Chapter 1524
Evening Drive
Young Allison took the last sip of her malt. It made a sucking sound as it ran dry.
Anna looked over at her.
"I'm sorry." Young Allison said.
Anna didn't think it was a big deal.
"Just don't forget to brush your teeth later on." Anna said. "Proper dental hygiene is very important."
Young Allison set her empty malt cup down. She sat up in her chair as Cam headed down the sloped shaft to the next level concealed on the electric tram.
"I bet we're going to lose contact with her." Young Allison said.
Sure enough they did a short time later.
"John Henry has sent Toto to follow her." Anna said.
Young Allison thought about that.
She knew there was a female Terminator across from the rest of the team by one of the clean rooms.
"Toto needs to use caution and hold once it's in place at the top of the shaft." Young Allison said. "If it goes down it won't be able to act as a repeater for Cam's equipment."
Anna sent a message to John Henry.
Cam was crouched down on the drawbar between the last two mine cars on the tram. It was on its way down to Level Five. The length of the descent was much deeper than the other levels were. She peeked around the side of the car to see where they were going. She could hear heavy machinery working ahead of her. It looked like this was much more extensive than they'd originally thought. The tram began to slow. The drawbars were fixed so there was almost no play or slack between the cars. They could only move side to side to make turns. That was a good thing based on where she was at.
There was another big explosive blast. This one was very loud. She was very near where it happened. There was a dust cloud. The tram slowed almost to a crawl. She took the opportunity to get out from between the last two cars and move in back of the last one. She was on foot now. She crouched down and followed the tram.
Cam spotted several barrels up ahead on her right side. As they got closer she could see there were a lot of barrels there. They were all the chemicals needed to mix the nitro.
The dust cloud started to dissipate. She made her move as the tram started to move again. She went behind the barrels. They would give her some cover. She knew if she was discovered she would need to fight her way out.
There was one other ominous consideration. There would be at least one Terminator down there that would be the one that mixed and handled the nitro. That was her biggest threat.
The tram pulled away and almost immediately another loaded one passed it on the left side and started back up. She was tempted to get on it and ride it back up to Level Four. She wanted to look around some more first where she was at.
She checked her com and it was silent. She set her last repeater out at the bottom of the sloped shaft. There was still nothing. Someone would need to set one up at the top of the shaft. This looked like it was going to be a challenging recon going forward. She drew her silenced M9. The chances were good that when she fired it that it may or may not alert the Terminator that was down there. She holstered it and would rely on her hands to do the killing if necessary. She was a Terminator after all.
Seconds ago:
Gail kept her eye on the female Terminator. She watched as the 'Metal Bitch' went inside the finished clean room.
Jim looked at his phone.
"I just lost Cam's body cam." Jim said.
Bob calculated the speed of the empty tram and the sound it made as it descended.
"The next level is much deeper." Bob said.
Gail took out a repeater.
"I need to get this over to the top of the sloped shaft to reestablish a link." Gail said.
Just then the female Terminator exited the finished clean room. She paused and looked around. The team was out of sight at this point.
Gail looked with one eye around the side of a crate and watched the female Terminator enter the second clean room. Two Grays exited out of it as she entered. They'd evidently placed the crate they'd removed from Level Three inside of that clean room. They went off in the direction the tram full of rock went earlier.
Gail wanted to reestablish a communication link with Cam.
"I'm going to place a repeater now." Gail said.
It seemed unsafe to move right now to Jim and Bob.
"Maybe we should wait a few minutes to see what happens." Bob said.
Gail paused. She still wanted to place the repeater. She didn't want to remain out of contact with Cam.
They could hear a metallic clicking sound.
"Here comes Toto." Gail said.
John Henry redirected Toto to head back to where the team was at.
"I've lost all communication with Cam." John Henry said.
Summer thought Toto could reestablish it.
"Just get Toto to the sloped shaft and see what happens." Summer said. "Cam's com and body cam should be picked up by the repeater that she placed on Toto earlier."
John Henry guided Toto in that direction when there was another blast. He was glad to see that Toto wasn't knocked over again.
Toto moved to the sloped shaft and paused. The link was reestablished.
Cam was about to move when she picked up com traffic again. It was the team deciding what they should do about her.
"I'm good." Cam said.
