Chapter 7
Year: 2009
Sarah and Malarkey have been outside the Kaliba facility for thirty minutes now watching the building trying to get a feel for what they were up against. They needed to know about security systems and whether they were up against your everyday security guards or private military goons. They left Hazel behind just in case anyone tracked either Ellison or Savannah to the safe-house and if so they'd be protected by Hazel.
Malarkey continued to look blankly at the building observing everything like a typical machine would he never took his gaze off the building. Sarah too was observing the building but not to the extent that Malarkey did she could never see or take in as much as a machine could.
Sarah turned to Malarkey as if to ask a question "So how many are there in this 'machine Resistance?" she asked trying to take her mind off of the current problems.
Malarkey gave her a brief glance before replying "Savannah roughly reprogrammed over one thousand and it continues to grow, she followed in John Connor's plans how he waged the war against Skynet, but she didn't lead the Resistance like you think, she only lead the ones in Los Angeles"
Sarah was confused "I thought she was leading the whole Resistance in place of John Connor until he returned?"
"No one wanted that responsibility, not even Savannah but she's waiting for his return" Malarkey replies.
They both return to what they were doing observing and gathering intelligence on the Kaliba facility unaware of the two grey Mercedes pulling out of the underground parking lot. Both cars had three heavily armed Kaliba mercenaries and at the drivers seat of one Mercedes was the T-X that has been hunting down Savannah , they tracked down Savannah's location they were on their way to terminate her.
It's been a few hours since Sarah and Malarkey had left to check out the Kaliba facility. Savannah and Ellison were in the living room watching TV as for Hazel she was walking around the safe-house making sure the two of them were safe. Hazel is holding onto a Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun loaded with nine fragmentation rounds.
Hazel continued walking around the safe-house looking out the windows when she saw a grey van approaching in the distance, she scanned with her tactical neural sensors it revealed six heavily armed Kaliba mercenaries and the T-X whom was hunting Savannah beforehand.
Hazel rushed into the living room alerting both Ellison and Savannah to her presence "Get up. We're leaving." she says sternly.
Ellison looks at her in confusion "What's going on...what's happening?" he asked impatiently.
Hazel turns to look at him "They've found us we need to move"
Hazel takes them to the garage which is around the back of the safe-house inside is a ex-military jeep outfitted by her and Malarkey with bulletproof armor and windows. She ushers them into the vehicle, Ellison helps Savannah into the back of the jeep strapping her in with the seat-belt. He then gets into the drivers seat realizing Hazel wasn't getting in with them.
"Aren't you coming?" he asks Hazel urgently.
"No the T-X will track you down again like before. I'll try and stop it, don't wait for me and don't turn back, you keep going until you're safe. Understand?" she replies.
Ellison nods at her reluctantly even being a machine she's willing to risk her life for two humans this surprised Ellison the most.
Hazel then turns to Savannah smiling at her. Savannah in turn looks at her in worry the two them have begun to grow close to one another as friends. "You take care of her!" Hazel growls at Ellison slamming the door shut.
The jeeps engine roars to life in no time at all the jeep smashes through the wooden garage doors driving off in the distance the jeeps armor pings off rounds that are fired at them.
As for Hazel she walks back into the house ready to face the T-X head on.
The two grey Mercedes pulled up outside of the safe-house all the Kaliba mercenaries rushed out of the two cars running towards the front door. The T-X casually got out of one of the grey Mercedes walking up to the front door of the safe-house as well.
As the mercenaries were about to break down the front door they hear the engine of a vehicle smash through the wooden doors of the garage around the back of the safe-house. The mercenaries rush around the corner of the safe-house seeing the jeep in the distance they start firing rounds at the jeep to no effect.
The mercenaries and the T-X turn around to see Hazel standing their shouldering the SPAS-12 shotgun they're about to shoot her when the T-X orders them not to. The mercenaries start looking at one another confused.
