Chapter 1403
Fog Of Plainness
Cammy and Savannah headed to where Steve and Tom were at. They went to back them up. They'd gone to run down a lead that was turned up on one of the captured phones.
Savannah wanted to know what kind of operating conditions they would find where they were going. It was an industrial complex.
"We've been to a lot of industrial areas in the last few months." Savannah said.
Cammy thought that was better than being in tunnels and mines. She would rather keep Savannah above ground. She'd experienced a few close ones in all of those locations.
"It's because the industrial zones are all wired for heavy electrical use." Cammy said. "Many of them have tools for doing machining in them already. It is often left over from the previous occupant."
Savannah could think of a few other reasons.
"Not to mention they are often isolated and no one thinks twice about the traffic that comes and goes. Big trucks are in and out of there at all times. Some have railroad sidings." Savannah said. "I can't say they are easier to take down but it does seem less risky to us."
Cammy did not like that giant bruise that Savannah ended up with. She felt that was her fault for dumping the liquid soap on the ground to slow up an HK Track.
"Did CamNet say anything about the new damage to your body?" Cammy asked.
Savannah wondered when this was going to come out. It was sooner than she'd expected. It would also confirm that Savannah was naked in front of CamNet.
'Yes." Savannah said. "She saw everything."
Cammy frowned.
"Did she blame me?" Cammy asked.
This was not something that Savannah wanted Cammy to worry about. It was little things like these that Metal 'fixated' on at times. It seemed to cause them a lot of grief.
"No." Savannah said. "She received the complete report and was able to view our body cam footage. It was all part of the battle."
Savannah could see Cammy was still upset about it.
"Look, a few bruises aren't a big deal." Savannah said. "They will heal. Neither of us was hit with minigun fire. We were not run over by either one of those HK Tracks. You were not crushed against the wall. It was a successful mission. Leave it at that."
Cammy was worried that the continued abuse was going to eventually damage Vanna's baby that Savannah carried for her.
"You shouldn't be in combat until Vanna's baby is born." Cammy said.
This was not a conversation Savannah wanted to have. They'd discussed it before.
"I know my limitations." Savannah said.
Cammy didn't think so.
"Does a bullet from a Gray or HK Track know your limitations?" Cammy asked.
That one was hard to argue for Savannah. Recently she'd been shot in the back. The 'chicken plate' in her body armor prevented any major damage to her. Another round slammed into her night vision goggles and ripped them off of her face. There was also a ricochet that hit her leg. There was the thick Thermite smoke that she needed to breathe and the 'gas attack' in the one building with Derek and Kyle. There was also the emergency temporal transfer that was used to pull them away from the vortex of that 'portal thing', whatever that was.
"I manage." Savannah said.
Cammy was in a love relationship with Savannah. That was why Cameron cloned herself and created her for. She was also Savannah's protector and Guardian.
"Cameron may be eternal and invincible." Cammy said. "You are not."
That reminder gave Savannah something to think about. She would always step up to protect Young Allison as well as any other Resistance member, human or Metal. They were in a war. It may be a 'silent' war most of the time but it was a war nonetheless.
Sheila wanted to give Young Jesse a head start on getting ready for 'formal night'. She'd rushed through the tour of the ship. She wanted to get Young Jesse dressed before Cameron was done using Camille's chassis.
She was actually surprised that Young Jesse did not try any of the food they passed. She could tell Young Jesse wanted to try a few things but she didn't.
They passed through the buffet without stopping. They approached the rear elevators. The doors opened.
"We can take the stairs." Young Jesse said.
Sheila followed her down.
"Do you know how to get back to the suite?" Sheila asked.
Young Jesse smiled. She gave Sheila a detailed description of how to get back to the Honeymoon Suite as well as escape routes on each floor they'd visited and ways off of the ship. Most were unconventional.
That was a lot more than Sheila expected. She was very pleased.
"That's impressive." Sheila said. "Camille has trained you well."
Young Jesse frowned.
"That is all we ever do." Young Jesse said. "We don't see any combat 'down under'."
Sheila did not want her to be in a hurry to get into combat.
"You should be thankful." Sheila said. "It can get real messy at times."
Sheila was often drenched in blood after dealing with sex traffickers. Some things really bled when the were detached from a body. She enjoyed her 'work' so she really couldn't complain.
Young Jesse and Camille went over every report on every operation in detail.