She quickly filled them in on what she was able to observe where she was at. She still hadn't identified the Terminator yet. She hoped that he didn't suddenly appear behind her. She kept a watchful eye around her and her Taser ready.
Gail, Bob and Jim were relieved to hear from Cam again. Toto was able to reestablish the link with the repeater that Cam placed at the bottom of the shaft.
"I need to place a repeater myself." Gail said. "Toto can't just stand there for a long time."
Bob knew that was correct. There was a risk involved.
"Go ahead." Bob said. "If the female Terminator comes out and heads in your direction we will draw her attention."
Jim drew his silenced M9.
"I'll shoot her once." Jim said. "I'll move off so she can see me and I'll move past Bob. She should follow me past Bob and he can 'zap' her."
Bob checked his Taser and pulse shocker.
"Affirmative." Bob said.
Gail moved out as Toto moved off.
They received some additional instructions from John Henry.
Summer heard what the plan was.
"Try to use Toto to distract the female Terminator first before the team needs to engage her." Summer said. "Cam needs to be back up to their level before it turns into a firefight."
John Henry thought that sounded better than engaging the Terminator directly as Jim and Bob planned. There was a risk she would raise an alarm first.
"I'll do that." John Henry said.
Summer wanted a better plan.
"This is what I want you to try…." Summer said.
John Henry liked the plan and advised Jim and Bob what he would do.
Gail watched Toto move away from the sloped shaft as she approached. She made her way over to it quickly. There wasn't much cover. She could hear a heavy electric whine. She quickly set the repeater and spotted a tram on its way back up. The sloped shaft was quite long and went very deep. This new part of the mine angled off from where the rest of the mine was at. There was nothing but solid rock over the top of it to the surface. It was in a bunker buster proof location.
There was the sound of two men talking. She didn't see them earlier and still didn't. She moved behind a pile of rocks, other debris and trash.
The men were very near now. She could hear what they said. It displeased her greatly.
"I can't believe Johnson did that chick after she kicked." The first man said. "We don't need to do that anymore. Gomez is going to get another one tomorrow."
"She was still warm. It's almost the same. I've needed to do that a few times when someone got carried away before. Some guys like to be a 'double veteran'." The second man said. "She wasn't moving much anymore anyway. She probably would've grown up to be a slut or a whore anyway."
Both men laughed.
"We just gave her a little head start." The first man said. "The best part was it didn't cost us anything."
Both men laughed louder.
Gail touched her silenced M9. She wanted to kill them. It sounded like one of the men killed the girl or she terminated from the abusive treatment.
The whine of the tram grew louder and louder as it worked up the steep grade. She lost the voices. She still never saw them.
The tram was slow as it emerged onto Level Four. It either carried a heavy load or it needed to be recharged. She thought it would be more efficient if they used a power cell from a Terminator in it.
She headed back to where she'd left Bob and Jim.
Cam was able to retain good communication after Gail placed the repeater.
She made sure her body cam was unobstructed. She wanted to keep verbal communication to a minimum as she looked around. She needed to find out where the Terminator was it. She took stock of the chemicals in the barrels.
There was a large depression in the rock near where they were. It gave her an idea to leave a parting gift behind when she left.
There was a lot of noise as the tram was loaded by some type of electric scoop.
She needed to find the large power cells that must be down there.
The question was, where?
Dan and Frank would act as the advanced scouts for Sheila's group. They'd previously stalked the parks and the streets at night when they were in San Francisco to provide extra muscle for the group when they went off of the ship on their tour. They knew their way around the city. San Francisco was a very compact location.
CamNet provided them with advanced targeting information and where to find the group they sought. They headed directly in that direction.
Cammy, Ally and Leticia were with Sheila. They were about to search out the gang that they ran afoul of a few days ago when they visited San Francisco overnight on the cruise ship.
Leticia sat next to Sheila in the front seat.
"So tell me again what's going to happen." Leticia said.
Sheila smiled.
"We're going to hunt down that street gang that accosted you in the park and threatened you with repeated assaults." Sheila said. "I'm going to kill each one of them, one at a time, since they've reentered my park. They were warned to stay out of my park. It will be violent and bloody. Is that something you can deal with?"
Leticia saw the violence that Sheila unleashed on the two females where they'd been taken captive for a short time. It was gruesome and horrific. They were still alive before Sheila allowed them the burn to death.
"Are you going to do to the female what you did to the other two females?" Leticia asked.
