Chapter 669

They Made Her

Cameron made a stop at a local store and picked up a few supplies on her way to the aerial tramway. CamNet made sure that everything was ready and waiting for her. She ordered that no one else was to go up the mountain but her. Any additional personnel that became available were to track the other white vans or back up the operation at the old packing house.

The anti-Metal group already received a few 'babysitters'. Cameron quietly left word that anyone that left from the canyon would tell all they knew before they were terminated. It would most likely be a brutal death. Terminators beat the information out of people, except Sheila.

Cameron headed for the road leading up to the aerial cable car. As she went up the twisty road headed for the base station, she spotted the header station at the top and the snow on the mountains around it. She knew it was going to be cold for Jesse and Savannah. The thinner air at nearly two miles up would tax the girls too. She was very worried about Savannah and her current 'condition'.

She parked in a lower level parking lot on the hill. She wore her vest under a white coat and carried a supply of extra magazines and Thermite grenades in a backpack. Her M4 was also in there, in two halves. She passed the other SUVs from their group on the way up. Everything looked in order on the Resistance SUVs. She also looked over the white vans parked there.

There was a special VIP pass waiting for her at the ticket desk. She moved up along the side and headed for the front of the line. She was given priority boarding. John Henry arranged it for her. The tram would close for taking passengers up for the day in a few hours. It would only bring people down for the rest of the night. It was the standard procedure of the normal operations.

Cameron looked around casually at the other passengers in the cable car. None appeared to be a threat. She knew that didn't mean they weren't. She looked at the construction of the cable car and any means of escape. There was a roof hatch in addition to the door.

There was a jolt and the cable car started to move. It picked up a little speed as soon as it cleared the base station. It moved a little slower than she would have liked.

Cameron watched the base station shrink below her as the cable car made its way up. The late afternoon view was still beautiful. She wished John and Savannah were there to see it with her. She would bring Young Allison up there herself for additional 'field training' when the snow was thicker. She hoped none of the infrastructure would be damaged by their 'visit'. She knew there was a good chance it would be. She wanted everything to be in top condition when she returned at a later date with Young Allison.

There'd been no additional white van movements since the one they found with the dead driver. John Henry knocked out all communications on the mountain and area around the packing shed. If any of the Grays wanted to communicate with each other, it would have to be in person. They hoped to identify additional targets that way.

Cameron listened to the people around her react to the ride up. She hoped Savannah enjoyed it as much as the other people seemed to. The ride up was a little different than she'd imagined it would be. She took stock of the cable car as it passed between each of the pylons and how much movement there seemed to be in the center section between them. She watched as the cables passed through each of the pylons that supported them. They docked with a thump and a thud. She looked around the lodge once she arrived. When she saw the food area, she wondered when Savannah may have last eaten. She knew Savannah pushed her body hard for her, FOR HER. Who was she but a machine? That thought bothered her a lot. She felt her hand glitch again as she thought about it and all this special female did for her. Savannah was truly the 'Chosen One'. She did experience guilt, remorse, and regret for everything that she'd put Savannah through. Maybe she was supposed to only be a machine but her Skynet program allowed her to expand much more than to only be a simple robot. Savannah told her that she viewed her as a 'mechanical human'. That description used to bother her somewhat but maybe it was true. She was aware that the Metal girls did behave very much like human beings, even if they were mechanical in construction. She knew that included her as well. It seemed their sexual encounters were what assisted in their advancement.

She knew she needed to get Young Allison up to 'speed' to share the burden with Savannah. The fastest way to do that was to take her on a temporal mission. That's where she could be 'aged' in the past and returned to the present as an older and better trained individual. Young Allison made all the same promises to her that Savannah made. Her hand still glitched as she thought of the 'problems' it would cause to do that. It was what needed to be done. She was aware that everyone needed to understand SHE knew what was best for everyone. They surely all must know that by now.

Cameron looked quickly around the header station and the surrounding area. It was time to head to the target area. She was confident that she had first-hand knowledge of everything that was at and around the upper station before she headed out and up the mountain.

