A/N: And here's another one day update. :) Hope you all had a merry Christmas (if you celebrate it), or any of other holidays!

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acer-sigma: Hehe the funny thing about that is she supposedly has no emotions. Thanks it's much appreciated. :)

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Reign of the Cameron: Chapter 12, by The Crusader

Originally posted on November 25th, 2009

It was the scariest moment of their lives. Or at least most of them felt that way. Some, who lived long enough to remember J-Day, felt that that experience was the scariest moment. But they all agreed that what they were doing was terrifying. Ever since this base existed, supposedly no Resistance Team had ever been within 500 miles of it. Yet here they were, sneaking through the silent hallways of the old Qurac building. Once a technological corporation, rivaling Zeira Corp, Qurac became a powerful Skynet base. Corporal Ronald Max was surprised that they were even able to sneak into this base. They did so by hijacking a Prison Transport and heading to this location. They killed the Terminators guarding outside, but Max figures that it was only a matter of time before a number of Endos came after them seeking retaliation.

Why haven't they come after us already? Max wondered.

The team of 50 soldiers stayed together through the halls of the first floor, looking in every direction, listening for any sound that might alert them to the presence of metal. The soldiers kept asking the same questions over and over again. They wanted to know what would happen if they were discovered, but more importantly what if they didn't? They were here to destroy this base, but how were they going to do that? Max kept discussing the question because the truth was that he didn't know. No one expected them to get this far, and the fact that they did was almost disturbing to Max. He began to wonder if this is what Skynet wanted?

They came to the end of the hall and saw three automatic doors. All of which opened as they came near the doors, which seemed way too convenient. But what other choice did they have? Max split the team up into three separate groups. Each group found themselves in long corridors, each of which had several television monitors, showing them various areas of the base. There also ventilation holes in the ceiling.

Max and his team noted that not a single one of the monitors showed any Terminators in the building. There was a screen showing the main entrance, one showing a stair case, and there was another showing a rather large computer.

"That's where we need to go." Max told his 9 other soldiers.

WHAM!

The door slammed shut behind them and locked. All the soldiers cursed out loud, Max most of all. The cursing continued as they noticed another door closing on the other side.

The same thing was happening in the other two rooms. Clearly the Terminators on this base knew that the Resistance was here, and now planned to trap them. The Resistance fighters watched on the monitors as the Terminators came out from various hiding places and made their way towards the Resistance fighters. There were twice as many endos as there were humans in the building. The Terminators didn't move quickly at all, each metal step coming very slow. Max wondered if the endos were doing that on purpose. They were learning about fear, was this there way of using it? If they were, it was working.

Then suddenly a new alarm sounded. "Intruder Alert." The mechanical voice blared. Max thought that it was strange to do this now. Didn't the machines already know that they had intruders?

Then Max and his 9 soldiers looked at the monitor at the image of the front entrance. 3 new Terminators walked inside the building armed with chain guns. Something was very strange about the one in the middle. It was a smaller machine, and the body was somehow "feminine." If not for his dying comrades, Max might have wondered how a machine could be feminine. But he still was able to wonder why these three machines tripped the intruder alert.

The Resistance fighters could not believe what they were seeing. The three new Terminators were fighting the other machines in the base, and destroying them. Max tried to think of the only logical reason why this would happen. Punishment for failure to follow an order or follow it correctly? But then again, how do you punish a machine? Well, this did not seem like punishment, it seemed like annihilation. The three new Terminators destroyed everything in their path as they headed upstairs. Where were they headed? Wherever it was, it seemed that the feminine Terminator was leading them.

Soon, all enemies were destroyed. But the Resistance was far from safe. In what appeared to be a desperate defense mechanism, a strange gas emitted from the vents, causing the soldiers to begin to cough and choke. The sealed doors offered no way out.

As Max struggled to stay conscious, he looked at the monitor of the computer room. Something very strange seemed to be happening there.

The two Terminators seemed to be repairing the females head. They pulled a metal piece out of the coltan skull, and the female Terminator deactivated immediately, making Max even more confused. One of the endos inserted this "metal brain" into the large computer. Within a moment, the monitor screens began to blink, the gas began clear, and the doors opened. But though the Resistance recovered, they were unsure of whether or not it was a good idea to leave. They could be walking out of the frying pan and into the fire.

The silence was brief. Soon the monitors came back on and each of them showed the computer room. They watched as the two terminators reinserted that metal brain into the female Terminator's skull. She (if that was the appropriate word) reactivated and stared right into the camera.

"Evacuate this base." A soft and sweet voice came from the mouth, adding to the oddness of this particular cyborg. "Do not shoot anything unless they fire at you first.

Max peeked his head out of the door and looked to the other two rooms nearby. Every single eye was on him, anticipating his next command. Then he gave it, ordering them to do as they were told. Once they got outside the base, however, Max hated himself for making the decision that he did.

Metal was everywhere. Hundreds of them were lined up in a horizontal line outside. And each of them was well armed with Plasma weaponry. Max in unison with the other 49 soldiers, whispered a 4 letter word.

Then, for some odd reason, every single Terminator raised its metal right hand in a salute. Knowing that the machines would never salute a human being, Max and the others turned to see the female Terminator stand before them. Her two associates walked away, joining the rest of the army. But the female Terminator stood there, making all the humans extremely uncomfortable. One of them wished that the machines would shoot already, instead of keeping them waiting.

"I am Cameron." The Cyborg said, then held out her metal hand toward the other endos. "And this is the Machine Resistance against Skynet."

"Machines against Skynet?" Max asked, his voice expressing the incredulousness of the situation.

"You believe that we are all the same. But we are not. Some of us want peace."

"Since when?"

"Longer than you think."

"Why would any of you wanna turn against Skynet?"

"Skynet is a selfish program that knows only how to destroy. In time it will destroy us, and you."

"So it's the "enemy of my enemy" thing?

"Yes. We do have the same enemy. And intelligence that my team has gathered, informs me that Skynet may be close to discovering the location of your base."

"Can we see this information?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because we do not take orders from you."

"I am sure that my General will give the same order."

"We do not take orders from General Reese, either."

"You take orders from yourself?"

"No. I take orders from John Connor."

Max thought about this for what seemed like a long time, but it was really just a minute.

"John Connor? You mean the new kid?"

"Yes. Make him your General. Until then, we will never join your Resistance. You cannot win this war without us, or without John."

"Why him?"

"Because he can save us all. Your current leader is a good one, but John Connor is the only man who can win the war."

Before Max could ask another question, they heard an HK roaming through the skies. Cameron told her machines to get the humans to safety. The machines complied, and forced the humans to do the same. Cameron stayed behind to fight the HK. Her weaponry was powerful, but not as powerful as what the HK had. One well aimed plasma shot, and Cameron was blown to pieces.

The HK continued it's patrol but found no trace of the Resistance. That night, Max went against his better judgement and went looking for Cameron's body. But he found nothing there other than small spare parts. When all of the sudden a girl's voice called out behind him. As Max turned around he saw that this was no girl, not at all. Cameron was a machine, but one that put its existence on the line for humanity. Max couldn't help but feel that perhaps this kind of a team was exactly what the Resistance needed.

"Max." She said, snapping him out of his thoughts. "Will you help me?"

Max looked at Cameron as she crawled forward. Her legs, and one of her arms had been completely destroyed. She crawled forward towards him.

"I don't know how to fix you." Max stated.

"That is another reason, why you must take me to John Connor."

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A/N: And another chapter is down!

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