"Get the girl." the T-X orders them pointing in the general direction of where the jeep drove off to.
The mercenaries get into their grey Mercedes driving off after Ellison and Savannah. Hazel knew that the mercenaries weren't a threat as long as Ellison got away then went into hiding the real threat was the T-X in front of her.
After the mercenaries were in pursuit of the jeep Hazel and the T-X stood where they were looking at one another blankly showing no fear or hesitation towards one another. They both dropped their weapons on the ground neither the shotgun or pistol on the ground was effective enough.
In a blink of an eye both of them rushed towards each other Hazel striking first with a front kick to face but the T-X blocks the strike then reacts by pushing Hazel in the knee joint cracking the metal slightly then spins around lunging an elbow strike to Hazel's chest knocking Hazel off balance.
As the T-X comes back around with the other elbow Hazel reacts quickly enough to block the strike grabbing the arm with her right hand. Using her left fist Hazel punches twice into the T-X's spine hearing crunching of metal upon metal she then uses her knee striking the T-X into the side chassis still holding onto the arm.
The T-X counters by spinning out of Hazel's grip on her arm in turn this twists Hazel's arm once again metal cracking at the elbow. The T-X sees an opportunity, comes up behind Hazel striking in the back of metal skull using the knee this dazes Hazel slightly.
Hazel tries to stand up quickly but the T-X kicks her into the safe-house through the wall. The T-X walks towards her seeing Hazel standing but still slightly dazed. The T-X does a roundhouse but Hazel grabs the leg flinging the T-X into the wall, Hazel then grabs the T-X picking it up off the floor.
However the T-X reacts by punching Hazel in the face once then in the stomach twice doubling Hazel on her knees the T-X roundhouses Hazel in the face whilst she's on her knees sending her flying into wall behind her. Hazel gets ups punching the T-X in the jaw then in the stomach her third punch is blocked then the T-X knees Hazel in her side chassis knocking her to the floor.
Hazel once again gets up still slightly dazed she jumps at the T-X striking down on top of the T-X's head sending it to its knees Hazel then knees it in the face. As Hazel brings up the other knee the T-X grabs it bringing its elbow down on her knee breaking it Hazel drops onto the broken knee. The T-X stands up quickly as for Hazel she hopelessly tries to throw an elbow strike the T-X then breaks the elbow.
Hazel drops to the floor but she tries to stand up but unable to due to not able to stand or lift herself up on broken joints she constantly drops to the floor. The T-X watches Hazel with interest admiring the machines determination to get back up to continue fighting. The T-X walks up to Hazel grabbing her by the neck it's about break her neck when a bullet hits the T-X knocking it to the floor.
Hazel looks up to see five human figures coming towards her two of them she recognizes Ellison and Savannah. The other three she didn't recognize until they were up close they were other machines fighting with the Resistance. One of them was totally bald and clean shaven Hazel knew who it was she called out his name "Hoya?".
Hoya looks down at her holding her up realizing the damage that the T-X inflicted on her whether she could be repaired is unknown. Hoya looks to see the T-X trying to stand up glumly he looks to the other machines a man and a woman pointing at the T-X. "Tear it to pieces then burn it" he tells them sternly. The other two machines nod in return then walk over to the T-X tearing it limb from limb the T-X tries to fight back but fails to do so.
The two machines then tip thermite onto the T-X then one of them pulls out a lighter dropping it onto the T-X. They both watch to make sure the T-X is completely destroyed.
Ellison walks over with Savannah to Hoya and Hazel, Savannah asks with fear in her voice "Is she going to be alright?"
Hoya gives Savannah a brief look then returns his gaze to Hazel he notices that Hazel's unbroken left arm is twitching, she must have been damaged in her CPU as well, he thought to himself. "I don't know" he responds blankly to Savannah's question.
Malarkey and Sarah were on their way back to the safe-house after gathering enough intel on the Kaliba facility when they notice the two bullet ridden grey Mercedes and multiple bodies lying around them. Something has happened at the safe-house, Sarah said to herself.