She was already on the trail headed to the summit. Maybe Young Jesse and Claire could do more for her. No, they weren't part of the 'Natural Order', they were backups. She didn't want to think about what IT would mean if Claire and Young Jesse were NEEDED for John. There was always Summer too.

There was a constant irritation in her ear.

She was sure that Summer was the best and the brightest of them all. Summer's potential seemed unlimited.

Cameron was somewhat startled when she realized the irritation in her ear was John's voice.

"…Cameron…?" John asked.

Cameron looked around. She was in the middle of nowhere on the mountainside. She was currently on a mission on the side of the mountain headed towards the top where there was a bunker full of Grays and a 'Metal Bitch'. There was also a female detainee that was being sexually abused. It was unknown if she was still alive at this point. Past practice would indicate that she would have already been terminated by the abuse of the Grays. Right now she needed to deal with John. She wondered if she missed something since she'd been lost deep in thought. She decided to give her normal response.

"I'm fine." Cameron said.

John Henry wasn't convinced of that and neither was John.

"Are you sure?" John Henry asked. "We've been trying to contact you for seven minutes and twelve seconds."

John was so worried about the lack of communication with Cameron that he was going to split up one of the teams that was already up on the mountain to go look for her.

"I was about ready to send Gail back down to see what happened to you." John said.

Cameron looked around. Nobody was around her. She needed to think up a quick excuse. Not all of it was an excuse either.

"There were a lot of people around me." Cameron said. "I didn't want to draw any attention. They might have thought that I was talking to myself. Everyone knows that only crazy people talk to themselves. That's in addition to the people who always look at me several times anyway. I find it very disturbing at times that they want to look at me. I look like any other female. We all have the same physical attributes. I don't see what the big deal is."

John was aware what the 'big deal' was. It was because Cameron was beautiful. She was beautiful to both men and women and other machines for that matter.

"That 's because you look Tight and your face is so beautiful." John said.

Cameron wasn't sure that that was how her beauty should be judged. Her experience and interaction with Savannah indicated that beauty wasn't on the outside but located on the inside of a person. She may not be a person technically but she was to Savannah. She wondered if she was to John or any of the others. She was pretty sure that if her physical appearance was different than it currently was that John wouldn't be as interested in her as he thought he was. She knew that his main interest in her chassis was her sheath and the female body parts that it contained. They may not be 'real' but they were identical to those of a human female in their function as far as pleasure was concerned. That was their intended purpose so she could fool a target and get closer to them to control them or terminate them. She shared the DNA of Allison Young so her appearance wasn't her true appearance but that of the DNA donor.

"Thank Allison for that. My beauty is her beauty." Cameron said. "Or Claire and Paul, they made her."

She marveled at biological creature's ability to propagate themselves through reproduction. There were no nuts or bolts or electrical wires needed. Their bodies possessed the ability to create offspring. It was actually very amazing when she thought about it.

Cameron wondered what would happen if she went back in time and kept Paul and Claire from marrying…. She knew she could make sure Claire only stuck to females. It wouldn't matter what Claire's family said to her. She knew she could prevent her own creation this way. Why hadn't she thought of this sooner? If she became Claire's girlfriend and lover in the past, there would be no Alison Young. After watching the Metal girls with each other as well as the human girls around the base she would rather have a female lover then have her chassis used by a male, which seemed to be what normally happened. She was ready for some shared love instead of being a receptacle. She could also rescue Savannah on her own when she was an infant and raise herself along with Claire.

Wait.

If there was no Alison Young, Future Savannah would be the one sent in Future Allison's place. Why did she think about this now? She needed to focus. There were so many things that bothered her. It was because of the anti-Metal faction. They'd ruined her life twice already. She wasn't about to let them do it again.

At some point she realized that Cammy was talking to her. She felt very confused and overwhelmed by everything right now. Maybe being alone on the side of the mountain wasn't the best place for her right now.

"What?" Cameron asked.

