Chapter 1526
Taunts And Laughter
Summer suggested that Toto seek out the power source that Skynet currently used. It was there somewhere. There were some electrical lines that ran along the top of the passageway. They came from wherever the power source was.
John Henry would have Toto check every cavern and branch passageway that was there. Every locked door would be noted. They might need to send the team to check on those.
Cam received word as to what was planned. She determined that Level Five contained nothing of value to the team.
There was another tram being loaded. There was a lot of noise.
There were several wooden pallets by where she was at. There was also a dust covered tarp.
She used her body cam to look around and search the area one more time while she stayed hidden. It was clear around her.
Cam moved two pallets into the depression. She carefully moved the dust covered tarp over the top of them. The depression was covered. Unless someone stepped on the dust covered tarp, it was now concealed. The depression looked like the area around it. She left some space by where the barrels were arranged. She moved two inches of each of the bottom of the barrels over the lip of the depression and pulled the tarp up against them. That was where she would drain the liquid out from so no one would see it.
She took a quick look around again. The Terminator looked like he was headed in her direction. She drew her Taser and moved around the side of a barrel. Based on the amount of chemicals he used earlier. He shouldn't need to replenish them for a few more blasts. She would need to wait until he refilled the chemicals again before she punctured the drums. They would have one hour to clear the mine once she started the flow of chemicals. When the final chemical was mixed into the pool, there would be close to a hundred gallons of nitro. That should be enough to collapse Level Five. The question was, what else would it do to the rest of the mine?
Cam would have the last chemical with the least amount that was needed with the slowest flow. The nitro wouldn't be volatile in its most explosive form until the final chemical was added in the right proportion. There was a better than even chance that one of the explosions would set the nitro mix off early.
She told the team of her plan. They would have less than two hours from now to find what else they needed to find and get out. Everyone started an internal clock.
Cam waited in concealment to enact her plan.
Young Allison and Anna listened to the plan.
"That sounds pretty risky to me." Young Allison said. "They don't have an exit strategy."
Anna thought is sounded dangerous.
"We can always use the method that was used at the anti-Metal bunker complex." Anna said.
Young Allison knew there was a risk with that method too. The 'close one' Savannah and her experienced wasn't something she wanted repeated for anyone else.
"We will if everything else fails." Young Allison said. "I'm sure Summer has that covered. I would prefer we don't need to do that there."
Young Allison was afraid that Summer would be directly involved this time.
Anna knew that CamNet would pick up Young Allison's trepidation. What would be done with it was another matter.
"Let's see what happens." Anna said. "We can always prevent Cam from starting the nitro mix."
Young Allison wondered for how long. They could lose communications again before then.
"I want John Henry and CamNet to be sure of everyone's position so we know exactly where they're at inside that mine." Young Allison said. "If we do lose communications I want energy bubbles sent for extraction three minutes before the scheduled explosion."
Anna knew they would need to send them to places where the team might not be. They could bring back something else.
Gail, Bob and Jim discussed what needed to be done.
"I'm going to stay here for Cam." Gail said. "I'll deal with the Metal Bitch as well. I want to get Toto into the clean room and plugged in."
Bob and Jim knew they needed to find the power cells and get them rigged to blow up in less than two hours. The clock was running.
There were few workers in the section where they were at. Level Four contained the most caverns and many of them were connected from the backside to each other. Not all of them were connected though.
Bob and Jim set off through the back way. They monitored Toto, Gail's feed and Cam's feed.
Gail wanted Cam to come back up to Level Four. Cam said she wasn't ready yet to do that.
The Metal Bitch was by the finished clean room when Gail looked around the crate. She'd missed what she'd just done.
Toto stopped at several caverns that contained doors. There was a lot of dust on them. With the amount of dust that drifted around after a blast. That didn't mean much. They could have been opened yesterday or a month ago.
Summer spotted a group of cables when Toto passed by and then went back and looked in a narrow passageway.
John Henry directed Toto to follow those. There were more cables that branched off along the way. It looked like Toto was headed away from the power source.
"I think the power cells are closer to the clean rooms." Summer said.
