Chapter Six
Year: 2009
Hayden is in the main hall drinking a beer from one of the crates, he's been watching some of the soldiers go thorugh training drills in order to keep them in shape and at the top their game. Out the corner of his eye he sees Catherine Weaver approaching, he grunts at her sudden appearance.
As Catherine gets closer she speaks to Hayden, "Cameron want's to see you" she says in her monotone Scottish accent.
Hayden doesn't look at her, "Thanks" he mumbles then continues drinking his beer.
Catherine tilts her head in annoyance at his arrogance, "That means now" she says with determination.
Hayden slowly looks to Catherine, "Listen here, just because you're helping us doesn't mean I should like you or do what you say..." he pauses for emphasis "...I don't want you anywhere near me, or so help me I'll melt to a unrecognizable heap of liquid metal trash!"
Catherine doesn't say anything she just grins at Hayden's threat.
Hayden stands then walks up to her face to face, "After what you did, you're lucky you're still here"
Both of them stare at each other not uttering a single word, eventually Hayden walks off to go and see Cameron. As for Catherine she watches him walk away, she herself knows to well what Hayden was talking about and a slight hint of regret crossed her face at the thought.
As Hayden walks into the briefing room, he sees Cameron standing at the table alone looking at some documents. She looks up smiling at Hayden.
"Hello Hayden" she says cheerfully.
Hayden grins at Cameron's sudden happiness, "Hey"
She returns to looking at the documents on the table before her, Hayden walks up standing beside her, in response Cameron looks at him then motions for him to take a look at the documents. He does so while Cameron walks away standing slightly behind him but not too far.
"It's the picture of some numbers, as you can see they say 0419100644..." she pauses for emphasis "...it's a Skynet Prisoner barcode" she says.
Hayden doesn't seem surprised he knew that it was a Skynet Prisoner barcode just by looking at the picture.
Cameron notices that Hayden is quiet so she speaks up again, "Those numbers are written in blood on the basement wall in the Connors old house"
This gets Hayden's attention if it was on the basement wall of the Connors house then it must have had some sort of importance either to Skynet or John Connor.
He responds to Cameron, "So does this have to do to with me?"
Cameron tilts her head slightly, "I was hoping you'd recognize the barcode seeing that you worked in a Skynet Work Camp...before you converted to the Resistance"
Hayden just nods his head whilst in deep thought, he glances at the document which the numbers are on, he works fiercely to conjure up any thought of what these numbers could mean or who the person could be. So far nothings coming to mind, he's about to give up when it suddenly hit him.
"Holy shit..." Hayden utters out not realizing he just did, Cameron looks at him perplexed waiting for him to continue talking.
Hayden turns to look at her, "It's Catherine Luna"
And so at hearing that very name Cameron's eyes grew wider knowing full well what this mean't.
Malarkey is in the Cyborg Resistance safe-house armory, he's going through the plasma weapons that were recently acquired, he starts collecting them putting weapons in a duffel bag. Jane walks into the armory wondering what Malarkey is up to.
"What are you doing, Malarkey?" she asks.
Malarkey doesn't avert his gaze when speaking, "I have to carry out my new primary mission parameters" he replies.
"And what's your 'new' mission parameters?" she says sounding a bit skeptical.
He pauses for a moment, "My new mission parameters is to acquire Katherine Brewster and ensure her survival"
Jane is surprised by his response although she knew a Katherine Brewster in her timeline, she couldn't see why Malarkey would have to acquire her in this timeline.
"Why?" she asks.
"My orders are classified" he replies bluntly.
As he starts walking towards the exit pass Jane, he suddenly stops when she speaks up.
"Let me come with you"
Malarkey turns to look at her, trying to decipher whether she was being serious or not, he saw the expression on Jane's face then concluded that she was being serious.
"It'll be dangerous" he states simply.
Jane shrugs at his comment, "It wouldn't be the first time" smirking as she spoke.
Jane walks pass Malarkey heading towards the hanger to acquire transportation, as for Malarkey he stood there watching her until she was out of sight, slowly a smile appeared on his face proud to see so much pride in Jane.
Year: Unknown (Timeline: Unknown)
As John, Elizabeth and Allison are escorted by a group of Resistance Special Fores soldiers they eventually appear at an entrance to one of the Resistance bunkers, for the last two hours they've been travelling back to the bunker avoiding enemy patrols and resting up when need be.
One of the Resistance soldiers walks up to the door, he opens up a little hatch a faint blue light illuminates his left eye scanning and confirming identification suddenly the door unlocks, however there's more guards on the other side. As the Resistance soldiers walk through followed closely by John and his party, as they walk through the Resistance soldiers ahead of them inform the guards that one of John's group is a machine.
At confirmation of this information the guards find it unnecessary to do a full security check, but they still have their weapons poised in case of any trouble. One the guards notice Elizabeth's blank expressionless face.
"Jesus, Skynet are getting desperate they're now making cyborgs just to fuck the commanding officers" the man and his comrades exchange a few chuckles between one another.
