Chapter 307

Zero To None

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In Some Future:

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Cameron set out with her clones. She wanted to explore some of the captured Skynet facilities. She wanted to see for herself what was or wasn't in this timeline. She wanted to trust Mrs. Weaver but she also needed to protect the girls and get back to John.

Mrs. Weaver held a meeting with the top Resistance leaders. Vanna was at her side, Jesse and Allison next to her.

"This is my daughter and two close associates of hers. They are here now from another part of the state to assist me." Mrs. Weaver said. "I want all interaction to go through them before coming to me. I have enough things to deal with as I move closer to defeat Skynet."

The top leaders all looked at the three women. Cameron made all three of them as Tight as she could with what was available. Even the two female Resistance leaders were somewhat in awe. Cameron told them that she wanted them to be noticed and remembered. They would be.

If any of the Resistance leaders ever questioned anything about 'General Weaver' before it seemed that their fears were now mute. There was no way any of the three new girls were not human and the Hot redhead was surely the General's daughter….

Vanna and the girls were briefed and brought up to speed. They were able to go over the plans with the Resistance leaders in detail with Mrs. Weaver.

This was even better than Mrs. Weaver ever imagined. She did note that Cameron and the three Metal body guards were not present. That would take some investigation…. She knew Cameron was suspicious of her.

Mrs. Weaver was worried that Cameron could turn into a problem. She also knew Cameron could control the girls. The best solution was to get a TDE constructed and send Cameron away, either to her past or her future. The problem was still the power source that would be required. That would have to be constructed as well. The materials in this future were very scarce in that regard.

Earlier:

Mrs. Weaver was more than pleased that Vanna was here now to help her. Vanna made it clear that Cameron needed to get back to where John was. Vanna said she would stay as long as she was needed by her IF she could get Cameron back to John. Allison agreed to stay with Vanna.

"Everyone sacrifices for John Connor." Jesse said. "If Cameron goes back, I want to go with her unless I am needed here to help you and you need me to stay."

Allison was in love with Jesse now. She didn't want her to go.

"Jesse, you know we love you and want you." Allison said.

Vanna loved Jesse too. They were more of a threesome at this point anyway.

"Please, Jesse, stay and help us. We are in a position here to help these people. I want to help my mother." Vanna said. "If Cameron can leave, she said her clones can 'stay' with us. Cameron said she can Resequence their sheaths and they will take her appearance as well. They truly would all be 'Cameron' at that point in every way."

Jesse liked this idea. She wanted to make sure exactly what would be available.

"Do you mean we would each have a 'Cameron' then?" Jesse asked. "Each one would be a one hundred percent copy of Cameron?"

Vanna knew that Cameron was her program. The programs and the sheaths would all be the same.

"Yes, they would all be identical." Vanna said. "There would be four of Cameron at that point. Each of them would be identical in every way."

Allison could see a down side to that.

"If they didn't update, wouldn't they all start to become separate 'Camerons'?" Allison asked.

Vanna could see that the 'Cameron' that each girl shared would become attached to that girl even if they all shared everything on the side.

"Yes, each of them would have a different experience." Vanna said. "Cameron said any of us could serve as a template as well for the Resequencing process of the sheath. All she needs is our DNA sample."

Jesse thought about that. She could have a version of 'Cameron' that looked like her. That contained a lot of appeal to her for various reasons. She still liked how Cameron looked.

"I vote for mine to look like Cameron." Jesse said.

There was no doubt in Vanna's mind what she wanted.

"I do as well." Vanna said.

Allison knew that Cameron and her looked the 'same'. She didn't feel that way at All. She thought Cameron was much prettier than her.

"I know it sounds strange but I do as well." Allison said. "I will ask Cameron to use my DNA for all three of her clones."

The girls were totally excited at having Cameron, a 'Cameron', as their very own. Cameron informed them she wouldn't bring the clones back when she left one way or the other. If they were in the past with John and her there was going to be a conflict.

That meant the clones would need to be deactivated or stay in this future.

Cameron and one clone set out to explore some of the smaller captured Skynet facilities earlier. The other two clones were sent out to do the same thing at several other locations. They agreed to link up at a set time and explore the main facility.

The main reason for doing it this way was to make sure there was nothing hidden at the outlying facilities. Cameron didn't like surprises and she wanted to know what was behind her.

