Chapter 1343

Your Cheating Heart

John Henry looked at the new drone scan. It appeared several more figures were now present in the south building. They were in a corner of the building and were missed by the first drone scan. Either that or they just came out of a shielded area or from below ground level. Both of those were a real possibility when dealing with individuals from the future.

It appeared the two figures that were together were now separated. One was still in the same place but the other moved away. The other two figures came towards the unmoving figure.

They lost the drone image but it returned quickly as the drone moved to stay over the target area.

"I make it at four targets in each building." Derek said.

John Henry thought that was correct for what they could see. It was what they couldn't see or know about that would cause them the most worry.

"Currently I agree." John Henry said. "There may be more wherever those other figures came out of or from. There could be people in areas that are shielded too."

Summer received a transmission from CamNet.

"I need to go." Summer said. "My mother is looking for me. She does not like me doing this."

Derek looked around and wondered how she knew that. He did not see anything on the monitors.

Summer excused herself and left.

"How does she know that?" Derek asked.

John Henry could only speculate.

"CamNet may have warned her." John Henry said. "I'm mot sure it was because her mother was about to look for her but it may have been."

Derek was surprised to hear Summer was in contact with CamNet.

"Is that something that happens all the time?" Derek asked.

John Henry did not have a definitive answer.

"I really don't know." John Henry said. "I think CamNet shielded her."

Derek wondered what that meant. Everything related to the future was violent and ugly.

"CamNet shielded her from what?" Derek asked.

John Henry indicated the drone scan.

The two new figures approached the two that were previously together. One of the new arrivals appeared to move on top of the first figure which hadn't moved.

"From that I believe." John Henry said.

Derek caught the drift right away.

"Someone is having multiple sex partners or is being assaulted." Derek said.

John Henry noted the lack of movement on the stationary figure.

"Apparently." John Henry said. "I think it is the latter.

The images they viewed were very vague and lacked any detail.

"Are you going to launch a rescue operation?" Derek asked.

That seemed outside the mission parameters right now.

"No." John Henry said. "It is collateral damage at this point. We don't know what it is either."

That did not sit well with Derek. He really wanted in on this operation. There were a few individuals he would like to personally get acquainted with. The disrespect of females was prevalent in the future. It happened in the Resistance too. Some people got too close to the edge and reverted back to the 'animal' in humans. Grays were worse and Scavengers were the worst of all.

Cameron watched Allison and Vanna clap at the end of the first song. It seemed they really enjoyed being here. She knew they were going to like the 'British Invasion' even better.

'Your Cheating Heart' by 'Hank Williams' was the next song.

She was a little surprised at the message of the song that followed the first one. She quickly looked over at John. He did not notice. It made her think of Future Riley. As she listened to the song she could see it was a lot like some of her poems in its message. She would later research other county western songs and find many with a similar message of pain and anguish. That bothered her a little. People should be happy and not depressed.

Cameron visually scanned around her. She saw that Gail-Cam and Holly did as well. There was almost zero threat in this environment but she still needed to check anyway. She looked back up to the private boxes. The one way glass was still up on the one that Sheila and Ally were in. She really hoped that Sheila did not do anything to stretch Ally out anywhere.

She looked to the next box and could see Hanna and Cam-Gail there. They both seemed to enjoy watching the show. She noticed that Hanna looked at Cam-Gail a lot.

The song ended and the crowd clapped.

'Cold Cold Heart' by 'Hank Williams' was the next song.

It was as somber as the previous song. It appeared that Hank Williams must have experienced some bad luck with females. It sure seemed like that. Now he really reminded her of her poems. She glanced at John and he looked at her but quickly looked away.

John was a little uneasy with the messages that all the songs seemed to send. He wondered if Cameron was involved with their selection somehow. He would not put it past her.

Vanna listened to the music and could identify with the songs. There were times in the past – the future when Allison stepped out on her. Their relationship was always open so they were free to be with 'anyone'. That was something she often did herself. There were always abused females that needed comfort and to be shown they were still someone beautiful even if some things were now 'gone'. She always shared with them no matter how they were. Allison usually did not share with the abused strangers but sometimes she found someone 'new' and tried to see how different life could be. That always hurt her. In the end Allison always came back. Everything went on like it was before. She did not care for the encounters Allison experienced with men to try to get pregnant. Allison never told her when she did it but she always knew. Once she was 'saved' by Allison and the Reese brothers from the 'burn pile', no male every touched her again. The thought of being touched by a male made her physically ill. John was the only male she would ever allow to touch her again. That was because she loved Cameron and John.

Vanna looked over and watched John as he looked at the singer on the stage. Gail-Cam noticed and so did Holly. It looked like Allison and Cameron on the far end missed it. Cameron looked back off to the side somewhere.