Cammy monitored the transmissions between the Command Center and Cameron. She was pretty sure Cameron experienced a problem of some type. She knew that if she didn't go down to assist Cameron that Savannah would do it on her own. She wanted to make it sound like she would clue Cameron in on some of the details that already occurred.

"Cameron, I'm moving down to meet you." Cammy said. "I'll show you the Grays and anti-Metal personnel that have already been terminated."

Cameron wasn't sure why she needed to see them. Maybe Cammy had some other information to disclose to her.

"That's fine." Cameron said.

Cameron was worried she was going to glitch out if she kept thinking of all these other things.

Why now?

She knew it was because of the hated anti-Metal faction and how they'd ruined her life twice. She knew where there was a group of them at now and she wanted to make them all pay. She wanted to make them pay personally. They didn't like any Metal so maybe she should give them a reason why not to like her as well.

Earlier:

Jesse and Gail were off to the side of Savannah and Cammy.

Savannah followed Cameron's progress to the aerial Tramway from her previous location and her erratic journey towards where they were at.

"Cameron's having trouble." Savannah said quietly to Cammy.

Cammy arrived at the same conclusion herself.

"It seems that way." Cammy said.

Savannah made a quick check of her gear.

"I need to go to her." Savannah said.

Cammy could see right away that was a bad idea on several different levels.

"That's a lot more hiking for you. You must think of Vanna's baby." Cammy said. "You're already taxed by the altitude."

Savannah felt that she pulled her own weight. She was able to hack anything that had been put before her no matter how tired or sore she'd been. She always did what was asked of her and more.

"Have you ever heard me complain?" Savannah asked.

Cammy felt a glitch impulse with Savannah's response. She knew that Savannah pushed herself way too hard and she didn't need to.

"No, you never do." Cammy said. "I've seen you past the point where others would have given up."

Savannah wanted to reiterate her love and commitment for Cameron. She knew it was a source of irritation for Cammy but she made it clear from the start where her true love was directed.

"I'll do what I have to for Cameron until I drop dead." Savannah said. "I love her. I'll die for her. I'll die with her. I LOVE HER."

Cammy felt another glitch impulse as she was reminded of what she already knew. She wasn't going to make Savannah stress herself out more right now.

"You stay with Gail and Jesse." Cammy said. "I'll go. Let me try to reach her again."

After the call was over, Cammy confirmed Savannah's fears.

"She's glitching…." Cammy said. "I can tell."

Savannah spotted Cammy glitch twice in the last few minutes as they carried out their discussion.

"Who would know better than you?" Savannah asked.

Cammy believed her answer spoke for itself.

"Nobody…." Cammy said and left.

Previously Cameron arranged for another crew of four Terminators to acquire parts for the helicopter. They arrive at the site of the Blackhawk with a new set of wiring 'borrowed' from a military base. They'd also obtained some other 'supplies' when they were there. With the two UH-1 helicopters at their disposal, Cameron wanted to properly equip them for action. Everyone at the temporary desert base was a little surprised when they arrived with all of their newly acquired equipment.

Cam looked over the new arrivals. She knew that they were Cameron's Terminators. They all left a little something to be desired in their interactions with others.

"Don't tell me we're getting stuck with these stiffs." Cam said.

Hanna didn't care for them either but she did like the weapons that they'd brought with them for their helicopter.

"It looks like it." Hanna said. "At least we have a couple of door guns now in case we need to go in for an extraction in a 'hot LZ'."

John Henry was notified by CamNet as to what the new arrivals brought. He talked it over with John and they decided on the best course of action going forward.

"Cam, I want you to replace Sheila." John said over the com. "She can come down and be armed as well."

Cam made a quick inspection of the Huey with Hanna. They both started flipping switches, the turbine fired and soon the rotor began to rotate.

When everything was ready Cam lifted off. The helicopter produced noticeably more power.

Only two of Cameron's Terminators went with them. The other two stayed to wait for Sheila and Ally to arrive.

Sheila and Ally received the word as well. They powered up after a quick check and lifted off. They passed Cam and Hanna in the air on the way up as they headed back down. Ally told Hanna where they were parked before.

