Chapter 586

Boxed In

Cameron, Savannah and Cammy made it inside the building. It was after that when there was a vibration felt. Something was coming for them. That meant the girls must have been detected.

Savannah wasn't sure what it was.

"What is it?" Savannah asked.

Cameron knew it was one or more of the tracked HK vehicles.

"It is an HK Track, a big one, or more than one." Cameron said. "Maybe an HK Tread but I don't think so. It could be."

Savannah knew how she decimated the Grays with an HK Tread in combat recently.

"Do you think it's like the one we have and the one I used on the last operation?" Savannah asked.

Cameron was missing part of that operation even though she'd be given some files about it.

"Yes." Cameron said. "I have the files on that. That was good thinking on your part."

Savannah thought it was more a matter of necessity to survive to get inside of it.

"I didn't have a choice." Savannah said. "If the HK Tread hadn't been there, you would've needed to send the energy bubble for me."

Savannah knew she would have died that day if she hadn't been able to seek refuge inside the HK Tread that was there. She was able to use it to bring the fight to the enemy that day. It proved to be the deciding factor against a superior force.

Cameron knew Savannah sent the time bubble for her on that operation. That still bothered her. She knew she was damaged but not the full extent of the damage. She possessed about ninety five percent of what happened to her on that mission. Savannah erased the rest which contained her actual damage.

Cammy thought Savannah was killed at first on that last operation. It was very traumatic.

"The HK drone that crashed through the roof was a surprise to all of us." Cammy said.

Cameron led them around the structure. She hoped to avoid the threat. She wanted to stay ahead of it as they looked around.

"I was lucky." Savannah said. "Where is the tracked HK at that's stalking us now?"

There were more than vibrations now. They could all hear it clanking.

"It's coming to investigate us I think." Cameron said. "We need to move again."

Cameron took off with Savannah behind her and Cammy brought up the rear. This was a problem they could do without. Even if they left the structure at this point the tracked HK stalking them would follow. Their best hope was to avoid it.

Derek moved into the building. He stayed close to the outside walls. He tried to remain out of the way. He didn't want to make contact with anyone if possible. All the activity seemed to be centered around where the truck was at. He wanted to get a look inside the newly arrived truck as well. He wanted to see what was being loaded or unloaded, especially anything that needed to be done so quickly.

The truck was backed up and the rear doors were opened. The truck appeared empty. A forklift moved around to the back of it now. It started to load crates into the back of the truck.

Derek looked around to make sure no one was near him or watching him. He hadn't heard anything on his com since he'd entered the building. There was probably a damping field in the building.

"They're loading crates into the back of the truck. I can't tell what they are or what's in them." Derek said.

No response.

"It looks like it will take a few minutes to get the truck loaded." Derek said. "They are loading crates into the back of it."

No response.

'Great.' Derek thought.

It appeared he was on his own. He was comforted to know that Bob was only a short distance away. His main goal was to remain undetected but he wanted to get a look inside one of the crates if he could. If Skynet was up to something, it was something that would be detrimental.

John hadn't heard anything from Derek since he'd entered the building. There was most likely a jamming field in place. The lack of communications caused him a lot of worry.

"Bob, can you pick anything up from Derek?" John asked.

Bob didn't have much of anything positive to add.

"Negative." Bob said. "I hear nothing. I can tell the truck is being loaded. There's been no shooting. Not yet anyway."

John hoped that was a good thing. He knew the weapons that Derek took with him.

"Derek took a silenced pistol with him and a Taser." John said.

Bob thought he might be able to get 'one up' on the Grays. He could just take the truck and drive away with it once it was loaded.

"Do you want me to take the truck?" Bob asked. "I can commandeer it when I hear them close the rear doors."

John didn't want to jump the gun. To make sure that Derek got out was more important. Besides they could follow the truck and see where it ended up at. There was bound to be more Skynet related material there.

"No. I want to follow this truck." John said. "You need to make sure Derek gets out."

Bob felt some movement. The custodian started to come around. He made sure he continued his slumber. He was ready to enter the building.

"I'll go look for him if we don't hear from him when the truck leaves." Bob said.

John Henry was able to get a few more teams into play. One of the reports was quite disturbing. It was the area that Cammy reported on.

"I have two teams of Terminators ready to move in if we need them." John Henry said. "One team has reported that there are no open windows on the side Cammy spotted the man leaving."

John didn't like that report. It meant someone was on to whoever left. That might heighten security.

"Nice, that means someone found the open window." John said "They may be alerted to an intruder. Derek may be in greater danger than we' anticipated."

John Henry didn't think the problem would be with Derek.

"No. The team reported back that there aren't any windows on that side of the building." John Henry said. "Cammy was mistaken or…."

John sat up in his chair. He knew what that really meant.