Cam-Gail was fascinated by the 'pain' in the last two songs. She thought they were right up Cameron's alley. They reminded her of Cameron's poems.

Hanna still looked at her every now and then. It was clear she wanted some action. She wanted to try out as many of the females as possible with Cam's chassis as long as she was in it. That would happen later on tonight. If she was lucky Cameron would ask to use her temporary chassis again.

She looked over at Hanna and touched her knee. Hanna urged her hand higher.

There was no reason they couldn't do a couple of things at the same time.

Sheila could feel herself going wild on Ally. She could not resist. She wanted to head back to one of the rooms to she could do everything better. At the rate they were going they would be on the floor in a few minutes. They needed the extra room.

She did not know if it was the tone of the songs or not.

It excited her to think about being with Ally after Cameron used her chassis and gave Ally's virginity to John.

She increased what she was doing to Ally right now. She knew Ally was about to finish.

She decided once Ally made it they were heading back to her room. The thought of using the floor did not appeal to her.

The girls in the SUV all looked at their phones and observed the drone scans.

Savannah did not like what she viewed. She looked up from her phone. It seemed her personal time was over for the night. She was glad she was able to spend some quality time with Young Allison.

"I think the movie is out." Savannah said. "Cammy and I are going to back up that operation."

Young Allison knew what that meant. She was going back to Palmdale.

"Take Brian and Randy with you." Young Allison said. "That will still leave Mel and Anna with me."

Savannah did not want to take away Young Allison's protection.

"I need you to be protected when you return home." Savannah said.

Young Allison did not give up easy.

"I am going to send them after you anyway." Young Allison said. "I don't want to make a big deal about it."

Savannah knew that was probably exactly what Young Allison would do too.

"I'll think about it." Savannah said.

Young Allison did not care for that answer. She did not want Savannah to close her mind.

"Sometimes it's nice to have help." Young Allison said.

Savannah nodded.

There was something that bothered Young Allison about the second drone scan.

"The last two figures in the south building were not there on the first pass of the drone." Young Allison said. "What if there is another portal here?"

Cammy and Savannah looked at each other. That was a close one for them when they encountered the last one. It was also a scary thought for Savannah. She checked again with John Henry on energy usage at either building but nothing out of the ordinary showed up.

She was a little worried with the message that they'd left for whoever was on the other side of the portal with. It was not a welcome. Most likely when that group was encountered again there would be a few issues.

Savannah glanced back and there was an SUV behind them. It was a new one and Mel was driving. A second SUV pulled up and parked in front of them. It was Brian and Randy. It appeared Young Allison already enacted her plan.

"I can see you did not wait for me to think about it." Savannah said.

Young Allison saw it differently.

"What is there to think about your safety?" Young Allison asked. "I'm going back to a bunker. You're not."

Savannah understood Young Allison's concern. It made sense but it was a circumvention as to why they were on Young Allison's Detail in the first place.

"Thanks." Savannah said. "We are just going to be back up in case it gets too involved or there is a breakaway."

Young Allison checked her phone.

"You will have plenty of drone support too." Young Allison said.

Savannah looked at her phone.

"I can see that." Savannah said. "There is one drone for every Terminator."

Cammy tried to stay out of the conversation. She could see it caused a lot of tension between Savannah and Young Allison. It was the girls trying to watch out for the other one at a risk to their own safety.

Anna did not want to cause a problem. She checked her phone and saw that 'Coltan Overcast' and 'Cherry Bomb' were there too. They wanted to back up Savannah.

"We need to go." Cammy said.

Young Allison and Savannah looked at each other.

They hugged each other firmly. Savannah kissed Young Allison on the cheek.

Young Allison and Anna got out of the SUV and Savannah moved up to the front with Cammy. Savannah rolled down the window and Young Allison touched her arm.

Cammy slowly drove off. She could not help but notice the love the two girls displayed for each other. This was pure emotional love without any physical aspect. It was a love she would not be able to compete with. Young Allison may win on the emotional front but Cammy knew she would always be better in bed. She wondered if she'd better up her game and make sure Savannah always finished with a spectacular finish.

Brian and Randy pulled away from the curb and followed them.

Anna got in the back seat so Young Allison could sit in the front with Mel. Young Allison instead got in the back with Anna. Anna appreciated that.

Mel pulled away from the curb.

"Where are we going?" Mel asked.

Anna wondered why he asked that.

"We are going back to Palmdale." Anna said.

Mel did not say anything. He did not think so.

Anna looked at Young Allison. She was working frantically on her tablet. She hadn't seen that out earlier. It was clear Young Allison planned to act.

