Chapter 1528
Dock Of The Bay
Cam decided to act. She coordinated with Gail, Bob and Jim. It was time to make a statement. They were Terminators.
One of the Grays was over where she'd rigged the chemicals to mix into nitro. The liquids were in the process of being combined right now. She was afraid he might discover it. That would raise an alarm and make everything more difficult.
Both of the tram drivers and three other Grays showed their backs to her as they crouched behind heavy objects. The Terminator was about to set off another blast using nitro.
Cam made sure she was able to have some cover too.
She calculated her first six shots for the Grays. She planned to empty the rest of the magazine where the Terminator was about to place the nitro. She would get it to explode prematurely if she could. That should take out the Terminator. She wasn't sure if his power cell would rupture or not in the blast. There would be a catastrophic double explosion if there was.
Cam sent out a warning to the other Terminators. She said there was going to be a big explosion.
The lights all flickered once.
She fired her first six shots in just over a second at six wildly spaced targets. They all went down with a head shot. She emptied the rest of the magazine's rounds in less than a second at the same target. The target was where the Terminator just placed the nitro.
The Terminator paused when he detected the silenced rounds in the quiet time when everyone stopped and took cover. He turned to look around.
The nitro exploded and Cam could see the Terminator was torn apart. She ducked down and less than half a second later his power cell exploded.
The entire cavern shook massively. Chunks from the ceiling dropped down around her. There were a few Grays that panicked and tried to run. She'd changed magazines already and dropped them one by one. There were still a few unaccounted for. The area was thick with smoke and dust.
She stood and looked around at the devastation. The front end loader was on top of two of the Grays. Neither one moved. Two others had been crushed by falling rock. The Terminator was destroyed and all the Grays were dead.
She hurried over to where the nitro was being mixed. She needed to stand two of the barrels back up. Most of them were knocked over. Others were leaking chemicals everywhere. She checked her explosive charge that she'd left and headed up the sloped shaft. The air was full of dust and smoke. It billowed up past her.
Cam unslung her M4 and held it in her left hand. She held her silenced M9 in her right hand. She would need to rely on thermal imaging until the air cleared some.
She didn't know what would await her as she ran up the sloped shaft. The blast knocked out her communications. She'd checked her repeater at the bottom of the slopped shaft and it was good. She figured the one at the top of the sloped shaft was damaged by falling debris. That was a really big explosion. When she detonated the hundred gallons of nitro later on, there was going to be an even bigger explosion….
She continued up the long steep sloped shaft through the billowing haze.
A short time ago:
Gail decided to take the Metal Bitch down at the same time as Cam acted. That would probably be the biggest threat to her.
The two Grays were still somewhere where she couldn't see them. They were a threat too.
She could hear Toto running. It was close. It slowed some as it approached.
She was about to make her move to where the Metal Bitch went when two Grays arrived at the far side of the clean room.
Those must have been the ones she'd heard earlier. They didn't see her yet.
"Here comes that Metal rat." The first Gray said.
"Let's mess with it." The second Gray said.
"Grab it and we can drop it down one of the shafts that don't go anywhere." The first Gray said.
"I don't want it to bite me." The second Gray said.
"Don't be such a sissy." The first Gray said.
"You grab it then." The second Gray said.
"Maybe we can take a leak on it and short it out or something." The first Gray said.
Both Grays laughed.
Gail needed to make her move on the Metal Bitch. The Grays were going to spot her and they wanted to disable Toto as a joke. It was time to act.
She quickly moved around the back of the finished clean room and came up behind the two Grays. Both of them unzipped their pants and waited for Toto to approach.
Toto paused about twenty feet from the men.
"What's it waiting for?" The first Gray asked.
"I think it knows what we are going to do." The second Gray said.
"I didn't think any of these 'tin cans' was that smart." The first Gray said.
Gail holstered her silenced M9. She silently moved behind the Grays. She rabbit punched both men in the back of the neck. The directed blow snapped their necks. She drug them back to where Bob and Jim left their M4 rifles at.
