Chapter 4: Sarah's Surprise
The instant travel throughout the bright white light was over. John slowly opened his eyes feeling like he got hit by a semi truck. There was no real damage to him, just felt like he was shaken to pieces inside. He opened his eyes and looked on the ground to see the sphere shaped burn mark on the ground. For the second time this week he was buck naked in a place he didn't know where he was at. Looking around he saw John Henry and Weaver both down on one knee with their hands on the ground. It looked like they were in a wooded area. John looked up to see that Weaver regained her business suit that she wore before they jumped into the future.
"Wait here." Weaver said to John as she was scanning the area. She marched onward to what looked to be a wood cabin about a half mile to the north. John got up slowly being stiff from all the pain and hid behind a tree. Being naked around two terminators just wasn't his idea of an enjoyable time. After a few moments John heard some screaming and quickly it was over. John hoped that Weaver didn't kill anyone, but her being a terminator he didn't hold his breath. John was starting to get impatient and was going to head to the house when he finally saw Weaver come back to where they were hiding. It looked like she was carrying some clothes and shoes.
"Here John Henry, put these on. They should fit you decently." Weaver instructed. "These clothes will be a little too big for your Mr. Connor, but they will do for the time being. We can get you new clothes after we complete out mission of rescuing your mother." Weaver continued.
John put on the clothes that Weaver gave him and noticed they looked like old man clothes. Inspecting the clothes John was given baggy jeans and an old t-shirt with some holes in it and a pair of highly worn sneakers. As he tied his shoes he looked around in the trees and told himself, at least I am back in my own time. John stood open to show that he was ready and saw that his arm started bleeding again.
"Let's get going, there is no point of waiting around and running into authorities. To answer the question you look like you are about to ask, I didn't kill them. They will just be resting for a while, probably with a headache later." Weaver looked at John and explained.
They all walked towards the house and Weaver approached the garage door. She opened it up by breaking the door with little effort.
"Excellent." Weaver said.
She signaled for John Henry and John Connor to come inside. There they all got in an old beat up Chevy truck. John Henry took the passenger seat up front and John took the back seat. He watched Weaver ripped off the key lock and started hot wiring the truck. John smiled to himself. That must be a terminator program 101 or something.
"Where are we headed?" John said
"We have to stop the TOK-715 from killing your mother" John Henry said.
John gave a rude look at John Henry that didn't really appear to make Weaver too happy.
"I know, but how are we going to find her." John tried to cover up for his rude expression.
"I am assuming that she would resort to going back to the same neighborhood you were at before. Just in case you came back, she knows that you would be able to find her. Knowing your mother it shouldn't be too hard to find her." Weaver explained to John.
John sat quietly in the truck. Nervous of what will really happen in the hours to come. Will his mother be happy to see him, or pissed that he abandoned her to find Cameron. Will they get back before the TOK-715 unit will attempt its mission of killing his mom. If they do somehow capture the machine, will it really be Cameron? Or will it be that John Henry will program her to be like Cameron? He pondered all these thoughts as his head pulsed with a headache. So many thoughts were crossing a young mind. He looked around the truck and saw an old t-shirt stuffed under the passenger seat. John took the shirt and ripped it with ease to make some cloth strips. He then proceeded to wrap his arm up to stop the bleeding or at least try and slow it down. He sat there and as about to drift off into a nap since the truck was so quiet and the sun was beaming down in his face.
"John, when we get there, you need to get your mother and hide for safety. Depending on how much information the TOK has on your mothers location, it could be hours or even minutes before it arrivers to complete its mission. The only time advantage we have on it is that I don't have to worry about finding a firearm. However, I am sure won't have much of a time advantage before the TOK acquires a firearm and meets us at the house." Weaver said.
"How would the TOK even know where to look in the first place?" John asked.
"I told Skynet the same information I knew Mr. Connor." John Henry said.
"I wasn't about to hide for years waiting for your Cameron to finally show up." Weaver said. "I am just not that patient Mr. Connor." She continued as John looked in shock and fatigue.
"How close are we?" John asked.
"About thirty minutes pending traffic and weather conditions." John Henry said.
John was too tired to answer back or even come up with something witty to say. Instead he just nodded his head in accepting his orders to get his mom to safety and ask questions later. John rested his head on the window and drifted off.
John was awaked with the truck hit a speed bump on the road. He looked around and saw that he was back in the same subdivision area that he lived at before with his mom, Derek, and Cameron.