"Hardly." Young Allison said. "We are going to back up Savannah and Cammy."

Anna figured Savannah would think that.

"Savannah will know or at least suspect that." Anna said.

Young Allison told Anna and Mel the new plan. She asked CamNet to have a drone simulate their SUV with their phone and com tracking signals. It was to fly a route and maintain a speed that their SUV would take to get back to Palmdale. Everything in their SUV would go dark for now. They were invisible to any tracking other than CamNet.

Anna saw this as a deception that would not go over well when it was exposed. It surely would be at some point.

"I do not think this is a wise decision." Anna said.

Young Allison looked at her.

"Maybe not but you know I'm still going to do it anyway." Young Allison said.

"It may backfire on you. What weapons do we have?" Anna asked.

Young Allison moved to the back seat and looked in the back.

"We have an M82A1 and three M4 carbines with an M203 on each of them." Young Allison said.

Young Allison handed over an M4 for Anna and Mel and a vest for each of them as well. She put one on for herself. She carefully moved the M82A1 up to hand to Anna. It was heavy. She needed to use both hands and strain a little to move it.

"This is firepower that Brian and Randy could have used." Anna said as she took the M82A1 from her with one hand.

Mel knew it was covered.

"We brought three of them with us. There is one for both Brian and Randy." Mel said. "It was on our stock sheet of items to add to the normal weapons complement. We stocked up on everything at the hanger."

Anna looked at Young Allison.

"I see someone planned ahead and tried to cover all the bases." Anna said.

Young Allison smiled.

"It never hurts to be prepared." Young Allison said. "We don't know what will happen."

Anna looked over the seat but could not see what else was in the back of the SUV.

"What else is back there?" Anna asked.

Young Allison gave her a faint smile.

"Maybe a few other things we might need." Young Allison said.

Anna hoped they would not need any of them. She knew there were other ways to track them.

"Do we have drone support?" Anna asked. "That will leave a signature that John Henry can track"

Young Allison wanted to be off the grid.

"Only CamNet will know where we are and the drones on roving patrol will always be nearby but not over us." Young Allison said.

Anna expected Young Allison to pull something but not anything as elaborate as this.

"You are a sneaky one." Anna said. "When did you do all of this?"

Young Allison did most of it before they left to go to Van Nuys.

"I started on it before we left." Young Allison said. "I have made modifications as the evening progressed."

Anna was still very dissatisfied.

"You know this is wrong and you are skating on thin ice." Anna said.

Young Allison was not about to back down.

"This is all a precaution." Young Allison said. "I don't look forward to being shot at or even worse - hit. We have the time and the resources so we should maximize what we have. It is safer for everyone this way."

Anna did not see it as 'safer' for Young Allison. She was still worried about another portal.

"What if there is a portal?" Anna asked. "There could be more of those."

Young Allison would do what she did before.

"I will hit them hard this time if we find one." Young Allison said. "I don't believe there is but if we encounter one we are pulling everyone back immediately and I will deal with it personally."

Anna was pretty sure what that meant.

CamNet covered up what Young Allison did at the other location. Nobody knew how hard she was prepared to hit on that one. After what almost happened to Cammy and Savannah, Young Allison was going to send a message to whoever it was to stay out of the past. CamNet would back her play. CamNet had access to the world's arsenals. There could be hundreds of cruise missile that took off and disappeared into the night sky. They could all be sent into one of those portals to inflict massive damage.

Cammy drove towards the target location. Brian and Randy followed them.

Savannah looked over at Cammy. She wanted to point something out about Young Allison.

"You know they aren't going back." Savannah said.

Cammy did not know.

"They should." Cammy said. "We have this under control."

Savannah looked at her phone.

"I know her." Savannah said. "She is going to pull a 'fast one'. I could tell. I could feel it."

Cammy did not think there was much they could do about it. She felt Young Allison was ready now to take her place in the 'Natural Order'. She decided not to bring that up right now.

"If she does, she does." Cammy said. "She wants more field experience. There is no need to delay it any longer. "

Savannah did not think a combat situation was the way.

"Cameron will want to be with her when it is time." Savannah said.

Cammy knew Anna ran a copy of Cameron's program with the 'Neural Interface' from Savannah.

"In a way she is." Cammy said. "Anna is with her."

Savannah was aware that 'Cameron' in any form was likely to make questionable decision at times. She knew that applied to everyone.

She checked her phone and it looked like the tracking for Young Allison was headed back to Palmdale. It showed them eastbound on the 118 Freeway. They would either take the short cut up Balboa Avenue to pick up the 14 off of Foothill Boulevard or stay on the 118 to the 405 and take it north to the 5 and then to the 14.