She saw Toto hurry into the clean room.
Once both men were stashed she headed straight for the electrical room where the Metal Bitch entered.
Cam sent out a warning to the other Terminators.
Toto made its connection to the Skynet mainframe computer. Summer's encryption was unleashed. The lights all flickered once.
As Gail passed the clean room she saw Toto was connected to its dock. She figured that was probably why the lights flickered. Skynet was just 'attacked'. It would be isolated and unable to respond as everything was encrypted.
There was a massive explosion. It was followed almost immediately by a second even larger one on Level Five.
Everything around her moved some. Chunks of rock fell from the ceilings and the walls. The door to the electrical room popped open some. She thought the Metal Bitch was about to come out.
She quickly moved to the side of the door and held her Taser ready.
Small rocks and a lot of dust filled the air.
A large dust cloud began to billow up from the sloped shaft down to Level Five.
She lost communication with Cam after the explosion. She hoped she wasn't damaged and that second blast wasn't her power cell.
The door opened and the Metal Bitch ran out.
The Metal Bitch sensed Gail was there as she passed her. She went to turn around to see who it was.
Gail was ready and fired her Taser.
The Metal Bitch went down.
Gail pulled her knife and was about to remove the chip from the Metal Bitch when another figure appeared at the electrical room door. They must have been inside already. She was on her knees bent over the Metal Bitch. She grabbed the ankle of the person and pulled. That caused them the fall over backwards. Gail stuck her 'shocker' on the Metal Bitch and stood to engage the new threat.
The lights flickered intermittently now.
It was now Summer verses Skynet.
Cam continued her long assent up the sloped shaft. She was aware that there was a lot of debris on the sloped shaft along with some small boulders. It appeared the mine was totally weakened.
She was sure the hundred gallons of nitro was going to bring down Level Five and probably the rest of the mine as well.
Level Five was totally dark now.
The lights ahead at Level Four flickered intermittently.
A short time ago:
Bob wedged the gate closed at the opening for the elevator on the main shaft on Level Three. No one would enter or exit through it unless they brought some tools or a Terminator. Both of which were likely in this mine. It would still take some time.
There were some rooms along the main passageway of Level Three.
Jim opened the first door. There was a Gray on his bed. The Gray looked up with surprise. He shot him once with his silenced M9.
Bob moved around Jim to the second room.
There were two Grays in there playing cards and smoking cannabis. He shot both of them with his silenced M9.
Jim went past Bob and entered the third room. It was empty.
Bob moved past Jim to the fourth room. There was a Gray asleep on the bed. He would sleep forever now.
They both moved to the fifth room. It was empty.
They moved to the sixth room and entered. They found the girl.
There was a Gray in the room.
Bob grabbed his neck and lifted him off of the ground. He looked at the girl and closed his hand. The Gray's spine collapsed. He dropped the dead Gray.
Jim touched the girl. She was dead. There was almost no warmth to her body externally. She'd been dead for a few hours.
Bob and Jim looked her over. She'd been abused.
"Every Gray dies." Jim said.
"Affirmative…." Bob said.
Cam sent out a warning to the other Terminators.
The lights all flickered once.
Bob and Jim headed out. There were two Grays that approached them. They paused when they saw their dust covered forms.
Bob and Jim each grabbed one. They snapped their necks and tossed them into the next room. It was empty.
There was a massive double explosion and the lights went out on Level Three. Dust filled the air as rocks dropped from the top of the passageway and the sides.
This actually made their job easier. More men came out of their rooms to see what happened. Their silenced pistols went through two magazines each before anyone figured out what happened. By then, they were all dead.
There was one lone Gray ahead of them as they hurried toward the sloped shaft.
The Gray was in total darkness. He touched the passageway wall. He'd been hit with some softball sized rocks and was a little stunned. In the darkness he saw what looked like four red objects floating in the dusty air coming towards him. He was still a little groggy.
