to open his laptop preparing his hardware, ready to try to repair her chip. The first time her chip malfunction, his protector did most of the effort to repair herself fully. He only assisted by cleaning off her chip which was minor. He never worked on her chip from scratch.

"You think it's her chip?" Sarah asked watching her son frantically moving things around his room to prepare to extract her chip.

"It has to be. She didn't suffer from injuries this time. If I plug in her chip then I can figure out how to fix her." John explained.

"Are you sure that's wise?" Sarah asked not reassured by her son's words, marching into unknown territory, it was a place she didn't want to adventure in.

"Ehh…No. Will see." John said and then looked at his protector, concerned that he may lose her if he's unsuccessful.

Observing the outer perimeter of Cyberdyne, a few security guards were patrolling the area. Derek commented to himself that it resembled a fortress as he positioned his camera and took a picture of each guard on duty. He saw two guards in the distance change shifts as Derek glanced down at his watch keeping track of the guard shifts.

A door swing open which caught Derek's attention, as a guy dressed in a green jumpsuit like a janitor, had trash bags in his hands. He went to the dumpster and threw trash inside. Derek took a picture of the man as he went back inside the building. He placed his camera down fixing the zoom scoop to place it back in focus.

"What are you doing here?"

Derek paused as his body stiffened. Startled, Derek slowly turned around seeing a guard behind me glaring at him suspiciously. Two scenarios went through his mind. One was to kill the guard and hide his body somewhere in the desert. The other was to make up a story and pray that the guard was dumb as an acorn.

"You scared me," said Derek in an upper tone than normal as he smiled at the guard. "I'm taking pictures of the landscaping. I work for a landscaping company. Whoever did this, it's beautiful."

The guard kept his eyes closely on the intruder but loosen up.

"What company do you work for?" The guard asked.

"Lawrence Gardening located around Scrabble street in Carter Oak county," said Derek toying with his camera and then slung it over his shoulder playing his part. "Where small now but we plan on growing. I get crazy ideas of fixing lawns, like art. Want to take a look at some of the pictures I got. People I think sometimes don't appreciate the art behind landscaping these days. You'll miss it when it's all gone."

"That's okay," said the guard feeling that Derek wasn't a threat. "My wife may look into it though, she a gardener herself. You have card or something?"

"Sure, sure," Derek dug in his pocket and pulled out a card. "Here you go."

The guard took the card having the information of the company on it. "Thanks. What's your name? I'm sorry I didn't catch it earlier."

"Tim Donaldson," said Derek. "Need any jobs, come to me."

"Will do." The guard said as he saw Derek leave the premises.

Derek glanced at the back door where the janitor went in before and walked across the street thinking of a mission to accomplish there goal in destroying the Turk.

Fully functioning as everything was in place, nervous; John took out a box cutter and looked at Cameron. Watching her lifeless body, John wasn't expecting to do this again. It made it harder to accept the fact she wasn't real, just a machine.

He took a deep breath and then touched her head ready to make the incision.

Walking back and fourth slowly on edge, Sarah wanted to know if this was a good idea. Anything could happen once her son place her chip into the computer. Derek words always were looming in her mind of her becoming Skynet. It was possible as she had all the characteristics and then some.

John placed the blade in his protector brunette hair ready to start the procedure, but flinched when an arm grabbed his wrist tightly. Surprised, as if seeing the dead come back to life, both Connors were shocked from what they were seeing.

"Cameron! Cameron, are you okay?!" John asked worried.

"J…John…" Cameron's voice stuttered, barely saying his name as her systems was failing which were affecting her vocal functions. Her body was still stiff as her chestnut eyes stared forward as if not acknowledging him next to her.

"Tell me what's wrong so I can fix you?" John asked desperate. He didn't want her to disappear like she told him before when she tried to kill him.

"You can't…only…the Engineer can."

"The Engineer?" John looked at Cameron confused and puzzled by her words as was his mother.

"Do you mean the Engineer that built the bank volt?" John asked as that was the only time she mentioned any engineer that his future self sent back in time.

"F-Find…the…Engineer before they do?"

"Who's they, Skynet?" Sarah asked trying to piece together Cameron's words.

"Find the Engine…."

Cameron eyes started to flicker blue repeatedly. A few seconds passed as her systems were completely shut down.

A nervous rack, John placed her arm down on his bed as things were falling apart in his life again. He had no clue what she was talking about as he felt like this was the last conversation he was going to have with his protector and only true friend he ever had that wasn't dead.

"Her power supply must have stopped," said John as he rubbed his forehead in frustration. "Who's the Engineer I sent back?"

"I wish she would have said he or she or something," said Sarah frustrated with Cameron in knowing this information. "Why didn't she tell us this before that future John sent back an Engineer in this time? This is just like she doesn't tell us many things until a direct question is asked. I'm going to assume they mean Skynet. What other person or thing could be after us."

Sarah did not feel the same sympathy as John but annoyed with his protector. Cameron's last words made no true sense to her as she had a feeling there clock was winding down in finding the Engineer.

John looked at his protector with an idea.

"Her chip holds information on every person she's been in contact with. The Engineer has to be saved in a fraction part of her chip. Let's just hope it's like Vick's chip." John said getting the box cutter ready.

"It weird." Sarah said looking at Cameron on the bed curious.

"Weird?" John looked at his mother.

"It's as if future John ordered her to find the Engineer or Cameron wouldn't even care but to protect you. Do you think it was part of the reason Cameron kept Vick's chip to see if it killed or seen the Engineer?" Sarah said trying to understand the logic behind Cameron's actions.

"Could be…now that I think about it, it makes sense," said John and turned towards his protector. He placed his hand on her hair. "We'll find out on her chip."