Malarkey scanned the dead bodies on the floor then notified Sarah of whom they were "It's Kaliba" he said coldly
Sarah was now worried for Ellison and Savannah hoping they hadn't been killed or worst captured by Kaliba. As they neared the safe-house they saw the ex-military jeep from the garage and another black SUV. Sarah notices the huge hole in the wall of the safe-house.
As soon as their black SUV stops Sarah rushes out towards the safe-house holstering her Glock with Malarkey following close behind. When they get to the hole in the wall they see a man, Ellison and Savannah crouched near Hazel and two others standing aimlessly nearby.
Sarah immediately aims her pistol at the man crouched near Hazel. Ellison notices calling out to her "Don't they're on our side!" she puts her Glock back underneath the belt of her trousers. Jesus all these machines helping us, they must have an army to fight Skynet, she thought to herself.
Malarkey walks in and Hoya recognizes him immediately he gently lowers Hazel to the floor then walks up to Malarkey holding his hand out to him, Malarkey swiftly shakes his hand.
"Where have you been?" Malarkey asked Hoya intently.
"Looking for you, the A.I. sent us back to help you" he replies with a sly smile.
Malarkey notices the state of Hazel on the floor walking to her, crouching by her side he looks up to Hoya "What happened?"
"T-X...she's lucky we got here in time, it was about to terminate her" Hoya replies losing his smile.
Malarkey looks back at Hazel "Can she be fixed?" still talking to Hoya.
"We'll have to take her back to base we have an engineer there, hopefully he can fix her" Hoya replied with a hint of hope.
"Then we better get going then" Malarkey was determined to make sure Hazel survived without question he, Sarah, Ellison, Savannah, Hoya and the other machines gathered the equipment and weapons loaded them in the vehicles then set off for the base Hoya mentioned.
Malarkey quickly goes into the safe-house basement to retrieve Cameron's body it's now fully healed unlike before you could tell she was a machine but she looked like any other human no metal showing. As Malarkey exits the house he lays Cameron's body in the back seats of the black SUV he and Sarah were using earlier. Sarah notices that all of Cameron's skin is healed, for some reason Sarah is pleased because she knows John will be happy to her looking more human when or if he returns.
It was no longer safe where they were a few moments ago, if the T-X and Kaliba could find that safe-house then the location has long been compromised.
Year: 2027
Derek woke up in a cell all of his equipment taken he looked around frantically wondering where he was all he could see was other cells empty ones and the ones that had his team en-caged in. He had no idea where he was the room was dark the only source of light was from the few bulbs hanging aimless by themselves.
Suddenly the door to the room opened followed by a T-888 dragging one of his team members across the floor the machine threw the guy into his cell locking him in. Derek tried to get a look at the guy in the cell he was out cold wasn't moving, he must be alive, Derek thought otherwise they wouldn't have returned him to his cell.
Not long after, the same T-888 walks in opening the cage to another cell it then escorted a girl out of the room. Derek had no idea what was going on and that scared him the most.
Meanwhile outside of the Skynet facility that Derek is held in a large force of roughly forty five Resistance machines were preparing to attack the facility and take it from Skynet to use as a stronghold.
John couldn't stop thinking about the incident that happened with him and Allison that's when he realized his true feelings for Cameron. Not only that but he realized that even though Allison looks like Cameron deep down she isn't the same as Cameron. He wanted to make it right with Allison he wanted to tell her that he doesn't feel that way about her but something told him that she wouldn't give so easily unless he told her he's in love with a cyborg that looks like her. Yeah that'll go down well...not, he said to himself.
John sits in the mess hall once again this time eating some food he was starving hadn't eaten for a few days he was only having rabbit meat and a few bits of dried fruit. Nothing much but it was better than not eating at all. Hazer once again standing close to him like a bodyguard. John hadn't seen Allison since they kissed one another but he kept an eye out just in case so he could talk to her about it.
