Author's Note:
I hope you like this chapter. Its a little fast, but I can't move slow when I haven't written in a while. It covers a week worth of time.
Thanks for the comments.
Jojobevco, it wasn't Allison. It was Cameron.
Derek noticed Kyle through a doorway. "Hey Kyle, some bums stole a bunch of alcohol and" His voice broke down for a few seconds, and then he spoke angrily, "What the hell?!"
They all sat in the room, John, Cameron, John Henry, Allison, and Kyle, all looking at him.
"What the hell is this?!" continued Derek, looking at everyone in the room, particularly the two Allison's. He was shocked. "Allison?"
Allison was sitting a few feet away from Cameron, edgy but more or less calm.
"It seems we have some terminator friends." said Kyle.
After a moment, Derek responded, "Yeah, Weaver's one too. But why the hell does one of them look like Allison?"
Cameron answered his question, "I was modeled after her and meant to replace her once."
"What? Who are you?" asked Derek.
"My name is Cameron. I protect John Connor." said Cameron.
"And this guy?" said Derek while pointing at John Henry.
"Hello. My name is John Henry. I was created by Ms. Weaver and Zeira Corp."
"Oh." responded Derek while motioning Kyle to get him a drink.
"So what're you doing here?" asked Derek.
John spoke, "They're here because its safer than a Skynet factory."
John Henry added, "Yes. Skynet will likely be suspicious of our activity there."
"What activity?" asked both of the Reese's.
"Ms. Weaver and I had to get Cameron a new body. And I have studied Skynet technology extensively." John Henry explained.
A few hours later, Catherine Weaver returned. She came to the room. Only John Henry and Cameron were inside. She informed them, "We need to build time displacement equipment."
John Henry responded, "Skynet has one in very early testing stages."
"Yes, but we cannot trust theirs. We could be captured or followed." spoke Weaver.
"Do you know how to build one?" Cameron asked.
"Yes, however I will need help. Both of you can help me." responded Weaver.
"I will tell John." said Cameron.
Cameron went to see John. Thankfully she found him at his bunk and alone. She had to be careful wandering around the base.
Seeing her, John started the conversation, "Hey Cameron."
"Hi John."
"So, what's up?" John asked.
"I came to tell you the plan. We're going to build time displacement equipment, so we can travel back." Cameron explained.
"Alright." John said in a slightly annoyed voice.
"Is something wrong?" Cameron asked.
"No, not really. As much as I love living before Judgment Day, it just sucks that we have to leave them...leave here" he complained.
"You will meet them again some day. This future won't exist once we go back."
"I know."
He was quiet for a moment, and Cameron considered leaving the room, but then he spoke up, "What if they came with us?...Kyle and Derek?"
"I don't know, John. That could change things." she hold him with some uncertainty in her voice.
"Exactly. We could have a better chance. We could..."
She cut him off, "Preventing Judgment Day is unlikely. Ms. Weaver and John Henry improve our odds, but when we return, we should consider preparing for it."
"You know. Honestly I agree with you, but we could still bring back Kyle and Derek. If they want to, can we bring them?"
"It is not my decision. You can ask them."
A couple days later, John went looking for Kyle and Derek. They were sitting around in the command room alone. John would have talked to them sooner, but he figured he should give them some time to get used to the recent events. Derek was cleaning his sidearm while Kyle talked to him. They noticed John and looked at him.
With their attention on him, John began, "What would you two say to going to 2009?"
Derek gave him a weird look, and Kyle's facial expression remained the same.
"I'm serious" he added.
Derek blinked a few times and spoke, "You got a time machine or something?"
"Exactly." John responded.
They could see that John appeared to be serious, but to their knowledge time travel was impossible.
"Time travel is possible?" Kyle asked doubtingly.
"Yeah," John said, "Go ask one of the terminators if you want. They're building a time machine. If you gave Skynet a few years, they'd have one too."
Kyle and Derek looked at each other and then back at John. They supposedly had terminators on their side; maybe anything was possible. They both nodded and Derek spoke, "We'll go."
Three days later, Cameron walked down the halls of the base carrying over a dozen power cells, some primary and some secondary, all in various power states and conditions. They had been retrieved off of dead terminators, found or rendered in such condition. She gave them to John Henry. Weaver came by later with some high-cap capacitors and various other useful parts. They were getting close. Soon it could be ready.
One morning John was awakened by Cameron. She spoke, "John, it's time." John got up, and they went to get Kyle and Derek. Despite a lack of sleep, hearing of what the day would entail they got up without reservation. They could hardly believe what was going to happen.
They all gathered in the room they had met in earlier. Now it held a mess of wires and machinery. Kyle and Derek were nervous and shaking some. Derek asked reluctantly, "Are you sure this will work?"
"Yes, Mr. Reese. We ran a small scale test earlier with some rats, a few hours into the future. They were transported within milliseconds of the the designated time, well within acceptable parameters." responded John Henry.
He grumbled quietly, "Rats...that's hardly reassuring."
"When are we going back to exactly?" John asked.
Clearly in charge of the TDE, Weaver spoke, "We should arrive a week after we left between 10:30 and 10:32 PM...Saturday evening."
John wasn't terribly happy about how his mom would be after a week without him, but he wasn't going to argue with Weaver about when they should return.
Weaver flipped a few switches and checked the display on a laptop. Then she spoke, "Everyone stand within the circle marked on the floor. You may wish to crouch before the timer reaches zero in order to avoid falling over."
She flipped a switch and a timer started, set for 60 seconds. Fifteen seconds passed, and Kyle and Derek looked nervous as hell. John was nervous too, but he wasn't shaking quite shaking like they were. Cameron grabbed John's hand and smiled at him. Holding hands, time was much less painful to John. Before he knew it, it was counting down from 10. They were enclosed in a blue, crackling and windy sphere, and the last thing John heard was Weaver commanding, "Close your eyes." They all disappeared in a flash of pure, white light.
AN: The next chapter should come very soon.
