Chapter 50: The Escape Plan

John and Cameron stood still inside the closet. The machine laid its hand on the door handle and stopped. A small drop of John's blood splashed on the wooden floor. Cameron knew they were caught. The machine drew its gun and Cameron swiftly kicked down the door to knock the (other) machine to the ground.

"Run John," Cameron yelled at him.

The machine quickly rose to his feet and John looked around the room for some sort of weapon to assist Cameron in the fight. Cameron kicked the machine's gun out of the hand and to the corner of the room. Cameron reached for her gun but the machine also was quick enough to grab her hand and shake free the gun. The two terminators exchanged ruthless punches back and forth to each other's jaws as synthetic blood splattered across their faces. Cameron collected her composure and shoved the machine to the far wall. The machine bent over and picked up Cameron's gun and fired upon her. The bullets bounced off her endoskeleton and slowed her approach. The machine charged at Cameron shoulder first and knocked her down. The machine pinned her down forcing his knee on her neck. Cameron was trying to move the machine off of her but was unsuccessful as the machine was driving his fist into her right side of her face. John was hiding behind the door and was going to run, but he couldn't just let Cameron be at risk of dying. He snuck back into the room and grabbed the gun on the floor. He was careful not to let the machine see him re-enter the room. The machine was completely focused on damaging Cameron enough to deactivate her. John picked up the gun on the ground and took aim at the machine. He fired upon him trying to get Cameron a moment to gain control of the fight. The bullets bounced off the machine, but it was enough to distract the machine and place its attention on John.

Cameron swiftly elbowed the machine in the neck causing it to stumble over. John fired the gun and placed several bullets at the machines face. One shot was lucky as John and Cameron heard the sound of glass break. The bullet lodged itself in the machines right eye. The machine took its hand and covered its eye trying to restore partial vision to its second eye. Cameron seized the moment and grabbed the machine by the arm and tossed it to the window. She kicked the machine in the chest and the force was hard enough to send it flying through the window. She looked outside and saw the machine lying on the ground trying to gather itself. Cameron was about to jump out the window and make use of the momentum change that John provided her. As she placed her hand on the window John grabbed her arm preventing her from jumping.

"I have a better idea." John told her.

He raised the gun to the power line outside in the alley and shot at it. Two shots later John was able to break the line causing it to violently spark everywhere and start tumbling down to the alley below. The machine got to its feet only to be met by the falling wire. Sparks flew again and the machine was jolted back into the building landing face first into the gravel. It burst into flames as the wire danced on its back and finally moved away from the machine.

Cameron scanned the still machine below. "It is rebooting. We have two minutes to get to its chip and remove it." She told John.

"I don't think that's such a good idea right now Cameron. We should cut our losses and go." John said to her.

"That doesn't sound like you John. Usually that is something I would say." Cameron told him.

John kneeled over and puked up blood on the floor and collapsed.

"John!" Cameron rushed over to him scanning him immediately. He had two gunshot wounds, not just the one in the arm. He had a second bullet lodged in his side.

Cameron deemed his wounds were not life threatening, but without proper care his condition could change quite easily.

She helped him up and with one hand around his waist; they started to leave the building. She heard footsteps and quickly ducked behind the corner covering John. It was just another human passing by. She escorted John down the hall and the machine that was badly burned re-entered the building. Cameron made a fist and broke the nearby door off the hinges and shoved John inside. The machine started to charge after Cameron and Cameron fought back like a machine scorned. She pushed the machine out the door and into the alley. She shoved the trash bin into the machine knocking him down again. The machine fought back at Cameron, but was unsuccessful. Cameron went to grab a large piece of stone from the ground when the machine kicked her legs out from under her. The machine which was damaged picked up Cameron and tossed her into the street. Taking punishment from the melee attacks Cameron looked to see a truck with its lights on driving at an accelerated pace towards them. She was able to push away from the machine just in time for the truck to hit it dead on. The truck was stopped in its tracks due to the machines heavy weight and the air bags deployed with smoke coming from the engine. Cameron opened up the door to see John in the driver seat

"Thank you." She said at John who looked like hell.

"Anytime." John mumbled. "We need to get out of here."

Cameron looked at the machine who was trying to get up, but it looked like it may have been too damaged to do so.

"I could end this threat right now John." Cameron spoke to him.

She started towards the machine and stopped when electric sparks started to gather around the alley. The light grew more intense as suddenly a bright light of a sphere started to appear from thin air.

Cameron took no time to push John into the passenger seat and sped off in the truck.

"Shit, another one?" John said. "What are the chances of it being a future John Connor sent back?"

"From what I saw inside of the sphere," Cameron said to him. "Not likely."