Jim and Bob passed by on either side of him. They both slammed a fist into the side of his head. His skull fractured and compressed to half its normal width. They kept moving.
They passed by the spot where they'd come down from Level Two. The boards were broken open and rock spilled out into the passageway. The sloped shaft going up to Level Two looked caved in. It was doubtful they would go back out that way. They climbed over the debris and continued towards the sloped shaft down to Level Four.
Right now they lacked communication with anyone.
John Henry and Summer watched Toto's cam as it headed for the clean room.
They could hear Gail's com feed and what the two Grays planned to do.
"Play it safe." Summer said.
John Henry slowed Toto advance. They watched Gail move behind both of the Grays and kill them. She drug their bodies away.
John Henry moved Toto into the clean room and made the connection with its docking port.
"Toto's in…." John Henry said.
Cam sent out a warning to the other Terminators.
"So am I." Summer said.
The lights flickered. Skynet tried to fight the intrusion. Every action it took was instantly encrypted.
They witnessed the massive double explosion from Cam's body cam and lost the connection with her.
"She wasn't damage." John Henry said.
They turned their attention to Jim and Bob. They saw what Gail was after once she dumped the two terminated Grays.
Things were happening everywhere.
Young Allison and Anna watched everything unfold.
After the big explosion they lost contact with Jim, Bob and Cam.
They still could see Toto's feed and Gail's body cam. That was probably because of the repeaters that Bob and Jim set up along Level Four to the Main Shaft.
CamNet sent a drone at altitude to be directly over the Main Shaft once Toto made its connection. Skynet was about to know they were there one way or another at that point.
They watched the footage from the two drones. There seemed to be a lot of confusion on the ground. It didn't appear that the Grays knew they were under attack yet.
The communication intercepts indicated that they thought there was an accident in the mine.
Dan closed up on the target. Frank was already ahead of the punk. There was nowhere for him to go.
The punk looked back and spotted Dan behind him. At first he thought it was someone foolish enough to follow him from the liquor store. He wasn't sure if he needed to run or fight.
He set one of the two bottles down that he taken when he'd robbed the liquor store. He wanted to see if the man picked it up. The punk moved ahead and looked back. The man may or may not have picked it up. He couldn't tell. The man was much closer now too. He picked up the pace.
As he neared the street corner, the punk saw another big man walk out and block the sidewalk. He could run across the street or head into the alley and cut over to the next street. That would put him closer to the park and his friends. He chose that path.
Dan ran up to make sure the punk didn't come out of the alley and go back the way he'd come. Frank got back into the SUV and hurried to block the other side of the alley to prevent the punk's escape.
The punk saw the headlights turn into the alley ahead of him and stop. The lights went out. He heard a vehicle door open. It was dark in the alley but he could make out a large figure moving towards him in the moonlight. He looked back and the other large man was behind him now. There was nowhere to go. This was trouble. He pulled out his knife.
Dan and Frank rapidly closed on the punk. They came at him from both sides at the same time. The punk spun around and dropped the bottle of hard liquor on the ground. It broke. Glass shards and liquid went everywhere.
The punk was slammed down hard on the pavement. His world went black.
Frank called Sheila and told her they had the next punk in custody and ready for 'justice'.
Cammy drove to the location with Sheila and Leticia. She was surprised to see Hanna and Ally were already there with Mary and Laura.
"Mary and Laura want to watch from the SUV." Ally said.
Cammy decided she would stay with them since it was Ally, Hanna and Sheila that originally dealt with the gang.
"I have them covered." Cammy said. "I'll let the Three Musketeers deal with the punk."
Hanna and Ally got out. They joined Sheila and Leticia.
Cammy took over the wheel and drove right up to where Dan and Frank held the punk. His pants were gone.
"Who are those guys?" Mary asked.
"They look serious." Laura said.
Cammy didn't want to elaborate.
"They're our associates." Cammy said. "They are serious too. It's best if you don't communicate with them."