John Henry made that determination as well.
Toto continued along and stopped at another door. More cables came out of the top of that door.
"Have Toto push on that door." Summer said.
John Henry directed Toto to do that. The door opened.
It was an electrical room. It was all modern equipment.
One large cable joined the others that Toto followed earlier.
"That's the electrical feed for the power cells." John Henry said. "That's what charged them or is charging them."
Bob and Jim moved along the back passageways. Several times they needed to wait for Grays to pass when they needed to enter the main passageway. They were covered with dust just like everything else was, it helped mask their appearance. They needed to leave the long guns with Gail to better blend in.
They found some explosives stored in wooden crates behind one of the locked doors. They thought that was unusual. They looked them over and determined that they were old explosives.
"These look unstable." Jim said.
Bob found a box of carefully packed blasting caps.
"Affirmative…." Bob said. "Let's rig all this stuff to explode."
Bob communicated with Cam and they established a detonation time for the time period Cam stipulated earlier. He placed a small plastic explosive charge and set the timer. It would go off in one hour and forty three minutes. They could also command detonate it earlier or cancel the detonation. That was as long as their com system stayed linked together. They'd placed two repeaters along the back passageways as they moved along.
They'd watched a loaded tram move along the main passageway and an empty one return back the other way. They seemed to be spaced at twenty minute intervals.
They were close enough to hear where the tram cars were being unloaded.
"That's our way out." Jim said.
Bob wasn't so sure.
"It may be one way out." Bob said.
It was part of the main shaft system. There was a hoist elevator that connected all the levels to the surface near the rock and dirt vertical conveyor belt.
The main shaft elevator arrived and the door was opened. A man in overalls got out and went to the conveyor belt. He watched the loading process for a few minutes.
Bob and Jim slipped into the elevator. Toto suddenly appeared and followed them in. They closed the door. They went up one level to Level Three. The elevator stopped. They looked out through the wire mesh. There was no one outside where they were at. They opened the door and went out into Level Three.
Toto went off ahead of them. They were by the living quarters now for some of the Grays.
They didn't know that Summer directed Toto to find the girl the Grays spoke of earlier.
Cam waited for two more blasts. There would be a loaded tram ready to go up in ten minutes. She punctured the bottoms of the various drums with the proper size hole to start the flow of the chemicals. She made the smallest hole in the barrel of acid. The other chemicals would be ready for the acid to make the lethal combination. It would be at its maximum strength in just over an hour. She placed a small plastic explosive charge under the tarp. It was set to go off at the same time as the one Bob and Jim planted. It could be command detonated or the timer could be stopped. The nitro would still be explosive on its own.
Cam went to leave. She moved over to where the tram would pass by. There was another empty tram on its way down. It pulled up and stopped. She moved along the side of the last two cars and waited at the rear end.
Gail watched the Metal Bitch stop and look around. She went back to the unfinished clean room and lifted a panel on the ground. She pulled up some wires and looked at them. She put the panel back and moved to the far wall of the cavern. She lifted another panel on the ground and checked the wires inside of it.
The Metal Bitch moved out of Gail's view behind the finished clean room.
Gail looked around and decided to move closer. She carried her Taser in one hand and her silenced M9 in the other hand. She went around the backside of the unfinished clean room and peeked around the corner. She spotted the Metal Bitch punch some numbers into a keypad and enter through a metal door. It was a door they couldn't see before from where they'd been concealed. There was a distinct electric hum when the door was opened.
"I think I found one of the big power cells." Gail said.
She quickly moved up to the finished clean room and opened the door so it wasn't closed tight.
"Send Toto back at once." Gail said. "I've opened the door for it."
Summer looked at John Henry when Gail asked to have Toto return.
She wondered if the girl they spoke of was her….
The mission came first.
She redirected Toto to run back down the sloped shaft and down to Level Four. It wouldn't take long.
Bob and Jim watched Toto run off at a very fast speed toward the sloped shaft at the far end of the passageway.
They'd heard Gail's request and understood where Toto went. They watched the images it transmitted along the way. There were three Grays in the passageway. One of them threw something at Toto but it dodged it and kept going.