"What about Savannah?" Young Jesse asked. "She is in the thick of it all the time. She should be here on the ship with us. She's not. She's probably in combat right now or about to be. How do you think that makes me feel? I love her, Sheila. I hardly ever get to see her even."
There was not much Sheila could say about that. Those decisions were not made by her.
"Savannah chooses to operate at Cameron's side." Sheila said.
Young Jesse could see more in that statement than the others evidently.
"Then why isn't she here?" Young Jesse asked. "Cameron is here. Savannah should be too."
"Savannah has chosen to take Cameron's place in operations. Young Allison has taken John's place in command and control." Sheila said.
Young Jesse stopped and looked at Sheila.
"Even Young Allison was in the thick of it." Young Jesse said. "I doubt the extent of that operation made it here. I went over the entire report. Derek, Kyle and Sarah were all involved too."
They continued on their way.
Sheila knew that was bad news. The human Resistance troops were there because so much Metal was tied up with this cruise. They'd even run an off the ship 'excursion' to back up Cammy and Savannah. Maybe she should have stayed there. Maybe they all should have stayed behind but Cameron.
"We all do what we can when we can." Sheila said.
Young Jesse did not feel she contributed enough.
"Some of us want to do more." Young Jesse said.
Sheila was sure Jesse would go on any operation herself that Young Jesse went on. That was why Young Jesse was in a hurry to make sure she couldn't. Jesse would have a higher priority to tend to, a newborn infant.
"I can see you're working to control some of the people's involvement." Sheila said.
Young Jesse didn't see a thing wrong with that. It was a just cause.
"That may be so." Young Jesse said. "Jesse, Vanna and Allison have already done their share. It is time for them to have what Skynet took from them. That is our function to make up for that."
They passed by the first suite where Mary and Laura were and then by Leticia's suite. It sounded like they were all still at it.
Jim opened the door to the private area.
"Thanks, Jim." Young Jesse said.
Jim opened the door to the Honeymoon Suite.
Sheila went to turn in but Young Jesse headed for the Control Center.
"You don't need to go there." Sheila said.
Young Jesse wanted to find out what was happening with Savannah.
"I just want a quick update." Young Jesse said.
The door of the Control Center opened. Cam-Gail walked out.
"I can fill you in." Cam-Gail said.
"Is that you Cam?" Young Jesse asked.
"I'm Gail currently." Cam-Gail said. "We did a chip swap."
Young Jesse would have been happy with Camille swapping chips with Gail if she hadn't already done that with Cam. Those knockers her chassis sported were impressive to everyone.
"You look like Cameron and Camille right now." Young Jesse said.
Cam-Gail fixed herself up in anticipation of seeing Young Jesse. She would have preferred her own chassis because she knew Young Jesse liked it. Young Jesse spent a lot of time on her breasts and secret spot when they were together before. She was the 'biggest' and the 'smallest'. It seemed to intrigue everyone.
Sheila did not want to lose control of the situation. She could hear what was occurring in the Owner's Suite. Camille was still tied up by Cameron and John.
"Maybe Cam-Gail can fill us in while you start to get ready for tonight." Sheila said.
Sheila led the trio into the Honeymoon Suite.
Cam-Gail went over everything that was pending. It wasn't much. There was no combat imminent.
Sheila showed her the selection of dresses.
Young Jesse took a few out and looked at them.
"These are beautiful." Young Jesse said. "I seldom wear a dress but I know a pretty dress when I see one."
Cam-Gail wanted to help her get dressed.
"You can try a few on and see how you like them." Cam-Gail said. "There is an assortment of jewelry to go with them too. We will help you."
Young Jesse could not decide right now.
"I need to get cleaned up first." Young Jesse said "It was a long flight. It was almost seventeen hours long."
"Did you sleep any?" Sheila asked.
Sheila started to scan Young Jesse. She wanted to make sure she wasn't depleted.
Young Jesse looked at her but did not stop her. She knew it caused Metal distress if they wanted to scan someone and couldn't.
"I think maybe for an hour or two." Young Jesse said. "I flew most of the way over. It was actually on auto pilot most of the time."
Young Jesse started to remove her clothing.
Sheila and Cam-Gail watched intently. They took in every curve on her body and visually scanned every square inch.
Young Jesse noticed.
"How long will it be until Camille is finished?" Young Jesse asked.
"I think fifteen more minutes and then she needs to do the chip swap." Sheila said. "It won't take her long to get ready. Holly may be dressed already for her."
Young Jesse knew that Allison and Holly left to knock off a quickie before the chip and chassis swap.