"We are here in the general area, but I don't know which house she will be living in. This may prove more effective if we split up and go door to door." John Henry said.
John laughed in the backseat. "Twenty bucks it is the white house with the brown roof and painted red door. "John injected his opinion.
"How would you be able to know that without knocking on the door first?" John Henry asked in a state of confusion.
"It is the fall season and every house here has a ton of decorations. This is the only house that isn't decorated. That John Henry is the fine work of one Sarah Connor, my mother." John said amusing himself that he knew he was totally right.
Weaver pulled into the drive way and parked the truck.
"Wait here." Weaver commanded as she got out of the truck and headed to the front door. John really didn't listen to her orders and went ahead and got out of the truck. He slowly stretched and walked carefully around the truck so he could watch this event unfold.
Weaver knocked on the door, but no one answered. Weaver went ahead and opened the door since it was unlocked. After opening the door, Weaver was greeted by Sarah Connor holding a shotgun to her face.
"Where is John?" Sarah asked furiously.
"Well it is good to see you haven't lost your greeting skills mom." John said walking up to the door and towards his mom. Sarah lowered the shotgun and laid it against the sofa. She grabbed John and gave him a hug. John Henry walked in past them and waited in the living room.
"Mom, we have to hide somewhere in the house. We are going to have some unfriendly company any minute." John informed his mother.
Sarah looked at John and pretty much understood what was happening just by reading John's eyes. She started heading towards the basement only to be grabbed by Weaver.
"Sorry Sarah, but I can only mimic what I touch." Weaver said with a sly grin as she slowly morphed into a perfect look alike of Sarah.
"I hate metal." Sarah whispered under her breath. Sarah then showed John Henry and her son to the basement where they could take cover.
About two minutes later Weaver noticed another truck pull into the driveway across the street. Weaver grinned as she saw the TOK-715 get out of the truck. She watched the TOK-715 knock on a few household doors only to find that it wasn't Sarah Connor and the machine continued on her way.
"All of this trouble for the future of mankind." Weaver told herself. Just then the TOK-715 started walking up to house where Weaver was at. Weaver stood ready and watched as the machine walked around a little in the yard trying to get a descent view of the inside of the house. It finished looking and started for the front door. Just then the doorbell rang. Weaver in the form of Sarah Connor opened the door and stood in front of the TOK-715.
"Sarah Dixon?" the machine asked.
"Sure" Weaver said not really caring what the machine was about to do. The TOK drew a pistol that was hiding under her belt and shirt. The machine pointed the gun at Weaver's chest and pulled the trigger three times. The TOK-715 looked as the imposter Sarah Connor had three holes in her chest but instead the holes slowly closed up and appeared like nothing happened at all. The machine started to analyze the target. The HUD flashed terminator T-1000. Before the TOK-715 could abort the mission and flee, Weaver grabbed the machine and threw it against the door frame. The liquid metal reformed back to her normal appearance then slammed the TOK-715 into the ground face first. Weaver grabbed an electrical cord out of a lamp and jabbed the machine in the neck with the free end on the electrical cord causing it to shut down. Weaver stood up over the machine that was forced into a shutdown state. Like a predator standing over its prey, the liquid metal went in for the kill. Weaver formed her right hand into the shape of a knife. With a sense of haste she cut a semicircle on the TOK-715's scalp. Weaver then peeled away the flesh away from the endoskeleton, revealing the terminator's port cover that protected the CPU. Weaver removed the two protection cylinders and popped the port cover off. The T-1000 now was able to see the chip. The TOK-715 started to come back online, but Weaver then pulled the chip and could hear the sound of the TOK-715 going lifeless. The TOK-715 was now terminated.
Seeing the power dim after the electrical discharge, John tried to bolt up the stairs. Sarah was able to hold him back for a few minutes, but eventually John escaped his mother's grasp. He ran up the stairs and his heart jumped. He saw a mirror image of Cameron lifeless on the floor. A sudden chill went up John spine like he just witnessed this not too long ago. He had a vision of a flashback of when Cameron was sitting on the chair with no chip and completely lifeless. Now he saw it again except laying on the floor. He slowly sat on the couch not even really caught up to what all happened this day. Exhausted, John sat there still as his mother approached him.
"So," Sarah said with a scorned face. "Who wants to explain all of this to me?" She walked over to her son and sat by him on the sofa.
Weaver studying the CPU from the TOK-715 said, "Your son can catch you up, John Henry and I have work to do."