Chapter 74

Cliff Side

Jesse was sprawled on the floor. She did not move. Her chest still rose and fell, she was breathing.

Vanna and Allison checked Jesse over after Sarah left.

Jesse was out cold.

"Is she OK?" Allison asked.

Vanna did not know Jesse's history but it was a pretty good bet she been captured by Scavengers before. She would have been beaten senseless more than a few times if she had been. Vanna knew of her personal experience with Scavengers and she knew the price for resistance and noncompliance. She watched what happened to other females and she decided she wanted to survive. She did what was demanded of her and the treatment was brutal enough. It was only because she submitted that her body was still intact. She'd been forced to watch other females punished for resisting. She'd seen more than one form of punishment for someone badmouthing a Scavenger. Each Scavenger liked to make a show of the victims they needed to 'discipline'. It reminded those in their custody what awaited them. Still many chose to resist and fight. They were all dead. None of them died fast.

"I think so. She is just 'out' for awhile." Vanna said. "I'm sure she has suffered far worse."

Allison did not catch Vanna's drift and what she'd really meant by 'far worse'.

"Sarah warned her about bad mouthing Cameron." Allison said. "She already slapped Jesse once and later knocked her down too."

Allison never saw it coming when Sarah knocked Jesse down in the TDE room. It just seemed to happen. It was actually much like this. Sarah was just there and acted. It all happened in an instant.

Vanna thought Sarah acted partly on her behalf too.

"I don't think Sarah liked her putting her hands on you either." Vanna said. "I was going to teach Jesse some manners myself. Sarah saw that and prevented me from needing to get my 'hands dirty'. I will have to thank her later on."

Vanna didn't like anyone putting their hands on another female without their consent. She'd seen and experience too much of that. It was never pleasant for the female. Vanna thought it was unfair that females needed to suffer just because they were females. Every man and many women wanted them for their natural attributes.

Allison looked at Jesse's face. She gently touched it.

"She's beautiful." Allison said. "I do have to admit that."

Vanna liked Jesse's 'look'.

"Not to mention smoking Hot." Vanna added. "We would have to be blind not to notice. I love her figure. It is so trim and tight."

John Henry saw what happened on the surveillance cameras and sent Unit 710 to assist with whatever the situation dictated. He did not know what would happen next or if Jesse needed additional assistance.

Unit 710 arrived with a blank look on her face. She bent down and scanned Jesse.

"She'll live." Unit 710 said.

Vanna and Allison thought so but it was nice to know for sure. Sarah hit Jesse very hard.

Vanna directed Unit 710 to take Jesse to Derek's room to recover.

Allison noted that Unit 710 was beautiful as well and Hot. Allison looked her over twice. Allison thought the only thing Unit 710 needed to be a total knockout was a smile.

Unit 710 noticed but said nothing. She would repay her encounter with Allison later….

This unintended interaction by Allison and Unit 710 appeared it would take on a dimension of its own. Then again maybe it would not and others would intervene. There was always an interloper waiting somewhere to strike.

Unit 710 headed for Derek's room. She carried Jesse. She scanned her further as she carried her. She noted the tight and trim figure. It was totally opposite of how she was constructed. She looked at her large breasts and Jesse's not so large breasts. She wondered why hers were so large. Only unit 645 had larger breasts than she did. None of the human females on the base were as large as they were. She observed other human females that were as large or even larger when she was out on a mission. She was not sure why humans placed such an emphasis on that. It was not for nursing the young but for appearance sake.

Jesse stirred and came to in the arms of Unit 710. She was instantly enraged that a Terminator held her.

"Put me down, you 'Metal Bitch'." Jesse hissed.

Unit 710 stopped and set Jesse down on her feet.

"I'm taking you back to Derek's room." Unit 710 said. "You were incapacitated."

She backed away and Jesse almost toppled over. She reached out to steady her and Jesse slapped her hand away. There was 'fire' in her eyes.

"My head hurts. Did you do this to me?" Jesse asked. "I should make you submit to chip extraction."

The blank expression on the face of Unit 710 never changed as she spoke.

"No. I did not. It was Sarah Connor who disciplined you." Unit 710 said. "If I'd assaulted you, you'd be terminated."

Jesse glared at her. She could tell Unit 710 wasn't joking.

Jesse thought about what she said about Cameron. She remembered the warning Sarah gave to her. She really knew now that Sarah Connor did not bluff. She never even saw it coming. She wondered why there were so many Metal lovers here. Even where she came from Metal was loved. She touched her scar and continued to Derek's room on her own.

'Sarah Connor is as tough as her reputation'. Jesse thought.

Unit 710 followed her to make sure she arrived at her destination.

"You're a real looker." Jesse said to Unit 710. "Whose Metal Whore are you going to be?"

Jesse actually liked the 'look' of Unit 710. She could see why she would end up in some Resistance fighter's bed.

The blank look on the face of the Restorator never changed.

"No one's." Unit 710 said. "I am here to defeat Skynet and protect the future along with John Connor. I suggest you adopt a similar point of view. You will spend less time on the floor and your head won't hurt as much."

Jesse eyed Unit 710 up and down and back again. She liked the spunk and directness.

"I'll be watching you." Jesse said.

She went into Derek's room and closed the door behind her.

Unit 710 tilted her head slightly to the side, she then turned and walked away. The new biological unit 'irritated' her. Her existence most likely would end with termination. Allison and Vanna were much more pleasant to think of. She found replaying her files of Allison much more to her liking….