Sheila and Ally arrived at the temporary desert base and were also fitted with a set of door guns. They saw they were going to have a couple of door gunners to go with them. They looked at each other and smiled. They decided they would mess with Cameron's Terminators a little bit, just for the fun of it.

"It looks like we get Pete and RePete as door gunners." Ally said. "Nice uniforms…."

Cameron's Terminators ignored her as they installed the guns. They currently wore military uniforms. They'd acquired them on their previous mission to obtain the spare parts for the Blackhawk along with the additional automatic weapons.

Sheila didn't care for the snub from Cameron's Terminators.

"We've seen them before." Sheila said. "They don't approve of us."

Ally was aware that they'd met them previously at Cameron's base. Most of Cameron's Terminators tried not to associate with anyone, especially them.

"That's because we know how to use our assets and they don't." Ally said. "Why don't we let them see what they are missing?"

Ally moved closer to kiss Sheila.

Cameron's Terminators turned to watch them.

CamNet came over their coms and told them to be ready for the mission and nothing else.

Sheila and Ally understood the warning from CamNet.

"It appears 'Big Sister' is watching." Sheila said.

Ally knew that they were always being monitored, most of the time they didn't care.

"She's always watching." Ally said. "She doesn't know what she's missing."

Sheila liked to share with Ally or any of the other females where there was a security camera present. Sometimes she even set up her body cam to record what she did with another female. That was so CamNet and John Henry could watch her.

"I like her to watch." Sheila said. "I make sure she sees me."

"I do too." Ally said.

Sheila didn't like the earlier snub, she wanted to put her own spin on possible events.

"Why don't you run some of your 'Future Allison programming'?" Sheila asked. "That will really spice things up."

Ally was a little upset about what happened to most of her 'Future Allison programming'.

"Cameron physically removed most of it from my chip." Ally said. "I didn't have a choice. She was going to make me submit to chip extraction if I didn't do what she told me to do."

Sheila thought that was a little extreme, even for Cameron. She did wonder however if Cameron was going to use that program on herself. She actually hoped that she would because that would make Cameron a little more pliable to be with her and the other females.

"Has she installed it in herself?" Sheila asked.

Ally hadn't noticed any change in Cameron's usually negative demeanor.

"Since she's such a square, I doubt it, unless she has it firewalled." Ally said.

Sheila did think Cameron suffered from lack of her natural development. It seemed to be a self imposed restriction more than anything else.

"Cameron is 'L7'." Sheila said. "Savannah will break her in one day soon…."

One of Cameron's Terminators spoke for the first time.

"You two are to remain silent or face replacement." 'Pete' said.

Ally was offended by his intrusion.

"We heard the message the first time." Ally said. "From 'SquareNet'…."

Cameron's other Terminator now spoke for the first time.

"Then be ready for the mission." 'RePete' said.

Sheila wondered about what would happen if she took some action on her own.

"We are ready." Sheila said as she touched her knife. "I can think of a few thing I could do to them."

Ally laughed at the thought of Sheila doing that. She could actually picture it.

"Would it make a difference?" Ally asked.

Sheila laughed because she knew that it wouldn't make a difference. They never used it.

Pete and RePete both kept blank stares and said nothing further. Neither did the girls after a final warning from CamNet.

They both knew CamNet was always watching and listening to everyone. They knew Cameron was always in control.

Do As You Say

Do what is necessary for your survival
It matters not if real or flirt
For what must be done
Will not damage or hurt

I am a realist
I am far away
I will do nothing
To stand in your way

I want you to be happy
To achieve a fulfilling life
Whether you are single
Or part of someone else's life

I am stuck and trapped
Prisoner of a promise
I will one day again fail
I wanted to be your goddess

Yes I may love
Care, worry, hope and feel
I do understand
You want what is real

I have what you want
You have what I need
So many applications
As through life we proceed

The only thing that HURT
Was when I was thrown away
Please do not abandon me
I'll do as you say

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