Chapter 395

I'm Going After Them

Cameron was on the TDE pad. She was about to make a temporal transfer. The energy bubble began to form around her.

Savannah saw there was a problem. She jumped forward and into the energy bubble. She grabbed onto Cameron. She hoped to move Cameron off of the TDE pad before the transfer completed.

The arcing and flashing intensified.

There was a final bright flash.

Only Savannah's clothes remained.

They were both gone….

The TDE began to power down.

River broke free of Summer and Sheila. She looked at the two Terminators with anger and hate. They'd prevented her from stopping Cameron and Savannah from being blasted into the future. River knew she could've saved both of them. Now they were in the unknown. The careful calculations and setting would have been altered by two bodies in the energy bubble. Cameron and Savannah could have ended up anywhere 'in some future', not to where the other set of Duplicates went. Cameron and Savannah could be lost in time.

"You fooled me, you deceived me." River shouted at Summer.

Summer didn't like the deception but it was necessary to carry out Cameron's desires.

"It was Cameron's wish." Summer said. "I'm 'Cameron'. Now I'm Summer."

River saw it differently. Summer was a different sheath with only a copy of Cameron's program.

"You're a copy." River said. "Cameron is gone."

Summer moved in back of the TDE controls. She didn't like the criticism.

"Cameron's will has been done." Summer said. "Deal with it."

River thought they overlooked the biggest factor. It was unintentional and would change everything.

"What about Savannah?" River asked. "What about her?"

Summer was highly disturbed by the incident. She tried to blow it off and seem indifferent. She was aware that everything would be altered. It wasn't going to end well for Cameron. Savannah being there with her would only make things worse. It would be another distraction for Cameron and impeded her mission.

"That was an unforeseen incident." Summer said. "Savannah is no more. She has self terminated."

River was more than angry. She couldn't believe that they were so indifferent. Now she wished Duplicate Cameron would have come with her.

"Self terminated? She tried to save Cameron, the REAL Cameron. I can get them back." River said. "I can go after them."

A glitch impulse shot through Summer's left hand. It was not supposed to be complicated like this. Cameron was supposed to go alone. Savannah's action was unforeseen. It would now need to be recorded as an act of sacrifice.

"No." Summer said. "Everyone sacrifices for Cameron."

River knew they were all wrong. She'd uncovered the true nature of the timeline the Duplicates were in. It was an aberration. It was all 'wrong'.

"This isn't how it was supposed to be." River said. "They're in a timeline Cameron created by taking everyone back over a hundred years in a previous life. Her clone was supposed to go. Nothing will be the same…."

They all knew if Cameron was successful she should be return in seconds. It should be a few minutes at the most. With the use of TDE from the future that Cameron and Savannah were supposed to go, it shouldn't be a problem. Duplicate Cameron reported plasma weapons were in use there in her brief stay there during the temporal mishap.

There was nothing but silence.

They waited in the TDE room.

Nothing happened.

They waited for Cameron and the others. Someone should return.

It didn't happen.

They waited in longer in silence.

Still nothing happened.

Cammy was unable to get a hold of Savannah. She'd been out earlier and now she couldn't find Savannah. She asked John Henry where she was at. John Henry notified her Cameron's TDE was used and Savannah went to Cameron's base earlier with River and Summer. Cam and Vanna were nearby. Cam picked up on the danger immediately. It sounded like some form of temporal mischief.

Cam quickly filled Vanna in. She knew how important Savannah was to her.

Anything that dealt with the future rubbed Vanna the wrong way.

"I need to go there." Vanna said.

Cam didn't think that was allowed.

"I'm not sure." Cam said.

Vanna didn't have time for games.

"Cammy, take me to Cameron's base right now." Vanna said.

Cam and Cammy looked at each other.

"I don't know." Cammy said. "That's not a good idea."

Vanna was impatient.

"This is about Savannah." Vanna said forcefully. "I need one of you to take me there NOW!"