"I don't think we have time to knock off a quickie here but you can both shower with me. It's a gigantic shower." Young Jesse said. "I don't want to be pinched for time. I don't do 'late'."
Young Jesse barely finished her sentence before Cam-Gail and Sheila rapidly removed their clothes. They must have already started or something.
"Wow!" Young Jesse said. "That was fast."
Young Jesse looked at Sheila in detail. She liked the rings.
"May I?" Young Jesse asked.
She looked at both of Sheila's nipple rings.
"I plan to do that after I have Jesse's baby." Young Jesse said. "It's something I really want to do."
She'd wanted to do that the second she saw Jesse in the hot tub when her top 'accidentally' fell off. If Savannah and her had not impregnated each other, it would have happened. She became aware of her 'function' for Jesse and the Duplicate versions of Jesse. They were really Duplicate versions of her. She understood what Skynet 'took' from them.
"Did you notice her second set?" Cam-Gail asked.
Young Jesse looked down. She did now! She wanted more. She'd need to settle for just a look right now.
"That's Hot. Get on the bed if you don't mind. I need to see those better." Young Jesse said.
Sheila climbed up on the bed and made everything available.
Young Jesse started to reach for a ring but stopped. She didn't want to be too forward.
"Go ahead." Sheila said. "Take one."
Young Jesse did.
Sheila took the other one and stretched things out, way out.
Now Young Jesse wondered if she could stretch that far. She was worried Sheila would damage herself.
"Stop before you tear something." Young Jesse said.
Young Jesse was aware that she was on a timetable. She wanted to 'dive' right in on Sheila. She knew that was how she could look. That made her want to 'get started' even more.
"I may do that too." Young Jesse said. "That is going to need a closer look on my part. I want to make sure."
Sheila smiled.
"What's mine is yours." Sheila said.
Cam-Gail really wished she was in her own chassis.
"Mine is too." Cam-Gail said.
Young Jesse could see both of the Metal girls wanted a little more. She did too. The selection was limited down under. It was only Camille and her almost all of the time. Visitors from the States were very limited. When Jesse came to see their parents and sister they always shared several times a day. Gail was with her and they shared too. They would usually finish it off with a 'four way'.
"I'll remember that." Young Jesse said. "I need to get cleaned up and get ready. I don't often fix myself up in any way."
Sheila and Cam-Gail knew that was at Jesse's urging. Jesse told Young Jesse to look as 'plain and unattractive' as possible, especially after J-Day. Her natural beauty still shined through the fog of plainness.
The three girls headed for the large shower.
Young Allison and Anna focused on where Savannah and Cammy were headed.
"I want some other teams on standby if a situation starts to develop." Young Allison said.
Anna looked into it.
"CamNet has alerted all other teams in the area to be ready to pull out from whatever they are doing." Anna said.
Young Allison checked the drone status.
"It looks like there are four drones available to assist them." Young Allison said.
Anna received some more good news.
There are two more drones as well. 'Coltan Overcast' and 'Cherry Bomb' have been with Cammy and Savannah since they left Cameron's base." Anna said. "I just received that update.
Young Allison looked at the security Cameron and nodded. She was aware that CamNet watched over Savannah when it was possible.
"This is a recon so the other teams can continue to do what they were assigned." Young Allison said.
She did not want to 'hog' the resources. There were other things that needed to be done as well. There would be times in the future where not so many resources would be available. That was something else she needed to keep in mind.
Holly was in a hurry to finish and get dressed up for formal night. She wanted to do the chassis swap as soon as possible. She wanted to look like Allison and Cameron. She didn't care that Cameron was in the process of 'using' Camille's chassis right now.
First she needed to get Allison ready. That always took a lot of time. She was not sure why because Young Allison could get herself ready very rapidly on her own. That may have been because Cameron taught her to do that at a very early age. She seldom dressed up but she could do it perfectly very quickly. Cameron always stressed to her that her appearance was important to John. That also stressed that John and Cameron's relationship was more physical than emotional.
It seemed that Allison was always reluctant to fix herself up. Her natural beauty radiated off of her. Even in the fog of plainness she was beautiful. Her face was always captivating, especially when there was a smile on it. Then again that seemed to apply to all the girls, Metal or human. A smile went a long way. Holly always made sure she smiled. It came 'natural' to her now. She liked to please Allison.
Allison looked in the mirror.
"I think I'm too fat." Allison said.
It always upset Holly when Allison said that.
"You need to put weight on, not lose it." Holly said. "You're pregnant."