Sheila tilted her head slightly.
"Yes." Sheila said.
Leticia didn't like how threatened she'd felt by the gang.
"That will be my tenth pearl then." Leticia said. "Good."
Sheila smiled.
"I'm up for that." Sheila said. "I'm going to give her a Glasgow smile too but let her keep her tongue. I won't rip it out. I think I'll just shorten it by three inches. She won't be able to talk then either. I want her to live for awhile like that. I want her to know she threatened the wrong people. We can always make another trip back later and finish it."
Leticia needed to endure assaults like that for years in her neighborhood. As long as she didn't resist there was no violence. She just went along with what happened. They were all pretty young back then. That's just how it was in the 'hood'. Maybe Sheila would like to visit her old neighborhood sometime…. A lot of those males still lived there, at least the ones that weren't in prison or dead.
"I want a set of matching 'earrings' from her." Leticia said. "You know what I mean."
Sheila looked back at Cammy and Ally and then at Leticia.
"I'll give you two sets from her." Sheila said. "One set will be from the top and one set from the bottom."
Leticia understood. She nodded and smiled. The female gang member would be disfigured for life. It didn't matter it would be a short life.
"That's even better." Leticia said. "I really hated that Bitch."
Sheila reached over and squeezed Leticia's leg.
"I'll take care of you." Sheila said.
Leticia leaned over and kissed Sheila.
"You're the best." Leticia said. "I'm pleased you're my new Master."
Cammy and Ally looked at each other but remained silent.
Hanna drove the SUV. Camille was next to her in the front. Camille tried to put John in that front seat spot but Mary and Laura wanted him to sit between them in the back.
John was thrilled to be between Mary and Laura. He'd been with both of them in the Master Suite and the Executive Suite on the large executive transport jet. He tried to decide which one he'd liked better. As far as physical attributes went they were both pretty. Laura was a little larger up top in every aspect and Mary was smaller. As far as down below, it was the same way. Mary was smaller in every respect both externally and internally. That last part was sweet. She was tight. He was sure that only Gail's sheath was tighter when Cameron 'borrowed' Gail's chassis. That whole thing was tiny.
"Where are we going?" Mary asked.
Hanna didn't want John exposed to the violence that Sheila was going to unleash.
"We can go for an evening drive." Hanna said.
John watched Sheila drive away with her group.
"Where's Sheila going?" John asked.
Camille was given all the files by Sheila earlier. They'd done a quick plug-in with each other.
"She has some unfinished business." Camille said.
Mary and Laura looked at each other around the rear of John's head. They knew what that business was. They'd almost been jumped by a street gang that roamed the park.
"Maybe we could tag along and watch from a distance." Laura said.
Mary wanted that too. She was still very uncomfortable about what almost happened. They would have torn her up for sure.
"I like that idea but I want to stay safe." Mary said.
John knew only a little of what actually happened.
"I'm not sure I understand." John said.
Camille and Hanna didn't think John wanted to know the details. They certainly didn't want to be the ones to tell him.
"Let's get to San Francisco first." Hanna said. "It's still a short drive."
John could see that Hanna and Camille were trying to get him off the subject.
"I'd like to know." John said. "I'm kept in the dark about some things I should probably know sometimes."
Camille didn't like where this conversation was headed.
"Some things are outside the scope of our normal operations and are of a personal nature." Camille said.
Laura was unsure which one of the twins was with them. It was hard to tell them apart since they were completely identical.
"I hate to ask but are you Cammy or Camille?" Laura asked. "I lost track when we got into the SUV. I still can't tell you two apart. Everything on both of you is identical. I've been with twins before and there were minor differences. You two don't have any."
John noticed for the first time the Metal girls used their real names. He was still going by 'Tony'.
Camille smiled.
"That's because we are identical." Camille said.
Mary and Laura both remembered the robot or cyborg article that they'd come across. The one that 'disappeared' as it was being read.
Mary wondered about Ally.
"You're other sister is different." Mary said. "She's identical too but she looks slightly different in her appearance."
Camille knew that was because of the 'Neural Interface' with Allison.
"She's lived a little different life than we have." Camille said. "It was very abusive. Beauty was a liability there."
Hanna felt the need to defend Ally some. It's what Vanna would do for Allison.
"I was with Ally a lot." Hanna said. "We experienced a rough life for a few years. Other things were more important than appearance."