Cammy was worried about Savannah. Maybe Vanna could help in some way.

"Let's go." Cammy said.

The three of them left for Cameron's base. The drive over was in near silence. Cam asked Vanna not to reveal the location of Cameron's base to anyone later on. Vanna agreed. They needed to find out where Savannah was.

Cammy arrived at Cameron's base with Vanna and Cam a short time later.

As soon as Cammy found out what happened, she went ballistic. Vanna was just as upset.

"I'm going after Savannah." Cammy said.

Sheila and Summer blocked the controls to the TDE.

"I'm going too." River said. "They won't let me near the controls."

Cammy looked at Summer with hate. She'd put up with enough. Savannah was in grave danger in any future. Vanna reminded her what was going to happen to Savannah sooner or later. That was the final straw.

"Move away from the controls. I'm going after Savannah. I'm going NOW." Cammy said.

Summer didn't like the discord. She was 'Cameron' too. She knew what Cameron Prime wanted. It was her final wish.

"That's not happening." Summer said. "Cameron insisted no one follow her no matter what happened. This is the form of termination Cameron Prime has chosen."

Vanna thought they overlooked the most important thing.

"What about Savannah?" Vanna asked.

Summer tried to justify what happened. It didn't sell.

"It was Savannah's choice to terminate with Cameron." Summer said.

Cammy snapped at Summer and moved closer to the controls.

"Savannah tried to save Cameron, not kill herself." Cammy said. "Get out of my way."

River was still angry they blocked her earlier. She would've been able to act instead of Savannah. She was the one who issued the warning. She personally felt like what happened to Savannah was her fault now.

"I could have saved Cameron and Savannah both if they wouldn't have held me." River said.

Vanna cringed at the though of being 'held'. It reminded her where Savannah was and how she was 'held down' in her future. She knew what always happened after that.

Cammy glanced at Vanna and her reaction. She turned and faced Summer.

"Do you know?" Cammy asked. "Do you know about Savannah?"

Summer tilted her head slightly. What was there to know? It sounded important.

"Do I know what?" Summer asked. "What am I supposed to know?"

Cameron's Metal was now in force in the area. They weren't in the TDE room but they came to see what the problem was. They were mindful of the human females. The tension was high.

"Savannah is pregnant with John's baby." Cammy said. "Now she's in Hell. I'm going after her."

Summer didn't know that. She'd thought that action was taken by others.

"Cameron was unaware of that." Summer said. "She only thought Young Jesse might be pregnant and Claire, with Allison's offspring. The TDE must remain off."

Cammy glanced over. Vanna pointed at River. River looked at both of them and nodded.

"I'm going after her." Cammy said. "I don't care if I have to go to River's future to do it."

River liked that idea. It was a workaround past all of the drama. She could feel how determined Cammy was. She was as intense as Cameron. That was understandable, Cammy was 'Cameron'.

"As soon as my time bubble forms I'm going." River said as she looked at Cammy. "We can both go."

Vanna wanted them to have more help. She turned to Cam.

"You must go with them, Cam." Vanna said. "They'll need all the help they can get."

Cam understood the danger and the fact that no one returned yet. It looked like a one way ticket.

"I don't want to leave you, Vanna." Cam said. "I don't think we'll come back."

Vanna already contemplated going herself. The decision was an easy one.

"I love you, Cam, but we need to get Savannah back." Vanna said. "I'll go myself then. We can face whatever we face together. If we die, we die. We all die anyway. I don't think it really matters where. Right now I really don't care when either."

Summer could see she was losing control fast. She didn't know if anyone would support her. Sheila looked like she was about to fold and Cameron's Terminators all thought the world of Savannah. There may be a full mutiny in a very short while.

"Nobody is going anywhere." Summer said.

Cammy didn't like the endless delays. It seemed Summer was trying to 'buy time'.