Allison wondered if she even still was. It was probably already terminated again and no one was going to tell her. It happened a lot like that. None of them ever seemed to 'stick'. It made her feel like a 'serial killer' or a 'mass murderer' sometimes. She did not know her mother currently carried her child for her.
"What about Vanna?" Allison asked. "How's she doing?"
"Gail-Cam is helping her." Holly said.
Allison pictured Vanna touching Gail-Cam nonstop.
"Vanna is probably fondling Gail-Cam's knockers." Allison said.
"Is that what you'd do?" Holly asked.
Allison knew she would. She decided to downplay it.
"I probably would." Allison said.
Holly knew she was about to drop a few breast sizes when she switched to Camille's chassis. She might as well give Allison a 'going away' present right now.
"Here, fondle these." Holly said. "You won't see them for a few days."
Allison started to fondle them and then stopped.
"I need to get ready and you need to switch chips." Allison said.
"We'll make it." Holly said.
Allison started again. A little longer couldn't hurt anything.
Life was good in Paradise.
Savannah and Cammy arrived near the location where Steve and Tom were. They filled them in on what was happening around them. It wasn't much.
"What is it we are looking for exactly?" Savannah asked. "I still don't understand what the specific lead was."
Cammy knew it wasn't specific. That's what she tried to tell Savannah.
"There is a general location where a phone pinged several times. It was on several of the phones." Cammy said.
Savannah knew that did not help much.
"So what are we looking for?" Savannah asked.
"We think there is an HK Track or HK drone around here." Cammy said. "There should have been one more piece of HK equipment from those two boxcars. There was no HK Tread so that means they should have been able to fit one more HK Track or HK drone in the shipment."
"If one of those is around here, it must be guarding something." Savannah said. "I wonder what?"
"That's what we hope to find out." Cammy said. "There is a good chance there is nothing here and everything is long gone."
Savannah didn't like HK equipment being out there. They needed to track it down. She worried that there would probably be another assembly line set up somewhere again. They hoped to find it before it was able to operate at capacity. They still had not been able to find where Skynet was getting Coltan from. Cameron and CamNet controlled every known source in this timeline.
"'Coltan Overcast' and 'Cherry Bomb' are here with us." Savannah said. "I'm sure they have been ordered to stay with us. The other drones can start doing a wider scan or run a grid pattern to look for anything. I know we are still a couple of hours before we have useful darkness. We will need to wait for that to do low altitude building scans."
"I'm not really sure what we can do here until then." Cammy said. "Maybe we can get you some dinner."
Savannah didn't want to be a bother.
"I'm fine." Savannah said.
Cammy doubted it.
Vanna and Gail-Cam left Mary and Laura to get situated in their new suite.
Mary and Laura were thrilled by the selection of dresses that were left for them in the suite. They found everything kind of hard to believe. They both felt like Cinderella with all the things that happened.
Laura wanted to verify the 'dress code' that 'Ann' gave her.
"So we are just supposed to wear the dress and no underwear?" Laura asked.
"Ann said it was optional but none of them were going to wear any." Mary said.
"I don't mind not having panty lines." Laura said.
"Let's get cleaned up and get ready for dinner." Mary said. "Ann said someone will be by to pick us up."
"I hope it's Stephany and Sue." Laura said. "It's clear that Stephany is 'top choice'."
"I don't think Leticia is going to get a crack at Tony now that Stephany is on board. You could tell by his face he wants her bad." Mary said.
"I think we all do." Laura said. "After being with Sue, how could you not want the younger version of her too? How old did they say she was again?"
Hanna and Ally left Leticia to get ready for dinner. She was thrilled at the selection of dresses that were in her closet.
"When is someone going to come for these girls?" Hanna asked.
"I don't like having to dance around them." Ally said. "We should just come clean and make up a better story."
Hanna already pictured how that sounded.
"You could always start out with you're a very scary robot from the future." Hanna said. "I'm sure when you get to the part that there are like fifteen different individuals that look like you it won't be a problem."
Ally frowned. Some things were best left unsaid.
"I get it." Ally said. "They are going to sit in the front row for the 'British Invasion' after dinner."
Hanna knew they could watch the performance from seclusion.
"That leaves the private box area available to us." Hanna said.
Ally liked that idea.
"If we're there, I plan to look at your private box." Ally said.
Hanna reminded her that's what they'd been doing.
"Isn't that what you just experienced for the last few hours?" Hanna asked.
Ally liked the reminder.