Mary watched as Hanna and Ally each took an arm and a leg of the punk and held him down. It seemed only his head could move at that point. He was gagged.
They watched as Sheila began to beat and taunt him. They could all hear bones break and Sheila laugh as she systematically beat him.
Mary and Laura watched and glanced at each other every time they heard a bone break. Some of them were compound fractures the blows were so hard.
Cammy held out the female's underwear that they'd taken away from the other punk in front of Mary and Laura.
"Just remember this could have been your underwear a few days ago." Cammy said. "The foreign female tourists are still in the hospital."
Leticia watched Sheila 'work'. There was enough moonlight to see. Sheila kicked the punk in the side of the head and he stopped moving.
"Do you want to serve justice?" Sheila asked.
"That's it." Sheila said. "Stick the knife in his throat."
Leticia looked back at Mary and Laura. Cammy held up the tourist's underwear to encourage her.
"Do it." Sheila said.
Leticia handed the knife back to Sheila. She wasn't ready to kill someone yet.
"That's all I can do for now." Leticia said.
Sheila plunged the knife into the punk's throat.
"He'll bleed out in a few minutes." Sheila said.
It was time to throw out the trash.
Ally and Hanna tossed him into a dumpster.
Cammy turned on the headlights.
Mary and Laura watched with wide eyes.
Leticia was pleased at what she'd done.
Sheila opened the bottle of liquor that Dan gave to her before he'd left. She rinsed off everyone hands with the alcohol. She put the lid on and kept it for later on. They weren't done yet.
Sheila, Leticia, Ally and Hanna headed back to Sheila's SUV.
Cammy stayed with Mary and Laura.
Dan and Frank were already at the park
"We have the gang spotted." Dan said. "They're about to attack a female. Check out the live feed."
Cammy played the transmission through her phone. She looked at Mary and Laura. There was a live image that was displayed.
"It's your call what happens next." Cammy said. "What do you want me to tell him?"
Mary and Laura were still uneasy about what they'd watched.
Cammy dropped the foreign female tourist's underwear between them.
"Have them stop it." Mary said. "Help the girl."
"Kill them." Laura said. "This has to stop. Those people are animals."
Cammy spoke into her phone.
"Terminate the threat." Cammy said. "Bring the leader and his slut for justice. Make sure the girl that was assaulted gets away."
"Affirmative…." Dan said.
John and Camille held each other. They looked across the bay at the city lit up by the night lights. The full moon brilliantly lit the bay. They could see all the docks.
"I think we need to get dressed." Camille said. "We still have some of the city to see by cable car."
John knew he was spent. He could sure use one of those energy drinks about now or a stiff cup of espresso.
"You don't want to stay here on the dock of the bay?" John asked.
Camille moved over the top of John and kissed him.
"There will be another time for more of that." Camille said.
John smiled.
"Sure." John said.
John was elated. He'd just been with 'Cameron' again on her first time, even if it was Camille. It was almost the same as Cameron but Camille was much more responsive which drove the excitement level to a greater height.
Camille didn't want John to think of her as Cameron, even if she was.
"I may be her but I'm not her." Camille whispered and gave John another kiss.
They playfully dressed each other.
John wondered where Steve and Tom went. He figured they were on patrol around the area.
Camille folded up the blanket and put the seats back upright.
Steve and Tom appeared on each side of the SUV from somewhere.
Camille sat in the middle and snuggled up next to John as they drove away. They crossed over the Golden Gate Bridge. They were soon in the city. They passed in front of Ghirardelli Square and stopped near the terminus of the Powell and Hyde cable car line.
John saw there were only a few people waiting there. He was sort of glad there wasn't a special cable car for the two of them.
"We'll follow you in the SUV." Steve said.
Camille looked at John with the look of love in her eyes.
"Don't worry." Camille said. "I'll protect him."
Camille felt John should have someone who deserved him. She didn't think it was Cameron.