Chapter 49: Run To See another Day

Cameron grabbed John's hand and started pushing and making her way through the crowd. John looked back to see the machine was still following them and seemed to be making ground on them. Cameron flung open the exit doors and took a sharp right heading to the building across the street. Cameron could feel John's pulse and blood pressure elevating. He was breathing heavily trying to keep up with her. Cameron kicked open the building door and flung John inside. She closed the door and looked through the peephole in the door. The machine enemy exited the basketball arena and stood outside scanning around the area. He looked at all the buildings around him and noticed one of the doors was kicked in. The terminator matched the dent on the door with the shoe size of Cameron. It was a direct match. As he was heading towards the building Cameron looked at John and grabbed his hand.

"It is on to our location, John. Follow me." Cameron said looking at John.

Cameron and John raced down the hallway and started to turn the corner and go up the stairs. The machine kicked in the door and spotted John. John was petrified. The machine drew his gun and squeezed off three rounds. Cameron jerked John's arm to get him out of harm's way and up the stairs. She grew concerned to see fresh blood on her hand.

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Cole was driving down the road as he was tracking down this Dan Dyson character that Ellison was telling him about. For hours he has been driving around Orlando and stopped to check out the remains of the Windrunner Corp building. He looked around the rumble and found random computer parts that were too damaged to repair. After looking around for a while he spotted someone that looked a little suspicious down the road looking at Windrunner Corp. After scanning the person, Cole acknowledged that it was a machine. He carefully started to track him as it walked down the road. Cole watched him get in a car and start to drive away. Cole walked over to a parked car and made a fist. He shattered the car window and unlocked the door. He got in and rigged the car to start. Cole put the car into reverse and backed into the car behind him. Now that he had enough room to get out instantly, he started following the other machine. After a twenty minute ride the other terminator started down a long dirt road to a building. Cole pulled over since if he followed the machine now, he would get spotted. He parked the car behind some trees and started heading to the building on foot. He watched as the machine entered the building and shut the door behind him. He looked around for a window that wouldn't easily get him spotted. As he peeked inside one of the windows, what he saw next caused Cole to be alarmed. He watched as a human inserted a CPU into what seemed to be an early version of a T-600. He noticed the triple eight that he followed to the building and a liquid terminator as they brought a T-600 like series on-line. Cole hasn't seen anything in his time where a human was willingly aiding and helping machines. He also recognized the liquid metal terminator as one of the Skynet's top machines that broke down humans and harvested tons of data from human emotions.

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Cameron carefully pulled John's hand up the stairs and was searching for the best possible route to keep John safe. She scanned that both ways ended up being a dead end except to the left was a window. Cameron heard the other machine about to walk around the corner. She looked and saw two rooms where she could force (forced) open the doors or it was going out the window. The building next to their current location was about ten feet away. The probability of her jumping through the window and landing safely through the building's window next to them was 70%.

"Sorry John." Cameron spoke softly.

"For what?" John said confused.

"This." Cameron stated.

She picked up John and started running to the window. She aligned her back to the shattering glass to prevent most of the shards from cutting John. After busting through the two windows she landed hard on her back with John on top of her in the building next to them. John was silent with some grumbles and she started to scan John for injuries.

"I'm getting too old for this shit." John groaned.

John acquired some small cuts and Cameron had major lacerations on her back. John's gunshot wound on his arm was still bleeding but it was not life threatening. She rolled John off of her and picked herself up and John immediately after. The other machine stopped at the window and stared at the two of them. The machine back stepped a few times preparing to make the jump. Cameron quickly surveyed her surroundings and picked up a metal chair that was leaning against the wall. The machine jumped out the window and met the metal chair in the face with enough force causing the machine to be unable to land inside. It quickly gripped the window pane and Cameron picked up the dented chair and shoved the chair into his neck causing him to let go of the window and fall two stories to the pavement in the alley below. The machine was slow to get him and stared at Cameron as it broke down the door to get back in the building to finish its job. Cameron looked around and didn't see an easy escape route. She kicked down an apartment door and pulled John inside the room. The room looked to be abandoned.

"We are going to have to jump John. There is a garbage can close to the fall. Jump to hit that, it should brace most of your fall." Cameron said.

"You must be out of your mind." John told her looking at the two story fall.

"You have a better idea? And no, I will not fight him here while you are here and injured." Cameron snapped at John.

"How long before he finds us?" John asked.

"Probably thirty seconds." Cameron commented

John took his elbow and shattered out the window. He quinced in pain as one of the glass shards was stuck in his skin. John kicked out the rest of the window and pulled out the glass shard and tossed it outside and in the garbage dumpster. He took Cameron's hand and quickly pushed her into the coat closet. John quickly joined her and shut the door behind him. They heard the machine enter the room and scanned the surrounding. Cameron clinched her fists in case the machine found them. The machine saw the broken window and walked up to it. The window had John's blood on it and the machine scanned the garbage dumpster below him. The machine's HUD saw the piece of glass with John's blood on it. It pulled out a cell phone from its pocket. Cameron listened in closely.

"John Connor is here in Miami. Yes, his bodyguard Cameron is with him. No, they were alone. I was unable to terminate them. They jumped out the window and my target system lost them. The specific location is unknown. A pause happened. No, the shipment will be fine. It will be completed in two days time." The machine spoke into the phone. He put the phone back in his pocket and started to walk back to the door. The machine noticed blood on the floor that didn't lead to the main door. He analyzed it and it was indeed John Connor's blood. He looked towards the coat closet door and started to reach out his hand to open it.

Due to the superbowl being next week, Chapter 50 will be released Feb 15th. Go Colts!