Cameron and her clone uncovered some illicit activity right before they left. She didn't have time to deal with it then but would later on. She wasn't sure what was being traded. It could be drugs, information or just about anything. What it did confirm and from what she'd witnessed before. This timeline needed a lot of cleaning up and order reestablished.

She and one clone met up with her other two clones. It was now 'Cameron times four'. The four of them set off. They all ran Cameron's program. It was just their sheaths that were different. That would all change soon once Allison's DNA was infused into their processor and they would all Resequence their sheaths.

The other two clones filled her in that they'd found nothing useful. They'd been accosted several times by small groups of males. They weren't made as Metal which prompted the encounters.

This reaffirmed Cameron's position that there needed to be a lot of things fixed in this future. Some of the activity seemed like borderline Scavenger behavior.

Cameron led the girls in single file. They wore clothing that hid most of who they were.

They ran across a 'checkpoint'. It looked very unofficial.

"This is a restricted zone." The first trooper said.

"We have a pass." Cameron said.

Cameron produced a document.

"How do we know its genuine?" The second trooper asked.

"How do you know it's not?" Cameron asked.

Cameron didn't have a good feeling about this outpost. She took the pass back from the second trooper.

The clones were just as suspicious as she was.

"You're all females?" The first trooper asked.

The first and second trooper looked at each other. Four females traveling alone was rare.

That prompted the leader to appear from off to the side somewhere. It looked like he just woke up.

"There is a tax on all females who pass through here." The leader said.

Cameron and her clones were ready to act.

"What kind of a tax?" Cameron asked.

They didn't have any money.

"How many credits do you have?" The leader asked.

This looked like a shakedown.

"We don't have any." Cameron said.

The leader and the two troopers looked the four females over.

"One of you can pay the tax." The leader said. "It doesn't matter which one."

Cameron didn't care for the implication.

"I don't know what you expect but we will pass through this checkpoint right now with our pass." Cameron said. "Call it in with your superiors."

The troopers blocked the way.

"I think it would be better if they all paid the tax." The first trooper said. "I mean each of them with each of us, one on one."

The leader looked them over. He didn't like being rebuffed.

"You girls know how it works." The leader said. "You have several ways to do it. Either way you need to get the job done."

"Are you saying we need to pay a 'pole' tax to go by here?" Cameron asked.

The leader looked a little annoyed.

"That's the way things work." The leader said. "There's going to be a lot worse that happens to you once you pass by here."

Cameron and her clones didn't buy it.

"This is all Resistance controlled territory." One clone said. "What's going to happen?"

This was all wrong.

Cameron looked at her clones.

"Take them." Cameron said.

The three clones each grabbed a man and lifted him by his neck as his weapon was knocked away.

Cameron faced the three struggling men as they were suspended in the air.

"I don't know who you think you are or what else goes on out here." Cameron said. "We are going to pass through here now. When we come back we don't expect to see any trouble. You do realize that each of these girls can kill you. I'm not really sure why I don't let them. Can we start over and try this process again from the beginning?"

The three men indicated they wanted to do that.

"Leave your weapons where they fell." Cameron said. "If you touch them we will take that as your choice that you are through living."

The clones set the gasping and coughing men down.

"We are going to go now." Cameron said. "Are there going to be any additional problems?"

The three men managed to say there weren't going to be.

"That's good to hear." Cameron said. "These are my three personal bodyguards. Cameron uncovered her face. You are going to see a lot more of me in the future here."

The men were stunned to see Cameron's beauty.

"You have jobs to do and you need to start doing them properly." Cameron said. "I'm going to let this incident pass because I believe you will all do the right thing going forward. The trouble is no one believes in any of you. That's all going to change."

The three clones picked up the men's weapons.

Cameron took them from the clones and handed them back to the men one at a time.

"We have a war to fight." Cameron said. "Skynet is the enemy. Scavengers are the enemy."

The men straightened up and stood at attention.

"Who are you?" The leader asked.

"I'm the future." Cameron said. "You will know soon enough."

Cameron her group passed. The men watched them go.

The leader shoved both of the men once they were gone.

"Idiots." The leader said. "We're probably going to get sent to the 'Front' now."

Cameron continued to the main captured Skynet facility along with her three clones and Allison's DNA samples. Her three clones were ready to get their DNA Resequenced.

She was weary of making three more cyborgs that were identical to herself in every way. She believed that if she could return to John and the girls stayed to help Mrs. Weaver that she owed it to them for their loyalty to her. She dearly loved the girls as well but John was her top priority.