Mary and Laura wondered what that all boiled down to.
"Are you triplets?" Mary asked.
John didn't like where this conversation was headed. He didn't know the danger that Mary, Laura and Leticia faced earlier with the Metal girls.
"Let's not get into that." John said.
Mary and Laura knew right away to back off. That was at least while 'Tony' was around.
John was pleasantly surprised when Mary and Laura each took one of his hands and held it.
Steve and Tom followed behind John's SUV.
Sheila pulled over and parked. She looked at Leticia.
"Let's get in the back, love." Sheila said.
Leticia thought Sheila wanted to be 'serviced'.
"Yes, Mistress." Leticia said.
The four girls switched positions. Cammy took the wheel. She possessed all Sheila's files related to the event. She was there as 'Cameron' or 'Barbara' as the case originally was.
"Look, love." Sheila said. "I appreciate your devotion but I want you to answer only to yourself. I want to make it clear that no one 'owns' you. Not even me."
Leticia looked a little scared.
"That's how I live." Leticia said. "I like being a submissive. I can't wait to be with Tony for you. I hope you'll watch us even if you don't participate."
Sheila really wanted a 'play thing' like Leticia. She also wanted her to be stronger and self reliant.
"As your friend and lover I want you to make some changes." Sheila said. "I want you to have a better life. I want you to have a life."
Cammy and Ally glanced at each other and wondered what was wrong with Sheila. They knew she wanted Leticia as a 'play thing'. It was very unlike her to 'care' about someone else like this.
Leticia didn't want to argue with Sheila. She wanted to please her.
"I'll try." Leticia said.
Cammy received word from Dan and Frank. They'd just acquired the first gang member. Since she was driving now, she headed in that direction.
Sheila received the same information.
"It looks like we just found our first target." Sheila said.
Leticia knew that Sheila carried weapons on her.
"How will you punish them?" Leticia asked.
Since the gang members threatened to assault the girls in the park, she could think of a few things to do for 'punishment' before termination.
"I have a few ideas." Sheila said. "It's nothing I haven't done before."
Leticia was highly aroused now. She really wished 'Tony' would have ridden with them…. She pictured herself with her knees on each side of Tony' legs while he sat in the seat as they drove. She would be on his lap, firmly 'mounted' as she faced him. They could kiss and he could fondle her as she pleasured him with a slow rhythmic motion of her body….
John wanted to follow Sheila's team. Both Camille and Hanna thought that was a bad idea. They both knew that John didn't approve of Sheila's 'methods'.
"I think we can have a little better entertainment riding the cable cars or the historic trolleys on the Embarcadero." Hanna said.
Camille actually would like to do that. They'd needed to hurry from the airport to the ship when Young Jesse and her arrived from Australia to catch the ship.
"I haven't done that yet." Camille said. "It sounds like fun. I'd like to do that."
John looked at Mary and Laura.
"What about you two?" John asked.
Mary and Laura wanted to see the gang members punished.
"I think you and Camille can do those fun things together." Mary said.
John thought that sounded a little vague.
"What would you do?" John asked.
Laura caught Mary's drift.
"We wanted to do a few girl things with Hanna." Laura said.
Camille looked back at John. She wanted to separate him from the girls. She also wanted to ride the cable car and see some of the sights.
"Tony and I can have some fun together and you girls can hang out with Hanna." Camille said.
Camille looked exactly like Cameron to John.
John was a little worried about everyone being protected.
"Do we have enough people to help out?" John asked.
Hanna contacted Ally. She would join Mary, Laura and her. Steve and Tom would stay with Camille and John in their SUV.
Camille pulled over and Hanna slid into the driver's seat.
Mary and Laura each gave John a sweet kiss. The look of love was in their eyes.
Camille and John went to the SUV that Steve drove. He'd pulled up right behind them.
Hanna drove away with Mary and Laura.
Camille stopped John and looked at him.
"Would you like me to revert to my 'Cameron' programming?" Camille asked. "I would be 'Cameron' on the day of my activation that way. I'd be 'Cameron', just out of date."
John wasn't sure what that meant exactly. Was she offering him something 'more' as 'Cameron'? He'd kind of like her to be who she was now as Camille.
"Let me think about it…." John said.
They greeted Steve and Tom and sat in the back of the SUV. Steve pulled out into traffic and headed for the Embarcadero.