"She lied." John said.

John knew Cammy was 'Cameron', a clone anyway. Lying was something Cameron was known for. Cammy would be no different. That must mean they were onto something or wanted to do something different related to the operation. They were probably in the process of running their own operation now. He remembered John Henry said they all went silent. They didn't want him to know where they were at.

"Where's Cameron?" John asked.

John Henry only knew what Young Allison told him. He didn't want to say more without knowing for sure.

"That's unknown." John Henry said. "They've severed all contact."

John shook his head in disgust.

"This just gets better and better." John said.

Now John needed to worry about Savannah. He knew Cameron and Cammy could take care of themselves. They'd drag Savannah through whatever danger they stirred up. He hoped Cameron remembered what she'd looked like after the last few missions. He didn't want Savannah to end up like that.

Young Allison and Anna monitored everything from the Young bunker.

Anna picked up the conversations with Savannah and Cameron about the HK Tread or multiple HK Tracks from the CamNet feed. She told Young Allison.

"The girls are about to be in a tight situation." Anna said.

Claire's right hand rose to her cheek. It sounded dangerous to her.

"Cameron will get them out safe, right?" Claire asked. "They can retreat."

Hanna was on enough operations with Cameron to know how she would respond. It wasn't the way that Claire wanted.

"Cameron will most likely engage the enemy." Hanna said.

Young Allison felt they were sitting on necessary information.

"We need to notify, John." Young Allison said.

Anna knew that Cameron wouldn't like that.

"John's busy now with Derek and Bob." Anna said.

Young Allison wanted more done.

"Then notify John Henry." Young Allison said.

Anna still didn't want to go there.

"CamNet will do that if it's necessary." Anna said.

Claire looked very worried.

Young Allison was sure her mother was about to cause a problem of some kind. She needed to prevent that.

"Mom, you need to take Summer away from here." Young Allison said. "She's ready for her nap."

Claire looked at Young Allison. She'd just TOLD her to leave in so many words. She somehow felt it was for her own 'protection'.

Hanna could see the potential for a 'one on one' incident to develop at this point. None of them were going to be positive.

"Come on, Claire, I'll go with you. We can both take Summer away." Hanna said. "We don't need to be here."

The three of them left. Anna and Young Allison remained.

Young Allison was worried about her mother seeing too much of what went on. She wanted to be a part of that herself, to help the Resistance, Savannah and Cameron. Her mother wouldn't want her to go to the past to 'get older' and return to now if she saw how dangerous it could get.

She wanted John Henry to know everything related to Cameron's team.

Derek was unsure what happened in this building. It didn't look like any manufacturing went on and if there was any assembly it wasn't for anything big. Maybe it dealt with some of the chemical tanks they'd spotted. No one was wearing any kind of protective gear. If it involved the chemicals it was happening in a different part of the building.

He decided to look for something else. There may be a lower level. He moved further away from his escape route.

Cameron paused and listened further.

"I don't think that's a big HK Tread." Cameron said. "I think it is two or three of the smaller ones, the standard HK Tracks."

Savannah wondered why they hadn't spotted one of them yet. The HK Tracks might be 'herding' them. She thought a few LAW rockets would be good to have at this point.

"I don't know if that's better or worse." Savannah said. "If there are three of them I think it will be even harder for us to evade them."

Savannah was concerned now they could be boxed in or worse. They could be caught up in some type of crossfire. Maybe one of the HK Tracks would drive them into an ambush.

Cammy knew that Cameron wasn't going to leave. She didn't plan to either. You didn't defeat the enemy by running from them.

"Then we won't evade…." Cammy said.

Savannah knew that left only one choice.

"We attack." Savannah said.

Cameron was ready for some action.

"That's just what I thought." Cameron said.

Savannah wasn't sure the HK Tracks would be the only thing they faced.

"If we encounter Grays or a Terminator, what do we do then?" Savannah asked.

Cameron checked her weapons.

"We have a bigger party." Cameron said. "We fight harder."

Savannah didn't like the delay. Somehow the HK Tracks were alerted to their presence. It seemed likely that their cover was blown as well.

"If the HK Tracks know we're here, someone else must know also by now." Savannah said. "Maybe they are here to keep us occupied and then they will send in some HK drones to attack us IN here. Maybe they will try to ambush us when we leave. Terminators could be on the way or even already here."

Cameron thought that all sounded terminal. It shouldn't happen but now it was in her mind. CamNet should have everything blocked.

"CamNet's blocked all communications but ours." Cameron said.

Cameron made sure CamNet tracked them and searched for any communications in or out. The surveillance cameras showed nothing different happening outside. CamNet hadn't detected any hostile HK drones approaching.

Savannah looked at the construction of the building. It didn't have cement walls in the interior.