The elevator behind them moved up towards the surface. They wouldn't be going back down in that for awhile. They decided to move through Level Three and follow Toto.
Cammy, Sheila and Leticia arrived at the location that Dan and Frank held the first gang punk they'd captured.
Leticia thought it was a little spooky entering the dark house. Sheila was right in front of her.
"He carried two knives and these items." Dan said.
Leticia turned to look who spoke. It was near total darkness.
"Who's that?" Leticia asked. "Can you see?"
"I see everything." Sheila said. "Those are our – associates."
Dan handed the items to Cammy.
Cammy looked at the two knives, spray can, credit cards, ring and the female underwear.
"There are two steps." Sheila said.
Leticia could barely make them out.
"Put these on." Sheila said.
Sheila place a pair of night vision goggles on Leticia.
Leticia saw the night light up.
"Wow!" Leticia said.
She felt a little dizzy for a few seconds.
"Your perspective will be a little off." Sheila said.
Cammy handed the items to Sheila.
She thanked Dan and Frank and told them to acquire the next target. They left.
Leticia didn't get a good look at them. She noticed she was the only one with the goggles on.
"Those guys were sure big." Leticia said. "How can any of you see?"
"We work at night a lot." Cammy said.
Leticia spotted the male on the ground. His pants were missing. He was tied and gagged with something.
"Is that the bad guy?" Leticia asked.
"Yes." Sheila said.
Cammy told her of the items that were found on him and explained the significance of the women's underwear. They were a 'trophy' of the assault on the two foreign female tourists yesterday.
Leticia looked down and saw Sheila bent over next to the man on the ground. Sheila slapped his face a few times and his eyes opened.
Sheila wanted the punk awake for his 'punishment'.
Cammy handed Sheila one of the punk's knives.
"What's she going to do?" Leticia asked.
"What she does best." Cammy said.
Leticia watched as Sheila started to taunt the punk and hit him. She made sure he saw that she held his knife. She could hear what sounded like bones break whenever Sheila hit him. He tried to scream but was gagged tight. She realized that Sheila was beating the punk to death. It was gruesome to watch but what unnerved her was the way Sheila would laugh when she broke something. It looked like this was going to take awhile. She remembered how quickly she'd seen Sheila kill before with the other men. This was different. This was personal.
She took a step back when she saw that both Cammy's eyes and Sheila's eyes now glowed red in the darkness. She was strangely turned on by everything she witnessed. The red eyes on the special girls only added to it.
Hanna and Ally knew what was happening in the house.
"Sheila and Cammy have one of the punks." Hanna said.
Mary and Laura looked at each other.
"Did they kill him?" Mary asked.
Ally listened to Sheila's com.
"They're doing that now." Ally said. "Leticia is with them."
Hanna filled them in on the details and what happened to the foreign female tourists and what they'd found.
"They would have done that to us." Mary said. "I'm so glad I was with Tony to be with a male again and wasn't taken by force by the gang."
Laura wondered how far they would go.
"What will they do with him?" Laura asked.
"Kill him." Ally said. "Do you want to watch?"
Mary and Laura looked at each other.
"Maybe when they have the leader and his slut we will." Mary said.
"I didn't like that Bitch either." Laura said.
"Don't worry." Ally said. "Sheila has something real special planned for her."
"Will it be like those other two females?" Mary asked.
"Worse." Ally said.
Mary watched what Sheila did to them.
"How can it be worse than that?" Mary asked.
Ally looked back at them.
"Sheila plans to leave her alive after she is done with her." Ally said.
Laura could picture that. It would be worse than death to have all of that done and live.
"That's sad." Laura said.
"Don't worry." Ally said. "She'll have a nice smile to cheer herself up with whenever she looks in the mirror."
Mary knew that would be a Glasgow Smile.
"I'd close my eyes." Mary said.
"She won't be able to." Ally said.
"Why not?" Laura asked.
Ally knew what Sheila did in past instances.
"She won't have eyelids any more." Ally said. "She will be forced to see herself. That's until she blinds herself or kills herself."
Mary could imagine how horrific that would be.