Savannah knew that CamNet knew the truth. She did not want to put CamNet in a bind or conflict. If something seemed critical she would have to do that. It would depend on who gave an 'order' first to CamNet.

She contacted John Henry to coordinate with Steve and the three teams already there.

Derek was not thrilled to see that Savannah and Cammy were going to respond to the current target location.

"That is what I was afraid of." Derek said. "Savannah is headed right for the impending fight."

John Henry did not think Derek knew of all the action Savannah was in since John and Cameron left on the cruise.

"Savannah has seen a lot of action in the last few days." John Henry said.

Derek pictured himself 'living it up' on the ship while Savannah needed to get down and dirty. He simply didn't have a clue of what she'd been through.

"I bet." Derek said.

There was a lull in anything happening right now. Maybe he could get John Henry to show him some footage of those operations. He decided to ask him.

"Can I see some of the operations they conducted?" Derek asked.

John Henry did not see why not. He possessed all the raw data, drone footage, body cam footage and video files from Cam and Cammy. Some of Cammy's files were blocked. He was about ready to show Derek what happened from the time Cammy and Savannah left the ship. CamNet told him to stand down. He thought that was the end of that.

He saw Kyle exited his room.

"Kyle is out." John Henry said. "I think he is coming here."

That did not surprise Derek. They spoke earlier about doing some recon or surveillance work. He actually figured he would have seen him earlier.

Kyle arrived in a minute. They all exchanged greetings.

Before Kyle could ask if John Henry was able to get anything lined up for them a video file began to play on two monitors.

John Henry could see that CamNet compiled a condensed version of the events and showed them on two screens they were split so there was four versions of the same story happening as viewed from the various recording devices.

"What's this?" Kyle asked.

John Henry wanted to keep it simple. He could see that CamNet based it around Savannah and what she was involved in.

"CamNet is going to show a quick overview of the operations that happened over the last few days." John Henry said.

Kyle did not hear much about anything on the ship.

"I hope there was nothing major." Kyle said. "We didn't hear much on the ship.

John Henry thought it was pretty standard in comparison to when Cameron was involved. It was always major.

"It was a typical set of operations for those involved." John Henry said. "We ran into a few wrinkles and some new things."

Derek and Kyle watched as the edited events played out.

In just a minute Derek and Kyle were literally sitting on the edge of their seat as they watched the events unfold. There was a lot of major activity and Savannah was right in the middle of it.

John Henry viewed the events through his server while he concentrated on the current operation. He noticed the men traded places over the top of the one figure. That was the third one now to take that position. He really wondered what was happening in there. Maybe that was a captured female Terminator they were – using. That was a common procedure in the future. She may have been reprogrammed as a 'Metal Whore'. Since the one figure never seemed to change position it was unlikely they were reprogrammed. They could be incapacitated and the chip modified so they could not move. That way a captured Terminator would know what was happening but be unable to do anything to prevent it. It could be a human female or maybe even a human male. The future was very brutal.

John Henry's thoughts were interrupted.

Derek and Kyle looked at the four screens with astonishment.

"This all happened while we are on the ship?" Derek asked.

John Henry was aware it was.

"Yes." John Henry said. "The events depicted there are all the last three nights."

Derek and Kyle were ashen as they watched.

"This was major activity." Kyle said. "Savannah is right in the middle of everything."

John Henry did not see that as anything different from what normally happened.

"Savannah wanted to run point for Cameron while she was on her honeymoon." John Henry said. "Cammy and Cam are usually with her. You already know they are both modified versions of Cameron."

Derek and Kyle were angry and disgusted at everything they saw. Savannah had her neck out on the line at every turn. They already saw several occasions where she could have been killed or seriously hurt. Several times she needed to fight for her life.

They continued to watch in silence. They both knew someone this involved in operations soon ran out of luck. This would not end well for Savannah.

Young Allison watched the same drone footage that John Henry watched.

"I have a pretty good idea what is happening here." Young Allison said.

Anna watched it too.

"We can't know what is actually happening from the thermal and infrared scans of the buildings." Anna said.

Young Allison knew that could be true but it seemed pretty clear there was some type of sexual activity occurring.

"If that is a human female and she is a captive I want those three men captured." Young Allison said. "I want to know when Jesse has a break in her schedule."

Anna knew what was coming next. That was not going to happen.

"They will be terminated." Anna said. "There is no other option open to you. That is final."

Young Allison did not give up easily.

"We'll see." Young Allison said.

Young Allison did not want justice. She wanted vengeance. She planned to have Jesse instruct her on the best ways to make the punishment administered as painful as possible. People needed to 'pay' for their actions before their termination.