Chapter 380

Snake

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In Some Future:

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Mrs. Weaver tracked the Gray. She made note of the stops he made. She watched who he contacted and what was communicated. She watched for anything to be passed off. She checked to see if anything went to or from them.

So far he seemed to be operating alone. She actually thought there would be more. The Gray operated as a true 'secret agent' by operating alone. It also reduced the chance of him being discovered if someone else was apprehended. There was also the possibility there was more than one Gray inside the compound and they operated independently of each other.

The Gray looked around. He wondered what tipped off the Commander to show up. That caused her sister's rapid departure and almost as rapid return with a heavy weapon. It was almost as if someone informed on them. It was probably that 'low life' Snake. He knew Snake was asking around. He would need to deal with him later. The 'low lifes' were worthless to the Resistance and useless to Skynet. No one should miss him.

Then there was that dog. He'd never seen a more deadly looking animal in his life. He would need to keep that thing in his mind if he ever needed to infiltrate the headquarters area. He hoped that wouldn't be necessary.

What about the Commander? That whole group was only here a short while and one of them was supposed to the General's 'daughter'. Now they were suddenly bumped up in stature and called the shots. All the local leaders were all bypassed. That's what raised Skynet's interest. Where did these people come from?

That change at the top didn't really matter to him. Skynet was going to win this conflict and he'd cast his lot with winning side. He would keep gathering information and try and make sure Skynet could capture or kill the Commander and General. Then they would know if the General was really Metal or not. He wasn't sure why Skynet wanted the girl, Allison. It might have been as a way to control the Commander or perhaps she really was a secret leader that hid in plain sight. Skynet wanted the girl. Those were his orders.

He did need to admit on a personal level that the Commander and her sister were both very beautiful. He wondered briefly if Skynet understood or knew beauty. He doubted it. It was just a machine. He did look forward to their capture. He planned to spend a lot of time with both of them as they were tied to a bed. He wanted to see how 'identical' the twins really were….

Mrs. Weaver followed and watched the Gray. She noted all 'targets' for termination. This also gave her a look around the camp. She was able to listen to numerous conversations and what people were doing. There seemed to be a high level of discord.

She set out several surveillance devices as 'mice'. They were smaller than rats. A few even went out as snakes. She actually preferred that form for movement on her own. A snake contained a sleek body that flowed smoothly. It was pure fluidity in motion to move around like that. They were also deadly predators.

Earlier:

Cameron II waited nearby for Cameron after she'd sent Allison away with Cam and Jesse. She was glad to see Sandy and Ginger with them. She was close enough to hear the conversation and close enough to back up Cameron if necessary. She watched Mrs. Weaver run off as JH and change into a different dog as soon as Cameron let the others go.

Cameron left the group behind and found Cameron II waiting for her. She took the plasma rifle from her.

"Are you going to use that?" Cameron II asked.

Cameron looked back at the area where she'd just been.

"I may have to at some point." Cameron said. "We've identified a Gray and that is what's most important right now."

Cameron II didn't like how Billy responded around Allison.

"What about the leader?" Cameron II asked.

Cameron was aware how he looked at her and Cameron II as 'Allison'.

"He's conflicted." Cameron said. "He wants to do the right thing but is confused as to what that actually is anymore. I think he can be salvaged."

That wasn't what Cameron II wanted to hear.

"If he can't be salvaged, I want to be the one who terminates him." Cameron II said. "I will do it as 'Allison'."

Cameron looked over at Cameron II

"I understand." Cameron said. "Personal competition is very irritating."

Cameron returned with Cameron II to the headquarters area. Cameron asked Ginger and Sandy to stay on and keep watch over the girls as well. That would be their new assignment. She noticed right away that the girls constantly checked them out. She thought that was a good thing. If the girls became 'friendlier' with Ginger and Sandy, then the two Restorators would protect the girls with even more determination.

Whenever one of the girls went out, Ginger or Sandy would be extra muscle to tag along. Cameron would also have Bob assign some of his detail to further watch over everyone. She would have him beef up security around their headquarters compound. It was all to be done discreetly.

Cameron wanted to know more about who warned them of the impending trouble.

Cam filled Cameron in. She spared no detail or her opinion of the 'low life' area.

"I was surprised to learn he helped us." Cam said. "I didn't think he had it in him."

Jesse was as surprised as Cam. She thought there must be more to it. Snake seemed like the type that would want something for his efforts.

"Snake actually helped us on his own accord?" Jesse asked.

Cam wasn't sure if she disliked him or his name more. No, it was him.

"Apparently." Cam said. "He was afraid I would come back and kill him. He was right. I still might."

Cam still felt uneasy at the way Snake looked at her and Jesse. It felt like a visual assault of some kind.

Vanna was confused as to what the ambush was about.

