Chapter Three
Year: 2026 (Original Timeline)
Cayden walked into the Cybernetics Division sector in hopes of finding her Mom, after a few moments she finally finds her in a room working on a T-999 that had recently returned from a mission, Cayden walks into the room waiting patiently for Cameron to finish her work.
As Cayden waits she takes in the beauty that of Cameron, she now understands why her Dad, John would fall for someone like her. Cameron has perfect brown hair with that hint of golden color and glistening brown eyes, Skynet intended to make the living tissue of the TOK-715 that of a attractive women, one thing it did right Cayden admits to herself.
Once Cameron had finished repairing the T-999 before her, she immediately turns to Cayden embracing her, Cayden returns the embrace, then Cameron plants a kiss on Cayden's forehead in response she smiles.
"Hello Cayden, how are you today?" she asks cheerfully.
"I'm okay Mom" Cayden replies.
Cameron returns to the work tidying up the mess that was created, she always liked to work and live in a clean environment as much as possible it made it easier for her to access things she needed.
"What have you been up today?" Cameron asks.
Cayden takes a moment to process everything she did today "Well John read me part of The Wizard of Oz..." Cameron smiles at the thought knowing too well that book was John's favorite. Cameron then realized that Cayden had gone quiet she turns to see that her daughter looked slightly shaken by something.
"Cayden what's wrong?" Cameron asks, worry evident in her tone.
Her daughter then recalls the events, when Cayden went to hanger bay in the base to help Savannah Weaver with repairs to some of the HK's and helicopters, as Cayden worked on the vehicles a particular group of teenage boys, humans. Were starting to throw abuse at her calling her 'metal bitch', 'metal whore', 'tin-can' and many other insults then they started shooting at her with their rifles although the plasma bolts and projectiles bounced off her nanobot mimetic poly-alloy harmlessly, it still sent pain receptors through to her chip. At one point Cayden was losing patience and self control and was about to storm over there when Savannah stopped her.
Savannah liked Cayden, Cameron, John Henry and many other cyborgs. She lived with them, fought with them and grew fond of them.
After Cameron has heard all the details from Cayden, she herself has a build up of anger and sadness. Angry at how the teenage boys were acting, I'll see to them personally myself, she thought to herself. And sad, remembering how she was treated by John's troops before she time jumped to 1999 to protect John Connor, her John Connor.
To take their minds off of recent events they decided to work on some of the disabled machines within Cybernetics Division.
Cayden was helping a severely damaged John, the motors and pistons in his left leg and left side of his torso was damaged by plasma bolt fire, in the last hour there has been heavy fighting in the Connor Camp and outside, between those loyal to John both human and machine against the Rebellion.
Luckily Cameron weren't in the base at the time she was out on a mission with the main force, leaving the Connor Camp lightly defended.
As Cayden continues to help a limping John to the TDE room, suddenly a series of explosions abrupt throughout the base knocking both John and Cayden to the floor.
"Up ahead, last door on the left!" he shouts to his daughter.
Cayden hastily helps John into the room, as they enter they see Savannah is working at the control panel a plasma rifle next to the panel ready to engage any hostiles, she turns to see Cayden and John entering the room.
Once they're both in the TDE room, Cayden takes the plasma rifle from Savannah's side going over to the double doors closing them she then wields the double doors together with the plasma rifle on a low watt setting. Cayden then walks to John's side checking the damage done to his endoskeleton.
Outside they can hear that the fighting between the Loyalists to John and the Rebellion was getting closer, meaning one thing that the Rebellion forces would soon be upon of them. Other than John and Cayden there were only two other machines in the Connor Camp, most were taken with Cameron on the mission she was sent out to complete.
Savannah then turns to address both John and Cayden "It's ready!"
Cayden looks at Savannah confused by what she means, then she looks to John whom seems to know what Savannah is talking about.
"What's going on Dad?" Cayden asks.
John motions for her to pick him onto his feet, "I'm sending you away on a mission" he simply says.
"What do you mean?"
"I'm going to send you back to 2009"
Cayden has no idea what John has been planning, "No I'm staying!" she counters.
"No!..." John shouts immediately regretting in doing so "...if I don't survive this or neither does Cameron, we can't afford to let Skynet capture you" he finishes off more calmly.
Cayden doesn't say anything, instead John can see the worry and hurt in her eyes.
"This Rebellion isn't just happening here...it's taking place across many Resistance bases" he places a hand on her shoulder.