Kyle walks in getting everyone's attention to look at him "We're moving out to the Resistance L.A. HQ in one hour. So fill your bellies, gear up and get ready to move out!"
John was shocked by this news he rushed over to Kyle grabbing him by the arm "Aren't we going to look for your brother, Derek?" John says sternly.
"Look I want to, but I haven't an idea of where he went he could be anywhere out there with his team, if I knew which way he headed I'd of gone looking for him myself" Kyle replies to John quietly he then walks away from John with the squad leaders.
As John turns around he sees Allison in the distance she gets a glance at him but continues walking it's obvious to John that she's still upset about the whole kissing thing.
John decides to go to his room followed by Hazer, he collects what there is in the room then hopes that Kyle will let him have a weapon so he could defend himself if they ran into any trouble. John and Hazer immediately head to the armory to collect some weapons for the journey ahead.
John Henry and Cameron are startled by the machine they weren't sure whether these machines were sent to kill or not. The machines didn't seem to want to attack them if they did they'd have just open fired without saying a word but still John Henry and Cameron were intrigued to what they wanted. Out of wise judgement Cameron decides to talk to the machines in her voice hoping to not provoke an attack or get some answers instead of John Henry.
"Who are you?" Cameron asks the mysterious machine.
"Cameron it's me?" the machine responds confused by what Cameron just said.
Cameron was even more confused "I don't know you, identify yourself" with a demanding tone.
"Okay my name is Zash" the machine replies.
Cameron recognized the name but she couldn't conjure up a picture of the person or machine "What do you want?"
The machine was about to answer when Ms. Weaver walked into the building the other machines stepped back a few steps to make way for her.
"They're taking you to their base, that's where I was going to take you but the two of you took off before I could" she answers Cameron's question coldly.
Cameron and John Henry didn't have a choice in the matter even if it seemed like a bad idea they needed the allies anyway to help them fight against Skynet. John Henry takes control of the voice output system, Cameron resides back to her thoughts thinking about the name Zash, then suddenly starts thinking about John hoping he was safe where he was.
"I hope I can trust you Ms. Weaver" John Henry tell her politely.
"Of course you can!" she responds sort of irritated by his comment.
They started to make the long trek to the Machine Resistance base in order to keep John Henry and Cameron safe from the clutches of Skynet itself.
Savannah us standing in the middle of the command center observing the images from the battle raging above them. They're starting to get the upper hand since the Machine Resistance sent support to her forces now they're gradually pushing Skynet back.
She continues to observe the battle images from recon drones around her various Resistance personnel rushed around many were at communications equipment such as Morse code, radio and runners others were taking control of drones using ancient computers in her opinion.
Suddenly a Resistance officer walks up to Savannah holding a bit of paper, he hands it to her. Savannah swiftly reads the message then a hint of excitement shows in her eyes once she finished it.
"The Machine Resistance have found John Henry and Cameron, today keeps getting better!" she responded with enthusiasm she looks to the Resistance officer then hands him the paper. As he's about to walk away Savannah starts to speak up again.
"What's the status of that Resistance group and John Connor?" enthusiasm still in her tone.
"They'll be moving out in T Minus ten minutes!" he replied to her.
Savannah nods her head "Good, make sure...especially John Henry, Cameron and John...make it in one piece they'll be the turning point in this war"
The Resistance officer nods his head curtly then walks back to his personal station on the command center. Savannah returns to looking at the images on screen thinking to herself that, having John Henry, Cameron and John Connor alive is essential to beating Skynet.
Will's Notes
Hello once again now this is the longest chapter so far but I am hoping to continue making chapters as long as this.
I'd like to know what you guys think of my development on the 'Third Faction' scenario it'll be interesting to see what you guys think.
Oh and before I forget Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year! I'll be hoping to do a few more chapters before 2015 comes!