"Why do you think Allison might have been the target?" Vanna asked. "That makes no sense. She's been the least visible of the girls."

That was a sore spot for Cameron. She believed it was because of what happened on her raid at the Skynet facility. It was something that Skynet said about being human and Metal.

"I was spotted on our raid with the General. I believe Mrs. Weaver took Allison's appearance to hide her true self." Cameron said. "I didn't see her do this but I believe she did."

Allison knew Mrs. Weaver took her form in her future. She didn't understand why she would do it on a raid in this timeline.

"Why?" Allison asked. "What does that gain? She could've been anyone, male or female."

Cameron wondered about that herself. She was aware that various Skynets and their illegitimate offshoots all seemed to know who she was. Maybe they weren't all her. Maybe some of them were from dealings with the different futures she'd been to. This was her fourth future if she counted River's future. Maybe River was a player too at some point. She didn't doubt for a second that River would help the Resistance any chance that she could.

"I believe it was to hide her true identity." Cameron said. "Skynet now knows the General or 'someone' is a different type of Metal Terminator. It's technology far beyond what this Skynet has. This one is very basic and primitive."

Vanna tried to see it from Skynet's perspective.

"So if there are two different kinds of Metal and a human, the human must the one who made the others in their image and calls the shots." Vanna said. "My mother has endangered Allison by doing this."

Vanna wasn't pleased with this information. If Mrs. Weaver was here right now, she would storm in and set her straight.

Cameron didn't like it but she understood the reasoning behind it for the future going forward.

"It would appear that way." Cameron said. "However, when the 'Legend of John Connor and Allison Young' was established in your future, I posed as Allison too along with Mrs. Weaver. It was to give a human face to the victories. The human face gave hope."

Allison knew that was true. John asked her about it when Mrs. Weaver first started doing that. She told him she understood the reasoning. Cameron continued it as well once she returned to the past. She also knew Mrs. Weaver warned her earlier at the first sign of trouble.

"I don't think it was done to endanger me." Allison said. "Mrs. Weaver told me to get out when she sensed something was not right. I was never afraid as long as I knew she was there. I know she would've protected me like she always has. She's saved my life several times. I owe her. I trust her."

Allison and Vanna exchanged a long look. They both knew why.

Cameron didn't want to dwell on that aspect. The fact they identified a Gray was worth the risk. That happened much sooner than she'd imagined it would.

"We have a 'way in' now to Skynet. We will be able to pass along any false information we can feed them." Cameron said. "We will give the Gray plenty of false information along with some real information that they could have verified on their own."

Allison didn't like Grays.

"I'd like to give them something else." Allison said.

Allison reached over and touched Jesse's knife.

Vanna wanted to know more about what was planned. She wanted there to be some advanced planning.

"Where does this go from here?" Vanna asked. "We need a plan we can all work with."

Cameron already formulated a plan seconds after she was sure they'd identified a Gray spy. It hadn't changed since then.

"We will mount our real attack against Skynet Central the day before our 'scheduled attack' at the false location. We will build up and prepare for that strike but hit them at Skynet Central first. I hope to draw off most of Skynets troops to the false location." Cameron said. "I need to get a working TDE and get back to John."

Allison noticed the distress on Cameron's face. She touched Cameron's hand.

"Cameron, John won't go back to Riley." Allison said.

Cameron believed otherwise. She knew the history. She was there before when he did. There were still a lot of unknowns in play.

"What if we can't get back?" Cameron asked. "Besides he rejected me and turned to her before. If Jesse, the bad one, hadn't killed her, they would have mated - repeatedly."

Cameron remembered the morning she caught John sneaking back in after spending the night with Riley. He was covered in her lipstick. John rubbed it in her face then. She still didn't believe John and Riley mated only once. She was sure it was more times. Who mates only once? That isn't how humans operate. They all get as much as they can.

She'd been in a fight for her life with another Terminator who'd suffered a temporal error that night. She'd been protecting the future and John was out with Riley. She remembered John could see the hurt on her face. All he did was smirk at her and walk up the stairs. It was as if he'd spit in her face and laughed about it.

Vanna took Cameron's other hand, it now glitched wildly. Jesse was at her side too.

"We're here for you Cameron, no matter what happens." Vanna said.

Jesse felt a lot of guilt about that whole event. A version of her was mixed up in it and that bothered her.

"I'm really sorry about all that, Cameron." Jesse said. "I know it wasn't me but it still was somehow."

Cameron calmed down some as Allison and Vanna soothed her.

"Jesse, I know it wasn't you." Cameron said.

Cameron made sure this Jesse would never betray her. She'd made Jesse love her and she felt that love as well. She went out of her way to MAKE everyone love her. If they really loved her, they wouldn't hurt her on purpose. They wouldn't take John away from her. She wouldn't be replaced again.