John Henry decided after the briefing that he would put the Restorators to good use. What he did not understand was Mrs. Weaver trying to get back to her future. It was learned she'd been sending hundreds of Restorators into some future which she thought was hers. The one Cameron came from.

It was decided that Dan, Frank, Unit Two and Unit 645 would be set up across the street from the Reese residence in an apartment building. Ed, Unit Three and Unit 710 would be moved into the vacant house next to the Young residence in Palmdale. They would clandestinely construct hardened bunkers at both locations. It was suspected that because of the 'Legend' of Allison Young and John Connor as well as the Reese brothers later on, that Skynet may have targeted their younger selves for termination before it was defeated. The Reese brothers and Young Allison would have twenty four hour protection from the four Restorators from Mrs. Weaver and three of the captured Terminators. Al would be near Savannah at all times John Henry was not. They would be put on a rotating schedule to keep them up to speed at the base. Coverage could drop to three and two if no immediate threat materialized. Cameron insisted it never fall below two and one for a short period of time.

Cameron wanted the future protected. She was aware Skynet died hard and things it put into motion could still be in play. It could have sent back Grays and Terminators already that could still arrive in their future or have already arrived in their past.

Cameron noted there was a cutoff up ahead. The Terminator was still behind them with Al and Bob behind him.

"John, I think he is going to take the next cutoff coming up." Cameron said.

John was not sure how to best play this. If they took the turnoff first and the Terminator continued straight, they would end up behind him and Bob's team.

"So do you want to take it or let Bob follow him, first?" John asked.

Al relayed that he'd appropriated a bobtail truck from a roadside diner as Bob closed the distance on the Terminator. Al was about three minutes behind Bob at this point.

The Terminator must have made the tail and sped up.

"He made me." Bob said.

Cameron wanted to take action now. This was an isolated section of the road.

"We will stop him now, here." Cameron said. "This is a good section of road to do it."

Bob wanted to close the distance. He pushed his SUV for all it could give.

"Affirmative." Bob responded.

Al's report was not as favorable.

"I am still three minutes behind Bob, I can't keep up." Al said.

Cameron stopped by some large rocks that fell next to the road from the rocky hillside.

"Take the wheel." Cameron said.

Cameron stopped and exited the SUV.

John slid over and switched places with Cameron. He got behind the wheel.

Cameron rolled three large boulders onto the road which blocked it. The Terminator would have to stop to attempt to pass. He would have to move at least one boulder. If he attempted to ram one of them it would total his vehicle.

Bob was able to catch up to the Terminator. Al was still behind but closed up the distance some. Cameron returned to their SUV and they headed down the road. Up ahead there were some curves coming up.

Around the next blind curve Cameron told John to park the SUV at a forty-five degree angle with the door open and the flashers on. This would force the Terminator to go into the oncoming lane next to the cliff side. They attempted to stage what appeared to an an 'accident'.

Behind them and out of view the Terminator stopped and moved one of the large rocks. He reentered his vehicle and proceeded to speed away from the scene. He now tried to outrun Bob who'd closed up on him.

As Bob closed on the Terminator, the Terminator's speed increased. When he rounded the curve where John and Cameron were with the staged 'accident' with their SUV he would be close to the cliff side. He was now moving at a dangerous speed on a sharp curve….

Cameron waited to spring her 'surprise'.

Vanna and Allison found Sarah cleaning her M4.

"Thank you, Sarah, for 'earlier'." Vanna said. "I thought I was going to need to act."

Sarah wiped the spot of blood off of the stock.

"It needed to be done." Sarah said. "She will mellow out now."

Allison was appreciative too.

"Thank you, Sarah." Allison said. "I did not care for what she did."

Vanna felt an intense dislike for Jesse now.

"I hate that Skank 'Bitch Whore' Slut too." Vanna said.

"I told you." Allison said. "She is shameless."

"She sounds like a female Scavenger." Vanna said.

"She was." Allison said. "She is tough and ruthless too."

Vanna looked disgusted. She'd been at the mercy of female Scavengers before. The up side of that was that she found she only liked being with females. The down side was if they were displeased, they tended to be very cruel.

"What does Derek see in her besides a good time in the sack?" Vanna asked.

Allison knew that love was involved. That always changed everything.

"Derek can't see it. He loves her." Allison added. "Loving eyes are blind. She has mellowed some to be with Derek."

"Well, she is - Hot." Vanna said.

Sarah seemed to agree.

The three females could all see Jesse was Hot.

The Terminator's car came around the blind corner. It swerved to avoid the disabled looking SUV as it passed it. It was forced to move tight up against the guard rail on the cliff side of the wrong side of the road. Cameron stepped out from the blind side of their SUV and gave the side of the car a shove in the rear quarter panel as it passed. It acted like a 'PIT maneuver'. It sent the Terminator's vehicle out of control.

The car swerved back and forth and crashed through the guardrail and went over the cliff side. Cameron rushed to see what happened. She saw the car with the driver's door open hit the rocks on the surf below and explode into a fireball.

You Don't Belong Here

We know what is ours
It is preordained destiny
It is what is to be
It is a foregone legacy

Then we face a challenge
What could be ruder
We come face to face
With an outside intruder

The one that we want
Allows them to interlope
What were they thinking
They're acting like a dope

I know what is mine
I may have to attack
I will warn them once
They'd better watch their back

Are you listening to me
Why can't you hear
I will say it again
You don't belong here

Nobody