"I guess it has been." Ally said. "That was Leticia's and yours."
Hanna liked what she saw on Leticia.
"That thing is sweet on Leticia." Hanna said.
Ally felt a little jealous.
"Is it better than mine?" Ally asked.
Hanna did not want any hard feelings.
"I'd have to say only when it is in front of my face." Hanna said.
Ally laughed.
"That was quite a bit." Ally said. "For both of us I might add. I like it too but there is nothing quite like a 'pink butterfly'."
Hanna smiled. She always thought the same thing when she was with Vanna or Savannah.
It was time to move on.
"Let's go see Jim and make sure everything is on track." Hanna said. "Holly is going to have to sit this one out once she is in Camille's chassis."
They entered the private area and went to the Control Center.
Camille-Cameron was on top of John right now. She wanted to have a good finish for Camille when she sent her the file. She was almost there and worked it real hard to get it done.
Once she made it she leaned forward and kissed John. She rolled off to his side.
"That was intense." John managed to say.
"I think 'Little Willie's' circular friends are going to start getting larger to keep up with their extended production." Cameron said.
John was not sure if that was a good or a bad thing. He was happy with everything the way it was.
"I'm headed for home. I'm going back to my chassis." Cameron said.
John looked for the clock to see how much time they had to get ready. It looked like it was down to forty five minutes.
He was about to get up when both Cameron and Camille moved on both sides of him.
Cameron unplugged and got up right away off of the bed.
Camille lay there and looked over at John. The look of love was in her eyes. She was about to say something to John.
"Thank you, Camille." Cameron said.
Camille looked away from John to Cameron.
"No. I want to thank you, Cameron." Camille said as she turned back towards John. "I want to thank John too. I thank both of you for sharing your love with me."
Cameron started to walk away.
"Let me go check on Holly. You two can get cleaned up." Cameron said.
Camille still lay next to John. She looked into his eyes.
"That was so loving and beautiful." Camille said. "I'm glad you were my first, even if Cameron was the one who actually did it for me."
John always felt a little embarrassed. He'd just taken something from her that could only happen once.
"It was real special for me too." John said.
Camille reached over and touched his cheek.
"I still want my 'one time' alone with you." Camille said.
John knew that was up to Cameron.
"I'm sure you and Cameron will work that out." John said.
Camille rose up over him and kissed his cheek. She was sure Young Jesse would be in for a pleasant time.
"I want Young Jesse to have what Cameron and you just did with my chassis. I want it the same way for her." Camille said.
John smiled.
"I thought of her like you asked me to do." John said. "That's what I'll do with her if that is what she wants. I won't make her do anything she doesn't want to do and I will stop or do something different at any time. What she wants will be respected."
Camille started to get up. She stopped and bent down and gave John another kiss on his cheek.
"You're a real gentleman, John." Camille said. "I hope it can be as beautiful for her as it was for me, Cameron I mean. It just seems like it was me. I only got the file. She got the real thing."
John led Camille to the shower.
Everything about her looked exactly like Cameron to him. He wondered if he could get 'Little Willie' up for a quickie. It didn't look like it.
Cameron hurried to the Control Center. She checked in with Jim to see if everyone was getting ready.
"Let me see the camera's in every room." Cameron said.
Jim was a little embarrassed.
"They're for security purposes." Jim said.
Cameron looked at him and smiled.
"Of course, safety is our number once concern." Cameron said. "I would like to review all of them at some point to see if I can make any recommendations. no one can ever be too safe."
Jim smiled back at Cameron. It was clear she wanted to see how everyone else 'interacted' with each other. They were quite exciting to review.
Cameron quickly checked on everyone. They were all getting ready. It was John and her that were running behind. She just needed to finish that one last time and it delayed them a little.
Holly entered the Control Center from the Master Suite's spare room's pass door.
"I'm ready for the exchange." Holly said.
Cameron took in Holly's beauty.
"You look gorgeous." Cameron said. "I may borrow your chassis myself once Camille is done with it."
Holly was a little worried. She knew how to play the game too.
"As soon as I have my 'one time' with John you can borrow it." Holly said. "We can do the full chip swap then."
The pass door from the Honeymoon Suite opened and Camille entered wearing a bathrobe.
"Wow!" Camille said. "Holly looks super Hot and Tight."
There were two chairs set up. Holly and Camille both sat down
"I will do this very carefully." Cameron said.
Jim handed Cameron a scalpel.
Camille was in for a 'quick change' in more way than one.