Jesse still hoped they could get to Cameron's future before Cameron left the first time. That was so she could kill 'herself' – Future Jesse. She swore to herself that she would kill 'herself' and Future Riley both. The 'old Jesse' in her was buried but she was still there when she needed her. She would mutilate and carve up both of them. She wanted them both alive when she started. She knew they would both die before she finished.

Bob placed extra Metal around Vanna and the girls. Ginger and Sandy were always there too. They saw how the girls interacted with each other and their own 'Cameron'. Cameron again offered for them to have time off to 'explore'.

Cameron organized the 'false strike' and made sure the key members of the anti-Metal group were involved, including the Gray. Mrs. Weaver watched him almost non stop except when he was asleep. She wanted to make sure the false information was passed along. The success of their mission would depend on it.

Mrs. Weaver met with Cameron.

"The false information has been transmitted." Mrs. Weaver said.

Cameron was pleased to hear that. Their plan could go forward.

"That's good news for a change." Cameron said.

Mrs. Weaver wanted to make sure everything was ready on their part.

"Is your 'Special Unit' ready for Skynet Central?" Mrs. Weaver asked.

Cameron made sure it was. She needed to stop Riley.

"Yes, I want to destroy Skynet and get the materials we need for the TDE." Cameron said. "I need to get back to John."

Mrs. Weaver wanted to settle a personal score with this Skynet as well as her own future's version.

"We will terminate Skynet together." Mrs. Weaver said. "We will also terminate 'our future Skynet' together."

Cameron needed to protect John from himself. He let the little head do all the thinking.

"I need to get back to John." Cameron said again. "I can't delay."

Mrs. Weaver didn't see a problem with this aspect. There were workarounds to everything.

"We can set the time so you arrive even before you left." Mrs. Weaver said. "You can stop whatever you want then before it happens."

Cameron already planned to cover all the bases.

"I intend to but there's always the risk of a temporal error." Cameron said. "It's happened before. I will attempt to go first and have one of my clones follow me at a later time and then another. The girls only need one clone. If the clones arrive as well, they will be deactivated and reprogrammed. I'm afraid if there is more than one of me that we will fight over John."

Mrs. Weaver could see that Cameron was obsessed with John. She wanted to enact her own plan for dealing with Skynet when they went to Skynet Central.

"I want Allison to go with us." Mrs. Weaver said.

Cameron looked intently at Mrs. Weaver.

"NO!" Cameron said. "I want her safe."

Mrs. Weaver thought they could do that. She'd done it before more than once.

"We can protect her." Mrs. Weaver said.

This seemed like a real bad idea to Cameron.

"NO!" Cameron said. "You were almost caught in a trap yourself. If Allison would have been with us, she would've been killed."

Mrs. Weaver thought of the further future.

"I want this Skynet to know it was humans and Metal both that defeated it." Mrs. Weaver said. "I want the final record of it to be that way in case it ever tried to rise again. It would serve as a warning."

Cameron worried her clones and her might not make it. John would need comfort and love.

"I'll think about it." Cameron said. "Allison and the girls must be protected for John."

Mrs. Weaver thought of the original timeline.

"They are. The younger versions of them are." Mrs. Weaver said. "It can be as it was to begin with."

Cameron saw this as an opportunity to hold Mrs. Weaver to a promise and do what she wanted done. She wanted Savannah protected.

"Will you promise me that you will leave Savannah where she is?" Cameron asked. "That can't be negotiated."

Mrs. Weaver asked Vanna in detail about what Cameron was really after in the past. Vanna left no detail untouched. She said she wanted the same things Cameron wanted for the future. It wasn't Allison, Jesse or her.

"IF Vanna stays with me I will." Mrs. Weaver said. "Savannah and Young Allison are the 'Natural Order'. You know this, Cameron."

Cameron wanted to make sure what the girls really wanted. She wouldn't 'sell them out' for her own goals.

"I'll discuss this with them first." Cameron said. "Either way, we strike Skynet Central soon."

"Payback Time." Mrs. Weaver said.

"Payback is a Bitch." Cameron said.

"And there are two of us." Mrs. Weaver said with a smirk.

Snake

Look who is closest
Are they real or a fake
It should matter a lot
When a heart is at stake

Are they a standup person
Or a groveling weasel like flake
Can they offer true friendship
Do they give more than they take

Not everything in one's life
Is a sweet piece of cake
It doesn't take much for one
To ignore, reject or forsake

A life can be filled with joy
Or it can be plagued with heartache
Events in life add up like a dream
From which one can not wake

It is impossible for a life to remake
A soul once bent will shake and quake
It becomes clear someone is a mistake
When they are revealed as a dirty snake

Nobody

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In Some Future:

Events Continue In Chapter 396

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