As for Elizabeth upon hearing the statement, the sudden look of hurt crosses her face as if she's going to break down in tears, even though John didn't notice her expression he definitely heard the comment the man made. Instinctively he turns around facing the man and his mates anger clearly showing on his face.
"Hey! I think you owe her an apology!" he shouts, he gets the attention of other Resistance soldiers and tunnel rats loitering around the area, the man and his mates laugh at what John said.
"An apology to metal? Who the fuck are you anyway?" the man laughs while puffing on a cigarette.
"The name's John Connor!"
At hearing the name the man throws his cigarette on the floor hastily then he and his mates stood to attention saluting swiftly, with fear clear across all their faces, this surprised John.
"Um...I...I'm sorry sir...I didn't know it was you" the man says stuttering with fear.
John decides to pull on the facade of being a leader, "At ease, soldier...now apologize to her"
The man gives John a glance with confusion, as for Elizabeth she's standing behind John surprised at his sudden of character because of her, she didn't know whether to feel happy that he was defending her or disappointed in doing so.
The man then looks at Elizabeth, "My apologizes ma'am for what I said"
John looked at Elizabeth she had a blank expression, then her face expressed a smile that made the man's knees tremble at how beautiful it was.
"Apology accepted" she says smiling.
Quickly John still carrying Allison in his arms follows Elizabeth they are then escorted towards the bunker's infirmary so Allison can receive treatment, suddenly Elizabeth speaks to John.
"I am grateful for you protecting me for who I am John, but you shouldn't of done that" she says.
John looks at her, "Look Lizzie, you're my friend you deserve as much respect as I do"
Suddenly Allison mutters, "And you're...my friend too" she smiles weakly, both John and Elizabeth smirk at what Allison just said.
However Elizabeth looks at him perplexed because he called her Lizzie, at first she thought it was a misunderstanding but she decided to make sure by doing a scan, so she rubs two fingers across the back of his neck. In response John feels awkward and weird as to what Elizabeth is doing.
"Lizzie...what...what are you doing?" clearly confused by Elizabeth's actions.
She looks at him after completing her diagnostic of him, revealing to be nothing wrong with him, she looks at him even more perplexed than before.
"I thought you had a mild concussion, you called me Lizzie that isn't my name, but it appears you're completely healthy" she says with a hint of intrigue at this new development.
John grins at her statement, "No it's...it's a nickname for Elizabeth like...Mike is Michael, Ally is Allison, Cam is Cameron and so on and so forth"
Elizabeth looks at him blankly for a moment as she processes the information, she smiles, "Oh, I understand now, ti be honest I like Lizzie more than Elizabeth" she looks off into the distance as if in deep thought.
Eventually the three of them arrive at the infirmary, as Allison is taken in to be treated, John is relieved to her that she'll pull through and she was lucky that the bullet only puncture her muscle. So John and Lizzie wait for Allison to wake up while as waiting to be confronted by the base commander.
Jade closely followed by Dave walk into the infirmary, the go pass various wards until they come upon the one that John is waiting in. Once the two of them emerge around the corner, John instinctively jumps up more in anticipation as to what's to come. As for Lizzie she just stands in position washing Jade and Dave very closely.
Jade puts her hand out for John to shake, smiling at the same time, John shakes her hand.
"Hello John, I'm Major General Miho Tagatoshi but everyone calls me Jade" she says enthusiastically letting go of John's hand at the same time.
"Nice to meet you Jade" John replies.
Jade then motions to Dave, "And this is my second in command Lieutenant Colonel Dave Winters"
Both John and Dave shake hands, Dave being more enthusiastic out of the two.
"I know this may seem weird but...but do you know what year it is?" John asks.
Both Jade and Dave glance at one another then John, looking at him as if some out of space extraterrestrial being.
Jade is the one to speak up, "John the year is 2036"
John looks to Lizzie in shock, as does Lizzie, Jade notices the exchange in glances between the two but she decides to continue on with the questions.
"John, how are you alive?" she asks.
John just looks at Jade perplexed, "What do you mean?"
"You died John...you and your mother, Sarah Connor in 2007 in an attempt to stop Skynet...it was all over the news at the time, my Dad showed me"
John still doesn't know what she's talking about, "No I...I was alive living with my mom in 2007?"
Once again Jade and Dave exchange a glance trying to figure out the situation, at this point Lizzie decides to intervene deciding to the tell the truth which will be better than lying.
"We arrived in this timeline using time displacement equipment, however it malfunction during the time jump" she simply states.
What surprises John is that neither Jade or Dave look at if surprised or thinking he and Lizzie are crazy, in response Jade just nods her head.
"I see, fortunately for you three, Skynet is currently constructing one" she says smirking at the thought.
Suddenly instant relief washes over John at hearing those words, so there may be some hope of getting back to my time after all, he thinks to himself. The only thing that he is dreading is how long he'd have to wait.