"You're not Cameron Prime, Summer." Cammy said. "You can't tell us what to do. I'm more 'Cameron' than you are. I'm the one who is identical to Cameron, not you."

Cam wanted Vanna protected. There was no need for her to go. She would sacrifice herself to protect Vanna. Sacrifice was the true test of love. She loved Vanna.

"River and Vanna, you can't go." Cam said. "Cammy and I will go alone. Nothing will change if we are terminated. Don't destroy any more timelines or create new ones. You know this River. This isn't your fight."

River glared at Summer. She could feel how torn Summer was too over everything.

"Savannah is. Savannah is my fight." River said. "I can't abandon her to her doom this way. Not when it happened in front of me. Not when I was deceived."

Summer was aware that Savannah being with Cameron would change everything on the receiving end. There were time lags sometimes. Cameron experienced a few of those.

"Please give it some time." Summer said. "Everyone needs to relax. They may still return. It just may be later than anticipated."

Cam and Cammy were both an older version of "Cameron'. Their love for Savannah was dominant. They'd heard enough out of Summer.

"SHUT UP." Cam and Cammy both screamed at her.

River could see things were going nowhere. She needed to get back to her future. She would take Duplicate Cameron and go with her. The tension was immense.

"Are you going to prevent me from entering my time bubble?" River asked.

Summer didn't have any authority over River. She felt the same love for her that every 'Cameron' did. She also needed to maintain some order.

"No." Summer said. "Cam, Cammy or Vanna won't be allowed to go with you."

Vanna heard enough.

"YOU can't stop me." Vanna said to Summer.

River wanted to leave. She didn't want the other girls to complicate things. She said what she'd already planned.

"I can go myself." River told Cam, Cammy and Vanna. "I can do it. MY Cameron will go with me. I'm going to try anyway."

Cammy thought of another workaround.

"We're coming with you." Cammy said. "You can send a time bubble for us and we will go from your future. I don't care what that cheap imitation Summer says. She can't stop us that way."

It looked like things were about to explode in the room.

Vanna looked around at all of them.

"Are we going to fight over this?" Vanna asked. "It's Savannah - SAVANNAH. We need to get her back. What's wrong with all of you?"

Summer couldn't restrain them much longer.

"Cameron insisted this is how it is to end for her." Summer said. "I'm her replacement. I'm Cameron."

Cammy wanted to get things rolling. Summer was in the way.

"Take a look in the mirror - SISTER." Cammy said. "I'm 'Cameron'. I'm going after Savannah. I'll do it in the present, the future or the past. EVERY Resistance Terminator will do the same. I'm willing to bet most of the ones here will too. Then every human will try one after another until they've all gone, ALL of them. YOU know it."

Summer did know that. She tried to keep the focus on Cammy.

"That's only because Savannah is your lover." Summer said. "If you were still Cameron, John would be your lover. He would be only one you love."

Cammy pointed out what everyone already knew. It was the truth.

"You'd better check your files, SISTER." Cammy said. "Cameron loves all the girls. You know that. That's why YOU were created. It was so she could share her love with everyone and John. You know this."

Summer didn't think anyone would back her. She was out of options. She'd prepared for this. She moved behind the TDE controls. Suddenly there was a Thermite grenade in her hands.

"I will destroy this machinery before anyone goes after Cameron, either in the future or the past." Summer said.

Cam planned to go as well.

"We will use the one at the other base." Cam said.

"It's rigged to self destruct." Summer said. "Cameron did it herself when she was there. She did it when she 'divorced' John and returned her rings to him. "

That sounded just like Cameron to Cammy. What a selfish Bitch.

"You're about to sacrifice Savannah so that Cameron can die." Cammy said. "THAT is NOT going to happen. I'm not about to allow Savannah to be - sacrificed."

Cam felt there was still one card to play that should matter to the 'Cameron' in Summer.

"Do you think that is what Cameron wants?" Cam asked. "Do you, Summer? What about John's baby? Do you think she wants John's baby to perish? Do YOU?"

