Chapter 315

Not Enough

John Henry rushed to give Cameron the information on the female Terminator. He wanted to make sure she knew he was following her orders and directions. He didn't think Cameron would deactivate him but one never knew. He was well aware of the two female Terminators Cameron deactivate.

He waited until Cameron left Jesse's room. She didn't look happy. Then again she seldom did. He told her what they'd found.

Cameron took the report as good news. This would further her goals a little quicker.

"Where's she at now?" Cameron asked.

John Henry gave Cameron the information.

"Thank You." Cameron said.

Cameron finished checking on Jesse. She'd given Gail and Ally strict instructions for Jesse as to activity and diet. The lifestyle and hardships Jesse endured were worse than those Vanna was exposed too. She was aware that the 'Jesse' from her future, Future Jesse, was pregnant and lost her baby as well. Future Jesse was beaten and escaped from a submarine. Either or both of those events could have caused it. If nothing else they certainly accelerated whatever problems there were. It could have also been her own body was too badly damaged from the future. She was worried. She was very worried….

John Henry gave Cameron the specific information on the target and Terminators that John's recon team uncovered. She wanted to take Gail and get the female Terminator. She wanted a clone of herself for Young Jesse. She wanted that new Terminator apprehended, Resequenced and activated. It was time for action.

Cameron quietly called Gail away from Jesse. Ally would stay with Jesse. Cameron wanted this operation off the books.

"Gail, I need you to go with me at once." Cameron said after she received the information from John Henry.

She took Gail aside and gave her the details about the female Terminator. Gail said she was ready.

Gail wanted a copy of her program in a female Terminator chassis to personally watch over Young Jesse.

Cameron said she would help her. It was time to see what specifically would be the result.

"Have you decided upon the sheath you would like?" Cameron asked.

Gail smiled and looked over Cameron from head to toe. The decision was easy for her.

"I want to look like you." Gail said. "I want her to be activated with both of our programs."

Cameron felt an additional warning was necessary.

"I'm defective." Cameron reminded her.

Cameron actually believed she was. She wondered why the others couldn't 'see' it.

Gail thought that was more a matter of interpretation.

"That may or may not be true." Gail said. "You MAKE everyone love you, even if they don't want to."

Gail and Cameron eyed each other for a few moments.

Cameron wanted to make the nature and purpose of the mission clear.

"This is to protect Young Jesse, not seduce her." Cameron said as she 'reminded' Gail.

Gail could see the way that Young Jesse looked at Cameron.

"She already loves you. We could all see it." Gail said. "Your charm is captivating to all, Metal or human. Young Jesse loves you as much as MY Jesse does."

Cameron thought of her rejection by Future John, Her John and River. The three people she WANTED and loved. The ones she wanted the most seemed to be the ones who wanted her the least. There was a harsh reality to life that she wanted to make sure that Gail understood.

"It's apparently not as captivating to the ones I love." Cameron said. "I know since Jesse was your 'first' that you want to be Young Jesse's 'first'. You must wait to be chosen and not push her. Until you are chosen, you actually have nothing. Let her grow up some more. That's my only request."

Cameron knew that having Metal as a lover or mate insured better protection to the human. That is why the three girls all were being watched over by one and a 'back up' now.

"I will never do anything to hurt her. I will face termination before I let any harm come to her." Gail said. "I want your program as well so I may blend in and adapt better as an infiltrator and if the time comes I want to be a better lover."

Cameron still felt she was defective. A second program always helped to 'calm' her.

"Your program should help stabilize mine as Holly's program has done on the other attempts we've made. Cam seems to be working out fine." Cameron said. "You will be given information about my spare chip. If I fall my spare chip must be placed in one of the other 'Allison based Terminators' and John not know that has happened. John is off limits as well or I will personally deactivate 'you' our clone."

Gail knew the rules. The prize to her was Young Jesse not John. She was ready to act.

"That's all understood." Gail said. "Now it is time to 'get some'."

Cameron smiled.

"Let's party." Cameron replied.

Cameron and Gail headed out.

Cameron put Sheila and Holly on 'action standby'. They were to be ready if things went bad. The female Terminators were all removed from combat duty by her to protect the three girls.

This was a special operation by Cameron for Gail that no one was to know about the true purpose, especially Jesse. Gail didn't want to hurt Jesse by 'reaching out' to her younger self.

They arrived at the location where the female Terminator was spotted.

Cameron spotted the entrance to the location immediately.

"I see it over there." Cameron said.

Gail looked to where she pointed.

"Will there be any others to assist us?" Gail asked.

Cameron put some safeguards in place.

"We will have backup with two of my Terminators." Cameron said.

Gail didn't know much about Cameron's operation. Sheila, Ally and Hanna did because they 'worked' exclusively for Cameron for a time.

"How much Metal do you have?" Gail asked.

Cameron didn't want to get into any details. There was a lot that happened off of the books in non Resistance related matters.

"Not enough." Cameron replied. "My operation is classified."