"Have you seen Sheila do that before?" Mary asked.
Hanna was a little uneasy at the way things were done. A termination would be more efficient.
"We all have." Hanna said. "You get acclimated to the violence and brutality but not the taunts and laughter."
Mary and Laura both swallowed hard.
They both wondered if a 'robot' could be sadistic and enjoy violence.
Steve and Tom drove through San Francisco to give Camille a city tour. They hit all the high points on the tourist guide. John told Camille the things he remembered and Steve or Tom mentioned other points of interest. They actually drove past where Sheila's team was at and through Golden Gate Park. CamNet advised them to get that part of the city taken care of now. It was sure to be a killing zone later on.
They drove through the Presidio and the Golden Gate Bridge loomed in front of them.
"Did you want to go over the Golden Gate Bridge?" John asked.
Camille overflew it in the jet with Young Jesse.
"We can do that." Camille said.
Steve took the turnoff and they crossed the bridge. They stopped at the lookout across from the city on the other side and took in the view. John and Camille got out to take in the night air and ocean scents.
"That's a really big sign." Camille said as they looked across the bay.
"That's Ghirardelli's." John said. "They made chocolate there."
There was a patch of fog that blew in under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Camille looked just like Cameron to John. The mood was very romantic.
John reached down and took Camille's hand.
Camille took his in return. She looked at him and smiled.
Their heads moved closer and their faces grew nearer. Their lips touched. They shared a slow soft kiss. They were both drawn to each other by the setting but were both a little hesitant.
They took a step back and looked at each other.
It reminded John of when he'd first kissed Cameron. It was very much the same. Then again she was 'Cameron' on their first kiss.
Camille looked very shy right now.
"I've never done that before." Camille said. "I mean with a male."
John felt really guilty now for stripping away her virginity with Cameron in control of Camille's chassis.
Camille still held John's hand. She deduced what he'd just thought by his physical response. She moved her mouth close to his ear.
"It will still be my first time…." Camille whispered. "I want it too. I want it to be you."
John swallowed hard. That wasn't the only thing hard right now either.
Camille kissed him again and it was a slow deep loving kiss. It was very much like Jesse's and Young Jesse's kiss of love.
He was at maximum blood engorgement right now.
John felt Camille touch him.
"Oh my, that's a big one. I can feel that 'Little Willie' wants me." Camille whispered. "I want him too."
John looked around and saw that the SUV was now backed into a spot that faced the city across the bay.
Camille led him back to the SUV. Steve and Tom were gone. The rear seats were folded down. There was a clean blanket laid down over the flat surface. John understood now what Tom picked up from a drug store chain when he ran in and back out in a two minute time span. The back of the SUV was a 'bed' for all practical purposes.
John scoped Camille up in his arms.
"I'm heavier than I look." Camille whispered.
"I don't have far to go." John said.
It was only three steps.
John set her down and they entered the back of the SUV. Camille looked around once and closed the door.
They were side by side in a prone position and faced each other.
"All my programming is off, John." Camille said. "This is just you and me now."
John couldn't believe it. It was the same thing Cameron said.
"Cam - ille, I have waited so long for this moment." John said.
The look of love flooded Camille's eyes.
"As have I, John." Camille said. "I love you, John, and you love me."
John couldn't help himself. He was lost in the moment.
"I love you, Cam - ille, and you love me." John said.
They kissed. It was very soft, slow and deep. It was a beautiful kiss.
Camille removed his shirt and pants.
John slipped Camille out of her shirt and pants.
Each removed the other's underwear.
"I'm ready, John, make me a woman." Camille whispered.
John realized he was as excited as he was the first time with Cameron. This was the same thing all over again!
They embraced and touched each other.
Camille moved her lips to John's ear as he was about to make his move.
"Go slow; I've never done this before." Camille whispered.
That statement always excited John greatly.
Camille squirmed a little as he made contact. Things smoothed out in the first few thrusts. He started out slow.
They gently made love to each other.
The fog cleared behind them. They were both able to take in the view of the city across the bay as they changed positions several times.
A shooting start streaked across the night sky as they both finished at the same time.