A tear runs down Cayden's cheek not wanting to leave John and Cameron, she then composure's herself enough to not break down in tears, "What am I to do?"
A sad smile appears across John's face, "When you arrive in 2009 look for me and Cameron, warn them of what is to happen..." he drifts returning to the control panel putting in the time and destination "...if they don't believe you use your chip and files as proof of whom you are and why you're there"
Cayden nods in reluctant agreement, John does the same, instinctively Cayden goes into the room beyond the one John and Savannah are in, where the TDE platform is located, she strips off her clothes knowing they won't through with her.
Suddenly banging starts to occur against the double doors to the TDE room, John grabs the plasma rifle he fires a few shots through the doors hearing the screams of soldiers on the other side. He then turns throwing the plasma rifle to Savannah then walks to the control panel.
He hits the execute button, an energy bubble starts to appears around Cayden, the two of them share a sad look with one another.
John then speaks into the speaker system where Cayden is, "Look after yourself...me and Cameron love you very much"
Once again Cayden is fighting not to burst into tears "I love you too Dad, tell Mom as well"
In a blink of an eye there's a bright flash in the room, a few seconds later an Cayden emerges from her energy bubble in the middle of a dark forest.
Year: 2009
Cameron had just finished watching the selected video logs from Cayden's chip, when she first meet Cayden just outside the bunker she was reluctant to believe she was her daughter, now after watching the video logs she feels a sense of joy for herself and John.
When Cayden reboots from her chip being reinserted she's worried to see what Cameron's reaction would be to the video logs. To her surprise she wakes to a smiling Cameron, but she's still wants to know what her mothers opinion is of the video log.
"What do you make of it?" Cayden asks nervously.
Cameron embraces her in a motherly, knowing how to do the action from seeing Sarah embrace John before he time jumped to get her back.
"It'll take some time to get use to...especially for John when he returns" Cameron responds cheerfully to Cayden's question.
Both sort of laugh at the thought, eager to see John's face at the news of having a daughter, a cyborg daughter.
A thought suddenly crosses Cayden's mind, "Where is he...Dad?" she asks looking into her Mom's beautiful eyes.
Cameron's expression immediately goes from joy to sadness, "I don't know Cayden...I don't know"
They both hold each other closely both in deep thought over John.
They don't realize Jane leaning against the door frame smiling at the Reunion, John told her of his daughter Cayden, one thing for sure Jane never thought she'd see so much love between two cyborgs. She coughs to get the attention of both Cameron and Cayden whom immediately turn to look at Jane's direction.
"Sorry to disturb your reunion but I need to speak to your mother" Jane says, rather dumbstruck at referring to a cyborg as a mother.
Cayden looks to Cameron, she gets reassuring smile from Cameron signifying to Cayden that 'I'll be alright'. Cayden stands up leaving both Jane and Cameron in the room, Jane takes the seats propped up against the wall.
They both sit silent for a moment, until Jane speaks up, "John's agent, Malarkey, told me of a Skynet/Kaliba facility located within Topanga Canyon...before I time jumped here, he told me that capturing that facility is vital...right now were preparing for an assault on that facility..." Jane stops suddenly mid sentence.
Cameron who has been listening intently, tilts her head, "Is there something wrong?"
Jane sighs "Skynet and Kaliba have sent out hunting parties for Cyborg and Human Resistance members...we've lost a dozen groups already, those that haven't encountered the hunting parties have gone into hiding...they're reluctant to join, they'll only do so if..."
"...John and myself are there to ask them specifically" Cameron finishes off Jane's sentence, sadness is evident in her eyes, she knows that without the support of other Resistance groups taking on Skynet and Kaliba facilities will be difficult. Cameron already seen the reports on multiple Skynet cyborgs and other personnel being sent back here, much like the humans and Cyborg Resistance have been doing.
Cameron goes through multiple options through her CPU, finding none that equate for the current situation except for one, with her new found abilities after merging with John Henry she has the capability to tap into anything with a transmission or network connection.
Cameron tells Jane of her new found abilities after merging with John Henry, she then explains her plans to hack into nearby military installations and systems such as drones, satellites and more. As well as using the satellites and information from various networks to keep searching for John, the only problem is that it'll take time to do these things and from the recent increase of activity from Skynet and Kaliba it suggests that Judgement Day is not far away.
After Cameron explained everything to Jane, she seemed rather surprised and intrigued at what Cameron had told her but also scared of the fact that there's in fact a self-aware A.I cyborg in front other. Deep in the back of Jane's mind she hopes that Cameron won't turn into a monster like Skynet.