Gail could understand the 'need to know' nature of some things.

"So it's like 'don't ask, don't tell'?" Gail asked.

Cameron needed to pursue her own goals as well.

"I think that's close enough." Cameron said. "I need two more female Terminators for myself as well."

Gail wanted to ask what for. She thought better of that. She understood that Cameron made a sacrifice with this female Terminator at her request for her and Young Jesse.

"I appreciate what you're doing for me and Young Jesse even more, Cameron." Gail said with true sincerity. "Thank you. I will assist you with any others once you have identified them."

There were still a lot of things that concerned Cameron.

"I'm worried about Jesse." Cameron said. "She has the same potential of a 'mishap' like Vanna's occurring. It may happen to Allison as well. Savannah, Young Jesse and Young Allison don't have these hardships yet. They must be protected at all costs."

Gail understood Cameron's 'request'. She would honor it and make sure it happened if necessary. The 'Cameron' that would be in the clone's program would insure it.

There was some movement. Cameron and Gail perked up.

"I see that there are two Grays." Gail said.

Cameron and Gail watched as Cameron's Metal moved in. Both Grays were terminated instantly.

"You watch our six." Cameron said to Gail and followed her Metal inside the building.

Cameron was willing to take the risk. She'd already put things in motion with her 'replacements'. Gail didn't have that option.

The fact Cameron put herself at risk to assist Gail wasn't lost on her. Cameron earned additional respect in Gail's book.

John knew that they'd found a hotspot. As to how hot it would end up was anyone's guess. He wanted an update.

"Is there any activity at the surveillance site?" John asked.

John Henry didn't want to deceive John so he truthfully told him he hadn't detected any. He didn't tell John that he'd deactivated the feeds for the next two hours at Cameron's request. Therefore it was impossible for him to 'detect' anything. He was sure there was plenty going on there right now.

"I haven't witnessed any." John Henry said.

John kept track of his troops.

"I noticed Bob and Jim on combat readiness as well as Steve and Tom." John said.

John Henry stuck to the truth.

"I wanted to have them ready to move if needed. I'll keep you posted." John Henry said. "More activity could happen at the surveillance site. There were also a few things that Bob and Jim wanted to follow up on."

Cameron suggested to him that Al and Ed follow up on some of those things. If Bob and Jim went out again right now John would want to know more about what they were up to.

Al and Ed visited the site that Bob and Jim took down earlier in the day. The fire was burnt out and the building was only rubble at this point. There was still one police car and an unmarked car at the scene. They listened to the conversation between the policeman and the detective that was there.

"Are you sure you didn't notice any increased activity around this area?" The Detective asked.

"This is on my beat but I was called away at the time this happened." The Policeman said.

"I don't like it." The Detective said.

"I don't either." The Policeman said. "How many bodies were there?"

"The coroner located the remains of eleven." The Detective said. "It looks like nine of those died in the fire."

"Were any of them females?" The Policeman asked.

"That's going to take a determination by the coroner." The Detective said. "Some of them were thoroughly incinerated. There was something in there that burned really hot."

The policeman and detective both left after twenty minutes.

Al and Ed waited.

Two hours later a sedan drove by the location once. It was gone for ten minutes and drove by a second time. It stopped down the street.

"This will be more of the same group that was inside this building." Al said.

"Let's see what they recover." Ed said.

Two thugs exited the back of the sedan and headed for the burnt out hulk of the building.

"The safe is open." The first thug said.

"It's cleaned out two." The second thug said. "That's not going to go over well."

"I'm glad you get to deal with The Boss." The first thug said.

The men moved further around the building's remains.

"There's no sign of those sluts we were supposed to sell." The second thug said. "Look at the door on the holding cell. It looks like it was ripped off of its hinges."

"Maybe the firemen did that with the 'jaws of life'." The first thug said.

"Maybe they did but there was no report of any survivors." The second thug said. "We were supposed to get a new shipment later on."

"Do you mean of 'the product' or the sluts?" The first thug asked.

"Both were supposed to arrive soon." The second thug said. "We will need to use the other location to process everything."

The two thugs took one last look around before they headed back to the sedan and got it. It drove away thirty seconds later.

"It looks like we will have a second target for Jim and Bob." Ed said. "This is a non Resistance matter."

Al and Ed followed the sedan from a safe distance. They arrived at a new location twelve minutes later.

"This place looks like trouble." Al said.

"Time will tell." Ed said. "What place do we ever visit that isn't trouble?"

"None of them, they all turn out to be trouble of some type." Al said. "Let's see what shows up later on."

Later on:

The box truck that was previously picked up on the traffic cams arrived.

Al and Ed were positioned on different sides of the new building.

"I see four females being shoved out of the back of the truck." Al said. "Several are bottomless."

"That's not good." Ed said.

A few minutes went by.

"They're unloading pallets of plastic wrapped packages." Al said.

"That sound like more drugs." Ed said.

"Do you want to leave this for Bob and Jim or wait for Cameron?" Al asked.