"These walls won't stop bullets." Savannah said. "If they have thermal or infrared capability they will pinpoint our location. It's just a matter of time. We need to move to where they probably won't look."

Cameron and Cammy looked at each other. Savannah seemed to have a plan. They wondered where they could go.

"Where is it?" Cammy asked.

Savannah went over the reports about River and the Duplicate girls in the desert many times. She was aware where everyone was at.

"We need to move where Duplicate Jesse was during the 'Biker Event' in the desert." Savannah said as she pointed upward. "The rafters are above everything. I've gone over that incident report dozens of times."

Savannah was intrigued with what happened in the desert that night and River's response. It was the most astounding thing she'd every read. River killed over twenty bikers in a very short span of time.

The clanking was closer. It was from two different directions now.

Savannah remembered her fears about being herded.

Cammy figured it out too.

"They are trying to box us in." Cammy said.

Cameron knew they got played. There were only seconds to act.

"Let's move now." Cameron said.

Once Summer was in her bed for a nap, Claire wanted to ask Hanna something.

"Hanna, I know you and the others have given me some training. I can tell I'm going to need more, a lot more." Claire said. "Young Allison was doing better down there than I was. She can deal with pressure very well. She's more proficient in all of the training as well. That's not how I grew up. My life was sheltered from most hardships."

Claire wished it would have been sheltered from some of the parties she went to in high school and was assaulted at almost every one of them. She needed to stop going to them. There'd been a dozen males with her that she knew of. It was probably double that. She was drugged or drunk for all for them. She didn't know any of the males she actually was cognizant enough to look at.

Hanna was on Holly's chip when Claire was in the future. She thought the future was self evident. She'd witnessed the same things that Claire did.

"Young Allison will be a leader in the Resistance one day." Hanna said. "You've seen the future, you know this. Cameron's made sure she's trained and ready for everything."

Claire still saw her as her 'little girl'. That wasn't the reality.

"She is just a girl." Claire said.

Hanna thought she needed to spell it out for Claire.

"No, she stopped being a girl when Cameron took over her education and training." Hanna said. "She is a future soldier now, a Resistance fighter, like all the 'Allisons'."

Claire didn't want to lose her daughter. She could see that Young Allison was ready for more and wanted it.

"She is still a GIRL. Cameron's gone out of her way to protect all the 'Allisons', Future Allison and our Allison here." Claire said. "Why's Cameron pushing MY Allison so hard?"

Hanna was very proud of Young Allison. She'd contributed to her training and education. She knew she would be the human version of Cameron before they were done with her.

"It's to protect her." Hanna said. "She'll be able to protect herself and protect the future better now. Young Allison will be the best 'Allison' of them all. She'll be superior in every way."

Claire worried what would happen when Cameron was alone with Young Allison in the past.

"If Cameron takes her away from me for a few years, what will she be when she comes back?" Claire asked.

"She'll be a weapon." Hanna said. "She'll be Skynet's worst nightmare."

Claire thought it sounded more like her worst nightmare.

Sheila and Ally followed the man from the sports car into the building. He looked around for everyone. He soon found them in the room where the girls would be detained. They were all dead.

He turned to leave.

"Hello, love." Sheila said.

The man looked Sheila over and Ally behind her. He noticed the Asian chick carried a knife and the one with the pretty face carried a pistol. He started to reach inside his blazer.

"I'll break your arm in four places if you don't stop now." Sheila said.

The man made a grab for his gun. In just a second the Asian girl was on him and there was a lot of pain in his arm. He let out a cry of pain and collapsed to his knees. He right arm now hung useless along his side. He realized he couldn't breathe either.

Sheila grabbed him by his throat and squeezed. He soon blacked out.

"They all seem to be slow learners." Ally said.

Sheila used the shackles that were in the room with the dead men to secure him.

"I hope this bloke wakes up soon so I can get started." Sheila said. "He's going to tell me what I want to know."

They wanted to know where the girls were taken and where they came from. The building they were in was only a holding center.

Ally heard another vehicle arrive out in the front. They thought some thugs would arrive soon and maybe they just did.

"I think the muscle just got here." Ally said.

Ally moved towards the front.

Sheila smiled.

"I'm going to get a lot of action today." Sheila said.

Sheila choked the man some more and followed Ally out.

Boxed In

How close is too close
Some don't seem to know
They hang on too tightly
They hurt the other so

Maybe they can't see what they do
The other one can sure feel it
It seems to be possessiveness
That one would like to quit

When it does fall apart
One can't seem to let go
They can't accept reality
And the relationship forgo

They hang on to nothing
That only makes it worse
The end result of that
Will be one in a hearse

When one can't untangle
And pull out if a tailspin
They take the other with them
They both get boxed in

Nobody