"Let's hope that's all we find on it." Sarah said reassuring her son that they may find out more then they bargain for, still not fully trusting Cameron's motives.

John paused by his mother words understanding her concern. He also hoped it was all they find too. He began to cut deep into her scalp and removed her hair. The chip hub was visible as he used a flat screw driver to open the port. Carefully, John removed the chip from her metal skull as he stared at it. He went over to his computer and placed it into a custom made eternal hard drive which was slightly different then the one he used to activate Vick's chip previously.

Coming into the house, Derek was looking around for the Connors as it was quiet in the house which put him on alert. The jeep was parked outside which meant they were in the house. He looked up upstairs and walked up the steps. Slowly, Derek looked around and drew his gun of the uncomfortable atmosphere in the house. He stopped in front of John's bedroom door at it was the only room lit in the house brightly.

Baffled about what was going on, he saw John working on his computer while Cameron was lying down on his bed. Unpleasant thoughts went through his head hoping John was doing something he wasn't thinking about. The attachment bond he had for the machine, when he put his life in jeopardy by placing Cameron's chip back into her skull, started to have doubts of where his future leader mindset was heading.

"Something you want to confess," said Derek not humored of the scene he stumbled upon. "What's wrong with the machine?"

John felt irritated by his words as Sarah stepped into the door way which made Derek come into the room.

"Cameron," John corrected him again knowing it was about to turn ugly. "We hit a snag."

"We're trying to fix the problem." Sarah said.

"What problem?"

"Her chip is damaged and we don't know what the problem is yet. I think the explosion did more then affect her chip." John explained.

"Do you know anything about an Engineer John sent back?" Sarah asked Derek as her only link to her future son's mission.

"A Engineer?" He looked at her clueless.

"Cameron said find the Engineer as we're assuming that John sent back. Before she completely went off line that's what she said and that only the Engineer can fix her." Sarah replied.

"John never told us about a Engineer. He told us to set up a safe house, find out about Skynet and stop it before it's developed." Derek answered interested about the Engineer just like them.

"It's strange how the machine just says things when it's convent for it," said Derek sardonically. "Maybe keeping it offline is not a bad idea. You don't know what may come out of her chip when you plug it in this time. If you plug in that defective chip, you'll do more harm then good John."

John was waiting for his uncle to say this, which was why he wished he wasn't here until this was done. At least with his mother she's not to direct with her words and wanted to help Cameron.

"We need her to fight Skynet. I'm going to fix her." John said sternly looking at his laptop screen.

"You're getting too attached to it. It's not human John!" Derek said scornfully.

"Derek!" said Sarah making him stop his prejudice. "John sent a Engineer. We have to find him or her before Skynet does. If the Engineer can build a time machine inside a bank vault, I want to find them."

Derek stepped back towards the wall as he leaned on it with his arms crossed, letting go of his allegations towards the machine. It was nothing getting around Sarah words in this house as he noticed, in which annoyed him to no end.

"Okay it's coming up." John said punching keys on his laptop as algorithms started to appear on his screen.

Seconds later, Cameron's view screen appeared. It became a two way mirror as it identified John fully and then Sarah and Derek from the computer camera. Sarah came closer to the screen curious, wanting to know what's on Cameron's chip or maybe the facts she wanted to see what her future son would look like.

Cameron's screen started to become static as the image jumped to a different time period. John noticed right away what was happening as the machine coding resembled Vick's chip but a little bit different. It was playing a memory on Cameron's chip.

The dark, windy, inhospitable clement, shown over a destroyed buildings, Derek knew what he was looking at clearly, the future. The Future in which shocked both the Connors as he glanced at them both. Cameron view mode shifted to the right looking at the back of a person, covered in layers of ragged clothing which enclosed almost there entire body. A large resembles of a sniper rifle, bigger then the person, was strapped to their back. The person looked out into the broken drenched world where once mighty buildings stood that gave the city its unique name.

"Is that LA?" John asked horrified that it was nothing there.

Cameron view mode goes static again like Vick's chip then goes pitch black.

"What's wrong?" Sarah asked as the image was gone.

John started typing on his computer quickly. "Not sure, everything is still functional."

John paused as his command prompt disappeared from the screen. Seconds later, a yellow circle appeared in the left part of his screen. Following it, white small dots appeared in eight columns covering his entire screen. The yellow circle spilt its mouth open in a forty-five degree angle. It began to move forward as its mouth started to eat the small white dots in each column at a rapid pace.

The image on the screen left both the Connors and Derek curious.

"Is that…Pacman?" Derek said getting closer to the screen.

It finally hit him as John eyes widen in shock.

"It's a virus!" John shouted frantically as he started to quickly type to bring up the command prompt but nothing was happening.

"A virus? Can you stop it?!" Sarah asked.

"I can't. It's blocking me out of everything. It's eating my files as well!" John finally got the command prompt up asking for a code. "Code? What's the code?"

The simulated Pacman started to eat the last line quickly.

"Take the chip out now!" Sarah commanded John seeing there time was almost up.

John grabbed Cameron's chip but automatically the power shut off in the entire house as it was pitch black in the room. Sarah, John and Derek looked around the room wondering what happen but something else was brought to Sarah's attention. She walked over to John's window.

"I think the power out is a little more wide spread." Sarah said in shock of what her eyes was looking at.

John and Derek walk over to the window as they looked surprised. The entire block was completely dark as they looked at the power box on the pole. Sparks fly out of the power box like fire works, as smoke sizzled from it.

"I told you so just won't make this better, will it?" Derek said looking down the block.

Both the Connors looked at him.