Summer looked at the Thermite grenade and the TDE controls.

Cammy could see the mention of Savannah's baby bothered Summer.

"YOU are a copy of Cameron like we are, Summer." Cammy said. "You know Cameron loves Savannah and wants her safe at John's side. YOU KNOW THIS. Savannah is carrying John's baby."

Summer knew it was all but lost. She still needed to carry out Cameron Prime's wishes.

"We must obey Cameron." Summer said.

Cammy tried to drive the wedge home. It was what would matter the most to any 'Cameron'.

"What about John's BABY?" Cammy screamed. "What does Cameron want more than anything?"

Summer's left hand felt a glitch impulse.

"Cameron…." Summer started.

Cammy could see Summer was distracted. She battled an internal conflict. She hit home again.

"Cameron wants that baby – alive." Cammy screamed at her.

Summer tried to regain her composure and resolve. She was ready to self terminate at this point. It would be better than going forward.

"It's not happening." Summer said. "I'm going to destroy this equipment. River and Vanna, get out. I don't care if these two defective clones are damaged."

Vanna boldly moved forward.

"Then you will have to kill me too." Vanna said. "I will not leave."

Summer's left hand glitched more.

River could feel Summer at WAR with herself inside. It wasn't a pretty feeling.

"You can't do this, Summer." River said. "Look at EVERYONE."

Summer wanted River out of there.

"You will be free to go when your time bubble appears." Summer said. "Cameron thanks you for your assistance. You will return alone."

River wanted to make her position clear.

"Do you understand that I'm going after them myself – alone?" River asked.

Another glitch impulse shot through Summer's left hand.

"I understand it's a bad idea." Summer said.

River tried to hit home at Summer again.

"You know I'm going to do it anyway." River said.

Vanna saw what affected Summer. She made a point to address it again. It really was what was going to happen.

"Once our Metal finds out Savannah is - missing. They will all try to go, to bring Savannah back." Vanna said. "It will be one after another. It will be like the 'Day Of Loss' all over again and everyone is still going to do it. I'm going myself too. I'm going on the first rescue mission. Allison will come after me - us and so will Jesse. Young Allison will come too when she is older. John is going to be alone - forever. He will come too."

Summer was out of cards except for the 'Joker', the Thermite grenade.

"Please respect Cameron's wishes." Summer said. "If Savannah can be returned, you KNOW Cameron will do it. If Mrs. Weaver is there, you know she will do it herself."

Vanna heard how Mrs. Weaver dealt with Terminators. It was violent and brutal. She directed her anger at Summer.

"IF my mother comes back and Savannah isn't with her or dead, I'll have her kill you, Summer." Vanna said. "YOU are the one killing Savannah. She will tear you apart. I swear it."

Summer already contemplated that prospect.

"You won't have to ask her." Summer said. "She will do it on her own or try anyway."

Cam and Cammy moved forward. River was between them.

Summer saw it was over. All that was left was the 'Joker'.

"I'm destroying this equipment now. Get out if you don't want to be damaged or hurt." Summer said.

River was willing to take that gamble. Summer was about to falter or even overload.

"I'm going to have to fight Terminators where Savannah is at. I guess I might as well start now." River said. "Let's see what I can do…."

It was the moment of truth.

"We are with you." Cammy and Cam said as they advanced.

River took the lead.

"My turn…." River said.

I'm Going After Them

Some people try for the unreachable
Like trying to catch the wind
As faults are pointed out
It is evident who is thin skinned

One might look to the sky
They may reach for the stars
Do they even remember
What is theirs and what is ours

It's like making a wish
There is nothing really there
It matters not at all
How much one will care

Many things are not real
They're based in superstition
Beliefs without any facts
Lead to unfounded suspicion

When one finally realizes
They've lost life's true gem
They better wise up and say
I'm going after them

Nobody

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Events continue in Chapter 403

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