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John waited out in the hummer. Bob came out and pulled a paint can full of thermite, out of the trunk and headed back into the garage. Ounce John was sure he was out of sight he pulled out his phone and dialed his mother's number. He had to stop her from killing everyone in town in a frantic search for him.
Charley came back to the group. "Ellison says he hasn't heard anything."
Sarah sighed and rubbed her eyes with her hand. She did not know what to do. Her son, the future hope of mankind was gone; missing. She shuddered at the thought of him being dead or in danger. A terminator sent to kill him. The thoughts were just enough to nearly cause her to break down in tears.
Her cell phone then went off. The familiar peep and vibrating function told her someone was calling. Quickly she looked at the number and did not recognize it, but she did not care. She needed to know if it was John. And it was if her prayer was answered the voice on the other end of the line first said the day followed by the date.
"John!" She nearly yelled. Everyone in the room including Cameron stood up and moved near her to hear what John had to say.
"Mom, I'm okay, so don't freak alright." John's voice sounded a little winded. Out of breathe.
"John where are you?"
"I can't tell you."
"What?"
"I'm sorry Mom, but I have something I need to do."
"What?" Again she asked that question.
"I can't tell you. I'm just calling to tell you not to worry."
"John Connor!" John listened to his mother get angrier by the minute. He pulled the phone away from his ear so as to make it less painful. He could smell the powdery Thermite, and with a load WHOOF, he could feel the heat. Turning around John watched the shape of Bob begin moving back to the car, silhouetted by the raging fire which consumed the garage.
"I'm sorry Mom. I have to go." And he hung up the phone before she was even able to voice a single syllable out. Pocketing the phone he climbed into front seat as Bob moved to the driver's seat. With a load explosion the garage door flew off its hedges and the house caught fire.
"Over doing it a little aren't you?" John referred to the whole house now on fire.
Bob didn't say anything. Just put the car in gear and drove off.
Sarah shut the phone up after listening to the dial tone for a minute. Sighing in frustration she rubbed her eyes.
"We should not trust him. He will not be okay." Cameron said.
"Of course we shouldn't. Not right now at least." Sarah replied. While she loved her son, he seems to be traumatized recently and been acting irrational. Almost suicidal. With Cameron going crazy and every machine out to kill him, she had little reason than to understand why he was acting the way he has been.
"John has recently shown to be ignorant to the dangers he is in. He has also denies the danger when he is aware of it." Cameron stated.
Derek jumped up. "So he is in trouble and we don't have any way of finding him."
Sarah pondered for a moment. "Not quiet." She turned to Charley, who himself was also a little worried. "Can you get Ellison back on the line?"
"Sure, but why?" Charley asked.
Sarah opened her phone and opened the recent calls window. Just as she thought, John did not disguise the number. "One time we got separated from John and he was alone with a terminator. We were able to track him using his phone. I can't do it with the phone is using, but Agent Ellison should be able to do so."
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-Accessing phone book
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-Number Acquired
-Accessing Satellite
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-GPS activated
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-Target location identified
-continuing pursuit
The Haven watched as the female identified as Sarah Connor closed her phone after Terminating the call with John. Already one step ahead of the group, the TX pulled the vehicle out of its hiding spot 3 blocks away. A safe distance from the TOK715, which could not do an accurate threat assessment at this distance. She drove away in pursuit of John Connor.
Sarah walked around the house, continuing to be on hold while the Derek and Charley sat in the living room. It wasn't long until Cameron finished assessing the house and joined the two at their discomfort. Both of the men nodded their heads at each other as if to confirm that they both were on equal ground in their opinions about Cameron.
"You are both at a high level of stress. Why?" Cameron asked. She tilted her head the same way a dog does.
Charley answered her. "John is missing. That's a big deal." He found the stupidity of her question absurd. "You should really know how bad this is."
"John said he was alright. John has gone missing before."
"Not like this. This time he could be in real danger."
Cameron rotated her head and tilted at the exact same angle, but on the mirror axis. "John is always in real danger."
Charley sighed. "You're being naïve. John does not want us to help him. He wants to do it on his own. And right now, Sarah knows he cannot do it on his own. And I think you where the one who said we should not trust him."
"I don't think that John would risk himself at this time. He doesn't go alone."
Charley leaned back in his chair, wishing he had a bear. "You're wrong. You don't know John like I do."
"And you don't know John like I do." Cameron replied.
Neither spoke a word for a moment. Cameron kept her eyes straight on Charley as if she was studying his face. Charley, feeling uncomfortable at this broke the silence. "So, how many of you are there?" It was a question he had asked himself many times, ever since he saw his first terminator.
"What do you mean? You mean how many terminators have been built, or how many have been sent back in time, or how many of my class of terminators?"
"Uhh…"
"I don't know how many have been sent back in time. Time travel is very difficult even for Skynet. I don't know how many terminators total have been built in the future either."
Charley listened as his question did not get answered. But one thing she said struck out to him, and he decided prod. "Wait. Terminator of your class?"
"She's a machine." Derek who had remained quiet the entire time spoke up. "They are built on assembly lines."
Though it made sense to Charley, he never really thought of the possibility of that before. "So you were…?"
"No." Cameron interrupted him. Even Derek shuffled in his seat to hear what she had to say. "I wasn't built like that."
"What do you mean?"
"I was designed to take on the appearance of a known high ranking resistance member, and infiltrate a resistance base."
"So you're the only one of your kind, and there is a human girl out there who looks just like you."
"No. The human girl is dead. And I am not the only one of my kind."
Derek shot up. "You're not the only one of your kind?"
"I know of at least one other."
"Another you?"
"Another TOK715."
"Let me guess." Again Derek entered into the conversation. "She's your sister and you where both designed to infiltrate different bases, masquerading as the same girl."
"I don't know." Cameron paused, as if she was choosing her words wisely. "The other TOK715 was captured and reprogrammed before me. She was the one who disabled me, allowing John to reprogram me. John kept her at the base, though I rarely ever made contact with her. We where assigned to different sections."
"Don't you ever wonder about her?" Charley asked. "I mean do you know anything about her."
"No. She spent alot of time with John, but avoided me whenever I was around. John usually ordered her to leave whenever I occumpanied him."
Derek stood up and began to walk out of the room. He couldn't stand it anymore. John Connor currently seems to have a soft spot for these things. Especially this one. He would not admit it to anyone, but Cameron freaked him out the most of all the terminators he has encountered. It's because everyone, even himself, is beginning to trust her at least a little. Even after she went psycho, she still went with them to the nuclear power plant, and he even found himself coming up and talking to her at the bar. But the John yet to be has two of these things. Knowing what the man he will be, Derek just could not figure out what John could possibly be thinking right now.
Sarah came back into the room with her phone shut. "It's going to take a little while. He said he'll call."
"Do we wait for John to call?" Cameron asked.
"No. We are going to get our guns." The small group sans Charley made their way to their home to acquire their big guns.
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