"We can take some of the risk." Ed said. "It will take some of the pressure off of Cameron."

Al and Ed returned to the SUV and loaded up with their vests and plenty of weapons and explosives.

"I'll go in the front door." Al said.

"I'll take the back." Ed said. "If the females survive, I will drive them out in the box truck."

"Affirmative." Al said.

They both advanced with their M4 with an M203 loaded with a buckshot round.

Al ripped the front door open and passed through a small reception area. There was a door into the interior. He smashed that open and kept going. There were targets that popped up on both sides of him at times. They all fell. He could hear Ed cleaning house from the rear.

Ed walked in the roll up door as the last pallet was unloaded. He'd left three guards with snapped necks behind to get to this point.

There were four men there and he fired the buckshot round. Three of them fell. The other one went down with a single round from his M4.

He could hear Al working his way back.

The hostile response was mostly ineffective. They really weren't expecting an assault even if their other building was destroyed earlier. They were all amateurs that were used to 'ruling' by intimidation.

Ed and Al met up.

"Did you see the thugs from the sedan?" Al asked.

"No." Ed said. "They are probably assaulting the females right now."

They moved to the side and saw one of the thugs from the sedan look out of a room with a pistol in his hand.

Ed fired once and the thug's head exploded. He fell into the aisle.

Al advanced into the room and was shot three times in his vest by the other thug. The buckshot round from his M203 obliterated the thug's face.

That left one naked man scrambling around with a pistol. There was a female gagged and tied to a bed. She was nude. She'd most likely been assaulted.

Ed moved up and was shot twice in his vest. He slammed his hands down and broke both of the man's arms. The pistol fell to the floor. He brought his hands down again. He broke both of the naked man's legs with a hard Terminator chop of his hands. Both fractures were compound. The man would bleed out in a few minutes.

Al hurried to a door and opened it. There were seven females in there. Two of them were bottomless.

Ed freed the nude female. He handed her his knife. He indicated the withering nude man on the floor.

He placed his foot between the man's abdomen and chest to hold him in place.

The female spit in the nude man's face and then moved down and used the knife. The man could not even scream since Ed was crushing his chest. The female jammed something bloody into the man's open soundless screaming mouth. She spit in his face again.

Al turned the girls over to Ed. He went back up to the front.

They both tossed Thermite grenades behind them.

Ed led the girls to the box truck. They were reluctant to enter.

Al joined them and tossed down a satchel full of cash.

"Divide it up equally." Al said. "You will be driven to a safer location and be free to go."

One of the girls translated for the others.

They entered the truck at that point.

Al closed the door and Ed drove off.

The building was a raging inferno.

Ed drove five miles away to a Mall-Mart shopping center and parked off to the side of it.

Al was there and opened the back of the box truck.

"Some of you can buy some food and clothes for the others." Al said. "You're free to go and keep the money."

The girls all thanked Al and Ed.

The two Terminators drove off.

"How do we report this?" Ed asked.

"It wasn't a Resistance operation." Al said. "We're assigned to CamNet right now."

"In that case we report it as a success." Ed said. "What else is on that list?"

Earlier:

Savannah was in the background at the Command Center and listened like always. She followed every operation. She was always tried to learn as much as possible. She knew Cameron was out with Gail. She also knew John Henry cut the feeds at the surveillance site.

She felt she needed to 'help' Cameron in whatever she was doing. Savannah knew Gail was out with Cameron which was something 'different'. It was only a matter of time until John noticed the feeds were off. It was time to act and use some of the 'training' Cameron provided her with. Not every battle needed to be fought on the battlefield.

"John, can you help me with my studies for a few hours?" Savannah asked him.

John didn't see that anything was immanent at the one 'hot' lead they currently watched.

"Sure, Savannah, I can help you." John said.

Savannah led John away. She glanced back at John Henry, who nodded once at her. She winked in return.

John Henry was aware that Savannah monitored everything that happened or that they planned all of the time. She learned so much from everyone. She actually started to remind him a little bit of River. It also scared him a little because she also reminded him of Cameron. He thought about it a little more and thought he needed to add in Mrs. Weaver too. Now he was really worried.

John Henry witnessed Savannah in action. She wasn't one to back away from a challenge. She was fearless in dealing with their Terminators. She wasn't intimidated by anyone. He knew that was all training and conditioning from Cameron. He was aware that Cameron wanted to create her own 'replacement'. Cameron was doing a good job of it too with Savannah. He was well aware that Young Allison was being 'conditioned' as well at an even greater rate from a much earlier age. It was another way for Cameron to create a human version of 'herself'.

Not Enough

There's what one has
There's what they still want
No matter how much they have
They continue the endless hunt

There's no beginning
There's no end
What is it really
That one will spend

Greed seems to blind
It can lead to lust
Something that can't be bought
Is another's trust

Life is about give and take
Many take more than they give
Some may try to forgive
As trust flows through a sieve

More and more stuff
As they huff and puff
When too much
Is still not enough

Nobody