Cameron knew she would be Cameron Prime…. The clones understood this. John would be off limits to them so they could be free to love the girls instead. Any directives related to John would be changed to that girl or girls. She needed to pay a debt and her clones would be the ones who paid it for her.

At this time Cameron didn't have any idea she was a 'Duplicate Cameron' created in the 'TDE Incident'. She believed she was Cameron Prime.

They entered the facility without further incident.

Cameron also planned to finish copying the fourth chip with her program. She'd taken it with her and was about to finish the procedure. The chip was in front of her.

One of her clones came across a locked room with a strange door and went to open it.

That set off some alarm bells in Cameron's head. She remembered what Mrs. Weaver said about a project she'd attempted to create. It was viewed as a failure.

"Don't open that…." Cameron shouted.

The warning was too late.

A silvery mass exploded from the room. The violently swinging door knocked the clone down. Cameron moved to respond with the other two clones. The mass snaked through them and was gone. None of them reported making physical contact with it.

"What was that thing?" The clone that was knocked down asked. "Was it what it looked like?"

Cameron thought this must be the failed Liquid Metal Terminator that Mrs. Weaver attempted to construct. Now it escaped. She knew there was going to be trouble over this.

She also encountered a small amount of Liquid Metal. It was something that must have been set aside for testing.

Cameron looked at the silvery mass. Is that what she wanted to become? She was not so sure anymore. John loved her how she was. The girls loved her how she was. She was unsure of so many things anymore. She liked that her sexual organs were real living tissue. They weren't Metal. They were like the tissue on a real girl. Her sheath was like a real girl everywhere.

They conducted a search as best as they could for the unstable creature. They didn't carry weapons as they looked. They didn't want to seem like a threat to it. They were unable to locate it. It was gone.

They all wondered if Mrs. Weaver abused it. They all determined that she probably did. It just seemed like something that she would do.

Cameron went back to the chip she was ready to work on when the problem developed. The chip was gone. The only conclusion was that the Liquid Metal mass took it as it slithered off. Now she was really worried. There was a partial copy of her program on it and it was gone.

This all made her think of a past event that she was told about when she was stuck in the secret chamber in the one old building. She worried this was what found its way to John and then tried to 'absorb' Allison. She wondered how it was able to get back without a TDE in this timeline.

In the present where they were now Cameron knew they needed to find this creature before it attacked Allison here or escaped to go and find John. Cameron was aware this careless act now may have resulted in the events that already occurred in the past.

She was unaware of the energy bubbles that John Henry and John sent out as they tried for months to find them. The unstable creature must have encountered one of those and been able to 'ride' it back.

Cameron knew there was no known TDE here unless Mrs. Weaver hadn't been truthful…. Then again Mrs. Weaver was still here herself and wasn't able to return or go into the proper future or the past. Right now she thought those were both good things. She reflected that maybe being marooned here was something that needed to happen to keep Mrs. Weaver out of HER Future and HER Past. Maybe it was to keep Mrs. Weaver away from John - both of them. Maybe that was her function now to make sure Mrs. Weaver didn't escape from where she was at currently. Maybe this was all a convoluted way to protect John.

The chances of Cameron returning to John just went from zero to none.

Cameron and her three clones all discussed it and cried with her. She told the clones from this point on they were separate individuals. They were free to do as they pleased and she wouldn't update with them again. In a short while they would all look like Allison. They would all look like her - 'Cameron'.

The girls now all could share what they wanted most - 'Cameron', a 'Cameron clone' anyway as a lover and mate forever…. It was 'a dream come' true.

Cameron knew if she hadn't created her clones and provided them to the girls that she herself would sooner or later become involved with them as the years passed and they remained marooned here.

It appeared her foolishness once again was about to come back and bite her. It always seemed to have a way to do that.

Cameron knew she would never see John again….

Zero To None

Does anyone actually have
What they think they have
Or is what they really have
Only something to halve

Looks can be deceiving
For what may appear to be there
Is just a physical illusion
The mental connection is elsewhere

When time has run its course
What was is now gone
Even if they are still there
Gone is still gone as they move on

Someone always still thinks
That somehow things can be fixed
The other has sought more long ago
Few want to accept they were nixed

When things are done they're done
There's no such thing as the one
They forever shun the joy and fun
Chances of a reunion are zero to none

Nobody